“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

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

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

“People were fighting savagely...being trampled and crushed.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“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

‘But surely you must have heard of Captain Loosestrife? He was an officer of the Owsla in the fighting.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You always say that when we come here. Don't nobody want no stale candy, Ms. CeeCee," Bit said, fighting himself to cool his tone. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He reminded me of Tyson, and the idea of fighting him made me sad. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Their fathers were in exile, fighting for the cause. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Moreover, no fighting ever occurs except in the disputed areas round the Equator and the Pole; no invasion of enemy territory is ever undertaken. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Tally remembered now that Rusty cities weren’t self-sufficient, and were always trading with one another, when they weren’t fighting over who had more stuff. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He’d have enough trouble jabbing the monster without his spear fighting against him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

You met him at the door and started fighting with him because he’d been drinking gin, and you said gin made him wild because it did something to his system. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The first exchange took only a second, but Piper couldn’t believe the speed of their sword fighting. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Our arsenals for fighting off bacteria are so powerful, and involve so many different defense mechanisms, that we are in more danger from them than from the invaders. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fold their wild, crazy selves into tiny squares at school—no fighting, no cursing, just royal. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I will not get a sermon on how fighting is not the Lord’s way, how I must learn to act from love instead of anger. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We re fighting the Vietcong. You don’t fight somebody, then hire them to clean up.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the rickshaw ride back to Rahim Khan’s apartment, I remembered Baba saying that my problem was that someone had always done my fighting for me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But those were Frenchmen and you can work out military problems clearly when you are fighting in somebody else’s country.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered about the news guys asking us why we were fighting in Vietnam. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

All of a sudden here comes Miss Saunders, pushing her way past everybody to where me and Daphne are fighting. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The English invaded to silence these questions, and they were sure they would easily win—after all, their army and navy were the best in the world, and they were fighting against mere ex-slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

These two regiments had become friendly during the Mexican Revolution while patrolling the United States border with Mexico the year before and hoped to be fighting side by side in France. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was more that he hated to stop fighting. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe destroyers fighting it out with enemy submarines. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two countries struggled for supremacy using political maneuvering, stockpiling weapons, and fighting “proxy” wars in other, smaller countries where they didn’t directly engage each other. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The fighting was over, and the silence of the grave had settled over the Red Keep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I ran into the quad just in time to see two guys trying to break up the fight and Ocean started fighting them, too. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Suppose one day we were fighting and I suddenly saw that it was Sam I was aiming my gun at? My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Close by. He would have come when I called, but obviously he was fighting...And Balthamos! Oh, he must have been so frightened...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A small victory, Catelyn thought when the fighting had ended and the surviving foemen had melted back into the night, yet a victory nonetheless. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She does that when gunshots are fired outside, when our upstairs neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Lyon, are fighting, yelling. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

For every hour of fighting, a Kingsguard knight spent ten thousand hours watching, waiting, standing silent in the shadows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her whole body looks as if she is fighting—fighting us, herself, the air around her, this house, this city, this country, maybe. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was fighting mad, looking from face to face, his red head bristling, but no one answered his challenge. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It had been the hardest few days of his life—not just the monsters and the fighting, but the worry. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Tycho was back in Copenhagen by the end of the month, where he found that Joergen had also just returned from fighting a sea battle in the Baltic. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

We run after him, fighting the current of people heading toward the buses. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He never answered when I asked, “Suppose I’m fighting a girl?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved banging in the paint like a giant pinball and fighting for the rim. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It’s about the training and manning of the spirited, fighting goshawk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both of their voices were full of determination—determination fighting with fear. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Boy Who Lived’ remains a symbol of everything for which we are fighting: the triumph of good, the power of innocence, the need to keep resisting.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At first Finch isn’t fighting back—he’s just blocking the shots. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But some days—some days I hate my life, and I feel like fighting. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Finn hunched over his lemonade, fighting the urge to knock Jonas off his stool. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

Now they were all away fighting against the forces of Sultan Suleiman to the south. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn set Claire down and assumed a fighting stance, while Emma held out her hands to make a flame—but she was too stunned, apparently, to summon more than a sputter of smoke. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She was glad of that; on the very night they arrived, fighting broke out between the sellswords and some Lannister men. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Really? You weren’t at school yesterday, and on Thursday, I saw you and Felix fighting at lunch.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Vegas, for his part, seemed not too anxious to mix it up with him and they spent most of the first round fighting at a distance. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivanov pointed out to Eltenton that the Americans and Soviets were allies in World War II, but the Soviets were the ones doing the fighting against Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Soldiers fighting at the front had to live with constant uncertainty about where they’d be the next day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Pima’s shack was gone, but the shadows of the girl and her mother were still there, fighting the storm, trailing ropes, struggling to hold onto a blurry shadow. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The fighting was so intense during the months at Voronezh that sometimes there wasn’t even time to punish people when they disobeyed the rules. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The summer of 1919 would see a rise in action by African Americans, fighting for equality in the face of widespread racism. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We asked them why they were fighting this war, thinkin’ on slavery and all, and one fella said they was fightin’ for their ‘rats.’ The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her words accompanied me, and although I didn’t doubt her, it was hard to picture my parents fighting in public. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Especially someone who is fighting a losing one. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We’ll fight this. People will fight this—are fighting,” David says, trying to reassure me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

At the house, I figured my parents were fighting because the move was stressing them out. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Whether they like to pretend the fighting’s nearby or they simply don’t have any other way to express their joy, I don’t know! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And because I was dead, and there was nothing I could do, I stopped fighting. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The teacher would continue on and we would eventually stop fighting. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was now with boys and girls who were studying, fighting, talking; it revitalized my being, whipped my senses to a high, keen pitch of receptivity. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day me and Charlie had been fighting over who got to watch what show on TV. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I swallowed down the heavy lump in the back of my throat, fighting the dismaying urge to cry. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I told Katherine about their strange behavior before the fighting started, she blanched. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I've no problems with my aunt, who spends her life fighting for important causes like women's rights and the end of poverty. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Whenever anyone in her family was fighting, her mother would start yelling, Not in the head, not in the head! Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

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

"Call that a fighting stance?" the voice continued. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You were fighting with Dana just before you came here, or...it looked like fighting. Did you make all those marks on her face?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Octavian would probably be there, enjoying breakfast at a safe distance from the fighting. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Each upheaval caused Americans of every background to ask themselves and each other, What are we fighting for? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of solving problems,” said Miss K, “do you think fighting is a good way to settle arguments?” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He said that Americans had no choice but to keep fighting in Vietnam until they achieved victory or until the Communists realized that they could not force their way of life on weak countries. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You claim to be fighting oppression, but you spend more of your time fighting each other than in fighting your avowed enemies.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many people are fighting to change all this. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Soon a former associate of Doe’s named Charles Taylor began fighting against the new regime. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother’s mouth worked, and she looked surprised, as if she hadn’t understood what it was they were fighting about this time. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of discussing the fighting with Dad, but I didn’t want to sound like a whiner. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas tightened the straps on his backpack, held his makeshift fighting spear tightly in his right fist. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“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

Miss Anderson is a widow, and even though her husband died in the War between the States—fighting for the Confederacy, no doubt—she still wears her widows weeds. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

He sped the moped after the runaway horse, fighting to keep his seat as the tires caught on the edge of the road through town. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

Cole realized the gulls were fighting over bits of his own torn flesh. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It was curved and terrible, far too heavy for mortal fighting, plainly the work of giants. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These others have lost their lords in the fighting. I do not know who leads them now. Crowfood is no lapdog, though. Your Grace would do well to accept his terms.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But this time she was fighting a new enemy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If there was fighting tomorrow, Gage would not hesitate to hang him—at last— for high treason. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron yelled, trying to force the rat back into his front pocket, but Scabbers was fighting too hard; Ron swayed and overbalanced, and Harry caught him and pushed him back down to the bed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

“If you two keep fighting, you’re going to get us all killed, and I have a lot more card games I need to lose.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They were fighting for pink slips on role playing characters. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled my shirt back on, fighting to get it over my wet hair and down my back. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

The certainty that he was finally fighting for his own liberation and not for abstract ideals, for slogans that politicians could twist left and right according to the circumstances, filled him with an ardent enthusiasm. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Two men are fighting brutally in one spot, pounding each other, scratching and clawing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

‘It’s a hard fortune evidently, when a man can’t be fighting a little bit unless he comes to the end of his days.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The up-and-down motion reminded me of a ship fighting against the current. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Or would I let them shoot me without fighting back, so that no one else would have to suffer because of me? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were so minimal they only cast shadows—they seemed to emphasize the darkness, rather than fighting it. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Refusing to let go of their ropes, the camaradas rushed into the river, fighting against the current. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Silently fighting off an onslaught of tension and hostility, they broke camp. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

At the sound of Brer Fox’s name, the memory of him fighting beside me—and losing—crashed my senses and I had to take a deep breath. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Alec was in the dining room, still fighting off a dozen attackers, firing his weapon when he could. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Bedi Ma'am tries to pull apart the fighting boys as I bury my nose in the jasmine flowers. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Tyrioii saw no bodies, but the air was full of ravens and carrion crows; there had been fighting here, and recently. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“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

The sea is very clear and the bottom becomes fantastic with hurrying, fighting, feeding, breeding animals. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered, too, the welling blood and her warning—“Everyone will die”—and the furious way she had grappled in the doorway of the citadel, fighting to warn him yet again. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Apparently, we were a shining example for our teammates as we lay on the court like cats fighting over a ball of yarn. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He met her on the wall where she had gone in terror to watch the fighting when she heard the Trojans were in retreat. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared out into the darkness fighting to calm myself. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

Nok tugged at the cuffs of her itchy dress, fighting the urge to scratch her arms. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They’re fighting for control of our psychic selves; the empathy box on one hand, Buster’s guffaws and off-the-cuff jibes on the other. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

But that lone winter afternoon my fighting spirit had ebbed to an all-time low. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he forced his fists open and counted ten slow breaths, fighting it the way he always did. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t say I’d be fighting over you. I’m only throwing jabs if she come at me with some nonsense.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

With the American troops no longer fighting, what could her father do to protect her and her sisters and brothers? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“And it’s girls like you who give us something to keep fighting for, luv.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The authorities always found it distressing when I wanted to defend myself in court because the accompanying publicity would show that I was still fighting for the same values I always had. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if the train will stop and more fighting will happen and more people will be killed, including us. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Since the map told me where each of them was hiding, I should be able to avoid fighting them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For every man of fighting age, Jon saw three women and as many children, gaunt-faced things with hollow cheeks and staring eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

“His father’s settled his people at Oakenshield and will be back this afternoon with eighty fighting men. What did the bearded queen have to say?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And, for once, that includes fighting right alongside her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Jazz laughed her head off, and made some joke about how I could be the next Muhammad Ali, as long as I keep fighting air and not real people. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He says he just wasn’t interested in fighting. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“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

My parents had been fighting a lot before that, but I don’t know why he moved out over the summer. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“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

“He was my ancestor, a Greek prince, an Argonaut. He died fighting Hercules.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

What a way to begin fighting a libel suit. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She actually seemed to be fighting back tears. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even the call for water led to fighting. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I cried and cringed instead of standing and fighting. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She watched him clench and unclench his fists, fighting the anger that wanted to explode inside him—an anger so intense that she knew he was rarely denied. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

About a hundred yards down the surf, two men were fighting. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

"What's he going to do? Throw a cookie at me? He's given up fighting—he said so himself." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of fighting with Dahlgren, the suffragists tried to change her mind. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But when the fighting stops, well, no, perhaps that is something that is different. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the people of Boston knew no more than Gage that the fighting had begun. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The closer they got, the more Otto understood that Mr. Flux had no intention of fighting at a distance. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I'd never get back to the ship alive if she kept fighting. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I got whipped because I shouldn’t have been fighting.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I don't know what it is about the hood that when a person yells "They fighting!" everybody stops what they're doing and runs toward the fight. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I’d grown up hearing stories about him fighting the Minotaur and stuff, but I’d always pictured him as this huge, buff guy. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Olde Hampton’s street names—Lincoln, Grant, Union, Liberty—memorialized the hopes of a people fighting to unite their story with the epic of America. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They stayed for the funeral, and those days were the only times I had seen Dad and Grampa together without fighting. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I hate fighting with you. I’d rather make out with you. It’s so much more fun.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Was there some battle everybody was fighting, and he had missed it? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

When everyone was tired of fighting and wanted to make peace, a shooperer said the one thing calculated to start the argument again. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Then I realized they were his own arms—a hundred flailing, fighting arms. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to get help,” she said, fighting back tears. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

It would be many years before mathematicians began to free calculus from its mystical underpinnings, for the mathematical world was busy fighting over who invented calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She just didn’t know we were on the same side, fighting for the good guys to win. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

The Japanese field soldier, trained in the art of kendo, or stick fighting, was exceptionally proficient at killing in this manner. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I don't believe both sides will stop fighting at once.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was later determined that only seven or eight inmates were fighting, but at the time it had seemed like a full-scale riot. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach wouldn’t have made him do that if he didn’t already know we’d been fighting. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When he’s not fighting crime, Bruce dresses like a normal adult. advocate. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t feel like fighting today, so he made an attack upon her position backhand. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Even worse, we may have destroyed our very means of fighting. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

"We'll want horses. Swift and strong. The fighting will make remounts hard to come by. A goodly supply of gold will also be needed, for those gifts we spoke of earlier." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then again began the struggling and fighting, backward and forward, jerking and falling, until he choked and lay quiet. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a guerrilla force, and they were soldiers who had won their stripes in the fire of batde, who cared more about fighting and tactics than dress uniforms and parades. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear my voice shifting, ripping out of me, like I was fighting for breath. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

HERMIONE: And your wife doesn’t need you fighting her battles for her. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

But the comfort-loving Descartes wasn’t a fighting soldier; he found his military niche as an engineer, using his mathematical skills rather than his less-developed physical abilities. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

For all this time, all the living and fighting, the hatchet had been everything—he had always worn it. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of cases of water and MREs were readily available for the guards and prisoners, while those stranded nearby were fighting for food and water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“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

A six-armed Earthborn and a Laistrygonian giant pummeled each other with rocks, though Percy wasn’t sure if they were fighting or just messing around. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s like I’m fighting a losing battle every day. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I know Maxine says there are some friends who are worth fighting for, but sometimes it’s just easier to walk away. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Fair Knightess finished just two lengths behind him, fighting to the last. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

LEFT: Martian fighting machine from the 1906 edition of Wells’s novel. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was needed in the headquarters company of an infantry regiment fighting in Luxembourg. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Bless me! It’s Master Merry, to be sure, and all dressed up for fighting!’ said old Hob. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They began fighting for independence from the north. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

You guys been fighting since the days of dinosaurs. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Okay, so listen carefully. First thing I want to say about that is a line from The Art of War by Sun Tzu: ‘The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.’ Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear the fighting was messy,” the man behind the counter said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tree stopped fighting, and Lupin, too, disappeared into the gap in its roots. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

In spite of her brave deed and fighting words, she was frightened. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finny had recruited me and others as allies, so that two sides fighting it out had been taking form. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instructor breaks us into squads of eight and we attempt to carry out missions—gaining a position, destroying a target, searching a home—as if we were really fighting our way through the Capitol. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Many of them did not even know why they were fighting. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

For a year she’d been fighting with Dad, bucking under the restraints he put on her. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Seems Mama got tired of fighting after a while. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

If I can find a way out of this cell, and arm myself with a soldier's weapons and vest, I have a fighting chance to get out of Batalla Hall. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

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

He knew it was dangerous, but the idea of actually fighting the Grievers—not just running from them—was terrifying. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"Last night I had a dream, a horrid dream, fighting with things. I was outside the shelter by myself, fighting with things, those twisty things in the trees." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“And no more fighting with your kin. Whatever pleasure you find with Locke, your loyalty is to your family.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt quickly established himself as a leader, making newspaper headlines and earning respect for fighting corruption in the state government. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“If you would’ve just listened to me, we would be fighting the Nightbeast right now. Instead we have to start from scratch, our time’s running out, and it’s all on you!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

One by one, each of them asked her to let the fighting pits reopen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

He set up headquarters in the palace to protect the royal family as the fighting flared around them. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Always getting picked on, always getting laughed at, and all while fighting the natural doubts any person is prone to when trying to create—it wore Petey down. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“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

The MPs fired a few rounds into the air to get us to stop, but we were still fighting, so they had to part us by force. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Is she fighting with her mom on purpose? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I mean, you see these guys in these kung-fu movies getting hit on the head a thousand times, and they keep on fighting. Right?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I was happy to sed him, but he looked like he was fighting for his life. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Xhalal Bushi had managed to get his wife and children to Macedonia before the fighting, but he and his brother had gone back to Kacanik to look after their homes and stores. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Stop your stupid fighting!” she yelled at them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Such propaganda is calculated to keep us fighting one another instead of uniting to combat Nationalist oppression.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No fighting over the arm rest at the movies. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I pick Natalie up, screaming and fighting, her skull bashing against my chin, and set her as gently as I can on her back on one corner of the rug. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s something about team competition that brings out one’s competitive spirit—especially when you are fighting for your country. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The well-dressed woman was “the epitome of what we were fighting,” McCain recalls thinking: white, middle-class, old, and probably set in her ways. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Walter said that such a story, if told truly and fairly, would serve to remind people of what we had fought and were still fighting for. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The surge of strength that helped me to fight when I thought I was fighting for my life was gone. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He knew Willard knew but he couldn’t let on he knew, not without fighting Willard, and Joey was afraid of Willard. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop fighting. Let me speak to the bear!” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“My parents are fighting again. My dad went and spent the night on Uncle Jared’s couch. He’s back. But I don’t know. This feels like it might be it.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A pair of Dutch tourists stopped for me, complaining about the frigidity of American beer, and sometimes I got rides from couples who were fighting and tired of each other. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Look at Henry the Second borrowing money from Stephen, to pay his own troops in fighting Stephen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held her with one hand, then she quit fighting and watched me, her eyes getting wide and black. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Come dawn, Pinkeye and the others were back, all but one boy who'd been killed in the fighting for no reason that anyone could say. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Cambodia is fighting a war that I do not understand and that is enough of your questions,” he said and became quiet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We kids were downstairs lying in our boxes, listening to them fighting upstairs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

She spent nights awake shaking with fever, fighting against delirium, waiting until the house shook with the return of José Arcadio at dawn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“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

Two warring nations gripped Poland like girls fighting over a doll. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Most of the main fighting had gone into a lull. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Seven got up and ran toward the cuco, then with both hands grabbed its tail and pulled it back and away from Beefy and Valley, who were fighting it off together. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I try fighting, but that punch from the sheriff has me seeing stars and I’m no match for two grown men. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

All that talk of the war we were fighting in Korea made a lot more people on television discuss bomb shelters. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The next day he awoke with dragons fighting in his skull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Not from a distaste for fighting, but because I didn't care too much for the other fellows who were to take part. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt like a coward, but he knew that any fighting—and any deaths—would be in vain if they didn’t get that code punched, the door to the Creators opened. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The combatants stopped fighting and glared at each other. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one was outside except people who were fighting. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Paulito was only one inch tall, but he wanted to be king. Not because he was greedy or anything like that, but because his village wouldn’t stop arguing and fighting over petty nonsense.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The people, walking round the ground in their best frocks, from Grand Stand to Refreshment Tent, must have found the fighting very like the game. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In short, if fighting breaks out, everyone must act on CO . his own initiative in order to complete the operation.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cook was fighting pots in the kitchen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They flickered from purple to orange as if the colors were fighting for dominance. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He told us Gandhiji said he wouldn’t eat until people stopped fighting. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

Together, they will gain control of the fighting machines, defeat the Martians, and take over the world. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Two men alone are constantly on the verge of fighting, and they know it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“I feel bad about, you know, fighting you and everything.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long she was fighting off a yawn as Reznak prattled about the craftsmen’s guilds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If I was going to die, I might as well go down fighting. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She put all the dried blossoms in a separate pile and gazed at them, fighting back tears. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

"As far as I'm concerned, I've come to realize only just now that I'm fighting because of pride." One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“He was probably scared out of his mind. And now he’s not sure whether he wants to bother fighting.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

"They say my brother Robb always goes where the fighting is thickest," she said recklessly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Strictly speaking, fighting with two blades wasn’t very Roman, but Reyna had spent time with pirates. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

“It is a poor way to keep the Table together,” said Agnes, “by fighting Sir Lancelot.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bobbed up and down like a wet Whack-A-Mole game, their screams cut off only when they disappeared for a few seconds before fighting their way back to the surface. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Doris is a tough woman, but she did not do well with violence and fighting. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Stag of the Sea was fighting fires and boarders both, but the fiery heart had been raised over Jeffrey's Loyal Man. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Night fell, and an assortment of fighting men and merchants entered and exited the tent. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bit her hand and we rolled, kicking, scratching, hitting, fighting as though we were strangers, deadly enemies, fighting for our lives. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

From what we know, there might be some fighting to do. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was fighting to keep his mouth composed in its line of earnest gravity, but he couldn’t keep the humor from his eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Hizdahr’s fearsome collection of former fighting slaves made indifferent guards at best. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mostly, it postponed war with England until America was economically and politically more capable of fighting one. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

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

In the world of TB control, experts were still fighting about MDR treatment. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The dogs were biting their harnesses and fighting each other, and Atik was trying to make them hold still. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the British are putting up a fight with the help of the Americans, even though the Americans are also fighting Japan. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

“They didn’t have no fighting around Cam Ranh Bay,” was the answer. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was fighting for his life and a good account he gave. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been fighting groups and gangs and bunches for so many years, that the idea of having but a single opponent was slow in making itself known to him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re fighting a losing battle there, dear,” said his mirror in a wheezy voice. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

This time, the fighting Lilya engaged in was so fierce, and her plane was shot up so badly, that she had to parachute to safety. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The last time he saw this kind of steady drizzle, he had been fighting for his life. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I was the one fighting most of the battles since they were all much older, except for Alex, who had his own negotiations to navigate, usually involving staying out late with friends. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Then the news team got to Peewee and asked him why he was fighting in Vietnam. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They had been fighting them for the past six weeks, and the last six days had been no different. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

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

In the landing at Cape Gloucester and the fighting afterward, our code talkers did a lot. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The world will soon learn what a few brave men, fighting for their own land, can do.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The second attack wasn’t as bad as the first, so it seemed he was fighting off the disease. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it might give me a fighting edge. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ron was standing well back and seemed to be fighting the impulse to run. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The fighting could be miles away—or a plane carrying bombs could fly overhead at any moment. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of fighting bad guys, he simply throws up on them. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

One day they were madly in love, and the next day they were fighting. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The oil painting was a picture of the whole town fighting on Broad Street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was fighting the serpent, playing it, letting it exhaust itself thrashing and pulling. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Was she back already from fighting the curse? Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The crowd around them jostled, fighting to get closer, pressing darkly in on him — “What’s happened?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

As fighting continued, in 1781 in eastern Ohio, British troops displaced residents of the Moravian villages. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Silent Sentinels engaged in nonviolent protest: Instead of fighting with weapons, Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party fought with words and images. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

"But, Mr. Brockway," I cried, fighting to hold something that was giving way. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of fighting comes from the practice grounds as I cut toward the back of the property. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“It was quite easy to fool the townspeople. All we had to do was keep them busy fighting one another so they wouldn’t notice what we were up to,” Barbatos bragged. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But it’s like a dream of being poor and fighting. They don’t really feel these things. It’s like it’s all happening in a dream.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sela had assured him that with three weeks’ rest, combined with her healing skills, he would be fighting fit once more. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

After fighting so long to keep from bringing me home, Mom was reluctant to take me out again once she did. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

They shot pictures of Bull Connor running around shouting into his megaphone like a well-seasoned war general . . . fighting an army of laughing, dancing children. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I press my hands to my abdomen and look away, fighting off tears. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Discovering, while scuffling with an enemy at a circus, that adults would give quarters to fighting kids to pacify them, Louie declared a truce with the enemy and they cruised around staging brawls before strangers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

Augustus Seward, dressed in his nightshirt, raced to his father’s room and saw the shadows of two men fighting. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t necessary for me to join in the fight because their reason for fighting was stupid. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“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

“She talks in such a mean voice, but actually she’s really nice. Whenever I go buy seafood from her, she always gives me a sweet treat. I wonder why she’s fighting with that woman?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He said, “The men have done all they can do. Heth’s division is exhausted. Pender says he has had the hardest fighting of the war.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just relieved the fighting was over. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“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

That same day Truman and Churchill issued the Potsdam Declaration—a final demand that Japan end the fighting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s my father. His heart can’t take it anymore, all this fighting and killing.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Alex sighed, fighting against the sense of grief that was suddenly overwhelming. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Clustered around one end of the fighting pit were people who must have been impressors from the Stone Kingdom of Everica. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But he knew that if they could just get outside somehow, they stood a fighting chance. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

During his continued trips around the city, he saw cars set afire, buggies overturned and their horses lashed, women assaulted, sailors fighting with civilians, and rocks and eggs thrown at innocent bystanders. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I can feel the wind fighting to break through our storm windows. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like I’m always going to be fighting some uphill battle to make a place for myself in this world. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

My heart warms, and I give a final big smile for the camera, for that person fighting the same fight that I am. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

By the time the snow melted and the rains of spring swept in, every boy in Kabul bore telltale horizontal gashes on his fingers from a whole winter of fighting kites. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, I was fighting the urge to cry. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

If we hadn’t been afraid of the dogs fighting in the alley, we might have taken Ivanito away. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sad and angry and a whole host of other feelings, but mostly I’m fighting very hard not to kill Bill. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

From the con, through the rain, Nailer could see the crew fighting with the reel. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Father said, “The fighting has stopped, but they haven’t settled the peace terms yet. That’s what John Adams and some of the other men are doing in Paris now, talking over the peace terms.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A breath of air stirred up the slumbering coals and cast shadows leaping and fighting on the inside walls of the little birchbark house. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think we have enough to worry about without you fighting too?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took some fierce fighting but I never felt like I went into battle alone. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“But I’m so proud of you, fighting for Fig Newton.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

I prayed for the safety of all the soldiers fighting on the beaches. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But even she had a tense look around her eyes, like she was fighting against squeezing them shut and pretending none of this had happened. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But now suddenly he was wearing shaving lotion, combing his hair, and fighting with me. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I like the fact that Carlyle rolls with the waves rather than fighting them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“We are fighting uselessly,” he cried, and flung his bow to the ground. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Billy felt almost as if he were fighting a thing rather than a man. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was fighting automatically when suddenly I noticed that one after another of the boys was leaving the ring. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You see my family over there? They are fighting the witches that did this to you. That made you do things you didn’t want to do.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

We learned a lot from the British—and if they had not been good fighting men we wouldn’t have taken it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were not just fighting for the United States. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here it was again, Pierre Lemerre’s phrase, Jefferson’s phrase, the principle Clarkson was fighting for—indeed, he came to France to support the new government. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

"Stop fighting me. This is not time for false pride or false courage." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘We are fighting, partly, for just that. Because a man is a private is no reason he should be treated like cordwood.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from this distance I could hear the Ares and Apollo campers fighting again, yelling curses and spouting bad poetry. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The morning was clear and bright—perfect for a picnic or a hike, or pretty much anything except fighting monsters. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The Confederates dig in immediately, knowing that more fighting is imminent. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a shot, in fighting stance, of a former prizefight champion, a popular fighter who had lost his sight in the ring. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself fighting them, inflicting far more violence on them than they ever could on me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When people made him unhappy with their stupid fighting, instead of yelling at them or fighting with them, he wouldn’t eat until people were peaceful again. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But I don’t believe in fighting—even though my fourteen- year-old brother, Khushal, annoys me to no end. / don’t fight with him. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The fighting grew no less desperate at the end of the war, which meant that no one was safe—not even from their own regulations. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

All that fighting had happened without seeing even one Japanese soldier. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your barber has served you well, Hizdahr. I hope you have come to show me his work and not to plague me further about the fighting pits.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Too terrified of crevasses to wander far from camp, I spent most of my time recumbent in the tent—the ceiling was too low to allow my sitting upright— fighting a rising chorus of doubts. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just one day to forget about the task, and their fighting, and the Nightbeast. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The fighting was fierce and long, but in the end Eadgils won. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Chubs looked like he was fighting with all the strength he had left in him not to roll his eyes at me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For me, fighting is just a way to kill time until I get my medical degree and begin my residency. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“And the American fighting man is second to none.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We were fighting forces that did not obey the laws of twentieth-century science. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of Cardan’s threats would have kept me from wearing the gold braid and fighting as hard as I could. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Seven could not remember falling asleep that night or changing out of her cloak and fighting gear, but somehow, she awoke the next day to sunlight streaming into her room. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Japanese soldier, a colonel had explained, would die fighting before he would surrender. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’d been placed there by the juvenile authorities after being arrested for fighting when he was a freshman. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

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

“You are a strange man,” she said, “Arthur dear. You fight all the time, and conquer countries and win battles, and then you say that fighting is a bad firing.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not until all the districts are secure. Good news is, the fighting’s almost over in all of them but Two. It’s a tough nut to crack, though.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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

It is also foolish to climb a tree because black bears are adroit climbers and, as Herrero dryly notes, you will simply end up fighting the bear in a tree. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t a hope of fighting off a leopard with a child’s training spear. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Powell would have come in handy if they had to do any fighting during their escape. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never did no fighting except with my fists. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

The millions of soldiers fighting Hitler are part of the world. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The veins in her neck and forehead protrude so much they’re fighting to break through her skin. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"The king is fighting hares with a crossbow," he said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was useless in a fight, which meant that everyone liked fighting him the most. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“He gave up his life fighting for you, and you won’t do anything to repay that?” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was a big sign, MING’S, and underneath it, red neon characters that looked like fighting men waving swords. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In four years of fighting, nearly eight million Soviet soldiers and twenty million civilians died. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He later summed up his experience: “The Cubans seem to take chess more seriously....They feel more the way I do about chess. Chess is like fighting, and I like to win. So do they.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My battle rage surges, but I rein it in, fighting to wound, not kill. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Why are you fighting in the street like a criminal?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His knowledge of geography had been shaky and his information about the fighting nonexistent; now he became an authority. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What is it you children are fighting for, anyway?” he said, hawking up phlegm and swallowing it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I noticed two children desperately fighting in the water, one trying to strangle the other, I implored the lady: “Please, don’t throw' any more coins!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw Bronn unhorsed, fighting with a sword in each hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He'd been playing Call of Duty all day, fighting against computerized versions of Nazis and doing everything he could, mission after mission, to not get himself killed along the way. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I completely agreed with this, but I did not see why that ought to prevent us from fighting in the only realm in which we now could fight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was mad at you for fighting with Mom and Dad so much that they turned into different people. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"I pray for an end to the fighting." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It really had been an incredibly warm October, like the summer was still fighting to stick around. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The fighting intensified, and both Doha and Yuni were shocked when the customer called the squid vendor a very bad word. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She was fighting down a rising feeling of panic. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Gollum on the edge of the abyss was fighting like a mad thing with an unseen foe. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?” said Black, with a terribly fury in his face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

This time the two women had not been fighting, just waiting for her. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He said, “My hand is better than my tongue. Let me win fighting and you may win talking.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yells of fighting and sharp crackle of smashing glass blended with dinosaur growls and occasional musket shots in a rising tide of terror that seemed to seep from the streets all around them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

After fighting back the urge to gag, he told the confectioner, weakly, “You have ruined my tongue for all other tastes,” and saw her eyes flare wide. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And despite our measured pace I had begun to feel the effects of the altitude, which left me light-headed and constantly fighting for breath. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

No matter what I suffered in my pursuit of freedom, I always took strength from the fact that I was fighting with and for my own people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tightened his grip on the fighting stick; Sophie readied herself to spring. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

Their plan included fighting Octavian in a land battle if necessary. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

‘I’m cool with fighting the occasional goddess, but isn’t Nike one of the good ones? I mean, personally, I like victory. I can’t get enough of it.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

As soon as Eleanor slipped in the house, she could hear them fighting. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“At Wild Brain,” he said, “we make something out of nothing. We learn how to take advantage of the flat world. We are not fighting it. We are taking advantage of it.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t stop those bulls from fighting. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Months went by, a year passed, and finally in the spring of ’83, almost a year and a half after the fighting had stopped, General Washington proclaimed the peace. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she was fighting off thoughts of death, they heard Papa coming up the stairs singing softly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should still be thinking about how great the first walk with Ziggy went, but instead I keep thinking about how much my parents are fighting, and how different everything is now. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Said Minister Wilfred X of the Detroit mosque, “We would be ignorant to get confused and go to arguing and fighting among ourselves and forget who the real enemy is. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

What fighting and killing I have seen have not been glorious but slum grubby. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was now passing under the very walls of the Tower, and the cries and sounds of fighting could be heard with his unaided ears. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

According to that book, the principles of spire fighting stated that everyone has a light deep inside them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Wherever it is you walk, just be sure to walk away from the fighting.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m fighting the wind, this place called Detroit, my cousins and their walls, the prison that keeps my mother, my broken home country floating in the middle of a sinking sea. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“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

Every evening the war correspondents report on the difficulties, the courage and the fighting spirit of the army. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“It can’t be done by fighting or fair words, no. So it will have to be done by means of a trick.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I twisted about on my back, fighting something I couldn't see. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, did you say gods and demigods... like fighting side by side? That could never happen!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

This was not a tykes’ game, where arguing and fighting were expected. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On green fields of battle as old warriors, surrounded by friends, fighting for their homes, fighting cruelty. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

As they watched, they saw powerful warriors of all ages and places, well matched in battle, dressed in their war gear, each man fighting his hardest. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But strong as he is, there’s no fighting the enemy in his mind. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

And fighting for control of the grove itself were a score or more Specters, being held back by a ragged band of ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Kanue encouraged them to keep fighting; Coach had told them to get two more—they had one to go. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The incident put an end to that night’s fighting. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The Colonel ran up to Alaska, and they started fighting about something quietly enough that I couldn’t hear the words so much as the mutual annoyance, and I finally asked Takumi where we were headed. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He gazed at them unseeingly, fighting against his conscience, against beginning to see the justice in what Aurelia had said. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He pulled his knees up to his belly and writhed in the bed, fighting back the gagging. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure what would be worse when they reached it: finding Sigurd and fighting him, or finding nothing at all. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

‘That fighting—I wasn’t born when it finished.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

South Vietnamese civilians crowd a bus to Saigon as fighting approaches, 1975. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They’re fighting about their popcorn and candy, and whining about going to the potty. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture it: Taliban men fighting in the alley where we played cricket. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Evans lectured the boys about fighting on the playground and then sent them back to their homerooms. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I will have no fighting among my friends. I have lost enough without that.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bouts of fighting will last the whole day, broken up by bardic performances, a few feats of clever magic, displays of archery, and other skills. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"We feel that they should be encouraged to keep fighting toward success. After all, you're one of the latest to fight his way to the top. We need all the heroes we can get." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each had brought a tail of fighting men—five for Old Flint, twelve for The Norrey, all clad in ragged skins and studded leathers, fearsome as the face of winter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

“She told me that if she didn’t survive, I should tell you . . .” Caleb chokes, then pulls himself up straight, fighting off tears. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I saw something on the mayor’s television. I wasn’t supposed to. There was a crowd, and fires, and the Peacekeepers were gunning people down but they were fighting back....” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a two-hour-and-twenty-three-minute court hearing, on its face just one more procedural step in more than two years of dug-in fighting. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But that was an utterly conventional kind of war: two heavily armed and organized forces meeting and fighting in an open battlefield. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

"I always found the worst part of fighting was those long afternoons, just waiting and killing time." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There followed an equal number of cheers and boos, a squabble ensued and fighting broke out. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, I can’t do more than say I am sorry, even if I have. I don’t know what we were fighting about anyway. Lean on my shoulder and we will get you into bed.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

What he had learned from all his experience of fighting was that nearly always there are those who want to fight and those who do not but feel they cannot avoid it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot think of Pa being hurt this way, but images of him clawing at his throat, fighting for air as the soldiers pile dirt on him flood my mind. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

New recruits would roam the streets, laughing and talking about fighting the Japanese. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The eastern frontier, where Dacca was located, was fighting for autonomy from the ruling regime in the west. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Everyone had to be abovedecks or busy fighting to control the flooding. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Mom and she can’t stop fighting about what she wants to wear now, which is not much. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Four brothers took their exercise together every day, fighting with staves and wooden shields in the Flowstone Yard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you get it?” she demands, fighting back more tears. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They could coerce some of us into fighting with misinformation, or by appealing to greed—any number of ways. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Once again it was being put about that all the animals were dying of famine and disease, and that they were continually fighting among themselves and had resorted to cannibalism and infanticide. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

About fighting demons and monsters, saving princesses, and going on adventures with his best bud, Enkidu. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They were fighting for principles that they had learned from Europeans and Americans—from people similar to their own slave masters. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Fiercely he parried and struck, fighting them off with the fiery staff that was made of his anger and a blade of wild grass. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They organized peasants into fighting cadres, seized land, expelled the owners and established People’s Courts to try Class Enemies. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned against it, bracing himself sideways and using his legs, fighting to keep a grip. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now the fighting was in the next mountains beyond and was not a mile away. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

All up at once, the men took helm and shield— four fighting men, counting Odysseus, with Dolios’ half dozen sons. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear that the bears were practiced at witch fighting, for they had moved at once into a defensive formation, and the witches moved just as smoothly into attack. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

After more than a year together, fighting for survival along with Lana and Trina and the rest of them, Mark wasn’t intimidated by the old bear anymore. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He saw again: a bloody tangle, men fighting hand to hand. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother was certain he was being pressured by his bosses, North Little Rock’s all-white school administrators who were fighting integration in that city. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I was asleep when the twisty things were fighting and when they went away I was awake, and I saw something big and horrid moving in the trees." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is a strange new kind of army, a polyglot mass of vastly dissimilar men, fighting for union. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And—what is especially relevant here—they avoid fighting even in self-defense. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all started screaming and shouting and fighting. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She’s watching my every move, rooting for me with her eyes and fighting an urge to wave. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since there are an odd number of you, one of you won’t be fighting today,” says Four, stepping away from the board in the training room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

"What if the fighting doesn’t go against her?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The idea of parents fighting was so foreign to Grace. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Toby was still up against the wall, fighting the impulse to jump off the mattress and sprint out the door. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was a relief not to be in a competitive situation, not to be driving wildly, fighting, sweating torrents, sticky with dust. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was using a wheelchair now, and he was fighting time to say all the things he wanted to say to all the people he loved. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In March, the Red Army began fighting in Crimea, a huge peninsula in the Black Sea on the southern edge of Ukraine, the Soviet state that produced most of the nation’s food. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She had thirty men around her, charged to keep her unharmed and see her safely home to Winterfell if the fighting went against them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was heartbroken because Hindus and Muslims were still fighting and killing one another. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Although the event will be little remembered in history, witnesses will swear they have never seen more suffering or such desperate fighting as during the final moments of the Battle of Sayler’s Creek. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow the fighting had ended when he wasn't looking. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If the fighting was nearby, the electricity went out. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As they gathered everything, Scoob could tell Drake was fighting with everything he had to keep from crying. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

In the saddle, Woolf could feel his mount fighting the surface. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke and Thalia were fighting like demons, lightning crackling around them. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Can’t no one beat the Brown Bomber,” folks laugh as they pass, like Joe Louis is fighting for all us colored folks. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

My oldest memory is of my parents fighting. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She played because she was fighting with her sister and best friend, the person she loved most in the world. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

When you hear that, you begin to wonder why we’re fighting this long and difficult war. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Before I got put away, Moms always went after me and Diego for fighting so much. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Deja's face was a grimace—I could almost see her fighting through the cramps, taking one for the team, leaving her legs out there. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Ever since we had to put our house up for sale, they’ve been fighting more and more. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They heard the deep growls of shadowcats behind them before they had gone half a mile, and later the wild snarling of the beasts fighting over the corpses they had left behind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were fighting for their lives, and their buddies’ lives. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, Joe spent his time in prison much as he’d spent it in the military: in the hole for insubordination and fighting. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

The neighborhood had been all but drained of familiar faces, and now, only four months after fighting had broken out between the Mujahideen factions, Laila hardly recognized anybody on the streets anymore. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Jay said, “You mean, like, fighting them? Are you going to teach us to use weapons?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem to have much fighting spirit left at all. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“We know how to find him. He said that all we have to do is summon him with his name, but what about fighting?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Em, I really am sorry. Okay? Anyway, no fighting allowed. Remember?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I may be angry with her for fighting me in Jeanine’s laboratory, but she’s still Tori, the woman who guarded the secret of my Divergence. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Bryan, I just want to thank you for fighting for me. I thank you for caring about me. I love y'all for trying to save me.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I found myself running, fighting the wind around the head of the bay toward the pier where the boats were breaking up. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found the boys faithful, obedient, and with just the right fighting spirit and willingness to sacrifice that each group wanted in its future soldiers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had been blown off in Singapore in ’42, within the first week of his running away from home to join the fighting ranks of the Indian National Army. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just fighting for me and Ruth. You can keep your rebellion. How much longer till this pump?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is, Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

She had taken a Meer- eenese slaver as her king, as wealthy as he was noble, and when the peace was signed and sealed the fighting pits of Meereen would open once again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘But if there are many of these ruffians,’ said Merry, ‘it will certainly mean fighting. You won’t rescue Lotho, or the Shire, just by being shocked and sad, my dear Frodo.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Just wanted to shout some small form of encouragement out to the kids fighting today. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it doesn’t make sense,” Citra said, fighting tears with little success. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The Athena and Demeter teams were having a chariot race around the track, and over at the canoe lake some kids in a Greek trireme were fighting a large orange sea serpent. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We steered clear of the bedroom Francisco shared with Mami, kept the television low, and did our homework and fighting in the kitchen, where he couldn’t hear us as well. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I thought my routine must be like a soldier’s fighting in wartime, only I was lucky enough to have weekends in another world. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing him fighting tears, she relented and went to look, taking his hand in hers and examining the indentations that were rapidly turning into bruises. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

His eyes are red and he’s breathing hard, like he’s fighting back a serious cry. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

He knew which wolves the girls were meant to kill, but he had no wish to watch the girls fighting over his severed toe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At least then I knew what we were fighting about. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Already there has been fighting between their followers and those who worship other gods. Benerro’s rantings will only serve to bring a savage wrath down upon his head.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

She always been a strong woman, always fighting. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The ironclads Monitor and Virginia fighting in the Battle of Hampton Roads. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The door hangs open and there’s a group of three drovers there, fighting with the horse, trying to hook it up to the wagon. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Nor was the effect of horses due only to the terror that they inspired in soldiers fighting against them for the first time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But, apart from this secret anxiety, he felt that his reputation depended on a fighting victory. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was hurt, maybe hurt bad, but he was still thinking about fighting back. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walowick said that he was fighting because his country asked him to. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Suds,” he said, “you’re in fourth grade now. That makes you a rat. Stop fighting it. It’s nature’s way.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not muscle strong or fighting strong—a kind of strength that gave him the self-control to meditate instead of falling apart, or to ignore what other people thought, and find meaning in a dead bird. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Very different from Incheon, but we liked it because it was safer. Away from the worst of the fighting.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I barely have time to give the order before Blue Platoon is on us, fighting as viciously as if we're a tribe of border raiders. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Manny Givens managed about six fighters, all of them fighting in minor fights, only a few of them still hoping for the big time. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of fighting, the far-off booming of the artillery, the hollow, bass-drum sound of explosions echoing off the mountains became a constant thing. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all the people who came before us, fighting this fight, I was here, screaming at the top of my lungs. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“We push our way up in the clouds; the clouds get mad and push back. Like you and Fern fighting over red and gold crayons.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But people all around the country are fighting the status quo. Things are changing.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He’d worked out a theory about what fighting was for, and now he no longer fought with his six closest neighbors. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody in geography asked her if it was true that they were fighting over her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Trust me,” Celia whispers in his ear, and he stops fighting it, forgetting everything but her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

It seems that in days of yore, a knight in a fighting mood would defiantly fling his gauntlet—a heavy, armored glove—to the ground as a challenge. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Even when cited merely as a rhetorical device, the armed struggle was a sign that we were actively fighting the enemy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frieda and I stopped fighting each other and concentrated on our guest, trying hard to keep her from feeling outdoors. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun’s pouring in through the glass windows, and the trees outside are whipping with the ocean winds, like they’re fighting to feel the warmth we’re soaking in. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I’d expected her to tell me that she was still working on her revenge scheme, or that she was afraid their weapons were too strong so there was no use in fighting. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It still amazes me how she can survive by being accepting and not fighting back. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay then,” said Harry, and he and Ron both released the elves, who fell to the floor but did not continue fighting. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Alfred tried it, coming up slowly, inch by inch, fighting to keep his legs straight and his heels on the mat as his shoulders began to quiver and the muscles in his stomach tightened painfully. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Noooo. He’ll get kicked out of school for fighting a girl. You know how Mr. Turner is about boys who pick on girls.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I feel like a crystal glass that’s going to shatter if the noise and the tension, if the struggle and the fighting, if the loudness of it all rises even one decibel more. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government didn’t like the idea of women fighting in frontline combat. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I stumbled along, head down, fighting to keep my eyes from closing. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indians have historically been burdened by flukes, tapeworms, and nematodes, so they have long had majorities of parasite- fighting helper-T cells. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“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

With everything else fighting for room in my head, I must confess that Mom and Dad’s “important meeting” didn’t seem very important to me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stag of the Sea split one of foffrey's galleys clean in two, but Dog’s Nose was afire and Queen Alysanne was locked between Lady of Silk and Lady’s Shame, her crew fighting the boarders rail-to-rail. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Seven felt guilty; she knew Thorn worried about them fighting, but she was starting to understand this was just how she and Valley joked around. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“No, Mom. I’m tired of being quiet. All of you should be. Layla’s been fighting for us. Literally. Look at her face. And what have any of you done? Nothing but cower in fear.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s just like you said, Emma. We all have our battles. I fought mine, and I won. Now you’re fighting yours. And I’m so proud of you.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

Her parents—minus the wine, the fighting, the suffocating adultness of kitchen renovations and mortgage payments—were good people. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You know what? I’m sick of fighting about it. Keep whatever you want.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It was some kind of miracle that she didn’t pick up on what we were fighting about. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Should the United States commit to fighting a major ground war in Vietnam? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was entirely Billy’s fault that this fighting organization no longer existed, Weary felt, and Billy was going to pay. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even now that the Kurdish People’s Protection Units have pushed them back, the fighting goes on endlessly and US airstrikes can happen at any time. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“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

They started fighting because of what I told Mom. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I push my tongue against my cheek, fighting the tears that are trying so hard to give me away. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

If you haven’t been charged with a crime, are you willing to risk the possibility that fighting the forfeiture might prompt the government to file criminal charges against you? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Still, I thought about yesterday’s battle, and I wondered if I’d ever be able to walk in these woods again without remembering the horror of so much fighting. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

Soon, I’m fighting in earnest, using every trick I know to survive her onslaught. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She knew she was in more danger than when she’d been fighting the Amazons, or fending off the gryphons, or climbing the glacier on Arion’s back. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He's fighting it, probably more for me than for him, and it's hard because unconsciousness would be its own form of escape. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem possible that he was a good man when he wasn’t fighting for her or for us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As they approached the farm Squealer, who had unaccountably been absent during the fighting, came skipping towards them, whisking his tail and beaming with satisfaction. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She constantly had to prove she was the best, even if it meant fighting a god. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I had my chance and I’ve lost and I deserve this and I’m fighting but I’m not nearly as strong as I was before and I can feel the end coming. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I went over to him, fighting down anger and disappointment and began putting the things that he had scattered back into my bag. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When fighting between Spaniards and Incas finally did commence after Atahuallpa’s execution, the Spanish forces were more formidable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As if that weren’t enough, although the fighting in Ireland had come to an end, civil war had broken out in England. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had visited the bleak housing projects and seen how people there were fighting each day for survival. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

"My brother Robb is fighting in the south," he said, "but you can say your words to me, if you like." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

They were friends and companions, fighting side by side with their drüskelle masters. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was early January 1999 when I heard my parents fighting again right outside the house. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Those two feelings were always in him, fighting each other—like the way his mom and father were constantly fighting with each other. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Because the United States and Britain were now fighting together, Elizebeth turned to British code breakers for help. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hazel and Fiver stared at each other, both fighting against the impulse to run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they reached the mudflats, he had reached the point where he and his father were fighting on the mountaintop. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In his natural haunts a sailor has no face and certainly no plans beyond getting drunk and maybe in jail for fighting. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Six now. I will not have the fighting pits reopened.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was three weeks after the start of the 2013-2014 school year and a friend of Richard’s was being sent home for fighting. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As much as he hated the idea, I could tell that the constant fighting, defending, leading the charge—it was starting to wear on him. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

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

I’m a Buddhist myself and I don’t hold with fighting but I haven’t lost it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The payments, even if high and festooned with interest, are no worse than renting an apartment and fighting the owner for heat. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop fighting and sit down quietly, please,” the young girl begged. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held her aching head in her hands, fighting back the throbbing at her temples and behind her eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She was coping with medical appointments and surgeries and at the same time trying to care for her mother, who was also fighting an aggressive cancer that was, the doctors insisted, completely unrelated to Suzanne’s. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now that the meal's over, I'm fighting to keep the food down. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was in the midst of it, dealing death with an axe as big as he was, fighting side by side with Barristan the Bold and Bittersteel as dragons wheeled across the sky above them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of white veterans, recently returned from fighting in Europe, having been told that a conspiracy to murder white planters had begun, joined the posse. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I asked, fighting to keep my voice calm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Big black beard, huge muscles, and armed with a gigantic ax, fighting hordes of monsters or legions of demons. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I know you lived in a world where black folks were hosed and beaten and jailed and killed while fighting for equal rights, but you still managed to be, like, dignified and everything. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They had dispersed the men on the battering ram, but he could see fighting all along the riverfront. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She straightened up with the new jug in her hands, fighting back tears. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

But Dad walked ahead of us, fighting a losing battle to keep Laleh upright and walking on a relatively direct heading. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He’s got her wrists in his hands but she’s fighting him, fighting and kicking for all she’s worth, but her face is a thing so scared I can barely get my words out. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

I visited Jefferson County’s board of education and asked why there was a problem with fighting on the buses. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the grunts but was still surprised to see two big men fighting each other in the middle of the cars and trucks. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Whenever the smoking lamp was lit—which meant any one who wanted to take a break could do so—my friends and I would pick up our rifles and practice bayonet fighting with them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we do not know yet who we are fighting and what we are fighting for. the stories cora tells In the evening now Coraandhersisters come over to our porch. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

But night does not come soon enough, and the fighting begins. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He pressed his heels into the mare’s sides to make her run faster, but the lava rock was already scattering from under her feet, and she was fighting to keep her balance. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He just squirms and twists around inside that hide and won’t quit fighting even after the dog’s got enough and is ready to throw the fight to him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all went to bed with their clothes on so they don’t have to get dressed and there’s no fighting. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

Only a sense of the solidarity and fighting ability of Mack and the boys saved them from some kind of reprisal. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were dozens of them fighting for attention over four pages. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

This sort of thing does not count among fighting rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m losing it, I thought, as I pushed branches aside, fighting my way back to the clearing. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

You spin round and round, fighting the chemical-induced thickness of the air, and hurl the plate, certain you’re about to win a gold medal. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

These people are boozing it up, and fighting all the time, and if somebody gets killed, so somebody gets killed. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hoped that the government and ordinary South Africans would see that the principles they were fighting for in Europe were the same ones we were advocating at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First off, they agreed to be civil about arranging these weddings—no more fighting,” I tell them. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She was dragged fighting and protesting downwind and forced against a neighboring pier, and we could hear her hull crying against the oaken piles. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He withstood it all, with his friends out in the world fighting for him and with Emma by his side at home, as she had been since they made their leap. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Kabul, fighting kites was a little like going to war. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was fighting through the leaden clouds. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt wasn’t the only expedition member fighting malaria. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He sings along, stuff about fighting nations, and guns, and ammunition. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

It’s how drowning people must feel in the last few seconds, when they finally stop fighting and sink into the water’s embrace. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I sought Rebellion, and found grim Authority engirded there; I mustered in the ranks of Royal Authority, and found there only Chaos fighting in straighter lines. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And now the fighting waxed furious on the fields of the Pelennor; and the din of arms rose upon high, with the crying of men and the neighing of horses. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“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

Before they took their leave, I told them the time had come for negotiations, not fighting, and that the government and the ANC should sit down and talk. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we have decided that it would be better if I went to live in another house so that we can stop all this fighting.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

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

Along what had been country lanes rich with berries, high wire fences and mile-long factories stretched, and the yellow smoke of progress hung over all, fighting the sea winds’ efforts to drive them off. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they were fighting in the wreckage at the main gate. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

When their parents were fighting, Maya sometimes imagined torching their entire house. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I asked, fighting to hold back the tears at the sight of her disfigured face. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now go on your way. The day’s too bright to spend it fighting with an old lady.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Once elected, Reagan’s promise to enhance the federal government’s role in fighting crime was complicated by the fact that fighting street crime has traditionally been the responsibility of state and local law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The man on the radio station, fighting to survive, saw people that were desperate and selfish. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel like being bossed around by him, but I also didn’t feel like fighting. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her name was Two Strike Girl, and she was better than most boys at hunting and fighting. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

If it remained intact as an effective fighting force, the American Revolution remained alive. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I could see that all the dogs were fighting one. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because N and I are meeting in a week and then maybe my brain and my heart will stop fighting. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Evan would be mad if he knew that she had worried Mom with their fighting. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“But fighting all the time and being really drunk and nasty got boring. So now I just take care of animals.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They would realize that yesterday’s triumph had ended when the moon rose, and that today new battle lines would be drawn, and that the fighting never stops. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

In the early history of our planet, however, when enormous amounts of organic molecules were being produced by sunlight in a hydrogen-rich atmosphere, very simple, nonparasitic organisms had a fighting chance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a candle fighting to stay lit in the wind. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I saw Nico and my parents down on Fifth Avenue, fighting a hopeless battle, ringed in enemies. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“So do I,” said Mother, fighting to keep back the tears. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They did things together, like building forts or kicking balls or fighting. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents talked quietly, Granddaddy smoked cigars and read his National Geographic, and my brothers and I took turns at fighting off sleep and failing miserably. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It’s where she draws her strength from, her fighting spirit. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Just keep our side of this war fighting.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“If it comes to fighting, what chance do you think we have? The Godslayer slew the Mesarthim, and they were far more powerful than we are.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You were right — I’m definitely fighting fate trying to keep you alive.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The fighting must have finally stopped at the Cornucopia. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The people are fighting the Fascists in many places—even the army has joined the fight. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Also there are men fighting, or about to fight, looking clean and noble, not dirty and bloodstained and smelly the way they must have looked. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The pasta carbonara smelled delicious, but I didn’t expect I’d get to eat any because of the yelling and fighting and Charlie’s occasional hysterical outbursts. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Ladies and gentlemen, can we please focus on the writing activity for today. No fighting in the poetry club.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Some would shake my hand and thank me for fighting for our country. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leads me back into the house, and I let him, because I know there’s no point fighting now, I won’t get away from him here. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three inmates were fighting; at least one had a weapon. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Being away from the fighting had weakened my stamina. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like watching a fairy-tale dragon, stabbed and bleeding, fighting for its life. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

We can prevent the people fighting wars or staffing emergency rooms or policing the streets from making mistakes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A small group of men and women were fighting over something that looked like it had once been a person, their hands and faces covered in blood. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Painted on the island of Dominica in 1779, this illustration shows stick fighting. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Dan was still fighting with him, and the only thought that came through my mind was “Oh, dear God, don’t let me hit Dan.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant spots six tripod fighting machines, one partially damaged from an Army gun shell. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He whimpered in his sleep and stopped fighting. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a second Hazel thought the Amazons might start fighting one another, but Kinzie seemed to get her anger under control. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Across the United States, millions of Americans were glued to their televisions for the evening news reports, and stunned at the savage fighting they saw on their screens. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Had to let their hired man go because of taxes, and their oldest son took the king’s coin early this summer. He’s off fighting the rebels in Menat now.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ambulance was at the door and four policemen were fighting a way through the crowd trying to get the ambulance doctor in. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Bod could not tell if any of the ghouls had been killed or injured fighting the night-gaunts. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

Usually they sat on the sidelines, chatted, and checked their reflections in the river and stuff, but when they heard we were fighting the Hunters, they were raring to go. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Alby’d flipped once and for all, Thomas thought, fighting the urge to rid his stomach of its contents. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They work with their husbands and sons, whether fighting in the army or sitting quietly on stony slopes to watch the border. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some people were injured, but not so severely as to keep them from fighting; others, like myself, had received many bullet wounds that they ignored. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"The yard is for fighting," the armorer said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The president was dead, and people said it was Hutus, formerly from Rwanda, who had killed him, but it was feared that his intended replacement had also died in the fighting. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Miyax wondered who they were fighting over, for not a female was to be seen. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy could have continued fighting on the inside while he had the advantage but elected instead to back away for more power. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every man who wore the black walked the Wall, and every man was expected to take up steel in its defense, but die rangers were the true fighting heart of the Night's Watch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We were beyond all else trained that there would be no fighting back. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It came to him in the night sometimes with a sudden appalling shock that the boys he was fighting were boys he had grown up with. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fighting against the wind and sand to get there calmed him down some. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s nice to know that even Summerland's impending doom doesn't make the sheriff change his mind about giving Negroes a fighting chance. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I was at school. I ran away from the fighting. I do not know where my family is.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went in the opposite direction from the rebels, for wherever the rebels went, there was sure to be fighting. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tykes, confined, would be fighting and then wailing in response to swift backhanded slaps from their mothers. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I want you to read the section on fighting,” he says. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The sparrows showed no kindness or civility to one another, often fighting savagely among themselves on the slightest pretext. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was fighting around the gatehouse as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Tears flowing down my cheeks, I egged myself on until I heard a cracking sound and I no longer felt any life fighting in my hands. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fighting two-handed with just a sword gives you more power, but fighting one-handed with a shield gives you better defense and versatility. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I told him that I had heard that there was going to be a truce, and there wouldn’t be any more fighting. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scanned it quickly, fighting back a smile. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“I’m just trying to give them a fighting chance. Our mama taught me how to protect this family. Let me teach them. Rootwork is part of who we are.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

After all, if white mothers were fighting integration, it had little chance of success. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In French he says, “There will be a—a Wajfenruhe. Stopping in the fighting. At noon. So people can get out of the city. I can get you out.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The hogs knew they’d found a natural spot for making a fighting stand, and they didn’t aim to leave it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Workers were striking all over England, fighting wage cuts and demanding the right to vote. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the other campers went off to their afternoon classes— gladiator fighting, Latin lessons, paintball with ghosts, eagle training, and a dozen other activities that sounded better than a suicide quest. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Well, just as we code talkers made up names for things, so, too, did the ordinary fighting men create nicknames for just about everything. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d watched with dismay as Republicans in Congress followed suit, fighting Barack’s every effort to stanch the economic crisis, refusing to support measures that would cut taxes and save or create millions of jobs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Yet since 1939, he had been fighting one of the hardest battles of World War II. His fearsome opponent? The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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 they who dared ride beyond the Wall, sweeping through the haunted forest and the icy mountain heights west of the Shadow Tower, fighting wildlings and giants and monstrous snow bears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Annabeth didn’t look much better from fighting with a bad shoulder wound. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

‘Jupiter and Poseidon - bad combination. Nike could start you two fighting easily.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, tonight I came out here because my parents were fighting—again. They never even notice that I’m gone.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Percy, I don’t know. Traveling in Tartarus, fighting monsters here...it’s never been done before. Maybe Bob could help us kill a giant? Maybe a Titan would count as a god? I just don’t know.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Everything that’s happened is unnatural—the fighting, the breeding—and all on account of Woundwort. If he wasn’t unnatural, who was?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still they churned and pounded inside her head, fighting to break free. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

I went into the pigeon coop, fighting back all the memories of my mother and father. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were at least twenty people from each side fighting on the bus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were too busy fighting the Germans in the west. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She is fighting back tears, but she has forgotten all about quitting. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

An old hand at fighting, Horace came up punching. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

There must be no more fighting in narrow runs, and when the terrible Chief Rabbit finally appeared he would be pulled down in the open, from all sides. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She smile, take a deep breath like she fighting back tears. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

A moment of tension—she could feel their wills fighting against hers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And when they weren’t fighting in the schoolyard, they were gathered in clusters, hatching their next attack. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The letters simply informed the people of Mattru Jong that the rebels were coming and wanted to be welcomed, since they were fighting for us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

Of course the old bear paid no attention, just kept fighting. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And though by now I was fighting older boys and didn’t mind that one bit, for some reason I didn’t want to fight about books. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He is already fighting hard to stay alive. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Drained by worry, abandoned by St. Christopher, she stopped fighting an eventuality that had never been fated in the first place. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t fancy the idea of fighting us, perhaps, and the others killed him when he said so.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sense fighting with him about this; I was going home soon and wouldn’t have been driving the truck much anyway, so I cooled off and changed the subject. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

"We'll be the ones doing all the fighting," another of Mazen's men calls from the back of the crowd, "while you old-timers sit around taking all the credit." An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Hands are grabbing at me, and I'm fighting to get away. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

"It's just that I think that boy over there is fighting." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I fought it madly, but it was as much use as fighting the wind. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Grant Burch's dad was saying how Gypsies steal dogs for fighting and then eat the evidence. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

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

Children with swollen bellies were already fighting over pieces of die stinking fish. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He could imagine Mr. Grin blinded, fighting for control. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Another staple of 1990s crime fighting—and of the evening news—was the gun buyback. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If he had been fighting in France, he might already be captured. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Oh. The men. The nasty life. Don’t they fight all the time? When you do their hair, you’re not afraid they might start fighting?” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A strange look has come over Gideon’s face and his lips twitch as though he’s fighting back a smile. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Even if you feel like you have to stay hidden, there are millions who will gladly keep fighting on your behalf—myself included. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I knocked another’s head off but it just kept fighting. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Every day we learn about the terrible violence in our world—the fighting and the wars. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Take those creatures somewhere else,” Úrsula ordered him the first time she saw him come in with his fine fighting birds. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“The one in the pajamas is the kid who tried to choke me on the bus. The other one, that’s his mother. They’re fighting over my apology letter.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghosts probably found this even more amusing than two beggars fighting to the death. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was around the time he and Mom were fighting a lot. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was, Harry knew, for he was fighting to resist the vision, in some strange, fortresslike place, at the top of a tower. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The cuffs on her hands were too tight, and her pain nanites were fighting a losing battle to quell the ache. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

The eight ridiculous Dresdeners ascertained that these hundred ridiculous creatures really were American fighting men fresh from the front. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hand twitched like he wanted to touch my cheek but was fighting the impulse. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

“If I have to die, let me die fighting.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"If you are as late to battle as you are to table, the fighting will all be done by the time you arrive." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The pastor's voice is ice water on my soul, and the wave of fear I've been fighting to hold back threatens to drown me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

That’s to give travelers a fighting chance out here on the byways. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

‘That’s right. For hundreds of years, the gods tried to separate us to keep us from fighting. But there’s a better kind of peace - cooperation.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

So the war continued, but with Lanre and Lyra fighting side by side the future seemed less grim. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I left out that I didn’t have a wolf dog, just two fighting sisters. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Not knowing when the rats were going to stop fighting, and realizing that they might not, the kindly Abbot advised those who had been relieved to try and get some sleep. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

Dr. Gazzaley, though he is fighting for every dollar, has managed to oversee the construction of something sleek, more in his image. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Russians are fighting bitterly and bravely, but only Helmuth seems to know. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time it was over, they were all fighting back tears. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Jim had fallen ill a week after arriving at Williams and was fighting high fevers and chills. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But these drovers are here now, and without them fighting alongside us Negroes, I don't see how any of us are going to survive the night. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A row of glass jars Brother Khoi used to raise fighting fish. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Once the fighting began, most of the women who had been active in the suffrage movement suspended that work and focused their energy on the war effort. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“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

He hated fighting unless it had a purpose. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And Gat said, How? they could stop fighting? We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

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

To appear weak and frightened, to reassure the other tributes that he is no competition at all, and then come out fighting. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There was a huge table with miniature tanks and soldiers fighting along a blue painted river, with hills and fake trees and stuff. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I leaned back in the chair, fighting the urge to smile like a tomcat in a dovecote. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the High King’s general, Madoc was away often, fighting for the crown. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But even when my parents are fighting, they don’t actually fight. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

They are fighting for a cause, l am fighting for a cause, he realized. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sleeping in the dust of the streets, fighting the dogs for their leavings... The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

But instead of fighting the attack, he let it take its course, and it soon passed. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Only the king's bodyguard, thirty of his toughest fighting men, remained in the hall itself. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people who had marched in triumph went to watch the bourgeoisie standing in line and fighting to get through the doors of the banks, and roared with laughter. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every time she entered that world of light, she was overwhelmed with images, memories, history, until she was flailing through the endless fragments of time, fighting off headache and vertigo and nausea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It started with reports of increased fighting in the north and east, on the borders of Sudan, Rwanda, and Burundi. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And why are you fighting with the rebels on the rooftops? With Lyme, who was your victor? With people who were your neighbors, maybe even your family?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"If not, now would be the perfect time to impress me with all the fighting skills you've learned since being here." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was nothing Spurge could do that would be worse than arguing about the recent war and reminding everyone how many of their friends and family had been killed fighting the elves. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

An old wound he had received fighting forty years ago in the French and Indian Wars had stiffened up on him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was intent on fighting and alarming the whole neighborhood. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He sighed and sat up straight, fighting off the stiffening feeling in his loins. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans were fighting an air and sea war against the Japanese in the Pacific. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There were no cars in the parking lot, but a dozen or more men and women were hanging around outside of their rooms, smoking, talking, fighting. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be fighting his anger, controlling it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Fear is part of being a soldier, something that you live with and battle as long as you’re fighting. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Quickly he pushed through the crowd until he saw a white girl fighting with a colored girl by the ticket booth of the flying-jinny. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The prisoner went on to declare that he stopped reading and started fighting back, and kept on fighting back until he killed a man with his bare hands. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“The weather since Christmas has been weird, like the sea and the sky are fighting. Then I talked to Annabeth, and she’d overheard something about a theft. And . . . I’ve also been having these dreams.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

George Washington was fighting a war with a visible army and an invisible army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t stop fighting because of a setback, even this one. If anything, it’s a reason to keep going.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The strangling, shocking fumes went in, and Faye came snorting and fighting out of her black web. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That she ended up supporting the cause she fighting against. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I told you how we all celebrated in 1996 when the Taliban rolled in and put an end to the daily fighting. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Only sometimes I’m not sure. Sam’s fighting for the Rebels, did you know that?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must be no drunks, no fighting, no vulgarity, or they close Dora up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There's little in this world worth fighting over, as far as I can see." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

What are we fighting for? they asked themselves and each other. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Some of the remarks I heard made me fighting mad. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am completely absorbed in combat life. I can’t seem to think of anything but the fighting,” Lilya told her mother. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He looked over at Lee, who was fighting back a smile as he watched my reaction. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

He was, in Sergeant Maples’s experience, a man both technically proficient at stick fighting and willing to inflict violence on another man. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I do not dislike him; I believe that he is personally brave and devoted to the cause for which his men are fighting. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba points out ruins of medieval palaces and ancient forts in the hills, gutted and burned by fighting. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The fighting lasted two days and two nights, and, when it was over, 4,500 boys lay dead or wounded. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t sleep for at least three months.... We had been fighting for one thousand nights—one thousand nights in combat.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

The others were fighting for their lives against nose hair. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As it happened, the Joliots’ discovery of artificial radioactivity came at the moment when Lawrence was fighting his final rearguard action in defense of his deuteron theory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Popular impressions to the contrary, relatively few victims of hypothermia die in extreme conditions, stumbling through blizzards or fighting the bite of arctic winds. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

North Vietnam’s strategy was to keep fighting, to keep absorbing punishment, until the American public tired of war and demanded the withdrawal of American troops. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

“Ob’s got visions, Summer. Just like you, except you’re always fighting yours off.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Then why aren’t you fighting harder to get out of prison? ” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was no telling why Scrappy was fighting. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The tears starts fighting their way back in my eyes, but I wasn’t ’bout to let the dimwit and them other men see me cry. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“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

We all stared at the frogs, the hundreds of frogs climbing out of the pond on our left, fighting their way up the bank, leaping for the hot pavement. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there a while, growing wilder and fighting against it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he leaned up against a merlon, breathing hard, Theon could hear the shouting from below, where Frenya was fighting half a dozen guardsmen in the snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He could have sworn they had been fighting for half a day, but the sun seemed scarcely to have moved at all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

With the fighting dragging on, Henry IV was not crowned until 1594, a year after he had once again declared himself to be a Catholic, and even then the conflict with Spain continued. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The last book she found was about the history of spire fighting. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It’s dirty, as in street fighting, as in jokes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother always said the eyes say a lot, and his eyes weren't saying nothing about fighting. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

So l shut up about it, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it I wanted to have Sam there and listen to him talk about the fighting and everything. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let them steal what they want; what do we have worth fighting over?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“His people think he is well and fighting for our cause.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“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

There could be some point in praying to her, kneeling down, fighting a candle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was older now, but maybe not yet too old to start doing my own fighting. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Spire fighting wasn't about strength or how well she memorized the moves. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When Dany had closed the city’s fighting pits, the value of pit shares had plummeted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She saw that in this he would not be swayed and recognized the hardness buried in him, the part of her husband that was attracted to the fighting and wanted to enter it desperately. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m interested in making a living, not fighting a war,” Father said. 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

Some years later when the colonies began fighting to separate from Britain, the Cherokee again found themselves in the middle of warring nations seeking to enlist them as allies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“How long did the fighting last?” he asked. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

And besides, I suspected that fighting a battle royal might detract from the dignity of my speech. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy had no weapon - perhaps his sword had been confiscated or lost in the fighting - but he didn’t let that stop him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Already some had passed into the jaws of the Deep and were among the horses, fighting with the guards. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I no longer spent all my time playing soccer or fighting in gangs or hunting for money to go to the Bioscope. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m very lucky to have Adam to write to, not only because he’s the only one who understands me, but because I seem to be fighting with everyone in my family. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Nodding, he pushed back a curtain and stared off into the night, and Dany knew he was fighting the Battle of the Trident once again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“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

At once he saw that up here the fighting had been fiercest. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

From an early age, I spent most of my free time in the veld playing and fighting with the other boys of the village. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I plan to give you at least a fighting chance.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them says we look like something the cat brought in and Malachy has to be held back from fighting them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Shut up and stop fighting, you hooligans, or you’ll get to know nothing!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Engineers spent two days getting rid of the zero, repairing the engines, and putting the Yorktown back into fighting trim. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They'd lost their homeland, their son, and their business, and now they were fighting for their very survival. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Rob Hall was at that moment huddled on the South Summit, fighting for his life, a half hour’s climb below them along the Southeast Ridge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“With so much holiness bumping up against other holiness, doesn't it seem strange Jerusalem would have had so much fighting?” she said. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And there was a group of boys who were fighting, and a red-haired girl urging them on, and a little boy throwing stones to smash all the windows of a nearby building. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barricades had been broken and the defenders were openly fighting in the streets, first until they used up their ration of rifle bullets, then with pistols against rifles, and finally hand to hand. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The brief flurry of fighting ended as swiftly as it had begun when Bronn sidestepped and slid behind the statue of the weeping woman. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Being bombed at gave us the feeling we were like the soldiers fighting at the front,” said Irmgard Burmeister, eight years old when war began. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hid under my blanket as I always did when the fighting started, hoping it would protect me from their nasty words or physical brawls. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I turn to get one last look at the fighting and freeze. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

Sadna’s own fists gripped the machete as well, fighting to keep the edge from pressing home. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He saw clearly now how those men had used him to keep poor blacks and poor whites fighting each other—while they kept control of the reins of power. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Gerald was showing her all of the secrets of his backyard, while she obliged him by being genuinely impressed with his rock collection, his “fighting sticks,” and even his treasure box. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they were dropping off wounded here, then the fighting must be close. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We kept moving farther south to get away from the fighting. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown, thought Tristran to himself, remembering the old nursery rhyme. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

To this day, activists continue fighting new laws that seek to disenfranchise voters of color. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The freedmen had been a rabble once, but she had organized the men of fighting age into companies and commanded Grey Worm to make them into soldiers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lady Seymour made Madam repeat the entire story, then demanded pen and ink and paper, fighting her way out from the blankets with her good arm. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will resume fighting then. Today, you’ll be learning how to aim. Everyone pick up three knives.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Beside the supermarket is a travel agency fighting to stay alive in an age where travel is all booked online. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But she did know fighting the Nightingale wasn’t the answer. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

By the time all the soda had fizzed out, the two sides couldn’t remember what they’d been fighting over. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Hitler’s plan was to keep them blockaded and wait till everyone dropped dead; it would be cheaper and easier than fighting to get into the city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Ron looked just as confused as he did, still fighting to keep hold on the struggling Scabbers. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was carrying the fighting harness, which was strapped up in apple-pie order according to his own dodges and wrinkles—for, from now on, he was Lancelot’s squire. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lord had said to David that when he heard the wind moving in the tops of the cedar trees, he would know that the Lord was fighting on his side and he would win. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven’s heart lurched at the thought of Thorn fighting the Uncle alone. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Take the morning Principal Cody caught me and him fighting in the hall three months before I got locked up—Diego was in eleventh grade, I was in tenth. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

The chances were pretty good the whole army would end up fighting each other rather than the enemy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We didn’t make much of a fuss with Hanukkah, merely exchanging a few small gifts and fighting the candles. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I look up and I see Aaron thrashing in the muck now, fighting with the croc and the fins on the backs of other crocs heading his way, too. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

It was like somebody out there had to be fighting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My friends were now “downtown,” busy, as they put it, “fighting the man.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He was flanked by a couple, of Hermes guys covering his retreat, and a few Apollos behind them, fighting off the Hephaestus kids. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

These hallmarks of war in Yayoi Japan corroborate the earliest accounts of Japan in Chinese chronicles, which describe the land of Wa and its hundred little political units fighting with one another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

All of the badness boils under my skin, stingy ginger-ale bubbles fighting to breathe. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m good at fighting off serums. There’s a chance I’ll survive. There’s no chance you would survive. Give me the backpack or I’ll shoot you in the leg and take it from you.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He had been fighting preliminaries for nearly three years and knew his limitations and abilities. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s no use arguing and fighting with Enrique, he tells her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

You’ve never been violent, but now your life depends on fighting your way free from this. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

His tormentors seemed to be losing most of their fighting spirit. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The old dog's feet had barely touched the ground before he sprang again for that terrible throat grip, springing as if the years had dropped away and he were back in his fighting prime. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The anti-Woodhull backlash also led to the formation of organizations dedicated to fighting female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ammu had insisted that they sit separately to prevent them from fighting. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little later, I heard Spot beller like a fighting bull, then Mama’s voice rising high and sharp. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few feet away from her, two men were fighting over what looked like a dead rat. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I consider all the things I have done to become a worthy adversary of him, but maybe I haven’t been fighting Cardan at all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Finally he quit fighting and let the waves push his body into shallow water. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The British had the best uniforms and the shiny new guns, but there was something exciting about the Patriots—being underdogs and fighting off the mighty British army. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was accustomed at this point to fighting off negative thoughts, sticking to the good until I was absolutely forced to contend with something unpleasant. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

He screamed, but he kept fighting, clinging to the back of his horse. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The only reason I came over here was to talk things out. Put a stop to all this dumb fighting.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our master has been fighting in France for so long,” I said, “I’ve never seen him.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Billy Steen, who bore no resemblance whatever to a football player but had become one through sheer will, fighting off an offensive lineman four inches taller and fifty pounds heavier to sack the quarterback. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It was you who told me that fighting Grendel was like fighting the sea itself," he said. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Stick edged around people to get to the fighting, like a soldier looking for the front line. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I sure hoped they hadn’t got to fighting or squealing back there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Neither of them are talking, but at least they aren’t fighting. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Five nine,” he gasped, still fighting for breath. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They landed at the bottom of the stairs, fists clenched and in fighting stances. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

In two years of fighting, nearly 50,000 French soldiers died. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

"A few hundred. My own men, chiefly. Father was loath to part with any of his. He is fighting a war, after all." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

“I thought it was You-Know-Who we were supposed to be fighting?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"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

Link and Marty were doing like acrobatics in the entryway, fighting invisible demons. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The left column tallies the probability, based on all past meetings between the two wrestlers fighting that day, that the 7—7 wrestler will win. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Throughout that fall and into the winter all of Germany holds its breath, waits for more fighting, but nothing more happens. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

"I'm fighting with you over how you can't cook anything and how I have to come home from chem lab to a stinky apartment and no dinner and you tell me this now?" Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And some had celebrated the victory over the previous night’s blaze with whisky and beer; though, after sixteen hours of fighting a fire, most simply wanted a soft bed and rest. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby saved the game with his fighting spirit, and his creative capacity was restored. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You want to be the kind of chick who no one even thinks of fighting.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She knows there is no fighting her fate. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would sooner my men die fighting for the Ned’s little girl than alone and hungry in the snow, weeping tears that freeze upon their cheeks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was no rush to get into the fighting; no one seemed to feel the need to get into the infantry, and only a few were talking about the Marines. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want them fighting out of jealousy any more, or taking out their frustrations on demigods.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We were all enclosed by the same fence, bumping into one another, fighting, celebrating. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As the fighting raged on, Octavian proceeded to destroy the rest of Mark Antony’s fleet, sinking all but a small number of his ships. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Axe and Gibbs never fully consented, but at some point they stopped fighting us on it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The rats who had been attacking the gatehouse left off fighting and ran down the road to the fiery holocaust. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“All the other gods are fighting Typhon, and you’re just sitting here—” “Waiting things out,” Hades finished. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

“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

One more great feat of arms he did before his fighting ended forever. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want him to be a fighting tiger, even in fun,” she said. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

“Meanwhile he’s sitting in jail, talking about fighting for his principles. He wants to be a martyr, Noah, that’s fine—but not at the expense of this family. I won’t stand for it!” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the first week of November of 1968, Mike Company was engaged in heavy fighting with a much larger North Vietnamese regiment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The core class included farm workers, families of soldiers killed during the Korean War, families of troops who had served with Kim II Sung fighting against Japanese occupation, and government workers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

There was the prospect of fighting ahead; but immediately it was winter, and there was, literally, nothing for a soldier to do. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Jonathan wondered how many such hollow steps it would take for them to reach the fighting ground. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

In early June, a rumor swept through the school that a recent graduate had been killed in the fighting around Jerusalem. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The tears I was fighting this morning are back. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Palmer stayed in the doorway, fighting back tears. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

An occasional orange camp T-shirt appeared in the sea of fighting, but quickly disappeared. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Anthony remained a pacifist and held on to the hope that slavery could be abolished without resorting to fighting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

From the start, they were fighting an uneven battle, and the conflict got uglier as new players came on the scene. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The garment center and fighting were connected in my mind, and I couldn’t sort them out. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There was always ten times more than we could eat, and so there was never any need for fighting over it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now it falls under the category of “battles not worth fighting, because at least she’s sitting at the table eating with us, and her weight hasn’t dropped into dangerland”. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

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

George could see she was fighting back tears. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It would not finish it if one side stopped fighting. It would only be worse if we stopped fighting.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

This is what I’ve wanted—for them to both be here, and not fighting. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“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 mean, I wasn’t worried about fighting him, because I knew how it would come out. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The Detonations grew exceeding fierce as the Patriots brought forward their Cannon & began firing at the Schooner that had been discharging at the Islands & there was fighting even in the Channel near our Hiding-Spot. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Desperately, she reached for the lip of the next crate again and gripped it, fighting through an onslaught of pain as the container under her dropped away. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Harry waited, holding his breath, fighting against the prickling of his scar. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Jason was the only one who had much luck fighting them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That envoy saw the Spaniards at their most disorganized, told Atahuallpa that they were not fighting men, and that he could tie them all up if given 200 Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I am not tired of fighting. I am just starting,” I say. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"I mean, other than fighting the big bosses, you're basically just trying not to be eaten by the environment. Mushrooms and plants and..." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

No circus had ever been held when all the fighting men survived—the crowd wouldn’t be satisfied without a few killings. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

“Are they fighting and yelling at each other?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one’s own body. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We made a sling for the baby inside my big armor, and rode back into the thickest part of the fighting. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard whoops and yells in the woods, the clanking of metal, kids fighting. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was a PR exercise, they say, a Potemkin demonstration by the Chimor government that it was actively fighting El Nino. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

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

It was like having a chestful of bats, beating their wings, fighting to get out. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

She pointed ahead, and Thomas saw the narrow aisle forming in the middle of the corridor, Gladers fighting wildly to push the Grievers toward the walls. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But that hurt the lady principal so she came to me complaining about Perry fighting in school. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Even as the words left her mouth, Jinny wasn’t sure why she was fighting for the boy. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They overpowered the alliance’s main fighting force on August 20, 1794, at what is known today as Fallen Timbers, and for three days after the victory, laid waste to Indigenous houses and fields. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Joseph and Brian Boss and Nick Porter and Jay Perkins all got four days of suspension for fighting—the last four days before Christmas vacation. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“We have been fighting against you for ten years. Our people will never give up.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

On the opening day, they don't even fire the cannons until the initial fighting's over because it's too hard to keep track of the fatalities. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Many more would be fighting for their lives. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

If only he was with a real battalion, fighting with a gun. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Armistead said disgustedly, “They think we’re fighting to keep the slaves. He says that’s what most of Europe thinks the war is all about. Now, what we supposed to do about that?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“Yes,” Harry gasped, fighting now to keep a hold on his wand, . which was slipping and sliding beneath his fingers. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Definitely not like they were on their way to school, but more like fighting wolf pups, batting and nipping at one another for exercise, especially the younger two. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Other little boys sat long hours fighting to stay awake in complete darkness. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

A two-headed donkey, fighting with itself even to walk in one direction. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

This image was followed by one of Beverly Tapinski and her mother fighting over the baton in a cloud of gravel dust. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Anyone attempting to scale these heights would hardly be capable of fighting a duel upon arrival at the top. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He found his feet again and lurched to the rail, and then he was fighting, staggering and splashing across crooked decks awash with water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I can come down here when I need a break from my parents fighting, or when I miss having my own room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

As soon as the lady got back into her car the police came, and put an end to the fighting. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Amil wondered if we could hide here until the fighting went away and then live here forever. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had all of Luke’s fighting skill, which was a lot. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“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

Like my whole body is fighting a sickness. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Really, no fighting over the arm rest anywhere. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

Many state and local law enforcement officials were less than pleased with the attempt by the federal government to assert itself in local crime fighting, viewing the new drug war as an unwelcome distraction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The wolf’s very growling would keep me alert and fighting him to survive, whereas I might be lulled and fooled by the tricky fox. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wood shattered, and the Hound reeled, fighting to keep his seat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It might tempt me to look back,” I said, fighting my tears. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Finally, Frankie said, “The firefighters have to still be fighting the fire, but who knows when they’ll be allowed to try to come back in the building.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He moved in Minya’s wake, stiffly, as though fighting a compulsion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Not even when we were fighting really hard. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was first and foremost an African nationalist fighting for our emancipation from minority rule and the right to control our own destiny. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Seabiscuit was in fighting trim and hard as rock, and Pollard, though still a wreck, was at least strong enough to handle him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: You get your anger out by fighting? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So even though you died fighting that fire like a hero, no one can prove it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“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

I was not going to let my involvement in the struggle and the scope of my political activities be determined by the enemy I was fighting against. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bass the kennelmaster had tried to get them to take the scent from the severed hand, they had gone wild, yowling and bark-ing, fighting to get away. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had been fighting as much for myself as for them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fighting was scattered all around southern Sudan, and now the war had come to where Salva lived. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were either farmers who were secretly Viet Cong, or they were members of one of the small mountain tribes fighting alongside the Communists. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Europe’s invaded countries set up governments in exile in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, to make war plans as a group of “Allied” nations fighting together against German aggression. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

While fighting with the stubborn lock, I heard hinges creak behind me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I see myself fighting the waves, pushing and pushing to move forward. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was frantic for air, but he stayed down, fighting the urge to kick for the surface, turning the wheel faster and faster until his lungs were heaving. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Some of the stations teach survival skills, others fighting techniques. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He tied on a compress and told me to ease back, then he ran off toward the fighting. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was he somewhere in the prison fighting for his life? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Nelson,” he would say, “what do you have against us? We are all fighting the same enemy. We do not seek to dominate the ANC; we are working within the context of African nationalism.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like all the people left in Manhattan were fighting to get into the bus terminal. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was almost like fighting out for the Territories. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

There was no use fighting Fortuna until the cycle was over. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But its army was badly equipped and Russia lost nearly two million lives, fighting mainly against Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Now that America has declared war,” Mr. Straight said, shaking his bony finger at the sky, “the fighting will soon be over.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shock courses through me slowly, as if my body is fighting it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But in fighting a rabbit of Bigwig’s strength and courage it proved a mistake. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing Dauntless knows that Candor does not is how to fight even when fighting seems useless. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

My brother is still fighting, and his screams slice right through me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We figured that if we were all in the yard acting like the fighting was no big deal, maybe the neighbors would feel the same way. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One can lose oneself in the joy of battle, in fighting for a glorious cause, but there are not a great many glorious causes for which to fight these days.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

As Indigenous peoples forcibly resisted the invasion, fighting over the land continued and increased. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was a knowing about him, as if he had been here before, as if dying and fighting was something he had been bom to. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, in fighting the boycott movement, he advanced a number of disturbing arguments. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They don’t ask for details, and I bet Tagoe is really fighting that urge to ask how it happened. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Mija is fighting a very dangerous infection and she has to have surgery if there is any chance of saving her. Please, wait outside with your children,” Nurse Cha said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She and Kat were fighting at the time. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“They spend their lives fighting against priests and then give prayerbooks as gifts.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She didn’t say “perhaps never,” but each silently added it, thinking of Father far away, where the fighting was. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time, my fighting blood was boiling. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you two better behave. No fighting and no being rude.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Ron, who had fought his way through to Harry’s side, doubled up with laughter as they watched Malfoy fighting to extricate himself from the robe, Goyle’s head still stuck inside it. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I don’t know. I talked to Nick for a minute earlier. I think they’re fighting.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Ron shouted, and Harry was glad that Ron was fighting back. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He had been fighting with a man called Sir Alphagus, whom he had killed after getting these wounds—three of them on the head, four on the body and on the left hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

He ran on a platform of improving the school system, fighting illiteracy, and trying to find innovative solutions to the metastasizing drug trade that was poisoning life in major areas of the city. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The fighting came right outside, gunfire and breaking glass, and when the shots finally slowed and stopped, Henek crept up to the street. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"Belwas has killed many horse boys in the fighting pits. They Jingle when they die." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Fine, sir. Archer did the fighting, not me.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

That night when me and Charlie got to fighting, Mama sent us to our room, then sat down at the dining-room table and cried. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I bite my teeth together, fighting the memory of my last sleepover at Melissa’s. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He hardly notices because he’s fighting a whole different battle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“Because you haven’t let where you come from or what you are make you give up. At least, not yet. You just keep fighting through it.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The outcome clearly illustrates how environments can affect economy, technology, political organization, and fighting skills within a short time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

His strategy from this point on, he said, would be to gradually turn over the fighting to South Vietnam—a policy he called Vietnamization. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He reminded the men what they were fighting for—for freedom, for their new country. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

He said there was plenty of fighting going on in the world without them doing any of it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon tore his gaze from the trees, fighting a sudden wave of nausea. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He was a leader of the legion now, doing what he was born to do—fighting the enemies of Rome, upholding its legacy, protecting the lives of his friends and comrades. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t a dog,” I said, fighting the urge to go ahead and tell her what really happened. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I was covering the recent outbreak of fighting there.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Joel puts his arms around me, tight, like he is fighting a bloody, bloody murderer. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bill Peterson and I were introduced, and then the referee called us together and mumbled all of that stuff about fighting fair and breaking clean. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted them to stop fighting because I was starting to get upset, so I asked another question. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t exactly fighting over who gets the gold crayon or the last cookie. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘She’d want one side or the other to win so she could declare a victor. She’d literally be fighting with herself.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

But Snowmane wild with terror stood up on high, fighting with the air, and then with a great scream he crashed upon his side: a black dart had pierced him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It’s enough to know that he thinks I’m worth fighting for. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few days of my setting up an isolated forest camp with Wiwor and Sauakari, they came close to fighting each other with axes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"It's in another state, and unfortunately people in our state are fighting with people from there about sharing water." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Then, after fighting a bunch of wars with each other over land, resources, and our made-up gods, we eventually got all of our tribes organized into a ‘global civilization.’ Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Privately, Johnston was even more forceful, telling friends that to continue fighting under such circumstances would be “criminal.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I spoke about fighting Batista, he said it was useless, that the scoundrel is under the protection of Chango, god of fire and lightning. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason kept fighting, spinning his javelin - slicing through ghosts, knocking ghouls off their feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I sniffled the whole way home, fighting back feelings of failure. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, great, thanks,” he said, fighting to keep his voice casual as he stood up to let her in. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

“You think the fighting is going to come back to Kinshasa?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and walked toward the living room door, fighting the urge to jump into the air and whoop. 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 few residents not too busy fighting to notice gasped or tried to apprehend Mr. Pepperhorn, but he already had his own security detail pushing them back. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

We told him what the spec four had said about not seeing any fighting. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba Joseph shouted, but the men stumbled around, fighting things they could not see. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mother Ermentrude is angry that I deceived her. I fear she does not want me here,” I say, fighting back tears. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And he and Digger’s mom have been fighting a lot. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I'm fighting to keep my balance, and his hands are making me dizzy. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Some dead with fighting faces and eyes flung wide open in wonder. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I expect to hear my parents start fighting, but that’s not what happens. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then they asked each one of us why we were fighting in Nam. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I let myself drift, because there’s really no fighting it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“So young,” he said finally, “to be fighting so many.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“She doesn’t know what’s ahead of her or why she’s fighting. It’s just...instinct, Will. Her instinct is to fight. To live.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“We just didn’t have the number of beds we needed to deal with patients with chest pain. We were constantly fighting about which patient needs what.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

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

She held her breath, fighting the puke factor, and picked up a bag. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must be no drunks, no fighting, no vulgarity, or they close Dora up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, though the rank and file wanted to keep on fighting, union leader Donnelly knew they could not win. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just another day, fighting the world’s evil forces. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"But if y'all are done fighting, you can release it. Krystal, you keep it, and we can get back to practice." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The Army was too busy fighting the dead to chase them, so the government gave up and just focused on us Negroes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Toby knew he was fighting dirty, but he didn’t understand why Luke held him to a different standard. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“He was fighting just as hard for those who had lived before as he was for those living at the time and those who would be born later.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

People fighting about the right color to paint the bathroom. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

John still had a fighting chance, she said. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He watched the gulls, so fierce and beautiful, fighting and screaming among the ships. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Her eyes snapped the way Granny’s used to, but dimples were fighting to show around her mouth. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

How do people ever say no without fighting? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I can feel the huge weight of the fish fighting the oars. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

This he could certainly have done; and he had decided to confront rather than ambush them, in the hope that the bucks would surrender without fighting. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came here for refuge, to a city untouched by the fighting, and here I turn up to drag them back into the war. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

So the two groups were basically fighting over which sibling to act like. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He dropped the charred wood from his hands and struggled over the tree, blindly fighting his way through its leaves and branches. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Uncle must know about the war and the fighting! A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was really fighting for breath, I guess,” I said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

"Todric. I killed him for getting drunk and fighting over loot." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He relaxed his fighting muscles, stood easily and grounded the butt of his spear Jack watched him inscrutably through his paint. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Yitzchak, who had indeed escaped, had lived in the forest with the partisans, fighting the Germans. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

For a week, the fighting forced even Rasheed to stay home. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“But even so, fighting is never the right thing.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa had heard about fighting when people left. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The warmth of the fire fighting against the draft from the windows. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“When the fighting begins, I want you to wait until we know what we re dealing with. You must go where we most need reinforcements.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

Now it became illegal for soldiers to stop fighting. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In this instance, the baseball team is using imagery associated with a fighting force organized in the 1800s to attack Indigenous people who were protecting their homelands from white settlers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He moved along the boom, still pulling at the main, fighting to hold himself upright in the wind, and kicked the sliding cabin top forward. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

It enraged him to think of Chris fighting his battles for him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

“Never mind, Hana, I’m not in the mood for fighting,” Mama said tiredly. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The prospect of fighting a war in Iraq made him nervous, he told me. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

His father is a great lord, fighting in Spain against the Muslim kings there. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad said he wanted us to try our best not to publicly counterattack the black “leaders” because one of the white man’s tricks was keeping the black race divided and fighting against each other. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again they were driven back, until they stood fighting on the beach where their ships were drawn up. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But its residents were still fighting for water, sewage lines, and schools. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For more than half my life, I’ve been fighting down panic. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Polyneices, the one who attacked it, had the better right to it, but the younger, Eteocles, was fighting for Thebes, to save her from capture. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking off her pack she opens it and gently lifts a screaming, fighting baby goshawk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But your freed black will turn out no better than many the white that’s fighting to free him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

During their time at Auster’s palace, Jason had watched Piper and Hazel spend hours sword fighting—something Piper had never been interested in before. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“All my life, everybody around me, it was always fighting,” Linda said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Coach M did not tolerate fighting among the team. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I hate that you’re fighting with Morgan and Anna,” she says, out of nowhere. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Why? Why spend so much time and energy fighting something that isn’t really a problem?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

"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

The fighting, when there is any, takes place on the vague frontiers whose whereabouts the average man can only guess at, or round the Floating Fortresses which guard strategic spots on the sea lanes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I stood there for a minute, fighting the urge to fidget im patiently. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The scratches let me know that Donna was fighting back. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like being near adults who were fighting. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was almost dark when the fighting ended and the chopper came to take me and two dead guys away. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our kind survived the twentieth century by hiding, not fighting—so perhaps all we need is a better way to hide.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Wdl,” said the lady, “God, He knows how you will get on. Anyway, I will say a prayer for you while you are fighting.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were flying low over the long sands at Holy Island, and it was beautiful, but the plane kept trying to climb and I was fighting and fighting to keep it down. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Our battle for Okinawa was some of the bloodiest fighting in the war. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer drew his fighting knife and fumbled his now- useless ammunition over to Reynolds. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“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

The fighting even spread to the holding areas at the city jails, where black and white detainees attacked each other viciously. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Greybeards and green boys, fighting men in their prime, wounded men and cripples, a good score of spearwives, even three Homfoot men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They walked to Uganda to get away from the fighting, going south as I went east with Abraham. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I carried it to where he sat on a low stool with his bottle and belly fighting for room in his lap. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But even if I’d grown up in it, I wouldn’t understand fighting over streets nobody owns. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“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

As Toussaint neared the last British stronghold, he said, “We are fighting that liberty—that most precious of all earthly posses-sions—may not perish.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

After the boy was rushed to the school nurse and eventually to the hospital to get a few stitches, I was suspended for fighting. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But the funny thing was that although they were so big and yelling for our blood, they couldn’t fight at all: they obviously didn’t know the first thing about fighting. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was going through the motions of my warm-up, but all I was really doing was fighting the urge to go curl up in a corner somewhere and take a nap. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

"Why is it so loud? Are they fighting or something?" Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Moderate, sir. There’s been some fighting. But Pender is in position. Together, sir, we could sweep them.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soviet women soldiers waged a private battle against men’s underwear the whole time they were fighting their invading enemy, the German army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She frowned, fighting the chill that ran down her arms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Two boys were fighting me,” I told her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can work in the Dauntless compound, drawing tattoos or making weapons or even fighting each other for entertainment. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

“Papa says the history of the world is a lot of people fighting for power, within each country, plus between countries.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The son of Dionysus who’d gone down fighting an enemy half-blood was wrapped in a deep purple shroud embroidered with grapevines. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

A few weeks earlier I had been suspended for fighting. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

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

The rebels—those who were fighting against the government. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Americans were glad to have the Soviets do the bloody work of fighting Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Peeta’s sitting on a velvet sofa with his teeth clamped down on a pillow, either fighting off madness or containing a scream. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t answer because I can’t answer, because all my strength is going toward holding myself up and fighting my tears. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

They sent their uneasy warning signals, especially the old bear, who had seen it all and knew when a fighting animal’s time approached. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was likely that the two boys were with Grant’s army; the fighting, especially at Donelson, had been bitter. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No fighting. No drawing weapons. And don’t make any comments about the boss’s appearance.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Nathaniel Fox was too young to be fighting in the Revolutionary War. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

When I got home my moms and pops had been fighting. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“And when the fighting happened...when we were retreating...I...I ran....Three of the Hessians caught me...made me prisoner....Only”—he fumbled for words—“I...escaped.” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice sounded shriller than usual, but I guess that wasn’t surprising given what she was fighting. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"The usual. Run-in with a demon. That's bad enough"—my chin trembled as I spoke—"but she's also lost her fighting spirit." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

I think I can actually smell the ring of flesh around my chest burning, and Johanna’s fighting off withdrawal symptoms. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Was VanQuish really breaking up? Dylan said that you didn’t get along and that you were fighting and you really wanted to be a training agent like Fiona...” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Artur Gartner, a Luftwaffe pilot, said that most Germans were shocked to discover that there were Soviet women fighting against them in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The thing was . . . fighting a goddess on her home court wouldn’t be easy. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was the saddest duty he had ever performed, Wood said, and he had never lost his respect for the fighting qualities of the Nez Perces. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I paid no attention; it was just more Chinese- fighting talk. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper stood back to back with Jason, fighting every giant who dared to come close. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The man in black did neither; he simply quick-stepped, wrenched his body erect, continued fighting. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

One look at my hand, and I knew I wasn’t going to be sword fighting any time soon. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll just keep fighting to protect our place in that change. You showed me that.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The first one told about the fighting in New York. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brinker, in his accelerating change from absolute to relative virtue, came up with plan after plan, each more insulated from the fighting than the last. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

This was because of the howling and snarling and fighting of the wolves lured to the place by the scent of the roasting meat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I can take down the other two, then we might have a fighting chance. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t it you who gave up and Rita who kept fighting? The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

While they were fighting over it, I ran to the little one. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were not yet at the point where we were open revolutionaries, overtly fighting the system no matter what the cost. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is talk of an honor ceremony but I’m too busy fighting for the Führer to accept honors. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She sniffs, not too much, just like she’s fighting back tears. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But now people were watching American troops fighting brutal battles to retake territories and cities that were supposed to be secure. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, news came of the Battle of the Wilderness, a horrifying story of fighting in a blazing woods, with losses mounting by the thousands and with Lee still holding firm. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you two were fighting?” he said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“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

The Prussian aristocracy was serving in the German army, fighting for their land and titles. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, meanwhile, was also fighting fiercely in the spring of 1943. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I said: ‘You ought not to be fighting, old boy. I can see that what you need is a good sleep and something to eat.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you call fighting Typhon okay? She locked eyes with me. “ The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Wayne issued an ultimatum to the alliance, threatening harm to women and children if the men did not stop fighting. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

With the Dimblewits gone and Valley’s dad halting his opposition to Amendment S, they would have a short rest from fighting for Spare equality. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And Khushal and I came up with a system to figure out where the fighting was. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Of course she understood why this was happening: they were fighting to right injustices. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

I heard fighting to my left and right, somewhere in the woods. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I find myself defending him—to myself. He’s fighting for his life and his brother doesn’t have to fight.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of the president fighting back against the young leaping and sword-fighting actor is not as farfetched as it sounds. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Alecto took care that the news should spread quickly, and fighting started at once, the furious farmers bent upon killing Ascanius and the Trojans defending him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a law that says you must go to school...and I guess you should. You are nine years old. And I must go to war. The government is fighting somewhere.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he never picked fights, and wasn’t fighting what warriors mainly did? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before Vonetta could answer to being called the old middle, Uncle said louder, “I asked you, what were you two fighting about?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Percy wanted him to be at least conscious enough to crawl out of the way when the fighting started. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He paddled another half hour, fighting sleep, and then at the same time he felt a coolness that he knew was morning coming and he saw that the eastern sky was beginning to lighten. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I never met anybody so dedicated to fighting reactionary ideas and prejudice as this folk- singer. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Kerling thought his friend wasn't right in the head after fighting on the front lines. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Leprechauns!” said Mr. Weasley over the tumultuous applause of the crowd, many of whom were still fighting and rummaging around under their chairs to retrieve the gold. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

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 am still at war, Dany realized, only now I am fighting shadows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“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

I'm off-key, but together our voices drown out the fighting. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is like we are both fighting for control of Jenna Fox. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Not when he finally found a high school, his fourth, that let him graduate instead of kicking him out for drinking and fighting and chronic truancy. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than a hundred years, my grandfather says, and we're still fighting for the free life we're supposed to be living. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

Jonathan realized that it was the same ground where the fighting had occurred. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

But he was caught in a tight spot, running with a rough crowd, fighting, and getting picked up by the cops. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Fugees kept fighting, firing a series of quick shots from around the perimeter of the box. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He prefers negotiation to fighting, and properly so, since he is very bad at fighting. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have problems enough without fighting among ourselves.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

We have never gotten anything in this town without fighting.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the vampire ladies were too busy fighting one another to shout any commands. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in the infantry habergeon in which he had insisted on fighting. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reynolds came up beside him, watching the fighting ship plow down on them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Just wanted to give you a fighting chance!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Protestant churches in the towns were fighting for their existence in a country where they were newcomers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is a relatively simple proposition to keep a movement together when you are fighting against a common enemy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment she stared incredulous, as if he had begun to gibber in an unknown tongue-"Stannis and Renly are fighting each other!" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I mean, they weren’t fighting back. Water-zombies just want one thing, right? If you don’t get in their way, I bet they leave you alone.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It represents every single lie she’s been fighting so hard to expose. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Madoc gave me the sword Dad made. That’s the one we were fighting with. He said he had something for you, too.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"The time is right now," Sansa insisted, "before the fighting starts. They've forgotten about me. I know we could dip away if we tried." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You gotta watch his face, though. You know what I’m saying? His face when he’s fighting, it’s...” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“There is strength in not fighting, Tristan. Remember that.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He'd had a fancy lately that fellows were rather fighting shy of him. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

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

Each night my father read to me, chapter by chapter, always fighting to sound the words properly, to nail down the sense. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Emotions on top of emotions, all fighting to be expressed, and all anyone ever saw on the outside was an angry boy. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He stomped out, probably just to give Mami time to cool off, which was his way of fighting her. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m of age, and I’m going to keep fighting even if you’ve given up!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Everybody was patting Nico on the back, complimenting him on his fighting. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then he took ship at the head of a band of fighting men, and set sail for the kingdom of the Geats. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one ever asked my opinion, but it sounded like we were not going to join the fighting. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jenna and I would sit in my room after dinner, and she’d tell me how awful it was to hear her parents fighting all the time. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But eventually he stopped fighting and focused his energy inward. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Listen,” Lena told me, “Cap gave his life—” “He didn't—” But I was fighting a losing battle. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

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

Of course I still hadn’t figured out what he was fighting for. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he breathed his last, he thanked me for allowing him to die fighting. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She had spoken them many times before their wedding, often she’d urged him not to go, but he had not been able to bring himself to stay away from the fighting. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The poultice sort of tickled but the pain was too vicious and I was fighting the cold too hard. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The United States rushed weapons to the British, but stayed out of the fighting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They didn’t know that on the other side of the country, a white man named John Moore was about to begin fighting the same battle. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Despite his history of fighting government regulations, he decided he wanted to do something about texting and driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

Then he’d have himself a big scare and rear up, fighting the rope and falling down and pitching and bawling. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, there wasn’t any more fighting around Redding. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cats must have exhausted themselves fighting, for the sacks lay almost quiet at our feet. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lifting weights was a struggle with poor results; sets of twenty pull-ups became sets of four, on good days; and his coach pulled him out of the ring indefinitely because fighting would be impossible. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Malloy smiled just enough to let me know he was proud of me for facing my fear and fighting, even though it was a jacked-up situation. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been fighting with Mo at school?” said Mo’s uncle Tam, but he didn’t sound convincing. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Henri Bonnet said, “All that fighting we did twenty-five years ago. All those dead. Now the Germans back in France. In two days they’ll be here, taking everything we have. Who would have believed it?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I am moving from word to word, fighting the body from word to word. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

‘I last saw him fighting on the ground behind the wall, but the enemy swept us apart.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

To me, those kids looked like they were fighting for real. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He had begun his activist career as a follower of Du Bois, fighting to integrate interstate buses, and had ended up toiling in the fields of black enterprise, Booker T. Washington’s domain. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I have two sons, missus, and they’re off there fighting in the forces of His Majesty, the King of England. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We had thought Sufi Mohammad would tell his followers to put down their weapons, but instead he called democracy un-Islamic and encouraged them to keep fighting. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Farmer wanted to surround himself with people, particularly friends, who shared the same zeal and commitment to fighting poverty on a global scale, but starting with Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I let them drive ahead, watching their tail- lights, fighting a hotness rising in my throat. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, Lancelot and Turquine were still fighting with their swords. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

This is a puzzle, finally solved by the realization that they foresee your military future, fighting for them. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the summer, he’d come back from fighting in the Great War. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

This is how I learn that women fighting is news. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We are fighting, son. It’s a long road.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

So, the crowd got smaller and the fighting just seemed to fade out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following the initial success of the Reformation movement, the Catholic Church was fighting back, notably through the activities of the Jesuits in Austria and the southern German states. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

The fighting intensifies, voices slam, and doors shout shut. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Kat clenched her fists and banged them on her thighs like she was a boxer fighting her- self. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Come on then-" "Come on-" Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But he was fighting for the dignity of man and in that way he was fighting for himself. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And indeed, when Nailer finally ducked out of the elements to drink a hot cup of coffee, Dauntless's main radar showed the bloody blip of the fighting ship closing still. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

My arms became fighting sticks, my legs became weapons. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then, after a moment, he asked: “In the fighting on the hill, before, did any of our side get killed?” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The enslaved people on Saint Domingue were not merely fighting against the terrible conditions on the island. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I know Helene like I know fighting, like I know killing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

During the war for settler independence from Britain, the Ulster Scots were in the forefront of the struggle and formed the backbone of George Washington’s fighting forces. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Major Moses thought you wanted fighting food, sir.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She makes a quick, aborted movement, clearly fighting a hardwired takedown reflex. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s the story of three regiments of aviators, only three out of a thousand aviation units fighting for a common cause. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

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

She had seen the fighting pits many times from her terrace. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Reyna knew that Ancient Romans had spent at least half their time fighting each other, but she decided not to bring that up. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On those days when the rocket fire eased up a bit and the gun- fighting was light, Hassan would take Sohrab to the zoo to see Marjan the lion, or to the cinema. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I said that Turner was fighting off the enemy, trying to let the rest of us escape, when he was killed. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bite back a smile, fighting with the corners of my mouth. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Still dazed, with her head ringing, she hauled herself up to find Pantalaimon desperately fighting the monkey still, with wolverine jaws fastened tight on a golden arm, changing no more but grimly hanging on. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Fischer began fighting for a draw, but Spassky’s moves were a study in precision and his position got stronger. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"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

“No, Britt,” I say, fighting down my tears that can’t help me. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The rats were fighting; they were trying to get at each other through the partition. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I stubbornly refused to be the first to break it this time, fighting hard against the temptation to peek at his expression. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A cold, heavy presence passed over the beach, slowing time, dropping the temperature to freezing, and making me feel like life was hopeless, fighting was useless. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself on Mount Tamalpais, north of San Francisco, fighting at the old Titan stronghold. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Those who were fighting were dying in what seemed like hopeless battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Luke groped blindly, fighting through what felt like piles of hair. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Theoretical differences amongst those fighting against oppression is a luxury we cannot afford at this stage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew fighting had never really come easy for me, and wanted to know if I made those guys pay. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“And anyway I thought the two sides were supposed to be us and the British. Why are we fighting each other?” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This ‘King’ you’re asking about, I hear many people—those that went to school and can read newspapers— say that he was a God-fearing man who died fighting to set his people free. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Grandpa wasn’t in a fighting mood that day, or maybe he took one look at Mr. McAllister and figured discretion was the better part of valor, as the saying goes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

I had suspected she was fighting back tears when she hugged me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But Stella—she points at the pre-op doors, where somewhere in the distance, Stella is lying on a table about to be operated on—“Stella is fighting for her life in there. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Don’t cry, Mama,” I said, fighting back my own tears. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally the locals would discuss the Japanese and some fighting on the outer islands of Alaska, but even that seemed far away—not nearly as scary as Hazel’s problem. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If the Exalted Cyclops of the local Klan did not deem the issue important enough to continue fighting over, why should they? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m fighting the shock of having a guest in my room. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Deah, who had lost two husbands to the fighting, and whose face and mouth and heart were hard and cold as stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They took turns getting on top of each other, trading ineffectual blows with inharmonious sound effects that made it seem as though they were fighting to the death. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are always fighting, either with others or among ourselves. No one has defeated the Afghans, but centuries of war have left our country full of strife—one of the poorest in the world.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A white, compact bundle of fighting art shot like a steel projectile to the collie’s throat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom, when things were right, would scold us raw for fighting over food. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A needle pokes my arm and my head hurts so badly I stop fighting and simply wail in a horrible, dying-animal way, until my voice gives out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Steel clashed, accompanied by the screams and whimpers and grunts of people fighting. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

As he rode closer to the fighting, Crazy Horse could hear the screams and shouts of the soldiers. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

And I owe it to the rebels who, emboldened by Cinna’s example, might be fighting to bring down the Capitol at this moment. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. How come you and Uncle Carlos always fighting?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Wounded in the head. I don’t know how serious. But the Division is moving. Pender is on the flank. But the Yankees are fighting well. I don’t recall them fighting this well before.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there’s a man whose son killed himself, who believes that the son must have been possessed by real demons, rather than fighting the more metaphorical ones inside. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Be easy, your Holiness. The swords are not for fighting with at afi.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She holds up the pool cue defiantly, fighting for every one of us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“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

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

King Hizdahr had allowed the fighting pits to remain open, but the crowds were sparse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Half of Chicago’s 185 active firefighters had spent all of Saturday night fighting a major fire, and many had come away with blistered skin, swollen eyes, and smoke-congested lungs. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Minli remembered the two children fighting over their piles of mud as she had left her village. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if somewhere in the city Vegas was lying in bed dreaming about fighting, about their fight. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When whites finally spread east to encounter the Xhosa at the Fish River in 1702, a period of desperate fighting began. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

I dodged and slashed and rolled, but I felt like I was fighting a hundred swordsmen. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Madoc personally instructed us in the art of fighting with the cutlass and dagger, the falchion and our fists. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mom’s and mine...and now Mom and Dad’s—fighting with each other in the kitchen. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Charlie were still fighting whenever they were in the same room, so I wasn’t getting much sleep at home. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It should be noted that the fighting never really moves beyond the edges of the disputed areas. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He informed us that there were fishermen who were fighting over who should fish from which beach along the lake shore of the Game Reserve. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Let them come. In me they shall find a sterner foe than Cleon. I would sooner perish fighting than return my children to bondage.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

Next to him sat the largest giant I’d ever seen, much larger than the one on the floor fighting the centaur. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

When they were all rushing around fighting for the limited food supply, Frightful would find them easy to catch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit was fighting hard, but in Richardson’s grasp, he could not break away. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, for heaven’s sake,” I exploded, “you don’t expect to hang around China until it’s all through fighting, do you?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He laughs so hard he turns red, clutching his midriff and fighting for breath. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

‘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

In his fighting heart, there was no fear. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon we work on combat skills, throwing knives, fighting hand to hand; I even teach them to climb trees. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were fighting for survival, after the storm, just as I was. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go, now,” he said, fighting the emotions that tore through him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In return, Hazel had promised to coach her in sword fighting—a skill at which Piper epically sucked. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Berg said he’d rather be in Germany, fighting in the war. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Winston got drunk and started fighting, the locals knew it was time for the soberest man to ride and get Fannie. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The first vision to appear was of the Uncle fighting the cucos and saving Thorn and Seven from the Shrouded. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z