He remembers another moment: They’d just found each other again after their fight. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But when they began to fight on land, they abandoned this successful strategy and followed the usual practices of waging war in Italy. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The pastor shouts, “The fight for freedom and equality for all of our children must continue until every single American is free. Until there is truth and justice for all of God’s children.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some will fight on his side, some against. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The fight on the far left was dying; Ewell was done. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That lamp was totally cursed. I just got back from fighting an ancient demon in the lobby.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m even gladder to have you guarding my back,” Celaena said, fighting a yawn. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

What Lizzie said was true: if everyone knew there were still a few wonderful things in the storerooms, people would fight each other trying to get them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had vanished as soon as the fighting was over, for he had got into the habit of going away by himself at sunset every evening—she did not know where. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stop, out of breath, like I just won a fight against ten dudes. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

One time, a bratty Hindi kid whose family had recently moved into the neighborhood told us that in his hometown, kite fighting had strict rules and regulations. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Because if I don’t make him, he’ll never go back,” said Mama, “where you, Francie, will fight and manage to get back somehow.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fight raged down the steps and into the street and across the lot. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to our room, Stick didn’t glower at his desk and ignore me like he usually did when he was fighting with Father. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I pictured the mountains and the fire and a snowball fight and let’s-get-out-of-these-wet- clothes, and I said, “Yeah. Sure.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes you have to let people fight their own battles. I know you and that kid Toby are close, but you aren’t doing him any favors by stepping up to every guy who wants some.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And if he was still laughed at he sometimes fought. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We do not fight, we defend ourselves against annihilation. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a current pulling him south, and he couldn’t fight it anymore, even if he wanted to. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We fought four hard rounds, stabbing, slugging, grunting, spitting, cursing, crying, bleeding. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she announces to the class, “There will be no fighting in or outside of my classroom. I have a zero-tolerance policy for violence. Is that understood?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

This past fall, though, Adam and I started to have a different kind of fight. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is no way to fight a boar.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m not losing fighting privileges to be carted off Djel knows where with you.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The police cleared the house after a fight. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And certainly no one, no one, dared repeat in her presence the rising rumors that, after eight years of fighting, the Soviets were losing this war. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I felt honored that he would take the time and energy to fight for our rights. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The NACW, along with its publication Woman’s Era, the first periodical published in the United States by black women, became a powerful force in the fight for the ballot. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

After going on about the margarine, they started fighting about whether or not some painting Mom had done was ugly. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She retrieved Periboia’s hunting knife, but she could barely stand upright, much less fight. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For over a year he served as chair of the Board of War and Ordinance, playing the role of secretary of war during the most tense and uncertain phase of the fighting. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He’d fight all of them if he had to, before giving Coo up. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Shall we stop and watch them fight? A laugh might serve you well, Quent. You look like an old man who has not moved his bowels in half a year.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Big Men of Durham learned an important lesson from the Populist affair: the best way to preserve the status quo was to keep blacks and whites fighting each other. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But for those of us Marines who were still in the thick of it, the fight for Iwo Jima was far from over. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason fought the urge to gag, but he didn’t keel over or explode. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Daddy fights so much that everybody calls him Scrappy. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to spoil it by having a fight. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Keeper had hurled himself into the fight when Jorge went down. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the reason him and me had that fight. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“She just makes me want to fight for justice, so that no little girl or little boy, or anyone that age—or anyone, for that matter—would have to experience this.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But the cameras revealed no sign of canal builders, no Barsoomian air- cars or short swords, no princesses or fighting men, no thoats, no footprints, not even a cactus or a kangaroo rat. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like there are bugs crawling over me and I keep fidgeting to fight them off—tiny little anxious bugs that are trying to eat me alive. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Watching the battle of wills between Captain Smith and Chief Powhatan is like watching the dance of a sword fight between two proud, powerful men. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“My husband and I had been having a terrible fight.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I made it to the Commons, I had to fight my way to the front of the cheering mob. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just so unfair, he fought for them for three years, and now they’re going to shoot him for nothing.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fight for jobs was an old one, and little had changed in Durham since Louis Austin protested discriminatory hiring practices in 1953. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every month, it’s a knife fight or money trouble or wife trouble or mistress trouble or just plain trouble. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was holding it together as she watched a black man and a white man fighting. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go back. I need to prepare for my next fight.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In March, Inkatha members launched an attack in Alexandra Township north of Johannesburg in which forty-five people were killed over three days of fighting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Lewis, listen—” “Nah, you listen here, boy. I fought a war, came back, and fought one here. See this?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And just like that, the crowd entered into an unspoken agreement that guns were fair fighting. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the end he decided he liked fighting more. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He was fighting for two camps now—two families. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Once Casde Black had housed five thousand fighting men with all their horses and servants and weapons. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He thought: they must have orders not to fight. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, the worst part of the fight was that Lieutenant Carroll got a broken tooth. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would like to see a fight, but Reverend Hunt steps in. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I fought to control a deep red anger, but couldn’t tell if I was angry at myself, the guard, or the world in general. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Listen to me. You want to fight this fight? Here’s what you do.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But did her mother agree to the baron’s decision? Did she not fight to keep her daughter?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I would feel the same way. Did she really fight with another professor?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Most of these wardresses had no idea why we were in prison, and gradually began to discover what we were fighting for and why we were willing to risk jail in the first place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” Hackett said, fighting to get his arms around to try to hit me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ve made a sacrifice, Mr. Heron, I’ve lost a son. You know I have no love for the Rebels, but this is one war I’m not going to fight.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abra nodded gravely and fought to keep the corners of her mouth from turning up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Dacus, I came to tell you that this boy fought Red because of me. Red was pulling the ol’ Hitler routine again and this boy stopped him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Brother, are we still to fight against evictions?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when he flies off the handle, at least he’s fighting for something close to his heart. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then, dropping the wallet on Juanita’s lap, I closed my eyes and fought past the raw, agonizing emotions that threatened to overwhelm me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Looking back I could just make out the blade lumpy shapes of the oxen and the cart, with Father fighting along at their heads. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or Philbert; even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I did not want to fight him in my mother's kitchen. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She loved him, and the spirited easy life he gave her, and yet she often fought the urge to create rough edges, to squash his sunniness, even if just a little. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“If I had insisted on going with her—” “You think you could’ve fought something powerful enough to kidnap Artemis? There’s nothing you could have done.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m fifty-second level, and he’s nearly killed me every time I’ve had to fight him. I have to stock up on extra healing potions every time I come down here.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Sort of. Not really. We escaped through the forest together. He fought and distracted the....He fought so the rest of us could escape.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The only thing to do when Mom and Dad fought was to pretend it wasn’t happening or act like it didn’t matter. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I shall fight the Government side by side with you, inch by inch, and mile by mile, until victory is won. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted them to have a normal childhood—I didn’t want them to have to fight or march or try to justify who they were. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His company fought their way into Luzon, facing nothing worse than mosquitoes and jungle to begin with, but on their second night were roused from sleep by artillery. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was here to fight for him—and for her freedom. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It’s like when she told us Tuerto was going to lose his eye after the fight with a raccoon a few years ago. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“It was mostly the colored folks that fought the shamblers. No surprise there. Government pays to send them to those fancy schools while real men like me are left to fend for ourselves.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Even now, he fought to keep his breathing slow and even. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The three sisters were fighting for real now, slapping each other as Anger tried to grab at Wasp’s face and Wasp tried to grab at Tempest’s. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“To succeed in those days, you had to fight for everything you got,” Arcaro wrote in his autobiography, I Ride to Win! Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So you must fight hard to express it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He fought against the Soviets and saved us.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He knew it was of no use now to fight for Hector. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Father I am not an Englishman, I am an American, and I am going to fight to keep my country free.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good thing, too, because I guess he figured I was not going to fight back and his scream of anger changed to a purr of peace. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Mrs. Hall tells them both to cool off and points out to Max that it’s foolish to root for a fight, Mrs. Silver waves me toward the door. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I went limp as a baby—I was too smart to fight back. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Because she is shy, quiet, obedient, and doesn’t say much, all our older siblings assume what she chooses to say is of some importance and usually take her side in our fights. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seamus stops mopping again and tells us we shouldn’t be fighting over poetry because we’ll have enough to fight about when we grow up and get married. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Many became enamoured of the Darkness and the black arts; some were given over wholly to idleness and ease, and some fought among themselves, until they were conquered in their weakness by the wild men. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I'd been just another Yale medical student and had never really thought of fighting until I got shut out of an endotracheal intubation seminar and signed up for a boxing class instead. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We had sixteen campers, fifteen Hunters, and half a dozen satyrs left in fighting shape. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

My mama and her boyfriend was fighting, and I turnt the TV up so I could hear my show. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Close them up again, fighting to stop the burn. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Men, and larger animals such as wolves, usually have an idea of their own numbers and those of the enemy and this affects their readiness to fight and how they go about it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even without the nighttime fights and fireworks, the city’s surfaces shone with glass and metal, the unlikely spindles of party towers casting thin shadows across the island. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

‘Why do you look out? Do you wish to see the greatness of our army? We are the fighting Uruk-hai.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Do I need to be ready to fight?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They stood at the rail, Sefia fighting the urge to empty her stomach overboard. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I never gaze at accidents unless I can help, or attend street fights for kicks. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her youngest, Christopher, had been born shortly after the uncertain time at Robert Taylor and had been with her only off and on because of a custody fight between her and Christopher’s father. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

When I went to bed that night I had a dream about him doing a whole bunch of four-and-a-half-second fights until he became world champion. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

She would follow and fight until he ripped her apart. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Kristi nods, and that tiny “yes” bleeds the fight out of me. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

From what I had heard, the fighting was almost over, anyway. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t fight the urge to halt when he calls my name like that—but I use it to my advantage. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Marigold fought the urge to stick her tongue out at him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Of what use to fight when the conclusion is known? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watch them fight, I find that I'm holding my breath. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

How could they fight over Cecile’s postcard one day and throw their mother away without a care the next day? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

"Why not? I might have to fight a Frenchman someday." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t really want to go into detail except to say that by the end of it, Brad and two of his buddies stopped fighting and just stared at me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

A boy with thick thighs and muscled arms and a shaved head full of sores had volunteered to fight me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like all of the fight was out of Byron and we’d only been in Birmingham for a couple of minutes. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents and I fight to prove to them that I can make it, that I will make it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It's all his fault. Everything was all right, until he started snooping around here. And now we're all fighting with one another and we need a new hideout.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The thing against which he had been fighting on and off ever since he had come out of the maze was threatening to overpower him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

You may not have been there, Albus, but you were fighting—fighting alongside me. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

As I get closer to the fight, I see that Darius is lost in a rage. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Will you fight, or will you hide behind your mama’s apron like a little girl?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or else they wouldn’t be able to survive a fight against him. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The version of her that was everything put together—hope and hopelessness, curiosity and courage, failure and fight. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But he doesn’t now—because he’s had a fight with Mauve. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If he had felt certain of himself and of Gus, he would not have fought. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And honesdy, the fights hadn’t been as bad as the headmaster said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

His room looked bare, everything packed away, it was as it had been the first day he had come into it, the day he had fought with Hooper and punched him in the face. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

First day I walk in the door, there she be, red-hot and hollering with the colic, fighting that bottle like it’s a rotten turnip. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The rules for watching - and betting on - a Skiz fight are simple enough. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In Lacks Town, Joe drank all day, picked fights with his cousins, and threatened to kill several of them, including Cootie. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I pick up the pace to cross the town square, staring straight ahead, wiping the fear off my face, fighting the tears that edge into the corners of my eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Southam gave multiple cancer cell injections to each prisoner, and unlike the terminally ill patients, those men fought off the cancer completely. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The engine screeched as the boat fought the waves. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was Atlas in full battle armor, jabbing with his javelin, laughing insanely as he fought. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I’ll have to live in a plastic gingerbread house the rest of my life, fighting my giant goldfish friend and waiting for feeding time. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A fight was out of the question: Booth could not walk, Jones was unarmed, and Herold had never been in a battle before. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen Bronn fight on the high road; it was no accident that he had survived the journey while other men had died. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was the face he wore when he was fighting. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But they would tire soon; they could only keep up the fight, use magic, for so long. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The only effective treatment then was rest, with the hope that the body would fight the infection. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When mice grow up, they don't ever have to go to war and fight against other mice. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Luster cried and Frony came and gave Luster a tin can to play with, and then I had the spools and Quentin fought me and I cried. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Jacques probably considered himself a hero for putting out the lights and stopping the fight. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except right now, I’m sort of in a fight with one of my friends. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Despite everyone’s efforts, the tentacles were just too numerous to fight. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, he’s too busy refereeing the fights between us, or else he’s just in his own orbit. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their laughter sounded like the creaking of branches, and Lazlo had no choice but to fight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Because TB was largely concentrated in poor countries, the industrial nations and pharmaceutical companies had all but abandoned the search for new technologies to fight MDR. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“But enemies can become friends. A week ago, would you have thought Romans and Amazons would be fighting side by side?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At least my grandfather had been able to join the army and go fight them. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“The island in the harbor. That’s where the first fighting of the Civil War happened. The Confederates shelled the Union troops and took the fort.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. You are the lucky one. People in Port-au-Prince fight for this work.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I choked on his name, fighting back tears. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He fought at Saint-Mihiel and Belleau Wood, then came home to his newspaper. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

So had I. I tensed, ready to fight. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Here is where I hold it, and I look at it and I fold it into something else. Even when I fight, it’s not about letting it out. Especially when I fight.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

That was when I learned if you can’t fight, you don’t get a vote in anything. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

An enemy half-blood was fighting with a son of Dionysus, but it wasn’t much of a contest. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You are not getting me out of this house without a fight!” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He says he’s marrying because he wants a wife and kids so that when war comes he doesn’t have to fight. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rubbing my back while I’m sick and fighting with nurses to stay with me. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Every time they have a fight, she takes the kids and leaves. Then, two days later, she comes back.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

By this time the Indian fighting had become like dangerous cattle drives—the tribes were forced into revolt, driven and decimated, and the sad, sullen remnants settled on starvation lands. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d had a running fight with a French privateer and had lost three men. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't like it, but for the most part I'd stopped fighting it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The notion of an ambush rather than an open fight cheered the men. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was more a feeling that, when I was fighting, I stopped feeling the sense of helplessness that seemed to be overtaking me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Blind anger had come often and he had either gone behind his curtain or wall, or had quarreled and fought. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If family were so important they wouldn’t be fighting in the first place.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And if the blacks would not agree to organize, then they would have to be fought. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old bull had many deep scars on his head and shoulders from battles he had fought before. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet they did not appear miserable in the least; instead, they were laughing and joking, as though they had just played a game of bowls and not fought a potentially disastrous fire. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The pain speared my heart and the threat of tears blinded me, so I tightened my grip on Juanita’s hand, fighting the urge to scream, to cry, to run away from it all. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

There is perfection in a fight like this. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Can’t fight him no more than you can fight the wind or the tide. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I guess they would have kept on fighting till they leveled the house to the ground if it hadn’t been for a freak accident. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Donatelli took him to a training camp in the mountains for ten days to try to get him in shape for an out-of-town fight. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had washed out the dust, leaving the air so clean and pure that it was like breathing in fight. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls struggled in the mud, fighting the pull as it sucked them farther down no matter what they did. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“But people do. They love each other and they misunderstand on purpose and they fight and then suddenly they aren’t the same one.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s no point in fighting if you’re not intending to win. You may go. Leave me to talk with your sister.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I fought fiercely to get off that table but my shoulders were pinned down by the full weight of a large man. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The unfortunate troll fought back pathetically, even managing to land a few glancing blows. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I stood fighting, fighting as I had never fought in my life, fighting with myself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We fought over Barbie dolls and did each other’s makeup and dreamed of love. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

These Indians who fought in the war were full of stories about all the places they’d seen. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He came to the ashes of the watch-fire near the river-bank, and then began to retrace the ground back towards the knoll where the battle had been fought. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Because I thought he had the affair because you were fighting about me, not because you were fighting about you.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and known the same women. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One is fighting for the liberation of millions of people, not the glory of one individual. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But lately, the mask has started fighting back, forcing the melding process by digging tiny filaments into the back of my neck. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was the same savage roaring and snarling and squawling that he’d done the day he fought the killer hogs off me. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment he fought against it, as if he could strike at the vision with his hands, his flailing legs, but soon he was overcome by a sudden and intense peace. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Unless there's a really good fight going on somewhere, I'm being featured. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I try to fight them off, but there are too many At least six. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“This is not our fight,” the old man said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke rapidly to his son: “Telemakhos, one of the serving women is tipping the scales against us in this fight, or maybe Melanthios.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He fought for the winners. I surmise that your grandpa was picked off while fighting for the losers.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Desperately the companions flung themselves back and forth, fighting against the mute, iron enemy. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

An overseer like Thomas needed to be so terrifying that the slaves who worked for him would never risk either fighting against him or running away. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Could I win a fight with that move?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Reyna’s dogs would snarl in warning, but the monsters didn’t stop to fight. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“No, of course not,” Alex said, fighting the temptation to do just that. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We broke apart, fighting to breathe, holding on to each other like we were drowning, like we’d been lost, left for dead in a very large expanse of sea. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She pointed back at The Student Code and said, “No, Paul. Their violation falls under the Level Three In-fractions, ‘fighting with another student.’ Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is important because the fight that would come later, the one that finally separated us from my dad, began there. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We fight off every dog who wants to turn us into dinner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was drunk the night of that fight, and plenty of other nights, too. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Pa’s tales were often about the Buddhist gods and their dragons coming down to Earth to fight evil and protect people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as he knew, that’s where most of the fighting had been. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

He fought not to wring his hands as he waited for the deep silence to invade the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Surely Cardan must have been given fighting tutors since he was old enough to hold a stick in his hands. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Old World armies did not fight in the winter; New World armies were expected to do the same. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I fought openly I would die and I did not want to die. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to fight my brothers but knew they were strong and were always together. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Frank and the guy were in one of the booths, fighting. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re young. You need your family. But until they get here, you can stay with us. We’ll teach you skills to fight the Turks.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Ali couldn’t have taken Joe Louis if Joe was fighting with a paper bag over his head.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A water-gun fight on a hot day is still the best thing ever. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Fannie took no part in the fight, but she was arrested, too. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I was professional enough about it, I didn’t make mistakes, but somehow it felt as if I were gearing up to fight somebody else’s war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we were in the air, I lost my nervousness and studied the geography of Ethiopia, thinking how guerrilla forces hid in these very forests to fight the Italian imperialists. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there wouldn’t of been more joy on his face if he’d just won a fist fight or made a hundred dollars on a land deal. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

However, once he reached the battlefield, he willingly continued the fight. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“There’s no right side. The gods never cared about us. Why shouldn’t I—” “Sign up with an army that makes you fight to the death for entertainment?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The first thing you will learn today is how to shoot a gun. The second thing is how to win a fight.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I seem to desire the fall, and though I fight it with all my will I know in advance that I can’t win. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rashid wasn’t sure that was accurate, but they didn’t need more fighting. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Even fighting was interesting when it meant you had other people around. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew the giant was meant to fight at their side. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But by the time she got up to get some of the food off the floor, the previously quiet women had already rushed past her and savagely fought over every scrap of bread. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to them quite likely that the place would be given up without any fighting at all. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, signs say, Germans holed up in underground tunnels to fight to the last man. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The covers have all these folks in bright-colored Spandex fighting one another. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

To fight back—or maybe just redirect—his feelings about Lily. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I fight a lot of people. But I assure you—you’ve never fought me as Mars. If you had, you’d be dead. Now, kneel, as befits a child of Rome, before you try my patience.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s all the same fight, Mama,” I tell her. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Sam got into another huge fight that night. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They didn’t fight back, they didn’t run in fear, they just stood there and took it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The bloodstained murderous god of war was fighting for Hector. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put up my fists awkwardly, ready to fight him some more. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a week, Paul had joined the fight. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The unfolded hoverboard pitched in the windstorm, its magnets fighting to keep it on the ground. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

One man said, “Madiba, I have been fighting the government all my life, and now I have to ask for a pardon from them.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Think of all the misdirection they used—they probably only acted like they were fighting so you wouldn’t suspect she was the mole.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

At first I thought my parents would put up a fight when one Sunday morning I just didn’t come back from the crab house in time for church. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The knights are to go on quests, aren’t they, to fight against Might? What are you trying to stop me for? It’s the whole point of the idea.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seventh and eighth grades, which our Special Progress class did in one year, were remarkable only in that I had no major fights and for the depression of my father. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But Mother Bear wasn’t there to join the fight. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It took Lee and his men less than three minutes of fighting to overcome the hapless rebellion. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Our resistance movement fights Turkish plans to bomb Syria,” Ali says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was the American who had a fighting chance of defeating a Soviet champion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, It is terrifying to feel your breath slip away and no matter how hard you fight no air can reach your lungs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In those days the upper classes hired champions to fight it out—which came to the same thing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes again and fought the nausea with all my strength, clamping my lips together. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

For the next minutes, he fought a losing battle for his life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

This time we were going to fight as warriors for the same United States that had treated our ancestors so cruelly. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It was one fight. He was sticking up for some girl the kids pick on." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

As soon as they let him out, he’d fight another soldier or get belligerent with an officer and they’d throw him back in. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

"She forbade him to fight, in front of his brother, his knights, and half the court. Tell me truly, do you know any surer way to force King Robert into die melee? I ask you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I made friends with him during our fight at the Wolf House. He’s a free spirit, literally, but once in a while he agrees to help me.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Would everybody just stop fighting,” I yell, standing by the audition door. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

During lunch hour, if they were not off fighting a blaze, the men attached to the firehouse played cards. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t punch and kick and fight him to save Doc. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Livid though he was, Reynie fought to regain control of himself. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, they send you to war, make you lick them Germans, teach you how to fight and when you come back they scared of you, want to kill you.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the other kids had to wear cheap plastic mittens that would start to crack up after two or three snowball fights or one real cold day. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had such graceful fingers, so good for folding shirts to fit the cardboard patterns that he had cut from campaign posters and fight and wrestling posters. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t have to be about mountain climbing. Just needs at least one scene where some dudes are fighting and somebody gets thrown off a cliff.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t ditch walking dogs because of our fight yesterday, would she? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Jonathan dreamed of one day taking up a gun himself and fighting the enemy. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The inside of the tree had been filled with a stock of arrows to be used in a fantasy battle at first, then in a battle fought amongst themselves. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maya didn’t really remember a time when her parents weren’t fighting. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“This fighting is temporary. They’ll sit down and figure something out.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe something in his head got knocked loose in that gang fight. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I fought hard mentally to let my face show the opposite of what I felt. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“If someone tried to—to attack him, he’d have been strong enough to fight back. And besides, he was fully clothed.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

These days I script whole fights, in my head, and the reconciliations afterwards too. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Vietnamese got kids hooked on drugs and we had to fight a war to stop it, did we give in? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The master at school said that everytime the Irish were about to demolish the English in a fair fight a filthy informer betrayed them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They had phoned him that morning to say that the Germans might attempt to shell the refinery and the oil storage tanks, and that he must report to help fight the fires. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and the other guy started to fight for the gun. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maya polities were not large enough to maintain standing armies; instead both Kaan and Oxwitza’ mustered short-term militiamen to fight wars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Hey, I’m from Garden Heights. I know how to fight. I can get down.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

How could everything as solid as the earth my grandfather fought for crumble so easily beneath my feet? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Through his law practice, McKissick also emerged as the leader of the fight to desegregate Durham's public schools, guiding black parents through the maze of requirements devised by the school board to delay integration. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nine months after the invasion, a fight broke out in the shop, which led to the earliest major roundup and hundreds dead. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I started researching about our leaders, the work of the NAACP, and what they were doing to fight for our equality. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Here was a bent glade I knew from when us village kids used to fight war games in the woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Everyone was either down, or fighting for their fives, or too scared to move forward. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The pecan tree made the perfect reading spot, with its far-reaching arms and its cradle high enough to keep me above fighting sisters or Big Ma when wash day came around. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

There were times when the training called for them to run, or even fight back. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the back of the bus was singing the Nebraska fight song. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

"Up you go, Catnip," he says, in a voice he's fighting to keep steady, and then he carries Prim off toward my mother. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They joined the rest of the Underlanders who were fighting their way back to help. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She feels a grin growing on her face and has to fight to stay cool. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t fight back; I couldn’t. And I didn’t say jack besides trying to explain that I hadn’t done nothing wrong, but before I could even get a word out, he was all over me.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“We all care for each other too much to pull any of that stuff. If you don’t want to fight, nobody’s going to force you. We’ll just leave you alone forever.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Through this encounter with the fever their blood automatically produced antibodies that either fought off the yellow fever virus entirely or reduced its impact on the individual significantly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He starts playing some kind of fight song and I can see the runners' faces lift, their arms pumping at their sides determinedly. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Because Thresh would have never gone down without a fight. He's so strong, I mean, he was. And they were in his territory," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Tom said with vast delight, ticking them off, “Lawrence, we got prisoners from the Fifteenth Alabama, the Forty- seventh Alabama, the Fourth and Fifth Texas. Man, we fought four Reb regiments!” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a battle is over, when he has lived to fight again another day, the great white hetero action hero goes somewhere high above the city, somewhere with a view. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Never mind. I shouldn’t have asked. How could anyone in that house not hear the shouting and fighting? Murenga is an alcoholic. So, unfortunately, was Proud.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She explained that Pole Star was a trading vessel but also a warship, accustomed to fighting Siberian and Inuit pirates as it made the icy Pole Run to Nippon. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

One cold and fiery night in the near future, Vincent will fight with another roommate. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A glorious strength was in him and he heard himself laughing aloud as he fought. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Moss fought an urge to shove her out of the way, but his body ached too much. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to deal with more surprises or fights in the locker room, so I avoided it altogether. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Shay’s right. We all have something, so let’s not fight about it, okay?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

With extremely bad timing, Kekrops and his snake people chose that moment to join the fight. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At bayonet-practice I had constantly to fight with Himmelstoss, I with a heavy iron weapon, whilst he had a handy wooden one with which he easily struck my arms till they were black and blue. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Get in there and fight, Brooks," someone yelled, high-pitched and nasty, "Off ya bicycle, go and fight." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong was so ashamed that he had to fight off tears. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He was very sensitive—he’d flare up and fight in a minute—but I could talk to him and he would calm down and talk to me. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bile and sulfur and all the fetid organic stenches we fight all our lives to keep at bay. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Soon after that fishing trip, at the age of seventy-one, Gey learned he had the disease he’d spent his entire life trying to fight. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The fighting ranged all over the Parthenon and spilled across the Acropolis. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Tyrion heard her tunic rip as she fought to free herself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And that is the story of how my father fought twelve men and won. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mom kisses my cheek and I know our fight is over. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He banked sharply and swung back into the fight. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Hey, look. I don’t want to fight either. I’m sorry. I just want to get this done and wrapped up. And then we can enjoy the party, okay?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He helped his mother to her feet while his father watched, fists clenched, still ready to fight, breathing loudly through his nose as his jaw muscles tensed and relaxed. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

During the Vietnam War, John and Marti Peterson spent three perilous years together in neighboring Laos, where John trained and advised a guerrilla army to fight the communist insurgency there. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mother said my father and brother were probably fighting in the woods. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Richard Armstrong of Yale proposed an early-burst theory in the 1960s, then spent the rest of his career fighting those who did not agree with him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He has no social graces, and he fights with everyone. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Veterans who felt cheated joined the rebel forces against Octavian, and as opposition to Octavian grew, fighting broke out across Italy. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Where were the men who’d come back, who’d laughed and eaten and fought alongside their buddies in Vietnam, mourned them in death? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When we fight, he’s usually the first to apologize, the first to lift us out of our hurt. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But Matt still fought against the dullness that threatened to overwhelm him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knows the white lady isn't the only one who's watching, listening, waiting, to end this fight. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It pleased her to hear that the Usurper's dogs were fighting amongst themselves, though she was unsurprised. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She knew there had been fighting, but surely no one would harm a steward. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We leaped out from underneath the stoop where we had taken cover and charged into the open yard, where we began to fight. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And indeed for a time Patroclus fought as gloriously as that great hero himself could have done. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I were beaten at home, there was absolutely nothing that I could do about it; but if I were beaten in the streets, I had a chance to fight and defend myself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, by God it better be, because we’re going to have to fight here sure enough in the morning.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Chervil had already told him that no one was to go out, it would be necessary to fight him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hillary was Barack’s opponent, which meant that I wasn’t inclined to feel especially warmly toward her just then, but I couldn’t help but admire her ability to stand up and keep fighting amid the misogyny. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When they fight, he gives her the silent treatment. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

John didn’t have much to fight back with at first. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“There was six of ’em, Chief, they tried surrounding me, but I fought like a devil! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"You started the killing. I don't go around fighting," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I fight too well, people might get suspicious. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I know you don’t want to fight,” he said once. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

In Thebes, Creon was in control and he proclaimed that none of those who had fought against the city should be given burial. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, no, it’s true about the fighting,” Sam said. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From then on, I knew that there was a ritual to a street fight, bylaws and codes that, in their very need, attested to all the vulnerability of the black teenage bodies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"Trying to fight the snow?" the voice mocked him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Shomari gritted his teeth, as though he meant to fight, and for a second looked as though he might try it, but then he seemed to think better of it and stared ahead. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “In this unusual war, women not only supported the army by their work in the rear, but also fought with arms in hand.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I didn't want to join them, admiring British-born actors who loved, cried, fought, and lived while we applauded. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I am a Viking. I'm fighting just to get by.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Buford had taught them to fight dismounted, the way they did out west, and the hell with this Stuart business, this glorious Murat charge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning after the fight I had a letter from Robert Cohn, written from Hendaye. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Taisin heard him, and she twisted in her saddle to see Con trying to fight his way closer to the fallen guard. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lilya took these losses hard, and her flying and fighting hardened, along with her personality. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Scabbers has been fighting, not us,” said Ron, scowling at her. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

In any case, no one in Marina’s aviation regiments would be doing any fighting until their training was finished. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Percy,” she said under her breath, “we’ll have to fight a Cyclops. Polyphemus, the worst of the Cyclopes. And there’s only one place his island could be. The Sea of Monsters.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Here was an opportunity to make practical use of the theories in which he had marinated for years—and in the service of a fight against Fascism that he took seriously indeed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Opi!” the boy screamed, fighting to get back to the shoemaker. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We stopped and had another glaring fight One said, “I declare.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prosper could see the old Scipio returning, the stubborn, arrogant Scipio who would fight to get his way. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They may not be remembered individually like Fannie, but throughout history many ordinary people had the courage to risk their lives to fight a system they believed was unjust. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

If he's disappointed that I don't know anything about where he's fought, he doesn't show it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But each month, new agents posing as businesspeople, diplomats, professors, and other unassuming characters quietly joined the fight against the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

For every season he bad the best place, like a cat, and he yelled and ran and fought and upset people and snoozed and daydreamed and pretended he was a Knight, without stopping. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road was crowded with carriages pulled by wildeyed horses that crashed into each other as everyone fought to escape. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like, in cancer books, the cancer person starts a charity that raises money to fight cancer, right? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Furrowing her brow, she fought for the right sounds, willing her tongue and teeth to work—the whispered consonant, the hiss. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Do you think anyone in the history of this world ever set out to fight for the wrong side?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered if we were going to fight. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Jack Johnson was the champion of the world and he fought all over the world.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Gestapo knocked on the door right now, I’d fight the Nazis with my fingernails just to let them stay that way. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Piper knew she couldn’t win a straight fight against Khione and two winged guys with swords. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Once again on the battlefield he was eager for the fight, and better fortune for a time lay before him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But I think it's a good reminder of what our movement is fighting against." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would get mad and fight back, and the boy was always afraid when his father got mad. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years Deganawidah and Ayenwatha persuaded the Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, and Mohawk to form an alliance instead of constantly fighting. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sir Mador decided to save himself the expense of a champion by fighting his own case, and he insisted that Guenever must brief a champion for her defence. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fought through the first pick but the second one got him. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

Kibitzers began gathering around his board, and each time Bobby had to get up to visit the tiny restroom in the back of the club, he almost had to fight his way through the scrum. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Like Hume, he hadn’t yet smoothed out as an oarsman, but his natural inclination was to fight first and ask questions later, and it was starting to pay off for him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A Trip to the Moon, Melies’ most famous film, followed a group of explorers as they went to the moon, fought the moon men, and returned home with a captive, to great acclaim. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“They’ll radio down reinforcements for sure. I don’t want to be trapped into fighting on that river.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It worked, but not fast enough. Michael got sick before his body could fight the cancer off....I didn’t save him.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

This time the fight was over in less than a minute. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His name was Mr. Galanter, and all of us wondered why he was not off somewhere fighting in the war. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

His fame was also due to his activism against the Vietnam War, his efforts to fight racism with his words, and his devotion to humanitarian causes around the world. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She was strengthened, emboldened, by the madness of grief and she fought off everyone who tried to hold her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the evidence overwhelmed me: there was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For no particular reason, I felt like picking a fight. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He passed the time remembering and fighting against asthma. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t agree, not exactly, but I didn’t fight back because I was ready for lecture time to be over. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

If I refuse to give up now, it will look brave to whoever watches me with that camera, but sometimes it isn’t fight- ingthat’s brave, it’s facing the death you know is coming. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Walowick said he hated weddings and funerals because all of his relatives got together and fought. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment anger at being awakened fought with approval in Jody’s father. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm not going to see him after lunch until the fight. His people come in and dress him. They're very angry about me, he says." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“You can go back right now if you like. You can go pull sweet potatoes, or you can stay with us and learn how to fight barbarians and bandits.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Created in the nineteenth century as a volunteer citizen militia to fight American Indians on the frontier and, later, Mexicans along the border, the Rangers had evolved into a kind of state police force. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“They either die fighting for what’s right and leave you an unprotected baby,” she says, “or they become complicit with what’s wrong and keep you alive.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to fight?” the instructor demanded. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these at last, and after all the bitter setbacks of discipline, he was allowed to fight battles which were nearly rol ones, against his brother and cousins. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rhaegal and Viserion were fighting over a scrap of meat, buffeting each other with their wings as smoke hissed from their nostrils. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It felt weird leaving the others behind, but they were fighting so we could attempt this heist. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He raised Riptide, ready to fight, but they were hopelessly outnumbered. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The tenants were the cause of all our fights. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure if it was possible to use up a ventus by inhaling it, but, if he was going to have to fight, he’d better take on Kym before he ran out of oxygen. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I was now on the sidelines, but I also knew that I would not give up the fight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mommy ignored them all, unless the insults threatened her children, at which time she would turn and fight back like an alley cat, hissing, angry, and fearless. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon leaving King’s we would go to the open veld, where we would imitate the various fighting methods—using sharpened sticks and iron rods—we had seen in the pictures. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whilst they played wits against me—against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before they were born—I was countermining them. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Johnson told viewers that the North Vietnamese attacks had been fought off, with no American casualties. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I probably should have, now that I think about it, but at the time, I just thought it would make Joey want to fight him. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Until now, I’ve always had Chou to play with, fight with, and talk to. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but he still knew what he was doing and who he was fighting for,” said Miles, but without conviction. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Remember when Taro, Shoji, and I used to fight about that?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

“Well, the battles we fight always change us. When we’re fighting them, all we can see is how they wound us. But they can change us for the better, too.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lasher had been in World War II and had fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

How long before one of them got stabbed in a bar fight, not just knocked out? Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Murderers and rapers may be forced to fight, and all those who persist in slaving, but not thieves or debtors.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And even though the deck is stacked against him, he fights to maintain his innocence. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Under his rule, peace came to the land of the Danes, because none of the neighbor countries dared to fight with such a giant. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They want us to fight four rounds for five dollars apiece,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But there are more to come. And still more will be needed when we fight the wolf.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Dad was half potted and kept trying to pick fights with the security guards. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was back twenty-five years earlier when I was her little Charlie and she was willing to fight for my place in the world. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

This was certainly not the way she imagined her day would go—but who was she to fight against something that rang so clearly of destiny? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“He fighting these babies again. Taking they play things. Stay here with T. P. now, and see can you hush a while.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them will fight for ever. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

"Sure they was—as long as you people was fighting for 'em. But the minute y'all stopped, they started throwing folks out on the street." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely he saw them fight like dogs over food. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fight felt like all the horrible things they’d ever felt about each other bubbling over like a bad potion in a cauldron. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

In almost any other situation Pauling would have fought for the good points of his idea. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t get in a fight. I just told him to leave my sister alone, and he and his friend ran away.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I hope they put up the best fight ever. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

‘Greeks and Romans, we can fight her together!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It’s the same way Dad looked at him when he stepped into Mr. Armand’s office that first time after the fight. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

To pray daily for the strength not to fight back. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fought the urge to put her fingernails in her mouth. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It’s my fault for not trying harder, not fighting to keep my place in the friendship. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then, as I fought against it, the scene came back—not of the death, but of the dolls. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soft yellow emergency fights come on, strips that run down the roof of the train. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

At home Abel and my mom got in a huge fight. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He assumed I was limping because of the fight—battle wound—and was telling me how everyone was talking about how I mopped Brandon, even the people who got chocolate milk splashed on them. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They had discovered when they were in New Zealand and in Australia that they were not treated badly because they were Indians, but respected as Americans who fought in the war. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you know you will soon be fighting again. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Against the Bible to fight injustice? Oh, come now, Amelia. I think you’ve got the wrong book at that church of yours.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

We'd fought all morning and then started fighting again in the afternoon. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

She was in the court-house fighting something and it wasn’t death. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t fighting with immature boys in the school yard more than enough to bear? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“While I fight, Zed and Rock can supervise each other.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t feel like picking a fight with him here. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

His anxiety was not for the fighting he might have to do, but the threat to their Wiltshire dream. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We have one week left to win the fight for our Fifi's heart and mind. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She didn’t back down from her fighting stance. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was standing in the dust of the fight, and as the tribe saw his intention the shrill cheer changed to a steady booing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I guess he means that everybody starts fighting eventually.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He fought the urge and fought it and fought it. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Malfoy looked as though he was fighting down the urge to shout, or to vomit. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Can you dance and work? I mean, looks like you caused another fight in here, so the least you can do is restack the boxes, right?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I looked at Thalia and Zoe, and I decided it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world to die fighting with friends like this. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He had no other arm with which to fight the shadows that flickered around him on the floor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was decided that I would surface at certain events, hoping for a maximum of publicity, to show that the ANC was still fighting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That accident has changed my life forever,” he said, now really fighting to hold it together. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then I could go back uptown toward Central Park and try really hard to get Gilgamesh to join the fight. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Surely God Himself put us all in our places: Lords to rule and fight. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Koffi fought to hold her stage smile in place, but it felt more and more like a scowl. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

"They don't fight very well," Bran said dubiously. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Panthers on TV said they were in communities to protect poor black people from the powerful; to provide things like food, clothing, and medical help; and to fight racism. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My oldest son, he fought in the first Persian Gulf conflict. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

All of these rebels, many of whom fought alongside my parents, suddenly know whose child I am. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Which meant we of course ended up in a tickle fight like we were six years old. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I would not be so lucky in the future in my fight against the authorities at the college. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a good reason to want to fight the Nazis: in 1941, her baby was killed when a German bomb hit the maternity hospital where she’d just given birth. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

People think it’s such a hard read, but it’s really just a soap opera with lots of characters, people falling in love, fighting for love, dying for love. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Normally when he fought, Percy simply discarded the cap. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He got a cunning look, as if getting ready to offer a deal—the look men have when they fight with men instead of poor stupid animals. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Nazario leading the fight for political, social, and economic power, anything was possible. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He’d gotten into a fight with another player, apparently, and he’d have to sit out the next two games for disorderly conduct. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We chose December 16 to show that the African had only begun to fight, and that we had righteousness — and dynamite — on our side. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like, when Anna got the norovirus last year, Morgan and I reenacted the fight she missed in the lunchroom. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I hope people feel empowered by my fight and know that they have every right to demand a place at the table of whatever life is offering. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He looks like he’s fighting for the right words, the right way to explain himself. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That didn’t bother Joaquin—he knew Mark would never hurt him, and even if he tried, Joaquin had three inches and about thirty pounds on him, so it would be a fast fight. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I got tangled up with a few of them once—just a stupid fight—and the next thing I knew, I woke up one morning busted out of my mind, bleeding out my side. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

So the crickets rush at each other and begin to fight. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark beat at hands and fingers with his flashlight; then Alec pulled back on the door and pushed it forward again, crushing it against those still trying to fight their way in. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Everything is changing so fast, and after our fight at the movie theater, I don’t know how Mom would react if she found out the box is here, in my room. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The fighting around me stopped as the combatants’ eyes and mouths opened wide in amazement. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was too upset about Mama losing her trip, I reckon, and anyhow he believed in a boy fighting his own battles. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They formed a nice little barricade against the desperate fighting in the yard. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Those who’d fought and won were dicing in a comer, laughing as only men who have just faced death and lived can laugh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That might be true, but the way he twirls the dagger between his fingers like a pro makes it clear he at least knows how to fight. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As we crossed the commons area, a fight broke out between the Ares and Apollo cabins. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The fight along the river, the knight who'd offered up his gauntlet, the bridge of ships . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I reminded people again and again that the liberation struggle was not a battle against any one group or color, but a fight against a system of repression. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He ran off like a scalded dog. Meantime, Lonna and my old man get into this humongous fight—” “The one you told me about.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the children were grown up, they fought over having her come to live with them. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep close to the ceiling, away from the fighting below. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Stand and look before you fight or flee. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“You want to fight me, Pri? I will fight you if you don’t tell me the truth.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The school administrators knew that if someone could win a fight and still come out the loser, it was by revealing such gentleness. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give you sage counsel or sing you pretty songs, as you prefer. I’ll even fight for you. Just don’t ask me to wear your cloak.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Well, look, I don’t need any help right now. But thanks again. Besides, shouldn’t you be getting sleep for training? When’s your next fight?” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Among them all the youngest was Elpenor—no mainstay in a fight nor very clever—and this one, having climbed on Kirke’s roof to taste the cool night, fell asleep with wine. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Either one or the other. And although I don’t believe in war I’m ready to fight for what I know is right.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her voice trembled like she was fighting herself. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Erudite doesn’t have weapons, and they don’t know how to fight—but the Dauntless do. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I'll fight with everything I have to stay with my mother. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I fought back a shiver before it could expose me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He laid out the terrible injustice of black and white men fighting “in brutal solidarity,” only to come home to a country where they could rarely live on the same block. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“But you can hurry him along. You can help him dwell on the good things: his adventures, the women, the fighting, his travels, his music. . . .” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He says nothing of the fight Helene and I are having, though he must have heard at least part of it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“But even if that happens, everyone will know we’ve gone out fighting, right?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

These methods varied by nation, but historians note that, in general, Indigenous peoples fought to capture rather than kill their enemies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father and I don’t want any more fighting. Especially in the family’s house. Understood?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Cole didn’t know why he was spilling his guts to Garvey, but he fought back tears as he continued. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When middle school started, they were the set of sixth graders who drew creatures on their homework and did not fight. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the course of the fight Trip managed to break his sword, hide under a lady’s dress, fence with a sausage, and perform such fantastical acrobatics that it’s a miracle he didn’t seriously injure himself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“If you can rescue me out of this prison, I will fight in the faction of King Bagdemagus next Tuesday.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm not sure if in the end he was too strong for me or if I was just too scared to fight back. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“How do you fight all the different stuff inside?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

This usually meant trying to stop fights between kids and sweeping up broken bottles. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

That was what kids used to say in the neighborhood when they picked a fight. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They fought and fought until they earned the rights they should have had all along. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“All the more reason not to fight them,” said Valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I can’t bear it if...if he dies without knowing. And knowing might even make him fight to live!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The burgeoning cultures took to fighting with each other. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Good training, that; it brought home how hard it was to fight your way up a spiral stair against determined opposition. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the only way he could fight his outrage at what was happening to his people. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"My dog has a fierce bark. Perhaps I should command him to fight the, day's champion. To the death." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He looked over their supplies, and they were good human-trap-making supplies, but...“The way Mr. Flux twisted and stretched when he was fighting the stranger. That seem human to you?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Says Hercules fought him one time,” Jason offered. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Because they fought back when whalers harpooned them. Right in these very waters, actually. Back in the 1800s. Now, the other types of whales? Well, they’d die pretty conveniently once the harpooner stuck ’em. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Look at our camp. We can’t even stop fighting each other. And I’m supposed to get my stupid soul reaped.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Each time Brian’s eyes closed to blink, they opened more slowly, and each time he had to fight to get them open. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Momma said we had to fight the evil inside us by overcoming it with goodness. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilots from the other squadron were pulled into the center of their fight simply by their proximity to the maelstrom. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with other industrialists, Swift and his confreres hired thousands of women to fill jobs vacated by men fighting overseas. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I fought down waves of terror as I walked. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’d see how it all played out—how Jenny fought when I tried to break up with her. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

My father’s a large man, very strong, but he says fighting is for people who can’t win with their brains. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We did not want to be beaten for fighting. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hercules fought ninety-nine percent of everything in Ancient Greece.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She’s bigger than he is and just as fast, and when the inevitable fight comes, it’s bloody and awful and both have received what could well be fatal wounds, when Haymitch is finally disarmed. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

On worksheet after worksheet, Elizebeth and her team fought for each letter. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Happiness and terror was both fighting to smother me. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He pulled a long breath, held it, and fought the pictures away. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was fear that had made him fight Gus in the poolroom. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At that time I didn’t think I was lucky, I thought I was brave and knew how to fight. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Had she been wrong to fight so hard? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The ceremony began at dawn and continued until dusk, an endless day of drinking and feasting and fighting. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Tecumseh had told the people in Prophet’s Town not to be drawn into a fight, because the alliance was not yet ready for war. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Next time,” she muttered to the dark room, “just let me fight a monster. Much easier.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"You laugh. You. Now that is gall. You fight like a hedgehog ..." "There was a knight once who couldn't see," Bran said stubbornly, as Ser Rodrik went on below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I knew he was about to fight me on the court, but now I kind of felt sorry for him. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“We just talked. He was heading out of town after one too many fights with his dad.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The effect would be much the same if the three superstates, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The circle of men disperses, muttering disappointment; they were promised a fight. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson’s plan to have the boys row themselves quickly into fighting form ran into trouble starting the day after his fiery speech. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If I was successful, who knew how the fight would’ve ended? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Washington had spent his young manhood fighting with the British to expel the French from North America. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

If he’s teased about me, he will have to fight some more. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I fought against my instinct to toss the flowers onto the floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As they fell upon him he knew at last that he had fought against a god and must pay with his life. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like America—it used to be a British colony, but we fought for our freedom. The Zimbabweans did the same thing.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It moved the fight in the quadrangle from one-on-one spit-and-run attacks to something more serious. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“The very nature of a woman rejects the idea of fighting,” said Alexandra Akimova, a squadron navigator with the 46th Guards. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He knew something was wrong because of the way his father acted with him, peaceful in the knowledge he didn’t have to put up a fight anymore. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your victory, rather, Archivist. This is some forgotten goblin victory during the war before your race retreated into the mountains, unwilling to fight honorably.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He was used to fighting with men on each side of him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to have returned at the head of what looked like the families and friends of every Hogwarts student who had remained to fight, along with the shopkeepers and homeowners of Hogsmeade. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Jess fought back her own tears and took a deep breath. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Crouched just beyond the reach of the light, Tanin fought to steady her breathing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It’s possible they weren’t seen to be as important or as worthy as those who were fighting at the front. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My friends started fighting among themselves, kicking, punching, throwing each other to the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Peaches went toward him and I went over in case some fighting was going to break out but she just took his hand. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For three days Samuel lay in bed, fighting the fever phantoms and putting names to them too, before his great strength broke down the infection and drove it caterwauling away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I came to the foot of the trail where the battle had been fought. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some shiny memory must be fighting for his attention, because his body tenses and his newly bandaged wrists strain against the metal cuffs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the dark above, a fight was taking place. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm not giving up without a fight," she whispers fiercely. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He spread his feet as if ready to fight. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He appeared to be deep in thought, but she could see a smile twitching at the corner of his mouth, fighting to break out. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We will,” said Sir Ector, who was in the secret That seems to me to be inconsistent Why does he help me to fight wars, if they are bad things?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing to do but fight now and hold this line. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drank a little with the boys, got into a few fist- fights, and lived at the top of his game. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the Battle of Manhattan, Percy had fought this Titan at the Reservoir—water against fire. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You!” he cried, pointing at a boy who had been standing right next to the man who fought back. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Barbee stood with his head thrown back, his arms rigid at his sides, his fists clenched as though fighting desperately for control. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fight the urge to tell Seven to turn around. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

One Osage who had served in World War I complained, “I fought in France for this country, and yet I am not allowed even to sign my own checks.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After a few such experiences, the natives tried to fight back. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Dinka and the Nuer had been fighting each other for hundreds of years. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fought them, one man against a whole company, and his flying spear struck down warrior after warrior. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment he was blinded, fighting for air. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Was that why I fought my way out of Durango? Was that why I built an empire greater than El Dorado’s? El Dorado bathed in gold dust every day. Did you know that?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the landing above—Turner and Nettle could just see boots and lower legs moving stiffly from side to side—a fight was developing, with wrestling grunts and a smack of knuckles on flesh. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She offered Ekon a gummy smile as they appraised each other, and he fought a shudder—she was missing several teeth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Out on the prairies, the Cree had put up a fight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They all look so similar—dim lantern light, smoke and chaos, the occasional Skiz fight happening in a dark corner. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They’d take me aboard their planes and force me to fight, leaving me for dead along the magic battlefields. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Dad let him inside, and their fight was loud and long. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There must have been twenty or thirty of them at least, all pushing and fighting and lashing their tails and churning the water into a froth. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

And like any prisoners, these kids fought with anything sharp they could find. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hillary, who was fighting a cold, also used the opportunity to go after Barack. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As the paint dries on The Potato Eaters, Vincent has another huge fight with Anna. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Every American was a rifleman by birth, and one American was worth ten or twenty foreigners in a fight. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once the fighting had ended and the master had been served his meal, I took a cool compress and mug of cold ale up to Madam. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe there was a fight and — and they dragged him off, Professor?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I fought to speak, to get out the words to the question that was suddenly weighing heavily on my mind. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Nailer watched in awe as the crew fought to do their work. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But, instead, she was looking right at me, trying to get me to fight against it alongside her, when all I did was fight her tooth and nail. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

In truth, the fact that you were in the class likely meant you came from a difficult background, homes where parents fought or took drugs or beat their kids or maybe spoke a foreign language. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paddled up Claiborne, the wind and rain fighting him, to the Memorial Medical Center, where he knew there were police and National Guard soldiers stationed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I feel like she might have been waiting for me, which is ridiculous, because when we fight she always pretends I don't exist at least until the afternoon. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I fight back the urge to ask Beatriz if she knows the truth. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Well, say Sofia, Mama fight the good fight. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thrashed wildly in the darkness, the bed groaning under him and the sheets hissing as he fought against them. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Good Lord, she thought, my own grandfather fought in it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

After the war, the Japanese had decided to be prepared for something like that if they had to fight America. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t so much the running around, or the fighting, it was the tension. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Robin, too, of far countries: the Holy Land where crusaders had fought for the tomb of our Lord, and of Greece and Rome, whose ancient languages were the beginnings of many other tongues. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I fight with my lips, trying to press them into a serious and professional frown rather than the grin that threatens to overtake them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was, in that sense, all the same; we fought injustice wherever we found it, no matter how large, or how small, and we fought injustice to preserve our own humanity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t I find out how my only daughter is doing? I’m worried about you. I gave birth to you. I will always care about you, no matter how many times we fight.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The conflict struck many people as horribly modern, fought as it was with recent inventions like tanks, airplanes, and poison gas. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She dung tightly with both hands, desperately fighting being thrown into the river. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You could. That’s a possibility. But he’s fairly decent at fighting. I think he could have stopped you.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“He was good to me. He tried to stop them. He hates fighting, too. He told me that when we came home from the Dead Sea. I can’t believe they took him!” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the real Tanias had to keep fighting whether or not Hollywood brought their story to the silver screen. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Their line of reasoning boils down to this: England must fight, struggle and sacrifice its sons to liberate Holland and the other occupied countries. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They sang and shouted in unison as they fought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Grab that ax. I want you to fight him." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Bull would not mind that there was a fight, only that Ben had lacked the stealth not to get caught. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Ofrah once said that this is how I fight, with my voice. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Soldiers are doing the job of fighting the war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I pulled at my beard, and the abbot said, “William, you have taken the vows. You wear the robe. You will soon be tonsured. You may not fight. Anyone. For any reason.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

All through the first battle, I fight defensively. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This is not why we are here, to fight. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached the mountain path where the hand fight happened, the Prince did not even bother dismounting. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When Harley talked like that, things that had happened, the dead sheep, the bar fight, even jail—all seemed very remote. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hunters strode into the hall, all but Ben Bones, who was cursing at the dogs to stop them fighting over the severed head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“How can you succeed when you let the puppet troops do the fighting?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I search the ground for weapons—a staff, sharp rocks, anything I can use to fight them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There followed several more man-to-man fights of different kinds, with different weapons. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Where the heck did you learn to fight like that?” she asked. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He fought the urge to breathe, to give up and fill his lungs with oil. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

And like Mom said, people who love each other can fight and make up. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Different groups ran different routes, and they would fight over who controlled what. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But all I can do is death-grip the rail and fight back the lump in my throat. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to give them anything,” I tell the man, but he’s too frightened to fight them anymore. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then they went on to another tractate, fought over another passage, and this time Reb Saunders agreed, his face glowing, that his son was correct. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

‘Hazel’s magic is too good. If I have to fight, I’ll be useless.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He fought the urge to run out there, slip past the moving slabs of rock before they shut, flee the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It worried me that it was something else for him to get into a fight with Father about. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t the French fight for individual freedom, Jefferson asked, exactly like America’s struggle against British oppression? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Kids playing blocks away said they saw it whiz by, and legend has it that people fighting in the burger joint parking lot stopped to watch. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“We understand that you’re in the process of adopting a little girl. Are you aware her mother is fighting to regain custody?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And they’d cheer the brave leaders whose words had sparked this fight for freedom. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I liked to listen to them talk sometimes and fight my way through their accents to find out more about how they survived lives of slavery. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And slowly the fight begins to leak out of her. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We fought over everything: who could control the TV remote, whose turn it was to use the phone, and who had dibs on marrying Leonardo DiCaprio. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He fought her the way a coward fights a man—with feet, the palms of his hands, and teeth. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not really. Just sort of skipping around to see people’s different fighting techniques,” says Peeta. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

That had been Madison’s favorite constellation because it was so easy to find and had such a cool story behind it—the hunter and his sword, his dogs, all of them fighting a demonic bull. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I said, “Uh-huh, we kind of had a fight. How long’s it take to get out west?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the mullet guy, who was startled but put up no fight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I had taken six seats for all the fights. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

When Napoleon was calculating how to get sugar without having to fight the English fleet, a couple of beet-sugar factories had begun operating around Europe. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

My son is—my son is fighting battles for us just as I had to for you. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure, after what he had just told me, choking back the tears, that Bax didn’t want to get into any fights. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It goes without saying that I defeat the standing champion, but the mechanics of the fight never really interest me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She draws her scim and plunges into the fight, forcing two of the attackers to engage. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mom’s job meant she was happy, and didn’t even bother fighting with Dad about money. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

If America went to war with Germany, Haupt didn't want to fight against his Fatherland. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“But someone must push the button. And once the chains are cut...my brethren will fight to stop your passage. They will not want the Doors to disappear.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Any time I’m about to fight someone I yell ‘Simba Barracuda’ real tough like. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I doubted that he would show his face again at the tavern where he had fought the duel, and I was right. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

How did she think she could fight back? I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“We can’t know that, not for certain. We need to steal away before we end up fighting the woman I was sent to woo.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sounds had apparently come from two boys mock sword fighting with wooden singlesticks. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He said you started a fight with Drew and got him in trouble.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“With the move. And my parents have been fighting more and more—arguments about money and stuff.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I won’t if you won’t. They can’t fight both of us. Anyway, let’s get out of here and go exploring; I would very much like to get this roof off from over my head.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Second, the official religions and patriotic fervor of many states make their troops willing to fight suicidally. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t fight or anything, but they didn’t always agree. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was never any fighting on school grounds. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The knight in the spiked helm reached die ram-part, but Yoren tangled his black banner around his spike, and forced the point of his dirk through his armor while the man was fighting the cloth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t have the heart to fight with her when she gets like this. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Ser Barristan suggested a tourney instead; his orphans could ride at rings and fight a melee with blunted weapons, he said, a suggestion Dany knew was as hopeless as it was well-intentioned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I sat for hours, fighting hunger, avoiding my mother’s eyes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared back at me, wanting desperately to jump the table for a fight. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They fought in Sherman’s devastating “March to the Sea” and in the last battle of the Civil War at the Battle of Columbus on the Georgia-Alabama border. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The fighting had taken place, for the most part, at a distance from them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indians and Australians were fighting for the British in the Pacific and the Far East; Canadians were fighting for them in the Mediterranean. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Do you know the secret to fighting a scorpion?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You know better than that, Pri. If it involves two students within a few yards of the school, then fighting is grounds for suspension,” Ms. Stanley says. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Arthur had found that this made people keener on fighting in the new way of Right, if they had to tell about it afterwards. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a dog who has had all the fight whipped out of him, Hodor would curl up and hide whenever Bran reached out for him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Why can’t I say anything right to that girl? I’m tired of fighting with her, worrying about every word I say.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Lanre was always where the fight was thickest, where he was needed most. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One strong jerk backward and the fight was over. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“No hurt. Plenty fight. Stay small time, den go.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I can't help thinking that everything he sees will only strengthen his resolve to fight back. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the fight, the man may need hundreds of stitches, and could be blinded. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Folding tighter, letting out his breath, fighting off images of corks and bottles and Jackson Boy caught in the darkness, dying alone. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because he was too weak to fight back. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s weird, even though we’d been in a couple fights, and I still didn’t trust him that much, I thought he totally deserved to get better. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

What was he doing here fighting the North Vietnamese? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

What actually happened is this: the boy stayed home, had another fight with this father, stabbed him to death with the knife at ten minutes after twelve and fled from the house. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briony knew it would be dreadful, that there would be hand-to-hand fighting in the streets and public hangings, a descent into slavery and the destruction of everything decent. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She noted that the girls fought over the flag as fiercely as the boys did. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood Hill. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

So there was nothing that was going to stop him from fighting this. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“In San Antonio, school’s always trouble. Everyone fights. Everyone’s afraid. I hope it’s better here.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Nya’s family did not live by the lake all year round because of the fighting. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like he was fighting the urge to run. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

All the insults and anger, the confusion and fighting, seemed to converge in a single flash of white-hot feeling. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Back in the old country, everyone fought for the honor of paying. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They fought the devil, no holds barred, boots and eye-gouging permitted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Loki and his children will be there for Ragnarok, the end of everything, and it will not be on the side of the gods of Asgard that they will fight. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She’ll probably sit us in alphabetical order to try to stop any fights. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The fighting at the front that day was so ferocious that Masha thought it looked like “a continuous curtain of fire.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It has been estimated that as many as 400 women cut their hair short, disguised themselves as men, and fought as soldiers on both sides. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not so long ago, he’d fought for his life in the Roman Colosseum before a cheering ghostly audience. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“How many fights there are in families, every day. People in families love each other, or want to love each other, but they fight anyway. With strangers you don’t care so much. Think about it.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The fight had changed something on the bus. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Even the lowliest private soldier had decided that the war would not be fought in the trenches again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And there was so much animosity between the Abwehr and the Gestapo that they weren't allowed to frequent many of the same places because it would result in fights. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

My high school friends would still have been whining over boyfriends and fighting for carhop jobs at the A&W. Their idea of a dog-eat-dog world was Beauty School. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could tell that Maya was ready for a fight about it, but she wasn’t going to get one from him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, honey, go on and be mad, that makes you look even more like your ma. She liked to pretend to fight, too.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Minli’s feet pounded against the rocky ground, fighting the uneven earth as she climbed upward. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Then what were you and Josh fighting about?” our mother asks, as if the fact that these two boyhood chums fought is the most unbelievable thing that’s occurred. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Statements like: he was in South Africa only to fight, and not to engage in politics; therefore the press should stop hounding him for comments on apartheid. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At eighteen, I was in Vietnam fighting for my country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dad says, Cuchulain fought to the end like the men of Easter Week. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hard as it was for him to accept, he had come to believe that they had been fighting the wrong people for years. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I walked swiftly down the hall, fighting against crying again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a tournament was more like a free fight. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they couldn’t all fit into the boats, there would be fights. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen dracaenae suddenly broke away from the main fight and slithered down the path that led toward camp, like they knew where they were going. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

"You don't really like to fight, do you?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t needed to fight, or even to talk too much. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Those small victories put the spirit back into the American fight. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The gods were in the Midwest fighting a huge monster that had almost defeated them once before. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Why would I fight a girl? Waste of time.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

"I would rather not fight against the German people," Haupt replied truthfully. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I waited for him to release me, fighting the urge to bite his wrist down to the bone. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t need to be fighting about it. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We had been told that people had been scattered when the fighting started in Southern Sudan, so we kept hoping that our parents were still alive, that one day they would make it to Pinyudu. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bombed Isfahan every night trying to kill people and my uncles fought him. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The generals talk about Mexico, where both men fought on the same side, recalling names of long-ago battles like Churubusco and Veracruz. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Either way, such moments were few and far between, and it felt good to laugh, as it did to see Trina’s face fight up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But pretty soon what happened is that we started fighting about who gets into the observation unit,” Reilly went on. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure how far he’d come, but when he looked back toward land he could see flickering fights above the horizon—probably fights in the mountains—so he wasn’t far enough out yet. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s obvious to me that were at an impasse. We’re not going to solve anything by, like, fighting and”—she gestured at them—“whatever you guys were about to do.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Katherine’s hands are on her hips and she looks to be spoiling for a fight. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The ruling forces of Congo had been fighting wars for years. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember exactly why we were fighting that day, but right in the middle of it Principal Cody blew his whistle and said, “What the hell’s going on here!” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Every creature has a hiding skill and a fighting skill a warrior can use. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to save my fighting for monsters. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Papa fought, too, when those white men came and pushed him on the tracks. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept a close eye on his handpicked SIS unit as they fought to crack German, Italian, and Japanese systems, but for the most part he let them get on with the job by themselves. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Big Time felt himself easing out but with the pipe sucker watching him he had to fight the nod. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the Nazis dropped three loaves of bread in our car through a hole at the top, just to watch us fight for it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead. I told you I’m not going to fight you anymore, and I meant it.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I look like someone who wants to get into a fight. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede especially enjoyed talking to Shae, who told stories about her training as a guard; about learning to fight and to ride with a sword. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A minute before she was just a scared human being fighting for its life. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Burnham and an army of workers and guards converged on the building and together spent the night fighting the leaks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After they come down with the disease, their immune system trains itself, so to speak, to fight off the virus, and they never catch it again, no matter how often they are exposed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The new king realized he could not fight the water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

First of all, there was just too much life to be living—making new friends, fighting with my brothers and sisters, wondering if I’d ever make it onto the football team, and getting into mischief. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

We were also at war with Russia, It was called a Cold War, because it wasn't a fighting war, but one made up of words and deeds and threats of bad things. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He talked about the horses, and how he was still not very good at sword fighting, and about how the camp food was fine but he really missed Anya’s challah. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Naturally she was not going to help the magic Queen of Northgalis to keep Lancelot in prison—when it was the King of Northgalis himself who was going to fight her father. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried not to think about the fight. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with that much on his shoulders he had to fight the rising flood of panic he felt. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Early on, supplies became so short and the fighting so chaotic that many Red Army soldiers were reduced to wearing rags and going barefoot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t do anything—it just kept coming back, pushing me down underwater until I pretended to be dead. Next time I’m going to fight back.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were confident that these provincials, these yokels now gaping at their equipment, gauging the manner of fighting men they were, would be so impressed they would never stand up and fight them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe, but we can’t just hide. Either way, when the sun rises, we’ll be toads if we don’t fight back,” Seven said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The end could not be rushed; there would be fighting to the last ditch, but the end was inevitable. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

After feeling sorry for myself for a couple of days, I decided that I had no reason not to fight for air and freedom. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes and tried to fight the nausea, the pressure pushing against all of her body now, against her arms and legs and belly, pressing into her back and shoulders and neck. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“There is no other recourse but to ignore it entirely and resolutely fight for the successful conclusion of the war.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In honor of the birthday of the Marines, the Second and Third Raider Battalions, who had been in the heaviest fighting, were moved off the front line and allowed to rest for two weeks. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the fights would be racial in nature, but they might be about anything. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bald, squat one was fighting through a tangle of brambles. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tally fought weakly for a moment, but then cold, pure air surged into her lungs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Retracting his earlier thought, he concluded, “No, that ain’t so, I’m glad I went. I done my part and I’m going to fight right here till Uncle Sam does his.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ernest was fighting a chronic sinus infection, his back was aching, and an orthopedic brace that had been made for him fit so poorly it aggravated rather than relieved the pain. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He leaned against it, bracing himself sideways and using his legs, fighting to keep a grip. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

For all her fighting words she gave no overpowering aid—not yet; father and son must prove their mettle still. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. It is not your fault. But I would just like you to go, Lance, so as to give me a rest. For a little while. We needn’t fight about it.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fought hungry sea serpents about every hour. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Well, say Sofia, Mama fight the good fight If there’s a glory anywhere she right in the middle of it How you, Harpo? The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a statement of fact, not a maneuver: he will let us go without a fight. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the fighting broke out at Camp Jupiter, the war god’s two voices had started screaming nonstop. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The problem was, of course, that if you chased them around the corner, where their mothers couldn’t see them, they would fight back. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Zoe and I got into a fight. She told me I was being stupid. She said I’d regret my choice. She said Luke would let me down someday.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“How come colored people act like that? Why are they always fighting and burning up stuff?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

‘I just never did like Leroy, and we had a fight. In those days I was different from now.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Now, for the first time, I consider the possibility that he just doesn’t much like sword fighting. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For if you couldn’t get to the fight on foot, you went on horseback—and if not on horseback, you went in a chaise. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I press my hands to my abdomen and look away, fighting off tears. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I can feel the huge weight of the fish fighting the oars. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was fighting what later became known as the Rum War—and the Coast Guard was losing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Yes. They even played cards together and drank whisky. Sometimes they agree not to fight so that everybody will rest.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I have to fight!" she yelled, squirming in my grip. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Supposedly the hospitals were filled to bursting with all the people who’d been poisoned or bornbed and everyone was fighting over food and drinkable water. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You might just as well go around saying: ‘Don’t fight people,”’ causing the rest of the tribe to fall about laughing at the intrinsic ridiculousness of the notion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

They no longer had the glue of Gran keeping them together, and they fought over their memories, her jewelry, the clothes in her closet, her shoes, even. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When they looked at him doubtfully, he mentioned the army general who was Efik, the director who was Ijaw, the minority soldiers who were fighting so brilliantly for the cause. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our hearts felt full as we studied the code, took apart and repaired radios in the field, and learned how to fight with our weapons. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered how many battles had been fought along them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think much about why you were going to fight before you came in?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because there will always be someone ready to fight. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I cried and cringed instead of standing and fighting. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

For some unknown reason, I was fearful of the place and wanted to turn back, but the sight, nearby, of shirtless, muscular impis engaged in mock fights using spears and knobkerries made me stay. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have given up on looking perky and am fighting to keep my eyes open. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t wanna fight nobody,” Harrison said bashfully, but he kept his hand in his pocket on his knife. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She admitted she had initially resisted fencing because she really didn’t want to fight in my shadow, but Coach Mustilli helped develop her talents and made her a fierce saber fencer. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand yet that I was fighting my own destiny and Charlie was fighting his. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They saw Polish troops marching off to fight the Nazis, and they waved wildly to them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She fights the impulse to scream, to provoke the soldiers to just get it over with. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got angry with the growers who mistreated them and was glad when Tom Joad protested and fought for their rights. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Go fight back!” she says she implored Michael. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had been seized by doubt again when Archie explained how the fight and the raffle would work. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m the one that will have to fight and work, and climb and wait, and maybe never get in after all.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louis Lippo said, “Mr. Trask is from New England. He plans to settle here. He’s been west before though—in the army, fighting Indians.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about the training and manning of the spirited, fighting goshawk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were supposed to lecture me about not sword fighting in the house,” I say, trying to steer the conversation away from the whereabouts of Cardan. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But I knew from the papers that they were still fighting in the mountains because the snow would not come. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mom had gotten a text from Dad: he’d moved out a little while after Hadley was born, but I knew they still fought about money. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Let the mice fight the rats and the rats fight the mice; what did he care? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Not bad. You put up a hell of a fight, Emi. You’re just going to have to fight a little bit harder to beat me.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

School had just let out, and it was not yet the fighting weather of early spring. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was going to fight on all fronts; I was going to be a general, man, before I got done—such talk as that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We must fight so this is not your future,” Baachan said. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He coupled this commitment with a buildup of the navy, which would enable the United States to fight a defensive war if negotiations with France broke down. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I don’t know. I would rather fight in the war than eat another bowl of cereal. This is boring.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

You knew she would fight, no matter the odds, no matter how hopeless it all got. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“That was a short-term emergency, and it was ordered by the goddess. I will not go across country and fight many dangers in the company of a boy.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

At first I thought all the other guys would follow me over, y’know, to build up the drama like an after-school fight. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lack of money always led to fights, that he knew. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew they were looking at him and he might have to actually fight them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

We fight to be just and fair and above all, we fight for love. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

No war was ever fought for so many different reasons. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

As he slept there stole into his consciousness a disturbing, rhythmic throbbing which he tried to fight off to keep from waking up. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra opened her mouth to gasp but fought it back. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But as soon as he felt the first chinks in his faith, he lost all incentive to fight and opened the door to death. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I fought with a rod of iron, but my brothers fought with broken reeds.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I don’t want to fight anymore either. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Difficult thing to fight men you used to command.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To prove it, however—have a fight, a real falling-out—was far from desirable. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I saw the heads above your gates. Tell me true, which one gave you the fiercest fight, the cripple or the babe?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The hungry wolf would always attack the fat reindeer, the poor man would rob the banker, the serf would make revolutions against the higher class, and the lack-penny nation would fight the rich. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being accustomed to fighting with the aid of the Swiss, the French cavalry felt they could not win without them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

With his flagging strength, he fought to raise the blade again. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Three fights and four innings later, I conceded that the experiment wasn’t working out. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It’s a cruel joke, but it’s hard for me to fight off a smile. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Coins were contraband: you can sharpen the edges against a stone, slice open someone’s face in a fight. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine her out in the world, fighting criminals. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

While I would not have considered fighting the political system of the white man, I was quite prepared to rebel against the social system of my own people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind it, Battersea Park appeared as a square of dense green bushes and trees that were making a last stand, fighting back the urban spread. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

So the teachers had stood aside and watched as others fought for voting rights. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I've been told that crosswords puzzles help fight the advance of Alzheimer's Disease, but that had nothing to do with my initiation. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He grabbed Dad by the shoulder, but Dad pushed him off and assumed a fighting stance. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

From that post, he led the fight against creating a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Helms was appointed chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1995. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As a public school kid, I had to fight against that stereotype. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I thought our little liberal college town would fight it longer, hold out. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Kwadzo, a young man known in the village as a fierce hunter, pulled angrily at his shackles, his wrists already bleeding as he fought their restraint. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The borderlands—as this region was known—were remote and lawless territories that had been fought over for hundreds of years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath and feel the familiar fight for air that I have every single day. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Bobby saved the game with his fighting spirit, and his creative capacity was restored. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Scragg struggled feebly, fighting for breath, unable to stop his tormentor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Later, during their war for independence from Britain, the separatists relied on militias to fight the British and their Indigenous allies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Swordsfolk go toe-to-toe against one another in single combat, fighting for the honor of impressing the High King and his Court. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You sound like my mother,” Paula said in the barbed tone of a private fight being continued, words meaning other things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If her friends could continue their quest in peace, she was fully prepared to go down fighting. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We’d learn how to use a baton and how to fight hand to hand in a course called Defensive Tactics. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually I would miss her too much and I would take responsibility for the fight. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sal and I had crossed the street to avoid that fight. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

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

From the bowels of a huge stereophonic phonograph the voice of Judy Garland was fighting its way through the din. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With only his feeble flashlight for illumination, he fought through the piled-up garbage, climbing over wedged chairs, crates, and broken partitions. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Desperately, he fought through it, the blades scratching at his face, half blinding him as he tried to find his way back to the main path. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He’d even fought in a couple of arenas, but nothing like this. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He fought his way free and ran for a large sycamore. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as authority is concerned, calm people quietly dying is a lot easier to deal with than angry people fighting for their lives. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Any lingering unease from her fight with Dill disappeared in a blink. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

To launch the entertainment, two tall, splendid gladiators were set to fight, one armed with a sword and the other with a net and a trident—a fork with spiked tines and a long handle. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But I ain’t in any position to put up a real fight right now. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Smith and Vanderbilt joined him, and the three of them fought to stay on their feet as reporters and fans pushed and pulled on them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the fight has gone out of the fish. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The ramifications of the ceremony were dawning on Dill, and he fought hard for the role. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She said she usually scolded them for fighting, but she was secretly proud of her strong sons. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My da used to say every Irishman you meet in America swears to have a relative who fought alongside Michael Collins. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

"We have to fight back. We can't let the Poles abuse Germans living in Poland!" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I try to resist him, but he’s stronger than me, and anyway he smells great and I don’t want a fight. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them came a parade of animals and lesser fighting men. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Maya, seriously? You think everything has to just stop? We had a fight. Why does that mean it has to be over?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She cut out a bird, a cardinal; it came out looking like something dogs had fought over. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Lourdes has used the stick only once in her two months of patrolling, to break up a fight between a Puerto Rican kid and three Italians down at the playground. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not want to be tempted to fight. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Percy looked like he was ready to jump in and fight at his side. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"There's little in this world worth fighting over, as far as I can see." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had come to the outskirts of their base and were fighting fiercely, because they didn’t want to give it up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In university, when they finally stopped simulating, she began to call him Ceiling, in a playful way, in a suggestive way—but when they fought or when she retreated into moodiness, she called him Obinze. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

During the rout Martin fought a great battle against overwhelming odds. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Why have you been fighting against it?” she asked. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may have been because we remembered the suffering and courage of our grandfathers who fought as warriors to protect our land and our people. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least now I’m filled with confidence that the fight function exists within me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

That night, and the days and nights that followed, were a nightmare of fighting to save Lizza. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved carefully, avoiding blows, although not too many to attract attention, fighting from group to group. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard one of the generals say that he never saw no unit, white or colored, fight as fierce as we did. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bite my teeth together, fighting the memory of my last sleepover at Melissa’s. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nancy” —I called her Nancy when I wanted her to know that I wanted to clear things up without fighting. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1940 we didn’t do much for my birthday either, since the fighting had just ended in Holland. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She and Percy were in no condition to fight a Titan. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"I had to find out you was having a boxing fight from Mr. Epstein." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fox and Hobs were fighting against a handful of solid, mean-looking men on the pier, but they weren’t fighting alone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And there is no fight I can win. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Two days after my parents’ return from New York, I came the closest I ever came to fighting with my mother. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once at the gate, he spun and fought, tossed the starters aside, lunged through false starts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jacob can fight it,” the little girl said again. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Now she fought head winds from tack to tack, and some day’s sailing did not take her fifteen miles nearer home. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the Bureau made me feel like a fool for fighting for any of it, and for what the Allegiant stood for. And I don’t like to feel foolish.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It had been one of those fights where one party is so enraged, so blind with anger they have to kill the other. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Sonia was so smooth and dominant on the strip that as I put on my mask, my last thought before turning on fight mode was to try to fence like her. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But how could we blacks allow whites to do this to us—to degrade us, to trample on our dignity—without fighting back? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe that the men who endure the dangers of battle—fighting there for us tonight—are helping the entire world avoid far greater conflicts, far wider wars, far more destruction, than this one.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

All of us stood up, ready to fight. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I lost fights to boys, girls, and lads half my age. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wood shattered, and the Hound reeled, fighting to keep his seat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Rather, the term merely means that any band “leadership” is informal and acquired through qualities such as personality, strength, intelligence, and fighting skills. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t win these fights: Stephen is bigger and more ruthless than I am, and I want to play with him more than he wants to play with me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she put the fights on, the cat was gone. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Amil asked Papa that same question, but Papa says it’s not safe and the fighting will probably get worse. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

From the beginning, his mother and Pilate had fought for his life, and he had never so much as made either of them a cup of tea. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They decided in a council meeting not to fight back but to offer peace, friendship, and a division of resources. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

While William Faulkner sweated in California trying to imagine what their lives must be like, hundreds of young airwomen were flying and fighting and dying over the battlefields of the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was fine to fight when it was us against us, but it was about to be us against them. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the gods fought each other to a bloody standstill, an army of monsters would rise in the north. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A lot of things ended up going his way because I’d get bored with the fight and give in. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Jay said, “You mean, like, fighting them? Are you going to teach us to use weapons?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Could you understand if I asked you not to fight tomorrow?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isn’t that what we fought for all these years? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

All it did was hover, like a semitransparent cloud, draining Harry of energy as he fought to keep it there. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I fought back glimpses of my daugh-ter’s birthday party in its cruel contrasts to our party here tonight. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were not used to fighting in narrow places in the dark and they got bitten and scratched until they were glad to come out tail-first. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry bellowed, fighting off Fang the boarhound’s attentions as the enormous bearded figure clambered to his feet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I stood up to fight but tripped on a tomato cage. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And she heard about pain and punches and money left behind and a little dog that would fight anything to protect his boy. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

After years of fighting, suffering, and dying, what had been accomplished? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Michael and his archers tried to retreat, but Annabeth stayed right beside me, fighting with her knife and mirrored shield as we slowly backed up the bridge. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And then Dad said, “Better not pick a fight if you’re not dressed for one.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The fight which held out prospects best for us and the least risk of life to both sides was guerrilla warfare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra had to constantly fight images of the woman with the swirling black garments. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Unity is our tool. We are not fighting for ourselves but for Germany.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there are enough victors who still have the wits and the nerve to come out fighting. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We cannot be part of what we fight, he often told us. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the fighting was over, and the later labours were ordered, Merry, Pippin, and Sam joined him, and they rode back with the Cottons. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The fighting will be done and someone will tell me whether I’m to live or die. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“As if fighting for her own life isn’t enough, she’s going to save the planet, too! Come show ’em whatcha got, Stella!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The trek was rough because we stayed in the forests, where the understory is a jungle of hazelnut, viburnum, and twisted young hardwoods fighting for the sun. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fought in the predawn gloom, shadow against shadow, stumbling over roots and rocks, with mud and rotting leaves beneath their feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was so excited to discover their organized system of lawyers fighting for our equality. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘I’d like to fight the Fascists. I could dress up like a boy and nobody could ever tell. Cut my hair off and all.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"All the fight I got in me," I tell her, "is just to get through this." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The other guys were cheering for a fight. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way to get his body back to Worcestershire so he's been buried out there, on those rocky islands still being fought over. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You fought for this, and lost two fingers?” the bear said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Parzival here still hasn’t told us how we’re going to get past that shield, fight our way through the Sixers’ army, and get inside the castle.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The fight was different from the one with Arthur. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come,” he said, “come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The day before, there had been a fight, with one of them slamming another one up against a parked car and hitting him. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

"When are they going to fight?" he asked plaintively. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mother and Father had a fight over the letters. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brothers will fight brothers, fathers will kill sons. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But then I could tell she was serious, so I asked how was I supposed to fight myself back. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Food would not go down some days, and when it did, she would have to gag and fight it down. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“He burns like your sister, and he has no strength to fight it. This is why he speaks in confusion.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Congress, North Carolina senator Sam Ervin Jr. drafted a racist polemic, the “Southern Manifesto,” which vowed to fight to maintain Jim Crow by all legal means. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He sat back on the bank and fought crying. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean those white women fought over me. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like she was ready for a fight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And here was Old Yeller, weak and crippled, trying to fight a mad one! Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dawdled on the way home, fighting off wave after wave of dread. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It’s where she draws her strength from, her fighting spirit. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In that split second, the man fighting with him bent down and seized the neck of a broken bottle from the ground. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Like he was daring someone to start a fight. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It would have destroyed Kendra to see her sons fighting like that, across her daughter’s body. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"They sang better than they fought. Herps would have done them as much good as their lances did." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It is the principle for which our sons fight tonight in the jungles of Vietnam.... Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I answered earnestly, “We want to help you fight this freeze tonight. We’ll do anything we can.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here he was fighting off a dozen rats, trying to rescue the Vole family, while Basil was dusting out his den! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He tried to shake me off, but I kept holding on, until he stopped shouting and I felt the fight go out of him. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody is trying to fight me, but track is still sort of awful. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I wasn't going to explain about Dad, the checks he owed us, the fights on the phone. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before I know what's going on, I have four different people over here fighting over the stuff. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Will stepped up the lead, away from the old man, crouching, ready to jump or fight or leap out of the way. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many more would be fighting for their lives. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

When Uncle Darnell said “draft” he meant he was going into the army to fight the war. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

His girlfriend picks a fight with him at lunchtime, over the fact that he never spends time with her anymore. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He fought his mouth and then he gave up and put his face down in his hands and wept. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no refusing, however inconvenient it might have seemed to fight a war with Meissen porcelain under one arm. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At no time had Hobbits of any kind been warlike, and they had never fought among themselves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You two are so busy fighting, you never notice anything,” said Thorn. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

From there I watched the most savage fight I had ever seen. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The commander was the Count of La Perouse, a noted explorer who had fought for the United States in its War of Independence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oblivious to the fighting around them they sought to destroy each other, hacking, stabbing, lunging and swinging in mortal combat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“In ancient times, two great Roman roads met here. News was exchanged. Markets were held. Friends met, and enemies fought. Entire armies had to choose a direction. Crossroads are always places of decision.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I fight the urge to sigh, trying instead to channel the fire for which I'm known, beloved, and criticized. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I stared at Aunty Em’s gnarled claws, and tried to fight the groggy trance the old woman had put me in. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

At two o’clock in the afternoon, while the earth trembled with the artillery fire from both sides, he took leave of Úrsula with the certainty that he was fighting a losing battle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Seven was excited to watch the match and get a break from fighting monstruos and getting stuck in cursed mud. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But, Lor’ bless you, in real life a wolf is only a low creature, not half so clever or bold as a good dog; and not half a quarter so much fight in ’im. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

"And you are to wed one of his daughters, once the fighting is done," she finished. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All the uncomfortable and vicious fights I'd witnessed between my American friends and their parents suddenly seemed like child's play. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“When a bat and a human bond, they swear to fight to the death for each other,” said Luxa. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d have six good friends who would admire and appreciate him, and they’d go sailing off into the sunrise to fight giants. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Yet no matter how bloody the war might prove to be, he felt the obligation to join the fight "to stand by the country and sustain its authority." Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She starts tracing the bottom lid, and I fight the urge to blink. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Now she had a fight in front of her. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I had not fought them as Ross had; I had not challenged a single policy of theirs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Battles and skirmishes were fought on the north part of New York Island, though the city was safe. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Brad pushed me first. Besides, it wasn’t a fair fight, because I had Ralph in my pocket and didn’t want him to get hurt.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna’s fear came with rage, a fierce and emboldening rage, and she imagined fighting them, strangling them, killing them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t fight good enough and she got him on the ground. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We just ran for our lives, and she’s ready to fight? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Feeling as though she were fighting her way back through a fog of some sort, she reached for the gate to steady herself. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This fight with Jay, on top of everything else, left me feeling so cold inside. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

"Boy! Sweet boy! Is it war, red war? Boy, free us. A man can fight. Boy!" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was hanging out with a couple of friends when the fight broke out, and like every other kid on campus, I wanted to see it up close. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘Get another six of you in here and it might be a fair fight. I demand to see your lieutenant, Thalia Grace.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Papa had heard about fighting when people left. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was a force too huge to fight with a knife or a club. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Grandma would have let them fight it out. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But why do you fight? Is it a big family secret?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

During the war, the Adventures of Superman program had portrayed its hero fighting Hitler and Mussolini and Hirohito. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The soldiers look noble and brave, willing to go out in the world and fight. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the forest there are men waiting to destroy all of our lives. We have fought them as best as we can, but there are too many of them. They are all around the village.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I hear my father asking me, “What makes you think you have the right to shoot someone?” as we fought our way to the control room in Dauntless headquarters. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

During these fights, we destroyed most of the furniture and threw the mattresses out in the yard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I press my forehead to the nearest tree trunk, though it scrapes my skin, and fight off tears, Later that morning I walk through light rain to the main greenhouse. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted my design to work with the land, to make something with the site, not to fight it or dominate it.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Colored people would see me hanging out with blacks, and they’d confront me, want to fight me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"You know the quickest way to start a fight?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The more he pushed her, the more she fought him. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He started up with that laugh, a noise that made Mark think of a dog fighting over a piece of meat. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They were friends and companions, fighting side by side with their drüskelle masters. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Though Mr. Armin was unquestionably an excellent fencing master, when it came to a duel fought in deadly earnest, I feared that he was no match for Falconer. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had fought enough name-callers on behalf of Miss Patty Cake. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are enemies in the schoolyard, they yell things at one another and if they’re boys they fight. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"And hardly a one of 'em wouldn't fight me over a bone. Go back. Your pa must be having double fits o' worry." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was alone and the Frog was full of water and he was thirsty and hungry—it all rushed in again and he had to fight to stop the terror of it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if we never get out of here? What if we die in here? People died in American internment camps during World War Two, and I’d rather die fighting back than going along with everything.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

My brothers went to war when they turned eighteen, all three of them sent to fight Lakelanders. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

Once again, he thought, the two children of the depression had fought the misery of past holidays by spending a modest fortune on their own children. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She needed a better weapon to fight with—something more than her voice, a stupid fortune-telling dagger, and a cornucopia that shot ham and fresh fruit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I felt the fight-or-flight reflex swell up in me over and over again, but I knew that neither fight nor flight had ever worked for me before. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The giant boat jolts and drops, fighting the waves as we venture out into the open water. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They flickered from purple to orange as if the colors were fighting for dominance. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“He fought dirty, Mac. So how ’bout shuttin’ up,” Red said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what if she couldn’t fight this anymore? Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“In all the years I had been Arthur’s student,” Alvarez would recall, “I had never seen him fight so hard for anything.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Spire fighting wasn't about strength or how well she memorized the moves. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It’s like fighting, except what we’re fighting for is to crawl inside each other’s skin. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t get the captain to move. I thought you were elil and there was no point in staying to be killed. I don’t think I could fight a field mouse.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hel's fighting off three soldiers below her and two above, with more coming. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was like trying to fight darkness or heat or a stink in the air. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I cupped my hand over my eyes to fight snow blindness. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It began not long after the dawn of time, in a war between the gods: the Aesir fought the Vanir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

John still had a fighting chance, she said. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I know he was mad about my starting that fight with JP at the lake, and how Seanie had to take some punches himself when he got between us. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Lucy and I had both a fight for it with the dusty miller; I know it was a hard fight on my part, and I am quite heroic. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He said slowly, “I think if we lose this fight the war will be over. So if you choose to come with us I’ll be personally grateful. Well. We have to move out.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the brothers continue on and I run back to fight the soldiers, I’ll probably only take down a few before they overwhelm me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Under their nations’ flags, those Europeans fought Native people for control of that land. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Always there is a fight before she leaves. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I want to have an Order of Chivalry, like the Order of the Garter, which goes about fighting against Might Would you like to be one of those?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Seabiscuit was apt to fight any direct attempts to rate him, Smith told his riders to adjust the horse’s speed with steering. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so, having bagged the contract for the Synthetic Cooking Vinegar labels, he deftly banished Chacko from the fighting ranks of the Overthrowers to the treacherous ranks of the To Be Overthrown. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He summarily rejected their offer to become the American Caesar and denounced the entire scheme as treason to the cause for which they had fought. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Wasting your life. Look, Adam, could we not have a fight this time?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in reality he was the son of Zeus, who had visited Amphitryon’s wife Alcmena in the shape of her husband when the general was away fighting. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, Anderson had to fight hard to win her place in American music history. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

"You were having a nice fight with him just now." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And how calm he seemed even when we were in a fight. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I don't mind getting hit so much--although I'm not crazy about it, naturally--but what scares me most in a fist fight is the guy's face. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

But in fighting a rabbit of Bigwig’s strength and courage it proved a mistake. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Estermont thinks the flaming heart ill-chosen and begs to fight beneath the crowned stag as of old. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He felt like picking a fight with her, and he didn’t know why. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Miss Bell knows that marching isn't the only thing she can do, knows that people fighting need full bellies to think and safe places to gather. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Caesar and Pompey The conflict between Julius Caesar and Pompey had been going on for more than a year as the two generals fought for supreme power over the Roman Republic. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

"You fight like a goose. He pecks you and you peck him harder. Pany! Block the blow. Goose fighting will not suffice. If those were real swords, the first peck would take your arm off!" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"I didn't even ask if you won your fight." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He trained it, fought it, brought it to heel. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He pauses the fight scenes and quizzes me on the best techniques. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get to it then,” Fezzik said, and he dropped his rock and got into fighting position, watching as the man in black slowly moved toward him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

My appetite has returned with my desire to fight back. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi stayed a long time in the stall, working her fingers through the tail of her braid, fighting to get free of their words. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he’d stall as long as he could, but I went out anyway so as not to get into a fight with him myself. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba sighs, and I fight back my guilt. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So now that guy had two choices, fight Popcorn or say something tough and funny and walk away. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Anker’s was low-class enough so that the drinks were cheap, but high-class enough so that you didn’t have to worry about someone picking a fight or throwing up on you. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The men fight sometimes, about their wives and that Of course there is no bloodshed—only scuffling, to find the better man. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s really interesting. They won the Supreme Court case in 1954, but the states still fought desegregation. For years in some places.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Why should white people be paid to fight our war anyway?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I will rush to the gate and fight, to the death if necessary,” Yellin said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have a chance to fight it. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He was feeding off the fight, gaining satisfaction from the distress and rage of the man on his back. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only imperfection on him is his knuckles—they’re bruised, newly scarred, and surprising on his otherwise elegant hands, as if he had been in a fight. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They looked like a movie that had been paused in the middle of a fight scene. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The fights were a blur inside her, but she had seen enough to know what had happened to him, what he had done, why the story was locked up inside him like an animal. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Get up and fight. Look, I will take my armour off and fight you with my sword only.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A normal Thief would—but instead, Hammie tightens her grip and continues fighting me in midair. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They was fighting about it just the other day. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Teachers didn’t have to go fight in Vietnam. So a lot of young men who didn’t want to fight became teachers.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I’ve learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They didn’t seem to be doing much damage, but Tartarus lurched around, obviously not used to fighting in a humanoid body. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He fought against the urge to reach across the space between them to see if her hair was as silky as it looked. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I told them that, though I was not afraid of Harrison, I did not want to fight him and that I did not know how to box. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head shook slowly, and I guess he must have been thinking and fighting between surrender ing or remaining free, and hunted. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Alexandrians, who were completely outmatched, quickly gave up the fight. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Paris himself, who had not fought at all except to throw his spear, she caught up in a cloud and took back to Troy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Men,” he said, “it is exactly one hundred and thirty- eight years since the Marines fought in Tripoli and first raised an American flag over foreign soil.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We grin at each other, our fight officially over. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The fighter who had beaten him said he’d put up a good fight, said it loud enough for the loser to hear, as they always did. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Couldn't you hire a good lawyer and make a fight of it." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I figure if things ever get really cold, I can tape that to a bare patch in the rover, and the RTG will be winning the "heat fight." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only one religion—Islam—had the power to stand and fight the white man’s Christianity for a thousand years'. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were going to try and fight back, and with a knife. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

All of the earlier fights with the giants had been in vain. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But when the fighting stops, well, no, perhaps that is something that is different. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

They fought and struggled to get free of the plunging plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Catelyn clenched her hands, feeling the tightness in her scarred fingers where the assassin's steel had cut to the bone as she fought to save her son. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Why, they were as much an army as I am a butterfly. I’d have stood a better chance fighting with crawlers.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We walk,” I said, fighting the sense of despair that was slowly seeping into my heart. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was a stake driven upright in the ground, and he had to fight against it with sword and shield—rather like shadow-boxing, or ««ng a punch-ball. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last the talking was finished and the string-along songs about razor blades were over and the fight began. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mainly, he didn’t want to fight for the same reason he wasn’t selling the chocolates— he wanted to make his own decisions, do his own thing, like they said. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the stations teach survival skills, others fighting techniques. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

This time, I brought from New York with me some photographs of Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston in their fight camps, with white priests as their “spiritual advisors.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I gave him a good fight. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ainsley is jumping about, punching the air as if he’s ready to fight. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But every hour or two the battle had to be fought all over again. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

After a while, we all get on each other’s nerves and start to fight. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But then I don’t care anything about picking any fight. All I want are my own rights.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe they were about to find out who the elves had fought after all. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He too was fighting off an emotion he did not want witnessed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Thirteenth Avenue Tomahawks fought just about every week, against this or that street’s gang, for reasons ranging from territorial disputes to harassment of each other’s girlfriends. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs were used for hunting and fighting, and as an alarm system against wild beasts and human intruders. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that we were fighting for equality, that we should be able to go to state fairs and public libraries and zoos. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They had fought about the hostages half a dozen times. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

What was a good fight without an audience? Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

In the end, the music grew wilder as two alarm clocks had a fight. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He’d done that a few times after a fight with Father. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon tore his gaze from the trees, fighting a sudden wave of nausea. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I sat on the bed, fighting my need to obey Father’s order to change and go back downstairs. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

No debate in my mind about—gee, should I stand up to him and try to fight again? The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of the second day, I start to put on my AffloVest, jumping in surprise when Barb busts through the door, ready for the usual four o’clock fight that we have over it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” he says, a little too quietly, like he’s resigned himself to losing a fight that hasn’t even begun. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

This, here in the provinces, was where the war was being fought, after all. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

To Smith he said, “I have no force to attack the hill. General Hill’s Corps has had hard fighting. Tell General Ewell to take that hill if at all possible. Have you seen Major Taylor?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fought an urge to grab somebody else’s bag and run and run. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Ben said that they came to this world for the simpler life, said that there was even a fight in the early days whether to destroy the fission generators.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were at least twenty people from each side fighting on the bus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For the soldiers, it was not an altogether unfamiliar experience, not unlike battle overseas—always having to be on the lookout for the enemy and ready to fight back to defend themselves. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

All day long I fought back tears, and now tears streamed down my face. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Will cut another small window in the direction he indicated, and as they looked out, they could all see a change in the pattern of the fighting. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’m relieved it wasn’t from Kimberly or Molly or Sara trying to move in on my best friend while we were in a fight. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Don’t fight her on her superstitions, I say to myself. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The clock chimed five, and Kaltain fought the urge to rub her eyes as the opium oozed through every pore of her body. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ll fight you, in single combat,” cried Will, “and if you give way, then the fighting has to stop.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It went down the hill and T. P. was fighting by himself and he fell down again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would fight for widows and orphans, Christ and His church. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Or that the idea of remaining here in 13 with the latest version of Peeta while Gale goes off to fight is unbearable. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

On the track, he fought savagely in the starting gate and sulked his way through races, sometimes trailing the field from start to finish. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fought my deep shivers and kept walking. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I’ve fought nicely against it as long as I could . . . danced with it, festooned it, waltzed it around . . . decorated it with streamers, titillated it .. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, as we’d been told at the Academy, an officer could stop a fight just by turning on his PA system and loudly sliding a shotgun shell into its chamber. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And why you ran away instead of fighting. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons, Shawn and I saddled the horses and fought our way up the mountain, the horses half-jumping to clamber through snowdrifts that reached their bellies. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In a panic, I pushed back and tried to fight him off. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A Tareyton ad comes on, the one where the girl smoking the cigarette has a black eye—Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch! The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For a second, I thought she was going to pick a fight. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You know better than to fight. This boy is twice your size!” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I might not have believed that Jesus created zombies, but I did believe in fighting for Fig. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I am ready to fight, which is far better. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“We knew all this. The question is, how do we fight them?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I fought it, but a little smile pulled up at the corners of my mouth. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t hand the cub over without a fight—he couldn’t. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Walter received a subpoena from Karen Kelly's husband to testify at a hearing where the Kellys would be fighting over their children's custody, he knew it was going to cause him serious problems. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The trouble is maybe they’ll fight. I don’t know. Look what it says in my Field Book.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Why no knife, then? Afraid to fight?” said the man, Skiorh, jeering. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He would have fought anyone who suggested he felt any race difference. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grit my teeth and fight back the tears. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you can’t fight the pancake people all by yourself. No way. I’m not leaving until you change your mind.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Nazis went through roll call I fought back my tears. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad we didn’t have to fight that one,” Harry whispered as they stepped carefully over one of its massive legs. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

This year Ellie and Brenda both had boyfriends at the consolidated high school and the problem of what to give them and what to expect from them was cause of endless speculation and fights. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Doris and Jazz never come to my fights because they're scared to see me get punched in the face. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I would protest because my mother taught me that a southern lady always puts up a fight when anyone else volunteers to do the cleaning, but I’m all too ready to be home. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Are you trying to pick a fight with me?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Out in the field, they weren’t fighting to protect democracy, or the United States, or any ideal. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to go somewhere he’s not going to like. A place that will throw him off guard or distract him long enough to give us a fighting chance.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The new system had been developed and implemented swiftly, and it was largely invisible, even to people, like me, who spent most of their waking hours fighting for justice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

"Todric. I killed him for getting drunk and fighting over loot." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In statements that did not surprise those who knew her well, she said, “It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He was fighting and screaming his head off at Mama for hitting his dog. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this "victory" shook the CIA—the agency that led the fight in that nearly fifty-year war—to its core. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I fought down the hot anger boiling up in my stomach. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There had been a massive slab of sandstone between the two mines, and my father had fought through it like he was in a war. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"This wasn’t some taunts at a lunch counter! This wasn’t ketchup on their heads! Look at my face! I’m not supposed to fight back to that?" The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dividing was the natural course—fighting the giants one-on-one, but that hadn’t worked so well last time. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hands pushed him into the center of the ring and the referee was saying, ". . . three rounds of two minutes each . . . you know the amateur rules . . . break clean . . . shake, boys, and come out fighting." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm a singer, I want no part of this fight!" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He would have welcomed a fight — with not too many enemies at a time — rather than this hideous brooding uncertainty. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Damp yellow sand choking him, filling his nostrils first, and then his eyes as he struggled against it, fought to keep his eyes open to see. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe another fight on the phone with Dad? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was seven and he wasn’t scheduled to fight until ten. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buzzer sounded, ten seconds to go, pop-pop, get in there and fight, black boy, pop- pop, you slave, and he drove in, pop-pop, hook, Rivera's eyes were wild, pop-pop and right cross. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was big and I played ball and I fought, and those qualities meant, to a lot of people, that I must have a very limited intellectual life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The minute the season was over, he got into a fight and someone broke his jaw. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m told your wife is a wealthy Igbo, one of those who stayed back to fight for the cause.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The long horizontal fight of the sinking sun struck into their faces and made them seem much alike. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Pyke, it would seem, the old wars were still being fought. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The new arrivals to the nearby towns, the rowdies and low whites, started fights when residents came for supplies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You know why you won fights as an initiate?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When the fighting had broken out, it was enough of a surprise that most of the Watch kids couldn’t get to the cabins from the outer gates in time to make a real difference. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He gave his rifle to an officer who had been disarmed in the fight and escaped with Amaranta through a nearby street to take her home. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like you, crow,” he growled, “but I never liked the Mance neither, no more’n my sister did. Still, we fought for him. Why not fight for you?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Deborah wanted nothing to do with fighting Hopkins —she was too busy raising her children and trying to teach herself about her mother’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“To Valley Pepperhorn, I present twin crystal blades! Forged from the tears of a star and made once every five hundred years, in honor of her exceptional fighting and monstruo-tracking skills.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s likely they were so segregated from ordinary fighting units and considered so special that the women of these regiments were, to a certain extent, untouchable. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Jimmy came over to me and put his hand out and said something about being sorry for the fight. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

We fight the rats and we fight the stink from that lavatory. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The logical puzzle: In a fight between two perfect equals, how can one win? Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Others could tell a story or two about vicious name-calling and fights with white union men. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We’d heard different stories about what happened—one was that his appendix burst; another was that he got hurt real bad in a bar fight. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The yellow fox was more skilled, but Pax’s fighting was fueled by an instinct to protect. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sovoy fought down a smile as he turned to face me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg tried to convince her that he—that the United States—was fighting for a noble cause. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But Ms. Ofrah says this interview is the way I fight. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Charles reasoned that if too many individuals of a species are born in the same place and try to live off a limited supply of food, there is a fight for survival. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Woundwort had won almost every fight of his life by using his weight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tying off* a secure knot, I let out the rope and fought my way back to the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You fought the Titans before, and you won, remember?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“And now you all know the history of North Hill, Virginia, where the people save birds who get hurt trying to fight themselves,” Tess said, witty. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And cold and footsore as well, in no condi-tion for a fight... but the storm will make them desperate to get inside the castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was tired of fighting off the dreams and the voices; he was tired of guarding himself against places and things which evoked the memories. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Ryan told me. And it’s kind of obvious you were in a fight.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He didn’t see that a fight had just ended, but he did see the angry tension in the crowd as he walked past the bus top. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hard fighting and long labour they had still; for the Southrons were bold men and grim, and fierce in despair; and the Easterlings were strong and war-hardened and asked for no quarter. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When food is scarce, the Gamemakers will invite the players to a banquet, somewhere known to all like the Cornucopia, as an inducement to gather and fight. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They had fought against it for nine hours. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“He was really fighting for breath, I guess,” I said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Argentum’s head was still bent sideways from the fight in Pompeii. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He had seen what that had done to other kids, how hard they fought to stay together and how destroyed they were when they were inevitably pulled apart. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And without knowing when it happened he piled into the fight himself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He fought his way to freedom, and made it back to the bur oak tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yeller wasn’t big and strong enough to stop him, but he kept him slowed down and fought away from Jumper and Mama and Lisbeth. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know about that. The kids aren’t playing, they’re out working. I remember my daddy and my granddaddy talking about getting out of school to fight the freezes.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘If it comes to fighting—when it comes to fighting, how’ll they fight?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still others fought bullets with rocks and schoolbags. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the war, the Alabaman fought in several major battles, was wounded at Gettysburg, successfully escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp, and worked for the Confederate Secret Service. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

America and its Western allies, in contrast, saw Stalin's intransigence as the actions of a new Hitler, someone bent on undoing all they had fought and died for. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The words were from the warriors who had fought here, from Lakota warriors and the Cheyenne. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

By then, the moon was well up and the crowd was tired, so the king decreed that the last three matches would be fought the next morning, before the melee. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been fighting for eternity, kid. My strength is unlimited and I cannot die. What have you got?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I think I hear footsteps behind me, and I spin around, ready to fight the factionless girl off, but there’s no one there. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Even the crew coaches in Poughkeepsie took time out to comment on the fight. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mark fought off the thought that tried to lodge itself in his mind—of him missing or landing awkwardly, tumbling off to disappear into the darkness. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He knew he would not be much use in a fight, but even so the blade felt good in his hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“But it seems I went to all that trouble for nothing. This won’t be much of a fight.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was born on 27 December 1571, but when he was only 2 his father went off to fight in the Netherlands, and Katherine followed, leaving the infant in the care of his grandfather. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But Maria grew frustrated because the soldiers who fought alongside her were miserable about the way the war was going for the Russian army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Czernobog looked as if he were about to protest; and then the fight went out of him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I guess I’m not so sure what I should be fighting for anymore. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It trembled and shook, as if she was fighting back tears, as if she could barely hold the rest of her face together. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Once we were on the road, Dad and Mom got in a big fight over how many months she’d been pregnant. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He likes attention. He likes to bother you. He likes to play hit you, play fight with you. Like, ‘Leave me alone! The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Thirty-nine people were killed in the street fighting that went on throughout the city. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I think about the fight I had with my father this morning. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The three MPs and the two nationals who had brought us to the center came running into the yard a few minutes into the fight. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The once respected and honored Taliban became what they were fighting against, the oppressive warlords and dictators that had preceded them. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Cerberus’s heads stopped fighting and looked at her. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He told us of a king who fought wars across the Niger by releasing fleets of birds trained to hurl arrows. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“You must really be hurting for hit points right now, after fighting Acererak.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I had to fight like a tiger to wake up the next morning. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The pause in the fighting did not last. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the tears in my eyes I saw the red blurry form of Old Dan sail into the fight. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the evening of the tenth day they fought their way clear of Sunda Strait and anchored. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fina tells me about how her grandfather fought in the Vietnam War and lost one of his legs there and how sometimes he swore he could still feel it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They fought while I stood quietly trying to figure out how to escape. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There were some men around him from the old Second Maine and he talked to them automatically, not knowing what he was saying, thanking them for the fight, looking on strange young bloody faces. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They started to fight, but I couldn’t focus on how she was doing. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was less glory in running away from a fight, sure, but I didn’t care about glory. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Ay, we still have the power to fight this evil,” she nodded. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I climb step after step, and my muscles begin to burn, and my lungs fight for air, I feel the first moments of relief I’ve experienced in days. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fighting my mom, fighting other kids, fighting the world. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen Jews would be murdered today because one man refused to die without a fight. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Except, as I say, every now and then, things would get out of hand, with students grabbing and tugging, sometimes fighting. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Frith never meant us to go out fighting in the high summer, either, if that comes to that,” said Silver. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This gave Butler an opportunity to take the fight to them. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I had to fight an impulse to say, But I need to talk to you. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm has never even been in a fight before, even though many paint him to be a violent young man because he’s six feet tall, black, and close to two hundred pounds. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t care about the fight with Toby. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I fought my way to the front of the crowd, straining against hands that felt like wings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Two tomcats were fighting somewhere on the rooftops, and the guard bent to pick up a stone to throw at them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The poxies were not here to fight but to witness his ultimate victory. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She stood with her head bowed, fighting to hold back her tears, while below Joffrey sat on his Iron Throne and dispensed what it pleased him to call justice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As Mrs. Popper finished the Waltz, both Nelson and Columbus stopped fighting, put down their flippers and stood still, facing each other. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Brew wrote a letter to President Johnson saying that if he wanted us to fight, he’d better send us some good televisions, and we all signed it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He says he is too sick to fight." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Remember, he’s fighting us. He’s on his guard. The only way we can catch him is to outsmart him—and, within his limitations, he can think much more quickly than a human being.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I knew I could hurt any of them in a fight, but more than that I wanted to hurt them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I fight down my fear as best I can. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Stop the fight, ref, he don’t want it with me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Mom and I talked about it. I’m going to take self-defense classes. Not because I want to fight him, but Mom thinks it’ll help with my confidence. Maybe I’ll meet some new friends.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Many still believe that Custer and his soldiers fought to the last man, until all of them were killed. It’s true that all were killed, but there was no last stand.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She’d thought there was nothing left for her here, nothing to fight for. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I fought the urge to hold my nose. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It was the morning after their encounter with Sciron the bandit, and Jason was on duty, fighting some wild venti who were threatening the ship. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The fight was finally settled in 1879 with the simple expedient of coming up with a new period, the Ordovician, to be inserted between the two. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The room was unbelievably loud, roaring with the sounds of his classmates and all their screaming and yelling and fighting and laughing. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

And we almost fought again after practice, too. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I brought you down here to write a few letters for me, not fight with me.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

That ornery part of me, the one always urging Go the other way, Willodeen, reared up, ready for a fight. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Sir, as I remember, Heth’s got near ten thousand men. They’re all within sound of the fight, back that road, between here and Cashtown.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we were training for a fight or a tournament, we would extend the training time to two and a half hours. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has to be willing to fight in response to even the slightest challenge to his reputation—and that’s what a “culture of honor” means. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Gat and I went out on the tennis court in the twilight a couple nights after I fought with Mummy. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“He is sad not to fight at side of kindly master. He would have struck down wicked warriors, oh, yes!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Even if you could sacrifice everything,” he said, “which I don’t doubt you can do, I still think guerilla fighting is not for you.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “I cannot fight—nor can I refrain—without imputations of savagery.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He took the bait like a male and he pulls like a male and his fight has no panic in it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be fighting before the week was out and he intended to be in it. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Chip had to, he figured he could take Glenn in a one-on-one fight. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had thought that everyone would know the fighting was to come. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

We had been fighting for over two years, and killing had become a daily activity. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I know. And I’m pleased that you can and will fight for what you should have. And you’ll always come out all right—no matter what. You’re like me that way.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filed my stack of motions just to make sure that if they didn't dismiss the charges they knew we would fight them. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Trojans under Hector fought as brave men fight before the walls of their home. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grew ashamed of what I had agreed to do and wanted to back out of the fight, but I was afraid that they would be angry if I tried to. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had fought it to the last breath. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She had made Hizdahr her king, taken him into her bed, opened the fighting pits for him, he had no reason to want her dead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I can go to school and I can fight with my brothers! Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They fought at the turn of a doctrine. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His stomach had been ruined after he was stabbed in a knife fight, though I couldn’t imagine him angry. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a new game where you fight the giant robot horses from The Empire Strikes Back, but that was 50p a go. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And that Clyde looked like a dog who wanted to fight. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

That would be the only reason they’d move her, unless there’s been a fight over the baby; which happens more than you’d think. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

LEFT: Martian fighting machine from the 1906 edition of Wells’s novel. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The women of the 46th Guards were liked and admired by the men who fought not far away from them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

How, exactly, was a typing squirrel going to fight villains and change the world? Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

He did not like fighting to start with, and far from learning to love it, as some men do, he felt an increasing revulsion for violence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He may have used generalities, “What if a boy got in a fight...” to keep all the angles open until he’d investigated every single one. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ned fought to keep the scorn out of his voice, and failed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“A warrior who cannot sleep soon has no strength to fight,” he said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Who has volunteered to demonstrate what happens to those who continue to fight when the battle is lost?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He ordered his men to never fight back even if they were under attack—even if it killed them, literally. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

"The queen ... no, I will not believe that, not even of Cersei. She asked him not to fight!" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For example, in the French and Indian War Ulster Scots fought with the British against the French and their “Indian” allies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

"You ain't work today, so if you want this, you gotta come fight for it, and this time in the ring, tough guy." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I fought back tears until I couldn't take it anymore. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We stare at each other like we’re about to go to war, until both of us realize almost at the same time that neither of us wants to fight. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was fighting to stay awake myself, but I repeated the story to the larger assembly. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will fight along with the other Freedom Writers to stand up, speak out, and “rage against the dying of the light.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Do you think he’d let anything happen to you? Do you think he’d ever let you be by yourself or fight something alone?” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

That shocked me more than him saying he was going to fight. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just him against his opponent, one man fighting against another for dominance. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If he must perish, let it be with a sword in his hand, fighting his father's killers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Prussian aristocracy was serving in the German army, fighting for their land and titles. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Such brisk fights or scuffles between children’s daemons were common, luckily, and no one took much notice, but Roger went pale at once. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“If you consider that sort of gracelessness equal to swordsmanship...what sort of fighting do you do, Captain Westfall?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

This Tithonus, the husband of Aurora, the Goddess of the Dawn, was the father of her son, the dark-skinned prince Memnon of Ethiopia who was killed at Troy, fighting for the Trojans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke stared at the bedroom, fighting a million different impulses, each of which pulled him in a different direction. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t fully recovered from the fight on the Current—his cuts were still healing, his ribs were still bandaged. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard that there are more Montana boys fighting than from any other state in the Union.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And the thing is, I cannot even refuse, I cannot even back away, I cannot leave him to fight it alone, they’re my people, my boys. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Russia sends them here to fight,” he said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No one messes with Big Mary Anne. It’s suicide. Because there’s nobody in the world that fights as dirty.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the only tiling I could think of to use for fighting the Germans. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t fight the tide, so I decided to float along.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Everyone had to be abovedecks or busy fighting to control the flooding. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

As MPs stood guard to make sure we didn’t start another fight, we, the army boys, went to the kitchen to look for food. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They both lay on the ground, fighting and clawing and yelling and struggling frantically to get up again, but before they could do this, the mighty peach was upon them. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it was his fighting in Vietnam that made him turn to drugs, and I knew it was the drugs that made him steal from us. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, maybe if you hadn’t decided to jump into the fight—” “What did you want me to do? Let you get killed?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not flatter yourself you have yet fought a rat.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re fighting so that you, me and every black man, woman and child in this country can lead a life of dignity.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily something like this—fighting in public—would embarrass me, but I barely even notice anyone except Daniel. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

After having fought with his father for almost thirty- five years, Mr. Levy had decided that he would spend the rest of his life trying not to be bothered. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought on their hypocrisy, too easy a mark, even, for argument, so howling it was — that I had been apprehended as slave through the capitulation of those who fought for liberty. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have to fight yesterday, but today I definitely will. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Her and my dad are probably just fighting about something and they’re trying to hide it. Dad’s better at it, clearly.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Whenever we quit running or fighting long enough to look around, France turns out to be a beautiful place. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Scenes like these are repeated almost daily, unless they’ve just had a terrible fight. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For more than half my life, I’ve been fighting down panic. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As Voldemort’s anger throbbed inside him, Harry’s scar threatened to burst with pain, and he wrenched his mind back to his own body, fighting to remain present as the prisoners were pushed over gravel. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

This is the story of a thousand sisters fighting and flying. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The young women of the Soviet Union who fought in World War II clung to their feminine identity with consistent determination, and if one single item could represent this individual battle, it’s underwear. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I sat rigid, as though waiting to hear the explosions again, fighting against the weight that seemed to pull me down. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned toward the fight and thrust my way through the crowd. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we’d have snowball fights by old First Congregational, and Joseph would defend from behind the Bridge Out sign, or sometimes we’d just lob snowballs at the bell. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

She considered transforming herself into a raven and taking on a bit of its cunning or an eagle and taking on a bit of its fight. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I decide not to ask why he doesn’t fight in Skiz himself. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Not a bad draw for our first match, but I knew Poland would fight to the very end. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Harry and the Weasleys spent a happy afternoon having a furious snowball fight on the grounds. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I look into his eyes, which are tired but resolute, and I know he’s still fighting for all of us. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And then, as if she was fighting for control, her whole body went still. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"I will fight that battle when the enemy appears on the field," the king said stubbornly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Tonight, at least, they had a bit of their own fight. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“If you were going to fight a war on poverty,” reflected Fuller, “how could you have the enemy on the board?” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Eleanor slipped in the house, she could hear them fighting. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

His performance was to fight off dogs that were set to bait him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

No doubt, he thought, this was some hero of the warren, wounded in a great fight and now infirm, whose past services merited an honorable escort when he went out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story of the bird which had fought for Thlayli in the storm had lost nothing in the telling up and down the burrows of Efrafa. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you think I am come on purpose to quarrel with you, knowing Weston to be out, and that you must still fight your own battle.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Why not? God help my family and my neighbors if I had fought the Indians!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted desperately to take part in the fight against the enemy. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There was no way I could protect myself or fight back because Marissa was so big and overpowering. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he didn’t run to help out with the fight at Big D’s party. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Marines had captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in some of the bloodiest fighting in the history of the American military. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had lost a fight for a female Labrador on a farm down the mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Soon she would join the League of Women Voters, where in time she would become a local leader in the fight for women's rights. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know about clouds fighting and pushing for a fact, but I had to tell my sisters something. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Popper’s Performing Penguins, completely forgetting their discipline, fought to climb the ladders and get into the upper berths. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

If Reb Saunders was fighting him with passion, that did not mean that my father had to fight Reb Saunders with passion. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Amil said when they were fighting, all the Hindu boys chanted on one side and the Muslim boys chanted on the other. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Goddammit, you are trying to pick a fight with me. For two stinking cents I’d jump over this big fat table and rip your stinking, cowardly body apart limb from limb.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He’d fought lots of monsters before and never felt bad about dissolving them, but this was different. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When she was younger, she had asked Papa about that war, and he said he doubted it would be the last battle fought on American soil. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You’ve basically picked fights with me because you were upset about what happened to him,” she says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He had run with a gang and was always in a knife fight or something. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t the black people fight back? Didn’t they carry guns too? Didn’t they shoot back?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas pulled up short, readying himself for a fight. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“The fish lost the fight. My cousin wrapped it up so tight it couldn’t budge.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“By the time we arrive, there’ll be too many monsters to fight.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was the only fight with my brother I ever won. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He could not walk, nor climb nor hunt nor fight with a wooden sword as once he had, but he could still look. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By that hour, we were usually an overheated, irritable bunch, and we fought each other—either with our fists or our shrill voices—for the seats in the bus nearest the Chief. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He said he’d been in a fight with some guy who was trying to start trouble. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Lord Wyman best send some men to fight if he knows what’s good for him,” said the old fellow at the end of the table. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Stanton weeded out unfit and incompetent officers; battled dishonest government contractors who sold the army low-quality uniforms, rotting equipment, and defective weapons; and endured an epidemic of officers who would not fight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo lay for a while fighting with the sleep that was overpowering him; then with an effort he struggled to his feet again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the light coming through the side window, die pale green fight from the water, he saw die pilot’s head only it wasn’t the pilot’s head any longer. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I push the smile from my face, it fights its way back. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Citra had no problem fighting the good fight if she became a scythe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

More hissing, scuffling, and feral moans—like giant alley cats fighting. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I like to think they keep the airfields back of the worst of the fighting, to keep the planes safe,” I said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Perilee fought with me when it was her turn for the treatment. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That’s why we have to join the fight!” he answers harshly. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stand at the side of the room, half listening to Al and Christina’s chatter, and watch Molly fight Edward. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

If I want to fight my way to the top ten, I will have to beat them first. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I fought the urge to shut my eyes. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I mean, they do say our every action and inaction is related to some primordial fight or flight hardwiring.... Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was the first day of my suspension and I’m beginning to feel less sore from the fight. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He went to school and he behaved well in class, because outside of his Saturday night fighting he was polite and quiet. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t fighting anymore, but we could see Caddy fighting in the mirror and Father put me down and went into the mirror and fought too. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big stableboy no longer fought him as he had the first time, back in the lake tower during the storm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I thought how weird it was for Jeffrey to be driving past all these carefree people who had it made, on his way to fight the twenty-seventh installment of a life-and-death battle against cancer. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the white men in the factory heard that we had agreed to fight, their excitement knew no bounds. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never had a quarrel or fight with Anna,” she stated. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

With them, it wasn’t a fight for territory, it was a fight for their lives. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We felt that the country was drifting towards a civil war in which blacks and whites would fight each other. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure, one hell of a fight. But then there’s always fights.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He amused himself by provoking much bigger boys into fights, calling his “Golden Glove brother” to the rescue, and laughing as they ran in terror. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they didn’t need the Divergent to march out of our city like an army to fight injustice and save everyone, as Edith suggested. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He fought the urge to bolt from the cabin. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There are many of us who can truly fight because we are willing to give ourselves for Biafra.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Demigods like Percy were still responsible for carrying on Roman traditions in modern times—fighting monsters, serving the gods, protecting mortals, and upholding the memory of the empire. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Third and Fourth Cohorts ran to join the fight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We had to stop often to fight off laugh attacks, slapping at each other, avoiding each other’s eyes until we could control ourselves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They talked to each other, warned each other, fought for food, for kingship, and for the right to make the most noise. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Belwas has killed many horse boys in the fighting pits. They Jingle when they die." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand why all that fighting and killing makes people happy. It should make them disgusted!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

We’ve also spent a lot of time discussing what being Jewish means to him—not just the religion part, but the fight for social justice. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Besides, there’s no law that says you can’t paint swastikas and still be part of the group making a paper chain to fight against them. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t had a good fight all day. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, in the middle of hauling rocks again, I vowed not to be killed without a fight. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When you puke on her puzzle, she launches herself at you—pushes you hard against the wall, and you’re too drugged up to fight back. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Waves of panic kept trying to knock me over, but I pushed them back, fighting to stay mellow, fighting to still my thoughts and stay on the good side of the high. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Lee Scoresby looked not asleep, nor at peace—he looked as if he had died in battle—but he looked as if he knew that his fight had been successful. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I hate that they always fight about not having money. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Chamberlin was too tired to fight his way across just then, so he crawled up onto one of the bridge’s arched railings. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

However, his eyes and Will’s locked together, and each of them knew what was going to happen: they were going to fight, and it was going to be brutal and deadly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fought again to free himself from the hungry depths and came up coughing and sputtering. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Come now,” I said, fighting to hold back my own tears. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching him made tears surge to my eyes, but I fought desperately to keep them from flowing. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if she knows that 1 choose her to fight with because I know she will always love and forgive me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For once, Petey fought back, attempting to reclaim what was his. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And I fought with my best friend over money. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He fought for every ball, and didn’t hesitate to put his body at risk if he thought he could gain an advantage. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Not one of them seemed to be able to fight off the curse, and each of them recovered only when Moody had removed it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There he lay for a while, fighting with despair. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“The enemy is here, General. We did not want the fight, but the fight is here. What if I ask this army to retreat?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Good men in a fight, at least, and loyal to their brothers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Long enough to make you sorry you fight," she said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Then he spoke of his soldiering days, fighting alongside the Black Prince in Gascony and Brittany. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell that even Mrs. Cordell was fighting not to break out laughing. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t a hope of fighting them off, and he didn’t want Maria’s last image of him to be of a terrified farm animal being dragged off to slaughter. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least during that fight Jason had had a hundred legionnaires at his side. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He had not fought against one man in so long he had all but forgotten how. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I got in a fight with a mountain,” he said, “and the mountain won.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You did that to Cap! You couldn’t fight your own battles! You had to use the whole football team as a weapon!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

One time I said, “What do you think my bullfighter name would be, assuming I ever fought with a bull?” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“If they was black they could slip in some signifying along with the laughing and dancing and then skip right to the fighting before the drinking even started.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This legion fights worse than we did in Judea, and that was the first time we lost our eagle. Why, if I were in charge—” “Could I just eat the silverware first?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Nhamo fought against dizziness, but the promise of cooked food kept her going. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and described Gum Baby’s break-in, the chase through the Bottle Tree forest, and finally our fight. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And, for once, that includes fighting right alongside her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

In the background Hades fought from his black chariot, summoning wave after wave of zombies out of the ground, but the forces of the Titan’s army seemed just as endless. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She and I had a chicken we would carry around to have fights with the other kids’ chickens. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something in me did not want to give up on life, was unwilling to let go, wanted to fight to the very end. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They did things together, like building forts or kicking balls or fighting. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s never too late. It takes a warrior to fight a battle and survive. This here is a battle if I’ve ever seen one.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were the boys who would require most of Luma’s energy and who would most likely cause fighting on the teams. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The English rangers who had trained to fight like Highlanders were essential to Britain’s invasion of Florida in 1739. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I take a bite of the empanada and have to fight the urge to run up and hug this kind woman. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Why does he always have to get into a fight with me?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small bands joined us, but sometimes armies of equal or larger strength would fight us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it is fighting you want, fight for me. Swear your sword to the Mother’s Men or the Free Brothers or the Stalwart Shields. Teach my other ffeedmen how to fight.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of fighting with Dahlgren, the suffragists tried to change her mind. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t say it, but I think, Your family doesn’t fight like my family. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

In those days there were only two topics of conversation: the Radio Mullah and the fighting just across the border in Afghanistan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Because we had a fight and we both said mean things to each other.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I get a hand over his mouth, and for a second, I think he’s going to fight me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But looking around, I could see that to get away I would have to fight against the crowd and make a scene, something else a colored man knew not to do. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would fight inside as we had fought outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“More fighting in the Middle East,” she says. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He fought back, kicking and screaming, and he managed to bite one of the guards on the arm. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They'd buy her little trinkets with the winnings from their after-school fights—flowers, chocolates—and kiss and flatter her to keep her from fussing too much. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But, despite how hard I fought him, Diego made me curious about my future. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Whites remembered their rule on the island; blacks remembered their fight for freedom. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s been rough for you, Henry, I know, but you can’t do this. You’re flunking three classes, getting into fights. I hardly see you because you’re always locked in your room.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“And you two better behave. No fighting and no being rude.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“No, Met Bong. We were farmers living in the countryside. I was too young to remember, but I know they died fighting for the Civil War.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rats were kicking and fighting each other to get down from the blazing tower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

For more than a year I had waited at home, bored and depressed by all the news of fighting, and by the struggles at Mom’s and Dad’s work units. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for me, my excitement mounted: maybe my father and the tribal men would fight the evangelists! Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys always fought over who got to ride Charlie Horse, Grandpa Tommy’s tall bay, which could outrun any other horse in Clover. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They hear fighting words on the wind, when all I’m thinking is how the late-day sun reminds me of a ripe nectarine. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The weekend and the next week passed in a blur of fighting Layla for the bed covers, locker notes, and treehouses. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t remember any fights with him and Mama. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I earn all the money, and he drinks it away. He passes out in the gutter every night, and I have to fight the rats off him!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Soviet name for the fight to drive the German army out of their nation during World War II is the “Great Patriotic War.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For the first time, they fought, and Isaac proved the stronger of the two. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, a Sonny and Malik fight is one of the few things guaranteed in life, right up there with death, taxes, and Kanye West rants. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She had been frail, cast off, sick, and yet she had fought up to the very end for something. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that speech, RFK compared the domestic struggle for Civil Rights to the free world’s fight against communism. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So all day long her thoughts fought with each other. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second, many species that live in herds for part of the year are territorial in the breeding season, when they fight and do not tolerate each other’s presence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She could have left it at that: the fold under the earlobe, but that Violet, unsatisfied, fought with the hard-handed usher boys and was time enough for them, almost. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if he does,” he said shortly, “then I shall have to fight the band. But the situation is imaginary.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The same offer I made at Mole’s Town. Food and shelter and peace, if he will join his strength to ours, fight our common enemy, help us hold the Wall.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s because of the fight we had when he first snuck in here to see me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z