As though she was falling deeper and deeper into a hole. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then darkness fell, deep and black in the mountain cleft. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few moments he hovered, his body rising and falling between his wings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the narrow window of my convent cell, leaves of linden and oak turned gold and brown and red and fell to the ground with every gust of wind. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"Having been through a rather unusual experience for an SIS officer, few of whom have ever fallen into enemy hands, I found myself, for a short while, a bit of a celebrity," Blake said. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We follow signs to this long line and my heart starts to beat a thousand miles a minute and I grip my backpack with both hands to keep from falling over. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The guards, some of whom had previously identified themselves as pacifists, fell quickly into the role of hard-bitten disciplinarians. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the duchess’s kids killed him, but then his twin brother, a commander in the Uruguayan air force who nobody knew existed, showed up and fell in love with the duchess. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A girl of fifteen or sixteen years, he judged, dark hair plastered across a gaunt face by the falling rain, her bare feet muddy to the ankles. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When my neck gets tired and achy, I let my head fall on the pillow and hold the book straight above me. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wound my braid into a tight ball, then arranged and snipped the loose silk strands until they fell into a neat tassel. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if I didn’t hold on, I was sure I'd fell off right there in front of the monster. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As Blunt was getting into the Rolls-Royce, the driver leaned down to open the back door and his jacket fell open, revealing a stark white shirt underneath. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Ruth stood at my side and stared so hard, her thumb fell out of her mouth. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They ambushed me. Took my glasses. Threw me in the pool. They were gone by the time I got out, but it was slippery and I fell back in. Now you’re here. The end.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Elinor stumbled over a tree root, grabbed at something prickly, and fell to her knees sobbing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Finally the golden monkey joined Mrs. Coulter, and they fell asleep at once. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He consents without a murmur, all join in a joyful chorus, and the curtain falls upon the lovers kneeling to receive Don Pedro’s blessing in attitudes of the most romantic grace. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lets out a horrible scream and falls to the ground, fire consuming his flesh. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Night had fallen by the time we reached C Average. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But I know for sure that she just about fell out of that white car. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Alec fought his way through as well, falling with one last surge but quickly leaping back to his feet. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She falls in love with a prince and is eventually returned to her father, the king, who now understands how wrong he’d been all those years ago. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The pool of water quickly turned red as the blood fell from his face into the sink. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It fell to Finn once again to do all the talking. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They both fell aside, and the first to rise was Iorek. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the cafeteria windows, the snow is falling faster, thicker. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

When the rain began to fall, they didn’t notice, but they did notice the sudden shift in sound when it stopped. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart thudding painfully, she climbed in among the fallen branches, hauling herself through the familiar boughs at their unfamiliar angles, and balanced herself as high up as she could get. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A chunk of stone fell to the floor. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

When she did, her mouth actually fell open. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely. I saw her myself last night. She bumped her head when she fell, but the car hit her leg. It didn’t touch her head at all.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Heavy, irresistible waves of dreamless sleep broke over him; he fell back onto his pillows and thought no more. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The woman spits in the face of the second guard, who responds with a slap so hard that she falls to the floor. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Since when did you fall and smash your face up like that?” she asked. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white petals fell to the ground like snowflakes, leaving a small green bulb, which turned into a strawberry within days. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Her hand fell back again to her side. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The chandelier crashed to the floor in an explosion of crystal and chains, falling on top of Hermione and the goblin, who still clutched the sword of Gryffindor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1957, after nine years of classes in the Coalwood School, I went across the mountains to Big Creek, the district high school, for the tenth through the twelfth grade. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bahar, nine years old, who had fallen in the Uzumark three years ago and still wore the sodden clothes of her drowning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It fell upwards into the sky until it was lost to sight. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to read more—not just chess journals—acquire more money, continue his religious studies, and possibly meet someone with whom he could fall in love. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what happens to deserters in my army!” he cried, and tossed the crippled figure into the grass, where it writhed grotesquely as the others fell upon it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“The prince and the guard, who fell in love on a journey to the Fairy Queen’s city.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And as her gaze fell on us, a chill passed through me, much like the one I’d felt years ago that time we’d waylaid her outside the main house. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the nerves and guilt and fear that’d been building and sitting heavy as a boulder fell away. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The board tumbled below her, spinning like a falling leaf. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was mortified picking it up because it fell between the seat and the window, and I was sure I’d look like an enormous cow bending over to get it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

More and more pills fall down, pinging one by one as they bounce on the floor. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The season’s first snowfall was light, the flakes no sooner fallen than melted. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I hope he don’t fall in the dark. Maybe he’ll be happy now he can go hunting again.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see my body falling through the air. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Still the rain fell, and the bear remained. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Above his head, the coloured beam of light fell upon a small and primitive piece of tapestry—a picture of some knights in chain mail, with nose guards on their painted helmets, chasing a boar. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, fear and tension fell away in the presence of Sadna’s strength. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He says there’s no food in the house, not a scrap of bread, and when he falls asleep I take the greasy newspaper from the floor. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

During the summer and fall I had thought about the coming of winter. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claire started to pull her back down to the grass, and Maya fell to her knees, her bag thudding down heavily next to her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The dead remained in the yard, under the snow without even a marker, like fallen guards. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sawdust was falling into my eyes and as I was sweating pretty hard, it was sticking to my face too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I got to the living room, there was Caroline, giving him a cup of coffee, practically falling all over him while she did so. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Mr. Norton, his face pale again, his white suit rumpled, topple and fall, his head scraping against the screen of the door. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was savoring the sound of Muthu’s snores rising and falling in concert with yours, after telling you our bedtime tale, when I heard Arul sneaking out of his tent. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He saw the first tree shudder and fall, far off in the distance. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the morning wore on the wind fell and the air grew heavy with expectancy. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her own tears fell on his dirty, uncombed hair. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I cover my face and grit my teeth as the tears fall, bearing the wave of despair like it is a fist, striking me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She took the child from me and I tried to run away, but I tripped and fell. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the sound of horse hooves and the roll of carriage wheels and the front door opened and then closed and the house fell quiet save for Hannah’s steps in the kitchen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his straight path took us over fallen trees or boulders, he would help me, lifting me by the elbow, and then releasing me instantly when I was clear. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you ever look up at the rain, Kendra? It feels like the sky is falling.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Jimmy, the last of the Coal children, was to be starting school in the fall. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must have fallen asleep before I could set an alarm on my phone. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"What did Osney tell her? Is the king hurt, has die city fallen?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That sounds like Siunek falling down the ladder in his sock feet. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But it might also have seemed curiously incomplete, with half the city falling down and in need of repairs and the other half under construction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every single one, falling to order like soldiers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"And when night falls, there are said to be ghosts, cold vengeful spirits of the north who hunger for southron blood." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Father Amadi’s musical voice echoed in my ears until I fell asleep. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice is high-pitched but soft, so soft you could fall down into it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Shawn dropped my wrist and again I fell. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It rained so hard that the little creeks filled with water, and the river would be full of fallen trees. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dudley’s mouth fell open in horror, but Harry’s heart gave a leap. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She had on a long brown dress with a white lace collar that fell all the way to her waist and was fastened down with a silk rose. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the moment, I watched with horror as one of the chapandaz fell off his saddle and was trampled under a score of hooves. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She turned toward the kitchen and nearly fell beside the dining table because the weight in her chest was too large, not measured to fit her size. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Him fella bomb fall too far to hurt we. I hear him coming long time. Want fruit?” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents fell in love, but because his family was Muslim and Amma was Hindu, he figured his family wouldn't be happy about the relationship. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Every time Luke’s head twisted because of a falling plate, a shrill voice from the kitchen, it grated on Toby. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I climbed out of the blockhouse and caught sight of the wisp of its contrail as it fell downrange. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with Vervain behind him, he climbed the pile of fallen earth and thrust his way into the narrow run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sally often came back from the market without meat or vegetable, and we all fell to eating Dr. Trefusis’s diet: biscuits and whatever broth could be won from the bone. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But moving into the fall, with the end in sight, I wanted to squeeze as much of the four or five years it took to make a good CO into my single rookie year. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little faint trail, skinny as anything, hardly even there, leading away from the first turn of the road and toward the falls. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The moment that Dumbledore reached the bank he let his wand hand fall; the ring of fire vanished, but the Inferi did not emerge again from the water. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It doesn't take long for a routine to really fall into place. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“And yet,” said Byerley, “Rome fell eventually, and the opium dream was over.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

What if while he was running away after hearing the thunder, he fell down and hurt himself? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

If the men didn’t come from the lunatic asylum to take her away she’d bake till she fell to the floor. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Only then do I notice the figure in the chair seated across from my father—the hair, the freckles, the slightly crooked nose—and my heart jumps and falls at the same time. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

You thought that if you didn’t tell the stories, the sky would fall on your head. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Yossarian was in the hospital with a pain in his liver that fell just short of being jaundice. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She would have fallen if he hadn't held her up, as easy as if she were a doll. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Thomas finally shouts an order to cease fire, and those in the crowd who haven’t been shot fall to their knees and throw their hands up over their heads. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The simulacrum swells, titters, and then falls into a pile of laughing shadows, their cackles falling against my ears like slivers of ice. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And when they came forth evening had fallen and many stars were in the sky. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But when the older soldier did not stop, the suddenly taut rope made Jonathan slip and fall into the mud. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

And, I have an idea about the fallen nest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Johnny could hear the rattle of the men’s muskets as they came to attention, and then, all together, four drummers let their sticks fall as one. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

From die social snubs of his commanding officers, he was picking up his hatred of Eastern liberals and the Ivy League at the same time as he was falling in love with Brooks Brothers clothing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The others gave way, and one stepped backwards and fell over Merry’s prostrate form with a curse. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t seen them fall—she was too busy throwing Constance over her shoulder, tumbling in after the boys, and pulling the top of the crate over them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Aru grinned, nodding so fast she thought her head might fall off. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And Crookshanks was thrown to the floor as Black lunged at Scabbers; Ron yelled with pain as Black’s weight fell on his broken leg. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

At first, Rat said, Mary Anne seemed to accept it, but then after a day or two she fell into a restless gloom, sitting off by herself at the compound’s perimeter. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After practice I got my bag and started walking with Joey when Victor fell into step behind us. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pippin fell asleep, pillowed on a green hillock. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He lay on his bed fully clothed and fell asleep at once, his dreams tense and crowded, his mother’s unhappy, frightened face always there just out of reach. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started to get to his feet when the second tremor shook and he fell forward flat on his face. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anderson never fell, never slipped back, never flew. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What you do?” asked W. E. “I fell smack down on Gilly and couldn’t get back up for the life of me.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

When she confessed, with a poem, that she had not truly fallen in love with him until after the wedding, it shook him. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

After a while Joon yawns and lets the ball fall to the floor. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Lying in bed at night, I can look out of my window at the snow falling, illuminated by the light from my brother’s bedroom window beside mine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of his captors slipped and fell on the blood that had spilled out of Erik’s nose. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fell in a sitting position, her back supported by Sammy’s bed frame. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the two men eventually reached the foot of the steps, Cockerell dug an elbow into his companion’s ribs, and the man bowed so hurriedly that two of the books fell to the floor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was a flurry of excitement in the Klavern that fall when Alabama governor George Wallace came to town. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her textbook has fallen in the open space between the driver and passenger seats. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His words are like froth in my head, boiling, rising, and falling. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“What the hell do I care about falling?” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She fell back a step and the dreamer’s eyes followed her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The fallen leaves made a soft carpet for her feet and the night birds flew into the sky as she passed. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the kid fell back; a sharp crack filled the air as another grave marker met its demise. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The movements occur not just laterally as the Earth’s plates move across the surface, but up and down as well, as rocks rise and fall under the churning process known as convection. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We ...” She slumped against the neck of the hippocampus and instandy fell asleep. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She bends her head, and hair falls into her face. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I think we both fell asleep for a little while. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just feel a sudden impact and I’m falling. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

On the painting, a dart fell off my face. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

For three days rain had threatened, but not a drop had fallen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her eyes fell on Tyler and Bobby, and she did not blush and turn away or menace them with school supplies. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Kin limped into the barn, letting the door fall shut behind him, acting as though a thousand birds rushing past was a normal occurrence. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He or she can either make life relatively easy for a server or, if so disposed, set her up for a serious fall. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys sealed their agreement with a glance and fell busily to work. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Things fell all around me, inside me, until it seemed there was nothing left. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that happened this past fall and winter. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She had said it was better to own property rather than cash but he suspected that, for her, it was a safety net in case Port Harcourt fell. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a while, Ess fell asleep, in the cushions on the floor, and Jinny sat on the edge of the bed, trying not to shake it, trying not to make things worse. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She did not know which way to turn, and the freshly fallen snow had erased all the familiar landmarks. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one needs to get bruised up falling in love. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Part of her hair fell in a wave across her face. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept moving, because if I’d stayed still for even a moment, I would have fallen apart. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The parts of Skylab that fell to Earth would—conveniently—fall on the bathroom block at Guardian Angels. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I am arguing here from dates of publication: Galileo had already developed a sophisticated theory of falling bodies, backed up by exquisite experiments; but he had not published, and would not until 1638. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But the Creek was rife with gossips—particularly the Weekday Warriors, and if just one person told one friend who told one friend who told one friend who told the Eagle, everything would fall apart. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard “The apple don’t fall far from the tree,” I’d be rich. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Two shots rang out, and the body fell silent. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When Bull reached the lights of the stage, he fell to one knee, contorted his face in the pre-agony of nausea, then threw his head forward violently, pretending to vomit. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate clumsily; bits of cake fell away before they got to his mouth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His hand slackened and fell from my shirt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe the sunbeams falling across Sitti’s bed intensified, and the small golden coffee pot glittered on its tray. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He let his head fall again and sucked for air. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because they had fallen into that angry silence, they walked quietly enough to come upon One Horn, the magnificent buck deer who had lost half of his antler rack defending his island territory. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“The oldest trick in the book,” she said, “but everybody falls for it.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

On three sides the woods pressed upon it; but eastward the ground fell steeply and the tops of the dark trees, growing at the bottom of the slope, were below their feet. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The path is still wild, and it’d be easy—too easy—for someone to slip, spin, fall down the hillside. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Would you mind waiting outside for a little while until I fall asleep?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But that’s the best I can describe what it felt like sitting there, T. Like thousands of pounds of rusted-out metal were falling on top of me and I couldn’t get out of the way. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was young, too, at least as young as Cate, with a small build and dark brown hair that fell over his forehead. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe I can watch a little TV or read to help me fall asleep. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I’m going to need it, because I’m starting college in the fall. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He is a bad man, princess. My own daughter fell under his spell. Do not listen to him.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I just want to fall the way everybody else gets to. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Because I knew my feelings for him were vulnerable to being felled by my mother’s suspicions, passing remarks, and innuendos. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One bitter night I tried to call my parents from the pay phone outside the Boulder Tap; sleet was falling and I was shivering so violently I could hardly get the coins in the slot. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every evening Frightful and I, sometimes accompanied by The Baron Weasel, would go to the edge of the meadow and look toward the aspen grove to see if the great log had fallen. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I didn’t fall into a pool,” I said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it was thought for many decades outside Italy that Silbermann had actually invented the piano, such was the oblivion into which Cristofori’s effort had fallen. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Katherine’s development from solid high school French student to near-fluent speaker with a Parisian accent astonished her language teacher that fall. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

My injured leg throws me off completely—I nearly fall back to the ground. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

My heart jumped when I heard the doors slam and the sound of the two big posts fall into their metal cradles, one locking the door from the inside and another from the outside. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The first incident that sticks in my mind was a playground fall. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

That fall Radine and I tried out, and we suited them just fine. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the hand that held the blade, Abbot Hubert pulled down his habit just far enough to reveal three deep, pitted scars, as if droplets of acid had fallen on his chest. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

If you survive in battle, it is with Odin’s grace, and if you fall it is because he has betrayed you. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

If Jason were here, Calypso would fall all over him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then silence fell, until Catelyn found her courage and asked the question whose answer she most dreaded. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Too many leaves had fallen and turned to loam, too many plants had grown up and died down over the old home site. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way she stood, the bright sash around her waist, and the two glossy braids falling over her shoulders made me feel that she had performed this ceremony in some distant past. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As everyone belted out “Happy Birthday,” Palmer stared at the man marching in with the cake and tried to imagine him pulling the trigger again and again as gray-feathered Nippers fell from the sky. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

But many rabbits go all their lives without seeing a fox and probably only a few actually fall victim to an enemy who smells strongly and cannot run as fast as they can. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within seconds, a low-flying V-shaped formation of Capitol hover- planes appears above us, and the bombs begin to fall. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Big trees shattered and fell from her path; the earth trembled. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily had picked up a fallen twig and twirled it in the air, and Harry knew that she was imagining sparks trailing from it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She falls asleep on the lounge after a few pages, and I wake her and help her to bed. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It looked like she’d fallen asleep trying to call for help. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She took a wool scarf and spread it on the ground so the egg could fall into it, and then she squatted down and began to push. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Her slip strap had fallen down to her elbow, and she didn’t even notice. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear a crunch and a snap, and he vanishes into the soft bed of fallen leaves. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The rise and fall of the Olympic Mountains. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She tarries a moment longer, then peels off, and speeding like a falling star, shoots off into a cloud and is gone. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, as night fell, it was clear to everyone the General’s fears had been correct. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He seemed quite intent on proposing this fall,” Clara said, “but I am not sure if Ana will continue to entertain him.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He caught sight of the rise and fall of his diaphragm and was surprised to see how quickly he was breathing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Now the sky was falling, as if she needed more proof. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Another girl is climbing down the wall, to save the girl who fell, it appears. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Their mouths literally fell open when they saw us. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when my adrenaline spikes, like it is now, when my body feels fight and flight in the same instant, everything falls into sharp focus. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, Annabeth fell into line next to me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

This year, Christmas Eve fell on a Tuesday, and in the Vanderbeeker tradition, Christmas Eve dinner rivaled Thanksgiving dinner in scope and quality. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

All winter, we had been anticipating snow—everyone kept saying how strange it was that we hadn’t had any yet—but I’d never heard anything about falling ice. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We would fall off one edge or the other, depending entirely upon his decision, or his instincts. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

If I didn’t know better, I’d think she fell asleep standing up. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I don't recall falling asleep, and I hate my body for letting it happen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My presence was noted each fall by the campus press office in its proud tally of Hispanic-American students enrolled; my progress was followed by HEW statisticians. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They glitter like fallen stars tucked in place. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Celia laughs and a curl of her hair falls across her cheek. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ambrose nods so hard the fedora finally does fall off. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1942, people in Leningrad had nothing left to eat but wallpaper paste and broth made of boiled leather. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For the first time all day, a queer hush fell over the regatta course at Griinau. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then, one day at the very end of February, Mrs. Frisby’s younger son, Timothy, fell sick. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I knew this part of the tournament would take a while, because the guys who had lasted this long were good—they wouldn’t easily fall into simple traps like the old lift-and-dive, Hassan’s favorite trick. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped upon the fallen boy and started pounding him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he think they would attack this fall? A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

As his horse fell, snorting blood and biting with his last red breath, the Mountain rose untouched, laying about him with his two-handed great- sword. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was off balance, but he fell, not into the stream, but with his chest across May Belle’s legs, his own legs waving in the empty air above the water. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I’d been thieving and doing odd jobs, but the snow had been falling three days and everyone was within. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

The girls fell in behind her as she led them up into the hills. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

While I waited for Audrey’s plan to come together, I fell into a new routine. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But I saw Favell stagger and fall against the arm of the sofa, and down on to the floor. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In one picture, the lizard man was standing on a curved bridge, laughing as he watched the little boy falling forward over the bridge rail, his slippered feet already in the air. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he yawned so widely that he almost fell over. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

These were great days for Shasta, and every day better than the last as his muscles hardened and he fell less often. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Trees can be felled for rams if rams are required. Amolf Karstark writes that fewer than fifty men remain at the Dreadfort, half of them servants. A strong castle weakly held is weak.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When the place where he’d hoped to mount the show falls through, he decides to hang the paintings right in their apartment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At noon, some hours following the announcement of John’s sad fate, Will fell to beating a fellow soldier over whom should receive an extra ladle of bone and broth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Why had he chosen to step off the platform and fall beneath the train? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small seat he’s perched on gives way, and Imam Malik falls into the water. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“This way,” said the sheriff, and he grabbed Turner by the coat as Turner’s father had grabbed him, half lifted him, and threw him back behind him, not even watching to see where he fell. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

And at the very moment I fall back for good he glimpses who I am, and I see him crouch down, like a broken child, shielding from me his wide immigrant face. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now and again the orc-driver fell back and jeered at them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He used to at least attempt to oversee the girls during the day, and make sure they didn’t fall into chaos or break The Rule. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then the bottom fell out and he escaped and I tumbled along on his release. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I gape at him as the rain falls harder. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The man fell back instantly and lay with blood bubbling from the hole in his forehead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes closed, but when the Augur misses a step and nearly falls, they fly open of their own accord. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There were no take-backs after sex; there was no way to undo how much deeper they were falling into it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When a twitch or a gasp disturbed me and the rag fell away, I’d come to full consciousness, delighted to find that time had slipped by. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t have bumped into Diego and gotten to know him, and we wouldn’t have fallen for each other. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I stare at the tattoo, trying to figure out what it is, but then he lets his shirt fall. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

"A pity it did not fall a bit to the left. You'd have saved me the trouble of whiting my face for today's performance." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then the final jigsaw piece fell into place: what the woman security guard said as we left Earl’s Court. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1958, Virginia’s governor Lindsay Almond chained the doors of the schools in localities that attempted to comply with the Supreme Court’s Brown decision. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I’d fallen into a slow, hypnotic rhythm—swing, swing; kick, kick; swing, swing; kick, kick— when my left ice ax slammed into a slab of diorite a few inches beneath the rime. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And people think you’re being impolite if you fall asleep and start to snore, or scratch yourself in public. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was Swordfish, her two banks of oars lifting and falling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He fell off the step, away from the rock wall, out into space, off the cliff-side, where he dropped—a nightmarish tumble down distances that Bod could not even imagine.... The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Slowly the sun fell from the sky down into the West. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And then felt like a total jerk because his face fell, just the tiniest fraction of a bit. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We step over fallen bodies—the people Tobias killed on the way in, probably—and finally reach a fire exit. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Moonlight glints off the armor of fallen men. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And the snow crystals clump together into flakes as they fall, covering Chicago in their white plenty, inch upon inch... American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

His father paused, and looked around as if he was unwilling to let this priceless shard of information fall into the wrong hands. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A severed pile of dreadlocks fell to the floor along with something else - a large fleshy thing lying in a pool of golden ichor. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I flapped the sheet up and down, letting it fall gently on me like a cloud. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The weeds they forded fell to dust about them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But the experts do not post exact rules, and the layman is apt to fall back upon his final line of defense: “Well, I don’t know anything about art, but I know what I like.” History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

To fall is to ask them to beat me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it amazing?” she says as the snow falls past my ears and lands all around her head. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor finished his chocolate and nibbled the little fallen pieces of sweet cake. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while she thought he might have fallen asleep. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And he made metal and wood models of two ideas to be sent to the patent office in the fall. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

God sees the little sparrow fall, It meets His tender view; If God so loves the little bird, I know He loves me too. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not a day went by that fall without the sounds of hunting horns in the distance. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was she stranded alone in a city about to fall into enemy hands? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the mingled relief and horror, few of them noticed the faint wail that came from Judith, or saw her waver and fall. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The questions fall into three categories, each more personal than the previous. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

As darkness fell on September 1, 1858, angry citizens took matters into their own hands. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I tell him made-up stories of worlds far away from here until finally he falls asleep. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We all expected a lecture on school spirit, how we should think about the football team all summer and be ready to cheer them on come fall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I try to hang on to hope, but it's the worst night ever, because I also feel like I have to hang on to the tree to keep from falling. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When something that violent hits you, you can’t help but lose your balance and fall. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fall asleep on the sofa in the formal living room. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The waiters and diners in the Starlight Room fell over one another as they scrambled for safety. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He took my chin in his fingers, turning it so that the last rays of the sunset fell on my scar. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

To hang up the phone and fall back to sleep, wake up the next morning believing my call had been some crazy, late-night, Chinese-food-fueled dream. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It would fall to later composers to take more daring liberties with harmony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He was slightly disheveled now, a few locks of his hair falling into his face, as if he had been hurrying through the cars looking for her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The men fell back, amazed, as this apparition shimmered into being in front of them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The second I opened the closet door, Stradlater's tennis racket--in its wooden press and all--fell right on my head. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her hair was falling out of its ponytail and her face was flushed. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When he fell in love with Brett his tennis game went all to pieces. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Most unexpectedly, Francis’ interest in DNA temporarily fell to almost zero less than a week later. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

With one bound I follow him and fall into a ditch that lies behind the hedge. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doubles over and falls to the ground, hollering like an injured animal. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyson grabbed me and hauled me back before I could fall. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And as he fell, he was certain he heard a voice coming from the general direction of the grey beast. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

But when she looked at the shore, now falling away beside them, they seemed to be going very slowly. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a graphic novel about two brothers, one who falls madly in love with a girl only to have his heart horribly broken. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But before he could, they slammed before him with a crack and rattle, and the latch fell securely into place. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My mouth fell open and my eyes grew wide to see so many unfamiliar sights at once. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She caught the way I was falling for Nicole, even that first day, and decided she had to team up with me to keep an eye on me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“But it did, Lanesha. The porch on my house fell off. It’s in the middle of the street. Momma and Pop are gonna cry. They always say, ‘The house is all we have. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

"Can you not hear the gunfire? The bombs falling across the world? How many last breaths? Your name should be on the lips of the dying." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When the song is over, Mama and Daddy melt away like snowflakes falling on wet ground. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But we fell in love and decided we would be together no matter what anybody said. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

That decision made, I lay down and stared at the stars until I fell asleep. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In Cambodia, if the father is busy with work and the mother is busy with babies and shopping, the responsibility of disciplining and punishing the younger siblings often falls on the oldest child. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned to look down at Florence’s copy of the play and almost fell off the rafter. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later in the day as I came around a corner, she tripped me so that I fell down a flight of stairs. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason walked behind her so he could catch her if she fell. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I took off the armband and let it fall to the sidewalk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She lets her hair fall around her shoulders. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He falls onto ground that is no longer charred and muddy, but firm and dry and patterned in a spiral of black and white. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her mood had been in free fall since Mr. Donnelly’s departure. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Then Rondell shrugged and his eyelids started falling down his eyes even though he was still sitting up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Life in the barn was very good—night and day, winter and summer, spring and fall, dull days and bright days. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He allowed the drape to fall back into place and surveyed the bedroom, squinting into the half-darkness. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the Independence cut off our stipend and all contacts with the larger world, it seems God’s plan called for Mother and Ruth May to fall sick nigh unto death. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, how my brothers fell about the place. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to do any of those things but “Yes, sir,” fell out of my mouth nice and easy. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She fell forward onto the bed, holding the hole in her stomach. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The brilliant light fell into the water, and under the water— —was a flat stone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bright stars peered out of the sky, and lit the falling water as it spilled on to his fingers and head, and dripped, dripped, in hundreds of silver drops on to his feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It’s a crisp December night and a fine rain is just starting to fall. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Z looked at the terrifyingly slight, almost imperceptible, rise and fall of Kaitlin’s chest. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When the sun fell behind the mountains, I felt it as a faint coolness on my face. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Eurhythmics for young children: Six lessons for fall. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Lots of it fell down. And there wasn’t even a storm or stampede or anything.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tufts of hair I miss jut out like a staticky lion mane, and the pretzel bun falls out twice, leaving the braid dangling down my chest. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I marched from Connecticut to Boston with about twenty other men from my town. It took a week—a hundred miles. My feet nearly fell off.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

My mother doesn’t linger over housework, she’d rather be outside raking up leaves in the fall, shoveling snow in the winter, pulling weeds in the spring. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He fell forward onto his chest from the weight of her and the nightmare’s fists pulling on her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“If you want to live, you have to go,” she said as she stepped under a fallen board and disappeared from sight. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When Darin was fifteen, he fell from a tree while trying to draw Scholars working a Martial orchard. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It hit the wall next to the hatch and fell to the floor, blocking the door from closing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The sky was a distant black curtain of falling rain. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked, Lazlo thought, like an owlet fallen out of its nest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As we watched in dismay I remember thinking I should pay attention to where the buttons fell, so I could help her sew them back on later. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said that they simply had not thought of it, and as I heard the words fall from their lips my sense of isolation became doubly acute. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama laid her head back on Ophie’s shoulder and fell back asleep, but Ophie whipped her head around, and sure enough, standing behind her was Aunt Rose. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Once, she had seen a haint raise such a bluster on the sidewalk that a living man stumbled as it spun through him, falling hard into the street and nearly getting flattened by a streetcar. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It followed that a heavy body should fall faster than a light one, because it would have a greater pull toward the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You never think it will be your own home that’s on fire, but when it is, all the toughness, the calloused nonchalance of watching fires and hearing sirens falls away. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

But that semester—the fall of my junior year—I didn’t enroll in a single music course. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was full of money--that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She cradled her body close, and ran with Will under the cloud of dragonflies, stumbling and falling more than once, but holding the Lady gently against her heart all the time. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Three days later, my father was up on the roof, fixing the aerial so he could watch some football game on TV, and he fell off. And he died.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There the Graces bathed and anointed her with golden oil—a bloom that clings upon immortal flesh alone—and let her folds of mantle fall in glory. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room goes heart-stoppingly silent as momentum carries him and Henry through the fall and down, down onto the wreckage of the cake on the ornate carpet, Henry’s sleeve still clutched in Alex’s fist. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She’d fall asleep next to me, and I would listen to her soft breathing until I fell asleep, too. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Every time I see something like that...a man falls from a rig, there’s a well fire, guy drowns in a tank, I imagine it’s me.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Little fine drops fell sometimes from the ceiling. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I'd stop before a store window to let him see himself—he has the dignified head of an African chief—only to find that he'd fallen asleep. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Klava’s boots were dragged off in the air by the force of her fall. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Professor McGonagall, deputy headmistress and Head of Gryffindor House, had come dashing out of the Great Hall; she skidded on the wet floor and grabbed Hermione around the neck to stop herself from falling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They had nothing left that I wanted to borrow, and so I dropped them and fell in with a group of typesetters who ultimately betrayed me as well. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Luke has no memory of who dialed 911, but says there were men working in a nearby mill, and he suspects that one of them called immediately after Shawn fell. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“The bottom will fall in if anyone goes down there now.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Real slow, I open her closet and just like I thought, forty-five things fall down on my head. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Bill started up laughing; then suddenly he fell silent and blundered away through the bushes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“This is very pleasant—very pleasant, indeed. It is long since your Birthday fell on a Full Moon, my dear.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“You tell her I said there’s no shame in using that cane I sent her. Pride goeth before the fall.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Clear-cutting” was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In her hurry, she slipped and fell face down in the snow. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I cannot tell till I have thought it all over. If, on reflection, I find I have fallen into no great absurdity, I shall try to forgive you; but it was not right.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

They fought and grappled in the violence of their fall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Their blended voices rolled across the square like a rising and falling wind. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The streams were also crisscrossed by rotting trees and logs that had been felled by age or by extensive logging operations. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you eat it, you will fall over backward and die.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Luma fell in love with the place and transferred for her sophomore year. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The woman clutched her stomach and fell to her knees. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The butt end of a spear fell on his back as he blundered among them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Several of the Riders cried out, and crouched, holding their arms above their heads, as if to ward off a blow from above: a blind fear and a deadly cold fell on them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Painted eyes drooped sadly at the water level, as if the boat were about to fall asleep. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She ate the ice cream steadily, then she fell to on the cake again, looking about at the showcases. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His T-shirt falls up and I can see the hard muscles of his stomach. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the mugger got the purse and ran off as his buddy laughed at him, and Mommy fell to the ground. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is so much to say, much more than plans to burn the nest or make money cleaning up the fallen trees. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I pray to the forest of fallen trees that Brian looks out the window and sees me here with the naked English guy. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The tip of the cutlass broke off and fell to the flagstone walk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they graduated, he had fallen for Shaker Heights as well, the way Elena described it: the first planned community, the most progressive community, the perfect place for young idealists. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mike fell to his knees and started searching for his own coins just as Kyle shouted, “Got it!” and plucked a 1982 quarter out of the pile. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The shower of rocks that fell on the city was seen by large numbers of academics and by English noblemen. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

By early fall, he had recovered most of his strength. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another sought to add special salts to his shoe lining to make his beard fall out. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The filly rose, uninjured— Neves had evidently broken her fall—but the jockey lay motionless. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This side and that the stones fell, and Henry turned obediently but always too late to see the stones in the air. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Unburdened and unhurried, caught up in the simple joy of walking in exotic country, I fell into a kind of trance—but the euphoria seldom lasted for long. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Deen would stand below, on the rock cliff, and Jinny would step very intentionally, out into a gust of wind, holding his hands, to keep her from falling right back. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I could have fallen trembling on the ground but stood and watched instead, watched Kilanga’s children shout and dance each time they found the scorched, angular bodies of a mother baboon and baby seared together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room falls silent, and we all instinctively scoot as far from the door as possible. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The hours stretch on, and I fall in and out of sleep, and at some point she slips out of bed and out of the room. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But Anna wept bitterly for Crocodile Guts and then she, too, fell ill and died. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyelids were growing heavy, but she stayed wide awake, staring unblinkingly at me, even as I fell asleep. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

One of the boys fell and the crowds moved over him toward the train. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My hands scrape along the dirt when I put them down to break my fall. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Or are you one of the fragile creatures who will fall in love with a lord’s son and pine away?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Malachy will fall down on the floor laughing because such a thing could never happen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The goatman pitched the bucket of stew into a tangled patch of thorns and bounded over a fallen log. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Mariel used a false advance to get me to fall short in my lunge. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Every one of them would have watched Boots and the crawlers fall into the river to stop the rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she grabbed the purse, the skein of gold thread fell out. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

But a person, a woman, might fall forward and just stay there a minute looking at the cup, stronger than she is, unbroken at least and lying a bit beyond her hand. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I’d wanted to show her the snow on the ocean, the thing that had made my mom fall in love with this country, and I had wanted to make Maribel fall in love, too? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He hoped Sam hadn't hurt himself, falling like that. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her mouth fell open as she recognized what they were: razor blades. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

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

The rain was falling in sheets, and there were puddles all over the field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere a veil of radiance had fallen to hang shimmering in the northern sky. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“And your mother. I couldn’t bear to watch her. She had fallen in love again. She thought only of the revolution. There was nothing I could do but eat my own sour guts.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Dark's falling, and there's something in the smell o' the night that I mislike." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The light of the lanterns fell on his beaming face; the golden buttons shone on his embroidered silk waistcoat. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My friendships were falling apart; my family was falling apart. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Thalia was so exhausted she fell asleep on Porkpie’s back. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Canton stood, the broom dog falling from his lap like he had forgotten it was there. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

We passed enormous fallen trees, with trunks so large the truck could have driven inside them. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

When we arrived, I fell into Dad’s arms on the freshly paved tarmac. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As she fished for a token in her coat pocket, her eyes fell to his shopping bag. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They settled themselves in the boat, having checked that Alice and Lyra were safe and comfortable, and they fell asleep in a moment. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

After that I must have fainted, or fallen into a trance, because when I opened my eyes again, Ares was gone. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The house shook and the bombs kept falling. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Fallen women were women who had fallen onto men and hurt themselves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I no longer have to tie the faja so tightly it strangles my rib cage for fear of my anacos falling down. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the sound of the shivering glass I could hear the “ting” of the gold, as some of the sovereigns fell on the flagging. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He held the boat, it rising and falling against the stone wall and I helped Catherine in. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The stone came free and fell to the ground. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Four more bunker missiles fall over this period, all massive, all very damaging, but there’s no urgency to the attack. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But I think I’m falling for him again. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The retaining clamps ejected from the launch gantry, falling to the ground. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was thought that the noise of the planks of wood falling to the ground had frightened it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Puffing her feathers out for warmth, Xan closed her eyes and fell asleep. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The ball goes high, falls short, and hits the floor between the feet of Dallas Llewellyn, who is standing right in front of me. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“And so I kicked him, and he made me fall down, and then I bit him!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Davos watched the hand of the Stranger writhe and curl as the fingers blackened and fell away one by one, reduced to so much glowing charcoal. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Alex looked up and could see the fresh torn gap in the tree where the limb had fallen from. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The outpost fell quickly into Octavian’s hands, breaking Mark Antony’s chain at a critical point and disrupting his communication and supply route. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

She was the last to fall asleep, walking the perimeter of the camp and double-checking the wire alarms. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I only had three markers and one dried out when the cap fell under the backseat. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

His right leg is short and twisted and when he walks he does a little twirly dance and you never know when he’ll fall. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A few hours ago he wouldn’t have thought it was possible to sleep when your life was in grave danger, but he’d actually fallen asleep, cradling Gulliver close to him. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I fall asleep most nights listening to Daddy snoring, but wishing for the sounds of an Alabama night. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The peel falls from her large knuckly hands in a long pale spiral. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I went on missions to inspect fallen trees that needed removing, talked to neighborhood pastors who were upset about traffic or garbage collection, and often represented the mayor’s office at community functions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There was a soft rain falling and a fire burning in the fireplace. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes everything on earth fall in love—how the ocean kisses land, how land nestles trees, how swaying trees always whisper sweet nothings into our ears. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She wailed, and her heart gave out in her breast, and she fell dead onto the shore. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that my vision of the fig tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He never let rain fall on it if he could help it and he walked to Sonny’s Shop—taking the car out only on these occasions. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when footsteps fell within the room—several songs after he entered the room—I pressed my back against the closet wall…waiting. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I dropped the boxes and doll, draped her arm around me, and half fell down the rest of the stairs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another bomb fell on a piece of waste ground which was used as a playground and several dozen children were blown to pieces. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Even Sass forgot her scolding and stood a little apart in the courtyard letting the rain fall on her as if it were washing away some of her sorrow. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There is no one to worry about me and none to worry me either, which is a good thing,” and turning on his side he fell instantly asleep. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I even fell asleep once or twice. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I led him to the room I shared with Jay, where Mama had fallen asleep in the chair beside Doc. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had gone about thirty steps when I fell over Timothy’s body, plunging down in the water. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sad. Look, Lolly, I realize what happened to Jermaine is fairly recent. Just this past fall...” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And, over time, my mind has rewired itself, so all this information falls away as soon as the next morning comes. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Heather and I almost fall out of our seats laughing. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The fallen torch was on the floor, guttering, making every shadow leap and twist in a monstrous mockery of the dead man’s shaking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He pushes a loose strand of hair behind his ear and it falls right out again, over his eyes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, leaning against the pole she was tied to, she managed to fall asleep. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was full and so bright that the trees cast long blue shadows along the ground; the unearthly glow glittered like diamond dust on the freshly fallen snow. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Anyway, they fell in love right away, on account of they're both so nuts about Charles Dickens and all, and he helps her run her publishing business. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He wore a beret long after other people abandoned them, he smoked a calabash pipe and his dark hair fell about his face. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered about everything and asked about everything: Why don’t the stars fall? Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

At the next table, men were arguing about the storm and wondering aloud how long the snow would fall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“But I am what I wanted to be,” she said, letting her arms fall to her sides. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music hadn’t wrapped up until 2:00 a.m. the night before, while intermittent rain fell. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He has learned that if he considers all of this too long, he will fall behind—and the train will pass him by. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My mother’s breathing had now fallen into rhythm. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mind searched for answers, but my body was so tired that my knees buckled and I fell forward. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half of the ceiling had fallen in, and the end of Luna’s bed was hanging through the hole. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“They must have grabbed us when we fell in the ocean and dragged us...wherever this is.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

You leaped up as he lost his balance and fell. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Murmurs rose and fell in the dining room. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The young knight fell to his knees a frightened boy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She kicked his bad leg out from under him, danced away, and bolted as he fell, darting past a mother with a child. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Quiet as it’s kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before she fell asleep she said Daisy— And I said Yes Piper? How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

That I had fallen in love with a girl I didn’t even know, just because she admired the socks I was wearing? 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I wave goodbye and head for the gates of the graveyard, where a few yellow leaves have already fallen onto the grass. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Black brothers, northmen, free folk, Thenns, queen’s men, all of them fell quiet, listening. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And now the cake was behaving very curiously for while the bottom was burning and sending out a black smoke the top was rising and falling glueyly with a series of little explosions. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking about it makes me remember the time I fell asleep standing up and Frank kicked my legs out from under me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Responsibilities have fallen away from them, obligations, old hates and grievances; now for a short while they can play again like children, but this time without the pain. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Axel’s eyes fall against Dr. Martin’s white lab coat, where the eaglet had rested contently just moments ago. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sam had fallen to his knees by Frodo’s head, his senses reeling in the foul stench, his two hands still gripping the hilt of the sword. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“But our numbers are not a fraction of what they were. We have fallen into near extinction. Do any of you know what became of the peculiar animals that once roamed the world?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

All these months apart, and we’ve fallen back into normal like it’s nothing. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She just repeated my father’s name into the falling snow. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I had begun to fall into some sort of nightmare. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The knocker fell, and instantly a maid was bidding him enter, curtsying, asking his name. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the flashing stops, the floodlights dim, a hush falls over the crowd. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Every night of the past year, she had fallen asleep thinking of Matthias’ face. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I hate this bathing suit. The straps are always falling down.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nettle, who was just behind, kicked the Renault door shut with such ferocity that the wing mirror fell off. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I tried to look at him, to search his face for my brother, but he shoved my head toward the ground and I fell. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t tell me or Mom either. The only reason we found out is that someone from NYU tried to contact him during the fall and I got to the message first.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You woke up once, but you fell back asleep. Dr. Han said the painkillers would knock you out, so I guess they did the job.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Lancelot carried it to the window and fell silent, examining the writing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or I would slip into her bed while she napped and fall asleep in the warm curve of her belly. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been two weeks since she fell ill, and Dr. Morris still refused to let her return to work. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The taped glasses had fallen from his blue eyes that were locked in an unseeing stare. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nearby city of Ceuta had grown faster than Tangier, and business had fallen off. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the thing was rolling, Haley was jogging in place so she wouldn’t fall on her face. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Instead of falling straight down, both creatures had been swept out of Jess’s line of vision by huge gusts of wind. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Everyone except Yishan fell to their knees as the emperor pushed his way off the sedan chair, his eyes glittering. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I fall against a table and smash it, and wall timbers crack. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first thought was that it was a guard meant to stand against me and that he had fallen asleep. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Anxious to get out of Prague before everything fell apart politically, Kepler travelled to Linz, where he applied for a job as district mathematician and was accepted in June. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

When they reached their little barrack, she fell into bed and curled up in a ball. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ginger and I fell farther and farther behind the others. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

And she fell again into a dreamless sleep. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin drizzle was falling, so fine it might have been dew, the ground beneath my feet felt like the earth in the early morning and no longer a street. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here the sun mellowed, took on the cast of late afternoon, and the shadows seemed to fall a bit longer; the forest had sunk into a deeper silence, magnifying what sounds did arise. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fits of shivering stopped, the stiff limbs fell limp and relaxed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the bad stuff that’s happened in the past few months falls away. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If a tree falls in the forest and crushes a demon, does the tree get cursed? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Fifty feet of fall into shallow water, and he was alive. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was crumpled like a baby bird that had fallen out of its nest, and there was blood coming from her head, staining the marble floor that was freezing cold under Maya’s bare feet. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You fell asleep again. We’re back in Newark. My dad drove us to the hospital and now he wants us to get out of the car.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Klan activity in North Carolina rose and fell over the years in direct proportion to black agitation for change. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Standing at the edge of the candle’s flickering light, he opened his hand and the circle of iron fell to the wooden floor, ringing dully. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Expenditures on public housing have fallen since the 1980s, and the expansion of public rental subsidies came to a halt in the mid-1990s. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into all lives a little turbulence must fall. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Margit would play the piano, and he could fall asleep by the fire. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had a pink, cultivated face and dark blond hair that fell into his eyes when he recited poetry. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

From 1991 to 2001, the homicide rate among young black men—who were disproportionately represented among crack dealers—fell 48 percent, compared to 30 percent for older black men and older white men. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Everything would disappear but the sensation of falling, of the ground closing in on him, of terror. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Hydra stumbled backward, yanking its heads free then wailing in outrage at the fallen tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

We’d only been living in our van for four days when somebody stole my mom’s purse, which had most of our money in it because my dad’s wallet was falling apart. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We fell in love doing arabesques on a tightrope thirty feet in the air.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The trowel she’d been using and a fistful of weeds fell out of her hand. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

As Narcissus bent over a clear pool for a drink and saw there his own reflection, on the moment he fell in love with it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around her, the Red Army of Lenin’s Bolshevik Party was fighting to crush opposition groups that sprang up after the fall of the Russian Empire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

By the fall of 2007, Bobby’s disillusionment with Iceland was fixed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A cold flake struck her nose, melted, fell into her fur, and froze. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, they managed not to fall off as Arion scaled the cliffs, jumping from foothold to foothold with impossible speed and agility. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I was so sleepy that I fell asleep before I could ask him why he was writing it then. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pathetic,” he said, his shadow falling over her as she flipped onto her back, scrambling away before he could get closer. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They fell like slaughtered birds and the woman stood below, like a small girl, among the bodies. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Todd looked up, fell on his knees and put his hands on his throat. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Matt looked up to see that El Patron had fallen asleep in his chair. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he steps aside, the room falls silent, and I crane my neck to see what it says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

All of them looked upward in time to see the crystal chandelier tremble; then, with a creak and an ominous jingling, it began to fall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Hrothgar had fallen asleep on his throne, his white-haired head against his polished shield. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her touch is so light, like two leaves have fallen on me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Ignatius shuffled miserably back to the kitchen and fell into a chair. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did the proper cooking, and I did near everything else, like washing pots and plates and beating eggs till my arms fell off for Madam’s almond jumbles and plum cakes with icing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The arrow she had nocked slipped and fell, flailing like a downed bird, to the ground at her feet. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even if Pa could get a deer, it would be poor and thin, not fat and plump as deer are in the fall. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to stop myself, but the door fell open. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like forever—or only seconds— that Tally fell, the gaping faces below becoming larger and larger. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Right after the picture it begins to snow, small dry flakes falling singly out of the hard northern November sky. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I sometimes wish you had the kind of work that lasted all year, instead of just from spring until fall,” she said. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They had crocodiles in the water. Made it more exciting when someone fell in!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t just fall off the cilantro truck.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Rain fell and froze, and tree limbs snapped from the weight of the ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That afternoon I nearly fell asleep at my desk. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She opened her mouth as though to say something, then fell back on the pillows and sighed. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had fallen because God wanted him to fall; there was no deeper meaning in it than that. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A goshawk flew overhead; a rock fell off the cliff and bounced past the blazing-star flowers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The float starts moving around the parking lot, where it falls into place behind some kind of rock ’n roll monstrosity the sophomores have put together. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I thought, If I could wait till he falls asleep first, then maybe it wouldn’t be a big deal. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I can end this conversation if I can muster the courage to arc my body into his, bring my lips to his mouth, let our bodies align while the rest of the world falls away. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Now, just like that, they were his “work,” validated and stolen in one fell swoop. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby bounced on my shoulder and nearly fell off as I hurdled a stump. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

That was one reason he didn’t fall asleep immediately. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was snoring a long time before I finally fell asleep. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Pinmei shook her head, and when she looked again, there was only the white falling snow. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Remember those white markers? They start right over there. Each one shows where a soldier was found, where he fell.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Pong fell quiet, and the two of them walked on in silence until they were well out of sight of the school. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The monkey turned over in his sleep and fell still again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A swift rigidity fell on all of them as James lurched one step forward into a crouch. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Hold me up. I’m going to fall. So hold me up.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The bombardment has stopped and a heavy barrage now falls behind us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I was walking home and the sneakers fell from the sky," he had told the judge. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Chelsea opens her mouth, I think to say goodbye, but instead an avalanche of tears falls. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

She seemed stressed enough by her own job and the many other things she had to do, and so, avoiding the matter, we both just fell asleep. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I can’t quite get the whole thing out ’cause I trip going backwards and fall on my back against the sink, my head smacking on the door of the cupboard. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Usually he walked among the Dinka, but today, shuffling along in a daze, he found he had fallen a little behind. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her long hair falls forward, shielding her face and hiding her feelings. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

His is a tree I strive to fall increasingly farther from. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I fell off to sleep wondering when Amaka would come in, if her lips would turn down at the corners in a sneer when she looked at me sleeping. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The board was just high enough to prevent the eyas from falling out. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The first time I dreamed this scenario I can’t really say whether I was still awake or had fallen into a feverish, colorful sleep. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust and bits of tile fell from the ceiling. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We can fall back in place, or somewhere close enough to where we were before. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

His shoulder seemed to ache, as if he had fallen on it, but he knew it was only the ghost of what the wolf was feeling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If one drops two bodies that don’t have much air resistance, such as two different lead weights, they fall at the same rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since she’s home all day, a lot of the maintenance will fall to her. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mark had stumbled two steps backward, but he was just glad he hadn’t fallen down. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Lord Asriel stood back to let it open, and then stepped in again, showing his open, weaponless hands, turning his head a little to let the moonlight fall clearly on his face. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Victor, give him your gloves before his fingers fall off.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The 586th spent the fall of 1943 defending Kursk and then the Ukrainian city of Kiev, newly liberated from German occupation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Gebu gasped and fell back a few paces, then straightened himself in anger. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Only after some two hundred of the Indigenous residents had fallen did the troops overpower the Shawnee. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

My heart fell like a stone into my stomach. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They came to the fallen tree that she had spoken of. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The little girls fell in love right away and things got put back together. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I remember her holding me there to make sure I didn’t fall out and then holding me close when I was done. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When we got tired of plain falling, we tried different styles of falling. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the glass panels, the world below us falls away, and just like that—we’re airborne. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were dark bags under his eyes, and he was practically falling asleep where he sat. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except she moved so fast that her glasses flew off her head and fell. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He stumbled forward, catching the mast to stay his fall, and light came shooting back into his eyes. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I told Dad I’d lost my phone in Arizona; that it must have fallen out of my pocket. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The entire backseat of the car has fallen asleep. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Empty of kids, Portable 16 fell right over, roof first, into the far end of the hole. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bent and grabbed handfuls of sand, throwing in rapid movements, and the sand fell on his shoulder, arms, belly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His fingers were scraped raw from holding on to that ledge before they fell. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Obsidian Kings, who started out with more bets than the White Sharks, are now falling behind. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I reach into my book bag for a pencil, and my fingers fall on the Magic Markers I use in art class. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And he’s looking at her while she looks out the window, soft light falling on her face. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

My legs fall asleep from having them crossed for so long, and my eyes flutter, fighting my desire to keep them closed. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Running into battle, he could shout so loudly that men felt the cry like a hammer on their heads, and fell down dead of fright. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty quickly I became an expert at falling down, shoving my hands in front of me so I didn’t smash my already ugly face into the ground. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But I lose this battle with myself, and a tear falls down my cheek. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

When I get hungry enough, then killing and falling are dancing too. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t make it very far before he stumbled and fell forward. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

But by 10:30 that night, his fever dropped and he fell asleep. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Scythe Chomsky, the largest of them, stepped forward and, without warning, swung his fist, connecting with Rowan’s cheek so hard, he spun around, lost his footing, and fell to the dusty floor. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But more than once they glanced at each other, and each was surprised by the pool of happiness that spread through herself even as she trudged through the falling temperatures and growing dusk. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Those who fell into his clutches would be counted fortunate if they perished quickly.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, officially, guardians weren’t supposed to show favouritism, but there were little displays of affection all the time within certain parameters; and most of what Ruth suggested fell easily within them. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The owl screeched and fell to the floor of the cage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Aw shoot, big man, I’m nobody. Just didn’t want you to fall to your death, is all. I saved you, just like you saved me.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Picturing the almond Hershey bar roof and the shutters made of cinnamon licorice sticks, Dicey did fall asleep. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

By evening, my clothes were still damp, so I put them on so that the heat of my body would dry them faster before night fell. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children rolled off, fell without hurting themselves on the warm, fine grass, and stood up panting a little. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the moment when he had seen her fall on the bandaged arm, it had been as though he felt the pain in his own body. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The only thing about him that unnerves me is the dark look that falls over him when I tell him about something that Marcus said or that Jay Oh and Adrian have done. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I fall neatly into the crook of Amber's neck. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His black skullcap fell off his head, and he regained his balance and bent quickly to retrieve it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The fallen logs with frayed strips of bark. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The snow is so soft when it falls, nothing like hail. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

To punish him, Poseidon had made Pasiphaë fall madly in love with it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his father temporarily away from the farm on business, it fell to son John to decide whether to take in not one but two men. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Commandant's letter falls from my suddenly numb hand, and I know. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As his voice rose and fell, the other adults sang out and the puppies yipped and bounced. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they collided, the sound was like the crash of two massive falling boulders. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I applied and was accepted to Mercy College in New York City for the fall. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

You have to keep it spinning or it falls and shatters.... The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He got off track and fell behind in his studies. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Koffi covered her head and closed her eyes as bits of the destroyed door fell all around them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was a different time, when teachers felt comfortable having students around without fearing they could fall under suspicion. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Belmont officials grudgingly agreed to consider it, and there was talk of rescheduling the race for the fall meeting. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at Edward’s face, and then she let go of his ear and he fell forward so that his head rested against the counter again. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“Charlie—” “Just leave me alone. I’m not myself. I’m falling apart, and I don’t want you here.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I hold the notebook in front of me like it’s seconds from falling apart. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

They wanted to allow time for me to fall on my face and show that the former prisoner hailed as a savior was a highly fallible man who had lost touch with the present situation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the cage has enough momentum that the few who are distracted lose their balance and fall down, their compatriots trampling them as the whole contraption keeps turning. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They wouldn't let go of each other, so Eleanor fell back, and Park fell against her in the corner of the couch. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I can remember Cordelia throwing my blue knitted hat over the bridge, I remember falling through the ice and then my mother running toward me with her sleety hair. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their cries for help fell on deaf ears. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They fall with heavy grunts in the grass. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But he had thrown it with such force that it broke the stone it fell upon, and there, embedded in the broken stone, was the most beautiful emerald in the world. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several of our men have taken fevers, afflicted with some distemper which fell on the other ships and now visits itself upon ours. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Hackett stepped away from us, and picked up the guitar, which had fallen to the ground. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You deserved to be punished. Someone had to teach you a lesson. Your parents never raised a hand to you. They let you run wild. So the duty fell to me.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I roll my eyes, because he falls in love every hour on the hour with some poor new boy. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

That night, he had been woken by the sound of something on the floor beneath him falling with a crash. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

When I fall back into the saddle, my leg slaps against her flank and she whinnies. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We sit up and watch them fall and fall and fall into the river below, way too far to ever live thru it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He stood beside her for a time, his hand resting on her breast; he felt it rise and fall, the life in her, the activity. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He picked it up and sat on a fallen tree a few feet from her rock. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

How the world—the business of Times Square—can feel like it’s falling away when you’re with the right person. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He stood up suddenly and his chair fell over. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was I the same person I’d been last fall, before all of this started? Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She seriously contemplated, for the first time, the fall of Umuahia as she walked home. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One by one, like massive falling dominoes, more workstations lower from hidden pockets in the surrounding walls of the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I lay down and fell asleep right next to the road, right in the middle of the day. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where he’d fallen there were fresh ones, not weathered, and he saw that they had come from the bank where he had bounced. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I figured if we went to bed he’d fall right asleep because he’d walked thirty miles up from New Haven that day. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I face the door before any tears fall. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The facts: Our heartbeat falls into sync with a song’s rhythm. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Her eyes fell on a phrase: Thy footsteps are not known. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Where creepy things don’t keep falling on our heads?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I put my headphones back on and turn the music loud enough to drown out every other sound, so I can finally fall asleep. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

With cap in hand and shoulders sloped, he followed, walking over a rug so soft and deep that it seemed he was going to fall at each step he took. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All we got to do is to elect Wilson again this fall. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing that he remembered before he fell into deep dream was a glimpse of high white peaks, glimmering like floating isles above the clouds as they caught the light of the westering moon. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Burials were falling in number, from a high of 120 on October 11 to half that number on October 21. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I cry until I fall asleep, and even then, I’m crying in my dreams. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

All that happens is that I lose my balance and fall off the end of the cart. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Still, when the bus lurched forward I fell against his hand and felt his tiny sharp finger-nails scratching at my shirt. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t make much sense to me—she falls asleep as soon as we turn the first corner. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The trail was littered with fallen branches and ripped apart by huge holes caused by the earthquake. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I can see this, I can actually see Peeta's chest rising and falling. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“All right. The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I’ve got sarcastic company. Sit down, will ya?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

On the expansive property of my father’s house stood high poplar, oak, the few elm not yet fallen with disease. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before darkness fell I climbed onto the rock and watched the sea until it slowly disappeared in the night. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe of palm between the scar and the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then there was no more rise and fall. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he said that, she saw the trap she’d fallen into, and cried out in dismay, “No! Not Malcolm!” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He fell on his knees in thanks when he found out the score. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he shouted, “Get back!” and they fell flat on their bellies in the warm sand. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The room—a room in the sheriff’s office, into which he’d locked himself before falling asleep at a desk—was dull with near-darkness. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strider judged that it had fallen two days before, and had washed away all footprints. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It bounced off his desk and fell to the floor. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And it was then, as she stood there, her shoulders rising and falling with her breathing, that Tommy seemed to become aware for the first time just how frail she was. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pride goeth before destruction; and a haughty spirit before a fall. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It is therefore possible, if a black hole is present, for the virtual particle with negative energy to fall into the black hole and become a real particle or antiparticle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the collapse did not occur in the pattern one would expect if drought were the cause: in general, the wetter southern cities fell first and hardest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The smile fell from the woman’s face as if Grace had slapped it away. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But most people suspected that the item had actually fallen into the Sixers’ hands, along with countless other powerful artifacts. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I lurch a little, near the fountain, almost fall. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The late afternoon sun slanted through the open door and fell across Hannah’s gnarled hands as they moved swiftly and surely. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She takes Oak in her arms and swings him around and around until they both fall in a whoosh of Vivi’s skirts. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We fox-trotted all the way around the seal tank, and still the song kept going on about the stars falling. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The boy fell on the back of the dog, whose snarling jaws had pushed into the light between the boy’s legs. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all was quiet and they grew drowsy and fell asleep, while outside the rain settled in for the morning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ran arm in arm, tripping through a field rent with furrows and ditches, falling and catching each other in an epileptic dance. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He tried to ride a steer in a pasture, got tossed onto the ragged edge of a fallen tree, and limped home with his gashed knee bound in a handkerchief. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The butcher knife clattered to the floor, and big drops of blood fell on the counter. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One looked like he had just fallen into the water and was doing everything he could to keep his face from getting wet. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t register the fact I had fallen over Liam until I was there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And by 2010, the figure had fallen to 10,228, a drop of 52 percent, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a division of the U.S. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The puppy wandered to a corner of the room, sniffed, made a circle of himself, collapsed, and fell asleep. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Protests against the communist government broke out all over East Germany in the fall of 1989. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tally remembered growing up surrounded by Sol’s woodwork, abstract shapes fashioned from fallen branches she would collect from parks as a littlie. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s getting hard to breathe, but I don't think that it has anything to do with how hard I'm pedaling, or with the cold air, or with my fall. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘I am unscathed, for I was not here with him. He fell defending the hobbits, while I was away upon the hill.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Frodo groaned; but with a great effort of will he staggered up; and then he fell upon his knees again. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As they soared upward, away from the two remaining Death Eaters, Harry spat blood out of his mouth, pointed his wand at the falling sidecar, and yelled, “Confringo!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Ben saw his sister fall into a hedge that bordered the classroom window. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let his hair grow and had fallen into the habit of tossing the floppy locks often and unnecessarily. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The truck fell behind them, the lights grew smaller, then disappeared forever in the middle of the third decade of the rosary. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we heard the sounds of Jeeps revving up, we fell on our knees, cheering. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, I hear his breathing grow steady and see his head droop, and I know he’s fallen asleep. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But when he saw her face fall, he dropped her hands and cradled her face instead. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When I got home that night and undressed, the wishing stone fell out of my pocket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He will then lower his body to the spot in question and is usually so secure in his decision that he will fall asleep immediately. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

He falls on top of me, and I smack my head against one of the cement steps. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But by then the temperature had fallen again, and if she kicked off the blankets, she froze. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the sun had fallen beneath the rooftops, we arrived at the Collbran house in time to see the body of the last Collbran taken out to the death cart. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know in an hour, our limbs will fall asleep and hurt to move. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I told you not to call her ‘Mudblood’!” snarled Harry, but the elf was already punishing himself: He fell to the ground and banged his forehead on the floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The letter must have fallen out of your bag. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe that's where there is money falling from the sky, diamonds speckling the sidewalks. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

As if in answer to her question, someone fell through the black square—it was Minho, looking as if he’d been scratched or stabbed on ninety percent of his body “Minho!” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jet’s shoulder rose and fell with his deep, heavy breaths. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But by that fall of 1776 I didn’t have much time for pondering over Sam or Mr. Heron. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It started to snow, a wet, Pacific Northwest snow that fell in clumps, soaking and unpleasant. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“That was scary, too, but it was fun. So I pretended this was a boyhood game, and I never fell.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I then took off my shirt and carefully hung it on a nail in the wall and made sure my note pad did not fall out the pocket. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As he yelled the snake fell, hissing wildly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They’d hidden an important map here—something they didn’t want falling into enemy hands. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He could flip one and a half times and land headfirst right where the falls hit the pool, disappearing in white spray. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, who did the best job in predicting what the Japanese were up to in the summer and fall of 1941? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Alex hums in suggestive agreement and lets the rhythm of banter fall out. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I fight to concentrate, but I feel myself fall to the floor. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It rose, fell, found a spastic path to her mouth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, in the dense alphabet forest of the page, little black tulips began to pop up in a quick, random pattern like falling raindrops. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“This building ... it’s so high. Might. .. might it fall down?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She probably had, since she always falls asleep during car rides longer than an hour. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She stumbles around for a while, disoriented, then charges forward, only to trip and fall to her knees. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Her boubou was too long for her short body; it dragged along the ground and Olanna feared that she would trip on it and fall. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I slide off the top plank and walk backward with it, but stumble and fall right on my bum. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It fell, in waves and curls and disobedient frizzy wisps—soft on the inside, coarser on the outside—to just below where her small, strong waist began its curve out towards her hips. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knelt by him trying to unbuckle his harness, alarmed by the way he sprawled there, passive except for the great gasping rise and fall of his chest. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The voice on the other end finished what it had to say, then fell silent as it awaited an answer. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great tears poured from beneath his clenched lids and fell in steaming dollops to the ground. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And I remembered how, when JT was in the third grade, he fell out of his tree house and broke his leg. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deacon Jackson, a tall, thin, quiet man, who was also a part-time Sunday school teacher, gave a scream like a falling tree, leaned back on thin air and punched Reverend Taylor on the arm. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow started to fall, but my luck held, for it was only a light gay snow. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the old man fell asleep again, and Hugo felt a tap on his shoulder. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Savage looked at her reproachfully; then suddenly fell on his knees before her and, taking Lenina’s hand, reverently kissed it. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shifted my head to the side so my hair would fall over my scarred cheek. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Called "On the Constitutions of Atoms and Molecules," the paper explained how electrons could keep from falling into the nucleus by suggesting that they could occupy only certain well-defined orbits. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He nearly falls, but a cop grabs his arm. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She stepped out of the black crepe dress where it fell to the floor, and stood in her heels and underwear, surveying the possibilities on the wardrobe racks, mindful of the passing minutes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then he released me and I fell to the ground in a gasping heap of snot and tears and blood. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm laughing, so hard that I fall onto the ground in a wild delirium, and my cheeks hurt with a delightful pain. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Percival, released, surrounded by the comfortable presence of humans, fell in the long grass and went to sleep. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But then, I don’t know why, I couldn’t fall asleep. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Athena and Poseidon had been the Greeks’ greatest allies among the gods, but when Troy fell all that had changed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother Tyler, who was seventeen, fell asleep at the wheel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was then Felicia lost consciousness, falling into an emptiness without history or future. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He focused on his own favorite, the man called Miller, who was in charge of grain production each fall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

An inch of snow had fallen before they could speak, and all were trembling with the wintry blast. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a swift motion, I threw the venison to the ground and the dog fell upon the meat. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When the interior support framing of a building had been eaten through and weakened enough, parts of the exterior brick walls would fall with a ground-rumbling roar. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sam caught his master in his arms, as he stumbled and almost fell, right on the threshold of the bridge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Complementary to her understated beauty, my father fell in love with my mother’s enthusiasm for life and her love of children. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Fischer secured a position at the Moscow Brain Institute, and in November 1933 he and Regina, who was then twenty, fell in love and were married in Moscow. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Stalingrad, the Russian city that has been under attack for three months, still hasn’t fallen into German hands. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

How can we account for the fact that Microsoft has been so successful recently, while IBM, which was formerly successful, fell behind but then drastically changed its organization and improved its success? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a plump one, speckled brown, busily pecking at a crust that had fallen between two cobblestones, but when Arya's shadow touched it, it took to the air. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

So he found the stars that formed the shape of the whale, inhaled the deep scent of earth that surrounded him, and began, his voice falling easily into the cadence of the old stories. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

June came that fall, fresh out of UT. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The flashlight beam fell on a teddy bear, a stuffed toy rabbit, fishing rods, a toolbox, piles of books, and a plastic sword that stuck out of a sleeping bag. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Would I go to the same school in the fall? Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Stands of prehistoric trees rise and fall and rise again in succession. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Silence falls, and someone is coughing softly beneath the floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself into the ivy. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I pushed back the golden lid and it fell to the floor with a huge WHOOOOM! The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He fell, and when he got up, his nose was bleeding. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I said, “After that hard fall it kind of damaged him a little bit, but that was your brother.” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hated her weak neck, the way it did not support her head but let it droop; her head would fall backward. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky above the hills was blue and cloudless, and there were hours yet to pass before darkness fell. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I remembered a few times, before I was diagnosed, when I’d lay in bed and my artifacts would talk to me or to one another and I would listen to them until I fell asleep. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She cries till Pa Keating tells her we have to go before the darkness falls, that we can’t be in graveyards in the dark. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes, losing myself in the falling petals, the light rain, the strength of his arms, his breath on my lips. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The barrack rumbled again as another bomb fell close to the camp. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon, sir. It was purely accidental. I fell, you see. Please accept my humble apologies. I am Matthias of Redwall and I sincerely hope I have not disturbed you in any way.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In any case, all that practice in falling down turned out to be a waste of time. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her vest had begun to smolder, so Dany shrugged it off and let it fall to the ground. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They both let the ropes slide through their hands, and the boat fell and hit the water with a slap. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the fall, he’d invested a large sum of money in new construction equipment—an excavator, a man lift and a welding trailer. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They lay where they had fallen, their limbs in grotesque positions. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“But we have to be very, very careful. We mustn’t fall down any farther.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair falls around his shoulders like a silk drape, one streak of it scarlet with blood, and his eyes look pained. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I crawled between the mattress and the padded bedstead and let the mattress fall across me like a tombstone. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The light and shade and light and shade that falls on you if you have a window seat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within, there are overlapping metal hoops marked with numbers and symbols suspended from the top, hanging amongst the visible gears and a series of stars falling from the filigree cap at the top. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The thick black strands fell over my right eye, but I watched Ucho with my left as if he were a jaguar ready to pounce. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“What happened? Did you fall off a motorbike belonging to one of your Stanford boyfriends? Or did the evil coach of your track team put a hit out on you?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Several times during the war Washington arranged for fake documents to fall into the hands of known British spies. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the way post, night had already fallen; the sky was clear once more, but the chill had deepened. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mom said he had fallen off the back of the couch and cracked his head open on the floor, but she and Dad had decided not to take him to the hospital. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the way home, Sidhean fell into step beside her, and for the first time in a long time, she was startled by his arrival. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, in the fall, Adria would be starting ninth grade at a public high school that was half an hour away. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

So he slept late; when he woke a light snow was falling, and he idled about the lanes and byways of the town to watch the people busy at their doings. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Landlords filled the apartment complexes through government housing programs and cut back on upkeep, allowing the complexes to fall into disrepair. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was looking at Rose from the bottom of a well I couldn't remember falling into. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He would have fallen directly onto her, but he was yanked backward by the collar of his shirt. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It took Barry a minute to understand that he had fallen asleep. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want her family to fall apart like Drew’s. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He’s back in a dark corner behind the now fallen rolls. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He describes how snow falls in flakes covering the land in a white, soft blanket. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell to the ground, and the rain was so powerful, it seemed to be pushing me into the thirsty earth as it tried to soak up every drop the clouds offered. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It was crowded, and as the rain began to fall more rabbits came down the runs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He genuinely wondered, even as he estimated himself to fall in the top twenty percent of the general population, careerwise. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, in the city of Weep, a girl fell from the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She bent her head over the autoharp and her long hair fell down like a curtain. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I got below and found a hammock, it took me a long time to fall asleep. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She glared at her husband, her small, high breasts rising and falling rapidly. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve convinced them that without you as translator, we will all perish in Virginia,” he says as the clamps open and fall away. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The waterfall fell into the pool almost at its center. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Matthias watched some of the tiny ants carrying off his fallen breadcrumbs as he answered, “As well as possible, Brother Methuselah. And how are your studies coming along?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Those who thought they had a solution fell into two opposing camps. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Most of us fall asleep under the sky or under a tree or in its branches. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it stealing, to wait as Tree-ear had for more rice to fall before alerting the man that his rice bag was leaking? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The men danced and slipped and fell over them. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to ask him why he had said that, what he meant, but she didn’t and she was not sure who fell asleep first. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then she pulled out a long vine covered with tiny white flowers with six sharp petals like fallen stars. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, I can remember the awful splash as that corpse fell into the sea. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her backpack was gone—lost during the fall, or maybe washed away in the river. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He wanted to fall asleep with I want you in his ears. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“I just remembered that Karen Linga down the street fell and broke her hip and she’s in so much pain she is begging for you to come take her away.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say anything more to R.C., and after a few minutes, he leaned his head against the door and fell asleep. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Jeanne tried to move it, but it was like trying to move a fallen tree. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

His forehead crumples, and the headpiece falls to the ground. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When the screen door snapped to behind her, silence fell. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The flower garden, as always, was thriving and well tended, with late roses in bloom and fall asters fat with bud. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The snow has been falling steadily since we came indoors. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

One of the other men stumbled and collapsed, and the guards fell on him with sticks and clubs. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I must have finally fallen asleep, because I woke from a horrible nightmare. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Tiny diamond droplets fell from her ears, and her hair was curled and swept up onto her head, strands of pearls woven in. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And let himself fall into the bright dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It falls down. And your crash bracelets don’t work either.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I went to bed and fell asleep immediately. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the rise and fall of the wind, he could hear his father’s laughter. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

On all the others a dread fell at the mention of that name. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Night’s elbows rested on the water, and falling stars glanced off its brittle shards. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the top Robin fell in a heap onto the platform with every bit of strength gone from his legs and arms. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Slow, deliberate, purposeful, the cat came on—again the bear retreated, bewildered by the tactics of this terrible small animal, distraught by her cub’s whimpering, slowly falling back before the relentless inch-by-inch advance. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The great loops of London have fallen to our enemies.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’d jump double Dutch or try to fall into whatever banter was going on. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She stumbled forward and fell in my arms. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He walked out on the beach to the edge of the light and stood with his clenched fists on top of his skull and fell to his knees sobbing in rage. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They find their own audience and stand or fall of their own weight. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, a blue-clad figure flies with familiar grace out of the mists, silver braid shining, descending upon Red Platoon like a falling star. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, I arranged my dress on a hanger and hung it on my doorknob so I could fall asleep looking at it. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He straightened out his shirt so that it fell into place beyond the waist of his jeans. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

One day a hard rain fell, and Cole stayed inside the tent. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Everything is torn, shirt, gansey, short pants, stockings, and my shoes are ready to fall off my feet entirely. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When a woman fell ill, Klanswomen looked after her children and brought covered dishes for the family. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When his feet hit the stone, he fell on his stomach, unable to stand on his wrapped legs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stood up, letting the book fall into the water, bubbles dripping down her thighs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She let the rags of her gown fall to her waist as she opened a carved chest, and busied herself with bottles and boxes, knives and needles. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Two dudes met. They fell in love. They lived. That’s our story.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Other jockeys suffered bouts of weakness so severe that when boosted into the saddle they would fall right off the other side. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In hours, the whole of Rome fell into ferment. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Beaver were nowhere to be seen, so Roz picked up a fallen tree branch and stomped into the shallows. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In my memory it’s always Mother who falls, and she has a baby in her arms. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Only then did I see the slight rise and fall of his chest. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Homesickness fell upon them when Pierrot said he was hungry—dinner was hours away, and it would not be proper to go down now and ask for food. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t understand why she had been put into a boat, why she had fallen into the water or why the man was making such a fuss over her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

To rescue the conversation from one of the wells of silence into which it kept falling, Jo said hastily, “Now you must have a good long holiday!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not know what I expected to see but I did not see anything except the fields and the bare mulberry trees and the rain falling. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

One time it had pulled loose from the tree, and both she and Peris had swung downward, then up and out over the middle of the river before falling off, tumbling into the cold water. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A leaf caught up in the wind hadn’t fallen. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

With the introduction of...the infinitely small and infinitely large, mathematics, usually so strictly ethical, fell from grace.... Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the daytime, a ray of sunlight shone into the tomb, making all the dust motes she stirred up swirl like falling snow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And by magic, one falls Into his squealing mouth. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat on a mossy and black tree trunk that had fallen down in some storm years before I’d ever entered Pine Mountain. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ben was lying on his bed studying the cracked geometry of falling plaster that hung above him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She headed for the farm, following other people who were fleeing, and falling into the same garbage ditch that I did along the way. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“If you fall and hurt yourself we’ll never hear the end of it from trustees.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I didn't think I could convince him that having the little bride and groom fall into a puddle was ironic. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought the old stone convent was falling down. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue, furry fairy gestured toward the orangutan, and the shackles binding it to the wall fell apart. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Colin fell to the ground, moaning, waves of pain radiating from his middle. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

My parents nursed me just as if I had fallen in battle after many victories. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will fall upon them like a thunderbolt,” he said, as he squeezed the woman’s breast. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She took the limp form of Uncle Andrew gently in her trunk and set him up on end: upside down, unfortunately, so that two half-sovereigns, three half-crowns, and a sixpence fell out of his pocket. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

In this way they caught a great many men who had fallen into debt. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was what you would call a tent dress—yards of material falling from her shoulders without benefit of waistband and darts. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d slipped from the pulleys and fallen, rendering the citadel forever—or until now—inaccessible. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She’s fifty or so, with gray hair that falls in an unbroken sheet to her shoulders. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When she ran the water, the waste fell straight out onto her shins. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Rishi sat back, letting the rose fall from his fingers, and studied the tiny girl. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Hrothluf looked around him in slight surprise, understood that he had fallen, and got up. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least a dozen daddy longlegs were arranged along the bottom of the cool porcelain tub, quiet, quivering when the light blared on and her shadow fell. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had fallen on its right side with its forelegs tucked under its belly; the hind legs were curled under to the left as if it were still sleeping in the grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Police and prosecutors have been influenced by the media coverage, and a presumption of guilt has now fallen on thousands of women—particularly poor women in difficult circumstances—whose children die unexpectedly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I would enroll in junior college classes in the fall, I told Baba the day after graduation. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘I—I didn’t mean Baby to fall. She was just so little and cute—seemed to me like I just had to take a pop at her.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Jason recalled a line from the prophecy: To storm or fire the world must fall. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Nergal stared in bewilderment, his shouts falling on deaf ears. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He fell silent, while the vivid stars were spilt and danced all ways. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The mood in the car was heavy, and at first I regretted having suggested the diversion, but the moment Dad saw the falls he was transformed, elated. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He felt his feet leave the office floor; he was falling, falling through whirling darkness and then, quite suddenly, he was blinking in dazzling sunlight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When darkness fell, we all startled at every creak and jumped at every shadow. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Raindrops pelted the window, making it hard to fall asleep. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I tore open the envelope and a check fell onto my bed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

All Copernicus could say was that ‘Earthy’ things tended to fall to Earth, solar things tended to fall to the Sun, things with an affinity for Mars would fall to Mars, and so on. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Here's the best place to find pigeon," Arya told him^as she brushed herself off and picked up her fallen stick sword. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For a second I’m surprised by the crack in the screen, until I remember my fall from earlier. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But she couldn’t think of any way to reverse or even slow their fall. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Soon as I get there, my sandwich falls out of the paper bag and onto the floor. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Evidently the task of forging a brotherhood of scientists would fall to the two brothers themselves. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As we bump along, I hang on to the wooden bench with my mittened fingers so I don’t fall onto the floor when we hit a rough patch. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

With the dogs falling, Mercedes weeping and riding, Hal swearing innocuously, and Charles’s eyes wistfully watering, they staggered into John Thornton’s camp at the mouth of White River. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then the three months were up, and just before the flag fell on the immigration clock, Bobby would scoot off to the Philippines. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised by how fast it fell. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“And all that stuff about the world falling in storm or fire.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then I lean forward and fall right over on my face. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Dusk fell early in the afternoon, and it was night by half past four. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“I have to help my brother skin the minks at his mink farm this afternoon and I may fall behind a bit.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I put my clothes to dry at the fire, crawled into bed, and fell into a dreamless sleep. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Hooper seemed to go on and on falling, in a peculiarly graceful sort of way, one arm flung out. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Not only were there a dozen frost-covered Christmas trees and thick streamers of holly and mistletoe crisscrossing the ceiling, but enchanted snow was falling, warm and dry, from the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She tugs me closer, hands falling to my waist, and I still can’t believe it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He passed the picket fence of Mrs. Cobb’s, steering as clear of it as if it were the wall of Jericho about to fall. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

We carry on thru the night, the sky falling slowly past us, our words stopping a little as dinner wears off and tiredness takes hold again. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sunlight fell between tufts of fast-shredding cloud and lit the white Panamas that flecked the audience. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Hazel stood, the pelletlike snow falling around her, and then, so quickly it was like she had superpowers, she bent down and packed a snowball and hurled it at him. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

As Mrs. Scatcherd leads us down the center aisle toward a low stage at the front, a hush falls over the crowd, and then a swelling murmur. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Somewhere inside me, a vicious voice chants: fall, fall, fall. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The whole front wall of the hall fell down like a domino. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Above it, on a deep ledge that ran from one side of the room to the other, my gaze fell upon a row of strange figures. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I see Neil’s face—it has to be Neil; the universe isn’t that cruel—things will fall into place once and for all. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping from your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you toward the future. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve tied it super tight to make sure it stays up; the worst thing in the world would be if it came unwound and fell down in front of hundreds of people. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each layer of kids fell down and away, peeling back to reveal a new, fresh layer for the kill—I couldn’t see the snow beneath them anymore. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My feet tangle in my skirts and I fall, the shambler following. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The other ghosts followed Roger, and Will and Lyra fell exhausted on the dew-laden grass, every nerve in their bodies blessing the sweetness of the good soil, the night air, the stars. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She fell to the ground and squealed in shock. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Southwards to their left they could see the forest falling away down into the grey distance. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The oarsmen were coming aboard now, for the ship was to go out into the roadstead before night fell, and sail with the ebbtide near dawn. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The shoulder straps fell down to his elbows, and the skirt bunched at his feet. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

How quietly we endure all that falls upon us. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But bad things falling on her—unkind words, nasty stares, foot blisters—she seemed unaware of. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Immediately, her body is seized by wild contortions and she falls to the ground in a horrible dance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her crow dæmon kept falling down and scrabbling up again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The rays from the lantern fell on his wasted face, on the tight yellowed skin, on the lips split with fever, on his limbs which were like a child’s. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flakes are falling huge and fast and the whole neighborhood is coated in white. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the right of the road a densely wooded slope fell steeply to the bank of a wide lake. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Are you really that embarrassed from taking a little fall?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I nod along as Connor explains every single activity, every single trip and fall. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I leaned over, opened my mouth, and let the oatburger blob, fall into the basket. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The supper would be delicious—omelets never fell and cakes rose to balloons of lightness, biscuits fluffed up, and no one could season a stew like Agnes Morrison. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I fall to my knees, right there on the back stoop, howling into splayed hands. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There it is again, he thought, that late summer chill to the air, the smell of fall. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep in that utter country silence that makes your ears ring. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three times over the course of the fall of 2011, Barack proposed bills that would create thousands of jobs for Americans, in part by giving states money to hire more teachers and first responders. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He planned also to coat the beach with fallen oak and maple leaves to signify the fact that Columbus landed in autumn, even though live palms and dead deciduous leaves were not precisely compatible. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I pictured the snow falling over it, two crests of snow rising on the tops of its wings. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

We march past Tori and the fallen council member. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Julie fell on Sixty- eighth Street, and Alex had to pull her up, which took more energy than he cared to spare at that point. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The nurse comes over with a needle and pokes my arm and I fall asleep. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was as if the three fates were approaching, their scissors poised to snip the knot that was keeping Dedd’s life from falling apart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crawled deeper into the black gauzy web where he could rest in the silence, where his coming and going through this world was no more than a star falling across the night sky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know I was running until I tripped and fell. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moved carefully in the dark, using the watery rectangles of light that fell across the floor. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had happened just after the Taliban took over Mazar, one of the last cities to fall. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dido, she thought, could be trusted to make unaided the necessary impression upon Aeneas, but she was not at all certain that Aeneas by himself could get Dido to fall in love with him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembers all the little coincidences it took to get them to meet and fall in love. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were no lush green mountains or rolling hills falling into the sea. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Those of them who craned too far fell off the edge themselves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking back along the road Judith signaled Kit to fall behind the others. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Ken fell over backwards and just lay there, holding his stomach and saying “Sheesh” weakly from time to time. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he held him the boy’s head fell back as a flower does when its stem is broken. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A pink-faced girl with blonde pigtails stumbled out of line, put on the hat, which fell right down over her eyes, and sat down. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I got him another glass of water, and cleaned up the floor where the first one had fallen. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Night has fallen, and outside the cave, thunder reverberates. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Already dizzy from the first hit and knowing that he’d probably end up falling down flat on his face if he made a run for it, Gabriel followed Cabot’s orders. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The flash and roar smothered him, and he staggered back and fell to the floor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hammer fell and sparks danced out of the chamber with a fizz! Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The snowflakes were bigger now, and they fell more heavily past Lizzie arid Turner, their sharp angles slicing into the bulky sea. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Moist soft flakes are falling out of it, piling up on roofs and branches, sliding off now and then to hit with a wet cottony thunk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then Spevy fell to the Kargs and was looted and laid waste, its people taken as slaves, so that even now it is an isle of ruins. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth suspected that without those webs, the statue Would have fallen through the weakened floor long ago. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The hall clock began chiming, and she counted twelve strokes before it fell silent. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patrolman Mancuso bent over to pick up the monocle, which had fallen from his eye. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drops of water melted from the ice-shapes in the sides of the chasm and fell down and down. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Below, she could see Geels’ chest rising and falling with panicked breaths. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“That’s where everything falls down. Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. I’m going to bed.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Behind me I heard the rise and fall of an old-fashioned prayer such as I hadn't heard since leaving the campus; and then only when visiting country preachers were asked to pray. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I fear that Minas Tirith shall fall. Night comes. The very warmth of my blood seems stolen away.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

By fall, though, Barack’s stock had begun to rise in part thanks to the publication of The Audacity of Hope and a slew of media opportunities afforded by the book tour. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They had seen new troops coming and some of die fire was falling now on Gettysburg. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple wondered how she could stand having hair that fell to her waist. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Like pink snow, the petals fell from the tree and made a soft carpet on the dirt. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Blocks the light in the chute while it falls. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The black hulks of the broken ships stood out in the sun, looming monuments to a world that had fallen apart. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed too hard, and she planted one hand beneath the water behind her to keep from falling over. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She fell silent for a bit, then I heard her snuffle in a breath—she’d been crying. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Petrificus Totalus!” screamed Hermione from out of sight, and the Death Eater fell forward like a statue to land with a crunching thud on the mess of broken china, table, and coffee. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s as if I fell asleep ages ago and had a long, strange dream and now I’m waking up. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad promised that when the first snow fell, he’d build the biggest snowball in the state of Idaho. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She trained her feet and hands to know the shapes of things and her mind to sense when she neared an edge and must back away lest she fall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sheku and Josiah weren’t strong enough to raise their weapons, so the corporal gave them each a high stool to keep the weapons from falling. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She had fallen back on her pillow asleep; she did not even wake when I had pulled up the blind and let in the sunlight which flooded the room. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Tarun Das was heading the Confederation of Indian Industry when the wall fell in Berlin, and he saw its ripple effect felt all the way to India. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even if she was wound up, she’d eventually fall asleep on my lap, her face mashed into my shoulder, arms limp, mouth drooling. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The session was over, time passed as usual, the web of power had fallen apart into indignity and weariness. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We fall like two stones, fast, the air pushing back at us, the ground growing beneath us. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

When I opened it a card fell out. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She kisses my cheek and brushes a lock of hair that fell from my bun behind my ear. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Vali’s human shape fell from him, and where Vali had stood was a wolf, foam flecking its muzzle. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The long, smooth triangle of his back rose and fell with deep, even breathing as her moth fluttered above him, looking for a place to settle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was a squeeze to get out, as the passages had been cracked and half blocked with fallen stone near the top. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Mack’s head jolted but he was braced now so he wouldn’t fall. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fell in and out of a fitful sleep, dreaming of the Wood and the clean, unbroken snow beneath her feet. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darin's lean shadow falls over me, and he grabs my hand as the door closes behind us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His sword broke and fell out of his shaking hand. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Teotihuacan fell in the eighth century for reasons yet unknown, but left an enduring mark in central Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I tug at the strands of hair, and they fall down to her waist. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not far from the cliff face, Duchess lost her lift and fell down through leaves and twigs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Last spring, one of Otto and Sheed’s classmates, Wallace, age eleven, fell in the creek, and was swept south by the current. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

‘You have conquered. Few have gained such a victory. Be at peace! Minas Tirith shall not fall!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Like a clay mold around a now-cool piece of iron they fell away, leaving something clean and hard behind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One morning he fell and fractured his hip. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He takes a cube of rodent meat, skewers it on the tip of a pointed stick, and lets it fall into the force field. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The unsuspecting traveler fell into his part as conscientiously as he read his primer. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

If she was thirsty, she knew they would fall over themselves to help if she called out for water. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At its sound, the girl fell to the ground and Minli and the boy covered their ears. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Will it involve dancing? I might find dancing difficult. I cannot feel my legs. They may have fallen off. Elsewise, I am your creature. On my honor as a Lannister.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And you’d better get started before the book there in your hand falls to dust.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The final piece fell into place when he overheard an animal trainer complaining loudly to the pitmaster. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“A is for Amy who fell down the stairs,” says my best friend, Jenna Davis, as we climb farther down into the steep, parched ravine. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I watched all her composure fall away, replaced by a look of absolute fear. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This was the opportunity that greeted Bill Joy when he arrived on the Ann Arbor campus in the fall of 1971. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The whip fell, slicing into bone, reverberating through her body, making everything collapse and explode in agony, shifting her body into a graveyard, a dead— Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Redemption fell silent and twisted his fingers together, pressing and interlocking them over and over. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He must have fallen asleep for a second and dreamed it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

One day, I fell asleep in social studies class, and the teacher took me out into the hall to talk about it. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

During my time at Baker & Inglis, while I was falling in love with the Object, I had remained aware of my grandmother only in the vaguest of ways. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Now she was falling again, the dirt of the compound replaced by a building below her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sort of apples you dream about all year but can only get for a few span during the fall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maxine sounds like she is about to cry, but the tears don’t fall. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Ladies, the shades of night begin to fall, the wayfarer hurries home . . .” “Nice poetry.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, night had fallen long ago, and when she pushed the window shutters open a cool breeze blew on her face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

As the apartheid regime fell, we knew that the black man was now going to rule. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But Pablo fell and got up, Green on his shoes, With the football Out of reach. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boat is so full, it no longer rises and falls with the waves. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In my stumbly rush, my paper falls from the balcony to the dark ground below. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

So he had hardly heard of such a world until he fell into it. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

L am now quite adept at keeping warm no matter how low the mercury falls. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dully he wondered why his legs did not buckle, why he did not fall, why unconsciousness did not come to him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marguerite, who represents Mary Magdalene, falls to her knees, for she recognizes the resurrected Christ. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I glimpsed him as he grabbed a branch and clung to it while I kept falling. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It shuttles across debris, illuminates a fallen hunk of wall, lights up a twisted piece of shelving. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But eventually they ran out of things to tell her, and they fell silent. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My father lay down on the sofa and fell right to sleep. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he fell into the water with a crash that sent spray over the old man and over all of the skiff. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

All through that summer and into the late fall the training went on. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if I pretend to have fallen asleep? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Suspicion will fall on my neck first, David. I require assurance that my role will not be betrayed.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The phone in his hand vibrated, and he hated how his heart jumped, then fell as he looked at the screen and saw it was from Jimmy, the team’s center. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She tried to raise herself in bed, but fell back on to the pillows. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, a sharp snap from the fallen oak startled her. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Thunder cracked and the angel fell out of the sky. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A large, dead weight seemed to fall through Harry’s chest into his stomach. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Each fall, when the wind swept in from the sea and the leaves fell rustling on the ground, she brought her little companion into the cottage once again. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The man made a sweeping, quixotic bow, nearly falling from the horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then—a miracle!—the bird’s chest rose, then fell, then rose, then fell. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And don’t make it worse by saying “fell between the cracks.” fewandfar between. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird rolled down the shingles and fell to the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He slumped on the expensive settee again, listening to it creak as he fell back into it. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

My mother let her broken umbrella fall to her side then. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A few melancholy birds were piping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At suppertime he took his ax, felled a dandelion, opened a can of deviled ham, and had a light supper of ham and dandelion milk. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

In places it was now faint and overgrown, or choked with fallen stones and trees; but at one time it seemed to have been much used. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Your dog just ate my bacon,” she told Elena, who was slicing a banana at the other end of the kitchen, the pieces falling into her cereal bowl. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I tried to fall asleep that first night, I ached for something familiar to hug. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“The bigger they are,” she said, and wrapped her arms around my waist, “the harder they fall.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The company fell out and began scattering through the Far Common. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man fell backward into the glass, which shattered at once, and the flimsy wooden frame went too. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here Mr. and Mrs. Wright both fell silent for a moment, and Mrs. Richardson, curious as she was to learn more, felt a pang of true pity. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The ash fell on the snow till it was all but black. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He let them fall, and pulled up a comer of the cloth the weapons had been wrapped in, rubbing it between his fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Losing my grip on the saddle, I fell to my knees on the hard dirt. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The thin drum of rain on the metal roof and the slow darkness falling over everything. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Rishi was pretty sure his mouth had fallen open, so he concentrated on forcing it closed. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She always went very quickly, so the door would not catch her tail when it fell shut behind her. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those remaining on the shelves collapse, a few volumes falling, but Marco does not seem to notice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was stumbling for words, but it was pouring out of him in hot clumps out of the back of the brain, the words like falling coals, and Fremantle stared openmouthed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, just when it looked as if Yishan was about to fall asleep from being so still, the king stirred. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The leaves were nearly all fallen now, and the forest allowed the autumn sun rays to press through. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She said nothing—what was there to say?—but she stood beside Loki’s head, with tears in her eyes, and caught each drop of poison as it fell from the snake’s fangs into her bowl. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Catherine did her best not to fall into panic. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine a cup of water falling off a table and breaking into pieces on the floor. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain fell thick and heavy, but the SUV’s headlights pierced the mist as I drove the van straight toward them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There was a spray and a spurt of crimson in the sunlight, and the bodies of the slaves crumpled and twitched and one by one fell to the freshly cut grass. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

"I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you. How do you feel, Jake?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Merchandise—coats, shirts, neckties, shoes, hardware—lay strewn along the streets where it had fallen out of the arms of looters already loaded down with more than they could carry. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Apiece of hair falls into her eyes, and I am brushing it back before she even notices it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The heart fell away from the chest as easily as yolk slips out of its shell. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

JPs head snapped back, and purple blood sprayed from beneath my knuckles as he lost his balance and fell backward—right into the muddy shallows of the lake. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Thorn rushed over to help Seven back onto the sofa, and Seven watched as the Gran’s eyes fell on Valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He fell silent again; but Frodo could not help asking one more question: the one he most desired to have answered. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“If you worked hard, maybe you could take entrance examinations next summer and go in the fall.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the air fell still, with just a few voices calling orders in the distance, I hiked up my skirts and crawled out through the window. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push back my scarf and undo my bun, letting my hair fall loose like all the other young women. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Animals are far better at communicating their feelings, and this animal, this fallen bird, in a fallen nest, is communicating one thing: hurt. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her tumid eyes filled with tears and she began to cry, rocking back and forth slowly in her chair with her hands lying in her lap like fallen moths. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She’d never fall for him, because she was totally out of his league. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"Is my family okay? Did some of the medicine survive my fall?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Very well,” he said, letting all the ingratiating charm fall from his voice. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It fell back upon its orthodox teachings—the Aristotelian-based philosophies of scholars like Saint Augustine and Boethius, as well as Aristotle’s proof of God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I must have fallen asleep, the gin and the hot sun lulling me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carelessly, she let her shaba fall, satisfied to hear it clink loudly against the temple’s polished stone floor with each bounce. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Eomma gave them all dried squid to eat, and they told their parents of their adventures until they were finally too tired and fell asleep in a large happy heap of bodies. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When her sort-of stepbrother fell asleep around nine, she asked Park to call her back in fifteen minutes, so she could put the kid to bed. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Before I could fall back to sleep, I would go sit with the night security guard and sip a glass of water. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Her hair is pulled back in a ponytail, and wisps of it are falling down around her face. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the plane ride home, everyone fell asleep after takeoff—except the boys. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I did fall asleep at night, it hurt to wake up in the mornings. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She decided to tell them that she was coming to Maryland that fall, so that they would be ready to go North with her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he fell, he forfeited his chance at winning a tree. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t only Americans and Europeans who joined the people of the Soviet Empire in celebrating the fall of the wall—and claiming credit for it. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Pieces of nut falling from his beak littered his breast feathers. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I didn’t suppose he’d be able to do much useful surgery up there, but if I fell and broke my back at least I’d know the Latin names for what was wrong with me. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Yet I found myself thinking it was not so bad to have fallen in with him. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was given a seat to herself and happily fell into the routine of the new school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t seem to get more than ten cards up before the house falls. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The mouse dropped the nut, which fell into the brook and was carried away, to be swallowed by a salmon. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the ground dissolved at his feet and he fell into a familiar backwater - the Hypnos cabin at Camp Half-Blood. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As night falls, some of the older migrants drink whiskey. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Seven Salazar,” came the Gran’s voice, loud and echoing in the crisp fall night. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I struck at them, holding the body as a shield, and two fell bleeding from my nails at the first little swipe. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Henry laughed so hard, he almost fell off his bat. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, she turned toward the voice and almost fell off her seat. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then she fell on her knees, saying: ‘I beg thee!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

A heavy snow, the heaviest of the autumn so far, was falling; my driver refused to take me farther than to Shusgis’ house, as he did not have snow-cleats on his tires. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, suddenly, the wind fell and the sky turned bright blue. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stared, and peered, and all the voices had fallen silent. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She eventually falls asleep, and I sit in a chair by the window, watching as the sun slowly sets on the horizon. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Those idiots at the post office had said they had no idea what had happened to him, that the suitcase had just fallen off the truck somewhere. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Now it fell out, opening the clamp and letting the mast topple forward. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The tent fell inwards and flung a wide circle of light over the mountain-top. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But when they got to the highway, Leandra had fallen asleep. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He was so caught up in his thoughts that he walked right off the footpath and fell down seven or eight feet. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I ever want to do is take a scalding shower and read in bed until I fall asleep. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As I fell asleep, I could see him sitting on his mat, weighing the possibilities of what I had said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time, when I was in a blind in a tree, waiting motionless for game to wander by, I dozed off and fell ten feet to the ground, landing on my back. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

His face lit up when he saw us, then fell when he realized we were only lost. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I ran to the center of the forest and fell down panting. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West may indeed have been an “incongruity,” as the directors had declared in rejecting his request for a concession within Jackson Park, but the citizens of Chicago had fallen in love. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He fell silent and watched me intently as I thought it through. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

For some reason, she hadn’t fallen asleep, but I could see the pilot slumped over the controls, pitching back and forth as the helicopter wobbled toward the side of an office building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Bo scrambled so quickly out of his sleeping bag that he nearly fell over his own hands. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Angel Atkins calls me names and messes with me all the time. Today she tripped me in front of everyone, so I pushed her, and she fell out her chair.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

How easy, thought Rowan, to fall in with him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Nhamo talked until darkness fell and an evening wind made the mealies rustle. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, a cool rain began to fall. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Neither of us made a move to see what had just happened, and a forced silence fell over the area. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Roy Lee grabbed its bumper, falling onto his sled, and one by one we formed a chain, hanging on the feet in front of us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the waiting, she fell asleep herself, startling awake only when she heard the floorboards singing a song she hadn’t heard before. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But they are much faster, flying through the underbrush so gracefully as my boots catch on roots and fallen tree limbs, that there's no way I can keep apace with them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I think about how I read them, lying on my front in the grass on warm afternoons, my hair—which I was growing long then—always falling across my vision. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out, along the corridor to the stairs, turn, nock, loose, and another man fell; and already a loud jarring bell was filling the ship with its clangor. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Villagers ran blindly into the fire, trying to escape and screaming for mercy, only to be felled by the terrible fire weapons of the strangely pale men. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rain was still falling in a light patter from above, and he felt the rope tremble as Kaz took hold beneath him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He could feel the quiet opening up around them, even Anton and Sully falling silent. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She had enjoyed the summer school so much that she wanted to matriculate in the same college that fall but she had no way of raising the more than three hundred dollars required for tuition. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally the forest quickly fills in bare spots, such as those created when big trees fall, and damage is kept to a minimum. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They watched cars go by on 23rd, heard the sound of amplified voices in the church, felt the cool fall wind rush down the street. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some kids actually fall asleep, but I don’t think they’re completely to blame. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something gaunt and terrible about them as they stood there amid the gently falling snow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She took a step back, her hand slowly sliding down the length of my arm until it fell away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And I fell asleep to the sound of the fountains and the smell of cinnamon and juniper. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And since when did you care whether Corinthians stood up or fell down? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark fired, heard a sharp ping as the bullet hit the metal contraption, then watched the weapon fall to the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Both fell to the ground, cradling their injured parts and cursing each other. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

England had, by the fall of 1773, gone far in adjusting the grievances of her American colonies. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

To gather the felled trees and chop the standing dead ones was part of the field pay too. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

All through the fall of 1933, Ernest Lawrence had been on a soaring high, his fame growing within the physics fraternity and among the public. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Black Dog stumbled and fell back with a shout. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves had begun to change color, and some of them were starting to fall. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he heard the tinkle of water, a sound hard and clear as a stone falling into a dream of dark shadow. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Even if the girl in front of you slips and falls on her bon-hooney and then catches on fire, too, you just keep smiling like nothing happened.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“The idealist fooled you again, I guess. You really fall for that Reilly’s line.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often a thump quieted everyone, and arguments erupted about which tree had fallen in which direction. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

On the way I see someone fall off the path on the Pit wall and, judging by his screams and the way he grabs at his leg, he broke something. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The clouds were glowing green, and a black snow was falling. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lookfar lost headway, and rose and fell on the vast surges like a chip of wood. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They have long hair which falls across their foreheads and over their eyes so that they can toss their quiffs like Englishmen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I choose to fall down, but they don’t carry me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the horse-hoofs were falling on pebbles and stones instead of sand. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was a first, and so unexpected that I stumbled backward and fell. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He felt it fall, like the one long ago that had shattered his nose, only this one shattered his life. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then, with a bright white flash and a crack, a crystal ball fell on top of his head, and he crumpled to the ground and did not move. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Camel limps weakly behind, popping his head around one side, and then falling back and running along the other like a disgraced puppy. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I went back to the living room and fell asleep. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the small door unlatched, something—some heavy rectangular thing wrapped in soft leather—fell out of the crack in the door. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was no wire to speak of and no place to fall back to if there should be an Austrian attack. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

So we spent that day in the cheery grove, with the vivid light of later afternoon falling on the grasses; we spent it bumbling about in the Blissful State of Mammalian Repose. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They’d all feasted on the fruit since the start of school, but the last of the apples had fallen in the past week. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I'd already been writing on my own for a while, but this was my first English class since I'd talked my parents into letting me transfer to this co-ed college last fall. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The reason it’s called synco-pa is that it is short for the word syncopation, which means to have a rhythm that is ‘off-beat’ or doesn’t fall right on the beats of a song.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter how, or what pieces of information fell through the cracks in the meantime. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, Dad, dinner’s not ready yet — I fell asleep outside.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Aaron’s fallen back into the soft sand at the river’s edge, his robe getting tangled up in his legs. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But then the tears came back again all the same, and Meggie fell asleep with the salty taste of them on her lips. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

So much for warning myself against falling for people on the streets. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But then it fell panting in the hall, gasping for breath. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I knew that when I went to school in the fall I would get to know them well. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have never fallen in love with a gender. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He put himself in position with evident satisfaction, raised his arm like a signal-mast and his hand like a coal-shovel and fetched such a blow on the white sack as would have felled an ox. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sought each other with their tongues, as they always did, even though it seemed like a new invention, and fell kneeling as they kissed in desperation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm sitting on top of my bed, leaning against the wall, watching the snow fall again. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The centurion fell like a sack of rocks. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I think the cork fell out. The curved throat probably doesn’t hold it as well.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And so we remained till the red of the dawn to fall through the snow-gloom. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

One wrong move, and the baton would fall or go flying, which would mean precious seconds off their time. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

My collection of candy wrappers had fallen out of their notebook and were crumpled under my stamp album. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amah fell on the stone floor of the dungeon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“That wasn’t at all the greeting I was expecting,” Werfel the Archivist, peering down at the fallen elf. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In her special-education reading class, she got 100s all fall and was moved to a regular class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I took everything out, and, stretching out among the fallen peaches, I rested them across my abdomen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were looking into each other’s eyes as I talked, and when I fell silent, we were still gazing at each other. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Buildings fell like wounded dinosaurs; others collapsed like a house of cards. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the rise and fall of her, the stir and rest of her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But here’s the thing: I was used to falling on my Tkatchev and having my coach put me back up on the bar. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That does not mean that government security officials invariably found Lawrence cooperative, especially when their suspicions fell upon Rad Lab members he considered indispensable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Even as he fell, he was disintegrating, turning back into dust, his essence returning to Tartarus. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I lower my chin and let them fall to the floor. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

And next it is two months later, near the end of the fall term, and the station wagon is climbing the hill to my no-longer-brand-new school. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

‘Fugitives from Cair Andros have already reached us. The isle has fallen. Another army is come from the Black Gate, crossing from the north-east.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I know how to fall, Mom. They taught me, remember?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

By the time the little column had dwindled in the distance, the eastern sky had gone from black to grey and the snow was falling heavily. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It fell to the ground, and the emperor disappeared beneath it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

One of them kicked me in the shins so hard I fell to the floor. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I all but fell down the mountain shouting, “Dad! Dad! Where are you?” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if he did fall over and yell bloody murder every time I looked crossways at him? Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The end, the tale of what happened to the Trojan women when Troy fell, comes from a play by Sophocles’ fellow playwright, Euripides. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the victorious Greek Fleet put out to sea after the fall of Troy, many a captain, all unknowing, faced troubles as black as those he had brought down on the Trojans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to say I’m sorry, but I forget to because I’m watching mind movies of the butterfly falling and falling and never being better. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1952, when Bobby was nine, Regina secured scholarship enrollment for him in Brooklyn Community Woodward, a progressive grade school of approximately 150 children. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Alex falls out of bed the following morning with a low-grade hangover and one of Henry’s swimsuits tangled around his elbow. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That was where I fell into the water, there is the bank where I scrambled up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tears fall on the counter as quickly as I can wipe them away. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I would fall, if I could, through time and space to the dragon. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

"When I was no older than you, I heard a brother tell how he followed a shadowcat through these falls." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She ran upstairs and closed the door to her room just as tears began to fall. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I used to jump down from the top, but one fall and a sprained ankle stopped me from doing that again. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“That’ll be good enough at a pinch,” said Bigwig, munching clover and sniffing at the fallen bloom from a wayfaring tree. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, what can you tell me about falling stars? What would be the meaning of a shower of them in the last hour of a night?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The shadows climbed up the walls of the jumbled buildings and fell across the narrow alleys. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the Cambodian culture, New Year’s always falls in April, which means that all the children born before New Year’s become a year older. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the euphoria I once felt in falling snow comes back to me; I want to open my mouth and let the snow fall into it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The room fell completely silent except for the hiss and crackle of the fire. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives," he said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe she had fallen asleep hours ago and just forgot to turn off the light. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

My knees plunged, a rush of hot blood made me fall. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes fell on the groups of other officers gazing at him in mute appeal, and, with righteous belligerence, he roared: “Give everybody eat!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A tear fell—a minute addition to the rushing river. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t know love if you fell over it,” he says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They fall in abundance, and the people dance and sing praises to the Marked Girl who spoke with the spirit world on their behalf and brought a time of abundance. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley fell back against her husband and watched Fleur mopping up Bill’s wounds with a most curious expression upon her face. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

You know, my whole life changed after I fell in love. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I fell asleep, I had a glint of an idea. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It’s sleeveless and purple lace with these tiny buttons at the back and falls to midthigh. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mum shook her head and I could see tears falling down her cheek. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the dark, he hungered to see, and only after the fiercest fight to keep his eyes open did he fall asleep. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She needed it to fall asleep when she got back from her shift over at the Uline Warehouse—twelve hours straight, so who could blame her? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Pits appeared at their feet, and Annabeth barely avoided falling in. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She toppled over and fell and lay face down and unmoving. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And he called again on the name of Jesus; and fell asleep again. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I cried out in despair, but the sound fell upon the mossy earth, unheard. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"No, good lady," he said, shaking, "or else I would be dead. But it touched me, aieeee, when it fell from the box it landed on my arm." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We enter the barn not through a door but through one of several gaping holes where the wooden wall has simply fallen away. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Tony dropped to the ground, the bag of candy falling from his hand. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I tried to grab something to stop my fall, but my hands clutched only air. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

All her cares fell away from her, and all her pains as well, and she seemed to float upward into the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I most certainly am not all right,” Celia says, and the bottle of ink shatters, raining ink over the papers and splattering Marco’s white shirtsleeves, falling into invisibility on his black vest. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jaime made fun of her political ideas and bearded friends, and scolded her for having fallen in love with a cafe terrorist. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its marks, its scars, its wounds from old wars and the walking-backwards days .all fell away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Then they fell against the hood of the car laughing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was what was left of nature, raw and wild, only hours after the Smoke had fallen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had become dizzy and fallen from the fence as they were hurrying to leave the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did Lee plan to let Richmond fall and in its stead to seize Washington—wouldn’t the exchange of capitals be worth his while? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are expectations: to be better than Amber, to please Sophia, to satisfy the queen despite being her second choice, to make the kingdom fall in love with me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Shells were falling on the ridge nearby and bullets were slicing leaves, but Reynolds sat astride the horse in a motionless calm, looking out toward the fight, picture of a soldier, painted against the trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tin can spun to the side and fell from the log, but Beto saw something else: an explosion of red. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the sky looks like it’s everywhere, sky falling on top of me, sky surrounding me, sky resting at my feet. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Girl is born, girl learns to talk and walk, girl mispronounces words and falls down. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Jak grumbled too, but Ben said, “Shhhh,” and everyone fell silent. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand—but it ain’t going to come nigh thee. So glad, amen, this morning, bless my Redeemer.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

An easy silence fell, and Jam wondered what to do next. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Darkness slid underneath it and let the shadow fall back down. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 2004 one waterfront residence, with its own elevator, wine cellar, theaters, and separate guesthouse, sold for $16 million, the year’s record. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

His arms fell to his sides as he turned, looking around the Glade for a sign of Ben, trepidation building within him as he wondered what the boy would do when he saw him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The fire burned on the stone hearth and the cigar fell away into a mound of quiet ash on its tray. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched falling leaves skitter over the watery surface, which gurgled as it tumbled over the rocks. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His leg was bruised from the fall and he limped as he ran. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Long after she fell asleep, I lay awake in the next room, listening to her peaceful exhalations. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned away from me, took one step and fell. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so things fell out as they did. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Later that night, closer to one in the morning, I had fell asleep, leaning my head on Ma’s big shoulder. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Then from somewhere, within the sound of the rain falling, he could hear it approaching like a summer flash flood, the rumble still faint and distant, floodwa- ter boiling down a narrow canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She spreads her arms wide and falls back onto the hill, the snow giving way around her, puffing softly as she lands in it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But the sky was covered by such dark clouds that Prosper thought that dusk must have already fallen. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But to ask would have fallen into the category of rudeness. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the nature of things she could not have an alibi to fall back upon. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had fallen open at this glossy double page advert, and though the paper had gone soggy and there was mud at one corner, you could see it well enough. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Izzi has let her blonde hair fall into her face, masking her eyepatch surprisingly well. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Splendid falls these professional chaps do manage. Why, what’s the matter, Kay? You look as white as a sheet” “Do you remember that sword which the King of England would pull out?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tripped and fell, grazing her knee on the gravel, which was wet with dew. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I fall asleep and wake up only once as we’re passing through Baton Rouge, cars honking in traffic. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Then he taught them a rhyme to sing, if they should by ill-luck fall into any danger or difficulty the next day. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She would smile at me and I was falling a little bit in love with her smile. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

If the mast had fallen during the hurricane, they would have been lost. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t bothered no woman last summer or last fall either,” Bigger said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He goes to bed, pounds the wall with his fist, sings a woeful song, falls asleep. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

By the fall of 1942, this was making KGB officials in Moscow very angry. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cigar fell out of the driver’s mouth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The second group was comprised of ten of the silliest girls Harry had ever encountered, who, when he blew his whistle, merely fell about giggling and clutching one another. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

During the 1990s, the unemployment rate fell by 2 percentage points; nonviolent crime, meanwhile, fell by roughly 40 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A tear fell and blurred the writing on the letter. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I knew I probably wouldn’t be able to fall back asleep, so I decided to kill the remaining hours until dawn by brushing up on a few coin-op classics. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Hundreds of Redcoats fell. We Americans ducked behind our defenses and reloaded. Then we fired again.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lancelot fell sixty feet, landing on deep straw in a dungeon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it, an old man was lighting streetlamps as night fell, and he passed a clock store. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

"Eight days, maybe nine. And night is falling." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Snow was falling, magically softening and erasing the university world beneath it. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her own tears of joy fell on his neck. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

My tears had been falling for some time when Shady came for me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then he climbed back into bed, rolled down the lamp, and quickly fell into a deep and peaceful sleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was already disappearing with newly fallen snow. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her hair would come down and drift between her glasses and her eyes, and the glasses would fall off her wet nose and spin and swing at the end of their black ribbon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His foot met with the shoulder, and she went flying backward, falling so hard that her shoulder relocated with a sickening crunch. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I weigh too much, more than my frame can support, so much I should fall right through the floor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The wind had increased in velocity, and burning chunks of wood were being carried for many blocks before they fell to earth. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, the twentieth of December, in the year 1606, the fleet fell from London.... Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Jagged rocks and fallen trees and tangled underbrush made it difficult for her to walk. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

To keep from falling asleep I lay on my back staring up at the black and watching the dots shift around in front of my eyes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night, hurrying down upon them, was not in their favor, nor was the rain, falling steadily. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned back and dug at the base of the perch until it toppled and fell. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was as if they had fallen off the face of the earth, for no word was heard from them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fell into the stars in a rush of air and ether. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I hear the sound of cake crumbs falling out of peoples mouths and hitting the floor,” said his brother Toulese. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

She told me to be careful, because children had occasionally fallen into the holes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exulting the defenders saw it fall and annihilate a great band who were forcing the palace doors. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It falls loose across the width of my back, the wet strands sticking to my body. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

TJ falls over backward, laughing something awful, but I don’t find a darn thing funny. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter darted forward to see if Lord Roke had survived the fall. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I push her off me and she falls backward, whipping her head back and forth like... Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“And first I had to throw the covers over Constance. You were gone so long, she fell asleep on Sticky’s bed. I meant to keep guard, but I guess I nodded off.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the pants rip, and Lally falls in the dust. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sky’s always falling. Always. You’ll see. People have no idea.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Players fall down like they have broken ankles when they try to guard Russ, because he’s too quick. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything had fallen so still on Capricorn's arrival that her voice echoed over the whole arena. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Night fell and two maids came in to draw the curtains and light the lamps. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept wondering if what I was feeling was at all like falling. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The other friend fell into a large hole on his way home from collecting the money. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And they moved, and he fell off the cliff.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The rain was still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He wiped a tear that was falling down his cheek, said: “You the first person who never leaved me.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The apples and peaches fell from her left hand and rolled out of the bag. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At least, it was my school until this fall. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He was perhaps on his way up to the eminence from which Estraven, less than a year ago, had. fallen. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In one fell swoop, Strauss had transformed himself from the genteel Kappellmeister of the Austrian Belle Epoque into the Che Guevara of the musical rebels. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Seven leaned closer to the cauldron, her witch’s hat nearly falling in before she grabbed it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The thought of falling induced a kind of vertigo in Lyra, and she swayed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I let the weaving fall back into place behind me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Then she went back to help some kid who still had his bicycle helmet on and had fallen over. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening in early fall Jenner and I set out for the marketplace. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the banks of the fish pond, Bibi fell to the footpath. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He drank the rest of his champagne in a quick series of gulps and soon fell asleep. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

My head was halfway in and halfway out when my eyes fell upon two tall black policemen emerging from a shack across the street. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Florence, meanwhile, attempted to distract John’s attention from the brooch by offering him an orange; but he had seen oranges before; he merely looked at it a moment before letting it fall to the floor. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

With the first taste of oats ’n honey, I fall into “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I leave him leaning over the puzzle, his hair falling forward as he picks up pieces and discards them, one after one. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m so skinny now, they nearly fall off of me. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

His eves widen as he falls without a sound. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rose and let the blanket fall to the sand and then stripped out of his coat and out of his shoes and clothes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But a real school was so messy and random that solutions sometimes fell into place by sheer luck. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It had backed a little further into the north-east and he knew that meant that it would not fall off. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Uncle Turu’s eyes reached the boys, they stopped whispering and let their hands fall to the ground. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I fell to the ground, and he kicked me, but I roared back and tackled him, slamming his back against the lockers, pounding him with my fists. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Penny was used to things falling off my chair, so she couldn’t know I was being just plain horrible. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But Joinville is already banging his way through the crowded inn and out the door, into the fallen darkness. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And those that came behind and did not fall stood at the cliff’s edge, listening. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

We play fast and furious for several minutes, neither of us missing, sometimes making such ridiculous jumps to get the ball that Eden falls over laughing. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When his hand fell away, another hand, stronger, shoved her back into her saddle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By the fall of 1937 Pimlico was beginning to make a comeback, but progress was slow. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He falls to his knees next to the tracks as we sail away, and puts his head in his hands. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Outside, the rain started falling harder, streaking everything. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My roommates didn’t fall asleep until 4:00 A.M. so when the alarm went off at 6:30,1 thought I was going to die. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At last she came to the place where Taisin had fallen, and the ground was less steep here, so Kaede turned over onto her backside and carefully scooted down to her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Good night, Ladybug—Good night, Miss Spider—” But before he could go through them all, he had fallen fast asleep. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

When she pulled open the door, my dad almost fell into the room. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to take my arms off the trunk and fold them to my chest like a mummy, loosen my thighs from their grip, and fall in a backwards swan dive to the bottom. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

How easy it would be to fall into a trance, and let her mind drift away with the floating particles... The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Once, Alan had asked her to fall backward with the assurance that he would catch her and that she would see she could trust him. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Joseph was polishing the silver when his eye fell on a leather-bound book on the seat of the chair. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It’s not quite denial, and not quite shock, but more like a mental free fall. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I follow them awhile, and once, when the mother’s crouched down looking at packet soups, I see her fall silently to pieces. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

His greatest reservation was a worry about the loud noise which the fall must create and which presumably would arouse, if not fright, then at least concern on the other side of all the doors. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he let his shirt fall, as he watched Dimple’s eyes rove over his chest and stomach, with her small hands following haltingly close after, Rishi wondered if he should be hesitating more. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It hit Flatnose in the middle of the forehead—an insignificant little stone, but the huge man collapsed in the grass at Dustfinger's feet like a felled tree. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Red Cow, drawing in her breath, gave one huge tremendous jump and the earth fell away beneath her. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He growled and gibbered at them like a witch hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fell for a hundred years into darkness. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

No gloves, I thought, watching her hand fall back to her side. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She throws her boots in the direction of the bell, and they fall with a thud, thud onto the concrete. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The words just fell out of my mouth automatically. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

All of it—all the things they had thought through so meticulously— fell apart. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

While she was growing up, Petey’s mother, frank as she was, would talk to Petey about falling in love and falling in lust and everything in between, because surely someone would one day notice Petey. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But he bowing low to the fallen, bade them farewell, and mounting rode away into battle. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He wheeled around, pulled open the front door, and slammed it so hard that one of the little panes of glass at the top fell out. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Sam did his best, but he could not keep up with Strider the Ranger, and soon fell behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She sat there, one hand on Evan’s stomach so he didn’t fall off the bed. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He arched out and then fell, his legs still on the bed, his hands falling with a loud slap against the floor. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face sagged beneath his ragged, new-grown whiskers, and he looked so weary Catelyn feared he might fall off his horse. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Wash fallen into a grave, his ankle twisted. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the eighth day, Pinch fell sick and was moved into the cabin where Nokomis took care of them all. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She let her cape fall on the bed. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Forty miles down the road, still in Kentucky, Colin had curled up against the passenger window and was starting to fall asleep when Hassan announced, “World's Largest Wooden Crucifix—Next Exit!” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The gray robe falls from his arm as he clutches a pole for balance. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It seemed sudden, but actually there had been days and days of no snow—just frost—when, late one afternoon, a rain fell and froze. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He skirted a fallen tree and stared at the trees. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In a third, he punched the air in exultation as the final curtain fell, although there was no curtain, there was no possibility of a curtain. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had to stop and lean back, afraid I might fall. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She stood up, stamped once to make her dress fall straight, and looked at herself in the mirror. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dusk was really falling outside now; the marquee beyond the windows towered ghostly white over the hedge. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I felt my smile quiver on my lips, in danger of falling away entirely. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As the weather worsened, Tom Bolles watched his freshman squad rapidly shrink from the 210 who had turned out in the fall to 53 on January 14. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We all step unevenly over shriveled branches, fallen logs. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I resolve to be diligent with my tasks and not fall asleep when I say my prayers. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Got it,” Thomas says, and his side falls silent. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

At once the king’s soldiers fell upon them, their swords smashing the men’s wooden staves like twigs. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She stood there undl something fell off the shelf inside her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But when Úrsula died the superhuman diligence of Santa Sofía de la Piedad, her tremendous capacity for work, began to fall apart. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The forest animals fell silent, and from their hiding places they watched as a sparkling monster stomped past. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t say ‘think,’” said one sitting on his shoe, for the one on his shoulder had fallen asleep. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

At this the ghost jumped, so that it nearly fell off its horse, and gave out a muffled baaa through its visor, like a sheep. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father mopped his brow again and launched into the parable of the one mustard seed falling on a barren place, and the other one on good soil. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Really, I want to ask if I can sleep in her bed tonight, if we can watch whatever she wants until I fall asleep. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

When he talked, the cigar bobbled up and down, and little Willy wondered why the ash didn’t fall off the end of it. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

No raindrop falls in the storms of autumn that ever fell before, and the rain has fallen, and falls, and will fall throughout all the autumns of the years. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The wind tore and pulled at me as I fell,” remembered Heiberg. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The decks teemed with kids, wild with excitement, racing up and down and trying to fall into the Hudson River. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted so much to let them fall, but then it felt like I would fall, too, into a million little pieces. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A juggler tosses globes of black and white and silver high into the air, where they seem to hover before falling again into his hands, his attentive spectators applauding. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A fallen log jutted out into the water from its end, and with one more desperate kick I surged closer and stretched out through the fear and choking cold and blackness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He sat at the table watching the snow fall past the window and many things became plain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

She saw his sword fallen from his hand and beside it her cloak stained and torn. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d fallen off a ladder trying to thatch their roof with yellow rice straw and had broken her back. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They let the wave fall harmlessly, the displaced sea sloshing against the side of the Ferolind. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1988, Midland and Odessa were still in the doldrums of the bust. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A petite girl with a blue wristband, a headscarf, and floaties does something dangerous at the very last second—she turns around and falls backward, like someone pushed off a building. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My lungs burn as I gaze up at the light from the hole that I fell through, the thin cord from the oxygen concentrator a guide to the surface. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A yellow ray from the sinking sun fell across the foot of the bed and lighted up the fireplace, where the water in the pan was boiling fast. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The sun was far in the west, but luckily my shadow fell away from the young bull. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sang that silly song until Mom said if I sang it one more time her ears would fall off. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It had these very funny, crazy plays in it, and then it had this one story about a traffic cop that falls in love with this very cute girl that's always speeding. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Another and another fell and then the wind howled to life. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, at noon, they sat against a tree and fell asleep together. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was talking to a man raking up the first fallen leaves of autumn, but staring at Davis and me. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Liable to fall unconscious and enter, at any moment, into a shameless delirium, Bibi could be trusted neither to cross a street nor board a tram without supervision. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The rain was still falling, so the cart drivers suspended woolen blankets between four stakes that stuck up from the corners of the carts. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

They brushed the snow off a fallen log and sat. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was falling in love with his private nurse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river went sucking over the rim and fell straight down into the pool below. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Violet’s next plan—to fall back in love with her husband—whipped her before it got on a good footing. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only stuck with it for the fall, but that didn’t seem to be the point. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And last fall, a pickup truck had run over his tail. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

After all, who knew how many more nice, sunny days were left this fall? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the fall, Scruggs headed back to Washington, DC, and enrolled in school again. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

That night, I waited until Baba fell asleep, and then folded a blanket. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Big drops of rain fall on the windshield like bombs. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy’s ears like a train. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slanted rays of the rising sun fell into the basement. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Seven stared up at the ceiling, looking at the royal-blue night sky through the skylight, and she let her tears fall. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He put down his hand without looking, and nearly fell off the ladder from shock and pain. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And in the fall of 1983, things took a dangerous turn. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She let it fall back onto the table and graced us with a sneer. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The diners and drinkers at neighboring tables have, over the course of the innkeeper's tale, let their own conversations fall to the wayside and have begun listening to ours. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I fell into her arms and, for the very first time, hugged her as if I would never let go. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Says the demigod who fell into Tartarus and found his way back.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Two more shots came from the thick brush and Aymo, as he was crossing the tracks, lurched, tripped and fell face down. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The scent touched him deep behind his belly, and he could feel the old anticipation stirring as it had when he was a child waiting for the first snowflakes to fall. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Platt dropped to the mat on her stomach, her arms and legs at crazy angles, as if she’d fallen from a stepladder. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But when I do, something falls to the floor with a thunk. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He screamed in a particularly unattractive way and fell back. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then a feather, black as midnight dipped in shadows, fell to the ground. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Two weeks after the funeral, a cool rain finally began to fall, washing over the prairie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The snow and ice could make the horse slip and fall, taking its rider with it. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

My grip had slipped and I’d begun to slide when the spike finally ripped from me and fell away, smashing into the trailer with a tremendous crash. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Reshevsky paced up and down, a few spectators waited patiently, and when the little red flag fell precisely at noon, the tournament director declared the game a forfeit. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then the plane came falling down on us. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She stayed that way, sobbing, listening to the terrible sounds around her, until silence fell. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Everything after that became a series of steps, a dance that she had to execute perfectly or else she’d fall apart right there in that tomb and never get up. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The fields at Clarkston High School and at nearby Georgia Perimeter College were booked for the fall. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

‘I wish I had never come here, and I don’t want to see no more magic,’ he said and fell silent. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Finally they fall asleep, awaking only when three Hitler Youths in uniform report for duty early the next morning. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I kick at him and he swerves to the side, almost falling. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I worried about that when you never showed up. I thought it might have fallen out, or gotten wet so you couldn’t read it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

From the low, dark skies the drizzling rain fell steadily. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There had never been an air raid in Port Harcourt and it made no sense that there would be one now, when Port Harcourt was about to fall and the vandals were shelling close by. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Talk of what happened at Breed’s Hill in Boston was as rude as stating that Madam’s false eyebrow was about to fall off. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elisha let fall the stiff gray mop and rushed at John, catching him off balance and lifting him from the floor. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Finally the gown fell aWay, a pale tangle round her feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It should take three and a half minutes to fall to the bottom of the trench, but I fall much longer than that. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Eventually, like a falling leaf, our square slowly descends to the surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Milo, you can’t fly sixty-four more missions. You can’t even fly one more mission. The whole system would fall apart if anything happened to you.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her appearance caught me so much by surprise that I completely forgot what my fingers were doing and my song fell to pieces. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He jogged after them, cursing every time his pants fell down. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For example, stunned cows, each weighing nearly a ton, would simply fall to the floor and have to be dragged by three or four men to be hung up for slicing open and skinning. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But then I think about the afternoons at Waffle House and the late evening rehearsals, and the way I was actually starting to like him before things fell apart. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

His father had been trying to figure out a way to recycle old sneakers, and suddenly a pair of sneakers fell on top of him, seemingly out of nowhere, like a gift from God. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He’s staring at you when his first tears fall. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Afterward, they would dress themselves in their nightclothes and fall asleep in each other’s arms. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t even dared to look behind her to see if any had fallen. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She tried to take the blossom but it fell to the sheet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Some way below the mere they came on a deep well of water, clear as crystal, from which a freshet fell over a stone lip and ran glistening and gurgling down a steep rocky channel. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You fell into a good Kommando . . .” Ten minutes later, we stood in front of the warehouse. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Students all over the country, unions, and professional schools are going to join us. The government may fall,” Sebastian Gomez commented. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He split more fallen wood with his knife. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Frustrated and tired, they all tried to make themselves comfortable on the floor and fell asleep. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Azareen lived in a set of rooms above a bakery in Windfall—the district so named for the plums that fell on it from the trees of the gods. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Suitably geared for battle, they quickly fell into ranks. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It felt like it might fall to pieces even as it chugged down the tracks. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The first time he tried it, he fell off a rope and into a pit filled with freezing slime. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Back in January he had warned the boys, “We can’t tarry with scholastic laggards . . . any who fall behind are just out, that’s all.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“It seems that the crock with Mrs. Kabakoff’s pilgrim cider has fallen from the top shelf. Would you please run and bring Mr. Vendleri?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Flailing about for something to break my fall, I fastened on the neck of the one-armed man. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because I was a little older and more experienced this time, I had to audition to see what level I’d be in that fall. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fall asleep to the sound of his concern. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I tried to fall into a trance state or become an animal. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It fell on ground already saturated, and it filled every dip in every path. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Before he can fire, my knife hits him hard in the shoulder and he falls backward with a thud. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He lay motionless, still listening; but all was now silent, and at last he turned and fell asleep again or wandered into some other unremembered dream. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The iridescent particles soared above La Llorona and fell over her in a divine shower that bathed her in what I can only describe as sunlight. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She stumbled down the stairs and across the yard, nearly falling at last into the door of Number Five. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Although frightened someone might still be hunting me, I fell fast asleep in deep peace, thanking God again. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My left foot throbbed from the fall, so I leaned my weight on the right. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A piece of his disheveled hair fell perfectly against the side of his face. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Gaea’s words came back to him: Will you fall alone? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The fluffy flakes had fallen and fallen for hours, so the whole campus was blanketed in a thick, gleaming whiteness. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the weights, and my arms fall immediately with the burden. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She pelts stones at a tree with small, dark leaves, and bunches of a long brown fruit fall to the ground. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The last time I had left the book somewhere was when I fell asleep against the tree near the marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

SEEf glared at me with such rage and hate that I fell back a step. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because the apartment is located right on top of the steakhouse, I can hear the noisy player piano in the bar every night as I fall asleep. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then, when at last he felt himself slowing down, he threw out his hands and came to a halt in time to prevent himself from falling face forward out of the Weasleys’ kitchen fire. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A gentle rain sprang from the fluted pillar tops, cooling the scorched air, falling gently on her. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z