Without its silver rings and bracelets, the hand looked as weak as the leg of a dying bird. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mariam saw an outhouse on the right, in a side yard, and, on the left, a well with a hand pump, a row of dying saplings. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was too busy dying a thousand deaths. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Horses reared and fell over screaming, ravens flew, crazy as bats in a fire, men staggered, gesturing wildly, making speeches, dying or sometimes pretending to be dying, sneaking off. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the defenders’ joy, their attackers began dying off. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The younger girls formed hopes of coming out a year or two sooner than they might otherwise have done; and the boys were relieved from their apprehension of Charlotte’s dying an old maid. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

From inside her Davos saw green gushing from a thousand broken jars, poison from the entrails of a dying beast, glistening, shining, spreading across the surface of the river . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Your obsession with, like, dying for something or leaving behind some great sign of your heroism or whatever. It’s just weird.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The mother was dying of Ebola and had given the virus to her unborn baby. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An-mei, we have made your dying clothes and shoes for you. They are all white cotton.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

With so much death and dying in Vietnam, Kelley’s conviction that he would die in Vietnam grew until it hung over him like an inevitable, inescapable destiny. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was right, you know, your pa’s dying that way is a sign that the world’s coming to a end. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

With a last regretful glance at the dying animal, he unhinged his jaw and finned off to the southeast. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Did not have the black look they get, the dying ones, around the eyes. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew she was thinking about how she wanted to be outside, living, instead of in her room, dying. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He didn’t look like he was dying, but Joseph had never known anyone who was that sick. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I saw—I saw Cathair. It was dying, too.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“My friend is dying. Can you cure him or not?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

How can you deny a dying person a simple wish? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She refused to wear her hair in braids and then acted as though she were dying when they tried to brush out the tangles. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

To Elizebeth, it seemed that the “South American stuff” was “dying.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Oh, and by the way, the loons are disappearing everywhere because their lakes are dying from acid rain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The resolution to the paradox—that a bad thing, dying, implies a good thing, having lived—is explained with parallel constructions: never going to die... never going to be born. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She began to perceive that her son was dying, and she became frantic. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Climbing a jumble of stone, Theon looked down on the dead men and dying horses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Innocent black children growing up, living out their lives, dying of old age—and all of their lives ashamed of being black. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel it dying, the life draining out of it, its tongue loosening around my ankle. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Extracting his life essence—your brother has been dying a very slow death.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Look at Moon Shadow. He’s dying to see your room.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t given her poncho to anybody to wrap a body in, or stepped over a dying kid. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had searched for him among the dying, to no avail. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

No insects hovered over the dying plants or the well. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With more people dying and fewer trips to the crematorium, the corpses were becoming part of the city landscape. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Private wills are not legal: a man dying leaves his fortune to the state. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Parallel wording is a powerful trope, but after dying and being born, being here in my place and seeing the light of day, enough is enough. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They would bring their catch back to shore, a mound of silver, the sardines dying slowly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This isn’t the early 2000s, when people were dying without warning. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I knew that if I did, he’d fall over and start yelling like he was dying. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood for a moment listening to the sound of their hooves dying out in the snowy road, and then I began to laugh and cry all at once. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband,” the sniffling woman on the other end of the line said, “is dying and it seems that...” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

That is, fully half of the people who came down with it ended up dying, and quickly. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was getting a little chilly; the fire was dying. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Which means that you stand a greater chance of dying while dealing crack in a Chicago housing project than you do while sitting on death row in Texas. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

For one moment just stay awake, notice your dying flowers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Candles glowed above the altar, the cross with the effigy of the dying Christ above that. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

How angry I am at Grandpa for dying. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The dying animal has collapsed on the ground, its legs no longer able to carry the weight of the body, its head lowered in defense. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were seen wandering in circles, dazed and half blind, before dying in convulsions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Food should not be wasted on the dying, Your Worship. We do not have enough to feed the living.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Mercy on us, this will never do,” thought Jo, adding aloud, “Go and sing to me. I’m dying for some music, and always like yours.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dead and dying robins began to appear on the campus. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“He transferred the prime security clearance to her while he was dying. I saw it.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She had been dying to go to Griswold’s famous San Francisco book carnival since she first heard about it five years ago. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Because Black’s not worth dying for,” said Ron. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

At any moment, Rex Rollins the casting director could call, so I’m clutching my dying Nokia in one hand and, no doubt about it, that lucky rabbit foot in the other. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Gradually, painfully, the flames seemed to expire in Tally’s chest, the cough dying a quiet death inside her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“After the first eruptions,” he said, “white volcanic ash rained from the sky for months. The dead and dying were covered in it. So now to wear white is to remember the dead.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I just stood there staring at the dying fire. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The Yunkai’i had sealed the broken gates to keep the dead and dying inside the city, but the sights that he had seen riding down those red brick streets would haunt Quentyn Martell forever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I spend that first week—and it does feel like spending, like not seeing him is costing me something—doing all my normal things: reading, learning, not dying. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dying boy who wanted to climb a mountain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And he is in the dying city, crumbling into dust like an elemental fiend. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The stench of death and dying, of rot and decay, rolled over me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And I remember the day she told us that she had breast cancer, and explained that she’d known for a while but didn’t want to tell anyone until she knew she was dying. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It just happened, like the time she gained 118 pounds in the days her father was dying. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the animal caretakers was very sick, might be dying. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the yard, she could hear men dying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It proved to be a bony, underfed, and dispirited animal; but it did not look like dying just yet. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He thought, again, of Madu dying and realized he did not know how he would feel. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, if people like me are a dying breed, then what’s going to happen to your business?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mom makes such a big deal about how I’m not allowed to watch horror movies because they’re “inappropriate,” but we talk about a dying thirty-three-year-old man all the time. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Exception 2.—Words ending in ie and dropping the e, by Rule I. change the i into y to prevent the doubling of the i: as, die + ing = dying; lie + ing = lying. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I was dying, too, and yet there I stood, battered and bruised but more or less fully functioning. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Meggie didn’t know what was so exciting about times when, if Elinor was to be believed, your only choice was between dying of the plague or getting slaughtered by invading soldiers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself falling off the roof, falling backward to a sure dying and laughing all the way. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No starving, no dying from the summer sickness, no getting shot full of arrows.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Plants and animals are dying off in record numbers, and lots of people are starving and homeless. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But my voice sounded like a distant storm dying, waning in my ears. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Most of the enemy were dead, dying, or yielded. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He listened to the hideous howling dying away across the fen. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she was dying and she began to scream. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Citra kept her gaze fixed on the dying man’s until his eyes finally emptied of life. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

If there is anyone in the entire galaxy I am dying to tell what really happened, it’s Rachel. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I told her about Gran dying and how much I missed her. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I told her that I thought that dying in battle was not a bad thing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When she was dying, she probably would remember, but now only the faint flash of a denim sleeve caught in her mind, a quick cry, “Hot grease in the kitchen!” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Not a single one of Arcadio's men had survived the attack, but before dying they had killed three hundred soldiers. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But radium destroys any cells it encounters, and patients who’d taken it for trivial problems began dying. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Since it’s clear I’m not dying, she takes her sweet time getting to me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The whole hill seemed to be infected, dying from the poison that had sunk into the tree’s roots. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He says it the way you would say it to someone who is dying or you don’t expect to see again. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cobb had taken to “Swell the Anthem, Raise the Song,” and since it had nothing in it about dying, Turner played it almost every time. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The world was moving so fast, so much money was being made, so many people were dying in Guam, and Germany, that hordes of strangers became good friends overnight. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll go through this door,”Alec says as he looks at his phone—the battery has to be close to dying. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There was none of that crude, ugly ostentation about dying that was so common outside the hospital. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In 1957, when she knew she was dying, I was in hospital in Oxford having a serious operation on my spine and I was unable to write to her. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The point isn’t your phone dying. Why did you need to cancel, anyway?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Wind raged, the bean leaves were covered with dust; they looked bedraggled, unhealthy, dying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted the sword screaming, and moved on, closer, closer, but it was all coming apart; the whole world was dying. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think that’s strange? Do you think because I’m dying, I shouldn’t care what happens in this world?” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at him, arguments dying in my head. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wonder if every dying person gets to decide whether they stay or go. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within two days dead and dying fish, including many young salmon, were found along the banks of the stream. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were a few groans, dead sounds from dying earth, most of them soft and low. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Gale and I agree that if we have to choose between dying of hunger and a bullet in the head, the bullet would be much quicker. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

‘It is like the sound an old man is making when he is dying slowly.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shortest way to the central keep where her father lay dying was through the godswood, with its grass and wildflowers and thick stands of elm and redwood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of dying Pa made a vast fortune. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

That thing about dying for the Faith is all a cod. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The president’s murder gave my teachers and parents and pastor the perfect opportunity to talk with us children about death and dying, about bombings and hatred. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The aunties are all smiling at me, as though I had been a dying person who has now miraculously recovered. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah was exhausted; all her strength seemed to have died with the dying flames of her house. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A cross between a puppy and a dying man. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean that it was merely a choice of the man dying, of both the man and yourself dying. Is that right?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Her throat constricted as those fingers, cold, so cold, traced the length of her jaw, the curve of her ear, the hollows of her neck, where a pulse fluttered like a dying moth. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m just dying to see It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Won’t this be fun,” Hilly says. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As she did, I told her, “I’ve been thinking a lot about the highlighted parts. If you go to the end of ‘Song of Myself,’ she highlights this stuff about dying. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, or I’ll make your dying last until the dawn.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Far from dying, it is in a perpetual state of rebirth. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Thrust in the ground, Lightbringer still glowed ruddy hot, but the flames that clung to the sword were dwindling and dying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

To this very day, people look forward to dying and coming to Snowberger’s for their laying out. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the sight of you almost dying of the fever haunts me. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They traced interesting names on some of them, like Mehitable and Josephus, and even gruesome verses about dying. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She needed rest, badly, and though she joked with him about dying of sleep deprivation, she was, in fact, afraid. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He picked the pearl from the dying flesh and held it in his palm, and he turned it over and saw that its curve was perfect. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dying light I saw blood spurt from the dark pit and bloody pulp that had once been an eye. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dying—of that, he was certain—but he wondered how long it would take for his body to really sever from this world. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The sound it made was like a dying dream, and it brought that same sick, breathless ache back to my chest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He felt sick at the thought of those men—first dying in such a horrible way, and then having even their corpses ravaged. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would not mind dying now if he could only find out what this meant, what he was in relation to all the others that lived, and the earth upon which he stood. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He swore he was dying, it was so bad. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was free when I decided that dying for what I believed in was worth it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Corporal Craigie ordered we should return to the square where we had left Jocko dying, and the others of our detachment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I was out of practice and was dying to know who was on the phone. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

And she removed her mask and treated the dying girl face-to-face. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were dead and some were dying; more were their kin or close companions, unwilling to abandon them even for a bowl of onion soup. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was scarcely past the middle of her span of years, and her life would not easily pass from her body, so that she lay dying on her bed for many months. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I push open the heavy doors, cross myself, light a candle, and sit in a pew, the dying Christ rising high above my head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Already the flames were dying down as the ancient timbers were consumed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes, trying to feel what it meant to be assured that dying did not just mean dead. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They had set them afire with the dying still lain there. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“We’re not dying because of love. We were going to die today, no matter what. You didn’t just keep me alive, you made me live.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was dying, but she still had strength enough to move a little. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her brother Rhaegar battling the Usurper in the bloody waters of the Trident and dying for the woman he loved. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

With my mother dying so suddenly and unexpectedly, I didn’t get the chance to talk to her. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He is dying. Do him a solid and let him upstairs to say goodbye to his father.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’m dying to go around with Mr. Hannon on the great float like a real workingman. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Moving back to the fire, he spun among the dying embers on the ground with a graceful motion, gently kicking the larger coals back together. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“We realized that our friends were dying,” she said. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The next day, the doctors set out deeper into the forest in their Land Rovers, and they made contact with infected villages, where they found people dying in huts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I tell him, “I’m only letting you because my mother is dying.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Oh, He will send down so much rain that all his little people are drinking from one another’s sewers and dying of the kakakaka. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people were dying, but others were saying, “The UN is coming, the UN is coming.” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how to be sad about him dying. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

After Jem’s funeral, they were in the kitchen cleaning up the remains of the tribal banquets that are a part of dying in Maycomb. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Haan. Your mummy...she doesn’t blame you, Twinkle. But she does blame herself. She will never forgive herself for Nani dying alone.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a storefront church and had stood, for John’s lifetime, on the corner of this sinful avenue, facing the hospital to which criminal wounded and dying were carried almost every night. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Stupidly, with a kind of smug removal that I can’t begin to fathom, I assumed that the problems of killing and dying did not fall within my special province. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stick my tongue out and roll my eyes back like I’m dying. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They carry armfuls of mossy soil back to Haye, whose moans are dying now. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t dying at all, and now I’m fine. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m dying of hunger here,” said the last soldier Shin bribed on his way out of North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“But that doesn’t mean he’s dying, mija. So his cancer’s back. He’s beat it before. Mark’s always been a fighter. You know that.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“None, m’lord. She come alone. Her horse was dying under her. All skin and ribs it was, lame and lathered. They cut it loose and took the girl for questioning.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’m dying to tell all those kids from school what I’ve seen and done tonight, but I won’t write to them. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How did you find out about—my mother dying?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe dying from embarrassment was just making everything slow down. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Thanks for dying, Tariq, so I could get my fifteen minutes of fame. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Usually he only sat this way when one of his patients was dying. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a world of trouble you’ll save yourself,” says Mother, “childbearing and child dying. ” Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Nate didn’t need a doctor to tell him that James was dying. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Death-Cast did not call Patrick “Peck” Gavin because he’s not dying today, though he was expecting the alert before his attacker received the call himself. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She saw a gaping black crack, waiting to swallow a dying boy and his dog. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The sun’s dying red glow vanished, replaced with the rising full moon’s pale light through the skeletal trees. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I am more comfortable now with the idea of dying. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Oh, I don’t mean that people were dying from hunger. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he took this stiff dying hand he did not love it, and even his pity was spoiled with repulsion towards it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Next a bull was set against a bear in a bloody battle that left both animals tom and dying. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My dignified weeping gives way to full- on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my throat. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Reyna found it disturbing, wrong, that these people’s dying moments were on display like clothes in a shop window, yet she couldn’t look away. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The cheeses hardening at the edges, the sulfur- drenched grapes, luscious and shiny as wax, plumped with blood from the dying field workers of California. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want Dad dying soon after I do. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’m dying to see everyone, hug everyone, put my face down on the prayer-hall rugs and breathe in that musty smell mixed with the perfume of all those who prayed there before me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We pass a dying barn with a shattered roof, and a stained mattress shoved up against the speed-limit sign. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Hazel is dying because of them, he reminded himself. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“The living. The dying. The fear that unites them both. It is what we do.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“He cries because they are dead and everything is dying.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cutting marks in a pig’s ear is bloody work, and the scared pig kicks and squeals like he’s dying; but he’s not really hurt. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birds picked up in a dying condition showed the typical symptoms of insecticide poisoning — tremoring, loss of ability to fly, paralysis, convulsions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Was I the dying clown? Clowns are the worst.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m the last of a dying breed. Look, I’ll throw in a can of pineapple. That should be a real treat.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There weren’t enough gravediggers to bury the hundreds dying each week. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“There’s a new directive out about abdominal complaints. We have to keep them under observation five days because so many of them have been dying after we make them beat it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“We have to do this tonight?”my mom was dying, she kinda cleaned out her room for us. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

With the sun dying at our backs, Joon and I knelt down with our spoons and started to dig. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Everything was just as clear as in full daylight, but there was less light to see it by, as if all the strength were draining out of a dying sun. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They hacked down trees in widening rings around their central halls and blistered the land with peasant huts and pigpen fences till the forest looked like an old dog dying of mange. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason had a terrifying image of himself in a hammock, swinging between the claws of Frank the giant eagle, but he decided it would be better than dying. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“It actually begins dying the minute you pick it.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Dying would suck, but my crewmates dying would be way worse. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When dying people look into the future? Last look before the Fates take them?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, he wasn’t thinking about dying. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

She might have been blithe about dying when it was abstraction, but she wasn’t now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Floss Gaddis, her mother and her brother, Henny, who was dying of consumption, stood in their doorway. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you tell her the child is dying in your arms she’ll say the doctor is in the country riding his horse. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

All that was left now was more dying. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean I’m sitting here lounging; he’s practically dying out there. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t have minded if it was a romance or one of those books about a really awesome golden retriever that ends up dying at the end, but she minded that he wouldn't tell her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He swung a leg easily over the center bar of his bike and leaned the contraption against a dying hedge. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The idea of her dying alone in the hospital, suffering painful burns, is too much to bear. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A sarcophagus, engraved with Ancient Greek scenes of cities in flames and heroes dying grisly deaths. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was extremely ill after the last examination; the other, a middle-aged fellow, had some disorder or disease of the kidney, and was dying. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everything creaked and moaned and shuddered, and she did the only thing she could do to keep from dying as the metal cabinet started to fall. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

Or at least Dylan, who’s dying to see the character I modeled after him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He was dying, and no one took notice. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When he did not see any change, he checked with other sharecroppers: their plants were dying too. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m dying, look at me! It’s killed me!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

While I’m not sure taking off your shoes in a strange hotel room and swallowing too many sleeping pills is what I would call dying valiantly and with acclamation, it’s the thought that counts. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

All were dead or dying—skewered or laid open or sundered. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When viruses come out of an ecosystem, they tend to spread in waves through the human population, like echoes from the dying biosphere. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he’s afraid of dying,” she said, her eyes solemn and teary. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The even more devastating piece of news was that Justin’s mother was dying. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

This loaded question is the reason I didn’t want anyone to know I was dying. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

So that morning, while my mother was dying, I was dreaming. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At some point I had come to understand that Linda was sick, maybe even dying, but I loved her and just couldn’t accept it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing that she asked of God for many years was that he would not visit on her the punishment of dying before Rebeca. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Each time it was just after sunset, in the dying light of the day, and I caught them with my bare hands as they came close to the lifeboat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I might be able to make it by nearly starving but not quite dying. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Richard, think of Christ’s dying for you, shedding His blood, His precious blood on the cross.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave a deep-growling sound like a hog dying down in the swamp and trying to drive off disturbance. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of a young bird that had fallen out of a nest and lay dying on the ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, if somebody came in buying too much of it for his wife or child, you got concerned, because somebody taking that much BC was mighty sick and probably dying. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The okapi complied by living, and the spider by dying. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your city is gone to ash and bone, your people are dying all around you. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Petra Cotes, dying with laughter, could not resist the temptation of teasing him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Coach even had to tell him to stop bending over, which made me feel good, to know I wasn't the only one who felt like I was dying. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She usually included money, and I was dying to add an egg separator to my baking supplies. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I think what convinced her is Papa’s dying and me being away at school and the business losing money and Mama having to mind the store pretty much by herself. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, the same melody may sound quite different depending on whether the character is in love, being heroic, or dying. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Leroy dying, the Preacher getting killed, the smells, the way the chains rattled, and the naked folks looking so scared and whupped and tired, it was just too much. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The first was the suspected poisoning of George Bigheart, the Osage Indian who, before dying, had passed on information to Vaughan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I know you would if you could. I’m just dying for a cigarette. It’s been like four days.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

My mind went back to Jenkins and how he had been afraid of dying. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger looked longingly at the books as a man dying of thirst might look at the last glass of water in existence. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my eyes on the mirror, to watch myself as it happened, but when the dying man cut into me, my face crumpled and I dropped my head. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The eyes and faces about him were not at all the way the black preacher’s had been when he had prayed about Jesus and His love, about His dying upon the cross. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had become more important, somehow, because he had been so near to dying. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But she clearly would die and likely was dying—this thinness, this weakness, this evasion. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The desert flowers, so abundant in April, were dying now. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“He likes to talk about dying soon,” Amaka said, in amused English. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“All this time, there I was thinking you were dying a the cancer or sick in the head. Poor Miss Celia, all day long.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"Boxing is a dying sport. People aren't much interested anymore. They want easy things like television, bowling, car rides. Get yourself a good job. Finish high school. Go at night if you have to." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Move to avoid the cut, and you will still die, but your dying will be uglier. Stretch out your neck, my lord.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Here I am, on this trip, and I was afraid of dying.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

If he has a son, he’ll be angry at him for dying, like Trey is. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ve led a rich life, Henry, but I’m terrified of dying a pauper.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But it does make the process of dying seem more exceptional than it really is, and harder to engage in at the times when we must ourselves engage. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘On to Sparta, then. But how does a chained god’s heartbeat help us find a cure for dying?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When you have CF, you sort of get used to the idea of dying young. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I thought of the last dodo dying on a remote rock. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alone and maybe dying here, does he need some girl angry with him? Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heqet started across the court and Ranofer followed him dreamily, past small basket-shaped furnaces in which the fires were dying, past the balance scales and the washing vats. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

When I got Ob and May after all those years of having nobody, that was my idea of dying and going to heaven. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Others mistook malignant changes for infection, sending women home with antibiotics only to have them return later, dying from metastasized cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It had a garish print made up of dying heroes, horrible tortures, and lions eating slaves in the Colosseum. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But sometimes Smitty'd get to asking questions about Mama dying—stuff I didn't care to talk about. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“He don’t have much to say these days. He’s dying. Might be he’s dead. I haven’t seen him since ... I don’t remember when ...” “Where is he? Take me to him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The odds of dying were excellent, but he had to try. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Around me people were burning, crying in pain, dying. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

What scared Stanley the most about dying wasn't his actual death. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they’ll do is bury me underground anyway. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I could still see her but she was fading: the reds and yellows of a dying summer obscured her dark form. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mary crowned with dying sweet flowers on the first day of May. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having grown up in a place I was dying to escape, then landing in one where I sometimes feel like an imposter, hardly makes me unique. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tormented by the fear of dying without having sent Amaranta Úrsula to Brussels, he worked as he had never done, and instead of one he made three weekly raffles. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He thought to himself, I don’t know how we are going to get out of this one without people dying. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the craziness of a dying young man with his shoes full of snow. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed on my knees, hands in the air, and considered dying. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

‘We are lucky men,’ he murmured, ‘for we have a cause worth dying for. This honor is not given to every generation.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Greeks, hopeless, thought only of dying bravely. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if she wants to go back and get caught by Mr. Prentiss Jr.? But if she wants to risk catching the Noise from me and dying that way? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The common room was lit with the glow of the dying fire, still littered with the debris from the party. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I want us to have history, something longer than the small window of time we’re actually sharing, with an even longer future, but the dying elephant in the room crushes me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He saw the dead as well, and heard the dying. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was the experience of feeling death without dying that came from watching a chicken leap about blindly after its neck had been snapped by a quick twist of my father’s wrist. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A grey girl on a dying horse, fleeing from her marriage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The whole world is dying to find out who you really are. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I was afraid of dying,” I said down to him. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Were Americans dying by the thousands as well? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a scene from my old kitchen, where my mother treated the dying, multiplied by ten, by fifty, by a hundred. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I remembered a few weeks back when Saidu had spoken about parts of him slowly dying each passing day, as we carried on with our journey. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Fie felt sure she was dying, but he gave Charles something to hold on to. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last light of day was gone by then; the only light came from the stars above and the faint red glow of the dying fire in the center of the grove. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The tall buildings had shrunk down into trees and long ribbons of wild, dying grass. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Confederacy, though dying, is not yet dead. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’m dying, the swallow thought, knowing for certain that it was true. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A girl in grey on a dying horse, he thought. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They shriek and wail a long, high song with quivering soft palates, like babies dying of hunger. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he lay dying, he told me to work hard and take care of my mother and sisters —and I promised I would, even if I died of working. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

We’re one of three meat and wool providers for the town, used to be one of five, soon be one of two because Mr. Marjoribanks oughta be dying from his drink problem any day now. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Disappointingly, it turned out to be some banal utterances about dying and cutting cloth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Lorena smuggled a bottle of Jack Daniel’s in her purse, and she and Juanga polished it off, drank it as if it were water and they were dying of thirst in the desert. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I guess, ever since I sat down and made the list of dead men, I’d started thinking about dying. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then, like now, I didn’t know they were dying. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

If a girl was thin in Yana Urku, people said she looked as sickly and ugly as a dying tree. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if the transport angels ever make mistakes and take the wrong peoples, ones who are not actually dying. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The laughter, which had shown signs of dying away, broke out again more loudly than ever. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Urn, Nancy is at work and she’s pregnant so I — ” “Pregnant! My niece is pregnant! Now that calls for more champagne. You tell her I must see her. I’m dying to see her.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then it takes the dying sailor over the edge and into the sea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And I wondered how many gods were dying in both of them right then, and whether any of them could be saved. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Crane-man reached out with his crutch and poked the dying embers of the fire. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh my gosh, we got all this super cute stock and I am capital D dying over here. Seriously, my paycheck is, like, gone. Bills who?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The young boy was clearly dying and in agony. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He’d already plunged into the yellowing, crisping plants, dying plants, he’d already stumbled forward several dozen yards, when he began to feel stupid again, wrong again, worried again. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now the Queen was paying her own price: She was dying, and so were her land and her people. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Worry is yet another side effect of dying. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The marshes were at an end, dying away into dead peats and wide flats of dry cracked mud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“So if the infection gets into your blood, you’ll wish you were just dying of thirst…But I have antibiotics at home. Take us there, and you can have all you need.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Harry, however, remained behind, taking a seat beside the fire and looking down into the dying embers. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Stricken with grief, Rostam hears his son’s dying words: If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As he was dying, word spread throughout Hayti that he needed a blood transfusion. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And while Yasuko Namba lay dying on the South Col, I was a mere 350 yards away, huddled inside a tent, oblivious to her struggle, concerned only with my own safety. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

My mother didn’t know that I was dying to wear glasses. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was asleep on a cot in the first room and the old man could see him clearly with the light that came in from the dying moon. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

While they continued to write and talk, we saw the wounded and dying. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my hands I parted the rustling grasses and cupped the dying flowers’ heads gently, saying farewell to all that I touched. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I did what I could to ignore the whirlwind around Barack, even if it showed no sign of dying down. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I wanted to see my family, even if it meant dying with them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At dusk I grieve, thinking the earth is dying. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, when very many people were making a pilgrimage to the dying Buddha, Kamala, once the most beautiful of courtesans, was also on her way. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he had seen Death with his dying eyes! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

All this walking and stumbling and coughing and dying and it’s really, really them, by God it’s really them. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A wild animal that feels that it no longer has any reason to live reaches in the end a point when its remaining energies may actually be directed toward dying. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because he’s dying,” she said, her voice flat, her eyes still on her plate. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Maester Luwin trailed after him; By the time they reached the battlements, dead men and dying horses were strewn about the market square outside the gates. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The gnarled tree was dying, split almost to the ground and rotting. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I did something I’d been dying to do for the past week—I disabled the locking mechanisms on both devices. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In his mind, Jonas saw again the face of the boy who had lain dying on a field and had begged him for water. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Which meant his chances of dying were under 50% but, again, not by much. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like India—a new country is born, but my home is dying. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When men are dying every hour, no one looks too hard at one more dead man, especially one as well despised as Nurse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The storm punished the ground and then passed over, dying off in softer mumbles. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She did not need to explain that Popo chased her out of the house when I was dying. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can imagine Mother dying someday, but Daddy’s death seems inconceivable. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And, as the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Questioning always revealed that spraying or fogging had been done in the area where the birds were dying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It found its mark; one of the suitors fell dying to the floor. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The man called his sons together when he was dying. ‘I have no money to buy you wives, or daughters to exchange for them,’ he said. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany bid them kill the weakest of their dying horses, so the dead man might go mounted into the night lands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Linda was dying in company—in .company and with all the modern conveniences. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the rain and dying light, I couldn’t see any sign of new houses, certainly not on or near the sacred ground. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Some say they do. It’s like dying, though, and going to heaven. Nobody ever comes back to tell you about it.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know until just now how true that really was. I’m afraid I’ve doomed you, Jacob, my sweet friend, to a short life trapped in a dying world.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He believed that Max knew how he felt, and once more before he died he wanted to talk with him and feel with as much keenness as possible what his living and dying meant. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The room had been abandoned in the middle of childbirths, where dying mothers had aborted fetuses infected with Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Blue Island, Illinois, hundreds of dead and dying birds were picked up. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the sort of thing I’d tell Frieda or Lucy or my sisters, but I was dying to tell someone. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

My mother tries to save them for those who are actually in the process of dying, to ease them out of the world. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The oracle which once had spoken terrible words to him comforted him when he was dying. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is there a more Afghan way of dying, Amir jan? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I caught myself visualizing a woman my age dying, even though I knew that was wrong. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn't sing for him now, here, with the sky a swirl with fire and men dying in their hundreds and their thousands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Not right this second, of course, but I do appear to be dying. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I picked up one last, small dying fish and took it to our next door neighbor who owned the goldfish. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I am like a severed branch flung by a storm from the trunk of a great, dying tree. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The second reason we would be quite unlikely to see any little green men is that possible civilizations are bound to be scattered in time, coming into existence and then dying out. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dying flames looked like they were coming from under the ground. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Or how my tongue would tie in the initial attempts, stiffen so, struggle like an animal booby-trapped and dying inside my head. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You might as well ask. I can tell you’re dying of curiosity.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it was. But one thing May was right about is that it’s our time to live. It’s her dying wish that we do that, June, so we need to see to it. All right?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like doctors and undertakers, she really told good dying stories. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But a dragon could not feed a hungry child nor help a dying woman’s pain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lord Renly turned away and went back across the moat, to the tower where his brother lay dying. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at least as much as Alaska, said, “I’ve had eighteen straight whiskeys. I do believe that’s a record,” before dying. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Because this poor dragonfly’s dying, and then his light’ll go out.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“A story about a rabbi named Jairus, who pleaded with Jesus. ‘My daughter is dying. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was no hope for me; I was left in a ward with the dying. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

This pond looked muddy and dark, surrounded by nothing but sparse blades of dying grass. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was angry until I realized the snow was water, and that I was dying of thirst. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after his return to consciousness, the albino appeared, bloodless, with skin as pale as dying birch. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Getting a splinter through your eye and dying.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was dying, alone and insignificant, and nobody cared. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Body lice and bacteria and fleas were dying by the billions. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If he has to go, every pilot would like to be killed in action. It’s better than dying of the piles.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought the roar in her ears was her own dying heartbeat. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, when we discussed it, some of us were sure she was dying for someone to ask: “Why? Why is it so much worse for us?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m also dying for a drink, but I can’t be bothered going over to the tap. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the day, I minister to the dying in the quarantine camp, which hath a sweet miasma so foul it can scarce be borne. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

One user, CaptainOverpants, claimed to work in Mr. Griswold’s hospital and said that Mr. Griswold was still in a coma and had been secretly moved to hospice care because he was dying. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They lived in marshes and stagnant pools, sucked blood from man and horse alike, and laid their eggs in the dead and dying. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And he was dying to know what was in that binder. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We walked back jubilant that day in the coppery twilight already edged with black, like ashes around dying embers. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was blotched as a dying banana. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

More than three hundred were dying every week. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Part of me is dying to tell her about the journal. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“They told me Charlotte, Sandy, and Tim need help, Sandy is close to dying. Then they give me general location where to find them.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Atop each corner of the cell-block’s wall, rounded guard towers seemed to sag sadly at their edges as though the prison itself had exhaled a final dying gasp. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

"You're supposed to be in love, sweetheart. The boy's dying. Give me something I can work with!" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Piper wondered what it would be like if they didn’t have to worry about dying a dozen times every day. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“He says that hers dying because of me, as if I were a bad case of colic.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But the fire was dying; the guns ended like sparks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day he examined the dying plants to look for new growth. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“We’ll see you in a little while,” he said, and then I heard their footsteps dying on the stair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I know that now because they are dying out quickly and I hear nothing but the jungle sounds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy murmured to me, “Do you realize what this means, Calpurnia? The days of whale oil and coal dust are over. The old century is dying, even as we watch. Remember this day.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He was dead and Apollo kneeling beside him wept for him, dying so young, so beautiful. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head’s reeling from the ghastly events of the last five minutes—Boggs mutilated, dying, dead, Peeta’s homicidal rage, Mitchell bloody and netted and swallowed by that foul black wave. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Two, because I went through the same training as Butler, and I’ve been dying for somebody to practice my pile driver on.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He’d tell you it was just an old man dying an old man’s death. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Such charming tales of lovely young people who, dying in the springtime of life, were fittingly changed into spring flowers, have probably a dark background. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some word from him that would rekindle the dream and stop the death they were dying. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it was a combination of Lynn dying and seeing the little girl in the blue dress that changed my mother’s vote. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was not averse to dying at war in the way Americans were. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the Creation of Éa, which is the oldest song, it is said, “Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

In a frantic voice she told him how local authorities had beaten her husband and he was dying. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A dying woman in a cot surrounded by strangers was sorrowful, but a dying woman surrounded by her children, her handiwork, the home where she worked so hard, left me in tears. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He composed himself triumphantly, to hear the sounds of the hunt dying away. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

My auntie said it was Popo’s dying time and I must show respect. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dying fire lights the sky with a dull orange glow. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have a tent, we just lay under the stars, nestled inside the Millers’ fluffy sleeping bags, serenaded by frogs, the fire we’d cooked the dogs on dying out by our feet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In a recent study of the reaction to dying in patients with obstructive disease of the lungs, it was concluded that the process was considerably more shattering for the professional observers than the observed. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night rang to the clash of steel and the cries of the wounded and dying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At the mention of dying, a surge of feeling had engulfed him, pushing him beyond anger into an extremity of bewilderment and disgust. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That is not in the best interest of the virus, because then the virus may also die, unless it can jump fast enough out of the dying host into a new host. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three lines are organized by urgency, as in, those with sicknesses versus those of us dying today by some unknown force versus bored visitors. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The bank was dying, but still the people of Midland, and even Odessa, refused to believe it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this confusion of dying men and wildly flying weapons Atalanta kept her head and wounded the boar. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

None showed signs of disease — only the erratic movements of the dying and a strange deep wine color of the gills. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Whenever I think of hospitals all I can think of is people dying and stuff like that. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Devon about it and he said that was crazy and I shouldn’t blame Mom for having cancer and dying. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had gone across the river, hunting for a nutmeg tree to make a paste of nutmeg and fresh garlic for Chella, his wife, as she lay dying of tuberculosis. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I threw it into the dying fire, the smell might wake someone. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t my fault I got to keep living, and it wasn’t her fault she was dying. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The turntable gave a dying ahhh and the stylus clunked home. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And even as boys these men began to die and were dying still. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dying hours of the day I tried fishing again. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Abnegation are dying again, dying like they were when I pretended to be under the simulation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The red light was dying out fast from the hills and from the windy sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“A girl in grey on a dying horse. Jon Snow’s sister.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

How Old Toby came by the plant is not recorded, for to his dying day he would not tell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Tell him Brett is dying to know how he can get into those pants." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

My father said that you told him on your dying bed to take care of Deborah. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

"Rachel," Nico said, “your life aura almost faded completely. I could see you dying.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Jones and Allen went together and immediately discovered a house in tiny Emsley’s Alley where the mother was already dead, the father was dying, and two small children huddled together, frightened and hungry. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There’s no excuse for absence because there was a boy in another section that was dying and still they brought him in on a stretcher. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When the wise old grandfather found out, instead of raising a row as had been feared, he commented, dying with laughter, that it was the natural destiny of literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He could be dying inside, and no one would even know. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Unlike his heroic older brother, who is gradually dying of freezer-burned-food poisoning. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, while dancing a piece from Swan Lake, she’d cried, so overcome by the beauty of it that she felt as if she really were the dying swan. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And if you are told that you have 10 percent chance of dying within the next minute, you’ll probably panic. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I bet they’re dying to ask who I am, if the lady in the headscarf is my mom or my aunt. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Sex isn’t worth dying for, if you ask me.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

What I wanted to put in it was the reason for my dying, if I should die. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Whatever he pleases, so long as he remembers to feed him. I don't want him dying." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

First she was in prison working in the laundry and dying fast Then us got her move to the mayor’s house. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something true and living was being drained from him, and his dæmon fluttered weakly and called in a wild high call, but she was dying. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s what I don’t get: why everyone makes such a big deal out of dying. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“The batteries are dying. We can turn it back on in a few minutes, once we’re ready to try out the stretcher and the ropes.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Not one step back: in a world at war, the fear of Stalin’s directives was a threat more terrifying than dying in battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I guess I thought it'd take my mind off getting pneumonia and dying. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was dying on the floor of a theater, a place of entertainment. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And no doctor ever spoke to the frightened little black girl who trembled in the chair beside the dying woman. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

Again and again I fetch water for the dying man and drink some myself. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Better dead than Reek If Abel’s scheme went awry, Ramsay would make their dying long and hard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Nurse is dead and Yezzan’s dying. It could be dark before anyone thinks to miss us. We will never have a better chance than now.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At the new memories and information I’ve added since I’ve been here, notes about Gran’s dogs dying, Granddad and the ivory goose, Gat giving me the Moriarty book, the aunts fighting about the Boston house. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

As it blazed up, Meleager fell to the ground dying, and by the time it was consumed his spirit had slipped away from his body. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t mess with dying,” she said, her hands on her hips. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I was panicking at the thought of Needles dying from something that I hadn't known how to do anything about. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Now they were dying in the snow, feeling nothing, turning the snow to the color of raspberry sherbet. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment of sundown that day, there was no sun visible, only a dying of the light behind clouds that flowed off Catoctin Mountain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figured Daddy was so mad about Mama dying, he’d leave me behind too. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“They have not said they are dying of hunger,” Aunty Ifeka said, with a slight shrug. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just a few months ago, when the British came, everyone was dying. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A bellowing sound, like a giant beast was dying a terrible death. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Quite a few of the trees along the creek are dying, too. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Nick was afraid to bring it all up again, but he was dying of curiosity. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This dying man has time with him, he has an invisible dagger with which he stabs me: Time and my thoughts. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as the crowd started to thin in the shadows of the dying embers, I turned to look at David. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Once Newcharlie'd caught him asking me questions about my daddy dying. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

People were dying and he seemed unstoppable, and I had to do what I could. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The sight of the dying animal brought back the memory of the creature she had killed in Ento, and for a moment she thought her stomach would turn itself inside out. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I could hear him dying of starvation, and I had food. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was dying to scrub the grit off my arms and face. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t blame her, having a daughter who’s either dying of thirst or demanding release. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was dying to get out of there, but I had to be patient. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I sit down, it sounds like dozens of mice are dying an ugly death. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned back to Cate, a question dying on my lips. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He is shot seventeen times in the back by his captors, dying ingloriously but not unlawfully. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Smoke was rising here and there among the creepers that festooned the dead or dying trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I want to read them, am dying to read them, but I have to be careful with Carla in the room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wrapped herself well in her quilt, which her mother had made before dying young. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are some things in this world worth dying for.” Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I guess she was just dying to tell somebody. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Me knowing Annalissetta kind of has to do with Benny dying. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“But I do business with Chinese pirates all the time. I’d love to visit China. I’m also dying to go see Japan. It’s on my bucket list.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I could have been going home or dying or passing out; it made no difference to me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Though I am only able to show respect now, he thought, to behave towards my father as I should, because he is dying, he is almost gone away from me. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He was still saying that while he felt himself being propelled rapidly away, heard the old man’s thin furious voice dying away behind him. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the whole idea of dying still seemed unreal. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But there was no sudden dying of life in O-lan’s body. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Alba was sure that she was dying, if she was not already dead. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother lay dying in a trench, and he begged Yevgeniya to fly to find his father at the front. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Alex stood where he was, watching it, until it had disappeared in the dying light. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“The teachers are nice, especially my art teacher. We’re starting a new project on Monday, and I’m dying to know what it is.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When she got to the part about dying before you waked I put my head under the cover. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I want to see you stand for your execution, and I won't have you dying from infection before I'm through with you." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“He’s no Muslim,” they told Drew as we sat on cold sand watching the dying flames of a campfire. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Hope that the truth will free us of this war. Trust that informed Americans will direct their public servants to stop lying and to stop the killing and dying.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Echo was near him, but she could do nothing; only when, dying, he called to his image, “Farewell—farewell,” she could repeat the words as a last good-bye to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the darkness dispersed with a massive sigh, like the last breath of a dying god. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Imp was said to be dying as well, from a terrible cut to the head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

What happened in my nightmare—drifting, drowning, dying—that actually happened to me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Speaking for colleagues and friends, William wrote proudly, “Everybody is dying to see you.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Power comes with responsibility. Your government knows that people are dying!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It was Skathis’s dying act—to steal the sky, as though he hadn’t stolen enough already.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Have you heard of dying in a dream, boy?” the woman asked. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If this world was dying and there was nothing to be done for it, then what was left for me here? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I tried not to believe that I too was dying, slowly, on my way to find safety. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Angkar has increased our food ration and as a result, fewer and fewer people are dying from starvation. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brook trout also appeared among the dead fish, and along the roads and in the woods birds were dying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“He’s dying for the bread order to come up short, you know. You should throw a roll in the trash one day, just to make him happy.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

All night I kept thinking it through, and still I didn’t have an answer to why all the old ladies were dying. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could wait by the bed of a dying person and then when a transport angel comes, I could follow the angel and the dead person up to heaven. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“No operation to make Robert look better is worth a one-in-four chance of him dying.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But that would be the same as Kazi dying, wouldn’t it? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’m Last Friend—less, but maybe dying alone is an okay End Day for someone who lived his life pretty alone. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The engine groaned like a dying water buffalo. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Could have drowned me but it didn’t and now it’s dying and I’m the one who killed it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Miig squashed his dying smoke under his heel and stretched out his legs, making a pillow between his head and the log with his hands. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And when those enemies have gotten enough from him to then be able to attack him, you have been his brave soldiers, dying for him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then that same thought rolled over and showed me what was beneath it: Every minute that you don’t get him a present, he’s a minute closer to dying. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

But here’s the thing: All that dying, all those extinctions? The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When Aunty Ifeoma woke me up, the room was dim and the shrills of the night crickets were dying away. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Within a year after the heptachlor was applied, the vines in the treated yards were wilting and dying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Trying to read the shape of the future in its dying flames. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He began to perceive what this was, a woman who clung to an old and dying man because of what last thing she might get from him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I should not have suspected that it meant she was dying; but I knew instantly now! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

His eyes were fixed on Kaitlin, but Diana wasn’t sure he was actually seeing the dying girl in front of him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never seen it come down like that. I hope there was nothing you were dying to do at school today.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And then my best friend, but I don’t want to tell her I’m dying. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My phone’s battery is dying, down close to thirty percent, and I want to make sure the hospital can reach me in case my dad wakes up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn’t about dying. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Michelangelo dying. Even if we saved every Talmud. It’s not worth it.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve read the dying feel no pain but sense everything that goes on around them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Why must you go back to the hospital? Your crazy partner isn’t dying, you know." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The triangle at left, defined by the mast and two ropes, includes the dead and dying. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Sunday in October, the air cool and pungent with dying things. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The truck crushes dying grass and snow beneath its tires, and soon the ground turns to the pavement in the Abnegation sector, and I barely feel the passage of time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

With his dying words he charged me to clear his wounded name. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Seven were adults, big grey-brown beasts, savage and powerful, their mouths drawn back over long yellow teeth by their dying snarls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In my rounds as a part-time chaplain, I often thought back to those sad, frightening days when Mama Lessie lay dying in the unfinished basement. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Detectives questioned her at two o’clock that morning, even as Lincoln lay dying. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He took it all in, the big elm tree and the dying rosebush, the freshly mowed lawn and the missing shingle by the chimney, the darkened windows and the warm glow of the porch light. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

After an hour, the ground all around the table would be littered with piles of durian husks, stinking like a dying mongoose. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“He’s dying. He should have died long ago. This ... this is more like a memory.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was like all my memories of those first days after Stan died: Against the shock of the premonitions, the roar of the people dying inside me, everything else disappeared. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The bus wasn’t leaving for four hours, and the minutes of those hours struggled like gnats on fly paper— dying slow, exhausted with the fight to stay alive. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the one, or one of the two, who might keep it from dying, for a while at least. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They are dying steadily, some by being eaten, some just dropping in their tracks, tons of them around the earth, disintegrating as they die, invisibly. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is no need to say any more, Miss Granger. Tell me, which of you will be dying this year?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But my folks were more alarmed over his last words than over his dying. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Skeletal women sat upon the ground clutching dying infants. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes were locked on the seijeant dying before him, jerking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The ides of March dawned on Friday with a green and brown sky, the color of the water in a dying pond. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

As these lay dying, biting the central floor, their friends gave way and broke for the inner wall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d talk on and on about the final illness, the dying, the funeral, and especially about the grave being lined with roses. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Men have been dying for Ireland since the beginning of time and look at the state of the country. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He shouldn’t have been feeling like he was dying. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Seated helplessly by the side of the dying woman, Kira leaned forward again and again to hold a container of water to her mother’s lips. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept his house and shared his bed; she visited the sick, as she had always done, and she comforted the dying, as she had always done. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I know, I know. I’m sorry. I know there’s no time to waste, but I had to be sure you are who I thought you were. The best thing about dying is your friendship.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Could she, the actress asked Dr. Leale, cradle the dying president’s head in her lap? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way back from the slaughterhouse, we stopped for Cokes in the village of Mojo, where the gas-station owner had arranged a few tables and chairs beneath a dying canopy of vines. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He had discussion groups about dying, what it really meant, how societies had always been afraid of it without necessarily understanding it. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then with the dying hum of the furiously whirling drums, I heard the grains sifting lazily in the sudden stillness, sliding sand-like down the chute into the pot underneath. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell them I learned “The Walls of Cork” and I dance around the kitchen trying to hum a made-up tune and dying with the pain of my tooth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t entirely comfortable talking with an adult he had just met about almost dying in the desert and being saved by a Holy Being. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I yawn; all the fun of the night is dying down, and my eyes are growing heavy. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

For days afterward, the skeleton of the McCulloms’ burned-out town house continued to hiss and cave in on itself, dying far more slowly than its young occupants had. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My father wants me to go to Yale, or maybe Princeton, but I swear, I wouldn't go to one of those Ivy League colleges, if I was dying, for God's sake. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She left the salon almost mournfully; while the hairdresser had flat-ironed the ends, the smell of burning, of something organic dying which should not have died, had made her feel a sense of loss. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

By January 24, it had entered Room B, and monkeys in that room started going into shock and dying with runny noses, red eyes, and masklike expressions on their faces. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not imagine what dying must have felt like for her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“If he had, his dying would not have been so easy.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I try to respond, but all that comes out of my mouth is this strangled sound like a frog dying. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

We were afraid she was dying, and were ashamed of ourselves. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, while she was singing with pleasure and dying with laughter over her own inventions, Aureliano was becoming more and more absorbed and silent, for his passion was self-centered and burning. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

This gloomy overcast afternoon, this last day of the dying century, was definitely turning into a “not” day. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Before September 15, 1963,1 didn’t know to worry about dying because of my skin color. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The words dead, diseased, or dying are supposed to describe the cows, but they’re so far from home that they seem to describe the reporters. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A lot of folks died after you left home—you left your mother on her dying bed.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Here was her evanescence, and it was like dying all over again. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“What could he mean? She was dying to know what could be his meaning?”—and asked Elizabeth whether she could at all understand him? Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m like a dying person,” Ishmael said to her. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“She is dying for love of you,” she said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"No one is dead or dying," he said acidly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A television journalist in the Farm Belt once said this about a suspected outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease: The pasture contained several cows seen by news reporters that were dead, diseased, or dying. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would tell me to help her as the patient was dying. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked if she was dying, and he told me yes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, incidentally, is also bursting with curiosity and simply dying to ask what we talk about, only she’s secretly afraid I’d refuse to answer. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You know, I’m the last of a dying breed.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But he was afraid of dying alone, afraid of being deserted by the person he had depended on for so long. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” she said, “but I seem to be dying.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the school was a garbage dump perched on the edge of a dying marsh. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road through Welch, Dad told us, led only farther up into the wet, forbidding mountains and on to other dying coal towns. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Parts of me are dead, or clearly dying. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t prepared to see them wheel in somebody who’d been injured in a serious wreck, somebody who might even be dying. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is just wrong: of course Ramses II did not know he was dying of tuberculosis, but nevertheless we now know that it was tuberculosis that killed him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Nearly all the rest will be dying by the time you read this. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No, the time for such treatment is past. I cannot cure her, but I believe we can ease her pain in dying.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It took them more than four hours to free the four men who had been trapped in debris, including John Barry, who had come close to dying of suffocation before the rescuers arrived. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

With no trees, no birds nor other free critter, no water, just noise and buildings that made you feel you was this close to dying. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

From the air sharks could be seen moving in, attracted by the helpless and dying fishes in the water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her husband dying and her mother being blinded were events that would matter in the course of a lifetime. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The doctor no longer visited because there was no petrol and there were too many dying soldiers to treat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looks deep into the past and finds dying stars. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I could hear our friendship dying right there. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But in camp rumors were constantly spreading, dying, and spreading again in different form. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t fathom May taking the trouble of dying just so she could go to Ohio. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was dying to ask her about Tina, a person doesn’t just ignore this kind of information. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

These refugees had terrible stories to tell: houses destroyed, people sleeping in the streets, children dying, water running low, disease spreading. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind seemed to be dying down a bit. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was dying to know the baby’s name but Mama seemed like such a stranger now that she didn’t like to ask outright. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another he saw an old woman who had been slowly dying for the past four years, whose shoulder blades were jutting through the open wounds in her back. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reading it the night before, I’d wondered if it would be like that for me—if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I’d played in her dying. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people—eternal life. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The murmur of their voices floated up into the dying light. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’ll kill me, I thought, as I got a head start on dying. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Don't let me undergo the indignity of dying in the stocks in these women's clothes,” he said to him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Long and bitter. A life without honor. Until his dying day, men will say he was afraid to fight.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I crossed myself as I faced the wooden life-size statue of a dying Christ, looking down on us from high above the altar. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Our old life is gone, Sohrab, and everyone in it is either dead or dying. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Irwin had injured me in some awful, obscure way, and all the while I lay there on Joan's sofa I was really dying. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Hungerford, Straw, that lot. Some of them weren’t so bad for sellswords. Others, well, might be they could stand a bit of dying. What of them?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And now he was alone and wounded, dying maybe, and...she had to get to him. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We had put some poison around, and we figured he must have been dying. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dark, brittle ash flew in the air like dying moths. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The argument between Edel and Du Barry is dying down in the distance. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“A friend? All my friends are either dead or dying.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His ribs throbbed where the arai had unleashed Geryon’s dying curse back in the forest. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When she was dying, wracked with her irruptions, in the slave quarters of that house in Canaan, this libation sat by her, untouched. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Her fault or not, I don’t want her dying in some rice swamp.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Like the dying world the newly blind inhabit, all of it slowly fading from memory. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It felt blessedly cool outside, but men were dying all around her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her husband, upstairs in their apartment, was dying of cancer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But I had heard the grown-ups rumor that Tenorio’s second daughter was dying and that she would not last the summer, and I remembered his threat. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have someone who’s been dying to meet you and get your autograph.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Stranded in the middle of the muddy street with no place to go, the president of the United States was dying in the presence of a mob of hundreds, perhaps a thousand, witnesses. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped my eyes, kneading the dying flesh of his feet between my fingers. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had both sought comfort in each other, and in their shared world, perhaps for the sake of novelty, or out of the fear that that world was slowly dying. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fern was beat down enough after seeing that hen’s neck snapped clean while its body did a dying funky-chicken dance. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But she lived because Delilah isn’t dying today. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They walk together to the circus afterward, past red-roofed buildings glowing in the dying light, going their separate ways only once they reach the courtyard. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

On Payne’s back, dying for a little piece of the meat as well, was Ivory Christian. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lord of suet was already dying from whatever hideous disease he had brought back from Sotho- ryos, it seemed to Tyrion. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The cabin was dark except for a dying fire in the fireplace, but the woman made her way to her bed without trouble. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was pretty scary to think that one of my friends might have had something to do with Ben dying. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The hero can prove what he is only by dying. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if you are told that you have a 10 percent chance of dying within the next year, you might worry a lot more, perhaps even choosing to live your life differently. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

While William Faulkner sweated in California trying to imagine what their lives must be like, hundreds of young airwomen were flying and fighting and dying over the battlefields of the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“The long habit of living,” said Thomas Browne, “indisposeth us to dying.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Alter, he was dying. You couldn’t have stopped it.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But it can also be the place for a dying fall—where you bring the ship of your speech into the calm waters of harbor. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

And minutes later, all over the country, the dying would begin. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Daggers in the dark. I know. You will forgive my doubts, my lady. A grey girl on a dying horse, fleeing from a marriage, that was what you said.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I think about my piano lessons, and the keyboard I’m dying to save up for. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Do forgive me. The Grand Maester befouled himself in dying, and the stink was so abominable that I thought I might choke.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Nobody said anything about dying,” Mrs. Glass said. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

And the voices wailed, Fire, fire, run, run, like a tragic nursery rhyme, a dozen voices, high, low, like children dying in a forest, alone, alone. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Father's face made her think of her own father, dying in his bed at Riverrun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The smell of dying leaves in the motionless gray morning as he shambled up onto the porch after a night’s fishing, and the full, fine growth in the cedar trees. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because while I was running to comfort his wife, the other driver was dying. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I remember watching a TV program once about old-age homes that brought in cats and dogs to cheer the elderly and dying patients. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only, this time I thought I was dying. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It didn’t register that people were dying, that my cousin had been shot dead as she ran from the tent. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I asked Devon about it and he said that was crazy and I shouldn’t blame Mom for having cancer and dying. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I can safely say that finding out that my mother never told her Arkansas friends about me was worse than her dying. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The browse line on the trees went higher and higher as they sought food, and in time many more deer were dying of starvation than had formerly been killed by predators. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

You ended up dying in a mud bank. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been dying to show you this! And the really good rapids are on the other side.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It won’t really hydrate us, but it will keep us from dying. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘I wouldn’t trust it,’ said Sam, ‘not till I was dying of thirst. There’s a wicked feeling about this place.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As long as the aunts kept disappearing and the uncles dying after unspeakable tortures, my parents would prolong their Gold Mountain stay. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was like a rock, a dead man’s body, a dying bird, fallen from an awful height; something that had no power of itself, any more, to turn. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“This poem was the first message. I could tell they were sad, so I wrote back. I’m dying to know who it is, though. Any ideas?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Those who were fighting were dying in what seemed like hopeless battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"How am I supposed to get anyplace with the Russians if they keep dying on me?" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His quest for belonging, for love, had ended when he had knelt by a bed and held his dying mother s hand. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They’d barely been able to stumble a hundred yards in this poisonous place without dying. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

By dawn the bombers were long gone, the fires dying, the final stragglers rounded up. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I knew that I wanted to live because I was afraid of dying, and I knew that I could come up with reasons for wanting to live. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dying sunlight the people dragged, rather than their empty cotton sacks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I am dying,” he said, sitting so close to the fire, he almost smothered it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened to the blasphemies and wondered if he was dying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The jam was still hot and on its sticky scarlet surface, thick pink froth was dying slowly. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. van Daan would like a cake, Dussel can think of nothing but seeing his Charlotte, and Mother is dying for a cup of real coffee. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He gasped out, “I was innocent. Artemis, you? My goddess, your huntsman is dying.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her patients wanted to tell her about feeling their lives were ruined now that their bodies were, their phantom limb pain, their fear of suffering and dying. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had honored Monterey by dying there and he had been degraded. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birds do their dying off somewhere, behind things, under things, never on the wing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Death-Cast did not call Ariel Andrade because he isn’t dying today, but since he’s an officer of the law, getting the call is his greatest fear every night when the clock strikes midnight. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I forgot about Papá. He’s probably dying of thirst. Here, let’s take two for him,” she said, picking up a seventh soft drink. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Especially considering that thirty seconds ago, I thought she might be dying. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I believe it was this that saved my life that morning, that I was quite literally dying of thirst. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I wake up, the dying light of the day makes everything seem to matter, from the yellowing sky to the stalks of grass above my head, waving in slow motion like a beauty queen. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In her yellow frame a dying woman in a boat trailed her fingers in the water. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Like an anxiety attack. A sudden rush of fear. Heart palpitations. Trembling and sweating. It can be quite severe. People often think they’re dying.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“We are dying to see him,” her mother writes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His every inhalation sounded like the cry of a dying duck. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Blue stars are hot and young; yellow stars, conventional and middle-aged; red stars, often elderly and dying; and small white or black stars are in the final throes of death. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam sent the message and walked down her driveway, squinting through the dying day, trying to find him. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And what if the planet were dying and those creatures had to find a new home? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“The world isn’t the safest place ever, we know that because of Christian and everyone else dying on the daily. But I should’ve shown you some risks are worth it.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For sooth, I could have killed Father for dying. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

There was a knowing about him, as if he had been here before, as if dying and fighting was something he had been bom to. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I don't know the words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She had the same cardboard fan in her hand that I’d fanned Granny with when she lay dying. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t laugh when he tells the other men about Oliver dying. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The hall was dim in the dying light. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I remember choking on nectar and pulp as the horrible bliss of the everapple stole over me, robbing me of caring even that I was dying. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dad’s coworker had brought back a chocolate bar from his business trip, and I was dying to try it. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He told her about his dead and dying patients, and about the neighbors who had abandoned their homes and businesses. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Detaching myself. And this is important—not just for someone like me, who is dying, but for someone like you, who is perfectly healthy. Learn to detach.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cellphone battery was dying, and she needed to get inside, to somewhere that had electrical outlets and objects moving faster than me and Julia. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I felt like I was dying, or the Earth was breaking apart beneath my feet, or the sky might swallow me whole. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And I'm overwhelmed by Rue, and the pain in my head, and my fear of Thresh, and the moaning of the dying girl a few feet away. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“See how these letters are straight up and down, plodding across the page? And at the end of each word, the last letter trails off like it’s giving out its dying breath.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Rabbits were suddenly dying from a rabbit disease that seemed to eat up their insides. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to say how afraid of dying I had been. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dying, his eyes glazed with the pain-killing drug of shock; yet his muscles still flexed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the explosion and my ear and Rue's dying and the boy from District 1 and the bread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Lucky for her, True Belle was dying and willing to die in Vesper County, after giving her whole well life to Miss Vera Louise in Baltimore. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I mortify my body, then I become one with Christ, who in his suffering and dying became one with mankind,” she says. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I’m starving,” Doug said, flopping over on the grass like he was dying. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Thorn drank from the potion and flickered like a dying image on the telecast before disappearing as well. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But Ching’s ear were filled with his blood, and if he heard Wang Lung he made no sign, but he only lay there panting and dying and so he died. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A certain peace with the idea of dying. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure she told him about my dying. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, driving in the country, he had seen bicyclists with huge bunches strapped before them on the handles, the bloom already fading from the dying heads, the ravaged stalks straggling naked and unclean. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Chilled me to think on all those folks dying in a fire—the beast that ate you whole. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“All my black mollies are dying off,” he said. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“And I don’t know what to do. I’m dying in here.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Koko, still blind, still stuck in her chair, was dying to know what was happening. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A friend once said that it was a perfect hospital because once you were there for fifteen minutes you didn’t mind dying. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

People were slow to piece it all together—or, at least, they had figured out the right way to keep us in the dark long after kids started dying. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was a little like Switzerland in World War II. Shells were bursting all around me, souls were tortured and I was powerless in the confines of imposed neutrality— hopes were dying. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had followed the dying child too far. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden bed in the room held the shrunken body of my dying uncle Lucas. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire in the fireplace should be dying, but it looks as if it’s been sprayed with gas or more logs added. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

‘Hang in there. You are not dying from a stupid body piercing.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“After you get shot up by the bad guy, maybe. A kiss before dying.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“And I’m dying to meet her. I’ll tell my mom we have to work on a project after school next week. We’ll go then, okay?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was said that on Calvary, the soldiers, not wishing to divide the garment, had cast dice for it while Jesus was dying. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had traveled halfway around the world, slept in dirt-floor huts, given food and water to the poor and dying, but still hadn’t impressed Mr. Jackson Sage. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

This new voice was grating, like listening to metal scratching metal, or a dying rat. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think more people are dying,” Alex replied, saddened that even on his sister’s birthday, death intruded. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The words were rushed; I was dying to escape to my room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

This was probably the only thing that could have roused the dying embers of Frodo’s heart and will: an attack, an attempt to wrest his treasure from him by force. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Here dying and wondering what some boy thinks about me. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“What I’m asking from you is to grant an old man his dying wish,” he said gravely. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell them I’m dying and we desperately need milk and corned beef to keep me alive,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had twice narrowly escaped dying in riding accidents that had landed him in the hospital for months on end, wiped him out financially, and caused near crippling injury. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly every city I know has such a dying mother of violence and despair where at night the brightness of the street lamps is sucked away and policemen walk in pairs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a lot of time feeling guilty for living after I lost my family, but now I can’t beat this weird Decker guilt for dying, knowing I’m leaving this crew behind. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But I’m not even sure if dying would mean that, so I keep going. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"He forbade it. He did not want his enemies to know that he was dying. With the realm so troubled, he feared that if the Lannisters suspected how frail he was . . ." ". . . they might attack?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I try—I suck the air into my lungs and I force it out—but there’s no sound, just a rasping, like a dying person fighting for air. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead were mostly covered now with blankets and shelter halves, but some of them were still dying and there were groups of men clustered here and there. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell she was really worried and dying to find out what else I knew. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Yellow rags fluttered from railings and door knockers—pus yellow, fear yellow—to mark the homes of the sick and the dying. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t go dying—you and me got some talking to do.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I didn't have any plan, but every second of not dying was a bonus. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I guess it is better than dying on Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It grew darker and darker, as if it somehow absorbed the sun’s dying rays. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Several tsotsis, armed with machetes, hacked the dying dogs into bloody pulps. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I miss when I was so young I didn’t know to be afraid of death. I even miss yesterday when I was paranoid and not actually dying.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At the most obvious level, these numbers confirmed with enhanced precision the self-evident reality that slavery was a sectional phenomenon that was dying out in the North and flourishing in the South. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps. But now that you know what you’re looking for in this art of the dying, I want you to try to feel it.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was concerned only with babies dying. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth was back in Indiana by then, taking a leave of absence from Riverbank so that she could look after her mother, who was dying of cancer. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"I don't want to scare you," he said, "but I can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Neither was victor; they killed each other, Eteocles dying looked upon his brother and wept; he had no strength to speak. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A star can burn for billions of years, but it dies just once and quickly, and only a few dying stars explode. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The whole “dying then returning from Tartarus” concept gave him a headache. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If one was dying, it had to be done in style if the dying took place in whitefolks’ part of town. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danced with her, Mother o’ Christ, I’m dying inside, danced with her I did below in the Wembley Hall and a champion dancer she was too. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about them. They’ve been simply dying for a good party for months. Come. You must see the decoration that I’ve made.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was dying to talk about what I’d just learned. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

At sight of the man panting and dying there, she slips down to enfold him, crying out; then feels the spears, prodding her back and shoulders, and goes bound into slavery and grief. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, by the end of cardio conditioning we felt like we were dying. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She might have already known she was dying by then, anyway. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I had never considered before that dying, death, dead, passed away, were words and phrases that might be even faintly connected with me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take all the time you need. I’m in no rush. There are plenty of other dying people I can visit.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I just thought he never wanted her to talk about dying, as if it wouldn’t happen if she didn’t say the words. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I plop, sit beside him on the log, watching the dying fire. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

If you promise you will get better instead of dying, I promise I will, too. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had made a difficult journey of six days, pulling along the mule, who was dying of hunger, in order to arrive at the armistice on time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She watches TV: migrants drowning in the Rio Grande, dying in the desert, ranchers who shoot them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But this is of little concern for Victor since he’s not dying today. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sitting here reminds me of my family dying all over again. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The words had to be said by a Muslim when dying. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember having a preoccupation with death and dying before the bombing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you’re at war and might get your head blown off any second.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He lived hard because inside he was dying. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They sat beside the water listening to the confused rush and roar of the Rapids hidden in the mist; they were tired and sleepy, and their hearts were as gloomy as the dying day. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

To fall between them would mean living and dying in a fog of fear. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Threatening to do so was merely his idea of a joke, like dying of pneumonia, busting Colonel Moodus in the nose or challenging Doc Daneeka to Indian wrestle. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

For a minute, I couldn’t decide if she was crying or dying, but then figured this must be part of her divining preparations. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The gift, Benton soon discovered, was a small village called Kwalessa filled with the sick, the dying, and the hungry. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His audible, almost desperate breaths reminded me of my grandfather when he was dying of lung cancer. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

There had been a time during her dying when the noise and the smell of her had made anger rise in Kate so that she considered killing her quickly to get it over. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dying star gets smaller and smaller and smaller. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It’s dark and soft and warm, somewhere between two and four a.m., one of those hours that belong exclusively to the newly born or the dying. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was there like in some pageant for a dying monarch. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Each man will make it his duty To kill ten of the enemy before dying. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s leagues away, dead or dying. Let winter do its worst. A few more days and the snows will bury him and his army both.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She did talk about dying, but she always seemed to be at least half kidding. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

American soldiers were dying in an undeclared war with England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He suspected she was tending a dying relative. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Swarms of flies had attended their slow dying, and the stench had lingered long in the plaza. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I found the sick-room unwatched, as I had expected: no nurse was there; the patient lay still, and seemingly lethargic; her livid face sunk in the pillows: the fire was dying in the grate. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’ll die or they will, and this cycle of people dying and people grieving will just continue. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I’m dying to get out of the house, antsy from nerves, jittery about the deadline. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Delicate Adonis is dying, Cytherea, what shall we do? Beat your breasts, maidens, and rend your tunics.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He pursued every feeble tremor in the dying body with his mace, hammering at it until it was stilled. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dying to get to the juicy parts. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I next returned to Buck’s Peak, it was autumn and Grandma-down-the-hill was dying. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

By any means necessary didn’t keep Brother Malcolm from dying, possibly at the hands of his own people. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Over the dying embers of the campfire, on a moonless night, we watched the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep hoping to discover that he’s dying to see me, and I’m in raptures when I notice his bashful attempts. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This was the soil on which my great-grandfather had married his third wife a year before dying in the cholera epidemic that hit Kabul in 1915. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They drive a dusty track surrounded by square miles of dying sunflowers so tall that they seem like trees. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"It starts out when I'm dying. This ghost comes in on Christmas Eve and asks me if I'm ashamed and everything. You know. For betraying my country and everything. Are you coming to it?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A large grove of trees filled the final corner; the closest ones looked crippled and close to dying. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Some of us began to wonder if she was dying. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“There was once, there was a man,” said Pomp, delighted narrator of horrors, “there was a man so afraid for dying, he make a deal with Death himself. A true story.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Emily, I know it’s far too hot, but Leon’s absolutely dying for one of Betty’s roasts. He goes on about them all the time. I heard him boasting about them to Mr. Marshall.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The shouts were already dying down, but she didn’t go back yet. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm only dying then, I'm fading into unknowing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"It's so beautiful here, I don't want to think about everything dying." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But at news of a body, I would find a way to get out; I had to learn about dying if I wanted to become a swordswoman. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this way, even as he was dying, he showed respect for his children’s worlds. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept the man’s name to herself throughout her labor and dying; she did not accuse him that he be punished with her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weary, in his nearly continuous delirium, told again and again of the Three Musketeers, acknowledged that he was dying, gave many messages to be delivered to his family in Pittsburgh. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Think about the Mary Rose as good as new, and your dad as good as new, too, and Tyler Croft with the outhouse song dying in his stupid throat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes roll into his head, and I know that he’s just a few minutes away from dying. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then, very sofdy, he said, "I dream of it sometimes. Of Reilly's dying. A green tent, candles, a woman screaming. And blood." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And this gets us to talking about my mom dying, which I guess is what I really wanted to talk about all along. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He told Moss about his uncle dying from a drive-by and then how the Oakland PD shot his brother during a traffic stop. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My mom dying all alone in that house. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The killing fields of Chicago, of Baltimore, of Detroit, were created by the policy of Dreamers, but their weight, their shame, rests solely upon those who are dying in them. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Did dying an apple seed death hurt Michael Jackson? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When Granny passed away herself, I thought how dying was a lot like what happened when the Stokeses went to Brazil or when Uncle Buson rode off into the night. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The fire from the torches was dying, and in fact some of the men had already dropped their smoldering torches to the ground. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stumbled forward with our cart, our prisoner, our dying friend in arms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I’m extra wired, wanting to play it, especially as a Decker, since its about wasted opportunities, empty lives, and time dying. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He never saw how Adah chose her own exile; how Rachel was dying for the normal life of slumber parties and record albums she was missing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that had nothing to do with his dad dying or the way he got killed. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She didn’t tell me she was dying nor did anyone else for that matter because I was in a fairly serious condition myself at the time. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t care if people are dying in the bed.They don’t care if people are legless, lunatic or crawling on the floor. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was dying now, not much more than a bed of coals. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“She was ready for dying. She said so all the time.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was fifteen again, and his mother was dying, and she was trying to tell him something very important, and he couldn’t understand her. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I was born to five in exile, it appeared, and my one way home was by way of dying. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would they do that? Why would they target people who were already dying?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She knows how badly—how desperately—I need to get into Prism, because she knows what it feels like to be afraid that staying in this town will feel the same as dying. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

“I read everyone the poem about my grandmother. I’m dying to see what your favorite food is.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Another way to say it is that everybody is dying and going to die of something. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But even frail and dying this way, he made her angry. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“And for my own. You’ll be my nearest neighbor. I’m dying for some woman talk!” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I looked forward to these visits more than one would think, considering I was flying seven hundred miles to sit alongside a dying man. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The noise of the machines drowns out the dying. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were tiny babies with club feet, children who had paralyzed limbs from polio, adolescents dying from muscular dystrophy. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another dying away of someone whose face he knew. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was the best son any mother could ever hope to have in a situation like this—a young father dying, so randomly, so violently, leaving behind a wife and three children. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

As far as authority is concerned, calm people quietly dying is a lot easier to deal with than angry people fighting for their lives. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Time was passing and the disturbance was dying down. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“How is it possible? Our war is so close. People are dying just over those hills.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

We only came dose to dying six or seven times, which-1 thought was pretty good. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

That was wrong, because my stepdad sometimes sang in the shower, and the acoustics didn’t stop him from sounding like a dying coyote. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Not even dying? Or being shot?" she whispers. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Are you serious? Yes! I was dying to go but they’re like eighty dollars each. Wait, how did you get tickets?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the first nun at Ngaliema Hospital, Sister M. E., lay dying, her doctors had decided to give her a so-called agonal biopsy. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing I got onto that morning, with the house full of Granny and empty of her at the same time, was the notion that she’d of hated dying so plain. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Once or twice I feel Shiloh jerk, like it hurts him, but when he lays too still, I don’t know if it’s because he’s numb or if he’s dying. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he hated being a doorman, because he had been an engineer in Russia, and now his brain was dying. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So I said farewell to Mina, a parting which neither of us shall forget to our dying day; and we set out. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You understand in your study of medicine the requisite of a dying declaration,” he said. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Why is the sight of torture, a glimpse of some flayed bull-jock dying under the bleachers, erotic? Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This march was madness. More dying every day, and for what? Some girl?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“My daughter is dying,” he moaned, and the wind snapped at his pitiful, animal cry. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m reading a spell to preserve dying cultures. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you know, Dèja, stretching steel shrieks, clangs as joints shift? Something told me the tower was dying. “‘Come on, Mrs. Able. We’ve got to move faster. Come on.’ Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even among prisoners on death row, the annual execution rate is only 2 percent—compared with the 7 percent annual chance of dying faced by a member of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation crack gang. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was a ridiculous sequence of events that led to me almost dying, and an even more ridiculous sequence that led to me surviving. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granted, they’d always managed to wriggle their way out of dying before. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“How do you do this? I tried to jog a mile out here and I’m dying. My chest is burning. Jesus, I’m out of shape.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She knew only one song, so she played happy carnival-style music for every scene, even when characters were getting shot and dying. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Rani pokes at the dying embers of her fire with a stick. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“This is our medieval battlefield. I plan on dying with a rake or hoe in my grip.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve been dying to see that movie since the trailers came on TV. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They keep dying on us, and when they do? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Now they were here, dead-center in a sea of dying Russians. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am. I’m standing here listening to you tell me the news of the day—that a bush is dying.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

If that’s what dying is like, I wouldn’t mind that at all. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it isn’t the house full of the sick and dying, the bleeding backs, the gaunt-faced children, the marching boots, or the omnipresent misery that drives me under the fence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her brave winged friend dying from poison, his muzzle in her lap, looking at her trustingly as she raised her dagger to end his misery . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I could mention her death and not feel like I was dying too. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s astonishing what you hear when you’re alone in the blackness of your dying mind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are whole lives being lived in this place, sleeping and eating and working, bearing children and raising families and dying. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

No one had ever been able to replicate Carrel’s work, and the cells seemed to defy a basic rule of biology: that normal cells can only divide a finite number of times before dying. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think she was dying when I left home, but she knew it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat at the top of Half-Blood Hill and watched the dryads come and go, singing to the dying pine tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She remembers how all those years ago Vincent journeyed to see their old neighbor who was dying and said afterward, “When I die, I hope I shall be lying just like him,” surrounded by family. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Even Genius Dari came over to look, and I could tell he was upset that his frog hadn’t had a nice dinner before dying. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His face looked as if he were dying. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The fire was dying down now but the kitchen was still warm. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She played music for dying people, going to their homes and even to the hospital to serenade them into the next life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each mango-colored puff reminds me that even though I’m not dying of a brain tumor, I still don’t know what’s wrong with me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Nwunye m, things are tough, but we are not dying yet. I tell you all these things because it is you. With someone else, I would rub Vaseline on my hungry face until it shone.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, dying not for honor’s empty sake, nor pride nor even peace, but for that love and faith they left behind. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

They take away your options and all you can do is live, and it’s just like Humble said: I’m not afraid of dying; I’m afraid of living. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Whoever was responsible had tried to build the fire in the shelter of a rock outcropping, but it hadn’t been enough to keep the flames from dying out in the wind. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The idea of any of them dying made him feel empty - like he was back in the giants’ bronze jar, alone in the dark, subsisting only on sour pomegranate seeds. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the eye of the dying gull, who knew that everything was ruined forever, because that's how it always is. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t exactly dying just yet, but a few flashes came anyway. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And they will face it either by living or dying, either by accepting or questioning. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m safe from myself, I promise. I don’t want everything over. Please promise you won’t go dying before me. I can’t see that.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

David said the Divergent are dying and someone has to stop it, because that's a waste of our best genetic material. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Upon its outer marges under the westward mountains Mordor was a dying land, but it was not yet dead. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He’s standing beneath the old, dying palm tree on our front lawn. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Of course my government knows people are dying,” the redhead said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He remembers believing that he was dying, that perhaps he was already dead. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had been dying such a long time, we forgot. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She nodded very slightly, accepting my explanation, the blaze dying out behind her face. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat and felt himself dying, withering, finishing. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly it never occurred to any of us that Dad had any intention of dying until he was good and ready to die. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

People are trying to give us babies that were dying.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And Red was so emaciated and weak that Agnes was certain he was dying. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The restaurant had just opened, but customers were already waving her over, dying for some one-on-one time with their old friend. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

For a long time, zoos couldn’t keep any bonobos, because they kept dying. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They had been dying of disease and starvation, and the few goats they kept had been dying as well. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should have come over. I was dying to get away,” Naomi said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the sound of a bear, wounded or dying. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In his dying convulsions the ax had become dislodged from the wound. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father is dying all over again, and her grief is worse than the first time. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black ash and dying embers were all that remained of the hearthfire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When he examined her on Tuesday evening, April 15, the doctor felt certain that Annie was dying. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the bearded piano dude finished his melody with wobbly, dying chords. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

In Russia, they saw the horrors of war as they tended the wounded and dying German soldiers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even while she was dying, she was sweet and polite. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that I was dying and, in fact, I longed for death, but I didn’t want to die anywhere near Mr. Freeman. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Think of me, Boy, when you lie old and weak and dying, and remember how you threw away the chance of endless youth! It won’t be offered you again.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not afraid of dying, but I want to die a different way, any other way. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

People were still streaming from the city in droves; houses, businesses, and shops were closed and dark; the sick, dying, and dead were everywhere to be seen. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe he'll never need to know that there's a tiny mirror in my head, a memory screen showing Tariq's body beneath my hands, dying over and over again. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"I never heard of anyone dying as a result of lemon juice consumption," the expert replied. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no way Lidia knows I’m dying and there’s no way she’d be this casual about letting me know she is. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The aids virus was first noticed in 1980 in Los Angeles by a doctor who realized that his gay male patients were dying of an infectious agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grin at her, dying to know how her scientific brain is going to deal with this epic level of coincidence. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

This is not a sound I would want to hear all day if I were dying, but then that’s just me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He’d left Hazel inside, dying and defenseless, at the mercy of a crazy farmer god. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to tell Jerome’s family. Him dying was my fault.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“My, such luxury,” she would shout, dying with laughter. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The fight on the far left was dying; Ewell was done. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Father, someone tried to help us a few minutes ago. I think he’s dying,” Tendai said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the dying light from the fire, I could see it was much bigger than the one Mama had in her pocket. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But she kept thinking about that one big maple tree he had cut down because it was, as he said, “dying from the heart.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been dying to get a peek at you ever since you moved in. Have a seat.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could see how such music drew the ghosts out of dying people, giving them a ride to the next life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never heard of anyone dying of a scorpion sting, but she had never seen anyone stung by such a big one either. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She tells a dying man that he’s looking good.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made Thomas sick to think people were hanging on to that hope of just one person dying; the more he thought about it, the less he believed it was true. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When his reveries ended, he was still in a filthy, threadbare, lice- infested uniform in a miserable camp crowded with starving and dying prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the time of the interview, forty or fifty years later, she was dying of emphysema. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

One week previously he had returned home, without any voice, unable to breathe, and almost skin and bones, with his wandering trunks and his wastrel’s accordion, to fulfill the promise of dying beside his wife. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I am dying for an Easy-Bake oven,” I said passionately, “and a tea set!” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I already told everyone about you after that fire alarm thing, but they’re really dying to meet you now,” he continued. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Can you not hear the gunfire? The bombs falling across the world? How many last breaths? Your name should be on the lips of the dying." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Each month people were dying by the hundreds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore drank like a child dying of thirst, but when he had finished, he yelled again as though his insides were on fire. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The worst part is not the dying, it’s not knowing when or how. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the best histrionic village style, Sourmelina unleashed soaring arias in which she lamented the death of her husband and castigated him for dying. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then she turned back to me and told me to stay still — even though I was dying to take off my favorite sweatpants, which now had gore-spattered cuffs. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did everything possible to probe and expose the hypocritical rhetoric surrounding the Indian Creek Dam—the state engineer’s pronouncement, for example, that it was “the only way to save a dying culture.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I actually like having Windy over, but I’m dying to know if anyone solved my epic problem in the math forums. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ma says I stomp around like a cow dying of thirst. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While they bludgeoned his dying body, the saint’s dæmon was borne upward by cherubs and offered a spray of palm, the badge of a martyr. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until sundown and the blood-orange winter light of the dying day cast long shadows. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“So you must be dying, then, to become ...” We never said the word, and I couldn’t frame it now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He lived for the day when his father would be dying and he, John, would curse him on his deathbed. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In our living room, the music was dying down as the radio station announced two a.m. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Men were still being drafted, and Americans and Vietnamese were dying. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I am dreading the days to come soon now when many beautiful birds will be dying in our back yard,” wrote a Milwaukee woman. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve never felt this way about anyone before, mostly because all my relationships before were centered on living fast and dying young and always leaving for a new hospital. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

My guess was she was dying of shock. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the face of a fish, of a carp, with tremendous painfully opened mouth, a dying fish with dimmed eyes. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other four kittens—Frank, Derek, Spike, and Priscilla—had moved to Finn’s barn, where the mice were now busily dying of despair. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ophie decided that maybe she wouldn’t worry about helping the ghosts dying over and over again in the dining room. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They told of thieves who crept in and stole jewelry off the dead and dying. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around Europe, people are dying by the hundreds of thousands. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“His wounds are bad. Gangrene. He’s dying anyway.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Daily Prophet hasn’t said a word about him dying or about finding the body,” Bill went on. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

People think it’s such a hard read, but it’s really just a soap opera with lots of characters, people falling in love, fighting for love, dying for love. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But I'm held here both by the hovercraft walls and the same force that holds the loved ones of the dying. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ricardo, who was recovering from stomach surgery but slowly dying of bone cancer anyway, met him at Rael’s store. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you were very close ... friends... the two of you. Always to- gether, since you were kids. It’s a terrible thing, what’s happened. Too many young Afghan men are dying this way.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I know I should say something about his mother dying, along the lines of, “I’m sorry your mother died.’ The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Ms. Brown had been dying for a while and had time to prepare Love, and that’s why she was taking it so well. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Wyl cursed as they pulled him off his dying horse, swords slashing in the rain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I knock softly, already dying for another cigarette to calm my nerves. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But it was a living breath this time, not a dying one. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was from these seeds and others, and from the flowers and roots beneath them, that Mr. Ages made the draughts and powders that could sometimes save the sick from dying. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the hall, a woman stood beside the hearth, warming thin hands above the embers of a dying fire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After dying and reloading twice, I finally defeated him, using an Elvish Sword and a Ring of Ice. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"And his dying wish was to have you return. It is only now, after you have reached your fifth Year of the Tiger without creating harm, that we can fulfill his wish." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I was dying for somebody my age to play with. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I was at my window, handing money across the counter to some customer I hardly knew, and it just hit me. The lake is dying. It’s dying. I had to leave.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“They’ll never go for it. The world is dying, Percy. Every day it gets worse. The wild ... I can just feel it fading. I have to find Pan.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I filled it with water and began picking up the dying fish from the mud puddles, putting them in the can, and dumping them in the creek. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I could be dying from a bullet wound and Joan would still stare through me with her blank eyes, expecting me to ask for a cup of coffee and a sandwich. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The closest they come is a night alone in the DoubleTree, which they are both dying to leave. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

To serve with young people and the young at heart alike, who live without a fear of dying and who talk about commitment, integrity, and sacrifice without a hint of sarcasm, was refreshing. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Can’t have you dying before we get you back to the headmistress, now can we?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The fire was dying down, burning blood-red, underneath. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

His hands found their way through the folds of the net to the long flanks of dead and dying salmon. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was his handwriting, with the last letter trailing off...like a dying breath. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The spell took no hold and made no whole, and suddenly he thought the child was dying in his arms. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

To speculate about dying doesn’t disturb me as it might some people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Next door to home—and the storm is dying!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The groaning of the great hinges sounded like the moans of a dying giant. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Apprentice Administrator, who was almost as old as her dying Master, had been chosen long ago for her aptitude for poisons and torture. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Everywhere you look in the eastern forests, trees are dying in colossal numbers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was dying to ask what Miss Love said at the store, but I didn’t dare. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

One of the French sailors had learned enough Massachusett to inform his captors before dying that God would destroy them for their misdeeds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her heart is the heart of a dying turtle: reptilian, dark-red, diseased. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The nationalist speakers were on their stepladders, screaming into the dying sun. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw how you looked at her. That day when she brought us to the Commandant’s house before the Trial of Courage. Like she was water and you were just dying of thirst.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A young Canadian in a medic’s helmet shines a penlight into Werner’s eyes and loads him into a truck, and he is driven some distance and set in a tent full of dying men. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Judge Carlson raised his gavel like a man ready to put a dying animal out of its misery. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Beneath the great grey cliffs a horse was dying noisily, struggling to rise on a broken leg and screaming when he fell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It felt a bit like she was heading toward a firing squad, except worse, because she knew that instead of dying, she was going to have to stay alive through the whole day. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Like he said, there are young artists all around the country dying for my spot. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And he hated himself because even as she lay dying he saw how wide and ghastly her purpled lips drew back from her teeth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It’s surprising—once you’re listening for it—how often people bring up dying to try to scare you. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The top half of the hill was dying, nothing left but bare soil, ruined by the orchids. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to explain how I had felt, how important it had seemed when I thought he was dying, but I realized that would only make him more upset. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

For a night and a day Selitos stood helpless beside Lanre and could do nothing more than watch and listen to the screams of the dying, the ring of iron, the crack of breaking stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was not his choice to He dying on a remote island, alone, unable to move. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She was aware of the breeze strengthening, pushing one French window closed, before dying down once more. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At my feet are mounds of burned-out candle wax, fistfuls of dying flowers blown by the wind and roughed by the ravages of the street. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man’s dying? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some astronomers proposed that there were fountains that spat out matter, and the galaxies moved away from these founts, aging and dying. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Though speechless and unaware, the dying woman rebukes us all. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“My father had been away from his world, my world, for ten years. And he was nearly dying when I found him. Ten years, that’s all.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“What happened to the good dying young?” he said, his voice breaking. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I can’t go back empty-handed. “I worry about dying along the way. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It’s dying, the store is, like the rest of the town and Mr. Phelps spends all his time despairing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Standing above the crowd with his arms tied behind his back, he loudly read his dying prayer from a paper held in front of him by a clergyman. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I will fight along with the other Freedom Writers to stand up, speak out, and “rage against the dying of the light.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A much more representative viewpoint is that of a three-year-old girl dying from malnutrition in first-century China because her father’s crops have failed. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the earth were otherwise, and all the dying were done in the open, with the dead there to be looked at, we would never have it out of our minds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several dying screech owls were picked up in Wisconsin following heavy rains in spring, perhaps poisoned by feeding on earthworms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

His father, too, had been a strawberry farmer before dying of a stroke in ’44. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I find myself surprised by the thought that dying is an all-right thing to do, but perhaps it should not surprise. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

High above the dying campfire a hovercraft materializes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

To hold her hand or wipe her brow or whatever you did when your loved ones were dying. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Azaleas, mountain laurel, blueberries, huckleberries, viburnums, dogwood, bayberry, sweet fern, low shadbush, winterberry, chokecherry, and wild plum are dying before the chemical barrage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She explained that I was dying because the infection in my head had grown worse. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still there would not be all this dying to go through. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In 1662, for example, John Graunt published the numbers dying in London, the cause of death and his estimate of their age at death. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’m not dreaming of Pop, dying in a kitchen fire, or Mama lifting me up, to save me. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I know I’m nagging, but I’m dying to get all dressed up and have Sam see me. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m not afraid of being dead. But the actual dying part. You know, what it feels like?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Or Robert E. Lee, who, many years after the war, in a dying delirium, announced, “Strike the tent!” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Together, we waded through the ocean of yellow chicks, both of us stopping here and there to pick up the dead or dying ones, adding them to the bag. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He sensed, too, that they were unafraid of danger and of dying, and this they held over him more than anything. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted there to be someone else, to take charge, he was afraid of Hooper dying. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Dex frowns in disapproval, a comment dying on his lips, and silence falls across our table. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She heaved a sigh so heavy it might’ve been mistaken for a dying breath. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The homeless around the train station were hungry, but Shin, in his time on the streets of Gilju, never saw anyone dying or dead from exposure or hunger. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Murphy wanted to take a close look at those dying cells to see if he could photograph a virus in them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Jack would snap back to reality, his stomach almost turning inside out from hunger, his body infested with lice, men around him dying from hunger, disease, and sorrow. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Surely if anyone anywhere had any idea what could cure a dying penguin, this man would. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks ago the Plutos claimed we were dying so we could score free passes for our adventure to Coney Island, thinking the dude would give us a break and let us through. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s dying,” the third one confirmed, suddenly serious. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Or there’s a new Korean barbecue place I've been dying to check out.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“The girl is your patron, not mine. If you enjoy dying for the sake of your owners, that is your business.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the barn was nothing but a patch of dying grass. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go find Miss Bloom, I’m sure she’s dying to see you.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Ironically, while she was at Bergen-Belsen, she had the opportunity to talk to Anne, who was dying of hunger, disease, and sadness. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Why is it so hard to think about dying? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he bade me to wait by the dying fire as he left the room, and soon reappeared with four other men, all clearly dragged from their beds. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jew in me was dying anyway, but it truly died when my mother died. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want it to be real, this much death, this much dying, this waste of human life. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

James lay down with them, but Dicey returned to the dying fire, to be sure it burned out entirely. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mustfind the girl again, the grey girl on the dying horse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The dying sunlight flashes my own reflection on the glass. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It’s hard for me to imagine Grandma’s family dying in the Holocaust, since for sure they’d all be gone by now anyway. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I was still a kid, and I was still afraid of dying. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I am dying to try a different subject, something easy like designing an entire city or copying the Mona Lisa, but he won’t budge. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the book, I was so mad that Anne died, because as she was dying, a part of me was dying with her. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the time I got to school, I felt like dying. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He could not understand why his mother had to make this weary, miserable pilgrimage to an unknown place, to a strange man who was holy and was dying. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could it be normal, that traveler dying? Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She fidgeted with the cigarette like she was dying to put it to her lips and light it, and didn’t seem to know what she was supposed to be doing. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Ahead rose the baleful crags of Dark Gate, its twin slopes blazing crimson in the dying sun. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I think my father is dying, and now I am out of bounds when I see a familiar face behind our bench. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

McKissick spoke for disillusioned ghetto residents when he called nonviolence "a dying philosophy” that had "outlived its usefulness.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like she was always reading things about how everything was dying and there was less air and everything was getting toxic. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He suspected that dying twelve times at the hands of scythes would be a lot worse than splatting. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Carvajal went on to achieve modest renown as a priest in Lima, dying peacefully at the age of eighty. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Indirectly and unintentionally Hercules was the cause of his dying. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, um, hitting a tree —” I gulped “— and dying. And then getting sick.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Kids were dying left and right, all about my age. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t want a think about a colored man dying. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

To his left the last moment of sunset light was dying. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’d rather she didn’t think of dying while I’m playing.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was said that he once cured a woman dying of an ancestral curse that had eluded the best of American doctors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss nodded his head and the six of them sat down in the yellowed, dying grass of the courtyard. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The dialogue spoken onstage no longer sounded like words but like the last ticks of a dying clock winding down. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, Strauss looked backwards at the dying century, in songs of heartbreaking, Mahlerish delicacy, like ‘Morgen!’ The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Lyra was afraid that the Lady Salmakia was dying: she hadn’t uttered a word for several minutes, and she lay faint and limp in Lyra’s hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

This time, the page was turned to a dying bird. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But many have long to wait and we listen to them dying. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We climbed into the truck and drove away, leaving Téllez standing by the dying embers of the fire. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had dreamed of dying any number of ways since her lull stopped working. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I think she knew she was dying. She handed me wet rags with this tiny dragon inside.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But we had all learned something about dying, and about trying to keep each other alive. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A brunette girl with a wide smile—a smile you don’t expect to find on someone dying—requests a song and steps away. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Five men were down, dead, or dying by the time Arya reached the back door that opened on the kitchen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Ma, we are starving to death. Many people are dying in the village. Yet the government trades our crops to buy guns to kill more people.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been dying to see him, to speak to him in person and see for myself that he was okay. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

His lips were working, and one of the golliwogs put his ear close to them to hear what might be his dying words. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He staggered down the street and into a neighbor’s house with Joe close behind, then collapsed facedown into a pool of his own blood, yelling, “Oh, I’m dying—call an ambulance! ” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

You could see the dying embers from the fires as little sparks across the camp. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep it vague because I don’t want to break the news to this bookseller that the customers he’s ringing up are dying at seventeen and eighteen. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was another long silence, with the colonel dying and dying, drowning where he stood. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come on. Just because I’m getting married doesn’t mean I’m dying. I’m here! We can still share things.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came in the affirmative.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When their father died, she says, he told a neighbor that “dying is hard, but living is harder still.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t eaten all day, and there had been little food the day before, what with Miss Mary dying. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be fair to Patrick, he let us talk about dying, too. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Just make sure I ain’t dying, was what I was thinking as the cuff tightened around my arm. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Drowning would have been preferable to dying of thirst. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the acid in my throat, my body dying to digest something. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” Harlan agreed, but he wasn’t so terrified that he would let them trick him into dying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again it was being put about that all the animals were dying of famine and disease, and that they were continually fighting among themselves and had resorted to cannibalism and infanticide. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

After years of fighting, suffering, and dying, what had been accomplished? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“But if your eyes and your head and your leg hurt the way mine do, dying might start to look good.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He died very soon after I went to Colonel Lloyd’s; and he died as he lived, uttering, with his dying groans, bitter curses and horrid oaths. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer of i960 the refuge staff picked up hundreds of dead and dying birds at Tule Lake and Lower Klamath. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When her mother’s eyes opened for a final time, Kira had held the vibrant piece of fabric so that the dying woman could see. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The side of his face was silhouetted in the dying firelight, which passed through the fine fuzz on his jaw, illuminating each thin strand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I had come as close to dying as I cared to for one day, but I kept silent and tried to attend to Mr. Armin's words. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that everyone’s problem? That our enemies might have a few hours to reflect on the fact that they’re dying, instead of just being blown to bits?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He had always hoped to win honor on the force, but what honor was there in dying of pneumonia in a bus station rest room? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the leaves that was falling over—yellowed, dying, drooping like a waterslide that nobody’s allowed on—has pumped up a little, is climbing to the window. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe, even as I sit on my bed in the dying light of the late afternoon, it’s beginning again. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Outside his window he saw the sun dying over the roof-tops in the western sky and watched the first shade of dusk fall. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There is something about a dying forest that’s sad, no matter how many times I reassure myself that it will come alive again in spring. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t put a reason for his dying in the letter to his wife. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shock of seeing Dad's thing's dying down now. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

At that point, more than 15,000 women were dying each year from cervical cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The drinks are all alcohol-free, which makes sense since dying isn’t an excuse to sell alcohol to minors. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But she could not hold it low enough to avoid seeing the snowflakes falling and dying on the pavement. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I succeeded in digging a hole in that w^all of dead and dying people, a small hole through which I could drink a little air. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a breath and wished I hadn’t said the part about her dying. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Instead we had people planting bombs in our church and my friends dying there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had worked as hard as he could on that garden, and yet everything was dying. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Whether it was now or twenty years from now, I would still be the one dying. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

A stench had filled the air, like old moss and rotted oak; it was the smell of something dying. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the coals of her dying fire are still hot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“He was talking about my mum and dad dying.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Dr. Tilson said, “I’m walking over to the garage. Call Will Hamilton. Tell him I want him to drive me to his father’s place. If he argues tell him his sister is—dying.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Such would be the gift of a dying man. But you shall live, Adaon.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Similar indications of the dying out of the race come from the world’s only sanctuary for eagles alone, Mount Johnson Island in the Susquehanna River. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It sounded like you were dying in there,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had rheumatic fever, chicken pox, pneumonia three or four more times, started coughing blood when he was six, was anemic, drowsy all the time, constantly sniffling, weak and miserable, and—everybody thought— dying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Couldn't think about T dying, or how easy I coulda stopped it. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She wriggles sluggishly in their arms like a dying fish. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He remembered it as though it were yesterday and knew it would haunt him until his dying day. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My father answered: “In evening when the light is dying My feet at last are homeward turning The wind is through the willows sighing Please keep the hearthfire burning.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Your ummi said you were working on a movie, so I didn’t want to interrupt. But I’m dying to hear about the brunch with Kareem and his parents.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

A yellow cat was dying on the ground, mewling piteously, a crossbow quarrel through its ribs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I looked at the dying men on the ground. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She looks beautiful to him, tired, the concentrated light of the dying day on her face, infusing it with an amber-pink glow. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My ma dying, being killed by men I probably saw every day. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But when the same propaganda reaches into the hospital clinic and operating room to jeopardize the lives of the sick and dying, it is nothing short of criminal. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in Limerick is talking about this page and they’re dying to get their hands on it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Nergal is being devoured by the very plagues he spreads. He is literally rotting away. He's dying." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When Justice Douglas visited the area in 1959, the year of the spraying, he was shocked to see the shriveled and dying willows — the “vast, incredible damage.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was dying, of course, but then we all are. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one living understands dying, and no matter what they dream up—from harps and heaven to pickles in Big Macs—they can’t prove a thing until they’re on this side. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Here he was, face-to-face with his enemy, but there was no need to be concerned about dying—the Soul of the World awaited him, and he would soon be a part of it. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me wanted to follow up there, but there was something else I was dying to know. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she died from drinking, just like I am dying from it. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought a lot about death and dying. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t come home after two years and suddenly inform your mother that she’s dying. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would talk to her husband, yes, but he was dying, and she was the one who now managed the store and bore its responsibilities, and she had come to a decision. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Harry had the impression that Hermione had been dying to tell them this for days, but that she had restrained herself in light of everything else that had happened. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There was a bit of an uncomfortable silence then, and I wasn’t sure what to do with my distraught mother and her dying lake. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha thought a great deal at this time about the dying sage whose voice had stirred thousands, whose voice he had also once heard, whose holy countenance he had also once looked at with awe. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, rather, into a state of dying delirium. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How you talk, Henny. Look at me—how skinny I am and I never think about dying.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning she gave it to a man who was obviously dying, and slowly he got better. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

What the journalist should have said was: Reporters saw a pasture containing several cows that were dead, diseased, or dying. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Librans would have to worry about dying from earth diseases, or carrying them back to Libra and infecting others. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But not releasing the document was, in Ellsberg’s view, another form of betrayal: a betrayal of the country he loved, and the people who were still dying in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Only if I tamed him could I possibly trick him into dying first, if we had to come to that sorry business. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, gaze fixed on the glow of the dying embers, he chose. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I would like to watch her dying, Eleanor thought, and smiled back and said, “Don’t be silly.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Me too. Bit like being afraid of dying, though. Not much you can do about it.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“The reason so many people are starving is because we’ve wrecked the planet. The Earth is dying, you know? 'It’s time to leave.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture what that would look like, Daisy dying in Nate’s arms. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

As I hurried out of camp to rejoin my teammates, Athans was getting ready to inject four milligrams of dexamethasone into the dying Texan’s thigh. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ma took to telling me about hidden blessings, saying I should be thankful Doc Kelly had come to town to tend to his dying father. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

They told of the dying man who pulled himself to the window of his bedchamber and begged people to bring him a drink of water. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s an even bigger slap in the face than dying young. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t dared to say anything all through the argument because, you see, it wasn’t her Mother who was dying. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he thought he could control his illness and didn’t believe that he was dying until he was too ill to think about legal documents. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then I picked out all those that were dying. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Behind us lay rainy weeks—grey sky, grey fluid earth, grey dying. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been dying to go, but with our whole family, it’s too expensive even with our Florida resident pass, so I ask him about it. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He sounded like an old man, maybe someone speaking with his dying breath. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a tiny squeeze in my throat—is that the me that’s dying to get loud? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Not your relatives. It’s the mother, father and brother of that chap who died. They’ve traveled all the way from New York to see a dying soldier, and you’re the handiest one we’ve got.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There he found a book with the most wonderful pictures of Calvinistic martyrs, dying horrible but prayerful deaths. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My phone buzzes briefly, telling me its battery is dying. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barrabas was dying without any hurry, his eyes riveted on Clara, who stroked his ears and murmured words of comfort until finally, with a single rattle, the dog fell rigid at her feet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dying when I got to him, sprawled and twisted away from his skis that stuck up out of the snow, his chest half shot away. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But then I bite my tongue, realizing what that must sound like to Peeta, who is dying, in my incompetent hands. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“And in her delirium she talked about things that she’d never talked about before. She shed tears over her friends dying in the 1918 flu epidemic. That generation—my parents’ generation—lived through a lot. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In one village, he examined a man dying of Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a rumor that he was dying, or already dead. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“With so many soldiers dying in France and all, the world’s not going to fall apart if you smoke a cigarette once in a while.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a screen, connoting dying, around Johnny’s bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was angry at him for dying for a while afterwards, angry that he left me with all those kids, but more than that, I missed him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and I had us a great manure war then, throwing dried cow cushions and sheep pills and horse biscuits at each other and dying laughing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The virus changed so as to kill fewer rabbits and to permit lethally infected ones to live longer before dying. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the lump, why, the lump threw an arm across its beautiful, ugly, pinched-up face and all my fear over Fang dying, about him being dead, turned to disgust instead of relief. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The possibility of being the favorite shrivels like a dying flower. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Some of the monkeys that were dying in Room H had become essentially a heap of mush and bones in a skin bag, mixed with huge amounts of amplified virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole table mimics my gesture to show respect for the dying. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The only thing she didn't like to think about, about Park, was what he could possibly see in her. park The pickup kept dying. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Mom was dying to have a little girl, so when she and husband number two got together, she went and paid some doctor lots of money so she could get pregnant.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

But which of the missing prisoners were dying back in the barracks, and which of them were running free in the woods? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But in the West the dying sun had set all the fume on fire, and now Mindolluin stood black against a burning smoulder flecked with embers. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Men in the camp were dying of it. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Charna is off now, rummaging in the crowd for people who are dying to meet me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for my grandmother dying. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They sat like that, in perfect silence, until whatever magic had filled the air seemed to dissipate and the dying fire turned to glowing orange embers in the dirt. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We may be about to rediscover that dying is not such a bad thing to do after all. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stink of dying flowers is making me queasy. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I felt I’d stumbled upon an amazing secret—it was possible to close your eyes and exit life without actually dying. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, in perfect increments, I was dying of loss. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how they got there, but I noticed that in the smaller puddles the fish were dying. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He was one of a long line of cats we’d owned, each growing old and dying, leaving us to find a new one. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But they were ordinary matches, and her visions were the deluded comfort of a dying mind. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then, because Matt didn’t want to think of El Patron dying, he said, “What does that have to do with Tom?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

In pondering the great mystery, I thought of Helen Burns, recalled her dying words—her faith—her doctrine of the equality of disembodied souls. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s an understatement. I’m dying. When organs start shutting down, it doesn’t take long. I always knew it was a possibility. My parents were in denial.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

After all, if the roosters were dying like flies, could the bunnies be far behind? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s never obvious to the outside employees whether the person is dying or being terminated—they simply never return to their desk. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Zombie feet, dead butt, haunted spirit—pieces of her are dying off already. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They talk for so long Alex has to plug his phone in to keep the battery from dying. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now he was in Tartarus, dying from gorgon’s blood plus a dozen other agonizing curses, while he watched his girlfriend stumble around, helpless and blind and believing he’d abandoned her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep, my mind lit up by the chameleon-like flickering of the dying dorado. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear about Edward Foster? They nearly lynched the poor old man simply because he said too many of our boys are dying in the war. And him a distinguished veteran.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

More shouts and more curses cut out the windows and traveled across the parade ground, dying out somewhere across the dark pavement. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then there are stories of white babies dying in arms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"Oh, sure. You killed my mother. You can imagine I'm dying to help you out." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I did what I had become best at doing: I tended to my work, even while my dying professor waited on his front lawn. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked straight past, and Harry leaned against the wall, breathing deeply, listening to their footsteps dying away. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The old woman was dying, as old people always do. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Does their dying mean nothing to you, cousin? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to talk about dying songbirds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing I can confidently rule out is dying of old age. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Arguments about going hungry, dying, bombs, fire extinguishers, sleeping bags, identity cards, poison gas, etc., etc. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

So I decided I’d have to be tough, like Annie told me, and suck it up, even if it felt like I was dying. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If you think I was dying to see him again, you're crazy. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I knew that men might be dying there, but what I saw at that moment did not seem terrible. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven years ago, Thalia had been turned into a pine tree by her father, to prevent her from dying. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Men were crawling from the river, men burned and bleeding, coughing up water, staggering, most dying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When lawyers presented percentages about teenagers dying from alcohol poisoning and drunk driving, it was ruled things would remain as they have been—legally. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Seen the people murdered in cold blood, the men and women, and the children, dying, the animals murdered or left to starve. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dying, too, and I didn’t want to have his death laid on me. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place was filthy and the old pines hewed down and those left standing were dying, and the pools in the courts were choked with refuse. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When a sick or dying person is brought to her...this is the only time I think my mother knows who she is. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Aye, men are dying. More will die before we see Winterfell. What of it? This is war. Men die in war. That is as it should be. As it has always been.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had been literally stomped to death, dying of internal injuries. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

By the time they got to the top the sun was dipping lower, smearing the sky with color, and Rishi was trying his best not to look like he was dying. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I create the whole universe, blink by blink.—An ugly god pitifully dying in a tree! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dying light, they walked down a steep slope toward the vehicle. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“But I’d still like to know how we make our way through the House of Hades without going insane or dying.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then he added, “Birmingham is not a dying city; it is dead.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

What are the chances you just inhaled a molecule which Caesar exhaled in his dying breath? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hospital staff said that never in their memories had a dying patient put up such a struggle to live. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But nothing sent chills up and down Thomas’s spine like the haunted, deathly moans that somehow escaped the creature when it sat still, like the sound of dying men on a battlefield. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then I turned and ran into the nearest ghost—Clyde—and committed Pacicide, dying for the first time in the game. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s cruel,” agreed Baba Joseph, “but one day the things we learn will keep our cattle from dying.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s dead, my mother’s dying, my brother’s being flayed, and there’s naught that I can do about any of it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I am dying to get on one of the school computers, but I have to get rid of Sam first. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Wounded men moaned and prayed, faqqa ihan moved among them, the mercy men with their heavy axes, taking a harvest of heads from the dead and dying alike. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For those at the time it meant that Hamilton became a martyr to the dying cause of Federalism and Burr became the most despised national leader since Benedict Arnold. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We’d heard rumors of rain in the river valleys west of us, and those tales aroused the deepest thirst you can imagine—the thirst of dying crops and animals. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of calling Jesus they heard the hollow clang of the ambulance bell struggling up the hill, but not the “Help me, ya’ll” that the dying woman whispered. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No catnip. If cats were attracted to my garden, the dog would make a terrible fuss. “Wouldn’t you, poor thing?” she said sweetly, leaning down to murmur to the dying mother dog. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

If the Witch was in the Bog, it would cough her out, the way a dying man coughs out his life. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They would inevitably surface within a rectangle of barbed wire, would find themselves greeted listlessly by dying Russians who spoke no English, who had no food or useful information or escape plans of their own. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three nuthatches he found later provided a sorry little step-by-step lesson in cause and effect: one was feeding on an elm, another was found dying of typical DDT symptoms, the third was dead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There are red marks on his arms from where the Dauntless traitors held him back, but he is not dying; he is all right. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She is lying on the other side, and she is dying. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Didn't he have some story he was dying to blab about? Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You are supposed to be in bed, dying of gangrene or something.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though everyone was dying for an explanation, we had elected to give the girls a moment to themselves, and stared in amazement from a respectful distance. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“God,” he said, “I’ve been dying to play all summer. I need to hit someone.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to talk about it, Ma. You’re not dying.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was a fine readymade one he’d ordered years ago when rich Mr. Sheffield was thought to be dying and didn’t. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But he hadn’t seen it and I couldn’t speak to tell him, frozen in place as I was, my dying flashlight flickering over the blank woods. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It was over, he knew it, and all that was left was the thing itself: dying. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I keep imagining it, over and over, wanting to know what she felt or thought. Because I can’t know that, she never stops dying for me. I see it over and over and over again.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“We are dying for you and you are here driving a pleasure car?” a soldier asked, pulling her out of the car. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In any case, we may safely assume that Euergetes’ largess did not begin to strain the resources of his supposedly dying kingdom. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I told them I felt like dying and was going to drop out of high school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Give me my sword, mouse, and I will make your dying easy!” he hissed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And then he heard something — something quite apart from the spitting of the dying candles and Lockhart’s prattle about his fans. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

"You're not dying until I hear the rest of the story." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“He’s dying. I don’t think he minds any more.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around her, the Mist flickered like a dying strobe light. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I decided right then that I might be okay with dying at this point. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I needed to know that dying and going to heaven didn’t involve any regrets or sorrows or worries. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He found three more dead monkeys in Room F. They were dying steadily, a handful every night. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Graunt compiled statistics for the number born and dying each year, and the causes of death, from the annual bills of mortality that were published in London. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The wails and screams that escaped from his tiny mouth sounded like those of a dying litter of meerkats. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Someone is always dying," the other one said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had now officially been awake for twenty-seven hours, and I was dying to go to sleep. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Dead and dying insects of various species were conspicuous for about two weeks after the treatment. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But when I imagined stepping back into my life, all I could see was a parade of people living and dying on me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m hungry, Mister White Man. I’m dying for a quarter,” Shorty sang, drooling, drawling, humming his words. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They included preserving the last words of dying people, recording books for blind people to hear, announcing clock time, and teaching spelling. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell he’s dying to get out to that garage as soon as humanly possible. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A long sigh of relief escaped slowly through Yossarian’s mouth when he saw that Snowden was not in danger of dying. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he was dying from third-degree burns on ninety percent of his body? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The last thing I remember was dying, so why am I on this wall? Are we enemies? Have you got names? I’m the Dread Pirate Roberts, but you can call me ‘Westley.’” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“He says the language is dying. He thinks words are being debased. So he tries to speak entirely in weird words and irony, so no one can simplify anything he says.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

An agent from the Office of Indian Affairs soon picked up another report: Mollie wasn’t dying of diabetes at all; she, too, was being poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Once we're in the arena, there's detailed coverage of the bloodbath and then the filmmakers basically alternate between shots of tributes dying and shots of us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Nancy was beginning to feel extremely guilty about not going home to be with him as he lay dying. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father made a promise to my dying mom, and two weeks after she’s gone, he sends you to tell me he was just kidding.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Veer—you have to score me some smokes, man. I’m dying here.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I could see how Miss Love could cheer up a man whose wife was short of breath for four years, dying for ten days, and dead for three weeks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As he fell dying, Nisus cut down the man who had killed him; then pierced with many darts he too fell dead beside his friend. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the night when he was sickest, when his pulse was almost gone and his breathing only a flutter, when I thought he was dying, I sat by his side and held his hand. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Edmund Hooper examined the tides of some of the books the day he was brought here to see his dying grandfather, and they were of no interest. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She seemed to have been put on earth to visit the sick, and to comfort those who wept, and to arrange the last garments of the dying. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They all belonged to each other: the lament of those who yearn, the laughter of the wise, the cry of indignation and the groan of the dying. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might expect me to say “life,” having just woken up and all, but it’s only when I’m awake that I think about dying. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"You never call them here," he said to Eleanor, his voice dying, his eyes wild. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Next day my buddy was dying to know. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A button of grayish ooze collected at the bottom of the test tube—a tiny pill of dead and dying cells. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will tell you. The sun is nothing but a dying star. Someday, it will go out. Phhhhtttt.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m not like your parents. I think there are worse things than dying.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

You think I would have because I’ve seen many people dying in hospital beds, eyes rolled up to the ceiling, mouths hanging open. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she sat alone, the general off to some other row to socialize, and I would walk by, pretending not to know her, but dying to. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Swords grinding and friends dying and the sleet knifing down on us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There were stories that the King was dying, that he was already dead, that he had been dead long since, that he was fine. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently the fact that I was going blind was not considered an emergency; there were dying people around me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At our house, Chong held her baby and talked to him as if he weren’t dying, just sleeping. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell her about Blu Jackson dying so unfair young, but she started crying again. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He was a dying man staring down on the surgeons trying to save him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

And all of a sudden, there I am thinking about this old dude, dying. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Do you ever think about dying?” he asked me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Help us, help us, Blessington’s dying!” she kept yelling down the hall. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Some days, she wondered if they would have been better off dying on the butchering blocks instead. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Has anybody got anything to tell? It’s been such a dismal day I’m really dying for some amusement,” said Meg, as they sat sewing together that evening. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep reading what it says...why would any moral person need a gun when it’s clear that too many people are dying? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I turned just as the last of the light from the flare was dying. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will felt the handle jump three or four times with the dying heartbeats, and pulled it out before the cliff-ghast could twist it away in falling. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They look so young, their faces bent over the pages, squinting against the dying light. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I now risked dying from oxygen toxicity, as the excessively high amount of oxygen threatened to burn up my nervous system, lungs, and eyes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was supposed to keep my mind off Charlie dying—which hasn’t worked so far. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most of them have a dignity about dying, denied to human beings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one else heard echoes in their head of their dying parents. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

My father was on the edge of his seat, looking like he was dying to pepper her with questions. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“So...short of trying to drink this thing and definitely dying, there’s no way?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He squawked like a dying seagull as he flailed through the air, landing facedown. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She meant to sound funny, to ease the mood, but her words sounded sharp, like not dying was an accusation instead of a good thing. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Something in the gesture told him that his sister was dying. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t said or implied a word to him about my recent, extracurricular doings, and I was dying to make this final news-break—to scoop him thoroughly—when we were alone. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

We have to know all about Sanctifying Grace, a pearl of great price, bought for us by Jesus in His dying. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even if he's dying, he’s still part of the Collective hive. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the wilderness, stealing food from other people is a major offense, especially when provisions are already scarce and the threat of dying from starvation is a real possibility. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

That night I lay in bed and thought about dying and going to be with my mother in paradise. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said Scout and Jem should be nicer to their mom because she is probably dying of cancer and one day will not be able to come back and fix them breakfast. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope one day you will be dying of thirst,” I told her, “so that, then, someone can deny you water the same way you did to them!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Two days later, she bent to pick up a dropped spoon, only to find that her toes had begun to flicker like the dying flames in the hearth. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

People were leaving work, monkeys were dying in Reston, and the virus was on the move. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the countryside is not green it is dying. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing they heard from the garden under the ground was the hyena’s distant laughter dying away as the gates closed behind them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The green waves of dead faces and the screams of the dying that had echoed in his head were buried. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But according to Mom and Dad, he was dying. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I inched nearer to where the two stood, dying for autographs, but shy of asking. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harding served two years before dying unexpectedly of a stroke. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Here we are, two boys sitting in a cemetery as it begins drizzling, trading stories in my half-dug grave, as if we’re not dying today. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was breathing harder now and I knew he was dying because there was nothing we could do to help him. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One corner for cooking, one for clothes, one for bedding rolls, one for dying in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So if he thought Granny was dying, I never doubted it was going to happen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Folding tighter, letting out his breath, fighting off images of corks and bottles and Jackson Boy caught in the darkness, dying alone. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Leading the horse he hears behind him a groan from the woman, but doesn’t stop to see whether she is waking or dying or falling off the seat. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him then about Mr. Kellerman's mom dying and he tells me he heard, on account of it being a small town and news travels fast. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The elms are still dying, and so are the birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was almost fainting and dying to get back to college and tell everybody. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The last time I found myself this close to a person, a person slowly dying, was the night of the party. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

True, he didn’t think about dying every day, but he denied himself the luxury of thinking about the future with or without his dad. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And now all the dying around me, and all the killing, was making me look at myself again, hoping to find something more than the kid I was. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gave a sound like a dying animal. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was barely breathing fast at all, but I felt like I was dying. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I had been dying to know what was under the hood of this shark, so that I could draw the outside in a more realistic way. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Soon the coals in the brazier were dying, and suddenly the room was cold. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dany said a silent prayer that somewhere one of the Harpy’s Sons was dying even now, clutching at his belly and writhing in pain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Above was nothing but blood and roaring red and choking smoke and the screams of dying horses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Not even dying? Or being shot?" she whispers. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I am an old man—an old dying man — and I am here to ask you—beg you—to help me get him back. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t imagine being Hazel, dying at such a young age and coming back from the Underworld, knowing more about the dead than the living. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After the eruption of Vesuvius, volcanic ash had buried the city and hardened to rock around dying Pompeians. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There will never be anything but cold and fear and the agonized sounds of the boy dying in the horn. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Less than a month later, in the middle of January, some of the monkeys in Room C began dying with bloody noses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they knew I never really understood why all this money should go to a home for apes when people all over Congo were dying in poverty. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even while she was dying, she worried about her little sister. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was word that the pestilence crawled towards the city from the north shore, and that soon, in the alleys, we should be dying of it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked at her a long, dying moment. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I could tell from the look on my dad’s face that he knew the deal and was dying to see my newly cleared scalp. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only far away north-west there was a deeper darkness against the dying light: the Mountains of Mist and the forest at their feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But if she were, she would’ve told all her loved ones, unlike her best friend, who didn’t come out and tell her he’s dying. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I explained everything about my mother dying when I was small, my father going to' his Maker earlier this summer after a tractor accident, which was the story I was sticking with. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

First she was in prison working in the laundry and dying fast. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men in the first cell were mostly sleeping, or dying, or dead. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

One last log crackled feebly amongst the dying embers in the hearth, and a candle flickered on the table beside a rumpled, empty bed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jesus going to make up my dying bed! Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And in the time between dying and death, a little Alaska sat with her mother in silence. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Goddamnit! You’re eighteen. How much growing up do you need to do? There are soldiers dying in the field at eighteen. Old enough to be left to die on the roads. Did you know that?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was as much as ever he could do to keep afloat, and when he reached the grating he rolled over in the water, belly uppermost, like a dying fish. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reckon they thought they had to keep rewarding her for not dying. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Corporal Craigie was full of urgency and outrage, demanding which of us knew the science of tying a bloody tourniquet, ilk of ye—by God, the man was dying while we gaped. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The news switched to a story about South Africa—blacks rioting there and dying wholesale in battles with police over the policies of the white supremacist government. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

No one has studied the psychology of a dying party. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he asked, “Why do you think your sadness is so special? Children died every day in Kilanga. They are dying here and now.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I promised myself I would never speak of Amil almost dying again. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I catch a pleading look from Dad, who’s dying for me to say no. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The black nurses did their best to care for, comfort, and clean up the sick and dying, but their task was overwhelming. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says: I hope your eye twitches! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Trotter, I’m not talking about dying. I’m talking about coming home.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

There was a horse coming down the ridge: great black horse with blood all over the chest, blood streaming through bubbly holes, blood on the saddle, dying eyes, smoke-gray at the muzzle: Garnett’s horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Harry Goldstein Management Agency would receive little attention, making it the only good thing, besides no one dying, that Bodega had on his side. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, it was disturbing my dying. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not a murmur or a gasp came from her, even in dying. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one would have put it past her to poison the king, though he begged his subjects until his dying breath not to blame her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

One was that of friends and allies urging him to concentrate on the big issues of world health; the other was the voice of Haiti, saying, “My child is dying.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She nibbled at the edge and shuddered from head to foot, cawing like she was dying. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He saw that they were bursting and dying. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if she were sick—dying, even—alone in her house? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That really made me feel okay about dying whenever my time come,” she’d told me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He remembered the dying horse, the taste of blood in his mouth, the smell of burnt flesh in the morning air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Merope had got her dying wish: He was his handsome father in miniature, tall for eleven years old, dark-haired, and pale. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Even a strawberry lassi mixture that I’m secretly dying to make. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then a moan from the dying man called me, and I walked to Narciso and knelt at his side. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know till she was too sick. We can’t stop dying.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not dying this second, child, but I will in good time. And that time will be soon. Now. Your magic. I can say the word and it stays, yes?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I could not erase visions of the sick and dying. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he got closer, I could see he carried something, but what could he shoot in the dying light? Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“What you see is the boy dying. The man will emerge.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

To this he replied angrily, “You cannot speak of dying and please me!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I said Scout and Jem should be nicer to their mom because she is probably dying of cancer and one day will not be able to come back and fix them breakfast. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was frightening to think of missing mass on Sunday, then dying, and for that one mortal sin to go to hell forever. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they read, each in turn, of the birth of Jesus, and reading, they thought of Johnny dying. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was evidence that Johnson knew Americans were dying to prop up a South Vietnamese government that was corrupt and unpopular. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There were several letters about distant relatives dying, school and job acceptance letters, invitations to weddings. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

We are well but dying for news of home and the children. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think, You are dying, and there are bugs inside of you that will eat through your skin. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Good Lord, Turner III, she’s almost as old as I am. Every second thought is about dying. And she doesn’t have any friends before her gone anyway.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Investigators found that monkeys had been dying in large numbers there, too. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a tiny baby mouse, thimble-sized, dead or dying. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“All of you can fight this war without Ares. Until I get satisfaction, no one in my cabin is lifting a finger to help. Have fun dying.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Afraid of dying, silly. Now stop asking questions and go do your homework.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I really do have an appetite," Gregor said to himself sorrowfully, "but not for these things. How these lodgers stuff themselves, and I am dying." The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A stone that makes gold and stops you from ever dying!” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

"My father maybe dying behind the walls of River-run. My brother is surrounded by foes. I must go to them." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In April 1865, Barnes and Bliss were among the several physicians who gathered by the dying president's bed in the boardinghouse across from Ford's Theatre. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Although the Norse hero was doomed if he did not yield, he could choose between yielding or dying. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if time had slowed down as it does for the dying, I watched him loll his weight forward, sliding into an easy lope, head tilted, coming toward me in a casual arc. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, Hades’s words about one of the crew dying had sent a chill through him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This evolutionary response is not one that does the genetically susceptible dying individual any good. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I told my daughter, ‘Those poor kids must be dying of thirst, poor things.’ The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I was out. I was spending the afternoon and evening in Kerrith. I shall never forgive myself for that. Never till my dying day.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“People are dying in Sudan and Palestine and Vietnam. People are dying everywhere.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"No one's dying—it's no fun at all," I said. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“The chance of Robert dying while we operate is as high as one in four,” the doctors said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It is hard to see how we can continue to keep the secret, with such multitudes doing the dying. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe waved his arms, like he was dying to hug someone. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Derby was broken in health—dying—but he had accomplished that last dream of his—to have Salem build a frigate for the United States Navy. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lungs ached from the ash in the air, and his mind filled with pictures of Bri trapped in the elevator, dying slowly and alone. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t care less about Serakeen. It’s been too long since we’ve even gotten that far, and I’m dying to find out just how much the Arbitrator pays.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She crouches there, dying to fall to her knees but not allowing herself. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I was dying to get started on my posters and had already envisioned the perfect hand-lettered style. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t think, but I could hear the sounds of the guns far away in the distance and the cries of people dying in pain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

His face, gray with dying and ash, seems to be receding. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Amanda has been my best friend ever since the time I lied about Joon dying and she gave me a Lifesaver, but that does not mean I tell her everything. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

People knew a lot more about dying inside the hospital and made a much neater, more orderly job of it. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

No one knew what was happening upriver, who was dying, what the virus was doing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time I didn’t think on dying and stuff, and I couldn’t get next to it even with Grandma. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She meant that even if I got killed, the people could use my dead body for a weapon, but we do not like to talk out loud about dying. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s actually about a young girl who gets shot in a war and is dying in the arms of her really hot friend, but if you smile through such a tragedy, it disarms the audience. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The journey was long and harsh, and by the time they made it to Idaho, to a Mormon settlement called Worm Creek, Anna’s mother was sick, dying. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"The boy is a long time dying. I wish he would be quicker about it." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Asra was not, I think, unwilling to die, but he was afraid of dying; he sought distraction from his fear. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wolves and filthy bears, and all the baser beasts, fall upon the dying. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only we’d given the Martians time to arrange their death robes, lie down, look fit, and think up some other excuse for dying. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dying on his feet but refusing to go down. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned back, trying to ignore the throbbing in my head and the pitiful dying animal noises coming from Chubs once he remembered how much pain he was in. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

‘They said that he was dying,’ he sighed, ‘and now he is dead.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“He’s dying for the bread order to come up short, you know. You should throw a roll in the trash one day, just to make him happy.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Slopping pigs couldn’t be that much harder than serving in the front room, and it would be better than falling ill or dying. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know,” she said, “I’ll ask my parents if you can come home with me one weekend. That would be fun. They’ve been dying to meet you. Score! “Have you told them about me?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I thought I knew why, but I did not talk to him about it I did not want to think about the possi-bility of Timothy dying and leaving me alone on the cay. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d had to keep the secret of where I was going to die—but I was the one who had to go there and do the dying. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Lying down suggests I’m dying, and attracts vultures. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Lying on the ground next to Middleton was Henry Smith, eighteen years old and also dying, the result of five gunshot wounds. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was huffing like she was dying to give me more unsolicited advice, but she said, “Forget it,” instead, gathered her books, and left. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A flu pandemic was sweeping the world that winter, with people dying by the millions. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The morels are trying to escape the dying forest. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I definitely don’t want to stink up the apartment by dying in here. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They packed up their belongings in a U-Haul and moved in with Daphne’s mother, who was conveniently dying and left Daphne the house in Dove Canyon. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Instead of the Aztecs’ dying of smallpox, the Spaniards might have been wiped out by American germs transmitted by disease-resistant Aztecs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Had they gone through this whole nightmare only to end up dying in the Dead Land? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knew he was dying and afterwards 1 used to wonder what he thought about. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yer not dying,” I say, getting an arm under her shoulders and another under her knees. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“How,” I asked, my glance sweeping about to catch the amused looks of the others, “how dare we celebrate while around the world thousands are suffering and dying?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am dying; I am dying; I am dying. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The Poet was dying in his house by the sea. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked calm, at peace, like she did not mind dying now. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This is what Mother’s been dying to say since she found out about this dinner. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t bargain for Mother’s life, because I didn’t believe she was in danger of dying. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In the name of Allah, I am dying!” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She had been dying to go to Griswold’s famous San Francisco book carnival since she first heard about it five years ago. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I don't want anything good to come from T dying. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You knew that I was dying to know who this person was,” I say. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t have missed it. I mean, except for almost dying, and Pan ...” Her voice faltered. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The Erudite won’t have an army. The Abnegation will stop dying. This will be over.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She heard it as she had never heard it before, and there were other sounds as well, grunts of pain, angry curses, shouts for help, and the moans of wounded and dying men. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All of them falling—they must be dead, or dying—as the earsplitting bang of bullets filling my ears. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I am your completion,” the lead scythe said loudly to the dying. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And if she might have been better off dying that night she’d been betrayed and captured, too. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ve told you before, if nobody’s dying and the house isn’t on fire, it’s not an emergency.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When we were dying of starvation, no one helped me! The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

To ease the dying man, he administered a dose of calomel and placed loaves of hot bread around his body. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured myself gasping for breath and dying in my sleep. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then people in England began dying of a sickness called mad cow disease. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The man is not dead, he is dying, but he is not dead. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a kind of euphoria, he had discovered, in nearly dying and then not. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Blame the girls for dragging me along. That’s the only dying they could agree on. We needed to help you or you’d mess things up.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I was involved in this happy thing,” he remembered, “with the excitement running over Los Alamos—at the same time as the people were dying and struggling in Hiroshima.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By a dog’s age, Sounder is past dying time,” the boy said half aloud. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A newscaster was standing in front of the monkey house, and he was talking about people dying in Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought,“Why would I need to tell her? What’s she going to do — send me to a psychiatrist? I’m not crazy—I’m having dreams that my extremely ill brother is dying, which makes sense!” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a world of violence and fear and children dying without having lived and she wants no part of it. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z