The meteor hit approximately fifty thousand years ago and weighed several hundred thousand tons! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Suddenly flames erupted from the tower at a point about fifty feet below Fitzpatrick and his men. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The kindergarten students stared at her in wonder when she appeared daily for fifty minutes after lunch and stuffed herself into one of their miniature wooden desks. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The jewelry owner who was locked in a vault for fifty years is like the panel on sex with four professors and the recommendation of the candidate with no qualifications. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“You’re playing a close game with fifty thousand dollars,” she said, “and you’re not going to get away with it. I don’t know what the trick is, but I’m going to find out.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I learned how to shoot an automatic rifle and a pistol and took target practice both in Kolfe with the Emperor’s Guard, and at a shooting range about fifty miles away with the entire battalion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before they left, she had Dill take about fifty pictures of her wearing her new outfits in various combinations. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Someday there will be fifty dollars and somewhere on this long island is a piece of land that you may buy for that money. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It will become a state in eighteen fifty.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In 1799 he had celebrated fifty years of practice in Salem, and he declared he felt he could keep on for fifty more. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam claimed that Mary Lou was almost fifty years old, which was, and still is, extraordinarily old for a donkey. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A group of tourists with cameras around their necks huddled by the counter, some sampling stuffed clams, others pointing to a large chart illustrating fifty different varieties of North Atlantic fish. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

This was a tall man of between forty and fifty, lean of figure, brown of skin, with hair slightly grizzled round the temples. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t think they’d have any from the fifties, but figured it wouldn’t hurt to look. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Police arrested the first fifty children out of the church for “parading without a permit.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"My father would be the first to tell you that fifty thousand Domishmen are worth one rabid dog." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The labor peace that Coalwood had enjoyed for more than fifty years came to an abrupt end. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After about fifty meters, we reached a small stone cottage that looked as old as the land it grew on, as if it had been here since the beginning of time. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There's a river the bodies were finally thrown into that supposedly still runs red to this day, fifty years later. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It astounded me that fifty years ago, even lower-income families had an entire house to themselves. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The meadow lark, with three hundred notes to work with, arranges these in phrases of three to six notes and elaborates fifty types of song. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her early fifties, she wore a powder-blue dress and stylish glasses, and her long black glossy hair was pulled back in a ponytail. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, had about two million women and men eager to work for the amendment, and Alice Paul’s National Woman’s Party had about fifty thousand more. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the winter when there were no crops and no pay, fifty cents for a possum and two dollars for a coonhide bought flour and overall jackets with blanket linings. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ton of coal, which would last most of the winter, cost about fifty dollars—including delivery—or even as little as thirty dollars for the lower-grade stuff. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I found out later the wind that night was forty miles an hour with gusts up to fifty. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For a long time. Until you are forty or even fifty.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had performed a mass sacrifice of approximately fifty animals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother wrote in her notebooks that bore witness to life for fifty years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the day, bids for new tracts steadily grew in value: ten thousand...fifty thousand...a hundred thousand…. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I hear fifty . . . sixty-five . . . seventy . . the bidding was laggardly, nobody seemed really to want Babe, and the man who got her, a Mennonite farmer who said he might use her for plowing, paid seventy-five dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was the early fifties, and options for black students were limited. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Counting, Ten, twenty, thirty, forty deep into the winter until one afternoon gravity releases me and my feet fly free in the ropes, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety . . . as my grandmother watches me. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The first of a batch of two hundred and fifty embryonic rocket-plane engineers was just passing the eleven hundred metre mark on Rack 3. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I had fifty silver talents and converted them to Vintish coin and back, how much would I have if the Cealdim took four percent each time?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As I rushed to join my teammates, I looked down to see a queue of approximately fifty climbers from other expeditions moving up the ropes, too; the first of them were now immediately below me. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not fifty feet away was a cluster of charred buildings that must have once been the Mauthen farm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

A female officer in her fifties, wearing full camouflage, was glaring at them, and barking at the Dutch reporter. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“There’ll never be anything as fine as them again. They’re built to last; ten, fifty, two hundred years. Yes, they’ve as much right to—to life as you or I or any of us.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been the same if we had been married fifty times. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bevel gave another signal, and fifty more children ran out the church door, down the steps, and into the street. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His red satin cape was patterned in gold thread; fifty roaring lions to one side, fifty prancing stags to the other. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The view extended for perhaps fifty miles, but people said you would never again be able to see for a hundred miles. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On horseback, they were driving their sheep home from summer pasture fifty miles west, far on the other side of the Rio Grande gorge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was at least fifty years old with wild hair and a grizzled beard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pluto is about forty AUs from us, the heart of the Oort cloud about fifty thousand. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

No one would do that sort of thing on purpose—especially at a nice Christmas party with fifty people around to witness it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hrdlicka’s excavation, made without their permission, so angered them that they were still steaming when Denny was there on a salmon boat fifty years later. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It would be nearly fifty years before their rights were fully protected by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“So when the syllabus assigned pages fifty through eighty-five, you didn’t think you had to read anything?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When issues came up before the alliance, the Tododaho would summon the fifty sachems who represented the clans of the Five Nations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m paying you fifty dollars for this,” Miles hissed, turning toward the bed. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They could make sure of at least a hundred and fifty mature eggs within two years. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he was later quoted as saying, “I was actually unarmed. I was just told I could make fifty thousand dollars to break some glass.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She took long bus rides to faraway department stores and supermarkets where she’d window-shop for hours and spend fifty cents. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow pulled up outside the bank, stopping the car about fifty yards down the road, well out of camera range. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“That’s not what I meant. I told her not to—fifty times!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sixty-five, seventy, which, with the fifty dollars she had left from the car, made one hundred and twenty, then one hundred and forty dollars, one hundred and fifty. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turned and ran inland across the top of the glacier, leaping a chasm fifty feet across. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Teacher Li was over fifty years old, and her hoarse voice was not very loud, but when she stood before the class, she seemed so intent and serious that we had to listen to her. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the 1920s they had dwindled to forty or fifty million in the entire hemisphere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Built four years earlier in 1915, the tank stood fifty feet high and ninety feet wide. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The city proper, built on a low ridge, had once housed as many as fifty thousand people and sprawled across an area as big as twenty-five square miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We went to the store to get change and Larry Dunn got back the fifty cents he lost and I got to keep the other fifty that got hooked up with Larry’s. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody called and asked about ordering an ID card, the cottage industry that at fifty bucks a pop will help underwrite their contemplated move to Chicago. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he produced his pocket-book: “Here,” said he, offering me a note; it was fifty pounds, and he owed me but fifteen. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sea stone dominated the approaches to the outer harbor, a massive grey-green upthrust looming fifty feet above the waters. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They had not, in life and in death, been married for over two hundred and fifty years for nothing. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Ob needed somebody to fill the empty hole she left, and I reckon I thought if I aged about fifty years, I might could fill it for him. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He carefully explained that Pyongyang, located about fifty miles south of Camp 14, was the capital of North Korea, the city where all the country’s powerful people lived. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

California would be the ninth state for Emily in her twelve and three-quarters years, all part of her parents’ quest to live once in each of the fifty states. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When three cubs were born ten weeks ago, rangers visited all fifty or so of the inhabited islands to share the good news. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

It whittles you down to lie up to fifty times in the space of the fifteen minutes or so it takes to do a “survey,” even when there’s a higher moral purpose to serve. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the crucial lesson that survived the turbulence in the South of the fifties and sixties. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was badly weakened by his ordeal, and besides, the man outweighed him by fifty pounds. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps if you’d put on your little play fifty years ago it would have been a joke but the way science has progressed in that time, surely nothing is impossible....Scorchingly...” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Hal sprays the tire with soapy water to locate the bubbly leak, splotches on some rubber cement, sticks in a plug, and charges them fifty bucks. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Don’t see how. When my daddy died last year this April it costed one hundred and fifty dollars. ’ The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the platoon followed fifty yards behind. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It isn’t the vast mob scene I’d been hoping for, but there must be forty kids, maybe fifty. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He looked more like fifty- two than thirty-eight, but this was not something I would ever call to his—or Phoebe’s—attention. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Minutes later, we saw the light from the cross perched on the chapel’s roof, which was only fifty yards away from our barracks. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But somehow, even fifty years later, I keep thinking that there might have been another way, beside war, to achieve the same end. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They literally swam around with the dinosaurs four hundred fifty million years ago.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Then, of course, after this years fifty are assigned, we start fresh, after the Ceremony, with new ones coming in gradually. It’s like a little vacation!” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Here, let’s call it fifty cents, and let it go at that.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

At first I didn’t see the soldiers at all—just a giant, swirling mass of insects, so dense it was opaque, about fifty feet down the footpath. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was only after she had covered another fifty yards that she understood that she was looking at a disembodied human leg. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

‘They is always having fifty winks before they goes scumpering off to hunt human beans in the evening,’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir, it just isn’t right to make the men in this group fly eighty missions when the men in other groups are being sent home with fifty and fifty-five.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

On a plantation there were large groups of workers—between fifty and several hundred. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

There were no more fifty dollars in brown envelopes to count on, so she took to cleaning rather than fret away the tiny seaman’s pension her parents lived on. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Parker had been a teacher there earlier in the fifties. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He slowed to an idle and shouted something to a large blond woman who was sunning herself alone, about fifty yards from Abbey and me. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In 1955, there was one psychiatric bed for every three hundred Americans; fifty years later, it was one bed for every three thousand. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After about fifty yards, they reached a fork. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It stood between the stables, for fifty hones, and the cowsheds. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, between Annabeth and that exit, the floor was bisected by a chasm fifty feet across. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was a man of about fifty with an upturned mustache. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I owed them fifty thousand dollars or a trophy. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tywin Lannister, Lord of easterly Rock and Warden of the West, was in his middle fifties, yet hard as a man of twenty. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Judging by those cars, for one Seven there’s about fifty King Lords. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It is a hundred and fifty miles to the Orgota shore. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In over fifty miles to the capital there were more than fifteen checkpoints and the soldiers were unmerciful. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My stack of papers grew while she had yet to count out her first fifty. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In consequence, he could observe perhaps four hundred galaxies in an evening while a large professional telescope would be lucky to do fifty or sixty. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The platform was built of almost three million cubic yards of rock, much of it transported from mountain quarries fifty miles away. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“For fifty minutes a day, five days a week, you abide by my rules. Or you fail. The choice is yours. Both of you leave.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Majestic street lamps were staggered on both sides of the sidewalk, spaced fifty paces apart. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I saw them at CVS on sale for fifty cents each the other day, so I bought a bunch to help Miss Pearson out.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She stepped back into the lounge barefoot to find a woman in her fifties sitting on the couch. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They are composed of about fifty million atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was where she, a woman of fifty and independent means, had no surname. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had my parents’ fight centered on Royal Rampling, the man who was suing my mother for fifty million dollars? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

And if your microphone cuts out or you trip on a cord in front of those five hundred and fifty people, that’s more scary. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

More than one hundred and fifty thousand Liberians died. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I got so excited when I nailed it I had to walk around my chair about fifty times before I could calm down. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The families of most of the seamstresses had immigrated from country villages in Italy, Poland, and Russia, just as the Irish had come fifty years before, hoping for a better life in America. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s one thousand and fifty miles away. That’s practically at the end of the Earth.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

There were, for example, one hundred and fifty psalms in the standard church repertoire, all of which had their own melodies. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“The TV people tell me there may be as many as fifty million viewers watching at home when you take your shot,” he said. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. D gave us fifty questions in all. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Get those hundred and fifty pounds off me!” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Du Barry made us write fifty lines each as punishment. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They writes fifty hands; they’re not like sneaking you, as writes but one. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

‘You is talking too loud! You is forgetting that I is hearing every little thingalingaling fifty times louder than usual and there you is shouting away right inside my ear!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bridge itself was a latticed arc of timber, like an old-fashioned roller coaster, about fifty meters long. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“They’ve never lost a hundred and fifty points in one go, though, have they?” said Harry miserably. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Despite the short notice, we had more than fifty entries. And the winner is...owner of the Fabric Barn, Holly Paine!” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“More than we have room for. About two hundred and fifty,” Zaman said over his shoulder. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But he is certain that it is much tougher for an immigrant to get ahead today than fifty years ago. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I walk in the kitchen where Sugar’s counting out her nine dollars and fifty cents, the money she earned at the Benefit last night. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Plus, I’m-a give you another fifty once we get them thieves back here. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Here’s fifty cents, Francie. Go out and get a quarter pound of sweet butter, a box of soda crackers and two navel oranges. Tell the man you want navel. Say they’re for a sick lady.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, tomorrow morning, you will begin the march of the final fifty miles or so to the east. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“You are quite adamant for being so aged. However, I am not walking fifty blocks to my home. I would rather face death by rusty fork.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years, it had taken hold at the grassroots, and in 1960 Levi was one of fifty thousand boys gearing up to compete in local races around the country. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but the difference of size isn’t large enough to bank on, not with a margin of error potentially this wide. Now, if you were fifty pounds heavier, maybe...” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I realized it probably wasn’t the best idea because this hat was about fifty times bigger and way heavier than a candy necklace. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Our own surveys said at least fifty percent of the student body watched any given show. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Little by little, support for the town’s original high school ebbed away, the fanaticism of the forties and fifties being replaced by bitterness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

An unpretentious Lutheran church—a chapel, really—that looks like a set for an Ingmar Bergman drama and can seat only about fifty parishioners, guards the site of the cemetery. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I know it’s not enough to pay for all of college, Professor Buzzkill. But it is fifty thousand dollars, which will make college a hell of a lot easier.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were fifty, maybe sixty, meters to the next stand of trees. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy fighting between forces loyal to the Bosnian government and Serbian irregulars was taking place in Eastern Herzogovina, about fifty miles from the playing site. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The boys would now examine some new article of clothing I had bought; none of us allowed a week to pass without buying something new, paying fifty cents down and fifty cents per week. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conversely, you could be within fifty yards of it and not know, as we had seen at Pleasant Pond a few days before. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The Game of the Century” has been talked about, analyzed, and admired for more than fifty years, and it will probably be a part of the canon of chess for many years to come. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There must have been fifty thousand dreams altogether up there on the shelves, but he seemed to know almost exactly where every one of them was. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were thirty or forty jailkeepers and a hundred and fifty or sixty prisoners, none of them very well off, most of them sound asleep though it was not much past Fourth Hour. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some fifty yards away, Imogen and her friend set up for the afternoon. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Every year, fifty amateur players, or wild cards, are nominated by secret committee to be placed into the team selection process. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

From fifty feet below, a vile stench hits my nose, like rotted corpses in the summer heat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Dana was a well-known idiot, on top of which he outweighed Roy by at least fifty pounds. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worsley, who had been at the tiller for more than fifty hours, finally pitched forward in a dead faint. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

There were close to fifty in the common room by his rough count. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was six foot two, maybe two hundred and fifty pounds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have forty, maybe fifty pounds on her. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘So what I is trying to explain to you is that a human bean who says he is fifty is not fifty, he is only thirty.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He needed to purchase a fleet, perhaps as many as fifty, but certainly no fewer than twelve, eight-oared shells. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He knew that the snake was too well protected, knew that if he managed to point the wand at Nagini, fifty curses would hit him first. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He performed a backward version of the loaves and fishes, trying to stuff ten thousand fish into fifty mouths, did the Reverend Price. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It s a while, still, till the Ceremony. But you almost have the full fifty?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My journey seemed tedious—very tedious: fifty miles one day, a night spent at an inn; fifty miles the next day. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hailing from all fifty states and fifty-two foreign countries, the students were more intelligent and better prepared than he and his classmates had been, he told the parents in his quiet, deep voice. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Americans took the boys to a short stretch of railroad track, not far from the main camp, where fifty freight cars stood. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It watches as she turns to the register and rings up fifty cents. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove by the house fifty times the week of her funeral, and one time we stopped the car and Mom got out and talked to a person walking down the sidewalk. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

No doubt he was hoping for an excuse to take a round fifty points from Gryffindor before the end of the class. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

From the rocky shoreline rose fortress-like seawalls—fifty or sixty feet tall. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Three of them, monstrously huge and strong, had each a hundred hands and fifty heads. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were short, stocky men in their fifties. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Then I really have to fly the fifty missions, don’t I ?” he grieved. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It had taken nearly three decades for Morgan and his students to collect about fifty fly mutants in New York. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You promised me fifty thousand dollars for the little one. I’ll throw the others in for nothing.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve got two hundred and fifty miles of hard traveling to get done. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

During harvest season the crops from the fields are turned over to the village chief, who then rations the food to the fifty families. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw two heads peeking out from ’mongst the green behind the maple ’bout fifty yards off. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

In one, about fifty young children squat in a row, pulling weeds and planting vegetables. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I must have seen fifty cars along the roads between here and town,” said Ishmael. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“The fee for supplies and use of the darkroom is fifty dollars, which can be paid in cash or your parents can write me a check.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Little town like this, that’s what keeps things on an even keel. These folk will carry a grudge for fifty years about what their Tom said about our Kari.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I do not worry much about the computers that are wired to help me find a friend among fifty thousand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He overtook Hazel, which was easy, since she was struggling with fifty pounds of Celestial bronze. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Two hundred fifty not to mention two solid hours of torment and anguish and let’s not forget Sandy Sterling. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure this final chapter is going to push me over fifty thousand reads, which is mind-blowing. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The Basilisk is a brilliant green serpent that may reach up to fifty feet in length. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he borrowed another fifty dollars and Mister Singer went on the note with him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then we pulled out of our dive, sailed fifty feet, and tumbled onto the pavement—pegasus over demigod. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt was fifty years old when his second term as president ended. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Inside were the four fifties and a two-word note that said emergency fund. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The movie was something Luke hadn’t seen yet, animated and fifty cents from the same store. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

An hour later, sustained winds were blowing out of the southwest at fifty miles per hour. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For fifty cents you can escape Manhattan by boat, crossing the waters of the harbor and bay past all the famous islands, Governor’s, Liberty, Ellis. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They earned fifty dollars a month which was good pay for people of their class in those days. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One year later there had been only one murder involving members of those seventy-five gangs—compared with between forty and fifty killings in each of the previous two years. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He came bearing as much as he could pack into one large suitcase, about fifty pounds. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Only reason I'm taking you to the Quad is 'cause I'm not gonna spend eight fifty on some karate movie or action feature about some outer-space somebody wanting to blow up the Earth." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

A screech, a knee bend, and away they race over the fifty yards of open country. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now, children were watching 4.5 hours of television programming a day, up from three hours and fifty minutes in the previous study. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He turned to the gods, half of the rock in each hand, and now he was twenty, thirty, fifty feet tall. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Though he was only sixteen and had never even trained at the distance, he won by fifty yards. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Exercising extreme caution, I continued descending the tightrope of the ridge, but fifty feet above the oxygen cache the rope ended, and I balked at going farther without gas. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that ain’t too old. My poor old Tante Marguerite, the one I told you them kids beat up on to get fifty cents out her coin purse, she going on eighty.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was taller by six inches and outweighed me by fifty pounds. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“They paid seven hundred and fifty in Philadelphia.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He drops fifty Notes on our table as the waiter comes by. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They had barely been in the saddle for an hour that morning when Kaede caught sight of the wolves running through the trees about fifty feet away, roughly paralleling the path. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

If one cup of lemonade sells for fifty cents and you sell fourteen cups of lemonade, how much money have you made? The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Kathy and the kids had been on the road for three hours and had only gotten as far as Covington—about fifty miles. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“You seem only a hundred or a hundred and fifty years old. Don’t worry, you’ll learn soon enough.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was fifty pounds, so he struggled with it. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If you mean your fellow prince, he is near, with fifty men. Bring your dragon out, and he will see you safe away, as promised. Caggo commands here.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We formed a circle about the first arrivals, some fifty men or so, who were unloading bricks from the bullock carts. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black crawling shape was now three-quarters of the way down, and perhaps fifty feet or less above the cliff’s foot. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The girl said a fifty cent one was the best, so I took one and lit it and went out to the street. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, fifty other armored Cyclopes laughed and nodded and gave each other high fives. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The morning is grey, it was still summer when we came up, and we were one hundred and fifty strong. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They work with the Minute Men,” A.M. added, pointing to the opposite side of the library where another group of fifty or sixty men in loose fitting jogging suits gathered. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Called the Norte Chico, the region is studded with isolated knolls, twenty to fifty feet high and as much as two hundred feet long. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

How come she doesn’t know to leave me alone for the next fifty years after what just happened? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Wherever there was fifty or sixty yards of view, there he would be—just the back of him, just disappearing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Also, maybe because it’s not that hard to remember fifty words somebody asked you two days ago. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had decided to save fifty centavos to fulfill a dream he had cherished ever since he was a child: to have a cup of Viennese coffee. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reggie thought of him as a smaller man physically, in his late fifties, with a mustache, wearing a suit and tie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ruthanne pointed ahead to the wrought iron fence that surrounded hundreds or maybe fifty or so graves. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Our fans are great; our team is nifty! We’re going to get blown out by fifty!” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was forty-eight feet by fifty feet, with a slanted roof and wide, open slats in the walls. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those fifty anguished yards to the house took a lifetime. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He looked at the Shear, then at the pile next to it, about fifty thousand pounds of iron. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Our book is about our quest to live in all fifty states. We have plenty of material to work with.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was scared, but I remembered Mr. Clutter, and how he’d never done me no harm, how at Christmas he’d give me a little purse with fifty dollars in it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"For every kilogram of hydrogen, it can make thirteen kilograms of fuel. Watney has five hundred and fifty liters of water. We'll have him electrolyze it to get sixty kilograms of hydrogen." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I stood in this state of indecision, there was a dry crack of wood and a careless disturbance of undergrowth perhaps fifty feet into the woods—something good-sized and unseen. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re blocked in. It wasn’t the ceiling coming down fifty feet away that knocked us over. It was our own ceiling. The shock’s tumbled it!” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Where I came from, fifty thousand dollars was a lot of money. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I think they built a whole lot like that in the fifties and sixties, which is probably when ours was put up. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Bundles of six. Three of each candy. Two fifty." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“We will take in fifty children at a time, and do a type-out”—this makes Uncle Robert groan—“and it will take approximately twenty minutes, per fifty kids.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The woman was around fifty, and had kept her figure pretty well. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whole tank tipped over on top of him, all fifty gallons, and off to dreamland he went.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her long flowing dresses, fifty years out of style. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I must have washed my hair fifty times in ten days, and used a clean towel each and every time! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must be at least fifty people, and it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He had been in contact with the blood and secretions of fifty animals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“He was a numbers guy like you, son. Spent fifty years as an accountant.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The stench of Axe body spray was enough to strangle anyone within fifty feet of the boy. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I suppose she used her knowledge of the most secret side of the men in power to return the fifty pesos I once lent her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifty yards ahead a white-tailed deer was slowly picking his way across the snow-covered rocks and roots. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But sometimes he’ll only charge fifty cents if he really likes the person. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“But, Dad,” said Fadi, “you don’t understand. I wasted fifty dollars and didn’t win the tickets to India.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, for the first time since the Collier’s article in the fifties, the press was very interested in the woman behind those cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Scattered thunderstorms pummeled Florida’s east coast, with wind gusts up to fifty miles per hour. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It meant that Harriet could find jobs for herself, and would pay Stewart fifty or sixty dollars a year. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting was being held at a small community church a few blocks away; it had seating capacity for no more than fifty people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Board, five Southern legislatures passed nearly fifty new Jim Crow laws. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Spending two months in Sweden in the middle of winter, Bobby found the weather less cold than he’d thought it would be: Temperatures remained close to fifty degrees Fahrenheit. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She could be fifty as easily as she was thirty. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was pointing into a grove about fifty meters from the fence. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Marian stayed on at Marianna for Marian Anderson received some fifty honorary degrees, beginning with her doctorate of music from Howard University in 1938. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I guessed he was forty years old, maybe fifty. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He’d had fifty minutes to think about what he had to do. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“And this diary is fifty years old,” said Hermione, tapping it excitedly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The dorados— there must have been over fifty patrolling beneath the raft—showed off their bright gold, blue and green as they whisked by. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mason had over fifty tics, he told us. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s maybe fifty yards to the cafe, maybe less. When did I ever take the car?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought Francie Nolan and I were practically identical, except that she had lived fifty years earlier in Brooklyn and her mother always kept the house clean. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

History is a cumulative record of success and failure, and the pretense that it can be something other than that is a peculiar shibboleth of historical writing over the last fifty years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“She’ll be in the Port Authority at ten fifty?” repeated my mother. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her text discussed the metamorphosis of more than fifty moths and butterflies, describing the timing of each phase, her repeated experiments and failures, and any other interesting insect behavior she had observed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Anthony ordered fifty thousand copies of the remarks printed in pamphlet form, and she spread them around the state “like flakes of snow.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

"Twenty day, thirty, fifty maybe. Then you fly." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You keep hauling that around, and folk’ll start talking about you like they do Crazy Martin. You’ll be that crazy boy from Rannish. You want to listen to that for the next fifty years?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We drove through slowly, of necessity, since the campus drives have cement ridges every forty or fifty feet that would cause your car to bump badly if any speed were attempted. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean this now too: if you say I must marry you in fifty days, I will be dead by morning.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Each must have fifty to a hundred pounds on me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Sure. I make over fifty cents a week and have stuff to read,” he explained. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood slowly and without making eye contact—not a problem as the bear was still almost fifty yards away—and moved slowly toward the back door of the house. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“And these last fifty thousand hours? These have been spent studying the sword?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just two years prior, with the storm clouds gathering, President Roosevelt challenged the nation to ramp up its production of airplanes to fifty thousand per year. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But he knew his days at Trinity would be numbered if he walked into that group of jubilant guys and told them to erase the fifty beside his name. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow drove west, then south, with five hundred and fifty dollars in his pocket, keeping off the interstate. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Nor was the Sacramento of the fifties bent on teaching them a contrary lesson. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have—no, we have—something like fifty thousand...and change. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Eagle Point was about two hundred and fifty miles away, most of the journey on the freeway. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

"Car number three cost one hundred and eleven pounds and sold for nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds and fifty pence." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few days before the conference was to begin, fifty- two leaders around the country were banned from attending any meetings or gatherings for six months. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was older than Winston had thought him; he was perhaps forty-eight or fifty. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He had paid thirty dollars for the ad; he might as well pay another fifty cents to see it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s got his own steady customers where he works. Some men come fifty miles to get Joe to work on their cars because he does good work.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We slide fifty feet as I lose control of the descender. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"I'm beginning to think you shouldn't have started reading comics with a book that completely deconstructs the last fifty years of the genre," he said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The first real work in Jackson Park began on February 11, when fifty Italian immigrants employed by McArthur Brothers, a Chicago company, began digging a drainage ditch. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t stopped spending occasional nights out of the house, but she was fifty years old now and what lover could she have kept so long? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We made a link between this and fifty years of research on attention and aviation,” he says. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“From the spring just fifty yards west of here, isn’t that correct?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A man with a chicken-sales company drops by every two or three weeks with fifty birds. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Those forty oars carried the ship over a hundred and fifty miles of wintry sea before sunset of the second day out from Serd. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The only other thing on the Island is a housing project of more than fifty two-story apartment buildings, from which Terrell draws its entire student body. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had told her how she might possibly win fifty strips and have a grand day on the excursion. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orion stood on the surface of the water, fifty feet to starboard, an arrow nocked in his bow. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He assembled fifty buckets of human urine, which he kept for months in his cellar. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The fire would continue for the next three days, the flames visible for fifty miles. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Gay, who was heading downhill anyway, ran down the hill fifty feet and turned into the Jack’s Peak road entrance. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On what turned out to be my last meeting with Luzan I went over the appointed fifty minutes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, about fifty feet in front of us, the green mist shimmered. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He watched her for a moment and said he was sure he couldn’t pay more than seventeen fifty for that china. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the pack is still fifty yards away and moving like elderly folks, hunched over and slow. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The Hub is marked by an American flag fluttering fifty feet up in the air, and large black plastic letters above the door: MOBIUS. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She reached into one of her boxes and pulled out a framed black-and-white picture of Papa, a professional studio photograph taken in the nineteen fifties in Haiti, when Papa was twenty-two. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The man paused, looking at Deborah, then at me: a short black woman in her fifties, and a taller white woman in her twenties. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had come back to the team in 1975 and returned a kickoff fifty yards in the Bluebonnet Bowl against Colorado. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And teach me he did: In those fifty minutes, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Hazel was about fifty yards from the shore when a raven landed on the boat’s stdm. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

For fifty years, the ANC had treated nonviolence as a core principle, beyond question or debate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid, who had been married for almost fifty years, did not wear any rings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one German army loaf there are fifty tins of canned beef over there. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often you will be plodding through the sanctuary of woods when suddenly a car will sail past through the trees only forty or fifty feet away—a perennially startling sight. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Who dares to read the meaning of the flight of the hawks?” he demanded, so loudly that his words seemed to echo through the fifty thousand palm trees of Al-Fayoum. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two straw targets fifty yards apart, and when they had shot their arrows at one, they had only to go to it, collect them, and shoot back at the other, after facing about. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left the scene of his last hiding place on the bank of the stream untouched -how could I conceal it? -and we're a scant fifty yards downstream. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps fifty yards in front of them, a brown-gray creature was pushing his long snout into the ground and snorting like he had a sinus infection. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Then I said ’em, I said those words that made it so the lesson ’bout familiarity and contempt’ll be fixed in my mind for’s long as I live, even if that’s to fifty. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He started to move along the bank, and did well for fifty or so yards. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dad said bad times had come in the fifties. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s less than a month! You owe me fifty dollars, baby.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Percy guessed there were about fifty thousand gallons of water over their heads. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Between 1910, when the hospital opened, and the late fifties, when the records were found to be contaminated, tens of thousands of patients passed through Crownsville. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ten, fifty, one hundred and one, those were all numbers. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“There are ... what, fifty? Sixty? I’d thought there were five hundred Second Sons.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The materials for this story are taken from two poets, the Greek Aeschylus and the Roman Ovid, separated from each other by four hundred and fifty years and still more by their gifts and temperaments. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

You go to school, work for fifty years, then you die. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

With Owen he had sailed to Catalina and anchored and they had covered a fair distance—perhaps fifty miles—of sailing to get there. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that her son didn't have fifty dollars to give her. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

"I shouldn't think so. She never has any money. She gets five hundred quid a year and pays three hundred and fifty of it in interest to Jews." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He was bounding down the path to join us, the sheep about fifty yards behind, bleating in frustration as their Cyclops friend ran away without feeding them. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been futile to tell him of my mastering his car and driving it nearly fifty miles. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he reappeared, Atticus gave him the keys to the family car, some money, and a lecture on not doing over fifty. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A fierce and focused soldier, she was awarded a medal for rescuing fifty of her wounded comrades in one battle, and was even made a commander. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When we had work crews at every mound from which there was a voice—about fifty people in all—we tucked our clubs into our belts and joined them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The logging companies hired full-time hunters who fed entire logging camps, taking ten or fifteen deer each week and fifty wild turkeys in one month. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it was summer, but it had to be in the fifties outside. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was dead, of course: wet, chargeless, and fifty years from the nearest cell tower. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When he left, was around Christmas I think, he gave me fifty bucks and a pack of cigarettes for lettin’ him stay here. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not until 335 BC—when, among other things, Athens was once more safe for Macedonians—that he returned, aged fifty, and founded his own school there, the Lyceum. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

When they were about fifty yards from the base, a thunderclap rattled Hazels bones, and a curtain of ice that would have covered Camp Jupiter calved away and fell toward them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Billy and his chaplain had gathered a congregation of about fifty soldiers on a Carolina hillside. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When our ranks were within fifty yards of the breastwork, the massacre began. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I look around for the fish and there it is, fifty or sixty feet away. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Right now there was something more important—fifty dollars— a fabulous sum—a fortune—far more money than I had ever seen. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The explosion was on the far side of the road, more than a hundred and fifty yards away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Indeed, more than fifty of the first colonial villages in New England were located on Indian communities emptied by disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had a long way, over fifty miles, to get to Conakry, the capital, so I walked fast to take another bus that would get me there. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

‘Salim got a call on his mobile yesterday. At approximately ten fifty a.m. He said it was from “a friend calling from Manchester to say goodbye”.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The winds were thirty-five miles an hour with gales up to fifty. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only way you could tell it was a “date” was that Howard paid for both the tickets, fifty cents each. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Two fifty! That's penny candy! At least it was when I was coming up." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

‘Don’t push your luck, brother. Briares has fifty faces; all of them are ugly. He’s got a hundred hands, and he’s still all thumbs around the house.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Presuming he's rationing his food, he's got enough to last three hundred and fifty more days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ended up with seven dollars and fifty cents and bought us a tandem bicycle. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, trying to be of help, drove off one day and returned with a stack of fifty plates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Fourteen hundred delegates from all over the country representing one hundred fifty different religious, social, cultural, and political bodies converged on Pietermaritzburg for the All-in Conference. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every forty, fifty years or so there’s a monstrous flood. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As though—as though she’d aged fifty years in eight weeks—gaunt, gray, frail. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“There are at least what, forty, fifty letters here?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Men in their forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies all took off their hats and headed inside—and so did I. We ate cucumber sandwiches and drank cups of tea. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I placed her away from a possible direct fall, but that didn’t mean that the whole top of a tree might not fly fifty feet through the air and smash her. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carried about fifty sticks in a small package inside my coat, under my armpit, keeping my arm flat against my side. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a perfect fit, and it cost only twenty-five dollars, marked down from twenty-seven fifty. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In that big starting room were forty or fifty other prospective inductees. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He offers me two hundred and fifty apiece. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

From legal and political standpoints, what happened to Emmett Till was all but swept under the rug for almost fifty years. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth and me were housed below the packet-boat’s deck with six sheep, a pen of hogs, three families from Scotland, and fifty casks of dried cod. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then at a stop, a group of whites walked to the front and behind them a sedately dressed Negro woman in her fifties. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The total weight came to around fifty pounds of Biohazard Level 4 liquefying primate. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry saw at once that it was a diary, and the faded year on the cover told him it was fifty years old. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“We settled on one hundred and fifty,” I said. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

There was another tree some fifty paces past the first one. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guessed this much denner resin would be worth at least fifty talents to an apothecary. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow I will eat fifty pounds of food. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

"My sons have taken fifty ears among them." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

‘Then I is guzzling ten or twenty more of you midgy little maggots down there! You is not getting away from me because I is galloping fifty times faster than you!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wood seemed especially dark and rich, as if it had been absorbing coffee for the last fifty years. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“But it’s fifty dollars to join....It’s too expensive, like Mom said. We don’t have that kind of money to waste.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The next morning Dad purged our fridge of milk, yogurt and cheese, and that evening when he came home, his truck was loaded with fifty gallons of honey. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Some seasons he got fifty or sixty pounds of it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

This particular Kozlov house had stood for fifty years, having replaced the old home when it was damaged in a flood. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Forty or fifty whites, carrying posters and screaming at the top of their lungs. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

‘Imagine it please. This human bean who says he is fifty has been fast asleep for twenty years and is not even knowing where he is! Not even doing anything! Not even thinking!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you know about my kind? There probably hasn’t been an arcanist through these parts in fifty years.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They stretched up fifty, maybe even a hundred feet before the first branches. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If Mother Smith put her mind to it, she could take care of fifty, I’ve no doubt about that at all,” answered Joseph. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sail in silence waiting...waiting—then suddenly the whale, wrapped by the clinging body of the squid, does a full breach, barely fifty yards to starboard. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I spread and closed my fingers ten times and said, “Nope. Look. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Took me twenty minutes to chop it down and fifty years to set it back.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, hill land was more valuable now, and those black people who had moved down right after the war and in the fifties couldn’t afford to come back even if they wanted to. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Not even the eighth grade boy who had fifty different ideas for topics two days ago. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Immediately Teacher and all fifty of the students rose to their feet. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He shook it so hard he might have broken it, but then a voice in his head reminded him that it wasn’t worth going to jail for fifty cents. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

We tried to persuade New Orleans prosecutors that Mr. Carter, blind and in his sixties, should be released after nearly fifty years in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But here I was now, less than fifty feet from them, telling myself that the sudden taste in my mouth wasn’t unadulterated, naked fear. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He lined Seabiscuit up at the three-eighths pole, positioned a sprinting stablemate fifty yards ahead and set them off at the same time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

How do I turn fifty into a hundred? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t get much off me. But Perry lost his wallet, with forty or fifty dollars.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, about fifty feet to her left, the Mark of Athena blazed against the wall. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The river itself wasn’t very big, maybe fifty yards across, green water with a few rapids, but it carved a huge scar out of the desert. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In math class he made a pie chart of the winningest World Cup jersey numbers of the past fifty years. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She seemed to have forgotten that there wasn’t a hospital within fifty miles. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As thanks for my bravery, Zeus has cut my probation at that miserable camp in half. I now have only fifty years left instead of one hundred.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There could be two hundred and fifty Woodstock Festivals of viruses sitting on that period—the combined populations of Great Britain and France— and you would never know it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to judge how many prisoners there were, but lost count before she got to fifty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The temperature in the house was down to fifty degrees, but Billy hadn’t noticed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty- seven millions, or than a hundred and forty-five millions. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Each boy must sell fifty boxes, but I know that each boy is willing to do his share. More than his share.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes!—there is a great difference. But Mr. Weston is almost an old man. Mr. Weston must be between forty and fifty.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

At 8:00, around 200 residents of Hayti, including about fifty children and a sprinkling of white adult supporters, gathered in the church. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After unloading us on the beach, our alligators were supposed to crawl inland another fifty yards to form a line of fire protecting the men who came after us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

That women’s wages be increased from one rupee twenty-five paisa a day to three rupees, and men’s from two rupees fifty paisa to four rupees fifty paisa a day. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay ...” “It took him fifty years to get over his fear of having a family. You came along at just the right time.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The picture was probably taken in the late fifties or early sixties, and shows a big rectangular swimming pool with all these happy people—children, parents—splashing about having a great time. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m doomed, heart attack at fifty, so much to look forward to. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could easily take twenty minutes to walk from one room to another, despite the fact that they were only fifty feet apart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tomard was a solid man,- affable, loyal, tireless, capable in a limited way, but he was near fifty, and even in his youth he had never been energetic. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was responsible for about fifty machines and the seamstresses who operated them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And I gave him the fifty pounds and he gave me £10 back and he said, “Don’t you go throwing it away.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Possible. The boy has some spirit. Indenture him to me for fifty years.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In fact, of the two hundred fifty workers Schindler hired in 1940, only seven were Jews; the rest were Polish gentiles. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Only fifty more miles,” Lefty had said one night on the arduous journey to Smyrna. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

To accomplish this, they have their own genome, a tiny thing with fewer than fifty genes, left over from their former existence as free-floating bacteria. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Our captain would prefer to be fifty leagues farther out to sea, well away from that accursed shore, but I have commanded him to steer the shortest course. Others seek Dae- nerys too.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’d go to sleep right here, right out on the fifty yard line, the hell with trying out for the team, screw everything, he was going to sleep, he didn’t care anymore . The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached between the seats and jerked up the handbrake, but it only slowed the car when we needed to have stopped dead fifty feet back. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“My mother was fifty when I was born.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six or seven hundred bucks sounded better than one hundred fifty, that was for sure. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The economists’ analysis was that he wasn’t even in the top fifty. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the final fifty meters, the Washington boat surged forward again, quickly closing in on California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Those fifty bucks sure looked fat and happy sitting in Cory’s palm. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Admittedly, fifty thousand would hardly make a dent in the tuition, but maybe I could get a scholarship. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Someday, Francie resolved, when she had fifty cents, she would take all the picks and win everything on the board. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only about fifty Web sites at the time and they were mostly just single Web pages. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Every dollar — or, in your case, fifty cents — counts. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The word ecology was not invented until more than fifty years after her death, but once again, Maria was ahead of her time. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Here’s fifty dollars that says you do,” said another voice. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Watching us were about fifty spectators, attracted by his articles and our notices. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re not spending two hundred and fifty dollars on a—” She cuts me off. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

We packed up and joined the ever growing path of people going in two directions, with a big dip in the middle of paths set about fifty feet apart. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her parents were publishing a book about living in fifty states, for Pete’s sake. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The sound of fifty thousand screams grows near. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Keeping track of the artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy is as difficult as keeping track of the tax laws in the nineteen fifties and sixties in the United States. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that moment, what I heard the nurse saying was, “All of your money will be gone,” and then I started to think, Well...what is she, fifty? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But there’s no way I can get fifty dollars by next week. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And there were twenty, no, thirty, no, fifty or so people making themselves at home in our yard. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of us knows how long we have, maybe another month, maybe another fifty years—I like living as if I only have that two days.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

About fifty giggling kids stood up and looked around at each other. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It won’t be enough to cover your payment, two hundred and fifty dollars.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Someone had spotted where the firing was coming from and estimated it to be four hundred and fifty meters in front of us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also raised his wages fifty cents a week. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"I can't climb like you, Katniss, especially with my leg, and I don't think I could ever fall asleep fifty feet above the ground." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In lane four the Japanese fluttered rapidly out into the lead, whipping the water at nearly fifty strokes per minute with their short oars and short slides. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In all, there was perhaps one kapo for every fifty prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Quail eggs are such a delicacy. Ten brass KJs apiece. Olive, there are fifty at least.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were no other trees within fifty yards of it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has been married for fifty years, and has children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The penalty for violating the pass laws was thirty days in jail or a fine of fifty rand, nearly half her monthly salary. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was in his fifties, lean, clean cut. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Look out for a faithful man near fifty. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She asked Fern and me to count the Black Panther weekly newspapers, stacking them crisscross every fifty copies. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised, and even a little disappointed, at how small the crater was—only about fifty yards across. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had waited until my mother doled them out to me, night by night, it would have taken me fifty nights to save up enough. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

There were twenty-four “house” units, fifty men living in each unit, if memory serves me correctly. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Middleton High seemed frozen somewhere in the fifties, a sprawling, one-story tile, glass, and brick complex, many of whose students were headed inexorably toward lifetimes of low-paying jobs in small, conservative Idaho towns. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one subsection, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Most of our records from the fifties and earlier were contaminated. Instead of cleaning each page of the records to save them, the administration decided to have them carted away in bags and buried.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Is she really going to devote fifty hours of her life to a crotchety dowager in a drafty attic, going through boxes filled with moths and dust mites and who knows what else? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You take the Zoloft with food, once a day. We’ll start you on fifty milligrams. The pills make you feel dizzy, but that’s the only side effect, except for sexual side effects.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Even now, fifty years later, the smell of oil lamps always makes me think of the manor house. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

One night she counted fifty drums on a spit in the river, and there she made camp. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other reason is that even fifty years after the publication of the Fabrica, there was still strong opposition in some quarters to attempts to revise Galen’s teaching. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I need vessels that can hold fifty times that much. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another time, he had to run them down and haul them back to Dorsey’s Grocery, where he made them empty their bulging pockets of the fifty bubblegums they had stolen. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This friend, Jim Hunter, was an English professor in a small university about two hundred and fifty miles away. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In Philadelphia two front-row seats sold for seven hundred fifty dollars. Each.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Finally he opened the door to the porch so that now he had about fifty feet of nice wooden floor to race on. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

McNeish, who was more than fifty, was beginning to break down. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Cody was fifty years old then, a product of the Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since Seventy-five. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

By now, she would probably have given Mandy fifty scullery maids to keep her happy. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the cuts are scratched but I buy it anyway for fifty cents. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were fifty or sixty huge structures still standing, streets were dusty but paved, and you could see one or two old centrifugal fountains still pulsing wetly in the plazas. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Falcons have got a new guy this year. People are saying he’s something like one fifty.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He was only interested in the results of the sale, knowing that his previous nineteen thousand, nine hundred fifty boxes had been sold and he was off the hook. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is punctuated by more than fifty rivers, which channel Andes snowmelt to the sea. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Customers arrive in human waves, sometimes disgorged fifty at a time from their tour buses, peckish and whiny. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in his fifties, I guess, with short gray hair and a clipped gray beard. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

At fifteen, still schoolmastering, he took a job in the nearby town of Kendal, and a decade after that he moved to Manchester, scarcely stirring from there for the remaining fifty years of his life. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Calder counted: a thousand plus five hundred plus a hundred plus fifty plus ten plus five plus three—1668. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

With my finger, I tried to measure how full it would be with fifty dollars in it Next I went to the barn and up in the loft. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mary Anne, this little prank has cost me over fifty dollars,” Bull said, controlling himself with effort. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

An addict doesn’t work to supply his habit, which may cost anywhere from ten to fifty dollars a day. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew, too, that Dad, who was in his fifties, wanted to get as many of his dozen as possible through school and college before he died. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in his fifties and lively as a cricket. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was different from the meadow copses they had left: a narrow belt of trees, four or five hundred yards long but barely fifty wide; a kind of windbreak common on the downs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was alone at sea for two days, with sharks below and storms above, clinging to the remnants of the barrel, when he finally washed ashore near Lattakia, fifty miles north of Arwad Island. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Below them is a dimmed arena of fifty thousand screaming fans, illuminated by sweeping spotlights of red and blue. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had expected a withered corpse, but Mr. Crumbley looked perfectly intact and surprisingly young, perhaps only forty or fifty years old, his black hair graying just around the temples. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Frederick can walk for hours in the woods, can identify warblers fifty yards away simply by hearing their song. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that he couldn’t buy them—he had fifty bucks in his wallet. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Muller encouraged her to study medicine and to follow him to Russia when he received research appointments both in Leningrad and Moscow—she ultimately remained in touch with him for more than fifty years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The head wave finally passes round the middle a October and we get ourselves a cool fifty degrees. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The rest of it housed the boys, about one hundred and fifty of them altogether, if I remember rightly. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheep—there were four hundred and fifty or so—were kept outside in a small forest-sheltered pasture to the rear of a large metal barn. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Let it wash a man’s crop out of the ground year after year, and them up there in Washington spending fifty thousand dollars a day keeping an army in Nicarauga or some place. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minya was thrown off the walkway but caught the edge with her fingers and hung there, dangling in the huge sphere of a room, some fifty feet up from the bottom. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It helped her headaches, but at fifty dollars for a third of an ounce, we couldn’t afford it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And in fifty nights, college would have opened, and my brother would have come back from Germany, and it would be too late. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Here’s fifty cents that says you can’t,” Mary Anne said, tossing two quarters on the table. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its members were selected by lot, with each of the ten Attic tribes sending fifty men to the council. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“We won! Four hundred and fifty to a hundred and forty! We won!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

‘They are all fifty feet high. They’d knock us down like ninepins!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fall was fifty feet at least, and he wasn’t moving. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Without warning I had a vision of Francis—twenty years later, fifty years, in a wheelchair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Not fast, and not wide—perhaps forty or fifty feet across—the river still seemed to possess force, strength as it ran. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s nine hundred and fifty bucks,” Dad said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been the work of one of the great smiths of forty or fifty years ago. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying in a clearing barely fifty feet from their camp on the other side of the trail. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were an older couple, in their fifties. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Couldn’t I be like Grandpa Portman, who for fifty years had lived and thrived and fended off hollows outside the loop? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

‘It looks every step of fifty miles,’ he muttered gloomily, staring at the threatening mountain, ‘and that’ll take a week, if it takes a day, with Mr. Frodo as he is.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“We want the first fifty kids, lined up single file outside this door. And, moms! That means you have to put away your iPads and your purses and your own dreams!” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Robb had wanted fifty; Catelyn had insisted that ten would be enough, that he would need every sword for the fight. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“And we bought eighty shares of a coffin manufacturing firm for fifty cents a share.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The glass factory prospered, and the owner decided to expand the business by moving it to Kraków, a thriving city about three hundred fifty miles southwest of Narewka. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I wish one fifty was chump change for me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Treebeard was at their head, and some fifty followers were behind him, two abreast, keeping step with their feet and beating time with their hands upon their flanks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As we have seen, that all began to change about fifty years ago, with the growth of the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Mixed in with them were fifties rock-and-roll singers with greased pompadours, and Mexican singers with big mustaches and bigger hats. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

About fifty yards from the tracks, the trees gave way to an open marsh. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He retraced his steps, almost casually, caught her perfume again about fifty feet away, beside a small mausoleum with a closed metal gateway. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The temperature is up close to fifty, and everything is melting. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He now had about fifty staffers reading and answering his mail. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Tats 2: “So, two hundred percent into you, fifty percent nerdy, I guess that equals one hundred and fifty percent worthy.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He was an old man, well past fifty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Yet only about fifty of them are used for the essential activities of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every week we’ve had at least fifty members show up, and it has been great. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s fifty dollars. Surely you could use that for something.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There we were in an auditorium in front of an audience of fifty kids. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We picked up about fifty more guys in Anchorage, most of them infantry from Fort Lewis. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On December 21, 1919, the Russians, together with fifty other people who had been sentenced to deportation, were herded together on an ancient army transport ship named the Buford. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When we had watered all the hives of Tiburon and sprinkled enough sugar to cause a human being to gain fifty pounds, we drove home hot, hungry, and nearly drowned in our own sweat. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next moment, Mrs Taylor was showing in a well- built man, perhaps in his fifties, who judging from his dress had spent the day engaged in agricultural work. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

From beginning to end the great age of the resort hotels in the White Mountains lasted just fifty years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He frowned and said, “You get three meals and fifty cents a day. It would be twice that if you had your own mule.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not for the simple gleanings I do now, but for the audacious ones I did more than a hundred and fifty years ago. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Alex pushed open the heavy swing door and went into a room with a tiled chessboard floor and about fifty shelves fanning out from a central reception area. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In December of that year, the group learned that the British intended to seize a cache of ammunition being stored by a colonial militia near the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor, fifty miles north of Boston. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The BFG pointed through a gap in the bushes, and there, not more than fifty yards away, she saw a man padding softly across the lawn. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a crowd of fifty or more closed in like diving vultures, the soldiers stared straight ahead, as if posing for a photograph. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They live in herds ranging in size from ten to fifty members. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifty of us were part of the operation. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

New York City was about fifty miles south of here. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

His original estimate had been close—there were probably fifty to sixty of them, ranging from boys in their midteens to young adults like Alby, who seemed to be one of the oldest. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the monster, whatever it was, was even now settling itself down to hibernate for another fifty years. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The light flashed on two eyes about fifty yards away. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eliot’s mother worked in an office fifty miles north, and his father, the last she had heard, lived two thousand miles west. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Okay, then. Fifty- fifty, right? Whenever we’re together, we split the booty. I’ll show you where you can trade it in for food or whatever.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

On Rass any waterman who owned his own boat was called Captain So and So after he had passed fifty. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Maple Hill there were about fifty maple trees. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the number of patients being treated by Socios en Salud jumped to about fifty—students, housewives, street vendors, health workers, unemployed youth. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them lay the last fifty miles of the journey. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth pointed to the disc-shaped structure about fifty yards off their port side. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He would do this for the next fifty years. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Under Schirach’s direction, fifty Hitler Youth members stormed the Berlin headquarters of the Committee of German Youth Association on April 3, 1933. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The other day I discovered a stack of parking tickets in a comer behind a chair—there must have been forty or fifty of them. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

So, my sister spent the first hour of the party opening up all the gifts, and her smile grew with each check, sweater, or fifty dollar bill. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Carl to collect two hundred and fifty dollars every six months, June 30 and December 31, with six and a half percent interest figured annually. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

That was at 8:23 and fifty seconds. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at how many people are commenting! He has fifty- seven likes!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Inside were about fifty badges, all of different colors, but all bearing the same letters: S.RE.W. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath, then walked the last fifty yards to the giant precipice and touched it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Draping the hives—I had no idea what that was, but you couldn’t have paid me fifty dollars to miss it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me about fifteen minutes to write “I will not talk in class” fifty times, and so I often came home at four o’clock. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fifties it filled the heads of the Beats like the foam in their cappuccinos. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I remember to start with that day in Sacramento—a California now nearly thirty years past—when I first entered a classroom, able to understand some fifty stray English words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house had been built fifty years before and the stairs creaked. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Some had to keep hopping along the wash for fifty yards, beating the air with their huge wings, before they could finally take off. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are three fives in fifteen, and five fives in fifty. The answer is three over ten, which is three hundred, right?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He still lay about a hundred and fifty mouse paces from where they stood. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When the snows drifted forty and fifty feet high and the ice winds came howling out of the north, the tunnels were all that held Castle Black together. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, guess what? Those ruts, those tracks, are over a hundred and fifty years old.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“If this dog’s mistreated, he’s only about one out of fifty thousand animals that is,” Dad says. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, for example, of the fifty thousand African Americans who have taken the Race IAT so far, about half of them, like me, have stronger associations with whites than with blacks. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It took me five days to read fifty pages. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Imagine dealing with fifty in-laws without alcohol. I couldn’t even hold her hand on the street without attracting stares,” he had said. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

During the season, there had been a ceaseless cacophony in that room of songs and stories and pleas for fifty cents to buy a soda. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman worked at a sandwich shop and had never traveled more than fifty miles from her home in Greensboro. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Would you rather have two-thirds of nothing and a big problem on your hands, or would you rather have fifty percent of a whole lot, problem-free?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

No sooner had he said this than about fifty other children exploded out of the crowd and came running onto the street. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

As a whole the world is more primitive today than it was fifty years ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We went “fishing” fast and furiously when those little evangelical storefront churches each let out their thirty to fifty people on the sidewalk. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not uncommon for people to receive prison sentences of more than fifty years for minor crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even at sixty-eight Harrison exuded strength and energy, and women generally agreed that he was more handsome now than he had been in his fifties. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Give them fifty years, and all that equality rot is gone. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At either end of the field stood three goal hoops, fifty feet high; right opposite them, almost at Harry’s eye level, was a gigantic blackboard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

From down six sets of halls, I can hear the mean Starbucks-dumping casting assistant shouting for the next fifty children to line up. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When he was young, he was a world-class tennis player, and over the past fifty years, he has coached and counseled and known many of the greatest tennis players in the history of the game. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Most of them were young, the sons and daughters of the first wave of Puerto Ricans who immigrated to El Barrio in the late forties and the fifties. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps as many as fifty; perhaps as few as ten. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Matney weighed it carefully—more than four hundred pounds!—and then counted out the twenty-two dollars and fifty cents he figured he owed us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was white, about fifty, thin and of average height, with dark hair and tanned skin. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Don’t even think about chewing a piece of gum within fifty feet of her. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got out I went downstairs to a pay phone and called Francis’s number in the country and let the phone ring maybe fifty times. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then he gives her the seventy-five marks, and she blinks at the amount and gives fifty back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There must be about fifty people in here, easy. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The thread began on a day two hundred and fifty years ago, when the biology gods, for their own amusement, monkeyed with a gene on a baby’s fifth chromosome. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When the New York Times poll was published, I had spoken at well over fifty colleges and universities, like Brown, Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Rutgers, in the Ivy League, and others throughout the country. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the street, organizers handed out fifty thousand flyers in various languages, all encouraging union membership: “BE MEN—JOIN THE UNION.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She imagines the thousands of turkeys and chickens, the cows, and the hundred and fifty rosy-cheeked adults and children, settling in for the night. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I have money. I have my savings. I brought fifty cents for our records and candy. Here, take half.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah I do! I got a fifty--four on my last test. I suck at science!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Today, no less than fifty years ago, a flawed public consensus lies at the core of the prevailing caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Where the grass gave way to the woods, I found a stone wall crudely cemented together, not even knee high but nearly fifty yards long. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Zero had listed out the top fifty largest cities in the world, each one repeated back to him by someone else in the crowd at the Pirate’s Den. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because Mr. Carter and Mr. Caston had both been in prison for nearly fifty years, we wanted their immediate release. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One hundred and fifty—the top 20 percent—fell into what Terman called the A group. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, fifty thousand dollars isn’t rich” I said. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In 1532 Pizarro and fewer than two hundred men captured Atahualpa, the Inca chief, who had an army of fifty thousand soldiers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“An easy distance, do you call it? It is nearly fifty miles.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Hazel was easily fifty, if not older, and a more regular part of the Deuce than the cheap beer and watered-down metal bands that toured through. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Okay, April. Here’s the deal. I’d love it if you’d sell us all this for fifty bucks, and I’m prepared to make it worth your while.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Gregor and Boots shot up fifty feet in the air and yo-yoed up and down like they were on a big rubber band. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, first of all, it wasn’t two hundred and fifty dollars. It was on sale.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

They’re just starting up and the stock is going for fifty cents a share.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of his eye, maybe fifty feet away, Leo saw Frank the grizzly bear jump from the top of a wall and flatten another Nikette. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As a result, the contrast between musical styles in around 1500 and those of fifty years later, at the height of the European religious reforms, is dramatic. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the Klansmen—at least fifty of them—huddled in groups, drinking their liquor in one form or another. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But now she was fifty- five and hard put to remember what all that had been about It didn’t take long, after Jude left for her to see what die future would be. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

All alone again, but this time in front, Pollard leaned back and slowed Seabiscuit for the last fifty yards. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know many of the alums from the fifties, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to see if any names rung a bell.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dad once made fifty free throws IN A ROW. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

He had no job, for he regarded digging ditches for fifty cents a day as slavery. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “You can collect your fifty dollars up at the big house. If you want to stay, you got a job breaking horses.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This desk is probably like fifty years old. It could be anywhere. You know how to pry it open?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

All in all, he thinks immigrants today have a better chance of moving up the class ladder than he did fifty years ago. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Carter was easily fifty pounds heavier and he was used by the Coach to keep the freshmen squad on their toes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with her new title, Elizebeth received a raise of over fifty percent. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Already, the first bombers were high overhead, a formation of about fifty Heinkels, heading the same way to the coast. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

After fifty feet we came to a crossroads. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were four hundred and fifty monkeys alive in the building, and their hoots and cries sounded in the empty hallways. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote hurriedly, in scrabbling handwriting: When I saw her in the light she was quite an old woman, fifty years old at least. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The whirlpool still rages, but here within its eye is a wet moonscape fifty yards across. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He had routed a force fifty times larger than his own, won the greatest ransom ever seen, and vanquished a cultural tradition that had lasted five millennia—all without suffering a single casualty. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

From where I stood, I could be fifty feet or two miles from the Appalachian Trail, in any direction. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the forties and fifties, most Hispanics who trickled into Odessa settled on the Southside. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sentences for each charge can run consecutively, so a defendant can easily face a sentence of fifty, seventy-five, or one hundred years to life arising from a single case. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She lifts her bag up, sticking out her tongue like it really does weigh fifty pounds, and rummages inside for her sketchbook. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And so she say she pay me fifty cent more and I say, ‘No ma’am. No thank you.’ The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I mean, that no man in his senses would marry Lydia on so slight a temptation as one hundred a year during my life, and fifty after I am gone.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She was in her fifties and her ten-year-old son was with her, crouched in a corner. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifty yards away from him, the grass was being flattened by the still invisible quad as it made its next charge. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was an old bird, reputed to be fifty years old, and he had lived a ribald life and acquired the vigorous speech of a ship’s fo’c’sle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are four hundred of them, plus thirty instructors and fifty more on the staff, NCOs and cooks, groomsmen and groundskeepers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Wes and his friend traded shots and finally heard Ray scream as he fell behind a black Toyota just fifty feet from his house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We had spun around the same corner, I was sure, about fifty times. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roughly fifty people contributed in some significant way to this undertaking. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was a compact man of fifty years, spare and hard, with grey in his black hair and eyes like chips of onyx. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t possess cash, cassette players with a record function, toiletries containing alcohol, sneakers worth more than fifty dollars, or more than fourteen newspapers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three hundred and fifty miles to the west, there was no need to find a catalyst for the zeal that could be created by a winning high school football team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first and only inmate to be subjected to this method endured fifty seconds of torture before the power was turned off and he was found to be very much alive. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel terminated fifty feet ahead in a ragged point. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A gaunt man of fifty, the helmsman never left the deck. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And on a national basis, I had either directly established, or I had helped to establish, most of the one hundred or more mosques in the fifty states. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briares was building a sand castle with about fifty of his hands. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Two are burning in Castaic, more than fifty miles west of us, threatening access to Castaic Lake—which millions from Los Angeles are trying to reach. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It might be one hundred and fifty feet tall. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had already served a hundred and fifty days, so I thought I could advance the argument that I had done enough time, and was ready to go home. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The man behind the museum counter is bearded, maybe fifty. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

About fifty feet away, some overweight middle-aged dudes with American accents were conversing loudly, complaining to each other about the heat. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were maybe fifty different dishes to choose from on that table. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of lapel tags were quickly printed up, and students on campus for summer session began to sell them for fifty cents apiece in the hallways. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’m extra nervous, since this assignment is worth fifty points. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

One hundred and fifty years ago, the monster began, this country had become a place of industry. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The next week he touched my hair for what might have been five or fifty minutes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He took four fifties out of his shirt pocket and laid them on the table. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By two o’clock there were about fifty prisoners at the bus station, but Zeitoun’s cage was still the only one with its own dedicated guard. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The Quaker William Allen, who had sworn off sugar for nearly fifty years while he battled against slavery, drank his first cup of tea with a spoonful of white, free sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In a hundred and fifty years there were two thousand millions. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I plopped down in the snow at the edge of the parking lot, about fifty feet away from the truck, pulled my knees up to my chest, and stared out over the highway. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Like I said, same old face in the mirror, fifty years old and she doesn’t look a day over ninety. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drop down to the river below was more than fifty yards. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“This baby’s been in service for fifty years. Oldest model still in the chutes.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The stones we turned over were not large —weighing from three to fifty pounds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pale with frustration, he stood up and walked out of the Hotel Frances fifty centavos poorer, leaving a trail of Viennese coffee on the springy carpet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auk VII did a horseshoe turn not more than fifty feet up and slammed into the ground. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Liar. It sounds like you have fifty people over." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Some of them must be fifty years old, or more. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Catching Harry’s eye, he nodded covertly to a point some fifty yards away. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In October 1988, fifty years after the radio broadcast, Koch visited Grovers Mill, the town best known for an event that never happened. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Segal had been one of South Africa’s premier singles and doubles players during the fifties. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flicked through a sheaf of fifties, added a smaller stack of twenties, weighed them in his hand, then passed them over to Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She’s about a foot shorter than me, about fifty—maybe older. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The speed limit is fifty,” I said, trying to be helpful. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Her parents were publishing a book about living in fifty states, for Pete’s sake. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ishmael Chambers trained as a marine rifleman with seven hundred and fifty other recruits at Parris Island, South Carolina, in the late summer of 1942. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We were six days in when all hell broke loose, so that leaves enough food to feed six people for fifty days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His parents could totally afford to send him to private school. But fifty percent of the colored students haven’t been to school at all.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d just gained fifty thousand experience points, enough to raise my avatar all the way up to tenth level. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Grandma India must be fifty years old; she had waited forever. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Once every Cyclops within fifty yards had been reduced to ashes, Frank landed in front of his troops and transformed into a human. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Now Mack counted fifty frogs into a can and walked back to the grocery with Lee and got two dollars’ worth of bacon and eggs and bread. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need to go to a spot past Mbandaka. I will pay you fifty dollars,” I said. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was holding fifty bucks in my hand right then, so I would’ve agreed to anything Styx Malone suggested. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But when he caught sight of her below the McCullys’ farm it occurred to him to slow to a walking pace and follow along at fifty yards. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you just refuse. We’ll put the story on cassette, a hundred and fifty pesos, with a signed glossy photograph thrown in for free.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made a point of saying that if he were only fifty again, he could climb the tree and slice them off with his knife. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship was in great condition for a three-hundred-year- old vessel, but it would still take a crew of fifty several hours to get underway. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat sprung out in fifty places, all over me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The man, short and dark, was trying to explain that he could get fifty dollars for the lamp downtown and had to charge her twenty-five. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kat admitted to the fifty quid we’d not given back since being at the Eye. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The highest contribution—eight hundred dollars—came from Bud Gleason; the lowest contribution—a hundred and fifty—from Granny Smith. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He coined more than fifty medical terms still in use today and defined a host of new diseases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He was only in his fifties, but pain lines creased the sides of his mouth, and the flesh of his neck hung baggy. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Pinkie, T. C. O’Quinn says he can take your 'fifty Ford any day of the week and twice on Sunday,” Jim Don said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After fifty laps, one guy quit, and since quitting is contagious, three other boys caught the disease and walked off the court, too. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The closest thing had been her wedding, and that had been only fifty or so friends and family. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The barmaid—in her fifties, with turquoise eye shadow and lots of turquoise rings to match—looked us over, our suits and ties. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Takurdada tried, though. He must have sent fifty letters full of legal threats from Calcutta." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In California he fell among literary people and, as he still had a little of the fifty thousand left, in a short time he was backing a review of the Arts. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

There were fifty of them, all of them daughters of Danaüs, one of Io’s descendants, who dwelt by the Nile. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Cape Town a crowd of fifty thousand met in Langa township to protest the shootings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than fifty years had passed since blacks around the country joined John Jones and his abolitionist friends in celebrating the end of slavery. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As it approached I instinctively put my thumb out, and to my astonishment it stopped about fifty feet past us. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

After about fifty yards, we come to a small wooden house—a shack, really—unpainted, with a sagging front porch piled with junk. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He changed his shirt and put on a stiff new pair of Levis and wiped off his fifty dollar boots with the towel that was still damp from drying his arms and face. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The dark-haired boy is at least fifty yards in front of them, but immediately the pack begins to gain. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The frog pool was square—fifty feet wide and seventy feet long and four feet deep. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am transitional; some days I look like a worn-out thirty-five, others like a sprightly fifty. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In Philadelphia, tickets went for seven hundred and fifty dollars,” she said, trying to show that she knew a thing or two. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“What should I ask for? I haven’t done a miracle—it’s what, three years now? Prices may have skyrocketed. Fifty, you think? If they got fifty, I’ll consider. If not, out they go.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She led me past The Baron Weasel’s den and down through the woods about fifty yards to the enormous old white oak. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I counted nearly fifty people in our large lifeboat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After a while, he had more than fifty of these “aphorisms,” which he shared with his friends. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It smells like old people and wet carpet, but stronger—like fifty old people and piles of wet carpet.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Jason stood about fifty yards away, sword-fighting with a stocky centurion whose lips were stained cherry red, like blood. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After about fifty paces he came to a second tunnel, branching off to the left. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Twelve hundred and fifty copies had been printed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people--with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Patenting cell lines is standard today, but it was unheard of in the fifties; regardless, it seems unlikely that Gey would have patented HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I read it fifty times in a row. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last bequest was for Loomis Toy, “the sum of fifty dollars in appreciation of his loyal service to the store and my family.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“There are supposed to be fifty hidden copies of The Gold-Bug James said. “How many do you think he hid before this one?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The house where he lived was squared into four rooms and the rent was a dollar fifty per person. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

One week later, however, Ron was telling a thrilling tale of kidnap in which he struggled single-handedly against fifty heavily armed merpeople who had to beat him into submission before tying him up. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Three months later they received in a large envelope twenty-nine letters and more than fifty pictures that he had accumulated during the leisure of the high seas. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The only thing to do is to treat each shift as a one-time-only emergency: you’ve got fifty starving people out there, lying scattered on the battlefield, so get out there and feed them! Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are four hundred and fifty monkeys in there.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For a guy like me, with no college, it’s become pretty bleak out there,” said Martinelli, who is fifty years old and deals with life’s curves with a resigned shrug. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He and fifty others were to take an oath to swear allegiance to the United States, to become our nation’s newest citizens, when a suicide bomber cut that dream short. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Like, why are lunch periods thirty-seven minutes long instead of fifty? Or twenty-two? Or whatever?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

What he said was, “Of course, I’d be delighted, fifty per cent down payment please, the rest before delivery, come back in a year, thank you very much.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Rondell have stood outside a grip of different spots over the past week and we’ve already made back more than fifty bucks. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When he looked down, he had pinpointed Grovers Mill, a rural village in the center of New Jersey about fifty miles from New York City. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Standing with his friends in a defensive ring, surrounded by giants, then looking up at an impossible vision in the sky - Jason could very clearly picture himself fifty years in the future. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Harris, who was thirty-one, said there was supposed to be another client arriving on the same flight from Bangkok, a fifty- three-year-old attorney from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, named Lou Kasischke. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I can write fifty pages a day and I never run out of words. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Before the bus had run another fifty yards on the highway, its destination would be meaningless, and its point of departure changed from metropolis to junkyard. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Travis opened his eyes and saw Cooter smiling away, and if I live to be fifty years old, I hope I don’t never witness another growned man go berserk like Mr. Travis did! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Down below, about fifty of the Calormenes, dismounted, were steadily swinging a great tree trunk against the gate. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Within the first year, we quickly expanded our offerings from our initial ten items to more than fifty, and were already making a profit. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In a hundred and fifty weeks there are once more only a thousand millions; a thousand thousand thousand men and women have starved to death. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Infestations of the scale insect quickly reappeared and damage exceeded anything that had been seen for fifty years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I think we sold about twenty of ’em in a bag for fifty cents at that garage sale. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“There are others waiting in line. That will be fifty cents.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, let’s say you finish your time machine in fifty years. You’d be—” “Sixty-two,” I said. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The head was in the midst of about fifty large, artificial earthen mounds—the ruins, Sterling concluded with excitement, of a previously unknown Maya civic center. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But Collier Farms was like none of the other pseudovisions I’d seen, because it was wildly overgrown, as if it had been abandoned for fifty years. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Each time James Bevel gave the signal, the next group poured out the front door and down the stairs—some fifty children at a time—and continued the peaceful protest march. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The black-glass beach stretched inland about fifty yards, then dropped off the edge of a cliff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

More than fifty church members had gathered around their priest. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There were prob-ably fifty or sixty guys in the place, unusual for that time of day. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest trees weighed fifty tons, as much as a traincar. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes of silent reading plus fifty of math plus fifty of social studies before music class, equals one hundred and ten minutes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

And he lives fifty kilometers away, far enough from a city that buying furs might be difficult. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She’s fifty or so, with gray hair that falls in an unbroken sheet to her shoulders. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Clarkston High School became home to students from more than fifty countries. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

By the time I returned to Lykes Cottage, I had made one hundred fifty dollars in sales, enough for one of the better prizes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

‘I want the Queen to dream that nine disgusting giants, each one about fifty feet tall, are galloping to England in the night. She must dream their names as well. What are their names again?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told them that in the fifties, no one imagined such a thing might someday be possible. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Our amphibious boats turned around, roared back down onto the beach, and churned their way out into the water fifty yards or so. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He counted out fifty dollars and handed it to me. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Afraid not. That was what—fifty, sixty years ago? Most of us ain’t here anymore.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“When I was a kid, if you brought a seal’s nose to the police station, the clerk paid you fifty cents. Fifty cents a seal,” Dad said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The second time it took him fifty days and fifty nights, and this sword seemed even finer than the first. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There weren’t many Martians left on Mars—one hundred, one hundred and fifty, all told. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Why, before I knew he was wanted I shot him, as neat as neat, at fifty paces right in the back; but he ran on.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There were at least fifty people, and all of them were wearing dirty pajamas and had the same shocked expression on their faces as Ivy’s dad. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Alex feels somewhere, under the fifty layers of booze, something crystal clear radiating off her, a shared knowledge of how rare and wonderful this version of Henry is. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We were asking for an investment of their faith, and now we had to deliver on what they'd brought us, carrying that enthusiasm through twenty months and fifty states and right into the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“We could say the same to you. A third of the proceeds from our stash, or fifty percent of nothing?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The magistrate wanted two hundred and fifty rubles in thirty days. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We went out about fifty feet along the reef, and then he said, “Now, we feesh” He described the hole to me. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Microfiltration, reverse osmosis, ultraviolet radiation, and abracadabra—they turned the county’s last day of raw sewage into nearly fifty thousand gallons of drinkable water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We raced around a corner—my fleeting fear of heights now apparently gone—and were confronted by a smooth wall of rock, fifty feet high at least. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Dome is fifty thousand spears and swords, pledged to our queen’s service.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some chess players felt that it was an insult to proclaim Fischer the greatest American player at seventeen, and thereby diminish the reputation of Reshevsky at fifty. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And you know I’m not really into football. Besides, I’ve already checked—that ball is only valued at two hundred and fifty dollars.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They had fifty feet of rope from scraps knotted together. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The suits that I wore, the finest, I bought hot for about thirty- five to fifty dollars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I'm only really counting weekdays there, which means tack on another fifty or so for the times he stopped by on the weekends. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

You could put a skate key in my hand fifty years from now, in pitch dark, and I'd still know what it is. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Jerusalem woke to a blizzard for the first time in fifty years on Easter Sunday. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The woman had wanted fifty cents, and the man had flashed a razor. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Billy Steen, who bore no resemblance whatever to a football player but had become one through sheer will, fighting off an offensive lineman four inches taller and fifty pounds heavier to sack the quarterback. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kasem Gulek, of the Turkish Parliament, beaming with pride, informed me that from Turkey alone over six hundred buses—over fifty thousand Muslims—had made the pilgrimage. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Detrital Wash extends for some fifty miles from Lake Mead into the mountains north of Kingman; it drains a big chunk of country. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This tree is nature’s rock star because it’s one of only fifty left alive from an original set of five hundred. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She looks to be fifty when I know she must be at least sixty. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She whispered the word “fancy” like it was something illicit, as a smartly dressed couple in their fifties walked by. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Gay took a good noisy clattering run at the hill and in fifty yards he put the pedal down to low. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was a young man who looked so much like Mr. Taphouse, only fifty years younger, that Malcolm almost jumped up and greeted him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

So they added three hundred rangers, forty local militia members, and fifty Native allies to their troop count. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was fairly quiet on our sector, so the quartermaster who remained in the rear had requisitioned the usual quantity of rations and provided for the full company of one hundred and fifty men. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met a girl named Chelsea who told me about something scary that happened at Oak Hill fifty or sixty years ago. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

We make it about fifty yards downstream, with him propped up by my shoulder, and I can tell he's going to black out. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We would never have got fifty miles without it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

This little collection of debutantes represents over four billion dollars of America’s wealth and over fifty of America’s leading families. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re still at a healthy two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, love. You should feel proud of that. You barely fetched me ten thousand the first time around.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg and three other soldiers were walking point, about fifty yards out in front of the other men. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was a blue-eyed carpenter in his fifties, a friendly and easygoing native Zeitoun had known for years. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Lourdes caught her pocketing fifty cents from the sale of two crullers, and threw her out. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he too died, in 1911, aged fifty, he was laid to rest in her grave. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I had gotten used to the fifty pounds of gear cumbersomely strapped to my back, torso, and legs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The number may, however, be estimated at from twenty to fifty, seventy, eighty, ninety, or an hundred and more. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody told her not to, so she went out in her purple coat and took a full two hundred and fifty steps away from the house, then sat in a cool patch of grass. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Abel blew his warm breath against the lock before opening Sommensen’s warehouse—a mildewed barn built of creosoted timbers, put up more than fifty years earlier. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

This group were mostly in their forties and fifties, largely white, highly educated — many had Ph.D.’s — and wealthy. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked to be in his late fifties, white, with a gray mustache. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Surely it was more than happy coincidence that the price of admission—“fifty cents, straight up,” remembers one former bug boy—was precisely equal to the pay for galloping a horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was gone by then, long gone, and it seems a long life — I may live fifty years, and not see him again. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

It’s only five miles but it feels like fifty. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On average, this would require only twenty-one tests to test fifty people. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Naylor works his fields maybe fifty days a year; Joel and Daniel and two interns are out there sunrise to sunset almost every day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

News spread so quickly that by late Tuesday morning fifty train cars of provisions had already arrived. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Over the course of a year, he rode one hundred and fifty to two hundred mounts, compared with as many as one thousand for other top riders. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The High Hall of the Arryns was aglow with the light of fifty torches, burning in the sconces along the wadis. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“This is some real strange stuff but I lost fifty cents over on Kennelworth yesterday and I bet my fifty cents got hooked up with someone else’s fifty cents and made this here buck.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all fifty or sixty men stroked their chins, as if in deep thought. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Under him served four mates, freedmen all, and fifty slaves bound to the ship, each with a crude version of the cog’s figurehead tattooed upon one cheek. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In one sense those fourteen minutes tell the story of the next fifty years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was an unusual enough occurrence that even someone from our island who had gone to college fifty years ago was remembered for it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Nuba region, some fifty different ethnic groups, including Christians, Muslims, and practitioners of traditional African religions, lived in peace. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

People come to the clinic in groups of fifty, and the director wonders whether, instead of testing them individually, he should pool the fifty samples and test them all together. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the papers are delivered we unload the magazines at the office and go home to breakfast for fifty minutes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was still about fifty yards away, but Stanley was pretty sure it was the right hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Nico was several years younger, half a foot shorter and fifty pounds lighter. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On the forty-ninth shot, I am only slightly aware that I am moments from fifty. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The children were coming out of the trees, one by one, maybe forty or fifty of them. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he uttered the words and fifty thousand spectators heard them. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Both of these are accepted: Respectability is different from what it was fifty years ago. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, if fifty pounds of explosives goes in your lap, you won’t know it.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My aunt haunts me—her ghost drawn to me because now, after fifty years of neglect, I alone devote pages of paper to her, though not origamied into houses and clothes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, I drove to Mount Moosilauke, fifty miles from my home on the southern edge of the White Mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll bet I got fifty letters some days from white people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been lucky,” he said, “but it can’t last much longer. You’re young. You look normal and innocent. If you keep clear of people like me, you might stay alive for another fifty years.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I waved at Lieutenant Lewis, who was deepening his own foxhole fifty feet to the right of us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the only boy who practised it seriously, and it was not quite so simple a business fifty years ago as it is today. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was taking care of the twins’ grandma who lived about fifty miles from Cedar. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The thing he says: “What you just drank was fifty years old?” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Each delivery was fifty pounds or more, so a lot of money was changing hands. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

About fifty girls, all dressed in indi'gena clothes, sit in the first few rows. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the same squad car Wes had noticed twice earlier in the day, in different parts of the city but always within fifty feet of where he and Tony stood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

All told, more than a thousand Cherokee homes were laid waste during that winter and some fifty thousand bushels of corn and other provisions either burned or looted. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But in my plan I had the fifty bucks for the shuttle ride. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Joe blanket, and on top of it sat what had to have been some forty or fifty stuffed animals. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Even if all nine giants were to stand on each other’s shoulders, the topmost giant would still be some fifty feet from the top of the hole. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at way too many trees for a settlement that can’t have more than fifty people in it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

With a fair wind abaft the beam, the ship could have logged a hundred and fifty miles in a day’s sailing. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For once in his life Armpit actually had several fifties in his wallet. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They pulled into the store's dirt parking lot fifty minutes early and strode up the staircase and into a blast of air-conditioning. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

In addition to nearly fifty arrests on everything from theft to suspicion of murder, Hurd had been in prison in Colorado separate times for stealing, possession of narcotics, and a parole violation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bought a complete set of the Harvard Classics—chiefly because Bobby said we didn’t have room for them in our suite—and rather perversely read all fifty volumes. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you didn’t think selling little bags of parsley for fifty dollars an ounce was against the law either.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

How could one man stop more than fifty thousand girls from going to school? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I watched as about fifty Cuban girls, of all ages, sat around eating their cereal, laughing and talking about the upcoming day. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They went only a few yards up the road together, perhaps fifty. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hazel’s senses told her that the pit was at least fifty feet straight down, with a pool of poison at the bottom. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was so scared I was going to hurt him that he knocked me down fifty times if he did once. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ninety he was much the same as at fifty. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The only requirement: fifty pages by the end of the year, written from the heart. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

About fifty yards along was a lean-to shack, which he entered. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had only fifty poorly armed men with a ration of twenty cartridges apiece. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

So he secretly sends Pa fifty guilders to help. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And at a safe distance from the troopers, fifty silent blacks stood watching beside an old yellow school bus. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

For every one ton of explosive dropped, assume fifty casualties. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The letter was dated exactly fifty years after the tennis game.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He knew that Carl was not far off, a hundred and fifty yards at best; he could hear his engine in the fog. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And when they saw the great golden peach floating past them not fifty yards away in the sky, they gave a yelp of surprise and dropped their shovels to the ground. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Third Division waited fifty miles to the southeast. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people who bought tickets to our Echoes of the Soul fundraising concert did not simply support one hundred and fifty high school kids, they supported a cause. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then he assigned us fifty pages of reading for the next day—from a book called Religious Studies. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Queen Selyse descended upon Castle Black with her daughter and her daughter’s fool, her serving girls and lady companions, and a retinue of knights, sworn swords, and men-at-arms fifty strong. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

IV Ignatius ignored his mother’s pounding on his door and crying in the hall about the fifty cents in wages that he had brought home for the day’s work. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As backup quarterback, his son Mike would be handling the snaps and holding the ball for the placekicker—in this case, Erik Fisher, a placekicker who can hit with deadly accuracy from fifty yards. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way other people refuse to date someone who plays in a band or someone whose geekiness is so strong they can name all of the original one hundred and fifty Pokémon. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Two minutes later, we were crouched behind the trees fifty feet from the Eagle’s back door. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Similarly, the National Journal reported that between January 1997 and October 1999, the agency handled 3.4 million orders of Pentagon equipment from over eleven thousand domestic police agencies in all fifty states. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The police saw about fifty migrants on top of the stopped train and headed toward the freight cars to arrest them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, fifty years since Mommy had been there, and most of the old-timers had gone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every fifty feet or so he would turn it sideways, stop, and listen to the earphone. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Another famous Frenchman was Jules Verne, who was born about a hundred and fifty years ago. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have run all the way, in panic, but after he had gone perhaps fifty yards his brain took over and slowed and, finally, stopped him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cal had told her all girls had it, it was natural as breathing, it was a sign they were growing up, and they had it until they were in their fifties. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was hard to miss fifty feet of winding mahogany that curved through the far end of the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the third day they woke to find a man that looked just like their father sitting on a stump not fifty yards away. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could they suddenly have a hundred and fifty points fewer than yesterday? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I think about Constantine, after living fifty years in the country, sitting in a tiny apartment in Chicago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She could not follow them; they often ran fifty miles in a night and slept in different spots each day. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Strayer said he’d published more than fifty articles in major scientific journals, around twenty of them on issues pertaining to driving impairment, attention and distraction behind the wheel. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“That old busboy is really a swordsman,” we whisper when he goes by, “He’s a swordsman who’s killed fifty. He has a tong ax in his closet.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Think you can get yourself fifty bucks any other way?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every weekend, I’d pay my bill—anywhere from fifty to even one hundred dollars, if I had really plunged on some hunch. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In seconds he was forty, fifty yards above the runway, dangling underneath the plane. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The city is ruled by a council of fifty people, composed entirely of representatives from Abnegation, because our faction is regarded as incorruptible, due to our commitment to selflessness. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Crew members hid in the woods at a distance of about fifty yards and filmed him using a telescopic lens. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were fifty soldiers, taking up every inch of space on both floors of the clinic. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

This house, a large, ram bling gray stucco with a picket fence surrounding the weedy grounds, stood away from the street, perched on a ledge that dropped fifty feet down into the river below. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Jewish family in our building took a barge up the Vistula River to Warsaw, more than one hundred fifty miles to the northeast. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the class seemed confused, but then Matt Kapok, a kid in the front row, offered fifty cents. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

If you made it this far, you have found one of the fifty copies of THE GOLD-BUG hidden across the city. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The exercise seemed to help him and by the end of the night he was running fifty steps to her one. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But World War II was of magnitude 7.7: some fifty million military personnel and noncombatants were killed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trouble is, no one wants to know that their loved ones are traveling in a cooler-van to some big old converted warehouse where they may have twenty, fifty, a hundred cadavers on the go. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When all the two hundred and fifty or so boys and girls were settled down in Assembly, the Trunchbull marched on to the platform. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had fifty minutes to take care of his business. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The branches were strong all the way up into the crown of the tree, which stretched fifty or sixty feet into the sky. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She has on a fuchsia fifties swing dress with a neckline that plunges to the equator. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“You’re sure it’s not just a bunch of junk somebody picked up for like fifty cents at a yard sale?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

But Ashoke points out that even his chairman shops at yard sales, that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross stood fifty meters away. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the fact that I survived physically, that in a time period well into my fifties I never collapsed or needed time off to recuperate, is something I am inordinately proud of. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Respectability is different than it was fifty years ago. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There he was, fifty yards behind me, seeing me safely home, trying to look like he wasn’t following me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

That name seemed to lower the temperature in the room by fifty degrees. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He loved to flash his “Kansas City roll,” probably fifty one-dollar bills folded with a twenty on the inside and a one-hundred dollar bill on the outside. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lelia and I must have taken the trip over fifty times, not once setting foot on Staten Island itself. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been cast from a restless sleep, but he rolled off the bed and onto the floor where he pumped out fifty pushups before he groped his way to the bathroom. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was at least fifty yards across and shaped like a bowl. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was a woman who looked to have been around fifty or at least in her late forties. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He held his big muscle-man arms across his chest, and even though he was an elderly man of fifty or so, he looked like he could still beat the pants off anybody in the room. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around fifty men sprinted down to Twenty-Ninth Street to see for themselves what was going on. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Probably near fifty, he was built like a tank and always seemed to have his jaw clenched. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, God, she thought, four hundred fifty monkeys—this is going to take forever. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was Hogwarts as Riddle had known it, meaning that this unknown wizard was headmaster, not Dumbledore, and he, Harry, was little more than a phantom, completely invisible to the people of fifty years ago. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be such a great dress, and the only one of its kind in the camp, that bride after bride—whether she's fifteen or fifty—gets in line to borrow it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At lunch, the girls take it upon themselves to discuss and evaluate the fifty million guys they apparently think are boyfriend prospects for me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I liked my teacher, a diminutive white lady named Mrs. Burroughs, who seemed ancient to me but was probably in her fifties. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mama told us it cost a whole fifty dollars— a lot of money in those days. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There are a hundred of us, fifty men and fifty women. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If they reach the road and get beyond it, they will suffer fifty percent casualties. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the wall where you suggest is the highest wall surrounding all of Florin Castle—it is fifty feet high at that point—so that would seem the least likely point of attack.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Not in a year, or ten, or fifty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Outside the gate, a crowd of nearly one hundred fifty waited to bid him goodbye. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We’ve known each other for a long time,” Annemarie said, sitting down on her bed, which had some kind of Asian bedspread and about fifty pillows on it. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Just about the time you get used to fifty miles an hour you cross a state line and it’s sixty-five. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was almost fifty percent of the truth. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I leave the house and walk, leaden-legged, the fifty yards along Blenheim Road to their house. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only three out of fifty girls will be queen: the Queen of Com, of Sky, and of Water. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t so much that all her friends were over fifty—that wasn’t it. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It’s working—the amount needed to kill fifty percent of the population is increasing, meaning it’s becoming less effective. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I coasted off the road and pulled to within fifty feet of the godlike thing, so close that I had to throw back my head and raise my eyes to vertical to see its branches. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I bought a hot dog on the street, I'd have to make up that money by eating eggs for dinner or walking fifty blocks to the library rather than taking the subway. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A set of steps led down to the lawn on whose border Robbie still worked, and which extended to the Triton fountain fifty yards away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He sat there now, wearing his small, black skullcap and pecking at the typewriter with his index fingers, a thin, frail man in his fifties, with gray hair, gaunt cheeks, and spectacles. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I would simply have to ambush it with whatever sense I had left, or it would trap me in its stupid cage for fifty years without any sense at all. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, man,” I said, because I'd seen Tyson get carsick on school field trips and it was not something you wanted to be within fifty feet of. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A clerical error early in the war, when food was still getting through to prisoners, had caused the Red Cross to ship them five hundred parcels every month instead of fifty. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked out the window a few minutes later, Markie had seemingly cloned himself and there were fifty, sixty, I don’t know, hundreds of him running around the yard. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always look there, just in case R. M. Wildsmith has suddenly decided, after fifty years, to write a sequel. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Well, right now they were living about fifty yards from where she stood. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had two wooden docks set fifty yards apart, which was a regulation distance according to federation swim rules. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

"Car number five cost six hundred and thirty-seven pounds and sold for sixteen hundred and forty-nine fifty. You got all those figures written down, son?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was fifty yards away by now and nearing an opening between two buildings. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

About fifty settlements existed in this strip of the Mississippi when De Soto showed up, according to Anne Ramenofsky, an archaeologist at the University of New Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They must have driven fifty kilometers, and Meggie was still trying to figure out what he could possibly have meant. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

One hundred and fifty islanders attended first-aid courses offered by the Red Cross auxiliary. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

One hundred and fifty yards and they were stuck twice. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

To be honest, one hundred and fifty bucks was more money than we’d ever seen in one place. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

If the global temperature rises by 4°C over the next fifty years, as is evidently possible, the whole of the Appalachian wilderness below New England could become savanna. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mary O’Neill, the owner of Velva’s Freeze, was a childless widow in her late fifties. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Campion meant the crossing point of the two bridle paths, which was about fifty yards away, among the trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other than Mr. Tanner, I don’t even know no one that’s ever had fifty dollars at one time, sir. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Tom Riddle had been at Hogwarts fifty years ago, yet here he stood, a weird, misty light shining about him, not a day older than sixteen. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Only fifty miles from the limousines and exclusive tennis clubs and lush green fairways of Palm Springs, the west shore of the Salton Sea had once been the site of intense real estate speculation. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Cicero reaches his peroration, he has asked something in the order of fifty questions to Catiline—each designed to make his failure to go into voluntary banishment look bizarre and unnatural. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She sold fifty vials of the stuff to the Scythedom posthumously. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In 2015, the agency declassified over fifty thousand pages of Friedman materials, including some of the items taken from the Friedmans’ library. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"I must have gold, and another fifty birds." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You can make a case that the upper half lives as well as the upper 5 percent did fifty years ago.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, what will he say when he comes to that awful fifty dollars!” thought Meg, with a shiver. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or if I couldn’t tell that, I’d like to say she blew up Jezebel’s, with fifty Commanders inside it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. Bouncer wage star at fifty dollar a week.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

You want to talk about my family and here I been dead to them for fifty years. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A giant couldn’t eat half a leg of deer plus a huge mound of wild rice and eight of the fifty quail eggs and go back for dessert. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

People fled for East Baltimore or back to the country, and the population of Turner Station dropped by half before the end of the fifties. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s your father’s family. My mother and father died very young. My youngest sister was an orphan at ten. Our parents were not even fifty.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ninety minutes after the blast, ash began to rain down on Yakima, Washington, a community of fifty thousand people about eighty miles away. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Top branches rubbed together now and then, their Up up ahead that was singing about Napoleon’s army of fifty thousand men climbing up a hillside. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It isn’t fun, I thought, to have over fifty thousand dollars? Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Then Breashears offered his expedition’s supply of oxygen—fifty canisters that had been laboriously carried to 26,000 feet—to the ailing climbers and would-be rescuers on the Col. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some fifty students wait in the classroom to compete for just six parts—three female, three male. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They have to prepare these children, all fifty, for new families. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For fifty years, she watched the direction of human progress change—and leap ahead. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

In some states, black men have been admitted to prison on drug charges at rates twenty to fifty times greater than those of white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Joel climbed onto the tractor, threw it into gear, and slowly towed the rickety henhouse fifty yards or so. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“In fifty years, did you ever have a vacation, you little, silly, half-pint, smidgin of a wife?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny Wells got five swats and had to write it fifty times for running off and snitching on the teacher. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Lee was by then well into his fifties and of uncertain health. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Ride to the gates and bring me Grey Worm and fifty of his Unsullied.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It played that same song about fifty years ago when I was a little kid. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The Red Army sped forward as much as fifty miles a day, and Raskova’s regiments flew with them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Music in the fifties was good. Much better than the sixties, or the seventies, ugh!” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had given a quick glance up and down the street and then had slipped inside and bought the book for two dollars fifty. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Ah, somewhat less than two hundred and fifty, sir, as of yesterday. Countin’ the officers.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I count about one hundred and thirty men, Lawrence. Forty to fifty already dead, about ninety wounded. Lot of boys walking around with minor stuff, one hundred thirty for the hospital.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the BBC showed up in Turner Station, asking locals about life there in the forties and fifties. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She, who had never been more than fifty miles from her birthplace, learned to traverse the maze of Spanish-named streets in that enigma that is Los Angeles. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jason,” she says, looking at the grave, “if you’ll fix it so I can see her a minute I’ll give you fifty dollars.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hair grows about half an inch per month, the same amount of time it takes us to fly fifty million miles through space. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s just there—look,” he said, pointing back fifty yards or so. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The domed ceiling was about fifty feet above. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The letters must have been painted during the Belgian occupation over fifty years ago. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Two hundred and fifty dollars! Are you shi——,” I paused and put on a new voice. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She's in her fifties, a shock of white hair in two crossed braids atop her head. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

About fifty yards along, a jagged crack appeared down the center of the highway and quickly grew into a severe gash several inches across, emitting still more smoke. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Uric the Oddball is known to have slept in a room containing no fewer than fifty pet Augureys. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I know it happened because one day I was the best lacrosse player at All Saints, and the next day I woke up in the hospital with fifty stitches in my foot and leg. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Of the fifty students, about half did jazz, the other half classical, so it was a small crew. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A punishment tour for Clevinger was fifty minutes of a weekend hour spent pacing back and forth before the provost marshal’s building with a ton of an unloaded rifle on his shoulder. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Okay, here’s the deal,” she told the driver, handing him Armpit’s fifty. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Soon she was working fifty hours a week and making enough to cover health insurance for herself and Zachary. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s buried a hundred and fifty feet underground. Maybe I’ll start working triple shifts. Then I can buy a piece of that coal vein and somebody might have a little leverage against Devlin.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The walls are covered with mounted deer horns, maybe fifty or sixty sets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“He could go on fifty walks a day and it wouldn’t be enough for him.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Pashtun kings ruled this country for almost two hundred and fifty years, Laila, and Tajiks for all of nine months, back in 1929. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Twelve hundred and fifty kilometres an hour,” said the Station Master impressively. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what do you know, all of a sudden I have fifty k in my backpack.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

One King would have, oh, fifty or a hundred wives, easy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dalgard was a tall man in his fifties, with metal-framed glasses, pale blue eyes, a shy manner, and a soft drawl that he had picked up in Texas at veterinary school. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every hour of every day a tractor trailer pulls up to the loading dock to deliver another fifty tons of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Their unspeakable beauty may have as much to do with the sense of a lost world as it does with Strauss’s final gesture of love and gratitude to his wife of over fifty years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Daedalus had so many ideas, I could spend fifty years just trying to figure them all out” “Yeah,” I muttered. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The broken shoes of two thousand Galveston longshoremen that Mr. Mallory would never pay fifty cents an hour like the white ones. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rivers broke his camp quickly and sad- died up beside her, and they set off again, near fifty strong now, flying beneath the direwolf, the leaping trout, the twin towers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He has been asking for fifty dollars to buy a bicycle. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The price to Bayonne had been fixed at a hundred and fifty pesetas. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“It is low. They sold for seven hundred and fifty in Philly.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And that was—well, I couldn’t give you the date, but it must ’a been fifty years ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There were about fifty chimps belonging to this community. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the pilot rescued Brian he had been alone on the L-shaped lake for fifty- four days. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s Hiram Wallace,” Grandma had announced—everyone over fifty had come to the same conclusion. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A master of deception, the young actor brought to life the role of a man in his late fifties—impressive because he was just nineteen. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“He sent me fifty dollars. Mom says he loves somebody else. Not a kid. A grown-up. He might get another wife.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

If necessary, he could then test the remainders of each of the fifty samples individually. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

With that complete understanding of the principle of motor locomotion, I drove down the mountainside toward Calexico, some fifty miles away. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her opaque fifties sunglasses were black and slanty-eyed, with rhinestones on the corners of the frames. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least fifty books lay strewn across the room; a hundred small paper squares with writing on them lay all over the floor, so you could barely see the black hardwood underneath. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Over fifty percent of the country’s contraband made it ashore somewhere along this half-mile stretch. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They had heard the words repeated a hundred and fifty times every night for twelve years. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

After more than fifty years of nearly complete deference to Southern states and noninterference in their racial affairs, Brown suggested a reversal in course. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She gave me a pair of one-hundred-dollar bills, two fifties, and five twenties from a pile of endless bills. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Here, there’s so much dirt that you could probably plant fifty bean seeds and no one would even notice. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

While the idea seems common today, it was groundbreaking in the early fifties. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was at least fifty years old, but she dressed stylishly and wore makeup, so she looked closer to thirty. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve received donations of supplies and paper chains from all fifty states plus eleven other countries. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Or he could break for the top of the ridge about fifty yards above. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hand rested against my pocket, my fifty from Tamika’s mom tucked safe inside. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

On May 5, 1990, nearly fifty years after Lilya’s disappearance, Soviet Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev signed a decree honoring her as a Hero of the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There are about fifty kids, middle-schoolers by my guess, and four adults. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure why he bothered, since we were only about fifty feet away. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone—and there were at least fifty people in the salon—turned to frown at him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Collins was one of the finest players in the United States, and for a number of years was rated in the top fifty; Nigro never reached anywhere near that achievement. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then you figure how much less forty-four is than fifty. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longer than is safe when driving fifty miles per hour. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When the last canister was sold, the boys had taken in a grand total of fifty dollars and seventy-five cents. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The boat carries around fifty Chinese men who have paid $20,000 each to smugglers to ship them to America. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

These had five, six rooms; some had ten and if you could manage fifty, sixty dollars a month, you could have one. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But fifty dead fruit flies and two inchworms and a caterpillar? The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The spool rolled in my hands until Hassan stopped, about fifty feet away. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It raised her stature to the royal lady which she was, to a straight-backed dowager whose rheumatic fingers flashed with rings, who had ridden the world successfully for fifty years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fifty thousand dreams were carried carefully, jar by jar, on to the helicopters. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they came out the front door again with the next batch of fifty kids. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the last night of his spying he saw her empty a bucket of kitchen scraps not fifty yards from where he crouched. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I saw the crowd of fifty or sixty reporters and photographers, I honestly wondered what celebrity I had been on the plane with. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Lange estimated that over fifty thousand pieces of art would be “reassigned” from Poland to Germany alone. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Carl Sagan in Cosmos raised the possibility that if you traveled downward into an electron, you might find that it contained a universe of its own, recalling all those science fiction stories of the fifties. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A good fifty meters to their left, at the very top of the hill, there was a house, if you could call it that, huddled among the olive trees. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Your Boy King lost ten thousand men taking the place, and another fifty trying to hold it. Someone should have told him that war isn't a game." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The citizens of London sent fifty million pounds, to keep the menagerie up, and the ladies of Britain constructed a pair of black velvet carpet slippers with the Waifs initials embroidered in gold. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we also say fifty and thirty and twenty, which sort of sound like five and three and two, but not really. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Of the fifty or so children, most were under the age of five. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She paid Delores the fifty cents a week she got for lunch money to give her lessons. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I can get there and back on one tank of gas. And there’s a lot in that wagon. One fifty cash. Best and final offer.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He’d gather five or six pages of good, quirky material and print up fifty copies. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

But he had also promised to marry Maria, a woman of fifty, who was the widow of a “very prominent Mexican banker.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to take her niece to local benefits and community events, where Marian would be asked to sing a song or two and would earn twenty-five or even fifty cents. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He was nearing fifty and no longer as healthy as he had been. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glittering robots clustered fifty feet down the main stem. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It sat back fifty yards from the road on three acres of alfalfa, strawberries, raspberries, and orderly vegetable gardens. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You mean you’re getting out on that balcony in front of fifty thousand crazy crackpots and try to talk sense to them—on a balcony like a medieval dictator?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s more than fifty years of good coal left in that mine.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Guild is currently supporting fifty riders who were permanently disabled on the job. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now we’d drifted to within fifty feet of the dock, which made us an easy target. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And fifty years later, Clive’s Diner was still there, passed down through the proud Marlowe family like a priceless treasure. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The last forty or fifty miles seemed particularly grim and forbidding, most of it being in die Strellon Game Reserve. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But one night, there were ten sightings in ten different parts of town. The next night twenty. By the next week, we had fifty of them and...” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A man was calling: “Come in! Come in! See Herr Hitler! Come right in! Only fifty zlotys!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He started off with about fifty corny jokes, just to show us what a regular guy he was. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The temperature in the apartment was about fifty degrees, which was where he’d set the oil burner thermostat, but Bri made things feel warm and sunny again. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Nhamo, who had recently been granted an allowance of fifty cents a week, could only stare at him. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since we didn’t have a camera, I thought buying ten postcards for fifty cents would be the next best thing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl’s face went fifty shades of red and, as if she had a sixth sense for that kind of thing, her mother poked her head over her daughter’s shoulder. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jack’s straight-backed, brown-ink copperplate told her to assume a multiplier of fifty. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One room had a pair of bricked-up windows despite the fact that we were, at my best guess, at least fifty feet aelow ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He announced that the striking teamsters were receiving fifty dollars a day from abroad to keep the country at a standstill. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of an oversized mausoleum, with walls fifty feet high. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ron went purple in the face; he looked like a radish with a bad sunburn. “... for the best-played game of chess Hogwarts has seen in many years, I award Gryffindor House fifty points.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The herds and flocks are seven, with fifty beasts in each. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The most important ones are all labeled, but there are about fifty that I have no idea what they’re for. I have a feeling I’m going to be there all night trying out keys.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They were facing the sea, not fifty feet from shore. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

‘Some folk have all the luck,’ they said; but it was not until Frodo approached the usually more sober age of fifty that they began to think it queer. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Clara opened her drawers, removed the cardboard suitcase that the good woman had used for fifty years, and went through her wardrobe. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After fifty years’ absence, movie theaters are back in Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cavalry soldiers, ninety-seven Cheyenne, Kiowa, Pawnee, and Sioux Indians, another fifty Cossacks and Hussars, 180 horses, eighteen buffalo, ten elk, ten mules, and a dozen other animals. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At Putney he slipped his boat into the water, leaned deep into his oars, and over the course of three heats defeated a field of fifty- eight oarsmen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The ship was only fifty feet away, but Annabeth saw no sign of Coach Hedge on deck. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Fort Hare had only one hundred fifty students, and I already knew a dozen or so of them from Clarkebury and Healdtown. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the platform stood a pyramid of chocolates—the last fifty boxes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cooter’s grandma was near ’bout fifty years old and frail and ailing and Mrs. Bixby was afeared of leaving her for even a minute. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I cannot explain why, seeing how the storm had affected our family’s finances, I never told anyone that I had almost fifty dollars hidden away. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An’ when the enda the month come—” “An’ when the end of the month came I could take my fifty bucks an’ go to a . . . . cat house—” He stopped again. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know him better than 1 do—I only see him once a day for fifty minutes. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With fifty students, sir, and my after-school tutoring, I can’t spend much time helping him. I grade his practice exams and assign him extra problems every day, but he doesn’t seem to be mastering it.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the fifty yards had saved us a good hour, because he could have pulled trick after trick if he had gotten in the water. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

On the television “fifty of America’s most beautiful girls” paraded in ruffled tulle dresses before a tinsel waterfall. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even wearing them to bed every night, her mother could not use them all in fifty years. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Who, over the course of a hundred and fifty years of life, not to mention nearly two years of my personal tutelage, has managed to avoid learning a few important facts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Brutus was second, and behind him, eight more; there were fifty more waiting behind them. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

On either hand the walls sloped upwards, until they were fifty feet high or more, and along each wall stood an aisle of trees that also increased in height as they marched inwards. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Your pa owe the man fifty dollars and it’s on you to honor the debt. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, from all of your stocks and bonds right now, over fifty thousand dollars. It’s less because I took out my commission, but I will of course reinvest it.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

And he had to deliver only fifty papers, so his job was more like a hobby. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I rang for the tea, and the waiter, reappearing with his magic clue, brought in by degrees some fifty adjuncts to that refreshment, but of tea not a glimpse. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it let me know Trebon was somewhere between fifty and eighty miles to the north. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Of course it’s true! Good heavens, didn’t you know that? It’s about fifty times as big as any other!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

By 1918, nearly fifty thousand black migrants were settled into their new city. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Lally and I still part of Lafanmi, and there be maybe fifty boys now. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, I cleared at least fifty or sixty dollars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forty leagues it stretched from the Far Downs to the Brandywine Bridge, and fifty from the northern moors to the marshes in the south. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“To keep it in good condition, you should brush fifty strokes every night.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Range Rover rolls to a stop at a traffic light, Jus looks out his window to find the driver of a white Suburban—white dude, probably early fifties—giving him a dirty look. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My father's stories had given me a glittering image of the city of Kraków, three hundred fifty miles and light-years removed from the life I knew in Narewka. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Some kid’s playing out in a field somewhere with his dog, and down he goes—fifty feet or more, vanishing into nowhere. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was his nightly routine, fifty push-ups to keep his body in “fighting shape,” as he put it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In front of me was a shiny clean horse stable, a field of wet salty mud, and fifty horses that had been scoured so thoroughly their coats gleamed. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Right, right! Better not give you all now: you would, perhaps, stay away three months if you had fifty pounds. There are ten; is it not plenty?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was only the middle of April, and the water temperature probably wasn’t even fifty degrees yet. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

About fifty yards away two coyotes stood watching me, their tawny coats blending with sand and sun. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, to simulate pulling together the arms of a struggling inmate in order to handcuff him behind his back, I squeezed together a pair of calipers representing fifty pounds of resistance. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is astonishing that this has happened in less than two hundred years and most of it in the last fifty. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shed was about forty or fifty feet behind the house. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe so many peoples is there—two hundred fifty thousand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Lugging packs weighing more than fifty pounds, the young men slogged across muddy rice fields and cut through dense forests. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“More than one hundred thousand dollars,” according to Miles Umlatt’s article in the Island Examiner, “all of it in fifty- and one-hundred-dollar denominations.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was in his late fifties and was pretty big, and he had a bit of a beer stomach. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Not fifty feet away was the Owner of the Emporium, approaching her rapidly, his gaze fixed. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I mean when she was talking and she got excited about something, her mouth sort of went in about fifty directions, her lips and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“At least forty. Maybe fifty. No sign of our friends, as far as I can tell. They all seem to be arguing about something, but I can’t tell what they’re saying.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

How did you and Granddaddy stay together for fifty years? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept muttering: “Seven hundred and fifty miles per hour. Eight hundred. Eight hundred and three. Fast. Very fast.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Immie had covered the front door with instant photographs from that summer—maybe fifty of them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then he asked my father, who answered: “I’m fifty.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Off to the side stood fifty members of the United German Singing Societies. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"Velocity eight hundred and fifty, altitude eighteen hundred and forty-three," Johanssen said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are huge walls of water bearing down on everything in their path at speeds of up to fifty miles an hour. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the master quarryman was sent to supervise fifty apprentice stone cutters and two hundred and fifty laborers who would work in the Somme valley, an area known for its limestone. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

It’s like when places have those Guess How Many Jelly Beans Are in the Jar? games and I guess something like fifty but it’s really four thousand and fifty. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some Italians from the old days of the fifties and sixties were still around. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There were more than fifty people camped on the Col that night, huddled in shelters pitched side by side, yet an odd feeling of isolation hung in the air. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The air was rich with the combined perfume of the garden and the river which was visible through a clearing fifty yards behind the school bus. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pizza is the best deal—a dollar fifty will buy two slices, a can of soda, and a cherry Blow Pop from the candy bucket next to the register. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I counted out three hundred and fifty sheets of corrasable bond from my mother's stock in the hall closet, secreted away under a pile of old felt hats and clothes brushes and woolen scarves. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

These require constant attentiveness if you are not to twist an ankle or sprawl on your face—not a pleasant experience with fifty pounds of momentum on your back. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Downed trees lay across the path every fifty or sixty yards, often with great bomb craters of dirt around their splayed roots. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Today, given a 35 mm camera and a built-in exposure-meter, anyone can be an expert photographer, but it was not so easy fifty years ago. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got the Alegría Scholarship for three hundred and fifty dollars; the Kiwanis Club for two hundred and fifty; the Lions Club for two hundred; and the Madrinas Club for two hundred!” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

There were perhaps fifty of us in all, making the room about three-quarters full. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dodds was this little math teacher from Georgia who always wore a black leather jacket, even though she was fifty years old. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I only had fifty cents in my pocket. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I would get to fifty sometimes, and no bird. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are enough antiques for sale along the roads of New England alone to furnish the houses of a population of fifty million. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though fifty years have gone by, Miep still thinks about Anne and all she went through in the secret annex. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was hired by a florid-faced white man at the rate of fifty cents for nine holes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around and saw old Perez about fifty meters behind us. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Africans had lived and owned property in Sophiatown for over fifty years; now the government was callously planning on relocating all Sophiatown’s African residents to another black township. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could block fifty thrusts; the fifty-first flicked through, and now his left arm was bleeding. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the point where I last saw him when the clouds descended, a sharp left turn would have taken Harris forty or fifty feet up a rocky rise to the tents. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to pay him fifty dollars a month. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was only fifty yards from the truck when Mr. Grin suddenly stopped and turned around as if he had sensed there was someone there. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Its square base stretched maybe fifty feet wide and ten feet tall, with an intact facade of Corinthian columns rising another twenty-five feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give you fifty. Only way I can sleep at night—and I might still toss and turn.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I was about fifty feet from the warehouse entrance when a black BMW SUV pulled alongside me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

In the fifties and sixties the John Birch Society had had a significant membership in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pawnbroker looked at it from various angles, and after a minute of intense inspection said, “I can do one fifty for pawn,” the pawnbroker said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“What is wrong with being a good host? Giving out goody bags? Back home we always welcomed our guests with a treat, no matter how old they were, fifteen or fifty!” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

"Nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds and fifty pence," the father said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

If you haven’t guessed already, that just resulted in everyone writing all fifty pages the day before the journals were due. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

California would be the ninth state for Emily in her twelve and three-quarters years, all part of her parents’ quest to live once in each of the fifty states. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She had plans to send him off to the university in Austin fifty miles away when he turned eighteen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The cowboy next to us said, “The boss pledged fifty dollars to anyone that can stay on, but it ain’t going to happen.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had all just arrived in Florida the night before, and that morning, at ten a.m., fifty beaming girls in outfits adorned with something emblematic of their states had boarded the plane. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She don’t flash it ’round or nothing, but folks say anyone that can buy fifty acres without no loan must be rich as a slave owner! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Nor did the varying numbers of the dead: three thousand, ten thousand, fifty thousand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

By the time Aggo returned with Grey Worm and fifty of the Unsullied loping behind his horse, Dany had shamed all of them into helping her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Your book is about us living in all fifty states. We have a lot more to go before we’re done. If we stop now, you won’t be able to write your book.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see. The cough syrup is eighteen cents, and the medicine is thirty-two cents. That comes to fifty cents.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“The women in my family look younger than we actually are. We take after my grandmother. She’s seventy-one years old, but she doesn’t look a day over fifty.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

So after a moment he whispered, “God, I’m only forty-nine, please let me live until I’m fifty.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Twenty- five and twenty-five makes fifty thousand. Let’s get her.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But fifty dollars—how could I ever get fifty dollars? Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were fifty feet apart, but he reached, anyway. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There had to be at least fifty of them, their clothes smudged and sweaty as if they’d been hard at work, all shapes and sizes and races, their hair of varying lengths. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

One hundred and fifty minutes of life left, that was all. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And so it was that I entered that enormous L-shaped room, on his arm, in my cashmere finery, to the applause, and then the raised glasses of fifty relatives. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“He said he’d pay a hundred and fifty a ticket. I told you the price would only go up. Didn’t I tell you?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

In a long and desperate day of travel, they penetrated fifty miles away from the Congo River, and finally, toward evening, they came to a row of round, thatched African houses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gorgons were only fifty yards away now—leisurely gliding toward him as if they knew the hunt was almost over. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A moss-eaten stone monolith loomed over the road, fifty feet tall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A thin, well-groomed woman in her fifties—Chanel cardigan, pearls at the neckline, hair brushed into a stiff, shoulder-length flip—was talking, in a nasal voice which was oddly familiar. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I spoke across a vast gym floor to six hundred and fifty sixth, seventh, and eighth graders arrayed in bleachers before me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s one thing to be old, to be forty or fifty with a broken heart, but it’s practically terminal when you’re thirteen. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Moments later, Yusuf and I found ourselves among the more than fifty of our volunteers led by Flag Boshielo who were being taken in trucks to the red-brick police station known as Marshall Square. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I did. Sort of. I’m like fifty percent sure his first name is Hudson.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“He did. John James Audubon. Almost a hundred and fifty years ago.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Probably cost you about fifty bucks,” he said speculatively. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. Modesty is one of my worst faults,” Bull shouted, laughing, enjoying himself in the last fifty miles of his journey. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unless, of course, the strong old man rebuilding the Wallace house was the handsome young coward who had left nearly fifty years before. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The owner was a kind man in his fifties. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Wednesday, September 25, at 8 a.m., as we turned the comer near the Bateses’ home, I saw them, about fifty uniformed soldiers of the 101st. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There didn’t seem to be another person within fifty miles. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Neither his father, nor his father’s friends, had been at Hogwarts fifty years ago. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Inside it’s pretty authentic, except that it looks too clean; and it’s less forties than early fifties. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the jobs remaining at the dam site, he had been told, were for common laborers, paying fifty cents an hour. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The floe was now a mere fifty yards across. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“At least break it up into chunks. No book should be longer than two hundred and fifty pages, ever. I’m supposed to lug that thing around?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

From the way it creaked and smelled, it was probably brand-new fifty years ago. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I pushed past a couple of cows, trotted out into the middle of the field, and sat down about fifty yards away from where Father was standing among the cows talking to the cow-boys. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pointed towards the moldy headstones of people I never knew, some of them born a hundred and fifty years ago or more in Scotland or Ireland or New Hope, Pennsylvania. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When we couldn’t even get fifty measly greenbacks a month for our bread and board. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wears a different ring on each finger—even her thumbs—and about fifty gold bangle bracelets on her arms; they rattle as she plays. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

"Did you know," Matilda said suddenly, "that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a second?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

There must have been fifty people packed into their outer courtyard. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I gave the woman fifty centimes to make a tip, and she gave me back the copper piece, thinking I had misunderstood the price. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

‘They moves about and comes and goes. There’s sometimes fifty of them in their sheds up Hobbiton way; but they go out from there roving round, thieving or “gathering” as they call it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“They’re about fifty years behind the times,” an elderly man said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

De Vries harvested and planted fifty thousand seeds from the patch. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The guy must have been about fifty years old and acting like a baby. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He laid fifty cents on the table in front of Adam. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still, within five months, he had assembled a staff of twenty-five; within a year of his arrival, it would be fifty, and at its peak, one hundred. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing for the next forty or fifty years of your life?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We played several more rounds, until Mom won with fifty points. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“That one book contains the definitions of more than four-hundred fifty thousand words. Now, wasn’t I right, Nicholas? All this will mean so much more since you learned about it on your own.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually he would sprint to the plane and knock out fifty, sixty push-ups before the exertion slowly siphoned away the anger. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The way Arion was moving, she might not notice he was gone for fifty or sixty miles. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Before I left, I took a look around my room and suddenly felt as if I’d returned to it after being gone for fifty years. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now my arm was twenty feet long, thirty, forty, fifty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He carried him across the field, stopping to rest each fifty counted steps. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There below him, not fifty feet away, he recognized Longstreet, then Lee. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must weigh at least fifty or sixty pounds less than the smallest Career. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was a short wiry man, near fifty and grey of beard but stronger than he seemed, and he had the best night eyes of anyone Jon had ever known. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“We can see if our ‘nifty! team will lose by ‘fifty.’ Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

There were only fifty of them, so most of the benches were empty. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, you young ones try, but if fifty years of demons couldn’t put me under, you young punks aren’t likely to.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That he's to take fifty of his best swords and scout the roseroad." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a hundred and fifty feet more and they were safe. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I handed him my two dollars and counted out fifty cents. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There are fewer people here, about fifty, but they fill the small brick building. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The master chained her in the barn fifty times, and fifty times she loosed the chains and went home. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one can reach the other—everyone is separated by a good fifty feet of space in the central gap. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The tree was so far away—fifty yards at least. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When Zeitoun and the others entered the main room of the station, immediately fifty pairs of eyes, those of soldiers and police officers and military personnel, were upon them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The ashtray is full: fifty stubs squashed in there, limbless, somehow gory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The rule was never waived, even when the temperature dropped to the fifties, and a cold, gray rain was falling. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

An older man of some fifty or sixty years walked among the others of our Regiment, offering a compound in a bowl which he spread on muskets as a blessing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

"America's had two hundred and twenty or so years of independence; India's only had about fifty." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He began raising it on its long journey to his mouth, some fifty feet up in the air. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And second, almost no one knew about Avogadro’s appealingly simple principle for almost fifty years.** A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He regenerates a good fifty yards behind me, with a new life bar. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could see the sun-splashed ground over an area of perhaps fifty yards from where he lay, and as he watched, the sunlight in every patch blinked at him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Gary was fifty, with that smooth Lacks skin, a thin mustache and soul patch, and a gap between his front teeth that the girls loved. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There had been a fierce auction and they’d been thrilled to walk away with it for fifty thousand—really a bargain. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Beezle was hardly over a hundred pounds, and his enormous, unwieldy bundle of sheets and towels had to weigh fifty or sixty pounds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He counted himself lucky when he landed a summer job with the Civilian Conservation Corps, laying asphalt for the new Olympic Highway for fifty cents an hour. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Dad lost a cousin in a drunk-driving accident in the fifties or seventies or whatever, and there is a zero-tolerance rule in our house. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

One day she flew a good fifty feet, and we packed up and went gathering seeds, bark, and tubers to celebrate. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Thousands were there. Joy! That’s what you felt....They had come fifty miles but when you’re marching and singing, it doesn’t faze you how far it is.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d have to see the spot—some places thirty feet, some places a hundred and fifty, and in some places clear to the center of the world.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He appeared to be in his early fifties and was well enough dressed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we arrived at the PPG building we took the elevator up about fifty floors and by then Mom looked pale. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the returns. Seventy-five boxes sold—one hundred fifty dollars. Count it.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a fog that one would normally take with any great seriousness but a clear-eyed man could not penetrate it any deeper than fifty yards. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the watercolor would account for fifty percent of his mark this semester. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a square perhaps fifty yards on a side the ground was carpeted with broken human bones and scraps of thousand-year-old fabric. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, no. I think it was new in the early sixties — or late fifties at the earliest,” he admitted sheepishly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

By the end of the first half, Antoine had run for about fifty yards, but nearly all of his passes had been dropped. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river was no more than fifty or sixty yards across, and it wasn’t long before Dicey saw the opposite bank rise over her head, capped by a tangle of undergrowth and trees. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll sell it to the highest bidder. Do I hear fifty cents?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

One Saturday afternoon, following one of our clandestine tennis lessons, he gave me fifty rands and a bag full of tennis clothes: sweaters, shorts, socks, shirts, dresses and warm-ups. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"No, but the car passed me down the road, going faster'n forty. Going fifty, sixty." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She is awfully skinny, Violet; fifty, but still good looking when she broke up the funeral. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember, there’s a storm coming. If it rains, keep your pans covered and dry. Wait till we’ve got fifty yards between us, boys, fifty yards or less, fifty yards or less!” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their material cultures were simpler, too—no writing, no stone plazas, no massive temples—though Plains groups did leave behind about fifty rings of rock that are reminiscent of Stonehenge. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They chugged along at fifty miles an hour with the radio blasting and the late-afternoon wind whipping their hair, getting high on her Columbia two-toke. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There on the wide flats beside the noisy river were marshalled in many companies well nigh five and fifty hundreds of Riders fully armed, and many hundreds of other men with spare horses lightly burdened. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“But you already told me you don’t have fifty dollars.” “i will get it to you.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And for the first time in my life I don’t want to be. the dishes you miss number fifty, he says, walking away. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“I have already found my treasure. I have a camel, I have my money from the crystal shop, and I have fifty gold pieces. In my own country, I would be a rich man.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside were more than fifty people, probably in the same situation as I. Most were lying on mats in the open compound. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There were fifty men, most of them young, clustered in the dingy gray chamber. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Another fifty or sixty in the small stand of woods across the field. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

And rows and rows and rows of seats—about a hundred fifty of them. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She was perhaps forty-five or fifty at this time, and in our world she was a very celebrated woman. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He played a lovely game of billiards and with the handicap I was only four ahead at fifty. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Not for the fifty thousand dollars, just for me, for my mind. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly fifty miles away, and it took us more than an hour to get there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, in fact, inferior to the Brasserie in every respect but one, which was that really very sizable shots of off-brand whiskey could be got at the bar for fifty cents each. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

How fifty percent of me was the exact same as these guys. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t turn around until you count to fifty,” the kid instructed him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now a subtle change was coming over the two hundred and fifty watching children in the audience. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s in his fifties, Doctor Tate, and tops me by a good foot and a half. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Stanton wrote to the president of the Centennial Commission, General Joseph Roswell Hawley of Connecticut, and asked for fifty tickets to the ceremony. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He mentioned the fifty bucks in his wallet. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

"Car number four cost eighty-six pounds—a real wreck that was—and sold for six hundred and ninety-nine pounds fifty." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I slept for the last fifty miles into Coeur d’Alene and when I awoke, I was sitting in the sheriff’s car outside the hospital entrance. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Spareribs’ big sister won fifty dollars at a movie bank night. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And finally, after what seems like fifty hours, they remove Darren’s handcuffs. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Massasoit shepherded his people through the wave of settlement, and the pact he signed with Plymouth lasted for more than fifty years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He looked around for likely confirmation and pointed to a tall, stooped man of fifty years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There were at least fifty of them, spread out in concentric circles. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Back in my room I counted my savings, some fifty dollars, and decided to get to New York as quickly as possible. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby bit Ramirez on the arm, leaving scars that remain fifty years later. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If the phone doesn’t ring before I get to fifty, I’m just going to go dow n there and knock on the door. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like flies in a Venus flytrap, they were immediately swallowed up by the crowd of more than fifty men. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even though she was old—over fifty at least—her hair was an extremely bright yellow. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Because,” Natalie said, “it looks like every single one of these bills is either a one or a five. If someone robs a bank, they take twenties, at least. Probably even fifties or hundreds.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Two hundred and fifty feet below him now, the man in black continued his painful climb. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in 1622, the Powhatan Confederacy attacked several new settlements and killed nearly three hundred fifty people—about a third of the settler population. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In 1987, the ANC celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary and held a conference at the end of the year in Tanzania attended by delegates from more than fifty nations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fifty or so theater seats here in the Show Room are almost entirely empty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Many women, she said, “seem to know nothing of the...progressive steps made by their own sex in the last fifty years.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Some mudslides can travel even faster. That one killed more than one hundred and fifty people.” I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I see myself as an old lady, about fifty years old. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of a hundred and fifty Freedom Writers, I have been chosen to speak in front of Barbara Boxer, our senator! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There hadn’t even been any rumors that the rebels were as close as fifty miles from Kamator. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“There’s this guy who wants to buy it for a hundred and fifty dollars.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Bands may have had as many as fifty members, with girls going outside the group to marry. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Although they had differences, the friendship between Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton lasted more than fifty years. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I take the fifty dollars from her with no questions asked. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They’d fight with myriad virtual heavy weaponry across elaborate virtual terrain, seeing which team could get fifty kills first. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The rest, children of the island’s slightly more affluent, paid fifty cents a lesson. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a short, round white man with red cheeks who could have been anywhere from fifty to seventy. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“He moved out over the summer. My grandparents always lived with us, but now it’s just my grandmother. He left her, after fifty years.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The past, she wrote, whatever it was, ought to be shoveled fifty feet under and left to rot in the earth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Pococks set up shop in an old, derelict shed floating on timbers fifty yards offshore in Coal Harbour and then finally resumed what would be their life’s work—crafting fine racing shells. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The rings were pawned for a hundred and fifty dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer had thinning brown hair and pale skin and looked to be in his late fifties. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They flew over apartment buildings fifty stories high and as long as city blocks. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He gave the woman two dollars and fifty cents. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They moved the sand around and uncovered obsidian arrowheads he could sell to old men in camp for fifty cents apiece. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally she buys boxes of cards, marked fifty percent off at department stores in January, always forgetting, by the following winter, exactly where in the house she’s put them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t look a day over a hundred and fifty,” Bongo replied. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Overlooked for almost fifty years, that scrawl is like the key to a cipher, unlocking a hidden layer of Elizebeth’s inner life. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The guards with guns watched about fifty convicts and visitors. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk into the Braddock bar with fifty slender sticks up my sleeve. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chewed each mouthful of his sparse nourishment fifty times. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the pure urge, the one thing that never let me down, got me out of bed fifty minutes later. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He gave it about fifty yards and then tied the string to the stem of the peach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She led Jason as far away as she dared—about fifty feet down the cliff, which she hoped was out of earshot. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex, published in 1827, sold only fifty copies and left him £300 out of pocket–an uncomfortably substantial sum for the times. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Number of bicyclists heading toward the Badlands of North Dakota: thirty to fifty. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m driving into New York Gty to pick up my sister from the Port Authority Bus Terminal at ten fifty.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The next morning, he counted fifty Russian tanks rolling past his guard position. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on one side of the table was a man in his late fifties, wearing a suit. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“They weren’t worthless. The gray rug cost four hundred. The blue-and-white rug, four hundred. Her necklace was seventy-five. Her bracelet was two hundred. My cell phone was three hundred fifty.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Some had come from as far as fifty miles away, a journey that would have taken a full day. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Horace was by inclination a private man, nearing fifty now, with a sprawling port-wine stain on the left side of his forehead that he often fingered unconsciously. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In one game he actually stared at the position for fifty minutes before making a move. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The black leather shoes I had bought for fifty cents at the Dollar General Store were held together with safety pins, which I’d tried to blacken with a Magic Marker so you wouldn’t notice them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My blood goes back fifty generations, older than tree or stone. And I am come to this,” he put his head against the palms of his hands and looked down at his tin tray. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She figured that would be a good business deal: skates, mitt, doll and all the other things for fifty cents. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was only fifty yards from the road, when suddenly a rabbit exploded from underneath my feet and I leaped backward in surprise and fear. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The dragon did not seem to have noticed anything: It was already fifty feet away, swooping low over the lake to scoop up water in its scarred snout. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Howard gave the nod and Woolf rode Seabiscuit out before a crowd of fifty thousand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the next explosion two men dash across the fifty yards to the dug-out with the pots of vegetables. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a sly, balding man in his early fifties who had a reputation for being kind of a smart-aleck. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They’d passed within fifty feet of the fire and had not even slowed to look. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He could have been Gogol only fifty percent of the time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, he went to a dry-goods store on Hester Street and bought a hundred yards of gingham and fifty yards of white crossbar. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Young oarsmen from the assembly chose a crew of two and fifty, as the king commanded, and these filed off along the waterside to where the ship lay, poised above open water. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

While prairie jackrabbits are capable of amazing bursts of speed—up to and over fifty miles an hour—they are relatively short-winded. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The driver pulled over to the side of the road, where the bus station mob, barreling down the highway in some fifty cars and pickup trucks, caught up with it. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she could spend just fifty cents for lunch, they’d have a dollar fifty for dinner. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since there were about fifty pounds of beans in that sack, it made enough noise to raise the dead. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

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

“How many guys reached the fifty quota today?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used more than fifty sponge rollers to make her big curly Afro. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Barely fifty feet away, the giant Spirit Bear stood motionless in the rain. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“So here’s our tailwind. The checks range from five dollars to two hundred and fifty, and our new grand total is four thousand seven hundred and sixty-five!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Our book is about our quest to live in all fifty states. We have plenty of material to work with.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

“If Renault didn’t sell them, then obviously they are not sold. And that’s why there are fifty missing boxes,” Leon said, his voice slow and reasonable, as if Brian were five years old. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked out to our closest row of cotton, a good fifty yards from the back porch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Another shell passed close, fifty yards to the left, clipped a limb, ricocheted up through the leaves. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is my greatest friend and comrade for nearly fifty years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three hundred wells, fifty thousand date trees, and innumerable colored tents spread among them. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were fifteen men, with half a dozen guns between them, and they opened fire as soon as they got within fifty yards. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

By seventh period chemistry, the last thing I wanted to do was stand at a lab table for fifty minutes with Miles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Why I never saw fifty dollars until I was twenty-one years old, with all the other boys with the afternoon off and all day Saturday and me working in a store. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing about plummeting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter—if you realize it’s a bad idea when you’re halfway down, it’s too late. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I blink as the Tokyo Dome itself comes back into view, as well as fifty thousand spectators screaming wildly at the top of their lungs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

"About fifty, and that was just in North America." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They paid seven hundred and fifty dollars in Philadelphia.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The twenty-five or fifty cents she had earned as a small girl rose to one or two dollars or more. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The infant country, not even fifty years old, was thinking hard at the time about better ways to punish its criminals. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Second — to Miss Hermione Granger ... for the use of cool logic in the face of fire, I award Gryffindor House fifty points.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Today her mother had just heard rumors that fifty people had been killed by the Communists at the police station. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Forty or fifty of us gathered in the workshop, waiting to see the new arrival. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were a hundred yards between us, then fifty. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Patients in traditional forms of psychotherapy while away their fifty minutes reliving childhood conflicts and learning to blame their unhappiness on how their parents treated them,” Pinker wrote. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Where the hell I put that.. . You know other countries be buying her for twenty-five dollars, sometimes fifty? Her family didn’t get no money out of it.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

At the time of the interview, forty or fifty years later, she was dying of emphysema. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam has about a foot and fifty pounds on Kim, but after stumbling for a second, she adjusts to the added burden. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time, it was approximately six gallons of water—about fifty pounds’ worth—for every human being alive on the planet. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She bought a secondhand fiddle for Paul Jones and negotiated lessons for him at fifty cents an hour from a man who called himself Professor Allegretto. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her shoulder bag drops to the floor like it weighs fifty pounds. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

By midnight on Tuesday evening, more than fifty undergraduates had volunteered. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In turn, Onofre sold the crystals to Nick Rael and other commercial entrepreneurs for fifty cents, and the entrepreneurs unloaded them to tourists for a buck apiece, maybe even more. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other allowed himself a leer, which, for a scientist past fifty, was not a bad job, “Maybe she’s in love.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It’s only the biggest chicken farm in the county with flocks of fifty thousand birds at a time. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Because he wasn’t anywhere near fifty- two. He was only thirty-eight.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Among them were fifty young women who had been buried alive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Encircling the property, contentedly grazing on the rich land, was a herd of at least fifty cattle and perhaps five hundred sheep. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyler’s the Surfer Dude: board shorts and a tank top even though it’s only fifty degrees out. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was a young man, a Mr. Stone by name, with what Dr. Finch called the greatest talent for dullness he had ever seen in a man on the near side of fifty. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was in the living room, my feet tucked under the lip of the couch, firing through a set of fifty crunches when I heard Ma’s actual sleepy voice drift up and over the room. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We resided in Stromford Village, with its one hundred and fifty souls. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They reminded Harry of the little plastic sticks Mug- gle children blew bubbles through, except that they were fifty feet high. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I can come up to one fifty,” he offered. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tendai noticed the visit took about fifty minutes, neither more nor less. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I stood in the open hatch, gathering up all fifty feet of the umbilical line, I had a brief moment to rest and to look around. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do you do this, Raj, just to save a few stupid rupees. What are you saving us, fifty cents?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Told by their doctors that tea was good for their health, the English were drinking up to fifty cups a day. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

“Your book is about us living in all fifty states. We have a lot more to go before we’re done. If we stop now, you won’t be able to write your book.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Burnham’s health began to decline early in the twentieth century, when he was in his fifties. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He talked about a community pulling together in the fifties when times were not simply tough but “pretty darn tough.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We worked it for a week and after the money was split four ways, I had fifty dollars. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a scale of one to ten on the “I'm done” meter, I'm at about fifty. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Once, fifty miles down the valley, my father bored a well. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Frogs by the pound, by the fifty pounds. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She vanishes in its mouth, regenerating fifty yards away along with Roshan. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My dad sends them when he’s away. I’m up to fifty different cities.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“There are supposed to be fifty hidden copies of The Gold-Bug James said. “How many do you think he hid before this one?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

After two years, a typical laptop would have been out of date, but Annabeth figured Daedalus’s machine was still about fifty years ahead of its time. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s been over fifty years since Anne passed away, she said that not a day goes by that she doesn’t think about her. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I set off at a fast yomp, jogging fifty, walking fifty. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was, astonishingly, a long line at midnight, fifty or more women and girls in heavy coats with their backs braced against the wind. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were about fifty people in total, a big enough group that invisibility the way we enjoyed it was out of the question. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re about four hundred guys in the school. That means everybody’s got to sell fifty boxes. Usually, the guys have a quota of twenty-five boxes each to sell and the price is a dollar.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered our study of the fifty states. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this side of the page, Percy & Gray, LP, is offering Jr. Stenographers fifty cents more an hour. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, of Marina Raskova’s thousand recruits, only about fifty of them could count on starting out as pilots. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The surface shimmered maybe a hundred and fifty feet above. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Over those fifty years, their optimism was quelled by the continued reign of white supremacy. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Twelve billion gallons of water suddenly decided to make a run for the Pacific Ocean, which is about fifty miles from here. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The unicorn stopped fifty yards from the inn and would approach no closer. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Higher up, maybe fifty feet in the air, a young woman with long blond hair was hanging facedown, held in place by nothing but the harness that now strained against her weight. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“What, by conspiring with my best friend against me in the tabloids for fifty dollars?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I grinned and said, “I don’t know. A dollar fifty?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It lasted fifty- five seconds, to be precise. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

One hundred fifty a day sought him out; his five assistants each saw thirty patients a day. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

And he had amassed a collection of nearly fifty ties by the time he got into junior high, ties he wore to school every single day. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There are hardly fifty of us left, and those that are left are half starved and weak. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I was lost within fifty yards of the inn. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“In human words, I’ve been here for one hundred and fifty years.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Everything is fifty cents or a dollar, but you can’t bring food or drinks in the gym.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That will bring me closer to one fifty. Then we have a deal.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Over the next weeks fifty letters arrive, all extolling Vincent’s virtues as a painter, as a man, as a friend. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Lincoln’s responsible bodyguard William Crook had a more esteemed career, working in the White House for more than fifty years—a time that spanned the administrations of Abraham Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Please pass the green beans and by the way I have fifty thousand... Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

It would no longer be a place with fifty thousand palm trees and three hundred wells, where the pilgrims arrived, relieved at the end of their long journeys. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today another curious formula seems to declare he is fifty percent of a person. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward a group of perhaps fifty students gathered outside the principal’s office to shout cheers for the douser, saying he had paid her back. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you believe it? A hundred and fifty dollars for a permit! I’m so mad at myself.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It had about two hundred and fifty pupils aged from five to just under twelve years old. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Were fifty points up,” said Wood, “but unless we get the Snitch soon, we’ll be playing into the night.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Some fifty NCC students, joined by four white students from Duke, walked into the Woolworth’s store on Main Street and filled up the seats at the lunch counter. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

During the last fifty years the silence of much of the country has been destroyed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the police give a dance for their pension fund and everyone else gives a dollar, Dora has to give fifty dollars. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her common sense told her that Professor Allegretto should not charge fifty cents an hour and not attend to his work. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since we didn’t have a camera, I thought buying ten postcards for fifty cents would be the next best thing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The convulsive force was so great that the water rushed out of the city’s harbor and returned in a wave fifty feet high, adding to the destruction. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Past the end of the alley I saw them go, ten, twenty, maybe fifty. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m still not sure I heard you right. Did you say I now have over fifty thousand dollars?” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“How much we start with? Like seven hundred fifty, right?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I went another fifty feet down the alley and stepped into the wooden structure. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything's closed now, and the tourists who flood the wide sidewalks during the day have gone back to their hotels, towering fifty stories above us. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I take off the zeros and see fifteen over fifty. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I had many dogs before knowing her, and Lord knows how many dogs have wonderfully entered my life in the past fifty years since I met her. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Let’s not carry the analogy too far. I’ll be your matchmaker instead. I’H help you toward a proper patron. I know everyone with blood or money for fifty miles, so it shouldn’t be that hard.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know exactly. Around two hundred and fifty dollars, I think.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Down there was an empty space of fifty feet or so between the last stump and the stockade. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There should be fifty of them there, unless any have since been removed—as from Dr. Seward’s diary I fear. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

If the police give a dance for their pension fund and everyone else gives a dollar, Dora has to give fifty dollars. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under natural conditions, a typical chimpanzee troop consists of about twenty to fifty individuals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I promise you, gentlemen, that before this sale is ended each one of you will have the number ‘fifty’ inscribed in that final box, signifying that you have done your part for Trinity . The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And—though the immediate danger was apparently gone—there was no guarantee that it wouldn’t surface again a year, twenty years, fifty years from now. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We started an investigation for which we interviewed over fifty women; we were truly shocked to see how widespread the problem of sexual violence had become. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It rang and rang with no answer, probably fifty times, before Toby hung up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A card she calls me, which sounds ridiculous coming out of the mouth of an old-maid English teacher who’s practically fifty years old. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Within another hour, the number of surviving kites dwindled from maybe fifty to a dozen. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to explain that I wouldn't need the allotted fifty minutes. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was staffed by forty or fifty people, some in white coats, others in overalls, all wearing armbands of different colors: red, yellow, blue, and green. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

And Raven had said there were fifty copies total of The Gold-Bug hidden around the city, so if Mr. Remora was interested in it for the game, he could find his own copy. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Around fifty of the Minutemen and lots of British troops had been killed on Friday at Lexington or Concord, or wherever it was, although nobody seemed to know how many for sure. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hit the ground in the middle of the stadium and bounced fifty feet into the air. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Animosity between Afrikaner and Englishman was still sharp fifty years after the Anglo-Boer War; what would race relations be like between white and black if we provoked a civil war? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I yanked on a pair of sandals, sprinted the fifty yards to the communications tent, and grabbed the handset as I fought to catch my breath. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“If there were fifty in the world, I’d be stunned,” he says. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Their fifty cousins, sons of Danaüs’ brother Aegyptus, wanted to marry them, which for some unexplained reason they were absolutely opposed to doing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the way, I say five hundred and fifty people because that’s full capacity in this theater—I do not want to hear it referred to as an auditorium! Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Miles looked like he was keeping himself from saying something nasty, but he shook his head and tucked the fifty into his back pocket. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

On the back of their souvenir T-shirts was a list of the fifty- four cities on the tour. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She and about fifty other people encircled the girl and the cross. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“If you think my family is living in this moldy corner of hell for the fifty dollars a month!” she practically shouted at him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a scene from my old kitchen, where my mother treated the dying, multiplied by ten, by fifty, by a hundred. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They were men who had finished their fifty missions. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The fines ranged from one dollar to fifty dollars. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Below them was a frozen waterfall stretching fifty feet to the ground. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

After about fifty yards they reached the more solid ground that fanned out from one end of the canyon. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, fifty nylon bags filled with gold coins, jewelry, rare gems, and precious artifacts had been shuttled out of the chamber through the crawl space. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

By the standards of Camp 14, Shin’s cellmate was notably old, somewhere around fifty. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The book went on to say that scientists had been arguing about whether or not the Jupiter bird had been able to fly for over fifty years. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Two older guys, Mitchell and Homes, never say much but can shoot the dust off your boots at fifty yards. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Both of Bobby’s wins were hard fought and went to fifty moves before his opponent resigned. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once, I lost my grip and-I found myself dangling by one hand from a ledge fifty feet above the rocky surf. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Your baron has pledged fifty men from this district, one from each family,” he said, and then named the family names. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, fifty years to life was the actual sentence given to Leandro Andrade for stealing videotapes, a sentence upheld by the Supreme Court. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Excellent flying yesterday, really excellent. Gryffindor has just taken the lead for the House Cup — you earned fifty points!” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

They did not become alarmed until the third day, when no one felt sleepy at bedtime and they realized that they had gone more than fifty hours without sleeping. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Lindsey would kick my butt if we swam a fifty, not a hundred,” I said, trying it out as something like an I’m sorry. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Deepwood’s mossy walls enclosed a wide, rounded hill with a flattened top, crowned by a cavernous longhall with a watch- tower at one end, rising fifty feet above the hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A man and woman in their fifties are shaking hands with my father, everybody smiling and saying, “Ah! Ah!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got about fifty yards away and started shooting at us again with his BB gun. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later Linus, who had just turned fifty, was bound to try for the most important of all scientific prizes. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But he was fifty now, and appetites change, we know. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

About forty or fifty people had died from it, and he’d been one of them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If “free” means fifty hours of pointed questions. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In fifty paces, with a swift bend round a jutting bastion of the cliff, it took them out of sight from the Tower. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The tribal chieftain called for the boy, and presented him with fifty pieces of gold. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black smoke billows and swirls in the morning sky, and below it, maybe fifty yards ahead, is a single car that has caught on fire. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Berg stopped up ahead, its blue thrusters pointing downward now as it hovered fifty feet or so above the Town Square, a roughly square-shaped area they’d left bare when building the settlement. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I'm about to spend fifty bucks on sushi,” he answered. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The Painted Table was more than fifty feet long, perhaps half that wide at its widest point, but less than four feet across at its narrowest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And Raven had said there were fifty copies total of The Gold-Bug hidden around the city, so if Mr. Remora was interested in it for the game, he could find his own copy. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Like a dollar for the first minute, and fifty cents every minute after. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

None of the fifty prisoners onboard were told where they were going. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Ten times one hundred and thirty-five is one thousand three hundred and fifty!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Pilar Ternera had paid her fifty pesos, half of her life savings, to do what she was doing. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

By the time we crossed over into the valley of the seventies, Lefty was back in the fifties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z