He realized that he was riding on an endless and silent train and that his head was caked with dry blood and that all his bones ached. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

So instead of working, we painted our names on the backs of the tiny turtles and let them run up and down our arms as we waited for the polish to dry. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And suddenly he wept a little, and he dried his eyes with the back of his hand, as a child does. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

This was one of the things he’d liked best about Nina—she savored everything, whether it was a toffee or cold water from a stream or dried reindeer meat. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I stayed there even after my arms got tired and my eyes dried up, sitting there and thinking about her until the light got gray. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

By morning my eyes were burning and bloodshot, my nostrils were clogged with black soot, and I’d developed a dry, persistent hack that would stay with me until the end of the expedition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Usually the dry season brought the rice harvest, but this year, because of the debils, we were without food. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They scattered like dry leaves across the ground. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Me mouth’s dry. I want to eat a bit of snow before I talk to her.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Crouching down, she crumbled some dried leaves into it, two pinches from this bag, one from that, and added three drops of a pale yellow oil. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She mopped up the last bit of her casserole with a heel of dry bread. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

My mouth felt dry and my hands and legs began to shake. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could sleep in my own bed and each day set off in clean, dry clothes and with a fresh packed lunch. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

This was a storeroom for vegetables and sacks of rice and other such things: dry enough, but bitterly cold. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When we had electricity, we washed the clothes and hung them on the front porch to dry. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I think,” I whispered, my mouth dry, “they’re looking for someone.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her footsteps crushed the fallen leaves and the dry branches, producing a light crunching sound, the only noise in that vast sleeping space. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A house that dry is liable to go up in flames. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You need to get dry,” Naomi said, crossing her arms. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up to Tats scraping and flicking her dried nail polish, sitting beside me on Mom’s bed. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Their water came from a little brackish well beside the hut; their food was fish and shellfish, fresh or dried, and rockweed. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t look like the kind of girls who are capable of drinking the place dry. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Selmy exchanged his damp cloak for a dry one and buckled on his sword belt, then accompanied the Shavepate down the steps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Terrified, he sprang into a dark pool, but the water suddenly turned to dry land. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Because he had once written a book, a dry treatise on melancholy, he felt the world should ever after make special allowances for him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tally noted a bag of flour, and a few pieces of dried fruit somehow made her empty stomach growl. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The walls, the columns, even the ceiling, were vermilion, the color of raw meat or dried blood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He took off his wet shoes and socks so they could dry near the fire. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The crowd shifts uncomfortably, and the professor forces out a dry laugh. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Her mouth was so dry her lips stuck to her teeth. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In dried up ponds and in the dry arroyo sands, even as the rain was still falling, they came popping up through the ground, with wet sand still on their backs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The revelation leaves my mouth dry, and my hands itch for my sickles. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And before that he had managed to dry himself in front of a full-length mirror without so much as glancing into it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

A place where you could be warm and dry and safe. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My throat was so dry I gagged on it, but I forced the melting snow down, ignoring the shocking pain in my teeth from the cold. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And, I think, she will lie there until there is nothing more to fall, nothing left to cry about, everything dry. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were Muggles who hated and despised magic in any form, which meant that Harry was about as welcome in their house as dry rot. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then he saw the giant warship in its dry dock. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On the same rock, the nuts were cracked after they had dried for several weeks in a tin box under the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lit his pipe, and the scent of tobacco and dried peaches started to cover the smell of spice and wood from the cabin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to kick down the door, ask a thousand questions, make them pay for bringing all this into our beautiful home with our books and the fireplace we’d built out of dry river rocks. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Big Ma had moved in and told Pa, “That gal’s dumb as a dry pump,” meaning me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pig had been caught early before it lost flesh and the leg was a large one and O-lan had salted it thoroughly and hung it to dry. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

After tramping the streets and pounding on doors to collect premiums, I was dry, strained, too tired to read or write. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she found that someone had already done that: hers and Will’s, too, were laid over the springy twigs of a fragrant bush, nearly dry. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My father picked up a dry brush of yerba de la vivora and striking a match to it he used it as a torch to set fire to the platform. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pause, staring at my hands, my mouth dry. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There are a few people who’ve already been dunked, sitting or lying on the grass, drying. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I chew down on a piece of dried fruit and I wonder what it must be like to have no Noise, to come from a place with no Noise. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Ah, we have a funny one,” Meir said with dry sarcasm, although I hadn’t been joking. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was a great dinner, even if the burgers were dry and the potatoes were salty and the salad didn’t have any tomatoes because David had swiped them all. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then she ran the shower on it, dried it, and placed it on the mantel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Once we crossed the cement bridge, which went over a dry river bed for a quarter of a mile, I stretched my neck and tried to pinpoint the location of Bonetti Ranch. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She built the cook fire back up with dried dune grass, then added fresh wood in a rough pyramid shape. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

On raised screens beside the front door squash slices were drying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stand in the little shed next to her kitchen drying ourselves with one towel. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Workers pour clay, water, and dried cow manure into large pits. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Father frowned, mopping his face with the drying towel. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Once, when I looked out the window, I saw washerwomen stretching out lengths of saris to dry in the sun, long strips of yellow and blue and pink against the green fields. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s stayed dry enough out here over the years, because the hollow is deep. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

With no prying eyes around, I slipped off one of my petticoats, washed it in the water, and hung it over a willow branch to dry. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I spread them out to dry for an hour or two. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ser Jorah broke the dry mud with his knife, pried the chunks from the flesh, peeled off the leaves one by one. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The rain pattered continually against the side of the plane: he imagined small children tossing down dried peas by the handful from the skies. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Across the doorway a garland of mango leaves, symbol of happiness and good fortune, dry now and rattling in the breeze. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dried his face and hands slowly, without answering her, because they both knew what she was really asking. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, even in a crowded warren, visitors in the form of young rabbits seeking desirable dry quarters may be tolerated...and if powerful enough they may obtain and hold a place. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mouth felt dry, my tongue clinging to the roof. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was cool outside in the early morning and the sun had not yet dried the dew that had come when the wind died down. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

At first she thought she hated him for what they'd done to Lady, but after Sansa had wept her eyes dry, she told herself that it had not been Joffrey's doing, not truly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Under the sea, it snows up," said the fool, "and the rain is dry as bone. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His face looked like one of those fallen Martian cities, caved in, sucked dry, almost dead. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t leave Styx hanging out to dry. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Not having it, she dried her eyes on her petticoat and walked up the last flight slowly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I sought a seat for him in a hidden and lovely spot, a dry stump of a tree; nor did I refuse to let him, when seated, place me on his knee. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The smell of dry hay was in the musty air. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lined with bits of leaves, grass, cloth, cotton fluff, feathers and other soft things Mrs. Frisby and her children had collected, the house stayed dry, warm and comfortable all winter. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The stuff went on like paint, then dried clear as glass and hard as steel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

These are set up underneath the indoors clothesline where the Smeath underwear is hung up to dry when it rains or snows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He dries my face and hands, and kisses my eyes, the tip of my nose, my lips and each fingertip. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Don’t let ’em dry up like a raisin in the sun,” I whisper. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She washed his clothes and hung them out to dry. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They left the pike and took a narrow road through the country and came at last upon a bridge and a dry creek and they crawled down the bank and huddled underneath. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

If he wet my bed, he would sneak back into his dry one. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was dry, unappetising, cut in a wedge from the outside; but I had not the courage to refuse it. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When day began to dawn above the hills Farid went to the two captives, gave them water, a little of the dry bread they still had left, and a few olives. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He changed his shirt and put on a stiff new pair of Levis and wiped off his fifty dollar boots with the towel that was still damp from drying his arms and face. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And he saw that the waters had receded and the land lay shining under the dry cold wind and under the ardent sun. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Patrick works his way over to us, basically dry humping as many girls as he can on his way. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I found the humidor on an unfamiliar table with two stale dry cigarettes inside. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

More diagrams showed how to tear paper and have it reassemble itself, and how to pour water into a shoe and leave the shoe dry. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The boatswain, unmanned for the first time, respectfully dried his eyes on the Jack, and then cheering up, and addressing Mr. Wopsle as Your Honour, solicited permission to take him by the fin. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo stuffed it with dry grass and took it to the cave to use as a pillow. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The precious time and hard physical labor needed to carry all their supplies and transport the canoes over dry land wasn’t their only problem. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She sat, drying her eyes with a handkerchief and laughing at herself. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vase Mom had made in her pottery class filled with dried cattails. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Throughout the country the water holes had dried up, leaving only parched expanses of baked mud. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They saw it the way we saw our dry land of Dinetah. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He holds up a corner of the handkerchief to his face and dries the tears that have formed in his eyes. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Pink paint was drying on a nice wooden shape. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Du Barry's words dry out each and every petal, and snap the stem. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The one Laika found was dried and flat, an old rattler that had become an S-shaped band of snake jerky. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You will have to wait for the ones you left outside to dry,” he said. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

From the bottom up, I study the topography—layers of water, moist soil, dry earth, rock. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He also took a stack of chapatis and a big bag of dry rice. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Careening downhill, bumping over rocks and dried mud holes, we like to shook apart before we got the dern wagon under control. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Finally the rain stopped and the fields dried up and Dad and Matthew and Mark went back to their combine and tractors, acres away from the house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just waiting for it to dry so I could test it.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Only then did I notice the blood on my hands was dry. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"He's done nothing that requires my forgiveness. Gen- dry, when Lord Arryn came to see you, what did you talk about?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When it was dry, we loaded it into the back of the truck. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cold on the porcelain, her hair was down, loose around her shoulders, and matted with dried blood. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I crawl over to her and start to dig beside her, the dirt beneath the grass dry as dust in my fingers. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sitting in my office, drying my tears, reflecting on my brokenness, it seemed like a laughable notion. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I stopped drying the plate in my hands. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The pine shelves smelled sweet and clean, like they were fresh cut, and were filled with bottles and jars of roots and dried flowers. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The man pulled a bottle of red liquid from the cooler and wiped it dry on his apron before handing it to Milkman. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had succeeded in removing the outer boards and part of the packing, which was a layer of dry ice, when from the depths of the packing case he suddenly heard a faint “Ork.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The guys animate their answers with fist pumping and jumped-up bro hugs and take-thats and all manner of behaviors that make it seem like we’re participating in football practice and not a dry Quiz Bowl. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Mary dried her eyes and Jan whispered something to her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, there was this gold to be dried and melted, and in haste, too, for the Great God Ra was sinking lower and lower in the sky. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The fruitcake stayed perfect in the tin and the apple juice was fizzy but not totally undrinkable and the dried apricots were fine, as was the huge thick slab of chocolate wrapped in brown paper. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dry myself with toilet paper, roll the wet toilet paper in some unused toilet paper, and hand it to Mami. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Behind a bush, you and I peeled off our clothes and changed into the dry skirts and blouses I’d brought. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I remembered reading about medicine back in Kraków and learning that dry toast helped settle an upset stomach. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Go on up there and get dried off,” she’d said to me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth is still drying out, but the sun is almost breaking through thick white cloud. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you get?” he asked, his voice a dry whisper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even though the ears were dried and shriveled, they drew flies when it was hot. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Before long I was sweating like a horse, and my throat was as dry as sawdust. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“What about,” Gilly asked, her mouth going dry as a stale soda cracker, “what about my real mother?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The yard was packed thick with a dry bed of sand-like dirt. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Scabs of dried blood molded to his upper lip came away satisfyingly whole. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He made a clattering, clicking sound, like dry teeth on bone. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I splash icy water on my face, dry it with a towel Tommy left out for us. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They all wanted different colors and decals, and it was impossible to get them to sit still long enough for the polish to dry. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute, all her clothes were dry and folded. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He picked up one of the dry branches lying everywhere. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

From it the orc-trail ran out again, turning north along the dry skirts of the hills. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“It will be the first fuss I have ever endured,” said Lazlo, hearing something raw in his voice that could not be put down to a dry throat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The old man laughed: a dry, dusty sound. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Discarded pieces of zinc, chicken wire, cardboard, torn sheets that Mami had given us, and dried palm fronds formed the walls of our very own barrio under the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The oldest kind were, indeed, no more than built imitations of smials, thatched with dry grass or straw, or roofed with turves, and having walls somewhat bulged. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Already the prairie had been baked dry, but in August it would get worse. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Markets in the city were booming with abundant supplies of dried, fresh, and processed foods, including milled rice, tofu, crackers, cakes, and meat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The pilot stayed in his seat and Brian moved the passenger seat forward and clambered out of the plane, stepped on the float and then to the dry grass. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Steam rises from the well of dry ice. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Another was lying on her stomach, reading a magazine while wax dried on the back of her thighs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I’m a mouse. Squeak, squeak. Now shoo-shoo back to your little bug friends,” said Ripred, picking up a hunk of dried beef. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stood at the edge of the pit, the crowd surging around him, hissing, mocking, their words scathing and dry as coals. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The weather had turned the leaves brown, even though it was midsummer, and a cold wind gusted through the gnarled branches, making the dried leaves rattle. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I keep my hand firmly in his, though his skin feels dry as paper and I am repulsed by him. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth sat up and reached in her handbag for a handkerchief, and began to dry her eyes. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“After it dries, I’ll sand and paint it,” he said, standing back and observing his work critically. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She used dry eyeliner, liquid eyeliner, lip liner, lip conditioner, a frosted highlighter, and a pore minimizer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The air was cool and dry, but the nice weather just seemed like an insult after losing Bianca. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Samuel thinks it may be the water they use, which comes from a separate spring that rims clear even in the dry season. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah?” he said sarcastically, trading his wet sweater for a dry one. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When he comes back, I drink every kiss down to its end and still my mouth aches like a dry cave. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched them disappear down the path, my hand resting on the butt of the revolver, my mouth dry. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They slept that night in a dry shallow cave amongst the outcroppings of an abandoned molybdenum mine on the crest of a hill. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Todd’s bed stayed as dry as the desert. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think I see his dark mustache quivering, but his eyes stay dry and clear as glass. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It smelled of baseball, and the last cut of grass, and leaves drying out but still holding on. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight, her feathers were the colour of dried blood. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But beyond the souvenir kiosks in the cathedral square, most of the 44,000 inhabitants of Chamula scratch a living from the dry mountain slopes outside town. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Paqo explained that the orchids were fewer and many of the fountains had slowed or dried up altogether because of the drought. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A smear of dried blood traced his cheekbone, and a small moist trickle leaked out of his nose. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A young man entered as I dried my hands. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I let these children take the milk themselves, it will not last a week,” she said, before taking the tin of Carnation dried milk back to the safety of her room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was bright, and the rolling hills and dry lake flats reflected a silvery light illusion that everything was as visible as if seen in broad daylight. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mom dried my sweaty body with a towel and she and my dad changed me into a clean T-shirt and clean underwear. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Her wings had gotten wet, and she was drowning. So I plucked her from the water and wrapped her in fern fronds to dry.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

So I said, “I’m fine, just trying to dry off,” and flapped the front of my soggy sweater to demonstrate. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes resistance develops so rapidly that the ink is scarcely dry on a report hailing successful control of a species with some specified chemical when an amended report has to be issued. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I scooped a handful of dry sand and let it pour out slow through my fingers, shaking my head. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She collected all the dry scraps and puzzled over them for a long time, trying to figure out where they fit into the larger piece. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The dirty dishes were dropped into a hot washer and emerged twinkling dry. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Serena’s parlor, with the dried flowers, on the Chinese carpet, his thin body. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, of course, much of the Sahara is so dry that it cannot support even grass. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped dry twigs from the bird's nest onto the little fire, which crackled in the night and began to blossom and grow. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tía takes me to the storage room where Mamá Jacinta keeps her extra dry food. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The banister of the rear staircase was hung with drying leaves and stalks sent from the frontier. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I did not go back to the richer areas, where I could not stay anyway, but, resolving to fast until I got halfway to the next woods, I started across the dry rocks. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm finished drying his hands and went outside with the stranger. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The summers were crackling hot, the air dry and perfumed with the vanilla scent of ponderosa bark. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Our shoes hushed through the dry grass to the porch. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“No need for that, thank you. It’s dry enough now. Good night, gentlemen, good night to you, and thank you again.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Marly’s overalls were stiff down the front, but they were dry at least. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It tasted like the cardboard covers of our primers, salty, dry, fibrous, but not as satisfyingly chewy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Our house had a roof made of dried, thatched grasses and three rooms—a kitchen and two small rooms where we slept and, during the long rainy season, where we played. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone's going to remember where they were when the taps went dry, I think. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I did have a pouch of dried potatoes that I kept stored by the rock, because sometimes I didn’t feel like leaving to eat with the others. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He saw various women of indecipherable age, their skin dry and cracked, some apparently pregnant, all of them barefoot and dressed in faded rags. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It coated the inside of my mouth with a dry, sticky paste, and the smell of feathers rose from the back of my throat into my nose. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Everything is damp, as if the whole island had been dipped under dark water and is only starting to dry out. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Johnny’s tuxedo dried to a stiff wrinkled greenish outfit. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Irene and I called it summer snow, and sometimes we’d squint into the dry glare and try to catch cotton on our tongues. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The sun was warm now, and she was soon dry. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When it stopped, there was no sun to dry them off, and they were still damp when they arrived at the hostel they planned to sleep at that night. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She waves, then goes back to her dry Cheerios. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She repacked her treasures, slid down the rock, and built a fire in the dry streambed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our food was barley bread, watered ale, and, from time to time, some cooked dried peas. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what would happen if they saw us?” she whispered, shifting her stinging feet, the crushing of dry leaves seeming far too loud. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Outside the walls ran a dry moat, also studded with spikes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The collar and top buttons are drenched in dried blood, which spatters down the rest of the coat, rusty and brown. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She took up a plate, dried it, and placed it on the counter. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The day cleared and a pale sun dried the moisture. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“One day, when a beggar from a far-away land came to the old couple’s door, they fed him the last of their corn. Then their dry scraps of tortilla.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Fern stood at the kitchen sink drying the breakfast dishes as her mother washed them. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

They found clothes in the closets to wear—clean clothes—which they put on after scrubbing themselves with real soap and drying themselves with real towels. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the cabin, he heated water while they dried off. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“I laid it flat and put it back together and dried it. For you. For now.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They didn't come to the area until after the lake dried up. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Even those who were years removed from their own day of glorious release were anxious to help with preparations as a kind of dry run. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blankets were encrusted with dried blood and vomit, ridden with lice, vermin, and cockroaches, and reeked with a stench that actually competed with the odiousness of the drain. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked shows that are supposed to be very sophisticated and dry and all, with the Lunts and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeka was as good as her mother, anyway, since it was Aunty Ifeka’s breasts that she and Kainene had sucked when their mother’s dried up soon after they were born. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His chisel-like foreteeth bit steadily and he felt the dry strands rip. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the lantern down on the floor and then put on my layers of shirts and my pants, now warm and almost completely dry. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I crossed a muddy area covered with animal tracks and continued along a broad platform covered with spongy dried dung. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, the eggs I'd left him were untouched in their bowl, the tea bag dry in the cup. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The wall beyond held a frieze of human heads, all faced alike, dried and caved with their taut grins and shrunken eyes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I licked stamps and envelopes until my mouth went dry. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The soup is thick with rue and sweetened with dried apples. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Audrey closed the cap on the bottle while I blew gently on my drying nails. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Flakes of dried blood crumbled at the touch of her fingertips, black in the lantern light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A nest of dry straw bedding filled one corner of the room. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Henry dashed in a few final marks, then fanned the paper in the air to dry it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Place your clothes near the trunk to keep them dry,” he said. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Mom finally put her foot down and insisted it was okay for me to quit, scuttling Stephen Kellner’s dreams of me playing professional soccer before they even made it out of dry dock. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The doctor rinsed his hands and dried them on a towel. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every now and then a current of air lifted them and their dry whispers joined the other sounds. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence, dry fallen leaves crunching beneath our feet. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Their skin dried, then their hair and finally their clothing. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to say something, but I'm not sure what and anyhow my mouth is too dry. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips were cracked and bleeding, her tongue swollen and sandpaper dry. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

In its place came a dry chorus of whispers like a million tiny voices. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When I found it all dried up and dead, I felt so guilty. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Abuelita Remedies took her bulto to the coffee table and started to grind dried leaves and sprigs together in a miniature white mortar with a tiny white pestle. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After a while they plunged into a deeply cloven track between tall trees that rustled their dry leaves in the night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He is under arrest, locked up on the Discovery, and his private store of wine, dried beef, eggs, oatmeal, and other good food has been shared equally among all of us. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The thin winter snow was already gone from the high peaks, and the sacred mountain was a dusty, dry blue color. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to see him in his bare feet, perched awkwardly on a bit of dry ground surrounded by huge puddles, one hand on the side of the barn to keep his balance. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the long town wharf, a seagull stands on twig legs, facing the wind, shaking his feathers dry. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rose to my feet, moistening my dry lips. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He never used a comb, but always just dried his hair furiously with a towel until it seemed to all fall down in the right places. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There were always stockings and pink rayon knickers with holes in them hung on a string across the room to dry. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I know that Suesetta is waiting for me and there’s no telling how long it will take for all of these dishes to get washed, dried, and put away. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The woman carried a tray with beef broth and dry crackers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I see—dryers. One has clothes going around and around. Getting dry.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I touched the heath: it was dry, and yet warm with the heat of the summer day. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mostly the proper way to mix the clay, the proper way to form the tiles and smooth the dry ones, so that through wind, sun, rain they will last and last. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ammu was repelled by the medicinal smell of stale alcohol that seeped through his skin, and the dry, caked vomit that encrusted his mouth like a pie every morning. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dry moat surrounding Maegor’s Holdfast was three feet deep in snow, the iron spikes that lined it glistening with frost. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then Papa arranged the sticks into a pile with the dried leaves under and lit a match from the box he brought. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Scratched his arms like maybe the water bears were crawling in the crevices of his dry skin and he didn't know because he couldn't see them. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

When he'd kissed that girl last year, with his mouth dry and his eyes mostly open, Park had wondered if maybe there was something wrong with him. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Slumped against a wall are two leather sacks, speckled with the dried blood of the fiends of Malesherbes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

His skin rippled in voluptuous delight when Evy rubbed him dry. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her father’s model of the same intersection smells only of dried glue and sawdust. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they talked about picking cotton in east Texas and about running whiskey into the cottonfields of dry counties. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like an old piece of leather, drying and cracking in the heat. every step is an effort, but I refuse to stop. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The year had not been kind to the hills, and already in June they were dry and the stones showed through the short, burned feed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They called me spider legs, skeleton girl, pipe cleaner, two-by-four, bony butt, stick woman, bean pole, and giraffe, and they said I could stay dry in the rain by standing under a telephone wire. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The night was very cold and dry, and the stars were cut glass. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the pyramid went a bed of dried pine needles. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It comes from a stupendous tuber, which the women cultivate and dig from the ground, soak in the river, dry in the sun, pound to white powder in hollowed-out logs, and boil. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuff those in my sweaty shoes at night to dry them out. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

There were few of them, and they were dry. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I poured a cup of water from the pitcher and held it to her dry lips. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took my empty cup of genmaicha to the kitchen and washed and dried it by hand. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I filled my bag with a dried bay leaf, a shiny new penny, a piece of pecan tree bark, and a handful of salt. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Many of Aristotle’s examples look pretty dry and obvious. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

When her feet were clean, Hizdahr dried them with a soft towel, laced her sandals on again, and helped her stand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mama then heated water in a pot and poured it into another tub and washed the diapers on a washboard and hung them up to dry outside on a clothesline Papa made. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The wine was icy cold and very dry and good. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Were almost done here,” Osh said, so I worked on, faster than before, while Miss Maggie found a seat on the rocks and spread her skirts to dry. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I love a man who dries my dishes. Even if he does insult me.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

On his lap, there was a bowl of what appeared to be dry Lucky Charms. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was a bitter tang in the air of Mordor that dried the mouth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The top layer of woodchips was dry, but you could feel the guts sliding around underfoot. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Disappointed, Joseph slowly climbed the stairs, ducking beneath the tattered laundry that hung across the landing, as if it had been put out to dry a century ago and forgotten. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then: “Which room did you put her into? Was it dry? Is she up? Go and ask if she wants anything; and when she will come down.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“We can dry our clothes on top of the car when the sun comes out.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Really. And his wife used to wash her underpants and hang ’em on the antenna of her car and then drive around town till they were dry.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

—School When I think about school, I feel like I got a mouth full of dry bread and I can’t swallow. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old cormorants stood like crucifixes on the rocks, drying their wings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eliza combed through a lock of hair stuck together with dried jam. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this canal went on and on, through cities that would have rattled like beetles in a dry skull if you shook them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When dried, the white or pink pulp makes flour for thin, tortilla-like cakes; when boiled and smoked, it becomes hors d’oeuvres; when cooked and fermented, it makes beer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He kicked through the dry pine needles and leaves, checking for its mate. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

From this room come smells—formaline, and dry and a shower. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fire ran along the dry grass and leaves, and took hold of a neighbor’s fence. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was squeaky, like a dry wagon wheel. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor was covered with dry marsh grass and gray wool rugs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My shoes were dry and waiting for me by the door, along with my socks. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They staggered up to a small dry patch near the top of the roof. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Blood pounds in my ears, and my mouth goes dry. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She wrote for a moment then fanned it with a hand, waiting for it to dry. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The petals would finally just dry up, and break away, falling to the ground. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I nod and dry my hands on the dish towel, but even the Doctorita’s threats can’t wipe the smile off my face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rab was waiting for the ink to dry on the Observer so he could fold it. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had meant to fill that wide crack with thick mud and let it dry and harden. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I remember too much: my gram’s ample bosom, her small dry hands, the dark cottage with a crumbling stone wall flanking its narrow garden. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I always check with everyone to see if no one else wants the lamp a certain night, and I never hog my turn at the window for fresh air or drying laundry. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a pot of fresh coffee on the stove. Go ahead and dry yourself and then we can talk.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the dry yellow grass by the old man’s feet. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Past dry rivers and dry lakes they flew, like a shadow of the moon, like a torch burning. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was becoming convivial and even made attempts at dry, almost British humor. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had painted a heart next to the name at the top, and there was a bunch of dried flowers on the stone steps in front of the memorial. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The nun’s blood arrived at the C.D.C. in glass tubes in a box lined with dry ice. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not attend the entire year, because during the dry season his family moved away from their village. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We buy dry cleaning shop, live next block. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it is just a dry, flat wasteland. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

After he leaves at dawn, I sit outside and smoke a dry tobacco leaf. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Jaja looked down, too, as if he were just then noticing the gnarled finger, deformed like a dried stick. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Martha sprayed a dried bouquet with metallic paint, literally gilding the lily. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orders whispered sharp and quiet—boats hauled back onto their racks, oars put away, all of it carefully dried off with dust sheets, which we hid beneath the floorboards afterward. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When I pour it on my hair, I feel a sticky cold like dry ice, then a soporific heat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The superintendent dragged out the asphalt-baking machines and slowly dried the course. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Bronwyn set her on a dry patch of sand, and we all stood back and waited. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A pause, and then a tired, dry, middle-aged, female voice said, “I think what I and my family of three noticed most was the dignity.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mom used to joke that it was when the road was dry that people ran into trouble. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed a corpse lying in front of the dry cleaners, and another by the florist five doors down, rats nibbling on their faces. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Scarcely taking time to dry themselves, they journeyed on. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been galloping through a field of dry grasses when her horse reared suddenly, throwing her to the ground. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way to the graveyard, I stopped to buy two new tarps, one to lay across our tent so we could keep dry again and another for a better door. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The stable smelt dry and pleasant in the rain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Stretched before us in every direction, there were only miles of mesquite and huisache trees and tall brown grasses too dry and thin to feed to animals. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A small stuffed frog whose fur had been rubbed dry. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When he returned to the warm cave his father had constructed, Joe toweled his hair dry, unpacked his banjo, and pulled a chair up in front of the woodstove. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The day was hot and dry, and I felt a headache forming behind my eyes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At one point she must have broken open a pen and spun it around, because if you look closely, you can see small, dried drops of ink all over the walls and ceiling. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The eyes were still liquid and golden brown, staring at dark mountain dirt and dry oak leaves tangled in the grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You be still there and let me dry my legs off.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the dry cynicism in his eyes made him seem much older than the teenager crumpled down opposite them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I’m done with one piece of paper, I set it aside to dry. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Dill put the dish in the cracked white plastic drying rack and went to his room. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“More coyote tracks. Porcupine scat. And the newest snow was so dry that whenever some slid off a high tree branch, it was like shining bits of gold shimmering down in the sunlight.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It looked a little yellow and was all dried up. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I know I will never know a joy so vast as I experienced when I en­tered that tree’s dappled, shimmering shade and heard the dry, crisp sound of the wind rustling its leaves. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had my legs pulled up to my chest and my arms wrapped around in front of them and my head resting on the dark dry skin of my bare knees. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

So he had prayed the rain away, and for the sixth year it was dry; the grass turned yellow and it did not grow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally I sighted a handful of scrawny cattle, goats and pigs grazing on stubbles of dry brush. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he woke up, he drank glass after glass to get rid of the dry, dead feel of the poppy fields. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry, dear,” I said, handing him a towel that wouldn’t have dried one tenth of his abundant hair. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The evil gash on her temple disappeared as if wiped away, the stains of blood nothing more than dried paint. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He comes up happy, squeezing water out of his T-shirt as he climbs back onto the dry rocks. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“You are a very patient student. I think I am going to have another glass of tea. My throat is a little dry.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They murmured more prayers Anya didn’t know while they poured water over one hand, then the other, and then, silent, they dried their hands on the cloth squares. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

January of that year was too cold and dry for snow. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the inside walls of the house, she lifted down her careful bundles of roots, her bags of berries and dried, crumbled leaves, and long curls of inner bark of certain trees. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

As the dry season progressed, the grass shriveled and many trees lost their leaves. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice a week he would wash the complete change in the tub and would wear his robe until it dried because he had nothing else to put on. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

From our spot in a clearing between some dried Lydia brooms and spiny mesquite brush, we watched the moon as it rose higher into the sky above the canyon rim. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The shrine was a low, open shed, its mud roof and walls covered with dried palm fronds. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had been clad in mail, and still his harness lay there whole; for the cavern’s air was as dry as dust, and his hauberk was gilded. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

We walked toward it through red dirt and dried leaves that cracked under our feet, the air smelling of wild roses, pine, and cows. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She looks around the room, taking in the swags of green, the holly berries, red roses, and dried magnolia leaves set as centerpieces on all the tables. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But worse was the creak as the coffin lid went down and the dry click when it closed. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bugs had dried up and fallen to the floor. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Milton’s throat went dry; a spasm of anxiety known to all Depression babies gripped his body; and in the next second he was jumping out of the car again, running back to the platform. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mario mopped the floor of the newsstand while Mama spread out papers to dry. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did not break, and buoyant as a dry log it rode the water. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the barn three bodies hanging from the rafters, dried and dusty among the wan slats of light. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was no breeze and the air was full of the sweet, chrysanthemum-like smell of the flowering compositae of dry uplands—corn chamomile, yarrow and tansy. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we get home, he gives me a bowl of dried fruit and granola and a glass of milk. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He looked at me with a dry smile. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cross boulders, dry riverbeds, and canyons with sheer rock walls. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There, we sat around the fire to dry ourselves and eat dried fish. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The fish bones crackled and snapped in his mouth like dry corn in a mill. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

His teeth chattered as he dried himself with his undershirt. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Do not fret. Come, dry your eyes and sit up here beside me.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon there would be noise and chores and a mountain of white sheets with my name on them to wash, hang dry, and iron. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He had worn a dry suit and he had managed to fix a rope to guide him through. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She threw her arms around his neck and kissed his dry, old man’s cheek. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We paint a white base coat in silence, and when it’s almost dry, something cool splats against my cheek. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Part of the bridge was underwater, but the middle part was high enough that it had stayed dry. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

My tongue was dry and nasty and every one of my teeth hurt. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The towel we use for actual hand drying is on the counter. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The dry grass of the fields had scratched my legs. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There were dried fruits that you could buy—sweet, semi-sweet, or salty. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mouth is dry, but I don’t want to risk the thirty seconds it would take to get water from the kitchen sink. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I want to hear about the dry lands over the Stormwal,” one of the younger girls complained. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nicole had a dot of dried chocolate stain on her sweatshirt. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He set them on the back of a chair to dry, which, he figured, would hardly take any time in a place as hot as this. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Once again, and hopefully for the last time that day, I dried myself off and put on some clean clothes, amazed by the power of such a small accomplishment to restore my good mood. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her mother noticed and said in coded scolding, "Their well is going to run dry." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

On rainy days, she left earlier and walked to school slower so that she would be soaking wet and rate the privilege of drying in the furnace room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me go see if I can find you something dry to wear.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two years of imprisonment and starvation and raids had bled the ghetto dry of almost anything worth owning. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Guitar emerged, his eyes were teary from the effort of dry heaving. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diary safe in my satchel, I crossed the flooded clinic car park, leaping from dry bit to dry bit like James Bond froggering across the crocodiles' backs. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I nod, my throat too dry to speak. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In this dry season only a trickle of muddy water remained in the river. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He replaced his hat and rubbed his dry leathery hands together. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her mother murmured, Kira leaned forward with the water container and moistened the dry lips. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scabs on her arms dried up and became little scars, barely visible. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the same, she is bound to go dry within a year, and then we will have a milkless, creamless, butterless period for a while, until the bull calf grows up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The little bronze faun cast a shadow across the dry fountain. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A thatched roof had been layered with mud to keep the inside as dry as possible. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I had learned that mud dried quickly in Inti’s hot rays and, if put on properly, gave the temporary feeling of a smooth face. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I lay Rose down on the kitchen table as I dried the dishes. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

My throat is dry, and I try to swallow. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She remembers the giant puddle of melting snow just outside the door of the trailer, so large that she had to jump across it from the top step to get to dry ground. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

As we sprinted, a crackling sound came from behind us, like someone stepping on dry leaves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dimple walked in and peeked around the corner while Rishi talked at length about how addiction could wrap itself around you like a python and squeeze you dry if you weren’t watching out for it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He calls himself a cab and goes to the basement one last time to throw away the towel he’d used to dry off, the gray push-button phone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was Julia's turn to do the dishes but we've become sort of allies in the last couple of weeks, so I dried for her. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When I reached the beach, my clothes dried instantly. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t about to let this vampire suck my blood dry without a war, he could kiss my wrist if he thought that was going to happen. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t bad skin—a zit here and there and the occasional dry island. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Yesterday Mother Ermentrude herself cleaned and dried all the trenchers and spoons. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Momma always kept a little towel in Joey’s last jacket’s pocket so I could make sure her face and hair were dry. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rubbed herself dry hastily and hurried back to the sitting room, where her coat still lay untouched, of course. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As the varnish dried and hardened on the fabric, it created a fragile and lovely translucent yellow decking fore and aft. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The earth floor felt pleasantly dry and snug and he was about to go back to sleep when Fiver spoke. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Russell, his throat too dry to speak, raised his hand. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shoes in the corner were all old-fashioned black or brown leather, except for one pair made from canvas and covered in dried mud. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Among her brood of six, Reggie was the quiet charmer, a peacemaker, sensitive with a dry wit, both athletic and awkward, honest. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She had seen a movie at school once, where the village women washed out the clothes and dried them in the sun. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked over the flat dry dusty valley and the ugly mushroom towns and they saw a loveliness—who knows? maybe in our lifetime. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She blew on her hands and dried them again. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The mud was drying in the deeply rutted roadway, but Lyddie did not watch her feet. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was made from a hide, elk or maybe buffalo, heavy and stiff enough to stop stones and arrows; long dry years had shrunk and split the edges, and it had lost the round shape. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Autumn filled the air with the slightly burnt scent of drying grasses, and the Wood was colored as if it were on fire. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where should I play?” whispered Milton, his mouth feeling too dry to play anything. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

So many jars, steamed and dried, filled and sealed. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But sometimes off to either side the dry limbs breaking sounded like gunshots, causing him to cringe and swear softly to himself. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my eyes still closed, the rice ball works itself slowly down my dry throat and quiets my hunger. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the only sound in camp, the only sound in Owens Valley, the mess hall bells, their gongs echoing between the Inyo Range and the nearby Sierras, their furthest ripples soaking into dry sand. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

What a no-good nothing he is and how he left her high and dry. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Without his uniform he looks smaller, older, like something being dried. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked him if we could grow a mango tree, but he said my land was too dry for that. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

As he approached, slowly making his way through the noisy dried banana leaves, the sight of his face awakened my memory. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Polly, with hair the color of dried grass and eyes the color of a stormy sky, understood tears. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached out to dry his arm, very aware that my hands were still shaking. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But now he kills as many as he can, cuts them up, dries or smokes the meat, and then sends it on a truck to the towns. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Have a good night's rest . . ." "Night, and you too," he said with a short dry laugh. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the last years, ten or twenty, the holes have been dried up and empty except for dirt clogs and lizards. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some of you will fall on dry ground or thorns. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went down to the water’s edge and came back with a heavy rock, which she dried on her shirt and then placed on top of the map. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times he thrashed all night, thinking nothing, his body cramping, dry, racked, beside itself. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in my room, warm and dry and dressed in my new gown, I shut the door and lock it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They looked and saw a little hollow in the grass, with a grassy bottom, warm and dry. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Osh had to wrap himself in a summer blanket while his clothes dried. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She pours the rest of the water into our new pot while Kim rekindles the fire by adding dry leaves and branches. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some houses are empty, too, but the windows are boarded up and their dry grass is low and still kept neat. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The refrigerated cakes come in flimsy cardboard boxes steaming with dry ice. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to paint the feel of the sand beneath her toes, the crackling of dry empty crab shells as she popped them between her palms. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The transition roughly coincides with the transition between dry and wet seasons—the time when the Milky Way releases life-giving water to Pacha Mama, Mother Earth—and divides the heavens into four quar- ters. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He swept around in his long black cloak, watching them weigh dried nettles and crush snake fangs, criticizing almost everyone except Malfoy, whom he seemed to like. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The small brown tubers under the soil would be available throughout the dry season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small patch the color of dried blood blooms at his feet. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take him long to stack driftwood over dried palm fronds. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We survived on the small bit of food that Yar had managed to take away with her from Pinyudu—a little dried corn and lentils. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One attachment was a miniature magnifying glass, with which she began to burn a design onto a dry branch, and it was that which set her thinking about Shadows. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She felt the meridians of energy springing back like strings snapping into position; it made her skin feel red, chapped, as though she had been scoured by a dry wind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma came hurrying out to the verandah, drying her hands in front of her shorts. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the blankets were drying and I had washed the three smelly children, Eliza had gone out to care for the sick and Mother Smith had taken control. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muralug Island itself, the island nearest Australia, was dry, marginal for agriculture, and supported only a small human population, which subsisted mainly on seafood, wild yams, and mangrove fruits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I washed it, I covered it with a towel while it dried in the sun. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were dozens of other players wearing them as well, and together they blended into the dry heat of the practice held like lingering cattle waiting to be herded in this or that direction. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She felt her eyes drying, her face blistering. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Lucas Cader was picking dried dirt from the knees of his blue jeans. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She dries herself off and wrings out her sari, standing in her blouse and petticoat. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I sit there, scratching the dry mud out from between my toes and then looking up at the sky, wondering when more bullets will rain down on us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dry, frozen air came out of us in plumes of steam. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked faintly absurd, stepping over the carpet of dry leaves in his tight airport suit, his tie blown over his shoulder. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dry sticks of the wall smoked gently, forcing Septimus to suppress a cough, and then they caught fire, and Septimus smiled. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Reynie, meanwhile, speared a dry lettuce leaf with his fork and thought: So far, so good. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He has instructions: The painting won't be dry for a year, but after it dries he should give it a good coat of varnish. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One machine washed the clothes, a second machine dried the clothes, and a third machine washed the dishes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mud dried and the spring flowers came out: yellow coltsfoot, and white wood anemones in profusion—and the wall being built around Asgard was a glorious, imposing thing. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

His harsh, raspy voice reminded Mariam of the sound of dry autumn leaves crushed underfoot. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

After every wet crossing, I would shake like a dog and wring out my clothes as best I could so they dried in ridges white with salt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll read it through and then we’ll go back. Give me a little wine, my throat’s dried out with wine. Here it is—such a little story to have made so deep a wound.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They pass their green paper, dry as old leaves and smelling of a thousand hands, back and forth and back again. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Then, without warning, I pretend to dry heave, then burst into a fit of coughs. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“No need for that, now. We let God dry the dishes here.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

So tall were the spiny thickets that the hobbits could walk upright under them, passing through long dry aisles carpeted with a deep prickly mould. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They knelt before each other, woman before woman, and man before man, and washed and dried each other’s feet. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We watched as the pond and then the stream dried up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she stood before the dry sink, pumping water into a blue- and-white wash basin which she used for a saucepan. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dried her eyes, and grew cheerful at the prospect They were still talking of the dinner and the allurements of city life when Mrs. Pontellier herself slipped around the comer of the house. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laundry hangs to dry on the flat rooftops of several houses. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her confidence has been sucked out of her, and she’s been left bone dry. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I built up the fire in the hearth, set my shoes and damp stockings to dry in front of it, and rubbed a calendula salve on my blisters. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just Renee looked around at the dry twigs and towering trees. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We think of grass as soft and friendly stuff, but once it’s been dried in the sun and shredded by machines, it becomes hay. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I cleaned up my front yard, scattered needles over the bare spots, and started a small fire with very dry wood that would not smoke much. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin became ragged and dry, sagged into pathetic folds on top of itself. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The dry earth was ticking under the sun and the crickets rasped. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s more an observer, with the dry, knowing manner of someone who likes to remain a little bit on the outside. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her boots were dry by then—we'd set them right next to the radiator and left them there all night—but they were blotchy and warped. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In about an hour the chick was dry and fuzzy white. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

You could be standing in the middle of one and not know it, because the ponds are usually dry. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The steady wiping and polishing with the “clean, dry cloth” fell into a rhythm that began to calm her inner frenzy. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“But they really found the chickens in the desert without a drop of blood inside. They were blowing around like dry cantaloupe skins.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hand on the top of his head, the only place that seemed totally dry. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I pulled a tea towel from the drawer next to the stove, then grabbed the ceramic rice platter and dried it off. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When Scoob looks at his arm and sees the lines of drying blood that have run down over his hand from a nasty-looking cut near his elbow, the dull ache explodes into a burning throb. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She held a glowing branch next to the wood to dry the seals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I get some dry clothes from the house of a family who are dead. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of blood, dry dirt spilled from the cut. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The Paqo told me that these guesthouses were normally stocked with corn, potatoes, and dried strips of llama meat, as well as wood for fire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He usually took his pay in trade: flour, coffee, spice, dried beans, and canned goods; or put it on account for a day when we needed more than lobsters would buy. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A channel that is one mile wide in the dry season can become thirty miles wide in the wet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I hardly ever drank anything myself, but I bet most people drank more during those “dry” times than they ever did, before or since. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top step seems dry enough, so I sit down and watch the clouds pass quickly in front of the moon. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then the shots come behind us, not loud, not like firecrackers, but sharp and crisp like a dry branch snapping. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mouth is dry, so it’s difficult to swallow. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The landing strip is too soft to use tomorrow. Maybe it’ll start raining again before the field dries out.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The world goes dry, yet we find Henry totally oblivious, living in his own little oasis. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

More than a dozen dried beach roses spill out. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

A black hat dangled from one hand, and as Winnie came toward him, he passed the other through his dry, gray hair, settling it smoothly. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My throat starts to dry up as I stand on the stage and study everyone who has come together to help my community. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There was another knock on the door, and this time it was David with their shirts, washed, dried, and neatly folded. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

As I have related, doctors recommended a dry climate to ease Mr. Muhammad’s condition. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing a pile of dried horse biscuits, I got me one and threw it just as Smiley’s mouth stretched in a wide yawn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

While they ate, Sefia gnawed a few strips of dried meat, searching the men for weaknesses while the rumble of their voices drifted up through the trees. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They had little holes in them and looked like someone had put dried leaves inside. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Her thoughts whirled among bits of information and ideas that crowded into her brain, and blew about there, like dry leaves in a storm. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rinses dishes, puts them in the rack to dry. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Dearest niece,” said my father, “dry your tears. If she is, as you believe, innocent, rely on the justice of our laws, and the activity with which I shall prevent the slightest shadow of partiality.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of them instead put much of their energy into producing big seeds, which remain dormant during the dry season and are then ready to sprout when the rains come. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For three days, we'd had nothing but boiled water with some old dried mint leaves I'd found in the back of a cupboard. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He looked at his arm, which was covered in a zigzag of dried blood. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a broken table, two stools, and a vast number of bunches of herbs hung against the wall drying. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The other half of the hut was divided into two piles of dry grass. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred's eyes began to swell and his nose was clogged with dried blood. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, there’s the smell of night and dry grass. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But there were dry years too, and they put a terror on the valley. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m hungry—but even if I’m given something to eat, it would be hard to chew, because my mouth is dry and raw. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was a long plain iron bridge across what was usually a dry river-bed. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

—That kid pulled me out, dried me off, and hit me on the back until I stopped coughin’ and started breathin’ normally again. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cram the accounts full of pathos, casualty counts, and dry commentary on the illogical thought processes of warmongers. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It took hours for them to dry and meanwhile I was almost naked, on an island, in the middle of a mountain storm. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They sat like that for hours on their little dry patch of roof. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Chi-Boy pulled her out of the shadows and dropped her in front of the fire, a foot from where I stood with the dry stick raised behind my head. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“There wasn’t a dry eye in the house,” said Dad. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Did she know the worth of water before the well was dry? Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He looked at the sturdy cast drying, his foot safe inside now, wrapped in what used to be Vola’s quilt. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Before starting my homework, I changed into a pair of dry sweats, pulled my damp hair up into a ponytail, and checked my e-mail for the first time. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She gave him a piece of cold meat pie, a flat loaf of rye bread, dried apples, and ran down cellar to fetch him a flagon of cold ale. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dried his hands off and grabbed the empty milk jug off the counter. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was full light now, warm, with the sun drying the rain off the grass. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were closed and sealed shut with dried mucus. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat up, yawned, stretched, shivered, and washed in the chilly spring before eating a couple of dried figs and taking stock of the place. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t wander into the space that was once his living room, or to the puddle where Byrd sits that was once dry wood floor. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My throat felt dry and tight, and my eyes were burning. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Like I could just dry up and disappear. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I pull the plug, dry myself, put on my red terrycloth robe. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Avery was led from the ring by his mother and placed on the seat of the truck to dry off. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

But again, the ink was no sooner dry than it was drenched in blood. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bod put a hand into the empty trunk, touched the silk lining, touched dried earth. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The ride in the helicopter had begun to dry out Tally’s clothing, and the hike had done the rest. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He blew on it to dry the ink, then closed the book and folded his glasses. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was thirty feet or so deep, with a dry floor: an ideal den for a bear or a wolf, but the only creatures living in it for years had been birds and bats. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It felt rough and dry, but I couldn’t get rid of the feeling that death was stuck to me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Heather made toast in batches and handed me one of the first pieces, which I gobbled dry. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Garlands of dried flowers hung on the backs of the chairs, and a couple of them sported squash. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

When the last school bell rang, he picked the nearly dry pickles out of the strainer, jammed them into his pockets and threw the strainer behind the oranges. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma is sore and worn out from wringing your wet clothes and hanging them to dry; Ma needs peace and quiet at the end of the day. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And this is after—” The lights start to recede, the patches shrinking like puddles of water drying in the sun. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mouth dry, I took a hesitant step forward. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Okay, guys, be sparing with the ink, so everyone gets enough. Share. But don’t take too long either, or it might all dry all up.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Carefully she refolded the cloth around the dried petals and leaves and replaced the little packet in the carved trunk. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She had a new rinse made from dried camomile flowers. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels like my dry skin will spontaneously combust. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He noticed there was dried vomit on his sneakers. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have a new barn in no time,” I said, wiping an already dry plate with a towel. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

After the fins dried, I decided we would test our creations behind my house, over by the creek. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“After a while, this mud will dry so hard we won’t be able to get apart.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth filled his bowl with precisely one scoop of dry dog food. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But today the river was fairly low and the mud had dried so that it was cracked and cakey. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, dry as it was, those seeds were never going to sprout, let alone thrive. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

An electric scale sat on the counter between them, and occasionally Mother would use it to weigh dried leaves. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

All we can really see are the ribbed walls around us, flaking with dried moss, and the tunnel ahead lit by our headlights. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Green chile was roasted and set to dry. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt cold gusts of wind scattering dry oak leaves in the grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

More than that, her clothes are still dry. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sudden ascent left her mouth dry and her stomach tingling. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She would have to stay on the island until the next dry season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river had shrunk to a trickle, the well was as dry as a bone. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard her steps on the porch, on the crisp dry oak leaves on the path, and then he could hear her no more. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Because of the drought. All the gardens are drying up.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My tongue was thick and dry in my mouth. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This at least is better hearing, and I licked my dry lips and said, “If you would tell us where he went—we must go to him, there is no one else....” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I licked my mouth, but my tongue was almost as dry as my lips. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the prolonged captivity, the uncertainty of the world, the habit of obedience had dried up the seeds of rebellion in his heart. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“The sun has dried up all the rain-drops, sir. The breeze is still: it is quite hot.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

My face burns with shallow cuts from the corn leaves, but my eyes are dry. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Scarcely knowing where he stepped, he blundered his way to the far end of the courtyard and spread his sweepings on a sun-warmed sheep hide to dry. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

When she read the dry brown words, her black mood grew blacker still. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I imagined the cedars that were now cut and dried and split into house shingles. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The truck went faster and faster across the dry lake bed. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Smith had asked him to limit the horse to dry mash, but Ollie had begun sneaking in warm oat-mash snacks when he thought Smith wasn’t looking. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boss is what makes dry land possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

From the passenger seat, Shaan shakes a yellow pill out of a bottle and passes it back to Henry, who readily pops it into his mouth and swallows it dry. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And that was in another place—a dry, stony land of long winters and low sun, distant. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Let go, thud, subtle crinkle on dry leaves. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The sand is hot and dry and loose. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The skin on his hands looked dry, parchmentlike, and his lips formed a thin line beneath the heavy tangle of gray beard. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There the poor carp would flop until they dried out and died, then later the crows would swoop down and eat them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had brought them in from the lines in the backyard, where I had hung them to dry that morning. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They met in the center of the bridge, the dry moat beneath them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Grass is already brown, but these roots are too dry to hold water. Pretty soon, any rain that comes is going to be too late.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He denied all the accusations, of course, and paid bail before the ink dried on the warrant. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The clothes hung out to dry were still, stiff, as if desiccated by the hot afternoon sun. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Frost had begun to sparkle on the dry sedge and a cloud trailed across the moon. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but don’t go dry on my account.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wipe them dry with the back of my hand quick and see who else but Sandy Sanders standing just about ten feet away from me. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

If Tyson was there, the pair would talk, but when he left, Reggie would listen to the radio and totally zone out, sometimes drying the same spot for five minutes. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We were to chop them up to dry for firewood. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They soaped the glass down with sponges and dried it with the pieces of towels. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought out a bundle of dry green stalks and a small paper bag full of blue cornmeal. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They are our history. Some families who like crafts even fill them with dried beans and pose them in favorite attitudes—a big hug, for example, or a beloved picnic.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The next day was a Saturday, and a rare dry day with occasional bursts of sunlight. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We also took a bag of dry dog food that was still in the pantry because feeding ourselves was enough of a problem without having to figure out how to feed Jet. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you the dry cleaner was closed,” calls a woman’s voice from the car. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Another layer of brush was piled about the khal's treasures, and bundles of dried grass scattered over them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

With a capital A. My hometown, like a lot of the central valley of California, has a desert climate and is flat and dry and very hot for over half of the year. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They were on the beach, gathering driftwood to dry for the fireplace. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Long ropes strung across the playground were covered with still more da-zi-bao, looking like laundry hung out to dry. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes were wide, my throat dry, and my heart thumping. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The open trap was only a few feet ahead, but the fire was spreading fast, consuming the old wood and dry straw faster than she would have believed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The country dances I found pleasant in the highest degree; the minuets too pretty for my taste, and dry. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her red lips are purple and dry, her cheeks are sunken, there are deep shadows under her eyes, her porcelain white skin is brown and wrinkled from the sun. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing,” Petra said and put the lumber out in the sun to dry. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

How skillfully he dried them when the song came to a pause! threw back his mantle, spilt his gout of wine! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s three in the morning, and we are making our way from southern to northern Utah, when the weather changes from the dry chill of the desert to the freezing gales of an alpine winter. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hemoglobin is iron-containing protein that makes up 97 percent of every red blood cell's content, when dry. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I imagine the more they bleed me, the more I become like jerked meat—a dried bull, a hard leather. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"They've just dried a fresh crop and are plucking off the buds." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She had seen an arrangement of driftwood and dried seaweed in the homemakers section of the newspaper. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dusty vents blew hot, dry air in my face. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The shimmering dry heat made visions of water on the flat plain. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire I made was only of the driest wood, and I made it right at the water’s edge. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was crying hard, so many tears, but they drank and drank, so many of them, until I had no more tears left and the pond was empty, everything as dry as sand. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I got her dressed in dry things, she looked more scarecrow than six-year-old. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

One morning I was laying out some clothes to dry in the sun when Selvam came running in, his face hot and excited. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We quickly learned that whenever we ventured into the kitchen, we needed to wrap our hands in the driest socks or rags we could find. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The dirt is clumpy and dry, drilled through with the paths of insects like an abandoned ant farm. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

His voice was dry, but his lips curled into a smile. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He and Gabriel became cold and wet, and it was hard to get dry, even when sunshine occasionally followed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the pile of pretty dresses, each wrapped in a plastic bag like the kind you get from the dry cleaner. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped and the grass dried. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The stream was dry now, and she had to depend on the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirt fell to the ground with a sharp, dry rattle. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Australia is by far the driest, smallest, flattest, most infertile, climatically most unpredictable, and biologically most impoverished continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The veins of her flight feathers were split and dry. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There was plenty of work even for weak girls in that dry place. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It tastes dry and bitter, like autumn leaves. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The wide aisles were lined with bins of nuts and dried fruit, baskets of apples, and clothing racks with tie-dyed shirts and gauzy Tinker Bell-type dresses. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Every time Lurvy slops him, the food runs down around the ears. Then it dries and forms a crust. He also has a smudge on one side where he lays in the manure.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Inside, huge dry waterslides and tubes and pipes curled everywhere, leading to empty pools. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My mouth turns dry at the sight of him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had the weight of a dry twig yet heaved with the ferocity of a bull. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You have seen that the pond is only a puddle now. Winter is coming, and the dry season. And this fighting.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy, droopy mustache had some dried food stuck on it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I imagine those who wash our clothing and bedding then carefully drape it over magueys to dry. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Burt dried himself off and went inside, returning in a moment dragging a TV on a butler’s cart onto the patio. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His throat was burnt rust and his eyes were wept dry with running. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I finished drying them, my stomach cramping had eased, but I didn’t feel hungry anymore. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Under flickering light, the two men pored through centuries-old ledgers, the pages beautifully preserved by the dry desert air. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

While he waited in the shade of a tree, brushing dried mud from his trousers, the Prime Minister was recognized by a villager and pulled into what quickly became an excited crowd. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the house, under the breadfruit tree, there was a pigsty, now empty, the mud the pigs loved to bathe in dried into dusty ridges. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I hear their whisperings like dry leaves swirling against hard earth. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Let’s tie it to a flagpole until it dries,” I said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took Francie’s hand out of the water and dried it on her apron. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

From up there, Tally saw bare stretches among the flowers, expanses of dry, sandy earth. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was drying our dinner dishes just then, and I threw the dish towel at him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Winters are long. Cut plenty of wood or you’ll freeze. Keep things dry, because wet kills.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

His eyes were as red as blood, as if every Valentine in the world had been squeezed dry, distilled into one poisonous mixture. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A café burned, and so did a furniture store, an A&P grocery store, several abandoned houses, a dry cleaners. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Want to borrow a towel to dry them off?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Bits of dried clay clung to the heel. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dry flies cut out their noise, leaving an opening in the night for a question. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I dried with toilet paper, which I flushed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Streaks of dried blood ran from the corners of her mouth to her chin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

As the first one reached the shore, it lumbered up through the dry sand, making directly for the priest. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They stood there, not moving, not wanting the swish of dry needles beneath their feet to break the spell. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

In Egypt, there are only two pyramid replicas, and since the room has a dry heat, the employees are offering Nile River-brand water bottles. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

Careful hands dried him and worked his pants off. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The earth was bare and dry, and did not reveal much. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure those worms were going to be happy with their new place, but they wiggled their way into that dry dirt like it was home sweet home. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She walked across the open space, her feet crunching through the snow into the dry grass below. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That dry, shriveled pouch was as sore as a boil. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was followed by a red streak of fur that hurtled from the dried foliage, flew over the weeds, and landed on her back. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The mountain is a biological island of rain forest in the center of Africa, an isolated world rising above dry plains, fifty miles across, blanketed with trees, bamboo, and alpine moor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an apparent bargain to keep him dry until the race, Yummy made a deal with the rider. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clinging to the rocky hillsides and dusty flats above the work site, Shack Town wasn’t much better than a dry, dusty version of Hooverville down on the waterfront in Seattle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Before they reached the street though she stopped and lifted her skirt and dried her eyes on the hem of her topmost underskirt. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His T-shirt gives the illusion of having been sweaty and dried out again. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was little sign of the level going down, but the banks weren’t giving way and the roads were dry, so people thought the worst was over. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Many of the farm’s streams and ponds would simply dry up if not for the cover of trees. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I touch my cheeks and the water from my fingers drips down my face like drops of rain against a dry, cracked earth. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He led the mare for half an hour, until she was dry. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Many carry small Bibles, wrapped in plastic bags to keep them dry when they ford rivers or when it rains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The dishes in the sink are dry and encrusted. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The family parked their cars at the top of the hill, stopped to pull on galoshes, and then picked their way down the grassy side of the road which was fairly dry. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger hoped that no one would try to look into it now; his throat grew dry. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sluice its coldness over my face, clean off the dried blood, wet my cracked lips. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

As a hot dry wind clears the air, I can see Frightful, my peregrine falcon, sitting in front of the six-foot-in- diameter hemlock tree that I hollowed out for a home. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys put on dry clean clothes, which were exact replicas of the sopping clothes they were taking off. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dry slope was dotted with rabbits—some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes, others pushing further down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama’s voice had a way of sounding very dry when she didn’t believe something. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would look pretty messed up to be a social worker and have dried kid blood as a permanent stain in your vehicle. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Gentle with the toes. Think of them as thin-skinned grapes, lad. You want to dry them without crushing them. Pat, do not scrub. Yes, like that.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In a Connecticut summer two weeks without rain is a dry spell and four a drought. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth was so dry with dust that he could not spit them out. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, Shay*s hands were in worse shape, red and dry and cracked with the ragged edges of burst blisters. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was relieved to see my book was still dry. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But then, as her family was closing the restaurant down, she had forgotten, and they had all turned dry and brown. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Matt could see how dusty his mouth was, but there was no water anywhere, only the dry, rattling poppies. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I planted the dried sprig of moonlace carefully in the dirt and sprinkled a little nectar on it from my camp canteen. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Eight sons I had, little wizard,” said the great dry voice of the dragon. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even when he struck gold last year, when his parents finally divorced, it wasn’t long before his luck ran dry. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We were in the dining hall by 6:40 for a breakfast of dry bread and hot sugar water, watched over by a somber portrait of George VI, the king of England. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the wood from the protected spots beneath the trees and wrapped it in my scarf to keep dry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Come harvest I’d be sitting up in the house like some dried up old man while everyone worked themselves to a happy ache by getting the job done. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ah can look through muddy water and see dry land.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The truck stopped next to Nali, who was busy rinsing the soap off her face and drying off. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When the time for the calving drew near, they reluctantly let the cow go dry. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each time a scatter of sparks burst out and went exactly where Iorek directed them: into a heap of shredded twigs and dried grass. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She dried off my chair, and by the time Dad came to pick me up, the rain had stopped and everything was dry once more. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“With some mud, to keep ’em from drying out,” Dallas said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

After prayers, breakfast in summer was usually dry cereal and fresh milk. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yards were dry and overgrown, and lighted reindeer and inflated snow globes from Christmas still littered some of the front lawns. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Squirreled away in them I had string and wax, some dried apple, a tinderbox, a marble in a small leather sack, a pouch of salt, hook-needle and gut. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Their faces were stiff, eyes dry, like they hadn’t cried at all. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The town square is situated forty feet from the road and consists of nothing more than a dried up piece of land and a few trees. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled his chair close and laid his dry palm gently against her cheek. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s so dried out it’s hard to say. It may be an aberration, it may be nothing.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a soggy hamburger wrapper out of the current and immediately the paper turned dry. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I rest my arms on the concrete wall and look down through the bare branches that are like dry coral. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

If I had brains I would have splashed water on the bow all day and drying, it would have made salt, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so crusted with dried blood as to be unrecognizable. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They had cheese and milk from the goats that shared the caves with the singers, even some oats and barleycorn and dried fruit laid by during the long summer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It had been an unusually rainy spring in New York, and the track was difficult to handle even when dry. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by the jungle, it is green and lush during the rainy season and dusty and flammable during the dry season. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night I cry, feeling ashamed, as though his hands have left prints on my skin, like marks in drying clay. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water pushed them into a dry streambed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You put it on with a rag, see, and if you don’t soak the rag in water after you’ve finished and dry it flat, it’ll catch fire all by itself.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He retrieved the egg from the bottom of the bath, climbed out, dried himself, and pulled on his pajamas and dressing gown again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A few seconds ago, my feet were dry, but now I stand in half an inch of water, and my socks are soggy. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The trail itself seemed to consist of a bed of dried animal dung. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dead meat, dry blood, a faint whiff of rot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was so bizarre to apply those dry teachings to the eerie reality of this Wood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Harry cleared his throat; it was dry from panic and the smoke. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The peeling paint hanging in long dry sleavings down the columns and from the buckled soffits. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My mother hurried toward me, drying her hands upon her apron. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If her mother tried to boil such a small amount, the pot would be dry long before they could count to two hundred. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The llano was beautiful in the early morning, beautiful before the summer sun of August burned it dry. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sleeping bag—which he hung to dry over his shelter roof on the outside—and foam sleeping pad. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only human form with dry feet was that of Daniel Chester French’s Statue of the Republic—Big Mary—which stood hidden under a silo of canvas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The rain drove us into the church—our refuge, our strength, our only dry place. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Cases of lentils, chickpeas, rice, beans, and dried foods obstructed the entrance. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

And why does no rain fall through my recollections, sound through my memories, soak through the hard dry crust of the still so recent past? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dry vernacular of the science paper read: “The current data shows the need to text now may simply reflect the need to engage in a behavior that only has value in the short term.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At least the strange machine’s windstorm had dried it off. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The tree stood mournfully above them, its dry leaves now hanging limp, and rattling in the chill easterly wind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Koffi tried to take another breath, but it was only a dry wheeze. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Most of all, he thought about a hut in the swamp with a warm fire and racks of drying herbs and drakon jerky. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Would he still shake himself off if there was no warm, dry inside to come into? Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was a tranquility in me that felt all right, and as I remembered them all, my tears dried up and I fell asleep. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were not near the Gulf now, and the air was dry and hot so that the brush cricked with heat and a good resinous smell came from it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she saw her clothing, all rags now encrusted with drying salt, she clutched the tatters, feeling the ruined cloth with her fingers, and then relinquished it all, turning her face to the wall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, we didn’t have any dressing to put on the heart of palm, but we just munched it plain and raw, like chewing dry, tough celery. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the contratista, the labor contractor, who drove around in his beat-up red Ford truck, honking the horn to let us know that the cotton was dry and ready to pick. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her honey hair is dim and the edges of her mouth look dry and cracked. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Behind me, there was the soft, dry whisper of the tent fold being parted. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Come in, come in, Mr. Stinson, and get dry by the stove for a minute.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mary was riveted as she listened to the reporter’s dry voice. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Nick’s mouth felt dry, and he gulped, but his mind stayed clear. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re comparing the weight of dry cloth to the weight of wet cloth.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horace peeled down the back of the head, too, then lay his scalpel in the sink, rinsed his gloves, dried them, and brought out a hacksaw from his instrument cupboard. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The waterslides—cylinders that curved and wove around one another—were still there, too, but they were dry. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the silence, and standing over the dry blood, they looked suddenly furtive. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Macassans did not settle in Australia—undoubtedly because the area of northwestern Australia facing Indonesia is much too dry for Macassan agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands turned wrinkled and dry, despite being in the middle of a fountain. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her brows twist like laundry being wrung dry. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He had hung it to dry and waited for me to arrive on the island so he could give it to me. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

My people lived in small round mud huts with pointy roofs made of dried grass. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My mind grew dazed and my senses dimmed; my thoughts scattered like dry leaves. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

You are the most beautiful person here on this dry, sad path. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He stopped chewing and stared before him, his mouth dry. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Serves you right,” Char says, drying her wet hands on my backpack. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The first soldier was at the wheel, smoking dried leaves rolled in paper and the smoke was pungent and the drive took so long that Ugwu could no longer hold his urge to urinate. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She washes the big pots and pans while I take them from her to dry them with a towel and put them down on the counter. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She found Arya on the banks of the Trident, trying to hold Nymeria still while she brushed dried mud from her fur. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Breathing hard, skimming away as fast as she could, she got away from everyone before she sat down on a little patch of dry, sunny ground. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Once we were warm and dry, back we raced to the river for another adventure. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Deftly, with a delicacy surprising in such a big man, he began to scrape away the black leaves and dried blue mud from Drogo's chest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It sloped up gently northward, and at its bottom went the bed of a now dry and withered stream. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

My mouth so dry it feels like fur. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi’s throat was dry, his tongue stuck to the roof of his mouth. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They passed the dry field where the man’s body had lain, but it was gone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I have to do is remember Momma letting me dry the dishes after she’d wash them, how she used to say no one in the world could dry a plate the way I could. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She leaned forward to offer him biscuits from the bone-china platter, which she sometimes, secretly, cradled like a baby after the washing and drying. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listened to all the sounds of the market, vendors calling out prices, children laughing and crying, the rush of dried spices, beans, and rice being poured into bags. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Nothing’s changed, little girl,” he said, his voice sounding like the noise dry leaves make as they rustle across a pavement. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

They’d spent most of the afternoon gathering supplies for the hunt—water, dried foods, whetting stones for their weapons. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Papa had kept the matchbooks in his small leather medicine bag, so they stayed dry. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She dries her hands on her apron and disappears to meet me at the door. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nali, his grandma, rushed out of her mobile home, which sat in the middle of a wide, dry valley, waving her arms in large circles at him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I take, a quick shower and towel dry my hair before twisting it into a sloppy bun. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The other 10 liters of water was directly absorbed by the dry soil. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

One advantage of the Fertile Crescent is that it lies within a zone of so-called Mediterranean climate, a climate characterized by mild, wet winters and long, hot, dry summers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The two-spheres theory as generally propounded makes antipodes impossible, as it confines all dry land within one hemisphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She pounded out the dough with her floured palms, then sprinkled a mixture of dried herbs and spices on top. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She washed her hands, then patted them dry. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A dry rag, for buffing surfaces, occupies the right-hand pocket of your slacks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But whenever I thought the time was right, my mouth went dry and my throat squeezed up and the words I’d planned to say stayed bottled up inside. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I would stand in one place and tremble and wish the welling tears would just dry up. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Smith left his lieutenant, Thomas Hunt, behind in Maine to finish loading the other ship with dried fish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sails were dry and he bagged them all except the working jib and mainsail which he left up, hanging like limp rags waiting for wind. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waters them like he’s supposed to, but for some reason they’re dry looking. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Her mother had stored things in it: linens and baby dresses, sprinkled with dried lavender blossoms. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Clean as he had ever been, he rose, dried himself, and clad himself in whites. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I heard the rain on the roof and smelled the hay and, when I went down, the clean smell of dried dung in the stable. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Cebolleta people salvaged lumber and tin from the shack, but they had no use for the barbed wire any more; the last bony cattle wandering the dry canyons had died in choking summer duststorms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few clear bottles with cloudy liquid in them, some dried branches, and a balled-up brown paper bag. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was startlingly austere—some dried noodles, one bag of rice, raisins, coffee, salt, a good supply of candy bars, and toilet paper. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the cramped back yards were rotted privies and lines of torn, smoky rags hung out to dry. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was served with a broth made from dried fish and radish. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I fish a couple out of the bag and bite into one dry. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He dried his own hands on a paper towel and crumpled it, and dropped it into the bin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Kazi took everything out of the pantry, the containers of lentils, dried peas, rice, flour, and spices. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Dead flowers—Miss Finch pointed to the bundle of dried flowers on my teacher’s desk—do not grow or bloom anymore. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My entire body was aching, my throat was dry, and I felt nauseated. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The clay dried and cracked; it’s a crumbling gray square. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her mother appeared, singing and heavily perfumed, her face dry and bright with powder that was one shade too light. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The woman tucked a dry gray curl back under her bonnet. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As Adams described his encounter with the anonymous climber, and then sliding down the ice, my mouth went dry and the hairs on the back of my neck suddenly bristled. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The lemonade was too sweet, and the cookies were dry and crumbly. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The funerals are drying up as slowly as the puddles. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed my arms and legs and the back of my neck and my ears and my face and I dried myself with a soft, clean rag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Bessie strolled over to a greenish patch—most of the field was brown and dry—and yanked up a mouthful. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

With my fingernail, I scrape at the dried blood and bits of crushed tooth and gum stuck to the metal. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman’s hand, when Molly grasps it, is dry and cool. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Trashman’s tears dried up at once, and he beamed happily as though nothing had ever been wrong. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He laid his cheek against the chocolate-colored earth, licked his dry lips and closed his eyes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were stories of Roz growing gardens in dry, barren places. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

People could have brought in loads of turtles and shellfish, built a fire in the shelter of the cave, and enjoyed the feel of dry land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I finished drying the dishes on the rack as they poured their first drinks and started to play. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I shuddered to think of that dose of God’s Creation going down, sucking her dry from the inside. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had done her washing the day before and had spread the wet clothes over willows to dry. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

David had her looking like a picture he’d seen of a Chinese junk in the harbor at Hong Kong, with several families living on the boat, drying their laundry in the rigging. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house is still drying out after being underwater for so long. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam returned to his mountainside camp and ate a breakfast of nuts and dried apples from his root cellar on the mountaintop. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The air blown up into Garfield's room through tubes was cool and dry, and the noise from the engine was nearly eliminated. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They, all of them, all of the people took it up and sung it over and over until it was wrung dry, and no further innovations of tone and tempo were conceivable. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The palm of it was very dry and hard. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She uses a dry, tough thread for foundation lines, and she uses a sticky thread for snare lines—the ones that catch and hold insects. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were dry, and her face was old in the savage, morning light. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“We’re nice and dry. It rained before, remember? When we first got here.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The roof of the tunnel was scraping his shoulders and he was afraid that it would tear through the dry suit and gouge into his skin as well. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Once, just before New Year’s, I went with her to the Pioneer market to get some dried blackeyed peas for Hopping John and we were talking about what we wanted to do. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I dry my face and make sure the paper towel bits aren’t stuck on my skin. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Children wrung the birds’ necks while women stewed them in pots, smoked them over fires, and dried them to preserve in storehouses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The shawl was crusted with dried blood, and the bundle swayed a little as she walked. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He washed the mortar and pestle and dried it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was a hot, dry summer night, typical of the month of Saratan in Kabul. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I offer the man a small bag of dried apple slices. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

On the right side of the bay there was a great bed on low legs, not more than a couple of feet high, covered deep in dried grass and bracken. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In Werner’s duffel, he has his childhood notebook, his blanket, and dry socks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I heard the scrabbling of feet on dirt and dried leaves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The manure was old and dry and didn’t carry too much smell. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came to the dining room with a clean vegetable bowl in one hand and a drying cloth in the other. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When we flew over the region, the dry season had just begun, but mile-long fines of flame were already on the march. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Pressing dry lips to the top of my head, he departed again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My mouth was too dry to answer, so I simply shook my head and tugged her sleeve, urging her not to linger. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

One minute I feel like eating a torta; the next minute I want to cry until my eyes dry up. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As the handmaids toweled her dry and wrapped her in a sandsilk robe, Dany's thoughts went to the three who had sought her out in the City of Bones. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“We were so far underground this time, there was no real danger. Thirteen’s alive and well and so am—” My voice cuts off in a dry, squeaking sound. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“You know,” I said, chewing the rather dry cookie and wondering what to wash it down with, “disliking someone— anyone, really—based on his or her looks is shallow.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“We have lessons to do, and—the dress goes on frontward, Cassiopeia, arms through the holes, but please dry off first—and the sooner we get started, the better!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

A face had been carved in the trunk of the great tree, its features long and melancholy, the deep-cut eyes red with dried sap and strangely watch-ful. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Not only were there solid rice cakes, the best journey food, but also a surprise: a packet of gokkam—sweet dried persimmons. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I stepped onto a square of dry floor and set the gas can down. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

In the summer, he says, he grows herbs in a patch behind the house— mint, rosemary, and thyme—and hangs them to dry in the shed. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“So the tales of the mighty Thor are only tales. Well, even so, we will allow you to drink the horn dry on your third attempt. There cannot be much left in there, after all.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Minutes before darkness plunged, rain started to fall and I had barely enough time to pack everything I had into the nylon duffel and hang it from a tree branch to keep it dry. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I dried him with a fluffy towel and wrapped him tightly. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

If my nose stayed dry, I was telling the truth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I also went and milked the cow; I am afraid of her going dry immediately if I neglect that much more, since the calf is beginning to graze. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were dry and tired, but if she rubbed them, it would only make them worse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have any towels, so we just dried ourselves with our dirty clothes as best we could. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a scratching noise, like burrowing, like fire on dry wood. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You have a dry sense of humor, haven’t you?” she said—wistfully. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

We ate the bratwurst with sauerkraut for lunch, but the sausages, which were going to be canned, had to dry first, so we hung them over a pole suspended from the ceiling. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Our mother used to tie dried prunes stuffed with camphor to our wrists. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched her skin grow moist, cracked, and sunken in some places, then ashy and dry in others. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He went inside to change into dry clothes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Grass and shrubs were dry and burned fast. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You have a table to clear and dishes to wash and dry,” I said. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It is hot, a dry desert air with pounding sun and powder-soft sand. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The hairs on the back of her neck rose as she approached the cradle, but it was empty, and the blood was long dried. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Often when she came in after running down the hill, her cotton dress would cling to her thin body and Bailey would glue his eyes on her until her clothes dried. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just one step down from the edge of the turf was the white, blown sand of above high water, warm, dry, trodden. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He’d rinsed out his clothes earlier to lessen their scent and hung them from a tree to dry. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we’ll be dry by the time we get to the house.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water must always be boiling, so that the heated steel would dry instantly. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass milpitas, and big spiky maguey plants with white sheets and colorful laundry drying upon them. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He kept waking him up to drink the sugarwater, the boy’s dry throat jerking and chugging. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The time of the first rains arrived, but still Inti beat his golden rays down upon the hard, dry earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She brought with her dried fish and fresh water for us to take on our journey. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It seeps into the dry and wrinkled folds. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As it wrapped me in its dry- ice blanket, I breathed it in and began to pray myself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Dad appears from the powder room, still drying his hands on a paper towel. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

As long as the sun lasted, the day had been dry and warm— October weather in January. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wolves walking down the mountains, into the dry thinning scalp of the middle of Iran, would be looking for juicy sheep. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In spite of her new weapons, Nhamo’s food supply grew smaller as the dry season struck with full force. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“December 26 “The pond is a white muffin, the millhouse has disappeared under a snowdrift, and Alice and I are playing checkers with groundnuts and dried apples. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her tan and gold sari, tinged with dirt, her face dry and looking even more wrinkled. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I leave without drying my hands, rubbing them against my jeans instead. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“And make sure they’re dry. You can make a pile right in the center of the fire pit there.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Her mouth was dry, but she took one shaky step forward. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Peaches kind of dried up on me in this heat,” said Pilate, and she reached for a peck basket which held about a half dozen. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nero curled beside me, purring, happy to be warm and dry. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was a stir of movement in the fish house, and he appeared at the door, still clutching his dried fish. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As I’m drying my hands, his footsteps sound on the stairs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly used the facility, slipped off my mittens to grab a piece of the Monkey Ward catalog to dry off, and hiked up my underthings. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He explained that it was his fishing hut, where he kept his nets and other fishing items and where he dried fish during the rainy season. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I hung the photos up to dry, Ida,” she said. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then we broke it into tiny bits to dry in the sun. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rubbed goose-grease on my hands and reached inside — she was bone dry. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

The police helicopters were rising so far away that it seemed someone had blown the grey head off a dry dandelion flower. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

At another practice, the Under Fifteens had gathered in a circle at midfield to stretch, when they heard noises in the woods—snapping twigs and the crushing of dry leaves. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Tyrion’s throat was dry, but no cup was poured for him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The hams and the venison hung in their paper wrappings, and all the bunches of dried herbs, the spicy herbs for cooking and the bitter herbs for medicine, gave the place a dusty-spicy smell. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I chose all of Mama’s favorites—hibiscus, roses, poppies, and dried herbs. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

His knife was in his pocket, safe and dry inside its sheath, protected from the misery of the elements. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

My throat was really dry and I didn’t sound like me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The words she needed to say dried up on her tongue, and she sat by him numbly until he asked for another helping. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon tried to swallow again but found his throat had gone dry. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Most of the year the wash is as dry as chalk. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she dried the limp blond hair with a towel, she leaned in close, inhaling the scent of my sister’s scalp. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working methodically, she shaved some dry tinder, set the fire, and struck a match. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The Witch eats the children. Or she enslaves them. Or she sucks them dry,” Ethyne’s mother would say. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The heat was working its nasty magic, and the inside of the body was beginning to swell even as the skin was drying out and shrinking. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yolanda can see where he has scraped his hand on the pavement and blood has dried dark streaks on his palm. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My mother runs her tongue over her dry lips and gasps for more lemonade. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The dirt felt hard underfoot, and the sun beamed hotly on our bodies drying them out even more. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They all had the same wide smile, the same chalk-colored teeth, the same sun- dried skin the color and texture of groundnut husks. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

My mouth tastes like dirt, and my throat feels scratched and dry, like there’s something stuck in it—a feather? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Leo brought out his first weapon—a lump of dried chemicals wrapped in aluminum foil—and lit it with his hand. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I hope your throat is dry and tight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By contrast, the plantation had only one purpose: to create a single product that could be grown, ground, boiled, dried, and sold to distant markets. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

‘If we get to the other side of this hill, we shall find a spot that is sheltered and snug enough, sir. There is a dry fir-wood just ahead, if I remember rightly.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Betsy was a tiny, white, fluffy poodle and when I had washed, dried, and combed her, she looked like a toy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave a dry swallow, and his Adam’s apple rolled against the skin of his throat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sat there like that for so long that I started to worry that maybe her marker was going to dry out, because the cap was off. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I pressed my nose against the glass and cupped my hands around my eyes to stop reflections, and saw a bucket smeared with a dry brown crust. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right. Find something dry to put on. Your pa’s got supper nearly ready.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The com was hot, dry, scorched, and delicious, and it cost five cents. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A twelve-foot section of a spruce trunk is jammed into its open doorway, and across the log are draped two pairs of tom Levi’s, laid out as if to dry. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up a dried piece of manure to throw it at him and drive him into the barn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They steamed and dried in the afternoon sun. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thanked him and dried my hands before walking over to the servants’ verandah. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And part of the dog’s nose, cut by the cat’s claw, dries up and stops working. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They were these little hard, dry jobs that you could hardly even cut. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the dry riverbed, in a thicket of saltbush not far from where they had parked, a large object was concealed beneath a dun-colored tarpaulin. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fumbled in his tunic pocket, finding the lump of wax, which was all that remained of his candle, with a dried copper leaf sticking to it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Moss dried his hands after finishing and hung up the dish towel on its hook near the refrigerator. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

An eventful day for my mother might have involved a trip to the dry cleaner or a conversation with the potato-chip delivery-man. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Zeus appointed him director of Camp Half-Blood to dry out for a hundred years—a punishment for chasing some off-limits wood nymph. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’d go from room to room, settling fights, drying tears, buttoning jackets. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dry my hair and put on a pair of sweats. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dozer smacked his dry mouth open and shut a few times. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Shorty whips the rubber apron off my neck and blots my hair and neck dry. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She signs them with things like, “Yours till Niagara Falls,” “Yours till the cookie crumbles,” or “Yours till the sea wears rubber pants to keep its bottom dry.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He escaped from the embrace and dried his tears—partly uncomfortable, partly in rapture. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lay about on the floor, dry and withered. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Instinctively, he touched his clothes and found—to his surprise—that they were perfectly dry, and that, in fact, the place where he’d slept had remained entirely dry thanks to the leaf overhead. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A trail of dried blood trickled out of my nose. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On it is a brown crust, like dried gravy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She fasted herself bone-thin: dry fasts on weekends, and on weekdays, only water until evening. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But I was right about the dry throat — no volume. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A tilled, fertilized, watered, weeded garden provides growing conditions very different from those on a dry, unfertilized hillside. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He gathered the things in the order he thought them important, so pillows and dry blankets came first, and then nappies and baby milk and other things for Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even now Dr. Wide wondered whether the tough, dry, stringy life was completely gone out of her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gregory's hands started shaking, the paper vibrating like dry leaves in the wind. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I kept one eye on the window, watching for a Society member carrying bread or dried meat for them. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mv mouth is dry, it hurts to swallow. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I step out on the mat, the hot air bakes my damaged skin dry. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

From the sturdy ceiling beams dangled the countless dried herbs and plants from which she made her dyes. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

A scarred ruin belching smoke, the only fireman dispatched to extinguish it slouched in defeat, blistered and weary, his hose run dry. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

On top of the dry substance he poured a little carbolic acid and a little turpentine. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

If real, why is it that I can recall in all that island of greenness no fountain but one that was broken, corroded and dry? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother said as she dried the dinner dishes and handed them to me to put away. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dry oak leaf came whirling down and landed in the basket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the bodies are dry I sweep them into a little heap—like coffee grounds—then put them in the trash. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

A dry, pleasant voice behind her said, “I don’t know why you can’t. Hypocrites have just as much right to live in this world as anybody.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, not long wet nor not long dry," said a man in a black silk top hat to Tristran and Yvaine. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

For months on end, the activity in the courtroom consisted of the driest legal maneuvering imaginable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here he was, standing on dry ground. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Swart smiled at this and proposed a compromise: he would go out and buy two bottles, a dry wine and my Nederburg, and then he would ask my guest which wine he preferred. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tag scampered after a butterfly he hadn’t a hope of catching, and Donkeyberry groomed Fat Cheeks by the dry stream before everyone set out on the daily search for food. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn rubbed his fingers together, feeling the tug of the honey drying on his skin. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

My rock crushed his scissors, so he scrubbed the pots and I dried. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I take a sip of the tart, dry liquid and secretly think it could be improved by a few spoonfuls of honey. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, finally, a week and a half after the rally, a day dawned that was so clear and dry, Luke knew Dad would be in the fields all day. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He attached it with film clips and hung it up to dry. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He saw a dry fountain with a headless mermaid perched on a pillar. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His boots were dusty and spattered with dried mud. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The older boys always took the dry center of the upper field for their ball games, while the girls claimed the small top section for hopscotch and jump rope and hanging around talking. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

And he had seen a man half-mummy, half-skeleton, floating in the waters of the China Sea, eaten from below while his back side, sun dried, gradually turned brown and leathery. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was too much for him to see Pond crying and moaning while dry heaving. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

For months the apartment reeked of drying seafood. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they would dry him, powder his body, and dress him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My mother gave me a dry sandwich and I munched and stared, longing to go home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn't comfortable, though, because he'd given Hooper all the extra clothes, and twigs and dry bits of leaf were sticking into him, through his shirt and jeans. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She was going dry; there was no doubting that. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They waded through thick drying grass to get to it and Olanna looked around, half fearing she would see Mama’s skeleton lying somewhere. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Right,” I say, biting on the dry skin hanging from my lip. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The roses are dry, and some of the petals have fallen off. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And his face was as dark as dried beef. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some descendants of these fishes eventually abandoned the water and moved to dry land, where they evolved into other animals by the transmutation of one form into another. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of Pond, fully healed, no longer dry heaving or coughing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terror of meeting the thing again on dry land. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then we pulled up grass in the camp and let it dry to make a roof. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed up the pots and pans and dried my hands. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My mouth was dry and my stomach began to ache for food. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I retch again and again, and when my stomach is empty, the dry heaves take over. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He lay in a shallow depression and heaped piles of dry leaves over himself until he felt warm again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still, there’s something about coming into a barn full of warm cows, their sweet breath, the scent of the dry hay, and the sounds of their shuffling and snuffling. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Every other day we stopped to shower and eat a meal that wasn’t dried fruit and granola. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The soft, warm terry cloth slipped off his shoulders and Bud's dry stick-fingers were stabbing into his back muscles. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put it down there. Will you please have dinner for two brought up here and two bottles of dry white capri in ice.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And I do not know whether the sun will rot or dry what is left, so I had better eat it all although I am not hungry. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put all the dried blossoms in a separate pile and gazed at them, fighting back tears. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Once I dried my tears I tried to recruit Dadi, who said she’d be happy to help and then braided my hair into two braids that were horrifyingly stuck to the side of my head. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

This speech so dried out Doc’s throat that he drained his beer glass. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One spring a touch of night cold ruined the fruit, another you couldn’t get the fields to dry out and the low-hanging berries rotted. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You have to let it dry and get a bit of a skin before you can paint it,” he said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She thought it would dry his tears up and give her some satisfaction as well. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a sigh she got to her feet, dragged the skin to her house, and laid it out to dry. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But how could it possibly have dried so quickly?” he asked. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Until she took a drink, Piper hadn’t realized how dry her throat was. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I was sitting beside the pond with my sock in my hand and my shoe beside me, waiting for my foot to dry. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Everything remained the same, the dryness in the air, the dusty winds, the refugees tilling dried soil, but Kainene was not back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I breathed in through my nose and exhaled through my dry lips. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Father hung up his coat and dried his hands on his pant leg. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I dried myself with a scrap of towel and looked in the cracked mirror at the back door. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Our piano teacher, Miss Brown, looked like a thin, dry stick, but she could swing her ruler with plenty of juice when she thought no one was looking. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was warm and very dry, like a blotter, but near its center was a single drop of water, round and perfect. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bridge spanned a dry gully, which sheltered them as they slept. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It felt as dry as her voice, like one of those pastries with layers that flake off, thin as paper. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Waiting for the sap to dry, I took my first casual look around. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She boiled mealie meal and sprinkled it with dried fish. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beans were dry, but she could soak them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I helped them as they helped me and thus passed the weeks while my grain dried, standing in proud shocks in the field. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some dry leaves fell, and then something white tumbled from the branches to the earth with a dry, whispering sound. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The land is dry and dusty, and my mouth is sour with thirst. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The route there from the Smoke twisted in all directions, taking advantage of veins of iron, rivers, and dry creek beds, but they’d never had to leave their boards. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Angrier than ever, he proceeded to grope in the bottoms of the vases and baskets of dried flowers, but was not at all surprised that the locket was not there. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He saw the streams that roared with water two months of the year and were dry as a bone the rest of the time. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did the best he could, drying himself on the increasingly bloodied towels, and then dressed in his new clothes, trying not to make them bloody too. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going to find a feed store and I’m going to walk to it and buy dry corns. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As Maybeth soaped and rinsed, and the boys dried, and Dicey put away the glasses, dishes, knives, forks, pots and pans, they sang. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Agriculture was another nonstarter in Australia, which is not only the driest continent but also the one with the most infertile soils. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we were done, Bando went down to the stream and cut some old dried and hollow reeds. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Matt considered the possibilities, he realized that no Illegal could have hauled a metal chest through the dry hills and canyons Celia had described. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wiped my sweaty palms against my cloak, hoping to keep them reasonably dry for when I shook Devi’s hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I start drying my head, waiting for the inevitable comment about the length of my hair, but it doesn’t come. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Senator Whitworth leans over to Daddy and says, “I came from nothing, you know. Jefferson County, Mississippi. My daddy dried peanuts for eleven cents a pound.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Holness’s mates began walking him up and down to warm him, because there were no dry clothes into which he could change. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He chewed his lip with gusto, like it was a strip of dried fish. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I placed them outside on the stairs overnight to dry and air out. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“The Villac Uma will give you the dried leaves that all shamans carry, and you can place them inside.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

On opposite ends of the pit were two wooden doors notched and spattered with dried blood, and behind them, in narrow stone chutes, were two boys. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

To the left, across the road, most of the lawns were scorched dry like October corn. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dry air swirled through the station wagon moving things around but not really cooling us off. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The UN’s refugee agency had heard about all of us waiting in that field, and they arrived with dried corn, beans and lentils, oil, and salt. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor is layered with dry splotches of paint, the walls plastered with sketches of tormented teenagers and fat puppies, the shelves crowded with clay pots. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I give him a big smile, down my meds dry, and slide my pillbox back into my backpack, zipping it up. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Especially with how dry everything still was in the aftermath of the sun flares. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He didn’t need much—a blanket to curl up with and some dried meat—and Kin had a nice backpack that fit Håkon’s blanket plus Anya’s bag of clothes. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Drafted mostly by Szilard with Einstein’s input, the two-page, eight-paragraph document buries the urgency of the situation under dry and conditional prose, its momentousness communicated largely by Einstein’s signature at the bottom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The best was when Madam told us to hang dried rosemary throughout; that cut right through the lingering stench of boots and belchings. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the rain starts we cover ourselves with old coal bags and Mr. Hannon turns his pipe upside down in his mouth to keep the tobacco dry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I did not receive a letter I felt as dry and barren as the Great Karroo desert. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come and get some dry clothes on,” my mother said, pushing the wet hair off my forehead. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma asked, leaning the clean mattress against the metal railings to dry. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We had a field of hay drying in the prairie sun, but just one wagon, two horses, a few pitches, and our own hands. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around the room, nodding his head toward spaces between the wall and ceiling where he’d stuffed dried garlic and onions. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Your charm overwhelms me,” I say in my driest voice. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he heard them in the dry leaves. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Inside, there’s rice and little dried fish with the heads still on. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Versh said, “You move back some, so I can dry my legs off.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And where did they get so much water when the rest of the town was dry? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dry dust got in his mouth and tasted like lime and grease. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His bright black eyes saw beyond the hospital room to the streams that roared with water two months of the year and were dry as a bone the rest of the time. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had enough trouble not falling down when the ground was dry; it might be safer for me to go back to bed now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

His mouth was dry and his throat hurt. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then they would help the other person escape through the cellars of the castle, with some hard bread, a wheel of dried fig, some dried beef. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Back where it's warm and dry, where you already know about all the dangers, where you don't have to make any decisions. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From their bed of leaves, the Lacks children would stare at ceiling beams the size of trees as they drifted off to the sound of laughter and clanking bottles, and the smell of dried tobacco. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The sun had nearly dried my wet skirts. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found some sassafras trees at the edge of the road one day, dug up a good supply of roots, peeled and dried them. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to do, after they had gathered several bushels of dried beans to save over and sell to the planters in the fall. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

And not good for the complexion, not at all, wrinkle you up like a dried apple. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I got out of the bath and dried myself with the purple towel. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice was calm and dry; she looked at his father briefly, her face unreadable, as she handed him the bottle and the cotton. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He wept into my shirt until his tears dried, until his shaking stopped and his frantic pleas dwindled to indecipherable mumbles. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I shift away, placing the last pot into the drying rack. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

But hardly had I settled down, the dry, dog-day smell of the hedge in my nose, when they stopped before the house, leaning upon the fence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we die with dry feet, how will we' find our way to the Drowned God’s watery halls?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Next to the dry fountain in the disused square, a group of four boys, young teenagers with fuzz on their lips, stand in a tight circle, passing around a cigarette. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I splash some water on my face and pat it dry. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

And he became as pale as a dried banana skin. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crouched as close to the fire as they could, eating a supper of dried fruit and hard, round crackers that tasted, ingeniously, of cheese. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now she emptied a wooden bowl of dried noodles into it as well. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the tail was cut off—as a trophy for the conqueror—nothing was left to waste: the meat was dried, the heart smoked, the intestines made into sausages. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The wounds on its dappled flanks, which had blossomed like red flowers under the lion's claws the day before, were now dried to brown and scabbed over. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It dislodged a pebble, scattered dry grass, and scurried along a fallen fence post. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look out the back window to make sure the evening sun is drying my clothes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The fire warmed and dried them and they were silent for a long time, watching as the furniture of the ship crackled and burned. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at Dinah in the darkness, unblinking, until my eyes got dry and itchy. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her mouth dried up, all the moisture apparently being converted into stinging tears. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The sagebrush, exposed stone, and dry washes turned into a blurry mosaic. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Presently, the tears dried up, leaving a heavy residue of despair behind. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve got him in seclusion until he’s dried out, as he’s not deemed fit for public display. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My throat is dry all of a sudden. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, they emerged cold and dripping, and the setting sun neither dried nor warmed them. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She heard frightening bird shrieks and the dry sounds of something moving under the floorboards. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The Undying were all around her, blue and cold, whispering as they reached for her, pulling, stroking, tugging at her clothes^ touching her with their dry cold hands, twining their fingers through her hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My dry mouth tried to hang on to every last drop as I swallowed it down. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What a trip. I’m beat. Oh, and that new dry cleaner you took my suits to last time is a moron.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes only a few drops made it past his dried lips, but gradually moisture coated his throat and finally allowed him to swallow. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He didn’t give up easily even though he was on dry land. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never pulls her shade down and thru my window when I put out my lights I can see her from the neck down when she comes out of the bath to dry herself. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

My palms began sweating, and my mouth turned dry. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait a few minutes and get the breeches and shirt out from under my feet and go to dry them. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Inside Rocinante I strung a nylon line close to the window and hung the clothes to dry. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Dead rattlers drying on the shower curtain rod. A man with rulers for hands sitting in the room next door. You know, chihuahuas in the mini-fridge.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she rubbed herself dry and dressed, she thought: I can do anything. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It walked along the stable to the furthest stall, where it lay down in the dry straw, and the star scrambled off its back, dripping and miserable. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

After changing my clothes into warm, dry sweats, she switched the radio to an easy-listening station and turned the volume down low. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Using a Kleenex, he dried his damaged arm. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The wind entered his mouth and dried the back of his throat. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The vine was dry, and the wind rattled in it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unzipped my jacket, put the hood down, and fluffed my damp hair out so the heater could dry it on the way home. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Probably it would dry and he’d never know it had been there. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth suddenly felt dry and gritty and his tongue thick. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one long operation, Allen was burning up with thirst, his mouth parched dry, his tongue swollen. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was all canned stuff, of course, or dried. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Add the fact that this—this exact picture, the yellow, the dry—has been what you’ve been looking at for days and days and days. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“The grass was as dry as tinder,” he recalled. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

She bent over, lifting the front of her dress to dry her eyes, and stood so for a moment on the bottom step while he watched her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I was watching a dry leaf swirl and twist in the wind and she suddenly appeared. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I licked them and found my tongue had dried too. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I said, the dried salt was making my skin itch and adding to my irritation, “what are you going to do with them, then? We can’t keep them here. You said so yourself.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place was cool and dry and completely out of sight. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

One might as well weep over Mrs. Platt's dry orts, thinking they might restore what was lost, what had been swallowed, all that had, in times of feasting, been cut away and devoured. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

His nose was dry and the whites of his eyes showed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the well of grief is momentarily dry, he steps forward and kisses me on the forehead. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Galen had claimed that the hand of a healthy doctor was the perfect instrument for judging hot and cold, wet and dry—the four qualities that made up the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Louis, skilled in bush lore, followed the leopard’s tracks and the trail of dried blood, until we found the body of the huge dog. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She says, “Sometimes the rain blows in under the door—and it does look like it’ll rain—and that can ruin the whole bag. So keep it high and dry.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I picked at some flea-bite scabs on my calves, which were split and caked with dried mud and hardened blood. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had taken his shoes off to dry blistered feet. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When Cicero writes of the orbis he sometimes means the habitable dry land, a disk rising above the waves, and sometimes the whole globe of land and ocean. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I nod, still drying my face, and Helena grabs the bucket and goes out the door without an argument or the smallest noise. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"The one with the dried plums?" asks Caesar. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

These inspectors also collected one-third of the crops, to be dried and placed in the storehouses for difficult times. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Baba's arrival gift waits for me, full of blank, dry pages. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The speed of sound, about 761 miles per hour at sea level in dry air at 59 degrees Fahrenheit, varied depending on temperature, altitude, and humidity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Christmas tree Jameso put up a week ago dries and drops needles every time someone walks into the relaxing room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Wisps of dried grass were glued all over him; he needed a haircut badly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

After I finished dinner and dried the dishes that Dad washed, I went out to check on her. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The eastbound riders had a well-lit modern glass awning that actually kept them dry. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The small bird stuck its neck out for more, and I fed it in this manner two more dried pieces, until it didn’t lift its head any longer. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The fate of the world shivers in a dry saloon. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I hopped on my dry foot all the way to the door and flipped on the lights. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Tearing at him, clouds of them, the awful, ripping, thick masses of the small monsters trying to bleed him dry. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The American boys found a free massage table and laid Don Hume out on it, like a corpse bundled in overcoats, keeping him warm and dry and rested for as long as they could. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

By the end of October, the land was getting to be very dry. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The circumstances did not. allow me to examine it closely, but I can vouch for its edge," Catelyn replied with a dry smile. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The night-gaunt rose again in the dry desert air, to rejoin its fellows, and Bod felt all hope vanish. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were dry as she watched the fog churn over the gray waters. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Others ancient and delicate as a dried flower. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The fourth section was bright and dry, sunlight dappling the leaves. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve traveled nearly twenty miles, and my throat is dry as dirt. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was fed by shade-preserved sriow in the summer, and now and then it died completely and bare rocks and dry algae were on its bottom. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they're flattened out and drying, I examine the contents of the first-aid kit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The main part of his body was dry, even though ice cold water dripped out of his hair and down his neck. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then he saw the color of his sleeve of his shirt, and felt the dry lava pebbles pressing into his raw hands. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Playing the oboe always made Marigold’s mouth dry as cotton. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He had to rest in a dry gully to regain his breath. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve gotten my own ingredients from the supermarket, so I peel cassava, slice plantains, boil the salt out of dried fish. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Egypt’s dry, sandy soil preserves papyrus scrolls very well—copious quantities of documents have survived. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m just going to bail the canoe out. Put things out to dry.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Flies nestled over patches of his dried blood, feeding happily. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Now riding on her knees, gripping the board with both hands, Tally twisted into the next turn, dropping to skim just above the cracked dirt of the dry creek bed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Wari techniques had reclaimed more than a million acres of cropland from mountainsides that almost anywhere else would have been regarded as impossibly dry, steep, and cold. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Polly and Tidbit ran out of the cave and searched under logs for dry twigs to feed the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

One dry throat in the soprano section could ruin everything! Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I could feel the dried blood caked on my face. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The wind freshened, and soon myriads of dry beech leaves were filling the ditches and hollows and blowing in gusts across the dark miles of open grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Girls joked that boys like Alfred made a cow’s milk dry up. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They never entered the water themselves, and only fished from the bank, taking care to keep their feet and wheels dry. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The raw pigments used for paints fascinated her: dried buckthorn berries for green, shellfish for purple, precious lapis lazuli for blue. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The trees seem as though their leaves were never quite dry. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I had received cuts from tree branches before and I knew that the next day the cuts were red with dry blood and that the welts were sore. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water had subsided and would probably disappear by the end of the dry season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slammed hard into dry sandy dirt, coming down on arms that hadn’t been braced hard enough for connection with solid earth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I dried my hands and started the water. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Workers had raised a structure that Kira could see was to be a shed; under its roof, long poles from which to hang the wet yarns and threads to dry were already in place. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You need to dry the last of them glasses afore you lay yourself to sleep.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes the train popped up on dry land and slowed into Embarcadero Station. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Lombard looked thoughtfully at the man's twitching face, his dry lips, the fright in his eyes. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The lead had dried into the shape of the pan, but it was no longer lead. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved each foot carefully because the sound of rocks rolling down and dry branches breaking would echo in the canyon, and if they were close enough, they would know he was getting away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the dried fish were gone, she suffered from gnawing hunger for a day before a new plan occurred to her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, then you better get to work on building a bike that can hold a family of three and keep us dry when it rains,” she’d demanded. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spectacular white cheeses lay lined like thirty perfect moons on a dark cloth, drying in the sun. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He needed to split some more logs, so I watched him take an ax to a bunch of dried alder. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the men—hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil—had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The animal would be skinned and gutted, then the flesh was cut into long strips and hung in the smokehouse to dry over hot, smoked wood. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon took a fistful of dried kernels from the sack by the door and scattered them on the floor, then claimed the chair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Though the beef tastes as dry and flavorless as cardboard, I’m so ravenous that it’s all I can do not to shove it into my mouth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The next day we came to a village, and the people there gave our group a gourd for water, dried kernels of corn to boil for food, and a pot to cook in. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

His vomiting grew intense and turned into dry heaves. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, while Joseph’s things were drying, they boiled maple syrup and Joseph put on the gardener’s boots and they took the pan outside. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He dries his eyes with a silk handkerchief. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a dry one, too, and a couple of bandages, and carried them back to Stick. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Come, now,” said the woman, as she took off Robin’s clothes to dry them. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It looked absolutely dead, like something in a dead world; and Shasta felt quite terribly tired and noticed that he was getting cold and that his lips were dry. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Halfstumbling, she raced down the dry stretch of sand to the darker sand where the sea still rolled in and out. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, spurred by her irrepressible enthusiasm, she invited friends and colleagues to view her precious Surinam sketches and specimens, which she had “dried and well displayed in boxes where they can be seen by all.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My mouth has gone as dry as sawdust. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Some stretches of road resembled a dry riverbed; other places were strewn with boulders or eroded down to rough bedrock. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He stopped, peering down at scattered particles of dried clay on the moonlit floor. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The soil in the courtyard was dry and rocky. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the hurt was so deep that it was way beyond tears and so their faces were dry. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Unlike before, it dried our wet bodies as we walked back to the cabin, silently, hand in hand. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Looking down, she noticed traces of dried blood in the creases of her hands and the U-shapes of her fingernails. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His jeans were wet with sea water to the thighs and where it was drying the white salt rings were forming. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was hanging clothes to dry in the yard and I saw his eagerness in the harried way he finished the job. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes lights a cigar, and rolls the dry, tart smoke on her tongue. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rogers cleared his throat and passed his tongue once more over his dry lips. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He tapped the pages, to even them out, against his dry knees. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The wood was damp but he shaved the dead bark off with his knife and he stacked brush and sticks all about to dry in the heat. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

If the grass runs out or the water dries up, we move. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s John Jr., carrying in a tray of rice crackers wrapped in roasted nori, salted nuts, strips of dried squid. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a dry and bloated bag of skin that all the ants in the world were dragging toward their holes along the stone path in the garden. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Since the troupe was not on any particular schedule, we had decided to wait for a day or two to give the roads time to dry. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Three weeks exactly: my longest dry spell in years. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was under the mud and water, folded in with the war, and their only thought was to find him and dig him out and then move on to someplace dry and warm. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing dry, warm, white sweatsocks, and he was skating on a ballroom floor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to put into words what I was feeling, but every time I tried to speak, my tongue felt leaden and dry. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I rounded them up, dumped some dry cereal in a bowl—because you can always get on top of the situation with little kids by offering treats—and put my creative powers to work. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom stops drying her hands to give a little laugh and a curtsy. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Near them, half-moon lobster traps bleached under the heat of the sun, the salt dried to white streaks along their boards, their rope netting stiff and a bit ragged. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I emerged into the garden, where the dying stalks of vegetable plants leaned against one another and rustled like thin, dry bones. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The one thing about him was the smallness of his ears, the ears of a child, ears like little dried apricots. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their wet clothing was dried in front of the open fire. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old dame who had been their nurse fetched dry jerkins out of a press, and scolded them for retching their deaths, and denounced Sir Ector for keeping on so long. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leather was wet, but when he looked inside, everything was quite dry. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The road crossed a dried slough where pipes of ice stood out of the frozen mud like formations in a cave. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was a little shelter of green branches outside over the entrance and in the dark the night wind rustled the leaves dried by the sun. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The blade was hot when she wiped it carefully dry with a clean cloth. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Realizing that everything was forgiven, I stood up and dried my eyes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was still laughter as I faced them, my mouth dry, my eye throbbing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glasses he’d washed had drained dry, so before going upstairs, he took them back to the bar. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The fever dried her eyes up as well as her mouth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kainene used to say their mother’s breasts did not dry up at all, that their mother had given them to a nursing aunt only to save her own breasts from drooping. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He swallowed hard and his throat was dry, so he pulled his messenger bag toward him to get some water. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The next day was bright and dry, with a fresh wind that cleared up what remained of the wet. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate the bread and butter separately, ate the dry lettuce leaves, and drank the little container of salad dressing. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry ducked down and splashed a little water on his face then rubbed himself dry with a dish towel. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As this was much shorter than the figure proposed by such eminent theoreticians as Niels Bohr, the results represented a gutsy challenge from two young scientists with the ink barely dry on their doctorates. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The landscape that comes into view is so dry that in most years the Osmore River simply disappears into the desert. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She sighed, "i say it tastes like folly, but what would a dry maid know of such things?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In terms of precipitation, she observes, Antarctica “is the driest large area on Earth, drier overall than any large desert.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The man on the floor handed up his towel for me to dry my hands. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sigurd spun and descended into the magical dry spot in the river, coming at Anya. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We sat around a fire built with dry cow chips and told stories while shaking out grain from ears of corn. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

With a nervous look at the shadows under the trees, Nhamo crossed the clearing and quickly gathered firewood from a deadfall in a dry streambed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In that line of work there are as many dry holes as there are in the oil business.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Our sleep shirts crusted over during the night, drying and hardening with the hot air and dust like they had been lightly starched, the way Grandma did the collars of my dad’s dress shirts. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The dry wood caught quickly and the flames soon warmed my face and hands. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gnawed at the dried sausage, savoring the saliva it produced. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her mouth was dry as she said, “Promise me. Don’t leave the camp alone.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

So he waited while Mr. Fantana gathered his lesson plans, put the tops back on his dry erase markers. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I unwrapped the scrap of treated canvas I used to protect it and was relieved to find it dry and well. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Olly steers us to dry sand and we find a place to sit. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier we’d spooned dry sugar into our pockets, and now, just as a bonus, we sprinkled it on the feeding rims. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the resin dried a short time later, Roz’s foot was finished. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Back on the beach we dry off under a shady tree. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wind of the afternoon was gone and only a little breeze like a sigh was stirred by the restless thermals of the warm, dry hills. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She began to cry noisily, harshly, her mouth open and her eyes dry. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s mine, anyway, if it’s in the wood. I want some. I’m about dry as dust.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her birdish state, she detected no fewer than nine different spices and a hint of dried apples and crushed zirin petals. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Her hair matches the color of the dry grass, and she is stout as a bale of hay. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Giving people medicine for TB and not giving them food is like washing your hands and drying them in the dirt,” went one Haitian saying. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We dried them on the rock in the meadow, and later Bando made a clay oven and baked them in it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The summer sun dried the denim in a matter of minutes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And my fingers were forever picking away at bits of dry fat and dry flesh that clung to the inner sides of shells, rummaging for food in the automatic way of monkeys. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Tom,” he said, “do you think you could keep the estate going while I run down and talk water with a dry man?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A line of washing which included women’s smalls was hanging out to dry. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When it rains, you are nearly drowned and wish to be dry. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

After they dried me off, Mom asked what was I thinking, to do such a thing? The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Charlotte decided to use her dry thread for writing the new message. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Tell her stop putting her Hand through the Window-Glass & that before she knows I’m gone, I’ll be bounding up the Meadow to watch her burn the Cobbler & dry up Turkey as in days of yore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was right—the sea did leave an itch when it dried—but the soap made me smell sweeter than I was. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Vetch thought to see him fall and sink down in the sea, the sea that surely was there behind this dry, dim veil that hid away water, sky, and light. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

If I am honest—which is not, of course, what Mr. Sorenson is asking of me—I will say that I simply need a warm, dry place to live. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Something cold and unsettling seeped into Ekon’s body then, turning his mouth dry as paper. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The warm sun and billowy breezes dried them as they went. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many creatures sensed the approach of the slithering evil, or scented its dry, musty, deathlike odor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The under-fifteens’ fifteen hundred meters is called, and she stands up, brushing dried grass from her shorts. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“There is good hunting. You would like the people and though it is cold it is clear and dry. You could stay with my family. My father is a famous hunter.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They hang underwear to dry on the church walls. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He hastily poured some fresh water over the parakeet and dried him off on the tail of his T-shirt, which was huge and dingy and probably belonged to his father. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had torn a square of fabric out of Cade's T-shirt, and I kept my hand pressed against it until the blood dried and the cloth bandage stuck to my head. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The road went over the little creek, and the Tillermans turned off the road, following the creek’s dry banks until they judged they were far enough from road and farmhouse. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long they crossed a dry, rocky streambed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In Galen’s view the hand of a healthy person was designed to be the proper measure of hot and cold, damp and dry, soft and hard. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Four years later, Soviet scientists decided to try their luck on dry land. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He moved down the hill, careful not to knock loose any rocks or step in the dry tumbleweeds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

An ardent Methodist, he was an abstemious, plain-spoken man, tall and muscular, with a dry sense of humor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was born with half my brain dried up like a prune, deprived of blood by an unfortunate fetal mishap. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy wiped her eyes and dragged her teeth over her bottom lip until her eyes were dry and her voice felt steady. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At first he thought it was leather, but in the sunlight he saw it clearly to be dried meat. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“A how—a how—!” Mrs. Clarke’s rushing river of words suddenly went dry. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

My breathing was fast and my mouth dry. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The old man laughed: a dry, dusty sound. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said maybe there was enough dry wood under the wagon to build a fire with. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

No one has offered to share what I smell: sardines, dried durian, salted eggs, toasted sesame. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

My being was full of the husks of despair, dry, lifeless. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ringing her hair into the dry sink, she asked, “Where’s your pa going?” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I pray God to give us dry weather soon, for this is misery. I have never seen such depression of spirits as there is in the tent.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

With nothing to dry themselves and no clothes to put on, they waited, shivering, in the bare room. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the first night, they’d slept in all the dry clothes and blankets they could find but on opposite sides of the fire. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I opened the window — surprised when it opened silently, without sticking, not having opened it in who knows how many years — and sucked in the relatively dry air. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My throat was so dry, I couldn’t speak. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My palms are sweating like crazy, but the jeweled dress isn't absorbent and they skid right of if I try to dry them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She would have to wait for the seal to dry. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squeezed the brush as dry as I could and put it back in the bag and shut it, and went to the door again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun blossomed slowly, so slowly, and it took such a long time to dry the berries. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Once the last three, up against the forward wall of the box, got none, the jug being dry when it came to them. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The man lifted the stout lady down and they hurried into the inn, leaving the boy Tam to put the horses away and see them dry and fed for the night. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, because a pleasant breeze was blowing, I spread my sheets to dry on some low bushes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I said, ‘Wear two pair of socks, and your feet ought to stay halfway warm and dry.’ Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dried his glasses, took a breath, and looked at his broken watch. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As she waited for sleep she listened to the polar wind whistle, and the dry grasses whined like the voice of the old bent lady. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salva looked at the hollow eyes and the cracked lips of the men lying on the hot sand, and his own mouth felt so dry that he nearly choked when he tried to swallow. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lay restlessly and noisily among the dry leaves, watching the patch of stars that was the opening toward the lagoon. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A boy with a high, square forehead grabs the sack with the dried herbs and throws my Beny More album like a Frisbee against the elm. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dry cleaner’s on the next block over had been held up, the white owner severely beaten. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And in the night, when my coughing was dry and tough, feet padded into the room, hands repinned the flannel, readjusted the quilt, and rested a moment on my forehead. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was adding dried apples when he heard a suspicious noise, and moved a sack of dry corn. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The front of her thin cotton shirt was cold, damp with the tears that streamed from my eyes until, red and sore, they ran dry. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was hot that day, in a season so dry our tongues went to sleep tasting dust and woke up numb. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Wang Lung, hearing this, felt his mouth suddenly dry and parched and his voice came from him in a whisper, “Silver, then! Silver and gold! Anything to the very price of my land!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

For Seabiscuit, this meant that after each workout he was covered in a blanket and hotwalked for about half an hour, until he was cool and dry. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the road was full of mud, the fields were drying and the birds were singing. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull the filthy plaster off the end of my finger and look at the pale, wrinkled flesh beneath, dried blood caked at the edge of my fingernail. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph dried off his glasses and pounded on the stage door. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Imagining even turned the cold pancakes, mushy apple, and handful of dried fruit into a tasty meal. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The water evaporated almost instantly; his skin became dry again. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It felt good to be warm and dry. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ash swept a pile of dried peas into the kettle hanging over the kitchen fire and added a handful of ham. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My throat is tight; my tongue is dry and tastes bitter. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Raisins and nuts and dried ber-ries, but no lemon, that was the rankest sort of southron heresy—which was queer, since he always took lemon in his morning beer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I turned my face to Inti so he could kiss it with his warm, drying rays. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

After feeling the cotton to make sure it was completely dry, the contratista told us to start working. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I dried my eyes and after a few beers and a couple of joints around back I imagined the great books I might write. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

As time went by they dried up and died. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The porter reached into the opening, where he found a torch in the shadows and set fire to it, illuminating a tunnel of dry stone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Beside a huge, misshapen hill, the car descended into a complex of rectangular buildings, as squat as ugly dorms and painted the color of dried grass. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Faye made a restless movement and her dry lips slobbered a few thick words and sighed off to a snore again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I already mentioned the ecological differences between China’s cool, dry north and warm, wet south. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I dip my head in the sink, rinse out the conditioner I left in overnight, and ring my hair dry with a towel. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mother packed Zuraiq’s skin with salt and set it in the sun to dry. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The time she and her parents had walked into Rook Hill on a fall day, the leaves as gold as coins, the air crisp and dry. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our way out, Eliza accepted a basket of dry bread from the woman who ran the boarding house. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stew's made with tender chunks of lamb and dried plums today. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Since I could not see well by the dim fire I used for cooking, I made lamps of the dried bodies of little fish which we call sai-sai. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the ink was dry, Jinny folded the letter in half and slipped it back into her cushion. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My stomach flip-flopped and my mouth went dry as flannel. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

After she dried and wrapped her baby in a towel she hummed quietly while combing out the tangles and plaiting the damp hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kissed me, brushed my tears with her fingertips, and dried my nose with the towel, or the hem of her dress. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Grandma led me into the bathroom and watched as I washed my hands, then directed me to dry them on the rose-colored towel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We throw a little on our faces and dry with the towel that’s still damp from yesterday. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He decided that a fortune could be made catching shrimp and abalone off the coast of Mexico, then bringing it back to dry and sell in southern California. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dried himself off with a hand towel and took one last lungful of air in before he headed out to dinner, to his fate. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Watching paint dry is a speed sport compared to watching Mr. Woodwell inspect Rose. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And after supper, while my sister washed and I dried, she was even more helpful than she had been before. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

When I was reaching to increase a build, my hand brushed against his and I was taken aback by how dry and hot it was. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I let Peeta doze off while his clothes dry out, but by late afternoon, I don't dare wait any longer. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Beau still stood beside me, drying his fur by the fire. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Accompanied by the crunch of footsteps on the dry undergrowth of the forest, the creepy sounds continued, getting louder as the people got closer. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I am watching through the keyhole... and when she gets out of the tub to dry herself I see that her body is different from mine. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I’m inside our apartment, I carefully put my earmuffs on the radiator to dry. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

For he had taken his petal the next day and secretly substituted it for another among those drying on Min’s shelf. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

His shirt was torn and covered with dried blood. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were ripe, or very close, just shy of being dry, and the worms and squirrels had been at them, but they still found enough to cut the edge off their hunger. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Worst of all, you don’t even stay dry; the waterproofs keep out the rain but make you sweat so much that soon you are clammily sodden. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Travelers had placed little stones, twisted straw, and dried flowers at its base to ensure a safe journey. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Already the heat blazed down on us with a vengeance, and we were so dehydrated our tongues felt like thick, dry parchments in our mouths. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Drying cost ten cents for ten minutes, but it took twenty cents worth of minutes to dry everything. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she was walking again, striding with a powerful confidence, her hands flying about as if she were drying just-painted fingernails. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Baba returned, dried off, and sat down to eat. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their bodies were slowly consuming themselves, shriveling until they were gaunt and dry as raisins, skin stretched over sinew and bone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“If you keep on like this you’ll”—she says “go dry,” but what I hear is “die.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Now there was dry land all the way to the little island, except for the final, deep channel. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A talent for two month’s worth of meals and a dry place to sleep was as good a deal as I could hope for. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I dried great bunches of this, and hung them from the roof of the tree room together with the leaves of winterberry. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My throat has never been so dry and tight. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“His liver was . . . gone. His heart . . . dried up. You can’t get transplants from a cancer patient.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they let me visit my father again, the Coral Queen had been pumped dry, mopped clean, and refitted with new gambling equipment. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She fingered dried plants, pressed between paper to preserve fine details. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The womenfolk had spent all day paring apples, threading them on strings preparing to dry them for the winter. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stand here and talk, and in seven, eight hours it will rain and we don’t have shelter or dry wood or a fire going. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of jasmine incense, Mother burns dried orange peels. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He had fallen asleep after what seemed hours of tossing and turning noisily among the dry leaves. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I wipe down the stove top and replace the covers on the rings and then rinse my dishcloth and drape it over the drying rack. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

All day, Mother has been vomiting and dry heaving. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Wash him and dry him the way his mother would. You’ll have to feed him by hand. But there’s your colt, the way I promised.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certain conditions propel a stream of dry air from the mountains to the shoreline. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

After rain fell on September 9, a warm, deadly dry spell followed, lasting over a month. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The drought that had lasted weeks and made Chicago as dry as kindling had finally broken. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

His lips were dry and cracked and he wanted water. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on. Let’s make a run for it. These will keep our heads dry, at least.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No zinc tub, no buckets of stove-heated water, no flaky, stiff, grayish towels washed in a kitchen sink, dried in a dusty backyard, no tangled black puffs of rough wool to comb. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, the music of evil sang loud in Kino’s head now, it sang with the whine of heat and with the dry ringing of snake rattles. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was cool and the fire burned high, stacked with dry wood. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A dry cleaner’s run by his uncle who pretended to sneeze quarters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My dry lips hang open; my voice has finally given out. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She looked around her, at the dishes drying in the kitchen, the banner hanging on the curtain, the door to the bedroom where Nunu was sleeping, safe and sound. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

You need the camera you got for your sixteenth birthday and the flowers you dried. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

To the waitress Scheer said, “I’ll have a vodka martini, very dry, two olives, and my son here will have a beer.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The rice was judged either too greasy or too dry, the bread declared too doughy or too crispy. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Their delicate winged bodies, prone and limp, were snarled in the girls’ hair, attached to their clothes, even stuck to their bare arms and legs, like dried pressed flowers. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She tried to say something, but her voice dried in her throat. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up in the citadel, her tears dried on her cheeks. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Leaving the varnish to dry, he went on to another chore—one that took him out-of-doors. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even late in the dry season, these lands hold enough water to grow grasses to feed our cattle. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was crushed in, and a huge area of dried flesh was missing entirely from just above his left eye. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” I said, hanging my head and scratching at the dry patch on my scalp that I had already rubbed bald and a little bloody. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They place you on a pile of logs and blackrock, dry brush and kindling, and they send you burning onto the ocean. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Dicey gathered the underwear, almost dry, from the bushes where it had been hanging all night. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wash Abuela’s hair and rinse it with conditioner, then we pat her dry with towels as if this could somehow heal her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Clarence Morrison of 122 Church Street, Salinas, had three children and a husband who ran a dry goods store. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They knew they could survive because the Dinka have weathered many a dry spell. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The print is taken off the press and hung to dry. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It made for tons of dead and dry wood and he wished once more he could get a fire going. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When school was over, the skies had cleared and the walks were dry. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

But he said no, we were used to dry desert heat, and this was humid heat. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A reconnaissance mission reveals, however, that Alex has merely run back into the bed of the now dead and dry Colorado River. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air is cool and dry, and butterflies twirl by on a gentle breeze. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Only dry tears will you get from me,” she said mockingly. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meryl Lee was standing quietly, Mr. Kowalski behind her, and she held up a dried rose with a ribbon as I went by. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they’re waiting for someone in the dry cleaners,” Emily said, but she was glad the car was on the opposite side of the street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The clay that had filled it was now scattered in dry crumbs on the floor. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Some of the clay balls were drying out too quickly; he dampened the cloths that covered them. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

A family who lived in a dry place had two daughters. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They looked into the wrinlded prunes of her eyes; they peered into the dried apricots of her ears; they listened to the indestructible pump of her heart, and pronounced her well. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The blood that had dried around his nose was wet again; with water or with new blood, Anya couldn’t tell. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

When male pilots flew over their air base and spotted the women’s underthings hanging out to dry—a big clue that this was a women’s regiment—they’d perform noisy aerobatics in celebration. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My fury was gone, I felt it gone, dried up at the source, withered and lifeless. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom and I asked the cashiers in the supermarket, the lady in the dry cleaner’s, and the man in the eye shop across the street if they knew anything about him. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The branches of the big palm tree in Berges’s front yard were lashing with a dry clatter, and a cat meowed over and over and over in front of some kitchen door closed against it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I waved it by its corner to dry it for a second or two. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The corners where tears come out feel like someone stuck a pin in them, they’re so dry. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Grass as tall as living men, and taller, but dry and white as a dead woman’s hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My arms and back complained like the dickens as I refilled the wash boiler, kept the water hot, rubbed grimy clothes on the washboard, wrung them out, and hung them to dry. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A desert wind came up from the open ghoul-gate, hot and dry, with grit in it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A late-afternoon sprinkle had stirred up the dust, and now a slow breeze carried in an almost-radiant smell of dust and dry pinon pine and sage. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed mutely to her son’s room and pursed her thick dry lips at the door of the inner court. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Here I shall build a fire to warm us and dry our clothes.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I called him so many times that I finally saw him, but when he came he was covered with dried blood and rags, dragging streamers of barbed wire across the waxed parquet floors. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull washed his hands at the kitchen sink, dried them on one of Lillian’s aprons, and joined the family for grace. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they were silent again, for the idea of not having the ranch, the dry, stony desert of heartbreaking hillside and unprofitable hollow, was shocking to them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took her sodden handkerchief out of her bag, and dried her eyes; and dried her eyes again, looking down the avenue. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Luckily I had dried a pound of the morels that I’d gathered the previous month. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His mouth was dry with fear as he finally reached the ground again. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They emptied out the bag and spread blankets and clothing out on the warm sand to dry before the fire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I got one of the boys to fashion little miniature boxing gloves out of dried plantain leaves sewn together, which turned out very realistic, and had them dangling down from all the lights and fans. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie dried her hands on her petticoat eyeing the deadly towel with horror. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street, on the stone docks, was a row of overturned fishing boats draped with nets spread out to dry. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She caught her breath, then stretched forward and pulled loose some dried seaweed that formed part of its construction. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We stayed in the mess and misery of the house only as long as we had to, trading our wet clothes for dry, finding our shoes, trying not to look at anything else. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

For real, my eyes get dry with the quickness. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The tree’s dry needles skitter in the hot breeze across the desert like a flock of birds. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The air smelled dry and vacant after weeks of rain. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"Nope," Red said, dry, just before taking a sip of his juice. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He had a dry sense of humor and liked to poke fun at us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We trudged through the snow, a dry crunching underfoot. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then he washed his hands, threw the oilcloth over himself, and before midnight he returned with a few strings of dried meat, several bags of rice, corn with weevils, and some emaciated bunches of bananas. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had moved down to the lakeshore as well and had stripped down to hang his clothes to dry. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was not much more than a tall man’s height now, and at its base there were wide flat shelves of dry stone; the water ran in a channel on the other side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“We’ll take you both on and get you some dry clothes. Just hold on a few minutes more till we get Hannah.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Like a sponge, his dry tongue started to expand. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I was gonna bring it in last night, but then I thought ‘one last coat of oil, rub it, and let dry.’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I scuffled through the jars and envelopes and came up with it, an unprepossessing dried brown scrap. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Because snakeskin agates are usually found in dry riverbeds or along beaches—places where there’s water.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Voice of a dead thing, calm as dry sticks and ice when the wind blows over them. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the rain and hope he is dry. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The raft was tossed as a dried thistle goes rolling over a field in autumn days. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I grab the other towel from the floor and dry myself in a hurry. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He retrieved it and set it up again, dried the interior with towels, and then went inside the house to look for ballast. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

So he scratched a hole in the dry sand beside him, and when the glare of that light finally blinded him, he turned to his right side and vomited into the hole. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You look as low as a toad in a dry well, chile.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he fell asleep on the stool, his head against the table that smelled of dried fish. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We squabble in whispers and monosyllables about whose turn it is to wash: drying with a clammy tea towel isn’t as good as washing, which warms up your hands. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This is fairy food,” she finally said, after she had dried her hands. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into a large gourd they placed her cut hair and head dyes, okra, ashes, and wisps of dried corn silks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep looking at those posters of the people who got killed and looking at my daddy, and my mouth goes so dry, it’s like trying to suck dirt. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

In places the grass was gone altogether and everywhere there were clusters of dry droppings, through which nothing but the ragwort would grow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was summertime, the dry season, and the grassland had grown yellowish. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The eyes were half closed and the lids thick and dry. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much of the island is submerged during the rainy season, and even in the dry summer pieces of the mazy shoreline are constantly calving off like icebergs and falling into the water. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It looks like it’s sleeping except for the dried brown stain beneath it. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach cramped and my mouth went dry. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth and me were housed below the packet-boat’s deck with six sheep, a pen of hogs, three families from Scotland, and fifty casks of dried cod. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

So a simple answer was that the existence of dry land was a miracle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So I asked her, “Would it help to have dry clothes? I could lend you my last year’s funeral dress.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When a windmill broke down or a pool went dry, Tayo had seen them standing and waiting patiently for the truck or wagon loaded with water, or for riders to herd them to water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We made due with the last of my now-stale flatbread, dried meat, and the last potatoes baked on the edge of the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The grass on the side of the path was half dry and half green. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As the light grew dimmer, the noises of evening began—the buzz of insects, the rustling of dry leaves, and another sound ... voices? A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d then hang the line between the trees, leave it to dry. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m skipping my soak this morning,” Cole said, “because I don’t have any dry clothes to change into. But I’ll still carry the ancestor rock.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Together they had moistened Claire’s dry lips with water and her tongue had moved slightly. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He would no sooner get a clean shirt on than he would discover that it was wet under the arms, from nervous perspiration, and he would have to change it for a dry one. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

They trudged past darter birds on the tops of trees, drying their sodden wings spread out like laundry against the sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mario hauled him out and dried him off with a paper napkin. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

From nowhere, as it seemed, piles of dry brushwood for fuel, a little anvil, hammers, tongs, and bellows were produced. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

An ember falls beside him, setting the dry grass on fire. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Out of her knockoff Louis Vuitton purse came gifts from Korea—dried squid and colorful erasers and pajamas with dancing cartoon dogs and cats. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Gaunt cattle, their ribs protruding and their heads hanging low, stood listless at the bottoms of dried-up stock ponds where the mud had dried and cracked into mosaics of tiles as hard as stone. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He yawned, scratched his ear then rolled lazily on a patch of dried mud. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My throat was cold and dry, my tongue like burlap. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They gathered wood, some twigs, and handfuls of dried leaves. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped to lick the dry point of my pencil. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She put her hand on the cat’s back and licked her dry lips, watching his every movement. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The dry leaves crackled underneath their feet as they crept toward the house. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, one evening, it rained, a flinty blustery rain, a strange shower in the dry season, and perhaps it was why Odenigbo did not go to the bar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He lived in a modest bungalow, and wore an old faded suit that could have used a visit to the dry cleaners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hole it left had filled with filthy water, but the roots were dry and tangled enough to make a comfortable seat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Without looking up, she motioned to the dry ground of the garden. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

My mouth felt dry all of a sudden. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

To read Dr. Seward’s account of poor Lucy’s death, and what followed, is enough to dry up the springs of pity in one’s heart. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

On one wall there was a huge stack of musty, dry straw bales. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Behind her, Annabella poured water from the kettle over dried leaves that she had placed in two thick mugs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These roughhewn logs were filled with sap, and as they dried out, the wood contracting and expanding with changes in temperature, the roofs sagged, the walls buckled. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I could hear a car passing on the street, and I was free, Charlie’s lawn stretched out in front of me, the house beckoning me, promising warmth and dry socks. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t much of a sunny day, so they didn’t dry by nighttime. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Approaching the Eagle Mountains, Taran felt his burden lighten, as he inhaled the dry, spicy scent of pine. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

What did Maria think of these freshly printed images, hung on ropes to dry? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At first people said, “Thank God, this will dry things out”; and then they began to curse the wind; and finally they tried to get their cars, trucks, and horses unstuck. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a tearing noise filled the air, the crackle of dry brush inflamed, and the smell of smoke swept over Tally, bringing her suddenly and completely awake. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was at one end of the largest burrow he had ever been in; sandy, warm and dry, with a hard, bare floor. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laid a dry pinon branch on the coals; smoke curled out of the gray scaly bark like woolly hair until yellow flames burst around it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We each have but one pair, much needed during this dry season when the earth stings. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The rivers in the area were small, almost drying out in the dry season, and swelling in the rainy season. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The country was dry, and the hills were covered with dark lava rock. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She handed me a piece of cloth to dry myself. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see row after row of apartments, each floor cluttered with laundry hanging out to dry on the balcony. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third level of the platform was woven of branches no thicker than a finger, and covered with dry leaves and twigs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And Joe lost them—lost sixty sheep and couldn’t find them where they were huddled in the shade in a dry gulch. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped from the bath and dried off, pulled on a pair of laundered linen breeches, and was too tired even to tie the drawstring. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Apparently the body was trying to keep them from drying out, because Derek could not blink. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped out into the rain, back, out again, and then arranged herself on the threshold, just at the edge of dry ground. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They never said anything when I took my dry clothes over to the bathroom stalls. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s about—” Frankie’s voice clicked, as though his mouth was dry. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Let’s step right along and get them dishes washed and dried and put up,” she said. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The baby wouldn’t nurse, and her milk had dried up. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His skin was pink and blotchy, his nose broad, his mouth small, his hair long and dark and dry. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I touched his hand: it was dry and hot with fever. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Stepping around each other cautiously, they plugged in their air hoses, and dry air cleared their faceplates. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It began to dry the island, and toward noon, I heard the first cry of a bird. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had guided these corn plants and worked hard and she was not, now, going to give up the winter’s dried corn soup to a flock of birds, no matter how hungry they were. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The relative size of the spheres and the extent of their displacement with regard to each other determines the size of the zone of dry land. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed the sun, too, though the air wasn’t quite dry enough for my taste. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z