Two smiling Lemoncello Library staffers in yellow jumpsuits with ID badges lanyarded around their necks emerged from each of the eight bookmobiles with stacks of manila envelopes. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

When they are apart, they speak by phone every night, at eight o’clock. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the pinnacle of his career, that figure had jumped to 90 percent, plus eight million sets in cars. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right behind the eight ball. I tried to work it backward through the ‘finger,’ and couldn’t. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The double doors that I came in through are eight feet behind him. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I have a little saved. I used to skim from what Henry gave me for groceries, but then there was Christmas. There’s maybe eight dollars left.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He even nailed some pretty dense math problems like, “Find the least common multiple of six, eight, and sixteen.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

One day two Vietnamese brothers around seven or eight years old were brought in with severe phosphorus burns. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Standing up, they probably would’ve been eight feet tall—tiny compared to the giant Polybotes or even the Cyclopes they’d seen in California, but that didn’t make them any less scary. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And ‘Return 8PM Wed’ lets him know I’m bringing you home by eight tonight” I said, “What are all of those ‘stops,’ sir?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Their languages are of course much more numerous than the eight dominant Chinese languages of mainland China, but are no more diverse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have been in my domain for nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-five days. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It was around that time that he was heard to say: “The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o’clock and the Conservatives at eight.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They wept and talked until eight o’clock at night, and that afternoon in the Hotel Frances they sealed a pact of friendship that would last for many years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there had been a big premiere the night before with a lot of people attending and throwing things on the floor, we would be there until eight in the morning. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

By eight hundred meters, they were dead last again. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At precisely eight o’clock the front bell again rang, and again Hanson answered it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I have not been outside since the storm began, and I am bored for the first time since I ran away from home eight months ago to live on the land. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re not ready to be eaten for eight to ten months—in the next winter. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

That is how the Xhosa people describe the narrow, windswept outcrop of rock that lies eight miles off the coast of Cape Town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason and Jess are there, drinking wine on the terrace, which is odd, because it isn’t yet eight thirty in the morning. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There they were, arrayed between the door to the passage and the door out to the terrace: eight of them inside; she couldn’t be sure how many out on the hand itself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It’s eight o’clock in the morning, and Daddy’s just getting home from work. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Lisa had been with us for some eight or nine months - and I had largely forgotten her existence by this point - when she vanished from the house together with the second footman. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The saw-like sickles had only lately been put away, and the wheat stood in stooks of eight among the tall stubble of those tin** The Wait still itched. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally do drift off, old memories seep into my dreams, scenes from when I was eight years old, when my life was back in New York City. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I'm grumpy when I don't get at least eight. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

There are no tents selling eight- track tape players, imported vinyl pants, or hair-coloring cream, nor are there elaborate stalls glistening with dangling gold or silver necklaces and bracelets. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a tight group these eight men walked up to the hogan and one man knocked on the door, which Lady Elephant answered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were about ten of us team members—mostly level eights, nines, and tens—waiting for instructions. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He arrived at the palace at eight o’clock and was surprised to see the great square completely empty and a large detachment of soldiers stationed at the gates to the seat of the government. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of sight, Francis Gary Powers languished in a small cell measuring eight by fifteen feet, deep inside Lubyanka Prison in central Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My plan was to show him my greatness and fill him with the desire to be our dad until at least I turned eight. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“There was this day...I was seven or eight, and me and Mahvash had gone to the park to play. We were friends growing up. Did I tell you that?” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Within a few days of returning to Seattle, orders for eight new eight-man shells had arrived at his shop. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There were eight in all, each of them like a little fire burning just inside his skin. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The wind comes up between eight and ten in the morning, and if it’s in your face, it makes the job more time-consuming. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

In Hilly’s parlor, a portrait of a Confederate general hangs eight feet tall. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At Gachet’s, Vincent takes his godson around the yard, introducing him to the eight cats, three dogs, hens, rabbits, ducks, and pigeons. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It's barely after six and curfew isn't until eight. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t need her to be here with me for eight hours a day. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Jericho is eight hundred feet below sea level,” Father explained to us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But there she was, with the eleven-year-old boy who looked more like eight. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

In earlier work, Neel had combined data from multiple sources to estimate that two related groups of Central American Indians had split off from each other eight thousand to ten thousand years before. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Booth was already dead, so four of the eight conspirators who had been put on trial took center stage on execution day. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he said one pound eight shillings, it would mean the next night at eight. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ironically, the last time I was at UCI, I was in their Child Development Center being treated for ADD when I was eight years old. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Moushumi’s been given an eight A.M. section, something that had annoyed her at first. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shenandoah National Park has just eight huts, each able to accommodate no more than eight people in comfort, ten at a pinch, in 101 miles of national park. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Vivian would never have agreed to start this early. She has a routine. Gets up at eight or nine, comes downstairs at ten.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She saw the size, eight and a half, and the initials U.S.A. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oct is the Latin root for eight. So the space between low D and high D is one octave. Can you all show me and sing low D to high D?” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Ten, nine, eight...and in walks Colin, with that fake limp of his, and that cheesy grin as if he thinks he’s God’s gift to girls. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

An inflatable solar system hung from the ceiling, with the sun and eight planets scaled to size, along with various starship Enterprise models. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My mother would end up staying with us in Washington for the next eight years, but at the time she claimed the move was temporary, that she’d stay only until the girls got settled. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, Mr. Brademas reminds us of that about every eight seconds. It’s supposed to be more about trying than succeeding.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“The guide tempted it with fish guts he had in a plastic milk jug. The eel swam out from the rocks. It must have been eight feet long. Bright green.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She stared at Megan, who was fiddling with the seven or eight band bracelets on her arm. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Only one of the eight towers of the Ferris Wheel was in place and workers had not yet completed repairs to the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There was a little over eight dollars in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sixteen arms must begin to pull, sixteen knees must begin to fold and unfold, eight bodies must begin to slide forward and backward, eight backs must bend and straighten all at once. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They usually had eight to ten jobs going at any one time, which they oversaw out of a home office and a warehouse space on Dublin Street, off Carrollton. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It's just too small to deal with a hole larger than eight centimeters. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crowds of lower-caste workers were queued up in front of the monorail station—seven or eight hundred Gamma, Delta and Epsilon men and women, with not more than a dozen faces and statures between them. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eight months! Thqr vanish to Boston for eight months and then show up with no warning and wanting tea. Tea! I could get tarred and feathered for brewing tea,” she muttered. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you must! I’ve seen it eight times. It’s absolutely pure genius,” he said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Even over the din of the storm, they could hear him counting: six, seven, eight... The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Rain batters against the windows; it’s after eight but still seems dark outside. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little girl who came out holding a doll was older than Baby, perhaps about eight years old. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

No one says it, but eight will divide up perfectly after the next death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would eat mush at eight in the morning and greens at seven or later at night. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

With eight minutes left in the half and the score still tied at zero, Jeremiah Ziaty carved his way through the Fire defense at the top of the box. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

In Iowa, during a presidential election, it was held in early November, about eight weeks ahead of the January caucuses, and covered by the national media. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I spent all his poor Grammaw Reilly’s insurance money to keep him in college for eight years, and since then all lie’s done is lay around the house watching television.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The average age of the group was eight. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Numbers five and six went in the net, then I missed seven and eight. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mom, dressed in a cool denim suit and, surprisingly, a pair of late-style Nikes, loads our bags in the car, and we’re totally ready to go by eight forty- five. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Seeing as there are supposed to be eight trainees left, I guess Lara and Kirsten weren’t the only ones who were disqualified. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful foal, although it had eight legs instead of the usual four, and it followed Loki wherever he went, and nuzzled him, and treated Loki as if he were its mother. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

So even though it looked like she had two hundred and eight dollars in her lock box, only half of that was money she could honestly call her own. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Rick said, “The worst of the eight is still alive. The one who organized them.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

His head was huge and he had about seven or eight patches all over his body. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’m up to at least eight miles a day, five of them with the wheelchair—a wheelchair that my dad’s made much easier to push. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Pardon me,” he said, tugging at the man’s sleeve and holding the sheet of figures up for him to see, “but it’s going to take eight hundred and thirty-seven years to do these jobs.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were only eight people in Aunt Rose’s house, and every meal was as overcrowded as the 6:00 a.m. trolley, cramped and uncomfortable. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The sport demands so much more of you after level eight: the skills get harder, and I would have to devote a lot more time. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We can’t flush the toilet anymore after eight at night or after eight in the morning. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

With a second and eight, Winchell throws a little pass in the left flat to Hill, who eludes his defender with ease and is gone for a touchdown. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad started coming in earlier and earlier to round up the boys until, by the time I was eight, and Tyler sixteen, we’d settled into a routine that omitted school altogether. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The boy was accustomed to working from eight to twelve, sometimes fourteen hours in a day. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And then the eight became sixteen and we reinvested it in a high-risk stock that went crazy?” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two hours, three cuts, several scraped knuckles, and endless holes, we had only eight snails to show for our efforts. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

At eight he had his tonsils out; at ten, his appendix burst. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Electric blue in colour, up to eight inches in height and very mischievous, the pixie delights in tricks and practical jokes of all descriptions. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judging by the quality of light, it was already eight or nine in the morning. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

According to the time stamp, Sorrento had sent the memo just after eight o’clock, less than five hours ago. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“One . . . two . . . three . . . four . . . five . . . six . . .” Vegas was on one knee at six and on his feet at eight. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the length of time it took to count to eight, always the perfect amount of time to make a decision or take aim. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He lived out there, eight miles from any neighbor, in masculine solitude in what might be called the halfacre gunroom of a baronial splendor. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I head down the hot sidewalk at eight thirty in the morning wondering what I’m on do with the rest a my day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He was eight centimeters taller than me, but he could move so silently sometimes, like he wasn’t walking on the same cheap, groaning floorboards as the rest of us. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Tarry service officially began at eight, but it could begin at any time, whenever the Lord moved one of the saints to enter the church and pray. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

On Monday we got our spelling tests back, and I got eight right, more than I’d ever gotten. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The clock is running—the crowd is counting—ten seconds, nine, eight... Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany found eight before the sun went down, but there might have been more farther out, hidden in the grass. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I have been told that the process will take eight hours, which will include two fifteen-minute breaks and one half-hour break for a meal, and will be paid for like a regular shift. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no user charges, unlike Necro, which goes for $7.99 a day, which disturbs me because I can’t help but feel as if a human is worth more than eight bucks. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“We have numerous sharpshooters, but rather a dearth of camera crews. Therefore, we’ve handpicked the eight of you to be what we call our ‘Star Squad.’ Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was about eight feet long, five and a half feet wide, and floated well out of the water, and had not taken him more than two hours to build. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of renting an apartment of their own, they spend eight months with their various relatives, shuttling from home to home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Price, apparently insulted by such a charge, went to the bathroom and then came out shooting with his thirty- eight. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mine got wrecked—brake cable got busted and the seat clamp was all screwy. I’m buying another one when I get a job that pays more than eight an hour,” he says. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were but eight; yet, somehow, as they flocked in, they gave the impression of a much larger number. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I am having an informal party this evening from eight o'clock on. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Four hamburgers. No, make that eight. Four large orders of fries. That’s all for now, but we’ll probably have dessert. Do you have any apple pie?” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since I was eight, I had been feeding hogs at the McCready and Barker farms. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

With eight horses ahead of him, Woolf couldn’t see what was happening out front. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we spent the night there, turning the pagoda into a little fortress, and then for the next seven or eight days we used the place as a base of operations. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment when life as he had known it changed forever, Alex Morales was behind the counter at Joey’s Pizza, slicing a spinach pesto pie into eight roughly equal pieces. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He worked from dawn until seven or eight at night for his sixty cents a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The outer door would hiss shut and relock itself; then the package would be scanned, X-rayed, and analyzed eight ways from Wednesday. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

‘Theories one and eight can go,’ I began. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a little girl about eight years old sitting at a table with kids her own age. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was sent eight hours after the first. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Over half of the eight thousand residents lived below the poverty line. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Kit jumped as the square clock in the corner twanged eight o’clock. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“When the time comes, you can have whatever you want. But—” “And satin inside. Please. And a pillow. Like here. Page eight. Number five. Pay attention! And tell Georgie leave my glasses.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Canton twirled the combination to eight and opened my locker. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The pixies were electric blue and about eight inches high, with pointed faces and voices so shrill it was like listening to a lot of budgies arguing. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The object of the chase was in the middle of the alley: a young boy, eight years old at the most. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s not eight o’clock yet, but there’s a parking lot full of cars, an eighteen-wheeler full of boxes, and a line stretched out the door. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The highways eight lanes wide cut like glaciers through the uneasy land. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you must be”—she stared at me, thinking; her finger pulled down her lower lip, showing her bottom teeth, one missing—“eight!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The towers were part of a windmill farm, which spanned more than eight thousand acres and was expected to eventually supply electricity to some forty-five thousand homes in Oklahoma. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“My wife has presented me with eight beautiful children; is not this a better lifework than that of exercising the right of suffrage?” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Under the present timetable there were only eight months more of Francis’ laugh to bear. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe within the next eight to ten months I should be moving out of Stateway and finding an apartment somewhere better. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest had left eight days past, six hundred men from Winterfell and the nearest holdfasts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I walked into a situation where all of a sudden there were seven hundred and eight hundred people at my readings.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We captured eight of their men, tied their hands and legs, and left them in the rain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Tears mix with the food in my mouth; my heart falls to my stomach when all the eight grains are gone and I see that the others are still eating theirs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sammy Wertzberger received two death threats before eight o’clock in the morning and before his parents took the phone off the hook. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We yell it out at the same time: “Lane eight!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Immie’s bank and investment accounts had a total of eight million dollars in them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

By which time the original egg was in a fair way to becoming anything from eight to ninety-six embryos—a prodigious improvement, you will agree, on nature. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

This sort of guerrilla warfare dragged on for eight months. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“She was eight. Suffered beautifully. Will never be beatified.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Why hadn’t she remembered that ever since he was eight years old Nat had been finding his way to Blackbird Pond through devious meadow routes? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The plant specialized in pork products, and for eight hours a day I stood on a quarter-mile assembly line—more properly, a disassembly line—removing blood clots from the necks of dead pigs. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far above them, the pilot counted eight battleships, the Pacific Fleet’s full complement. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

In addition, he owned eight head of cattle. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I remember the scratch of my pen moving across the page, recounting in detail, for a full eight pages, precisely what my sister had said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Will and Annabelle sit on a leather couch that could fit eight people. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The chauffeur flew a figure eight as he reacted to the General’s furious voice. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We’d never butchered eight head of cattle at one time, and we didn’t have the hanging space for them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left at six or seven in the morning and returned at eight or nine in the evening, depending on the distance to water and grass. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jonathan will be here at half-past eleven, and you must come to lunch with us and see him then; you could catch the quick 3:34 train, which will leave you at Paddington before eight.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Only eight of the nine of us made it through that year. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was eight years old, and the world beyond the graveyard held no terrors for him. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I had about eight cups in a row and was ready to drive in about twenty minutes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And eight will be left when we count up the dead. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His idea was to offer the Russians a two-year moratorium on nuclear testing, with compliance to be verified by eight to twelve monitoring stations on each country’s territory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I saw it when I was eight. I’ve never felt so small in my life.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

We were down 42—30 with eight minutes to play when the coach signals me to go in. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

But hey, the Brooklyn Bridge might be here for eight hundred years. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Number eight was he couldn’t stand to be left alone. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Being only eight years old, this is the only way I know to protect them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rob piled eight pieces of com on the cob, a mountain of mashed potatoes, eighteen chicken wings, and three pieces of cheesecake on his plate. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Normally, it was only meant to last seven or eight hours.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

This highly refined coordination and cooperation must be multiplied out across eight individuals of varying statures and physiques to make the most of each individual’s strengths. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My rewards for putting up with them for eight years. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s around 2,600 square feet, and covered fully by hardscrabble brown dirt on one side, with nearly eight feet of land above the structure of the roof. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

After all, it takes eight years of post-undergraduate study to become board certified.... The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I see pictures of her and her family when she is three, eight, ten, fourteen. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He assigned him to a permanent job at Camp 14’s pig farm, where two hundred men and women raised about eight hundred pigs, along with goats, rabbits, chickens, and a few cows. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Among over eight thousand other seat holders in Miami’s big Convention Hall, I received Seat Number Seven. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was going to become one of the most depraved parasitical hustlers among New York’s eight million people—four million of whom work, and the other four million of whom live off them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The notice informed them that it was a temporary matter: for five days their electricity would be cut off for one hour, beginning at eight p.m. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It is true that Geak is too young to leave, but I am not yet eight. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reed stacked eight copper zens on the bar. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The hallway with its eight doors seemed smaller to Lina than it had when she was a student, and shabbier. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The youngest, no more than eight, said, “What’s your monkey’s name?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mohammed was an unknown when the race began at six in the morning, and after eight hours, when he was approaching shore, he had no idea that he was in the lead. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“You’ll leave here tomorrow morning at eight o’clock,” Mrs. Jones said. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The couple living there lowered themselves down, making the number in the fishing boat eight. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A curl of Hair falls in his face — Seven, eight, nine . Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be four days before Katz and I crossed a public highway, eight days till we came to a town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mama said eight dollars would be nearer right. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the furniture in the solar was not like that The devil's heads were there and the linen-fold panelling, but the wood was six or seven or eight centuries younger. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are,” he declares, “attempting to enter the most elite schools in the world. The exams will last eight days. We will take only the purest, only the strongest.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, like when you were eight and you broke your arm an hour later,” I say. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

With the other boys his age, eight and nine, he had joined the crowd watching a contest. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get to work. Open your books to chapter eight.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Moss made a quick count: eight of them, batons held at the ready, their faces unseen, their motives unknown. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

These buses make as many as eight runs a day, deporting more than 100,000 unhappy passengers every year. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He had made up fifty yards in the last lap and beaten his personal best time by more than eight seconds. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Give me the rundown of what you were doing, say, yesterday, after, say, school. From the time school got out till, say, about eight to nine o’clock at night.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He ran another unfortunate horse every day for eight straight days. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So time from eight forty-five until some safe time after ten in the mornings was spent under various beds. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samantha was Jones and Agnes's daughter, and she'd been so nice to me in the months I lived with them when I was eight and Gramps had to spend some time in the hospital. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s been over eight years, Gilly. Even when she lived close by, she never came to see you.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I would reach it by eight or so. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even as workers loaded the platform, it sank eight inches. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"Twelve or thirteen hundred for the Spicers. No more than eight hundred for the Brotherhood." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A few more kids arrived-an Asian-American girl who looked about eight, a redheaded girl around my age, a tiny dark-skinned boy with a chirpy voice, a scary-pale teen girl with a nose ring. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We squeezed into the wights’ jeep, eight kids packed like sardines. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was too big to steal and its owner refused to part with it to the sick widow with eight children whom Mack invented and patronized in the same moment. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There were eight eggs but one egg didn’t hatch and the goose told Templeton she didn’t want it any more, so he took it away.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

So there I was, holding this trash can underneath the eight bulging asbestos ceiling tiles, and Mr. Vendleri started to push up on one of them with his mallet. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

All the men in the store shouted, “NO.” “—eight, nine, ten.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they ever lived at all, they are gone eight thousand years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I may be the only one of the eight of us left. So maybe you’re right.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were eight chieftains, but the boy could see immediately which of them was the most important: an Arab dressed in white and gold, seated at the center of the semicircle. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His name was Jude Greene, and with the pick of some eight or ten girls who came regularly to services to hear him sing, he had chosen Nel Wright. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The clapping at the end is deafening, easily an eight out of ten, and I sink lower in my chair. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

"Y'all vets better look out for this girl. She runs the eight hundred like it's a skip down the block," the coach said, giving Patina a high five. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Each day black boys between the ages of eight and twenty-five came to swim, draw, and read. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

By eight o’clock I was sitting on the couch with my head hanging forward, drool dripping onto my T-shirt, sound asleep. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I pushed the button for floor eight, and the door closed. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The four of us had started a rap and dance group when I was eight. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

If we had finished our baths and were ready for bed well before eight, it was story time, but we had to be in bed by eight o'clock. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He can’t work anymore, and he’s just sitting at home, surrounded by his eight children, brooding about his approaching death. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

At about eight in the morning, he texted me that he was going for a run with Ainsley and that he was picking up two bottles of Gatorade beforehand. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They were laughing and singing a little song: “Two, four, six, eight! We don’t want to integrate!” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then the dry years would come, and sometimes there would be only seven or eight inches of rain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Your brother. Remember that Halloween when we were around seven or eight and those big-city kids came down to the corn maze dressed like skeletons?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

With eight siblings, it had been turbulent growing up, and when she converted to Islam, the battles and misunderstandings multiplied. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Miguel loses eleven–eight and now he’s throwing around guarantees. All right, then, you got yourself a deal. Tomorrow night.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Each was eight feet tall with tattooed arms, leather armor, and spiked clubs. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She is young and can find work now, but women over the age of twenty-five or twenty- eight are no longer considered for many jobs in Honduras, something made clear in newspaper employment ads. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But he refused to travel by airplane or accept packages COD, lived in fear of unexpected visitors, and had not been abroad in eight or nine years. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In my graduating class from public school there were only eight people, and in Cordelia’s there were four. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Asher s Talent for knitting was so keen that she could finish an entire afghan in eight city blocks. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was about seven to eight inches long and bloated up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still turning over this problem in his mind when the clock above him ground and groaned and managed to bring out eight bongs. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a double fence, actually—two high chain-link barriers topped with spirals of gleaming razor ribbon and a kind of no-man’s-land in the eight or nine feet of ground between them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a painful loss, but the season was still only beginning and there were eight games left to determine the team’s fate. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The money was invested in Ireland at eight per cent,” she told him. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After eight more days we receive orders to go back. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said there were eight thousand letters for me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If you’d-a put a smock on him and shrunked him down ’bout eight or nine sizes, they was one in the same. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

And now, especially as of today, the chipping away of the original eight androids until only the three remained. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Beneath them, spanning the breadth of the stage, were eight demonstration boards, where the moves of the games were to be displayed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She pays us that and a bonus, which makes my Super Bowl total $185 cash, plus the eight bucks an hour I’ll get in my next paycheck. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe she would own a restaurant too, like a little noodle café here in town, with eight or even ten tables. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mark shined his light and noticed that the group between them and the door of the chamber was the smaller of the two, maybe eight people total. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The boy admitted going out of his house at eight o’clock on the night of the murder after being punched several times by his father. 8TH JUROR: He didn’t say “punched.” Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the next day, I played a game with myself, seeing if my mother would give up on me before eight bellows. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Travis had at least eight inches and almost a hundred pounds on Tyson. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

All I can think of is eight hundred thousand links lost. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He and the Chinese gentleman dug out two collapsible chairs from his attic and came uptown every day at eight and four-thirty to hear Chester’s new programs. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

If one-tenth of all people have a certain blood type, what is the probability that, of the next hundred people we randomly select, exactly eight will have the blood type in question? at most, eight? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This bridge was so bad that one of the rules ’mongst the crew was that you couldn’t eat no beans eight hours ’fore we was set to cross it.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

At eight o’clock, the doors from the lounge will open to the ballroom. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Pot roast, honey, nothing special. But we won’t be eating until seven-thirty or eight—your dad had a late tee time.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continues to try and steer the car to Overlook Road, but I keep telling him that I get off work at eight and that he’ll have to wait. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I draw a flower with eight petals, and each petal is a dancing woman. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Barack and I were determined to make the transition with grace and dignity, to finish our eight years with both our ideals and our composure intact. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“So your mother is eight years older than me.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe it, I’m still eight inches short. . . .” said Ron furiously, letting go of his parchment, which sprang back into a roll. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

As it happened, Lawrence would meet Swann’s ten-year timeline with room to spare, bringing home the Nobel Prize only eight years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

On June 5 worried depositors staged runs on eight Chicago banks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In 1926 he had only eight mounts, winning with just one of them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though many mothers expect the separations to be short, typically they last six to eight years, says Analuisa Espinoza, a Los Angeles Unified School District social worker who specializes in immigrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The one gay sail had a Cross Potent on it, while an enormous streamer floated from the top of the mast There were eight oars, and the two passengers were seasick. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four scims whip out of their scabbards, eight bows notch, and all are pointed at me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It was like eight hundred dollars or something.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I pass eight rooms before there's an empty one. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eight soon-to-be brothers feasted on rack of lamb baked in a crust of garlic and herbs, gar-nished with sprigs of mint, and surrounded by mashed yellow turnips swimming in butter. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And at every point it was riveting: here was a group of eight people up on a stage without a net, creating a play before our eyes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They finished the regular season with a record of eight wins and a tie and number-six ranking in the state. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Govan was then ailing and not going to the quarry, and he was given the task of counting out eight squares of toilet paper for each prisoner per day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What have you been doing for the last eight years? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In six years, Seabiscuit had won thirty-three races and set thirteen track records at eight tracks over six distances. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nudzahui writing survives in eight codices, the deerskin or bark “books” whose painted pages could be folded like screens or hung on the wall like a mural. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, three children, ages eight to ten, line up in front of their mother, who loads them down with logs of wood to deliver. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But the carbon fibers, usually 500 microns apart, now had a gap eight times that width in their midst. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In November of 1998, it voted to give that prestigious award to me and the eight other black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I eventually mastered the counter swing and made it through to level eight. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And into this darkness slowly swam the other Dr. Meescham's giant squid, moving sadly along, flailing its eight lonely and enormous arms. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

His mother thinks he’s nine years old, but she has a poor memory that the drink has rotted; he might be eight, or ten. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Three days after the event, he was to go to a certain bar in Queens between eight and nine at night. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Piper watched, eight of the nymphs dissolved into vapor and floated upward. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then, at eight o’clock that night, when I was taking Tilly outside, a reporter called. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He looked at his watch; it was ten past eight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the fight began, in a sold-out Yankee Stadium on the evening of June 19, Louis was, at eight to one, the overwhelming favorite in New York. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This morning, Wednesday, September 11, they had to be downtown by eight o’clock. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Listen to this here. Mah New York Yankees have been sold to a sny-dee-kat for two million and eight hundred thousand dollahs. That there’s about enough to buy the whole state of Georgia.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe a bit later than that. Maybe it was closer to eight. Yes, actually, I remember now—I think I got home just after eight.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the closest Davos had come to His Grace in the eight days since Black Betha had joined the rest of the fleet off Storm's End. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And be ready for Mr. Dalton at eight.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

No more now would I blithely say, “Better give me half a dozen of those, Dave. Oh, and I’ll take eight of these—what the heck, make it a dozen. You only live once, eh?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We had already been in Auschwitz for eight days. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I drove more than eight hours to get here!” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s past eight o’clock. We haven’t had real food since breakfast.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my phone, favorites four through eight and twelve through fifteen. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On the plate there were eight eggs, twelve sausages, sixteen rashers of bacon and a heap of fried potatoes. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In eight minutes it will travel from the Sun to the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flashed to the day just eight months ago when we landed in Los Angeles—my father, my mother, and me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

By eight o’clock they had completed the first of the five circles that would eventually take them up Deerhair Canyon to the lowest Little Baldy Bear. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each afternoon, the two teenagers’ journeys overlapped for a mere eight minutes. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A rusted pole stood about eight feet high by the side of the road. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Impossible because only one coven of the eight who’d invoked the clause in the history of the Twelve Towns had solved it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And so the eight months are put behind them, quickly shed, quickly forgotten, like clothes worn for a special occasion, or for a season that has passed, suddenly cumbersome, irrelevant to their lives. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can take my time and get safely to the bottom in about eight hours. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half” was the first one I encountered. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Dallas were eight when they went to live with the Burgertons. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You might be out six, eight weeks,” he said quietly, almost in a whisper. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ours was terrible. Maybe like eight colleges showed up.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t told anyone about the curse since I was eight. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had to be more than eight because she was two times four plus something else. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

What just minutes ago seemed like a wealth of time—eight whole days—is no time at all. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The first time Gram read it to me, I was eight, and it was snowing. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And there’s the morning announcements over the loud speaker about all the activities the good kids do like drama and jazz band, but that still leaves us eight and a half minutes of awkwardness. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

At Townsend’s I’ll have a normal working day and get off for the night at eight. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With this maid’s help, we just caught eight ogres. Six knights never did that before.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The young hatch in six to eight weeks. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I step out of my room, out the front door, down the eight flights of steps. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And I drove that speed for eight hours. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My friend Jennifer had eight letters in her name, and Elizabeth Brewster had nine in hers, and yet their names weren’t “too hard.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He hasn't been on the outside in eight years. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Wednesday before the family’s second Thanksgiving in America, they piled into the Mazda van, all eight of them. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

In the nearly eight years that he lived in Hungary, he only managed to convince her to see him a few times—once when she attended his fiftieth birthday party in Bulgaria. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He took Nellie, eleven, and Howard, eight, and embarked with all three children on a strange and sad journey. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Inside lay eight antique rings, all carved or shaped like animals. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The worst part is that he has a little girl that’s eight months old. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“That was about eight hundred dollars. But I have a full thousand-dollar share.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like my day’s already done and it’s only eight o’clock in the morning. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That made eight people who were supposed to stand up against the entire administration, if that was even their goal. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the center of the platform stood four sea demons, but these were fully grown, at least eight feet tall. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We spent the next eight months of the war at Schindler's munitions factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

There were eight of them, including the one with the scarified face, and there were ten of us boys. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I even left the house, there was eight inches on the ground, and I’m not talking light and fluffy here. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In them are eight blue heron nests—a rookery. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Walter was eight or nine, he became too valuable for picking cotton to justify the remote advantages of going to school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When the eighth round finally began, the lights went out again, but this time only for eight minutes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On every vessel—blooming from wine cups and jugs and vases and bowls—the simple eight- petaled flowers caught one’s attention and seized it as if they would never let go. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

At eight, he thought himself old enough to help with the harvest. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They slaved fourteen hours a day, from six o’clock in the morning until eight or nine o’clock at night, with starvation-level rations, little sleep, beatings and other forms of torture, and daily executions. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of them when they visit Calcutta every few years feels stranger still, six or eight weeks passing like a dream. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And because the hurricane as a whole was traveling so slowly, about eight miles per hour, the sustained winds were causing, and would continue to cause, catastrophic damage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He attached a small square of cloth to the end of a metal stick and began jabbing it down the barrel and through the chambers—eight times. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight oclock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land is covered with grass that grows eight feet high between patches of forest and farmland. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s exactly what he said. So give me eight to ten or twelve weeks, and I’m going to be myself again. Not that being myself is such a great thing.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The college diploma that it took her eight years to earn—her husband keeps that in his bedroom drawer, as if it is as much his as hers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, around eight o’clock, I stood by the side of the road waiting for school bus number twenty. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I managed to clear all eight levels of the game in just under three hours. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In one seven-month period in 1971, Gates and his cohorts ran up 1,575 hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe, which averages out to eight hours a day, seven days a week. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Cleveland’s newspapers made a strong point of declaring that only eight of those arrested had been born in the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When I came to the customs demons, I was to say I was eight, in the demon fashion, instead of nine as I truly was. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months later he was accidentally shot by his own troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville and died eight days later. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Harry couldn’t see how eight people, six large trunks, two owls, and a rat were going to fit into one small Ford Anglia. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Here’s your copy of the receipt. Any problems, you just call the eight hundred number,” the uniformed man says. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We had been at August’s house eight whole days. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the excitement of hurling the ball, she couldn’t remember how to say the higher numbers, especially after she had missed every ball when the other team called “eight.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The eight geese spread out in line astern, evenly spaced, with him behind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, eight years later, he was good enough to be the only rising junior on the varsity team. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

On that night, eight weeks ago, Bo had trailed alongside him with sleepy eyes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even a girl of about eight years can see there’s almost no rescue from her life. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

If eight of the hundred we capture are marked, then a reasonable estimate of the fraction of marked fish in the whole lake is 8 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s the youngest of three daughters; her father was the pastor of the village for many years but died eight years earlier. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It’s a little after eight o’clock on a brisk, crisp night inFebruary, so it’s already dark and the stars have started coming out to play. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It only happens when all eight oarsmen are rowing in such perfect unison that no single action by any one is out of synch with those of all the others. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Your execution has been scheduled for tomorrow morning at eight o’clock.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

At one point the group had to suspend work for eight months while La Condamine rode off to Lima to sort out a problem with their permits. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I deliberately took unnecessary cold medicine — the kind that knocked me out for a good eight hours. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I went fishing at sunup. It’s probably around eight by now.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

You don’t so much sleep as borrow eight hours from death. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon they were calling “eight” almost every time. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I have been bedridden for eight months and she only came to visit me once and ran away as quickly as she could. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Some had seven or eight and didn’t understand how fortunate they were, how blessed that their children had flourished in their wombs, lived to squirm in their arms and take the milk from their breasts. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

For years we thought of her as “snooty,” but then one night, around when we were eight, Ruth came up with another theory. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I pedal backward and practice riding no-hands, and I make big figure eights like a circus clown to keep slow pace with him as we go. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He and I went to the stream and cut two fat twigs about eight inches long. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, the pool is down to eight. I think it’s time we took off,” I say under my breath, although I doubt any of the tributes can hear me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The heirs listened to the lawyer read the next document, but their eyes stayed fixed on table eight's answer: Otis Amber. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same stories claim Mien’s own lute had eight strings in all. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It smelled like hot hair, nail polish remover, and a soft perfume, which Bridget had sprayed on at least eight out of twenty pulse points. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

"This morning the Wisdom Munciter told me that we had seven thousand eight hundred and forty. That count includes four thousand jars from King Aerys's day, to be sure." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Others say he doesn’t go to school at all, that he dropped out a long time ago, that he’s eight years older than Lupe. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The food’s boring. There’s no music. We’ve invented eight thousand games and outgrown them all, some of them literally. Why not grow into something?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I developed an eye for measuring how full a silver-looking ladle of flour, mash, meal, sugar or com had to be to push the scale indicator over to eight ounces or one pound. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That jetty was made of men, a long file of them, six or eight deep, standing up to their knees, their waists, their shoulders, stretching out for five hundred yards through the shallow waters. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was one display case featuring eight games with amazingly illustrated box tops. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It’s only eleven o’clock, but the average bedtime in Lanternwood is probably closer to eight thirty, which might explain why we don’t run into anyone. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Weeds that did well to grow waist high up the state were eight and often ten feet tall down there. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Each of the other eight masters made some sort of exasperated noise or gesture. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was ten to eight when Felix and Freebie finally jumped into the empty backseat. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t been invited to the dinner that had been served in our dining room at eight, for my parents’ guest, the ambassador from the Kingdom of Bhutan. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

These clothes are usually the shirts, pants, shoes, and jackets the members of the church’s eight study groups have given the priest for his birthday, to tide him over for the year. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He speeds down the sideline and isn’t brought down until the eight. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He trotted quickly to it and left, at last, a haven of more than a year, only eight days of which he fully recollected. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

No evidence ever identified who threw the bomb, but eight men stood trial, and four were hanged. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I might have wished for sixteen crayons instead of eight, but even when I was little, I never wished for a thousand crayons, because I knew a thousand different crayons did not exist. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I ring up Jean and tell her I’ll pick her up at eight. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom pulled me out of school and switched me to homeschooling with a side of international hospital tourism when I got diagnosed with B. cepacia eight months ago. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Standing five feet eight inches tall, Carine McCandless is the same height as her brother was, maybe an inch taller, and looks enough like him that people frequently asked if they were twins. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deirdre is on the ledge of her apartment building roof, eight stories high. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He has known all that for seven days, eight now. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would swear definitely that there had been eight china figures upon the dining table when he laid the table for lunch. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Before hybrids, a farmer could plant eight thousand corn plants in an acre. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The debt rose from one hundred eighty dollars to eight hundred under him. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he’ll face the firing squad in only eight hours, right as the sun starts to set. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"Now we're getting somewhere. It's like eight hundred kilometers from him. He can get there and back with supplies on hand." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were eight bedrooms on the second floor of the Lost Luggage Emporium. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Lupita stared at the unsmiling girl, who looked about eight years old. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“It starts at eight o’clock in that lounge off the main lobby. The bar with sofas.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Spotlights rose up all around the pool, blinding us with illumination, and a loudspeaker voice boomed: “Live to Olympus in one minute . . . Fifty-nine seconds, fifty- eight . . “Hephaestus!” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I’d say we could fix you up for less than eight hundred dollars. How soon did you want delivery? We would have to make it up for you; there’s not that much call for—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

For forty days, my mom sat in the chair for eight hours each day and never stopped erasing. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We each take five, leaving eight in reserve. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m prepared to loan you eight hundred dollars so you can be done with the whole homestead headache.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I woke up early the next morning, just after eight, and went to the computer. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She was careful to make them eight sided. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“The Reel is tipped on the beach here, but I don’t see any damage. And Captain Ahab is here to live another day of the eight lives he’s got left.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

As she worked, her eight legs were a great help to her. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

If I were going to travel to the far side of the globe and spend eight weeks away from my wife and home, I wanted an opportunity to climb the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

John and I got over to the house around eight o’clock and were all set to watch a television show when we noticed Mr. Pignati was sad as all get out. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mom had to spend eight weeks up in Charleston, taking college courses to renew her teaching certificate. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

That if they decide to publish it, it would come out in, my guess is, eight months, maybe sooner. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was nearly twenty till eight, but the coachman assured us that he could get us to the Wild West Show only a few minutes late of the eight o’clock showing. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m nine and Malachy is eight and we know all the songs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The ships were anchored about eight miles from here, off Staten Island. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were cut lashings of net twine visible there, loose ends dangling, ten or twenty figure eights, cut through cleanly on an angle. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The farmers supply eight different varieties of dried maize to his shop, Itanoni, where the kernels are carefully ground, hand-pressed into tortillas, and cooked fresh for customers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She counted eight before she settled into a troubled sleep. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The chamber was empty but there were eight rounds of flares fitted in a plastic container, short and squat and newlooking. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

According to a study by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, each year the average jockey is injured three times and spends a total of almost eight weeks sidelined by injuries incurred on the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did worry that the house was too far away from the train station—the eight and a half miles would take about an hour by horse-drawn carriage. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took two hours so I made eight dollars and fifty cents an hour. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Through the window screens, from eight floors up and a couple blocks away, under the jam that's playing, you can still hear the sounds of singing. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I put the top back on the box and put the empty shoe box under the other one—the eights. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Besides, says Mrs. O’Connell, when you think of what the English did to us for eight hundred years that man had no right to complain over a little ham and sherry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For one, eight years is a hell of a long time to be clean. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Miraculously, inside each egg one cell became two, two became four, then eight. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He continued: “Saturdays they come in nine to one. In the summer, it’s eight to two.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe an eight has been out this month,” she says, thinking about the daily number combinations. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The junior and senior years at Stuyvesant were morning sessions, beginning around eight and ending at one without a lunch break. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

At eight o’clock in the morning it hit 94, with the ambitious plan of reaching 103 before noon. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below, the Hound had sunk back down upon its eight incredible insect legs and was humming to itself again, its multi-faceted eyes at peace. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had roses in the house at Manderley for eight months in the year. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There would be eight delegates from Cambridge alone, including Rutherford, Chadwick, and Cockcroft. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad’s eight children now were all deeply involved in key capacities in the Nation of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of our second day on the train, June 13, eight days before the summer solstice, we passed through spine golden hills and over the Mississippi River into St. Louis. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Or any of the other fifty I’ve been in for the past eight months of my life. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I was eight and had only met Grandma Millie a few times. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The second time was when I was eight and her parents visited. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“That’s impossible. How could a human know about time-stoppage? Anyway, this is no time for theorizing, Foaly. I have less than eight hours to clean up this mess. So what have you got for me?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I put eight pounds in the post office for my fare to America and that night we have a big supper of ham, tomatoes, bread, butter, jam. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Evan said that this card, the eight of cups, meant she was “crossing over,” leaving something behind and moving toward something she wanted. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I arrived home on the same day I had left. Don’t ask me how. I don’t know. After eight days at home, I came back here.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was recommended that every signal company have eight code talkers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were perhaps twenty-five pages of entries since the first of January—eight entries on this day alone. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at his watch; it was after eight. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scored eight points, made two assists, had one block, and got three rebounds. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Axel Dane ordinarily opened the San Jose recruiting office at eight o’clock, but if he was a little late Corporal Kemp opened it, and Kemp was not likely to complain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We had been rolling for eight days when the train jerked hard and began to slow. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She was the only one of my eight Central friends 1 had invited to my party, because I wanted to escape all thoughts of being an integration person. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys, from eight to fourteen years of age, looked alike in straggling knickerbockers and broken-peaked caps. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, there were still eight minutes left on the quiz clock, so I decided to use the extra time to take a peek at the coding,” he says. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Anybody who has seen two episodes of The Shield knows that if a perp isn’t identified in the first forty- eight hours, the likelihood of nailing him is cut in half. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

No one in this age of telephones and motorcars could believe that giants seven or eight feet high existed in crowded Surrey. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Just imagine what would happen if all eight of us were to feel sorry for ourselves or walk around with the discontent clearly visible on our faces. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It’s been almost eight years since that accident happened. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If the brackets stick out far enough to accommodate two panels, I could store eight additional panels that way. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family maintains at least eight country houses, according to books by his former chef and a former bodyguard. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Estraven had done a great deal for me in the last six or eight months, but I did not expect or desire such a show of personal favor as an invitation to his house. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“OK. You can pick me up at eight if you like.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her class ended at eight, but I wanted to see the room where—not so long ago—I had struggled over simple reading and writing and learned to count change of a dollar. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You stay in the booths there eight hours a day until you bring somebody in.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The improvement I would have made in years of playing tennis in the ghetto would not have equalled the improvement I made in those eight weeks with the squad. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said to her, “You know what happened an hour ago? Exactly at eight o’clock, the phone woke me up. Some man said, ‘Wake up, brother’ and hung up.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been stroke for the second eight recently, and though everyone had been kind, he thought he was happier taking the pace from someone else. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In a Washington courtroom a week later, G. Gordon Liddy stood with his arms folded, his face impassive, as the clerk read the jury’s verdict: guilty on eight counts related to the Watergate break-in. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

By Pearl Harbor Day there were eight hundred and forty-three people of Japanese descent living there, including twelve seniors at Amity Harbor High School who did not graduate that spring. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We have to be at the train by eight fifteen.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

That good body of his would be filled with holes by a firing squad in Dresden in sixty- eight days. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Profile House at Franconia Notch had its own private railway line to Bethlehem Junction eight miles away; its grounds held twenty-one cottages, each with up to twelve bedrooms. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s Daddy’s voice at eight fifteen at night. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They crisscrossed the country for eight or nine months of the year, speaking about suffrage, as well as other feminist topics. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So eight years later, I left again, but this time while I was away, I wrote Ynez letters. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

That whole thing unfolded a few years earlier, when Jayme was eight months old and the family still lived in Southern California. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were those eight weeks to be gotten through somehow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The execution of the judgment will take place on 27 October 1942 after eight P.M. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then in 1985, the whole of the central part of the park subsided by eight inches. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There must have been eight or ten of us in the room. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Over nine feet when he stands up straight. Mostly he slouches closer to eight.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I'd known her for a while now; she came around the deli on Wednesdays—at eight thirty exactly—and Mama would always give her a meal and bag of fruit. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Vendleri replaced the bulging ceiling tiles with eight new ones, then stepped from the ladder and stood back. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

That meant the meeting would be tonight at eight o’clock. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was beyond even rudimentary, infantry, truck-driver jailhouse swearing—I know he condemned me to eight or nine slow deaths. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As the black wave of the Permian players moved out into the middle of the held, eight thousand other souls who had filled the home side rose to give a standing ovation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pocock now had a backlog of eight orders for eight-man shells, including requests from some of the most elite rowing programs in the country: Navy, Syracuse, Princeton, and Pennsylvania. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Shuffled back to last in heavy traffic and carried hopelessly wide on the first turn, Seabiscuit slipped through the mud, but still passed eight horses to finish second. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, the announcer called us to the stage, starting with number eight and finishing with the top three on the podiums. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Blood coagulates on the ground, and to the side I see about eight or ten inmates hauling bodies into the back of a truck. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On the morning of March 14 counsels for the defense again stood before Judge Tate, there on this occasion to plead for a postponement of the trial, which was then eight days distant. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

A poor pharmacist with little in the way of advanced apparatus, he discovered eight elements–chlorine, fluorine, manganese, barium, molybdenum, tungsten, nitrogen, and oxygen–and got credit for none of them. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I waited eight hours, knee deep in slush, to grind my meal and give the lord his share. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

There are eight pawns that, when you band them together, can be strong. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

They looked at toys for a quarter, shoes for two dollars, rifles for forty-seven dollars, and even plans for a whole house for one thousand, eight hundred and seventy-four dollars. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The gargoyle leapt aside at the mention of toffee eclairs, and Harry took the spiral staircase two steps at a time, knocking on the door just as a clock within chimed eight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The poisoned fruit of betrayal, a thing of shame hidden away; I don’t understand any of that at eight. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Too tired to hunt down three andys, with the worst of the eight calling the shots. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I have to go to Support Group at eight tonight. Emergency session.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Aaron, who ended up in eight out of my nine classes, got a 100 on the start-of-school reading quiz. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sissy at twenty-four had borne eight children, none of whom had lived. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Depending on the time of day, eight to twelve porters were as-signed to the gym. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the sugar mill was a large television screen in an iron grill cage that the government had installed so that the shantytown dwellers could watch the state-sponsored news at eight o’clock every night. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Probably because for the first time in eight months, I’m a car ride away from home. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

At last the indices on the bombsight crossed, tripping away the eight 500-pounders one after the other. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Fully eight months later, I was in a boatyard farther south in California, getting my bottom paint renewed, and there was a state or county peace officer in the same boatyard. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see why he needs an ax,” continued Fern, who was only eight. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Manya came in a little before eight and served us a light breakfast. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was about twenty feet in diameter and six to eight feet deep. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the lunch break we even got matched up together, just the two of us, digging main line—eight inches wide, eighteen deep—where they were gonna install a fancy sprinkler system. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And so the day was quiet, productive — I finished my paper before eight. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

More than eight million people lived in New York City that year, so of course, not everyone’s day started perfectly. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Rearrange the ideas: This souffle recipe calls for eight eggs. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that seven or eight of those Indians lived with drunken mothers and fathers. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She worked through every minute of what was programmed to be a three-orbit mission, coming up with numbers for eleven different output variables, each computed to eight significant digits. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I work for Miss Leefolt eight to four, six days a week except Saturdays. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Arthur and I go into the kitchen and grab eight glasses for this one bottle of cider. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I see you like the toys, Frankie. But it’s almost eight o’clock and you two need to go to bed.’ The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There were eight in the party by then, not counting the wolf. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was eight and pretty good for his age. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“No. I’ve heard that we have over eight thousand already and we are still boarding.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In addition, the department allowed the Mosses to adopt eight of the children. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I think she’s said it about eight million times in the last twelve hours. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But yesterday, our maps said we had eight days left! What happened?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Better yet, folks could spend an afternoon dodging and diving in the icy waters of Lake Michigan, at one of the eight beaches that lined the city's eastern shore. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The ground was hardest at the surface, where the sun had baked a crust about eight inches deep. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Well, this ball had bounced in eight inches of muddy water, and the spare tire, under the cab, had been let down into the mud. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had come to him, this odd and lovable trio, over eight months ago, from the home of an old and dear college friend. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How is it that those condos are empty,” Kalinda says, “and across the street they’ve got eight people in a room?” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In an hour of driving, he saw a total of only eight black passengers on the buses. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It’s been eight days since my mother passed away. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of the neighborhoods we drove through was the eight square blocks around Central High School. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“No, no — here, ebony and unicorn hair, eight and a half inches, springy. Go on, go on, try it out.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I w as eight, and though I was strong by then, I was getting nowhere. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I assumed a fake identity and masqueraded as an indentured servant to infiltrate IOI’s corporate headquarters. I’ve been there for the past eight days. I just now escaped.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His height was five feet, eight inches; he weighed only 155 pounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He looks for Hill, who has already caught eight passes for 198 yards and cannot be stopped if he gets anywhere near the ball. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He droned on, giving the names of all eight. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The eight teams were assigned work desks in the rotunda. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Every eight days, he goes, a huge pot stowed in his car trunk, to a local fish store. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Food riots in Tokyo had claimed at least eight lives, and there were rumors of a revolution in Russia. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Magnificent,” said Slughorn, approaching the spider’s head, where eight milky eyes stared blankly at the sky and two huge, curved pincers shone, motionless, in the moonlight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We have a game to win! —... and we now have only four minutes, thirty-three seconds remaining in the second half and Hazelwood trails by eight. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood nearly eight feet high, locked together with a set of cables that crisscrossed from one machine to the other, making it impossible to move between them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The eight teams stood bunched in front of the reviewing stand. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

If she lost, even with two hundred and eight dollars. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Do you think it would be possible to get him down here at exactly eight fifteen?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

"If it had been as powerful, we'd now be living in a city with eight million immortals." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Again Moch held his fire and let the challenge go unanswered, and again Washington held her position, the Husky Clipper's bow perhaps eight feet ahead of Cal’s bow now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was at it all week for more than eight hours a day, until her back and neck ached, and ragged curls of unfurling ampersands swam across her vision. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She stretched out an arm and motioned at the line of eight weathered wooden buildings. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

By eight o’clock everyone except the watch was fast asleep with the sound of waves slapping and splashing against the edges of their camp. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

We are in the realm of the nebulae, eight billion light-years from Earth, halfway to the edge of the known universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken her eight years to reach the seat at the front of the office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

During the summer when I was eight, my family went by train to Saint Louis to see some of our cousins. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I get seven or eight feet from him, I’m panting. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In fact, that has been used for people as well as animals and inanimate things for some eight hundred years, and it’s standard English. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the three New London churches, there was a funeral every fifteen or thirty minutes from nine o’clock in the morning until after eight. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There she would give birth to four children, my cousins, and remain for the next eight years. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My father never went along, having become an apostate at the age of eight over the exorbitant price of votive candles. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Great Pyramid shouldered eight hundred feet into the sky, from its huge square base to the lofty apex where the queen kept her private chambers, surrounded by greenery and fragrant pools. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My next runs are normal, and by eight, the phones stop ringing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, he established eight task forces to take on the job. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the evening of October 25, a troop of eight emperor penguins waddled out of the fog and stood looking at the embattled ship. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Is it true that the Shetani got one of your keepers, Baaz? I heard it went on another rampage last night, killed eight people.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

For more than eight months, the Senate refused to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When Elizebeth, in turn, went for eight weeks without hearing from him, she felt “infinite pain and loneliness.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

One had eleven Osage wards, eight of whom had died. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She explains, “It’s most of a porterhouse steak. She only ate seven or eight bites. She said it was too gristly.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Eight years...eight years ago was when Dad died.... The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A lot of people thought so, because she was eight years younger than me, and my parents weren’t “trying for another child,” which is kind of gross if you think about it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was short for eight and his basketball jersey sat uncomfortably on his shoulders, like he hadn’t chosen it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

For the following eight months, the congregation met to worship in the nearby L. R. Hall Auditorium. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They forced all eight of the passengers from the vehicles and ordered them to sit on the curb of the traffic island that split Alameda. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But if they accepted everything quietly, then he would have no reason to get excited and, if he got a move on, could really be at the station around eight o'clock. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ninety-nine point eight,” I say, handing the thermometer back to her. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some just hold them—a tarnished flute, a mandolin missing three of eight terribly corroded strings. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You take that eight hundred dollars and commute your claim. No more fences. No more backbreaking work.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

Of the detachment of twenty, only eight had come back to Hartford. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They got to the front of the line, and Benji ordered popcorn, nuts, eight different candies, and soda. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Malia had been eight when Barack sat on the edge of her bed in Chicago and asked if she thought it was okay for him to run for president. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Antoine Thomas was the whole show last year. He was the go-to guy on every play. He ran for over a hundred yards eight times.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Samantha,” Sam finally said as his friend of the forest and wilderness left the mill house, carrying on his head the exquisite wild-cherry rocking chair he had been working on for eight months. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was probably eight or nine, and it was dark outside. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“How about ten? You and Johnny and eight friends. Then you’d have a whole table.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There were eight bunks to a room: thin mattresses, topped with regulation white sheets. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

That night, Ellsberg left the office when his boss did, at about eight o’clock. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Usually gets in about eight or nine o’clock,” said Mack. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been playing the game for eight years, as long as it took to go to medical school, serve an internship, and complete a residency, but what loomed down the road because of it? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Eight threes," the Trunchbull shouted, swinging Wilfred from side to side by his ankle, "eight threes is the same as three eights and three eights are twenty-four! Repeat that!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I see the problem: Is the answer twenty or eight? Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“All right, then. I’ll take eight quarterlies. That makes two days.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are eight people in Mother, three women and five men, all in their twenties and thirties. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Crease by crease he unfolded it, until at last there came to view eight small misshapen seed pearls, as ugly and gray as little ulcers, flattened and almost valueless. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, the society was divided into hereditary chief and commoner classes, with Hawaiian chiefs themselves subdivided into eight hierarchically ranked lineages, each concentrating its marriages within its own lineage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That an eight- or nine-year-old boy had the power of concentration to get through them was highly unusual. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Don’t you think it’s so weird that we were in the apartment together eight months ago and now we’re in this office together?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Mr. MacMahon said words like terrible he made it sound like they had seven or eight Rs in ’em ’stead of just one. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

If they ran the twenty-six franchises every day for one week, they could each make eight hundred and ninety-six dollars! The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I read about seven or eight books a week outside of my schoolwork. Have you ever read Darwin or Huxley?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Abby was the second Black I had gone to, eight months before. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mine had been in prison for eight years by then. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Up he climbed, arm over arm, arm over arm, two hundred feet now above the water, eight hundred feet now to go. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Olmsted’s road contractor deployed a force of eight hundred men and one hundred teams of horses to begin regrading the roads and laying new gravel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They’d been in this jungle for seven days and eight nights; finally, they were going to find the thing they’d entered it for. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My bout with scarlet fever came the summer when I was eight, and I had all but forgotten it. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It took thousands of workers eight months to clear 1.8 billion tons of debris from the sixteen acres of the World Trade Center site in New York. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The stripes were parallel silver lines on a black background sewed to the cloth of the sleeve about eight inches below the shoulder. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The nearest schoolhouse—which had one room and a single teacher for eight grades—was three miles away, and to get there, Tom and his siblings had to walk. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He left the house at five each morning and returned at eight each night, every day except Sunday. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Lost eight piece this time. Last time was eleven. What I tell you? Better off lose less!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the houses were decked out in colored lights, and one had a wooden model of a bearded man in a cart pulled by eight antelope. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"We've got until eight o'clock to work out our next move." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

So around eight, she makes me break for dinner for, like, a half hour, and then I get back to work. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

"I was eight when my father sent me to foster at the Eyrie," Ned said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was led to an adjoining anteroom—a smaller office, where some of the eight had gathered. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marshall met them at the door, dragging Security by one of his eight legs. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the lake, in the short part of the L, something curved and yellow was sticking six or eight inches out of the water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been newly orphaned, and even at eight, she knew that a life with Arobynn, with a new name that no one would recognize but someday everyone would fear, was a chance to start over. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“That’ll be great” She wound up trading twelve packets of SpagBol for another sleeping bag, and six for a handmade sweater, which left her with eight. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The captain was stationed with eight American soldiers in Haiti’s rural central plateau, charged with keeping the peace for 150,000 Haitians, mostly peasants, spread over a thousand square miles. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Three weeks later another storm destroyed eight hundred feet of the south wall of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

That’s why whistles: because people that sweat, and if just far enough from sweat you wont hear whistles and in eight minutes you should be that far from sweat in Boston. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perched on a corner of table eight, the young lawyer tried to start a conversation with Angela, ignoring Sydelle Pulaski, who twice asked, "Surely you must have the answer, Mr. Plum?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were eight minutes away from the scheduled time of the bomb release when the city came into view,” recalled Paul Tibbets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francesca came at eight thirty, carrying a cup of tea and dragging a small wooden ladder, the one she put out every year for the wishmakers. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’s set his alarm for eight o’clock, not wanting the day to go to waste. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ten...nine...eight...A bright yellow spark hissed, right at the bridge of skin joining the two halves of the grape. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

‘What time is it? Ten a.m. In eight hours those nine blood-thirsty brutes will be galloping off to gobble up another couple of dozen unfortunate wretches. They have to be stopped. We must act fast.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At eight o'clock the wind was blowing more strongly, but Lombard did not hear it. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Younger than her closest sibling by eight years, and nearly thirteen years younger than her oldest brother, Christine’s early life revolved around the routines of the grown-up world. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

One of twelve children raised by a single mother, my father was the third eldest of the eight boys. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Is someone in there? I’m eight years old and I’m looking for my grandma because I need her desperately.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Of the first eight significant crops to have been domesticated in the Fertile Crescent, all were selfers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

An "epiphanic moment” occurred when he read that Cook and Borah had "uncovered” the existence of eight million people in Hispaniola. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He starts at eight in the morning and doesn’t get back to his lodgings until late—often one o’clock the next morning. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I had a dismaying feeling of being eight again, eight and lost in the wrong part of town, harried by farmers’ sons. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Its eight cylinders fired, the carburetor sucking in vast quantities of fuel. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My seven sons fell in the southern land, another says, and my husband too, all eight in battle. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They come in pairs eight years apart, but then are absent for a century or more, and there were none in Halley’s lifetime.* A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

For C.P., it occurred when he was eight years old, playing football in a weedy field with a group of black children who lived just over the railroad tracks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And though it was only eight o’clock, the sun was already strong enough to warm the last of the cement steps under her feet. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Researchers had long believed that human cells contained forty- eight chromosomes, the threads of DNA inside cells that contain all of our genetic information. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The following year Ashoke is up for a sabbatical, and Gogol and Sonia are informed that they will all be going to Calcutta for eight months. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I touch the line connecting me to them, and the line connecting Evelyn to her parents, and the line connecting them to their parents, all the way back through eight generations, counting my own. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It had a shiny black case, and on the back, a gold spider stretched all eight legs in the cardinal directions. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The cat car was followed by eight Winnebago-sized vehicles, their sides covered with vinyl graphics designed to make them look like bookshelves on wheels. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Between the two grates was a space of eight to ten meters which separated the visitors from the prisoners. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, that works. So. Okay. Are you free tomorrow at, like, eight?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

However, at least eight channels up to 50 miles wide still remained to be crossed in getting from Borneo or Bali to Pleistocene Greater Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She attended school for only three years, from ages eight to eleven, but she was said to have a photographic memory and a great deal of innate intelligence. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t about to throw a rock at this guy; he was at least eight hundred pounds and taller than me and would probably take the extra time while killing me to insert the rock... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“This must say, ‘Something something down riverbank to ledge approximately eight feet below.’ The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Five cars were parked in the yard when he arrived; eight men had gathered in a single group smoking and talking quietly—one man had a bottle. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “open/closed” sign on the door read CLOSED, even though they closed at eight on Sundays. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I reckon he thinks they’d get him on the usury law if he netted more than eight percent. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first fall was seven or eight feet, the second perhaps ten. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Except that panic would be coursing through him for the entire eight hours because of where the car was going. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

We’d discounted theories one, two and eight by checking them out. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember when I was eight and my mom was about to give birth to Jeffrey, my grandfather gave me a big pep talk on the way to the hospital. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just inside the trees, there are seven or eight planks in a similar burnt condition. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In March, as I had eight pills left of my final refill, I started thinking that I didn’t need the Zoloft anymore. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said the goose, “that’s not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but I’ve too many things under my behind. Have you ever tried to sleep while sitting on eight eggs?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

A peek through a window revealed a Remington rifle, a plastic box of shells, eight or nine paperback books, some tom jeans, cooking utensils, and an expensive backpack. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama says that was the poor woman’s bad luck, because now she has got to go right on tending after her husband and her seven or eight children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once all eight cones were loaded, Daniel reached underneath and took one chicken’s head between his first finger and thumb. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

By eight o’clock, the deliveries will start arriving—chains from allover the country and all around the globe. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Neighbors complain, even the ones eight mats away, saying it’s bad enough being trapped in putrid, hot air made from fermented bodies and oily sweat, must everybody also endure something rotten? Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

My mother at this time seemed to be always working- cooking, washing, ironing, cleaning, and fussing over us eight children. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

FINN: In eight or nine hours, we will be more than half a million miles away from exactly this spot, no matter which way we go. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The full edition of his speeches runs to eight volumes and more than four million words. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

And beyond that was the fence itself, which consisted of seven or eight strands of high-voltage barbed wire, spaced about a foot apart, strung between tall poles. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

By the end of the week, the girls had managed to erect eight huts, and Taylor announced that there would be a Miss Teen Dream cutest hut contest. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

"Here's eight of it, and the rest of it is in change." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

As a result of the two laws, nearly eight million children donned the brown uniforms of the Hitler Youth in 1939. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And here's the thing, I've been running the eight hundred for three years straight. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

That was eight years ago on a Thursday morning, when Grandpa Blakeslee was fifty-nine and I was fourteen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She tells Suesetta, “Now, I want you to measure eight cups of water and a half cup of manuka honey, and let’s get that pot on the stove.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The panicked jockeys behind him launched frantic rallies to catch him, but they could only cut the lead down to eight lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anywhere between eight days and a halfmonth, depending on where it is in its solar orbit relative to Gethen. It might be on the other side of the sun.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Mel, as he’s known at Poky, runs a team of eight cowboys. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I’d been swimming for about eight weeks and was making fair progress. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I made it eight of us, and they included a judge and an official of the Ministry of Education. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kitum Cave opens in a forested valley at an altitude of eight thousand feet on the eastern slope of the mountain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between Coalwood and Big Creek High School were eight miles of twisting, potholed roads. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Close to eight o’clock that night, the phone finally rang and when my dad, who answered it at my mom’s terrified urging, hung up, he shook his head. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“You mean I have eight thousand dollars on top of the other eight thousand?” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

So ... the campaign would start around eight that night. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after a few minutes of nonstop running across the blacktop in a sort of figure eight, my lungs were burning and I had a sharp cramp in my side. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After the round of eight came the semifinal rounds, and eventually the finals, where the last two fencers would fight for first and second place in the entire tournament. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Hearth-brothers, or friends,” he said, and saying it was remote, out of reach, two feet from me in a tent eight feet across. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

For me, school only stopped being eight hours of daily stomach surgery when I realized everyone wanted me to sketch them more than they wanted to talk to me or bash my face in. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

That may seem like plenty of room, but try being trapped in a van for eight days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m deeply grateful to the eight men and women I interviewed for their courage in recounting and reliving their experiences, and letting me share them in this book. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

After that, it was eight hours of digging and sifting and hauling to find what was left of the children. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jamie runs his finger around the sand, making figure eights and messy zigzags. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Both were squires, both were eight, and both were Walder Frey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Not so lucky is the woman next to him: she has a different set of HLAs, which are able to pick up and transport only eight of the ten varieties. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

So what you might do is select a string of eight or ten consecutive questions and fill in the correct answers for, say, one-half or two-thirds of your students. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They divided the stuff into eight loads of about 5 6 seventy pounds each, figuring it would be foolish to try to carry more over the rough terrain ahead. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was required by Army regulations to show up for work at eight o’clock in the morning, but he usually drifted in around ten o’clock, and then worked until all hours of the night. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We used to sleep like that all the time, but when we turned eight, Papa said we had to sleep in our own beds. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He stood eight centimetres short of the standard Alpha height and was slender in proportion. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both had started playing chess seriously at the age of eight and had dropped out of high school to be able to play chess full-time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Should he have planted the twenty- eight thousand pecan trees when the only thing he knew about pecans was that “they’re all named after Indians?” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you step on the court with players like Kobe Bryant or six foot eight point guards who can dunk from the free throw line, your mind begins to concentrate on your other options. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"Ascent time: eight minutes, fourteen seconds. On course for Hermes intercept." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, as predicted, his fever was lower, his breathing grew easier, and his heartbeat slowed down; still, that day he slept seven hours out of each eight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had more than eight dollars in cash. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

No. And you not going to have your own special toilet and your own special-made eight- foot bed either. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was eight, I overheard my mother talking to my Aunt Ophelia on the phone. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Two nights later the city’s unions met with officers of the fair to demand that they limit the workday to eight hours, pay union-scale wages, and hire union workers before all others. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

For eight months they had lived and multiplied in the haystack. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

At two months old, she had weighed only eight pounds. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cornell, in third, had all but disappeared, eight lengths farther back. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At the top of the funnel, the golden bat hung in space performing an intricate, upside-down figure eight. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The woman had fixed Naima’s mistakes as well as completely cleaning, scraping, and repainting eight panels. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

War Relocation Authority announced that islanders of Japanese descent had eight days to prepare to leave. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Let’s hear it for contestant number eight!” the emcee announces for a second time. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Behind this group eight sturdy fellows bear the royal litter, rough with yellow sapphires, in which no king has ridden for centuries, a ceremonial relic of the very-long-ago. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had been eight days of forced meals, stubbornness, and waves of tears. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He thought these books had all been burned eight years earlier. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Howard motored down in the first of eight Buick limousine coaches packed with thirty of his closest friends. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no one on the island but their eight selves. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“I don't think we have more than about eight miles more.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

That very same evening we canned the first six jars and made eight jars of jam. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Even with the concert tickets, the private jet, and eight hours wasted online shopping, they weren’t even halfway. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

If it had been necessary to do so, we would have driven the eight hundred miles from our old house to our new house straight through, without stopping at all. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But that was when I had only fifty- eight missions,” he explained, puffing on his cigar luxuriously. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

At half-past eight, Dicey herded everybody back into the mall, to use the bathrooms they had found earlier. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonya was the coxswain for a young men’s rowing crew, and they all went to enlist as soldiers together when the war started—“eight boys and myself,” Tonya said. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A favorite activity of the kids was to form a group in a circle and scream: “Two, four, six, eight, we ain’t gonna integrate.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word "octave" comes from a Latin root meaning "eight." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I had planned to lodge the night in the town of Tavistock, where I arrived a little before eight o'clock. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Like running eight hundred miles or however many we ran was no big deal to him. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A state salary goes far in small-town New York—correction officers, after eight years, make nearly $40,000 and enjoy numerous job benefits. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its walls were made of thick iron sheets that reached eight feet from the bed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Marian completed eight grades at Stanton Elementary School. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

It looks to be about eight miles or so. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“And eight will be left when we count up the dead. Well, one down and three to go,” said Ripred, poking the spider with the end of his tail. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse shooed Emmett and his brothers out of the ward to the room designated for colored blood collection, where they’d donate eight pints of blood. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He rolled to one side as all eight hydra heads spit acid, turning the floor where he’d been standing into a steaming crater of melted stone. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the previous year, twenty-nine of the school’s current and recent students had been shot, eight of them fatally. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In contrast, a neighboring highland people with whom I worked for eight years, the Daribi, are especially conservative and uninterested in new technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Immie’s collection of rings, eight of them in animal shapes, were on top of the dresser. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You celebrate the dead man’s life—or in this case, his eight lives.You were supposed to be the ninth, Matt.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around the stage to see the tearful eyes of the other eight. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

By eight o’clock in the morning, weariness had settled into our veins, our limbs, our brains, like molten lead. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to console himself with the idea that “The Prophecy of Gray” had said that eight of them would live. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our American Cousin starts at eight, and his plan will go into action shortly after ten P.M. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Those teenagers made up seven to eight out of every ten slaves brought to Americas sugar Hell. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Violet had a brother who was eight years older, and he always treated her like a doll. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The last vote was eight to four in favor of guilty. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

How would you like to be King of the Planet for eight glorious years, and then suddenly get demoted to Vice-King? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After only eight days of testimony, both parties rested. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Before long, I didn’t see how I was going to be able to stick it out there eight hours a day; and I nearly didn’t. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His feet seemed too big for his body, with cracked dirty toenails, eight toes on each foot But the top half of his body was the weird part He made Janus look downright normal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The hostages went first—one hundred boys between the ages of eight and sixteen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The World Power Conference and the International Management Conference were going to meet in eight months in England and Czechoslovakia, respectively. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It took like eight seconds. I actually almost finished it like two weeks ago; I just didn't realize it worked.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Two remain at his side from eight A.M. to four P.M. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We still had to have my party, and my brother had to get to bed by eight and I by nine—though maybe because this was a celebration, we would get to stay up later. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Celia took to her bed by early summer and stayed there for the next eight months. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now I felt that it was not enough; I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Bethany is only eight. A gentle girl, full of laughter. She has never been more than a day’s ride from my hall.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Up on the Wonder Dome screens, Kyle saw the enormous image of eight empty library carts and two rolling bins bulging with books. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He got there before eight every morning and stayed late into the night. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he sure lit out the way he’d come when Grandma fired just over his ragged ears, as he’d probably used up eight lives already. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“All those supposed to be attending the eleven o’clock shift instead of the eight o’clock one, please step outside.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We knew a lot more than when we went in. We had been there eight months.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty-three students were wounded in the hail of gunfire, some of them with as many as eight separate wounds. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe I needed to be an octopus, because there is no way anyone without eight arms can do all the stuff the girl in the video was doing. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s not uncommon for them to stay until seven or eight o’clock at night doing their homework. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And that,” said Mrs. Reynolds, pointing to another of the miniatures, “is my master—and very like him. It was drawn at the same time as the other—about eight years ago.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m not ... I hadn’t been drinking when I saw them. It was eight thirty in the morning.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half the church’s eight hundred members quit in protest. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“A burst of tear gas began,” recalled Sheyann Webb, then eight years old. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the medal ceremony, I lined up with the top eight finishers to march into the arena. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’s been eight months since the last time this happened, after all. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The next contestant is a tiny boy, hardly seven or eight years old, with a neat bow tie and hair that hangs over his eyes. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was eight in the morning, and the world was misty and chill. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

What looked like a long silver ribbon shot out of it, which twisted itself into a large figure eight. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The United Nations estimated that about eight thousand people were killed, most of them murdered by the Haitian army and its paramilitaries. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

About eight weeks later, I heard a sound that erased all traces of resentment: a swishing, watery heartbeat picked up on ultrasound, emanating from the warm cave of my body. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There was also a strange, cone-shaped, extremely fine mesh net—a foot across at the mouth and tapering to a point, and perhaps eight feet long—that made no sense to David at all. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take some satisfaction in the fact that I’m only under her supervision for another eight hours or so. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It’s almost nine o’clock, and I gotta run down eight flights of stairs. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Not one. Bound, to come up soon, so I’m hanging an eight on everything.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked eight logs, each running close to eight inches thick and roughly eight feet long. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It takes me a few minutes to get their names straight—Pam is eleven, Lacey is ten, and Jenny is eight. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And then, "Now let's go back to one. Ten, nine, eight..." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

And then he'll have me open eight presents in a row, which just drives home the fact that I won't see him again until New Year's. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It seems an odd name for a frequency that is two times, not eight times, higher. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Out came a skinny fox, about the size Pax had been at eight months, blinking in the sunlight. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The strategy worked brilliantly, for about eight seconds, until TOC caught hold of his arms. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Shielding my eyes from the sun with my hand, I could make out eight black men in fleece-white frocks sitting in the jeeps. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I know I’d lived on that tiny island for eight years before I began to be more than just curious about my name. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In eight days the nation will elect Bill Clinton president. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bryant owns eight cars, mostly antiques, and a garage to store them all. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The sisters enjoyed traveling, and when they were nineteen and twenty-one, they went to Geneva, Switzerland, and spent eight months with their favorite aunt, Jessie, and her eccentric Italian husband, J. C. de Sismondi. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At Michigan, I was probably programming eight or ten hours a day,” he went on. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

His first thrust took him down a good eight feet but the visibility was only five feet beyond that and he could not see bottom yet. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I may be goo on the inside, but octopuses are basically made of goo and I’ve got all eight tentacles in motion. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Next up, help me welcome contestant number eight!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

If during the next eight days, everything worked as advertised, then our job would be fairly simple. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can always put out four pages instead of eight if that’s what we have to do.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A relatively large number of officers—eight to a dozen—were assigned to each meal because of the prison mess hall’s well-known reputation as a place where in-mates can “go off.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ticket windows didn’t open until ten after eight, and the line moved excruciatingly slowly. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The story went on to say that Jan was being held for investigation at the Eleventh Street Police Station and that Mary had been missing from her home since eight o’clock Saturday night. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It must be seven—no, eight years ago. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It’s huge—actually eight posters that I taped together—and shows all the major stars, constellations, and sections of the Milky Way visible from the Northern Hemisphere. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out there was only one train straight to Kobe, and it would be leaving at ten that night, to arrive in Kobe at eight in the morning. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A couple of girls thought it was her birthday, and she had thanked them and unwrapped the presents without telling them she wouldn’t be fourteen for eight more months. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Traveling at a slothlike pace, it had taken three days to map eight miles. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The pain made it seem as if dozens of them had been slammed into his leg, but there were only eight, pinning the cloth against his skin. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I started working at Miss Walters’ eight years ago, all Miss Hilly talked about was how she and Johnny were going to get married someday. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Resourceful as always, the young women collected the remaining fuel from each of their twenty aircraft and distributed it between eight lucky planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The house is located in a tiny hamlet, a Hooterville of eight stone houses huddled in a knot and surrounded by rolling hills decorated with cows and sheep. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Of my fellow servers, everyone who lacks a working husband or boyfriend seems to have a second job: Nita does something at a computer eight hours a day; another welds. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calvin says, “Me? Heck no. I’d stink at that game. But I’m asking you. Sure you can send a ball through a twelve- or fourteen-incher. Easy. But what about that eight over there?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Of these eight, only two, flax and barley, range in the wild at all widely outside the Fertile Crescent and Anatolia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mama read the paper and then she and Laurie went to bed at eight o’clock. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We park in front of a house with eight windows and billowing curtains. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

But he knew better than anyone that it had only been an act eight years ago. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

If he said he would be somewhere at eight thirteen and forty seconds, that’s what time he would arrive. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Mr. Dalton. Now, tell me, why is it that you charged the Thomas family eight dollars per week for one room in a tenement?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Castle battlements arose upon my view at eight o’clock. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

They could take whatever precautions they wanted to, but Gregor felt sure Ripred could kill all eight of them in a flash. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before the Civil War, eight different plays based on the life of Uncle Tom had been written and produced, without Mrs. Stowe’s consent. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went over basic strategy, how to read the keys for the six sweep and the ten tackle trap and the waggle at eight, what to do depending on how Nimitz lined up on offense. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Tally had eight hoverboards connected side-to-side, twice as wide as she was tall, no thicker than a stiff sheet of paper. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Axel and George spread out before Dr. Martin, the teacup sheet stretching at least eight feet between the two. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But the nearest one is in Delhi, over eight hundred miles from Calcutta. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My legs are aching to be stretched after being cooped up for eight hours. I might just run from here to Erie and back.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

First, when she was eight, going on nine, her mother had died, an event not immediately recognized by Elizabeth as a disaster, since she had scarcely known her mother and had certainly never loved her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We’ll start at eight and be finished by the time the Angelus rings at twelve. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

If you want to know what eight hundred thousand links look like, picture a forty-foot silo attached to a small barn. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Evy’s husband and his horse, Drummer, had been bitter enemies for eight years. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Six to eight inches. More on the higher elevations.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if that’s what it’s like for people born with eight toes or a weird birthmark; if you always forget you’re different until you see a photo of yourself. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Eight feet by eight feet and brightly lit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I reserved a table for one, for eight o’clock. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Hatsue was a tall woman—five foot eight—but nevertheless able to squat low between the berry rows for quite some time without pain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Would you like to see them, sir? The hutch is up by the spring. I’ve got eight newborns— just bom yesterday.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could size up a horse by the time I was eight, and a good thing too. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They came in a staggering eight lengths behind them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was so light and precious, and since I had eight years on him, I already felt like he was my responsibility. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Another eight million civilians perished because they were caught in the cross fire, or struck down by the starvation and disease that war brings with it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The boy, with curly chestnut-brown hair, is maybe eight or nine years old. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Mozart was devastated when his childhood friend was killed in a boating accident just eight years later, the same year as the death of Mozart’s mother. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We were on day eight since RiRi, keeping a steady pace with early mornings and late nights, when we were jerked to a stop by Miig. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

In eight more days, unless Piper could pull off the plan Aphrodite had explained . . . well, there wouldn’t be any more movies, or theatres, or people. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Thirty thousand years ago, a Chinese forager might leave camp with her companions at, say, eight in the morning. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled the wagon for about eight blocks until they came to the big, new house that was being built. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘But you remember how I first thought of eight, and then later I thought of a ninth?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except maybe the eight bulging asbestos ceiling tiles, which now had about as much bulge as asbestos ceiling tiles can. take. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I switched on a lamp and sat on the cedar chest at the end of her bed, where I folded and unfolded my hands eight or ten times. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The eight guardians; you know of whom I speak.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When I get in, Melissa, whose shift begins earlier than mine, will tell me how things have been going—“Can you believe, eight carts this morning!”—and how many carts are awaiting me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her smile burst out again making her look closer to eight than eighteen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Throw my little brother, Sekani, in there and you have the same person at eight, seventeen, and thirty-six. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Grim it stood above the northern cliffs, grey were the clouds over the seas of winter, endless the lists and ranks and rounds of names that the Namer's eight pupils must learn. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

By eight thirty, she was so tired, I practically had to carry her home. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Number eight was that the best programmers Pembroke knew for that particular problem happened to be two high school kids. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The two boys had already been coping alone for eight weeks. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Bible commands us to rejoice during the eight days of celebration, but our hearts were not in it. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there are some traditions in Africa that use six or eight notes within an octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

By eight o’clock, Madam Pince had extinguished all the lamps and came to chivvy Harry out of the library. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She was a waitress at Mr. Gee’s, an all-night café off Main Street on the edge of town, so she was always gone by eight o’clock and didn’t come back until the next morning. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was dark out—it must have been seven or eight. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Thereafter she did so—two girls, eight and four, who walked behind her, and a boy of eleven months whom she carried in her arms. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

While the fire catches, I sweep out the snow that has accumulated under the empty windows, using a twig broom my father made me when I was about eight and I played house here. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Church records placed membership numbers over eight hundred before the bombing; after the bombing, that number shrank by 50 percent. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I would say probably within the last six to eight months I've seen a real increase in the brutality of the crimes, and also younger kids doing the real brutal stuff. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He is seven or eight, comely, with black hair and bright blue eyes. Visitors oft thought him Lord Renly's own son." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I curse whoever invented adolescence and ask God to keep me upright and odor-free for another eight minutes. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I like to study. I play all games. I read books. I hate the piano. My father’s an engineer. My mother’s a landlady. I have eight cousins, and we all are Chinese.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Harry had one horrifying glimpse of eight shining black eyes and razor-sharp pincers before it was upon him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Though I had left the island eight years before, my memories of prison were still fresh and untinged by nostalgia. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, as late as 1894, when the average English person was eating close to ninety pounds of sugar a year, the average Russian used just eight pounds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Show’s not till eight,” she says in her Breton French, and he nods as he limps past. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Be afraid, ’cause I’m rolling eight!” he tells me as we drive to Scatterpin Bowl. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It’s only eight o’clock at night but everyone has gone to bed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then the usual number of shows was doubled up—if I’m not mistaken, eight shows a day, instead of the usual four—and Hamp’s pulling power cleaned up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The regiment was living at that time in a school building furnished with folding wooden beds, and when the surviving aircrews returned to their bunks they were stricken to see eight beds still folded up. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The guests start arriving around eight, and the liquor starts flowing, and Alex orders a middle-shelf whiskey to get things going. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’d flown into Guam eight times before, and in fact, he had specifically mentioned it in the briefing he gave before takeoff. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

For seven, eight, or ten minutes, or however long it takes, no blinking, no movement, my eyes open but as still as a rock. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had eight legs, and she was waving one of them at Wilbur in friendly greeting. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Usually phrases vary from four to eight beats in length. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“You were a lot smaller eight years ago,” Natalie said, almost apologetically. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

From eight billion light-years away we are hard pressed to find even the cluster in which our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded, much less the Sun or the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The watch on the wrist of the first soldier says forty-seven minutes after eight. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His next known movement was in 1786 when, abruptly and mysteriously, he turned up in Philadelphia with his wife and eight children, apparently on the verge of destitution. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He paused and then said, “Out of the original eight, three are left.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the Chrestomanci stories Mummy read to me and Gat the year we were eight. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s eight in the morning over there. I think it’s fine to call now.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

But he makes my eight hidden Jews have to whisper and tiptoe, even with the chickens, and that makes them testy. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And on Mondays eight servants including an extra gardener toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

At eight o’clock an announcement comes over the intercom. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The line of shooters is never more than seven or eight deep, yet it never ends. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

And I was going to be bored to death for eight months. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Into the cavern rushed eight of the strongest miners carrying an immense caldron which bubbled and sizzled and sent great clouds of savory steam spiraling slowly to the ceiling. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The training course was meant to be six months, but after eight weeks I received a telegram from the ANC urgently requesting that I return home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frederick was a gifted translator who spoke eight or nine languages, but in America he had to take whatever job he could get. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The next day, the sloop-of-war upon which they sailed returned, and reported the melancholy news that they had met with resistance at a rebel farm, and that eight men were lost. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Miss Kramer had enclosed a glossy, eight by ten print of herself wearing an anklet, a strapless bathing suit, and a white-duck sailor’s cap. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She didn't need a lemonade stand on Sunday if she had two hundred and eight dollars today! The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

It’s also our only fifteen-minute period, which means that I have about eight minutes left to do this. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was also a girl who looked no older than eight, whose clouds of silvery hair made Harry feel sure that she was Fleur Delacour’s sister. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The next thing I knew, Buzz was talking on the radio, and I realized that it was “morning”—or, at least, eight hours had passed. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not gone through the things he’d packed in them in more than eight years’ time. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

So we went out for a walk, and he didn’t deliver me to my door until ten past eight. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In eight minutes, she and Leo needed to be at the Doors of Death to let their friends out. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"Only reason I'm taking you to the Quad is 'cause I'm not gonna spend eight fifty on some karate movie or action feature about some outer-space somebody wanting to blow up the Earth." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

After eight hours of dull, physically intense work, I had 137 holes to show for it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father had died when I was about eight years old, and Paraikon, my much older brother from my other mother, was now the head of the family. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was around eight in the morning, and Amanda was heading for grade school, like hundreds of other kids all over town. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four twenty-five twenty-six twenty-seven twenty-eight twenty-nine... The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Twelve whole dollars. That’s funny. But at least it’s better than the eight bucks you paid me last week.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was nearly eight before he had the black coffee in a cup. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel worked as a helper in a beauty parlor for eight dollars. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The entrance hall was packed with students too, all milling around waiting for eight o’clock, when the doors to the Great Hall would be thrown open. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The three splintered beams in the ceiling hold up God knows what load: ten tons of carbonized hotel and the corpses of eight anti-aircraft men and untold unexploded ordnance. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At eight years old, Timmy had distributed illegal communist leaflets in tsarist Russia; as a teen, he survived being executed by firing squad by playing dead on the ground for two days. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I even told him about the eight new chickens. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“But it doesn’t matter. I can’t find anything. I guess maybe eight years was too long ago.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The world outside my window looks nothing like it did eight hours ago. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps eight feet wide and eight feet high, and would have been invisible from anywhere else in the Pipeworks. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The eight tiles surrounding the glowing tablet also started to glow. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“In the old days a hundred throats were cut every Saturday night, and money was as rare as a rattlesnake higher than eight thousand feet, and everybody dropped dead from TB before they were forty.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trampita offered to help me clean the gas company on Friday so that I could finish work in time to make the performance at eight o’clock. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He hath been sold at eight from his mother's side, and now must daily watch another boy enjoy coddling, plaudits, and idleness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I was hired at eight dollars per week and promised a raise of a dollar a week until my wages reached ten. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I was a seven then, and we had to bump up to an eight. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I said it seven, eight, nine times, so many times I lost track. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was dark, maybe eight o’clock or so, and the drummers and singers were loud and wonderful. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I was around eight, Grandma and Granddaddy took me and Trey to the zoo. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

About a month later, after they've gained up to eight feet in height, the large, flat disk that is the flower will unfurl. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Penn had swapped out three of its eight Poughkeepsie oarsmen, replacing them with recent graduates not eligible to race in the intercollegiate regatta but perfectly legal in Olympic trials. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He probably hadn’t traveled much more than seven or eight miles, but there was still a whole day before his grandfather would get home from work and even suspect he was gone. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was in school the last time eight months ago and have only dim and temporary ideas of what it was like. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, gently, gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber-padded paws. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the Beatles didn’t recoil in horror when they were told they had to play eight hours a night, seven days a week. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight... What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Probably the closest I ever got to a spiritual sort of experience was during my mom’s O Brother period, which coincided with me being about eight or nine years old. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There was eight dollars and twenty cents in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m catching the eight o’clock home,” Adam said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gale had two sets of bows and arrows, one hunting knife, one fishing net, and over eight hundred terrified people to feed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

These were warheads loaded with eight to fourteen nuclear payloads, each one up to twenty-five times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s pretty useful right this minute, seeing as how we now know we only have eight days left until the world freezes over and Time stops.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His original plan for the volume was to include only fifty-two games, but as he continued to make corrections and also to play in more events, he eventually added eight more games. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then I ask him, “Top eight scores get picked?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“You stole eight months of my life for a quest that took a week. Why?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Last year, the state legislature cut Dad’s workday from fourteen hours down to eight. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The boy was eight years old when his father left Honduras. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When I got home, it was past eight and Dad was reading in the den. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The larger crater was about eight feet deep. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“But we have about eight hundred unsterilized ones who need constant drilling.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

At age eight I was bigger than most of my classmates and nearly as tall as Mama, who stood barely over five feet. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then, dividing the kennel into four more sections, he marked five more places, essentially claiming ownership and leadership over the entire kennel: all eight romping stomping pounds of him. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It’s been eight months since school started and our teacher promised I wouldn’t be in the class for long. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Beneath the surface is a magma chamber that is about forty-five miles across–roughly the same dimensions as the park–and about eight miles thick at its thickest point. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I write an eight and a one on the page. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“One sack, eight annas,” he called; then impatiently, altering his rhythm, “Not there! Behind, with the others!” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below was a pit about eight feet deep. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

First, you take construction paper and cut it into strips about two inches wide and eight or nine inches long. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The storm had been pushing him south and west at eight miles an hour for probably twenty-four hours. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead everyone was in place by the appointed hour, eight o’clock, when the masks went on and all hell broke loose. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Camera film is all I've wanted for every birthday since I was eight. I had a lot saved up." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tahlequah was a small country town with a population of about eight hundred. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fall! why, that is like a baby again! Can’t she manage to walk at her age? She must be eight or nine years old.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I guessed Denna at eight or nine stone, eight to be on the safe side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I rarely made a good ride, a full ride, but even if I had, you cannot learn much in eight seconds on an animal’s back.... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

That hurricane had killed over eight hundred people who were fleeing by rescue train when a twelve-foot surge of water, whipped up by two-hundred-mile-an-hour winds, swamped the passenger cars and took them all away. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

We had known each other since we were eight years old. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We stand here and talk, and in seven, eight hours it will rain and we don’t have shelter or dry wood or a fire going. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? I haven’t been friends with him since we were, like, eight.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I had eight hours before I had to be at school. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

So how does she hold up for an eight- or even nine- hour day? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werner is eight years old and ferreting about in the refuse behind a storage shed when he discovers what looks like a large spool of thread. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘I believe I owe you eight shillings?’ he said, with a wide smile on his dark, ruddy face. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One minute they were talking about the crazy coincidence of having met about eight years ago at some random wedding. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Actually it was not a lodge at all, just eight or nine tiny yellow cabins clustered on a peninsula that jutted northward into the Rainy River. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was around eight o’clock and the streets were wet under a drizzling rain. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish were only seven or eight inches long, and when Joe was young they were all beautiful native cutthroats. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If things neural were going swimmingly with Vi, the number you detect would be about ninety- eight percent.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a group of eight girls, one prettier than the next. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“And it turns out I was right. Twelve plus six plus eight is ... twenty-six?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I found out later that it had eight sides instead of being built in the shape of a square. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than eight million villagers were forcibly removed from their ancestral homes in a Joint US and South Vietnam program. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Take your time. We have eight hours...excuse me, seven and a half hours, then time’s up for everybody.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And here Noah had dismissed them all in the. space of about eight seconds. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Mark sixteen eighteen. Across each of his eight knuckles.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In this camp, instead of having individual bunks in the endless rows of numbered barracks, eight prisoners had to crowd together at night on each of the eight-foot-wide three-tiered wooden platforms that lined the walls. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were four cop cars and eight cops standing between the crowd and the train. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Each rope was hooked up to a homemade noisemaker out in front of Jorgenson’s bunker—eight ammo cans filled with rifle cartridges. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behave well all day and you can stay an hour later in the common areas instead of having to return to your room at eight p.m. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was already eight o’clock at night, so whatever it was probably wouldn’t take long. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was fifty-two years old, a different generation, the last child of eight, who spent his first twelve years on an orchard farm where his family raised sheep and chickens. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Viserys had been a boy of eight when they fled King's Landing to escape the advancing armies of the Usurper, but Daenerys had been only a quickening in their mother's womb. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They had eight children between them—all grown, all college grads. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

That night we met at the fountain in the park at eight o’clock. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"I don't really know, I think an eight? Maybe eight and a half." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The play had taken place eight years before, five days before Christmas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, on August 3, the generals at the military tribunal reached a verdict: death for all eight saboteurs. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It was eight o’clock, and Jason was home. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only eight. And the cabinet doors are easy to open. There’s just a simple hook, half way up.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He gave eight hundred to the food drive in the cafeteria. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The nearest village, Bucktown, was little more than a settlement composed of post office, church, crossroads store, and eight or ten dwelling houses. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael was just four days away from turning ten when I was born, Gary was eight, Paula seven, and Catherine four. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

One of the eight footmen sighted me and pointed in my direction. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Within minutes the first eight chickens had bled out. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Can you get to the Trailways bus station in Indianapolis by eight o’clock in the morning?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But a tiny number— about one in eight thousand—bounced back at a sharp angle, some even ricocheting directly back at the source. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

One last Friday I handed Mrs. Croft eight one-dollar bills in an envelope, brought my suitcase downstairs, and informed her that I was moving. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Velocity eight hundred and fifty, altitude eighteen hundred and forty-three," Johanssen said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Service for eight, carrying the name of the ship. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

At the end, I had eight handwritten pages, so sloppy, only I could ever read them. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the middle of this bright green cave rose a small mound, eight inches tall, in the end of which was an arched entrance neatly lined with stone, like a small doorway without any door. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought the Daltons were bringing you home. It’s not even eight thirty.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could calculate exactly how many power cells were needed, and sieges could be extended for up to eight hours. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

‘Twenty-six! . . . Twenty -seven! . . . Twenty -eight! . . He was like a shark. He had the blood lust. The victims were hunched and trembling, walking the gangplank. “Thirty-/o#r/ . Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood together in a huddle, the eight of us, and watched Keffers go in and out of the farmhouse, expecting him to address us at any moment. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would rather not have gone for another eight days; we are to stay here that much longer and it is good here. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We should grab the radio and call for the plane and go home and eat a hamburger and a malt, maybe eight or ten Cokes, a steak, some roasts and pork chops.... The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, eight fathoms. That should be enough if I double it.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The eight toes of Cinnamon’s front paws splayed apart. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It was at least twenty-five hundred times greater than St. Helens, but perhaps eight thousand times more monstrous. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She remembered the first time she had ridden a galloping horse: She had been a child, barely eight or nine, trying to keep up with her older brothers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“No, back home. What happens when they reach the final eight tributes in the Games?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, at eight, we’re promptly at our desks, and while our father works at the other end of the house, our mother teaches us. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Next, she drove all the eight blocks around Central High School. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And there it is, as if he is eight years old again, crouched beside his sister on the floor of Children’s House: static. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

By May 29 the eight of us had flown off to Chicago to receive the Robert S. Abbot Award conferred by the Chicago Defender newspaper. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many balls could I buy with eight thousand dollars? Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Out of the eight periods a day, I only saw Tina in three—language arts first period, lunch fifth period and science seventh period. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were eight other passengers aboard, and they were all saying good-by to their relatives just as we were saying good-by to my father. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are twelve beds total: a row of eight crammed together along the far wall, and two pressed together on each side, leaving a huge space in the middle of the room. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Those eight founders were the cereals emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, and barley; the pulses lentil, pea, chickpea, and bitter vetch; and the fiber crop flax. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I see the eight of us in the Annex as if we were a patch of blue sky surrounded by menacing black clouds. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I know without looking at a clock that it is somewhere between seven forty-five and eight fifteen. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dedicated in the early third century at a cost of eight hundred talents, the Lighthouse was one of the first monumental structures completed after the city’s founding. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I wrote a letter to Lord Dunmore, which I saw read by its messenger and ripped in eight before my eyes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The guards kissed their fingertips and bowed deeply from the waist as the eight footmen carried the litter these last few paces of the journey. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

For eight nights I had sat in a corner and watched. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Besides me, eight people at this school have already listened to the tapes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He called three, four, five, six, seven, eight, his fingers jerking, unable to grip the receiver. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two bodies were removed, but “the other lay in a state of putrefaction for above forty eight hours.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, I did live on Sycamore Street. Seven twenty- eight.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A steely silence thereupon settled over the dialogue between Quincy and Monticello for the following eight years. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We got to the house around eight forty-five in the morning, and I went right into the kitchen and started making breakfast. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

By now we’d been out on the water for eight hours. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dining-room, which lay at the back of the hall, we found eight boxes of earth. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He ostentatiously counted my eight cents change and held it out so that I was forced to hold up my hand to receive it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Eight horses were rounded up, and eight Gypsy riders—one for each of us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Pol Pot is sending soldiers into villages and towns and taking all children eight years and older from their homes, including base children. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For eight or nine hours, he said, they spent most of their time together. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our session voted to begin the evening at a nearby Hooters; later, back at “800-block,” as one instructor had nicknamed the Hojo building with room numbers in the eight hundreds, matters escalated considerably. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By eight o’clock that night the whole town knew everything. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I found Bureau of Justice statistics reporting that black men were eight times more likely to be killed by the police than whites. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In Hamburg, we had to play for eight hours, so we really had to find a new way of playing. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I finally get to Liam and realize the tables only have eight seats each. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember. Seven, eight. No, I believe it’s nine.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every town in Massachusetts had a grammar school, and from the age of eight, pupils there would be taught the classics from eight in the morning until dark fell. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Safina was my playmate from the time I was about eight. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The trial would adjourn until eight o’clock the following morning, at which time the power company expected to have the lights on. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And she endured eight hours of labor before I came. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Drew had at least eight inches and forty pounds on her. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She told me that her mother was dead eight years that day, and that she always put flowers on her mother’s grave on the anniversary, but she forgot that year. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was a unique eight months in American history, and before it was over, it was made even more historic by an unprecedented development. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Or had one of us, one of his neighbors, gone to the Gestapo and sold eight lives? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her father went to work and her mother went out playing bingo in a town eight miles away. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It took Gey eight years to get through medical school because he kept dropping out to work construction and save for another year’s tuition. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Your boy’s on watch, but he’ll be down at eight bells. The kid’s hardly left your side.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Some of my recollections may be wrong; this was over eight years ago and I only knew you for a period of about eight months. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Took larboard watch eight bells last night; was relieved by Abramoff, but did not go to bunk. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

There were at least eight, ten white folks here! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At two p.m., all eight teams were once again summoned to the second floor. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were scheduled to go up against grade eight. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he came back, I started to count, with Sherman on the phone to Quentin keeping up with me, “Ten—nine—eight—seven...” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was never enough food on hand to fill all eight of us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t forget, I wanted to call after him, that you have only eight fingers, and they have Jen. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And change, plus the eight thousand from mowing.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

On September 3 he claimed that eight out of twelve patients had gotten better with just one treatment. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

On the second level just above the park, the entire perimeter is lined with eight lanes separated by white stripes just like a running track. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Injuries aside, in Aimee’s experience the only girls who continued past level eight were those who wanted to pursue an elite career. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Each device had a small control panel set into one of its eight sides, along with a serial number. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He heard the words the way Mom had said them eight years ago, and the way Emma said them now, and the tone was exactly the same. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“We just went after school. It’s probably until seven or eight. Your mother knows my grandmother?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sophie loses again the next week at athletics, this time in the eight hundred. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

One of the other coaches from Bannon’s, Selinda, also moved with us, so we made up our own little team of eight athletes and two coaches. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There were Irish children down there who looked no older than seven or eight. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

For the next eight months he worked in Zizmo’s rum-running operation, observing its odd hours, getting up in the middle of the night and having dinner at dawn. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As it crawled through downtown, the float looked something like an enormous green reptile with a sleek cedar spine and eight wavering spruce quills. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The sun had set, and I could hear my younger brothers preparing for bed, so I reckoned it to be eight o’clock or so. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It’s been eight years since Loma gave me that book, and not long ago I read through all I wrote down on its blank pages. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In Mexico, orphaned when he was eight, my father left school to work as an ‘apprentice’ for an uncle. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well I” said Arthur, and he went off sadly down the two hundred and eight stairs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am bone tired, but we done finished number eight and that means we still got four more to go. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That may seem a meaningless figure, but look at it this way—it is eight times the total mileage of America’s interstate highway system. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

His time in foster care had been horrific; he'd been in nineteen different foster homes before he turned eight. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The engine fails seven or eight times, and I walk across the lawn, open the passenger door, and get in. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were six well-trained efficient men working on each giant and within ten minutes eight out of the nine giants had been trussed up like chickens and were still snoring contentedly. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years, the Mustang’s eight cylinders roared to life every morning, rousing me from sleep. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had been at home for eight days when the dizziness finally came again. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Thing was, the wraparound part was too short, so it only overlapped about eight inches in the back. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He beached the skiff, took out his tarpon gaff, and flattened every single tire—I think there were, like, eight of them—on the Carmichaels’ RV. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

By the litter walk eight guards armed with “foray guns,” also relics of a more barbaric past but not empty ones, being loaded with pellets of soft iron. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mom never sold him, so he stayed in the garage for eight years, until my sixteenth birthday. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My sister had the cleanest white tennis shoes of any eight year-old ever. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We got one up to nearly eight hundred feet. Next time, we’ll bust a thousand, I know it!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m much older than you. I’m eight hundred and sixty-eight!” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

From about eight o’clock, he would work in his study for an hour and a half, when he would take a break to listen to Emma read letters or a novel. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of the usual four to eight pages, he was often forced to publish a single sheet. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Pick the Hits rated every song on the album, with two scoring average ratings and eight scoring below average. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It is a Tuesday, just past eight o’clock. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Has he really been asleep for eight hours? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He roared in challenge, then sprang from the middle of the monster herd and landed eight meters away, on top of the old stone well. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I was born on Halloween, and until I was eight years old my parents had me convinced that the candy people gave out when I knocked on their doors was birthday presents.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The asthmatic transferred to another class, leaving me with only eight students. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

One woman even filed a paternity suit falsely claiming that Walter was the father of her child, a child that was born less than eight months after Walter's release. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I take ’em all, from eight to eighty. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

At first all that was visible was the tops of the eight main smokestacks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I was probably between seven and eight years old when I left Colonel Lloyd’s plantation. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You mortals and your short lives. Eight months is nothing, my dear. I lost eight centuries once, missed most of the Byzantine Empire.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If they bust a play, make ’em run windsprints and figure eights but stay with ’em, Lord. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t been to bed as early as eight since her fifth birthday, but she wasn't going to the trouble of explaining that to Elinor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

After eight minutes, Smith pulled out a carrot and thrust it in the hand of the assistant. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My foot is on step eight, but I’m sitting on step ten! The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

But if the answer is “eight apples,” all you’ll get out of me is “eight.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was still eight days’ work to be done for Min. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Normally, the mere thought of a spider, with its fangs, its hairy legs, and all eight of its eyes, would repel Nathan and would make him shudder. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was five years ago, when I was eight. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

This time eight trainees hear their names called. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.52: If the time signature is three eight, a measure may be filled with any combination of notes and rests that adds up to three eight. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In four years of fighting, nearly eight million Soviet soldiers and twenty million civilians died. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was nearly five foot eight, which was tall for a Tang man in those days. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the convention, the leadership presented this declaration, plus a petition with eight thousand signatures supporting women’s suffrage, to the Ohio lawmakers revising the state’s constitution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The eight designated fliers stepped up to the balcony railing, where they were joined by Dr. Zinchenko and the panel of holographic judges: Orville and Wilbur Wright, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong, and Leonardo da Vinci. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“No need to be sorry. He died eight years ago. Anyway, I am ninety- one years old. Not many people I once knew are still alive.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The fact was, after eight months in the Boniface Estate, none of us was sorry to move out of it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen her son for the first time, in this place, when he was a child of eight or nine. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"We have a search team out there now trying to find him. But if he's the one they saw, he's been missing for more than eight hours." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

By now, everyone in the fifth grade knew that spiders come with no, six or eight eyes. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He carried the ball eight more times in the second half. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ammu was eight months pregnant when war broke out with China. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a total of eight days in that glorified hut, but I mostly just slept the first few away.The last five were the problem. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On August 3, 1959, two years and eight months after our arrests, and after a full year of legal maneuvering, the actual trial commenced at the Old Synagogue in Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All counted that made eight at the table; there were still two empty chairs. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He was torn between his loyalty to his family and friends, and his sense of guilt and responsibility for what was happening to the eight of us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Essie was eight months gone, and it was a wonder she kept the baby, but keep it she did. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Nowadays eight children sounds like a lot to most folks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken Seabiscuit 1:42 to negotiate eight furlongs on the training track, and that was under strong urging. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly it grew: four stories; eight hundred cells, 476 feet long. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Giant tulip poplars grew in the coves and at the foot of the hills, some with trunks as wide as seven or eight feet in diameter. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I worked with eight other army people including three soldiers and their wives and two other civilians. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I — live — at — seven — twenty — eight — Sy — ca — more. I — do.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when I was eight years old, I found a stone arrowhead embedded in the stump of an ancient oak tree up on the mountain behind my house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tupperware containing various candies are laid out at two, four, eight, and ten o’clock. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

So if you want one, and I hope you do, you have to bring in eight bucks. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

They repeated the process for each of the eight 140-foot towers that would support the Ferris Wheel’s giant axle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We take a photo of me every year, graduating from one duck to the next, beginning with when Dad balanced me on Quack, the littlest of the eight ducklings. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

We were slowly making our way toward our eight landing craft, ready for the signal to board. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three children, the six-year-old patient, and his two sisters, Mary and Anna, who were eight and five. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now we are wondering whether nuclear weapons will proliferate around the world by the same often-violent process, from the eight countries that presently possess them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first he was a guard dog—all eight pounds, well, nine and finally ten when the raw meat kicked in—and then he began to make judgment calls as well. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She went to bed sometime between eight and eight-thirty only to be startled awake later when a horse-and-wagon clattered past her window at high speed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every Saturday morning for eight weeks, I would take a bus to Ellis Park, where the team trained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to prison when I was eight. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Seven is good. But visiting hours end at eight. You won’t get to watch the whole thing.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He pushes off the back wall, turns, takes eight steps back, pushes off the front wall. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

By eight, three local reporters had arrived, armed with microphones and fancy equipment. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The spear she held was eight feet of black oak, tipped in rusted steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We now know that about eight such chemicals—mostly proteins—are made by the fly during the development of the egg and deposited asymmetrically in the egg. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We found ourselves in the middle of a circular chamber with eight tunnels leading out, and no idea how we’d gotten there. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She looked like she could use another eight hours. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“You mean he’s been gone eight months, and you haven’t replaced him?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When the women were eight months pregnant, the first snow fell. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The game, however, is interrupted after only eight flips, with the first man leading 5 to 3. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Pattie stood barely over five feet tall to his five foot eight inches, she kept edging him toward the door. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He told my father there were only eight Congolese men in all this land who have been to college. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nationwide, nearly seven out of eight people living in high-poverty urban areas are members of a minority group. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

How could she do to Rachel at eight what her mother had done to her at thirteen? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But if I multiply five by one and then add in the three, I get eight. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then the next watch is the dog watch; it’s divided into two watches; four to six and six to eight. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In New York, women give their eight hours to the white man,” one of the worshipers said in the poor woman’s defense. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take her out right before I leave at eight thirty. And I’ll come back at lunch to let her out again.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

As Ben fed him passes from under the basket, Bull made eight out of twelve set shots, moving in a semicircle outside the scratched-out foul line. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men, about eight or nine of them, were carrying full garbage bags from the stations office and loading them into a boat. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The eight finalists wrote their answers as quickly as they could. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

There’s one for the whole family, two for Mom, two for Sam, eight for Ford, and one for me. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You know, they said if we could get all the pieces of her together, she’d weigh over eight hundred pounds now,” he told me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After they’d gone six or eight blocks, the scenery changed even more: The street opened out into a wide boulevard with imposing buildings on either side. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Granger took a look at the clock, eight minutes left. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a little after eight o’clock, so all the shows were about silliness or murder. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next eight years or so Jojo lived in a small cell with steel bars and a cement floor. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rumor has it that Day once scaled five stories in less than eight seconds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She and Lancelot were hardly more than children when it began, and the King was about eight years their senior. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At eight in the morning of February 21, 1852, he breathed his last. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since these two plants were among the first eight crops of the Fertile Crescent, they were presumably among the most readily domesticated of all wild plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That evening, Granny and the baby were both asleep by a little after eight. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had also just moved into the house with us, making it eight of us in our small row home. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Seven or eight of them were watching me intensely. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My mom was eight and a half months pregnant. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was just me, our two dogs, and a silent, empty house like I haven’t known in eight years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On the center of Aru’s palm, the number eight was already beginning to change form....She was running out of time. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For himself, Old Chao had Henry, which turned out to be the name of at least eight kings. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every night I would cook a special tonic soup called tounau, which was not only very delicious but has eight ingredients that guarantee long life for mothers. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I report to the messengers’ station at eight o’clock.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I spent eight hours a day on a computer, feeding my stories back to the States. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kneazles have up to eight kittens in a Utter and can interbreed with cats. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charley, always a dog for water, panted asthmatically, jarring his whole body with the effort, and a good eight inches of his tongue hung out flat as a leaf and dripping. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room, barely six by eight, featured a single- paned window in the shape of a face that swung out to a discreet view of my father’s exquisitely landscaped garden of cut stones and flowers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lively debate arises over whether the number eight is shy or a flirt. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I get a good haul from the traps—eight rabbits, two squirrels, and a beaver that swam into a wire contraption Gale designed himself. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like I’m back to when I was eight starting school in Florida, and people would ask me what Congo was like; I’d say, “Poor,” and move on. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you you’d get tired waiting. It’ll be five months more before you can even see a sign, and it’ll be at least eight months more before she throws the colt, about next January.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The free companies, well mounted, could reach Yunkai in six days of hard riding, or eight at a more leisurely pace. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once in the building, we head straight to the Family and Consumer Science classroom that hasn’t been used—outside of our Iridis meetings—since the school was built eight years ago. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Beyond the wide oak-and-iron doors, eight long rows of trestle tables filled Winterfell's Great Hall, four on each side of the center aisle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One day in A-block, I found my first example: an electric heating element, maybe eight inches wide, such as you’d find on the surface of a kitchen range. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His first day on the job, Kaztauskis worked from six in the morning until seven in the evening and the next day from six to eight. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Everyone knew who Permian was and who Mojo was, and I thought it would be neat to be a Permian cheerleader,” said Bridgitte, who had lived with her grandparents since she was eight. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, since it was not permissible to ignore, those eight minutes pointed the road to a complete reformation in astronomy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did. And he's different now. I mean, we were eight. We were little kids. He's sweet now. Very protective and everything.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

In roughly eight hours, I will be sitting in an auditorium full of people who will be watching a movie I made. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After eight days on the trail, we were ready to be appalled, eager to be appalled. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even though there were only eight Negroes on board, counting my sisters and me, I had managed to disgrace the entire Negro race, judging by the head shaking and tsk-tsking going on around us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was about three years ago—I guess I was around eight. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

After eight months, the blackouts seemed to be getting worse, as if her soul were attempting to live in two different time periods at once. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In preparation for the interview, Ginzburg had read Elias Canetti’s classic work Auto-da-Fé, written eight years before Bobby was born. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I was eight, Dad gave me a stack of fairy-tale books for Christmas. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

"Bran, child, why do you torment yourself so? One day you may do some of these things, but now you are only a boy of eight." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The broad, circular table was laid with a cloth of pale gold silk printed with twining crimson and green flowers, and there were eight courses. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Seven of the eight pilots and navigators in those planes were killed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was into this world that Ma and Pa sent their two oldest children from eight thirty to four o’clock, with a two-hour break at home for lunch. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Nobody, right now. Mr. Kreuk usually comes in at eight thirty. When he gets in, I'll ask him to take care of her. I'll ask him to find a burial plot.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She is walking behind us now, a teenage girl acting as if she’s eight. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was maybe eight or nine kids around when she said it, too, including Caleb. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly bursting into light and the vision of eight hundred eyes that had gathered to see them prevail, they spread out thoughtlessly, the layup lines forming without conscience, animals of habit. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I heard about this when I was eight! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s one a.m. You took the painkillers around eight a.m. yesterday.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

That left her nothing to do but watch in amazement and horror as Arachne worked, her eight legs moving with hypnotic speed, slowly unraveling the silk strands around the statue. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The eight of us tried to settle ourselves as passengers moving through the cabin stopped to take selfies with us. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s told me about eight hundred times. Which seems kind of young to be milking goats.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Inside were ten prints, eight by ten, black and white, each glowing as if lit from behind in that peculiar way of all of Pauline’s work. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We must get rid of Mandelet; he is getting too old and careless. He said he would be here at half-past seven; now it must be eight. See what time it is, Joséphine.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

The only noticeable thing was that he would come home much earlier than usual, maybe four in the afternoon instead of the usual eight or nine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually it takes seven or eight days, but it will somehow have to get to New York City in six days to make the deadline. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Seven a.m., history; seven thirty a.m., algebra; eight a.m., The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was looking at the map, and I figure we’re maybe about eight or nine hours away from Chicago. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The messenger was a boy of eight or nine, so bundled up in fur he seemed a bear cub. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You can go when you can hike over rough terrain on those crutches for eight hours a day. Two weeks, I’d guess. Six slices.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The sun had gone down about fifteen minutes earlier, and since the lights were always turned off at exactly eight o’clock, most girls were already in their assigned beds, chatting until total darkness set in. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The highest contribution—eight hundred dollars—came from Bud Gleason; the lowest contribution—a hundred and fifty—from Granny Smith. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was eight now, but with her thumb in her mouth, she looked just like a baby. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Hillary Clinton, she said, had shown her this same view when she’d first come to visit the White House eight years earlier. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was about that time that our day-old Baltimore Sun carried huge headlines about the eight German saboteurs. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He fathered eight, to the best of my knowing," Varys said as he wrestled with the saddle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Grandma says to Mam, Your brother Pat, bad leg an’ all, was selling papers all over Limerick by the time he was eight and that Frank of yours is big and ugly enough to work. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mom comes home with my brother, Jason, who is eight. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The distance is only about eight miles—yet he seems to have stopped halfway and camped. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I called Deborah around eight in the morning, saying I was leaving my home in Pittsburgh, and headed to the conference in Washington, D.C. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And that, he thought without saying, is a lot better than seven or eight. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was not yet eight o’clock when Mama and I parked at the curb just outside Mrs. Bates’s home. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I turned twelve and reached grade eight, I’d given up on the idea of playing a competitive team sport. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

How many Spalding balls could I buy, really, with eight thousand dollars? Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I’m back in front of my laptop, faced with a greater challenge: the inscription for my headstone in no more than eight words. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A girl about eight years old was sitting cross-legged next to Mrs. O’Leary, scratching the hellhound's ears. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I offer you eight hundred for him, sir, before the test, sir; eight hundred just as he stands.” The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

My rainy-day money was hidden here, eight iron pennies I had hoarded for when my luck turned bad. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was serving eight to twenty-five years for manslaughter, he said, and for the past three months, he had been held in involuntary protective custody. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virgil was eight years old the first time he heard the story of Pah. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It's a big photograph, eight by ten probably, and it transforms the corner. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“From kindergarten. At Boulevard, back when it was still K to eight. And then the high school, of course.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Later that day, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover announced to the public that German U-boats had landed eight highly skilled Nazi saboteurs on America's shores. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

When I was eight, I had played with a crab my mother had brought home for my birthday dinner. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boxes were maybe eight inches long and had two compartments. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He needs eight hours Of sleep To cool his shoes, The tongues hanging Out, exhausted. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gat started coming to Beechwood the year we were eight. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

De la O was introduced to his platoon, made up of four squads of seven or eight guys each. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was later determined that only seven or eight inmates were fighting, but at the time it had seemed like a full-scale riot. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What did the zero say to the eight?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Canned peaches were sky high, eight frogs for a No. 2 can. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so on, until the entire seventy-five boxes had been distributed among seven or eight students. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same two syllables, the same eight letters that I had been hearing all year, and suddenly the sound struck my ear with a ping of pure silver. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Again came the blank of a pause: the clock struck eight strokes. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A block before the cemetery, the car broke down and Felicia’s coffin had to be carried the rest of the way by eight pallbearers in white. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

David Petrakis My Lab Partner cuts his apple into eight equal wedges. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was in this manner that I discovered a room for immediate occupancy, in a house on a quiet street, the listing said, for eight dollars per week. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

As it was payday, all along the streets I met black men hurrying, hurrying, hurrying, the pittances of an eight days’ week in sweatshops jingling in their deep pockets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I was seven or eight, I was too smart to be tricked, so she changed tactics. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Audrey bit her bottom lip and said, “My parents checked me into a psychiatric hospital; I spent eight weeks there and then another month with my grandparents in Jersey.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Or could the lack of a pinch be more accurately attributed to the fact that the off-duty cops simply pocketed Devine’s dough, parked in a deserted place, and logged eight hours of shut-eye every night? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ll have eight or nine thousand. A lot of fan interest down there for this game. “I want you to to keep in mind why we’re going. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walks up the eight flights of stairs and picks me up at my door. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My father even stayed up past eight o’clock to speak to him. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They arrived at eight that evening, and were told that, by the luck of the draw, Citra was to be tested last. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There was no way to tell what my story would be eight years into the future. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As the cartons of survival rations diminished, I reduced my intake till I was following instructions exactly, holding myself to only two biscuits every eight hours. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next three and a half years, American planes would drop a daily average of eight hundred tons of bombs on targets in North and South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

By the end of the first half, the Thirteens had taken eight shots on goal and missed all of them. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The hydraulics groaned and the bin raised another eight feet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was a large room, only sparsely furnished: a long table with eight chairs, a cupboard, and a heavy sideboard. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see my future husband until I was eight or nine. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her Glasgow Coma is an eight. Let’s bag her now!” she screams. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This cat, with the small flames dancing in its oblique eyes, was perhaps seeing the pageant of its past eight lives, reviewing them with an animal's stoicism, beyond hope or fear. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the tree Fadi had fallen out of when he was eight, when he broke his nose. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A wooden table stood in the exact center, eight chairs tucked in around it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

At least thirty wizards, seven or eight to each dragon, were attempting to control them, pulling on the chains connected to heavy leather straps around their necks and legs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My mom said good-bye to her husband of eight years and the love of her young life, neither of them wanting to acknowledge it could be months or years before they'd be reunited in America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Middle of winter I almost drowned in a cow pond when I was little, maybe eight. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Tonight—tonight I will sleep in this room one more time, in this bed where Julie cried herself to sleep in my arms eight months ago. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Since Washington had spent eight years sending American soldiers to their death in battle against Great Britain, one might expect that he harbored even more hostile opinions toward his former adversary. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon, we were both making figure eights all over the desk. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Since the Indianapolis experiment was disbanded, which was about eight years ago. I could have integrated into the greater population, outside the experiments, but that felt too overwhelming.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

On one visit there were eight foster kids, and my brother shared a room with five other boys. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe about eight months ago when I contracted B. cepacia and they ripped my name off the transplant list. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

By eight o'clock people driving in the area began to report attacks. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

So I decided to confront her about the free-lance work I’d done for her firm, eight pages of brochure copy on its tax services. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m well protected here. There are eight bodyguards on my premises alone.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Frankly, sir,” she said, “I know of few men worth repeating eight times.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Would it kill you to be home before eight o'clock at night? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They made me question the first eight years of my life, and now this little boy is making me question the last five. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The buildings, eight or ten of them, are charcoal and ash and there ain’t a whisper of Noise nowhere. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was so weak that he’d usually fall asleep by eight o’clock. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I got eight kids and they go to the movies too.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A school district this size, with approximately twenty-six thousand students in all grades, should have eight to ten National Merit Scholars a year, not just one, said Hayes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fate of the eight is contained in his hands. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The engineer urged that as a precaution the ground “be covered with eight feet of feather bedding.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Mother Smith sent word that she had to help a family of eight that had just lost their mother. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This seemed like a reasonably astute observation to me when I was eight, but it turns out to be incorrect on a few levels. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“That was Milton Harper. He’s like seven or eight.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then eight people have to disappear to the well-curtained attic and lie on the floor unmoving, in complete silence, miserable and sweating, while Lubek talks and smokes cigarettes at my half kitchen table. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In those days Japanese women on the mainland were rare, one for every seven or eight Japanese men. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

French II started at 8:10, and figuring it couldn’t take more than eight minutes to put on some clothes and walk to the classrooms, I set my alarm for 8:02. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sure, he was strong, but Tyson was a little kid in Cyclops terms, maybe seven or eight years old, mentally. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get to work. Open your books to chapter eight.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“They’re still pretty good layers. We get eight or ten dozen eggs off them every day and sell what we don’t eat to the Cowgills.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some described being transferred between bases eight or more times in as many years, in each instance needing to start over in settling their children into things like music lessons or enrichment programs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There are eight empty rocking chairs on my porch. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I’m willing to bet I’m the only Drake student who’s ever managed to get eight reports in one quarter without being expelled. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They arrived a little after eight in the evening, somber and shell-shocked. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

All in all, the sisters spent almost eight months in jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In a small room, eight people clapping can be a lot. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The restaurant closed at nine p.m., but Mama would come pick Hanako up at eight o’clock and take her home. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We had all been surprised when accused number eight, James Kantor, had been arrested and grouped with us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already, at eight o’clock, the streets were dry as bone. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Doctors operated behind my ear—for nearly eight hours— trying to repair the facial nerve that had been cut by the bullet. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For instance, I spoke to eight thousand students at the University of California, and the press there gave big coverage to what I said of the power and program of Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was gone eight, they had been in the wood for more than two hours. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I think she’s seven or eight, quite musical, and she loves the piano, just like you.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

From the waist down, his body was one giant serpent trunk - about eight feet of green tail undulating behind him as he moved. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We waited hopefully, but the eight bulging tiles stayed intact. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I want to marry Freya. Bring her here in eight days from now. I’ll return the hammer of the gods as a bride-gift on Freya’s wedding night.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, when we look at a quasar eight billion light-years away, the fact that we are seeing it as it was eight billion years ago may be very important. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m friends with Marjorie, and she put up like eight pictures of you. Well, not of you, you’re just majorly photo bombing them.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Dress robes will be worn,” Professor McGonagall continued, “and the ball will start at eight o’clock on Christmas Day, finishing at midnight in the Great Hall. Now then —” Professor McGonagall stared deliberately around the class. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“We’d have to get the use of the radio transmitter somehow; then hide out for at least eight days, with the Sarf alerted...Not much chance.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It usually took Chacko between eight and ten days to assemble the aircraft, with its tiny fuel tank and motorized propeller. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby gave Michael lessons, and the young man went on to become an international grandmaster some eight years later, perhaps inspired by his meeting with the world’s greatest player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I've got only eight blocks left before they stop the truck. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A great bell from the tower slowly tolled eight o’clock. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chacho pointed at the skinny kid, who looked only about eight years old. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is eight twenty-five when Lincoln steps through the front door of the theater. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Many have wondered how much of the Hungarian language Bobby mastered during his almost eight years in Budapest. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It's five after eight, and there's still no sign. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In eight to ten seconds, Shorty had turned as atheist as I had been to start with. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sitting in a pile of Chinese scrolls, reading seven or eight at once. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Shortly before eight o’clock his son left the dining room to go up to his room and dress for an engagement in the city later that night. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There are twenty-six players sitting against the wall, which means eight players will not make the team. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A giant couldn’t eat half a leg of deer plus a huge mound of wild rice and eight of the fifty quail eggs and go back for dessert. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even when a bird was seven or eight feet away the arrow would turn without feathers to stabilize it and hit brush or a twig. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figure Rowdy and I have spent an average of eight hours a day together for the last fourteen years. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I got home that afternoon, after eight months of searching New York, I was exhausted and frustrated and pessimistic, even though what I wanted to be was happy. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He thought it was a few minutes past eight. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He liked eights best, but he’d settle for fours, sixes, twelves, sixteens, any even number, really. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

On two stools, with elbows propped on the countertop, were the Golden Hours, looking sad as sad could be, their bowls piled high with no fewer than eight unmelting scoops each. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Shooting skeet eight hours a month was excellent training for them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Eight days just isn’t near enough time. How can a body be ready in eight days? It ain’t right,” he added. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My mom works nights and my stepdad doesn’t get home until eight.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The other boys gathered round the eight who had been named, laughing and cursing and offering congratulations. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They protest this rule loudly and often, but their father insists that these rules will stay in place until they are eight years old, at the very least. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After eight minutes of Nick’s best nonstop read-ing, her eyes were practically burning holes in the chalkboard behind him. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nifflers live in lairs up to twenty feet below the surface and produce six to eight young in a litter. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I arbitrarily picked eight hours for the test duration, so I was trapped in the rover until then. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hung on, on edge, through eight long rounds of the fight. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after eight years, the old widow put down her needle. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The cotton twine he used for mending net bound the lantern to the mast easily, but Carl put in extra lashings anyway, figure eights laid one over the other, pulled taut and finished crisply. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A newspaper reporter in the crowd wrote that he expected Roosevelt to be much taller than the then-average height of five feet eight inches. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He married my mother, a white Jewish woman, when she had eight mixed- race black children, me being the youngest at less than a year old. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In Lublin,” she began, thinking of New Rochelle, “I live in a house that has eight rooms and the toilets are inside the house. One upstairs and one downstairs.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another family with eight children was reduced to living on crusts of bread for nearly a week. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At eight in the morning on the third day of the trial— a dozen tall candles now lighting the courtroom in the manner of a chapel or sanctuary—Nels Gudmundsson called his first witness. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It all boils down to this: whenever one of the eight of us opens his mouth, the other seven can finish the story for him. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Gay handed her the list of my placements that she had found in my files, which showed the eight months I had lived with the Mosses. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

After an agonizing hour of doctors poking and prodding, eight men carried Garfield on the mattress through the train station to the exit. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Like it he may not, but he can take a measure of discomfort for eight dollars a week.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All activity ceased as the great Joseph Bell tolled out eight o’clock from the Abbey belfry. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was fall, and for the last time Sam Adams bade Johnny summon the Observers for eight o’clock that night. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath a translucent scrim of clouds at eight o’clock in the morning on November 1, 1938, Maryland Racing Commission chairman Jervis Spencer stepped out onto the smoky brown oval of Pimlico. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Desiring cheap, expendable labor, colonists imported nearly eight thousand Africans from the western and southern parts of the continent in the mid-1600s. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We might hit up eight or ten stores in a day.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Tall/s board lay too for away, on the other side of the roof, and it was unfolded into eight sections. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

For the next eight hours, I run after the agile Gail, absorbing bits of instruction along with fragments of personal tragedy. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mine’s licking envelopes. I can do twenty in eight seconds, no paper cuts.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Walt reacted the other way, eating compulsively, and gained eight pounds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were about eight hundred persons crammed into the Permian High School cafeteria by the time the Watermelon Feed began. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could barely pronounce Khokar myself until I was at least eight. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Its underside, made of iron girders, was perfectly straight—parallel with the surface and about eight inches above it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t known this until I was eight and she bought me an Easter-dyed biddy from the mercantile. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were about eight, and we were still best friends. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The eight were grim as they approached the boxcars containing their wards. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in fact it had been seven years, or eight, or nine: the summer she worked at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, the summer of Josef. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two successive Octobers the boy had started, walking the eight miles morning and evening. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Matilde tries to sell Mary Kay products to other mothers at Public School 12, which their son Antony, who is eight, attends. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

How did I date him for eight months and four days? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A child prodigy, Galton learned to read at two, was fluent in Greek and Latin by five, and solved quadratic equations by eight. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

"As it happens, I am a widower these past eight years. Past time I took another, wife, don't you agree, my lords? A man does get lonely." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

How do I sum up my life in eight words? They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If I couldn’t come up with eight more jots for tuition, I had nowhere in the world I could go. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Oh, they love the music, but only after you pull eight at the post office. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought people were supposed to drink eight cups a day,” Garrett says. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

For eight days, on alternate four-hour shifts, he watched with aching and bleary eyes those glinty metallic forms move against the vague background. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Nobody saw him later than that? Nobody saw him after eight?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

This was the inner shell-keep. with its eight enormous round towers which still stand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a message to the mayor that he gave me, and it was this: ‘Delivery at eight.’ The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He took his rain poncho and folded it over and over again until it was only about eight inches wide and a foot long. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Upon being interviewed for this story,Old Johnny Mercer said, “Noah, schmoa! This grove flooded when I was a boy of eight—I remember it well!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

From the floor, it was probably eight feet deep and rising fast. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The experiments went on in this manner for eight years. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was eight in the morning and Katz looked very happy. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It's been a long time since a tribute from District 12 made it into the top eight. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’ve been to a couple of her birthday parties, and she came to one that I had at the skating rink the year I turned eight. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Buddy told me Will was a third-year man and had to deliver eight babies before he could graduate. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

How could fifth-graders understand how hard it had been for him and his wife to take care of their aging parents over the past eight years—first hers and now his? The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

While I regretted the friendships I was losing, I cherished the growing ties to the eight. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton asked Anthony to put her in touch with a lawyer who might help her identify eight of the “most atrocious” laws affecting women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We were down by one with eight seconds to play. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She is enormous, two hundred and eight meters long, fifty-six meters high, and only eight years old. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When I was eight years old, a flock of wild, green- rumped parrots moved into the fishtail palm tree by the back wooden fence. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Timothy could not lift the veil, and the two other boys were busy being ten and eight years old, respectively. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

By refusing to work in the prison’s basket-weaving shop, Osborne got himself sentenced to a night in the “jail”—a barely lit room between Auburn’s Death Row and its generator that contained eight metal cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been expecting her to say twelve, so eight seems like a victory. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad whistled, and the house was evacuated in fourteen seconds—eight seconds off the all-time record. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making as many as eight runs a day, the buses deport more than 100,000 passengers a year. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When I was eight, nine, and ten, I slept in my bedroom closet with the door closed. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It projected that power would be restored to Amity Harbor by eight o’clock the following morning and requested patience on the part of citizens. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was only eight—just two years older—but a good head taller. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swear my granddaddy didn’t look more’n eight or ten years older than my daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

That waren’t gonna be till after eight in the evening, and it just didn’t seem right that the person that caused all this woe had to let other folks clean up behind him. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“And she says that she can’t get me there by eight a.m.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And eight people have to scramble back up to the attic. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was only eight o’clock but they were tired out from moving. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never seen the sky so dark at eight in the morning. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I will wait here eight days to receive the gifts. Captain Newport is to come to me, not I to him.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was about two feet deep and maybe eight feet wide. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

At, oh, about eight forty-five the boy ran into three friends of his in front of a diner. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The CO had drawn his gun but Larson had shot him first—“too many times,” he said—and Larson had been sent back to prison, with a sentence of eight years to life. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went inside and the combined families, three adults and eight kids, ate hot dogs by candlelight. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Her brother, Yiorgos, had been eight years old his whole life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She took the train all the way up to New York from North Carolina and took care of all eight of you, including you, James, and you weren’t but a tiny child. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again at eight o'clock, when the dark lanes of the Forties were five deep with throbbing taxi cabs, bound for the theatre district, I felt a sinking in my heart. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was a fantastic price because the most sought-after woman earned eight pesos a night, but they all accepted. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

By eight o’clock in the morning, the teams had begun their insertions. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the second half, Felix scored eight points, all on fast breaks, and had a couple of assists. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Owner didn’t know it then, but in just one short week, all eight rooms would be filled. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I had leukemia. I was diagnosed when I was eight.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was eight or nine at the time. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fischer arrived eight minutes late, looking very pale, and the two men shook hands. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them were out, but there was still six or eight left. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Steel axes would do the job in the equivalent of eight workdays— almost twenty times faster. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We make the woman disappear and the fashion appear!” the curiosity of the seagulls who swooped over them in a repeated figure eight. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m betting that those other eight empty slots will fill up pretty quickly.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Windstorms over the years had knocked down pines and spruce trees and many of them were the right diameter to use for making a raft—six or eight inches and straight. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Next to them, sandstone gods with eight hands who sit cross-legged on lotus flowers watch over the temple ponds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glucose levels were monitored by testing urine, which could only measure glucose present in the blood eight hours earlier. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once we start the dance number, you’ve got three minutes and eight seconds.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Around eight o’clock a heavy policeman came out of the main doors and stood on the steps, looking over the crowd. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

After I returned from my survival test, the two old people trained me in dragon ways, which took another eight years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in Basin and Range, published in 1980, John McPhee noted that even then one American geologist in eight still didn’t believe in plate tectonics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A piece in six eight might have six beats in every measure, with an eighth note getting a beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There was seven or eight other folk already in their chairs. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“He's sent me eight or nine letters. Oh, and these.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was doing his aerial stunts: barrel rolls and vertical figure eights, or whatever he did. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

These were the dinkiest owls that Officer Delinko had.ever seen—only eight or nine inches tall. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured it was eight or nine in the morning. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After War Admiral, fuming and frustrated, held up the start for eight minutes, victory in the Kentucky Derby came easily to him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t try to leave,” he ordered, with a menacing sweep of his arm, “for there’s so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on the first job.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Joe had been at the Three Jolly Bargemen, smoking his pipe, from a quarter after eight o’clock to a quarter before ten. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Will you live another eight or nine years?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I've watched that guy since I was about eight years old. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Around eight o’clock that evening I was watching a movie in the dormitory with the other kids and worrying at the same time. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone who witnessed the moment agrees that it was almost eight o’clock at night when Ferula appeared without the slightest warning. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line of about eight young people marched in front of us on the crosswalk. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

With nearly eight hundred rooms and a vast, monolithic façade overlooking the Thames, the Cecil was Europe’s largest, if not grandest, hotel—a site typically reserved for diplomatic or national events. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Seven or eight hands went up in the air. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

But here he had to begin performing at eight and four-thirty whether he felt like it or not. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know there were eight spots last year,” says Dylan Van Helsing. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

This has been going on for eight years. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

For the past eight years on every day that it was possible, he had shot a hundred jump shots a day, made a hundred layups, and attempted a hundred foul shots. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Glass, seated eight or ten feet away from the shower curtain, stared across the tiled floor at the blue bathmat alongside the tub. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I spent eight months looking for what you could have told me in eight seconds!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was this thing where the adult gave you a little shove and you glided about eight feet to the other end of the line, feet dangling a few feet above the ground. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She didn’t come up again until eight, this time with her husband. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The referee began counting, "One ... two ... three . . ." Becker shook his head, as if to clear it. ".. . four .. . five ... six . .." Then he climbed to his feet. ". . . seven . . . eight." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The attack might have happened six or eight days later. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t later than eight o’clock, and maybe we’d gotten away with it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no reason Penelope would be bothering Richard at such an early hour; everyone knew he never woke much before eight. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The gun first showed up in his hands ’bout three years ago when I was ’round eight. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

For two succeeding years I was alone each winter for eight months at a stretch in the Sierra Nevada mountains on Lake Tahoe. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, two, four, five, eight, ten flights of stairs. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

"You are still a child of eight . . ." "Almost nine!" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It happens somewhere between eight and seven o’clock. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only been eight minutes too soon to tell. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It would burn more than six million tons of coal each year to make up to eight million tons of steel and employ more than 30,000 workers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Kid couldn’t have been more than eight, nine years old. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, they waited eight years after I was born to add another child to our family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The girls were twins, about seven or eight years old. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was only eight in the morning, and we were already damp with sweat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was but a child of eight and Laertes was twelve when we moved from the village to Elsinore Castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

After serving for eight years as Eisenhower’s vice president, Nixon had lost a heartbreakingly close race for president to John Kennedy in 1960. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"Again, everyone is responsible for everyone. In relay, you win and lose as a team. You are not two legs, you are eight," Coach droned. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I remember one day, when I was eight, Ali was taking me to the bazaar to buy some naan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

George opened his wallet and gave Ignatius eight dollars. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first part of the answer had been sitting under his nose since his childhood in the farmlands of Shrewsbury and Hereford; Darwin had merely traveled eight thousand miles around the globe to rediscover it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Harry and Hermione were all for it, so at eight o’clock that evening they hurried back to the Great Hall. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not much of an outside cat, so I rarely have occasion to consider the weather, but in Indianapolis we get eight to ten properly beautiful days a year, and this was one of them. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The school day began promptly at eight with a session called chong-hwa. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

At eight o’clock, the sun rose, and as they continued tramping steadily upward toward the great range of mountains in their path, the only sound was the crunch of their footsteps in the snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

All eight hydra heads loomed over him, ready to melt him into a pool of sludge. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dover Wight Portland, I thought; northwest six to gale eight, becoming cyclonic... The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am seven or eight and am in my room dressing for church. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because every ninth night, eight gold arm-rings of equal beauty will drip from it. You can reward people with them, or store them, and your wealth will increase.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Hard to believe my dad once harpooned eight of these amazing critters in a single day. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once when I was seven or eight, she started bringing books to me—big old ones like the dictionary and the encyclopedia. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, a local Bled newspaper published a group of caricatures of all eight players, and a souvenir postcard was made of the drawings. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I was eight, I had a friend, Pamela, the daughter of one of the servants. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seducing pubescent girls, as he had done “eight or nine” times in the last several years, did not disprove it, for if the truth were known, most real men had the same desires he had. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well-l,” said Fern, thoughtfully, “she has eight legs. All spiders do, I guess.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I had to go downstairs alone at eight this evening to use the bathroom. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

At eight o’clock the power came on again, and he flipped the furnace switch. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’s been in thirty-eight dramas, twelve crime pictures and comedies, eleven thrillers, eight action films, seven Westerns, six war movies, four documentaries, three horror flicks, two sci-fi films, and a musical, among others. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was eight, maybe nine, Big Time thought. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been eight and a halfish hours since she woke up on my belly, climbed out of my bed to put her clothes back on, and left my house at six in the morning. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“It was done eight years ago in New York City by Dr. Chester Southam, a cancer specialist who injected live cancer cells into chronically ill elderly patients.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She picked up the sheet with the eight theories and read the last one out loud, about Salim hiding in somebody else’s clothes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nearly said, ‘Theory number one, being disproved,’ but remembered how Mum had reacted to theory number eight. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for the past eight or ten years, Mr. Larson had not bothered to take down the old papers—he just wallpapered over them with the new ones. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He has already built a fleet of eight hundred ships, appointed his close friend Nearchus captain, and sent them to investigate the coast of India by sea. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“My town’s pretty rough, that’s why my parents have been sending me here since I was eight, so I could get away for the summer.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoon, with eight days left, I come downstairs, dizzy and blinking from staring at pica type all day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It felt to be about eight inches tall, and almost two feet wide. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

At first, it took Elizebeth eight hours or more to decrypt a simple text. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I’d thought about her smiles for eight months at that point. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

You could tell they were rich ’cause the car looked like it had room for eight or nine more people in it and ’cause they had movie star clothes on. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were always locked at four in the afternoon in winter, at eight at night in summer. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I walk eight more sidewalk lines, noticing city sounds more than before: the beeping of a backing-up truck, the one-sided cell phone conversations, the rattling of tires over potholes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I mean, I can be wrong. 11TH JUROR: It was eight o’clock. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had given birth at the zoo to two young ones, strapping males five and eight years old that were her—and our—pride. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The one fact to remember was that eight thousand men, white men, with guns and gas, were out there in the night looking for him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

If we covered three miles an hour for eight hours a day, we could make it in three days. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and fought down the urge to throw things around the room and curse them in eight languages. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So that at eight in the morning half the town was in the square, where Father Nicanor chanted the gospels in a voice that had been lacerated by his pleading. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

By the time the sun dips near the horizon, he’s found seven of our eight maximum the park rules allow. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t spend ten or twelve hours a day studying chess and another six to eight hours on Bible studies; and the constant surfacing of impure thoughts and other minor sins was plaguing him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Estimates vary, but at least five thousand and as many as eight thousand women arrived that morning, ready to take part in the march. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The day after the Durham protests began, 150 well-disciplined students in Charlotte closed down eight lunch counters. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had eight children, most of whom were older than we. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent the previous eight weeks confined to his room close to twenty-four hours a day and had been denied mental health services despite his repeated requests. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

No one would be rehearsing at eight in the morning. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how much longer past eight thirty my sisters could stay awake, but for once I’d listen to Lucy Raleigh. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I think I ate, like, eight of them. Total sweet tooth.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Annabeth swept her flashlight beam over the archways of the eight tunnels. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

All eight of them sit in high-backed chairs, and hold Belle-rosebuds in their hands. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He’s ushered into a courtyard encircled with razor wire, where eight or nine other Germans sit in their high boots holding battered canteens, one dressed in women’s clothes in which he apparently tried to desert. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Dona Zaida, once a formidable matriarch who ruled her eight sons by a resolute jealousy, spent long afternoons watching novelas on television and perfuming her thickening wrists. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She drew herself up very erect...and there she stood seven or eight minutes, steadily looking out proudly before her. I think she was mentally making an address.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z