| 单词 | drinking |
| 例句 | I am a minor myself— the legal drinking age is twenty-one—but none of the waiters ever asks for my I.D. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I started to say: “Arliss! You get that nasty pup out of our drinking water.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now,” said Herbert, as it was succeeded by silence, “he’s drinking. Now,” said Herbert, as the growl resounded in the beam once more, “he’s down again on his back!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Now no one dared leave their quarters at night, and King Claudius’s men watched like hawks, when they were not drinking or sleeping. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “She takes you out drinking all the time, and you’re a year younger than me.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z We tried to trick our bellies into thinking we were full by drinking a lot of water. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s mostly just a cappella people sitting on Mikey’s bed and drinking. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z August sat with her elbows on the tabletop, drinking the last of her coffee and reading another book from the bookmobile. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z First he filled his pitchers with water from the drinking fountain. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z The only other person on the bus was a homeless man, sitting near the front and drinking out of a paper-bagged bottle, so we sat down in the very back of the bus. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There’s something a little off about the sheriff; I don’t think he’s been drinking, but his insistence has an undercurrent that puts me on alert. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Mam says it’s driving her crazy to come home and find these old men drinking out of her favorite mug and mumbling and scratching by the fire. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Chill: Well, by my drinking so much, I have seizures. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When the people looked down to see what was happening, they saw the strange animal drinking greedily. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Yet he sat here drinking coffee—which he didn’t even like—waiting for them to find him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It must have taken a lot of drinking to get in this state. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z We said all this in my kitchen, drinking coffee, sitting at my kitchen table, in those low, intense voices we used for such arguments when we were in our early twenties; a carry-over from college. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Hymir held his drinking cup above his head, and the giants cheered and laughed and made faces at Thor with all their heads, along with crude gestures. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I wondered what he was doing in this obnoxious place, by himself, drinking bad beer when at home he had a cabinet full of the best liquor he could possibly want. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They did not like to show their fear of Grendel, but their hands quivered where they held the drinking- horns, and their eyes kept returning to the door. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Annabelle understood about Kat’s mother, Patty, and her drinking, and she kept the secret of the tiny butterfly tattoo Kat got. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z They found Farquar in front of the deli, eating chocolate cupcakes and drinking Coke. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The days were warm and the bodies were cold and the flies were singing and drinking at the eyes and boils of the children. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Above me I could see the beaks of a thousand magpies drinking from the pond, drinking and singing happily and filling their snow-white bellies. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He caught sight of him, drinking from the far-famed spring of Corinth, Pirene; and he drew gently near. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Wez surprised a vixen drinking at the stream, and Walder flushed three rabbits from the underbrush and managed to put an arrow in one. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They had heard somebody strange splashing around in their drinking place and had to find out who it was. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z She walked through the halls of the British Museum for a couple of hours, learning the names of paintings and drinking a series of Diet Cokes from small bottles. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z They were all drinking wine and mopping up the oil and vinegar with pieces of bread. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Apart from the still lifes, what I’m showing is mostly figurative, although there are a couple of constructions made from drinking straws and uncooked macaroni, and one called Silver Paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z One with a boy and a girl drinking milkshakes and munching popcorn from the Crestmont. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z When we walked in, all of my major-subject teachers were sitting around a huge conference table, drinking coffee, laughing, grading papers. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The owner of the place told agents that Bryan and Anna had been drinking there until about 1:00 a.m. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It's a compliment one rarely receives when describing an adolescence spent drinking Icees at the North Hills Mall. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The next day the saguaros and prickly pears were fat from drinking as much as they could, because they knew it might be a long, long time until the next rain. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z My father went on a legendary drinking binge. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z After a night of drinking porter in the pubs of Limerick he staggers down the lane singing his favorite song, Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s chowder? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They will stay all night, drinking hot coffee in the street, joking bitterly, working the video and microphones in shifts. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When Mike and Terrell drive away I go inside and find my grandfather drinking a beer. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked along the dirt path for miles in the heat of the morning, resting often and drinking from the three huge gourds of well water Teresita’s husband had given us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He sounded suddenly very drunk, as if all the day’s and night’s drinking had finally hit him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They were drinking that lovely water, or waiting in line for more, or talking and laughing. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z After that we inspected two new dams with water building slowly behind them, and at several drinking stations communed with a small herd of recently purchased cattle. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, at the end of a long night-march, and after bathing and drinking, he felt even more hungry than usual. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Eating scraps of food and drinking warm beer and not talking. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z But then again, they both poured their shakes into their respective glasses and then lifted the metal canisters to their mouths, drinking down the leftovers first. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Inside, Jesse was playing chess in one room with Sam’s younger brother; I found Eric off by himself, drinking a beer in the playroom. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt that if she preached against it, the children, unpredictable individualists that they were, might consider drinking forbidden and fascinating. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only you could make drinking coffee sound nefarious.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z His voice was a little thick from drinking. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Any number of things could cause this condition, such as poor diet, excess drinking, poison, or a dog bite, to name just a few. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The rest of the week when he was drinking, he would come and go and say little. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We are known for being a strong, strapping group, healthy from drinking lots of milk straight from the cow. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Radar and I have agreed to keep drinking it until two hours before our rest periods. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Also, he no longer stayed out late drinking; instead, he brought his drinking friends home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And Wu Tsing would make a midmorning visit in her bedroom once a week, drinking tea for half an hour, inquiring about her health. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let me see. David, you empty and scrub the drinking barrel. It’s getting brackish. When he’s done Nathan can fill it from the pump.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Trying to appear casual, I looked at the faces of those who sat talking and drinking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Service would be denied, voices would be raised, and she'd wind up drinking her tea at some pancake restaurant in midtown. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Dad’s on the couch, drinking coffee with the news on mute. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Navid was the only one who wasn’t eating anything at the moment; instead, he was drinking one of those disgusting protein shakes. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The drinking of birch and willow tea would ease the pain a bit but could not take it away. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z One example is found in studies of college freshman who overestimate the drinking among other freshman. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At home I got through the bad episodes by lying on the couch and drinking water brought from my parents, turning the electric blanket on to get warm and sweating it out. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I thought about my prayer—that he would get a handle on this whole drinking thing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z ‘Someday,’ said Johnny, his good nature restored, ‘I’ll kill you, Dove. In the meantime, you have your uses. You get out the buckets and run to North Square and fetch back drinking water.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A fairy with hummingbird wings was drinking from her cupped hand. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Anna smiled at all the lights, listening to the music from the drinking houses, the pianos, the phonographs, watching people, arm in arm, striding by in the crowded streets. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a mountain boy who stayed to himself, bothering no one, intent solely on drinking himself to death. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She said it was good for you to drink unpurified water, even ditch water, as long as animals were drinking from it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The Western Market was a great square of beaten earth surrounded by warrens of mud-baked brick, animal pens, whitewashed drinking halls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But with all of these Harlemites drinking and talking, there was just a low murmur of sound. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The old man kept a giant gourd in the corner of his house for drinking water. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z At the high table Sir Ector sat with his knightly guests, who had come for the morrow’s hunting, smiling and nodding and drinking burgundy or sherries sack or malmsey wine. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother sits on a stool at the granite counter, drinking from a mug of coffee I’ve poured for her. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Seated at a table were three women drinking from beer cans. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His accent is still impeccable, but he's slurring his words like he, too, has been out for a night of drinking. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “The men you were drinking with,” I improvised. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals — eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones — we had better know something about their nature and their power. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Instead, Santos spends the money on a long drinking binge with a fifteen-year-old girl on his arm. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In the mornings, Primus would talk to the sea captains with ships in Scaithe's Ebb, buying them grog liberally, but neither drinking nor eating with them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “They think she’d been drinking. She hit her head and nobody found her till this morning. Except some animals. The body was pretty messed up.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Nya stopped drinking and held up the bottle so she could look at it. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I thought a father ought to know right away. The boy didn’t mean no harm. He’d just been drinking a little too much.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She might have left while I was sitting at the bar, drinking in metheglin and praise. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And her drinking, always pretty steady, had definitely increased in the last month of her life. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Some of the people are arm in arm, drinking from beer bottles wrapped in small brown bags, not only men but women, too. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z That first morning, Obinze noticed that the other men, drinking coffee from paper cups and checking the board to see who would be working with whom, were laughing at Nigel. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I woke with a drinking straw in my mouth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “You shouldn’t be drinking on top of those pills.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z For drinking water, they had to row over to a public fountain in Stanley Park. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Axel tips his head back like he’s drinking the fresh air the same way he drank the water in Dr. Taylor M. Martin’s office. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I sit quietly, savoring it spoonful by spoonful, drinking the broth first. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hagrid had his usual enormous tankard in front of him, but Moody was drinking from his hip flask. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The illness, which came from drinking unpasteurized milk, had sickened at least eight people in Smyth County that summer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Atzerodt, who Fletcher suspects has been drinking for some time, orders a whiskey; Fletcher asks for a tankard of ale. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I can tell Quang-ha feels the same way even though he is silent while we smash what appears to be the result of a real drinking problem. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Aside from making one extended trip back to Hawaii when Barack was ten, his father—a man who by all accounts had both a powerful mind and a powerful drinking problem—remained absent and unengaged. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They went to the saloon where Patterson sat drinking at a small table. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want you to write down,” said Katie slowly and steadily, “that he died from drinking too much. Write that he died of pneumonia alone.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was dropped off, I had to walk across the hotel’s long and elegant veranda, where several dozen whites were sitting and drinking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was drinking Kamikazes that night. Something terrible always happens to me when I drink Kamikazes. I wreck my car, I get into fights...” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Smoking, drinking, and now worse! And where does he get the money for all his foolishness? From my cocoons, that’s how!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Faraz, who spent the day with his dad trying to get their reverse-osmosis water purification system to turn urine into drinking water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He knew that if he went back to the streets, he’d start drinking again. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t used to drinking coffee, and it felt like his brain was racing off in different directions. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z And he knew it would take him a while to get used to city life—like drinking out of glasses. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Now was the time of hard drinking, rising volubility, and the games of pilots. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I heard one of the moms say he is ‘over the fence and long gone’ from his mom drinking too much when he was the size of a peanut. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Pretty soon the other Marines, including the lieutenant, were drinking from their canteens. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z At each sat four or five patrons, some eating, some drinking, some playing at dice. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z His office revoked officers’ firearms permission several times a week, he said, for infractions such as being caught drinking while wearing a gun, menacing somebody with it, or having it stolen. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell him what I'm seeing, doing, eating, drinking in Paris, and more about Lou, who is charming, kind, and—there's no denying it—physically beautiful. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then he sat alone by the fire drinking coffee. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They sat around the small fire and took turns drinking soup from the pan, soaking it up with flabby slices of bread. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t have to remind her what he was drinking—she knew; she had memorized the drinking habits of almost a thousand important people. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve never heard a news story about people in Pakistan sitting around drinking chai and making jokes. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The top side was painted to look like the surface of water—dark, dirty water you’d never want to drop a drinking bucket into. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A few of the gentlemen, I noticed, were drinking spirits, and one or two, despite the presence of the two ladies, had started to smoke. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z People had been drinking out in the hills on wood-hauling roads and sheep-camp roads since they first bootlegged liquor to Indians. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was her drinking, maybe it was her drugs . The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “I heard Celia’s been battling with drinking, but this problem with lying now?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I guess I should be upset he’s drinking again, but I’m preoccupied with another feeling. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead, drinking transferred from the restaurants, bars, and saloons to the home and places hidden away from Prohibition agents. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Craster seemed to be drinking a thin yellow beer from a chipped stone cup. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He mostly stays inside the house, drinking, I assume, because when I do see him, he's drunk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I noticed that she had stopped drinking rum, for it was already over and there wasn’t anything left to be nervous about. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z God, why couldn’t the legal drinking age be eighteen in the US? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z "Hoo's On First sounds like my restaurant is on First Street, or worse yet, on the first floor. Customers will end up in the coffee shop drinking dishwater tea." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z And another man came and stood next to him and said, “Well, we have both been drinking.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Noodles sat in my living room drinking a soda, stating the obvious. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Her hands were steady as she worked although she considered this drinking tonight as something crucial. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The moose looked up at us, decided we meant her no harm, and went back to drinking. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They were in the Zebra Room, drinking coffee. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z After interviewing numerous firefighters and other eyewitnesses, the inquiry found that there had been drinking following the Saturday night fire, a ritual that was common not only in Chicago, but in all cities back then. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z I had no idea that, in those years of trying to rid myself of sadness and depression through drinking, I had created a dependency in my body and my mind. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We wear our coats to bed, huddling together beneath the blanket while the wind moans, drinking hot water for breakfast because there is no tea. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “So I try to finesse it off and I’m sitting there drinking a bottle of WonderAde, okay?” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z One hour later they both sat on the stone floor, drinking October ale to quench the dust while they admired their handiwork. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z ‘Very well, then. When you is drinking this cokey drink of yours,’ said the BFG, ‘it is going straight down into your tummy. Is that right? Or is it left?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One of his favorites, which he often told Ifemelu, while drinking Star beer after dinner, was the story of how Aunty Uju was different. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He might be drinking a bowl of hot broth and complaining to the old man about the ugly girl who had tried to rob his purse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A month or so after that, Cindy Sindy took the strip job at the club because I was drinking our rent. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Dad almost never went out drinking at night like he used to. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Reports note that since the Second World War a pattern of drinking and violence, not previously seen before, is emerging among Indian veterans.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It was full of smoke and drinking and singing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The three of them sang earsplitting drinking songs the whole way and only stopped when Theo turned into Downing Heights. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “Well, at least now you know how bad it feels and you will stay away from drinking,” she said. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z We make our way through the underside of the tables, with ballads and drinking songs sung above us, screams and whispers in the air, and the soft footfalls of dancers echoing around us like rain. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They were drinking at midday from a shallow ford crossing an overgrown track to a worked-out silver mine when a cottontail started up in the bracken across the water. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She was careful to sip at the punch rather than drinking it down, however, because she didn’t believe in tempting fate. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A half-dozen men in black leather jackets are sitting at the bar drinking beer. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I took another sip, and was soon drinking mouthful after mouthful. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “So I think you should know that if you get caught drinking at your age, you won’t be allowed to get a driver’s license.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z And dinosaurs standing around drinking coffee, staring up at the giant meteor soaring through the air, commenting on how pretty it is. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z On days four and five I began to think about drinking a lot. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They sat before the old monk in the prayer hall, chatting and drinking chilled tea while Pong pretended to repair a bench just outside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z In fact, any health practice, such as milk drinking, which correlates positively with longevity will probably do the same with cancer incidence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I was having a soda and Froggy was drinking milk like he always did. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I look out at Mam at the kitchen table, smoking a cigarette, drinking tea, and crying. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When we got to the house, Wynn was making scrambled eggs for dinner, and Nan sat at the kitchen table drinking a glass of juice. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z In my mind I see her sitting up and drinking broth, and her eyes are bright again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z So did my father who was drinking coffee at the big chair he kept by the stove. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Tight circles of strangers were drinking and smoking, oblivious to us. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Inside the jar, the creature made pleading motions and pantomimed drinking from a cup. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z His parents had him try other remedies of the time—such as smoking cigars and drinking black coffee—but nothing helped. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Audrey and I are on my front porch, drinking cheap alcohol, as usual. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z When Angel got home from school the next day, Jordan was sitting in the big chair in the living room, drinking a beer. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The grant that the king had presented him for signature was on the table beneath a silver drinking cup that had once been Donal Noye’s. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “They don’t have no colored sections. I could go to any restaurant and sit wherever I wanted! “They had drinking fountains all through the city. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I went back downstairs and he was sitting at the kitchen table, drinking a beer. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When me and Doris got upstairs to our apartment, Jazz was sitting in the window drinking a glass of iced tea and working on her scrapbook, which was one of her favorite things to do. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Not sure who our competition is—the guy in the back already drinking his coffee while he reads his newspaper? They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I found Peewee drinking a soda behind the water tank. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know if the hose were clean, but I do notice that everyone on the show abstains from drinking lemonade that day. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He didn’t have much of a routine beyond eating, drinking and sleeping, but there were times when he stirred from his lethargy and rambled about his territory, making noises and being cranky. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z That way, she’s drinking one glass while he is buying four. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d spent the day turning lobster red, drinking iced tea, and laughing. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z As a perverse and incredibly boring experiment, I am now trying to prove that I can get by without the drugs and the drinking. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z As they turned into the parking lot, they saw a television van parked in front of the monkey house, the newscaster and his crew drinking coffee and waiting for something to happen. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ifemelu sat on a lone armchair at the end of the room, drinking orange juice, listening to them talk. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “And what’s with the drinking? Following in my footsteps? This isn’t you, Picasso.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z But it’s also really awesome seeing our dads hug and Pa telling Mr. Seuss that they have to come back over soon since they never got around to drinking the wine they brought over. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “One of the workmen must have been drinking beer when he moved the statue.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She must know how hard it is to stop drinking once you’ve started. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z To think in this way was far removed from the old idea of worshiping the god by drinking enough to be gay or to be freed from care or to get drunk. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She locks the door, and Mami and I slip out of the closet and eat breakfast, taking turns drinking out of one cup while Tía Mari and Tío Pepe share the other one. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He looked terrible; his hair was untidy, his eyes were pink and wobbling, as though he’d been drinking. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t bend over a drinking fountain and take medication that way; I either choked or accidentally spit my pills all over the basin. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I don’t even like milk, but I always end up drinking it at Twig’s house because Hélène insists “ze bones must grow, ze bones must grow,” and it’s impossible to resist. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It took hours of side-stepping each other, of drinking tea and putting on music and checking e-mail, of Curt lying faceup on the couch, still and silent, before he asked, “Who is he?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He realized immediately that she had been drinking—she was not drunk, but there was whisky on her breath. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Sitting at the head of the table, drinking a chicken broth that landed in her stomach like an elixir of resurrection, Meme then saw Fernanda and Amaranta wrapped in an accusatory halo of reality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Room 2B,” he says, dangling a key in front of him and still drinking in the sight of us. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She was sitting at the kitchen table drinking coffee. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z His red cap is hooked on the back of his chair and he’s drinking orange juice, an empty plate in front of him. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Bull was drinking martinis out of either hand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “See their big foot pads? They don’t sink into the sand and can go for many leagues without drinking. They store water in those humps. And they can be ridden.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Today he’s driving a truck full of drinking water, and riding shotgun is a guy with a shotgun. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Everyone is either smiling, or talking, or drinking, but none of them are looking at me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z When Little Sister had started drinking wine and riding in cars with white men and Mexicans, the people could not define their feeling about her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Defying her grandmother, she had started going out late and drinking liquor. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When he had been drinking, Paul Ellis would sometimes sit with his son on their porch telling the boy stories about the glory days before the Civil War. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He had not been drinking much at all for about six months. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Was it because he knew of this coming child,” she wondered silently, “that he stopped drinking at the last?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles’s drinking had never seemed so bad as all that. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Nobody but a freak like a deaf-mute, cut off from other people, would ask a right young girl to sit down to the table where he was drinking with another man. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Instead, I was inside drinking, trying to make myself better. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I actually don’t feel like drinking, but I hear Kyro’s voice in my head: Be smart—stay hydrated and keep your fuel up. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I was certain that she knew he’d been drinking, and she must have noticed that although we were away over twelve hours, we hadn’t brought one tortilla into the house. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When he stopped drinking and tipped the leather bottle down a few drops ran down his chin. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z His mother had been drinking and was loud, and the bus driver decided to put them off the bus. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Now, sitting on the train, I’m drinking, too, and I’m thinking about what he said. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When Eleanor first heard about Richie, she was leaning against their old couch, reading a Life magazine, and drinking a virgin banana daiquiri. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z All the regulars were concerned about Rob’s drinking: he was missing days at work. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Word was he’d once crushed a man’s skull with his bare hands, wiped his palms clean on his shirtfront, and kept right on drinking. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z If she really loved Maya and Lauren like she said she did, she would have stopped drinking a long time ago. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “No drinking. Go to a speakeasy if you want to drink. I don’t want any trouble with the police. Now, about the rent. You just got married?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That idea seemed even crazier than drinking fire. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Father was sitting on the sofa watching snooker on the television and drinking scotch. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I guess we all looked a little silly drinking it, but we didn’t feel silly. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Others felt that she had been dropped not so much for drinking as for defying Brundage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But then he stopped hunting and started drinking, and you can’t hold down a job and take care of kids when you’re like that. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Or maybe Ernst the SS man has stopped drinking long enough to figure out what’s on the other side of his wall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z But since she now had a few coins, she still hung around the Store eating Planter’s peanuts and drinking Dr Pepper. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He played a ballad, then a light, quick drinking song, then a slow, sad melody in a language that I didn’t recognize but suspected might be Yllish. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Couples were drinking and whispering on the grass, and the transistors were turned down. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z By the way, Patrick stopped drinking that night he saw Brad in the park. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I pace among the severed arms and hollow feet, drinking blackness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z After an hour or so of drinking, these two gentlemen decided they wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villages - a motor car around this time still being something of a novelty. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I spent my time doing routine housekeeping chores, like adding chlorine to the drinking water, and watching the moon get smaller and the beautiful earth grow larger and more inviting as each hour went by. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you eaten? Are you drinking lots of water? Have you used the toilet?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I walk past the drinking fountain and through the tunnels that seemed endless the day I got here but now barely register in my mind. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z A few suggested that “Peg Leg” Sullivan had gone into the barn and had set it on fire while drinking. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “I really do hate oranges, though. I can’t even sit across from someone drinking orange juice.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z By now the new science of bacteriology, pioneered by Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, had convinced most public health officials that contaminated drinking water caused the spread of cholera and other bacterial diseases. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I remember sitting out on Ben’s stoop on Friday nights, drinking Jack Daniel’s, debating the mayor’s race or the rush to war. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He started walking backward, beaming, drinking them in. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Once and for all, Harry, do I have your word that you will do all in your power to make me keep drinking?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z And while Mama mended Papa’s shirt, he drove in our Carcachita to the nearest gas station to fill the gallon bottle with drinking water and to get more kerosene for the stove. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Why am I drinking in the first place?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z They are sitting in camping chairs and drinking malt liquor, a volunteer army facing off against the enlistees in the streets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “For as long as we’re here, we need to survive. You know, build some shelter, find reliable food and drinking water. We need to organize.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I see a gun on the tile near a drinking fountain and lurch toward it, breaking my grip on Matthew’s hand. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Get some sleep now and remember: you’re drinking more orange juice when you wake up.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z When he got over a drinking time, he’d take a notion that he had to be a better father to his children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time the twins were two years old their father’s drinking, aggravated by the loneliness of tea estate life, had driven him into an alcoholic stupor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One better reason struck me, too: suppose a brawl starts up when you’ve been drinking—you might in madness let each other’s blood, and that would stain your feast, your courtship. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dove said: ‘Will Mr. Johnny Tremain be so kind as to fetch us drinking water? Mrs. Lapham says we are too valuable to leave our benches. She told us we were to send you.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I started drinking coffee. When I started shaving. When I got a girlfriend.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Dad grounded me and took away my cell phone for two weeks, but he never found out I’d been drinking. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I have to send Helena for two buckets of water to clean the floor, and I can only hope Mrs. Krajewska thinks my supervisor and I are drinking cup after cup of tea. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z And if there's anyone who'd simply take it in their stride, who'd just clean up the mess and get on with things, it's the two guys sitting downstairs at the kitchen table drinking their beer. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “We have dined nine times at Rosings, besides drinking tea there twice! How much I shall have to tell!” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z After they had eaten, Hymir drained the last of the beer from his drinking cup and called for silence. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z She finally ate some mango and has been drinking water, but she needs to rest often. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I point to his canteen, and with my hand I mime the drinking motion. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled a gourd of water out of his sack and offered it to his wife before drinking some. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z She was drinking with both hands around her glass. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you sad to be leaving?” he asks, stirring sugar into his coffee, drinking it back in one gulp. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Francie dreaded the drinking periods—not on moral grounds but because Papa wasn’t a man she knew then. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as her mother died, she stopped eating, and started drinking more and getting real sick. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaped on the wind, drinking in the delicious cold air. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z We find Coach hanging out with the other Bellmont faculty members in the parking lot drinking beer from paper cups and pretending that we students don’t know what’s in the cups. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I go out and I see killings, and I think about my kids and start drinking. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He asks me questions about everything— like my drinking—and if I lie he always figures it out. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’d been drinking recently when I shot him out of a tree, but I couldn’t find his source. I swear; I covered every inch of ground in a thirty-yard radius.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Patterson was on his porch, drinking a cup of coffee, so I walked over with my backpack. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z She’d never been one for drinking much—just a glass of rum punch occasionally when she was chilled or sick. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Here were enthroned the leaders of Phaiakia drinking and dining, with abundant fare. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z From coast to coast, restaurants and bars marked the end of legal drinking by giving customers free glasses of whiskey and other alcoholic beverages. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I peered around the corner and saw Papa sitting at the table alone drinking a cup of tea, staring out before him. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful, broad, bright-eyed, red-cheeked, with mouths apt to laughter, and to eating and drinking. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They quote the police quoting the councilman as admitting to meeting her at the midtown club, drinking a little, agreeing to drive her home. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She became furious with herself for sleeping in the wrong position, for eating meals that were too spicy, for not eating enough fruit, for drinking too much tea. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z His father is drinking hard and throwing hard punches, so Rowdy and his mother are always walking around with bruised and bloody faces. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z He was drinking and handed over the bottle. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He tipped his ginger roots into the cauldron too, and wondered whether he ought to take a leaf out of Moody’s book and start drinking only from a private hip flask. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I imagined my friends out hunting for small birds, drinking the sweet milk from the cow’s udder, cavorting in the pond at the end of the stream. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her maids, leaving their quarters, came with white arms bare to clear the wine cups and the bread, and move the trestle boards where men had lingered drinking. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Sophia: Well, she wasn’t really drinking that much until after Grandma passed. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve tried everything, too—counting sheep, counting kittens, drinking hot milk, listening to relaxing music—but nothing helps. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I would stare at it until it looked like water before drinking or taking a shower. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We sit and talk another few minutes, drinking coffee and tea, until I look at my watch. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z For a short while I felt sorry for myself, and then figured my drinking was a sign that I was living in the wrong place, with the wrong sort of people. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Uncle Jet’s drinking wasn’t a result of the Ash Being. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Jason and Jess are there, drinking wine on the terrace, which is odd, because it isn’t yet eight thirty in the morning. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “To explain that Mithridates was unhappy with his decision. And perhaps add the idea that he did not become strong by drinking poison daily. He only became full of poison himself.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He sits on a folding chair in the shade, drinking a cold beer. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He read and reread the last words of the note and it was like drinking many cups of fresh, cool water: Yor frend Tam Lin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked through the party not quite like a couple but still mostly together, drifting between clusters of colleagues, drinking beer and lemonade, eating hamburgers and potato salad from plastic plates. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He drew on die hand that clutched the drinking horn, figuring to give them a shot to talk about, but Todric spoiled it by lurching to one side just as he loosed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Some of them were drinking from canteens, or chewing on hard loaves of bread. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Quite obviously, Terryl was trying to counter criticism that texting and driving was merely a theoretical problem, and that it was fair to compare it to such problems as drinking and driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Kat’s struggled with periods of depression since her mom started drinking hard. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Since when did you start drinking tea like a Russian?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z After one especially robust night of drinking with Will, I stumbled home, crawled up the sidewalk, stabbed my key in the front door, let myself in, and power barfed all over the living room. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “The guys were smoking pot and drinking beer,” said Scruggs, “laughing and tossing hand grenades into a river.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I scooped up large amounts of snow to melt for drinking water. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z More and more, instead of going to his gardening job on Sundays, he stays home drinking beer and watching TV. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Next to her Emilia looked faded, and Fani, who was drinking out of a brandy bottle in the corner, was positively drab. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z By the mid-1920s, according to the city’s police commissioner, New York had thirty-two thousand of the illegal drinking spots. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Pa Keating sat at the kitchen table drinking his stout and offering everyone a sip of his whiskey. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Then she guides her little harem to this carpeted area near the stereo, where people are drinking and grinding to Kanye. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Like they were drinking liquid adrenaline through a fire hose. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Ifemelu had been drinking too much white wine; from time to time she had a swimming sensation in her head, and she would later send apology e-mails to the host and the poet. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And if Singer were a drinking kind of man he could get liquor at half price any time he wanted it. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He wandered through them for a time, drinking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I am sitting around the breakfast table with my family, drinking hot coffee, laughing at Teddy’s chocolate-chip mustache. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Others stand at the table drinking coffee and soda. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Segregated drinking fountains labeled “WHITE” and “COLORED” in the Dougherty County Courthouse, Albany, Georgia. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is he wearing?” she asked, so loud that I could hear her from the kitchen, where I sat drinking tea and reading The Lord of the Rings. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z On Monday morning I got to school early, so I went to the drinking fountain to play Pokemon, but right when I got there, everyone got up and left. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z At the opposite end of the high table, Hothen and Mors were playing a drinking game, slamming their homs together as hard as knights meeting in joust. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There had been other times, of course, when Johnny stopped drinking but that was when he was working. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The theater troupe was talking and cackling, drinking again and again from their wine cups and paying no attention to the Baudelaire orphans as they circled the table serving everyone dinner. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z No drinking, eating, or gum chewing in a house. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “And they don’t know for sure,” said Davenport, “but it looks like he might’ve been drinking.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z "I have slept too long. They will be feasting by now . . . drinking ... I should have been woken." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At two o’clock in the morning, the Colonel took his sixth shot of vodka, grimaced, then frantically motioned with his hand toward the bottle of Mountain Dew I was drinking. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Ximena tapped on the glass she was drinking from with her carrot stick. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z However, now that martial law has been declared and the national guard has been activated, Alyce has been called on to airlift drinking water to evacuation centers. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Life at the encampment was cold and miserable and the only relief for them was drinking. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z With Gauguin, he got used to drinking too much liquor, especially absinthe, the strong, green-colored liqueur made from wine and wormwood. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Nothing mattered at that point, so I started drinking. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Each morning after drinking the thin soup, do what you can to clean up, though you have only a trickle of water, no soap, no towel, no scissors, no toothbrush. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Gave up drinking when she took up religion. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex wonders for an insane second if his brain has conjured up some kind of stress-induced sex mirage, when Henry says, voice lowered, “You looked rather tragic drinking alone.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Since I've failed at drinking both the alcoholic beverages Tiny bought me, Jane tosses the keys back to me in a high arc. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z He was drinking all the way past Mojave, and into the northern suburbs of Los Angeles. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I think so: Only by drinking it can I empty the basin and see what lies in its depths.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Lotta men have the drinking problem but there’s nothing we can do long as they show up sober and do their work. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She and old Marty were drinking Tom Collinses--in the middle of December, for God's sake. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z For millions of Americans, concerned that excess drinking of alcoholic beverages had become a national epidemic destroying thousands of families, it was indeed a cause for celebration. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Imagining you drinking cold, bubbly soda in a nice, fancy palace and burping louder than Muthu ever could. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z All around us, families were eating burgers and drinking malts and sodas. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z A Kenyan doctor who had investigated the Monet case happened to be drinking a beer in the bar, and he struck up an idle conversation with her and mentioned Monet’s name. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If Pollard began drinking too heavily, he would lose any chance he had to ride Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Ishmael found his mother at her kitchen table once again, reading the last chapter of Sense and Sensibility by lantern light and drinking tea with sugar and lemon concentrate. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Watching Thunderbirds at his bungalow in Grange-over-Sands and drinking pop called Dandelion and Burdock. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z If he just kept drinking, he wouldn’t have to answer. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Lily glanced toward her parents, who were looking around the platform with an air of wholehearted enjoyment, drinking in the scene. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z One of the house slaves told him the brothers were drinking at the big house. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I stopped drinking and smoking, went to all of my appointments, ate right, took my vitamins, the whole nine. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Only a few men sat eating or drinking tea. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z In addition to human waste, the byproducts from manufacturers, such as tanneries, and refuse from the markets seeped into the drinking water. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z One is drinking beer and one is twenty-five. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That man spends all week drinking, and then come Friday, he’s walking around the neighborhood trying to sweat out all his demons to prepare to enter the good Lord’s house on Sunday. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z And so I take small sips that taste salty, like drinking someone's cloudy tears. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Vets packed lounges and bars, drinking, swapping stories, searching for men they’d served with. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Carrying plenty of drinking water, Marie and I set off at noon on a hike of a few miles to the paintings. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I started drinking, and was drunk for almost a month. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Carl sat by the window, only drinking when Antonapoulos pushed the glass into his face, and then taking solemn little sips. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There's always a little hump at about eleven o'clock, which I've traditionally gotten over by drinking a lot of something. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She became annoyed if I lingered too long, and I quickly learned to remove myself immediately after any eating or drinking. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z People watch with mild interest through the glass wall of the Stratosphere crown—well-dressed people eating escargot and drinking radiation as their restaurant slowly revolves—and I realize I’m part of the evening’s entertainment. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z They all sat in the restaurant afterwards, drinking smoothies. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The girl all but let out a sigh as I left her by the drinking fountains. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “There’s just this kind of hole in my life where drinking used to be.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The last side of the room had all our cabinets and a sink, plus a drinking fountain. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z He was drinking from a bottle of Jack Daniels. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And he kept drinking, too, pulling sips off his bottle of whiskey every few minutes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z And at this a small flurry of laughter swept over the table; they went back to their eating and drinking, as though the matter were finished. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z They worked all day on a ditch, drinking beer, until they were bone tired and the ditch was clean, with its banks built up strong again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s always in the bars, drinking and fighting,” he said. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “The San Antonio River. It flows lazy, through downtown. The River Walk, it’s called. Weekends, there’s partying. People in small boats, some eating, drinking by the river. All kinds of music. Mariachi, jazz, pop.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z I knew that my uncle treated the matter lightly so as not to alarm me, and besides, if Tenorio was drinking it would take a long time before he gathered enough courage to act. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the day we had finished drinking the water we were carrying. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z A lot of drinking in that family, say Jack Plus, they can’t keep that boy of theirs in college. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They returned home to see their mothers on Brandon’s porch, drinking coffee. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The pitch and roll of their voices broken up by laughter said they’d been drinking. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Because there was Toby, sitting in the plane with a woman he couldn’t have known for more than twenty-four hours, drinking from a bottle of wine. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And then he and the rest of them start drinking. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z But quitting drinking didn’t save my marriage, because quitting drinking is only what it is: quitting drinking. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He sat right there in Papa’s old rocker, drinking a frozen limonada, telling me his story. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If it was raining, they leaned on the windowsill, drinking warm, fizzy orange Fanta, and watched the swollen rain droplets trickle down the glass. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I thought, Well, nobody around there’s going to be drinking any coffee for a while! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat around the table, drinking and laughing and smiling, but then we got kind of quiet. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I started drinking and smoking moderately in the summer after sixth grade. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I heard no lapping like a dog drinking. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Canvas bags were stitched together from sails and filled with 1,000 pounds of rocks for ballast, and two kegs were filled with glacier melt for drinking water. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “No. I don’t think anyone wanted to speak to him. He was drinking by himself. He looked nice.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z One more day of drinking, perhaps, and then I’ll get myself straight tomorrow. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit eating my fried Spam, drinking my milk mixed from powder. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Dedicate myself to bringing the drinking age down to twelve.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The woman was drinking from the wine bottle, staring at Luke. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z More than once, drinking at a table with Gauguin, Vincent has gotten over-the-top angry. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He stabbed a telkhine, and his black Stygian blade absorbed the monsters essence, drinking its energy until there was nothing left but dust. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z My father’s old vices returned; first the gambling, then the heavy drinking to forget his losses. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Men with no work drinking from nine to five instead, down there in the lot. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But then she always took care of herself—no liquor, no drugs, and recently she had stopped drinking coffee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Tell not her ladyship, and send the word around that the water must be used sparingly, or ’twill not last the week out, even for drinking.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z She dreamed that her grandfather would quit drinking. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He'd learned to wait until he saw the truck, before drinking the last drop. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Mama was afraid it would foul up our drinking water. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a bewitching moment: a gorgeous train rocketing through the winter landscape carrying five of history’s greatest architects, all in the same car, gossiping, joking, drinking, smoking. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then they took turns drinking from a whiskey bottle, and they lowered their voices and talked about the girls at Rosie’s. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He wagged his tail when he saw me and went on drinking. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She made only two lasting friends in Las Pasturas, Ultima, for whom she would lay down her life, and Narciso, whose drinking she tolerated because he had helped her when her twins were born. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z While we’re drinking our tea an old man passes our door with a bucket in his hand. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Or Liyana would read them to Poppy in the yard after they’d washed the dinner dishes, as he sat drinking a cup of Arabic coffee in his favorite green metal chair with the scalloped back. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A murmur of voices reached him and he quickly stepped into an alcove, squatting beside a drinking fountain as two men and a woman walked past, all wearing white coats, arguing about Web servers. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Everyone shivering and laughing and drinking and talking. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Bikes and Vespas clogged the surrounding streets, but the square itself was empty except for pigeons and a few old men drinking espresso. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Great perils lay before them, and some of them paid with their lives for drinking that peerless elixir. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z My drinking never really bothered me before we started reading all these books about people changing and wanting to make a difference. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “The first thing we really need to do is make sure we have drinking water.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The thought that she might not be in her room, but out drinking with friends, made him angry. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Everyone sits in a circle on the stage in pajamas, eating donut holes and drinking coffee out of Styrofoam cups. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The drinking glasses I’ve been looking for all week are there. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He walked, dignified, from group to group, smiling and filling the drinking cups, and you’d have sworn from his look that never until tonight had the old man been absolutely happy. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It was while we were drinking our coffee in the library that the telephone rang. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z They’d piled a mat of dead hemlock boughs over the snow and they sat wrapped in their blankets watching the fire and drinking the last of the cocoa scavenged weeks before. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They picnicked at Burchillville and Sylvan Grove, listened while the high school band played sluggish Sousa marches, and sprawled under trees drinking port wine. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a good sign that he was drinking so much so early in the night. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Day or night, the benches below the salt were never less than half-full with men drinking, dicing, talking, or sleeping in their clothes in quiet comers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He’s waiting for someone, drinking wine but not eating. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Someone had brewed coffee, and he saw the crew drinking it from copper mugs with ceramic lids. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The creature—creatures, now—resumed drinking, with heavy lapping noises. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I am telling on her, and she was a spite suicide, drowning herself in the drinking water. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was drinking cold black tea and chewing cardamom seeds, his personal trusted antidote for hangover headaches. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu was startled to see a boy sitting there, humming a song and drinking from an old beer bottle. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A few other people I don’t know stand around, drinking cans of Coco Frio and mingling. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Fancy silver eating and drinking utensils lay in a huge cupboard on the other side of the room. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The ceremony began at dawn and continued until dusk, an endless day of drinking and feasting and fighting. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The pilots had been drinking most of the day and the party was taking a swift descent toward mayhem. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On the coffee table a dish of rose jelly reflected light from the sparkling glasses of wine the adults were drinking. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Winston had dropped his habit of drinking gin at all hours. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z One afternoon in early 1943, before the regular six o’clock crowd had gathered, a black soldier sat drinking by himself at one of my tables. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When I finally drag my tired butt into the house, it’s four in the morning and my dad ain’t on the TV couch, he’s sitting at the kitchen table drinking coffee. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The doorbell rang just after dinner while they sat on the moonlit veranda, drinking, listening to High Life music. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s Friday, so I don’t have to feel guilty about drinking on the train. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the sanctuary staff had worked hard to keep the bonobos healthy, I didn’t like the idea of drinking from the same source as they did. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I can’t blame all this for my drinking—I can’t blame my parents or my childhood, an abusive uncle or some terrible tragedy. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Next morning I’m up early and drinking tea with Dad and telling him about the Angel on the Seventh Step. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He sat morosely drinking coffee, reading an odd assortment of magazines or pamphlets speculating on space travel and ancient civilizations. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was standing in front of the fireplace, drinking coffee. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I lift a pretend drinking glass to my mouth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They were already drinking from a thermos, the one Dave said his father had carried in Vietnam. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z I told him that I was very clear about what I saw, and that I hadn’t been drinking when I saw it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z They were made of small hard things—aunts and uncles, smoke breaks after sex, girls on stoops drinking from mason jars. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “True. Well, we sat drinking tea. Ladies were present. I’ll never forget. He held the tea like this.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The one ugly one, Laverne, kept kidding me because I was only drinking Cokes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “Why do the white people write ‘Colored’ on all the ugly drinking fountains, the dingy restrooms, and the back of the buses? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was drinking in every word like a thirsty flower. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I was drinking three or four cocktails a day. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat around the kitchen table, drinking hot apple cider, eating homemade cookies fresh out of the oven, and playing hearts. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Jess is often out there in the mornings, especially in the summer, drinking her coffee. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple of timber wolves were drinking out of the toilets. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The punch being very nice, we sat there drinking it and talking, until it was almost nine o’clock. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Instead, it became just another worst day, albeit the worst of the bunch, and as night fell fast, we continued on, drinking and joking. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He was going to stop drinking, he said, and straighten his life out. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “There was the drinking at first,” she says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Her sister could crouch behind a drinking fountain and wait for him to get thirsty. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “The preacher says that sometimes she couldn’t stop drinking.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z They are sitting in the cool darkness under the anacahuita tree in the front yard, in the rockers, telling stories, drinking guanabana juice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And I have a full-time job, a twenty-three-year-old boyfriend, and a secret binge drinking problem. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The underground water also became contaminated, and arsenic entered the drinking water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Soon Todd was back, drinking a beer and relaxing again on the porch, his hand stroking the rescued dogs matted fur. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He would merely give out the communion with the usual disturbing allusions to eating flesh and drinking blood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Talc sipped the vodka and V8 juice that he always had after a night of heavy social drinking and looked at his newspaper. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When she died is when I started really going on the drinking spells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z None of the players saw Coach Spinks standing in the doorway drinking a newly opened bottle of R.C. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Amari was drinking milk and he laughed so hard, it came spraying out of his mouth and nose all over the table and Holly. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Fuming, I stare at the TV, at a commercial with happy blond children drinking red juice. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1793 water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, and putting out fires all came from private and public wells or from the Delaware River. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z There were no grandstands; people drove their cars and trucks up to the edge of the fence and sat in their front seats or on the front fenders, drinking beer and looking on. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Kat’s mom, Patty, had been drinking and raged at her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I can almost believe that I am backstage, after a performance, eating mangoes and drinking Inca Kola. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom was there, drinking a cup of coffee and looking over her lesson plans for the new school year. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Three of them were drinking from bottles of pop, and one, a real old one, was using a rag to wipe the inside of a trumpet. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Then I went up to the bar and I told the bartender I wanted two more of whatever the ladies over there was drinking, and I went over. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A dozen people are gathered around a long, scratched-up dining table, smoking cigarettes, drinking Chianti from juice glasses, sitting on a series of backless wooden stools. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I’m doing the things she did: drinking alone and snooping on him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Those laws said whites and blacks should be separated in all public places: drinking fountains, parks, trains, buses, downtown food counters, and public schools. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The parking lot was teeming with young men who had come to hang around the basketball court, some of whom were drinking. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z She thought of the wheel trees: the flowers that opened upward would be drinking in this golden rain. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Untangling a carrot from the bunch, I imagine Cinnamon and Nutmeg in their cage, shuffling through the shavings, drinking from the water bottle. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Life ended up being a little rocky for Shanon, because as she grew older, she got caught up in drinking and drugs. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The old man untied the drinking gourd slung across his back. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d take a notion that life was too much for him and start drinking heavier to forget it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But she died from drinking, just like I am dying from it. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Time stopped in this small grove of trees, and he wanted to believe he could spend the rest of his life sitting here drinking soda, eating whatever he wanted. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z One of them answered timidly that it was not a time for laughter and drinking. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z At the deserted riverbank, she knelt on the ground in the full sun and cupped the cold water in her hands, drinking deeply. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he picked up the glass from which Anthony Marston had been drinking. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “Not drinking, drunk. He was coming in from an all- night boozing down at that jook they have.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z There’s a drinking fountain and bathrooms in a small courtyard surrounded by a hedgerow. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z She leapt to her feet and hurried to the fire, where a number of people were sitting and drinking and talking and occasionally stirring a big pot of stew. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “You used to do that when Grandpa lived with us. As soon as he started drinking, you’d distract me. We’d play games in your room or go out into the backyard.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Though I knew he had been drinking, I wondered that an educated man and an observer could be so obtuse—could create such an embarrassing situation for a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Three days after Sam's death, Miss Katherine shot the sheriff while he was sitting in his chair drinking a cup of coffee. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z When summer came, Brad didn’t have to worry about school or anything, so his drinking and smoking got a lot worse. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z We sit at the table with Freddie, eating cake, drinking milk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z From where Marcus’s friends sat and stood on the patio, drinking and smoking and judging, I felt their contempt. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z My head gets all fuzzy like I’m buzzing on beer, but I’m not even drinking. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Seeing how she was obviously as unfamiliar with the concept of minimum wage as she was with that of the legal drinking age, I decided to forgo the college fund in favor of more booze. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Dr. W. C. Hueper of the National Cancer Institute has warned that “the danger of cancer hazards from the consumption of contaminated drinking water will grow considerably within the foreseeable future.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He’s crazy and mean enough, especially when he’s drinking. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Too much drinking in too short a time. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He began drinking his whiskey-and-soda, glancing round the room, looking at me every now and again, and smiling. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the men continued to eat and rest, enjoying the feel of solid ground under their feet, stretching their cramped limbs, melting glacier ice into drinking water. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He was drinking too much, even I could see that. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She tells Mam that Mikey has more sense than twelve men drinking pints in a pub. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Later, with Mom drinking so much, all Kenny had was me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z King Loft men, who also knew tile odds, spent the night dancing, drinking, dicing and telling each other dirty stories. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Sprouting from the left side of his head was a single bull’s horn—a curved black-and-white one like warriors might turn into drinking cups. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The lobby was full of men dressed in suits or sport coats standing in small groups, drinking, talking, and laughing. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I was drinking it ’cause of how it made me feel and how all the things I wanted to say came right into my head without me even trying. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Alex keeps drinking, keeps alternating between thinking about it and forcing himself not to think about it, disappears into the crowd and dances with pretty European heiresses about it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z As a consequence of drinking the bootleggers’ product some 15,000 people developed a permanently crippling type of paralysis of the leg muscles, a condition now called “ginger paralysis.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On weekends we lounged barefoot in drawstring pajamas, drinking tea and smoking Rothmans, or set out to watch cricket at Lord’s. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He had the brandy bottle and glasses, and Eleanor thought that they must make a companionable little group, the four of them, sitting around Theodora’s room at four in the morning, drinking brandy. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I know what he’s going to ask, so before he can, I say, “It started before. While we were still married. The drinking. That’s what you wanted to know', isn’t it?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Many townsfolk gathered in the train depot, drinking eggnog and wishing cheers to each other’s health. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Eagerly they queried Mother, drinking tea and smoking cigarettes. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z On either side of me, folks are packing cars to leave, hammering wood over windows, or else standing, sitting on the porch, playing music, drinking liquor like it’s Mardi Gras. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z I might wander freely through the house drinking pancake batter from a plastic bucket, but the moment one of my sisters overspilled her bikini, my father was right there to mix his metaphors. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I took my time drinking to give her what I hoped was enough time to get herself together. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z A few tables over, two men were drinking beer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Besides smoking, I was drinking around the clock. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He’d teach us old songs in Korean, drinking songs, school songs, whatever we could learn. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama probably thinks I don’t know what she’s drinking, but I do. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z After drinking the glass of milk and putting on a fleece-lined cap, Mr. Clutter carried his apple with him when he went outdoors to examine the morning. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z "Mom, come on—he's been drinking all day." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z How often had I seen Miss Lilian sitting on that bench, smoking, drinking a glass of wine, her mouth drawn down with disapproval? The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Ifemelu stood by the window while Aunty Uju sat at the table drinking orange juice and airing her grievances like jewels. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Did the ceiling creak because he was walking quietly up and down, drinking a cold orange crush and studying the chess men laid out on the table? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Pipes across the ceiling led to the drinking fountains and to the toilets in the next room. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And Bigger felt that after Jan admitted that they had been drinking, he was bound to say that he had brought the girl home. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z If I had been drinking tea at that moment, I would have imitated Javaneh Esfahani and shot it out of my nose. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z After ’while he quit drinking and started breathing regular. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I knew how easy it was to make mistakes with drinking and drugs a normal part of campus life. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Each time the giant’s smoky veil started creeping around one of them, Nico was there, slashing through it, drinking in the darkness with his Stygian blade. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I'm pretty sure none of them have seat belts on and that he's been drinking Scotch all morning. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Twice he flung his drinking horn at Jon’s head, though only after he had emptied it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He grabs my arm and drags me away from the drinking fountain. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “You get it from drinking Jamaica ginger extract.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The warmth, the smell of food and wood smoke, overpowered Jethro for a while, and he would have sat silent, drinking in content, if his obligations as a guest had not demanded more of him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Like if because I raised the boat my dad would quit drinking and turn over a new leaf or something. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The foreigners who sit drinking coffee with their noses in books aren’t his friends and family, but paying guests, many of them gringuitos. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Thor took the drinking cup, hefted it in both hands, then threw it with all his might against one of the granite pillars that held up the roof of the banqueting hall. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z For, excepting drinking and a certain solitary secret pleasure, Antonapoulos loved to eat more than anything else in the world. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z And if they were all drinking from paper cups, she always knew whose was whose even if they got mixed up on the table together. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Back in the living room, everyone was drinking tea. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Everything around me was art, from the stains in my bathtub to the razor blade and short length of drinking straw I used to cut and ingest my speed. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “No phones, no incriminating photographs of underage drinking. Makes for a more relaxed evening. Good game, by the way. Elle got lots of great shots for the yearbook.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z He sat there for two days, rocking, drinking, while the men tiptoed around him, keeping one eye on the road and one eye on Mike. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Lyte was talking as informally as though he and Mr. Dana were alone together, sitting at a tavern, cracking walnuts, drinking Madeira. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z So I grew up drinking from the same bottle as that little cow. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z I noticed that his gestures were becoming tighter than before, that somehow he appeared more calm and ordered, which seemed to me unusual, given how we were drinking. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared greedily, drinking in the glamorous world we were descending into. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The dancing kept up, the drinking kept up, the noise went on. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z You would think that after your new drinking buddy got hit by a car, you would sober up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Like a White Russian drinking tea in Paris, marooned in the twentieth century, I wander back, try to regain those distant pathways; I become too maudlin, lose myself. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The earliest preserved examples of the Etruscan and Roman alphabets are also inscriptions on drinking cups and wine containers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Sure, my dad has a drinking problem and my mom can be a little eccentric, but they make sacrifices for me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I thought about that, considered that dinosaurs, real dinosaurs, had walked near where I now sat in a Chinese restaurant drinking a Shirley Temple, tens of millions of years later. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z One of them had been wounded and the others had been drinking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Behind it trailed a growing bunch of revelers, dancing along with the beat, drinking and throwing their empty bottles to shatter against the huge, impervious machine. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He was very interested in watching Chester, since he had never seen a cricket drinking from a glass before. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He went back to drinking black coffee and shuddered every time his eyes went to his mother’s bosom. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z "You have put a...a...a crocodile in my drinking water!" the Trunchbull yelled back. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z I wrote about the Freedom Riders who rode buses through the South in 1961 challenging segregated seating, rest rooms, and drinking fountains. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Which is funny, because whoever designed the list forgot to mention drinking and sex—which would’ve been the most accurate response for most of our student body. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He spent hours in the back room of his house drinking whiskey and calling former friends in the Klan, trying to explain his actions. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z From watching Dracula movies, I hated drinking the stuff, fearing that I might turn into a vampire; but there was nothing I could do about it—short of starving to death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the peacekeepers became romantically involved with one of Adele’s friends: He would take the girl out drinking, then take her back to the UN compound. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I sit in the harsh ultrablack of the Quasi, drinking red wine, staring out the window. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Green shirt, sandy hair. The one nearest to me by the fireplace. Give him something to make him sleep. He’s already been drinking. No one will think twice if he happens to pass out.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We were lined up to wash ourselves at a big trough in a frame hut; everybody began by drinking the washwater. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Vincent and Gauguin have been drinking and talking, arguing electrically about art. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Dad stood against the wall drinking his stout between the fireplace and the bed with Eugene. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The boomer ethos in which I’d raised my own daughter was obsessively protective, perpetually on guard against everything from lead paint and genetically engineered food to helmetless bike-riding, drinking, smoking, sex, and possible learning disabilities. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Long after they had finished drinking an old horse appeared over the brow of the hill and came painfully down. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She hopes I’m not drinking on my own. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z About thirty families shared a well for drinking water. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z My landlady lit the fire and brought a pitcher of drinking water for my night stand. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Women had to draw drinking water straight from the river, while they clucked their tongues and told stories of women fallen to crocodiles in other dry years, which were never as dry as this one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a rustling outside the buttery door, and the butler went over to it while Lancelot was drinking another measure. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z From sunrise until dark he walked without stopping, drinking from the gourd along the way. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z If you wash down your chicken nuggets with almost any soft drink, you are drinking corn with your corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I don’t know why you don’t scald your mouth, drinking it that hot.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Once I quit drinking and started making decent money at the little accounting firm I’d interned with, we bought the house on Overlook Road. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z One might think that people would stop eating and drinking these huge portions as soon as they felt full, but it turns out hunger doesn’t work that way. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He had never even imagined lying on anything so comfortable as that sofa or drinking anything so delicious as that sherbet. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z They were eating granola bars and drinking water from a nearby river. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Yeah, thanks. Not too strong, though. I’m not a drinking man.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The workshop stayed, but Abel kept running it into the ground, drinking his money. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I told them that drinking at an early age had stunted my growth, so I had given it up in favor of other vices. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am not drinking at present” he said, “thank you.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z We can still hang out since Sam and their dad are drinking buddies. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The words went into crystal focus, and I felt my eyes jump over them, drinking them in with disbelief. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I walked over to the end of the row, picked up the jug of water we had brought, and began drinking. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z At three forty-five he came up to the house again and said good-bye to the children, who were seated on the porch drinking apple juice and eating graham crackers and rolling pebbles back and forth. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Xan covered the windows with heavy curtains, but she would find them thrown open, and the child drinking moonlight in her sleep. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He knew that she lived with her mother and stepfather, sinful people, given to drinking and gambling and ragtime music and the blues, who never, except at Christmastime or Easter, appeared in church. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z We girls eyed each other, suddenly aware we were frail flesh, fourteen mouthfuls crowding Doña Charito's patio and drinking up her lemonade. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “You’ve got to keep drinking, remember? You told me you had to keep drinking. Here...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He’s not drinking but I can tell he’d like to be. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z A lot of drinking— weekend nights downing Keystone beer in the foothills—sometimes driving home drunk—a lot of premarital sex and a lot of pregnancy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In Los Angeles, a jury that had been hearing a bootlegging case was itself put on trial after having been observed drinking the evidence. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I want ye to stand in the middle of the pub and tell every man your father is drinking the money for the baby. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I had the feeling that they disapproved of us being there, drinking only water, taking up space. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z There was a drinking fountain next to me .. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I see myself that first day, sitting cross- legged on a batik floor pillow, drinking green tea out of a fired raku cup, and looking up at Zora with my big, hopeful, curious, attentive eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She’s standing in the kitchen, aggressively drinking a glass of water. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d been drinking,” I say, my face reddening with a familiar shame. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He had taken his first drink in fifth grade, and by the time he was a senior had built up quite a reputation for drinking. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When someone flushed you could hear the water and other matter, which the children named, running inside the big pipe above the drinking spigots. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At other times there were merely lots of people eating and drinking — continuously from elevenses until six-thirty, when the fireworks started. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Next thing you know, she’ll be drinking black coffee and reading books without pictures. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Just for drinking too much fresh water a man could be flogged with the cat-o’-nine-tails. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone is always celebrating victory or drinking away defeat. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z She tells me get into that pub and tell my father to stop the drinking and get the coffin and the carriage. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There’s only one watching over ’em di-rect and he’s passed out from drinking! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Flesh eating and blood drinking, did she mean? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She found Patti waiting for her at a table, drinking water from a wineglass. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Madam let loose on me in the kitchen after the gentlemen had taken Master Lockton to Ashley’s Tavern for a night of beer drinking and pipe smoking. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Further soiled by me drinking all his free drinks, like a stupid freeloader, not even tipping him for all the expensive cherries he keeps throwing on top. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z What were they doing here, drinking and shouting at one o’clock in the morning in a country so far from the homes they knew; what were they so feverishly happy about? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes two friends would come to the show arm in arm, laughing and drinking—and before they left they would be struggling together in a panting rage. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Inej slid the Madman’s mask down over the guard’s face, and Muzzen threw his arm around him, holding him up as if the guard had been drinking too much. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He was drinking from the flask Crow filled and he died choking. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Ay, that was one of her failures, she explained to them, a child's double-compartment drinking glass with an outsized, built-in straw. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Still, I pretend I’m drinking exactly what Mama Ya-Ya drinks, and not just 99 percent hot milk. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z She was scared, and it wasn’t until she had a sip of whatever we were drinking or a hit off of whatever we were smoking that she would calm down and be the same Sam. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z As they said when they were drinking, “A short life but a merry one.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent most of his time drinking whiskey and never fixed anything. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Mama and my sisters sipped tea while I pressed my nose to the window glass, drinking in the comings and goings of the street, and when it was time to go I cried. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He was stripped naked and romping in our drinking water again. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I tossed it back in the sand, picturing Mong sitting there with his shaved head, drinking his bottle of whiskey, talking all crazy about true love. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The counter was filled with people drinking coffee and reading papers. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat in a corner for the rest of the night, drinking cup after cup of pop to get the salty, metallic taste of his blood out of my mouth. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Both of us are always on the edge of the couch for every third down, me eating those cheese puffs and him drinking his soda. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “We better not be. There were no rules against drinking milk.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They have their trays lowered and are drinking tea and playing Snap, fumbling the slippery cards, laughing like cars on gravel when they cheat or make mistakes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z One morning recently, for instance, she was out on the deck like usual drinking her tea and when I got closer I saw that she’d floated up into the air. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The child is above in the bed bawling and roaring for his milk and you’re drinking the pint. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z You met him at the door and started fighting with him because he’d been drinking gin, and you said gin made him wild because it did something to his system. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The street was deserted, but inside the café there were half a dozen customers drinking beer or Santa Lucia wine or whiskey. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Every morning he put on the heavy wooden yoke, trudged over to North Square for drinking water. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The school, which served 300 students, had four toilets, one drinking fountain, and no cafeteria. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He was sitting at an open-air café, overlooking the sea, drinking a cup of coffee and dressed in...wow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then the young soldier came and helped himself, only to hand the cup back to the older one, who continued drinking. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z His drinking buddy has taken Lourdes’s clothes back to her apartment. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Deydey and Fishtail sat in the corner, talking low and thoughtfully, drinking Grandma’s tea. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z If so, we should find that the groups with the lowest rates of alcoholism are those in which drinking of any kind is forbidden, such as Mormons or Muslims. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I kept drinking more and more until I discovered I could drink lots of beer. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I really did have to live near water for cooking and drinking and comfort. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z For the rest of the day, they sit at a communal round table, drinking punch and eating cookies, taking naps on little orange cushions on the floor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He told me he had read another book on Hasidism, and while the author hadn’t accused the tzaddikim of encouraging drinking, he had accused them of almost everything else. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I just stared at him drinking his beer and waited to see how long it would take for him to feel guilty. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Now I was drinking sugary tea with Zalabia Bedouins and squatting on a sand drift in Wadi Rum, the Valley of the Moon, less than twenty miles from the Saudi Arabian border. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “But I do hope,” he said, with a smile, “that you ain’t taken to drinking moonshine, sister.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Liam ignored him and kept his back to us, still bent over the silver drinking fountain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z There was another one drinking water and it became motionless upon seeing me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Also, even though I stopped drinking Bluefin a few hours ago, I still feel exceedingly twitchy. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z They joined their own neighborhood pool and tennis clubs and were making drinking friends with Americans. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was on the side of the road and he’s not drinking, Mom,” I said, my voice teary. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z "Has she been drinking, Iggy? I thought I made myself clear." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “We were drinking in the Levee. I didn’t want to walk home.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In previous elections, there had been drinking and rowdiness around the polling places, but on this day everything was calm. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z We finally calm down, drinking coffee that Minny had to get up and put on for us. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Watching them sit there playing with their sons, reading the paper, smoking, or drinking a Coke, I never would have guessed they were on trial for murder. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Almost every household was a drinking parlor of some sort; those that weren’t had neighbours that were. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the silence was shattered with the thunder of hoofbeats; vaqueros surrounded the small house with shouts and gunshots, and when they entered the room they were laughing and singing and drinking. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “After my folks split, I stole my old man’s car. Red-hot Camaro. I was drinking whiskey and beer and crashed the vintage piece into a bank.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “I was drinking my mom’s scotch and checking out your dad’s albums.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z They organized rallies, had students sign all kinds of petitions—from making drinking water safer to protecting the Key Largo woodrat to planting trees throughout the neighborhood. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the city, Germans are loading weapons or drinking brandy and history has become some nightmare from which Marie-Laure desperately wishes she could wake. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Don’t you want to know if I was drinking?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z A dark night was falling, one of a different order from the soft, large, kind ones of childhood under the anacahuita tree, Pap£ parceling out futures and Mama fussing at his drinking. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I always thought drinking fountains were just for drinking. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that terrible potion for nothing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z When all the time I knew that I ought to go beat them to a frazzle for messing up our drinking water. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s like the industrial alcohol board. They’ve got suspicious minds. They always think I’m drinking the alcohol. They think that about everyone.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “You asked me, last time, about how the drinking started.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “I remember that, Ignatius,” Mrs. Reilly said absently, drinking her beer in gulps. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then in October, when I was back at school, she wrote to say that Charles had stopped drinking, hadn’t had a drop for over a month. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Ah, the chipper young man says no. You are looking very chipper,” he says, now drinking the whole glass in one pull. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, sitting on the sofa with Cathy, drinking tea, she tells me how it’s going to be. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a long beard and was jolly and always seemed to be drinking hot tea out of a glass. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a drinking streak in that family—” “Aunty, there’s a drinking streak in every family.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Cook was nowhere to be found, but Mr. Henry leaned against the counter drinking a tall glass of tea. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z There was a leather bucket hanging from a nail so I went and brung it and the drinking gourd that was next to it over to where the woman with the baby was squatted down. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She started going on and on about Abel and his drinking. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z At the nearby drinking fountain, I pressed one finger over the hole, making the water squirt high in the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z What I saw of Frank was an extremely mild-mannered young man, even when he was drinking beer, which he did a lot. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Angela started to cry.Your son’s christening day and you have to go drinking. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z An officer in the passenger seat was drinking coffee from a paper cup. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I didn’t stop drinking until about half of the glass was gone. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z “If Mother and Father knew you were smoking and drinking like this . . .” She trailed off. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The ridges felt funny on his mouth, made him feel like he was drinking out of a mayonnaise container. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Al Ulbrickson’s “no smoking, no drinking, no chewing, no cussing” dictum always rang like a bell in the backs of their minds. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They were drinking beer and talking about the indigenization decree, the civil servants being jobless. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I sensed that the fault lay with Charles, who was surly and uncommunicative and—as lately was par for the course—drinking a little more than was good for him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We had to first climb Water Tank Mountain, so called because of the two cylindrical steel water tanks on top that held Coalwood’s drinking water. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z That way we’d have water and electricity in the End of Days, when everyone else was drinking from puddles and living in darkness. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Mr. Chumley takes a sip of water from a drinking glass and continues. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Jess is sitting on her patio, drinking a cup of coffee. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the women who sat in front of roaring fireplaces, drinking tea incessantly from silver trays full of scones and crumpets. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a rough scarred face, the kind of man who would be most himself in the middle of a pack of loud men, eating peppery meat, drinking beer, and watching Arsenal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Everything had been great between us since he had stopped drinking when I was thirteen. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z He had a drinking problem, but he was a nice guy. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Some others were awake, talking and drinking like us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z To a windowless building where he stood in one place all day sifting through dirt without eating or drinking or seeing the sun? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He sat with his legs crossed, a napkin over his thigh, drinking a cup of tea. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Four days later, John Wilkes Booth was drinking with a friend at a saloon on Houston Street in New York City. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was because she was with these reservation Indians, out drinking with them and dancing in Gallup with all the other reservation Indians. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d been out all night, drinking and gambling, when he stormed in and told me to grab my things. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I knew I was lucky to have older cousins to take me on adventures that included meeting my literary heroes and drinking tasty vodka concoctions. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I was drinking it when I heard the radio broadcast that the Dutch had surrendered. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Minny is at the kitchen table with us, drinking a Coke, looking out the window. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The memory of my six-year-old drinking came back and filled me with caution. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The classic honeymoon stage where everyone feels like they’re riding a unicorn on floating rainbows while drinking Skittle smoothies. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z At least I would have one less worry during the rainy season—we could get our drinking water straight from the sky. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Twice he vomited and then went on drinking until the earth tipped and swayed and the streetlight spun majestically in a circle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Shoba was in her fifth month, drinking ginger ale from a martini glass. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He’d been drinking heavily and shooting heroin for years, and he was covered in scars from fighting. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Then I realized it wasn’t like drinking a Coke, it was like driving drunk, really drunk.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He told us one day that Islam considered drinking a terrible sin; those who drank would answer for their sin on the day of Qiyamat, Judgment Day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like lots of people I’d been around lately were either drinking or sighing. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In the morning my small brothers are gone to school, Malachy is out looking for a job, Mam is at the fire drinking tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But she hadn’t been drinking; it only looked that way. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He took a dipper of water from an oaken pail, drinking deeply, then splashing the remains over his aching head. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Fights broke out when kids had been drinking, but the ethos was nonviolent. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z At the end is the drinking fountain, bathed in the blue glow of the light above it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Are you a jumper?” asks a pale man sitting in the next chair, drinking something blue and possibly radioactive. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Now he posted a picture of himself drinking straight from the bottle. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Gregor pressed his face against the window, drinking in the buildings, the cars, and the lights! Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She decided neither to make nothing of it nor much of it; to proceed as though drinking was no more or less than something to be moderately indulged in at seasonal times. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Kat made a funny lapping noise, like a dog drinking water. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Uhmma sat drinking tea with the woman who worked at the grill. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z It’s already three-fifteen and I want to be drinking the bottles in my trunk by four. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Second, and perhaps most important of all, Prohibition failed because tens of millions of people refused to give up drinking and would do anything to get their hard liquor, beer, or wine. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Whenever Dad passed out, Brian said, he took the bottle Dad had been drinking, emptied it, and hid it in the trunk. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We sit at the kitchen table with our coats on, eating our sandwiches and drinking our milk, and waiting. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But then I heard bonobo shrieks nearing, and before I knew it, the group had descended on us, drinking from the stream and ripping away their own mangoes from a nearby tree. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He stopped drinking for a couple of months, and we celebrated. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat together on the morning of my last day as a little boy, the morning before my seventeenth birthday, drinking our coffee on the patio beside the pool. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I want to know how he does ordinary stuff, like eating and drinking. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z He’d been drinking; he never came home from work sober, and the drinking always made his temper worse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Mark Antony marked the occasion by hosting what might be his final banquet, drinking and feasting in the light-hearted, easy-going manner that characterized more carefree days. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z You could almost feel the trees drinking the water up with their roots. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I end up learning their names as they sit there, drinking. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Their bayo- netted rifles were slung over their shoulders, and their very red faces made me think they had been drinking stolen liquor. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought about the river, those bodies, the water washing over them and then downriver to my Otto, and wished I’d been quick- thinking enough to stop him from drinking. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She was drinking from a plastic liter bottle of mineral water. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z If he was really lucky, his father would be out drinking and he’d be able to slip in unnoticed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “He’s always drinking out of the toilet,” Tom said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Around us, everyone was drinking and rowdily mock singing the school fight song and making out, but all we did was sit there, holding hands. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The sheriff had his feet up on his desk and was drinking from a bottle of whiskey. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “Marvellous,” she said, coming back into drinking position. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Like chickens drinking, the students lifted their eyes towards the distant ceiling. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “I already know what you’re drinking,” said Wednesday, and then he was standing by the bar. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z As sight came into both my eyes, a warm feeling filled me — like drinking hot tea on a cold day. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z She'd brought her Cheerios into the room and was now drinking the milk straight out of the bowl. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “We are all going to puke if we just drink. So we’ll slow it down with a drinking game. Best DayAVorst Day.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “We have been drinking since this morning,” Lefty said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He took out the plastic bottle of water and unscrewed the cap and held it out and the boy took it and stood drinking. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The fingers curled around the drinking horn were heavy with rings, gold and silver and bronze, set with chunks of sapphire and garnet and dragonglass. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Imagining entertaining at the long table we kissed against, my classmates all drinking the pale green wine and pretending they had never tried to murder me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Not because of the drinking or the sex or the hour of the night. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z At the drugstore, I bought a gallon of water for drinking and toothbrushing. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Thomas stopped drinking, sucked in a big satisfied breath, then burped. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I go back in the house, pass Mother at the kitchen table drinking warm milk. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z When I was tiny we would buy a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Smith, a lifelong teetotaler who strongly disapproved of Pollard’s drinking, probably waved off the jockey’s plaintive wails for alcohol that morning. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Here in the parsonage, sitting in a cane-bottomed chair near an upright piano and drinking homemade whiskey poured from a mayonnaise jar, it was real. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I should clean those up so Dad doesn’t come home to dirty plates and mugs with impossible stains from all the hot chocolate I’ve been drinking. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In fact, drinking was number one on her don’t list, and if my stepfather drank too much, she’d scream at him on the way home. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood by the sink, drinking and chewing, and watching her grandmother knead the pale dough. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Reverend Deal took it up, saying the same folks who had sense enough to avoid Shadrack’s call were the ones who insisted on drinking themselves to death or womanizing themselves to death. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And while they were lying down, drinking, the wolf came. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests, for it seemed to me that he grew more correct as the fraternal hilarity increased. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z "Because it's a party, Nood. Everybody will be partying and dancing and drinking," I cut in. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Of all these ways, none came to symbolize this national evasion of the anti-drinking laws more dramatically than a brand-new and illegal type of drinking establishment that replaced the closed-down once-legal saloons. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Trucks deliver extra jugs of drinking water and canned food to the high-rise residents. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Well, the drinking started before . . .” “So your husband’s affair was not the trigger?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or have one of the guys check on him? Make sure he isn’t drinking too much?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z As aquatic weed killers in lakes and reservoirs they have made public waters unsuitable for drinking or even for swimming. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “My parents? The father’s in California right now. Maybe sitting in his La-Z-Boy. Maybe driving his truck. Either way, he’s drinking. My mother is probably just now turning off campus.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z In the evening the soldiers of the new regiment came down and stood around playing the juke box and drinking Coca-Cola and sizing up the girls for the time when they would be paid. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I never would have imagined where this drinking would lead. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Despite his joking manner, Pinmei knew Yishan had given it to her in kindness, and it made her feel as if she were drinking a warm cup of tea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z "I'm just drinking so you will," said Zero. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Dad sits at the other end of the bench, smoking his cigarette, drinking his tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Tía Inés walks into the kitchen with the last of the drinking glasses. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She’d changed out of the stained shirt she’d been wearing into her red Chuck E. Cheese polo, and was sitting with her backpack in her lap, drinking a container of school milk. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Oliver choked on the water he was drinking, and Uncle Arthur pounded on his back. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They sat around for a while drinking cider and listening to a Christmas carol program. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Husbands drinking their whiskeys stop in mid-sip, spotting this pink thing at the door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She sat at the table as he ate, drinking more wine and asking how his day was, but eventually she went to the deck to smoke a cigarette, leaving Eliot to wrap up the leftovers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Even without drinking, they had to urinate frequently because of the water absorbed through their skin. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Voices and music float from New Clairmont, where the aunts and Granddad are eating blueberry pie and drinking port. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z And there at the end was Hagrid, huge and hairy, drinking deeply from his goblet. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Henry knew him from his drinking days at Big T’s. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “It was not an accident,” he insisted, “and I had not been drinking!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Six months later he managed to pull himself together and quit drinking, cold turkey, but he never really got over the loss. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They patrolled for underage smoking or drinking, offenses punishable by three weeks in prison and a fifty-reichsmarks fine. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z We fill a handful of shells with drinking water and go back to the beach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Better yet, some sophisticated drinking establishments allow you to keep drinks as a sort of credit for future use. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “How does she pass out from drinking water?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In their almost frantic desire to put an end to the drinking problem, temperance advocates embraced some truly odd justifications for banning hard liquor, beer, and wine. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It would seem quite likely then, if the rain does not cease very shortly, that I will remain here drinking tea until the proper time comes for me to set off. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z After they left, I lay on Francis’s couch, smoking his cigarettes and drinking his Scotch, and watched “Jeopardy.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It had been a fine day and though the shops were all closing, a lot of people were hanging about outside the pubs, talking and drinking. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z If the corn could, it would laugh at us, the humans eating and drinking it as fast as they can. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A storm, attempted murders, witches, wizards, invisible spirits, revolutions, characters drinking until they’re dead drunk, an angry monster named Caliban—can you believe it? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I did not try to find a bar that would sell an Indian liquor so that I could lose my sorrows by drinking. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want any of those others around. They can do their drinking some place else. Not at our place.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The truth was that after years of gin drinking he could barely taste it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “It isn’t for drinking anyway. It’s for scientific purposes.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And it was nice to be with our neighbors and friends, drinking lemonade and talking and singing along with my parents. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Thus they talked back and forth drinking tea, and the second son took his fill of what he saw and he went away, and Wang Lung was eased of his second son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He claims he's been drinking, but the containers still feel full to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “He’s okay. He’s a son of Bacchus, the wine god. He’s got a drinking problem.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Slow down there. Save some drinking for the game.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And why was Papa drinking his tea quietly, as if Jaja had not just talked back to him? Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I look out my little window and I see Quincy and Miss Lizzy drinking ice tea and laughing. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Outside the walkup some men had set up a table and were sitting on milk crates, drinking Budweisers in paper bags and playing dominoes. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Another story,” she said when she finished drinking. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They’s two colored mens inside, one drinking a cup a coffee, the other asleep setting straight up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I’m drinking my chocolate milk when Polly asks, “Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It was almost as satisfying as actually eating and drinking. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He sat on a bench, drinking coffee and smoking, reading poetry and listening to rain pound the canvas roof. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In that short window between eleven p.m. and four a.m., instead of getting good rest, I would spend my time drinking copious amounts of water to make sure I didn’t become dehydrated during practice. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “His drinking, and his moods...When he was good, he was so good, but when he was careless, I couldn’t have him at the house, I couldn’t,” she says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They found Robert drinking beer from a polished horn and roaring his displeasure at two. young squires who were trying to buckle him into his armor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When the list be thin, I slip in that old stinky white fella that live behind the feed store, the one lost his mind from drinking the shoe polish. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I'm in a beer parlor, drinking ten- cent draft beer, with the other students from Life Drawing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Shebeens gave life and soul to township drinking. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad was still red-eyed and blowing his nose while we were drinking our sodas after the movie, and all of us felt depressed. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She leaned over the counter, which was lined with dozens of little statues—waving Chinese cats, meditating Buddhas, Saint Francis bobble heads, and novelty dippy drinking birds with top hats. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Rorge, the noseless one, flung his drinking cup at her with a curse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Because I was one of the older children in Yar’s “family,” it was my chore to go to the river and draw water for cooking, drinking, and washing. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She appeared to be not in the least ill at ease sitting on an upturned box in a bare room and drinking tea out of a mug that she balanced on her knee. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z He held a cornucopia in one hand and a drinking vessel in the other, and had vine leaves in his hair and a swinging tunic to show he was dancing. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The stink of sweat, the sick sweet of what he’d been drinking. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z On the far side of the room, sitting at a table alone, a small, curiously beetlelike man was drinking a cup of coffee, his little eyes darting suspicious glances from side to side. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Ash took it, drinking deeply, and then came to sit beside the huntress on a fallen log. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Milton and Tessie often found themselves in the kitchen at four in the morning, drinking coffee. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A coyote froze with its muzzle dripping from the pool where it had been drinking. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I enter the bright Johnson Building, pass by the marble drinking fountains, and walk into the purple-paned children’s section. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He wasn’t planning on drinking any of it, but he wanted things to look and feel normal again. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Supposedly Garrett’s dad started drinking so much that he lost his job. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I crossed the street to the drinking fountain, feeling the water cooling, going down, then dampened a handkerchief and swabbed my face, eyes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The Fjerdans would stand outside their cages, eating and drinking, mocking their filthy clothes and the way they smelled. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z So they nervously prowled the bars and card rooms and dance halls, drinking beer and taking occasional shots of whiskey and singing along with ragtag cowboy bands. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If Cholly had stopped drinking, she would never have forgiven Jesus. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Jasper lapped noisily at his drinking bowl below the stairs, the sound echoing in the great stone hall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The only sure way to prevent him from drinking the rest of the plutonium-green booze is to down one myself. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “You all right? You sick? You been drinking?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Do what you want,” he gasps, drinking swiftly, swallowing it all down. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z These drinking sessions sometimes led to fistfights, which my father welcomed like sport. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z It’s less acceptable to drink on the train on a Monday, unless you’re drinking w ith company, which I am not. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She just smiles a fake smile and messes with her iced latte or whatever she's drinking. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He was also sensitive to remarks about his drinking. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He wins bets in the pubs by drinking more pints than anyone. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And all the while, Judd sits on his porch, drinking his beer, watching me sweat. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, “Nothing yet. But if he doesn’t keep out of our drinking water, I’m going to wear him to a frazzle.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m just glad he finally stopped drinking and cleaned up his act before he checked out. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In North Carolina, Enrique focuses on working, on saving money, on cutting down even more on drinking and drugs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I couldn't answer him; I was busy drinking it all in, busy trying to understand the stirring in my chest. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z If Jan said that he had not come to the house, who would believe him after it was seen that he had lied about his not drinking and about Mary’s going to school? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Matthew told us people would be disoriented for a while after drinking the memory serum, but I didn’t think “disoriented” meant “stupid” until now. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I dip my face down, as if I had a beak and were a sparrow drinking from a fountain. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z He knew that this was alcoholic fat, but he kept on drinking. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I wonder how he's holding up, with the drinking, the attention, and the stress of trying to keep us alive. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z At night Kabuo was subject to disturbing dreams that sent him to the kitchen table in his slippers and bathrobe, where he sat drinking tea and staring. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There was a tavern, and in the taproom men sat about drinking rum and boasting of their great deeds. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “And do you know why I’m drinking it now? Because it’s 9 P.M.—time for the ‘X-Files,’ my favorite program of all time.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The purpose is usually to promote recreational uses, even though the water must then be treated at some expense to make it fit for its intended use as drinking water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I was about to drink from the rain-catcher pouch slung across my shoulder when my eyes fell upon the graduated drinking beakers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s five minutes to four and most of the team is drinking beer. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He is drinking a milkshake and doesn’t seem to bother breathing as he does. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z We sit on the outside patio, drinking Manhattans and looking over the stone balustrade. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I could have used a drinking glass and a notecard to capture it, get it outside. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z There would be drinking fountains, colored and white. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One of her duties was to find them in the temple every morning, wherever they had chosen to lie down and close their eyes after drinking from the pool. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And even though I’m not eating or drinking anymore, the man behind the counter hasn’t asked me to leave. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Three teenaged colored boys stood on the sidewalk, drinking R.C. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I notice that I can fill a water balloon at the drinking fountain in the park almost twice as fast as Erlan. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z He’d been vaccinated against B, and he didn’t do drugs, so that ruled out C. Type A was usually caused by drinking contaminated water or eating tainted food. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z There they were drinking, getting ready for the fiesta. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Much of this sottish drinking was meant to drown sorrows, and forget the troubles and hardships of black life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And she had been drinking steadily, now, for a very long time. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Staying up late, drinking—this could not be good for him! Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We did a lot of drinking and a lot of crying. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of them you get from smoking and drinking and being fat and not exercising. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He had done a lot of drinking and raising hell with Emo and some of the other veterans. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He helped me throw all of our drinking water, as well as all of our sodas, on the sleeping bag, which-sizzled and smoked. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z That’s unusual for the morning after a blizzard, when everybody stays home, drinking hot chocolate, and if you go out, it’s for sledding, or maybe building a snowman. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Mabel's parents called their reminders that we take a car home, not ride with our friends if they'd been drinking, not walk if it was after eleven. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He opens it and starts drinking before he’s paid for it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “We might be in South America now,” Camilla said one night while we were drinking bourbon from teacups in my room and listening to rain dripping from the eaves. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It was a flat ridged disk perhaps two inches irf diameter, and it was thick, like the bottom of a drinking glass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z We were both well pleased with ourselves, sitting in the warm tent, drinking hot tea and waiting for the kadik-germ porridge to boil. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Before them a little cataract of water poured into a broad pool: and both the Horses were already in the pool with their heads down, drinking, drinking, drinking. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Who told her I was doing anything more than drinking occasional vodka? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z It was so gorgeous, we stood in awe, drinking it all in. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I sit at the window, drinking my coffee, biting my fingers, looking down the five stories. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He’s wearing his retro Atari T-shirt and is drinking a Red Bull. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I ate the same food that was cooked for all the miners, and I had forbidden the drinking of alcoholic beverages within the mine. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe he’d already been drinking and was in the friendly stage of intoxication. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They’re dressed in fine suits and drinking the sort of whiskey that doesn’t come cheap. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie got to know when he was drinking more than usual. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to give him some of the purified water, but he was drinking like the bonobos in the sanctuary did, and I figured his system was more tolerant than mine. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The two boys were leaning back, drinking beer from cans. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Franz lay under the table, keeping an eye out for Paganini, who had taken to drinking from his water bowl. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I’m having trouble sleeping, and it’s not just the drinking now, it’s the nightmares. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then why in the heck are you drinking? You know you can’t hold no baby with a pint of whiskey in you.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z So he knows I was drinking, and he knows how old James is. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I’d done grilled prawns with lots of chilli and coriander, and we were drinking this delicious Chenin Blanc that he’d been given by a grateful client. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “What the hell was I drinking last night?” asked Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Ah,” he said, like a thirsty man who, having just drunk deeply, puts down the glass to let out the breath he has held while drinking. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He hadn’t been drinking as much when he’d first moved in. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z I resolve to lie on the bed without eating, drinking, or taking my medications. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It was because this was where people were born and born and born until finally the result was you, drinking a Coke in the Jitney Jungle. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It was frigid outside, so we mostly stayed indoors, catching up with Heritage and eating bread and drinking tea. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “You’re not going to mess up, Tiara. You can do this. You built a hut. You learned to fish and catch rainwater for drinking. You’re a survivor.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Henry had left around midnight; and Francis and Charles, who’d been drinking hard since four o’clock, showed no signs of slowing down. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Arul and I set a good example by drinking some of the bitter liquid. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Yet here they sat, drinking to a marriage hallowed by some queer red god from beyond the seas. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When I walked in with Allen and Kenny, Arnold was sitting on his screened-in porch at his round picnic table drinking his hippie tea with four strangers, two men and two women. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They lived happily for centuries, drinking milk and using cows as currency. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Up on the battlements, or in the hall. Sleeping, drinking. I’ll take you if you like.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There was nothing he could have done to prevent Ugwu’s death, but his drinking, his excessive drinking, had somehow made him complicit. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Vincent can talk a blue streak, even without drinking, and that drives Gauguin crazy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Jackson, who police said had been drinking, was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, where he is being treated for burns and bruises. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was her and his dad and another guy drinking beer and playing cards. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z As I watched her drinking, I felt this pressure building in my chest and I had to let it out. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Or, “Quiet down, girls, your mother is drinking tea.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I think about things I’ve heard: drinking a lot of gin, knitting needles, coat hangers; but what do you do with them? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But farmers are sedentary and live amid their own sewage, thus providing microbes with a short path from one person’s body into another’s drinking water. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Pitezel had long been a heavy drinker, but his drinking must have become debilitating, for it was Holmes who sent him to Keeley and paid for his treatment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She told us we should forgive her the same way we always forgave Dad for his drinking. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Whenever my father isn’t off on a drinking binge, he spends most of his time in his bedroom, alone, watching TV. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z In the pubs around the railway station the men are packed in drinking the money the agents gave them for travel food. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I didn't tell my parents when she'd cut school to go to the beach, or that she once missed an entire Aerosmith concert because she passed out from drinking before the band took the stage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He had seen the color of that light once before, but he had never been sure if it was the light or the beer he was drinking. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z My body refuses to remain still in the chair, mouth drinking desperate sips of air. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He refused cow’s milk in any form or container and took to drinking black coffee. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Before Prohibition, the nation’s main drinking places, the saloons, had been almost exclusively a male domain. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He was sitting at the taproom table drinking tea. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mouth made a small O, like she was drinking from an invisible straw. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He sat back there drinking, an old man who’d been drunk for years. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Although he was very smart, he’d never shown much interest in school and could often be found drinking in the boozing centers. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Her brother and Lucky sat at the table drinking coffee. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z He is particularly mute when he and Moushumi get together for dinners with groups of her French friends, drinking Pernods and feasting on couscous or choucroute, smoking and arguing around paper-covered tables. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The weather was good out there on my back porch, so we cracked a few beers and got to drinking. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Upon noticing this, I become so self-conscious that I can’t stay on the dance floor, so I gravitate toward the edge, where people are standing around drinking, talking and watching. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Scones would be baked and gallons of Kool-Aid or cider made to give to children on New Year’s, while the adults went about each other’s homesteads, drinking free liquor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z People were piled on the deck, eating, drinking, the sound of their laughter rising above the weary sigh of the waves. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I was in the kitchen, drinking milk, and I ran out into the hallway. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “That’s right,” Bull said seriously, “you have done a lot of drinking. I guess I’m just the old doubting Thomas. For a minute I didn’t think you knew what you were talking about.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m going to stop drinking, I’m going to get my CV in order, I’m going to contact Martin Miles and beg for a reference. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She poured the honey wine for both of us, drinking hers in a series of dainty sips from a silver beggar’s cup hardly bigger than a thimble. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I noticed how, as he held the cup, he tried to hide his pinkie, and I remembered how he used to flourish it as if he felt especially superior when he was drinking tea. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched from beneath Henry’s kitchen table as her mother and Wash sat drinking Ovaltine. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z To keep up with his hosts, Farmer kept drinking vodka. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z ‘What about this stuff? After the House of Hades, I kind of hoped we were done drinking poison.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z But she wouldn’t be drinking even if she wasn’t driving. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The robot didn’t pay any attention to me, so I wandered around the greenhouse, nibbling on leaves and drinking from puddles. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z And we were uneasy too, my family, because in the South there was always a lot of liquor and drinking, and Jews weren’t popular. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Because he had my father’s drinking genes, too. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He makes sure to be asleep by the time his father comes home from drinking, and to be out of the house before his father awakes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The beer was warm now, but I wasn’t drinking it for the taste. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “We were wondering if this was like driving while drinking a Coke, until Dr. Strayer came along,” Linton reflects. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It soon became clear that Mrs. Cole was no novice when it came to gin drinking. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Two or three times a week, Enrique lugs buckets filled with drinking water, one on each shoulder, from the water truck at the bottom of the hill up to his grandmother’s house. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A few old women were sitting in a corner, drinking tiny glasses of sherry. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Most notable is physicians’ declaration that drinking in excess could cause a person’s body to explode suddenly. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Finally I looked around and saw a stone drinking fountain. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He wants to be Like his shoes, A little dirty From the road, A little worn From racing to the drinking fountain A hundred times in one day. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z First they plunge around in the dark, shuffling and cursing, grabbing up leaves and sticks, lurching, stumbling all over the place because of the liquor they have been drinking, Their breath. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z It burns my throat, so I keep drinking it and don't even realize how much I've had until the cup is back on its saucer and it's half empty. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I think he was drunk, even though he hasn’t been drinking lately, but Patrick does that stuff sober, so it’s hard to tell. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Right this minute, her logistics coordinator is drinking lemonade in their backyard and feeding ice to Bit, which the dog chases on the lawn. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She was drinking her lemonade through a straw, daintily like a girl, trying to make the sweet pleasure last. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s an old-time Southern drinking contest,” Alaska responded. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z They are all looking at me and smiling and drinking their wine and then smiling some more. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z No drinking was a condition of his parole; by getting caught, he had earned a ticket back to prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit in a French restaurant with Josef, drinking white wine and eating snails. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z As his last act upon earth, Comrade Napoleon had pronounced a solemn decree: the drinking of alcohol was to be punished by death. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z In another spot, people were dancing and drinking some kind of black liquid out of a pot that boiled over a makeshift fire pit. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He had seen his fill of people eating and drinking and acting like clowns, jabbering like ... so that's it: jabbering, dropping clues. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z "The dog was drinking. It was your night to shield him, ser. You and my other brothers." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He had the hot, blue eyes usually associated with heavy drinking and loose living. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z We sort of stopped talking, but we stayed sitting there and drinking a while longer. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Dicey found Cousin Eunice in the kitchen, drinking a cup of tea. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Hermione looked across the lake to the far bank, where the dragon was still drinking. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “We were teenagers and crazy from drinking,” says my viejito, “and just crazy from being young.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z He warned them about drinking or taking other men’s wives. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She tilted her head back and opened her mouth, drinking in the cold drops until her belly was full. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The old woman gave Salva a bag of peanuts and a gourd for drinking water. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I was thirsty, my tongue a mixture of dry and moist patches, like a sun-baked pond bed, but I didn’t want to hazard drinking the wild stream water unless it was totally necessary. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He and his nephew were drinking their coffee when “an Irish girl was brought in with her dress nearly all burnt from her person. It had caught on the Courthouse steps from a cinder.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z She believed he had been drinking too much of Mr. Weston’s good wine, and felt sure that he would want to be talking nonsense. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Someone came around with a stack of small jars and fastened one to my cage; a little pipe led through the bars like a sipping straw—drinking water. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z "I'm just drinking a little wine. I like to drink wine." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I helped Roberto load the two five-gallon bottles that we used for getting our drinking water into the trunk of his car. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I often think, They’re drinking sodas And eating chips Without us. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.’ Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z I throwed up over and over till waren’t nothing coming out of me but bitter water that I ain’t got no recollection of drinking. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z People were sitting in groups on oversized floor pillows and on cane chairs turned backward, smoking grass and drinking tallneck beers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered the feel of her mouth that day in the hayloft, the taste of her gum and the root beer we’d been drinking. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The next scoop was for drinking, and the next, and the next. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Arnold worked on the screened-in porch, sitting peacefully at his round picnic table drinking his sweet hippie tea and making money while he tap-tap-tapped on his keyboard. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “I and him used to hang around together. He just didn’t get much work and then he got to drinking. It’s kind of tough on you divin’ and drinkin’. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Ridgeway and Boseman were drinking in a tavern around the corner from the jail while little Homer waited with Cora and the wagon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "Look, Ma,” said Toby, "he’s not drinking his milk.” Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z He had made a rule, and kept to it, never to leave his room when he was drinking. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I was eating a peanut butter and honey sandwich and drinking a Dr Pepper. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z In the years following the Civil War, alcohol drinking in America took on a whole new look. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z My dad is at the table drinking chai. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Don’t you dare tell—” “You act like you want kids but you drinking enough to poison a elephant! ” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z These corpses couldn’t have been more than a day or two old and weren’t visibly decomposed, but I still shuddered to think of Otto last night, drinking water steeped in rotting flesh. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z At least he was like that when he was drinking, which seemed to be all the time. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z We were all sitting on the porch on Christmas Eve, drinking cider. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When we wanted drinking water, we took it from a stream next to our camp. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Only seven or so blocks from our homes, drug dealers hang out by the town courts and old men sit around drinking from brown paper bags. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I ain't too into the drinking thing, mainly because, well, I'd hate to come home trashed and Doris is there waiting for me with her mean face on. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “Oh, for drinking paint, for tearing my sink out of the wall, for hurting myself. They’re not fair, man. You shouldn’t get charged when you’re sick in the head.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want her to lecture me about underage drinking or try to convince me to make a speech at the board meeting. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The taste was like something powerful, like the time her father was drinking some home brew that one of the inmates had made, and he let her have a couple of sips. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He takes another loud slurp of the tropical smoothie he’s drinking. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He crossed his legs with some effort, and held his mug with both hands very close to his mouth, even when he wasn’t drinking. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Near the lower edge of town I located the Khumbu Lodge, pushed aside the blanket that functioned as a front door, and found my teammates drinking lemon tea around a table in the corner. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z One occurred while they were drinking beer after an evening talk by the astronomer Tommy Gold on “the perfect cosmological principle.” Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I wanted to feel what Jess felt when she sat out there with him, drinking wine in the evening. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He started drinking the muddy water, then ripped a saguaro cactus out of the ground and chewed it, needles and all. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z People would have to haul water in barrels to their farms just for drinking. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Birds seen drinking and bathing in puddles left by rain a few days after the spraying were inevitably doomed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Agents could confirm that the gambler had been at one of the speakeasies drinking with Bryan and Anna on the night of May 21. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z There Serafina Pekkala settled on the highest comfortable branch, among the open flowers drinking in the Dust, and the two birds perched nearby. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The night Mama and I came back from the latrine with this newest bit of gossip, he had been drinking all day. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I pass a man leaning against a storefront drinking a bottle of juice. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z My dad had definitely been drinking more and more since the night my mother died. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I'd convinced myself that if the party was busted and I could prove I hadn’t been drinking, it wouldn’t be so bad. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The generals and their aides had finished eating, and were drinking rum and water, and talking over plans. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Two pink Daisy razors stood upright in a small drinking cup, next to a spray can of Psssssst instant shampoo. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Well, I never knew Coke was good for anything but drinking,” Nan said, and Wynn handed out all the extra sodas, not leaving one for himself. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I’m young enough, fit enough, I wasn’t drinking heavily when we were trying. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She was in there on her own, making her dinner and sitting there eating, and drinking tea. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z On the backseat next to us, I got a bag with a Thermos a apple juice, cheese nabs, peanuts, and two Co-Cola bottles that’s gone be like drinking coffee they gone be so hot. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The grey wolf put her head down and drank, and Bod scooped water up in his hands, drinking the water in a dozen tiny gulps. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z After the war, they still kept on with that drinking to try to keep that terrible world of war out of their minds. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In the heat of midday the men would head for the shade, lazing away the long afternoons, and after sundown there were movies and card games and sometimes all-night drinking sessions. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z English were building factories, drinking tea, and organizing against the slave trade, the vast majority of Russians were serfs. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z ‘By which,’Jason said quickly, ‘he means under the drinking age! Because obviously you’re so young and beautiful.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z After the food and the stories and the consolation, there’s the drinking, and after the drinking, there’s the ride home. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I learned that Uncle Lee had been drinking in a bar, had probably been drunk, and was robbed and beaten in an alley. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The Cabby and the two children had open mouths and shining eyes; they were drinking in the sound, and they looked as if it reminded them of something. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Johnny was just about to settle down to a long afternoon of slow drinking. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “It happens every year with that cursed fiesta. All those people drinking and picking fights. They should outlaw it... But Chacho—” He stopped and looked at the boys closely. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood at the entrance, drinking in the beautiful debris of Room Nineteen—his masterpiece. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Cracking jokes, drinking Monday to Friday, though a little less now, and walking the poison out to make it in time to worship the good Lord on Sunday. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z According to this hypothesis, drinking even moderate amounts of alcohol puts people at risk of drinking too much and becoming alcoholics. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When my father goes for his long walk Bridey comes in and she and Mam sit by the fire drinking tea and smoking cigarettes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It’s easy to choose between Bellmont and anywhere else, because I don’t want to end up alone rotting away in a row home drinking myself to death. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys sat under the bridge drinking malt liquor and smoking as the morning quickly turned to afternoon. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The idea of death didn’t cross my mind at all and killing had become as easy as drinking water. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Privately, she thought that was yet another result of her mother’s selfishness: she was the one with the drinking problem, so why did Maya need to waste a hour of her week in therapy? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z New Orleans was a night town, but in late after noon, the restaurant patios had people out drinking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “If they was black they could slip in some signifying along with the laughing and dancing and then skip right to the fighting before the drinking even started.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I moved forward to our life in Rwanda after the attack, when it was a quest to find drinking water. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He had been drinking from a white mug now cupped in his grimy hands. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She kept laughing and drinking, and when she held her cup out for another, I didn't pay much attention, because she seemed perfectly fine. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Some of our Navajo code talkers joined in that heavy drinking. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A few months earlier he had almost killed himself on a combination of whiskey and some red wine made by an Italian drinking buddy of his. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Looks like it worked,” I said, coming across a picture of her drinking straight from a champagne bottle, my grandpa Wynton in the corner of the frame, laughing a big laugh. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Serving drinks day and night, in a dim grotto, he had many opportunities to meet women drinking with their friends or even alone. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Football was just something I did along with drinking, smoking, and drugs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He had been drinking carefully, and his hand no longer shook. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And I didn’t even know it until I was bent over the drinking fountain and I felt her cool hand rubbing the back of my neck. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He was a small man, the kind of little old man who looked as if the passing of the years had shrunk him, eating an enormous, many-scooped ice-cream sundae, drinking a supersized mug of coffee. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Her time she whiled away riding plump thoroughbred horses, playing bridge and solitaire and Scrabble, and drinking too much champagne or beer or whatever else happened to be around and open at the time. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “They might,” he admitted, drinking the last of his buttermilk. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Rabbit, drinking from a pint flask in the alley behind the Abbot House, told Cal all the news he could think of. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Snow drinking from the poisoned cup himself to deflect suspicion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z My parents never once spoke of his drinking in front of me or Mary Toy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The debt was crippling the company, and instead of paying off the debt he was drinking what little cash he made. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He went down the stairs and found the merchant waiting on a foreign couple, while two other customers walked about the shop, drinking tea from crystal glasses. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “It looks like the bathrooms in the station still have some running water. I wouldn’t try drinking it though,” Rob continued. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z There were groups of men dressed in ragged, filthy clothing, drinking from liquor bottles as they chatted. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He put them over the drinking fountains, and on every classroom door, and on the fire escape doors, and on the walls of the stairwells. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z There were several empty jars and a carafe of drinking water on the counter. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z After the Georgia legislature declared a prohibition against alcoholic beverages in 1907, Papa quit making or drinking beer—he believed in being law-abiding—and the churches started using fruit nectars instead of wine. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Nothing had happened to Geography: The Story of the World, which was good because Mr. Barber checked on my book every time he passed down the aisle drinking his huge cup of coffee. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He had quit drinking and smoking, but had high cholesterol, hypertension, and diabetes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z My father spends the rest of that evening drinking with his new actor friends. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The best time to ask him for anything is Friday night when he’s in a good mood after his night of drinking and his dinner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “When he’s not drinking he’s not. But tonight I’d wager he had the old martini thermos on the front seat.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There seemed to be a couple of dozen people in each house, men drinking beers from paper bags, young mothers nursing babies, old ladies sunning themselves on the sagging, weathered porches, and hordes of kids. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In the old days we might have driven to Corly Wood with a picnic and the papers, spent all afternoon lying on a blanket in dappled sunlight, drinking wine. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z We don’t look like the kind of girls who are capable of drinking the place dry. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Gertrude rarely spoke to me, but I gazed on her, my eyes drinking in her beauty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He purchased a beautiful cut glass carafe and matching drinking glass and put them on the nightstand by the bed. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z And the most telling of all—they’d won Insomnia Con with their stupid frat boy drinking game idea. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Keeping my eyes fastened on those distant clouds, I took a breath and said, “Do you think you could maybe stop drinking?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Tonight I drinking with my son. And one, please, for my friend,” he said, patting the old man on the back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I know that if I start drinking now, I will feel better for an hour or two and worse for six or seven. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z No one understood that microbes in body waste contaminated drinking water and caused dysentery and typhoid fever. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z For example, a sample of drinking water from an orchard area in Pennsylvania, when tested on fish in a laboratory, contained enough insecticide to kill all of the test fish in only four hours. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Men hung at a stage-bar, mostly drinking beer, while the women danced in stiletto heels so high they doubled as stilts. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Mamou was at the kitchen table, drinking her own cup of tea, when I brought the basket of cleaned sabzi into the kitchen. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z In the dining halls the older gentlemen, who had spoiled their palates with drinking, were relishing those strange delicacies of the Middle Ages—the strong flavours of whale and porpoise. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A moment later, Len, the man from the party who was drinking far too much tonic, walks in behind us fully suited up as well. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Or else I was home waiting for him, drinking four glasses of water before he arrived so I could watch him eat whatever there was without my stomach growling. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The pagoda, the friends, the drinking, and the pot. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Because the water forces out salt as it freezes, the water below the ice field is saturated with salt and minerals, and the ice itself is clean enough to melt into drinking water. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Mam and Bridey Hannon sit by the fire upstairs in Italy smoking Woodbines, drinking tea, and I sit on the stairs listening. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It makes me happy to imagine them drinking tea or going to the movies together, still connected to each other by the invisible chain of a family that no longer exists. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I left: the game hall with Alhaji and we went outside and sat on a rock drinking the soft drink. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z To celebrate his new life on the wagon, and to put some distance between himself and his drinking haunts, he decided that the Walls clan should take a long camping trip to the Grand Canyon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Others sat in booths, eating pizza and drinking sodas. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Despite the shadow of Taisin’s vision, they felt enveloped in an enchantment: one in which even the drinking of tea was as magical as any fairy glamour. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z There were some Mexicans from the section gang drinking beer at a table in the corner and three Navajos slouching on stools at the bar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She was drinking some, maybe more than some, spending hours playing video games. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry I didn’t listen to you about drinking,” I say. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “I think we’re too brave and too blind,” I answer, drinking seriously now. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought he’d be drinking or something, so I went to change out of my clown clothes, but was someone on the phone for me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Maybe that would have been a good time to start drinking in earnest. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Our mother was sitting at the table drinking a cup of tea and thumbing through a magazine. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z As a rule, though, that wasn’t how all their drinking turned out. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit with Jon at a table in the roof bar of the Park Plaza Hotel, drinking white wine spritzers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Now I slump in Murray’s, drinking wishy-washy coffee, while Cordelia talks and I wonder why I have agreed to this. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I stand in the corner a minute, drinking coffee too hot for the weather. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Frodo sat, eating, drinking, and talking with delight; but his mind was chiefly on the words spoken. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The old man appeared to have forgotten his prejudice against drinking a full liter. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z We make complicated floral patterns with a compass, we glue odd substances to cardboard backings: feathers, sequins, pieces of macaroni garishly dyed, lengths of drinking straw. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I had never heard of such a thing, and I would sit at the table drinking sweet iced tea, wondering if this was the reason June smiled so little. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Not when he finally found a high school, his fourth, that let him graduate instead of kicking him out for drinking and fighting and chronic truancy. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They all rested like that, absolutely quiet, drinking more slowly now that their thirsts had been quenched, eyes vaguely fixed on shadow-casting objects downhill. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Haskell ran the Dregs, but these days, he preferred to sit in the warmth of his room, drinking lukewarm lager, building model ships, and telling long stories of his exploits to anyone who would listen. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Then I started reading all the posted safety information on drinking and driving, texting and driving, speeding, and whatever else could happen. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z There was a kid smiling on the monkey bars, a man in a suit drinking coffee while deep in thought, and an old couple holding hands on a park bench. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z She may think her life is too unstable or unhappy, or she may think that her drinking or drug use will damage the baby’s health. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Next to him, her mother was drinking from one of those horrible plastic souvenir cups with her picture on it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Paul and I sat in the car, drinking Coke and talking about the campaign, the assembly, and the election. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He must have been drinking all the time, but he seemed to be under control. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He’s tired of going to work after spending all night out drinking. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Language like that only came out when she was drinking wine or there were people to impress. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He was thinking about the night before, and wrestling old age, of drinking the sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z If they stopped drinking the milk, then they would surely lose all the fat which they had put on and which made them so much admired by everybody else in that place. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I just wish he and Lorena would stop drinking and smoking weed all the time. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Remember how I warned you, Tayo? I told you I didn’t want that crowd hanging around our ranch with their drinking and carrying on.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Right now he’s drinking coffee at the table and the kids are draped all over the kitchen doing their homework. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I love Chill, but he needs to stop drinking. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve made both of us a cup of tea—she’s permitted this—and we sit at the kitchen table, drinking it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She’s still surprised to catch me drinking tea, and has asked several times whether I wouldn’t prefer milk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I didn't need a mug until I started drinking tea or coffee, and that wouldn't be until high school or college. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “They were strangers—white men. They got you drinking, then tried to rob you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “What? Why? Who are you there with? Have you been drinking?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z ‘Though at the moment I feel more like eating and drinking!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z For drinking water, sometimes Mom managed to get a jug of tap water from neighbors, or I would be dispatched to sit beneath a leaking pipe connected to another home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Really?” said Lyra, her mind elsewhere, furiously drinking about what he’d just said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Her convent is a place of chaste simplicity, with none of the luxuries whispered of in some nunneries: eating from gold plates, drinking wine, entertaining men, and neglecting the hours for prayer. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z We sat in the kitchen drinking beers and I listened to him talk, and when the beers were finished we sat outside on the patio and he stopped being angry then. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The rotunda below was a mass of people, drinking, laughing, greeting each other, a kind of raucous party before the celebrations on the White Island. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And as more and more women stopped drinking secretly at home and took to drinking openly in speakeasies, the “speaks,” as they were sometimes called, underwent changes. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Men sat on benches beneath trees, drinking palm wine from cow horns and cloudy glass mugs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Instead of drinking cold water, I go to the sink and splash some on my face. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z It would be paradise outside on the terrace drinking gin and tonics with Leon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He'd been drinking it heavily these past three days; when it was not poppy wine, it was fermented mare's milk or pepper beer. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Meanwhile the Klansmen—at least fifty of them—huddled in groups, drinking their liquor in one form or another. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In my mind, Dad was perfect, although he did have what Mom called a little bit of a drinking situation. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She cradled it between her knees and began bailing with her drinking calabash for all she was worth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Cannon gave the teens drugs and played drinking games with them. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He’d gotten himself certified to fix air conditioners and work on trucks, but he still wrestled with anger and drinking, and on the rare occasions when he found jobs, he lost them quickly. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Dr. King pointed to the drinking fountains and said, “See these signs? They shouldn’t be here. These are the things we’re trying to change.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But the party was sitting in the dark giggling happily and drinking wine. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They stood around or sat at wooden tables drinking. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of drinking it, he poured it into the grave. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Who makes pork and sauerkraut a traditional lucky meal on the day after the year’s biggest traditional drinking binge? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Downstairs, they were drinking cocktails and she would have at least twenty minutes to herself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I was still a bit wasted from the after-school drinking binge with the widow, but if my mom noticed, she didn’t mention it. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The other guys laughed too because Emo was mean when he was drinking. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z We sat, drinking our tea and watching the rain fall on his front porch. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “You can drink it,” he said, making a drinking motion. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z He has a cup of coffee and I am drinking tea. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He recognized that Pitezel’s drinking impaired his usefulness and threatened to disrupt schemes already in play. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Well, that’s probably a good thing. I mean, who wants to mix with somebody who spends the whole time thinking about drinking you?” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Hopeless, I curl up with Lita, drinking hot chocolate with cinnamon under a Santa Fe sky. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “That old head thinks of nothing except his eating and his drinking,” he muttered into the mouth of the oven; but aloud he said nothing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z If I don’t stop drinking, I may not have more than six months to live, ’cause my liver is down to about thirty percent. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Caleb followed me eight years later, after losing three of his fingers to a table saw because he was drinking on the job. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I pass it straight to Bram, who then passes it straight to Simon, who passes it to Abby, and then Morgan, and I notice with a start that no ones actually drinking it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Everybody was laughing, shouting Nice one and Way to go, fumblehands and You sure you haven’t been in there drinking the communion wine? The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z She leaned next to a tall, gangly boy with tattoos, drinking a soda while he showed her something in a magazine. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “I do not question your right to charge someone with witchcraft, it is so in custom. But you are fools, fools for drinking the devil’s whiskey!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It meant keeping the refrigerator so cold that Lourdes’s teeth ached from drinking Coca-Cola or biting into pieces of leftover pork. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z All of the town's big shots were there in their tuxedoes, wolfing down the buffet foods, drinking beer and whiskey and smoking black cigars. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of Cokes, we’re drinking vanilla milkshakes, with two straws each. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His drinking in Nsukka—his auburn, finely refined brandy—had sharpened his mind, distilled his ideas and his confidence so that he sat in the living room and talked and talked and everybody listened. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The light of sunset filters through the trees, and I take a deep breath, drinking in the scent of pine needles. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There were slightly larger crinkly paper cups for water, which I poured from the drinking fountain in the corner of Mrs. Killinger’s office. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Red was sitting on a counter drinking a beer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But to judge by the greasy faces, the meat eating was almost done; and some held coconut shells in their hands and were drinking from them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I see one that overlooks the drinking fountain. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Silence from the bear; and then he dropped the ragged bone and lifted the jar to his muzzle again, drinking the powerful spirits like water. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Minutes later they were sitting inside the old blue van, eating corn tortillas and drinking coffee from the thermos. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z A bulb glows blue above the drinking fountain. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The family had a heritage of not drinking, and a religious faith. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z While he was drinking his moderate allowance, he said, with nothing to lead up to it, and after having appeared rather fidgety,— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z After drinking their fill they went to work on the steaks, gnawing on them until the meat thawed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z All I could find was an ancient chamber pot that had been the drinking bowl for the cat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He had been drinking wine and dozed off. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Maybe we’d be upstairs right now, in my closet, me wrapped in a blanket and drinking cocoa, Dismay sitting across from me with his big dog mouth panting, so glad to be alive. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They could have Cordelia and me in here, in our bat-wing sleeves and cinch belts, stuffed and mounted or made of wax, drinking our milkshakes, looking as bored as we could. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z These are my first drinking straws, and they amaze me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And the whole time, everybody would be drinking booze and getting drunk and stupid and sad and mean. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z It was like drinking glass after glass of water and still emerging thirsty, and with the stirring fear that he would never quench the thirst. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Go back to your drinking and leave this job to men,” one of them jeered at him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside on the terrace working people were drinking. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z When I get back home, Amá is in the kitchen, with a towel wrapped around her head, drinking tea. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z At odds with his parents, he spent many nights on Reggie’s floor, sometimes passed out from too much drinking. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Out-of-work men play cards on the street, drinking beer from cans tucked in paper bags. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z In an unused upstairs bedroom, she found a man in an army uniform crying and drinking from a bottle that never emptied. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z When we returned, the moose had advanced to the water and was drinking about twenty-five feet upstream. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Charles and I were drinking whiskey and soda. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z All social behavior and actions are conducted in the order of seniority or ranking; as the saying goes, chanmul to wi alay ka ita, there is order even to drinking cold water. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The captain knows that the navigator hasn’t been drinking his cocktail. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The Randalls were drinking wine out of goblets of cut glass and looked as if they had drained a few bottles. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I spent the following days eating and drinking and bathing and observing the meerkats and walking and running and resting and growing stronger. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They knew of his drinking and partying and the fact that he and his father moved around a lot. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They sat filtering the ash from the water and drinking until they could hold no more. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I just sat in the kitchen, drinking a ginger ale, and watching them. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z After breakfast, we were on the porch swing, drinking lemonade and gliding back and forth to create & breeze. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He watched the leaves uncurl and spread upon the surface of the water, unable to bear drinking the precious stuff. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z We were sitting at the same large table, drinking tea and eating roasted watermelon seeds. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When he needed drinking water, he set out a can and I filled it at the brook. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z After eating and drinking, he leaned his back against the tree trunk. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Ever more vulnerable, Papa began drinking heavily again. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The tents were still, the water was placid, with the ripples still drifting slowly out from where he’d been drinking. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I pictured him and Baba drinking tea in Baba’s study, then smoking near the window, a sweetbrier-scented breeze blowing from the garden and bending the twin columns of smoke. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z After the game, the Fugees gathered on their bench in silence, drinking water from plastic cups until Luma called to them from across the field to get on the bus. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They are, in fact, just as natural as eating and drinking. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He had on his bathrobe and was drinking a cup of coffee. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “I believe it to be a good sign. I don’t remember ever drinking a glass of good bourbon with any particulate matter floating in it, do you? What do you think of this color?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In Cordoba Province in Argentina, however, chronic arsenic poisoning, accompanied by arsenical skin cancers, is endemic because of the contamination of drinking water derived from rock formations containing arsenic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Draw water for drinking up above the village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She sees Kat sitting at that back table of Essential Baking Company, reading and eating an almond croissant, drinking green tea as Annabelle makes complicated coffee drinks for the other customers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The playroom was army green and had nothing in it but a long trough with drinking spigots in rows. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent it on a new suit, an unforgettable drinking spree with all is friends, and a porcelain doll for Clara. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As did the plentiful drinking water, the torches, and the distance she had traveled from the slave catchers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "I wish I were drinking milk, and I wish you were here, so that you could watch it shoot out my nose in response to that." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z A few nights later, my father was drinking as usual in the pub when a man walked up and knocked over his beer. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Stargirl was there, chatting with members of the family but not eating or drinking anything. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z And yet, by the 1770s, the 1.75 million North Americans were actually drinking even more tea than the five to six million English. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He wondered if anyone had the good sense to boil it first before drinking it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She sits in front of the fire in her bedroom, drinking a cup of nettle tea from a clay mug shaped like a snake, its tail coiling to make the handle. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Sitting on that fountain, face upturned, drinking in the sunshine like a flower, looking completely beatific. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you’re breathing through a drinking straw. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Rowan took a sip, wondering if an underage scythe’s apprentice could get marked down for drinking. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Down here on the benches, there was no one to stop Jon drinking as much as he had a thirst for. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Because nothing spells parental discipline for homophobic slurs like dressing up fancy and underage drinking at some faraway country club where larger minds are present. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Most of the girls were drinking the wine, but Melissa Dumas had drunk too much. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z He finished off the beer he was drinking, snipped the can open with his wire cutters, hammered it flat, and nailed it over the hole. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She thought of all the lives being led down there, people driving on the left, eating crumpets, drinking tea, watching telly. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Buddy Willard and the other college boys I knew were usually too poor to buy hard liquor or they scorned drinking altogether. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z "Make a drinking horn out of it," Jon told him, "and every time you take a drink you'll remember how you ranged beyond the Wall, all the way to the Fist of the First Men." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It tasted just like soda, but I felt a little cooler drinking it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Then, my father, who was drinking a whiskey sour, growled, “You’re not going anywhere until your relatives leave. You hear me?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He stayed in his room eating peanuts, and drinking, and looking out the window like the old pirate in Treasure Island. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He said drinking lets you say and do things without filtering or overthinking. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The statue’s head was tilted back so the bronze Mr. Lemoncello could squirt an arc of water out of his mouth like he was a human drinking fountain. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z During the trial, the vandals said they had been drinking and what started out as a stupid prank had gotten out of control. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z He’s lost in it, drinking and spitting and molding, drinking arid spitting and molding, sculpting like he’s trying to pull something he needs out of the clay, needs badly. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He’ll go off on a drinking binge and then pop back up out of nowhere a week later. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Like talking to other kids who might consider drinking and driving. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The email was sent just after eleven last night; I’d been drinking for a good few hours by then. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z They were talking among themselves and drinking tea. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The skinny bald man settled himself comfortably against a stump and started drinking. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of the nineteenth century, the rate of alcoholism was high in the United States, and with the high rates of drinking came violence, much of it targeting women in their own homes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Which is about right, considering I started drinking before midday. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t tell her how bad things had got on the drinking front, and she didn’t notice. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Peewee had been drinking a Coke; he started with a fit of laughter, and snorted the Coke out through his nose and all down the front of his T-shirt. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit by the stove drinking tea, thinking about my new work, about Izio and Max and, every now and then, a very handsome policeman. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Kretzsky flipped through files, drinking coffee while I drew the man in the photograph. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He tucked the pouch back under his tunic and slung the sandals, the food bag and the drinking gourd over one shoulder. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The newsmen may have been drinking to the health of Howard and Seabiscuit, but no one was toasting Pollard. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the boys—all except B.J.—had started drinking. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Or the suburban high school student who has a drinking problem but keeps getting behind the wheel? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Examples are the blood flukes, or schistosoma, that cause serious disease in man when they enter the body by way of drinking water or through the skin when people are bathing in infested waters. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Well, I don’t suppose you think I’m going to sit in your den drinking tea all afternoon,” he yelled. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I’m not able to work now because of my liver—I only have about thirty percent of my liver left from drinking. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandmom’s rosary beads are wound around his fist, but he’s not drinking and looks sober. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Haymitch started drinking somewhere around witty, and a nasty edge has crept into his voice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “I mean, how do they expect to get away with it? Do you think they’ve been drinking, or are they just —” But she broke off abruptly and looked over her shoulder. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z In fact, drinking was number one on her don’t list, and if my stepfather drank too much, she’d scream at him on the way home. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he also made the mistake of drinking not one but two frosted glasses full, while everybody else had a half-inch “just for taste.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Chapter Eleven, twelve years old, does not join the boys and girls at the table but instead stands back against the wall, drinking punch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He sat drinking, waiting for Georgie to finish, forgetting that he was supposed to be at the school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As we got down into the baseball field part, though, we spotted a group of like five girls already there, sitting in a circle drinking cans of beer. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Back then, though, I used to just listen, not saying a thing, drinking in their talk. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Here are Oscar and Sam drinking liquor and throwing up. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z They were drinking sweet tea and listening to the radio, Grandpop’s box of money—the rainy day stash—in Dad’s lap. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They’d start hollering somewhere in the middle of the house, assail each other furiously, then retire to their corners and start drinking. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Besides, it might be risky for us lightweights to start drinking on an empty stomach.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I never liked it all that much, too many couples just the right side of forty drinking too much and casting around for something better, wondering if they’d have the courage. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Turkey and stuffing. Gravy. Disaster movies. My mom drinking too much wine. Green bean casserole.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Had you been drinking on the night of January eighteenth, Mr. McAllister?” she presses. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Organizers in the temperance movement opposed the excessive consumption of alcohol, and most members objected to drinking any alcohol at all. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z And have people at parties sitting on the arms of chairs, drinking wine out of plastic cups. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As we move over to the shelter station, Wiress stops and gazes up at the stands where the Gamemakers are roaming around, eating and drinking, sometimes taking notice of us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He was quiet again for a minute, lost in a little reverie for a lifetime’s drinking. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When she came to, she was summoned into the presence of Avery Brundage, who read her the riot act and told her he would throw her off the team if she continued drinking. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z With Dad drinking again, and no money coming in, Mom began to talk about moving east, to West Virginia, where Dad’s parents lived. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Then the three of us just sat there awhile, drinking and watching the fire, not really saying anything. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I could imagine Aunt Ivy’s shrieks of disapproval: Next thing, you'll be drinking and carrying on! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Nonetheless,” Cardan says, taking the bottle of wine and drinking directly from the neck. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Dad looked up from drinking his cup of tea. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z And because their imminent parting made him so sad, he went on a drinking binge to end all drinking binges. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Our moms sat in the kitchen drinking coffee, like they often do now. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z I mean, when he’s drinking the Thunderbird, it’s one thing, but ...oh. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z On Saturday, the drinking begins at 4 P.M. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The cub was drinking the milk from the vest! Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Luke sat in a chair by the window; his face was bruised and his shirt was torn, and he was still drinking brandy. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The men of the Golden Company were outside their tents, dicing, drinking, and swatting away flies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Once, to be honest, I got as far as the drinking fountain. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z "It isn't cold, yet. You're always drinking, my dear. Why don't you just talk?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “And all three of you had been drinking?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Poisoning your own drinking water, changing the air so much the earth shook and melted and crumbled, harvesting a race for medicine. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It had a large number of fairly well dressed young men hanging around out front, not drinking or gambling, not visibly occupied with anything except paying close attention to passing cars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He said this in such a funny way that the milk I was drinking came out my nose when I laughed, which made us all totally crack up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z He sat at the head of the table, drinking red wine and talking drily of French presidents whom he had met, of the French universities that had offered him jobs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z While drinking a bottle of pop Mr. Todd brought me, I watched the miners go through their routine of coming and going. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There they were, though, sitting through it again, still giggling to themselves, eating buckets of popcorn and drinking buckets of Coke. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z I was drinking red wine, and so far behind them that I felt a little uncomfortable about all this shoe-shining. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Some of them appear to have been created to soothe crazy people, especially the one of the giraffe drinking from a pond. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He says the lower Great Lakes are the world’s largest sewer and that if we knew what was going into the drinking water we would all become alcoholics. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I mean, yeah, my dad would sometimes go on a drinking binge and be gone for a week, but those white dads can completely disappear without ever leaving the living room. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The gardener was still holding a clipper in one hand as he was drinking tea and chatting with a few other men. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He stirred his cup slowly, and then stood there drinking it in a very self-satisfied way. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was back in the kitchen I started opening cupboards looking for the drinking glasses. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He did whatever he could that he liked, and he liked womanizing best, drinking second, and abusing Eva third. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Feral asked, bypassing his spoon in favor of tipping back his bowl and drinking from it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z ‘But what did I say? Mortals cannot go drinking ent-draughts and expect no more to come of them than of a pot of beer.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It occurs to me that perhaps he has been drinking. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z And wind and solar require almost no water to operate and thus do not pollute water resources or further deplete the water supply by competing with agriculture, drinking water systems, or other water needs. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z If Mrs. Moss caught him biting off hunks of soap, eating big globs of toothpaste, or drinking from the shampoo bottle, he would get the hot-sauce punishment. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The next example is three lines of dactylic hexameter scratched onto a drinking cup: “I am Nestor’s delicious drinking cup. Whoever drinks from this cup swiftly will the desire of fair-crowned Aphrodite seize him.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the thought of drinking coffee, bitter as bile and as dark as the grave, made my stomach turn. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I don’t see Ashley or Shelby anywhere, but fifteen or twenty guys are sprawled on the floor playing a drinking game. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z When Bore got sclerosis of the liver like Lorraine told you, he stopped drinking, but I didn’t. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I want to go somewhere out of state, somewhere away from home, away from Berto and his drinking buddies. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Adaon rode easily and skillfully; head high, an open smile on his face, he seemed to be drinking in the sights and sounds of the morning. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Kainene sat drinking a cup of tea and reading a newspaper with the light on. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They hadn’t been twenty feet from where I sat, were even drinking the same muddy coffee from the same pot I’d made in the teachers’ lounge. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And now here she was again, like an apparition, drinking red wine from a plastic cup and calling me by name. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z As historian Michael Lerner has observed, “The law that was meant to stop Americans from drinking was instead turning many of them into experts on how to make it.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He avoided our company, preferring to spend his time with his drinking companions, mostly hired men from the less reputable theatre companies. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Her mother lay in bed, awake; she was pleading with Gabriel, who had been out drinking the night before, and who was not really sober now, to mend his ways and come to the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z We lug buckets of water from the river for cooking and washing and drinking. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Each person had his or her own bucket, and it was clear the group had settled down for a night of serious drinking. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, my parents either have not slept or have been up for a while, since they are already dressed and drinking tea. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z All this was stuff I'd heard Coach Ellerly say back home a hundred times, which is why he always hollered about not drinking alcohol at parties. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He had a nurse and a son-in-law, and he was prone to long, ponderous silences when he had not been drinking too much. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The truth is, I never felt bad for Rachel, even before I found out about her drinking and how difficult she was, how she was making his life a miscry. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She removed pots, wooden spoons, a drinking gourd, an old cloth Aunt Chipo once used to cover her hair, and a knife Uncle Kufa had hurled into a bush when the tip broke off. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I saw him too much. A great landowner. And arrogant. What he lacked in fighting skills he made up for in bragging, drinking, and killing. In that order.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z But now, by this third meeting, she was drinking in the precious letters so speedily that Kit knew she must soon find a primer as well. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z When I get there, she setting at the kitchen table drinking a glass a milk. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Some were already up this morning, drinking coffee, playing backgammon, and reading the Greek newspapers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And the different ways in which illegal liquor was smuggled into people’s houses and illegal drinking establishments were positively ingenious. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The change was good for me and I gave up weed and drinking for the discipline of music with the help of the school’s outstanding music teacher, a black man named C. Lawler Rogers. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Forced out of baseball, Glenn Burke started drinking and doing drugs. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z I interviewed my father in a car parked outside our house: Michael Williams, why are you drinking? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s taken to drinking in my presence, to unwind after the day, he says. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He started to sing “Tinker Tanner,” a drinking song that is older than God. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z This process of turning seawater into drinking water is important: it means that a shipwreck on the frozen sea does not necessarily mean certain death. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z We sat around a U- shaped counter drinking coffee. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The lawmen surmised that Anna had been sitting on the rock, drinking, when someone came up behind her and shot her at close range, causing her to topple over. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “What are you doing? This is for drinking, not for smelling.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z A group of police officers chatted jovially, drinking coffee. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He kept drinking it, and Harley kept shoving the bottles across the table at him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I used to have the odd one with him, when we were out drinking or after sex. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He says nothing but keeps drinking as I drive past Edgar Street and head west, circling to the back end of town. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The men are drinking stout from bottles again and the women are sipping sherry from jam jars. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I last saw him and David drinking grape sodas on the stairs. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Blanca and Alba were sitting with the journalists and guardsmen, eating roast pig with their fingers and drinking mouthfuls of red wine straight from a bottle that was being passed from hand to hand. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My chest tightens in anticipation even though I know Mr. Doyle has not been drinking. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z After wandering and drinking in America and England he yearned for peace in his declining years. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I knew she was still laying around in her bathrobe in the dark, drinking diet soda for supper and not thinking about me one bit. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Now he wasn’t drinking at all and he wasn’t working, and the wrong thing about Johnny was that he wasn’t drinking but he was acting like he was drinking. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When we got there, people were drinking already and it looked pretty fun. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The feasting and drinking went on for hours. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost a fortnight passes thus in eating, drinking and roaming about. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z So instead you rock by the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, after a night of drinking, she and Mark Antony often dressed as beggars. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Zephyr says, “Got a text. They’re playing some drinking game. Loser jumps and apparently your brother’s losing on purpose. I was heading up there to try and stop it.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It's no different than usual, being at Brick's place, smoking and drinking. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z If Jan said that they had not been drinking it could be proved that they had been drinking by folks in the cafe. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Then Irene started drinking and “dancing on chairs” in bars, finally leaving to live with a man. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Sookie was sitting on the bumper of the Diplomat, drinking coffee. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z When my drinking buddy, Will, came to visit, he was always nervous his new Camaro would get broken into or stolen. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z My dad waiting for me at Ming Palace, drinking his Rolling Rock. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Smoking and drinking don't agree with me, apparently. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Does he stay out all night drinking and doing drugs, or does he take his job seriously? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Here in the Bureau compound, people are sitting in the cafeteria right now, eating and drinking and laughing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z They were sharing a bowl of popcorn and drinking diet sodas. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He had become much disheartened after losing money in a lawsuit, and had taken to drinking more than was good for him. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z With one cat in her lap and another licking an oatmeal bowl on the table, she sat drinking coffee and reading a book of theater plays. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z C.P. asked himself sometimes late at night, exhausted after a day at the station and an evening of drinking liquor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Olanna was sitting on Mohammed’s veranda, drinking chilled rice milk, laughing at the delicious cold trickle down her throat, at the stickiness on her lips, when the gateman appeared and asked to speak to Mohammed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Our bottles and skin are fairly full, but with two drinking and this hot sun it won't take long to deplete them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Four’s eyes shift to the wall above the drinking fountain. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I think his father made it seem as though drinking alcoholic beverages was a sign of maturity. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z His real eye was bloodshot and he looked as though he had been drinking. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If I held a beer for a while, no one would ask me why I wasn’t drinking. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z It was a Saturday night, end of the week, which meant Abel was drinking with his workers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “That was mighty thoughtful, sister,” he said, staring hard at her to let her know that he knew she had been drinking. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z There was the drugged, sleepy feeling that came from sipping glasses of milk, drinking them slowly so that they would last a long time, and drinking enough for the first time in my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Freddie had let Macon Dead know that his son had spent the afternoon “drinking in the wine house.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Did she think I thought smoking and drinking were supposed to make me live longer? The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z There was a long moment’s drinking noise, the sound of a tent zip parting, the tink of an empty can landing in undergrowth, the tent zip closing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The whole day was spent drinking and eating. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When he didn’t answer his door I went to look for him there, and I found him sitting in the windowsill in his undershirt, drinking a cup of coffee and leafing through a magazine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I was not one of those who tried to forget through drinking, although I was tempted. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She was smoking and drinking and watching Bunker with the volume muted so she could read. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z These two were his drinking buddies, as flushed now as Papa was from the hot sake that was circulating and the beer and whiskey. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z There was beer in a cooler by the TV, but no one was drinking. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Are they moving to stop drinking, running to stand still? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I picture us at the kitchen table, me drinking hot chocolate, about to go to sleep, and him drinking coffee, about to go to work. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Pop’s drinking a beer and watching the Sixers game. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “We can lead a horse to water—we can even make him drink. But to keep drinking, well, that’s up to the horse, the horse, of course, of course.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z While Johnny was in the kitchen drinking coffee, a boy came from the school with a note from the principal which said that Johnny was fired because of neglect. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We loitered all afternoon in a dark little bar on Boylston Street, smoking cigarettes and drinking Irish whiskey. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Then she took her place at the fire and drank the rest of DufFs coconut milk, drinking till she was sated. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Yeah, a full-on six-pack of Iron City. And he had nothing to say. You know what your parents would do if they knew he was drinking.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z A conviction that never came into dispute was the universally held belief that the saloon was at the root of the nation’s serious drinking problem. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z When they returned, though, they found that the water was dirtied—somebody had been drinking from it in their absence. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Cherie sits in a cafe in Oakland, drinking a smoothie and talking about the old days, back when she and Richard were fourteen. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “No. I’m not ... I hadn’t been drinking when I saw them. It was eight thirty in the morning.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting at a college house party in San Diego, drinking jungle juice, a girl as fine as Flaca sitting right next to me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z She is drinking liquid protein now, a bluish fluid that comes in tubes like astronaut food. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got home, Gramps was drinking tea in the kitchen. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Alex watches her text Henry about a hundred heart emojis, and he sends her back a short video of himself and Catherine drinking champagne while Bea plays “God Save the Queen” on electric guitar. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I might be drinking iced tea with a crazy woman. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was while he was sitting on the edge of his bed, drinking water, that he heard the voices that must have prompted his dream. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Pyp and Toad would be sitting near the fire in the common room, drinking cups of mulled wine before their supper. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At Harvard, a fellow student marveled, “he intellectually looted the place,” drinking deeply of physics and chemistry, of course, but also mathematics, philosophy, and French literature. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z During heavy rains, river water flowed in a greasy plume far out into Lake Michigan, to the towers that marked the intake pipes for the city’s drinking water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I started dragging things from all over the kitchen and piling them up against the door—a barrel half-filled with drinking water, a scuttle half-filled with coal and several tin chairs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d always been a little grumpy, but then he started drinking a lot. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z But now it entered Helen’s mind to drop into the wine that they were drinking an anodyne, mild magic of forgetfulness. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone was drinking and talking about the war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Asked if Anna had been slumped over from drinking, she said, “Just sitting like they all sit, just about like this.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Suppose four people are drinking in a bar. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We have one reaction after taking a sip, and we have another reaction after drinking a whole can. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Celebrating meant drinking, which meant that once it got dark, some men might decide to take a little tour through the Jewish quarter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Besides, the relief centers have nothing. And did you not hear that all the children in Nnewi died after drinking relief milk? The vandals had poisoned it.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Arturo asked that night while we sat at the kitchen table—that ridiculous stolen kitchen table—drinking manzanilla tea, as we did most nights after Maribel went to bed. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z A lot of drinking in that family, say Jack. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Back at the table, Vanessa carefully placed each drinking glass in exactly the same position. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I’m glad he wasn’t dead, honey. I think you’re not used to drinking.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He didn’t believe in drinking the warm blood as some hunters did. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He strictly forbade his boys from smoking, cursing, or drinking, though he was known occasionally to do all three himself when safely out of sight or earshot of his crews. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Richie had been drinking all day again, so he was all kinds of festive at dinner—laughing too much and too loud. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Peggy had stopped going, and more and more boys began drinking and picking fights. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Can you touch my body and heal anything harmful I have done to myself through my drinking? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The woman at the front desk is drinking her coffee and laughing with one of the students. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the morbid effect of living in a crime scene, but I imagined him drinking blood. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z He was drinking corn whiskey with Martin in the barn loft one night—the boy wouldn’t say where he got the jug—when they started talking about the women of Randall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I knew I’d soon be in a hospital drinking soup through a straw. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z He tells me babies should be drinking milk not water and when I tell him Mam doesn’t have the money he empties the baby bottles and fills them with milk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Near the tube station she passed a stone drinking trough and could happily have sunk her face in it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1925, when White was still based in Houston, Hoover expressed outrage to him that several agents in the San Francisco field office were drinking liquor. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I knew I needed to stop drinking, but I didn’t know what that would entail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She had known all along, when she criticized the mink jacket, when she belittled his freckles and complained about his drinking habits. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, well, drinking another guy’s leg hair can’t kill you, can it? Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Picking up the hobbits he set them on the great stone slab, six feet above the ground, and there they sat dangling their legs, and drinking in sips. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She had traveled for hours without water; now she swelled out her sides drinking. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He was probably drinking my milk can money. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not really,” I said, because by then I wain ted him to stop drinking and I wanted him to want me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite Prohibition’s clear intent, the drinking of alcoholic beverages did not cease or even diminish. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z His dad told him: If you ever start taking drugs, or drinking, don’t come home. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z One of the closed-off bedrooms held the ghost of Alvin Caruthers, still wearing his service uniform and drinking to numb the pain of a heart broken by a war fought in trenches. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I made a show of drinking, just raising the bottle and wetting my mouth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The headmaster was known to have a drinking problem. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He remembered how Tayo had sat staring at the wall, not saying anything all afternoon while the rest of them had been laughing and drinking beer and telling Army stories. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He greeted the men seated on benches drinking, his manner easy and warm, and they hailed him, “Chief! Carry go! Your car is safe!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The two sat hunched over the fire for a long while, drinking cups of strong swamp tea. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z We’ve also seen him squatting in his front yard surrounded by other old men, every one of them falling over from drinking palm wine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was Thor, after all, and there was no drinking horn he could not drain. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z On every kind of pretext she would run away from work and go to the drinking pool, where she would stand foolishly gazing at her own reflection in the water. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “She was drinking and quarreling,” a servant later told authorities. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Every day in the pitiless hospital light she saw how patients deceived themselves — about their weight, their drinking, their shortness of breath — only to find herself now, in her estimation, worse than any of them. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The consequent urinary infection worsened when Tycho resolutely rejected advice to temper his eating and drinking. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t seem drunk, but he had definitely been drinking. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Had you been drinking on Saturday evening?” he asked. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z We sit awhile, drinking our lemonades, and nobody says much after that. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I watched from the bushes for a time, knowing I’d been wrong about Shady and his drinking. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z One day she found me drinking bootleg with a couple of the boys in Chinatown. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The corporals were under the pump together, drinking simultaneously. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The tsotsis and the She Elephant settled down for some serious drinking, interrupted only when the jug gurgled or someone belched. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Apparently the trader had no qualms about drinking swill himself. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was drinking just to warm up, but it wasn’t working, so I decided to get into the bath. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In the rubble of the third pillar was the drinking cup, a little dusty but quite undamaged. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He said he’d allow Dad to stay, but Dad had to follow some rules, the first being that he stop drinking as long as he was there. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We was all talking and eating and drinking and cheering for the Rangers. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought with us guys sitting around, Dad. You know, just drinking and talking. We could all relax.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought that since drinking the water had not made him sick again, perhaps he should eat something. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z "And playing cards with his friends all day, like it was their job or something, saying it kept his mind sharp when really it was about drinking whiskey and having company, right? And winning money?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z There were even more upstairs, with deer inside them drinking at water holes, and birds flying south for the winter. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Everyone sits and stands around Malik’s living room, eating sandwiches and chips and drinking just about every soda Aunt ’Chelle has. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z My mother was drinking a glass of wine. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z She leans back against a column as she speaks, smiling at him easily, drinking a glass of champagne. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Laila liked the violet plastic drinking glasses they used and the quarter lemon that always floated in the water pitcher. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The mead of the giants was cold and salty, but he drank it down, draining the horn, drinking until his breath gave out and he could drink no longer. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I cried, “take after you! What have you done that I could emulate! Your drinking—your gambling—your ignorance—your irresponsibility! I’d rather be dead than be like you!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of Nyla’s “party” and all the people drinking one tonic and another and another. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A pretty young lady, looking for business, was drinking a highball in the second booth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Those two ranked above asking drivers to slow down and reduce drinking and driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice needlessly loud. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Belonging was drinking and laughing with the platoon, dancing with blond women, buying drinks for buddies born in Cleveland, Ohio. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He took his cup and went to the window seat, where he sat drinking and watching the sea while the sun darkened over Pyke. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Merrill Bobbs, the man who sold fishing bait by the river, had somehow rolled a huge barrel of drinking water all the way from his house and was struggling to right it. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Told by their doctors that tea was good for their health, the English were drinking up to fifty cups a day. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z As soon as they are removed from the group, and the touching from all sides comes to an end, they become aggressive, standoffish; they begin drinking compulsively, and abstain from touching each other. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She entered a vast circular ballroom packed with people dancing and drinking beneath a glistening pack of wolves hewn from ice. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Now, Drew, I can understand that you’ve been drinking, but why don’t we all take a deep breath—” Drew leaned forward and spewed chunks all over her penny loafers. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z On Christmas Eve, there’s abundant basting, boiling, browning, braising, and more baking, then the evening is spent at the Coopers’ drinking spiked eggnog and having a massive Uno tournament. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Seven years of drinking poison, of never sleeping, of living on high alert. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And really, he is just another bird drinking from your misery. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, He will send down so much rain that all his little people are drinking from one another’s sewers and dying of the kakakaka. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But by now, I am used to drinking poison. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She told him it was a good thing, that suffering would harden him, would teach him such a lesson that he’d stop drinking. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was numb to it all, uninterested in drinking and pool and other people, and the more drunk he became the more lucid his mind was and the colder he felt toward everyone. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “If he were ten days in the water, he’d be dead, or mad from drinking seawater.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They could use the jars as drinking glasses. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z He took the bottle and tipped it to his lips, drinking the pink wine. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Here and there SS officers sat apart, at their own tables, chatting, laughing, drinking French wine, and attacking beefsteaks or sauerbraten with knives and forks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Cities receiving their drinking water from rivers had a higher death rate from cancer than did those whose water came from sources presumably less susceptible to pollution such as wells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For the first month or so, Helda would shuttle back and forth between all-night diners, drinking coffee to stay awake. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She must have broken her rule against drinking that night for when she arrived she was stupid with liquor and unable to understand that the ambulance had already gone to Flushing. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Baba and Rahim Khan were drinking tea and listening to the news crackling on the radio. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I have reached the turning point in my drinking! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The four or five inhabitants took turns cooking for one another, went drinking together, and chased women together, without success. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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