The bard, as lean as eyer, despite the huge amount he had eaten, repaired his harp strings. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Even when Ralph’s stomach began to hurt so much that he had to check into the hospital, and came home only able to eat certain foods, she found herself lined with stiff indifference. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know about queen ants, and about the female praying mantises eating the males. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After I ate my Ho-Ho, I lit up a cigarette, and I was kind of hoping someone would ask me for one, but no one did. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Going on foot, stopping off at whatever beach town we’re at before the sun goes down, collecting money for our fake basketball team, eating real food, then going back to the beach to sleep. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The cobs of the corn they had dried and eaten and they stripped the bark from trees and all over the countryside people were eating what grass they could find upon the wintry hills. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"If you want to, slice it. I'll eat anything you make." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They left her scraps to eat, worse than what they fed the dogs in the street. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mess hall OIC stood on the bridge and decided when a gallery would be called to eat and when it would be excused. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m to tell him we’re all happy and in the best of health, send money, food is very dear, growing boys eat a lot, ha ha, Alphie the baby needs clothes and nappies. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dad drinks his tea but gives us his bread and Mam says, Will you eat your bread, for God’s sake. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I remember I’d brought a banana back to our room to eat after the first day of practice. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Handmade utensils had held their belongings and food; they had always eaten together at a wooden table that Kira’s father had made long before her birth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hushpuppy was given a huge pile of the leftover parts, which he ate with gusto. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Dad never eats Life Savers either—at least I’ve never seen him eat one. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat at the kitchen table eating the cake with a glass of milk, but I couldn’t finish. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The disgusting smelly pipe was never out of his mouth except when he was eating or swimming. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some girl ate a squirrel sandwich,” I said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She makes the night crazy and funny as we eat our cones, trying not to get brain freezes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t eaten all day, when can I have my cake?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

On Fridays, we would eat vanilla ice cream that I spooned into dishes the size of small, cupped hands or pan dulce that I baked. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I arrived at the Fabric Barn a little late because Wynn insisted I eat breakfast. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

You take him in your fingers delicately by head and tail and nibble him from off his backbone, and finally you eat the tail, crisp as a potato chip. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate all of the bass and all of the greens and salad, though there was enough for four. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“There’d be nothing to eat unless a kind of people that can eat rocks live there.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the stars and with the night colder all the time he ate half of one of the dolphin fillets and one of the flying fish, gutted and with its head cut off. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go and hunt your own fish if you are tired of what you are now eating. I have my people to think of.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The center was housed in a brick building on a corner lot on Prospect Avenue, whose prime blocks were dominated by the grand, mansion-like stone and Tudor-style eating clubs that substituted for fraternities. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I only know I ate a Mounds bar and it wasn’t my favorite most amazing thing in my mouth...so it must be different. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Frantically I turned all of my spare money into food and ate. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shrugged, then reached for a piece of the cookie that they were ostensibly supposed to share, but Maya had eaten most of it already. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Animals that eat grass have high levels of these and other important nutrients. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Bandits haul mattresses up into nearby trees, eat lunch, and wait for their prey. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

"If I sliced bread, would you eat it?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Everything here—Taninli, the palace, the food they ate—seemed obscured by a thin but persistent fog. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Next to her the electric toad flopped and rustled in its box; she wondered what it “ate,” and what repairs on it would run. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I only realize now it’s been months since I’ve seen her eat this way. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She trailed off and we were quiet for a moment while we ate. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We pooled our food rations and ate them sparingly to make them last. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even after that, she still hadn’t showed, so Ma decided for us to go on and eat without her. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

In the early morning peasants sold vegetables I had never seen or eaten before in my life—and my mother assured me I would find them so sweet, so tender, so fresh. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crocodile said he would have to eat the villagers now that they’d taken all his food. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Of course before we ate them, we had to wash the potassium off with sterile water because potassium was poisonous. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom. Mom. I’m hungry. Can you make me something to eat, please?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I kept hoping that some officers would come into the tavern for rum or beer or something to eat. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are “bunk broken”—taught to eat from a trough. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They continued to look at the walls and not eat. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

So we sat in the shadow of the Ruins and ate a little lunch. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I may be skinny and named after a bird, but I don’t eat like one. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But to judge by the greasy faces, the meat eating was almost done; and some held coconut shells in their hands and were drinking from them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Pearl was in the kitchen, eating a bowl of cereal. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This street had all kinds of stores and places to eat. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I told Audrey she could go to Marcus’s party if she didn’t want to hang out with us, but she said she’d rather eat a flaming cockroach, which seemed a little dramatic. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But that doesn’t necessarily mean that eating in a car is a major risk that should be illegal. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Small wonder then that they had started eating their own dead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I want to eat donuts, hang out with Sara, and win the recipe contest. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Some folks ate burgers and hot dogs and fries, while others munched on sandwiches and snacks pulled out of coolers from home. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t be able to eat all the snacks. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He put the food before us and motioned for us to eat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“If he doesn’t take his medication like he is supposed to, he will! Checking his blood sugar, eating a balanced diet—he doesn’t want to do any of this!” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When I was really young, I used to ask him if a sunflower was going to grow inside of him since he ate the seeds so much. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Avoiding the solitary paths, I gathered berries and ate them slowly so my stomach would not rebel. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It makes her think of Sierra Kincaid and some girls at school, who’d eat two bites of yogurt and a carrot stick and say they were full. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Screw you; I’m going to eat all of you. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

We sat quietly while I ate the snap as slowly as possible and let my thoughts settle. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

People just wanted a time of merriment, laughter, dressing up, eating—and overeating—and so a feast was planned. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“He got a belly, too, I know it’s a shame the way that man eats. I sure ain’t asked him to shovel no snow for me.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Of most entrees, whether spaghetti and meatballs or chili or chicken fricassee, they were allowed larger portions than most people could eat. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote, “Do you want something to eat?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My father opened up the can on the counter and eyed me sharply over the frames of his glasses as he ate some more cashews. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And he eats string and rubber bands and tissues and writing paper and paints and plastic forks. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were a little wormy, but it was wonderful to eat an apple again. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please, please, stop talking about toast. I haven’t eaten, and my stomach grumbles loudly,” said Thorn. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I may have eaten a little cake, too. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The old dog limped towards it; but before he ate he looked up in the direction of the hillside where he had left his two companions. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She ate the souls of those who had been wicked in life. Plus, there are superpowers to consider. She was immortal and could be in two places at one time.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the food industry, we don’t even know what it is we’re eating. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We eat the rest of our meal in silence. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The whole crew sat on deck, without a storm or a monster attack to worry about for the first time in days, and ate ice cream. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We drink our coffees black because he has no cream and we eat our toast dry because we can't find butter or jam. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He ate this cheese and the sandwich, and now his hands smell of old picnics, the roadside lunches of wartime. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the way I figure, if it’s food from my own plate I would have eaten myself but don’t, what’s the harm in that? Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You look like a skeleton! What’s the matter? Hasn’t there been anything to eat in your house lately?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You know the doctor doesn’t want you to eat any fatty foods,” Mama said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sam took a sip of water, but pressed Frodo to drink, and when his master had recovered a little he gave him a whole wafer of their precious waybread and made him eat it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Mostly roaches. Though there ain’t so many in here since I caught her. She’s getting bigger, too, you know. Want to see her eat?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ate up Father's words like candy, without question. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

His jowls shaking with emotion, the imam had spent ten minutes telling people not to come to the mosque wearing smelly socks or after eating garlic because that disturbed the prayers of people around them. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

After we had eaten we felt fine, and then after, we felt very happy and in a little time the room felt like our own home. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I plopped myself down in my polka-dotted sunsuit and picked off the fattest ants to eat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He come to the field, pull two ears of com, let the birds and weevil eat two hundred. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we had finished we went in to eat. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Sierra Leone all that we had ever eaten was rice, pepper, mealie meal, cassava, mango, and banana. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The white man is outside, and he’s going to get you and eat you!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Preacher waited a second then said, “That seems like an awful lot of fish for three people. I was wondering, is your family going to eat all ten of those fish?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Derek wasn’t eating and Moms asked him how he felt and he said depressed. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you had supper? Want to come eat with us?” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Second, oak trees evolved to make nuts of a size and taste suitable for squirrels, which we’ve all seen burying, digging up, and eating acorns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Auntie had a tongue like hungry scissors eating silk cloth. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

President Nixon made a speech outside our window, and so did the captain of the Hornet, and then we ate a huge steak and got a good night’s sleep. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This will be the first time that they’ll see how bad things are with me—I couldn’t eat that egg downstairs and can’t eat anything now. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I looked at my own copy while I ate my sandwich. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He peeled off the skin and ate it first, savoring each bite. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Also, I could tell a trick to force me to eat a healthy breakfast when I saw one. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

At supper Fern ate bread and corn but she wouldn’t touch the gravy-coated drumstick Big Ma put on her plate. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But since she now had a few coins, she still hung around the Store eating Planter’s peanuts and drinking Dr Pepper. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’ll say different. The new game warden won’t make any allowance even if the deer was eating your garden. You just don’t shoot deer out of season no way. ’Specially a doe.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she dragged one large easy chair to the table so that John could watch them while they ate. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They eat appreciatively, commenting on the tenderness of the meat, the freshness of the beans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I paced aimlessly and listlessly about the house, brooding, searching for things to do or food to eat—there was neither. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was horrible, and she gagged as she swallowed it, but she ate it all. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cross the street and continue along, eating my licorice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t ever think to eat her—only her increase. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family spent most of their time here: they ate their meals, played games, and read novels and fairy tales together in the evenings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Everyone, even the youngest children, knew that you should eat with your right hand and use the toilet with your left hand. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey! Get away from that!” a vendor yelled as the buffalo attempted to eat frosty green lettuce. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She had not the heart to eat the food that lay on the cage floor. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I know that when it comes time to eat the porridge I will have trouble: my stomach will contract, my hands will get cold, it will be difficult to swallow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After I finish eating, I’m so full, my pants nearly cut off my circulation. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He officially decrees: “He that will not work shall not eat,” and he holds us to it. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They ate long and daintily, spearing out pieces of chicken, holding the dripping pieces until they cooled and then gnawing the muscled meat from the bone. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was she never— no, not once—to eat off china—always nothing but pewter? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

How was that more courageous than escaping your country in a rickety boat with small children and risking being eaten by sharks or getting caught and sent to prison? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“He might eat that, even on the porch, because he knows it’s his. Maybe tonight I could go in through the attic and down to the kitchen...” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was her best effort, he knew, but perhaps because of the whiskey he’d drunk the night before, he could only bring himself to drink two cups of black coffee and eat two biscuits. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

New pair cost seven dollars though, which means I’m on be eating cabbage and tomato till I turn into Br’er Rabbit. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They gathered together in the hall, sitting around two square tables pushed together, and ate salty flat bread and rabbit stewed with aromatic spices. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We also ate a lot of rice mixed with jack mackerel, which Mom said was excellent brain food. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“From 11:30 to 12:00 we bide our time and then eat lunch. “ The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or even if it were an order, would he be disobeying it by eating an apple? The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

"And you fell asleep and a snake came along and ate the flower." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“No one would ever believe there was any part of Papa in him, ” She thought of Mrs. McGarrity and how she had made it easy for her to sit down and eat that jello. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“If you eat me, they will just kill you. Let me help you!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When breakfast arrived, I was too anxious to eat or hold on to anything other than my dad. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Without a home, will I ever eat again? Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He advised me to eat heartily, as the Hajj rituals require plenty of strength. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she turned to Rich and said with much authority, “Why you are not eating the best part?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen is roomy enough to accommodate four people eating or give a customer plenty legroom while Violet does her hair. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You just watch your mouth or you’all will be eating beans next month.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what they do, but they make them taste better than any grilled cheese sandwich I’ve ever eaten in my life. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Orphaned children, some with American fathers and Vietnamese mothers, eat a meal in an orphanage, 1972. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They themselves eat in shacks like these, and if all the shacks like these disappeared in Lagos, they will go lunchless, unable to afford anything else. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well now, if the falling of this bird is a sign of a curse or bad luck, we are in both. So I am eating every bit of it. You can do as you please.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

So, using her friendliest voice, Roz said, “What would you like to eat, little darling?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Wherever we choose now will be where we eat for the rest of middle school.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I’m starving, even though I scarfed down all of my pad Thai, but there is nothing to eat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I find it strange that the sisters’ eating is governed by silence and strict rules. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The only thing that takes my mind away from what little food we have to eat is the fact that the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is on. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He had not eaten for two days, and his stomach seemed to have turned in on itself. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s dark now and you’ve eaten the begrudged food and counted thousands of seconds and become so angry. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She was just throwing away the core of an apple which she had eaten. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“That monkey’s going to eat well tonight. I think it gets paid better than I do.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Leefolt say, “Oh, why don’t we have Aibileen fix us lunch here? We have a real nice ham and some—” “I stopped by to go out to lunch. Not to eat here.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I have Emery Webber, who rescued me from having to eat lunch by myself on the first day of freshman year. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Gwin was eating a bird inside the walls of the burnt-out cottage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

If he didn’t get any on Friday at Morse, he had two choices: either to go without eating all weekend or without supper the following week. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Did you just sink forever until the sand ate away at you and then did your poor bones continue the trip forever down? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you eaten all of these candies on the wall, Sue-ellen?” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“We’re eating out in the garden,” she said when they came in. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Presently the housekeeper brought in some beetroot soup and dark bread, and after the priest had said a long grace, they ate. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Work resumes on the Golden Gate Bridge. 103 men are put back to work, two quit, seven scratch their heads, five have their feet up, two eat sausages for supper, three do not...” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate till it seemed like my eyeballs would pop out of my head, and still didn’t make anything like the showing that Burn Sanderson made. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you cut off the pointed end of a slice of pie and save it for last, you can make a wish when you eat it. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We sat at the table, and he ate about two bites. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Summoning up her courage, Shanti sang an Eastern-influenced riff and broke into a rap about living on an island, eating grubs, rescuing pirates, and eating weird berries. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When he ate or walked, he moved zombielike, in slow motion. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Later Bill and Mike came in to get me to go down and eat with them. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

That night, we ate carry-out from the sushi restaurant around the corner from Dad’s office. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I hate it if I'm eating bacon and eggs or something and somebody else is only eating toast and coffee. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The voice of Felicity Stiles—signifying the end is nigh!—pulls me out of this brain-squeezing conundrum where I’m leaning toward eating the glass. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Chess, you go ahead and start eating. Emma and I will go back upstairs and work on her hair together.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“President Smith says if we don’t work we don’t get to eat,” says Richard. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They would either eat her now or smoke her body to sell the meat. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He did not eat, though the Meat was in his Mouth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they stood together in the lunch line, discussing the dazzling enchiladas, and they ate together, but not every day. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My appetite vanished and my digestive system, which required abundant oxygen to metabolize food, failed to make use of much of what I forced myself to eat; instead my body began consuming itself for sustenance. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a poor meal, even with all the paper they couldn’t help eating as well. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It felt strange sitting at a table, eating with a knife and fork. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We ate off it for days, cutting thick slices for sandwiches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At night we sat around the fireplace and ate baked apples spiced with sugar and cinnamon and listened to the cuentos, the old stories of the people. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks like a cat that has eaten all the cream and is ready for a nap in the sun. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Otto ate until his belly was full and then fell against me like a contented drunk. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Was he eating a warm meal of beans and coffee? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then we ate the subs right there, using the waxy white paper they came wrapped in for plates. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Zack is sitting at the kitchen table eating scrambled eggs when I walk in the back door. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

We eat this kind of food a lot. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It does sound a bit weird. But it’ll probably go away. It’s probably just to do with the different food we’re eating here.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was years ago, however; now his hair was white, and he could eat anything a Domishman could eat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I guess you could call what I just got home from a “ball”—we all dressed up, I got to eat dinner with more silverware than I probably own, and I met Prince Charming. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Do this little thing for me, and you can be my dog and eat meat every day,” Lord Ramsay promised. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was the same person they wouldn’t assign the job of gathering palm tops because he would eat them all for himself. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She said it was the best meal she’d eaten in a year. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

At dinner, she wiped her cutlery with the napkin before she began eating. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I think about ordering another round of waffles, just to eat up some time, and then remember that it wouldn’t be too effective—that’s how fast the food comes here. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

‘I expect us better eat now because Highboy and Willie liable to come trooping in any minute.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The chief says the country will go through some hard times and not have enough to eat as it stops accepting charities from foreign countries. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were aunts and cousins and other relatives, and they all had large huts where they kept all their property and ate their meals at night. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We are trying to eat when Dell comes down the hall earlier than usual. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“We need to learn about the ground here. Half the plants are strange to me. This isn’t one to eat, but at least there’s plenty of burnet and that’s always good.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor started saying he was going to eat the last Twinkie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Nan and Wynn were up and eating breakfast while I dashed around getting ready. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Did you eat? I can warm you up a plate,” Naomi said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"You like to eat, don't you?" she said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Patients refusing to eat, having to be held down, medicated, fed intravenously. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or when Malia and I eat bowls of cereal on the couch while watching cartoons. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As we eat, Lee Lee says, “My teacher Mrs. Phillips doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving. Can you believe that?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It’s probably best that we didn’t try to eat it. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the sniping between Vonetta and Fern over Miss Patty Cake was now aimed at their new enemies: the real food that we would eat until we returned to Brooklyn, and me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the passengers, like ourselves, had brought something to eat for the journey. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor had been eating beef jerky all morning without wondering what the cows ate. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After supper, I helped her clear the table and then we went out on the porch to eat peaches with vanilla ice cream. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need to eat in bed anymore,” he said. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Occasionally I left him bites of turtle or venison, and although he smelled the offerings, he never ate them. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I have been eating feces like I always do,’ Dog answered. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Not eat! You would not like that, would you?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a long time since I had eaten trout like that, five minutes from water to pan. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the last of the biscuits had disappeared, anything was good to eat, no matter the taste. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She found it hard to keep her eyes open while she ate. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“I already signed up for a diabetes class and a stroke class to get more understanding about that. Maybe I can take a nutrition class to learn how to eat good, too.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She could have changed her mind about school and run off with the boy she ate pecans with. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Steadily, Log-a-Log gave orders to the Guerrilla shrews to retire back across the field where they could rest up and eat a much-needed meal. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Everything they ate was what my father would call “side dishes”: potatoes, zucchini, bean salad, and a mystery casserole that I could not identify. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They could eat any other part of the animal, though. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You better eat some more steak before your brothers finish it all,” Mom warns me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“There’s got to be something left to eat from yesterday’s fetch.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

At lunchtime I decided to sit outside on a bench to eat. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He drained his thermos in one swallow and ate the last of the ham sandwiches. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

No one will know if you wear the same sweatpants for the entire month, if you eat every meal in front of television shows and use T-shirts as napkins. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Dad's coming home to eat. Put on a woolly hat or your head'll freeze.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They had left Union Mills with three days’ worth, but the troops had philosophically eaten most of that first chance they got. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“During war, government said must eat insect to survive. Also, it will give you energy because grasshopper have many energy. They have almost as much energy as me when I your age, Aki.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The zombie’s definitely going to eat you first,” Maya said to her, giving her a nudge. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Which wife did he sit next to? What did they eat?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was catching flies and eating them, and was keeping note of his capture by making nail-marks on the edge of the door between the ridges of padding. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Without Tool to give them protection in this city, they were minnows waiting to be eaten. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t scoot all the way up to the table because of her bulging belly, but she didn’t let that stop her from eating everything within reach—her salad, all the bread, Charlie’s salad. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

One night, as I’m doing homework by the light of the kerosene lamp, he says, “You know, you live here and eat our food.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know this, because I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people’s misery, to eat my own bitterness. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to Haitians who survived the ordeal, they lived in isolation and were forced by U.S. soldiers to eat tainted food and were subject to harassment, including beatings. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Would you like anything to eat?” she asked, and then she wondered for a panicked moment if she even had any food to offer her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would he eat the food she had cooked? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will attempt to eat at the table, or read the newspaper there, but it’s so small and rickety that any wrong movement endangers the house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kiyo and I were too young to run around, but often we would eat in gangs with other kids, while the grownups sat at another table. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is eating just a task that we have to get done as fast and “conveniently” as possible? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Across the table, Mom dipped her spoon delicately into her bowl of foraged greens, as though she were eating a gourmet meal. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t eaten since dinner two nights before. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She stopped only to look at Lyddie and say through her full mouth, “Eat, Lyddie. You got to eat and grow strong.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

All that was left was the dog, smiling at me like he’d just eaten a cat. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until now we had simply taken what we needed to eat. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She pays 17 percent interest on the car loan— with $13,000 remaining—because of bad credit from her previous life, when sometimes the choice was whether to eat or pay the light bill. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. He’s eating over by the window, next to Liana.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After they ate, they kissed gently in the darkness. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

We ate in shifts, and I yearned all the more for our huge round table in Ocean Park. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for the meal. I hadn’t eaten all day. The Forest Park PTA is meeting tonight at seven to discuss the firings. I hope you’ll all be there. Now if you’ll excuse me...” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all of the eating, talking, praying, and being among family, the house finally fell quiet. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But I swallow and let them fill my body as if I’ve just eaten his soul. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He had no memory of eating those meals, and yet there they were, recorded in her neat proofreader’s hand. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Don’t eat much supper, and come away at eleven when I send Hannah for you.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we eat meals in the same room at the same time each day. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Say, you eaten yet? I saw you get tossed from the cookhouse.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And they must gradually get used to eating what is for them a new and unnatural diet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

You sucked the sherbet up through the straw and when it was finished you ate the liquorice. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

We expect him to eat the rats but he’ll leave them in the lane with their guts hanging out and run to my father for a piece of bread dipped in tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In history we learn about the pilgrims in Plymouth Plantation in 1621 and the food they ate, wild turkeys and corn and five deer brought to the feast by the Indians. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sleep became my only relief, the only time I wasn't thinking about eating, but frequently visions of food filled my dreams. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Families are sitting around a table of food, eating and laughing. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I was almost grown before I could eat meat. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, you say, “I’m going to eat with those guys today,” and you gesture with your head to Aubrey’s table as if it is nothing at all. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I see her smiling as she talks and eats with the boyfriend. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He’d also be leaving her alone out here to be eaten... Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

As Reyna ate, Coach Hedge took out a notepad and started to write. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He set himself and the gods helped him and for seven years there were harvests, and every year Wang Lung and his men threshed far more than could be eaten. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

We ate blackberries off and on all that second morning, which was cold and damp and overcast. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Been hanging around here for months. Bertha keeps putting table scraps out for him. He don’t mind eating her meat loaf, but he don’t want nothing else to do with her.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Tiara ate those hours ago and she’s fine and her skin looks great. If I’m going to die, I’d rather go out with a full stomach and amazing skin.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When I walked into the living room, I discovered the four boys sitting on the couch and eating, what looked like, everything in our pantry. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He’d know that the man behind the cash box would turn him down, but on a good day, a man eating at the counter might buy him a sandwich and a cup of coffee. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s dysentery—which could be contagious, so we shouldn’t eat anything you’ve touched. I’m sorry.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Before he had eaten his first hot meal in China, Shin had a job and a place to sleep. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

This poet ate his salad with his fingers, leaf by leaf, while talking to me about the antithesis of nature and art. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He once ate one of the little blocks of blue disinfectant which hang inside the toilets. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally we ate at another cheap burrito spot and went into Ross Dress for Less to buy some new gear. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

After I’d eaten a few bites of my sandwich, I took out my phone and texted Davis. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“My goodness, Hazel,” said Blackberry, “did you really want to silflay? This is terrible! I was just going to eat whatever it is they have and then go to sleep. What’s the idea?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consumers had no interest in either eating it or buying it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There were family matters eating at him as well. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We eat lunch on a driftwood log, facing the ocean. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the morning, we eat our cereal in silence as our mother tells us that our uncle won't be around for a while. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“When would you like to eat?” she says. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had a good time eating the Every Flavor Beans. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And though she never ate what they served, except for a few slices of bread and a goblet of water, she always thanked them; she was always grateful for the questions. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to give the rats the satisfaction of eating him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All over the walls were framed, autographed photographs of major league stars, and also some political and show business celebrities who would come there to eat, bringing friends. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clubbed them to death, cooked them, and ate them with white wine. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got out of bed at dark- thirty, and rummaged around the kitchen for anything to eat. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we were eating lunch and I would bring out my jackknife to cut my sandwich, he would say, “You going to use that knife?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also yielded alkahest, the universal solvent—an agent that could eat through any substance in the world: glass, stone, metal, even diamond. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You want me to get you some water? Did you have something to eat yet?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to eat this food and walk. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

If she were lucky, she could expect to eat the same on the following day. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we couldn’t bring ourselves to kill the bird, and anyway, it looked too scrawny to eat. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He ate the other biscuit and fished around inside the bag. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I climbed into the wagon and ate the biscuits and beef and drank about half the bottle of wine. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We decided there was no way we could get past the man- eating sheep. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I had to eat again. Here's your half." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She did not let her leftover jollof rice warm properly but ate it all from the pot, drank two cold bottles of beer, and still did not feel sated. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ben cheered his spirits somewhat by dreaming of strangling Mary Anne with barbed wire or cutting her heart out like an Aztec and eating it before her eyes in her last moments of consciousness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slogan today says, “Happier than a unicorn eating cake on a rainbow.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He ate one-handed, the other clutching a sharpened stick lest anyone try to wrest away his prize. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We sat eating pistachios and breathing salt air. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Her mother plied her with the best food she could make, but Kathleen would not eat. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I may have ruined my life, Armpit thought, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

One of the highlights would involve cooking and eating their enemies’ dead bodies. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He ate little, Hotah observed: a spoon of soup, a bite of the pepper, the leg off a capon, some fish. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mother says we’ll skip breakfast, eat hot cereal and bread for lunch and fried potatoes for dinner and, if possible, vegetables or lettuce once or twice a week. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I said, “Hilarious, but I don’t eat anything with parents.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

This precious vessel was now placed on my knee, and I was cordially invited to eat the circlet of delicate pastry upon it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He stood up, removed his coat, and said, “Let’s eat.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When defectors cross into China, the first “foreigners” they encounter are usually ethnic Koreans who speak the same language, eat similar food, and share some of the same cultural values. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He sorted through the cans and went back and they sat by the fire and ate the last of their crackers and a tin of sausage. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ll miss hearing the adhan and the neighbor’s roosters. And eating these mangos. And even that annoying commercial for tissue paper that comes on TV all the time.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He and Mom are both eating smoothie bowls for breakfast, too. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I am writing in the morning, having eaten my breakfast; I am sitting at the entrance to the cave with my binoculars, watching the house and the tent for a sign of life. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There was still more than she could eat. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I demolish everything and would eat more, but there’s nothing left. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sumac bobbed his head and squawked his general happiness, then fluttered to the ground and began eating the food from my dish. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I wasn't at all hungry, but I figured I ought to at least eat something. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

We didn’t stop to eat, but chewed on some biscuits and drank some beer for thirst as we walked along. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, Miss Lulu was eating a caramel while she played the organ. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bennet, with great civility, begged her ladyship to take some refreshment; but Lady Catherine very resolutely, and not very politely, declined eating anything; and then, rising up, said to Elizabeth, Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then he collapsed into a wooden chair beside me, put his elbows on his knees, and stared at the floor in silence while I ate. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He ate as little as he could get away with. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

At least I wouldn't have to eat that cabbage! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course no one thought of eating until Father was ready. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She loves those things, and every night when we're eating dinner, she sits on our couch in the living room and watches one while opening mail and clipping coupons. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

At home she just ate supper and slept and then ate breakfast and went off to the store again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I do believe he thinks it’s him that we are wanting to eat!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The ambrosia she’d eaten in the tunnels under Rome must have finally mended her bones. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Now there was no food to eat and no water to drink. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The little fishes will eat up the great one,” he joked, “unless the great one should devour all the little ones.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She did another and she made me eat it while she ate the cold one herself. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I remember my frustration as I tried to start a fire the first night, and my fear when I couldn’t catch a fish to eat. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two hours of Spanish she ate a Snickers bar for lunch and watched music videos. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nita finished her food, said to no one in particular, “I’m getting pretty good at eating with my hands.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later, when the lone lightbulb went out, Jack ate the biscuit. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t talk. Keep eating. As much as you can stomach.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They would say that Di- tshabe had walked off the path to look for something to eat and had not come back. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Some people in town would even buy the carp for a nickel and eat the fish! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's the Ginseng Boy, and we're going to cook and eat it!" the aunt said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The leader of the birds fluffed up his feathers and began to sing a special bird song which was all about how birds enjoyed eating the food of foolish people. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We eat our puffs—a heavenly dozen—and then Danielle takes me to her pink room and pulls the black go-go boots out of the closet. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Laying it on the dresser, I felt a wave of grief for Granny, wishing she could be here today, with us eating on the good china and all. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I huffed like a bear and shouted in a growly voice, “Wasn’t he delicious, this man? Best one I ever ate!” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

And one day, just after I had turned fourteen, I arrived home from school expecting to eat some snacks, watch some television, and begrudgingly start my homework, when my parents said the day had arrived. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The food was good, and it came mounded on steaming plates, more than any one person could eat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Those guys who tried to get my jacket and my nonexistent money and cigarettes are there, all eating sausage sandwiches with lots of sauce and onions. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I remembered Margie and her mother and imagined them in New York, wearing beautiful clothes and eating bright yellow eggs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Reverend Poole is getting more testimony by the day, and the news sites are eating it up. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Unlike a bagel criminal—that is, someone who eats one of Paul Feldman’s bagels but doesn’t pay—an information criminal typically doesn’t have someone like Feldman tallying every nickel. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Char’s just standing there eating a candy bar like she’s at the movies. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He ate one of his sandwiches in the second-floor corridor, sitting on a bench with his camera beside him and the can of kerosene on the floor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was not very hungry, but I made some attempt at eating so as not to insult anyone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She smoked and talked and ate for an hour without stopping, and I scribbled in my notebook as the muddy waters of tangents and cosines began to clarify. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

We ate that mud, too, as if it were food. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt supposed that the monkey must have been dangling from a tree branch, trying to take a drink of water from the river, when the catfish swam up and ate him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t really make sense. Delicious totally depends on the person eating. the food.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They had finished eating the main meal and she was enjoying a turtle-shaped cake filled with sweet and soft red bean paste, a taste not known to her before. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I offered it to my mother, but she couldn’t eat either. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

‘Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants. Me and Sophie is the only safe ones because I is hiding her if that happens.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They let their anger grow so large it ate them up—even their voices and laughter. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her stomach felt sour, like she’d eaten something rotten, but at least she was keeping her tears at bay. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Not only didn’t he eat for a couple of days, it was weeks afore he slept through a whole night without terrorfying me and Ma by waking up screaming and begging someone to stop. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Morning operations were the best, because you weren’t allowed to eat for hours and hours beforehand. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was seldom that he ever moved his hands to speak at all—and then it was to say that he wanted to eat or to sleep or to drink. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was already eating his second helping of pasta, a fact Lucia acknowledged with a deep frown. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up one of his sweetcakes and began to eat it, hoping to teach him a valuable lesson in humility. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My papers were valid to all examination, and I was politely waved on after minimal delay, and politely advised how far it was to the next Transient-House if I wanted to eat or sleep. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We ate peaches in brandy and peanut butter and caviar sandwiches. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I learned to eat a lot of things. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

As I sat eating my pizza, I tried to remember that I always performed better if I was just plain having fun. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It didn’t eat holes in ElViejo’s suit, the way the Flying Priest’s holy water ate through demons on TV. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not eat; he felt his body slackening, his flesh disappearing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When they had eaten, the Company got ready to go on. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s tradition that Chelsea, Isaac, and Nadine come, and after we eat the four us hang out for a few hours. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

After eating, I helped Mom do the dishes while Dad got rid of the messy mountain of empty crab shells we’d left on the table. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

His face is puckered like he’s eaten something sour. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Waiting for Wishbone to eat hot dogs from the pie tin. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

His tone conveyed a warning, given out of the pride of ownership, and the boys ate faster while there was still time. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He told the kid not to eat so fast, he’d get sick. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I was eating, the phone rang. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I mean, there’s a reason I don’t eat bacon. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I told her to eat com flakes before she took Panadol, Papa. I made it for her.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Squashed crows that had tried to eat the squashed frog-shaped stains in the Universe. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Mom started teaching, I thought maybe we’d be able to buy new clothes, eat cafeteria lunches, and even spring for nifty extras like the class pictures the school took every year. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Deep in the thick undergrowth near the clearing, at the edge of Leader’s puzzled awareness, a small green frog ate an insect it had caught with its sticky, fast- darting tongue. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

They ate the roasted birds, seasoning them with lemon juice, and then another witch brought some blueberries she’d found below the screen, and then the witches gathered around the fire. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God only knows what I have got under my skin from being here. I may die of tuberculosis, or perhaps there are worms right now eating me inside.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But she had the weirdest sensation you weren’t supposed to take them, let alone eat them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We both squat over toilet water eating sandwiches. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Instead she fasted or ate vegetarian meals in her room. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squatting beside a blackened tin pot outside the woman’s hut, I ate burned rice, crispy and gooey. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Breakfast was sausage, which he could not eat, and scrambled eggs, which were nearly inedible. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

All ate as One, and slept as One. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we took it back to the cubicle and ate huddled around the stove. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just want to watch the rest of Amazing Race while I eat,” I answered. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

At a dozen banquet tables, ghouls laughed and ate and pushed one another around. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Have you been eating too many sweets again? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Hurry up or you’ll be eating with the chickens,” he would say. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin was always hungry and he would eat his lunch as soon as his mother left for work in the morning. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

My brothers and I were too worried to eat. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

We now ate full meals, and dressed in clothes slightly better than rags. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd fixed me and him a plate and put two slices of bread on mine because I eat bread with everything. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

They are both men with large appetites, and the only complaint I heard about them was from Warrant Officer Swart, who said, “Those fellows will eat us out of house and home!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good decision. My wife makes an awful sandwich—I couldn’t bear to eat it today.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I am going to eat the food my mom made me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Every year on Christmas Eve, Charlie and I made Mom and Dad go out to dinner by themselves, and we made sure they went somewhere they’d actually eat the food and enjoy themselves. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

When it’s finally time to eat, everyone gets a ladleful of bright yellow rice and potatoes in a plastic bowl. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

After the palmer perhaps there would have prowled a rather more sinister figure: one of those who “sleep by day and watch by night, eat well and drink well, but possess nothing.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he felt his stomach give a painful rumble and remembered he hadn’t eaten any dinner. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

That was when the government was encouraging families to eat at neighborhood canteens to reduce housework and allow women to work outside the family. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elders say that eating dog meat increases body heat, thus increasing energy, but you shouldn’t eat too much of it or your body will burn up and combust. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brienne was eating methodically, as if supper were another chore to be accomplished. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It is a great scavenger, eating anything from gnomes to old tyres. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it wasn't happening to me, I'd be home, eating chips or something straight out of the bag and hating Jack Franklin. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And every time Patrick started getting tired, we got coffee, and he ate another Mini Thin or two. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Odile’s French mother had imparted to her a thorough contempt for the unimaginative way in which most Englishmen eat and house themselves. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

They huddle together, eating, blowing on their tea, and taking tiny, scalding sips as I build up the fire. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And he would refuse to eat everything offered to him, always turning his nose away as though someone were offering him a stinky pickle and not a sweet cake. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what hit me was that she expected I would eat out on the porch with her dogs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he had a herd go in and eat those very flowers she was after. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

After that, he put it down on the table, some distance away from him, and went on eating his cornflakes, not looking up. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“You’ll put us under a spell? Do you have some magical words, some curse you plan to use on us now that we won’t eat your medicated sweet bread?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dr. Grossman had warned me not to tire him, so I left as soon as I could, went home, ate, then spent the night studying. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Cilia had evidently been left to wait on him whenever he felt like eating. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry, suddenly ravenous, helped himself to everything he could reach and began to eat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

This was where most of the family’s meals were eaten. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

For supper they ate whatever Mutti could afford to cook that day, usually turnips and potatoes and cabbage. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t that mean people have to let you stay in their motels and eat in their restaurants if you want to?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ambuya had told her often enough of the dangers of eating uncooked flour and beans. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s something—eating. Just to see somebody eat. It’s really something.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

In Phnom Penh, I would have thrown up if someone told me I would have to eat those things. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They eat the same things we do and treat themselves with medicine from certain plants. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Florence said he wouldn’t eat God,” Bones added. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river was easy to fish, slow moving and somewhat shallow there; the silvery, sinuous trout were eager for the bait, and made good eating later. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I remember eating ice cream in the back seat of the Buick, and a long blank drive in the dark, and then pulling up in front of Linda’s house. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we finished eating Byron asked, “What’s the word on them toilets?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock we went home, ate dinner, finished our homework, and went to bed. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The merchant’s attempts to convince Siddhartha that he was eating his, Kamaswami’s, bread were also in vain. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quality of the pork was not excellent, but we ate with great stomach for any morsel. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It seemed to eat through the thin cotton fabric of his sleeve. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Another says, “My dog is life even when she’s eating my shoes.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Luke, honey? Can you eat sitting on the bottom step there?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the last thing Conor remembered was the monster’s mouth roaring open to eat him alive. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Moira told me once that it used to be where the undergraduates ate, in the earlier days of the university. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is done is done,” I said, urging him to eat. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once when President Eisenhower had visited Georgia years earlier, he supposedly ate dinner at the Lyndons’ home. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We both sat up there eating and looking out. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

One of the boys in my group had eaten some undercooked beans that had made his stomach swell with gas. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, of course, we could eat corn “as is”; the same was true of the beans. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Shin had become conscious of what he could never eat and never see. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When it rained, they let off a disgusting musty smell so animals wouldn’t eat them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You won’t lose your dentist license for encouraging me to eat candy?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In the morning I left food for him when I went down to the sea, and when I came home he had eaten it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t chew gum. We don’t eat food. We don’t talk loud. We don’t play. Church is a place where we show respect and reverence.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some of our teachers make us eat birdseed so we’ll feel closer to the earth, and other teachers hate birds because they are supposedly minions of the Devil. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Life on the farm is boring and dull, but at least there is enough to eat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The bloke who may or may not have been eaten by a hollow—do you know where they’re keeping him?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Peers into the courtyard where knots of people eat and talk in the blue smoke. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The indefatigable bell now sounded for the fourth time: the classes were marshalled and marched into another room to breakfast: how glad I was to behold a prospect of getting something to eat! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

"If the crows eat it, I bet we could." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We’d shake the powdered sugar on top of the fried Oreos at the end, and eat them while they were still warm and gooey, with mugs of cold milk. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

But nobody knew why I was eating those sandwiches. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

She’d see how I drank a bottle of tequila and ate the worm later on to forget and feel better about the whole thing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She remembers Gogol and Sonia helping her when they were small, Gogol’s hand wrapped around the can of crumbs, Sonia always wanting to eat the croquettes before they’d been breaded and fried. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Let's get a little farther and then we'll find something to eat." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The food was served first to the men and then to the women guests, and last I ate with the women who had been hired to help with the cooking and serving. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was standing on the food 426 had brought, eating heartily. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Colin is eating his lunch at his desk again. And I despise the smell of pickles.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was normally so strict about what he ate, so I was glad to see him relax a bit about that. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We dumped our stuff and headed out to eat. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fall was hot-supper time with everything to eat one missed in the morning when too sleepy to enjoy it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“But that means you’ll be eating out a good deal, if you don’t mind.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow this Halloween business will be over and you’ll be happy to be the only child in your school without a stomachache from eating all that candy.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

While we were eating, she asked me to go to Kellam’s afterward to get some cream and butter. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was eating a Twinkie with one hand. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remembering Perry’s food-laden hack board, he returned to it late in the morning, ate well, and departed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

After two days of my lying on my mattress with no attempt to eat, drink, or even take a morphling tablet, the door to my room opens. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was weird to think about this, but when my father was my age, he sat in this very cafeteria and ate his lunch. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

But on the way back, as he contentedly ate his prize, I was allowed to do as I wished. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

This afternoon he had eaten lunch there with some of the Tizerkane, including Ruza, who taught him the phrase “You have ruined my tongue for all other tastes.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Don’t even think about eating this, Virginia,” she said through her teeth, and then went back to her mourning. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t eat cookies,” he said, and was about to close the door on them when Matthew stuck his foot in the way and held the door open. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And she wouldn’t say any more till Lyra had eaten. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I made and ate a big breakfast and sat down with a slick magazine to wait for Dad. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Massa like to die hisself—couldn’t eat nor sleep. He wouldn’t even look at that baby. Paid no ’tention at all to that chile till he be ’bout six year old. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d eat at restaurants with shiny menus that promised free ice cream after the mini corn dogs or chicken nuggets. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Sir Marmeluc,” she whispered urgently, “don’t eat it! It’s gone bad!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t eaten all day and was truly hungry. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He knew every bite he ate would stick in his throat. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn't eat any popcorn. Usually that's my thing—to think so hard I forget to eat.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As evening moved into night, they ate through me and hived up inside my brainpan with a loud buzz, their wings beating me into submission. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when people get the virus they just sit on the sofa and do nothing and they don’t eat or drink and so they die. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Your father was not a waiter, I never ate in that restaurant. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spoon came up and I ate, then I cried again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not one of his friends brought home more than a couple of centavos a week to his family, but each and every boy came home to eat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Corn could be eaten by us, by the chickens, and, if there was any left over, by the cows—stalks and all. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to come and get that bird tonight and eat it with my wife on Sunday. What a waste!” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But mostly he liked to eat the crickets. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Skin dry and ashy like tree bark ate away by the desert wind. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

They ate with us, laughed with us, cried with us. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

By going back to a hunter-gatherer meal, I would have to solve the problem of what to eat the old-fashioned way. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And while the emperor ate it with much delight, even he must have wondered how much sweeter the peach would have been if he had gotten the first bite. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Slant is greatly distressed by this terrible lullaby; and protested to Olakunde, Pomp, and me, “Maybe he live for one hundred years. They can’t go eat him. Another thing can’t die. Not one more thing.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then I went out to the kitchen to see if Yang Sze-Fu, the cook, would give me something to eat. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom says it’s cheaper, and less mess to clean, to eat fast food. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

After dinner he helped me wash dishes and thanked my mother for letting him come up and eat. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

We eat their food inside our large house, and throw out the bones. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have been eaten with doubt and hungry for reassurance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The truth was, those moments after she’d eaten the strange fruit were blurriest of all, sort of like a dream, but...there was one thing...Her cheeks burned. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

That is, she wasn’t well, but some days she got up and ate dinner with us. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We ate them in unusual silence as we continued on our Sunday walk. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

By then it was late and I hadn't eaten anything. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Would it be something we could eat, a fruit of some kind? It looked like the pictures of peaches on cans, except for the color.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Mama,” she said, “it’s wonderful. It’s the best soup I have ever eaten. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

But the nuns are fasting now, eating only bread with salt and water. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Entertainment that won’t eat up my batteries is always worth bringing. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But before he could get a word out, Tía Mari said, I’ll tell you when you’re using your full brain power—when you’re smart enough to eat your supper before it gets cold. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t suppose you could be useful and catch me a bite to eat,” I said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a shallow excuse, for he did not believe in eating meat either. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been eating frogs’ legs, turtles, and best of all, an occasional rabbit. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They always swim over to check out the newest arrival and try to eat it. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my house, eating is an event accompanied by the right music and the right wine. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“That old woman eat two butter beans and say she full. I couldn’t get her to eat nothing.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was so much food that I ate until I could no longer get up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He ate and ate and ate, and when he was done he said, “May I call you Thoreau?” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I eat everything, and when he sees how much I like them, he gives me his tinned pears. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I knew she was hungry and intended to eat no matter who cooked the food. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“How about a carrot? Would you eat a plain, raw carrot?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t think I can eat all these.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was no other woman in the village able to do what his had done, to make cakes such as only the rich ate at the feast. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Only then did he sit down to eat his one real meal of the day, alone at the dining-room table. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why should the child not break a plate? What food is there to eat from it anyway?” the breast-feeding woman asked sourly, still sniffling. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hated the flavor of canned milk, but Mami had told us that when somebody gives you something to eat, you eat it, even if you throw it up later. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to have a marriage of convenience with you if you’re always embarrassing me with the way you eat burritos,” Alex says, watching her chew. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Guards, though, did not care if Shin and his friends ate rats, frogs, snakes, and insects. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Come and eat,” he said, gesturing to the raffia mat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kira eats the last little crumbs of pretzels in the bowl. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She stopped on Espanola for a week, eating well and putting on fat for the long flight ahead. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

If you let her, Lorraine would eat until she dropped, and if she keeps going at that rate, I’m afraid she’s going to be somewhat more than voluptuous, She could end up just plain fat. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Reading the Old Testament and hoping it brought you something to eat, that’s what you did. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after eating foliage coated with this toxin the larva suffers paralysis, stops feeding, and soon dies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He awoke on a bench in the Long Island Railroad Station, a cop rapping on his boots with a nightstick, his escape money gone, the MacNamara sisters ready to eat him alive in Brooklyn. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I held up the spear-shaped cartilage in the breast bone, which most people don’t eat, and bit down with a satisfying crunch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was older now, but if she had a hawk she'd eat it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Others sat in booths, eating pizza and drinking sodas. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

You ate apples in the fall and leafy greens in the spring. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"I wish I could eat grass!" thought Shasta. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was as though she had said, “I have brought you tea,” or as though she had said, “We can eat.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They ate pulled pork and cornbread in Davis Square, a paper napkin tucked like a cravat into the collar of Dev’s shirt. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Children laugh and play under streetlights, mothers call from doorways, smells of cooking come at us all the way, through windows we see people around tables, eating. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe they were going to ask me to come sit with them so I didn’t have to eat lunch alone. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“My cousin kept the fish for a while, and then, when she got good and ready, she ate it.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Henry ordered an enormous dinner—pea soup, roast beef, a salad, mashed potatoes with gravy, coffee, pie—and ate it silently and with a great deal of methodical relish. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"If Basta were here he’d discipline the man for that—shut him up in Capricorn’s cowsheds for three days with nothing to eat." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“What’s in the house to eat? I’m going to warm up something.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

No happy drunk—a friend of the family, with a fat neck, unmarried, you know, but God how he eats!—had sat at the piano and played “You Are My Sunshine.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

My gut craved to tell Mom and Dad about all the weird stuff happening to Sir Fig Newton: sweet-smelling breath, lots of number one clumps, and no eating. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Here I was a nobody from Louisiana eating room service in a fancy New York hotel while watching myself on TV It was like The Twilight Zone or something. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She's a small woman with white hair, tiny silver glasses, and hands that shake whenever she eats or drinks something. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He ate perhaps once every two days, feeling no need of food but knowing that without it he could not complete the journey. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Nothing goes to waste; even grass upon which blood has been spilt will be eaten. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My appetite returns and I eat a cracker and a strip of beef. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We were kept on the bottom story, where we slept and ate off the floors. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smoked the meat I couldn’t eat and stored it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thankfully Alec was easy on him and didn’t talk much while they both ate and strengthened themselves for the day ahead. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The next morning, though, the creature had been there again, making a large hole in the fence of thorns and eating up more plants than before. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I know a man who was so hungry he ate up his skin and bones and left nothin’ but his shadow!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I saw all the things I took for granted—which cereal to eat for breakfast, or whether or not I wanted ice cream or cookies for dessert. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Friends and neighbors,” Pa Schillinger called out, “get you something to eat and then let's talk about why we’re gathered together tonight.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We hardly ever ate meat except for parties. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s enough. Turner will be hungry, and the Lord knows we could all do with something to eat, now that the excitement is over.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

As they ate, they discussed what they should do about the awesome information they had. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said, "Maybe you would like a bite to eat afterward." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

After eating, Cole added more wood to the fire. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Very early in the morning Kira ate quickly and then walked to the place where her mother’s color garden had been. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t argue with me, just go and eat something. It’s going to be a long trip.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t eat, Mary Anne, I’m going to throw you in the swimming pool or pour A-1 Sauce on your orchid.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mornings we wrap blankets around our shoulders while we eat our breakfast. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No idea. Maybe movies full of cowboys eating lots of spaghetti.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You could tell it was eating him up.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Scott had gnawed silently on a chicken wing while Mom ate her salad, but once she got up and approached the appetizer bar, he dropped the bone onto his plate. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

When the bits failed to stay, I looked for a place to hide the damage, but finding none, I simply ate it, bolting the pieces like a hungry dog. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

So as I ate I read through the local news. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We watched white people eating in the mezzanine, but we never asked why we couldn’t go up those stairs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The replete and satisfied Labrador had eaten ravenously that evening, cleaning up bowls of fresh milk and plates of food with a bottomless appetite. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Friday night, Mom gets home early enough for all of us to eat dinner together. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t risk a fire, so they ate the hot dogs uncooked. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver’s stomach rumbled, the double chocolate pecan cookies he’d eaten an hour earlier a distant memory. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When she takes out a cupcake, the boys argue about who’ll get to eat it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

They could eat all they wanted, for maple sugar never hurt anybody. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even that must have been delicious when they’d eaten nothing but herring for three days! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She decided that if she slept in the barn, she ran the risk of being eaten by a dragon. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

In the commercial, the little girl took a bite of buttered bread and said, “Gee, Ma. This is the best butter I ever ate.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She squelched him in a hurry: ‘You go eat grass!’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t tell her that after you left, I stopped eating, I got so skinny that the bathwater would collect between my bones, why didn’t anyone ask me why I was so skinny? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sheets are charred black and eaten away. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Would you two killers please sit your brutal selves down at the kitchen table and eat some popcorn,” Lillian said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mind not having to eat with Sage Moore so much. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The dragons look harmless, and they purr happily as they eat the crumbs Kavita is sharing with them. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

So he was not surprised when it turned out to be excellent, with a fruity taste like eating a peach with the skin on, though naturally the skin was not so nice as the mouse. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When that happens, Lola and I eat on TV trays while watching design shows. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

To a worried Maa Kamala she explained, “It’s her stomach. It was the monkey nuts. We bought a whole paper full, and the greedy girl ate most of them.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was dusk now, and at the far corner of the stone ruins a dozen men were gathered around a fire, eating. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was so near the house that the deer did not jump the fence and eat the vegetables in the daytime, and at night Jack kept them away. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit at the island and eat my cereal, and it’s like I can’t even get myself to bring the spoon to my mouth because what’s the point? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Go on! You eat better than I do.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dad, Sookie, and Mr. P ate cookies and decided to take a walk out back to get a better look at the cove. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Later that night, the García girls and I sit around the bedroom we all share, talking about how much we all ate and how we’re all going on diets tomorrow. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I go to my room, stay in there while everyone else eats dinner. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I ate a little then, trying to think of what I could do next. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You eat, you eat now, okay?” she says to Jack. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

They were roaming around with backpacks and flip-flops or sitting on little grassy hills eating lunch or laying out in the sun on towels with books in their hands or sleeping. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Take your food with you, though? You don’t eat enough.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He had the same theory about bathing and eating. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No more. Everything was delicious. But I can’t eat another bite.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The freight trains on the siding were loaded down with men trying to get from one part of the country to another, looking for work and something to eat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A day and a half had passed since she had eaten. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Come, let’s go inside so I can find Baby something to eat.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The crew needed to eat, whether the ship was moving or not. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Constance pointed out that none of them were antelopes eating canteloupes, or textbooks with hexed looks, or cattle from Seattle. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But would she like the same things to eat as the fairies he knew? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Most of the family eats quickly and goes back to watching football on TV. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ella says she likes to eat food that reminds her of growing up. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my head down and ate them. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They whimpered, and ate, and licked his legs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Could it be because he was running away from two rats who were trying to eat him?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The one flame ate everything organic, everything that would burn. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not make a fire, or eat any supper. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’ll be eating a big old food, and I just burp. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a rat finds something new to eat, it will nibble a very tiny bit and wait to see what happens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We never got anything to eat until the workday ended. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She thought it was like the desert threave, a sand beast that could survive for years eating nothing but its own molted skin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Depending on where they are, they eat sitting on red clay or cement or terrazzo floors, or at marble-topped tables too cold to rest their elbows on. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We ate blue cake and ice cream until we couldn’t eat anymore. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Long about then, I woke up with a hunger so bad, thought my stomach might turn on the rest of my insides for a little something to eat. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You better come inside first and have something to eat. You can look for them later.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would have to wait for nightfall and our scheduled stop before I could eat again. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He ate little, slept less, and whether he worked by daylight or lamplight, his eyes always seemed to glitter with ferocity. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They ate huge meals and he put up a sailcloth lean to with ropes and poles against the wind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Instead of coming home for lunch, I now ate with my classmates in Mr. Bennett’s room at school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he noticed that the vlei people had silently crept up to them while they were eating. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

So we pitched our tents and fixed noodles with the last of our water, then sat side by side on a log, eating in silence, facing Waynesboro. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“If you are lying, I will eat you,” it said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They put it on a wafer of bread that can be eaten in a second if necessary. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In an attempt to discourage wild animals from eating the other half of his food while he worked, Tree-ear had taken to hiding it closer to the house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Carmen sat really close to me, and a couple of times our hands touched, which made me eat my sandwich really, really fast. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I can eat haphazardly now, snack on junk food and takeouts without worrying about balanced meals, go to bed when I like, let my dirty laundry rot, neglect the dishes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We eat dinner, and from his profile I can see his nose is a little pointy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Come, eat something,” she said; but I put both away from me, feeling as if a drop or a crumb would have choked me in my present condition. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I get chocolate ice cream swirled with Oreos, and for the ten minutes it takes to eat it, I almost feel normal again. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Luke,” said Weylin to the black man, “take Dana around back and get her something to eat.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A few of us did learn to eat fish, especially on those Pacific islands where there was sometimes little else to eat. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look through my contacts and find Tammy Harris’s number. Call and tell her that her sister is here. Bren, when was the last time you ate?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I scored thirty-two that night,” Bull said, “and ate their forward Saleesi alive.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cordelia’s family does not eat boiled eggs mushed up in a bowl but out of egg cups. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The onion was small, but he ate it, thankful for part of Heqet’s lunch at noon, then poured the crumbs carefully into his palm and licked it clean. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Somewhere around there the first gray mule had eaten a poison weed and died; the bones would be scattered in the tall grass around the windmill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They probably think I’m a loser for eating alone. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We were, in fact, eating spinach from the garden for dinner, and in a few more days would have peas. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It shames me now to know that I would eat it if it were alive today. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s sweet and juicy, and I’ve eaten half the jar before I remember my manners enough to offer Mr. Gideon some. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The pasta carbonara smelled delicious, but I didn’t expect I’d get to eat any because of the yelling and fighting and Charlie’s occasional hysterical outbursts. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I guess we figure if we’re lucky enough to have anything to eat, we don’t care how we eat it.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They began to let a few migrants sleep and eat at the church. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Bit by bit he ate until the few remaining pieces were too small to pinch between his fingers. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The Darwin finches kept on hopping and eating. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

After he had finished eating Adam pushed back his chair. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At some point, I may be able to eat some table foods. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The pupils ate apples and put straws down one another’s backs, until Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt collected her energies, and made an indiscriminate totter at them with a birch-rod. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Do have some more,” suggested the Mathemagician, and they continued to eat just as fast as he filled the plates. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure! Mom never lets me eat this stuff. She says there’s too much sugar.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Swaying Aaron to keep him calm while he ate, Ivy watched the two best friends. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was annoyed because he had just come back from a drive home to discover that a pot of stew he’d put into the communal refrigerator at the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center had been eaten. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day, Enrique goes to one church or the other to eat. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I spent the next day eating good food and dozing in my soft bed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he eats a cracker or biscuit with his tea, but not tonight. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Time for my beauty rest. Don’t stay outside too late, or these mosquitoes will eat you alive.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

If he’s eating it, it’s a good sign. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I remember eating a cream puff in our kitchen in Isfahan and counting the guests to see if I could have another. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A heavy feeling like you get when you eat more calories than you can bum off efficiently came down inside of me. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights dimmed, the projector lit up the screen, and I ate popcorn, but I don’t remember anything about the movie. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Stop,” he said, and went back to his eating. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had good reason, he said, claiming that Frenchmen had killed, cooked, and eaten his father. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night they camped in a ravine and built a fire against a small stone bluff and ate their last tin of food. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There, once they had eaten, the witches assembled. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open up the bag and take out the general store food, handing some to Viola and eating what I’ve got. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He’s always either doing something insane—BASE jumping in Malaysia, eating plantains with someone who might be Jay-Z, showing up to lunch wearing a studded, hot-pink Gucci jacket—or launching a new nonprofit. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Me and Rondell laughed and then reached for the food and ate like two of the starvingest dudes you ever met. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The draccus eats the rocks and slowly they get ground down in its gizzard. The metal slowly filters into the bones and scales.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was resting and eating my lunch on the side of the river when the Ethiopian army attacked us with bullets, mortar shells, and grenades. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inhabitants met them with kindness and gave them their flower-food to eat, but those who tasted it, only a few fortunately, lost their longing for home. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate it, knowing the rabbit had sacrificed itself for me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s busy down there eating everything that falls inside, running around like a chicken with its head cut off, the head on the floor, munching food of its own. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Immie looked fresh and grateful to be eating such a gorgeous meal. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She poured them drinks and forced them to eat, but had she been as poor as she normally pretended to be, I doubt they would have wanted anything to do with her. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then my mother’s sister made me a sandwich I couldn’t eat, gave me twenty dollars, and put me out. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I eat the rice slowly, and even pick up one grain if I drop it on the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the same world of peoples there are other peoples who have to crawl in the dirt scrounging for a measly piece of garbage to eat. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

At times of famine, a single blepharisma will begin eating its neighbors; it then enlarges to an immense size and turns into a cannibalistic giant, straight out of any Norse fable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, he would tell them that he was afraid of Reds, that he had not wanted to sit in the car with Jan and Mary, that he had not wanted to eat with them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I hadn't eaten it in a long time. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s just she wants to keep playing with you but she has to eat first.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alexander Van Ness ate meticulously, wiping his hands on his napkin often and smiling at the others, saying nothing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We took a bowl each and started eating. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then they sat down by the entrance to the path to eat what was left of their food. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I'm wishing for a fire -eating raw rabbit can give you rabbit fever, a lesson I learned the hard way -when I think of the dead tribute. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I hope all your skulls eat you in your sleep,” I tell him. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Whoever thought digging up a random orange root—then eating it—was a good idea? Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“You mean you eat halal?” he asks, laughing again. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Something that won’t try to eat Mama Duck if she come back. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If the crop is good, we will have more beets than we can eat; but the object is to harvest the seed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Each morning we rose at first light, shivering and rubbing arms, made coffee, broke down camp, ate a couple of fistfuls of raisins, and set off into the silent woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday I tried ripping off the bottom of the page and eating it, but she got to it first. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He ate on the porch with the hens. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ordered our food at the counter and carried it to our table and ate without talking. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Makes me wish I had not eaten all of my sandwich. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

There seems to be plenty here to eat—except for guavas. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He ate one egg with his hands as he flopped into a chair, and then set to work on the rest of my breakfast. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“What if a dozen people told you, with perfect earnestness, that shamble-men were out in the fields, eating—” “Of course I wouldn’t believe them,” my father said, irritated. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, I think now that we've eaten and smoked good offerings together, and seeing as how the sky is falling, you should consider just putting up here for the night.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She was eating this stuff up, listening, and nodding, and every once in a while she would say, “Very good point” or “Yes, that’s exactly right.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before the show I’m too nervous to eat.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

At the breakfast table, the boys ate scrambled eggs and steak, sitting silently, their eyes seeing nothing and no one. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You looked like you killed and ate a wild boar,” she commented mildly. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She looked down on the women who had grown accustomed to bullet holes over their dinette tables, who watched All My Children and ate Doritos all day and didn’t seem to want anything better. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Pa chewed like his food might blow away if he didn’t eat it fast enough. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

We had plenty of shade under one of the old wooden buildings to eat lunch, but there were no grassy areas for kids to play on during lunch. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Yesterday he had come in while they were eating supper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As dawn broke I ate my pork and beans, feeling dopey, sleepy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Werner eat their first meal in their starchy new uniforms at a long wooden table in the refectory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We shall eat and the strength will come back to us, and there will be no more fear. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first cereal was probably millet—not the millet eaten today, which originated in Africa, but a cousin species, knotweed bristle- grass, which is no longer farmed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He said she eats foul-smelling meat from a can. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

We eat them quickly, as if it’s some sort of race. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It ate her days in one gray gulp. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He supposed folks were all in their houses eating, even the children. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was as though no time had passed. Letha would eat our memories, you see.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“She dreams about a place to eat,” Mr. Rodriguez said finally, and twisted his face into a silly grin. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran up and down the stairs and ate their lunches squatting against the banister poles. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Come and eat. You look a little pale.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he looked at them he would have to eat more. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep your mouth shut, except to open it wide to eat the most expensive appetizer and dessert on the menu on Muhammad's tab. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Matt ate and cried at the same time. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it might be something to eat. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“What are the larger sharks going to eat if there are no dogfish?” he persisted. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“My mother makes special vegetarian meals. Low-calorie and no cholesterol. We eat a lot of sal-ads and vegetables. My mother’s an excellent cook.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“If you insist on eating bland, unhealthy food instead of home-cooked yummy meals, then sure.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I always ate peanut butter and jelly at school. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Once inside I fell into bed, too exhausted to eat dinner. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a good thing we have something decent to eat at last; we still have a use for all our strength. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat down on the warm sand and ate our sandwiches and shared a bottle of water. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Papa kept trying to get Grandpa to eat breakfast with us, being as he came by home anyhow for his snort. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I sipped from another bottle of Snapple Apple, but wasn’t eating nothing. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She didn’t eat them unless she was starving. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need to explain now. You just had the beans scared out of you. jCaray! I got scared watching you. Come inside where you can have a bath and something to eat.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to take stern measures with mine, and now she doesn’t eat her dinner properly; and as for the other thing, not a nibble, and we’ve been so regular. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate, shopped, then headed home with the groceries. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It turns out the question that’s been eating away at me has only ever had one possible answer. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“They ate everything: the plants, the houses, the stored grain. They even fastened onto the cattle and drank their milk.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, if you could actually see my boy Rondell sitting here looking all happy as hell eating his third Quarter Pounder. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He remembered his hunger, lay down—but warily—beside his first victim, and began to eat the man’s entrails. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

And I'm even happier when she doesn't force me to eat it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And that is how they knew the little crooked white child, the little girl without kakakaka, had been eaten. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m curious,” I said as I picked up an apple, turning it around in my hands, “what would you do if someone dared you to eat food?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I dreamed of coming here—not to eat ham and cheese sandwiches in between police interviews, obviously. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

None had blood on their chins, except when they ate rare-cooked meat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cattle were raised in pastures, eating grass and hay—the food they naturally eat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A heron flew over the bamboo wood and Siddhartha took the heron into his soul, flew over forest and mountains, became a heron, ate fishes, suffered heron hunger, used heron language, died a heron’s death. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

She steps onto the large glass elevator, overlooking the east lobby, just past a large, decked-out Christmas tree they must’ve put up early this morning, long before the Thanksgiving leftovers were even eaten. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Or I’d eat breakfast slowly so I could stall off going to work. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Captain Smith says you will stay with the Warraskoyacks through the winter. You will learn more of the language and eat well.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They would get lost and wander in circles and then Pah would swoop down, pluck them up, and eat them. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Do you really not eat for a month?” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t eat it that day, or the second day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She described the port and its seafood and claimed it was even better than what we ate in Ningpo. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he looked at her and said, “I don't know, girl. You’re kind of scary. You sure this is okay to eat?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Beatrice told her son that she liked pork—it was one of her favorite foods—and that as a Christian she was free to eat it as she pleased. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I spot a nixie in a black velvet mask eating a tiny sparrow’s heart off a long pin. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“One day I will eat you again,” she said out loud. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have enough to eat or a proper place to sleep yet, and you want to adopt this orphan?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then, one by one, she dunked each piece into her tea, named a fear, and ate it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She ate her last apple, taking the tiniest bites, making it last as long as she could. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The Fischers could never afford to eat there. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The warriors reasoned that the lion had eaten too much to run fast and that the muddy ground would slow him up. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know, I know, I too was upset to read about the herons eating small birds. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then he walked to the other side of the cafeteria and sat down, alone, to eat his lunch. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ate the food that the Huntsman gave her, and she drank from the water skin he handed to her without question. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When the sun was bright we ate lunch on the porch but the rest of the time we ate upstairs in a small room with plain wooden walls and a big stove in the corner. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I am not an animal. I do not eat or breathe. I am not alive.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until this summer, though, that I started noticing boys in a way that made me feel jittery inside, like I’d eaten too much chocolate. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

When it’s basketball season and Hana has practice, we have to eat either super early or super late. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

With twenty years of good eating, my shackles might grow up to be half the size of the sheriff’s. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It was some time since he had eaten, and there was no food to be seen anywhere. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Now, as Omakayas began to gain a little strength, she wished heartily to eat and craved any sort of food at all. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“For going diving at the beach. I didn’t want you to be eaten by a shark. Then I’d have no parents,” I said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“You ate too much,” she said, mopping his forehead with a wet paper towel she’d gotten from the dorm bathroom. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Every night afterward, she’d take her plate and eat in her room, alone with the Beatles and their yellow submarine. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take it in laps. And stop eating all that pizza. Okay?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“If you like the rice, eat the rice,” Aunty Ifeoma said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I just won’t let you eat out of a can in my house,” she said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shouldn’t we ask him to eat with us? He looks lonely.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The kids who did eat—including Princesse, who was in twelfth grade—got very sick, throwing up from food poisoning. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The roosters had been crowing for some time, and the early pigs were already beginning their ceaseless turning of twigs and bits of wood to see whether anything to eat had been overlooked. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe some day he would be eating in jail. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The worms and bacteria had eaten the rest. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to push past her but she grabbed both my shoulders and said, “Hazel, you’re eating dinner. You need to stay healthy.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Oo-oo! That bear might have eaten Ma and me all up!” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat and talked more than he ate, and Big Ma kept clucking and fussing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She shrugged, gave an angry little sniff, and then began to eat her lunch. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

When his parents had said to eat his vegetables, he’d asked for extra broccoli. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, Omakayas reasoned, as she walked contentedly along, the taste of the sugar would save her from eating every one of the berries she was sure she would find on the path. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

When he desired to eat, a ceremonial stool was placed in a clearing. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then lunch period is over and they don’t know you haven’t eaten anything. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“No, but all I eat on ships are beans. Something else would be first choice.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

They ate on the balcony of a nice restaurant. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Maya wasn’t sure if she could eat anything, but when she saw the look on Jessica’s face, she answered for all three of them. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Jemmy gorged himself, anxious to be off and not certain when he would eat again. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Somebody bring her something to eat,” Violet said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: We just got through eating at Johnson’s Restaurant. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate cold salt beef, hard bread, and harder cheese, and slept clothed and huddled beneath a pile of cloaks and fun, grateful for each other's warmth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He lumbered off, leaving his breakfast half eaten. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’d also kill cows in the kosher faith for the Jews in town to eat, and we often kept a cow in the yard behind the store. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, despite the enticement of the presents that awaited them, Penelope first took the children up to the nursery to change into dry clothes and eat a quick supper. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

A thrall offered them a platter, and she stabbed a salted fish and ate it off the end of her dirk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Why do you eat alone, m’lord? Come, rise, join the dance.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I have disobeyed and the witch teacher will eat me. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid chose the gentlest plants and made medicines and foods like those they had eaten in their village. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But remember at the Siege of King’s Port they had to eat rats and boiled leather until King Targhaer’s brother broke the siege. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The entire set of these meals is now united as a single block of text which serves as an exemplification of herons eating things other than fish. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He followed the other prisoners to an outside area where he saw men eating. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you mind if I go around in the back—” “Sure. There’s tables and chairs out in the back. Folks set out there at night and eat their ice cream.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There were twelve of us: me, three babies, and eight women that were all carrying something to eat. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

At the first banquet we attended at court, I was too excited to eat. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we have been eaten, even by small animals, hyenas and wolves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its root is a word meaning “to eat together.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was an old man by the time I ate one of his pastries. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t eat too many of those if I were you,” advised Tock. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he sat up and watched his friend eat. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about poor Spaghetti not being able to eat. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Things had a way of disappearing in the garden, as if the garden itself ate them, or, as if with its old-man memory, it put them away and forgot them. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just something we do occasionally, like wearing 3-D glasses for a movie, like eating ice cream too fast on purpose to see who gets a headache, maybe even like stealing each other’s lunches. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Later, as the men feasted on the dogs, Worsley commented that the piece he was eating had a better flavor than the leopard seal, and Hurley found it “exquisitely tender and flavorous.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

For the next thirteen hours, he would not be able to eat, drink, relieve himself, or remove his tight-fitting helmet. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Now then, let us barter. In exchange for a fig or two I will share my nelumbo nuts, the best you ever ate.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She cannot eat unless it’s through a straw. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And we also get ants, searching for a bite to eat or a toe to bite. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

What you cooking, Auntie Charlotte, you thinking of making me something to eat? Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Three or four families already crowded the beach, and the Tillermans had to eat the apples for breakfast after all. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stroll around Bar Harbor, get ice cream at Ben & Bill’s, eat steamed lobster at Thurston’s, maybe try Nonna’s, the new Southern Italian place in Spruce Harbor that got a rave in Down East.. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Shoot,” he said, “I d-don’t want to stand out there with that old sun b-beating down on me eating my lunch. No snakes up around that tree, is there?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

True, rabbits could not eat these plants: he could smell that. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t eat in here. Throw that out,” he said, pointing at the peach like it was contaminated. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She sniffed Vega’s plate, frowned a little and said, “Sorry, I don’t eat pig.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

All have trouble eating with their mouths closed, but when they laugh, you can see the world in their eyes. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I just know that for me, running was like eating and breathing—it was something I had always done, and without it I felt miserable. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Everyone else took that as a cue to begin the meal, and they all found something to eat, even if it wasn’t quite enough. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She ate some of her carrots and poked others between the couch cushions. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “Can you get me something to eat?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I eat even less and exercise even more. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Cob ate so quickly he almost choked himself, and washed it down with a long swallow of beer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All the two of them were eating for breakfast was toast and coffee. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Relax yourself. Let the child eat she food first.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Gives them a good excuse to eat too much, drink too much, and make proper fools of themselves whilst dancing.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even eaten my breakfast yet, and the thought of eating a Finkle at eight o’clock in the morning made my stomach feel funny. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Now let me get some plates so we can eat.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Honestly, she could eat three or four steaks. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I watched him eat the heel of his bread. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And when Mom finally got home, dripping and soaking from having to walk the whole way from her office in the storm, she let us eat on the floor, on a blanket, like a picnic. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to be home by ten. Also I don’t, um, eat meat?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

As Jack and Moniek worked, each managed to make a few peels extra thick, so they contained some potato, and then slip these into their pockets to eat later. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like I ate sweets all the time or anything. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We will eat a little less then at the spring festival,” said Wang Lung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Selfish, self-willed, I eat too much, and I feel like the Book of Common Prayer. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I scooped up the writing with my finger and ate that first. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“It’s not anywhere in here. I don’t know. Who knows what old people do with books. Maybe she ate it. Or is lying on top of it.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I could still hear the sound of voices speaking English in the soft accents of the Luo language, urging me to feel free, feel free, eat more fat from the ram’s tail. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think, You are dying, and there are bugs inside of you that will eat through your skin. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She don’t know it, but I picked cotton out there in 1931, during the Depression, when we didn’t have nothing to eat but state cheese. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All three of us ate what we had, and we didn’t think about what we didn’t have. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Rice is my favorite. I would eat it three times a day every day.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Jonas. You’re going to be all right. We just need to find you something to eat and drink. Hang on, friend, do you hear me?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was as though something were eating the insides of our stomachs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He found two wild strawberries and ate them greedily. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yeast eats the sugars in bread dough and, as a by-product, gives off carbon dioxide. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She had been friends with Janie since the third grade, so she had never worried about who to eat with, or where she would sit. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Restaurant jobs are hard to come by nowadays. No one’s going out to eat anymore. But I have a good feeling about this.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I knew that she would barely eat any of it, so that Papa and I could fill our bellies. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the visiting family members lingered at our house, sitting around the big table in the main room, everybody laughing and eating peanuts, peeling oranges, and laughing more. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate it anyway, feeling gloomy and tired. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I knew I hadn’t been eating much because of the swallowing problem, but my body was starting to show signs of weight loss after only two weeks. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He spent the winter locked in his room eating carrots, without complaining about the cold, and filling page after page with his minute handwriting in black ink. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She don’t just leave us to eat by ourselves. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t snack—you’ll almost never see a French person eating while driving or walking down the street. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She got dressed and realized she hadn’t eaten anything the entire time she’d been in Kiev. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even when he was a tiny boy with a head swollen with fat champagne-colored curls, and ate the pieces of cake she held out to him, her smile was more amusement than pleasure. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine breaking into someone’s house, eating all their food, breaking all their furniture, and then sleeping in their bed. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe we could give him something to eat. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When it was just Gramma, Grampa, and me for supper, we ate in the kitchen. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The five of us ate an early dinner in the hotel restaurant. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

In the evening I spread the jam on the cakes and eat some. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rabia loved eating chili cheese popcorn with extra butter while she worked. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They ate mealie porridge, called sadza, with tomato, onion, and chili sauce; boiled pumpkin leaves; and okra with peanut butter. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed when it seemed as if the mouse was about to get eaten. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And I’m happily eating folded-over bread and butter sandwiches on the couch, my book in my lap, my legs across the arm of the chair. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now he finds himself saying that he is thinking of getting something to eat, did she want to join him? The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A cardboard jungle, somewhere you can get off the train and clean up and get something to eat without the cops chasing you out of town.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

But I don’t miss the lectures about how to eat, how to not be who I am. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Coming into view above him was the house on Rako Hill, where he had eaten spaghetti. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate at the Automat—another place he had wanted to see. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier was already moving through the room throwing out bags of what he called katapan to eat, and everybody scrambled madly. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Naw, I can’t really think of nothing, and to be honest, I don’t even think Love would trip if I didn’t bring anything. I mean, we both said we were just gonna eat leftovers.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Like a store, he thought, just like a store, and he could not remember later how many he ate that day but he thought it must have been over twenty. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing her smile—seeing her eat and smile and laugh—I could almost forget all that. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Grandmother was equally delighted by the meal and for a few moments applied herself to steady eating. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You eat the core of your apple,” she said, amused. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Or, to put it another way, at present you can only use your mouths for eating. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your dog just ate my bacon,” she told Elena, who was slicing a banana at the other end of the kitchen, the pieces falling into her cereal bowl. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At least three times a week, Gigi ate dinner at the Aberdeen house. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was eating and talking to the television screen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If he does not eat, he understands, he will die. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bad grades meant no television; not eating my dinner meant no dessert. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like going to a Yankees game with your dad and eating three hot dogs with extra everything. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, they don’t sit around reading stargazer books and eating Christmas cookies. They fly someplace exotic. On their parents’ private jet. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

She often invited me over to eat with her foreign friends, and I always looked forward to meeting all the interesting guests. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We ate and shared a bottle of juice. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people who developed the custom of eating sushi with wasabi didn’t even know there was such a thing as bacteria. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

These three looked like they’d been eating a lot of squirrel meat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Were you going to eat rice instead of your dinner? I’m sure that was you, Jezebel. You know better.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After he ate, he slept under the tables and waited for her to come back. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

What if I’m eating dinner with my brother’s murderer? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He eats too little for the amount he walks. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Back home, we'd gather around the fire to eat, sitting on stones or overturned cans made into stools. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“All the village ladies are talking about your nose. They’re afraid to eat our pastries because you might have kneaded the dough.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It put me to mind of the snares Bear used to catch the birds we ate: an unseen loop, pulled tight, until the unsuspecting birds were caught. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I certainly felt thankful to be eating those plants, animals, and fungi. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He sat down and ate his food, which had chilled. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Julia only texted once, to say she ate too many Reese’s Pieces and then a snap of her with a silly Halloween filter. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Especially since I know getting eaten by the Stockwood Sharks doesn’t. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“No, really, this time I mean it...even if it means not eating.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Baked beans are hard to eat, Miss Trunchbull. They keep falling off my fork." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t give him a ounce of supper that night. Just put him where he could watch the others eat. Teach him not to wander off. Got him back in the shed, right now.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if he’s just reading chemistry trivia off index cards or eating a hot dog or embarrassed because his parents are talking about his childhood or even now, looking tired and wearing glasses. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I thought only people got diabetes, and only when they ate too much junk food. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And there was, he thought, absolutely nothing to eat. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sit at the table and eat about some of the best apple pie I ever had. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He hadn't even had time to eat breakfast or brush his teeth, which made him self-conscious, knowing he was going to be sitting so close to her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Since I never left my apartment, it was easy for the program to keep track of everything I ate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Neumann Two orders two plates of calves’ liver and eats both, using dark little bread rolls to sop the blood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My dad generally got home a few hours later than my mom, but as a rule she never ate dinner without him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then Wang Lung cried out, for it was to him as though one said, “We will eat a man next.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He dared ask nothing concerning them, but he dragged his load doggedly, and he ate hastily his bowl of rice, and slept the day fitfully through in the hut behind the straw. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Margaret ate a whole Peanut Buster Parfait without once mentioning cholesterol or calories. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I watched. You never ate at his board, nor slept by his fire. He never gave you guest- right, so you're not bound to him. It's for the baby I have to go." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

To a windowless building where he stood in one place all day sifting through dirt without eating or drinking or seeing the sun? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She had walked to another county once, hoping to trade some fabric she had sewn into filters for straining liquid in exchange for corn we could eat. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m home just before six, eat with the Doorman, and pick up Audrey around seven. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

By that time, the average person in England ate ninety pounds of sugar a year—and in the early twentieth century, that number kept rising. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Why do you think the poet is telling us about a hot dog she ate when she was a kid?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I had been eating cereal in the kitchen. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

As he was eating the second, his mom wandered in the kitchen. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

People are actually eating lunch before we eat our breakfast, and when it finally comes, Margaret slops it down on our table like she’s serving us compost. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Nobody wanted to hear the word naked while they ate their lunch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But how could city people eat if the market closed? Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you don’t get to choose when you eat lunch,” I said. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

After we checked in, the five of us ate a buffet lunch in the hotel restaurant. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“You must talk to Safaa, or this will eat you up from inside.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

But I just sat there eating orange Jell-O while Howard put another hotel on Boardwalk. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Where I come from,” the snake girl said, “the punishment for treason is being covered in honey, bound to an open boat, and floated out into a stagnant pond. The flies eat you alive.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He could not eat and told his cellmate to take his food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She decided to let it cool a bit before eating. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waited until I had sat down to eat and then would demand another bowl of rice. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Neither is Falconer the most considerate of traveling companions, I warrant. Have you eaten?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the mornings she forces herself to eat a slice of toast, only because Ashoke makes it for her and watches her while she chews it in bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like trying to eat the ice cream around the nuts. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

That night creatures were drawn to lights where they could be most easily eaten by other creatures was one of those mysteries that gave her modest pleasure. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I... my lord, the men would never... giants eat human flesh, I think ... no, my lord, I thank you, but I do not have the men to watch over such a creature, he...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Our whole family wouldn’t eat this much food in a year!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"What we already do. Light the candles, sing some songs, eat dinner? What else is there?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what she did there, aside from eating chocolates and sunbathing naked on the roof. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the wild potato seeds McCandless ate were contaminated with swainsonine from an eruption of R. leguminicola, it means the guy wasn’t quite as reckless or incompetent as he has been made out to be. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too new, too tight to have much sugar, they were eaten anyway. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had eaten, slept for many hours; and the dull, tired feeling of starvation was gone. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second hunter knew he shouldn’t, but he ate.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They entered the church by the sanctuary door, startling the sacristan who slept and ate in a small room off the entrance porch. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I say, “but I sure want to surprise Alice when she comes home. Let’s eat fast.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom gave me this to give to her—she says it’s the best thing to eat after you’ve had a tooth pulled.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

"I am not fond of eating horse. Particularly my horse." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had eaten a bowl of cold spaghetti for breakfast and the strands were dangling off the head of the key like tiny octopus legs. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Animals will sometimes recover from swainsonine poisoning after they stop eating contaminated forage, but only if they are in fairly robust condition to begin with. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jurors ate dinner at the Amity Harbor Hotel and talked of other matters. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Drum, who had now seen both parents eat this new food, dragged what was left under the overhang. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Every funeral I ever went to, I ate indoors. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

You can keep a rabbit for a pet or you can eat it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy watches whatever she’s doing on the computer, feeding her a grape every time he eats one. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And I will say, “I ate all the acorns the squirrels left behind.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

"Never mind the bag, I'm going to eat it. Here . . ." "Thanks." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guests will eat standing, or sitting cross-legged on the floor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We sit at the edge of the playground and eat our coco helado while watching people walk by. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve finished my chicken and I could eat more, frankly, but I don’t know who to ask. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They made some recommendations, and edicts went out that families must start eating together again. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do aerobics, but just a few times a week now, and I let myself eat until I’m full, and don’t worry so much about getting fat. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon everyone at the table was pressuring Claire to eat something. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As we eat, Mama starts telling stories, and Mustafa and I jump in and fill in the gaps. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Food companies make more money if they can get us to change our eating habits and buy their processed foods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Gladys’s son Gary believed all disease was the wrath of the Lord—punishment for Adam eating the apple from Eve. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We live in the same habitat as the animals we eat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We eat dessert—the best cake I’ve ever had—and then Mrs. Winters pushes her chair back from the table. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Our pets had mostly escaped by then, or been eaten up, as in the case of Methuselah, but the Congo still offered a wealth of God’s creatures to entertain us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat with her, ate with her, talked with her, walked out with her. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Nancy picked up Jaime and gave her the stew to eat in the car. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She quickly cut the tiny cake into five bite-size pieces, and we each ate them. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I propose we go get something to eat. Specifically, I propose that I buy Dill some late lunch/early dinner, since he hasn’t eaten a thing today,” Lydia said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Susan Calvin said, “I was curious to see if you would eat it, but, of course, in the present case, it proves nothing.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Not when they walk, not when they eat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Let’s say grace and get to eating before Li’l Man inhales the table.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“Meet me at the sandwich bar for lunch. We can eat together,” I say. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And yet, wasn’t she better off here with Lyddie, who loved her, than with those two, who must not have given her enough to eat? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He ate them as he walked, cracking the shells one by one, working the nut meat loose with his tongue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But today I realized it always happens after he eats. Could he possibly be allergic to the new food?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She and the workers ate on the patio outside of the administration building. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you!” said Mary Poppins, meaningly, but the Starling was too busy eating to notice the rebuke. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I will throw it away if you don’t eat it,” she’d threaten. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rosemary gets to eat jelly beans and I get to eat horseradish. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they said no more, and they ate in silence; but her eyes were ever upon Aragorn, and the others saw that she was in great torment of mind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t eaten anything in days myself. I was hoping you would have food. Do you have water? My supplies are very low.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Especially when my father said that Mr. Big Bucks Ballard was the skinflint of skinflints, and there probably wouldn’t be much to eat. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Once, when he and I were eating noodles, he told me the noodles really were worms. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She eventually ate some poisonous food and died the same way her daughters did. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they finished eating, they packed their cups and kettle back into their saddlebags, and the Huntsman snuffed out the fire. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The captives ate at their own table in the Hall of a Hundred Hearths, and could often be seen about the grounds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ruth May had the bizarre idea that our neighbors desired to eat her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just the boat assignments that ate at Joe that fall, or the growing realization that getting to Berlin was going to be harder than anything he had ever done. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If not for Eliza’s fine victuals, and the hungry customers who paid to eat them, we’d have been in the streets long ago. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find that substance revolting, yet he eats it eagerly, as if it were candy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This one taste funny,” Tidbit commented, but he ate the mayapple hungrily. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems a week since we broke our fast this morning,” said Robin, eating hungrily. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Afraid to risk eating or sleeping in the house, he emptied the rice into a plastic bag and spooned in some soybean paste he found on a shelf. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But then again, in sixth grade, Jase promised not to punch my arm if I ate a live earthworm, so I ate a live earthworm and then he punched me in the face. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I cut me a pole and was soon perched on a stump, fishing and eating fried chicken. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Once frozen, these eggs are of great value for use in Love Potions and may be eaten whole as a cure for ague. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flames eat away at the cash advance place. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They ate well but they were still a long way from the coast. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It could be that she was eating for consolation, because of Josef: whatever else might happen, he would never marry her, and she must have known that. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They ate in silence after that, but there was tension in the air. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elders started to feast first, all eating from one plate. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They eat most nights side by side on the stools at the kitchen counter or at the coffee table, watching TV. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she could believe what she wanted, hut I weren’t no animal and I wasn’t going to eat with dogs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all nod and go back to eating our food. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

They were everywhere, but he wasn’t actually Sure that birds ate plants. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was a wet and slimy hiding-place, but what did that matter if it was going to save her from being eaten. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have been getting sick eating all those ribs. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate the bird’s heart, liver and lungs. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We all eat as fast as we can to get out of here. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Between classes I drink cups of coffee with them and eat doughnuts, sitting in various common rooms and butteries and coffee shops. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Either way, I was tired of eating standing up, so I set my plate down, slowly climbed over the bench, and slipped my legs under the table. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I wish I hadn’t eaten so many donuts. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Bull ate it slowly with all eyes on him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gazes at the man-made pond, which, his father had told Gogol during a phone conversation, he walked around twenty times each evening before eating his dinner, that it equaled a distance of two miles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold in the car, I was tired, and I hadn’t eaten—I was almost sick. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘All the “great secrets” under the mountains had turned out to be just empty night: there was nothing more to find out, nothing worth doing, only nasty furtive eating and resentful remembering. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On January 20, 1969, Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson ate breakfast looking out the White House windows at a gray and windy Washington morning. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The cat, not finding that apples were good to eat, batted the small ones across the yard, imagining they had ears and tails and other parts that made things worth chasing. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I eat a breakfast pack and drink a cup of water. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slice the top off the egg with the spoon, and eat the contents. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she didn’t eat the moths, in any case. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We eat very well, and since this puts everyone in a good mood, there is no more talk about stealing away to England. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I ate olives, salted almonds and potato chips and looked at myself in civilian clothes in the mirror behind the bar. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t even think of that. That’s why it was trying to claw its way in here. It can smell the resin. It’s been eating the trees for two span, three or four a day.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Against all reality, I even envision the Doorman eating it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Not so distraught that he can’t eat. Lord Pig must have brought half the food in White Harbor with him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After we ate, I started clearing out the barn shed for a garage, but couldn’t make much headway for folks dropping by to see the automobile. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was not that she would expect something expensive; it was that he needed to give her something as much as he needed to eat when he was hungry. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Now Westley knew that she meant to say “not a single syllable of it,” because a syllabub was something you ate, with cream and wine mixed in together to form the base. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not hungry, but I know Mom will just barge in and make a fuss over me if I don’t eat any dinner, so I drag myself out of bed. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They left me alone in the house and I spent the entire day sitting on the front steps; I did not have enough courage to go into the kitchen to eat. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This rat was not just eating the sugar. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mother warned of illnesses that befell children who did not eat their lentils and of ghosts that stalked them in their sleep. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In those days a large number of guests ate and drank in the big house on the comer. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He throws up the first time he eats the stuff—too rich for his belly, I guess—but after that he manages to keep it down, and all the while he’s fattening out a little. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Celia procures him a black-and-white-striped paper bag of popcorn, he insists he wants caramel as well, and will not eat it plain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The jaw had rotted off her face, and birds had eaten one ear and most of a cheek. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Free samples were proving a clever way to get the customers to eat more. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she is eating from the empty bowl again. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They all ate rather hurriedly and then, after a hasty chorus of “Happy Birthday” and much gulping of cake, the party broke up. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When I get the cows and chickens back in, I can give him fresh milk and eggs to eat; they are nourishing and easy to digest. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I ate the food that was given to me, not because I liked it but because our teachers were monitoring our every move. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

They’re gooey and messy and you can still taste them sticking to your teeth a few hours after eating them. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She urged the confused man to forget the whole thing, eat a nice supper which she would cook for him, and then go to bed and get a good night’s sleep. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew what he needed to do to keep himself from becoming a nasty bird eating other birds, or a tree growing in a scary house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Across the nation families were eating dinner in the dark, the way we used to do on Seminole under one lightbulb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as she tasted it, felt its crunchiness, she asked for more, and ate half a box before she left. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was eating fish,” one of the daughters explained. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate until his palate was dulled by the taste and then rewrapped the crate and placed it on the rack above him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As the three of them sat on the lawn to eat, Reyna seemed alert and rested. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Just the previous night, she said, she had eaten two cookies—and here she named two prominent brands. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

We never eat at the table, because it’s cramped with more than two people sitting at it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t really get a chance to answer, because then she said, “I’m too hungry to wait for the spaghetti to boil. What do you say we eat cookies first?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We get better food later on after the white folks eat,” said Luke. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He would go to the store and get a chicken and it was all cleaned and neat, no feathers or insides, and his mother would bake it in die oven and he would eat it. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, until they do, no sense in wasting a hunting day. But we should probably eat as much as we can hold just in case we run into trouble," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After a while, the smell of food brought Kevin out of his office, but he ate in silence. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He built a cookfire against a rock and they ate the last of the morels and a can of spinach. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“The gas station! Ay, no. And what have you been eating for dinner? Gasoline?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He certainly did not look as though he was about to stop and cry out, "I can't, I can't eat any more! I'm going to be sick!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Laila got her to play snakes and ladders, and they ate shavings from blocks of dark chocolate, one of the few things they shared a common taste for. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I swear, I’ll never eat enough vegetables to meet this woman’s quota. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Especially Robine, who is Catholic and from Paris, France, and will positively not eat dessert with the same fork she used at dinner. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no. No thank you. We never eat at parties. The excitement quite takes away our appetites.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

As it evolved toward eating just one food, it didn’t need to think as much. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The fire eats away at the cold in the room. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The gods ate of the apples of immortality and regained their youth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

"The little kids will be home in twenty minutes or so," she said, "and we'll eat dinner around four thirty. I like to have everything settled before Richie comes home." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

All too soon the meals were eaten and the fires put out. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I say goodbye and head back downstairs, where my parents and everyone are still eating pizza. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She worries the drive will be too tiring for him, that he will eat too much fast food on the way and not be hungry for dinner. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Often they stayed late into the night, eating and talking with Grampa and Dad about Gramma. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

After weeks of feeling too worried to eat, I'm famished. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

That night, though, he insisted we eat together as a family. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I’m having a heart attack. Open the window, Virginia! I’m suffo- eating!” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said, “time to eat. You got any frozen pizzas?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Everyone except Granddaddy stopped eating and stared at Harry with interest, even the boys who were too young to understand what was going on. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The day before yesterday Jan ate carrots with green peas, yesterday he had the leftovers, today she’s cooking marrowfat peas, and tomorrow she’s planning to mash the remaining carrots with potatoes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

May and the boys were upstate for the week at their house on Cayuga Lake, and he said he wasn’t in the mood to eat by himself. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as his hand passed they settled again, whining in the darkness, and after a bit he just let them eat and kept paddling. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A few kids were eating at the kitchen table. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And when Natalie refuses to eat one bite of supper, so stuffed is she with lemon cake, my father knows too. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he was going to be too sick to eat later, he had better eat now and build up his strength. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were no answers and the questions ate at him. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But first I eat my sandwich because I’m hungry. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was during that trip, perhaps as a result of the chronic food shortage, that C. J. had taken to eating termites. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother simply left me alone, and wouldn’t force me to eat. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, Walter didn't initially think much of the flirtations of Karen Kelly, a young white woman he'd met at the Waffle House where he ate breakfast. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A hamburger and a malt, a cold malt and fries—two hamburgers and two malts and fries— and he would sit and eat and tell everybody about the storm and the killer whales. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The one thing I know for certain is that I eat, sleep, and dream music. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave the treats to Tidbit, who ate them with delight. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Please, Allah, help the poor people in Pakistan who don’t have enough to eat and protect my cousins in Pakistan. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

No one would have cared that I was eating with my feet. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Yesterday she told me that a bat can eat 1,200 mosquitoes in an hour. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She used to buy a roll almost every day and feed me as many as it took to get to the first green one, which she’d eat. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate a few bites of dinner—bow-tie pasta with pesto— and managed to keep it down. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Being lazy had made me bored and hungry, so I decided to get out of bed, get dressed and see what Ruthanne had left me to eat. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Or eat hot dogs with while cheering the Chicago Bears? Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Dany, starved, slid off his back and ate with him, ripping chunks of smoking meat from the dead horse with bare, burned hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To get the girl to eat, Lourdes pretends the spoon is an airplane. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As soon as I’m done eating alone, I head to my tube tunnel, curl against the plastic, and quiet my mind. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

That night, while we finish supper, Shiloh’s going around the table, putting his nose in everyone’s lap, looking mournful, waiting for somebody to slip him something to eat. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the men and women pair off and go marching in to eat food that's like as not gotten cold by the time they get there. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“People don’t eat wolves, Tally. Rabbits, I think, and deer.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Bologna is what they eat in the county home, and the county home is the place of no return.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then Mother made me some carrots and broccoli and ketchup, but I didn’t eat them. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Frank and Jim would really get to know one another as they circled the earth more than two hundred times, eating, sleeping, going to the bathroom, working—all within inches of each other. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had forgotten to buy a sandwich with the quarter his mother had given him, and he had not eaten since morning. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I want to see how he is managing, how he is coping with his life, with having to eat turkeys, and with other things. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Frisby got home, Teresa, Martin and Cynthia were eating supper, as she had told them to do if it got dark before she returned. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But she has sat down and eaten lunch with me every single day since I started working here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Catherine wore my tunic over her shoulders while we ate. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There is a family eating after the theater, she guesses, the two small daughters in absurdly fancy dresses with petticoats and large lacy collars. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to win extra food rations, children told teachers and guards what their neighbors were eating, wearing, and saying. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

After our harvest that day, Sam and the schoolkids made salads with their fresh-picked lettuce and peas in the kitchen, which we then ate with baked chicken, followed by cupcakes topped with garden berries. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They might have smoked in front of him, or sipped from their canteens, or eaten bread and let the crumbs drop carelessly on his body. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We were so thirsty that we ate mud to force some moisture into our mouths, but it did not really help. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And I already know what yours is, right? I mean, I've eaten enough of your squirrels." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t realized how hungry he was until he’d started eating. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I knew they would not be for eating. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

He jumped straight back into the bowl of bananas and went on with his eating. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Way he usually eats, I’m surprised the fish hasn’t disappeared straight from the bones, but he’s focusing on his fingers and the fish’s spine like he’s trying to thread a needle. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Out in the estuary a tight woven school of small fishes glittered and broke water to escape a school of great fishes that drove in to eat them. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is from an American recipe for potato stew that I am making this one,” Harrison said, as he watched Richard eat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith and his men ate their supper with their guns smoldering and ready. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They churred excitedly when someone discovered a large scorpion—and muttered with disappointment as the lucky finder nipped off the stinger and ate the rest of the creature! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear’s plan was to eat only half his food, leave the bowl hidden somewhere, and take the other half home to Crane-man at the end of the day. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I remember it was once a lump of syaumei, a little dumpling I loved to eat. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I ate, like, eight of them. Total sweet tooth.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Kaede tilted her head briefly at the campfire, where Con and Pol were sitting on their bedrolls, joking with Tali as he prepared whatever concoction they would be eating tonight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We ate them with salt I brought out from a pocket in my cloak. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Carl ate a slice of bread spread with butter and sugar. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And because he eats only bread with nothing on it, he loses a lot of weight. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I dreamed it was a leaf and I ate it.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later I return to see if she has eaten. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Brother Khoi refuses to eat his, putting each under a lamp in hopes of a chick. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

And why do I still feel as if I’m about to be eaten? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“A few days earlier, Taborlin had met a tinker on the road. And even though Taborlin didn’t have much to eat, he shared his dinner with the old man.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We eat the cake and move into a sitting room to watch the replay of the opening ceremonies that's being broadcast. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I am still eating, but I notice that everyone else has left a little bit on their plates, so I do too. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We all go back to eating aubergine casserole. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

We acted like everything was normal, making our sandwiches and wrapping them up like we planned to eat them at school. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

By this time the cabbage and bacon were done, and the old man pushed two rickety couches up to the table and bade his guests recline and eat. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sees Kat sitting at that back table of Essential Baking Company, reading and eating an almond croissant, drinking green tea as Annabelle makes complicated coffee drinks for the other customers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Will my lord want me after he has eaten?” she asked as she was lacing up his boots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So you sit at the kitchen table, moving food around your plate, and you only shovel food into your mouth when someone reminds you that you’re not eating. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I eat a few more chips, fold the bag, and start doing my math homework. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I miss the hot sun and sweating all day and the beach and eating cold fresco with my friends and long walks up and down hills and Cola Lakay and deep-fried beef patties. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Too tired to fuss with supper, I ate a bowl of graveyard stew, breaking up chunks of bread and covering them with warm milk and molasses. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

For the first several hours on land, the men ate, slept, and ate again, standing around in small groups, stupefied and silent. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

When Miss Celia comes back downstairs ten minutes later, she sits at the kitchen table, asks me if I’m ready to eat. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"I'd have thought, in District Eleven, you'd have a bit more to eat than us. You know, since you grow the food," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Or the bagel shop that sells cups of ice cream that you eat with tiny wooden paddles. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

By the third day, I was eagerly eating any kind of soup ... Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stayed by herself in the garden curled up beside Barrabas, refusing to eat or have anything to do with the funeral. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was Frightful’s chick you were trying to eat,” he said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

That morning it was clear they were going to eat their breakfast right at the kitchen table. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had eaten with no light on the table and the old man took off his trousers and went to bed in the dark. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate everything at once, for anything that remained would be stolen by the other boys. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

We ate the bread and butter separately, ate the dry lettuce leaves, and drank the little container of salad dressing. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent her time trying not to remember delicious things to eat. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because once you kill the animal, it’s a sin to waste anything that can be eaten....Besides, it tastes good.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I promised I would watch what I ate and drank. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We ate snow when we stopped for the night, caught flakes on our tongues as we walked. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Tripe? You’ve eaten the poor animal’s tongue and now you want to eat its stomach?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, it’s not eating meat so much as eating corn-fed meat that is bad for us. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I only get up to go to the bathroom and to eat when Mami calls me to the table. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Really eat? Oh ... Stoo ... and ...” He cast about for something English for the evil river to eat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It rests heavy in your stomach when you eat it at night.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You never saw grass in a concentration camp, because the prisoners ate it,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Travis is a Christian. Don’t worry. Now can I fix you something to eat?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He liked the native cooking so much that once he ate eighty-two iguana eggs at one sitting. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Rank determines whom it can associate with and how; where and when it can eat; where it can rest; where it can drink; and so on. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Until then, I hadn’t even thought about eating. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate watery broth and week-old bread once a night and passed out on a wooden pallet with no mattresses or pillows or blankets. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at it too long, and it ate holes in his head. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now I drink Pepsi, eat old apples, watch reruns on TV. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The little black needle was scurrying, an insect, nibbling through time, eating into his money. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I have serious thoughts about running,” he said, pausing now from the eating. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the same way, our built-in instincts tell us to eat lots of sugar and fat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I ate two squares of chocolate in between classes, but for the first time in a long time, they didn’t make me feel better. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Aunt Chipo killed one of her precious hens and forced her daughter to eat all of it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes them without saying anything and we sit quietly apart and eat for a minute. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

While they were eating, they heard the slow tolling of the big bell on a nearby Congregational church. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner had Morris closed the door than Margaret said, “Lets eat.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they had finished eating, the hunter stood up and pointed out the window. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Blanca finished eating she asked me if I could go out and get her a Hershey bar with almonds, she had a craving. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He had somehow eaten, and now he was watching Cinderella. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They listened to the wild, rough laughter of Count Olaf and his theater troupe, and they picked at their own portions of food, too miserable to eat. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

For the first time in several weeks, I had clean sheets, enough to eat, and natural light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mexicans sat apart when they ate, just as they worked by themselves. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they sat side by side again in the embrasure looking eastward, where they had eaten and talked the day before. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And when the people stood up, the birds would fly down and drink the tears and eat the seeds. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Food tastes better when you’re eating with other people, much better than scarfing down leftovers alone in the kitchen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hold my hands down low and Shiloh eats the egg, licking my hands clean afterward, then curling his tongue down between my fingers to get every little bit. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And why do you have to eat in the bathroom, Aven?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t bring you over here this afternoon to drink soda pop and eat pretzels. You’re eighteen and that means you’re now old enough to buy a drink. You ever drank before?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judge Rumpff ate a few spoonfuls and pronounced the food well cooked and tasty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bunny came down late the next morning, puff-eyed and sullen, while Francis and the twins and I were eating our breakfasts. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On my last Sunday in Greenwood, I slept late, waiting for my grandfather to get up and eat breakfast and find something to do before I came downstairs. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sprouts taste of fresh puke but Mum said I had to eat five without making a song and dance about it, or there'd be no butterscotch Angel Delight for pudding. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was very good about not disturbing the pieces after Bill had spanked him for eating one. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

They heard a noise—the lowing of distant cattle—and they looked at each other and grinned the grins of hungry men who would eat that night. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to bother my parents because they have enough to worry about, but I’m so hungry and tired of eating nothing but tortillas and eggs. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The trick was eating them fast, before you actually tasted them, and before they turned all slushy from milk. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded them of men who wore hats to plow and to eat supper in; who blew into saucers of coffee, and held knives in their fists when they ate. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He filled the gas-tank at the Amoco, and asked the bored woman at the cash register where the best bar in the area was—somewhere that he could get something to eat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“If you believe that,” Alex said, “that we’re all going to die anyway, why are you here? I mean right here, right now, standing on line for food you’re not even going to eat?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then I finish painting between the radiators, eat one last block of fudge, and lose twenty-five pounds. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Twice she left little bits of cheese, but they were not eaten. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were just minnows, but they looked edible, and I would have loved to eat thirty or forty of them for breakfast. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just like eating frozen yogurt and I thought that you might like eating frozen yogurt, too,” he continued. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then, when the men came home, they ate fish, wonderful sizzling pans of crisp little fish. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

How could the others eat so heartily and with such a clatter of dishes and shrieks of conversation? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the meat charred, Cole ripped off chunks and ate. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It’s important—it means something like my family eating at Sabeen’s house. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

After eating they explored the art building, looking at sculptures and silk screens in cool corridors thick with the fragrance of wet paint and clay. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was while we were eating breakfast that Houston told us the story of the Chinese rabbit that I mentioned at the beginning of this book. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had eaten only half a box of old Red Hots that had lost their zing, and a pack of stale and crumbly peanut butter crackers nearly forgotten in his book bag. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

We ate in silence, for Mrs. Van Hopper liked to concentrate on food, and I could tell by the way the sauce ran down her chin that her dish of ravioli pleased her. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And then, after watching Dimitri eat both of their fortune cookies without reading either prediction, she had made her error: she had asked him to be her date to her senior prom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mushrooms are dangerous and I would not suggest that one eat them from the forest. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

On these trips they ate salmon berries, then lay in the sun watching the birds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two months ago, I swear she would eat anything. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shut up, you big slob. Did you pay for that weenie you eating?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to get this over with. I need to eat and so do my girls.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Why? You can’t only eat breadsticks,” Saint Sarah says, glancing at me, then at Muhammad as she notices my “surreptitious” peeks at my brother. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of us that never could afford to eat in the dining car, and the peddlers would board the trains every day. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you always eat rice with a fork and a knife and napkins?” she asked, turning to watch me. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re worth a fortune. But I guess it would be an imitation dog: ersatz. Right? But those are made of wires and motors; they can’t be eaten.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was eating his noon meal with his best friend, Mr. Marston. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

And out of the gold there was still enough left to feed them until the harvest, if they ate sparingly. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He’d eaten four of them at breakfast, but she was always convinced that he wasn’t eating enough. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I felt as if the birds gave me angry looks for eating so much of their food. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"She eats nothing but raw onions," Sam would say, holding up a white onion between his dark fingers. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And they ate better than they had in years, for no landlord would serve the King anything less than his finest offerings, even if that meant butchering a tenant farmer’s last suckling pig. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, A. Now come on, Miss Walters, eat up a little green bean for me.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh! I love eggs! Can I eat it?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They invariably came out at midday for their meal, and we would sit with them for a few minutes, talking while they ate their rice and enjoying the rest. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flesh eating and blood drinking, did she mean? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy went upstairs to get ready for our search, and Tidings ate two whole sundaes while Daddy was gone. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But at least you get to eat cupcakes.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It might be twenty-four hours since he had eaten, it might be thirty-six. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

My mom’s a doctor and he is just killing time before coaching volleyball, so eat all the Fritos and corn syrup you want. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I just know if I don’t ask, it’ll eat away at my internal organs.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It meant nothing to them even when she explained that we had never eaten pork, that it was against her religion as a Seventh Day Adventist. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of these captives are eventually eaten, though some are kept just as pets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was thinking of his green worm, which had been behaving oddly, refusing to eat and hanging from the side of its box with its chin tucked in. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Denna and I took the opportunity to eat some lunch of our own. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I have to go someplace before it gets dark, so we ate early.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Mopane worms are literally the cheapest thing that only the poorest of poor people eat. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They could not eat until he had eaten. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time to eat, I tell him, in case he has forgotten what six thirty means. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could eat any kind of candy I wanted because I still had my baby teeth. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They bite. They can be as mean and dangerous as a guard dog. They even kill and eat snakes.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you suppose he really eats and lives on?” asked Matt. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across from me, Angie toyed with her food, dispersing it over her plate so that it would look as if she’d eaten it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Southern California had recently given birth to an entirely new lifestyle — and a new way of eating. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The art world was our conceptual oyster, and we ate it raw. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Quentin came, and Father said, “You can eat supper in the kitchen tonight.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doritos had caused Tamika to vomit....Fig was vomiting...and it was always right after he ate his fancy diabetes food.... Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I get a couple of pills and some water into him when he's not noticing, but he refuses to eat even the fruit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My dad wanted everyone to see Abuela before they entered to eat. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"You have a bold tongue, little man. One day someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I want to know how he does ordinary stuff, like eating and drinking. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then I put on my robe and, eating an apple I’d found in the house kitchen, walked downstairs in my bare feet to see if any messages had been left for me by the phone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If he ain’t got sense enough to eat it, dat’s his hard luck.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Were eating in shifts, because there aren't enough chow kits for everyone. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

My replies involved ghosts, witches eating people, and monsters swallowing parents alive. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She put it in only to eat and, on occasion, for social gatherings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan ate with rare gluttony that morning, for once allowing himself to fully sate his appetite, and as he ate, he stole a few glances at Citra. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Vrosera, also called sundew, fascinated Charles for its carnivorous eating habits. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dashed across the street to the newspaper, threw open the door, and rushed into the telephone office, where a startled Maggie Medlin was eating a sandwich at the switchboard. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Dad was hopping round in one sock, complaining about how the washing machine had eaten all his socks and he was late. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boom box played mellow indie rock as they all sat around their campfire eating and talking and laughing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My sisters dance and laugh and give interviews and kiss cheeks and eat sweets. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“People with cars are so lazy they don’t want to get out of them to eat!” said Jesse G. Kirby, the founder of an early drive-in restaurant chain. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“That’a girl. Just eat your breakfast. Don’t pay me no mind.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

We lied and told her we had eaten eggs for dinner. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was when I learned about factory farming that I stopped eating meat. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They also didn't eat dinner together, because my uncle's dining preferences still included eating at midnight with his gin martini and then going straight to bed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

As hungry as Percy was, he couldn’t stand to think about eating with those poor bird ladies watching him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We might find something to eat too. And somewhere to change her.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“If you lie to me, I will split your head open like a melon and let the monkeys eat your brains.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had been using a powerful protection spell on himself so the Nightbeast couldn’t eat him, and it had taken all his energy. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The base people do not eat communally or work with the new people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go to the cafeteria,” Will says, “and eat cake.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the early afternoon they spread their tarp on the road and sat and ate a cold lunch. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Ellison always leaves a little loaf of banana bread or a cinnamon roll, and Dad saves it to eat with his lunch. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m amazed he had the willpower not to eat them all. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Red hibiscus that iguana like to eat are small flames, and trees with flower petals falling with every light breeze makes me feel like I’ve stepped into another world entirely. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Owen had no other family, had never married and had stayed close to them, lived only four blocks away, ate with them and was the first to take David sailing. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate rabbit stew and chicken when I could, same as everyone else. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Even though we had a dining table, my sister, brother, and I would plop place mats on the floor and eat our dinners while watching sitcoms. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Ruth May didn’t want to eat and said she couldn’t stand up right because she was sweating too much.The truth is, neither one of them was taking a healthy interest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just had to stay clever and strong and find something to eat. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing as how I no longer ate anything, there were no rotting food scraps to worry about, just cigarette butts, aspirin tins, wads of undernourished hair, and bloody Kleenex. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

If I wanted to eat my breakfast under a maple tree and watch the day grow between its leaves, I could—and did. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the lion skin, the hare smiled to himself and cheerfully began to eat the food. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

At the river they eat their picnic lunch, then move downstream to shriek in the cool water. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Am I to have nothing to eat this day?” he complained. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

‘And if you were to put me down on the ground and I was to walk out among them now,’ Sophie said, ‘would they really eat me up?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he ate his sandwich and sipped his beer, a bit of conversation came back to him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if I was headed off to eat bologna—meat of the county home, food of despair. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

How I went around from painting to painting asking each to eat me and each did. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

There were a few more scattered couples, a full family of six eating dinner in a far corner, and a pretty waitress in her thirties walking from table to table, putting down silverware. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Lissa fixed herself a cup of cocoa and ate a few cookies. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

In this school Alba learned to eat boiled vegetables and burnt rice, to withstand the freezing courtyard, sing hymns, and give up worldly vanities except those in the realm of sports. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having lost her bearings, completely demoralized, Rebeca began eating earth again. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Okay, okay. Well, you can’t even call in that favor. The rules specify that no animals may drain the poison. Apparently, it can turn them into huge monsters that eat everything around them.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone spent their days trying to figure out how to get stuff for their family to eat. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Later that day, another tribute is killed in combat and a third gets eaten by a pack of those fluffy squirrels, leaving Haymitch and a girl from District 1 to vie for the crown. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Roberto and I ate slowly, trying to make time last a bit longer. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They also had access to a living room, and they ate together at four tables in one of the dining rooms. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

We eat straight from the can as I search for cherries and grapes. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

For whatever it is you rather be eating. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My sisters, Cecile, and I would eat egg rolls, white rice, bean pies, and fried fish before we spent another penny in the stores of the no sayers. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big fat guy always sits there eating marshmallows at his desk. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

For weeks she planned what they would eat, where they would all sleep, the entertainment. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Now it is her father who eats quickly. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then a handmade dragon approached, and the crowd screamed as the dragon opened wide its jaws to eat the damsel. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her steps were faster and lighter tonight, a smile spreading over her face as she thought of giving Geak the chicken to eat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian found a clam bed and they had actually eaten one meal—clams steamed around the fire, nuts, and berries—that left them full. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah-ah. You have to eat yours, too,” Mom said in a scolding voice. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We eat oatmeal for the first week after Chloe and I are fired. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a while, they eats and I eat and we are all genial; them asking me questions and me telling them stories as to how I’m a honest Dutchman new come from the Antilles. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

My mother told me she ate their souls, and that their soulless bodies have wandered the earth ever since. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Which, I thought, meant she actually was going to cook me and eat me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I take two Tylenol and eat a bowl of pudding. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Five of the six workers who had been eating lunch in one of the sheds in the North End Paving Yard would be found dead. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I knew that having to eat crow when you were once proud and right was like swallowing a hunk of tough, chewy crow meat that wasn’t about to go down easy. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark and Linda were in the kitchen downstairs, eating breakfast and reading the paper. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Birds of prey eat meat, bones, feathers, and fur. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They were all men eating in the restaurant. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then they went to the dining hall to eat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can do our laundry in the ole lady’s house and eat the vegetables from the side- yard garden. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“It ate all the wood before it left,” she said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lobster crawls along the bottom eating what it can find. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have to eat in the kitchen,” Ryan explained, “and since the hotel’s got a microwave oven, sometimes the plates are hot and the food isn’t.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t cook very well, so they ate a lot of fast food. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hushpuppy barked crazily at the bottom of the tree, chasing the peaches and even eating some of them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate ravenously, enjoying every bite until they were almost uncomfortably full. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They ate potatoes, tomatoes, and bread for supper and passed around the carton of milk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their roots could be roasted like yams or even eaten raw if she was really hungry. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time we ate nothing but endive. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the afternoon, they cruised around town, talking and eating Krimpets. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no way the garbage-pails-on-legs that are my brothers have eaten it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We were to eat the same food the soldiers ate. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Strange, the way hummingbears were so particular about what they ate and where they nested. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“You ate turkey with a bunch of bums?” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Flora felt cheered up all of a sudden, just thinking about eating seal blubber and doing impossible things, surviving when the odds were against her and her squirrel. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I forgot to buy breakfast stuff. Want to wake up early and eat at the diner before school?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the people, who were accustomed to poverty and most of whom had never eaten chicken except at Christmas and on Independence Day, did not give up the euphoria of the first days of victory. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I eat the last square of chocolate, he tells me I have a little time if I want to practice on my Casio before we have to leave. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Good eating, huh?” he said, when Pima held out her hand for more. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I sneak into the kitchen prepared not to eat anything. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outside of the onions is varying shades of greens and browns with white patches of fuzz, but on the inside the flesh is bright and good enough to eat. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I had enough food to eat, but on the third day the water in the basket ran low. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We argue over how much breakfast I should eat, compromising at two eggs and some of the steak. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Richard remembered him clearly, his mottled complexion, how he called science “muck,” how he ate his porridge walking about in the dining hall because he said it was what gentlemen did. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My friends will no longer invite me to their houses and let me sit on their sofas and eat off their plates. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was that Henrietta and Chameleon immediately started eating the seeds themselves. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I just ate,” Ms. Jones said, before turning to her son. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Quentin’s not eating his supper. Hasn’t he got to mind me.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The table was just full of good things folks had brought in, and I ate some fried chicken and a piece of lemon meringue pie. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"No I'm not. They don’t eat babies . . ." "Outside, boy . . . and see that you stay there until you learn to shut your mouth when men are talking." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had no idea whether my friends Mark and Liz liked it, or if their boys would want to eat bunny. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The stuff they were eating was a thin stew, actually a soup, of haricot beans. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As much as I get sick of eating Mexican food every single day of my life, if heaven existed, I know it would smell like fried tortillas. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

After the last bite he sat staring into nothing, not remembering what he had eaten or what it tasted like. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We ate the sandwiches and drank the Chablis and watched the country out of the window. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Millard was eating next to me, and I turned to him and asked, “Before this, had you ever heard of peculiar animals?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe a dress for a girl more confident than I am, who doesn’t feel insecure about eating whatever she wants in public. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“That means you can’t fix anything to eat when you get home,” I said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They ate half, saving half to show the household, which would return now. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This dog is too much trouble! He tried to eat my mother. And he stinks,” said the stranger. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

My stomach felt as if I’d eaten a bushel of green apples. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Always talking about eating 'em out of her aunt7s garden when she was a kid and how she wanted to grow 'em someday. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No—he should not eat. He was not hungry; it would only make him hotter.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Mary always stared at them while she ate, just as she was doing when Gey walked into the lab carrying the pieces of Henrietta’s cervix. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The rest of the Passover meal was tempting, but Hannah had eaten so much at Rosemary’s, she only picked at her food. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you care for a bite to eat before the assault? We can serve Yankees done to order, before or after breakfast.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks about for something to eat that doesn’t need to be cooked—ready made. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting beside him at last, feeling his warmth as they ate ice cream together and laughed at Lydia's efforts with a cone, Ann believed that maybe things would work out for them after all. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I got to get supper for all them folks soon as you all get done eating.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

For those people, who ate only pumpkins, this was a terrible thing to happen. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

At times he was so hungry he ate bark from trees and mushrooms from the forest, though he knew they could be poisonous. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The car was to pick us up at the hotel in forty minutes, and we stopped at the café on the square where we had eaten breakfast, and had a beer. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Got anything to eat in this place?” he demands. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“There’s no hurry though. Do you want to eat something?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t eat anything and am stuck on the couch in front of the TV for the rest of the evening. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Not wanting the pizza to go to waste, she sits down next to the pool and begins to eat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

‘Nasty creature! So much the better. Disgusting rabbit, eat that lettuce!’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know how he could be spewing like that when we hadn’t eaten in days. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mamita gets up early too, and heats up my soup and watches me eat, which is maybe her way of saying good luck. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave them mints, money, and they’d eat ice cream with their legs open while I played with them. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom told me that if you eat watermelon seeds, a watermelon will grow in your stomach.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

His little brother pecked at the food on his plate, eating little. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She crept along the grass on hands and knees, and rose silently to look into the room where the people were eating dinner. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish would eat them, or eat what they could, and the feeding action would bring more fish. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My teacher also says that it’s not good to eat too much red meat.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

"I used to smoke a pack a day. Now I eat a sack of these every week." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Seems like you didn’t eat much at all, for such a long trip.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I had eaten one; there were thirty-one left. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll go by myself then. It will be ever so much nicer that way. Lady and I will eat all the lemon cakes and just have the best time without you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” Ugwu said, although he had sworn never to eat Harrison’s food after he dropped by Mr. Richard’s house and saw Harrison spooning shredded orange peels into a pot of sauce. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maple G: You don't eat dinner until seven o'clock? Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll eat right here. A little dried beef. You gentlemen have some supper.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate in silence as the light crept steadily over the smooth, oily sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we see a jubilant Kim return with a smile on his face and know we will eat well that night. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Norman the peacock came along to see if there was anything to eat, and shook his feathers with a rattle of displeasure when he found there wasn’t. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He'll be angry tomorrow, when there's nothing for him to eat. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I live with a terrible ogre that eats up little redheaded girls in one gulp.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I bring them to my mother and in that way we all get something decent to eat. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He figured it had to be eaten immediately, so he removed some hamburger for the dogs and figured he’d barbecue the rest that night. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“We always eat here. I shall complain to the President!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy and her family ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches out of brown paper bags. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I insisted that we eat only one meal a day. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the car door and began walking up the path, wobbling a little on her square wooden heels, reaching into her straw bag to eat handfuls of puffed rice. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I miss you, bud. I’m eating cake tonight in your honor.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And I know I cannot keep it if I eat it since my face was in it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach felt like it was eating itself those times I had nothing but a scoop of lumpy mashed potatoes, but it was worth it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Cathy looked down at her plate while she ate a sliver of roast lamb. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The squid eye would keep appearing at breakfast and dinner until eaten. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother Mole and her people were already at the point of eating their own dead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So people told my sister the kid probably liked her and that she should be nice to him, even though she should have pinned him down and made him eat the crayons. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was making up, of course, for all the days he had eaten nothing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Finish it, Gogol. At your age I ate tin.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His visit home suddenly seemed much longer than a week, perhaps because of the endless gassy churning in his stomach from eating only fruit and nuts. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The jam, however, was delicious and the children ate with good appetites. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, finish my apple. I’m too tired to eat.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And that’s if I didn’t have to travel from one lock to the next, and if I didn’t eat, and didn’t sleep, which is an OK if, because I didn’t actually sleep, anyway. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were too full to eat any more, but were having a marvelous time making toys out of my hard-won winter food supply. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dropping things and eating food that belonged to the newly married couple and started in to worrying everybody that the deweys needed a bath and she was going to give it to them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Just like the farmer who trained his horse to eat less and less,” said Gitl. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I decided not to eat or drink anything yet. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She says it’s a good thing we eat the way we do.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mark and Linda used to joke about how much food he ate, so he took the hint and scaled back on eating. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then he tipped his head toward Akira and said, “Do not worry, little one, all will be fine and you will eat every night!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Did the woman think he was going to eat the whole cheese? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t eat anything for five days and then went out one night alone into those mountains there.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Hazel still ate the whole thing, washing it down with water from the canteen. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on an overturned box, eating a late lunch of the sandwiches Regina had made for him. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Zola says, “Did you eat some lizard, too?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“My mama said get some chairs so we can eat,” Stella said, a flush coming to her cheeks. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe I’d been sitting there thinking of Grandma Smith, looking forward to eating Cream of Wheat and having her comb my hair and cuss, and all along she’d been dead. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the strangest parts of the industrial food chain is the way it forces some animals to eat corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When I got a higher-paying job at Gap Kids, he'd hang out at the mall, try on the latest in children's fashions, and eat his way through the food court. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He saw that demons made sport of us and killed us and ate our bodies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They ate, and some small effort was made at polite conversation, but their minds were elsewhere, dwelling on the story. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I ate liver almost every day until the first plants emerged, and I never had any more trouble. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate slowly, hoping that in days to come he’d be able to remember how good each mouthful had been. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the flarepistol and took the revolver with him and he scoured the countryside for anything to eat but he came back emptyhanded. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Such trees die out in the wild without leaving any progeny, because birds discover and eat all their seeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He rarely ate breakfast, but I figured he might need some extra nourishment. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max eats a second ham sandwich and rereads a comic book, and sheets of yellow flowers glow in the fields, and Jutta wonders if any of them grow over the bones of her brother. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At supper she’s been eating nothing but chicken broth, and I feel bad for her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Cade and I ate there at least twice a week because the food was free for us. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Not usually. But if either of them offers you anything to eat, definitely check it or show me first,” I tell him. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He took a lot of aspirins, ate very little, and hardly slept during the night. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her pose was so similar it was hard to believe she had gone to sleep, eaten breakfast or even patted her firm hairdo. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pilots were supposed to get better rations than the ground crew, but they didn’t always eat well, either. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

By examining the contents of its stomach you can find what the other fish are eating or you can use the internal organs as bait. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had to go to the dentist,” I says because it’s not any of his business where I eat but I’ve got to be in the store with him all the afternoon. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have eaten too much, as ever, and all White Harbor knows my bowels are bad. My friends of Frey will not question a lengthy visit to the privy, we hope.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were many birds in the fruit place, as they liked to eat the seeds which the fruits produced. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

While Izzie keeps eating before my eyes, I feel like I’m suffering and dying. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The threadmaster was sitting atop his spool of thread, swinging his tail back and forth and eating a piece of celery. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Numb with weariness, he lived in wet clothes and ate cold food. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried hard to remember what cockroaches ate. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah,” I heard him say, even though I couldn’t find him with my flashlight, “Janet, the older one, she loves cereal. She’d eat it three meals a day if we let her.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Who would ever want to kiss a girl who eats moths?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They had fallen into step back in Alkonost, and taken to riding and eating meals together. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She had to be responsible, but the first chance she’d gotten she’d run off to the attic to eat cookies and talk to a pretty ghost. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She went back to playing her colossal game of dots with Rand, and I concentrated on eating my ravioli. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was just big enough to fit a small TV on it and a few plates, but their apartment didn't exactly seem like a "sit at the table and eat" kind of place. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

There are ten rooms downstairs and one with a stuffed grizzly bear that looks like it ate up the last maid and is biding for the next one. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He was hungry enough now to have eaten the porridge Ellen had brought him. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“A lot of times I eat things I don’t really favor,” she told him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl who looked like a veela appeared to have eaten enough, however, and did not come over to get it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We hold our hands to the fire for the heat that’s in it but we can’t stay there long because we have to drink our tea and eat our bread and go to school. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Farmers tend to eat a very limited and unbalanced diet. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She let Wishbone eat one right off of her hand and didn’t even care when he slobbered on her. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She assumed that without her supervision, Zvezda had eaten most of it by now. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe they wanted to eat people but they kept getting stepped on first. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I like cake—love it, in fact—but it wasn’t eating I was thinking about. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

They came in ones and twos, sipped expensive tea and ate little almond tarts. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Mansfield stared at Robin meaningfully, but Robin went on eating her stuffed potato as if she had merely stated neutral information. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“We found him amidships,” one of the giants said, “trying to sneak to the engine room. Can we eat him now?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then both of them began to eat for all they were worth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was a guest beneath your roof and ate of your meat and mead,” she said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She ordered two dishes of coconut ice cream and ate them slowly with a soup spoon. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” my mom said, “it would take more than eating a mouse to spoil this day for me.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Fix yourself something to eat. I know you can at least do that.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I want to eat, but I decide to wait. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They crouched as close to the fire as they could, eating a supper of dried fruit and hard, round crackers that tasted, ingeniously, of cheese. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Little Pinch was tugging on Mama’s legging, whining for something to eat. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Fred, Nala, and Scruffy were eating breakfast together in a shady spot on the deck behind Jenny’s house. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Butter and honey shall he eat,” Dad droned, low and monotone, weary from a long day hauling scrap. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I could not see them from the dining table, but while I ate, I tried hard to make out what they were saying. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was still early in the morning, but Jinjoo had raced out of the house without eating breakfast. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I ate slowly, chewing each bite with care. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"Dad is picking me up before supper, and he will be disappointed if I do not eat with him." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

They groom each other and eat and sleep, then groom each other some more. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

But I had come in there not smoking cigarettes, or eating pork when it was served. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Unfortunately. I acted a fool. Supreme’s eating it up though. The record exec, too. They think it’s great that people think I’m a ‘ratchet hood rat.’ On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He had eaten a large plate of oatmeal, and his coat shone in the sun as he licked it sleepily, his eyes following Mrs. Nurmi as she moved about the cabin. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes," she said, "if you promise to behave yourself. Would you like something to eat, my darling?" she said to me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

"He said eat first, though. Dry your feet." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Seeing the tack and thinking he was racing that day, Seabiscuit would become keyed up, lose interest in eating, and fret weight off. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king handed Minli a pair of intricate gold chopsticks that weighed heavily in her hands, and with his urging, Minli began to eat what was easily the most delicious meal she had ever had. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They ate some food, and then they took to their paddles and hastened on their way. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile another part of the government is making it cheaper for you to eat more sweets. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I have dreams that night that the cannibals find his body, dig him up, and eat him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He then sits down again and resumes eating, dipping the last crust of pie in the big pool of sauce on his plate. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t eat people?” the lad’s incredulous father exclaims at one point. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

As if summoned across the new ice by his favorite dish, he arrived in time to eat until he could eat no more. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

On my last trip to the table, I make a plate to eat for now. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The birds had eaten her lips and eyes and most of her cheeks, baring her stained red teeth in a hideous smile. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t eat any more potato salad after that, that’s for sure.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

At whichever such “lab” the seeds ended up, they tended to come from only certain individuals of edible plants—namely, those that we preferred to eat for one reason or another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“To feed him is more important than not to steal. I do not steal my whole life. For myself, I would starve first. But Akira must eat.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“To see what they are eating, and after seeing they are boiling the same leaves and giving their children to drink. It is stopping kwashiorkor.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He took the pan off the fire and let the bacon cool and they ate it, slowly, thoughtfully. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

For dessert we dip chunks of fruit in a pot of melted chocolate, and Cinna has to order a second pot because I start just eating the stuff with a spoon. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And thanks to my poor eating habits, his hideous face would eventually resemble the craters of the moon. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z