If they planned every detail, the Shakers had believed, they could create a patch of heaven on earth, a little refuge from the world, and the founders of Shaker Heights had thought the same. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It hit the earth right next to her and she pulled backward, using the javelin like a lever, kicking the Titan Lord and sending him flying over her. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I had never seen a dwarf before, but I knew they were special people, sent to the earth marked for this sacred life of duty to the nobility. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I swung myself over the fence and fell to the earth like a sack of logs. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She had been trapped inside a bag that smelled like earth and rotten cabbage. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Instead of sailing from Turkey to America, this time she would be traveling from earth to heaven, where Lefty had already gotten his citizenship and had a place waiting. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The last thing on earth I wanted was a mess like this. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Far below, like the blood of the earth, From the center of nowhere rushing forth,” he sang under his breath. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vault opened onto one of the tunnels the brothers called the wormwalks, winding subterranean passages that linked the keeps and towers of Castle Black under the earth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When they explode, the bombs make craters in the earth the size of small ponds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So out they went into the courtyard, where Sticky and Constance now sat on a stone bench under the elm tree, while Kate and Reynie sprawled on the ivy-covered earth nearby. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Those chronicles describe how the sun goddess Amaterasu, born from the left eye of the creator god Izanagi, sent her grandson Ninigi to earth on the Japanese island of Kyushu to wed an earthly deity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I swear it by earth and water," said the boy in green. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Yawning holes opened in the earth, some deeper than any grave. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He saw, as though it were a vision, Royal’s body, sprawled heavy and unmoving forever against the earth, and tears blinded his eyes. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And then at last over the miles between there came a rumble, rising to a deafening crash and roar; the earth shook, the plain heaved and cracked, and Orodruin reeled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Night came, but the earth still rose and fell like a great animal breathing. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the late 1950s, the main focus of the espionage war was moving from the streets of Berlin to the upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I kicked and thrashed and stomped, but his boots were thick—no match for my shoes’ soft soles—and his muscles were like rocks after decades of hard labor against the earth. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the nurseries all the little boys were moving heaven and earth to persuade their mothers to have hard pears for dinner, which were stewed in honey-syrup and vinegar, and eaten with whipped cream. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my speed, I knew that once I made it through the hole, no one on earth could catch me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they drove away to deposit the crop in the potato barns with earth heaped high about their sides to prevent freezing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the gash on his leg . . . what on earth can I do for that? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We were being swallowed by the earth, and I hadn’t decided yet whether I liked that. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But I did not do so, for I had always obeyed my mother— whose love for me was as certain as the firmness of the sacred earth beneath my moccasins. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A miracle has happened and a sign has occurred here on earth, right on our farm, and we have no ordinary pig.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

As soon as her fingers grazed the cold metal, the earth began to grumble. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“No spoon on earth has ever felt lonely or forgotten, Olive. But Henry? We must remind him and Ruby that we are their neighbors and friends.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

As for the Ainu, their distinctive appearance has resulted in more being written about the origins and relationships than about any other single people on earth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh dear!” cried Charlie, who was watching with the others through the door, “what on earth’s going to happen to them now?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dusk was falling so quickly that it seemed you could almost sense the curvature of the earth arching away from the sun. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The point is I’m the quickest striker in the league and on earth. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We ride on through a cavern, between pillars of roots, over packed earth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

An iron drab and a silver talent, a stone and a piece of fruit, two bricks, a clod of earth and one of the donkeys. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He lives among us, in the air, the trees, the stones, the red earth. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Round and round and upside down went the peach as it plummeted toward the earth, and they were all clinging desperately to the stem to save themselves from being flung into space. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

We merely throw the earth in on them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the summer months, however, superheated air rises from the scorched earth like bubbles from the bottom of a boiling kettle, rushing heavenward in turbulent convection currents. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course Rømer’s figure for the time light takes to travel from the sun to the earth was a very crude approximation! The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If the idea of a small town in earth orbit worked out, the next step might be something much, much larger—more like a new country in space. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So little is known about Deganawidah’s life that archaeologists disagree about whether he actually walked the earth or belongs entirely to the realm of legend. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You used earth magic, right? Use it again right now.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Kendra felt comforted just looking at the hulking goliath of earth and stone. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the earth, overwhelmed by the fact that he had no idea how to get back to Nali’s mobile home. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Far too much methane gas is entering the atmosphere already, it will choke out the oxygen and perhaps cause the entire earth to become a giant greenhouse. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Like it’s the blood of the earth moving.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The brown earth turned dark and the trees glistened. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were the things they said to one another under the rim of earth where Death is lord. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned close to the earth and sprinkled pinches of yellow pollen into the four footprints. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The earth was soft from the rain and, in places, from being recently turned up. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Such wonders you have never seen, ladies and gentlemen, acts and performers gathered from the four corners of the earth to delight and entertain you, acrobats, and tumblers, and aerialists of the highest caliber.... Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

On their way back from the moon, Jim Lovell said he thought the earth looked like a “grand oasis in the great vastness of space. ” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like he didn’t know if I was only pretending to act like I didn’t know how on earth he’d found out I’d kissed someone for the very first time today. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, somehow, in the thirty minutes of riding the Eye, in his sealed capsule, he had vanished off the face of the earth. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

His preparation was to dig a trench, heaping the earth in a long ridge beside it to hold the blades half-bedded. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mountains broke in half as they passed, and the earth burst into flame beneath them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I saw the invoice, and took note of it: “Fifty cases of common earth, to be used for experimental purposes.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Father told me it was once the home of the astronomer Copernicus, who proved that the earth rotated around the sun. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Heading toward the wide parr of the river where trees grouped themselves in families darkening the earth below. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I held my breath and waited for the earth to stop spinning. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the Virgin’s blue robe, it was the holiest cloth on earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We parked alongside a small country cemetery and marched over clumps of ruddy earth to the Grover graveyard. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A crystal had been set in the soft earth, and Lommy wanted to take it until the Bull told him he'd better leave the dead alone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I look down and pity him because I realize that I’m quite possibly looking at the most hapless man on earth. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He sat on die horse and watched the picks swinging in the moonlight, listened to the sound of shovels in the earth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A large body, such as the earth or the sun, contains nearly equal numbers of positive and negative charges. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they drove back toward Ravenel, the sky was beginning to loosen up in the east, fingers of pink and mauve light touched the rim of the earth, enlarging imperceptibly with each moment passed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snow and ice and cold are not really typical features of earth. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The land was aflame with the roaring heat of a blacksmith’s fire; there was no solid earth, no sky. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The pressure elevators were powered by gaseous columns vented from the earth’s core. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In either case, it would not be of much use as a source of heat and light for life on earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t think there are some pretty compelling reasons for wiping the earth clean and starting over?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The winds, to the tiniest, lisping baby breath had left the earth. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

And heard the assault coming, up the rocks, clawing up through the bushes, through the shattered trees, the pocked stone, the ripped and bloody earth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They'd gone to all the trouble of building the Argo II so they could travel by sea and air, and they’d ended up in the earth anyway. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A universe in which there were two earths within one sphere of water was no longer an Aristotelian universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was also the same day and night and throughout the year, even though the earth was rotating on its axis and orbiting around the sun. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would go with the silver in his hand and he would say plainly, “I have money. What is the price of the earth you wish to sell?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"It can't change colour all by itself! What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Who on earth wants to talk to you this badly?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Heaven knows how she found it, but to us it was the greatest place on earth. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as slowly as might be expected from any lady no longer in her first, or even her second, youth, she climbed down from the driver's seat to the wet earth. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two very important elements in our lives on earth are carbon and nitrogen, and we would also need them on Libra. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But out of it shall come such a country as was never seen on this earth before. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of this group of fourteen, three would orbit the earth, three orbit the moon, four walk on the moon, and four would get killed. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, on rainy days, the earth underneath would shift and tilt the toilet to one side, making it difficult to balance inside. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the mourners began to throw handfuls of earth onto the body, Ash had to look away. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he was looking up, turning, following the flight of the ball, which finally came down to earth in deep left center field and bounced once to the fence. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And when it’s all together we’ll tie it to the saddles and take it down to where the earth is soft and bury it. We don’t want to get caught with any of this stuff.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadrack stood at the foot of the hospital steps watching the heads of trees tossing ruefully but harmlessly, since their trunks were rooted too deeply in the earth to threaten him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

What shape is ‘the earth’? The answer to this question must seem obvious. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He is closer to no one on earth. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

At sundown he was lying on the sand at the bottom of the long mesa, feeling the heat recede from the air and from his body into the earth. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather coughs again and the earth waits for what and who it will get in return. how to listen #3 Middle of the night my grandfather is coughing me upright. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

If he was so strong and brave, then why on earth was he frightened of her? The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I learned much from those men who were as dark and quiet as the earth of the valley, and what I learned made me stronger inside. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with the heavens also in turmoil, all the immortals were too concerned with their own affairs to attend to the ones on earth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Aristotle thought the earth was stationary and that the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars moved in circular orbits about the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense. The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In a famous story, a medieval cosmologist is asked what holds the earth up. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When heaven and earth were joined in emptiness and all was unwrought simplicity, then without having been created things came into being. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took off his shoes and pounded the frozen earth with them. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

These are dark days I will tell you of, dark days and hidden things, concerning the ends of the earth and the death of the gods. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Some humans think we have the right to be the only predators on earth.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora couldn’t tell what feature of the landscape had persuaded the homesteaders to plant their futures, fertile earth or water or vistas. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Next to her sits a dust-covered canister that smells like the earth. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

What on earth was a park kind of mood? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Pah, what does one need with a stick? All one needs is eyes and ears. The earth speaks loud enough when it wants to be heard.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In reply, a clod of wet earth flew out from under the tree, hitting Tristran on the side of the face. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A great change has occurred in the countenance of Neumann Two, as though he looks not at his former companions but into his last hours on earth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead he sent Phiri, who was so powerful he’d walk from tree to tree and rip them from the earth, as if they were weeds. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure nobody on earth had ever admired me before. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

What on earth was hiding behind the face of things? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they both fell to the earth, and a large dust cloud bloomed around them. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Tales of tears in the earth and sky, waves of heat scorching bodies whole. I am old enough to remember it, and I can tell you, it was a terrible thing to behold.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He prepared the ground, and she dropped in seeds from her sack and covered them with moist earth. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when I say ‘Jesus,’ I’m talking about a guy who walked the earth for thirty- three years like any other guy but caught the imagination of some PR cats. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I can be like Kimberly, so beautiful and strong, maybe it won't hurt so bad if all that happens at the end of the fall is that I crash into the earth. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Why did she squeal so as her hands made contact with the earth? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Where on earth do we find a village in this godforsaken wilderness? We’ve probably taken at least two wrong turns already.’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“How are we going to know when he’s here? Is there going to be a sign or something? Like maybe the earth will split down the middle and he’ll pop up?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was magnificent country, as topographically imposing as any landscape on earth, but it wasn’t wilderness, and hadn’t been for hundreds of years. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But if you throw a rock fast enough, it won’t curve back down to earth; it will zoom out of the earth’s atmosphere and escape the earth’s gravitational pull. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s not as if Rich is the scum of the earth. He’s a tax attorney like you, for Chrissake. How can she criticize that?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What on earth are you doing here? And where did you find that baby girl?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years later, that tree would fall back to earth and begin the cycle all over again. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I thought too much driving had distorted my vision or addled my judgment, for the dark earth below seemed to move and pulse and breathe. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down there below the earth, it would seem, the chill was constant, unchanging. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Again it was time for the family to plant; Yellow Kettle chopped at the tough winter-packed earth of their family garden. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The earth of Resthaven was heavy with clay: it baked hard in the sun. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They swirled in green and black, as deep as the crust of the earth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Etienne says heaven is like a blanket babies cling to. He says people have flown airplanes ten kilometers above the earth and found no kingdoms there. No gates, no angels.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even though it was so close to London, it was quiet, very rural, at the edge of the earth. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without seats, the earth- moving machines were basically useless. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The earth, it holds back secrets it is not yet willing to part with.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The windows of fallen walls stared up at her, sprouting weeds as if the earth had grown eyes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The consensus outside Virginia seemed to be that “not one person in a thousand in the United States knows that there is such a place on earth,” and those few who did were all Indians. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He loved the farm because he could be out in the real air, and he wouldn’t wear work gloves be-cause he liked to touch the earth and the wood and the animals. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The wooden houses, the cool terraces for breezy card-playing afternoons, seemed to have been blown away in an anticipation of the prophetic wind that years later would wipe Macondo off the face of the earth. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The earth shook with their battle, and when they had finished, all that remained to the prince was a small piece of land at the edge of the sea. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miguel stomped on the edge of his shovel, levered up a wedge of earth. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But the opening was the color of earth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I become the earth and I crack on the inside. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I know not whether the day was fair or foul; in descending the drive, I gazed neither on sky nor earth: my heart was with my eyes; and both seemed migrated into Mr. Rochester’s frame. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like a pebble or a blade of grass, you just stare and think, Dear Christ, there’s the last thing on earth I’ll ever see. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘What on earth do you think you’re doing?’ he said, knowing very well exactly what I was doing. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only place they did not inundate was the patch of hard earth where the hurdles were and where he now sat with Sandy and Nan. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She believed that the light pained her eyes, and also that the gray room was a cave to hide in, a dark burrow in the earth, a place where no eyes could stare at her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or, “Mister, I can shimmy a ball down a line so pretty, there isn’t a soul on God’s green earth that can even get near it.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t so much drowning in the earth or the sea, but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His mother laid down her hoe and followed slowly, picking her way over the mounds of plowed earth that Jethro’s feet seemed barely to touch. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Palmer did not know why he stood there, alone at the edge of the field, the last place on earth he wanted to be. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In surveying, the earth was firm beneath your telescope. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hot virus from the rain forest lives within a twenty-four-hour plane flight from every city on. earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aden, who was nine and had been going to school, said it felt like that because the earth was a round ball and it was spinning. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So that meant he was fifty feet underground, with tons of earth and rock and buildings above him. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As she placed the sacrificial parts upon a blazing altar, the earth rumbled and quaked beneath their feet and from afar dogs howled through the darkness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seven silhouettes seemed to float across the surface of the earth, like spirits, vaporous and unreal. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Voice on the earth was now louder and more triumphant; but the voices in the sky, after singing loudly with it for a time, began to get fainter. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

But who on earth could Ebright have found that would knock a machine like Burnley out of a national championship boat? The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The wind kept whistling and pushing, but the rest of it—the stars, Sahil, the lake, the earth—everything stilled. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He went ashore and kissed the earth in joy, hot tears blinding his eyes at sight of home. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It tastes like a cloud that has floated down to earth, airy and sweet, melting on my tongue. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Then he leapt forward, spurning the earth, and was gone like the north wind from the mountains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There he smelled caches of game buried in the soft earth, but they were marked with powerful warning scents, so he did not dig them up. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He has also escaped his shackles beneath the earth and has returned to rip the throats of the warriors on the earth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The earth’s shadow on the moon was always round, which would be true only if the earth was spherical. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, it is easy to draw diagrams of two-dimensional spaces, such as the surface of the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as my eyes can see, white and gray grave markers line the earth, each with a tiny bit of information. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could lie in his bed and wait, and he also would have a bowl of water brought to him, and if the earth were fruitful there would be tea leaves in the water. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The earth is old and we are not, and that is all you must remember. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Effortlessly, without giving it a moment’s thought, we are capable of changing our language, music, manners, morals, entertainment, even the way we dress, all around the earth in a year’s turning. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air, as always at the beginning of the monsoon, lay like a blanket upon the earth, damp and suffocating, but when it blew the wind came through the rain wet and chill. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned back on the earth but stumbled to the ground. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

God give a lucky few of us some talent and then put us on earth to make use of it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I knew from my clock that the earth was about to reappear, and right on schedule it popped into view, rising like a blue and white jewel over the desolate lunar horizon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and animals. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Stupefied with the shock, unable even to move, the sodden rabbits crouched inert, almost pinned to the earth by the rain. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What power, what riches, the children wondered, could cover the entire earth with finely hewed stone? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Something creamy and delicate burst forth from the dark earth and began to grow. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

So would also their house, some time, return into the earth, their bodies also. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Torture them as much as you can when they are on this earth, then take away the hope that one day their people will have it better. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Could he continue to walk the earth, going where he pleased, having a say, being part of a community? Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

That was why she didn’t rush across to her husband and ask him what on earth had happened to them both. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Before following the men north into the jungle, she dug her hands into the earth and narrowed her eyes, promising herself that this time she would not fail. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But Aesculapius, even though he had so displeased the King of Gods and Men, was honored on earth as no other mortal. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood in a river, the river running red with it, the earth drowning in blood. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He swore that he had never seen her until just now when she had sprung forth, newborn, from the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pluton'ic, relating to the interior of the earth, or to the Plutonic theory in geology of the formation of certain rocks by fire: from "Pluto"—in classic mythology, the god of the infernal regions. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of his earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“All right, Lyra, hush, gal,” she whispered, and settled on the cold earth floor with her back against the wall. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Where was the Argo IP Thoon knelt and touched the blade of his cleaver reverently against the earth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It hit the road near the huge tree, blowing a crater in the packed earth. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She felt tiny iron particles in her brain lining up with the earth’s magnetic field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She would anchor her sister to this earth. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jethro’s hand found a sharp stick, and he dug it into the earth, twisted it around and around, and stared at the hole he had made as if it had some meaning. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig could hear a worm moving in the earth nearby and faintly down the tunnel came the sound of some small creature pattering through the grass outside. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn't know that the party was over. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I could stay here forever, disappear from the earth. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She imagined Muskrat finally pulling to the very bottom and grasping that bit of earth in its tiny paws. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Score a goal for me, she says, then shoots a smile that sends you to Jupiter long enough for Don to “accidentally” knock the tray out of your hands and bring you back to earth. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nico had called on the earth to swallow them up, and then he’d run away—terrified of his own powers, and his own emotions. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“How on earth d you know that?” said Harry in amazement. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And it’s the wanting that pulls me back down to earth hard. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The thunder god fell to the earth, and the villagers could see that it was a blue pig or bear with horns and fleshy wings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Both creatures swore to stay on earth until the project was complete. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Kaede had taken flint from inside the house and was about to light the fire when Taisin said, “Wait. Let me bind the body to the earth first.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A mud baby, molded into form by creative children on a rainy day, soon to run back into the loose earth. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would hurl down cashews and mangoes from the trees and they would start to rot in the humid earth, giving out that sweet-and-sour scent. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They’re lying side by side, in their summer clothes, and sinking down through the earth, which is hard but transparent, like ice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They thought of them as the precursors of men and they defined them far more clearly as individuals than they had earth and heaven. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mile of men, armed and coming, the earth shuddering with their movement, with the sound of the guns. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the sound of a hoe striking against the earth. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

So I draw that line Laia spoke of, a deep runnel in the earth of my mind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He half turned and another rock sailed past him, missing him; it collided with the earth and the sound startled him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

For months, she had raised gold and gems from the earth to create this monster. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And I imagine the solar wind blowing the stardust around, trillions of energized particles bombarding the earth, radiation I can't see or feel. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of our food, in fact almost all life on earth, can be traced back to photosynthesis in plants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She crouched down and summoned a gold nugget from the earth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This time they were pressing their faces into freshly turned earth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Small green shoots were forcing their way up through the red earth of Dobby’s grave now; in a year’s time the mound would be covered in flowers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If my mother had ever let me have a dog, I think it would have been the happiest dog on earth. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and pushed the blade of the shovel into the earth and got busy filling a wheelbarrow with dirt. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We prowl around among the trees, looking for bones, for hummocks in the earth that could mark diggings, the outlines of buildings, turning over logs and rocks to see what’s underneath them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seldom if ever does Nature operate in closed and separate compartments, and she has not done so in distributing the earth’s water supply. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The shadows from the trees shift in the soft light, and the smell of wet earth infuses the air. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Dust erupted as if the earth was exhaling. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

‘The rumour of the earth is dim and confused,’ he said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, I saw what people do to the earth because everyone wants to say this is mine. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Then can ye tell me what on earth made ye put down Junior Agent when ye ain’t got a supernatural ability to speak of?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

This was the highest point on the earth: he could feel it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The laws of science will hold at them, just as they do at the North and South Poles on the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was one advantage of living near the earth’s core—the water was always hot. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

If a person owns a piece of land, does he own it all the way down, in ever narrowing dimensions, till it meets all other pieces at the center of the earth? Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many alchemists believed that all matter was a mixture of four elementary substances: water, air, earth and fire, an ancient Ionian speculation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ghosts, too, which have played so large and so fearsome a part in other lands, never appear on earth in any Greek story. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the key assumptions of Eratosthenes’ measurement of the earth’s circumference—that the planet is spherical—would have been reinforced in his mind even before he set foot on Egyptian soil. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

She thought he was missing the greatest joy on earth by being committed to a life of celibacy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus she left them, and Metaneira fell speechless to the earth and all there trembled with fear. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was as cheerful as a sparrow, while I wanted nothing more than to be swallowed by the earth in one gulp. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The gods and the dead are closest to the earth this day—they can hear every nasty comment you make!” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a small taste of freedom. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Aristotelian universe the earth had been the recipient of light but had given no light. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Like a flower, we will dry up here on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“How on earth do you know?” said Art. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Not one dirt clod more than necessary had been removed from the earth. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The beam struck the ground directly in front of us, then cut a deep smoking furrow in the earth as it continued to sweep forward, vaporizing every avatar and ship in its path. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“We know all things which shall be hereafter upon the earth.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

So every day I filled an old coffee can two or three times and watered around the roots of the bush, moistening the earth until it became spongy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Six months after the first Explorer satellite, the US Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Act to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the earth's atmosphere and for other purposes. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The cement gave way to springy earth, stones, stunted bushes, gullies and hills. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But down in the black underworld Adonis could not hear them, nor see the crimson flower that sprang up where each drop of his blood had stained the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad stood, looking at the active power lines, looking at the earth, looking at Mother. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Lee, who carried his compass everywhere, had realized already that the earth’s magnetic field was as disturbed as everything else. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach the end of one hallway and find myself in an atrium, surrounded by the smell of wet earth. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The bathroom is a hole dug in the earth outdoors. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

How on earth did I even get here? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Or maybe everyone had died like in one of those sci-fi flicks, and I was the last boy on earth. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Snow and mud lay thick on the earth, and rogue snowflakes drifted through the night sky. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Now there were long periods when he heard nothing except the wind in the trees and the plop of buckeyes on the earth. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Down here, on his own, far beneath the surface of the earth, he couldn’t make an enemy of his imagination. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

‘This is where he struck the earth,’ Annabeth said, ‘where he made a saltwater spring appear when he had the contest with my mom to sponsor Athens.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the wet earth, strange footprints tracked from the front door. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Was it like the kabbalists thought and we returned to earth in another body? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Garretts’ dogs heard the noise first: the sound of metal touching metal, of one hundred hooves sending vibrations through the earth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now she was flying, twisting and rotating in the air, seeing sky, then earth, then sky, then earth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Who on earth’s calling here this early on a Sunday morning?” she mumbled. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ones who excavated a million tons of rock and dirt, toiled in the belly of the earth for the deliverance of slaves like her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Headmaster Clarkson, how on earth could his anonymity stay intact when every student in the school has seen this photograph?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The second head, which was black as pitch, coughed up earth. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What on earth did they want to block up the fireplace for?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She reached the square, and the horse stopped, and the woman in grey slipped off it easily and stood on the earth, facing them all, the living and the dead of them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I watched closely how they worked the earth, the respect they showed it, and the way they cared for living plants. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead man smelled of turned earth and brine and something worse. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Slowly like the ebbing tide the sea and the rivers drew back and the earth was dry again. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he answered her loudly, hardening his heart, “Why should that one wear pearls with her skin as black as earth? Pearls are for fair women!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not religious but I get the feeling that it’s the simplest rituals, the ones that are integrated with the earth and its seasons, that are the most profound. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daylight, even when the sun is clear of clouds, seems to us simply the natural condition of the earth and air. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laid the flowers on the fresh mound of earth, and then turned around and scooted for the timber. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

From his hand the pipe dangled and then fell, spilling sparks of red ash so that for a moment the earth floor glowed like a deep, star-filled sky. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The suggestion was that they were having their heaven right here on earth. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We arrived at Big Creek High at lunchtime, leaned our sleds against the wall just inside the main door, and walked in as if we were kings of the earth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

With fore-head and knees against the earth, her body convulsed and then relaxed. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan hustled over to Jet Stone Boy, who was already pressing the tip of his arrowhead to the earth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The earth in its hunger has consumed it. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no prophet in the earth’s long chronicle who’s not honored here today. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now he is buried with our prayers in the holy earth of the pueblo’s graveyard, along with others of our family. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The peasants would crown as emperor a farmer who knew the earth or a beggar who understood hunger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What on earth are you doing on the floor?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Now the only sound is my voice carrying across the entire earth. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Today, it is just earth, and sky, and the cries from the nest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I understood on some dim, detached level that the sweep of earth beneath my feet was a spectacular sight. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s different. Generals can do anything. Nothing quite so much like God on earth as a general on a battlefield.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The actual speed can be determined at any point in the earth's orbit by using the distance to the sun and the specific orbital energy. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The air was rich with the smells of earth and leaf. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Thor grunts in pain and then falls lifeless to the earth, poisoned by the creature he slew. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And this I thought: Dear God—protect him—bless him, for living or dead, he shall soon be beneath the earth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He heard a cracking sound as the sky crashed to earth with a violent impact that shook the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

If intelligence developed naturally on earth, it is difficult to see why the same process wouldn’t have occurred elsewhere. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she had loosened the earth and weeded with Mama’s big moose antler hoe and her own smaller hoe carved from a crooked tree branch. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

We seek the dead only, to return to earth the body, of which no man is the owner, but only for a brief moment the guest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse than the spinning, the nauseating flip of earth and sky, was what happened to the people. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Flames erupted from the fissure, and the earth swallowed the skeletons in one loud CRUNCH! The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The roots were everywhere, twisting through earth and stone, closing off some passages and holding up the roofs of others. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I eased the shoots out of the earth and gently combed their roots apart. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She must be the worst actor on earth. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring, wolf packs stay at a nursery den where the pups are born deep in the earth at the end of long tunnels. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Before we went over the hill, I dropped it onto the brown earth. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father and his values had brought him back to earth. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As Bigwig stared back at her, he suddenly recalled Holly’s description of the great yellow hrududu that had torn open the earth above the destroyed warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The winter had been deep and long, but now the air was scented with first blossoms and thawed earth. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“This one should be dead, yet she’s not. The monsters you fight no longer return to Tartarus when they are slain. Some mortals who died long ago are now walking the earth again.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Here, one would pause and look at the earth, while the other joined him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice cracked and she started crying again, covering her face with her hands as she sat down on the hard-packed earth, her legs crossed under her. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Close to, she felt his voice rumbling like the earth itself. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There are said to be a billion billion insects on the earth at any moment, most of them with very short life expectancies by our standards. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And mounds of earth, as if someone had been digging for potatoes or carrots, though I didn’t see anything like that growing here. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dad said that he wanted to move to Florida where he could buy a little piece of heaven, and Mom had said Norvelt was heaven on earth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Over snapping branches and soft patches of earth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If the earth shifted any more, the entire complex might collapse on their heads. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Day after day the pitiless sun blazed down, scorching whatever still struggled to grow and baking the earth hard until at last it split and great irregular fissures gaped in the land. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to earth again. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

After checking all their equipment, they were ready to leave earth orbit for the first time in history, and again the Saturn V put them on a perfect path for the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of which proves that the meek don’t inherit the earth. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her cells growin big as the world, cover round the whole earth,” he said, his eyes tearing as he waved his arms in the air, making a planet around him. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He slammed his foot against the ground, and the earth rattled. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some time, in some age, bodies of men and women had been buried there, houses had stood there, had fallen, and gone back into the earth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She looked at the food in her pantry, a hollowed-out space lined with small stones in the earth behind the living room. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Fountains of dirt flew into the air where the bombs struck the earth. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a wave, a wave of earth, and it rippled under me along the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel as if something is rising out of the earth. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A veritable avalanche of earth and rocks cascaded over the parapet. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I make the earth the hottest thing out there,” said Summer with a blazing smile. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And how on earth did you know that? Do you speak it?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were glad to be close to fire, sleeping on soft grassy earth, under leafy sky, and best of all, near water. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The way everyone looked up so surprised, it was as if they were saying, “How on earth did she live this long without knowing what a silo is?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deydey, slumped over by the fire, she did not disturb except to lower him to the earth. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The bullocks have found their own rhythm now, moving so that their hoofs strike the earth together and the yoke is borne steadily on their shoulders: we are travelling fast. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why? But for you, for you. Just to show that I . . “And what on earth vacuum cleaners have got to do with lions ...” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Libra would be created by hauling material from the earth and the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fuxi bellowed a sound of grief, a thunder that shook the heavens and four new mountains of the earth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

She stopped at a girl whose strong heart sounded like thunder within the earth, sending its power into her fingertips. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were four poles on each side, set in the earth, and twice that many for the roof. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds are moving furiously fast, blocking any moonbeams from touching the earth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clutched Mark’s upper arms, gripping his shirt to keep himself from plunging to the earth below. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Had their mother really thought the bear was the devil on earth? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The trees in the garden were gold and brown, half of the leaves already dead on the earth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He watched Woundwort steadily where he crouched on the earth pile, expecting him to leap forward at any moment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bright color, not an earth or natural color, and for a second he could not place it, then he knew it for what it was. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing but earth and water and air, and all he wanted was fire. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

What they mean is, Don’t love anything on earth except me. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the bottom of the sea, the bowels of the earth, to the heart of the fiery furnace? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It rose about twenty yards, fuzzily gleaming, then whizzed straight back to earth only a few feet away, hitting with a hard thud, but it didn’t break. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s so private and silent that I pretend we’re the only two people on earth, which is how I wish it could be for real. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I took the other two on, across a road, and soon we came to a bad place—all heather and soft black earth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What on earth do you think you can do? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Dimarion laughed, heaving himself up like a giant out of the earth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, each form developed its own machinery for survival, and some failed and disappeared while others peopled the earth. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth below looked so beautiful, so loving and comfortable. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It could hardly have been grubbier if he had first rubbed his hands in the earth, and then had a good cry, and then dried his face with his hands. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

No force on earth can stop me, except that her song starts and crushes the moment with melancholy. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He kneels to touch the blessed earth and then—he is rushing rushing, for the house. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Warm vapors rose from the earth, shrouding the trees in their moist breath, creeping up the walls to draw grey curtains across the watching windows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some words started from Indo-European and swarmed into religion over a very large part of the earth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, the party is just a family affair because Freak isn't supposed to get overexcited, which is like saying the moon isn't supposed to go around the earth. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

That the past was an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning the earth was quiet once more and a fresh wind that smelled of kelp blew out of the northern sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, looked away as she prodded in the churned-up earth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Then Israel took pity on the heart and gave it freedom. He placed it upon the earth and the earth opened and swallowed the black heart into itself.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But thinking of my mother is like a long rope keeping me tied to earth. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Almost at a stroke, just 168 men had dealt a devastating blow to the greatest empire on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We thudded to earth as if the pilot had miscalculated just how close we were to the ground. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The earth trembled with the clatter of hooves. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The top few feet were easy to manage, but lower down the earth became sandy and wet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They look like the bones of an ancient giant, one that roamed the earth a long time ago. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But really it is far away—nearly a quarter of a million miles from earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Thula, however, Boulder City was about as forlorn a place as could be found on earth. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The children are red and dusty all over, crimson earth clinging to their clothing, skin, and hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might as well try to kill the earth, Tartarus had said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"What on earth are you up to, Mosca? Is that your idea of keeping watch? Who said you could untie him?" The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was still far away when it folded its wings and bombed the earth. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, when Mrs. Coulter realized this and explained how the earth and the other five planets revolved around the sun, Lyra laughed loudly at the joke. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny had been on earth for thirty-four years. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s the idea that the existence of the earth and its people are better explained by divine inspiration than by evolution. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were so many, it looked like half the earth had learned to fly. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Western Market was a great square of beaten earth surrounded by warrens of mud-baked brick, animal pens, whitewashed drinking halls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was beautiful, but it was nothing compared to earth, and I didn’t want to come back ever. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would not hold much longer... but behind them was only earth and stone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The earth is still making loops around the sun. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Water in the earth had dissolved parts, and the plants had sucked them up. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was only a broad pile of soft earth, half filling the run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “The earth does fall through the universe. You know that, buddy. It’s constantly falling toward the sun. That’s what it means to orbit.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the panic that ran through me until she straightened her back and told that nurse, “There isn’t anything on God’s green earth that’s gonna make me leave my Delsie.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

All day long she sat over a hole in the ground, the omphalos, the navel of the earth, breathing petrochemical fumes escaping from underneath. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Are you serious, young man? What on earth could you be protesting?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But a few seconds later—so fast does the crow fly—they were gliding to earth a yard from her front door. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

My mother sat on the hood of the truck, watching as they began to dig into the dead earth. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Elijah Muhammad teaches that the greatest and mightiest God who appeared on the earth was Master W. D. Fard. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these numbers are at best rough approximations, but their implications are clear: the epidemics killed about one out of every five people on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“What on earth are they going to do?” said Michael, gaping. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Always crying about Mexico as if it were the best place on earth. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They did, and felt the earth shake under them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

Harry caught a whiff of damp earth and fertilizer mingling with the heavy perfume of some giant, umbrella-sized flowers dangling from the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

If okay was the earth, then I was standing on Jupiter. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

They fell forward, grovelling heedlessly on the cold earth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As she fell asleep beside him, Bigwig wondered how on earth he was going to fulfill this promise and whether they would be woken by the Council police. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry felt as though something inside him was falling, falling through the earth, leaving him forever. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Why on earth did she insist on calling her Sister Flowers? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mud was nice between her toes, and she liked to feel the earth underfoot when she walked. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ay, those poor children had met the very devil himself or the earth had opened in their path and swallowed them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding his lamp up high, he pointed down a narrow, winding earth track that disappeared into the thick black trees. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it occurs so infrequently and involves such a relatively small number of species, considering the huge population of bacteria on the earth, that it has a freakish aspect. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Geology is the study of the origin, history, and structure of the earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a cough, a noise like a railway engine starting and then an explosion that shook the earth again. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I am unsure of the meaning, but I do think it has something to do with all that plastic— that, and the distance from the earth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Spanish governor tried to recruit the Hopi to live in missions, their leaders told him not to bother: the epidemic soon would expunge them from the earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“That, and windy. You learn to walk well away from the edge. Men have been blown off. Still. The Wall is like nothing else on earth. You may never have another chance to see it.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Most people in Coalwood were preoccupied with other matters more down to this earth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

All people on earth would do good and bad things both. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then the whole down and all below it, earth and air, gave way to the sunrise. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the seventy-five years since the Dark Days—when 13 was said to have been obliterated in the war between the Capitol and the districts— almost all new construction has been beneath the earth’s surface. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

After a while, he sat down on the bare earth, his legs stretched in front of him, and Ugwu wished he had not; there was something so undignified, so unmasterly about it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I found I was standing before acres of ploughed earth. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Helmuth drifts off to sleep, he wonders about his own future and what he has been put on this earth to do. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The landscape was gouged with smoking craters, fresh-turned earth thrown everywhere as if some giant dog had been digging at it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Ranee's been on the earth for more than seven decades. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Heaven and earth and everything therein wept willingly for the beloved god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bellowed, and sand poured out, but he was too far up to touch the earth, and the dirt did not rise to help him. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Why on earth had he gone up the hill when the child had so obviously gone down the hill? The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe he loved tits more than any other thing, piece of anatomy, or even person on this earth. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What else? The horses are ready. I can go anywhere, do anything,” he said, looking ready to fly to the ends of the earth. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the earth the air was cool and dark. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was smaller than he remembered and fixed to a single, long, square post, sharpened at the further end to put into the earth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tore again and again at the stomach, until the soft innards of the sheep rolled out onto the green earth. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

For an instant, the trees are gone and I see open space over a short stretch of bare earth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I often felt a new earth for me would be an excellent plan. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And the lion held out the round ball he held in his hand and showed Dragon an old, deep fracture that was slowly being filled with the dust of the earth. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He followed the channel as it got wider and wider, cutting a little more deeply into the earth, and the water deeper, first splashing up around his ankles, then his knees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Lee carried a tin lantern to light the way, for it was one of those clear early winter nights when the sky riots with stars and the earth seems doubly dark because of them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She felt the earth beneath her feet and then the harsh surface of a cement floor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the soft earth of a bean, potato, black-eyed pea and asparagus patch there is plenty of food left over for mice after the human crop has been gathered. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of wet earth comes to me from those thumbed and tattered pages, the sour tang of moorland peat, the feel of soggy moss spattered white in places by a heron’s droppings. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had no way of knowing how far into the earth it extended. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The earth shook a little and we heard the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was all familiar, the scent of the hedges and the earth and the air, so much cooler and moister than in the south. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Karl showed me how to test the earth to see if it is ready to plant. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Frodo stood still, hearing far off great seas upon beaches that had long ago been washed away, and sea-birds crying whose race had perished from the earth. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As they move, the voice of groaning arises behind them and the earth streams with blood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When both twigs were undressed Nel moved easily to the next stage and began tearing up rooted grass to make a bare spot of earth. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the earth, subway lines snake up and around Central Park. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

In spite of a million-to-one odds, it was at that precise moment that the figure bent low to the earth. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

If the text is cautious, the accompanying illustration is not: it shows only three sublunar spheres, of earth, air and fire. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“We’re desperately lost! What on bird’s green earth are you thinking?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Koios, and me, and the two of you. Kronos promised us mastery of the four corners of the earth for helping with the murder.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But oh, thank the Lord, thank the Lord, she felt their thunder on the earth beside her. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Under the frozen earth, curled in darkness, all life waits. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

One convenient spot would be at a point where the pull of the earth, moon, and sun balance each other, so that the new country would stay there indefinitely. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sides of the glen were shaggy with last year’s bracken, among which the tight-curled fronds of spring were just thrusting through the sweet-scented earth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Before he could recover his balance, he was sliding rapidly downward in a shower of loose stones and earth. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

If you can think of good questions to ask about the life of the earth, it should be as good a place as any to go for answers. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved imagining all the far-flung people eating food that grew from the earth behind my house. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

If that happened, he was expected to leave his two buddies in lunar orbit, and come back to earth by himself. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My husband ploughed it, steadying the plough behind the two bullocks while I came behind, strewing the seed to either side and sprinkling the earth over from the basket at my hip. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fives is possibly the fastest ball-game on earth, far faster than squash, and the little ball ricochets around the court at such a speed that sometimes you can hardly see it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a bit like what happens when one fires a rocket upward from the surface of the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We each have but one pair, much needed during this dry season when the earth stings. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Suppose there were germs on the moon, and suppose when we brought them back on our clothes and bodies, we discovered that they killed earth plants or animals or people? Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first cornfield was the beginning of settled life on earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the land masses of all the other parts of the earth would easily fit in it with water left over. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Really laughing, and he found himself exhilarated by simply walking the earth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men had deserted their camp, but there were plenty of signs of their passage: upturned earth, broken twigs, crushed leaves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The machine of the world is thus the stable structure of our universe: the heavens, the earth and the four elements. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And his two sons held him, one on either side, each holding his arm, and he held tight in his hand the warm loose earth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

For example, on earth, mixing two or more molten metals is difficult because the light ones float to the top while the heavy ones sink to the bottom. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes studies the checkered linoleum, longs to dig for her bones like a dog, claim them from the black-hooded earth, the scraping blade. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the only place on earth where that rare metal was found. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short tunnel through the earth behind the block connected the two rooms. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had pulled bone fragments from the earth before. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

How would you know if you were the last man on earth? he said. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Only in this century have we been brought close enough to each other, in great numbers, to begin the fusion around the earth, and from now on the process may move very rapidly. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head throbbed to the rhythm of the shovels biting into the earth. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody on this earth could ever love me like that man loved me. And poor Courtney...” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

As a modification of this view, one could argue that the centre of the universe corresponds to the centre of gravity of the aggregate of the two spheres of earth and water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Most relevant here, though, is that the Pythagoreans were willing to entertain the notion of a spherical earth, and a nongeocentric cosmos. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“Shut up, you idiot,” said Maxim; “what on earth is Robert doing?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He rose clumsily and bowed in dwarf-fashion, saying: ‘Yet more fair is the living land of Lórien, and the Lady Galadriel is above all the jewels that lie beneath the earth!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When he asked what should such fellows as he do crawling between earth and heaven, he was encouraged with loud cries of “Hear, hear!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then he marched south, his massive Komodo legs shaking the earth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He hated the things with a hundred hands and fifty heads, even though they were his sons, and as each was born he imprisoned it in a secret place within the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing his bed now made a snare, he feigned a journey to the trim stronghold of Lemnos, the dearest of earth’s towns to him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They grow up and they grow down and grab the earth between their hairy toes and bite the sky with violent teeth and never quit their anger. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knelt to dig out a spot with his hands in the mossy earth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I refilled them with fresh candles and set them all around on the grass, under the trees, mostly in the little holes of earth where the cabbage weeds had grown. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Now how on earth could I be knowing a thing like that?’ said the BFG. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the dust made him cough and retch; in his turning the center of the whole earth shifted, making of space a sheer void and a mockery of order, and balance, and time. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I fell a couple of times, tripping over roots sticking out from ground that was ashy and loose in the thinning earth, washed out from the endless rain. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Sister Mukumbu said, “I’m going to be the sun, and Hirohito will be the earth.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gently, I settled the first coneflower in the earth and packed the powdery dirt in around the roots. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

If my heart jumped out of my chest, it would take off through space faster than the earth itself. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Neither did he see a colossal earth goddess laying waste to the world. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was a huge green pit in the earth, about as big as the arena at a football match. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cool air rushed against my face as we arced above the branches, and the forest smelled like rain on freshly dug earth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Huge furrows of exposed earth and rock were dug everywhere, as if some giant farmer had gone raving mad while plowing his field. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Its branches grew upward in a graceful arc, then flowed to earth and trailed their ends in the water. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He fought the monsters and freed the earth from them just as Greece freed the earth from the monstrous idea of the unhuman supreme over the human. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so named because it was designed to shuttle back and forth between Cape Canaveral and earth orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the east-facing entrance of the hogan, the metal fence posts of the cornfield poked out of the dry earth like splinters. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The earth seemed to be holding its breath, as though it were waiting for something terrible to happen. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they had taken these beautiful rocks from deep within earth and they had laid them in a monstrous design, realizing destruction on a scale only they could have dreamed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there an earthen house, abandoned by the dwellers, stood up until after days of the water it fell slowly back into the water and the earth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A thousand millions scrabbled the crust of the earth. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skeletal hands dissolved back into the earth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They were probably wondering, Why on earth is she so excited? Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Over the sheets was spilled the earth and leaves and the poor little pink spring beauty. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“What on earth are we going to say?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

How on earth had she gotten that many moles? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The horned toad tripped and fell headfirst into the dusty earth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“All the wealth under the earth,” she said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The animals at the bottom of the water, whoever was there, all came up to the top of the water and went to the island, this earth we are on today. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The ground is uneven, rocks, dead branches, the smell of damp earth, old leaves, she can’t run fast enough, by myself I could run faster, I’m a good runner. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two piles of earth lay on the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the hole where the tree had once held on to the earth came the sound of deep movement, maybe just the mud shifting. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind might send me spinning higher and higher until the earth was a tiny ball lost among stars. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sun and every clock on the earth. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How on earth do you—” I decided to rephrase the question. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He dug miniature graves, put live captured caterpillars into little match boxes, buried them with informal ceremony and erected little pebble headstones over the tiny earth mounds. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the gathering dusk, the saguaros flung shadows of giants across the pebbled earth. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Altars can have different levels to represent places like earth, heaven, or the Aztec underworld of Mictlan. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Some newspapers around the world reported that the body wasn’t actually dug up but that a drill was inserted through the earth, then through the coffin and into Bobby’s body. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A wind rises as the sun warms the earth. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This suggests that Ebola is an ancient kind of life, perhaps nearly as old as the earth itself. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the first stage in unconscious domestication involves gathering seeds to eat, how on earth did domestication of wild almonds ever reach that first stage? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If you end up the last man on earth, you might stand a chance.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

With his entrenching tool, which weighed 5 pounds, he began digging a hole in the earth. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I remember the honey badger—pound for pound the most powerful creature on earth! I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Loki, who will have escaped from his bonds beneath the earth, will be the helmsman of the ship called Naglfar. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Another prediction of general relativity is that time should appear to run slower near a massive body like the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What on earth’s all this?” said Hazel to Bigwig in perplexity. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read on and what amazed me was not what he said, but how on earth anybody had the courage to say it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We made up a song about diatomaceous earth while we were driving in to the post office today, just because we thought it sounded funny. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

But even after his most terrible hours, he decided to stay here on this earth. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rusty earth sluiced round the blades of the plow. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A chunk of stone hurtled past him on its flight to earth. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

One of the younger boys tried to pull him down to earth, but Vetch merely drifted up a little higher, out of reach, and sat calmly smiling on the air. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The beaten earth appears defeated and dead, but it only appears so. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And that,” said Slughorn, apparently coming back to earth, “is what I shall be offering as a prize in this lesson.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I thought it was another tremor in the earth.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each one contains a substance that represents each faction: gray stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The squirrel flies about four feet down to the earth. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The name meant “earth pig,” and the book said that a “sharp blow with a stout stick” was all it took to kill one, if that was what you wanted to do. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Clarissa said when the end drew near, the devil would walk the earth.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The grass withered, and the stones cracked as if something was moving in the earth beneath, trying to push its way through. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then we stopped at the hardware store to stock up on duct tape, which was just about the most useful thing on earth for a farm commune. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I do not know yet how sometimes the earth makes a promise it can never keep. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

A blackbird ran across the rose-garden to the lawns in swift, short rushes, stopping now and again to stab at the earth with his yellow beak. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And how on earth could he have known that they would find Mary’s bones in the furnace so soon? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The trees roared over Captain Blacks head; the earth roared under his feet. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fifth race is that which is now upon the earth: the iron race. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The telescope itself provides a form of space travel; as Hooke put it, a ‘transmigration into heaven, even whil’st we remain here upon earth in the flesh’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But the warm April breeze stirred his hair, and the smell of the earth and the cry of the birds in the trees above him were a part of reality. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

And ever day she say, “Nuh-uh, you ain’t leaving me on this sorry earth without you,” but I tell you, I was sure enough thinking about it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Bigwig burst through the piled earth, twitching and panting. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main difference, of course, is that this tiny town would be circling the earth every two hours or so. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just other workers, mostly women with fachalinas folded on their heads to keep off the sun, some with babies strapped to their backs, all bent over, faces close to the earth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncles were farmers, men who took their only truth from the earth, and so by early afternoon we were out in the fields and orchards and the most important thing became the harvest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now it sounded like heaven on earth. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

No one on earth can ensure our safety. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In the first Friedmann model, space is just like this, but with three dimensions instead of two for the earth’s surface. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a deep brown, almost the color of the earth in the garden bed. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He jumped forward, fell back, and beat the earth with his wings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I would be doing the thing God put me on this earth to do. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you. Numbers. Balance. Ratio. And the earth, the land.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dug her fingers into the ground, clinging to the earth where her mother lay buried. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I raised this monster from the earth. I’m the daughter of Pluto. It’s my place to kill him.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Tents were jammed side by side on the few patches of muddy earth not covered with snow. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And why in the world had they been so eager to push down into the earth like that? James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Once more he climbed on the earth pile. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rivers come from springs, which come from inside mountains. The water brings up minerals from inside the earth. So there’s always metals at the bottom of rivers.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was a simple adobe ranch house, squatting low to the good earth, its rusted tin roof shielding it from the hot sun. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wood, they claimed, was heavier than water, since the element out of which it was primarily made was earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I speak with Inti and Illapa on their behalf and there is much, much rain for the earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It looked like an enormous auger shell, or a unicorn’s horn upthrust from the earth, and was said to stand at over six hundred feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It hit me that he wasn’t going to get up only after he was lowered into the hole, just in the shroud, and the diggers started covering him with the earth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The winds swirled about, and the earth rumbled deep and low, telling of its thirst for the waters that hadn’t come for so long. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

And mine, I think, is to leave my house one day unmarked by whiteness and walk on a compassionate earth with Ruth May beside me, bearing me no grudge. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She envisioned the knifelike teeth and bottlebrush tail, the way each of its black claws had curled in the earth as it tensed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Two old women were at work on one of the burned- away roofs, beating thatch against the earth to clear it of bugs before twining it to the roof timbers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Francie spent her first night on earth sleeping snugly between her mother and Sissy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He further declared that Eratosthenes’ earth measurement was “supported by such subtle arguments that we cannot refuse our assent.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“What on earth is all of that?” she exclaimed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The power of God on earth,” he shouted into the mouthpiece. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The earth should have looked , and no- body discovered the mistake until after the flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that would have been a disaster so immense that this weary old earth, owned or not to its fiery core, would have trembled on its axis like a beetle on a pin. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole world lived inside the gourd, the earth a green and blue pearl like the one the dragon plays with. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walk toward the porch, I hear his body hit the earth again. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It has been estimated that we probably have real knowledge of only a small proportion of the microbes of the earth, because most of them cannot be cultivated alone. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had to keep Gaia away from her source of power - the earth - and weaken her until she could be defeated. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Now he was hurrying carefully, stepping from root-tangle of ivy to stone to earth, confident that this was his graveyard. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

And even the very earth we stand on can turn on us. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“How on earth am I supposed to live a lie, one that will surely end up with me dead if anyone discovers the truth?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A soul with no money to pay for passage was doomed to walk the earth as a lost spirit for all eternity. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her clothes smell faintly of the Smeaths’ house, a mixture of scouring powder and cooked turnips and slightly rancid laundry, and the earth under porches. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she tried to crawl off, the earth moved beneath her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

Frost is already whitening the fresh earth on the grave and I think of Theresa cold in the coffin, the red hair, the green eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The shovel sank a few inches into the packed earth. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

As light travels upward in the earth’s gravitational field, it loses energy, and so its frequency goes down. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want her to roll her eyes, to say, What on earth were you thinking? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

These swells were more like a rising in the water, a lifting that seemed to come from the earth itself, as if a hand were cradling and holding the Frog. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Basil Stag Hare, camouflage expert, had gone to earth. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I will never forget how beautiful the earth appears from a great distance, floating silently and serenely like a blue and white marble against the pure black of space. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had planted them too far down in the earth. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran out into the fields, far enough from the house so that she could no longer hear their voices, and pressed herself against the earth, her own land no more. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the responsibility more than all the other gods together of postponing as long as possible the day of doom, Ragnarok, when heaven and earth would be destroyed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got up and followed and came upon Ben squatting before a small mound of earth. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad says, "Bingo! That plane is invisible to the radar. But does the plane make a shadow when it flies between the earth and the sun?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sent her thoughts into the earth below her. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Milkman became agile, pulling himself up the rock face, digging his knees into crevices, searching with his fingers for solid earth patches or ledges of stone. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, the tiny earth also appears very fragile, as if a giant hand could suddenly reach out and crush it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had seen him smile over the red ruins of Rhaegar’s children, no army on this earth could have stopped me from killing him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

No, the fire could not hurt them, and yes, the lion’s jaws were stopped; the serpent was not their master, the grave was not their resting-place, the earth was not their home. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She returned to her business of stabbing the earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got down on her hands and knees and started chipping away at the earth with the tiny shovel. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Like tufts of clouds that have somehow become stranded on earth. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Harry could not hear anything over the rattling of the cart on the tracks: His hair flew behind him as they swerved between stalactites, flying ever deeper into the earth, but he kept glancing back. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Deeper still, I can feel the cold of the earth replaced by heat until there are caverns of red-hot, then white-hot magma, swirling under unthinkable pressure. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I jabbed the small shovel into the earth, harder and harder, pretending the soil was the commander. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Cap placed the shrouded little corpse into the hole and covered it tenderly with earth. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The swirling colors of the universe, packed into our little atmosphere here on earth. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Just as Minli began to think that she should return to her journey, she began to hear deep moans that gently shook the earth. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

If it was not a mothers place to look after children, whose on earth was it? The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the rain sounded apologetic as it fell around us, tiptoeing its way to the earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When he got out of jail, he said, he hoped to return to the reservation: “I had rather live at Gray Horse than any place on earth.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The kids could only bury it in the sandy earth beyond the book cabin door and try to remember the story. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Pythagoras taught that God is a number; Xenophanes that it is a sphere, passionless and consubstantial with all things; Parmenides that it is but the confluence of earth and fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

My toes clutch the tiny blades, revel in the softness and the damp earth beneath my feet. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The fissure in the earth had filled with gold and precious stones, bubbling in a thick soup of petroleum. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The village, like many others in the region, was populated mainly by Yanomami Indians, a forest society on the Brazil-Venezuela border that is among the least Westernized on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wondered where on earth she thought there was enough money to pay for such brutal days as I was enduring. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the tightness inside her finally relaxed, she lay down on the earth, her cheek pillowed on her hand, staring slackly at the faint outlines of her mother’s tombstone in the dark. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the cobblestones was a bit of well-manured earth where a lovely rose bush grew and a row of bright red geraniums. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is approaching a blizzard,” Dad says, pointing to a single snowflake floating its way to the earth. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ocean, a Titan, was Lord of the river Ocean, a great river encircling the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran saw great white snakes slithering in and out of the earth around him, and his heart thumped in fear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Others followed, closer, louder, and the earth shook. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was aware of a jolt in the earth that came to him through the soles of his feet, and the breaking sound of stones at the top of the cliff. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I think someone told me a story about a secret chamber at Hogwarts once . . . might’ve been Bill. “And what on earth’s a Squib?” said Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Mark followed just as the landing pad above him started to rotate, the bushes and earth and small trees heading back toward the sky. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Catch children,” it boomed, deep down from the earth itself. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I buried it, while wearing the Invisibility Cloak, in the freshly dug earth in front of Hagrid’s cabin.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Impulsively Claire tore some handfuls of grass from the earth and handed them to him. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, they would probably find the raw uncontrolled conditions on earth too primitive for their taste. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he opened his mouth to scream, the earth below our feet seemed to tremble in fright. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I took in a breath and kept my eyes fixed on a spot on the earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

After he dropped us off at the shore of a sheltered inlet, I sat in a tight ball on the hot hard earth, knees to my chin. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At last it occurred to Mrs. Popper to wonder what on earth the busy bird was up to. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rain smelt of moss and earth and of the black bark of trees. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Back to Byrd and Aunt Nancy, talking and sharing, and caring for the earth, well, that’s when they figured out that you can grow a family from more than DNA. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Now and then Branch chased a small rodent or nosed about an opening in the earth, frightening whatever small animal made its home there. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I saw old Sutic asleep on the earth, leaning against a tree when he should have been working, I nudged him awake. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Under his feet, the earth rippled as if Half-Blood Hill had become a giant water mattress. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The family hens were attacking the earth, searching for worms and insects, clucking and muttering to one another like proud, fat little abbesses. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The older boy had also mentioned burned earth and a disease. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I am that thing that falls on water without getting wet and falls to the earth without breaking. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Of course, most of us laughed like this was the funniest thing on earth. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I don't have a moment to wonder how on earth this rich man could have become infected. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We walked out of that building and I was the happiest man on earth. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Awaking at dawn, he immediately tugged on irrigation boots and a sweater and plunged outside to dig worms from the rich damp earth along his irrigation ditch. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she lifted her breast and let it flow out upon the ground to save her clothing, and it sank into the earth and made a soft, dark, rich spot in the field. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

His sister stayed because her fatalistic heart told her that the lethal sickness would follow her, no matter what, to the farthest corner of the earth. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The fog was dense, like steam from the bowels of the earth. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The pumpkin seeds wore little silver patches, like French medals, and Nokomis blessed them gently as she pushed them into the soft new earth. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

You should assume from the outset that if you find a skeleton six feet deep in the earth that the hones are a lot newer than the dirt around them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The mass of the sun curves space-time in such a way that although the earth follows a straight path in four-dimensional space-time, it appears to us to move along a circular orbit in three-dimensional space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth was a thousand miles beneath him and he could not fly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Gamma rays from deep space blanket the earth and annihilate all living creatures. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The other man was lying on the earth, a huge purple welt growing on his forehead. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His face was in the pine needles where he could smell all the tree, from roots deep in the damp earth to the moonlight blue branches, the highest tips swaying in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Columbus read Ptolemy and was convinced that earth and water formed one sphere; he produced a small globe to illustrate his planned voyage. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They had tried to dig under, but there were great flat stones beneath, half-covered by earth and blown leaves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Yes, I had done wrong, but how on earth could I have known the kind of people I was working for? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the opposite bank, the trees began to thin out, and the next time they camped, the earth was the color of ocher and smelled of metal. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Beyond Freedom, the twenty-first century may see much larger objects in earth orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore heaven was completed first and earth assumed shape after. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its diameter is about half the earth’s, its surface desert-like, marked by huge mountains and deep canyons. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she fell, Annabeth thought about Hesiod, the old Greek poet who’d speculated it would take nine days to fall from earth to Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For a terrifying moment, Frank imagined they’d all be crushed under tons of earth—a disappointing way to die, after all they’d been through. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

While human evolution was crawling at its usual snail’s pace, the human imagination was building astounding networks of mass cooperation, unlike any other ever seen on earth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not because he was so brilliant, but the government had just announced plans to send a satellite spinning around the earth, and most of his department seemed to be planning on being launched with it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sky lightened, when the birds awoke, I knew I would never again see anything so splendid as the round red sun coming up over the earth. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got so she received all things with the stolidness of the earth which soaks up urine and perfume with the same indifference. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

‘What on earth do you mean, he wasn’t on it?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I settled back into my house from this journey to the edges of the earth, my head was spinning. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“We have,” Reynie said, “and we can hardly believe it. Why on earth would a spy be at the Institute?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Following Fiver, he scrambled up the lumps and shelves of peat to the overhang of gravelly earth and thin grass that topped them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And stop kicking that earth over me! I want to listen.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’on’t know,” Genie said, now giving in and falling down on his knees in the moist earth to get at the ripe pods growing down low. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he saw the infuriated animal scrabbling away at the earth, and heard it growling softly as a continuous hail of earth coming from an unseen source covered it. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

How is it that something that feeds the earth with life can kill you just the same? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Which makes me wonder: If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The girls among us focused on the obvious fact that a Mexican girl who didn’t know how to do laundry had to be just about the most unsanitary creature on earth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The screams of demigods were silenced, and the earth moved on. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Stupid words. No wonder they call us senseless peasant women; but I am not and never will be. There is no earth in my breeding.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The impact with the hard-packed earth of the plain knocks the wind out of me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We are becoming a grid, a circuitry around the earth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the difference in the apparent position of the North Star in Egypt and Greece, Aristotle even quoted an estimate that the distance around the earth was 400,000 stadia. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been fascinated by the colors of the desert, the blues, the purples, the yellows of the minerals lying on the surface of the earth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment he bad left the earth, the wind had vanished. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little while we tarry up on earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wood began to shift, the stresses of metal and earth twisting in her hands. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I picked up my feet, faster and faster, until I was dashing full speed across the frozen earth. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing him made questions and worries evaporate, and I remained transfixed, caught and caressed by the essential elements of sky and earth and water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For honor and family, an Afghan will go to the ends of the earth. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I watched him go, looking old and tired, and wondered for a minute what on earth we were doing up here. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He and some friends had dug a plot of earth with shovels and pickaxes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The world stopped spinning, but earth and sky were still flipped, the bodies still dangling. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“What on earth has gotten into you, girl?” he asked. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if something was burned up or left to rot away, it did not disappear from the face of the earth; it changed into something else—gases, liquids, and powders. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What on earth is going on out here?" she said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

And it was wonderful to see how quickly she could drive the smile to earth the way the woodchucks holed their children. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the black lump in my hand—this is a star?—and think there’s nothing I can imagine less interesting to draw on earth, but say, “Okay. Sure.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Wearily she sat on the ash-blackened earth to wait for night. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maps had always interested her; there was something bewitching in knowing one’s precise location in relation to others on the earth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Everywhere around us the sky meets the water, creating a clear separation of heaven and earth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What on earth were you doing up there for so long?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I was worried that if she saw me crying, she would be very unhappy and maybe she wouldn’t be able to leave the earth the way she was supposed to. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Frank, what leaders are you talking about, getting invited to Brussels? Who on earth around here is eligible for a thing like that?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin strand of light spun out along the horizon between earth and sky. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

An explosion just over the ridge shook the ground and flung stones and clods of earth high into the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“What on earth’s wrong with you? Are you drunk?” he asks, but I can see in his eyes that he knows I’m sober and I’m betting that for once he wishes I wasn’t. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Woven into the national identity of the US is the idea that the nation was created to be unlike any other nation on earth. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

And she said, “Why on earth would I do that?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He did not really care for any of the things of mere earth; he was in the clouds and looked down on all the weaknesses and wants of us poor mortals. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

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

Alone he could never have built the city, but when the dragon was dead Athena appeared to him and told him to sow the earth with the dragon’s teeth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slammed hard into dry sandy dirt, coming down on arms that hadn’t been braced hard enough for connection with solid earth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Neil and Buzz should have taken a small piece of green cheese with them from earth, just so they could say they had brought some green cheese back from the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has just a moment on this old, wise earth, this earth that will always be wiser than its inhabitants. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

"Wipe them away! Scrub them off the earth! Flush them down the drain!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Where on earth have you all been?” she asked, looking at their bathrobes hanging off their shoulders and their flushed, sweaty faces. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The earth groaned; and out of the city there came a cry. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Bill raised his wand, and the pile of earth beside the grave rose up into the air and fell neatly upon it, a small, reddish mound. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The team had discovered the red chamber of the virus queen at the end of the earth, where the life form had amplified through mothers and their unborn children. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Though the earth be removed,” he was mumbling. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then come outside, the monster said, and even in his room, Conor’s nose filled with the moist smell of earth and wood and sap. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

With the mines closed, they plow the ashes into the earth and plant food. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Besides, it don’t make no difference about this old earth. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lying facedown beyond the pile of earth was a boy of fifteen or so. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

After a moment the ground disappeared in the mist, and up they went, faster and faster, so that she thought no rocket could have left the earth more swiftly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As he dug into the earth he wished he was a grown man already with nothing of this sort to bother him. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

An arm of the glacier has withdrawn from this slope within the last fifty or hundred years, leaving the planet’s bones raw to the air; no flesh of earth, of grass. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Threads of clouds spun up from the earth and trailed across the tundra. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paving of the Kinshasa Highway affected every person on earth, and turned out to be one of the most important events of the twentieth century. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In dark and silver dreams I had seen him falling from the sky, each night closer to the earth, his soul a star. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the bright new air and the earth as it starts pushing—pushing—pushing. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dust lay thick on the floor, there were neat hillocks of chipped cement and the earth where bandicoots, for some obscure reason of their own, had dug. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the boy who heard our last confession on earth, they chanted as if in prayer. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun gleamed red, and under the wings of the Nazgûl the shadows of death fell dark upon the earth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

One in the ocean, one to the darkness beneath the earth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Other people worried about the zone of constant sunlight between the earth and the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Hermes carried it to be cared for by the nymphs of Nysa—the loveliest of earth’s valleys, but no man has ever looked upon Nysa or knows where it lies. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, I could feel the air between them expanding and crackling, as if the lightning god himself were about to strike the earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The system described how to categorize living things on the earth, but did not ascribe an underlying logic to its organization. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I've got a feeling he must share some of Rue's knowledge on how to feed yourself from the earth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

"Do you know where every bird is on the face of the earth?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The earth floats in space; one quarter of the sphere is habitable, but half of it is covered by water, and the remaining quarter represents terra or aqua incognita. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“My friends, the best animal on this earth is clearly the orca.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Want is our companion from birth to death, familiar as the seasons or the earth, varying only in degree. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley stamped down on the back of the blade of the shovel, piercing the hard, dry earth. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Thus Copernicanism posed a straightforward question: What sort of planet is the earth? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

What grass the horses had left was heavy with dew, as if some passing god had scattered a bag of diamonds over the earth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I tried everything, missus, every known cure on God’s lovely earth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The earth was still spongy, and it was very hard work, walking, because of that, and the wet foliage clinging about their ankles. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In Mormonism, the priesthood is God’s power to act on earth—to advise, to counsel, to heal the sick, and to cast out demons. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Certainly. First of all, what on earth happened to your face?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

To go down into the grave, unwashed, unforgiven, was to go down into the pit forever, where terrors awaited him greater than any the earth, for all her age and groaning, had ever borne. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He claims that if the two spheres had the same centre, water would inevitably cover the whole surface of the earth—except perhaps for a few mountain tops. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness,” he quoted. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It gave me a feeling of power to know I was circling the earth once each ninety minutes. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Marly! What on earth—” He pushed her aside with a hard big sweep of his arm that almost knocked her down. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Still, as I scraped the earth, I recalled the legends. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It had rained recently and the earth was soft underfoot and he kept his eye on the ground and before long he stopped and picked up an arrowhead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The brittle stems of flowers crunched under her shoes, and the heat coming off the scorched earth stung her eyes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His shoes were tan and new and he moved easily over the hot earth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was easy to see the earth was thirsty, but could we listen to her well enough to know if it would rain? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“But you don’t have anything to worry about. Root is...a part of my family, part of our history. A connection to the earth and our ancestors.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And think of how that vessel was taken, shattered on the concrete, and all its holy contents, all that had gone into him, sent flowing back to the earth. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But her feet had not felt the earth in ever so long, and her thoughts had been replaced by whirlwinds and storms that swept all her cupboards bare. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But the last thing on earth I plan to do is go digging through the pictures in Cletus’s beat-up vinyl suitcase so we can collaborate, as he puts it. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Was death merely a return to the womb of mother earth, or did they have some conception of the beyond? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing I needed to think about now was helping complete Yakov’s unfinished business here on earth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The terrifying incomprehensibilities which were worshiped elsewhere, and the fear some spirits with which earth, air and sea swarmed, were banned from Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when these were employed, the idea that the only human occupants of one-third of the earth’s surface had changed little for thousands of years began to seem implausible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She loves New Mexico, talks about her little piece of heaven on earth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I saw her use vials of oil she had not used before, and I saw that some of the roots she used were fresh with wet earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nine men spent then- time doing experiments that increased our knowledge of the sun, the surface of the earth, and the human body. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one is behind the counter when Mabel and I walk in, but the store is warm and bright, full of earth tones and tinted glazes. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Drunk, voices slurred, they recalled the violent tremors that had splintered the earth like a clay pot, the dead who’d strewn Lkossa’s streets in the aftermath. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She was over forty-five—just eight months ago—when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Cunningham must have salted the earth where it grew, I don’t see it any more. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Richard,” he said again, as if there were no one on earth he could possibly be so delighted to see. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Had the earth stopped turning, had the trees frozen, had the sea given up its dead, Jean Louise would not have noticed. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Axel, what on earth would make you say that?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At first, water would have to be brought from earth, and then it would have to be recycled so that it could be used over and over again. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threw it down and beat it into the earth floor with his fist, and Coy- otito screamed with pain in his box. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lungs breathed in one final cold breath as his body became part of the earth. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Institutions—government, religion, school administrations, the music industry, Microsoft—were roadblocks, put on earth to obstruct and torment him, invade his privacy and limit his freedom of movement on the Internet. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, lined with fur torn from her own belly, contained Clover and the pile of grass and leaves, covered over with earth, in which her newborn litter were sleeping. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was hungry for green vegetables, and that night as I went off to sleep, I thought of the pokeweeds, the dandelions, the spring beauties that would soon be pressing up from the earth. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jessamyn West said, ‘Writing is so difficult that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.’ All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I have been here before choking in solitude, but this time when all the earth is hollow as a bell, I hold one end, ring it, and you come— a pale-skinned surprise, a friend. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I answer, wondering what on earth just happened. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“She means that the fay will die. And she means that the Wood itself will perish. The trees will fall; the rivers will dry up; the earth will become nothing but ash.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sun was up, and the world was normal-size again, but the wheels had not yet touched the earth. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The force stung his hands but made no im-pression on the earth. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She was inside a camouflaged mound of earth, commonly known as a fairy fort. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Her friendliness, her smile, were warming like the sun on old limbs, gentle as the rain on parched earth. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the screen, a satellite orbits our earth. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In a violent explosion that seemed ripped from the very center of the earth, Spiral Castle crumbled in on itself. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Poppy had said the women still preferred this fresh “earth water” to the water that came from faucets. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Why on earth would a library need a director of holographic imagery?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

In summer a horse and wagon made almost no noise in the soft earth. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t everything on God’s earth have or acquire defense? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Libby’s research began in the global scientific race during the 1930s and 1940s to understand cosmic rays, the mysterious, ultrahigh- velocity subatomic particles that continually rain onto the earth from outer space. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The spinning of the earth causes these mighty waves to spiral endlessly to the east, building momentum as they go. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

‘I was the city’s founder, its first king, born of the earth. I am the one who judged the dispute between Athena and Poseidon, and chose Athena to be the patron of the city.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Not in a jumping-from-a-great-height kind of way, but more along the lines of Please, earth, swallow me whole. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Why on earth did you do that? Why?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I walked through the rows of the garden and saw that everything had come up; the earth had grown somewhat too hard and caked, but that had done no damage yet. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

For an example of a trivial sense, suppose the defenders of Ptolemaic astronomy had responded to the threat posed by Copernicanism by simply renaming the sun ‘the earth’, and the earth ‘the sun’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His chilled wings beat the earth like a drummer’s stick. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The bard, too, had been borne to earth under the paws of another wolf. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

It was my plot of earth, my cubbyhole. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air and the earth were filled with malignant spirits who could not endure the happiness of mortals, especially of such as are poor. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A numbness was creeping up his body, pulling him down into the earth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Major Major often paid strict attention to the horseshoes falling softly against the earth or riding down around the small steel pegs in the ground. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

That is the landscape I focus on, a field of oblongs, gently undulating where the earth beneath has buckled, from decade after decade of winter frost. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And everywhere the sleepy smell of rotting wood, damp earth and dusty hollyhocks thick and perfumy like the blue-blond hair of the dead. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s sprinkled gold glitter as earth and added purple and white flowers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

It always looked like the earth was spinning so fast. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Hazel slipped out of the burrow into the run and at once came upon Strawberry busily thumping a hind leg on the hard earth floor. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What on earth do you mean, boy?” he asked in loud anger. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will get you up in the air, let you do your job, and bring you back to earth safely,” promised the Mustang, and it delivered. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

These elements were acted on by two forces: gravity, the tendency for earth and water to sink, and levity, the tendency for air and fire to rise. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rules kept us where we were, as much a part of the farm now as the trees, more firmly rooted to its earth than the deer and foxes. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Each spring the dark Nicholtown dirt is filled with the promise of what the earth can give back to you if you work the land plant the seeds pull the weeds. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

What on earth had she wanted from him? Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Håkon arched his back, and a mound of earth rose up, then split apart. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He dug tunnels under stumps in his neighbors’ pastures and pried them out of the earth with long iron bars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Starry River gushed through the holes, flooding the earth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It seemed to vanish off the face of the earth, but viruses never go away, they only hide, and Marburg continued to cycle in some reservoir of animals or insects in Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time Gale will have clocked in at the mines, taken the stomach-churning elevator ride into the depths of the earth, and be pounding away at a coal seam. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lucas was looking at me the way someone does when a psychic is standing in a field in front of him and talking to the earth. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I put down the fleece and grabbed a handful of mud from the earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

‘What on earth’s the matter, Mary?’ the famous voice was saying. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the coming of love and light it seemed natural that the earth also should appear. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman said, “Poppa, what on earth are all these lumps and bites on this baby’s face?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I wait for the day to unroll, for the earth to turn, according to the round face of the implacable clock. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the mourners, the Moslems knelt beside the grave to pray with their foreheads pressed to the earth, in the Eastern manner. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If that is the case, beneath its surface ice Titan probably has oceans at various temperatures, including those that nurture life deep in the earth’s oceans. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most terrible of all was the roar coming from the center of the earth, that hard-breathing giant that was heard at length, filling the air with fear. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when a diprotodon, the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth, set eyes for the first time on this frail-looking ape, he probably gave it one glance and then went back to chewing leaves. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, all in all, the most beautiful, perfect car that God has ever allowed to be made on earth. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have any moon rocks to study, so we studied earth rocks instead. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celestial bronze fell to earth in odd places. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Jethro walked on the warm clods of plowed earth and felt them crumble beneath his feet as he helped his mother carry the tub of potato cuttings they had prepared the night before. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they were swallowed by the earth, everything became eerily quiet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

How could everything as solid as the earth my grandfather fought for crumble so easily beneath my feet? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was the mandrake, which fools say expels demons and makes women fruitful, but screams when pulled from the earth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Minli’s feet pounded against the rocky ground, fighting the uneven earth as she climbed upward. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself, making it rather like the surface of the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I had been beamed from earth onto an inter- galactic space station. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The real earth where the real sun shines seems to be somewhere else, far from here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of it was that the Golden Age returned to the earth during the days it lasted. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some would flow blazing towards Barad-dûr down great channels; some would wind their way into the stony plain, until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The population of Nzara had grown in recent years—the town had experienced, in its own way, the human population explosion that is occurring throughout the equatorial regions of the earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of us are in the ground now and some are above it, but we’re all women, made of the same scarred earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I conjure up such a wind in my mind, letting it freeze my cheeks and numb my fingers, and all at once, the piece of metal half buried in the black earth has a name. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a kind of relief to rest his cheek against the earth underneath the stars and to have some hope of seeing Hatsue. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The route took us up the gently sloping floor of the Western Cwm, the highest box canyon on earth, a horseshoe-shaped defile gouged from the heart of the Everest massif by the Khumbu Glacier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was not falling toward earth but being driven straight ahead by the wind. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barn of shackles, the hole in the earth, this broken-down boxcar—the heading of the underground railroad was laid in the direction of the bizarre. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That time he was trying to fling himself off the earth for good. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

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

Wood and stone and brick and the very earth became fluidlike. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Long ago,” she says, “when man knew not greed, malice, tribe, nor clan, jinn walked the earth.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A tree cracked behind us, and then there was the unmistakable sound of steel slamming into packed mountain earth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was standing under an apricot tree, partially hidden by a bushy canopy of gnarled limbs sweeping so close to the earth the slender leaves touched the ground in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would tap his tail against the earth. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sank like a stone until the earth closed over his head—and the earth swallowed him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

After Apollo 17, the last flight to the moon, some of the Apollo hardware was used in earth orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s always a good idea to keep a plan B in the back of your mind so you can get safely down to earth no matter what happens to you in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a large manor house sat on a loaf of frozen earth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And with a terrific lunge, he grabbed hold of Edward’s feet and pulled him out of the sky and wrestled him to the earth. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

It felt like that: the earth juddered, and Mr. Dandy fell, would have fallen into the darkness, but he caught hold of the fallen headstone, threw his arms about it and locked on. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I breathe in the difference of being on this earth now and maybe not tomorrow, the precipitous edge of something new for me but as ancient as the beginning of time. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Your hair?” he said, “why on earth do you ask? Of course I like it. What's the matter with it?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be leaving the earth behind. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The curvature of the earth was apparent, but it was not startling. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth had been laid bare and was scored with long scratches and furrows. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun penetrated the graveyard, and as we stood there, a slight breeze blew, causing the trees surrounding the mounds of earth to sway gracefully. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My fingertips make small swirling patterns in the cool, slippery earth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Oresme took the idea of a rotating earth seriously, and thus prefigures Copernicus. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Nicholas of Cusa had turned the earth into a true star, but only at the price of turning the sun into an earth—hardly anyone was prepared to follow him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When he asked for the most beautiful woman who had ever been seen on this earth, all the women brought him their daughters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azazel: to him ascribe all sin. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

"How on earth are we going to do that?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He had been dead a long time and from his footsteps on the earth I could see that he had never reached the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

People knew for a long time that there was something odd about the earth beneath Manson, Iowa. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

J*ne li> It had been four weeks since the asteroid had knocked the moon just a little closer to earth, four weeks of untold devastation and death. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

This implied that everything did not have to orbit directly around the earth, as Aristotle and Ptolemy had thought. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding the sword lightly, he balanced its point against the earth and laughed freely. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

To travel from earth to Mars, you must aim not at Mars but at the point in the sky where Mars will be on your arrival. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes fly open and I dig my fingers into the earth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I picked moss out of my hair and tried in vain to brush the mud from my pants, but succeeded only in smearing it, making me look like some bog creature vomited from the earth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I asked her if ‘being let down’ was like coming back to earth with a bump if you let air out of a hot-air balloon too fast, and she said yes, it was like that. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time she returned, she could see that slowly but surely the patch of cleared earth was growing larger. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got it dug by paying a whole troop of local boys for each and every basket of earth they moved. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, it is easy for people to dig a well, as they have hands that can work the earth. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He interpreted Bodin, quite wrongly, as advocating a very large sphere of earth floating in a sphere of water, thus retaining the core principles of a traditional Aristotelian argument. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then when the moisture gets to be too much, and the cloud gets too heavy, they fall to earth as rain. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

This law predicts the orbits of the earth, the moon, and the planets with great accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tried soap and water, earth and a scrubbing brush, and lastly a pumice stone and lye, but they could not remove the crosses. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His fingernails caked in soil, Fadi was about to call it quits when the earth loosened around a small tin box in their twenty-sixth pit. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“What on earth were you two thinking? Running off like that?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Just take your own time to become comfortable. Heaven and earth will be here long after we’re gone. We’re in no rush.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

So, wondering whether any lovers before them had made this blissful discovery, they lay together as the earth turned slowly and the moon and stars blazed above them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And summer vacation in a month and a half, and where on earth was I going to spend it? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But now, though I was the same person with the same appetite, the same appreciation and even the same wallet, no power on earth could get me inside this place for a meal. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bent down and lifted the stone, discovering freshly turned earth beneath it. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nuwa, the goddess who instead of legs had a tail like a fish, heard the cries from earth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When Georgie and I woke in the morning, the falling snow hung like gauze between the mouth of the cave and the ravine, blurring rocks and trees, earth and sky. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was now married to one of the most heavily guarded human beings on earth. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Athena Parthenos had been protecting the demigods, holding back the wrath of the earth, but even Athena’s might could only last so long against a primordial goddess. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This place felt similar, as if the earth were trying to wake up and consume jeverything—as if the mountains on either side wanted to crush them and the entire glacier to pieces. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At two o’clock in the afternoon, while the earth trembled with the artillery fire from both sides, he took leave of Úrsula with the certainty that he was fighting a losing battle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“What on earth will we do with this awful cheese?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to believe that someone omniscient—an all-knowing God—was keeping score of what happened on earth, and just maybe it was time for things to change. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I picture his grave, on the hill, overlooking the pond, some little nine-foot piece of earth where they will place him, cover him with dirt, put a stone on top. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing not trembling was the earth beneath my feet. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“And never forget it. We live as no other people can, for we truly understand the earth.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, narrowing her eyes, she located the hoofprints in the soft earth and marched into the jungle. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Within the sublunary zone there are four distinct spheres: earth, water, air and fire; outside them are the planets, including the sun and the moon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the godswood the snow was still dissolving as it touched the earth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nicholas thought the earth was a heavenly body which from a distance would shine like a star, an idea which caught Montaigne’s attention. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Those two live still, though life-creating earth embraces them: even in the underworld honored as gods by Zeus, each day in turn one comes alive, the other dies again. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His chest rose and fell and then kept falling, like it could carry us both straight down through the earth. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s the story of a generation of young people who learned to work with the wind—those who soared and those who came back to earth. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"What on earth am I to do?" said Shasta to himself. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

In the world were also dwarfs—ugly creatures, but masterly craftsmen, who lived under the earth; and elves, lovely sprites, who tended the flowers and streams. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the middle of the night when Matt pulled himself over the edge and collapsed onto wet earth. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the point. According to Grumman, the earth’s magnetic field changed dramatically at various times in the past, and the earth’s axis actually moved, too, so that temperate areas became ice-bound.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Immune to earth, wind, fire, air, and metal, and all things living and dead. Only one person in all history has ever defeated him." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A convulsion shook him and he scrabbled at the ground, covering himself in a mask of wet earth and blood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was being transported at enormous speed down a tunnel into the earth. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Why on earth would a cheating teacher go to the trouble of erasing a student’s test sheet and then fill in the wrong answer? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I jabbed the earth with my stick, ashamed at the twinge of jealousy. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

On a bare patch of earth, Liyana lit two edges of newspaper. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Surely no other place on earth was more proud of its beauty than Venice, and as he watched its spires and domes, each caught the sun as if trying to outshine one another. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

For many months they sleep like this within the earth. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

What on earth had they seen in me to have made them act toward me as they had? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Whoopee!’ he cried, when he came down to earth again. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small garden was just a slip of earth on the side of the house, but it seemed like its own universe. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“When Nuwa, the great goddess with the fish tail, sacrificed herself to save the sky, the earth, and the seas, she left behind three things. Do you remember what they are, Storyteller’s granddaughter?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But that’s probably going too far; chances are, at the time, I noticed all these things without knowing what on earth to make of them. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth was eroded to gray clay, and deep arroyos cut through the length of the valley between the mesas. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the tree went over it pulled earth, balled in its roots, with it, and made a large hole back in, under the shelf of rocks. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

One geologist later described it as "probably the most significant paper in the earth sciences ever to be denied publication." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bad weather slowed them down, and as it began to get dark, Marina’s group had to make the decision to come down to earth on a soggy airfield in the middle of nowhere. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A pale figure rises, little clods of earth from the milpita soundlessly crumbling off the small body. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She went back to eating earth and the whitewash on the walls with the avidity of previous days, and she sucked her finger with so much anxiety that she developed a callus on her thumb. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The Milky Way, a vast celestial river in Andean cosmology, crosses the Peruvian sky at an angle of about twenty-eight degrees to the earth’s orbit. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was no sound, no evidence that his feet touched the earth. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They rolled in the dew, they cropped mouthfuls of the sweet summer grass, they kicked up clods of the black earth and snuffed its rich scent. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Farmer wasn’t put on earth to make anyone feel comfortable, except for those lucky enough to be his patients, and for the moment I had become one of those. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He was asleep, his duty done, his bowels empty, one tusk resting on the earth, the other pointed to the stars. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His idea was that the sun was stationary at the center and that the earth and the planets moved in circular orbits around the sun. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It winnows through the stones as we watch, bubbling into the undeserving earth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And when they asked her where she had been and what on earth she had been doing, she said she had been out wit! The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

After the guards rolled him into the earth, they marked the grave with a circle of stones, and the caravan departed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Whether someone did stand there on the low hills in the days when the earth was new and, because of its shape, called it the Island of the Blue Dolphins, I do not know. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He claimed that he was the “supreme being on earth.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The sunny morning was over, and gray water-bearing clouds sailed in over the mountains from the ocean, and their shadows slid under them on the bright earth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looked normal, but there was a sweet floral scent that wasn’t there before, the smell of earth after rain. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the final dialogue with her husband, before he took her to the asylum, Celia talked about how the baby had no shadow, how the earth in its hunger had consumed it. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fell to the ground, his bright blood gushing out onto the dry earth like a small, red river. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He burrowed his bare toes into the earth. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It’s normal to want to sleep after a hard workout. What’s not normal is that you never nap, Simone. Who on earth has so much energy?” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“What on earth are you up to?” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He reached out and took her directly into a hug that didn’t smell of Mr. Chris and the earth at all, but of soap and medicine. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not certain if I was Sumac or myself, but I saw the earth and the mountains from his eyes as surely as if they were my own. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Because Mars is smaller than earth, Mars’ gravity is not as strong. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ninja girl camouflaged in earth tones didn’t strike Leo as something he wanted to deal with just then. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I clean the trout and wrap it in May-apple leaves, then dig a hole in the earth and build a fire. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat and drought of dog days had parched the earth, and the crops had been laid by. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without the solid earth beneath my feet, my stomach grew even queasier. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

You can see in that one frame the animal and the butcher and the oak tree against the sun-filled sky and the pig-plowed earth. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Those were the guards to this passage. We are about to enter open space. Stay against the wall, single file, for the earth is unstable and the fall immeasurable.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Runnels of water were trickling through the arch from the uphill side, and the bare earth was beginning to turn into mud. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth’s orbit is closer to the sun, at approximately 93 million miles. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Restless with hunger, he wandered up the banks of the creek, investigating every rock and hollow, pushing his hopeful nose through tunnels of withered sedge and into the yielding earth of molehills. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved to the next post and attacked the earth with his shovel. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I believe that if we can’t learn to live with our brothers and sisters here on earth, how will we get a chance to work it out in heaven? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Wart did what he was told, and was surprised to find that the earth became stable and moved underneath him without tilting, in a regular pour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danielle disregards the “Keep Off the Grass!” sign and pulls up a dandelion from the earth. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The blind man smiled, loosened a beet from the earth, and placed it in the basket of vegetables. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Then she knelt on the ground, next to the sunken strips of earth where she imagined her mother and sister were buried. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The skin on his arms had become dry and flaky, as if his body were preparing itself to rejoin the earth. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The tents were being blown from their ties to the earth, and the animals were being freed from their tethers. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel the steady beating of her heart, the rhythmic pulsing of her blood through her veins, and beneath her the dense, solid earth. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bin was more than half-filled with potatoes and smelled of damp earth and worms. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gramps didn’t say a word the whole time, just kept slamming his pick in the ground, breaking open the earth, then raising it up and slamming his pick in the ground again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“This must not be planet earth,” Cone told his partner. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were some beings, neither human nor divine, who had their home on the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time sefems to slow down until finally that huge blazing ball looks like it’s just hanging there, balanced on the far edge of the earth. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Because it is said, “He had founded his band upon the earth.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was winter when I came up, and when the shells exploded the frozen clods of earth were just as dangerous as the fragments. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then warmth flooded the valley and the earth burst into bloom—yellow and blue and gold. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What on earth is this racket about? I could hear you down the hall!” she says, frowning. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Now how on earth did you get up there!” she said as she lifted me down to the floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I stuck my finger into the earth and, before she could stop me, smeared a streak across Chasca’s cheek. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

What on earth are we going to talk about? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked a long time for an area of earth among the rock faces large enough for the interment. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were walking across bare earth, dry and cool to the touch; overhead there were heavy wooden beams holding up the floor, and above those the floorboards themselves. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Where on earth did you get all that money?” said Emma. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes were dark brown, just like the earth under her feet. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“This here squadron here is the toughest bunch of Marine aviators ever assembled on this here God’s green earth here,” Sammy bellowed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I was so up yesterday, but I’ve definitely crashed back to earth today.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Katz was the one person I knew on earth who might be on the run from guys with names like Julio and Mr. Big. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He lay down and rested his head against the earth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

This is how white corn came to be on earth, in honor of the star woman and her beautiful golden-white hair. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He was also called Pluto, the God of Wealth, of the precious metals hidden in the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as my feet touch the earth, I run. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It would increase our speed from 18,000 to 25,000 miles per hour, and we would have broken the bonds of earth’s gravity. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tender white carrots with black earth clotted in their fibers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The rumrunning gangsters were paying for some of the best cryptography on earth, she realized. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This presentation had lasted for more than three hours, but it had enthroned a new sense of reality in the hearts of those present, a sense of man on earth. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no clear-cut line between black sky and black earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last of autumn’s leaves spiraling to earth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It takes the moon one month to go around the earth once. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I focus until everything goes dark around us, and I don’t feel the passage of time or the panic of discovery, I feel only our movement over the earth. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I just plumb let go, and the earth reeled beneath me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shrew was holding a stalk of straw, which she now thrust into the earth. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We dug into the earth with sharp sticks. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the shelter of the cave, away from the wind, the earth was stark and cold. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

No life on earth can be Hid from our dreaming. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at that rough lot out there—they nearly finished me off! What on earth do you make of us and how are you settling down?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jagged bolts struck all around us, trees burst into flames, and deep crevasses appeared in the earth. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There is no sound on earth but the whispering snowfall. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gorillas who must be wiped off the earth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They moved through the grey gloom beneath the earth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then the horse and rider reached the dry ground, and other men, who looked like the rider, rose out of the earth. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, when they reached the top, it was the same as a house on the earth, except that it seemed a mighty way up when he passed a window and looked into the sky. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Cloke, how on earth did you get mixed up in something like this?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The electromagnetic attraction between negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons in the nucleus causes the electrons to orbit the nucleus of the atom, just as gravitational attraction causes the earth to orbit the sun. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to jam it into the earth, but the blade banged against the ground and bounced off without making a dent. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Of course, I was kindly disposed toward all of earth’s creatures. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

At last he woke and saw dimly the dark earth close by his cheek. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The storm, and the resulting minor earth­quakes, did not perturb the meerkats in the least. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to follow her hand and saw the clouds lifting and the earth rising up to meet us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“In the earth and under the earth,” said the buffalo man. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

From the gray waters of the ocean, the green earth will arise once more. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

When the Apache women found their broken bodies on the rocks below, they cried huge, desperate tears, which turned to stone when they touched the earth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The monster set him down abruptly, almost dropping him to the earth, and Conor stumbled forward. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Can you see the people settling onto the earth more comfortably, content to be caught up in the story Uncle Turu would weave for them? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The earth has frozen, it snows lightly at night, but Ms. Keen is determined to keep Spring alive in her classroom. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he found a sharp rock and dug into the earth until he had made a hole just the right size. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I ran down the hill, my feet pounding against the hard, damp earth. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the last 12,000 years, agriculture arose at not more than nine places over the face of the earth: China, the Fertile Crescent, and a few other places. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His Son Jesus came down t’ earth ’n’ put on human flesh ’n’ lived ’n’ died t’ show us the way. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But if you really think about a basement, it is cement poured over restless earth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dothraki hooves had tom the earth and trampled the rye and lentils into the ground, while arakhs and arrows had sown a terrible new crop and watered it with blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And just then a paper bag sailed from a window to my left and burst like a silent grenade, scattering garbage into the trees and pancaking to earth with a soggy, exhausted plop! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking earth from the pile that had been made, he began to cover the bodies. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

All of the land masses of all the earth could fit easily into the Pacific and there would still be plenty of water left. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It, like all other furniture in the Amity compound, is made of unpolished wood, and looks sturdy, like it is still attached to the earth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The hind part of his body stayed up and moved from side to side, trying to lift the front part from the earth. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having lost her bearings, completely demoralized, Rebeca began eating earth again. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The earth travels about twenty miles every second. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Very few people on earth had seen Ebola do its work on a primate, but she knew exactly what it could do. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In clear view was a geometric figure carved into the earth—he had spotted the earthworks again. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

No one knows how many species of insects inhabit the earth because so many are yet to be identified. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Liquid fire was the very blood of the earth. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But it had only been fairly recently that man had begun to think seriously about using rocket power to leave the surface of the earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

How on earth could prehistoric people of Borneo, presumably voyaging in boats without maps or compasses, end up in Madagascar? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He knew what the Witch was trying to do: she wanted to pull the fire from the bulge of the earth and spread it across the land, like a cloth over a table. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The wet earth smell came in the window that Robert had propped open with an old shoe the night before. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m the only being on this earth that knows the Shooting Star songs. If I were to perish, they will be lost forever,” said the water monster. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The legs had been kicked away and used to break the windows, and were lying outside, softly crumbling into the earth among the nettles and the incorruptible shards of glass. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My grandmother’s last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

But through her lips a question slipped out: “Somebody blew up the earth? Who?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If something broke in earth orbit, we could be on the ground within an hour. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For in my heart I needed to go, and the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The surface of the earth is finite in extent but it doesn’t have a boundary or edge: if you sail off into the sunset, you don’t fall off the edge or run into a singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The location was good: although it was near the encampment, it was high enough above it to feel safe from the exploding earth down near the river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even after the men grew bored and returned to listen to the truck’s radio, Ruby stayed by the field, thinking about that damp earth, those fragile beansprouts. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

You pointed at the muddy earth surrounding a tree whose trunk had busted right through the sidewalk. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And the humps moved and swelled till they burst, and the crumbled earth poured out of them, and from each hump there came out an animal. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Vastly bigger than any river in Europe or Asia, the Amazon contains a fifth of the earth’s above-ground fresh water. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Huge live oaks shaded the valley, and the earth had a richness and a greenness foreign to this part of the country. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moment I showed my teeth, all the bonobos tensed, backing up and pounding the earth. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys snapped back to the world of walking on the earth. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Radio failure was especially worrisome, because if the astronauts couldn’t talk to anybody they would have to do all the navigating back from the moon, without help from radar tracking stations, and computers on earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matter on the earth is made up mainly of protons and neutrons, which in turn are made up of quarks. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sputnik II orbited the earth 2,570 times before it burned up in the atmosphere five months later. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He that said “I bleed,” he reached up to the sun and pulled out handfuls of excrement from the bowels of the sun, and with that dung made the hills and valleys of the earth. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I kept wondering: How on earth was I going to roller-skate in silk stockings? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard Frodo’s voice, but it seemed to come from a great distance, or from under the earth, crying out strange words. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

What on earth, I thought, looking about me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jake kicks at the earth with the back of his heel. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He called upon his brother, the God of the Sea, to help him, and together, with torrents of rain from heaven and rivers loosed upon the earth, the two drowned the land. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Intoxicated as he was with the heavens, he couldn’t imagine needing anything on earth. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

They’d been through the fighting that made those other Pacific Islands feel like little bits of hell on earth. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell to the ground, and the rain was so powerful, it seemed to be pushing me into the thirsty earth as it tried to soak up every drop the clouds offered. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I walk into the eucalyptus grove to where the pond is dammed with earth and a weave of gnarled tree roots. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Then Donal lifted a shovel to begin replacing the earth into the grave. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In his chariot drawn by coal-black steeds he rose up through a chasm in the earth, and grasping the maiden by the wrist set her beside him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure says, “I heard that the diamond is like a piece of light from the original world. Before it fell. A piece of light rained to earth from God.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The earth was soft and crumbling, with a scattering of the weeds that are found in cultivated fields—fumitory, charlock, pimpernel and mayweed, all growing in the green gloom under the bean leaves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times I want to lie under a tree and dissolve into the earth forever. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The earth explodes into showers of dirt and plant matter. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

An aftermath of a dead man was probably still lying on the flat, flat earth, breathing up the dirt till it lined his lungs. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

On the rue de la Crosse, the Flotel of Bees becomes almost weightless for a moment, lifted in a spiral of flame, before it begins to rain in pieces back to the earth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was easy to imagine looking down on the earth, but what one would see would be a miniature earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was as if rainbows had come to earth, draped themselves on these folk, and paraded along the road. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had the magic of growth in his hands and he passed it into the earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s Calvin’s voice coming down through the earth. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The rate of energy loss in the case of the earth and the sun is very low—about enough to run a small electric heater. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe we were moving; I imagined that the plane sat still in the clouds while the earth flew below us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The earth’s albedo is four times that of the moon, which means it shines four times as brightly. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth around the porch was hard and white from where wash water had long been thrown. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watched it make its way to earth, I spotted Declaration coming up the rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was no doubt in my mind that if any soul on this earth could get us into Central High, this great man, Mr. Thurgood Marshall, was the one. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ole reared up and made a last desperate effort to shrug off what was happening, but the sky seemed to crowd around his head, the earth buckled, and he keeled over into a strawberry bin. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

According to the basic evolutionary criteria of survival and reproduction, wheat has become one of the most successful plants in the history of the earth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How on earth do you propose to get a loop of string around a seagull’s neck? I suppose you’re going to fly up there yourself and catch it!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

While they lived on earth one of them, Maia, was the mother of Hermes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra saw that three witches were holding a rope looped around a rock, anchoring the great buoyancy of the gas bag to the earth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The prayer went thus: Our Father, who art in heaven Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I no longer cared why they’d chosen me to decide the fate of the earth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was as if the Black Tortoise of Winter were being forced to the earth, screaming and struggling. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos and the herdsman scraped the packed earth floor with hoes, but made the women carry out all blood and mire. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Eyes of God run over all the earth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if she could see the leaves unfurling gracefully from their jewel-like buds, the young beetles creeping purposefully forward on the earth. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He squatted down, to get closer to the earth, and he crumpled there. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

That night, Dallas fell asleep quickly and was dreaming about his favorite place: a sandy patch of earth beneath a leafy tree, with a curtain of branches dipping down all around him. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Having used up her single French phrase, she speaks Kikongo unabashedly, as though there were no other language on earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most hostile place on earth is the Antarctic, the location of the South Pole. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Hardred took pity on the two young men, doomed to wander the face of the earth because of a family feud. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet people managed to move from one sector to the other, day after day, making Berlin the one place on earth where America and Russia—and their spies—came into contact. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Geologists had proposed that the current shape of the earth—its rocks, chasms, and mountains—had been created by the transmutation of previous elements. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My roots sank too deep into this earth. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And if I suddenly have a notion that the earth is flat, I’m likely to believe that, too. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Those seeds, Minli said to herself, they are really falling through the sky to the earth. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The beating of his hoe against the earth made a soft, yielding sound, as if a clock had begun to count a familiar piece of time. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The grass crunched quietly, as if even the earth was frightened of where I was headed. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Nifflers are often kept by goblins to burrow deep into the earth for treasure. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dots of sun danced on the green walls of the shady grove above low bushes weighted with pigeon peas, the earth screened with twigs, sensitive moriviví plants, and french weed studded with tiny blue flowers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The usual tightness engulfed them; Harry’s feet parted company with the snowy ground, then slammed hard onto what felt like frozen earth covered with leaves. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, behind my fearless facade, little brother, I am regularly scared witless by all manner of things. But how stupid of us. Why on earth didn't we just swap rooms?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“If you didn’t have a mother around, then who taught you how to dress like you do? And where on earth did you learn about gospel and soul music? Aren’t Portuguese people Catholic or something?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Cole swallowed hard to keep from throwing up again as the storm kept attacking the sky and earth around him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It lay at the bottom of a grotto, like a bubble in the earth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Aeneas and the Sibyl made their way back to the earth and Aeneas returned to his ships. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if objects are particles and waves at the same time, what on earth could they be? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

All he could see as he walked down the trail was snow, blurring the boundaries between the earth and the sky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Great Spirit lived in all things—the earth, the sky, the animals and forests—flowing through and connecting them in a divine thread. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Back then, he thought it was the greatest place on earth. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

This time, it knocked the tree over, causing an explosion of earth and rock as the tree’s roots tore out of the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He swung the flashlight around and followed the tunnel, which slanted downward, taking him deeper and deeper into the earth. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

When Columbus set sail, he apparently assumed the earth was round, which was why he was convinced that he could get to India by going west. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He half rose; I half sat; and hung thus between earth and air we grabbed at each other’s fingers—and he cackled a laugh, and clasped me to him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

At last she perceived that there was no hope for her, either in heaven or on earth, and she took a desperate resolve. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They smiled as the rain opened the earth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Just like a toy village,” they reported, breathlessly, to their admiring families upon returning to earth. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hodor plunged ahead, hurrying after the child and her torch, deeper into the earth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My breath quickens as I think about Pa’s last moment on earth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would hold up his hand and halt them, while he went forward a little, crouching, testing the ground with fingers or toes, or merely listening with one ear pressed to the earth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He lay with his face close to the earth, clutching the fresh spring grass with both hands. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken the whole of the Earth Woman’s life for the earth to become what it was. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without them the earth would be an unhappy place. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered Horace’s prophetic dream of ash clouds and scorched earth, and I realized what he’d been seeing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Thus does the earth rotate together with circumjacent waters and encircling atmosphere.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It has the sharpest cutting edge of any tool on earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it is illusion to think that there is anything fragile about the life of the earth; surely this is the toughest membrane imaginable in the universe, opaque to probability, impermeable to death. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rips a foot into the earth and slips back to a walk, hearing her voice call out, coming closer. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s like he just vanished off the face of the earth!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Here those who kept themselves pure from all wrong came when they left the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slid Where the Red Fern Grows off to the side and dug into the earth with my finger. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

My eldest rises, she said, the most precious thing in the earth —and you have brought him from the depths, Hazel Levesque. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We threw ourselves on the earth and we prayed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved La Belle Sauvage towards the shore and found a place where a little beach of bare earth lay between the rocks. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“What on earth is more important than this memory, Harry?” asked Hermione. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Floatin’ in space, around and around earth, ever and ever, cold and way out, Lord! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swear I could feel the earth moving. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There was only one step on the porch and then a crunch as jumping feet struck earth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The grey mists howled around him as he plunged toward the earth below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As he galloped across the British Isles with the helicopters thundering above him, people stood and gaped and wondered what on earth was going on. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel could summon riches from the earth, but anyone who used them would suffer and die. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Because Gaia was the earth, and the earth was awake. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes and wished that the earth would swallow her up. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The banner thudded into the soft earth where Basil’s head had been a fraction of a second before. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“And yet,” he said, leaning toward me and leering, “when Adam plowed the earth and Eve spun, who then was the gentleman?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

You pouted, but refused to stop, transporting a third worm from the gray concrete onto the grassy earth. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Even though the universe would have zero size at the North and South Poles, these points would not be singularities, any more than the North and South Poles on the earth are singular. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea that the maze was regenerating itself, honeycombing its way under the earth again and providing a spacious new home for monsters...that didn’t make him happy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Our party became another shuffling unit in the shifting mass with every race on earth represented. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if even miners in the bowels of the earth. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll think about it,” I say, and step outside into the cool dusk, thick with the scent of fresh earth and cows. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes, deep green, are as cold as his voice, and look ancient ancient, as though he has traveled this earth since time and time. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Approaching the sea the land had begun to slope gently, the hills were brushed downward, the earth was smoothing itself, and the rivers straightened for the final run to the sea. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soheil is already at the bare plot, raking the earth, spreading out the soil where seeds will grow. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Pacheco’s back ached from all that digging in the damp earth along the ditch. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Flung from this earth by my own wantonness!” she cried just as her husband dashed back home, shouting, “Thief! Life- stealing wife!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chiron, Jason’s mentor at Camp Half-Blood, had assumed that meant that the giants would try to rouse the earth goddess at the original Mount Olympus. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Supposing the weight collapsed the earth, caved in the storage room and trapped them? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“What on earth are they talking about?” the Old-Green-Grasshopper said to the Centipede. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Poisoning your own drinking water, changing the air so much the earth shook and melted and crumbled, harvesting a race for medicine. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

That year was most dreadful and cruel for mankind over all the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if they had fallen off the face of the earth, for no word was heard from them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When dinosaurs roamed the earth and your mom and I were young.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Aragorn laid his hand gently to the sapling, and lo! it seemed to hold only lightly to the earth, and it was removed without hurt; and Aragorn bore it back to the Citadel. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In our book, the goddess of crops and the earth had a sad mouth and flowers around her, just like the girl in the locket. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain comes so hard, the earth can’t soak it up. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

But the tumult that had raged inside her damped down more and more as though beat into the muddy earth under the horses’ hooves. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A brownish-green earth dragon roared from within a dark cave, and a white air dragon cut graceful spirals above its earthbound cousin. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

All the rest—like me—were on earth to labor, to serve our masters and our God. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Or would the earth tremble, as many said, and bury me beneath its falling rocks? Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can calculate reliably the path a rocket will take as it flies from the earth to Mars. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They had seen mountains shift and rivers change course and even disappear back into the earth; but always there were these stars. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He put a post-hole augur down through the subsoil to test and feel and smell the under earth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She heard the quiet sound of the wheels crunching over the hard-packed earth, and she heard the mulefa ahead of her murmuring to one another, and then they stopped. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The “earth art” of the prehistoric Indians of North America, the so-called Mound Builders, is comparable to the megalithic monuments of Europe in terms of the effort involved. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why on earth would it be any different?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the horizon disappeared in a confusing glimmer that seemed to be neither earth nor sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gods of all the rivers on earth were their sons. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side in a rocker sat the oldest man on earth, in a stocking cap. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why on earth would we do that?” he asked. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness there was that flipped-out tribal music, which seemed to come from the earth itself, from the deep rain forest, and a woman’s voice rising up in a language beyond translation. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed at the large patch of freshly turned earth Harry had watched him digging from the Owlery window. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Why on earth are you tearing away at the wallpaper like that?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Why on earth would you have even considered dropping out? Because of last night? Don’t let that stop you, Nessy.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

What on earth am I going to do with him? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

All that remained on earth were the comments of the amazed crowd below and a multitude of experts, who attempted to provide a reasonable explanation of the miracle. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the young women came running across the airfield in relief to welcome her back to earth, a smiling Marina climbed out of the plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

All solemnity, therefore, was silent, the peals muffled; and bodies went unheralded to their final rest; and we shoveled dirt atop the dead and watched their wooden vessels sink beneath the earth without a cry. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for cosmic justice, many gifted writers are scoundrels, and many inept ones are the salt of the earth. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Just as the theme song from The Big Blue Marble begins, the four of us sing along: The earth's a big blue marble when you see it from out there. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The ghosts clambered out of the earth, pale forms paler still in the midday light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We pass diggers and tractors tearing up the earth, expanding the camp. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He and Jay used to pretend that those big oak trees were ancient creatures rising from the earth’s core. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He says,” said Bigwig, looking very straight at Holly, “he says that a long way from here the earth stops and there isn’t any more.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d forgotten how they looked—torn by brambles, stained and faded to the color of earth and moss, fluttering in rags and tatters. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The degree to which we are all involved in the control of the earth’s life is just beginning to dawn on most of us, and it means another revolution for human thought. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he stared at the bit of earth where he was to lie and he saw himself in it and back in his own land forever. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They lived in a log cabin, in the desolate hill country outside Austin, where they herded cattle and scratched the earth for whatever food it might yield. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The mountains had not crumbled nor the earth fallen into ruin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Angeline and Mama spent one morning lining the earth of the hole with birchbark. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The Red Cow, drawing in her breath, gave one huge tremendous jump and the earth fell away beneath her. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

All about it the earth gaped, and from deep rifts and pits smoke and fumes leaped up. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He wanted her to be permanent, an edifice whose piles touched the heart of the earth. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

What on earth of importance could transpire in so dingy a place? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water moved and his foot touched the earth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

With his right hand he shook a torch whose rays spread out in all directions lighting the depths of the waters and penetrating into the bowels of the earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know much,” said the Wart, “about the animals and earth.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back side of the moon—the side away from earth—would be a great spot for an observatory. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Travis,” she said, “what on earth have you done to your little brother?” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

God’s wrath had laid waste to cities, it had flooded the whole earth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Back on the earth, mv mother is part of the crowd now and I can’t see her anymore. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody could, for after a few weeks of kind weather the earth had frozen with a vengeance, and spring seemed far away. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The earth swallowed the Field of Mars, obliterating every trace of forts and trenches from the war games. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Now these women Wang Lung looked at secretly and closely and it seemed to him they were women in dreams for none on earth had he seen like them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Here the Pan-American Highway had, as it turned out, sliced through some of the oldest public architecture anywhere on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Just as I was about to throw the spear, he raised his head a little from the earth and then let it drop. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What on earth's this?'' asked Elinor, when she had read it, frowning. “You were planning to go and look for your father? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The high narrow kitchen faced on the yard which was a flagstone walk surrounding a square of cementlike sour earth out of which nothing could possibly grow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were having an absurd and inappropriate argument because in the wake of death every single thing on earth feels absurd and inappropriate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

By the end of our first day in space, the earth barely filled one small window. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would talk of power as a yeast that could activate a malevolence that no force on earth could overcome once it had begun. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rich black earth clinging to bodies and biting the skin like ants. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

With the exception of the color red, I always wear earth tones because I'm blending into my environment. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Established in 2001, the tortilla store is an innovative attempt to preserve one of earth's greatest cultural and biological assets: the many local varieties of maize in the narrow “waist” of southern Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They watched the motions of the heavens and judged the composition of the earth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He remembered all the times the earth goddess Gaea had appeared to him in the ground—her sleeping face made of dust or sand or dirt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was very hot, a tractor had made giant ruts in the earth, and the ruts had dried hard, so that his feet kept stumbling in. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I do not believe you can suspend army ants away from the earth, on plastic, for any length of time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soddie on the south end of town, the place looked like the earth had grown a wart or something. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment Sam felt a tremor in the ground beneath him, and he heard or sensed a deep remote rumble as of thunder imprisoned under the earth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As the day wears on and the new plants get nestled into earth, her whole being seems to change. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Through investigating Tua’s secrets,” he said, referring to his pet by name, “humans will learn the key to longevity and better understand the evolution of life on earth.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He flew at Toad, knocked him backward over a bench, and landed on his chest with both hands on his throat, slamming his head against the packed earth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Occasionally he’d point to a small plain rock poking through the earth and say it was a cousin or an aunt. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Fairies have an affinity for minerals, they are of the earth. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I could recollect having promised some God or other, more than once, that if I could only have Anatole back I would never ask for another thing on this earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fiver seemed to grow even smaller as he flattened himself on the hard earth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But until that time, and elsewhere than that place, there would never be any rest or peace for Ged, day or night, on earth or sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces seemed so old, so dark, calling forth overworked cliches about the earth and the sky and the wind. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like one who dwelt alone in the farthest Antipodes of the earth, where the sun’s heat and light could not dispel the cold and darkness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“If Ah never see you no mo’ on earth, Ah’ll meet you in Africa.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

We marked up the earth and said, ‘Stay there!’ Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hesiod says that only when men have finally become completely wicked will Nemesis and Aidos, their beautiful faces veiled in white raiment, leave the wide-wayed earth and depart to the company of the immortals. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees and earth were moon-dry, silent and airless and dead. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The earth seemed to be cresting a gigantic wave, throwing everyone around her like shaken droplets of water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, what on earth or sea are you doing here?” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

What on earth can you do with such a silly, sniveling specimen of humanity? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

So in death, the gods had decreed that she would know no rest until her weeping watered the black earth of the Vale, where the men she had loved were buried. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We were stopped in our tracks by a grunt so loud and deep that it seemed to be coming from the bowels of the earth. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As he leaned against the window and watched the terrain unfold into the heart of Africa, Breman became terrified of coming to earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a kindly, peace-loving god, popular on earth as in heaven. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her stomach tightened as G-force took hold, dragging her to the center of the earth. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask him about Megan, but I knew those would likely be the final words spoken on this earth by Ryan Dean West. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I breathed in the smell of fresh earth and I wasn’t sleepy anymore. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The earth was like iron, and nothing could be done in the fields. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Soon they came to a deep gash in the earth, from which rose the scents of water and of things that grew in rich mud. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“If you’ll notice,” he says, holding a hand up to the skies, “Jupiter and Pluto are perfectly aligned in relation to earth. It’s the Jovian-Plutonian gravitational chamber. Where everything floats indefinitely.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Will thought that nothing on earth would make him turn his back on that monkey now. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now he had to move like an insect along the surface of the earth. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shut the door and locked it, then rounded on Anya and demanded, “Where on God’s earth did ye find that thing?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“In the recovery of an artificial earth satellite it is necessary to bring the satellite over a preselected point above the earth from which the reentry is to be initiated,” she wrote. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t feed the cat at the table,” said Mother, tugging me back to earth. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The earth has layers! I suppose that makes sense!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now the men on the bridge walked the earth with the terrible burden of dark mortal sin on their souls, and hell was the only reward. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What about Galileo, standing before his inquisitors, saying ‘The earth does move!’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a capacity for appetite,” Samuel said, “that a whole heaven and earth of cake can’t satisfy.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some dry leaves fell, and then something white tumbled from the branches to the earth with a dry, whispering sound. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Backward she sprang as the huge shape crashed to ruin, vast wings outspread, crumpled on the earth; and with its fall the shadow passed away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Just as Mr. Benson had said, we could see the path they had worn down through the ice and snow till the bare black earth was visible. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Iam traveling through years as well as leagues, Tyrion reflected, back through history to the days when dragons ruled the earth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mama and Babulya could make the trees use their branches, but could they pull a tree from the earth and make it walk around? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

And even after years she could see from the unevenness of the earth that it must have been pretty thoroughly dug over. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But he himself, left dangling somewhere between heaven and earth, cannot do what they do. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I just lie there, staring out my window at the winter sky, pondering how on earth this will all turn out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The earth of that piece was wet and rich and the rice grew on it as weeds grow where they are not wanted. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Then, after cir- cling once round them, he dropped to the earth, all four hoofs together, looking awkward and surprised, but extremely pleased. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Once our feet hit the hard-packed earth we set off in a run, settling into a pace just light enough for speech. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

That I had done what rootworkers were supposed to do—respect the earth and its creatures. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Visitors not only can learn a lot about Tsiolkovsky’s plans for flying into space but can also see how he lived on earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth travels twenty miles per second, and it pulls the moon along through space. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

Their panes glow in the starlight, obscuring the treasures I imagine to be inside them, small plants with berries dangling from their branches, rows of potato plants buried in the earth. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The three Hessians were upon the ground, their bodies twisted, their torn uniforms filthy with earth and blood. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

But, when I asked if there could be ways he didn’t know about, he said, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Sophie Brown, than are dreamt of in our philosophies.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Look at your arms! It’s not just chafing. You’re bruised up to your elbows. How on earth did they do that?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The only plus is that the farther we retreat into the earth, the less shrill the sirens become. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His lyric, among the most famous in the Nahuatl canon, answers its own question: Not forever on earth; only a little while here. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He could smell turned earth and gummy buds. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the voice of groaning was heard and the voice of triumph from slayer and from slain and the earth steamed with blood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of his strength and blood and breath were entering the earth now. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Where on earth is he going with this? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We just want to do something good for this earth,” offered another general. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In the end the earth had given way under them and they had fallen down among some rabbits, whom they had fought and beaten. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was continually amazed at the combination of raw earth and rough people, white columned houses and traces of English manner. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laid his cheek against the chocolate-colored earth, licked his dry lips and closed his eyes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It took a few days for me to realize that Zu’s leaving wasn’t the only event that had shifted the rotation of the earth. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There was indeed a small patch of earth poking through the cement. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The tramp of many feet shook the earth. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll water it when the earth has cooled a little. If you water a plant when the earth is too warm, it shocks the roots.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This had the side effect that it would be possible for someone to go off in a rocket ship and return to earth before he set out. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had known about the party, I would have made sure she was there, but even Fiona—who is the kindest, most thoughtful person on earth—didn’t think about inviting her. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

And it would be one thing if I had planned to stir things up, but given the circumstances...how on earth did I cause so much trouble? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Where the earth no longer was trying to kill you. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Bodysurfing in the Pacific was one of his absolute favorite things on earth. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Wreckage everywhere, mounded bodies, smoking earth, naked stumps of trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he describes the sphere of water as like a cloak or hood covering the earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The column of earth thickened into the twenty-foot-tall figure of a woman - her dress woven from blades of grass, her skin as white as quartz, her hair brown and tangled like tree roots. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I sank, seeing only blue sky, waiting to feel either the stab of sharp iron or the jolt of solid earth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dionysus brought her away, but not to live on earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realize that they have no mealtimes, no rationing of food, and I think that these Powhatan people must be the wealthiest people on the earth. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She told him about her dreams: the earth swallowing Camp Jupiter, Octavian closing in on Camp Half-Blood and the hunter with the glowing eyes who had shot Reyna in the gut. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There were deep furrows dug in the earth where the lizard had rolled or dragged its heavy body across the turf. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He could see no signs of what had been set loose upon the earth: the highways, the towns, even the fences were gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She looked away, at the cashew trees covered in dust, at the sky that curved to the earth in a cloudless wall ahead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If there was a breeze and clouds was floating by it felt like the earth was spinning. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I relish the feel of soft, wet earth beneath my bare feet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And it was disturbing to see—among the established plantings—the raw brown earth like a wound in the ground. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, why on earth are you going all over the house searching for furniture?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

My stomach tightens with the swoop of her voice, the gravel in it keeping us both tied to earth. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Long ago, Ouranos the sky god had been tricked down to the earth by Gaia and the Titans. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth, plowing it up like gunfire. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around it, smoke was hovering wispily off the ground, and just behind it, great volumes of smoke were billowing from the earth over a large area. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He looks at me generously and says, “Now why on earth would I let you do that?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I look out there, and I can’t believe it. Ocean water makes up seventy percent of the earth’s surface, you know.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Not so long ago, they’d been lean and strong, able to crack a nut with a pinch, able to press a seed deep into the earth with one stab of a finger. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“He excretes in prodigious amounts, Karen, not seen on the earth since prehistoric times when dinosaurs let fly,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the bright crown of the earth, the heavens were always dark. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

"When I was young, we always had rain," Aunty Silver says, motioning out the window at a stretch of cracked earth. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The most popular theory is that, about four billion years ago, a huge object collided with the earth, and the moon was formed from the resulting debris. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I felt very alone on earth, as if there were no adults to protect me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The flowers had been laid evenly to cover the mound of new-turned damp earth, and already the wind had frayed the blossoms and flung the smaller bouquets out into the path. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The conflict with communism, it seemed, had spiraled into a life-or-death contest, with the fate of the earth hanging in the balance. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was lifted to his; her eyes were empty, eyes that looked upward when the last hope of earth had failed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She backed away, overwhelmed with the cold air of mold and earth which rushed at her. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. And you’re in the middle of digging his grave,” Rufus says as trees rustle and a shovel scoops up earth. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He heaved the pick into the icy earth, wrenched it free, plunged it in again. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If we made a mistake and pointed in the opposite direction, we would crash into the moon instead of returning to earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if they’d fallen through a hole in the ocean and come out on the other side of the earth. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I placed the owl in the grave and I put a large stone over it so the coyotes would not dig it out, then I covered the hole with the earth of the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his spit-flecked buffalo mouth and it was red inside with the flames that burned inside him, under the earth. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would regain her senses minutes or hours or half a day later, shaking her head to un-addle her brains, and wondering what on earth she had been doing, or for how long. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They were a lost people, a doomed people, destined to vanish from the earth, as the children of the forest had vanished. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The flood water was the color of the earth, of their skin, of the blood, his blood dried brown in the bandages. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even the earth itself seemed filthy and abandoned. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth . Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Cora’s last day in the field she furiously hacked into the earth as if digging a tunnel. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The wind had increased in velocity, and burning chunks of wood were being carried for many blocks before they fell to earth. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Parisian view, that the centre of gravity of the earth corresponded to the centre of the sphere of water, will have seemed at first sight like a viable option. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then there was a thundering of the earth, and a great rift opened. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the impetus of that shattering phalanx of iron—spread across the battlefront, inescapable, pulverizing, louder than drums, beating the earth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birds, the whole earth, the expectant woods seemed to wait for her to understand something. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

"Look at those features. Exactly like yours—from the identical mold. Are you sure he didn't spit you upon the earth, fully clothed?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just imagine yourself in the most hostile place on earth. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

While the earth travels twenty miles per second, it pulls the moon with it through space. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I shake my head like I am the dumbest Negro to ever walk the earth. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Alone in the dark, his figure was quickly lost to my sight, as if he had disappeared from the earth forever. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Gethenians do not share their earth as Terrans do with those older societies, those innumerable cities of little sexless workers possessing no instinct but that of obedience to the group, the whole. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s common today to explain anything and everything as the result of climate change, but the truth is that earth’s climate never rests. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d explain about how the glaciers passed over the earth many years ago, and left the stone when they melted. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I just don’t see any point in having animals like that running around on earth. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Their skin glowed with sweat in the early-morning sun as they hurled their tools downward and jumped on them with their feet to grind them into the soft earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The men who had carried Saidu began placing rocks around the grave to hold the mounds of earth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Around the earth flowed the great river, Ocean, never troubled by wind or storm. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, dawn broke as they were crossing a cracked and fissured plain of hard red earth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Heavens and earth, no!” cried Arthur in a storm of passion. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Why on earth would you do this, Byron?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby heard the chug of the tractor and the soft scrape of the steel against the earth. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Many historians also credit him with at least one noteworthy contribution to astronomy—namely a universal model that put the planets in orbit around the sun, which in turn revolved around the earth. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

It was pleasant to see the earth getting smaller and smaller in our windows. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, Hale’s pastures were set on fire, the blaze spreading for miles, the blackened earth strewn with the carcasses of cattle. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Like everyone else - monster and demigod alike - they froze in horror and watched as the whirling column of earth erupted from the top of the next hill, and Gaia appeared in all her glory. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I paint the Virgin Mary descending to the earth, which is covered with snow and slush. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and told myself that a woman anywhere on earth can understand another woman on a market day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Originally, in the time of prebiotic elaboration of peptides and nucleotides from inorganic ingredients in the water on the earth, there was nothing to shield out ultraviolet radiation except the water itself. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the constant sunshine between earth and moon, it was difficult to decide whether it was “morning” or “noon” or “evening.” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few moments later, a smooth pillar approximately one meter tall rose from the floor beside the image of the earth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Just what she figured on planting in that parched earth, I couldn’t reckon. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

One day you go to the market and where the stall used to be there is only a mark in the earth, a vestigium. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The exception was the Parisian philosophers, for whom the centre of gravity of both the earth and the water remained coincident with the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was no more than a sore in the earth, broad and chaotic, gouged out by human fingernails, ounce to pound to ton. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And the men dug the earth from the fields and made the walls and beat them down, and Wang Lung sent to the town and bought tiles for the roof. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“But we will continue our studies of the earth’s rotation at another time. Now, gentlemen, it is time to put on your clothes.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Instead they were to be required to instruct that the earth was created by God, in seven days, sometime, oh, before the turn of the century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I walked home slowly, asking myself what on earth was the matter with me, why it was I never seemed to do things as people expected them to be done. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was another thing about the sound of the waterfall: it seemed to be coming from within the body of the island, deep under the earth. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a dark cloud swept across the sun, blotting it out and leaving the earth in shadow. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure: Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

First, it wasn’t like the entire valley was vaulting toward the sky because of an earthquake or massive shifting of the earth’s crust. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I dug into it with a stick, raking the loosened earth with my hands into a low pile on the downhill side. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

For example, the surface of the earth is a two- dimensional curved space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was loud and thudding, as though someone were knocking from inside the earth. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The smells were different, too—earth and grass, flowers and milk. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“And minds other people’s business ...” Esthappen steadied the little boat on the uneven earth floor with a few blocks of wood that he found in Velutha’s workstation in the backyard. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when you’ve nearly lost your life, a funny face in the mirror is simply proof that you are still here on this earth. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the dining-room, which lay at the back of the hall, we found eight boxes of earth. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I try to remember the pictures I’ve seen of huge Goliath falling to earth with little David standing beneath him, his sling at his side. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Firms only just back from the Christmas hols, that’s why. Still, Oxford’s hardly the ends of the earth, is it, Mrs. Rhydd? Be going up to see Dad soon, will we?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

For a while, when I was young and foolish, I thought I was the last gorilla on earth. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

But before he even reached her, one of the milk-faced men thrust a knife into his stomach, and Komla fell silently to the earth. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scent of the dragon is a staleness on the earth. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment he seemed about to wipe the blade on his trousers but then he plunged the knife into the earth and so cleansed it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dear Polo, we are so glad we will see you in a mere matter of hours. We miss you. We miss you as the dry, cracked earth misses the rain.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“The little groups that hitherto had stood rooted to the earth like desert plants broke into dance.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

With deep concentration, Jet Stone Boy gently pressed the tip against the surface of the earth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A ragged blanket of white covered the tom and tortured earth that stretched from the Wall to the edge of the haunted forest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“What artist wrote these words: ‘When I leave here on this earth, did I take more than I gave?’” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He was seventeen years old, irreparably separated from her and already pressing forward in his drive for wealth, when he learned that there was probably not another stomach like hers on earth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on the soft: earth and watched him begin to carve. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The earth goddess Gaea had killed his mother in a workshop fire when Leo was eight. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered what on earth this Mencken had done to call down upon him the scorn of the South. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he found the stars that formed the shape of the whale, inhaled the deep scent of earth that surrounded him, and began, his voice falling easily into the cadence of the old stories. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I cried out in despair, but the sound fell upon the mossy earth, unheard. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“There has been a convulsion in the earth,” the priest said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Donal lifted a shovel to begin replacing the earth into the grave....” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Each year, about sixteen thousand wild monkeys are imported into the United States from the tropical regions of the earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We made sweat lodges out of broken branches dug back into the earth, covered over with our shirts tied together at the buttonholes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

For example, as it approaches the earth, a spacecraft returning from the moon must be within a very narrow zone about forty miles high. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in order to predict these positions correctly, Ptolemy had to make an assumption that the moon followed a path that sometimes brought it twice as close to the earth as at other times. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

From 1538 the new understanding of earth and water as making up a single sphere became an orthodoxy among both Protestant and Catholic astronomers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But Charles was certain that the earth was formed much longer ago than that and was still being formed. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on the clipper they’d met the Gallivespians, who were strangers from the moon, blown down to the earth by a fierce gale out of the Milky Way. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was no way I could have, because Clancy Gray looked straight at me and said the very last thing on earth I expected. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Minli could not see the tip or the bottom of it, as it seemed to grow out of a gorge so deep that the base must have been at the foundation of the earth. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

What on earth did you think you could get out of it?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Here on the surface of the earth, we are protected against solar flares by our atmosphere, which prevents most of the radiation from reaching the ground. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that we were back on earth, it was moist and smelled like burned chemicals, but mostly it was hot. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blackcliff looms before us as suddenly as if it has sprung fully formed from the earth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

People said it was wonderful, like paradise on earth. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will just a little more of it from the earth, and the light-sword starts to change form, the blade growing longer and longer. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Ferrets, weasels and stoats, their faces smeared with moist dark earth, popped out of the ground in the oddest of places. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The past, she wrote, whatever it was, ought to be shoveled fifty feet under and left to rot in the earth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The house he covered with tiles, but the walls were still made of the hard tamped earth from the fields, only he had them brushed with lime and they were white and clean. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

For example, the movement of the earth in its orbit round the sun produces gravitational waves. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stench of scorched earth and copper was so strong her insides hummed with it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Plants blossomed in the thick black earth, sprawling out in all directions while trees—palm, oak, ash, and fruit-bearing ones of every variety—reached up into the misty heights, their branches draped with vines. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Think of our life in nature-daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,—rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While her fingers swiftly flew at her quillwork, she told the story of how the earth began. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There she was, planted before me in the path, rising on thin legs out of the rootless devouring earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like losing my balance on earth and floating in the air like a balloon. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Let’s return this water back to the earth,” Pond said, a little too loudly. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The air smelled rich with dampness and earth, and whenever the engine slowed, I could hear the steady drone of locusts everywhere. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I have always been one of the worst dancers that God has ever put upon this earth. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hurled clods of earth at the prone forms in the ditch and stood watching them for a time. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I tell them I’m sorry our time together on this earth was so short and that I miss them. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Beneath the carpet is a concrete slab that rests on earth that was compacted twenty years ago by heavy machinery. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I told you Pluto was cool. He’s the god of everything under the earth. Hazel can find caves, tunnels, trapdoors—” “And it was our secret,” she grumbled. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They prefer to linger on earth and annoy the living. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was going to be hard to give him up once this hell on earth was over. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even as he spoke the earth rocked beneath their feet. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Small at first, encompassing with my body, the room, the building, the city, the country, until I know that if I look down I will see my shadow blotting out the earth. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The earth would crack and swallow this glittering, self-important place before I would show a trace of despair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘Tardy as usual, Hippolytos. I hope your news is worth the wait. King Porphyrion should be . The ground between them split. An even larger giant leaped from the earth like a breaching whale. ‘ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The earth exploded, the projection disappeared, and the lights died. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“The athletes are always the center ring. That’s the hierarchy of the building. They are the ones who will inherit the earth. It has always been thus, and always will be.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Like someone who wants gay peace on earth,” Arthur says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

What plants are there, buried in the earth? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The earth would continue to function as normal, just as the sky did, but Gaia was now so dispersed and powerless that she could never again form a consciousness. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My grip on the bladeless hilt tightens, and I summon the splendor from the earth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She explained her mother’s wish for all the riches in the earth, and how that had turned into Hazel’s curse. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Wasting not a minute, I broke apart the earth with Horatio’s dagger. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Later that night, after everyone had gone home, I stayed awake in my bed, wondering what on earth Carmen meant about wearing a disguise. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Some of the marks were made by the spirits, some were made by humans; others were drawn by a giant race of people who had lived on earth in the old days and had disappeared. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Not the same as being outside, hands in the earth, sun on her back, but better than being stuck in a classroom. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Its light cascaded upon the earth like the divine glory of a goddess, and the world was silent again. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“What on earth are you reading?” she demanded. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane dug a trench more than thirty feet deep into the spongy earth of the old strip cuts on Skyline Drive, directly between two hushed, abandoned pieces of mining equipment. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Matthias gazed upwards, feeling as if he were slowly turning with the silent earth. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Phaëthon all on fire fell from the car through the air to the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a mild, serene spring day—one of those days which, towards the end of March or the beginning of April, rise shining over the earth as heralds of summer. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The fair boy allowed his feet to come down and sat on the steamy earth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even if they were foolish enough to believe that the earth was the centre of the univose, do we not ourselves believe that man is the fine flower of creation? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wind Being slowed down and Nathan’s feet pressed against the soft earth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“The meek shall inherit the earth” meant nothing to me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go,” Mom said coldly, and I said, “Thanks for having me,” and Annemarie’s dad smiled at me, but only because he’s the nicest person on earth. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

That brought me down to earth, rechanneled some of my sympathy. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the night creatures won, then there would be darkness all the time on the earth. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like trying to imagine any falsehood: that the sun revolves around the earth; that humans can fly; that the world is nonviolent. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He showed her the deepest spot on earth, seven miles deep, above the Mariana Islands. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then he told me that some Buddhists believe the spirit leaves the earth forty-nine days after the body dies. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

From the bluffs I saw the earth’s curve. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Then what on earth are you doing here in this . . . ?" Mr. Norton said, "With your ability . . ." "Ulcers," the fat man said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, it has been very useful, not only in putting satellites into orbit, but also in bringing them back to earth for repair or replacement. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But today when I see pictures of the region, known as Minembwe, it looks like the most idyllic place on earth, with lush, leafy mountaintops scraping the clouds and miles and miles of green. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"I will sacrifice myself for the people of earth," he said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The knight writhes on the wet earth, the flames enveloping him like a dancing, burning blanket. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Instead she mixed earth and day and welded the crack and heated it slowly and it was as good as new. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Pollard had found the one place on earth that could hold his interest. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Still,” he said, “Ariel could put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She summoned the Mist, calling it from the depths of the earth the way she did with gold or silver or rubies. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Our car slowed through the winding streets, lined by shops on both sides and with buses, cars, and tracks, and tens of thousands of pilgrims from all over the earth were everywhere. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She managed to glide to earth and made a crash landing on a hillside, where local people greeted her armed with pitchforks, sticks, and rifles—they’d thought her falling plane might be a German fighter. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Gold-mining on the Witwatersrand was costly because the ore was low grade and deep under the earth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down the valley, and in the dim light could see the open earth on the land below. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked over to the doorway, aware of the damp earth smell outside. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When their Pe-2 was again hit by enemy gunfire in battle on September 2, 1943, Sasha found she couldn’t control the plane to glide to earth for a crash landing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The stars were bright and they were steady, with none of the twinkle we normally see on earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I like it this way,” I said, patting the tops of overgrown carrots, their orange heads pushing through the earth as if about to be born. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no man anywhere, no man at all, as if the whole army had suddenly sunk into the earth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then earth struck the coffin; the child awakened and began to scream. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

One can no longer distinguish whence in this now quiet silvery landscape it comes; ghostly, invisible, it is everywhere; between heaven and earth it rolls on immeasurably. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would have one more earth orbit to make sure, and then we would be on our way to the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next moment a rabbit started up from the earth at his feet and sank his teeth in the pit of his near foreleg, just where it joined the body. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Torches flickered along the walls of Dragonstone, and in the camp beyond, he could see hundreds of cookfires burning, as if a field of stars had fallen to the earth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But they twinkled out one by one, without throwing any light on the questions why on earth I was going to play at Miss Havisham’s, and what on earth I was expected to play at. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She does not believe the local lore: that “summer birds,” or butterflies, creep out from under the earth. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Where on earth did you—You scared me half to—Oh, Sally.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They put the white box into a hole in the ground and covered it with earth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“My little sartorially challenged slip of a girl, we are ateliers. We dress the world itself. I embroider the earth with ice and frost, the most delicate silk in the world.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The gravitational force between the sun and the earth is ascribed to the exchange of gravitons between the particles that make up these two bodies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z