It had fallen across the bathtub, which was wrecked but had not entirely collapsed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was in a booth, which was good—if I was in a chair, I would have fallen off it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I think I may have fallen to the ground, but I don’t really remember because I was coughing so hard. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Back in January 1684, after a meeting of the Royal Society, Halley had fallen into conversation with Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke about planetary orbits. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I played “In the Garden” very softly, and when I looked around again he had fallen asleep, still leaning forward in his chair. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They had covered more than three quarters of a mile before Bigwig and Hazel halted to rest and to make sure that no one had fallen behind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rode past heaps of sun- washed rubble where houses had fallen in, and elsewhere saw the faded scars of fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I told the operator my dad had fallen. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Aleuts who had fallen on the beach, we burned. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, you have, some petals have fallen on to the floor, look here.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

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

The foreman and other workers came in there and tried to help me stand because I had fallen to the floor, but I couldn’t get up. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” Frank begins; the hurt hanging on this one word feels heavy, like a fallen tree. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

On one occasion he felt that his private world had fallen apart because Úrsula came in when Melquíades was in the room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The roses are dry, and some of the petals have fallen off. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It amazed me even as it was happening how immediately I’d fallen in with this stranger’s mission, whatever it was. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mud by a fallen log were three cigarette butts. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

In the abrupt silence which had fallen, I heard Mr. Hatch come in the front door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I step toward the fallen weapon, but Tori is too quick. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Debbie got there, she thought Sasha must have fallen in mud, because why else would their legs have those black splotches? The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Some split off and snapped up fallen Ridgefolk—no doubt hauling them back to the Maafa and Uncle C. The rest stampeded up the ramp after me and Gum Baby. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But their expressions had fallen in slow motion from joy to confusion to dismay. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around three in the morning, when many students had finally fallen asleep, Professor Dumbledore came in. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I turn to see that Kelton has fallen even farther behind. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

So she wouldn’t feel she had fallen behind him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Both of them are twisting and hopping and trying to shield their heads with their arms as more bits and pieces of fallen sky race through the air at warp speed. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s something I wanted your mother to do with me, before she volunteered to enter the city. But I think she had fallen in love with the place from afar and couldn’t resist it.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Hannah bent her shoulders over against Shifre’s muffled sobbing, guilty because she had been the cause of it, relieved because the blow had not fallen upon her. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wood smelled of damp things: rainwater soaking into fallen logs, softening the bark until it crumbled back into the ground. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“They had to clear the fallen ones, and I’m not allowed where it’s all knotty. Where the foresters haven’t been able to clear.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

Close examination of the scene revealed the blown-apart body of the terrorist, who had evidently tripped and fallen upon the bomb just as it went off. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Union soldiers are digging trenches and fortifications along the road and reinforcing them with fallen trees and fence rails to protect themselves from rebel bullets. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A shell had fallen and while we waited three others fell up the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He lifted the handles of a flat-bottomed barrow and trundled it out into the woods behind the inn, his feet crunching in the fallen leaves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It would be the first time that such priceless financial data had fallen into an economist’s hands, affording an analysis of a heretofore uncharted criminal enterprise. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

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

With Great-Bridge fallen, nothing stood between their town and the rapacity of the enemy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And so the weeks passed, in a rattling, bone-jarring sort of a way, in the witch's caravan, for the witch, and the bird, and the dormouse, and the fallen star. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had never thought about the day Shawn had fallen from the pallet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Bristle had dragged brush to the fallen tree to shelter her brother and curled her body over his to keep him warm. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Aids had already fallen like a shadow over the population, although no one yet knew it existed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No few had fallen, renowned or nameless, captain or soldier; for it was a great battle and the full count of it no tale has told. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

Part of the tower had fallen, and the flood surged and foamed against the great heap of stones at the entrance to the street. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I picked up the few loose squash and tucked them into the bag that had fallen open. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His lord father's assembled captains and bannermen had fallen very quiet as the courier told his tale. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If the vases had fallen among those shrubs, he would never be able to find them. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then he had to stop to pick up the fallen wood. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, he hadn’t fallen asleep in the chair yet; his fear of the embarrassment he would feel kept him awake. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Against the gray landscape it seemed like a fallen piece of gold. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve helped save 23 dogs so far and fallen in love with 1. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They came to fields where the petals had fallen.These lay in drifts all over the ground while the seedpods they left behind stuck up like green thumbs. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For better or worse, I’d fallen in love with a man with a vision who was optimistic without being naive, undaunted by conflict, and intrigued by how complicated the world was. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If I had held still and let Granny slap me, she would not have fallen. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since the blind helplessness seems never to have fallen on Cathy, it is probable that she had very little of the impulse herself and indeed felt a contempt for those who did. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It took time to find it all as a few of the boxes had fallen out of the damaged fuselage and the rear cockpit, which Julie had left open, of course. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But by the pool among the mottled sycamores, a pleasant shade had fallen. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just started walking away, pushing past everyone, many of whom must have put two and two together and figured out that he was the kid onstage, the one whose life had just fallen apart. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But then she quickly scrambles to her feet, scooping up Bill’s fallen rifle as she crosses the room to stand next to me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“At night, the human world looks as though it’s full of fallen stars.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Bert could not say anything for a moment, for his mouth had fallen open and he was staring at her with round eyes. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Resting on a fallen tree, I searched the ground for a sharp rock to free my bound hands. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her shoes had fallen off when her boat flipped, but Bronwyn had already tied Olive to the anchor line, the other end of which was resting on the seafloor. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

I must be out almost at once, sleeping deep like a fallen tree. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Last night when I came down from the attic, I noticed, the moment I entered the room, that the lovely vase of carnations had fallen over. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Before hanging up, she told me that in a cruel twist of fate her mother had fallen gravely ill as well. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Most of the bombs had fallen on Heaven. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

For an hour he pegged over ground that was so springy with decades of fallen pine needles, it seemed to lift him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He never “watched” his language with her, which at first she took as evidence of his contempt because she had fallen so easily, and which later she took as evidence of his love. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“The children were putting on a play, but it rather looks like it’s fallen apart.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“He must have fallen in and pulled the lid down on top of him. I’ll call a maid to give him a bath.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard the sad voices of the men and saw the place where the tears had fallen on the ground. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It had all taken less than a minute, and Will turned back at once to the fallen Chevalier. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"It doesn't matter what you think of your father; you can't leave him with the constant worry that his son might have fallen into a canal, or been kidnapped." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Victor muttered, keeping the lens of his camera on the dark-haired boy who had now fallen behind a little. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a path of sorts, a meandering footpath of cracked stones overgrown with moss, half-buried beneath blown dirt and fallen leaves and made treacherous by thick brown roots pushing up from underneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If there were no blood vessels, no rib cage, no muscles holding up my heart to where it beats in my chest, it would’ve fallen out onto the floor. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You have to be thinking that he’s seen the handwriting on the wall—the team hasn’t fallen apart without him.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either they had fled back into the darkness, or they’d fallen into the chasm. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I knew Hafsa missed me and cared about me, but she got to barrel forward, her life uninterrupted, while my future had fallen completely off its tracks. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ralph had no sooner made this decision than part of the maze must have fallen down, for Ryan said, “See, I told you it wouldn’t work that way.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody seemed to register that he was from Hawaii, that he’d been visiting his widowed grandmother, or that his daughter had fallen ill. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The fallen aviator was represented by his absence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard that they consider it a sure sign that the person is either possessed of low blood or fallen on truly desperate times....” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And before we knew it, our solidarity had fallen apart. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Carrying both of the spears, I climbed down from the ledge and went through the brush to the place where the leader had fallen. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time Kamaswami tried to find him, believing he had fallen into the hands of bandits. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first rain had fallen, softening the soil. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The apple trees are covered with scabby apples, red ones and yellow ones; some of the apples have fallen off and are rotting on the ground. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wreckage of a fallen chandelier glittered nearby. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

How many nights had I fallen asleep terrified, thinking of that first day of school? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

This used to be an apartment complex, but it's fallen into disrepair. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Keep an eye out for some good .sticks and fallen branches, too, Scoob-a-doob. And if you see any good-sized hunks of wood, bring those over as well.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He pressed her down upon the grass, among the fallen bluebells. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The children on TV had mamas, though, and Matt had fallen into the habit of thinking of Celia that way. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaves had already turned yellow and had fallen everywhere. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

If the Great Sea had risen in wrath and fallen on the hills with storm, it could have worked no greater ruin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

If my father still lived, Moat Cailin would never have fallen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The rest of them trailed after, threading their way through smoke and fallen stones. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The gang that Venkatesh had fallen in with was one of about a hundred branches—franchises, really—of a larger Black Disciples organization. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The twisting and climbing road had in many places almost disappeared, and was blocked with many fallen stones. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the time the park found its current resting place, every single one of the children had fallen asleep, and the park was a mosaic of their dreams. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Chastened, they sailed on, but en route word reached them that Sumatra had fallen to the French and so they observed the transit inconclusively from the Cape of Good Hope. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The kitchen is a welter of fallen shelves and pots. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A few were clad in stolen steel, dinted oddments of armor looted from the corpses of fallen rangers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By a fallen telegraph pole Turner cut off a length of cable and made a noose. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It lay near the stem, where it had fallen, listless, but its stomach was still panting and its eyes were still moving, expressing terror. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few of them stumbled, one or two of them bound in ropes, but those climbing onto the rock behind them merely stepped over or on the fallen bodies. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I’d sit quietly on the rug watching an episode of The FBI that Big Ma had fallen asleep on. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I had not fallen in love at first sight with Johannes Vélez, but his eyes on me felt good, and I wanted very much to give him my books to carry. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Their hearts were heavy, remembering the many men that had fallen in battle in this place. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Cluny had supplied him with a habit taken from the body of one who had fallen slain from the ramparts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Heimdall, the watcher on the bridge, the gatekeeper of the gods, will also not have fallen. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

What if I pretend to have fallen asleep? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They strapped the deer’s legs to a long fallen branch and hoisted it up on their shoulders, each taking turns to bear the weight on the way back to Jilin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In addition to the big red chicken there was a sack of carrots which had fallen from a vegetable truck, half a dozen onions which had not. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room had fallen vacuum-quiet, with me running my mouth a mile a minute, talking nothing but slang. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When we met,” he said, “you dared not even ask my name. Now you stare brazenly at me and presume to ask of my affairs. Have we risen in the world, or fallen?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Imam, what if you find that you've fallen for someone who is not Muslim? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

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

They could both hear him scrabbling in the fallen soil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any cowboy passing by at that moment might have fallen off his horse had he seen me step out the front door. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A great tree, fallen across one comer, leaned against the trees that still stood arid a rapid climber flaunted red and yellow sprays right to the top. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’ve never seen Mr. Brademas move quite so fast as he does getting over to the fallen tarp and handing it up to the custodians on the stairs. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Unlike other fathers to whom this task had fallen, he gave no instructions to his son. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He tried to make out where they might be now among the fallen and twisted branches. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It looks like a fallen star trapped inside my pocket. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Khushal School, which had always been our refuge, had fallen under the shadow of the Radio Mullah. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was walking along a tree that had fallen across a meandering stream. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

Dear Imam, what if you find that you’ve fallen for someone who is not Muslim? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

There, in the lee where a fallen tree rested against a standing trunk, lay two little black furry forms. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a matter of seconds, people started screaming and running in different directions, pushing and trampling on whoever had fallen on the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“My bike—” She assumed I had fallen off. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Then in the midst of the pandemonium over Gettysburg another Union victory was announced: Vicksburg had fallen! Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, when he was on his tour of the Incandesto! manufacturing facility and had fallen into the vat of Incandesto!, he hadn't said a single word. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Now France had fallen it was assumed that the bombing of London, the softening-up, must soon begin. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A leaf caught up in the wind hadn’t fallen. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Among these walls, all that remains of the fallen is the emptiness of where they walked, the silence where their voices rang. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He probably would’ve fallen over into the grass if Lily hadn’t caught him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“But the living have fallen behind. Hurry and type that story up into an obituary form. Quickly, and then you can take my car to run it over to Mr. Greene.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A week out in the wilderness, seeing new things, getting some fresher air ... it all sounded great to Mark, lifting his spirits out of the hole into which they’d fallen earlier. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Rumors circulated that the German front had fallen two weeks ago. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The shadows of the poplar trees had fallen across much of the lawn, but the sun was still lighting up the far comer where the grass sloped up to the summerhouse. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They could see the fallen soldiers on the slopes below them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the process of becoming such an industrious cobbler, the sheepherder neglected his animals, his fields, his house—everything had fallen into disrepair. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Darling,” Mrs. Levy began, but Miss Trixie had fallen asleep on her side, her creamed face smearing the couch. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the ship had gone onto its side, the service panels that had been in place on the floor had come loose and fallen free, revealing the huge gears and interlocking hydraulic systems. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed and said the stick must have fallen from a tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It dislodged a pebble, scattered dry grass, and scurried along a fallen fence post. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had fallen awkwardly enough I could have been killed. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one thing if you were using a handful of plastic pieces to find solutions to a puzzle; it was another if you felt like you’d fallen inside a puzzle and couldn’t get out. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

If Seven had been sitting in a chair, she would’ve fallen out of it by now. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

On my way out, I stepped on a plastic animal figurine that had fallen off the top of my bureau days before. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“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

Kaz brought his good foot down on the butt of the fallen soldier’s rifle. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There’s the normal stuff you’d expect to see in a drainage ditch: old tires, rusty shopping carts, broken sofas that seem to have fallen from space—a brand new obstacle course. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You don’t say. Has another tree fallen upon the pompous old fool?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the aftermath of the fallen towers thousands of people were missing. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The “New Beau” garbage was still out there, but it had fallen lower in the most-read story rankings. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He lay down for half an hour, pressed under the fallen tree where he had hidden, to give time for the thing to go right away and for his own heart to cease thundering. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She took a step back and leaned against the counter like if it wasn’t there she’d have fallen down. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hop over fallen man after fallen woman, over children and teenagers and the elderly, stepping on fingers or stomachs or ankles, searching for signs of pain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few people at the edge of the crowd had fallen silent. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Millions of people around the world had fallen in love with this musical, but I squirmed in my seat, trying to rise above the inexplicable torment I felt every time the melody repeated. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Years later, Duke would once again use the list himself, letting his supporters know that he’d fallen on hard times and needed their donations. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“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

When she tuned in the program that Sunday night, the first thing she heard was that an object had fallen in New Jersey. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I sat up in surprise, realizing the light was gone, behind the trees, and I had fallen asleep. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was as if a miracle had happened and all were healed, but the real miracle was that Burton and Devlin had fallen for their ruse. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

From the very beginning, the two men wrote in 2004, the city was partly in ruins—intentionally so, because the fallen walls bequeathed on Tiwanaku the authority of the past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

Many had fallen asleep as soon as they sat down. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

In blood and dust he saw that crowd all fallen, many and many slain. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ten-dollar ferry is in the middle of the road, and palm trees have fallen to the side. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A cloud of pain had fallen on Laertes. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the kid had fallen for it, hook, line and sinker, although the conversation had gone back and forth for a while. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bark had rotted away and fallen off, leaving the trunk bare and slick as glass. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sprint in the direction of Tori’s body—of her fallen flashlight. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

On the television, a black horse helps free a man trapped beneath a fallen tree. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, by the time my letter reached Cal Tech the base pairs had fallen out. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

In the sky above the clearing, Orion had fallen over the south edge; he was running out of night. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the wolves retreated, Shae left the path to ride back toward Con and Pol, her blade dark with blood from the wolves that had left the fallen packhorse to find new prey. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They will dig away the earth from under the bodies of small creatures, such as shrew mice and fallen fledglings, and then lay their eggs on them before covering them with soil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men scrambled out the way, no one wishing to be crushed by a fallen king. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the last of them had bent the knee, night had fallen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sleeping under Lord Manderly would be like sleeping under a fallen horse, he imagined. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He must have slipped and fallen in the dark. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

When it had almost reached the foot of the bank it scuttered over a fallen twig with two or three green leaves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it where his father’s friend had fallen? The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now the watch-towers, which had fallen into decay, were repaired, and filled with arms, and garrisoned with ceaseless vigilance. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The encrusted mud he had applied as balm had fallen away. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And George and Axel, Dr. Martin, and now the baby, move swiftly through the field over fallen branches, past roots and leaves. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The walls had fallen away and the room was black. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

To their left, three gold cloaks went down under the surge, and then the crowd was rushing forward, trampling the fallen men. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The name tore from Pinmei’s throat, and she fell to her knees next to the fallen form. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He charged over the fallen stools and strewn bodies on the floor. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Light trips over pebbles, rocks, dirt...searches for the fewest weeds, fallen branches, and twigs...searches for where brush has been worn away. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had missed it—I had fallen asleep exhausted after we got home. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was as if they’d fallen through a hole in the ocean and come out on the other side of the earth. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had fallen to her, like some undeserved misfortune, to teach me courtly behavior and guide my education. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Instead of walking up the lane, I cut through the “orchard,” feeling the soft grass under my feet, stepping around the early pears that have fallen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

He recognized the gray and blue stripes of Cari’s sock sticking out from under a fallen bookcase. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as night had fallen, the algae had dissolved the rope with its acid. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Judith’s eye had fallen on a light blue wool and she lifted it impulsively. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned over and spoke to the fallen lady gently. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"And if I brought you the fallen star?" asked Tristran lightly. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

His foot brushed the log where it had fallen in all the motion and he picked it up and put it on the table. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When darkness had fallen over everything, and the stars burned bright in a moonless sky, they went to sleep. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have perhaps given her a little more decision of character, have taught her to think on points which had not fallen in her way before.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Me: “I dispatched black warriors raged against unjust barriers to find the black and strong had fallen divided deceived overcome.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't think I've ever fallen asleep in a dark place and woken to see it in the light for the first time. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Seven’s parents left for town after putting Beefy to bed, and Mrs. Villalobos had come over and promptly fallen asleep in front of the telecast of Real Witch Wives of Hastings-on-Pumpkins. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

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 had never realized just how different I was until the day that horrible kid shouted about my arms having fallen off. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It would take hours—even days—for anyone to make it through the maze of fallen trees. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the month, fourteen and a quarter inches of rain had fallen at the University of Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Some years back snow had fallen on Christmas Eve and continued falling, and when Bobby set out the next morning for the Clutter property, a three-mile walk, he had had to fight through deep drifts. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She must have fallen asleep, her cheek leaning against the door, because she thought she saw someone sitting next to her, and she thought it was her mother. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jomo placed the watering can aside and began to pick the umbrella tree fruit; they had fallen during the previous night, and lay, oval and pale yellow, on the lawn. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The great monk had fallen to his knees. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He picked up the remaining piece, lush with meat and fat that would nourish Gray for days, and carried it over the fallen trunk. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She’d fallen from a ladder at the library and cracked her skull. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If he was lying about this, he was probably lying about everything else, and I’d fallen for it. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The first lights were coming on in the houses on the bank, looking like glowworms or fallen stars. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

If I had truly paid attention, I might have realized that our tiny country had absolutely no hope of defending itself, not when bigger countries like Poland had already fallen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Isobel seems satisfied with the response, lifting a pile of fallen books from the floor and stacking them on the desk. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But everyone could tell that Washington had fallen two lengths behind. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The rags have fallen from the window crack, and the air is cold. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shone like a window of glass upon a far hill in the westering sun, or as a remote lake seen from a mountain: a crystal fallen in the lap of the land. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Methuselah had fallen asleep in the afternoon sun. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Except for his tattered clothes and a few layers of dirt and grime, he looked as if he’d never fallen into Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Had she really just fallen the night before? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that the membership had fallen off after I had gone downtown. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many trunks have fallen or stand like an unlit match? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It took Barry a minute to understand that he had fallen asleep. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up one of the fallen guards’ spears. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I looked quickly to the right, to the shoulder, but one of the chairs had fallen in that direction. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When at last they came to the bottom of the gorge they found that evening had fallen in the deep places. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When they finally arrived, they seemed to crash into the house, for the front door clattered to the floor like a fallen tree. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

The tunnel curved then joined a second railway line, this one bent and broken, covered here and there in rubble, which must have fallen from above. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Some roofs were fitted with new chimneys or water towers, while other structures had fallen into further ruin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I picked her up and settled her on my hip, her head on my shoulder as if she had fallen asleep. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scattering fallen leaves as he rushed down the tree-lined street, thirteen-year-old Bobby vaulted up the red-carpeted stairs of the Marshall Chess Club two steps at a time and entered the Great Hall. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I must have fallen asleep in the middle of talking the night before. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He kicked toward the surface and emerged, panting, to see enormous ripples emanating in circles from the places where Ron and Hermione had fallen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, son. I wish I did. The country’s fallen on hard times, and that’s a fact.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

My dear town is fallen; the city upon a hill. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Conor’s grandma had driven him back to her house when his mum had fallen asleep after not eating her dinner. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

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’m sorry,” I said, mortified as she leaned down to scoop up the scatter of potato peels and marrow bones that had fallen from her sack. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

From the moment she learned Sarai had fallen, she had stretched her senses to their limits, waiting, hardly breathing, alert to the telltale skim of passing ghosts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Looking across the roof, I’m relieved to see he’s moved a safe distance away from the edge and hasn’t fallen to his death. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“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

Several things have fallen from the bags: an egg, an onion, an apple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I finish writing the chapter, I lie back on a bed of fallen leaves. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We know it’s not your fault, Alter,” Mrs. Brenner said, righting the fallen chairs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One of them had fallen off; it was surprising that Ugwu had forgotten to remove it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was better than anything he or Blink could have imagined, and for a brief, bizarre moment, Joseph thought he might have actually fallen back in time, or stumbled upon a portal to the past. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then it vanished, as if it had fallen through a plane of water or mist. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Every fallen eyelash and first firefly of summer . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The rucksack’s banging into my back as we run but we keep going as best we can, kicking thru river shrubs and jumping over fallen logs. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The bird had fallen right into the pink-fringed stroller where her baby was sleeping. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She sliced off a generous portion and gave it to the lead bloodhound who was waiting patiently near the head of the fallen stag. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The points of the fork must have gone all the way through the dog and into the ground because the fork had not fallen over. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘One of you might have fallen in and still be wondering when you were going to strike the bottom,’ said Aragorn to Merry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tyrion saw ruins rising along the eastern bank: crooked walls and fallen towers, broken domes and rows of rotted wooden pillars, streets choked by mud and overgrown with purple moss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A lone soldier sat on a fallen pillar, gazing at the sky through the broken ceiling. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She turned her gaze to where it had fallen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

With his pants undone he had fallen in and, to his partner’s horror, had thrashed once or twice before disappearing altogether beneath the surface of the moon-addled sea. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

So she simply chose a direction, picking her way around tree roots and snowdrifts, until finally she came to a small clearing where the snow had not fallen. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waitstaff scrambled to gather the fallen pastries before they could be ground underfoot. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Me: “I dispatched black warriors raged against unjust barriers to find the black and strong had fallen divided deceived overcome.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron had fallen asleep in the dark common room, waiting for them to return. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The curtain having fallen for the night, the evening over, and the first act set for to-morrow’s matineé. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if they had fallen off the face of the earth, for no word was heard from them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t fallen in love with you, Rowan. And now I want to keep it that way.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Yes, the girl—the girl with the clear, bright eyes, little pieces of sky fallen to the earth and caught in her dark lashes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Inside the room, the pall of fear had fallen anew. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He split more fallen wood with his knife. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his hat from where it had fallen during the chicken roundup. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dad had seen the car in the factory and fallen in love with it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The muffler on my beat-up black Honda had fallen off somewhere between Pittsburgh and Clover, which meant everyone in Lacks Town heard each time I passed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I never understood how the Senor managed to convey a sense of dignity, majesty even, considering his stick-rickety, see-through skeleton and the ridiculous, leathery crumple of hide about his foot, his fallen britches. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

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

She seated herself on the bed and brushed away a strand of fine white hair that had fallen across her father's face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He thought that he had dropped the gun when he had fallen in the snow, but it was still there. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered how many ovens had been left on when the Morpheus spell hit; how many people had fallen asleep in the middle of cooking dinner. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Truly, he had nothing to be ashamed of—until that fateful moment when he had fallen asleep in the sun. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her back was sore too, from where her cushions had slid apart in the night and she’d fallen through to the rough plank floor of the cabin. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Never has such egregious blasphemy fallen upon my ears.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some ancient time, an enormous tree had fallen in a giant wind. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

If it had not been for the metal staple arresting the pivoting, he might actually have fallen inside the hutch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they caught a glimpse of the country westward the distant Forest seemed to be smoking, as if the fallen rain was steaming up again from leaf and root and mould. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A little of the official atmosphere seemed to have fallen away from him with the Newspeak words, but his expression was grimmer than usual, as though he were not pleased at being disturbed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

On his first day on the picturesque campus, he walked briskly through the bracing Pennsylvania wind and fallen autumn leaves in open-toed sandals and shorts. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Fewer than a score of knights remained ahorse, charging and slashing at each other as watchers and fallen combatants cheered them on. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Monday, May 27,1935 As the day of Nat’s interview approaches, my mother behaves as if her nerves have rotted and fallen apart like old rubber bands. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

His heavy breathing intensified and I knew he had fallen asleep. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He guessed the temperature had fallen below zero. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the previous twenty-four hours the wind speed had not fallen below 107 miles an hour, and often gusted much higher. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The jungle had that smell of overripe fruit that had fallen and gone uneaten. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She would set up a darkroom in the bathroom, after Pearl had fallen asleep. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tyrion danced back in while the brigand's leg was still pinned beneath his fallen mount, and buried the axe in the man's neck, just above the shoulder blades. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Pima and Nailer went scavenging for food, collecting green coconuts that had fallen, before turning to the pools and tides. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to miss with the fields covered in fallen trees and the hum of generators running at the house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And most of them were here now, on the dead seas, in their resurrected ships, by their dead chess cities, one of which had just fallen like some fragile vase hit by a pebble. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The turbid river was encumbered with masses of charred wood, with black hulks of vessels, and skeletons of fallen bridges. . . .” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The hood of Leslie’s raincoat had fallen back, and her hair lay plastered to her forehead. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

We stood quite still, not speaking, looking down upon the clear white faces of the flowers closest to us, and Maxim stooped, and picked up a fallen petal and gave it to me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I scooted farther behind my tree, cracking twigs and fallen leaves, even though I knew they wouldn’t see me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Ben drove to the bus, past the fallen hives and parked his car flush against the side of the bus, making sure that there was no way for a dog to challenge his presence again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it weren’t for my mom, he would have missed a bunch of deadlines and fallen behind in the whole process. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When they finally approached the pavilion, night had fallen. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

But the helm of her secrecy had fallen from her, and her bright hair, released from its bonds, gleamed with pale gold upon her shoulders. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Richie had fallen asleep in the living room with the TV on. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Fifteen and a third inches had fallen downtown, still the all-time record for any month of the year. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We’d been passed out so long in the cave that night had fallen, but the woods were thick and the full moon was somewhat obstructed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Whenever she had a free hour she stole away to work at the drills Syrio had taught her, moving barefoot over the fallen leaves, slashing at branches and whacking down leaves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Below it on the floor, just where it had fallen from Mrs. Hubbard’s hand, was a straightbladed dagger—a cheap affair, sham Oriental, with an embossed hilt and a tapering blade. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short while ago he had fallen from a horse onto his hands, and when he pushed himself up from the table Longstreet saw him wince. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam had fallen asleep in just that same position, hair in face, without anyone realizing it, until he gave a loud snore and woke himself up. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He dropped his bow and picked up a sword from a fallen...well, he actually wasn’t sure what it was—some sort of reptilian lady warrior with snake trunks instead of legs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Several times he jerked upright, his neck aching because he had fallen asleep, slumped at an awkward angle against the side of the tent. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Tall, bright buildings loom over the treetops, but they are nowhere near this castle that seems to have fallen out of the sky and landed in the heart of this vast park. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had gone walking alone in those mountains over there to the North, had fallen down a steep place and hurt her head. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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 peer ahead and see the front entrance, the sunlight reflecting brilliantly off the newly fallen snow. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A scream and the sound of tumbling rocks told Nhamo someone had fallen over a cliff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” he said, “there’s one of those fallen trees.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Night had fallen and the greater darkness, the payment for the voluntary summoning of the body’s full strength, was coming hard upon me; to darkness I must entrust myself, and him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the man’s knife and topi that had fallen off. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I went into the First Building, walked up the stairs where Finny had fallen, and joined my 11:10 class, which was in mathematics. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hooded Death Eater’s shout reached Harry even above the thunder of the motorbike’s engine: Next moment, both pursuers had fallen back and disappeared from view. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

He stopped in front of the fallen column of the Black Tortoise Gate and, as if he were brushing away a dead leaf, pushed it aside. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Only last year Harry had fallen fifty feet from an airborne broomstick. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Solemn oaths were sworn to the Starks of Winterfell, aye. But Winter- fell has fallen and House Stark has been extinguished.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

Nathan couldn’t figure out why it hadn’t fallen for the trap. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Women had to draw drinking water straight from the river, while they clucked their tongues and told stories of women fallen to crocodiles in other dry years, which were never as dry as this one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the shadows had fallen about them and the road behind was dim, he had heard again the quick patter of feet. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was seventeen years old, like her, and had, this year, fallen almost all the way over the line into adulthood. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Montag began walking and after a moment found that the others had fallen in behind him, going north. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy couldn’t tell what it was—a fallen monster? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The ground was littered with the bodies of attackers who had fallen prey to the flames in the ill-starred venture of the siege tower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

I didn't see any poxies out there, but I imagined them scavenging among the debris of a fallen city. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

If ’twere on the ground, it might only have fallen — but it was on the anvil. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

For just as Mablung stepped towards the fallen body, there was a new noise. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

Olga’s body will turn to dirt, which will grow into trees, and then someone in the future will step on their fallen leaves. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Delivering the news that Richmond has fallen would be a delightful way to kick off their meeting. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Genie pressed his hand over his eye, but he kept pumping—two calls—hurdling over the fallen trees, the bottom of his feet pulsing in his flimsy Converses. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Once more, fallen stones blocked their way, but this time there was a narrow, jagged gap. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I thought he’d fallen asleep, but a moment later he said, ‘You got called a lot worse things than neek at my school. It was all boys, no girls, and really rough stuff.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair had fallen over one eye; like an old sea captain, he squinted at me shrewdly through the other. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Connor drops, scrambling to retrieve the fallen candies before Jack can reach him. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Stepping over slabs of concrete and parts of the wall that has fallen, I make my way to our spot. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wash nodded at the fallen tree somebody had laid over the creek. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up Lion's Tooth where it had fallen, and stood over him, holding the sword with both hands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

‘Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. ‘The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Blind with panic, I spread my arms, started to fall, would have fallen if Frankie hadn’t seized a fistful of my shirt and yanked me forward. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When nothing could be added to its perfections, a strange fate had befallen its creator: he had fallen in love, deeply, passionately in love, with the thing he had made. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They washed the mud off themselves, from when they had fallen down the bank, and then raced about, lifting their knees very high, splashing and yelling. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I think, up until then, I hadn’t thought about the idea that my arms must have actually fallen off at some point in my life. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Anna had fallen in love and was to be married, but she left her fiancé in Norway and crossed the ocean. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Outside the windows lining the wall, night had fallen; lanterns kindled so bright they offered few shadows to hide in. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was already disappearing with newly fallen snow. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was a cool dark summer night in the first days of blueberry picking time, and Omakayas had just fallen asleep when something made her awaken, a dream or a sound. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Later.—I must have fallen asleep, for I was awaked by Mina, who was sitting up in bed, with a startled look on her face. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

My Aunt Libby had broken away from the Catholic Church at the same time my mother did, but then she'd fallen in love with an Italian Catholic, so she'd gone back again. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Initiates were required to swear an oath upon an emerald said to have been pried from the brow of a fallen angel, and when presented with this artifact, Thyon laughed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It looked as if an anvil had fallen on the desk. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Celaena didn’t move from where she had fallen into the chest, despite her throbbing spine and legs. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It looked as if she had fallen on the battlefield of life. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He held up the candle, looking for a fallen star, a rock, perhaps, or a jewel, but he saw nothing. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her black hair hadn’t even fallen against her back. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

From there it would be easy for them—these little stones, the fallen leaves and the whipped branches, the scuffed places where a foot had slipped. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I thought it lost, but it appeared again, beneath a fallen tree perhaps or struggling on the other side of a muddied ditch created by the winter rains. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He picks up the wool blanket that has fallen to the floor and tucks it around the lump of Carmine’s body, covering the parts that are exposed. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I spot the hilt of a dagger that's fallen to the dais, the rapidly widening pool of blood spilling out of her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Tyrion remembered how the wolves had howled when the Stark boy had fallen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Its boards were warped beyond hope, and its roof slumped in the middle like a fallen pudding—and there wasn’t a house in Phippsburg where she’d rather live. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I’d fallen off the sofa a couple of times, and it hurt, so I usually just waited for Mom or Dad to move me to a comfortable position. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I can hear her squealing with delight from here and I’m smiling again—the smile has barely fallen from my lips all day. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its long, slender legs were stuck out at odd angles where it had fallen and its mane was spread pearly-white on the dark leaves. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The dining hall had fallen silent now, as Conor and the monster moved faster after Harry. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

That’s not to mention all the fallen branches and raised tree roots waiting to trip him. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

If you picked up just a few of the fallen leaves and crushed them in your hands, you could smell their pungent scent. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Please," I say, "Sister, tell me. What crime did these children commit that they have fallen so far, so fast?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I must have fallen asleep, because I jerked awake when I heard her ask, “How’d it go?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay sweating for a few minutes on the cool wooden floor where I had fallen, before turning on the light so that I could completely free myself from the dreamworld. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I heard men and women declare their love for each other then listened as others confessed that they had fallen out of love. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But we pretended we didn’t hear her, and I wrapped my arms around Jesse’s neck, and he kissed me like the world had fallen out from under our feet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I carefully scanned the fallen leaves around a couple of oaks, hoping to spot one. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She told me they hadn’t fallen off; I was just born like that. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If Aunt Letty had fallen on bare boards or even on the carpet, I suppose all her bones would have been broken: but by great good luck she had fallen on the mattress. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He had fallen from a palm tree in his hometown in the Niger Delta area, a few years ago while on vacation. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was so excited she would have fallen several times if he hadn’t been holding her up. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then he’d had that fit and the boys had wrestled him to the ground, so that he’d fallen, sustained a second injury, the injury the doctors said should have killed him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her head had fallen backward as though in hilarity, the angle opening the wound so that a section of windpipe gleamed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It became a real problem when you had to go down under the house to use the toilet at night, and each of us had slipped and fallen off the porch at least once. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cady bent to pick up the fork that had fallen off Toby’s cake plate. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Night had fallen and the SS were ordering us to form ranks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had fallen into the routine of the farm willingly, hoping to build up his body for Trinity and football in the fall. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your handkerchief, Madam?” he said, picking up something that had fallen on the floor. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had fallen from that high estate which God had intended for men and women, and she made her fall glorious because it was so complete. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

After a few moments, her hand goes slack—-she's fallen unconscious. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t realise you’d fallen out with her too,” I said. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was silent for so long that Tree-ear thought he had fallen asleep. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The cheeks had fallen back to the ears and a solicitous mortician had put lipstick on the black mouth. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know whether he had fallen to the ground or dived to it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then when they had laid their fallen comrades in a mound and had sung their praises, the Riders made a great fire and scattered the ashes of their enemies. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When Tag was sure the large male had fallen asleep again, he repeated the performance. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nina’s pistol had fallen out of its holster while she’d been falling through the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"There's no honor in beating a fallen foe. He yielded." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He could not have fallen victim to any other sort of calamity. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Had it not been for a determined English professor named Arthur Holmes, the quest might well have fallen into abeyance altogether. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

At first I thought that Grandma had fallen, or that maybe they’d found out about the shoplifting. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The troopers’ biggest challenge was calming people down and explaining that no meteors or Martians had fallen. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he had fallen on it when he tumbled out of the tree. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Frodo left the barrow for the last time he thought he saw a severed hand wriggling still, like a wounded spider, in a heap of fallen earth. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

After half an hour, night had really fallen and they couldn’t carry on. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

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

And the mouse had fallen in love with her. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

What was surely the oldest celebration of all, the sharing of plenty, had fallen to ruin in our hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is not necessarily sinister, I have had them before, usually from when I’ve fallen and someone has helped me up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terrified, she had turned to flee, had tripped and fallen in the heather. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s back in a dark corner behind the now fallen rolls. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He yearned for a bed and sheets-but the only whiteness here was the slow spilt milk, luminous round the rock forty feet below, where Piggy had fallen. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

By 1906, even the best-guarded political bastions had been stormed—twenty-nine seats in Parliament had fallen to the Labour Party—sending spasms of anxiety through English high society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When her alarm went off the next morning, Eleanor couldn't remember having fallen to sleep. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Bod saw the chaos on the floor of the Frobisher mausoleum, the fallen coffins with their contents scattered across over the aisle. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Gwen had already gone to bed, but she had not yet fallen asleep. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had not gone far before they felt once more the fear that had fallen on them when the winged shape swept over the marshes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A part that could have fallen off a bicycle, a curtain rod, anything, really. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Long after Grandpa and Papa had fallen asleep, I lay thinking of the big hunt. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Had I not followed God’s orders to stop these fallen angels from living with the humans, then people, us, everyone, would have been taught to be as smart and powerful as God himself?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I shrugged and went back to eating my dinner, sorry my ideas had fallen flat. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hadn't they fallen into the company of a girl with a trained bear? The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

My turn came: the level of the rice was already fallen so low that it was only by going close to the vessels that I could see any rice at all. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jeanne tried to move it, but it was like trying to move a fallen tree. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt conquered a confirmed habit of living into which she had fallen, and Biddy became a part of our establishment. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

When the crowd at last arrived at City Hall, a brief prayer service was held before speakers from nearly every segment of Durham’s black community eulogized their fallen leader. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Queenie worked frantically over the fallen gunner, trying to plug the holes in his chest and stomach. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But now there was little to sell, and the town had fallen on hard times. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

He had fallen right on the edge, inches from the blue. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If I were on the tree next to Libby, I’d have fallen into the yard below. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

Her eyes were wide, and there was a terrible bruise on the side of her face from where she had fallen. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a fallen branch, climbed a boulder under the utility pole, and tried to knock her off the wires. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It had all fallen apart after that, and though he wished it had turned out differently, he wasn’t so much embittered by it as hurt. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a long pause, and I was beginning to think she’d fallen asleep when she spoke up again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The room had smelled heady and sweet, and we'd fallen asleep there after powdering ourselves all night. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I’d stumbled and fallen to my knees when I turned to run from Spot’s charge, and she was too close behind for me to be looking back and watching what Old Yeller was doing. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He suddenly remembered why he had fallen over and turned around quickly to stare at the alleyway between the garage and fence. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He could never scale the walls of the hole they’d fallen down with Boots in his arms. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The snow that had fallen a few days earlier was now a dark slush shoveled against the sides of the road. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo had told her how, as children, he and the others, sent to sweep the village square in the mornings, would instead spend most of their time fighting over the fallen udala fruit. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Look. I didn't mean to disturb you. It's just there's a star fallen somewhere around here, and I have to get it back before the candle burns out." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

In recent years they had fallen in with a gabby, childless couple, older than they were, called the MacNatts. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was glad you’d fallen asleep, but I stayed awake, worrying and hoping. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Death they cried with one voice loud and terrible, and gathering speed like a great tide their battle swept about their fallen king and passed, roaring away southwards. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

His body stiffened and he drew down his head and peeked out from under a fallen branch. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cupcakes have oozed all over the tops of the pans and fallen on the bottom of the oven. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

Nearly three feet had fallen in the last storm, so that for a week people had to walk single file, in narrow trenches. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Night had fallen and the stars were out when we got back topside. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I am told,” the king said, sagging like the winter branches weighted by snow, “that the workers are treated worse than slaves and the emperor has the fallen buried under the wall.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Some fairies attended their fallen comrades, healing injuries and washing away slime. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Each name summons an image in my head—a face, a voice, a form—until it feels as if my fallen comrades are rising up around me, a phalanx of ghosts. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They were strange shoulders, still powerful although very old, and the neck was still strong too and the creases did not show so much when the old man was asleep and his head fallen forward. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, the isolation which had suddenly fallen upon his sister after the sudden breaking off of the recital had overwhelmed her. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried not to imagine they’d fall on us at any moment, but dotted around the fields were several that had fallen and impaled themselves in the black grass. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Only the black walls of the old prison remained, the roof long since fallen in or destroyed so that the night sky was visible high above, dense with clouds and free of stars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Tenderly, as they walked along, the bird plucked up a strand of hair that had fallen loose from Omakayas’s braid, and then he tucked it behind her ear. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Immediately, Nokomis set down her work, wiped her hands on her skirt, and brought her granddaughter over to a wide fallen log to sit with her. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She closes her eyes, and for a moment I wonder if she might have fallen asleep. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Without another word, we left the bike where it had fallen and headed for home. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Gitano only looked at him with resentful eyes, and he picked up the fallen deerskin and firmly wrapped the beautiful blade in it. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked between fallen trees, and when there was no room between the trees, she climbed up and walked along their trunks. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

She held the peelings precisely as they had fallen in her lap, and as she walked up the steps she looked as though she were holding her crotch. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pax watched for a while longer to be certain the war-sick were occupied, then crossed over the remaining span of rushing water along a fallen tree. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

Large tree branches had fallen and a clutter of leaves and roof tiles and dust and dirt littered the ground. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing will convince him that his fortunes might not suddenly reverse, reducing him to a diet of fingernail clippings or soups made from fallen leaves and seasoned with flashlight batteries. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

What we had here was worse: a triple calamity fallen on the house of these poor parents. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Love you, King,” he says, but I don’t know if he’s still awake or if he’s fallen back asleep. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

And another, his footsteps crunching in the freshly fallen snow. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I can recall spotting from some distance - long before reaching the steps where my father had once fallen - Miss Kenton's figure moving about inside the summerhouse. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He suspected now that he had fallen in with a rascal, and he thought uncomfortably that he had brought only a little money with him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Seeing no sign of the Spirit Bear, Cole returned his attention to the fallen tree beside him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

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

A loud snore told him Ron had fallen asleep again. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Every now and then a ray of moonlight through the branches above lit a spot of silver-blue blood on the fallen leaves. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Staring at the house in the full heat of summer, it was scarcely credible that the world had so swiftly fallen into confusion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I glanced back into the house to make sure no one was listening, but Mom had gone to the store with Charlie, and Dad had fallen asleep reading a National Geographic on the couch. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But Ms. Morales was knocked sideways, and she would have fallen if Natalie hadn’t clung to her so tightly. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I watched them cruise in and around the cove in the Whaler, with Vern wrapped in a blanket as if he had already fallen in. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Never before had such silence fallen over the assembly hall. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In the dream, screams rend the air and somehow I know that the pain and suffering are my fault, that the dead have fallen by my hand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The battle raged on and on, down the side of the mountain, over huckleberry bushes, fallen logs, and rocks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa lay as he had fallen, face down in the icy sleet. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mini, who had not fallen, got out and up on her feet first. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It must have fallen out of my shirt when I picked up the cards. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He had fallen right next to a Hindu conductor whose chest was bleeding heavily. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Donovan had fallen into a troubled slumber and Powell’s weary eyes rested upon him enviously. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Ashes and papers were blown around and some plastic flowers had fallen off the birdbath—but there was no sign of Security anywhere. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They glowed in the dark like pale miniature stars fallen to earth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Have you ladies fallen asleep there by the fire?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slashed right and left as the fallen banner was ripped apart, the thousand ragged pieces swirling away like crimson leaves in a storm- wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But perhaps by merely accepting a bowl from them, she had fallen into their power. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep among the trees she lay on a fallen log and gazed far up branchless trunks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dr. Trefusis’s blood was on the sand where he had fallen. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And then he noticed that the man had fallen still, though his hand still gripped as tight as ever. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her father had taken her for a ride at age 12 in a rebuilt, open-cockpit Waco biplane, she had fallen in love with flying. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He began to pick up the things which had fallen out of his tartan suitcase. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Pettigrew had fallen to his knees as though Harry’s nod had been his own death sentence. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Once night had fallen, I sent Bongo on her next mission. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A few had fallen down on me, like little pointy raindrops. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

For the enemy was flinging into the City all the heads of those who had fallen fighting at Osgiliath, or on the Rammas, or in the fields. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she thought he was embarrassed to have fallen this far, but other times he seemed to love the wheeling and dealing. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I look back at Thomas, his hair has fallen across his face and a cruel pleasure has replaced his usual kindness. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Haiyi, after landing on the ground himself, ran to the fallen bird. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The battle still raged along Fifth Avenue, but for that moment nothing existed except our small circle and the fallen girl. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

If she would have fallen in love with the boy, married him even. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Maisie had fallen asleep watching TV, so it was relatively easy to climb over her bed and out the window. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He jumped a great fallen log, ducked under low-hanging branches, and, like a rabbit, made sudden changes in direction. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Hunters scrounged arrows from the fallen and launched volley after volley into the enemy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He soon found it half-submerged in the shallows beneath the branches, where he figured it must have fallen. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ube stopped and turned, staring at the fallen books for a few beats. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Five days later, a newscaster shrills that Paris has fallen to the Germans, and the German people are overjoyed to see the Nazi flag hoisted over France. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were dragging their feet, and their pace had fallen significantly. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was not long before the level of milk in the pie tin had markedly fallen. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But when he appeared at his girlfriend's hotel room door, she rejected him, saying that she had fallen in love with a KGB colonel—not a traitor. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Willys station wagon’s rear right tire had been perforated by a fallen branch still wedged up under both axles. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, a shadow has fallen on my happiness. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The sun had already fallen below the trees,- dusk would be on them in no time at all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Zack, who was only six at the time, announced that it was a piece of the moon that had fallen to Earth. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I took that to mean,” Ellsberg recalled, “that she had fallen out of love with me.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Thicknesse had fallen to the ground with tiny spikes erupting all over him; he seemed to be turning into some form of sea urchin. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But when they took the carrots to Akira, he had fallen asleep on the floor. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Darkness had fallen by the time the Wills ground onto the shingle beach again. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Two years before, far away from there, she had fallen asleep without putting out the candle and had awakened surrounded by flames. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His voice was strange and rusty, as if fallen into disuse. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s fallen from my back, under the kitchen chairs, with all the Doorman hair. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

He went bade to die fallen trees and found more dead limbs, carrying them up on the rock until he had enough for a bonfire. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The murder rate had not fallen under three hundred in years. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It had been the school’s first, but this was its one hundred and sixty-third Winter Session, and the forces reassembled for it scattered the easygoing summer spirit like so many fallen leaves. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still stood looking at the fallen bubbles and then at the bottle and the stick in Mr. Chris’s hands. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Several protesters had fallen to the ground, and two came crawling toward me, scrambling to get out of the way. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I gave her my water bottle and we sat on a fallen tree, resting as she rinsed her eyes clean. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You’re the crossest person in it!” returned Amy, washing out the sum that was all wrong with the tears that had fallen on her slate. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo could not have called, for he had fallen asleep, and had slid down nearly to the bottom of the pit. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A thin snow had fallen the night before and grimed the weeds. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was wide open, free of pebbles or fallen branches or even the thick padding of last year’s leaves. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madam Hooch had fallen asleep in her seat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Disappointed, Stirling took the crew to yet a third fallen stela. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was a crash—someone must have fallen over the toppled chair or table. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I search for it but realize it’s fallen between my bed and the wall. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

At noon not a drip had fallen, the ice was as tight as it had been at dawn. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It had fallen into the mouth of one of the eagles. All the way down its throat and into its hollow belly. A hungry eagle indeed!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her small feet had probably slipped on the slick ice and she had fallen into the icy waters. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Most of the western Soviet Union was in German hands, but its largest cities still hadn’t fallen, and the Red Army was still fighting. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My book had fallen to the floor, so I couldn’t say anything. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because they had spent centuries managing scarce water supplies, he thought it unlikely that they would have fallen quick victim to drought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After darkness had fallen, she brought the intention craft down through the cloud and moved slowly along the lakeshore at treetop height. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Frodo sat propped against the rock behind, but he had fallen asleep. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The hood's fallen back somewhat, like he can't hold it in place while he's hurrying. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I want to take you somewhere,” he said, but Lily had fallen asleep. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"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

They’d slipped from the pulleys and fallen, rendering the citadel forever—or until now—inaccessible. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And yet, if a bomb had fallen on the blocks, it would have claimed hundreds of inmates’ lives. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I still clip a hurdle sometimes, but I haven’t fallen again—at least not at a meet. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sharpe’s arm, previously raised with fingers outstretched to enumerate, again and again, the little stock of what devoured what, had fallen to his side. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As she crossed in back of the wagon, a fallen chest caught her eye. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Bless my soul! Did you ever hear of anything to match it? Why does Palomides think she has fallen for him. “ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ancient green-plush sofa lolled alone in the center, like yet another mossy fallen log, facing a soot- streaked fireplace still deep in last winter’s ashes. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few paces further on there was a little clearing, where Alice was sitting on a fallen tree trunk with Lyra, who was fast asleep on her lap. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The roof had fallen in long ago, and an enormous sycamore had grown on the spot where the sacristy had once stood. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aru had panicked, walked straight into the fridge, and fallen flat on her face. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now I find it has fallen already, and a piece of it is here beside our latrine, one red plume. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cut so many holes in the ice it’s a bloody wonder more haven’t fallen through. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was nearly dawn when Robin felt himself lifted onto Brother Luke’s back, for he had fallen asleep. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Chickenhound had screamed and fallen into the ditch, helped by the feet of the rat executioners. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The main bunch of apple trees is a little ways into the swamp, down a few paths and over a fallen log that Manchee always needs help over. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Night has fallen, and outside the cave, thunder reverberates. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I wonder how many other Deckers are hanging out with strangers right now. A lot are probably dead by now. Car accident or fire or shot or fallen down a manhole or...” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Since night had fallen and it was too dark for me to carry Rontu back, I stayed there. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, right when Hanako had fallen asleep, Jiichan was suddenly crying out, “I have forgotten! Even with my amazing memory! We must change train in Hiroshima!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But somehow the first little Caleb had wandered away unnoticed, and had fallen into the river. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The longer I sat motionless, breathing deeply, trying to inhale the last scent of the fallen world, the more I resented its continuing solidity. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Where a fallen tree dammed the flow, the hunters were forced to loop around a deep green pool, but if the direwolves had done the same they'd left neither print nor spoor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The land surrounding it was rockier than any other place we knew, and the path to it branched off underneath a massive fallen oak that looked somewhat like a mermaid. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth’s spirits soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

And, indeed, their mouths were so wide open with astonishment that Mr. Wigg, if he had been a little smaller, might almost have fallen into one of them. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed good to be reprieved, to walk in a land that had only been for a few years under the dominion of the Dark Lord and was not yet fallen wholly into decay. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Crouching under a fallen branch on the verge of the lane, Hazel watched the others as they followed Bigwig down toward the farmyard. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But many had already fallen, struck down by bullets and arrows. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I did so, and saw snow whirling thick on a light wind down the street, over the whitened roofs; two or three inches had fallen in the night. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was still early in the fall and only a few of the coppery yellow leaves had fallen from the oaks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

An old fallen tree lay ahead of him on the deer trail he was following. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must have fallen asleep, because when I opened my eyes, there were blankets on top of me, several of those thin, fleecy airline squares. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Great rippling rings formed on the surface out beyond where the stone had fallen, and they moved slowly towards the foot of the cliff. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But his ride had fallen through that morning and by the time he tried to find another one, everyone had already gone. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white woman’s request had fallen on deaf ears. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The bodies of both armies lay scattered thick upon the grass and stones where they had fallen. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was nothing in this program of interest and Dell had fallen asleep to it many times since he came to Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The tree that grew out of the gutter on the spire had fallen in the last storm, taking a handful of the slate-black roof tiles with it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The stallion was able to avoid the loose stones and fallen branches that lay across the winding path, even without Taran’s hands on the reins. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

My head struck brick, and I would have fallen if Pike hadn’t been grinding me into the crumbling wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“As caretaker, Stan is a valuable trophy. Same with a fallen nymph. By contrast Dale seemed unimpressive and was left behind. Any clue who took them?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

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

I patrol the perimeter with my cart, darting in to pick up misplaced and fallen items, making everything look spiffy from the outside. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still had to navigate the fallen bricks so I would not trip up again. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He thought about Memorial Hall, a quiet corridor in the temple that bore a permanent list of fallen Sons etched directly into the stone walls. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A hush has fallen over the room, and I can feel it spreading across Panem. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Some of the beams had snapped and fallen in, and as he passed, a trickle of gravel hit his neck and shoulders, reminding him that the Dozmary Mine had been kept locked for a reason. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I hoped he had fallen away with his mind intact and felt the warm envelopment of darkness, as if perhaps he had returned to his beloved deep mine for one last time. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You look like a good boy,” the man said softly, his Yiddish coming out off-kilter and scratchy, as though it had fallen into disuse. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

Oh, if only he hadn’t slipped and fallen and dropped that precious bag. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Frost sparkled on tumbled bricks and fallen timbers. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

We had fallen into the trap, up to our necks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flames were licking up its sides from where a torch had fallen on straw, and she could hear the screaming of the animals trapped within. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Paper hearts on the walls have faded and fallen to the ground. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps he’s fallen,” I said, “poor little chap. Let me fetch him.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

One held his magazine high before his face and for an instant I saw a vivid scene: The shining rails, the fire hydrant, the fallen policeman, the diving birds and in the mid-ground, Clifton, crumpling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, not dropped so much as fallen off a cliff and tumbled straight down. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

Stanton gazed down at his fallen chief and wept. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his heart was never quiet, even when the boy and the alchemist had fallen into silence. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were others like him who had fallen off the path and given in to the old demons. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Boomer and I slip under the barbed wire a few minutes later, it’s to find squirrels scurrying back and forth, gathering up the acorns that have fallen everywhere. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Omakayas kept her eyes closed and lengthened her breath, hoping that Old Tallow would believe that she had fallen asleep. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Aileen was sitting on a narrow tree that had fallen and was propped up by two other trees. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Harry shouted again, but the others needed no telling: They all scattered, and not a second too soon, for next moment the creature’s vast foot had fallen exactly where they had been standing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps ashes had once fallen on a plain-glazed vase in the kiln and resulted in patches of the clear celadon color. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He picked up the newspaper and pointed to the Negro who stood over the fallen idealist. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at her, in her red plaid skirt and strawberry T-shirt, a woman not yet thirty, who loved neither her husband nor her children, who had already fallen out of love with life. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were many people in Odessa who, after the initial shock, had slowly fallen in love with the town. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That way he got a little rest, and we didn’t run the risk of rounding a comer and barreling into a fallen tree or slow-moving cart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A fight snow had fallen the night before, and there were stones and roots and hidden sinks lying just under its crust, waiting for the careless and the unwary. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As he did so, he sensed that the universe had fallen silent, and he decided not to speak. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her sadness was quiet and brittle, like a fallen leaf. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My hands felt like they’d fallen asleep with the story still tingling inside of them, and I shook them as I searched for a solution. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The child had fallen asleep in Mrs. Owens’s arms. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I could see that JimmyTrotter didn’t talk about his brother, mother, father, or grandmother or the accident caused by the oncoming trucker who had fallen asleep at the wheel while driving a tractor-trailer carrying lumber. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The fallen autumn leaves were slick beneath Bod’s feet, and the mists blurred the edges of the world. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Two Princeton University geology professors received word that a meteor had fallen just a few miles away from campus. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Silence fell, and half of the guards encircled the Champions, hands on their swords, while the others, Chaol included, rushed to the dead Champion and fallen guard. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She must have fallen right on the injured arm. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I have never fallen in love with a gender. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

They seemed to have fallen of their own accord. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In fact, everyone has been talking in whispers and low voices this last week, as if the house is full of fussy babies who’ve finally fallen asleep. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

My parents had fallen in love as teenagers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

They don’t drop me—it’s more like the group that’s supporting me disintegrates and I get dumped on the floor as everyone rushes to fix the fallen links. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She wondered momentarily if it was the kitten’s purr; but Small Bob had fallen asleep on Large Bob’s shoulder. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

Miss Trixie had fallen asleep, her white head among the old newspapers on her desk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair had fallen forward, so Lina couldn’t see the expression on his face. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her footsteps crushed the fallen leaves and the dry branches, producing a light crunching sound, the only noise in that vast sleeping space. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something had fallen, but it couldn’t be her, and the great seraph couldn’t be keeling over. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Naomi, her face glowing and streaked with tears, reached down for the fallen microphone and handed it to Cap. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Hachiya tripped over something, looked down, and saw it was the body of a soldier, crushed under a fallen gate. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so, without permanence, I have fallen into the routine of my incomplete seductions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The birds seemed all to have flown away or to have fallen dumb. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Will the Ministry have fallen by next Saturday?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A fallen cedar log hung with ivy bridged the dell; she slipped under it and turned up a side path that followed a shallow creek where three years before they’d sailed driftwood boats together. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

On Frodo suddenly the shadow of parting had fallen: he knew somehow that the time was very near when he must leave Lothlórien. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were straight rows of trees—colonnades—growing out of the seedbed of trees that had fallen two hundred years before and sunk and become the earth itself. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Something has fallen in there," said the manager in the next room on the left. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been difficult to know where he might have fallen, given the darkness and the confusion of the battle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Dari raced downstairs to inspect our fallen egg—Dari, our calm, collected, studious Dari, running over to our egg like a doctor to his patient. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Nailer grabbed another loose maintenance panel, then looked up at where it had fallen from. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

One huge branch had recently broken off and fallen, and three pine trunks lay bent double under its weight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A white rabbit hopped beside me, and for a moment I thought it was a blob of snow that had fallen out of the sky. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must have finally fallen asleep, because I woke from a horrible nightmare. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Nailer clambered back into the main passage and made his way past a sitting room full of fallen paintings and shattered statuary. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

From above, it resembled some fabulous dusky jewel, fallen between a green mantle of light silk and dark velvet. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Thus arrayed, we returned to our fallen companion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

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

The survivors immediately pounced upon the bodies of their fallen comrades, plundering weapons and objects of clothing that they had coveted. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As soon as he rounded the curve, he knew why business had fallen off so badly. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Shaking his old grey head, yet trying to hide a smile, Abbot Mortimer bent and helped to gather up the fallen nuts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, when they were clearing fallen branches from the porch, Tiller said, “I had a crazy notion just now.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The perfume was heaviest there, and for a moment Bod wondered if snow might have fallen, for there were white clusters on the greenery. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The porch overlooking the creek had fallen off. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

For example, a few minutes ago I gathered a handful of acorns and placed them at the base of the pine tree near my fallen log. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

Oliver had since fallen back asleep, but woke himself up when he toppled over sideways onto the rug. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Alyce, you must help me. Tansy has fallen into the pit and I cannot get her to climb out, for she is about to have her calf and will not move. Come and help me.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poor old Edgar Derby had fallen asleep on the cot next to Billy’s. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay like that for a few moments, and might easily have fallen asleep if Tommy hadn’t kept prodding my knees with a toe. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have fallen off the tarpaulin and drowned. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Had he fallen into Russian hands, he would have proven invaluable to them.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would she have gotten over whatever weirdness sat between us now and have even just fallen asleep on my shoulder by the candle fire? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When the sound turned to snoring, I realized he’d fallen sleep. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The morning shimmers with fallen rain, but despite the mud on the road, we make good time. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her hoverboard was useless there, but the hiking was easy in the new shoes the rangers had given her, her own so burned that they had fallen apart in the helicopter. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The little fox bounded back to the fallen oak, then sprang onto its trunk. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

Jerusalem, the holy city of the Jews and the Christians, had fallen. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you see that there’s a fallen star caught on her horn?” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

If they took a step, Their hooves would Bury the ant, Little pilgrim of crust And fallen bread. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we made it back to Maxwell Street, night had fallen. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

One more step and he would have fallen. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Jon's breath went out of him as the fallen table caught him between his shoulder blades. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

Sefia and Archer lay motionless at the bottom of the crate, curled up where they had fallen. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

With a flick of his blade, he severed its string, then lifted his fallen purse with the point of the sword. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was the same in the other houses at Ghalas-at, but more than the burdens which had fallen upon us all, it was the memory of those who had gone that burdened our hearts. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at them for some time and said nothing, the fallen star by his side. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The creek was filled with those that had already fallen. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The apple blossoms had wilted and fallen off. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Here and there the carpets had begun to smolder where some of the scattered coals had fallen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gabriel had fallen asleep about twenty minutes before and Mom wasn’t far behind him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Otto hurtled down from the canopy, swinging around the fallen trunk and landing hard in my lap. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The clusters of girlfriend groups where I would have fallen in with Frieda, Lucy, and whoever they stood with were dotted with the Jameses. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A man with a small pointed beard lies there; his head is fallen to one side, one arm is halfbent, his head rests helplessly upon it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth jumped off the monster’s back and ran to help, while the other Ares campers tried to defend their fallen counselor. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She left the run to grab a twig that had fallen from the pecan tree. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It’s just fallen asleep after being in the cast for so long. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

As I show him the diversity video, I see he’s fallen asleep in his armchair. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She was dimly aware of the army of monsters swirling around her, but after their initial roar of triumph, the horde had fallen silent. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"Yeah," Ty wheezed, his back aching as if a school bus had fallen from the sky and landed right on him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The locket they had managed to steal so many hours before had fallen out of Dumbledore’s pocket. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

According to undertaker, “The position of the body indicated that he had fallen in that position and had not been carried there.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was already asleep: he had fallen asleep sitting up, his bowl on his lap. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But a moment later I caught myself: I had fallen into the apartheid mind-set, thinking Africans were inferior and that flying was a white man’s job. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creek had fallen well below the bank and seemed less terrifying than before. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

There's a little slant of light coming through this narrow cellar window, enough so we can feel our way around all the burned junk that has fallen through the floor. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence, dry fallen leaves crunching beneath our feet. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

His glance strayed to his fallen enemies; twenty at least lay there. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The front door to the museum had fallen into the street. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It would keep swinging, she understood, after she and her father left the Pantheon, after she had fallen asleep that night. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

Certainly that lucky pigeon had not fallen under the aim of Howard Eckert. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t realize that I’ve fallen asleep until, somewhere through the darkness, a sound stirs me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She might have fallen, but a shadow moved suddenly, and strong fingers grabbed her arm and steadied her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My brothers took great pleasure in pointing out the wreckage of vehicles that had fallen into the valley below. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Daddy once said that’s a King Lord tradition—they crown their fallen comrades by putting a folded bandana on the body, as if to say they’re going into heaven repping their set. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether it was inhabited; its walls were mossy and so many tiles had fallen off the roof that the rafters were visible in places. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

One moment there were solid wooden walls and the next moment it had fallen with the cracking of wood and the tinkling of glass and the screams of people inside. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy’s mouthpiece had fallen to the canvas and the referee kicked it toward his corner. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using the flashlight on the phone to cut through the darkness, Rashid found his bag under the counter, along with everything that had fallen out of it when it had dropped off the sink. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Simpson used a first aid patch to pick up something that had erupted from the hellish wound on Jenkins’ chest and fallen on the ground near him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scrambled up, apologizing while doing so, and he reached for his mother, pulling her out from under the other protestors who had fallen as well. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He read late into the night, often long after I’d fallen asleep, plowing through history and biographies and Toni Morrison, too. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew this story: how a few years ago Josh Trammell, a sophomore, had fallen asleep with a candle lit and burned his parents’ house down. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Marcus smiles and jerks the truck to the left so that we don’t hit a fallen stoplight. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I take four samples of the mossy ground cover and snip off several pieces of a fallen elephant-ear leaf. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A light rain had fallen just before dawn, soothing my leaves, if not my mood. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

They jumped over fallen branches and holes in the ground, over roots and rocks. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

She reaches down to retrieve the fallen card, but her hand freezes just above it when she hears something. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, no one had fallen yet—perhaps because the path to the flag was fairly easy: balconies, windowsills, and trellises covered most of the space. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“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

“One area in the heart of the city was just a desert of ruins. Only the street remained, running empty and purposeless between heaps of fallen masonry.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four attackers followed up with a rush to take spears from the fallen men. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d gone to visit his father after the Time and found that he’d fallen in love with another woman and was going to marry her. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The memories had fallen behind him now, escaping from his protection to return to the people of his community. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is because of her nattering on at me while I was hard at work that she has fallen behind. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Shadows had fallen in the valley below, but there was still a light on the faces of the mountains far above. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The grey stubbly man and the one with the axe lay unmoving, but Osha was on her knees, crawling toward her fallen spear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was as if they were so happy they hadn’t killed each other that they had fallen in love all over again. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

With each step, she’d fallen into a cadence, a steady drumming rhythm that began in her feet and worked its way up her ribs until her heartbeat attuned to it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The dragon keepers lowered their wands and walked forward to their fallen charges, each of which was the size of a small hill. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Old Dan was bawling at a hole in a large sycamore that had fallen into the river. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tripping over a fallen body, Archie swiveled his way to the building, arms extended in front of him. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not really a shed, but a brick factory whose roof had fallen in. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meantime, I had met a girl and fallen in love. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had of course sprung up from the half-sovereigns which had fallen out of Uncle Andrew’s pocket when he was turned upside down; just as the silver had grown up from the half-crowns. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

What if Ocean had fallen for me now? A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Groundsel, who felt that he ought to set an example, himself dug his way into the loose, fallen soil of one of the bank runs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dadi nodded and closed her eyes for so long, I thought she had fallen asleep. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She might have fallen, but Septa Unella caught her arm and kept her on her feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We spent a month there. I think he might have fallen in love.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Furniture had indeed fallen; the place was a chaos of wrecked clocks and chairs, and in the midst of it the bulk of Tom Hustings lay, fallen on the smaller figure of Abanazer Bolger. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“It is amazing you survived. Their powers of deception ... almost any male hero would’ve fallen under their spell and been devoured.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

I walked on and on, over fallen trees I had struggled over hours before, down slopes I could now only dimly recall. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was an awkward silence between them, and Ash looked down at the ground, studying the gradations of brown and the pattern of veins in the fallen leaves. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have fallen off if not for the jagged black-thread stitching. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

Two five-dollar bills had fallen out from behind “Sarsaparilla to Sorcery.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

By the time the hot breads were placed on a white cotton towel on the table to cool, Poppy had fallen asleep on top of Sitti’s bed like a boy. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he settled himself on the fallen trunk, ears trained for any sound on the road. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Moat Cailin has fallen, Reek realized then, only no one has seen fit to tell them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“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

If this tree has fallen, what about the others? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The last piece of the puzzle had fallen into place. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

One human in the story, the hero, figured out he could identify the fallen angel-cannibal aliens by examining their naked backs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had fallen from his horse on his hands and the hands still hurt him but the pain in the chest was not bad at all. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night has fallen, and as the train passes through a tiny town, it blows its soulful horn. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been buried here for such a long time. Rain and snow have fallen on me. I do not know you, man-who-raised-me. What do they call you?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Lamphere's team soon turned up a document from the Gestapo—the Nazi secret police—that had been captured during the war and had fallen into the hands of the FBI. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sanjeev turned back to the baseboard, to replace a Post-it scrap that had fallen to the floor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sluggers have fallen in love with Kerouac and Keats and Woolf and Shakespeare, and hope I’ll press the button to preserve our literature for other alien races to explore. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Conor rushed in to help, picking up a fallen branch and smashing through the windows that hadn’t already been broken. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Hill House has fallen far short of its original promise, I think. Or perhaps Mrs. Montague will be greeted with a volley of psychic experiences.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The mouth of the hole was a bit of old earthenware pipe and if a man had pulled it out, the opening would have fallen in and showed no trace of the run inside. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran upstairs to grab paper towels and Clorox wipes and maybe some Febreze, and I sat with our fallen soldiers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Tony leaned over to pick up his hat—it had fallen to the ground during their fight. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

If a leaf in a green forest far from New York had fallen at midnight through the darkness into a thicket, it might have sounded like that. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least all the streets here are clear—no fallen street signs to dodge or holes to jump over. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

This time it was as though something heavy had fallen with a thud against the door. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I didn't say that. He's in the computer. We just can't access his records. It's like they've fallen through a hole in cyberspace." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The galley was trashed, all fallen out, but many of the bins of food were still locked in place: rice and flour in sealed containers. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

My mouth had fallen open; I was aware of every breath I took. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Near Ettumanoor they passed a dead temple elephant, electrocuted by a high tension wire that had fallen on the road. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town was a jumble, with no streets, no squares, and no open spaces except where a building had fallen. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even if he had fallen in love with the young lady at first sight, he would have advanced slowly and with decorum—not rushing things. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Sam’s mind was occupied mostly with his master, hardly noticing the dark cloud that had fallen on his own heart. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

This was what was left of nature, raw and wild, only hours after the Smoke had fallen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“We thought you had fallen into the stream,” Aunt Chipo called. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evening has fallen and my foot hurts from all the crazy shoes, so I abandon any thoughts of going into town. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just nearby, his Wellingtons were lying fallen on their sides, his football socks peeking out of the tops. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the world had fallen silent because the boy’s soul had. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kicks a fallen branch out of his way. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And Paul, their nine- year-old, had fallen out of a tree. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hang on —” Harry’s eyes had fallen on the picture of the snoozing mermaid on the wall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

How fortunate none had fallen into the water beside the boat! Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The stone dust that powdered him seemed a badge of slavery, and the two bloodstained rags about fingers of his left hand proclaimed the unskilled depths to which he had fallen. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

By the time it reached Graceland Cemetery, north of the city, darkness had fallen and a soft mist hugged the ground. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Once Henry’s security team has fallen in with the Secret Service cars, they’re off. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The people her children had fallen among didn’t have normal names: Fist, Knife, Granny. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the same, you felt dreadful, just knowing you’d fallen in her estimation, and you wanted to do something straight away to redeem yourself. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In past years Mr. Jones, although a hard master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“I remember last year when Adam came over for Christmas Eve. I told your father that you’d fallen in love too soon.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

While we idled the months away, exerting our efforts to watch over a city of embers and stones, Boston is fallen to the rebels. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

‘We came down over the last ridge into Nan Curunír, after night had fallen,’ Merry continued. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His legs are wedged between broken bricks and fallen walls. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t say anything—you will be able to pick up the fallen rice after he rounds the bend . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The nearby city of Hue had fallen to the Communists the day before, March 16. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

His bad leg stretches out in front of him as dead as a fallen tree. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Anyway, should you not be running off to retrieve my fallen star? It fell to the East, over there." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Night had recently fallen, and the sky remained a deep blue, staining the snow piled upon the panes of the windows. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Tired from crying, he had fallen asleep after soiling himself and dropping and breaking the bottle of milk. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I slept too heavy last night. Didn’t notice when she woke. She wandered outside. We need to find her. She could be lost, could have taken ill and fallen.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He’s fiddling with the camera and his dark hair’s fallen into his face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

As they climbed, Babi told them that Bamiyan had once been a thriving Buddhist center until it had fallen under Islamic Arab rule in the ninth century. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And I would not have turned off the light next to my bed or fallen asleep without praying to God. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own mother had fallen to pieces when his father died, abandoning the house he grew up in and moving back to Calcutta, leaving Shukumar to setde it all. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They had fallen into the Thames and drowned. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then she heard a crackling of underbrush—or was it just the random movement of the fallen leaves? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I climbed up onto the side of the fallen maple and looked around. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When she saw him, she made an instinctive motion to arrange a lock of hair that had fallen over her forehead. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he ran to the fallen man, three bullets bit into his back. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The old man turned away and went towards a heap of fallen stones and rock at the foot of the cliff behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Through the windows he could see the streets were covered with downed power lines and fallen trees and about a foot of water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Quentin had not even put on his overcoat, which lay on the floor where it had fallen from the arm of the chair where Shreve had put it down. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them sat on the fallen card which said “Welcome Home, Doc.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the minute I’d met Dante, I had fallen in love with him. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I hoped it was a dream and I had fallen asleep on the floor of the train. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They’d fallen into orderly ranks and stood at attention as their commander entered. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She ignored the fallen animal as she raced for the picture. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a hush had fallen and the crowd was silent, though some heads seemed to nod toward the Council of Guardians in respect. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere, boulders loom, and fallen trees barricade the way. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Or, if begotten, to have fallen from the womb Straight into the grave, And to be smothered, unknowing, In the dirt of Hades. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked at the guard who sat slumped in his seat and wondered if he had fallen asleep. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He had slid and not fallen, and had come up with a jolt to his feet on a wider ledge not many yards lower down. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was so determined to cast a negative light on Muslims all over the world, not even a fallen American war hero—Humayun Khan—was spared in Trump’s Twitter tirades. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The charm woman heard that the tree had fallen off the man’s head and she sent a young boy to tell him to send her two cows. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The hair that was not on the top of his head seemed to have fallen to the bottom of his face, as he had a dense white mustache and a goatee like a broom. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Stella happily gathered a couple of soft ones that had fallen to the ground. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

Perhaps it was meant for us: we had just fallen off the crest of a swell and were sinking down its back when its top was hit. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out the window and saw the calla lilies had fallen and turned brown, the daisies had been crushed down by their own weight, the lettuce gone to seed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was used, after all, to reading books with pages missing, fallen off while passing through too many hands. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We all step unevenly over shriveled branches, fallen logs. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Have I fallen asleep? How indecorous of me.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

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

He sprang on to the fallen body, and stamped and trampled it in his fury, stooping now and again to stab and slash it with his knife. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

A whole half of one barracks had fallen empty when another family relocated. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but unfortunately, my pouch is already full of seeds that had fallen off First Turkey. I may have to make another journey on my own,” Seed Collector said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

I learned that the whole property had fallen into terrible disrepair. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Minho had thrown a large chunk, a piece that had fallen from one of the cracks in the wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Tarheel blacks did not need Jesse Helms’s stinging insults uttered over the body of their fallen leader to push their anger over the edge. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In this song, she told how her sister had come to the river and fallen in. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

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

But recently, a friend of mine, Rose, who’s in therapy now because her marriage has already fallen apart, told me those kinds of thoughts are commonplace in women like us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were picking up sticks from the front lawn, sticks and branches that had fallen in the last rainstorm. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Large rodents nosed among the roots and munched contentedly on fallen nuts. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

By the summer of 1940, Belgium and Poland had fallen to the Germans. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But I still hope she has come to no harm and has not been eaten by ogres or captured by bandits or caught fire or fallen into bad company, as I often imagine. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

So he had fallen: for the first time since his conversion, for the last time in his life. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Unfinished homework lay strewn on my blankets, still there from the night before, when I’d fallen asleep staring at the blank pages. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Looking up, I noticed that the tree I’d fallen beneath was practically bald. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they got drunker and drunker, some lay limp on the floor and others took felt-tipped pens and began to write on the exposed skin of the fallen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His hair had turned white; much of it had fallen out, and what was left was stiff and dry as straw. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hypnotized by the image of the fallen president, Keene imagined a scene with herself at the center of it. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph moved closer to the fallen man and measured the distance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Curly also decided it was unnecessary to mention that he’d tripped in an owl burrow and fallen. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She thought about the day they’d fallen into the Grand Canyon—the first time she’d learned that Jason could control the air. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

How many here tonight had fallen where Isaiah fell? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Hrothluf looked around him in slight surprise, understood that he had fallen, and got up. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know whether he had sat down or fallen, but I was glad he was sitting now. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now her legs were pinned under a gray-and-black steel air-conditioning unit that had fallen through the ceiling. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And both of them had fallen briefly unconscious and both of them had now returned.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Had the spider fallen all the way to Tartarus? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he realized that, even though no rain had fallen at all for the past few days, the arching vision, shining faintly but unmistakably over Milagro, was a rainbow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to jog up the path, taking a fallen branch in his hand to scare away the monkeys. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

These African states have fallen prey to the British-American imperialist conspiracy to use the committee’s recommendations as a pretext for a massive arms support for their puppet and tottering neocolonialist regime in Nigeria.... Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Like someone who has fallen asleep during an exciting tale, I longed to hear the story’s end. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And it reminded the boy of the day when he had been ill and vomiting out in the fields, after which he had fallen into a deep sleep. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t guess what time it was because Skardebek had fallen asleep plastered to his face, her tentacles clamped over his eyes, nose, and mouth. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He lay where he had fallen and sobbed, his legs folded, his face pressed blindly to the gravel. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

The steer was down now, his neck stretched out, his head twisted, he lay the way he had fallen. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I stood up and picked up an overripe pomegranate that had fallen to the ground. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had fallen in love and very quickly moved in with him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We turned and, if I hadn’t been standing so close to Joey, I’d have fallen to the ground. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tripped over fallen logs, and once one of them fell flat on his face. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I notice that all the peas have fallen off my fork, which was on its way to my mouth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As if all this time the city has been no more than a scale model built by her father and the shadow of a great hand has fallen over it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We passed the central pond, then the fallen tree where Otto and I had spent our first night. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew the one I must use, if I was to rise again, more powerful than I had been when I had fallen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They found it back in its enclo­sure, having climbed down into its pit the way it had climbed out, by way of a tree that had fallen over. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As a child, she had fallen into a wash boiler of scalding hot water carelessly left standing on the kitchen floor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world seemed to have shrunk and fallen silent. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We kept forward, though, moving toward them, and came upon a Valley with a Farm House of Stone, fallen to Bits, & a Paddock of Horses. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The floorboards were pocked with holes where knots had fallen out. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

After three or four pheasants had fallen into the hedges, I said, “Can I try?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The trees in their ordered rows gnarled and black and the fallen limbs thick on the ground. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It took four men under Pedro Segundo’s guidance to remove the hill of dust, tile, and adobe that had fallen on top of him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Night had fallen, and most of its windows were dark, but the platform to which our truck drove us was lighted, and there were people waiting for us. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

He did not stir, but remained exactly where he had fallen, with his left arm bent out at an awkward angle and his mouth gaping. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

‘Five hundred times have the red leaves fallen in Mirkwood in my home since then,’ said Legolas, ‘and but a little while does that seem to us.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She came to a tangle of fallen branches that blocked her way, and in order to continue she had to leave the path to pick her away around them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had no idea skating was so dangerous. You could have broken a leg, fallen unconscious, been run over by a car. Give the skates to me. Now!” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

About half the school had joined the league; of those, a few had fallen away, and of the rest, a few had given in and joined. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was a brown crust of blood on the raw skin of her forelegs where she had fallen. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A bra hung from the stub of a broken branch on an old fallen log. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I would thank you, too,” said Constance, “except I wouldn’t have fallen into the hole if you hadn’t dived, so my thank you and your apology cancel out.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Summer had howled the day Bran had fallen, and for long after as he lay broken in bis bed; Robb had told him so before he went away to war. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That must be what was meant by fallen women. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the boy and the blue slush, after the strappy heeled shoe and the blood on the sidewalk, after that boy had fallen, Julietta West Williams had disappeared from the state of Alabama. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve barely fallen in when Nyla presses a button on the controls and the restraints slither out, lassoing my legs down and cinching my arms to my sides. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The boy, his head resting on his mother’s hair, had fallen asleep. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wildflowers grew in the fallen houses; where the corpses of goblin families had fallen, there were mushroom clumps. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Papa has fallen asleep, tear stains crystallized on his face. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

I had fallen asleep after the evening meal. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

"At least I am still alive. I was lucky to have fallen in Faerie. And I think I was probably lucky to have met you." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

By mid-September, Luke’s days had fallen into a familiar pattern. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Foraging in the woods and rubbish heaps, gathering fallen grain-heads in the autumn—these were honorable ways to gamer a meal, requiring time and work. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The dew and gossamer had dried early from the grass and by midmorning the finches had fallen silent. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miles, who had fallen asleep, jolted awake and mumbled something about going home. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Sam Westing had deliberately sacrificed his queen and she had fallen for it. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tomcats had fallen silent, probably licking their wounds. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The woman’s voice goes from compassionate to alarmed as she takes in the fallen girl with the chopped hair. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Temperatures had fallen sharply over the week, down to the thirties at night, and the sky seemed perpetually overcast. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He must have fallen asleep for a second and dreamed it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Now, perhaps this reading aloud, about which his sister always spoken and written to him, had recently fallen out of their general routine. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

She passed an enormous fallen log that swarmed with bees, but she didn’t dare try to get the honey. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"For a kiss, and the pledge of your hand," said Tristran, grandiloquently, "I would bring you that fallen star." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He would have fallen directly before the bus if Jones hadn’t leaped into the street and pulled at the white smock with his two large hands. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of life, a fallen brother was honored by his fellow butchers with a last tribute: an elaborate funeral wreath in the shape of a broken cleaver. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Gould he make Esther Hartlieb believe that the two of them had fallen off a bridge? The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But before he could come up with an answer, he’d fallen back asleep. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He had only a little vision under the fallen limb. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could stoop down and pick a fallen petal, crush it between your fingers, and you had there, in the hollow of your hand, the essence of a thousand scents, unbearable and sweet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Legends were still told of the strange and deadly people who dwelt there—the cruel and bloodthirsty descendents of the fallen Witch Kingdom. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The stump from the fallen white pine now holds one of Byrd’s clay planters on top. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It had fallen into a little ditch, full of weeds and tree roots and ferns. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was fading as they came back to the glade where Boromir had fallen. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Once again, her father and her son had fallen into a deep sleep. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

And the next thing Finn knew, he was waking up in the bedroom Ms. Morales had assigned him, rather than the office, where he’d fallen asleep. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A wall of hostility had fallen down and vanished. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

In January 1943, Werner finds a second illegal transmission coming from an orchard on which a shell has fallen, cracking most of the trees in half. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The picture had fallen to the floor, uncovering the telescreen behind it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Immediately ahead of him there was the trunk of a fallen tree. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

After searching for a time they found a fallen tree trunk, from the underside of which the bark had pulled away. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall of the lagoon formed a shallow slope, and where he’d fallen in, it had been no more than waist-deep. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A woman was yelling that her son had fallen into the water. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t mean it,” I said, walking him over to a fallen log. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Perhaps his mother really was dead; perhaps both his parents had fallen down dead that morning. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I must have fallen asleep in the car. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen/ and Lyanna in her bed of blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was glad she had never fallen for a horse or pony, for she would surely be neglecting it by this stage of her life. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I must have fallen asleep on the couch, waiting for the phone to ring again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And wouldn’t have felt even now but for one fundamental fact: She had fallen for Tariq. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When night came, the children left their hut and went to the spot where Ngwabi had fallen. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They advanced slowly, for they had to pick their way through a pathless country, encumbered by fallen trees and tumbled rocks. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the time he came to his senses, darkness had fallen and it was too late to do any sensible tracking. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

And he has fallen all the way down. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The first thing she did when she got inside was head to her little kitchen to make a batido from fresh mangos that had fallen from the neighbor’s tree. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

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

Only after the exposition had Burnham and his colleagues learned of the anguished letters describing daughters who had come to the city and then fallen silent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

To everyone's great surprise, the king gave the man his arm and picked up the fallen buckets. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Momma was famous for pulling the quilts off after we had fallen asleep to examine our feet. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His bathing suit had fallen down over his skinny hipbones. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Nina stepped under the arch and felt as if she’d fallen into some strange nightmare. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Not even the stream southeast of us, snaking a path over and between fallen logs, stones, and rocks. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was smiling back at me, and she looked ruffled, as if she had fallen out of bed with her clothes on. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her line flew out across the water and landed with a soft plop near a fallen tree and some weeds. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I hurdled fallen logs and ducked low branches, chasing her until my lungs burned. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I see the stars, I see the rockets, and for a moment have the impression that I have fallen asleep at a garden fête. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would huddle miserably under shelter during a shower, his ears laid flat, his eyes baleful and more crossed than ever, waiting until the last drop had fallen before venturing out again. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 Death Eaters had been huddled around Voldemort, who seemed to have fallen to the ground. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Now Frank knows that Axel knows, so why, why is he only talking about the fallen nest and the fallen trees? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had fallen asleep in the middle of the marketplace, and life in the plaza was about to resume. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Somewhere behind us another prisoner had fallen too far behind, and the Nazis had shot him. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Axel looks at his own front yard, where just behind the fence, among the fallen branches, Byrd, Frank, and George are so wrapped up in planning that they haven’t turned to see Dr. Martin. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He felt like an alien fallen to earth. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She found a stone on the ground—a bit of fallen ceiling—and hurled it into the water beyond the gate. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

One second after the big bang, it would have fallen to about ten thousand million degrees. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeus called it into being to help his brother, the lord of the dark underworld, when he wanted to carry away the maiden he had fallen in love with, Demeter’s daughter, Persephone. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The temperature outside had fallen well below zero. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We dared not use the main road north, but logging-roads lent their direction to us sometimes for a while, and as the forest was kept clear of fallen trees and undergrowth we got on well. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some economists consider the findings of the new studies murky; it cannot be definitively shown that mobility has fallen during the last generation, they say, only that it has not risen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Caesar insisted on a proper burial for his fallen opponent. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

He choked and would have fallen, and they caught him and held him up, and he began to weep. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t even realized he had fallen asleep. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Their horses, lulled into a half doze by the very air around them, were led away by silent-footed Xi clad in tunics the color of fallen autumn leaves. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Therefore when he had fallen by a Trojan spear the Greeks paid him honors as though he were divine and the gods, too, greatly distinguished him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jim had fallen ill a week after arriving at Williams and was fighting high fevers and chills. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My head hurt, as if pieces of my brain had fallen out of place. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The evening hush had fallen, and the high trees stood looking at the Wait without a sound. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The heads are the heads of snowmen, with the coal eyes and the carrot noses fallen out. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has buried his face in his hands, his helmet has fallen off. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That,” Otis grumbled, picking up his fallen spear, “is the first sensible thing you’ve said all day, brother.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I felt profoundly sad, as though winter had fallen during the hour. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blake's note had fallen into the right hands. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

The airways filled up with men who had heard about the death of Bull Meecham and they were coming to pay homage to one that had fallen. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Orcs will often pursue foes for many leagues into the plain, if they have a fallen captain to avenge.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I looked back to make sure no important part had fallen off, and saw a cone of gray smoke billowing behind us. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The furniture had been put back in place in the front room and the withered leaves and fallen flower petals swept out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that we saw were the familiar hills and the dusting of snow that had fallen the night before. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later two pigeons came racing in with the news: “Boxer has fallen! He is lying on his side and can’t get up!” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The tangle of trees, fallen in such a memorable way. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The British have finally scored a few successes in Africa and Stalingrad hasn’t fallen yet, so the men are happy and we had coffee and tea this morning. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I hoped she had fallen back to sleep, since the old cook liked to scold. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The metal of the chains was the strongest metal that the gods could find: iron from the earth mixed with iron that had fallen from the sky. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Shutters hung crooked from the boarded windows; some had fallen off and leaned against the house. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

By the time she touched down on the Island forty-eight hours after finding the Baggy, we were all addicts, fallen women with married lovers and illegitimate babies on the way. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When thirteen had fallen the rest fled shrieking, leaving the defenders unharmed, except for Sam who had a scratch along the scalp. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

That corner of their building with the crack had actually fallen off, exposing a cutaway section not only of their old back bedroom, but their living room too. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked and looked, climbing over fallen trees and pushing through prickly vines. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The train came to a stop with a jolt, and distant thuds and bangs told them that luggage had fallen out of the racks. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of thing one didn’t ask a friend about because it might have fallen into that uncomfortable category of “being different.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The man would have fallen if my father had not held him up. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was stuff like a young bird that had fallen out of its nest before it could fly, or a green-speckled spring frog or a striped water snake. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see her standing by a fallen, burned-looking tree, waiting for me, watching me come. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

Jagged rocks and fallen trees and tangled underbrush made it difficult for her to walk. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But the man had fallen away behind by that time, and she was afraid to let go of the saddle, afraid to turn around, lest she fall off the horse. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were some fallen rocks on the edge of the dell nearest to the hill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We were a needy bunch of baby birds who had fallen out of our original nests and were desperate for any scrap of attention. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Teluman nods to where my cloak has fallen open, revealing the Commandant’s K. Hastily, I pull the garment closed. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

So they watched Mr. Chris go off in the bright chariot, out along the lane and down the road and over the hill, where he disappeared as if he had fallen off the earth. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

This baby has been separated from its mom and dad, in a nest that has fallen from the tree that probably fell too, and George said it was bad. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

What if a worker had fallen in and was drowning, being smothered by the disgusting, bitter goo? I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Swooping from the skies like great heavenly birds gathering the angels who had fallen below. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab my fallen weapon and pick my first target, a Negro girl wearing clothing that looks eerily like mine, and leap, sickle swinging to take the thing down. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The barn’s roof had fallen in, and some of the sparks jumped to the house just as Dyedka arrived with the goats. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We expected to be parted for no more than six or eight weeks, while Anatole worked with the Lumumbists to reassemble their fallen leader’s plan for peace and prosperity. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Then Alyce, with baskets tied to each end of a pole, walked with the cat to the abbey gardens to gather fallen fruit. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aurelio, the regular dishwasher, did this every morning, but today the job had fallen to me and it was brutal. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She pressed the reject button to send it to voice mail when her eyes caught on a piece of paper that had fallen from her purse. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As one rolled into the pile of fallen silk, Pinmei stared as the fabric smoldered and curled, the flames sputtering as if gasping. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Some of the bones had not burnt and had fallen into the lower bin when he had worked the handle to sift the ashes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

But the others, all that were not hurt or wounded, began a great labour; for many had fallen in the battle and lay dead upon the field or in the Deep. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The river was high and the bridge had been blown up in the centre; the stone arch was fallen into the river and the brown water was going over it. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He threw his unfinished biscuit into the pile and they scattered around, like fallen blocks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I moved back up to Alaska, I had in a strange way fallen into the category of the ignorant tourist. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The light is dim and artificial and kept to the same level all the time, but even so, the circadian rhythms win out and a nighttime hush has fallen over the place. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon I had to use my hands to grip the stairs above me, or I'd’ve fallen back. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

His reading glasses had fallen to the carpet. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It's eerie how little sound he makes, even when the leaves have fallen and it's a challenge to move at all without chasing off the game. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

We shot down the track so fast I would’ve fallen out if my arms hadn’t been wrapped in the leather reins. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

So instead Otto and I climbed on top of the fallen trunk and sat there, where the sun’s warmth lingered in the wood beneath us. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bits of mud and stone had fallen off, and one of its ears had chipped. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Her bun had fallen out and a long gray braid trailed down one shoulder. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But the crisp beauty conceals fallen trees and washed-out trails, hillsides treacherous with mud and debris. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Together we fought, together rejoiced in each other’s successes, and together mourned our fallen comrades.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But her quarry, who had paused and looked back at the flash of light, was already scrambling up the bank the fox had just fallen down. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was as if she’d slipped over the edge of the world and fallen, to borrow Willa Cather’s phrase, “outside man’s jurisdiction.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the hibiscus bush we discovered a fallen nest of baby birds, all drowned. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jake tried to bolt for the door and tripped over Cob’s fallen stool, sprawling to the floor in a tangle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the blankets that had fallen off the bed in Alby’s struggle and pulled them atop the sick boy. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He was down the trail, back toward the cabins, struggling to get around the maze of fallen trees and buildings. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Ash took it, drinking deeply, and then came to sit beside the huntress on a fallen log. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had fallen asleep from sheer exhaustion. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maribel didn’t ask any questions, and I realized, after I stopped the car and actually took a second to look at her, that it was because she’d fallen asleep. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The park lay white and silent, the new- fallen snow glistening under a full moon. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I imagine I can feel the X rays and the gamma rays, feel them pinging on my eyelids, shooting through my skull, making the palms of my hands tingle like they've fallen asleep. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beavers were busily collecting a trove of fallen branches. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Con and Kaede did not stray far from the path as they foraged for fallen branches. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was as though a blight had fallen upon Manderley, taking the sky away and the light of the day. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Out of respect for our fallen comrades. Let their memory be untainted by clumsy forensics that might cast aspersions on their legacy.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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 hadn’t fallen off, I hadn’t gotten my legs caught in the wheel or the chain, and I hadn’t crashed into the side of the house. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The entire village had gathered to sing a farewell as he was laid to rest, but the only song that day was theirs; the birds had fallen silent, as if they mourned. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Worse was to come with the news that the gentleman had brought no valet, his usual man having fallen ill. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier’s dæmon was growling and nuzzling at the sergeant’s, who had fallen into a semi-stupor. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw woke suddenly, almost as soon as he had fallen asleep. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

This morning I began sorting out an index card file from the office, because it’d fallen over and gotten all mixed up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When the canoes came around a sharp bend, jagged rocks unexpectedly grabbed a hold of one while a tangle of vines and fallen trees ensnared it. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Arriaga’s Red Cross workers retrieve, on average, ten migrants per month who have fallen or been beaten up by bandits or gangsters. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Several species of mites, for example, can begin life only within the fallen needles of a spruce tree. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I looked up, saw him sprawled across me where he had fallen. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

So “fire” meant longer and longer forays into the forest, stealing fallen branches from under the blunt-eyed gaze of snakes, just for one single bucket of drinkable water. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gather up a bundle of fallen branches, large enough to be a respectable contribution to a fire, and walk toward the Termite Camp with my head down. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a tension that permeated Manifest, as if one shoe had fallen on it and the whole town was waiting for the other to drop. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The first warning he had that there was trouble ahead came when he glanced into the Wasp’s cabin and observed that the barometer had fallen sharply. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

My arms ache as though I have just fallen from the sky. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Each day a party went out to check on the well-being of the mighty trees, and to harvest any fallen seedpods. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had become dizzy and fallen from the fence as they were hurrying to leave the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next hallway he guides us to is empty except for one fallen soldier. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I wanted to run on ahead, leaving Lula and Travis to their inane conversation, but I feared he would be fallen upon by thugs along the road. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

Ruth had fallen at her feet and lay there, her body shaking violently. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katie refused to dance with the feller provided for her, a vacuous vulgar boy given to remarks like: “I thought you musta fallen in,” when Katie returned from a trip to the ladies’ room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He skirted a fallen tree and stared at the trees. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he realized that the table had fallen silent, and they were all looking at him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His glasses had fallen off when he ran. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Must have fallen in off the old dock,” Dad said. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was on a TV there that I saw that the first building had fallen. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In her first shame at her folly and lack of faith, Psyche fell on her knees and would have plunged the knife into her own breast if it had not fallen from her trembling hands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the drawings had fallen to the floor. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Twilight had fallen over the cornfield, for although long red rays still lit the upper down, the sun had set below. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By July sixteenth, which was my birthday, I had fallen wildly in love with Julia Bishop. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Two tears slid down her fallen cheeks, in and out of the myriad coruscations of immolation and abnegation and time. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hamilton side needed to claim that their fallen chief was a martyr who had arrived at Weehawken fully intending to expose himself to Burr’s fire without shooting back. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

From a professor, she learns what happened: Alice, the administrative assistant, had fallen suddenly by the mailboxes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a crack: A branch over Petunia’s head had fallen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A hiker had fainted or fallen or some such thing, which had caused several fender benders, backing up traffic for miles. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I reach down surreptitiously and shove the fallen paper under my pillow. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As 1940 ends, more British bombs have fallen over Hamburg, but the Nazis have overrun Poland, France, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“If he’d tried to rappel down the ropes like that,” says Beidleman, “he would have immediately popped out of his harness and fallen to the bottom of the Lhotse Face.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The shack had fallen down, but the grapevine was still doing very well. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I live in a community where on the walls are the names of fallen comrades of war. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had fallen deep into his own thoughts for a while, and came out of them suddenly and too late. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He ended with a tribute to the fallen president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He wiped the drool off her face and adjusted her glasses, which had fallen to one side. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

‘It may be so. At least while there is an empty saddle of some fallen Rider that I can fill, and there are deeds to do. But to hope? I do not know.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

For now, there is this one, Aziz with a fallen husband. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

These were the beings who had fallen in love with human women, with the daughters of men, so long ago. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then Sargon leaped away, twisting in the air to land sure-footed on the marble floor among the fallen armor. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I could have fallen once, even twice, and still made that score, but I wanted to do my very best. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When she doesn’t answer, Axel thinks that maybe she’s fallen asleep. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When the two had finally fought their way through the labyrinth of brambles and reached the clearing beyond, they found nothing but a small stone lion, almost hidden beneath the fallen autumn leaves. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought Gum Baby had fallen, but...no, there she was, sitting on my foot and staring intently at the sand. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

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

Unable at first to speak, they stood gazing mournfully at the litter of fallen stone. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He had fallen in the brook a couple of times back in Connecticut. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had heard that there was a steep waterfall someplace, and fallen trees here and there that could easily smash the thin boards he was so carefully tying together with strips of bamboo. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ray sniffs at the huge tire tracks left behind by the heavy machines that dug and pulled away the fallen trees. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The air was clear and cool, and the forest floor was thick with leaves that had fallen from the buckeyes and poplars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed her spear from the fallen girl. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Patroclus is fallen and Hector has his armor.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The fallen tree, back there. The one across the ledge.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Celia asks, attempting to find a subject to fill the silence, anything to distract herself from her still-shaking hands, and remembering the fallen glass at dinner. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s right—” I looked up and realized I couldn’t see where we’d fallen in. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The trees were swathed in morning mist and the fallen leaves were damp and slippery underfoot. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Anything else that might have been left behind had probably been weathered to bits and fallen through the cracks. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The train cars had fallen over, and their roofs had shattered. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It seemed miraculous, as if some block of stone had fallen from the peaks above and landed upright in the brush, chiseled, solitary, twelve feet high. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene hefted the gunnysack up from behind the fallen log where we’d stashed it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The tide and the wind were pushing in hard now, and the current funneled through the mouth of the harbor; the green boughs and branches of the fallen trees lay scattered across the clean snow. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The river ran deep and wide from all the rain, covering up rocks and fallen trees. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Rashid’s laugh was bitter as he stepped over a fallen board. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I would have fallen down if I hadn’t been wearing the roller skates, but Norton just picked up the oscilloscope and beat it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Harry wondered whether they had fallen asleep holding hands. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There’s a play set inside, two long logs that look like they could’ve come from the fallen trees at Axel’s own house, and a bunch of smaller stumps. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Wash fallen into a grave, his ankle twisted. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I reached for my fallen yarmulke, then froze as several red droplets landed on the floor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My parents nursed me just as if I had fallen in battle after many victories. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground here was a carpet of fallen leaves that hid any tracks we might’ve made the night before. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When I got out of the creek we were stuck in, I found enough fallen tree bark and rocks to begin making sufficient braces all around the rear wheels. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After some hours of walking, Jacob says, "I read something interesting in the Talmud last night. After you had all fallen asleep." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When the meetings at Belmont and Suffolk Downs had fallen through, Vanderbilt had begun contemplating the idea again. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The piece of log that had been there so long, sturdy and useful, had simply fallen into chunks of dead vegetative matter; never again would it provide Matty a place to rest. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

At times, you become almost certain that you slabbed this hillside three days ago, crossed this stream yesterday, clambered over this fallen tree at least twice today already. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Will leapt over the last obstacle, a fallen tree trunk, and plunged the knife into the unresisting shimmer in the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I would be faithless if I looked the other way when his son has fallen upon evil days. Still—” Zau’s ragged eyebrows lifted arrogantly. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I should have remembered the plague they brought, because I had almost fallen back to sleep when the stabbing whistle of the volunteer fire department went off. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The bard, who had fallen heavily against the boulders, was struggling to shore. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

By then the guard had fallen Back a small distance, safely out of earshot, but still Robert would not slow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Magnus picks up his fallen chair and drops into it dramatically. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We—you and me and Lark and George and Byrd—had to move Braviary from the fallen nest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The condition she’d fallen into as proof of her despair had failed. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He came to a deeper rut, and recognized it as the place where he had fallen, and where the crow had perched on his shoulders. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“You like the hunters, do you? Have you fallen in love with one of them?” she teased her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The telephone poles stood firm, but the pines, both narrow and thick, had fallen, like soldiers in ugly army green had been shot up in the road. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

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

The back portion had fallen off, and the roof had caved in. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

Some years before, a child named Caleb had fallen into the river near here and the entire community had performed the Ceremony of Loss. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now that Ofglen is gone I am alert again, my sluggishness has fallen away, my body is no longer for pleasure only but senses its jeopardy. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘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

My foot had fallen asleep, and it felt heavy as I lowered it. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

And it wasn’t to report a fallen sign. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Back in the cabin, Loo had fallen asleep. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She has not eaten for six days and has fallen off the train. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A pine tree had fallen through the roof. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He was moving on four good legs, strong and swift, and he could feel the ground underfoot, the soft crackling of fallen leaves, thick roots and hard stones, the deep layers of humus. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Cyclopes had saved Thalia from the fallen statue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I brought some strap iron, Mr. Hamilton. Would you make some angles for me? The whole frame of my header bed is fallen to hell.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“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

The discomfort between the two friends has fallen away. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like I hired them, Brian thought, looking at all the fallen poplars—just to cut them down for me. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if she has fallen asleep or if she is also beginning to lose her memory of words. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Even China, enormous China, had fallen, fallen, fallen, until it became a thing recalled. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi sat on a fallen log by their tree, listening. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later, when Dimple and Rishi had fallen on the floor in a big pile yet again, Ashish hit a button on his phone to pause the recording. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

Then slowly Rashid squatted down and reached for the bag that had fallen at his feet. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to startle her, just in case she’d fallen asleep somewhere she hadn’t planned to. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Darkness had fallen and the water, cascading ten feet into the air over a semi-naked statue that looked remarkably like Herod Sayle, was eerily illuminated by a dozen concealed lights. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

My heart, which had been so full of hope on the whole long ride to town, slumped like a fallen layer cake. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the office, Marco gathers up fallen notebooks and papers with trembling hands. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Once, a few months ago, I was cleaning the waiting room of her dental office and discovered a small comic book that had fallen behind the chair. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he spoke the car became one of many once again, dusk had fallen without my noticing it and we were in the midst of light and sound in the streets of Monte Carlo. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Whether he’d intentionally left us an escape route or simply fallen asleep without remembering to lock the touri and her bonobo in, I didn’t know. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Clever had fallen asleep after—Nhamo wrinkled her nose—relieving himself on her skirt. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around him were silence and night and snow falling, falling as though it had fallen from the beginning of time and would always fall till the end of the world. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dispirited and battleworn, carrying their fallen leader, the maimed and wounded hobbled painfully along at the rear, the bitter ashes of vanquishment and defeat mingling with the dust from their stumbling vanguard. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

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

More than this, in order to avoid going deep into the forest the boys worked near at hand on any fallen wood no matter how tangled with new growth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Cornell had fallen behind Washington, which had moved into fifth place. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

That’s when I saw that he had fallen asleep in the chair. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Nat didn’t realize how he had been yelling and cheering until the president had passed, and the troops had fallen in behind him. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one of the group called: “Ai! See to your man. He has fallen.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather lay facedown in a bed of creeper, his legs sprawled out and one arm twisted beneath him as if he’d fallen from a great height. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

If Marina knew that someone’s child had fallen ill, she’d find a way to send medication and, on occasion, an air ambulance. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

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

Ralph sat on a fallen trunk, his left side to the sun. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was as if a ton of bricks had fallen on me, knocking the air from my lungs, making me unable to speak. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The weapon still lay on the floor, dull and deadly, and the knife that had fallen there, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As it had fallen it had struck the metal frame, making the sharp metallic sound I had heard. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after moving in, Samar began sneaking into the yard once her parents had fallen asleep. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Two of them had already fallen to his sword, staining the hallows with their blood; and the others cursed him, calling him outlaw and traitor to his master. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

Their oars were crossed, their hulls locked together with grappling lines, they were impaled on each other's rams, tangled in webs of fallen rigging. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, as dawn had begun to silver the sky, he’d fallen into a shivering sleep. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the bean field, drowsy in the late afternoon heat, Mary heard Atal’s voice, and she couldn’t tell excitement from alarm: had another tree fallen? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He carefully inserted the stone into the empty cavity of the bow guard where a stone had fallen out. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Of course, Joe understood immediately that this dynamite had not just fallen from heaven in order to increase the personal wealth and power of Joe Mondragon, all-around handyman and bean farmer par extraordinaire. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heaved the fallen boy to the platform and let him be. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Passing through the meadow, I came upon a small brown bird that had fallen from its nest on a branch overhead. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I’ll just go and — er — finish off,” said Harry hastily, hurrying to pick up his fallen telescope and trainers. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The black work force in Chicago had fallen from sixty-five thousand in January to fifty thousand in May. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The mountains had not crumbled nor the earth fallen into ruin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A giant bomb had fallen, and even that could not hurt this special place. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her bronze knife, which she’d had since she was seven, was also gone—probably fallen into the pit. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There's a chill in the air, and a few fallen leaves dot the lawn at Seaside. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

As if she had fallen into a well. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Ever since her engagement with Van had fallen apart, she had felt too numb to love anyone. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Slopper managed a half smile that looked like he had gas and leaned away and into RiRi, who had fallen asleep near the warmth of the blaze, her belly full of stew. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Another man was fallen, trapped beneath his injured horse, both of them screaming in pain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The bathtub had fallen partially through the floor, listing at an angle like a ship about to sink. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the girl has finally fallen asleep, I leave her with Tess and head off to visit my family again. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He looked up the sheer face of the cliff as it rose far above him and tried to guess where the vases might have fallen. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then, just where the coin had fallen, the asphalt darkened. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even before Holly had finished his story, Hazel had fallen to sniffing at his wounded ear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was not then a bit sleepy, at least so I thought; but I must have fallen asleep, for, except dreams, I do not remember anything until the morning, when Jonathan woke me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Technically, it has fallen into an unforeseen loophole. It has not been properly completed.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had fallen sick so suddenly that some of the villagers wondered if the fairies had come and taken her, for she was still young and beautiful. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a little notebook, the pages brittle as fallen leaves. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They went in through a hole in the wall, and picked their way through the gloom, across rubble and fallen timbers, and found a staircase. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The rabbit who had fallen on him was Acorn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw no sign of any trail to right or left, but here and there they passed single Orcs, fallen in their tracks as they ran, with grey-feathered arrows sticking in back or throat. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

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 had backed into one of the carts, lost my always precarious balance, and had fallen down. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night had fallen before Madam Hooch awoke with a start, told Harry and Ron off for not waking her, and insisted that they go back to the castle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

His right knee, where he had fallen earlier in the day, was no longer bleeding but still stung. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A few who are on the younger side, like Johanna and Finnick, or whose bodies haven’t fallen into disrepair, like Seeder and Brutus, can still manage to maintain a little dignity. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He gave us the signal to stay put, and I got down behind a fallen tree. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there, high above, the fiery tunnel we’d fallen through scarred the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Paul grabbed a sword from a fallen hero and did a pretty fine job keeping a dracaena busy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s always hungry,” Lark says, walking a fallen log like a balance beam. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At the sight of her mass bearing down, I jumped off the fallen tree and bolted across the clearing. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had fallen asleep against his father’s shoulder. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The walls showed cracks, and clods of mud had fallen where people had bumped against them, but these I left for patching in the morning. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There she was, a ma screecher curled near a fallen tree, along with a tangle of five squirming, complaining babies. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

There they had to halt, crouching against a fallen log. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then they prepared the earth for planting, thankful that the lava and ash had fallen on the other side, sparing the property. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chief had fallen off his seat, a huge red bleeding hole in the center of his chest. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where the boards had fallen away at the sides of the barn, honeysuckle grew in. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But I’ve kind of fallen on hard times lately, and I could use a little hand up, if you know what I mean.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then with little further hindrance, save from sprawling briars and many fallen stones, they moved forward all together. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A thick layer of fallen needles carpeted the path, so the shoes of their mules made only the softest sound on the rock. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Enemy giants moved toward the breach, and Tyson picked up the fallen warrior’s club. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The head of Beatrice’s stepbrother could be seen in the background, looking very much like a fallen coconut with a blond toupee. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day she went with the children and gathered all that had fallen. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like so much else in Kabul, my father’s house was the picture of fallen splendor. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Behind a fallen tree, he came on Ghost again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He would have fallen, if Jason hadn’t caught him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The grim blackness of the stones told by what fate the Hall had fallen—by conflagration: but how kindled? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The jack end of my headphone set had fallen out of my pocket. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The officer had fallen asleep inside the car at the time, according to a police spokesperson.’ Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of 1993, the rate of property crime and violent crime, including homicides, had already fallen nearly 20 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Part of this contraption, looking dare I say it like something that has fallen off a stall at a fair, is preserved in the Scriabin Museum in Moscow. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This fallen tree not part of his truth from that day. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Making up what I didn't understand or missed when voices dropped too low, I talk until my sister and brother's soft breaths tell me they've fallen asleep. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The nun placed the smallest down on the ground and picked up the fallen child. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

She hadn’t seen Håkon since he had fallen off the cliff the day before. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“No sign of light. He must have fallen or got tired. Sounder will show me.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t make it, but he hasn’t fallen yet. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Its mate had been decapitated at some point, but still, the statues towered over us, mute sentinels of a fallen empire. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

No one who had once fallen into the hands of the Thought Police ever escaped in the end. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They covered the earth like fallen stars, and like the stars there was no end to them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The crowd has fallen silent now, so silent that I wonder how they manage it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d fallen asleep with his nose in her hair, breathing her scent, holding on to her as if she were the only sure thing, the only real thing he’d ever known. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

After handing the shooter over to the police officers, ticket agent Robert Parke crossed the ladies' waiting room to the fallen president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was easy to tell the people who had not fallen: they were the ones with the highest piles of snow on their shoulders and heads. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

My old satchel was in the trunk too, but the sticks had fallen out of it and were now strewn all about the trunk. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed as I am, in cheap traveling clothes, I seem to have fallen far in the world. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

About five years before, most of his subjects had fallen before a terrible calamity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By this time all three Incorrigibles had fallen asleep, as children on the way home from a long excursion so often do, even to this day. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

They argue all the way home, Matt complaining that barber supply sales have fallen off, and that their savings are dwindling, Rose screeching back that making Charlie normal is more important than anything else. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They would’ve fallen to their deaths, but Hazel wasn’t that mean. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

He pointed toward what used to be the back wall, which had fallen years earlier, leaving little more than the frames of two tall windows. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

So long I must have fallen asleep, because the next thing I know it’s getting dark outside, and there’s a knock at my door. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But not a flake has fallen from the gray mistiness above. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Even Sebond’s work had fallen foul of the censors, not for its basic thrust, but for the extravagant claims made on behalf of it by Sebond in his preface. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Clumps of grass rose high among fallen tree trunks and withered branches. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘I must have nearly fallen asleep on guard,’ he thought. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My fear gave way to anger, and I scrambled for the fallen weapon. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

How their world had fallen apart once again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I paint a glass coffee percolator, with bubbles gathering in the clear water; one drop of dark coffee has fallen, and is beginning to spread. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

William Tecumseh Sherman had telegraphed the President that the city of Atlanta, Georgia, had fallen to the Army of the Tennessee. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gods are fallen and all safety gone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He might only just have fallen in, but on the other hand he might have been there right from the first moment Kingshaw turned his back on the clearing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

When she could not run any harder, any longer, she’d fallen from the thick jungle of corn plants onto a bare, grassy field, trees all around. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

They brushed the snow off a fallen log and sat. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Climbers have fallen into crevasses and gotten stuck like that before, pinched between the walls of ice. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“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

He was a re lapsed saint, who had fallen into the Pelagian heresy of Celestius, and he believed that the soul was capable of its own salvation. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still others had fallen against nearby trees, or crashed to the ground, popping up root systems. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

Many years before my time, a terrible cyclone had ripped its way through the mountains, leaving its scar in the form of fallen timber, twisted and snarled. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was kneeling in the living room of my own house again several feet from where I had fallen minutes before. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She did not know whether she had fallen asleep or not when she heard a rushing coming out from under the bed. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn woke up in a different place than where he’d fallen asleep. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The careful shield he always keeps around him has fallen away, leaving an inner layer of him exposed. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Through the broken doorway was a fallen tower of trunks and dressers; a failed blockade. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I take a seat on the fallen marble pillar where I had my breakdown, wait for the red light and Cressida’s question. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It must have splintered many of the city’s wood-and-plaster buildings; fallen torches and scattered cooking fires would have ignited the debris, burning down most surviving structures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Darkness had long since fallen when we reached the top of a hill and found no barn or house in sight. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had fallen out of the habit of keeping track of the date. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A portrait had fallen off the desk into a basket of dirty laundry. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Sefia’s hand went to her belt, but the wand had fallen out. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It is intoxicating, certainly, but might it not also be dangerous? An effect of the atmosphere of Hill House? The first sign that we have—as it were—fallen under a spell?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

John Wilkes Booth saw all of this—the grand illumination, the crowds delirious with joy, the insults to the fallen Confederacy and her leaders. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

About how the rocks had fallen and only one egg had survived. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Under the punishment inflicted by the Council his mercurial spirit had fallen low and he had become the apathetic wretch the sight of whom had so much shocked Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They declared January 24 as a national day of commemoration for all fallen Hitler Youth. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly two weeks later, a laborer who had been in the station discovered that the bullet had penetrated his work kit and fallen inside it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they lay alone, up against the wall of a barrack, as though they had simply fallen asleep there. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of their horses had fallen, he claimed, throwing the rider and breaking his leg. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time, the children had fallen asleep. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bounded over a fallen oak tree, his long claws churning up the dirt. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When it was finally over—that first emergence, five or ten seconds that felt like an eternity—she’d fallen to her knees and lost her supper between the roots of a plum tree. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He splashed through the fallen feathers, which were deepest here in the territory between the shooter and the white box, like October leaves. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

But Milkman had no need to see her face; he had already fallen in love with her behind. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d waited up for a long time after the monster left, but had still fallen asleep before his grandma came back. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

But the problems had fallen away, the village had thrived, and Jonas had relinquished leadership to others so that he could take up an unburdened life with his family. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The chalk had fallen gently upon each one of the cream puffs. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It felt good to laugh; the stock market had fallen five points today. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bravest had trembled when he made these faces, and ordinary people had fallen to the floor, and sensitive people had often fainted. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

When the trackers came near, Kino could see only their legs and only the legs of the horse from under the fallen branch. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could have fallen on the bank and broken my back! A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I reach the Henka Games headquarters, night has completely fallen, and the heart of Tokyo has turned back into a wonderland of neon lights. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he wasn’t as lucky as Tad had been, and the ceiling or something else had fallen on top of him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Industrial production had fallen by half in those four years. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Papa looked around the room quickly, as if searching for proof that something had fallen from the high ceiling, something he had never thought would fall. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of crows had built there, and one of the babies had fallen out. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It must have fallen off when they picked him up. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A hush had fallen on the group, and clusters of them stood together, whispering. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She’d even fallen down the Grand Canyon with Jason and flown back up. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes to see Claudine topple to the ground like a branch that has fallen from a tree. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They crouched next to Hazel and Ella behind a fallen log and peered into the clearing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

City clutter had fallen behind and now there was country clutter, junkyards, a trailer park, billboards advertising dog food and faraway hotels. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picks up the fallen blossom and trims the stem, wincing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the words came out of my mouth I could tell from the fallen expression on his face that if I didn’t wear the roller skates, I’d be letting him down. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

There he had undoubtedly fallen into a pool or a river and come to a tragic, but hardly an untimely, end. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At any moment, I’d hear him running through the fallen leaves, calling my name. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

My beam performance in the event final wasn’t quite as golden: I’d bobbled on my front tuck and would have fallen all the way off the beam if I hadn’t grabbed it with both hands. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He reads my shock, says, “It’s true. You’ve definitely fallen in with the wrong crowd.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

That was in another hiding place known to Julia, the belfry of a ruined church in an almost-deserted stretch of country where an atomic bomb had fallen thirty years earlier. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

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

The childish question had fallen from Harry’s lips before he could stop it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Tears had clearly fallen thick and fast upon the parchment... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

On the near side of him lay, gleaming on the ground, his elven-blade, where it had fallen useless from his grasp. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The fallen horses were well behind us when the soldiers ordered us to turn off the main road and down a narrow farm lane. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Where the wall had fallen away, they could see right into the rooms, even into the privy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine that, Cochran? A Trinity boy who has refused to sell the chocolates? Do you know what’s happened, Cochran? Do you know why the sales have fallen off?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had started a tradition of bringing our staff down to the beach each September, and we'd all fallen in love with the clear warm waters of the Gulf. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At that moment, a sharp snap from the fallen oak startled her. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Be glad the place has fallen, and look to your own walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On the decks of ships and the shores of Pacific islands, Marines, sailors, and soldiers knelt and wept together in prayer services for our fallen president. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had not been dead long; the chair from which she had fallen was still rocking. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t even dared to look behind her to see if any had fallen. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the tiny breasts that, like two fallen acorns, scattered a few faded rose leaves on her dress. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

If firings had fallen out different, Lyra, you might have been brought up a gyptian, because the nurse begged the court to let her have you; but we gyptians got little standing in the law. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her shoes were off, though, and her frizzy hair—I inherited my wild mop from her—had fallen out of its bun. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When I’m sure that he’s fallen asleep, I lie down at his back, my face inches from his shoulder blade. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Taran wrestled with the fallen stones, the walls of Spiral Castle shook like gray rags. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

There were little flowers she did not recognize, white and palest blue; and endless, tangled vines; and here and there a fallen log, half rotted but soft with patches of sweet green-velvet moss. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She resolutely approached Garikayi, who looked as though the sky had fallen on his head. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

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 felt lighter, unshackled, as if something I had been carrying had fallen away. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

When I stepped out into the street, I saw that night had fallen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Grumbling to himself, the man went on until he found a buffalo. It had just fallen over a cliff and was already dead. ‘Wonderful!’ cried the hunter. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a sword from one of her fallen siblings. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Jam went down to breakfast in the morning as if the skin of her life was normal, as if it hadn’t bubbled and warped and fallen off. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Billy had fallen asleep while examining a female patient who was in a chair on the other side of the owl. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only had Mr. Moss fallen asleep, his dentures had slid out of his mouth! Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Along the edges of the path, the fiends had fallen back, panting and staring. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The burned man had fallen over and at that distance you couldnt even tell what it was. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Through the window I could see that night had completely fallen and that lights now gleamed in the streets. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the road is blocked with fallen masonry from a collapsed building, Hamza scrambles over the scorched bricks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her littlest sister, Midge, had fallen in love with a kitten and cried for hours after they’d left the farm. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

I watch myself drag Gavin Rose into the bush and beat him down to the grass, the dirt, and the fallen tree branches. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We stood at the end of the fallen smokestack and stared at the trains coming and going. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They told of the mighty who had fallen ill: Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and Dr. Rush himself. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he realized that his glasses must have fallen off. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She rattled some chestnuts that had fallen off the tree in the front yard. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hat had fallen off, revealing short, dark hair. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and wondered how far these drip-drops of water had fallen just to wind up on my face. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It didn’t go out with the Baby Ruth wrappers and the fallen licorice whips. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

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

In the shadow of his teacher an extra staidness had fallen over the young divinity student, and his smile was lukewarm with dignity. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And in rebuilding it they could not this time, as before, make use of the fallen stones. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I figured he had fallen asleep but wouldn't admit it. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

By the time I get to Maldonado’s, I think I may have fallen asleep while driving. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“One side a sheer cliff, the other side a thicket of brambles with no way through, and in the middle a big fallen tree. You had to have noticed it.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry!” yelled Harry, as Dean and Seamus roared with laughter, and Neville picked himself up from the floor, having fallen out of bed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was from a very light tread — this person knew how to move quietly in a forest full of fallen twigs and leaves — and when the sound stopped, Ash knew the person had seen her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo was left to himself for a while, for Sam had fallen asleep. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tad stepped over a fallen beam and headed to the left. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth thought that she must once have been very rich, and had lost her money; and she felt for her, as one fallen woman for another, a certain kinship. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

I put all of my ingredients away, wiped down the countertops, mopped up the flour that had fallen on the floor, and cleaned all the bowls and utensils I’d used. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

For kite runners, the most coveted prize was the last fallen kite of a winter tournament. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We wouldn’t have dated, fallen in love, and Jesse’s suicide wouldn’t have destroyed me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The two sets of twins had fallen asleep peacefully. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The fallen hobbits were laid together in a grave on the hill-side, where later a great stone was set up with a garden about it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was just staring straight ahead as if he’d fallen into some kind of trance. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A sudden panic or madness seemed to have fallen on the Company. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I brought it!” he said when I approached and sat next to him on the fallen tree bridging the stream. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Charlie led Joe among the stumps and downed trees, teaching him how to understand what lay beneath the bark of the fallen logs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was like a big ugly apartment building had fallen out of the sky and landed in the basin. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A fiery piece of tent had fallen from above and burned through the mattress, scorching my skin. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, among the overgrown shrubbery and fallen leaves, he had mistaken her for a statue, covered as she was by moss and vines. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A single dash can be used in place of a colon to emphatically present some piece of information: It was what Tina dreaded most—-fallen arches. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to close my eyes and pretend I have just fallen asleep in front of the television. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“What a joke! Poor little rich girl’s fallen in love with the Republic’s most famous criminal. And it’s even worse since you’re the reason he’s there in the first place. Right?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The Howards stood and watched, their faces fallen. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the cold was sudden and the snow had fallen thick and mysterious overnight, the water of the lake was still open just past a skim of delicate ice onshore. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Katherine Goble had fallen in love with her job at Langley virtually the moment she walked through the door of West Computing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And to Helen, “Any day that corner could have fallen out, especially with those heavy files there.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at home we had fallen head over heels into the Christmas spirit and preparing for our yearly donation. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But Merry had eyes only for Aragorn, so startling was the change that he saw in him, as if in one night many years had fallen on his head. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

His hair had fallen to the wrong side and I could see the long scar at his hairline, all dented and puckered, with ridges of white flesh cutting across it to the browbone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The scrap of skin had fallen into her lap. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One moment they were leaping over a fallen log, and the next moment she heard Kwasi moan softly, then his hand slipped slowly from hers. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

After offering his scent, Gray settled himself on the grass beside the fallen trunk. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had clumsily fallen off Melyngar at the moment when speed counted most; at the oak, he had behaved like a child. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

She could have fallen quiedy asleep there if he had continued to pass his hand over her hair. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has left his mark on this outside tree that’s fallen inside. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A chunk had fallen off a corner and lay shattered into a thousand pieces on the ground. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Revenants from forgotten wars, lost causes, failed rebellions, a brotherhood of the failed and the fallen, the disgraced and the disinherited. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fragments of burning debris had fallen into the space between the iron stack and the inner walls of the tower, made of smooth white pine. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

What’s more, it was obvious this mercenary had fallen on hard times. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He stumbled, but he caught himself on the fallen tree. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Our team tested the sleep habits of five wild three-toed sloths by placing on their heads, in the early evening after they had fallen asleep, bright red plastic dishes filled with water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like people all over Hiroshima, he assumed a large, but ordinary bomb had fallen right near him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was clearly preferable to imagining that they had fallen from outer space. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later came the news that Fort Donelson had also fallen to General Grant. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up some time later, surprised that I’d fallen asleep. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It felt like that: the earth juddered, and Mr. Dandy fell, would have fallen into the darkness, but he caught hold of the fallen headstone, threw his arms about it and locked on. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I launch myself forward, over the fallen guard. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since he’d fallen through the hole in the wall, things had been happening so fast, it was all he could do to keep up with them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we started out two days later there was a half an inch of snow on the ground which had fallen during the night. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually we came to a narrow clearing created by a recently fallen tree. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He must have fallen stunned when he hurled himself against them; but how long he had lain there he did not know. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But the men of the king’s household they could not yet bring from the field; for seven of the king’s knights had fallen there, and Déorwine their chief was among them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

We had fallen asleep with both twin beds pushed together—Cecile, Vonetta with her cast, Fern, and I. Somewhere in the shifting to get a better sleeping position I felt my mother’s absence. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Six years, mayhap? My front teeth had fallen out.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the year that had passed, not much had changed, except that the building had fallen into even greater ruin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then he had fallen asleep, and on awakening he looked at the world like a new man. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all had been caught up, like the first fallen leaves, by a new and energetic wind. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amaroq lay where he had fallen, his fur shining in the strange magnetic light. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her last words to me were about how she hadn’t fallen in love yet.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There an extremely tall man with long black hair was picking up a file drawer that had fallen to the floor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Myma’s cure-all for everything from fallen arches to depression was sex. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the friars had fallen out of favor with Emperor Joseph II in 1783. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I must have fallen asleep after that, because I awoke to the sound of Phoebe crying in her sleep. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Most rabbits in his situation, lacking almost all experience of wild life, would have fallen victim at once to the elil: but not Woundwort. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen storm troubles in New Orleans, too—flooding, a fallen tree, a roof blown off. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

One night, I fell asleep in the necessary and woke with a fervent prayer of thanks that I had not fallen in. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the trees it was pitted where the chunks of snow had fallen, and the banks beside the path were shrinking and settling. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Two of our brothers butchered almost within sight of the Wall, yet your rangers heard nothing, saw nothing. Is this what the Night's Watch has fallen to? Do we still sweep these woods?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

Hatsue had counted the rings of fallen trees more than six hundred years old. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

She would, otherwise, certainly have fallen down, or begun to weep. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo wondered why it didn’t stay to feast on its fallen enemy. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the cyclorama Sahil had fallen in love with, but the one I had chosen. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you have fallen asleep with your head upon your knees?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t have to watch the surprise in their eyes, or the pity or the glee, at how far she had fallen, at how her lofty aspirations had been dashed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Morrie had fallen into a coma two days after our final visit, and the doctor said he could go at any moment. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they’d finally emerged from an especially long one, night had fallen, and there was not a light to be seen outside the train. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wondered if one of them had fallen into the gorge. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Their first week at Denison, he had fallen for the ardent young woman collecting signatures around campus to end the draft. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She explained how her mother had summoned Pluto and fallen in love with the god. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When we finished uncovering the pipe, we looked like the mud men of Borneo worshiping a fallen idol. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tawantinsuyu is known to have risen and fallen with breathtaking rapidity, but the exact chronology of its trajectory is disputed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I should have gone to her straightaway, fallen to one knee, and thanked her with my whole heart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Here, the walls, the air, the buildings, the people all seem to have already fallen. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The smoke-filled doorway was piled with bodies of the fallen: Celyn, Naomi, Phoebe. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And my dad would sometimes shake his head at her melodrama and other times would just stay quiet, like he’d fallen into the haze of a particular memory himself. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A minute later the square was empty, only the boy remained, prone where he had fallen, quite still. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only my damp and bemired apparel; in which I had slept on the ground and fallen in the marsh. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z