"Theo's doing fine. The first novel sold about six copies, but it got great reviews. He's just about finished with his second book." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he’s taunting me for my stuttering apology during our first phone call. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Berrange read him the first passage, which concerned the need for ordinary workers to cooperate with each other and not exploit one another. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first line was in the river now, but die enemy galleys were backing water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, only fifteen minutes after she’d left the ground, she was standing on the first branch and planning her route to the next. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first time I heard Aunty Ifeoma call Mama “nwunye m,” years ago, I was aghast that a woman called another woman “my wife.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The strange part was that Patrick would walk up to Brad in the first place. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it was a good thing, until the middle of my first semester. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

So if the first harmonic is a "A," the second and fourth will also be A's. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

To work their sugar fields, Dutch and Portuguese plantation owners had first tried to enslave the native Amerindians, but unrest and escape attempts grew so high that the practice was finally outlawed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then at last it began to be mixed with another sound, a vague, disastrous noise which sounded first like the roar of a distant train, and then like the crash of a falling tree. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

His words registered dimly at first, for she was mostly aware of him, his nearness, but as the silence filled the space between them she realized what he had said. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is little doubt that Newton came up with the idea first—in the 1660s—but he did not publish his work for 20 years. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

His frightening appearance would for the first time become useful for him. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the girls first, barking as they raced for home. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wait four days and then go back to the first string of traps. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“People gave at first but now they are used to me....It is a hard world.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so lifelike that it reminded him of how she had looked the first time he had seen her; he blinked his eyes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, Roz, do you know what tomorrow is? Tomorrow is Swimming Day! The day when all the parents take their goslings out on the pond for the first time. And you simply must bring Brightbill.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I went through Dan’s apartment—upstairs, I mean. Out onto his fire escape and down a flight into your bedroom. That’s how I left you that note under your pillow the first night.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t too worried at first, because Anna was going out. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a long while, she was able to daydream. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They tossed for first pick, then the one who’d won stared at the group. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been sure, at first, that she could wait to eat until they were across. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first was that Omi showed up—without calling or even texting first. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the hallway I get my first good look at my Junior Fortune-Teller escort. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

At first it was hard to keep track. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Regiomontanus may have been one of the first, but he was not the last, to see in the mathematical sciences a new type of reliable knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Store clerks in downtown Durham waited on all white customers before helping any blacks—and then served light-skinned blacks first. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Harry knew she was deeply interested in the Gryffindor team’s prospects; it had been she, after all, who’d suggested him as Seeker in the first place. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The first time Ms. Washington got all theatrical like this back in September, pretty much everyone busted out laughing. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She says, "I wanted to be your mother. From the first night I met you, I wanted that." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When Mother came in she said, “Well, young lady, I believe this is the first time I’ve seen you go to bed without being told. \\ou must be sick.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first interesting thing about the Beatles for our purposes is how long they had already been together by the time they reached the United States. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Grey Worm and the Unsullied will close and bar the gates at first light.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They came to Mars and now, first thing, or so they said, they were going fishing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was froth at the tops of the bottles, and Lil could hardly keep from giggling when she took her first sip. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At first, the cans just bent over and started to collapse into themselves, but after a few blows they split open, and chili spattered out. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I hesitated, torn, but then the first bell sent me hurrying out the door — with a last glance confirming that he hadn’t moved a centimeter. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I took the stairs two at a time and opened the first door on the right. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It had been less than an hour since we’d left Cuba, and for the first time, I was entering a different country, a different world, a different life. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

At first they thought the two had just gone hunting, that they'd soon return with game and feed them all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

From their table, they had a clear, if distant, view of the Ice Court’s outer gate and the first guardhouse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My first thought was that it was the steward. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Over and over again Elizabeth had discussed their first meeting, for she was secretly longing to be reassured that Tao would not have forgotten her. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christina looks away, and at first I think she is bashful, but then I see her face contort like he slapped her instead of complimented her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And because Daniel is a great friend, and because Daniel has a very imaginative mind, in the next moment, just as they hit the first stair, Daniel says, “So...I’ve been thinking about Rufflet.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I want to be the first to see Al Capone’s mom waiting at the dock at Fort Mason. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The motel was, as the name suggested, round, but that wasn’t the first thing you noticed. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

At first I hesitated to grab them because they can pinch. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, I try to deflect her, unwilling to go on the offensive. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the verbal exchanges before the duel, there can be no question that Burr fired first. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

"He knows, but you don't have to talk to him about it, okay? This is our business right now, you and me. Now, look at test. Not hard. I pass on first try." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

My optimism in those first months was primarily tempered by one thing, and that was politics. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Tonight was a night of firsts for Twig, I guess. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“When first I felt the call to search out the Land of Promise, I believed it would pass. But I can resist it no longer. Today, I will be king no more, but wanderer.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In exactly one month, she would be twelve years old, and for the first time in her life, Papa wouldn’t be there to celebrate with her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Like someone is loving me back for the first time in my life. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir. He understands he is to be in position to attack at first light.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time I am feeling alienated from the rest of the class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We played twice; the second time we got Mrs. White with the candlestick in the kitchen, and the first time I don’t remember. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the very first week of school, Quang-ha had cut classes and gotten into arguments with teachers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

In 1841, she made her first public speech, lecturing on temperance with a “dose” of women’s rights, as she reported in a letter to Mott. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had ever been spat upon. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even expected it to be monstrous, but perhaps there was no preparing for one’s first monster. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I saw the faces of the first two. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Shoun brothers, who had performed the first autopsy, appeared at the cemetery and renewed their search for the bullet. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I first thought she was bringing it to Miss Love as a welcome-to-the-bride present. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She may have been play-acting the first time, I think, but this time she really did risk her life to save Captain Smith. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He wanted her to be right smack in the middle of them, he said, for her first sight. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

At first he thought he was losing his balance—it even made him stumble once or twice—for the buildings were two or three degrees out of the vertical, all leaning the same way. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first time I visited Soojin after school, I hadn’t realized that there were two refrigerators in the kitchen. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Students from various tribal primary schools studied together for the first time. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Kerr handed me a second basin when the first was full. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Correct: Two years ago, Whiskers was the first cat to google on his own smartphone. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On that first day at Monet’s, he had been checking one of us out. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Now I was truly leaving home and seeing the outside world for the first time. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Centipede, bite through the first string,” James ordered. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The first one swept his arrow through the torch, lighting the end on fire. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It's the first time I have felt real fear—the kind that plants a flag in your brain and decides it's going to stay. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The world’s wind was cold and gusty from the northeast, but Ged had raised the magewind: the first act of magery he had done since he left the Isle of the Hands. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

My parents spoke only in hushed tones of Uncle’s first wife. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the Hab canvas resealing, I got this one right on the first try. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not leaving him, Rachel. He had an affair, he . . . It’s not the first time, is it?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was nothing like my first boxing match. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Look over your shoulder all the time, first to the right, then to the left. Don’t stop for anything. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“He sho a preacher, mon! He didn’t look like much at first, but hush!” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he’s going by the way Henry’s body responds, by the way Henry’s hand sweeps up into his hair and clutches a fistful of curls, he guesses he does okay for a first try. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap of burlap and ripping it from the bag. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At first we didn’t think we were in the right place, but then, jing-bang, it was right before us. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was also the first time I had rebelled against my parents. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“You won’t be in bed all the time. You must first have the wounds exposed to the sun. Then afterward you can be on crutches.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Let me see. I think it’s the first on your right and second house on the left-hand side,” said Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Though their first names were spelled different, you said them just the same. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Hazel nodded, moving her feet into first position. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I wish I could tell you that the Baudelaires’ first impressions of Count Olaf and his house were incorrect, as first impressions so often are. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the early eighties, before I was born, he opened one of the first integrated restaurants in Johannesburg, a steakhouse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For many, it was the first glimpse into a completely unknown, extraordinary world. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After many pauses and many trials of other subjects, Elizabeth could not help reverting once more to the first, and saying: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The first lab I visited was the worst. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since the first night I had slept at the Courters’, they had expected me to help in the kitchen. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But it is also true that if the last judgment were announced, the first and proper thought of all ladies would be “What shall I wear?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first graders from the wealthiest homes have a 32-point advantage over the first graders from the poorest homes — and by the way, first graders from poor homes in Baltimore are really poor. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

This was my first time having a girlfriend, so at first I thought, Huh, maybe this is just how it goes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

What consumed him in this period mostly was something new: his first purely commercial venture, built around his first invention totally unconnected with the work of the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The first attack was very short: a ragged fire. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The first thing we really need to do is make sure we have drinking water.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The first few walks only took us a few blocks and back. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just like last time. You guys know the drill. We need to write down the first letters of every title.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Tidings was already finishing his first helping of meat loaf. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Columbus was determined to insist that he had seen land first because Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain had promised a lifetime pension to the first person to sight land. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If Mama wanted him to kill his snakes first, he’d kill them. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the first years of the program it was apparent that heavy losses were occurring among wildlife and domestic animals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As for Treebeard, he first laved his feet in the basin beyond the arch, and then he drained his bowl at one draught, one long, slow draught. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had ever heard anyone refer to what we could do as “freak abilities” instead of the polite alternative, “symptoms.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The storm that had thrown such snow at Phippsburg was the first of many that winter. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It looked nice and natural that way and she was glad she had got it for him rather than the nickel pop-gun she had first thought of buying. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to Ishmael for the first time in his life that such destruction could be beautiful. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, at one of those late night parties in Toby’s room that I first developed my taste for chocolate cake. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it took all she had to answer your first question,” Seth speculated. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

For the first time in months, Alex allowed himself to think about the future. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mom didn’t see the letter as anything special at first. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This is going to be my first group project in a group. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would be my first kiss, if she were offering me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

After sleeping on the floor of a Baton Rouge mosque for that first week, he and his wife had rented an apartment for the month, and were living there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I was a free man for the first time in twenty-seven years, but instead of greeting me, they said with some concern, “Aren’t you meant to be at the Grand Parade?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another part of my plan was to live at home, save money, and spend my entire first year’s salary on books. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At first he thought he was looking at some kind of pregnant sea snake or a constipated eel. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure what she was doing at first. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Apparently Hari knew them all by their first names; they’d all been to his house for dinner just a few months before the contest began. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He doesn't refuse the offer of wine, but when he starts in on his soup, I realize it's the first time I've ever seen him eat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Another cry echoes from the adjoining chamber, joining the first in a gentle chorus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At first, having found his way to Village, he had thought his own brutal beginnings—a fatherless hovel for a home; a grim, defeated mother who beat him and his brother bloody—were unusual. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

That evening I had the most thorough bath ever, more thorough than the one I had on my first day at school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dogs and the workers in the yard often got the first taste of his anger, and that would let the rest of us know to lie low. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was the desolation of having found the place that fits, the one true place, and experiencing the first heady sigh of rightness before being torn away and cast back into random, lonely scatter. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

TO-mah-to, they'd called them in her village, with the accent on the first syllable, making no distinction between singular and plural. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Without another word Cluny marched off with his selected rodents, first to the upturned hay cart in the ditch down the road, then a quick circle around into Mossflower Wood. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Maybe she did. I don’t know. But I told him first.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The living room was the first room you walk into. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

For the first time I notice that Mr. Skerritt’s eyes are kind. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

This list may at first seem to have glaring omissions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first she really thought a girl could and tried it once or twice. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Manya took care of me during the first nightmarish days of blind panic when my mind collapsed and would not function. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You’re a nice boy,” Mr. Wonka said, “but you talk too much. Now then! The very first time I saw ordinary television working, I was struck by a tremendous idea. ‘Look here!’ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

McKissick’s first chance to join in a collective direct action against segregation came in 1947 while he was attending law school at North Carolina College in Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hato took her first bite of open sea and began to pitch gently. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believe I’m approximately right. first priest: The theory’s ridiculous. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

For most of the first quarter of the century, the eastern colleges thoroughly dominated the regatta. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the boy and when he looked back toward the road the first of them were already coming into view. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She had probably given me up for lost to the Devil the first day we met. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

This was the first secret I had ever kept from Bailey and sometimes I thought he should be able to read it on my face, but he noticed nothing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scored nine points in each game, going 3 for 10 on three- pointers in the first game and 3 for 15 in the second. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

My first vague, favorable impression that it was not as bad as I had thought it would be came from courtesies of the whites toward the Negro in New Orleans. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of me were documents from my soon-to-be college, thanking us for our payment in full for the first two semesters. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Students who normally paid Miles for his services began taking matters into their own hands, and detention was full for the first time all year. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The first reason was the simplest: I love telling stories. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She had stuffed it into her trunk some days before and couldn’t remember at first where it had come from. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The first to arrive must wait on the other, and Renly would do no waiting. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The morning after the Augur’s visit, I stumble to the mess hall like a Cadet suffering his first hangover, cursing the overly bright sun. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had been startled, when she first saw the listing in the real estate section of the paper, to realize she could afford the down payment in cash. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He spat on his hands and he began to dig the trench into which the first stones would go. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And of course as soon as the first ones spill onto his cheeks, Dad’s eyes open. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

They had each signed their first names with zigzag flourishes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That seems grossly unfair, and my first impulse is to say something cutting. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“What happened the first time? Was it really so bad?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Fittingly, in June a switch is thrown, and electric light illuminates the exhibitions for the first time. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

How the land was to have gone over into his name, because he was the eldest son and the first of the Miyamotos to become a citizen. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time ever I’ve been grateful not to be able to read. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The lion was so astonished at the hare’s cheek that at first he did nothing. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

But before Bobby could consider his next chess opponent, he had to, first, face a formidable wow-chess opponent: the U.S. government. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the first few decades after the Union Stock Yard opened, white packinghouse workers were not focused on blacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And all of our beauty, which was hers first and which she gave to us. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Leave him alone, Reba. He got to get the feel first. I asked you did you play any. That why they call you Guitar?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made the first change effortlessly, and she made her face look like a concert pianist—all solemn and stuff. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because of the freezing water, but for the first time, I could see his scar clearly. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I’d heard her voice in months. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Joshua Carter and Robert Caston were the first two cases we decided to litigate. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The first lasted not more than five seconds but I will never forget it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before Thanksgiving, the first of the cold fronts from Canada finally reached us, and the trees abruptly dropped their leaves and turned black and skeletal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Also all the slang, the “square-bashing” drilling exercises, and the boring meals and the uniforms, though Maddie’s group didn’t get issued proper uniforms at first. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Wait—” But Scoob’s got so many questions, he’s not sure which one to ask first. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you want me to check it first?” the guard asked with a nasty smile. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He'd made eye contact with her only once since her first day on the bus. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It was Frodo who first put something of his sorrow into halting words. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The first thing we have to do this morning is finish reading the story we began yesterday,” he said enthusiastically. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The first step was to drive the rover to near the trailer. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Talon, an older Yellow with his hair woven into intricate dreadlocks, appeared first, followed by a wide-eyed Chubs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My first idea was to ask Pascagoula, but I hardly know her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Letters from him trickled in, once or twice a month, with half the words blacked out, calling her “Sweetheart” for the first time in fifteen years. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My first order, and only one day to complete it,” the woman was saying, almost as if she were talking to herself. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

She failed first grade by pretending to be stupid, but the setback didn't seem to bother her. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The pain made her desperate for distraction, and she looked at the preacher in the eyes for the first time. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was a woman in her eighties during the first decade of my life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I usually prefer to get it right on the first try, but I’d hate to deprive you.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Either one was equally distasteful, because she didn’t want to lie to the first and only rabbi she’d ever met, but she also didn’t want anyone to send her home. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It’s a few minutes before he says, “The first meteor shower I saw was huge. I never wanted it to end.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And whatever it was, to Thomas it meant one thing: the fact they could no longer see the sun probably meant they’d never been able to in the first place. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He was the first person I had ever known who really needed my help. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As Joe drifted into sleep aboard the Manhattan, the first light of dawn crept over Berlin, revealing small groups of men, women, and children being marched through the streets at gunpoint. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At least I was until I walked into the convention center on the first day of competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When I first came to Faerie, I had trouble sleeping. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I call Tiny again, this time not about the Maybe Dead Cats, and he picks up on the first half-ring and says, "Good evening, Grayson." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

So the first time I was at their house, when I was sitting in their kitchen with my hair washed and dripping onto the towel, and Kira asked about my full name, about my family... Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Every week, the first word at the top of Mrs. Granger’s list was pen. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together the fugitives slept through the first dangerous day. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first morning in the hospital, Sasha was overcome by anxiety. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I am so focused I don’t notice at first that David Petrakis My Lab Partner has stood up. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He tugs the first transceiver from its case and unscrews the back plate. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But in the case of the cursing parrot that first long rainy day, Methuselah could not be made to copy the Bible. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Danielle, the little girl who asked if I was Lovey’s boyfriend when we first got there, ran over to pile on. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Again, Brianna was not cooperative. I was told she was argumentative and aggressive. This is not the first time we’ve had behavioral issues with her.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was my first time in a vehicle since I had been separated from my parents four years before. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first arcana awakens inside me at the sight of it. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

On her previous first days, she had always kept her head in a book, and here she was waving to almost-strangers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

These examples, at first so bizarre to us, illustrate well the roles of geography and of diffusion in the history of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas hesitated at first, wondering why he needed to run, but snapped out of it quickly and followed at the same pace. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The black brother is so brainwashed that he may even be repelled when he first hears the troth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, you see, finally we know the kind of problems we have to solve, which is the first step on the road to finding solutions. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He said he did when she had first asked him, one afternoon in Palo Alto as they sat side by side in a darkened, nearly empty movie theater. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Who first recorded “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”? • exclamation point. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t his first bid, Big D explained. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first year after Nicolae Ceaujescu’s death, when abortion was reinstated in Romania, there was one abortion for every twenty-two Romanians. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence, east first, then north. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, there were plenty of other astronauts waiting to get their first flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began her journal at the end of the first day of preliminary training, and managed at least ten minutes most nights before lights-out. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This is a big one for us, and I know it’s our first home game since ... since we lost Robbie, so it’s going to be difficult for all of us—especially Andy. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about to turn off into the woods when the first truck sped toward him, tossing up a cloud of red dust and catching him in its headlights. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, I’d even finished first in some events at earlier meets. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But first things first—will I get in the class? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Letting the King’s group have the first go at helical models was the right thing in any circumstance. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“The same day I first met you, Griphook. My birthday, seven years ago.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

For the first time that night, I felt the cold. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Andrews had stopped by their table at dinner the first night, George thought he was just another boring millionaire coming over to kiss Aunt Daisy’s hand. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe, but I have to get through Sunday first.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We spent one long second looking at one another, to see who would strike first, and then we just started going at it. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Those were the first two ships he’d lost from his own third of the fleet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Finally we called on some distant relations, who scolded us profusely for not having come to them in the first place. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I arrive, the first thing I see is Albert, who has a black eye. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He groped around until he located his flashlight, but at first it didn’t work. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first day on the River of Doubt, and the expedition wasn't off to a good start. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was on the third turn that he saw the fish first. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to lightly punch her in the arm, first with my right fist, then with my left, trying to get her to pay attention to me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Even though I shouldn’t be surprised she said no, I’m just as crushed as the first time. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The prisoners who had arrived at Hunt during the first days after the storm had lived through conditions beyond comprehension. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The cast is in the first circle around Tiny, everyone—guy and girl—dressed like White Sox. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

This the first one I come to since the shooting. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

C. P. Ellis experienced a similar moment of awakening, when he first realized that he was white. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t the first time he had noticed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were neither the first nor the last family that Dallas and Florida had been sent to, and they were certainly not the worst. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I know he wants me to come first. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first place in their weeks of walking that had an abundance of food. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wes was talking to his new friend, Woody, one of the first people he’d met when Mary moved the family to this neighborhood a year earlier. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"I made Alfred a second mouthpiece in case he swallows the first." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I don’t understand, and I ask her what’s wrong. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I remember first seeing the picture of Amélie and thinking that was the worst thing that could ever happen to me. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“We need to keep this angel warm. Put her in one of the bread pans. Pad it with a blanket first. Then set it on the oven door.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, first off, the people who like my blog aren’t very good at cyberbullying, which is fine. I would hate to be liked by people who are good at it.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I realized that what people say about living in the ghetto and having brown skin doesn’t have to apply to me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thomas asked, surprised at hearing his voice for the first time in his salvageable memory. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was the first time Francie had ever eaten Jell-O and whipped cream. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His first instinct was to call it a snake, a name largely attributed to its thick serpentine body and dark brown scales. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It’s my first time here since telling her. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Mpandhlani took a bite first, and then thrust the piece of liver in my face. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I got to history class, guess who spoke to me first. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

At first he liked the attention, but it annoyed him that the attention was constant, and he grew to hate it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing he felt was the wind in his face, then the searing pain in his right arm. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Since it was impossible to eat wild grains without first winnowing, grinding and cooking them, people who gathered these grains carried them back to their temporary campsites for processing. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma says, Ah, God help us, why didn’t you tell me that in the first place? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My nose, at first delicately, then not so delicately, began to arch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The first breath of the cool, fresh night. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the first things Deborah said when she regained consciousness was, “I have to take a test.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The first interpretation is largely true, but not very significant; the second would be significant, but is untrue. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On his refusal to do this had his life depended, and John’s secret heart had flourished in its wickedness until the day his sin first overtook him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Not to mention whacking them over the head with a club in the first place. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing Mr. Blocker did was to ask us to talk about one interesting thing that happened to us during the summer. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to tell you first,” she says, and now her voice is quivering, too. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The first 665 names of casualties were now on the National Mall. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Bring back as many as you can, women and children first. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I planned to talk to him about it during the inter-semester break, but my father suffered a second heart attack on the first day of that break. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

This is my first coherent thought as we reach the bottom floor of our high-rise and climb into a waiting jeep. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Beatrice didn’t know how to use the bus system in Atlanta, but a fellow Liberian offered to show her the way from Wyncrest to the bus stop on her first day of work. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

For the first time I noticed that his eyes were wet with tears. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The first thing Black said was: “I am a Communist. And I am going to make a Communist out of you.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cliff and the river spoke to her of her first home and her parents. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When he spoke to the players that very first time, he told them to ignore the outside pressure that would inevitably swirl around them during the thick of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drew deeply, coughed intensely—it was then that I first truly noticed he had a viciously fluid-sounding persistent cough—and gestured to Gretchen. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The music of Rabindranath Tagore is playing softly in the background—the same love songs Ranee used to sing to her husband when they were first married. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One night, a short time before their first child was born, Fernanda realized that her husband had returned in secret to the bed of Petra Cotes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

After all, these press briefings had been his idea in the first place. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

And she couldn’t help but think as she saw the first set of staring eyes fix upon her that a firing squad might have been preferable. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They went to see the owners, and met the first and second mates. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would hear other girls say, “Well, I didn’t get pregnant my first time, or the second.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The first time I saw the Pacific, I almost cried. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” Catherine said, but she was only four years old and mostly thought she should say “yes” because that’s what everyone else had said first. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When I come to, my first feeling is that of relief that I’m not dead. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Water-wheels were known to the ancient Greeks and Romans but were far from common; thanks to an early medieval proto-industrial Revolution, they quickly became widespread around the end of the first millennium CE. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jarai handed me the first letter and asked me to read it out loud. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As normally as it could, I suppose, when the first announcement of the day is about a scoreboard, and your drill sergeant of a teacher is yelling at everyone. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Nothing but the quiet shuffling of the boys working the flats on the first floor. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tuesday morning in first period, Ms. Aloi reads the announcements like she does every morning. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She has the distinction of being the first female born into the Corcoran clan for no one even knows how many generations. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She has been the first to publicly brand me as a threat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She got the first and biggest share of everything—the first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Jack is my first name. Will is my last name.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Other attacks on American soil were by nations; this is the first transnational terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was like stepping onstage at your first piano recital and realizing that you’d never played anything but an instrument with broken keys. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I skipped my first class ever and went to see Sam and Patrick outside. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I decided it was high time I made my first visit to the amusement park. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He and Namontack exchange the greeting of countrymen; with one fist, each taps first his own chest, then forehead, and then taps the other boy’s chest and forehead. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

At first I was going to tell them about the shoes. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, you can’t say it wasn’t an interesting first day back,” said Ron gloomily. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was thinking out his first touch for her—a kiss, one hand to her long, soft hair, the other to her waist—when a thundering roar filled his ears. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing he noticed when he arrived in Lagos was Susan’s sparkle, her posh prettiness, the way she focused entirely on him, touched his arm as she laughed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That was my first time on an airplane. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see, for instance, how she might have felt I had been the one to first violate an understanding, and that her little dig had just been a retaliation. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite feeling terribly dizzy, he managed to find four of his fellow firefighters trapped almost out of sight under parts of the second-floor ceiling that had collapsed into the first floor. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I came in first, long-legged as I am, and Vonetta second. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And then it turns over, thinks a bit, and begins spooling backwards, slow at first. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I wished there were other black faces on the plane; people I could talk to, laugh with and tell how nervous and delighted I was on my first plane ride. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom made sure English was the first language I spoke. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As for Starry, I doubt she'll choose jeans for her first day, but I'm 100 percent sure she's not putting on a salwar. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Restricting signs to those for single consonants was only the first of three crucial innovations that distinguished alphabets from other writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I do hope that Miss Trixie does appear,” he said after he had finished the first sandwich and emitted a series of belches which sounded as if they had disintegrated his digestive tract. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to do something else first,” I say. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

That was the first time I had ever heard of them. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

And the first time Eric fell he didn’t hurt himself, and then they took him back up there. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We used to have the crab boil on the first Friday of every month. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

My record shows that I flunked kindergarten and in first grade had no IQ—a zero IQ. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You're the first person to ask me my name in about a year." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Sit down, first, please Not there—here. God!” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She was the first of his possessions he saw upon his return. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

That first day—that first assignment, the very first one—remember how giddy everyone was the morning after, when they handed out all the champagne and perfume at The Cottage? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When phrases come in pairs like this, the first phrase is called the antecedent phrase, and the second is called the consequent phrase. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The first time was terrible, even though the limousine was wonderful. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in his life he’s given himself and his friendship to another person. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But though he knew they were on the right side Shasta at first could hardly bear to look at them; there are some things that take a lot of getting used to. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

From the first hours of dawn, a glacial wind lashed us like a whip. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I would groom them, give each of them a pile of hay, and get the tack ready for the first ride. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We have come here because—” He paused, realizing for the first time the vagueness of his own motives. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was the first time in as long as I could remember that hunger wasn’t a punishment or a crime or a weapon or a mode of self-destruction. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t have been my first choice, given the man-eating sheep on the other side, but at the moment that looked better than this side of the chasm, and it gave me an idea. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first question to pop out, and I feel dumb because I know the answer. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The Muslim first had to change his physical and moral self to meet our strict rales. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead,” old Betonie said, “you can go. Most of the Navajos feel the same way about me. You won’t be the first one to run away.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She said she named it the first day she and Papa got there, with Mama driving the ox cart loaded with our house plunder, and with Papa driving the cows and horses. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had always reminded me, who was going to believe in me if I didn’t first believe in myself. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I knew he was rather shy and I am not always easy at first meetings either. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The expression first came into popular use in the 1970s to describe the flight to the suburbs of whites living in the older cities of the American Northeast. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My elbows are the first to hit the ground, followed by my knees, but I do keep hold of the leash. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It was my first time wearing lip gloss, and even though the color was a little too pink, it looked good. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The first part of the journey was to London. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he tried to speak; he thought of the churchyard where Esther was buried, and Royal’s first, thin cry. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The first one says Greetings from California in big, bold letters. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And standing in front of the class taking my poem from her my voice shakes as I recite the first line: Black brothers, Black sisters, all of them were great. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The council votes and selects Master Wingfield as our first president. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Ashton looked surprised, like maybe this was his first time hearing the story. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

For the first time, Father was letting me stay out of school to go to the protest. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Slowly the second wave forced the first one backward, rolled slowly over it, and then as a victor drags the vanquished, moved in toward the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first case he must be economical; in the second, he must not hold back any part of his generosity. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

This was the first time anyone had ever seen Washington cry. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had seen a grown man cry like a child, and I felt a sting in my heart. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I start cleaning in here first, Mr. Fields?” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She could tell from the first pull that it was no use. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They have planted a tall cross at the mouth of the bay where we first landed and named the place Cape Henry. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I ought to go first,” she whispered back, “seeing it’s my fault.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the forms of discrimination that relegated African Americans to an inferior caste during Jim Crow continue to apply to huge segments of the black population today—provided they are first labeled felons. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Edward was the first of my new sons. I’ve always thought of him that way, even though he’s older than I, in one way at least.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The first day of school after winter break, I woke up early. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first segment of the news was an interview with Inés and Zaragoza. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Beyond his tree, as he slept, the first blood light of dawn was rising up the sky. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, our spittoons and garbage dumps joined our latrines to form the first agricultural research laboratories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Well . . . that's fine, I guess," Mike said, "but you need to do your assigned work first. I asked for those satellite adjustments two weeks ago and you still haven't done them." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fatty, my basketball coach, told me that my first step to the basket was good but that my second was weak. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The removal of Sophiatown was the first major test of strength for the ANC and its allies after the Defiance Campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I hold my finger before my eyes and examine it first with my left and then with my right eye, it seems to move against the distant background. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you had cut me, I was gonna cut you first,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shall never forget the first time I laid these now tired old eyes on our visitor. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

His first month at camp was spent knocking over rows of weapons, breaking chariots, and tripping entire cohorts as they marched. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Ron and Eve got to go to the prefects’ carriage first and then patrol the corridors for a bit.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Rowan, at sixteen, had resolved he would experience gray hair before he turned his first corner—and even then, he wouldn’t reset so far down as to be embarrassing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It’s the thing that first drew me to Barack when he turned up in my office at Sidley, wearing a hopeful grin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When we stood, I saw for the first time that I was grown taller than Bono. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She stared at the very first word at the top of the page, “Instru,” and she suddenly knew what it must be. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After a baby finishes his 12th month, we all say that the child is one year old; he has finished his first 12 months of life. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe what they’d done had proven to the weapons that they were worthy of wielding them in the first place. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not for the first time, I was left in awe of the insatiable appetite of teenage boys. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“We accept Frank Zhang, Son of Mars, to the Twelfth Legion Fulminata for his first year of service. Do you pledge your life to the senate and people of Rome?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The first Saturday it was warm enough, he walked in circles around the base of the tree with a calculator and a cheat sheet of geometry equations. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That was the way I first laid eyes upon this land.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So journeys through unknown parts of America became my chief war memory, and I think of the first of them as this nighttime trip to Leper’s. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a guess,” he said gravely, “a certainty. You were not the first.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scowl as I take my first bite. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I was gonna tell you, I swear! I was just trying to get everything into place first. This was my way of saving us.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

For the first time in what felt like forever, the touch of his rough hand was gentle on my chin. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Whoever scored five points first won the bout. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The kind that Coach was faking when I first met him. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She was the first real Attendant, assigned to Martha Johnson, President Johnson's daughter. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

That first week we began the work that would occupy us for the next few months. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The day is saved. Not bad for your first day as a Junior Agent.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Even though he was upset, Daddy called David and asked if he wanted to go to the first game with us. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just Lysanders that she ferried, and she didn’t do much taxi work that first year, so it probably wasn’t an Anson. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Stewart told Charlie Company to move out first, but when he saw what was left of it he had us all move out together. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I end up there a lot. It’s where I kissed this girl, Cathy, for the first time. I went there after my family died, and after my first cycling marathon.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon, around the time the bonobos would have been eating their fruit lunch back in the sanctuary, when I first heard a high-pitched call. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

That first feel of the chill in the air is always the hardest. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She was crowned with braids and vines and what he first took for butterflies but quickly saw were orchids, with a single long white feather at a jaunty angle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Woman in black,” I say again, my voice not quite as shaky as it was the first time. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I notice for the first time in the morning, with the spring mists rising up from the hills around Przemyśl, the sun coming up earlier and earlier in a watery sky. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The only reason I’d gone out for the team in the first place was because my dad had forced me into it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A postscript: I know you have shared my first note. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mabel, riding on the handrail, whizzed by and blocked her progress on the first landing. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dr. Malone looked at him clearly for the first time. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been to Jamaica and the Bahamas, and to Europe a few times, but this was my first time being this far from home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I laugh and look around the room, feeling lighter for the first time since lunch last week. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She was so lost in the pandemonium that, at first, she didn’t hear the whooping. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Let me tell you first,” she said, taking a deep breath, “about your Uncle Warren.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She and the Congressional Union obtained ten tickets to the president’s first speech to Congress since his reelection. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In a feat of modern aircraft design and engineering, Johnson's team built the first U-2 spy plane in only eighty-eight days. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Prizes were offered to the teams that solved the clues first. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the first he was attacked by phantoms and a great wind, and he had some sort of debilitating weakness on one side of his body. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Felix stepped forward, and for the first time, he got to select his basketball team. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the first column of the grid below, the word “staff” is written. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, the funeral is first thing tomorrow morning. My mom thinks it’s a good idea that I go out and do something with my friends tomorrow afternoon. ‘Life goes on,’ she said. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still remember the first time I saw it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t choose my first customer the next day. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1839 he returned to his homeland for the first time since his childhood and was greeted rapturously by crowds chanting 'Hail! The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This is a nickname I haven’t used in a long time, since the first day of fifth grade. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mama wouldn’t ever start anything else without she made up the beds first. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Waves were splashing over the dwarfs’ heads, and they were gulping air, and their eyes were round with fear when Suttung the giant reached out and plucked first Fjalar and then Galar from the waves. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

If you can remember how that first terrific stretch feels, pleasant and painful, then you may understand how my mind felt after all these years, stretching awake on the rooftops of Tarbean. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

More medevacs came in and took away the rest of first platoon. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first few times she called Kainene that evening, there was no answer. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For the first four days of every week Johnny was his own master. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land was tilled and the first crop planted in time for the pale light of spring. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They wanted to leave at the first hint of daylight, so they'd have plenty of time to make it to Camp Green Lake before dark. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pignati had to explain the whole story over to me again because it was too complicated to get the first time, but I ended up listing the guilty in this order: 1. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

After the first few games, I soon discovered that Helmut was a mere hacker. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not even going to buy Caroline a special sleeping gown for her “first” sexual act with her husband. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Can I settle in to the school first before you have me hunting down books for you?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Of course Father Mulrooney was so old, electricity probably hadn’t been invented when he first learned Latin. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

AT THE END of our first two weeks on the island, we were informed that our lawyers, Bram Fischer and Joel Joffe, were going to be visiting the following day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got up from the chair so I could be picked up as soon as he reached the first floor. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“It was little things at first—goats gone dry, wells turning bad.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

That should be my first hint that something is wrong—but it’s just one more thing in a long list of not-my-reality that has become too numerous to count, much less process. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ess was bothered a bit by the bees at first, and ran around waving her arms in the air whenever one landed on her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He laid his head on the steering wheel and began to cry, softly at first, and then harder. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But through it all, he had always had something to fall back on, ever since 1959 when he had gone to that first practice. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Pollsmoor I first understood the truth of Oscar Wilde’s haunting line about the tent of blue that prisoners call the sky. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last football game of the season was her first as a cheerleader. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“No, Baba, I don’t think so. I bet it was love at first sight.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

What was it going to feel like to walk into that classroom on the first day of school with all those eyes looking at her? The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

She will eat today for the first time in months. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I can tell you is that when the Hogwarts Express first came to be—Ottaline Gambol herself offered me this job . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

It was the first time she had been this close to her employer since she had lived in his house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw for the first time occasional black-white couples strolling around arm in arm. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shock of the first ring made everyone both jump and then freeze. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you to go,” he said, the tears dropping from his eyes, slowly at first, then spilling like a river. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Miss Perumal will come for you first thing in the morning.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We made it to the edge of the town before the first two skeleton warriors appeared. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Especially since our health class project first semester. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Panic made my mouth start flapping: “Troy took my friend’s laptop. He grabbed me first. I just defended myself.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Touch at the first beach, go ashore, and send your ship and crew around to port by sea, while you go inland to the forester, your old friend, loyal keeper of the swine. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first part of January their offers arrived on stiff, elegant stationery. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, I do nothing and take their abuse silently, not wanting to attract any attention to myself. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the last boats of our first wave reached the shore, Johnny watched from that flag bridge. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to go see the eaglet,” Axel says first to Ray, then loudly to his mom. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At the end of our first day I told Mr. Mwila, “My mother’s name is from Africa.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The first violet-green swallows of the year swirled among the spires of the library. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For young children, the rhyme is magical as they first encounter the powerful sound of rhyming words. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The first one has only four words on it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The whooshing was getting louder, and I felt afraid for the first time, afraid that we might all get sucked down and drown in the mud. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He folded the robe, first lengthwise, then in thirds. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

This was addressed to the man, who was rattling his cup against his saucer, and Eleanor took a first, shuddering sip of her own coffee and wondered how he could possibly want more. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that the first time you’ve shot a horse?” he says, plucking the cigarette from the package with his teeth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Just think—if I hadn’t gone up that other creek first. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She had moved into the subsidized apartment in Williamsburg, which gave her her own kitchen and bathroom for the first time in seven years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Ray,” squeals Leda, awake since the first bump. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Aron was first, and he turned away from the little girl, but the lady said, “Aren’t you going to say how do to my daughter?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The younger girls have their first evaluations coming up at the end of the month. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Brother Ugo was looking at him more carefully now, as though seeing something for the first time. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At first she stood, bewildered, in the dark. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went back and looked at the first rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Eliot followed her, walking for the first time in his sneakers across the pear- colored carpet. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sound was faint at first, but after a short time they could hear plainly the beat of hooves on the hard-packed road. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra shrank back; she didn’t have the strength just yet to face them as she would have liked to do, and it was Will who had to speak first. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It started way back when I got my first football helmet for Christmas. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He makes one of his first oil paintings, View of the Sea at Scheveningen, with a fishing boat and several figures on the beach. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In middens around Yellowstone National Park, he said, they first show up in large numbers about five hundred years ago, the time of the great epidemics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“How did we all get to be peculiar in the first place?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The figure started at first to collapse, and then to expand. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was my first serious observation of animal behavior. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time we’ve looked into each other’s eyes in a long time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says my name like it’s her first time saying it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the pictures were black and white, taken a long time ago when Stagecoach Pass first opened. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Owning our own home was third for her, and first for our mother. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Wally Funk went on to other firsts, such as becoming the first female inspector with the Federal Aviation Administration. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was easy now to picture what this place would one day become: that sad and desecrated wreck I had first discovered weeks ago. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, you weren’t the first person Riddle wormed things out of,” Harry muttered. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then came the rest of us: Ruth May with pigtails flying behind her, hurrying mightily because she is youngest and believes the last shall be first. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, after a thousand-year stupor, European thought shook off the effect of the sleeping powders so skilfully administered by the Christian Fathers, the problem of infinity was one of the first to be revived. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“This is a collector’s item from Hercules Busts Heads. The first season.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

No longer contending with the deadweight of the first stage, the acceleration was profound. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gazed across the valley and tried to remember how Camp Half-Blood looked the first time I ever saw it That seemed like a bajillion years ago. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And wasn’t it good to have a chance to improve upon our first effort? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The left wings rose leisurely until they were almost straight up, and then Dragonwings leaned forward and burrowed nose first into the hillside. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first place is Lilliput, an island where all the people are less than six inches tall. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

At first she was wildly industrious, cleaning out closets and scrubbing the insides of kitchen cupboards and scraping the shelves of the refrigerator, rinsing out the vegetable bins. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He puts up my hair first, in the braided style my mother introduced him to, then proceeds with my makeup. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was it then that I heard the first tappings of rain? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her studio was a mess, frightening in its chaos, but after the first few steps I forgot about all that. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Each family will be assigned a house in the village. Those who do not get a house today will be built one tomorrow. Your first work assignment is to build houses for each other.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time, you remember, she jumped out of the coffin just fore they were fixin’ to nail the lid. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“He calls everyone here Mother. He has belonged to the whole village ever since we found him abandoned outside the gate. At first, no one wanted him.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But he decided he would take the first landfall he could find, beach the dory, and go for help. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

From the age of ten I’d check the Daily Prophet first thing every morning—certain some sort of tragedy would have befallen it—certain I wouldn’t get to go. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

She used to buy a roll almost every day and feed me as many as it took to get to the first green one, which she’d eat. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When he first comes in, Santa, he makes me guess what kinda job lie’s got. First, I guess, ‘butcher,’ you know?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first indication of whether I would be okay, whether whatever I had in my head by way of education was enough. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There's way too much whipped cream in that cup, Maya thought, then wondered when things like that had started bothering her about Claire in the first place. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I got to it first and kicked it with all my might. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls back her covers, and for the very first time in my whole entire life, I’m seeing my madrina without any makeup. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

What made the scheme novel was that for the first time it decoupled a test moratorium from all other disarmament issues, thereby removing the major cause of the deadlock between the two countries. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They said they were very sorry to hear it and gave first prize to another girl.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her first course of action was to march to the asylum and demand that her children be turned over to her without any official mumbo jumbo. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

A picture of them at the water slides, the summer after first grade. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

That first year of your life was one of the best in mine. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This is the first time I feel like I really need to talk to him, and you tell me he ain’t there? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on this first reading, she calls forth distress, sadness, barely controlled rage. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The sprite emerged from the fortress first, followed by one of the lithe, willowy nymphs with fingers like small branches. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She could forget that Wash belonged to the twins first of all. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was hardly time to talk over the first letter from Enscombe before “Mr. Elton and his bride” was in every body’s mouth, and Frank Churchill was forgotten. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“We need to calm down and discuss this. But first let’s take a break. We’ll be in the living room.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

As he had discovered the first day, getting into trouble could both detain him after school and boost his popularity with the guys. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, most of us never even got to wear one of those dress blue uniforms like that first one I saw on the Marine Corps recruitment poster. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I’d felt like more than a scraggly girl. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second coup happened a week later, and Richard’s first reaction was to gloat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And now, on this first morning of her new life, she lay in bed a few minutes to relish the quiet of the empty attic. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The culture shock I’d felt when I first got to campus was real. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Other protogalaxies with weaker gravity or less initial rotation flattened very little and became the first elliptical galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

No concrete evidence exists that the first event caused the second, but the coincidence in timing is hard to dismiss. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This is the sculpture I need to make first. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I watch her as she takes her first bite. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Me too at first, for I was thinking, Hooray, a halfway decent meal at last. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I go in first. You anchor us the best you can on the other end.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

At first he was too timid, but then the male two-legs picked him up and put him down close to her. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

By the end of the first semester, Onion Sam had turned the old run-down schoolhouse into a well-crafted, freshly painted jewel of a building that the whole town was proud of. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The first day trekking was like a cleansing—little talk, the white hush of the north welcoming Matthias back without judgment. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In their rush to build a model, they had even forgotten Franklin’s first discovery: the remarkable “wetness” of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I stepped inside, I didn’t know where to look first. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The first thing I noticed was a huge pile of pancakes sitting on a blue and white plate on top of the table. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

At first I thought Jacque would be one, but I was badly mistaken. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Imagine being sent to another camp after living through the hell of the first camp. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was ten years old, and it was the first time I was really old enough to pack for myself. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It’s a place where we used to meet when we first started seeing each other. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a bride of only a week when I first followed it to look for a suitable place for my washing. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

El’s text message is the first thing to make me smile. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was a popular way girls in my school passed notes; Elsbeth learned first and then taught the rest of us. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When final scores were posted at the end of the meet, I emerged as vault champion and—seemingly out of nowhere—I’d taken first place all-around. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At first they avoided each other during school hours, but by October they grew careless about their friendship. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The duvet is in a studio that belongs to my first husband, Jon. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I first went to the hill near the cave when the pack was away and collected armloads of brush which I placed near the mouth of their lair. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so happy those first few nights, in this amusing house, sleeping in the big soft bed with my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this first day, at least, I thought I had better keep him in sight as much as I could—until I get to know something about his habits. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t help trusting Albus Dumbledore, and as Harry watched him beaming around at the students, he felt really calm for the first time since the dementor had entered the train compartment. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I said, referring to that very first email she sent Mrs. Marks. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Now, here was a lady who had driven the two of us to and from rehearsal twice a week for over a year, and this was the first time she had ever talked at all. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine those first Portuguese adventurers approaching the shore, spying on the jungle’s edge through their fitted brass lenses. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first night I retired to my room soon after dinner. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first sentence he had exchanged at the table with his sister. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained to me that I was a little older than the other kids in first grade and that my progress had been very good. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was hoping she would say something first about Rich. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so much taken by surprise that I couldn’t do a great deal at first. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The names of the various hues were one of the first things small children learned. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At first they felt like his own tears of anger and fear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He entered the gate and asked the first man he saw if Reverend Cooper was still there. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s held the first Saturday of December every year, and I think this is the fifth time it’s been put on. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He had thrown it to first rather than third, and now we had Sidney Goldberg on third, and a man on second. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Tuition wasn’t even my first priority anymore, Devi was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s squishy!” was a catchphrase that people and dogs repeated for months after hearing Scruffy say it first. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The priest was at the far end of the railing; the girls were getting the communion first. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

When she first heard about Valley Forge, she told my grandparents about her plan. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My empathy link was really tingling for the first time in months, which either meant a whole lot of people had suddenly switched on the Nature Channel, or Grover was close. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The first question to rise in my throat is Why didn’t you guys come up? but maybe that’s a blessing in disguise. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mitt then shouted and ran to us, thrusting himself face first into Lelia’s chest and arms. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s just say that our new number has a first digit of 2. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I think for the first time in ages he sees hope. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

At first, a shot of panic raced through him; he stepped back, worried it might be a Griever. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about that time Ma got trashed because it was her first wedding anniversary without Dad. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe she knew that the disparities of the world had just quietly shown themselves to me for the first time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was like they were seeing her uncomfortable for the first time. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you add this bright pink bow to our snowman?” she had squeaked to Willy that first year. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: What went through your mind when you first heard about this crime? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first it feels weird, but then nice, even if I’m wrong, because it feels like I have a personal guardian looking out for my time. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the 1660s the Royal Society looked back to Bacon as the first to enunciate the principles of the new science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“He can talk,” said Emilia after the first shock had died away. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be embarrassing to sit in front when you find yourself dressed funny on the first day of school. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

At first I think it’s just Jean, back from the ladies’ room, trying to have some fun. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his first year of marriage was going horribly. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

This can be done in two ways: first, through physical exercise; second, by study. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was Galileo who first wrapped everything up in one package. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

For the first time in his life, Shin wasn’t expected to do any physical labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When my bride first looked upon me, her smile never wavered. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I scanned the room and hurried to the first empty seat I saw. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The first night I kept going, running when I could, crawling against every surface that offered a shadow. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And the first time Mrs. Caperdeen showed us a slide from his series Aspects of Negro Life, I knew the kind of art I wanted to start making. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova the first woman ever in space. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He would not, could not, recall a single thing from the program other than what he had uttered to Willow at the end of their first session: "Female lemurs are in charge of the troop." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

When America's first seven astronauts were announced, their confident, smiling faces appeared on television and on magazine covers. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I had loved that flag when I first came here,” he said. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I rolled the bar onto my shoulders and forced up the first rep. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The artillery captain broke first, and after that the exodus started. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then I shut my eyes and braced myself for the first stroke. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But why bring her inside this building first? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“That could happen immediately, but it might also take a few days, because this is the first execution in North Carolina in, well, in a while.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I had made it a rule to talk as little as possible at first. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He’s the one who told me the angel comes to the seventh step in the first place and you’d think he’d know why I’m sitting there. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was Amanda who first put her in touch with the priests. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This development was a huge bonus, with music of the eighteenth, seventeenth and sixteenth centuries first in line for resuscitation, followed by music from even earlier periods. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Things hardly ever work on the first try. We’ll make another, a better one.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You’re ruining your lungs with that thing” was the first remark out of her mouth besides a cough from a misdirected puff from my cigarette. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

When he’d called his sister after the first bomb went off, she hadn’t answered. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“When I first came here, it seemed like my husband and I sat here all the time watching the raindrops dance.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She clicked her tongue and checked their boarding cards, then she led him back up to the front of the plane, and pointed him to the empty seat in first class. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The first thing was, because I loved to read, people thought I was real smart, teachers especially. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the first few words, his voice grew steady, and he read the letter through without faltering. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Hanako had first gone back to school after cutting her hair, everyone had noticed—she could tell by the way they stared—but nobody said a word. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was this that had stained the pools Matt had noticed when he first arrived. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your first clients have arrived in the parlor. Tea has been served." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“The state must first prove Emmett Till was murdered. The only proof is that the boy is missing. There’s no evidence of criminal homicide. You can step down, Sheriff.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The first time I tried to walk through the dust, I sank into it up to my knees. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Because you were the first person I ever kissed. And that matters." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

‘Oh, Johnny,’ Miss Lavinia managed at last, for the first time calling him by name. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mitch: No. I asked my math teacher first period if we could wheel in a TV to watch it, but he said we had to review for the chapter test this week. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phil noticed what was happening first and nudged me to turn and look at Mr. Moss, who grunted. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“The same reason you kissed me in the first place.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She went down first, but her ankle twisted on the last step, sending her sprawling over the dirt floor. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’d pick you up first thing in the morning and drive you to your car. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“The first thing we will see will be the cavalry,” Piani said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And as the strike continued—the first day, the second day, the third day—there were worried phone calls and rumors that this could go on for months. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

FINN: I never really cared about visiting Dunston in the first place. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Scornfully watching the chaotic maneuvers, the Warlord would criticize first one then the other for the shortcomings of the creatures they represented. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The boat moved steadily and when the first edge of the sun rose it was on the old man’s right shoulder. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His words would take hold of me and lift me far away, to the sacred mountains and the hot jungles and the first conversations our ancestors had with the sun. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

After checking all their equipment, they were ready to leave earth orbit for the first time in history, and again the Saturn V put them on a perfect path for the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder at first, still drugged with sleep. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet no sooner had she taken her first step than fear caught Catelyn in its jaws. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene and I scrambled away from the breakfast table, practically tripping over each other to make it down the hallway first. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I go after him, walking quickly at first and then running, and when I get close enough I shove him in the back. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first opportunity to show what it could do was just around the corner. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“A family of rootworkers,” I said, proud to admit it for the first time. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The one in yellow took the winding stairs, the woman in green went to explore the rest of the first floor. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“The doctor will be in to see you shortly. But first I’m removing those bandages!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

In the first Friedmann model, space is just like this, but with three dimensions instead of two for the earth’s surface. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At our church anybody can come up on the first Sunday. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time I could see what Hari must have been like before he became so sick. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a test Alpha at Oak Ridge ran successfully for the first time on August 17, Groves approved the Alpha expansion to nine racetracks from five. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the first place, my parents are different religions, and all the children in our family are atheists. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He knocked first with his feet, by accident, and then with his knuckles. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I learned a lot in the first few days that I was enrolled in the class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Much had changed in him since the first day in the Ministry of Love, but the final, indispensable, healing change had never happened, until this moment. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The first batch came out pretty enough, but I realized I could’ve used a toothpick to swirl the colored batter a little so the finished cupcakes looked more tie-dyed. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

His father had said no but helped him set an alarm clock so he’d be the first to awaken. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was my first solo project as an artificer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He could not remember at first how large it was and he didn’t know if it was full. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” he confessed cheerfully, “this will be my first time, same as you. It should be interesting to see how I do up there.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A short brunette girl named Aspen Matthews is the first to be called onstage to shake hands with the Chief Director, who hands her a smooth wooden box containing her badge. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

My first round of grades at school turned out to be pretty good, and so did my second. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The ground was cool under my bare feet and suddenly, for the first time since we had crossed the border, I felt like I was back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Deb opens Kiki’s present first, and it’s a pretty shirt with tiny blue flowers. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The first few nudges didn’t wake him, so finally he just pushed at his father’s shoulder. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And that Saturday, the first Saturday in August, one month after his birthday, was the worst day of the year. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

For the ceremony I wore my first new gown in a year and Mother’s necklace, which I reclaimed from Hattie. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And for the first time I can recall, I had no dreams. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A first dub of the Zapruder film. One of a kind.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all three looked at Lancelot, and the old gentleman spoke first “Hum!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were discovering each other for the first time and there was no need for words. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dawn is close at hand, and we have reason to be content with our first night’s work. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“The first day you took me to the stadium, did Aunty Ifeoma ask you to?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But when I’d seen her earlier, when August and I had first come in, she didn’t look like she could be of service to anybody, bound up with all that chain around her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could pick him out, having learned to notice the subtle physical intensification, a kind of brightness, that signalizes the first phase of kemmer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

For the first few days, they thought they’d landed in heaven. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was a new kind of hush as folks took their first bites and savored the sweet fluffiness of it. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

At first I think I am still dreaming. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“They were the first six people to refuse Tehlu’s choice of the path, and he cursed them to wander the corners—” “Are you telling this story, Jacob Walker?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For this was one of those queer people whom he had noticed out of the corner of his eye when he first came into the room. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

All night they walked, and in the first dawn Kino searched the roadside for a covert to lie in during the day. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they were taught formal rules of evidence gathering, in order to avoid cases being dropped or stalled, as had happened with the first Osage investigation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I know all this happened to my mom a long time ago, but it feels like it's all happening to me, for the first time, right now. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He passed the bottle to the patriarch in his corner, and the old man smiled so sweetly that for the first time I could see he lacked front teeth. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with it appeared the Olmec, Mesoamerica’s first great civilization. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t doing so hot myself when we first set off.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered what Bod would learn, and was happy that he would learn it first. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He laughed, and it was the first time I realized how much it sounded like Mo's. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

If he didn’t know better, that is at first glance, he could have sworn that the thing resembled nothing more than an enormous quivering.... Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“This is Dr. Snydman, son,” the first doctor said to me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I clap Ben on the back, and for the first time all day, the three of us are looking not forward but at one another. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

My dad says that’s how the first human caught a fish, by watching what the birds did. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

"We are the first to visit Mars twice." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first written human stories were about fairies, suggesting that their civilization predated man’s own. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She had left the “scary, screechy” phase of violin playing shortly after that first year, and had even won a couple of violin competitions recently. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They were there, first thing in the morning. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

This time he lay on his stomach, head first. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Father Antonio took the first envelope with a sigh and sketched the sign of benediction with his hands, but Esteban had already turned to leave. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were due at the first of ten inaugural balls in less than an hour. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She and Dad had just brought me home from the hospital for the first time, and Auggie’s parents had just brought him home from the hospital for the first time, too. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The soccer games reminded me of the league matches I used to play in when my family first moved to the mining town of Mogbwemo. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Several days later, when Jack and everyone else in town first heard the rumble of tanks a few miles away, they dared hope it might be English tanks coming to defend them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A little more off the bag,” I call to Luis at first. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“If you thought your first imprisonment was unbearable, you have yet to feel true torment. Think on this until I return.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The first mate, she reads, struggled furiously with other monsters which were climbing up the sides of the Nautilus. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’ll say the first with all my heart, but how about the other? You don’t look as if you were having a good time. Are you?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no, Paula regained her composure, turned to look at Catherine first and then back at Mom. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The young ladies put it off at first; but their mother grew so restless, and said, ‘Jane, Jane,’ so many times, that at last they consented. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up, and the first drops of rain tapped against the robot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At first, he had been very close to Amanda because he had taken charge of her treatment and had seen her nearly every day. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she first arrived, she had stared wide-eyed at everything. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

If I can’t kill myself in this room, I will take the first opportunity outside of it to finish the job. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then he looked them in the eye—first Citra, then Rowan. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

This is the first I’ve heard Russ talk about outer space since we watched the space shuttle launch on my roof to mark his birthday. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wayne, a husky guy when I first met him, was even heavier early in high school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I’m doing the move, I can’t really see the low bar except through my legs, but at first I kept not looking for the low bar because it seemed so terrifyingly far away. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The first play, a sideline pass to Hill, went for four yards. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah? I think for being over here, y’all owe us some of that candy,” the first guy says, and I feel a tug on my backpack. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I stumbled over a stick that lay in the road and first cursed it, then picked it up. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She approached the little patch of air with passionate curiosity, because she hadn’t had time to look at the first one: she’d had to get away as quickly as possible. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first soldier exchanges looks with some of the others. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t manage to descend as far as she had the first time, and overshot the field. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The first player, the one with the large belly, nodded with vigor and rubbed his hands, ready for action. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

This is how Lally and me first come to meet Titid, with bloody noses and swollen eyes like now. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our first day in court we were not given the opportunity to instruct counsel. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sensing this, they had always called her by her first name. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her voice cracked when she first opened her mouth. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The whole reason we’re in Puerto Rico in the first place is to find my dad so we can fix our lives in Springfield. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

That world was discovered by the Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek when, in 1676, he was the first to see living creatures invisible to the naked eye. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For the first time, a smile appeared on Aisha s face, a smile that showed as much of her small teeth as her dark gums. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I felt alone and for some reason thought back to the Littles’; how lonely I felt at first when no one was around. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first shift started at four o’clock the next morning. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a very long time, I thanked God for a warm, comfortable bed in a nice, safe home. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They now drew lots for the watches, and the lot for the first watch fell to Gimli. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My first instinct would be to yell at them, quickly followed by punching them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was the first time she had undressed in private in several years. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once, there was a kid whose name I don’t know, who sat in the front—straight up like he was first chair clarinet or something. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was his first good luck No, he thought. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, the people who first domesticated wet-country crops of West Africa spoke languages ancestral to the modern Niger-Congo languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Today I ran my friend ten miles across her first finish line. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was his first encounter with the enemy and he didn’t know whether his company was running toward them or away. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“After that first lap, I was curious. You seemed really strong.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Oops. My bad. I mean that first Thursday in April then. Or whenever you first saw me. Maybe at the mosque. Whenever.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It was instinct to pull back, to let go before I felt him let go first, but he didn’t allow me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The first one or two thousand million years of the earth’s existence were too hot for the development of anything complicated. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Mrs. Diamant came back to the table and tossed the first paper down in triumph. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The first thing she was going to do on her return was kick Foaly straight in the hairy behind. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that bad, but it was the first thing I thought. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

To relieve the pain they prescribed this drug and that drug and another drug, because the first one didn’t work and the second one didn’t work, either. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

At first blush, it was anything but romantic. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At first she saw only his face, the familiar beloved face that she had for weeks now longed to see again. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard Mrs. Donnelly’s voice first: “Oh, honey, don’t feel bad. You know how he is.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The Mines Building was the first of the main exposition buildings to begin construction, but the work did not start until July 3, 1891, with less than sixteen months remaining until Dedication Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“The guy I punched, it was Adam—my ex Max’s best friend—and on my first day back, he played the sound of a baby crying on his phone.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Silently, I remind myself to look for the first chance to seize him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At first it was behind Claypole Ridge, and I could see only the top of it, the smallest smudge. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I leaned over the table and awaited the first lash. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Already the eastern horizon was paling and they would fall dead at the first appearance of the sun. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

This was the doubt that sat in my mind through student orientation, through my first sessions of high school biology and English, through my somewhat fumbling get-to-know-you conversations in the cafeteria with new friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The cab pulls up to the curb; Darius pays the driver and comes out first. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He smiled his big smile, and for the first time in my life I was glad to see him. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d slept in a chair that first night, and Fujiko had stayed awake pondering ways to extricate herself from this situation. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Luce also named the Mercury 13 publicly for the first time. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered watching the regimental commander my first year at Valley Forge with simultaneous fear and awe. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But all I can think is that, for the first time in a long, long time, I am being hugged by my mother and my father at the same time. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Especially since Rachel almost put out Lucy’s eye about who was going to get to ride it first. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At first a certain amount of patience was needed, but I soon found that matters went better when I was conducting several experiments simultaneously.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Miss Phelan, I lived in Atlanta. For six years with my first husband.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Two reasons were given, the first was that a “most material witness,” Hickock’s father, was at present too ill to testify. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for the first time in his life, another man’s name upset Gogol more than his own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first hint of it was Mr. Morton going around the schools teaching Christmas carols, but the first sure sign was the store windows. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the wild, bonobo infants spend the first five years of their lives virtually attached to their mothers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have to promise me,” a red-eyed Simmon said seriously, “That you will never play that song again without warning me first. Ever.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because of this, on the first day of High Mourning ten thousand demons were set loose on the city. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But first we have to be frank about a subject that we would all too often rather ignore. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They were battling for first and second place when Mario came through. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ever since the first grade, she had forced her teachers to make a special case of her. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I can barely stay awake,” Metias had told me after his first night shift. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It would have been wholly within character for Holmes to have first persuaded the “brother-in-law” to take out a life insurance policy with Holmes as beneficiary. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I, myself, felt vaguely like jumping up and shouting “AMEN!” but I figured it might be wise to find out what I would be “Amen”-ing about first. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They'll put me in Dauntless, at first, because I already have tattoos, and that would be hard to explain to the people inside the experiment. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“When I call out your name, you will put on the hat and sit on the stool,” she told the first years. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Who knew the first date of my life would be with my father? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Way more than half of the runners had gone by before we saw Danny limping past the first bend. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“No holding back or excuses. But stay. I will try first and see if I am man enough to bear my father’s arms.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You better come inside first and have something to eat. You can look for them later.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But what hit you first, Rat said, was the smell. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could have been on a dynamite diet but the first thing that came to mind was they got AIDS. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The first spotlighted game in the case was Howdy Doody’s TV Game. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“One lived a long time ago, and I read about her at the library. Her name was Melba, and she was the first woman to play trombone with men.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Old people shook their heads, recalling blizzards of their childhood, but it was impossible for Kit to visualize anything more bleak than this first winter of her experience. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a very determined look on his face—it’s like his eyebrows are trying to meet for the first time at the top of his nose. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s replaced the leather bags with the black shirt and brace of knives he was wearing the first time I met him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“But I want you to stay here,” said Mig, wiping first at her runny nose and then at her runny eyes. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Turner heard the first group coming back from the game. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn went first: with one hand she raised the boy even higher, his feet kicking in the air, and with the other she grabbed one of the roof bars and began to bend it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The school’s office was located at the top of the first flight. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I even won the very first Miss Newark Teen Pageant,” Mama says, cracking a weak smile. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Try eighty meters, Pfennig. Typically teams won’t know what band to search. But for tonight, our first field test, we’ll cheat a bit.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The crowds began to gather first thing in the morning. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He does not say what sort of ‘engines’ were employed, but Swift surely had in mind the first steam engines, which were generally used for raising water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Just last week, she had tried setting me up with Raizel Ackermann on the first floor, in a dinner that had exploded into a heated argument over anarchism. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m so wrapped up in the moment of him actually talking to me that at first I think he’s asking about Julia, because I had wondered the same thing. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I dialled his number and listened to his voice when he picked up, at first soft with sleep, and then louder, wary, worried, exasperated. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time I truly appreciate the expression, because the salt in the water makes the pain of my wounds so blinding I nearly black out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Not now, baby. We have to do some things first. Then we’ll go home.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was probably the first chance he had got to spiel these ideas out to somebody. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Learned that move for my first Miss Purdy Boots pageant. It’s got a real nice follow-up that goes something like this!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

For many years it had been the task of the first girl to go to the river for water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The first day he went to school and the first day he drilled with the Minute Men. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Old Bear was accustomed to rise at first light, so Jon had until dawn to put as many leagues as he could between him and the Wall ... if Sam Tarly did not betray him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Our first stop is the courthouse to file for the emergency protective order. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was the first thing I put in my new room. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The twins were examining Ralph curiously, as though they were seeing him for the first time. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A bunch of kids were studying and playing board games in the first floor common area. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Everybody thinks I might be the one who did the swastika just because I was the first person who saw it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

At first I’d thought we must be in heaven, but when I looked around, I realized we were still on the farm. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was in his eyes just the merest flicker of the look she had seen there on that first morning outside the Meeting House. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was Monday, the first week of November. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At first, Pinmei thought it was his hat, but as she blinked away more tears, she saw it was Amah’s special rabbit rice bowl. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The first dose was the strongest, wasn’t that what they’d said? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Pa, who had been sweet, became firm and said, “Ma. Not on their first day home.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

One late afternoon in the summer after her first year at USC— her junior year, given all her Cypress credits—she took Mitchell to the movies at the Cerritos mall. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When a company puts out its earnings, one of the first things it does is hand it to the wires—Reuters, Dow Jones, and Bloomberg—for distribution. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

This was the first definitive film stock collection of the life of Malcolm X and it traveled extensively throughout the nation’s university circuit as well as to civil rights and Afro-American nationalist events. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment we saw the headlights swing by the windows as he turned his truck around, shifted into first gear, and headed off to join the other volunteers to help put out the fire. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Yakov won the first two games, but when it came time to find the Lady at three-card monte, he uncovered a worthless heart. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The wet wool smells like first grade, walking to school on a cold morning with my milk money jangling in the tips of my mittens. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

And he’s always the first one up, if Mr. Ward gives him the chance. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had taken his first drink in fifth grade, and by the time he was a senior had built up quite a reputation for drinking. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most startling one was that the first letter of the first name of each person on Calder’s list was a pentomino. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just as fall Turns the air, And the first Leaves begin To parachute To the ground, The pomegranate Bursts a seam And the jewels Wink a red message. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first anatomist regularly to disagree with Galen on the basis of direct experience was Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, whose Anatomy was published in 1535, only a few years before Vesalius’s Fabric. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He'd had another name first, but it had died like a song with no one left to sing it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“He never had gold there when he was younger, because nobody left him anything. He would have seen the bank from the outside, though, the first time he ever went to Diagon Alley.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

During the first three decades after the Treaty of Paris was signed, allied Indigenous nations in the Ohio Country and the southern states were involved in several struggles to resist settler encroachment. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll need to get your talent approved by the first week of November.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

With Bobby, Fine wanted to first gain the boy’s trust and respect by playing chess, and then begin classical Freudian analysis, in tandem with the group process. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The first baseman fumbles off to chase the short stop’s bad throw. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was letting a first year take a nap on the couch inside. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This is preposterous!” declared Mrs. Chiltington, striding forward to the front of the viewer gallery on the first floor. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He pulled her into another room, even more beautiful than the first. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angel at first was stiff and almost trembling. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Agent Magnus steps out of the elevator first and I follow. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The faces looked so young to him: braces, acne, retainers, the very first bristles of a beard. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Yes, they could use someone; things get pretty hectic around the first of the month, right after the welfare checks go out; I can come back next week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time since meeting him, since hating him, I hear him laugh, too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I can’t tell at first how she feels about him, the way she leans back, away from his dripping tongue. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the first day of our strike, we were served our normal rations and refused to take them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the young people who founded those first co-ops, the word organic meant more than a method of farming. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Sorry to eat and run, but I’ve got to work at four and I need to do some stuff at home first.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Horned King turned with her, and as they crashed through the underbrush and past the first rows of trees, the antlered giant drew closer until both steeds galloped side by side. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

What might happen to it then was first understood only at the end of the 1920s. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben could tell if it was going to rain, when the first frost would come, tell whether there was going to be a long stretch of clear sunny days. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Neither did I,” said Nokomis, her voice pleased, “not at first.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

My voice cracked as I tried my best not to cry, because for the first time on the trip I was worried about one of us not making it back to Mamá. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Beginning, therefore, with the first of the above-mentioned qualities, I say that it would be good to be considered generous. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I first arrived in Mqhekezweni I was regarded by some of my peers as a yokel who was hopelessly unequipped to exist in the rarefied atmosphere of the Great Place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the first one reached the shore, it lumbered up through the dry sand, making directly for the priest. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was the first imperative of Minya’s binding: that the dead not harm the living. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My first glimpse of an uprising in District 8. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I went to Ellis Park on a Tuesday, the first day of the tournament. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to Nan, she was a born loner but always blessed with a plus-one, first my daddy and now me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The only downside is that in order to keep Dylan’s secret, I can’t tell Elsie how I got the spell book or how I learned to paint illusions in the first place. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Bonuses in 2004 bought the family their first ski trip, a week after Christmas in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I had a rotten night, of course, and was up before five and back on the trail at first light. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, look, here comes the first gator!” called out Clay’s friend with the red curly hair. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are letters to the editor from people all over Ireland claiming they heard the first cuckoo of the year and you can read between the lines that people are calling each other liars. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Alexandra said, “We first got wind of something wrong when they’d come to church and sit on opposite sides of the auditorium . Henry said, “They glared at each other for Sundays on end . Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

At first I stole a few moments out here, savoring them like forbidden delicacies. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“A book of fairy tales broke your nose,” she said, helpless not to smile at how wrong her first impression had been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When my mother first told me she was pregnant, she added, “At last! We really are going to fill this house up with children.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Because don’t you forget, Brady—it was your frickin’ idea in the first place!” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

At first he found a few trainers who wanted to help him get back on his feet. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom would first have to understand about Deb-and-Kiki and shrieking flutes and lunch tables. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Just as the ice lingered in October, so did the phlegm of December—which explained the enormous relief brought on by the first three days of 1941. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

By that first afternoon the soreness in my ribs was already lessening. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For the first day and a half after I arrived, Dad hovered over me like the Goodyear blimp over the Orange Bowl. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty miles away, in the town of Oranienburg, the first prisoners were being hauled into the Sachsen- hausen concentration camp. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The first sentence in the book did not seem to contain any. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The date wasn’t wrong, I just think that if the universe is setting us up here that our story deserves a more epic first date,” I say. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It intimidated me at first, until I realized what a nice guy he is. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

At first, she couldn’t identify it, but then it all came flooding back to her, perfectly clearly, as vivid as a picture in a book. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The next day, for the first time in years, Esteban Trueba retraced the steps that had led him from his mother’s house to the countryside. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a bad draw for our first match, but I knew Poland would fight to the very end. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to Thornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance with the place and its inmates. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She marched up to our porch and opened the screen door, then unlocked the front door, then swung it wide to allow Deputy Collins to walk in first, the rest of us behind him. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The valet’s tone held positive warmth and feeling for the first time. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one time it was discovered that she was writing letters to the Bishop, whom she claimed as a first cousin, but it was never said whether she received any reply. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Valentin knows a store where they speak Spanish. He will take me there. It probably sells dresses for girls, too. Get Concha to take you the day she registers our first letter to Mamá.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Following in the family tradition, Vesalius went first to the University of Louvain then, in 1533, enrolled to study medicine in Paris. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The first A is faded, as if it was inked years ago. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions—we can alter the way we thin-slice—by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The oldest, a child psychologist, had married the analyst she'd been seeing when her first marriage broke up, something of the sort. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I was supposed to have my first shift years ago. But it just hasn’t happened. And since I’m the last of my kind, there isn’t anyone I can ask for help.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And that business about getting up early to see the first show at Radio City Music Hall depressed me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The first three had overhead images being relayed in real time from different sectors of Iraq by Predator drones. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s first telescope had a usable magnification of 8x; by the beginning of 1610 he had managed to produce one that had a magnification of 3 ox and he had begun to explore the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Kasensero was one of the first places in the world where aids appeared. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were living in Rome the first year that Gogol and Moushumi were together, on a Guggenheim that Astrid had gotten. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maria Isabel wouldn’t be the first in her family to go to the United States and leave children behind. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Cara finished taping it back together late Friday afternoon, she left the first edition of The Landry News on the kitchen table and went to her bedroom. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, when Doctor Korczak first said, “Find the cow,” my belief was confirmed. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She chose to go left first, stepping over spill that had come loose from the walls. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All this he understood intuitively by the time of his first retirement in 1783. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She lifted the first lid on the funny old stove and stuffed in some of each. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The first name among the prominent sponsors listed in the program was “Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,” but Eleanor had decided that it was better not to attend. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Or the fact that I’m gay in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I don't know what I expected when Michah first described it to me, but it's both exactly like I pictured and nothing like it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Up they came until they reached the first foot hole Nhamo had carved into the tree trunk, before she made the ladder. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those watching looked shocked, like it was as awful for Camp to be brought home like a regular corpse as for him to of shot himself in the first place. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

At first, I didn't know what to make of it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

France, England, and other countries skirmished throughout the first half of the eighteenth century, and roughly a quarter century after Newton died, a full-scale war erupted. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At first, I stayed silent to protect Rosie—and there was no question she needed protecting, in those days elephant executions were not uncommon—but there was never any excuse for keeping it from Marlena. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Payday” was his first reaction, and for the first time I realized that, yes, it had happened on one of the alternate Wednesdays when we were paid. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muller was the person who first called my attention to the Heike crab as an example of artificial selection. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in his life, Bigwig had found himself driven to moderation and prudence. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time Esperanza had taken him there, Moss gave them props. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Below are a few hints for starting a song that will help students be successful right from the first note! Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He handed the boy the sword, hilt first, and walked over to Arya, but it was the Bull he spoke to. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I realized how exhausted he looked, that he must not have slept well for days. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The sign which you noticed upon entering is only the first of several innovations which I plan. Braah. I will change your mind about this firm, sir. Mark my word.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary was the first to see the attackers coming, though she didn’t know what they were. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first thing we needed was a drink of water. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weren’t they started after he left for the first time? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I felt desperate to use the chamber pot, but first I had to face the hideousness that awaited outside. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It’s like the first time I talked to her, the day my family first moved in. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, I told him how I got sent home from kindergarten the very first day for poking some boy with a pencil. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The first antique shop was called George Pines, out on a ring road, wedged between a betting shop and a liquor store. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“My first idea was to go to France.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, if this were one of those Hallmark movies, one of them would then say, “Izzy’s happiness comes first,” then they’d all wait till I was grown and gone before they all got hitched. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The first person to make explicit the idea of a large—indeed, an infinite—number of other worlds in orbit about other suns seems to have been Giordano Bruno. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's louder and higher-pitched than the others because military trucks get first priority. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They sat in silence on the hay bales smoking the first cigarette of the day. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Remember? She told us that first day at lunch.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

At first there was passion far beyond what the dour gossip of older women had led Clara to expect, but their relationship chilled rapidly. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Misjudging how far back he was sitting in the chair, his first attempt to rise failed and he slipped back, resting on his side. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first three—Yudhistira, Arjuna, and Bhima—were the sons of the god of death, the god of the heavens, and the god of the wind, respectively. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And why'd you start this whole war in the first place? The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then, he asked me about how I liked my first year of high school, and I told him, making sure that I included all the stories in which I “participated.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was going to fulfill Elena’s second command—but the first...that might lead her into trouble. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Francie heard, as if for the first time, the sound the desk drawer made when she opened it to get her purse. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once preparations were ready for the first Hearing Circle, notices were sent out and meetings were held in the basement of the public library. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

At first, she thought her eyes were tricking her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And at the first meet of the season, nobody knew this more than Ghost. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Below are some important strategies for teaching a song either for the first time, or even to review a song or help children analyze an old and familiar song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We meet back in the auditorium after lunch so Ms. Albright can remind us how awesome we are, and then we head backstage to put our costumes back on for the first scene. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When she first saw Ma, she did not recognize her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you change your mind about the popcorn—” “You’ll be the first to know,” I said. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He first had to turn himself slowly around the edge of the door, very carefully, of course, if he did not want to fall awkwardly on his back right at the entrance into the room. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as my first- term exams approached, even when we started to do class reviews, the words still made no sense. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

If I was the first at some of these things, I wanted to make sure that in the end I wasn’t the only—that others were coming up behind me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The seventh time we drove into the alley we heard sirens . . . real quiet at first, but then louder. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not for the first time, Alex felt very small and very young. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The first color to return was the simmering brown-red of the soil in her family’s plot. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At first I was puzzled and did not understand, and it was only when I bent my head to avoid the low swinging branch of a tree that I realised what had happened. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But as I lie on my side, reading the lyrics of the first song as it’s playing, I’m immediately pulled into Hamilton’s story. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

For the first time, Momma was the last person to leave. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Groves set a punishing pace for construction, demanding that the first racetrack be running by July 1, 1943, and all five by the end of the year. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At first the students thought he was a celebrity impersonator. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, why did you put it there in the first place, then?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, the second day of i960, both rooms were booked for 2:00 P.M.—the hour that four detectives from Kansas had selected for their first confrontation of Hickock and Smith. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, he thought that it was muscle fatigue from carrying all those injured people. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was glad now of the tiled bathroom that had caused her such confusion at first. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first of these acts of violence took place on May 8, 1919, in Charleston, South Carolina, after a fight between local blacks and sailors stationed at a nearby naval training station erupted. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

As the first lid opened, all constraint was gone. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

For his first thought had been to thank the heavens it was not his own father. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I remember when Morris brought you in for the first time,” he said, and took another drink of his coffee. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The room Elinor had given her was on the first floor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I dare not, Headmaster! If I join the table, we shall be thirteen! Nothing could be more unlucky! Never forget that when thirteen dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry for what happened. I should’ve talked to you first.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He’d been improving for a while, but he looked fully healthy for the first time. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered the first week she came back, the week that Odenigbo sprang up whenever she stirred. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, he was able to place both feet on the first rung and grasp the second one with his hands. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time since I stepped into the room, I felt mild enthusiasm. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And I don't even know my own grandparents' first names. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“If this child hadn’t resembled my first wife, I would still have accepted her,” announced the old nganga. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I’d feed them that first day, but then teach them so they could do if for themselves. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to my first lecture with a sense of excitement. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks, guys. But actually, Art3mis here found it first. Totally on her own. A month before I did.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At first, a moderate static rustles through the air. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The very first time I went, years before, my dad walked me through the entire paper-making process, starting with where the trees come in and are ground to pulp before being turned into paper. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The first few times I tried to walk, it was exhausting—like wading through a deep snowdrift. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"You would win, my lord. Lord Alester was indeed the first to bend the knee! Many others followed." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

No one else in the ’hood has graduated from college, why should they be the first to try? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I need to go back home first, to change clothes and come up with a story to tell Mama. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But he left at first light and roamed further afield than I did; the island being the same all over, I generally stayed within one area. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll show you the trick to it. You have to find the right kinda rock first. Small, flat ones.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was with Curt that she had first looked in the mirror and, with a flush of accomplishment, seen someone else. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My father was outraged by the Irgun act, but said nothing more about it after his first burst of anger. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

At first I think maybe she is passing through to get to the other side of this crowded store, but she sets her items down on the cash register counter. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“If it was closer to the front I could take you to a first medical post. But back here you’ve got to have papers.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She’d never been sure whether that curse had been broken when she had died the first time. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Borelli still saw a role for God in setting up the system in the first place—as the designer of the machine, if you like. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I'll just be putting it to the test for the first time. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took Shin to the big bare room where, in early April, he had first been interrogated. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The first time I came upon a Bible in the bedside table of a hotel room in Canada, I burst into tears. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You could be the first to officially use our new process.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I heard you the first ten times, crow. A man’d think there was no trust between us.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But the first time she went on furlough to Berkeley, she had nearly had a stroke. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His first impulse had been to get out at the next station, to be as physically far from her as possible. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

On his first payday, he came home and called us all into the living room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My first real lover called me Dulator because she liked the sound of it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Our Ford—or Our Freud, as, for some inscrutable reason, he chose to call himself whenever he spoke of psychological matters—Our Freud had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The first evil," the Old Man said, "is the Bashe snake. It lives underneath the Black Bridge. When a man or beast passes him, he swallows it whole." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But there are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

My subject is a whole library of texts that at first sight make no sense. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He pored over the manuscript pages, raptly the first time, then drawing out his red-ink ball-point pen he read through the chapter again, with the pen occasionally stabbing at something. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in months I felt reasonably safe. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, Dad would make sure I was out of bed by noon, but then he stopped arguing with me and let me do what I wanted. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know, at first, whether it was a joke or not. But my brother-in-law checked up on him.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mama didn’t work outside the house when I first arrived in New York, but that changed from time to time. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But of course Dad wants to talk first. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The first thing I did when I got to school the next morning was check the announcements board where the talent show roster would be posted. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“They have to get the airports open first, so it’ll take a while.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The first four bogies capsized into a depression alongside the track. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his first encounter with Matulovic, Bobby ignored the Yugoslav’s mischievous disregard of the rules and lost the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This would be her first time, and, she was pretty sure, his, too. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The visitors entered uncertainly as though they felt they were intruding, tiptoeing in with stares of meek apology, first the grieving mother and father, then the brother, a glowering heavy-set sailor with a deep chest. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She took off the first pointed lid she came to. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

When they first move into the house, the grounds have yet to be landscaped. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon was my first scheduled visit from Winnie since I had been sentenced. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our first guest got spooked and canceled on us after this most recent attack on the Bureau. But not to worry, I called in a favor, and do I ever have a treat for you.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The first person to pop up looks frazzled, but then the camera widens and you see why: She’s working hard at making something. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Nawsuh. You got me wrong. I ain’t never fooled around with them folks. Miss Dalton and Mr. Jan was the first ones I ever met, so help me God!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mother told us all about her lesson plans and complimented Judy on the job she’d done washing the windows before she got around to asking me about the first day of school. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘From this point on, we’re writing our own story, with a fresh start. And we just had our first kiss.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I had to tell her the whole truth right away—or first thing in the morning at the latest. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Tall, thin Terrence Roberts was a junior like me, and a friend since first grade. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As much as she hated to spend the money, on her first payday, Lyddie insisted on giving Betsy a full ten cents to help with Oliver’s rent. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I saw him for the first time, he looked like a monster with a bloody face, a swollen eye. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

For the first two years of the program, one in ten of these flight students was a woman. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Stanley's father pried it open in his workshop, and at first everyone gasped at the sparkling jewels. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The cloud caught up with them, and the first stout drops plopped on the ground out of the riven sky. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then it began to eat it, leaves first. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And for the first time in my life, I felt all alone. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Either he would have to fight immediately or else there would first be a chance to look round and sense where he was. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not for the first time I resented the part that I must play in her schemes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I hope you had an opportunity to live on your own first, but it’s quite possible you’d be the mother to teenagers by now. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had seen the footage, and it brought me back. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In my first year, I was not skilled enough to make any of the teams. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was another breakdancing battle happening that next weekend, not long after Ocean and I first started, officially, spending time together, and I was excited. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the early 1990s, just as the first cohort of children born after Roe v. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see your stomach first, even if Mom and Dad were afraid everyone else would. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

You can stand here in the girls’ room and practice saying that name ’til your tongue falls out, or the change bell rings, whichever comes first, and it still won’t ever be true. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

All of us went, but first Grandpa Tweedy and my daddy had to decide if it was all right to ride that train. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Ralph saw it first, and watched till the intentness of his gaze drew all eyes that way. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Garcia was the first to see us come back, and she started smiling her shiny smile as we walked in. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The first night, my hands were so blistered and sore, I couldn’t even spoon up my supper. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When we’d first gotten back to the house after finding May, August had met both policemen and then sent me and Rosaleen upstairs. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion had drunk himself blind his first night on the Shy Maid. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The explosion took out a whole legion of Kronos’s evil meanies as soon as the first harpy went flush. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The oil paintings my parents made on their first date because Pa wanted to wow Ma with an experience more memorable than just dinner. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo had insisted on installing it himself, at first, and each time she pressed it, there was a fire spark at the wall connection. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She said the birch-bark scrolls I used when I first came to the wilderness were too fragile for notes, but I still have them and they are as good as ever. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls quieted down first, followed reluctantly by the boys. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I see Abby, right there in front of me, blurry at first and then as clear as day. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

By Tuesday afternoon, the first loads of lumber were being delivered to the relief society. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny rode through the town gates, telling his business to the British sentries there, then went first to report to Paul Revere. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I had my first invitation to a party in Naomi. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hoving always makes a note of the first word that goes through his head when he sees something new, and he’ll never forget what that word was when he first saw the kouros. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Of course, I would never have succeeded with this scheme if I hadn't made that A in the first place. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

One might imagine that a criminal defendant, when brought before the judge—or when meeting with his attorney for the first time—would be told of the consequences of a guilty plea or conviction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You were great in the play yesterday. I know I acted surprised at first, but I’m really proud of you for being yourself. What did the kids at school say?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was bitterly cold and there was ice on the ground, as during the days when he had first possessed her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But for the first time in my life, I knew that there was nothing they could do to help me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re my first friend in Pennsylvania. We do that all the time in North Dakota, have our friends over for dinner. Don’t you do that here?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

That was when I first saw his animals. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first team to reach forty-five total points wins. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Even first graders on the first day of school don't do that. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Guiltily Ranofer broke into a run, but he entered the courtyard to find the morning weighing already over, and everyone scattering to the first tasks. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

As he walked he thought of ways to begin his letter, but he had already reached the store before the first sentence was clear in his mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Back when he first came, he had going this collection of potato chip bags. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

We sat huddled together on the ground inside the hut on that first night. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps at first he merely reinforced the outlines of such images with a charred stick from the fire, so that others, too, could see what he had found. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had two minutes of peace before yesterday returned: nothing can kill the pleasure of one’s first cigarette on a new morning. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Sekani gets there first, and it’s not my best moment, but I sling his scrawny butt back. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Well.. . Voldemort said that he only killed my mother because she tried to stop him from killing me. But why would he want to kill me in the first place?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

At first we weren’t sure if Charlotte was just reporting a rumour, but the more she told us, the clearer it became this was for real. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

That information, of course, was in the prosecution’s possession and control, which is why Armstrong filed a discovery motion in the first place. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At first glance this looked like a good bet, since I had left free in the center a large vacant area for the bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He had nightmares that he would take ten, twenty, or thirty jump shots in the first practice and not make a single one of them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were on a high, and first place in the district was at stake. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hot as it became he didn’t feel thirsty on half a gallon a day except for the first night. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says after you make up your mind and take the first step, most of the rest of ’em come pretty easy. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the first day after Christmas break, loud banging on our front door wakes me up. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It seems that at first the Jeep was following the truck up the mountain. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Let's grab that sofa first," says one of the guys. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That is what first officers are trained to do when they believe a captain is clearly in the wrong. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The baby's mother smiled and smiled, holding that baby as if it were the first wonder of the world. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Go to the first door and open it. When we’re inside, we’re going to the closet. There’s a passageway through there.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This, both of them realized, was their first initiation rite. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He was giggling with pleasure and could not get the words out at first. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Chester, when you first saw this body, did you recognize it? Was it Emmett Till?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He came first and after a few months sent for his family— me, Mameh, and my older brother, Sam. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found her upstairs lying on our bed, crying the tired, whimpering cry that follows the first wailings—mostly gasps and shudderings. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was playing his first coffeehouse gig the next night. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

At age thirty-nine he’d already invented the first technique for suturing blood vessels together, and had used it to perform the first coronary bypass and develop methods for transplanting organs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For instance, in the first race Achilles runs to the one-foot mark. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Sí, and I will get another dress. But first we will send more money to Mamá.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I will never forget how small the first step toward that change was. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When she slipped inside and pulled the door shut, she shuffled to the nearest pile of straw and plopped onto it as the first tears forced their way out of her eyes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The smell hit her at the first door. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The distinction between a first appearance on stage and subsequent appearances can also be marked by the use of names or indefinite nouns on the one hand and pronouns on the other. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I stopped in front of the first cabin on the left, cabin three. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

For his first three weeks on Alabama's death row, the horrific execution of John Evans was pretty much all he heard about. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I’d asked an honest question and they’d given me an honest answer in a long time. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Petey, both versions, got the first standing ovation of their life. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Good night,” Buttercup said quickly; ever since that day he had first come to her father’s farm, she had always been afraid whenever the Count came near. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Yolanda was so embarrassed that she tried to keep her readings a secret from her mother, but somehow the mother always found out about them and appeared, first row, center. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They broadcast baseball games, and Jackie Robinson is the hit of the day, the first black man in Major League Baseball. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike Dad and Henry, who as they got older and had families became less music performers than music connoisseurs, Kerry stayed single and stayed faithful to his first love: playing music. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That accidental discovery was the first of several developments that would allow two researchers from Spain and Sweden to discover that normal human cells have forty-six chromosomes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

What kind of kid does that on the first day of summer? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Of note: this isn’t the first time some knucklehead boys have interrupted our practice with their “toxically masculine tomfoolery,” as Britt-Marie puts it. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The volume’s first run sold out in days, a handsome edition with Elijah Lander’s name in gold leaf. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In the abbeys all the monks were illuminating the initial letters of their manuscripts with such a riot of invention that it was impossible to read the first page at all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he tried throwing it but that had no chance. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been living in Tarbean for nearly a month, and the day before I had tried my hand at stealing for the first time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The first time I dated her was when we were in the eighth grade. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first night I got here, tía Fermina gave me a small cloth bag full of paper worry dolls. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The program for Redwing included the first airborne drop of a thermonuclear device, which created an enormous fireball four miles in diameter when it detonated fifteen thousand feet over Bikini. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The first hint of the true situation came not from spectroscopic studies in the visible or near-infrared parts of the spectrum, but rather from the radio region. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always did math first, because it was my best subject. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

For the first time he understood some of the true power of the knife, and laid it very carefully on the rock in front of him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was spitting distance from the hole when the forklift came to a stop and the guy came around, reached up, and toppled the first box into the ground. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The words die in my throat as the carrier puts down the crate, and for the first time I see his face. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At first it was delicious to him, so that he ate greedily, but in a few seconds it began to be unsatisfactory. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swing up my bow and blow up the first pod with an explosive arrow, which kills the nest of flesh- eating rats inside. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

You put your feet in first, through a zipper in the back of the suit, and then bend over double. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure the knife would get us busted the first time we went through a metal detector. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Ethel looked at Cora for the first time, her drawn face framed by the hatch. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She pushed a button and held the phone to her ear, but she didn’t speak first. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And when Eril-Fane rose to his feet at the head of the table at their first shared meal, they’d waited with hushed expectancy for the information that was their due. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“The congregation will wonder what he was doing on the shore with her in the first place,” Mr. Stonecrop pointed out. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

A tune that moved from chord-base I to chord-base V in its first half would travel back from V to I in its second. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We rummaged around those shops, and in all honesty, after the first few minutes, I think Judy Bridgewater had more or less slipped from our minds. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am aware of prosthetic devices, but I think this is the first time I have seen them so close. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Inside it was the record of his first interview, which ran for some one hundred and fifty pages. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I tried to pull it open, but then I remembered changing the rules of the game. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first step would be to isolate the bouts in question: those fought on a tournament’s final day between a wrestler on the bubble and a wrestler who has already secured his eighth win. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It’s always been like that with them, ever since they first met at a charity event when Alex was fourteen. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Frodo himself, after the first shock, found that being his own master and the Mr. Baggins of Bag End was rather pleasant. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The first note says: “Relationship Time to Aloneness.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hardly spent any time there, as if he didn't even want the job in the first place. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When Jonathan first looked in, the boy, as if coming from sleep, lifted sudden, startled eyes, opening his mouth as if to speak, but then said nothing. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My friends wouldn’t have let me date a guy like him in the first place,” I tell her. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I got off to a rough start and lost a life before I even cleared the first boss. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I knew now the sign I had been given, my first night in this country. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

For Pelops’ winning the chariot race I have preferred Apollodorus, of the first or second century A.D., who gives the fullest account that has come down to us. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not beautiful, as Amaranta had never been, but on the other hand she was pleasant, uncomplicated, and she had the virtue of making a good impression on people from the first moment. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was six in the morning of my first day in Brooklyn. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I caught the first flight down after the news broke. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, the first formal ceremony of their lives centers around the consumption of solid food. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger tried to call off the dogs, and at first they obeyed him, or at least they let go of Mo, but then Basta succeeded in freeing himself. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He declined to give details, but assured them: “I will not be the first president of the United States to lose a war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But that spring, I got to feeling restless for the first time. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, this story is embarrassing so I’ll tell you a few things first. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The first to drop out had been the boys with impeccably creased trousers and freshly polished oxfords. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I realize now that that night I was seeing her for the first time, the secret strength of her. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Now the first thing you are likely to realize is that space is extremely well named and rather dismayingly uneventful. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The first night on the train I couldn’t sleep for my excitement; the third night, I couldn’t sleep for the smell and the din. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And while I stood there at the door, the first bull entered the clearing, right where Papa had one time shot a Comanche off his horse. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

This week his job was escorting a violent juvenile offender first from Minneapolis to Seattle, then to Ketchikan, Alaska, where they boarded a big silver floatplane to the Tlingit village of Drake. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And then the story started to spread: Harry Potter, the famous Harry Potter, their hero of two Quidditch matches, had lost them all those points, him and a couple of other stupid first years. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Perhaps 'Mursden' will ring a bell for you, as it did for me upon my first spotting it on the road atlas yesterday. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I flip a card, then you flip a card,” he explained, and waited for me to turn my first card. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We pulled up to Warren Kent Charter School, behind a line of other cars waiting to drop off at the big fenced-in yard where all the kids gathered by grade before the first bell. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was the first night since she’d come that it hadn’t rained. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is something more to this story than at first meets the eye. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

William Lombardy, who’d go on to win the World Junior Championship and enter the pantheon as a grandmaster, was six years older than Bobby and at first beat him most of the time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When they were on duty, they had to call each other by their ranks and surnames; off duty, they could use their first names—or even sweet or funny nicknames. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The coolness, at first so welcome, was beginning to get uncomfortable. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, “Last night was my first night in Opportunity Hall. And I couldn’t sleep at all. I feel horrible.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was the one who’d given her the message for the mayor on her very first day of work. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance I could see the first grey roofs of Kerrith, while to the right, in a hollow, lay the deep woods of Manderley and the sea beyond. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At first I find the videos on kitchens and bathrooms baffling, and it takes me several minutes to realize why: there is no water, or almost no water, involved. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time anyone had ever done that, and it made me bolder. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

So, for example, the child at the window whose account we read first—her fundamental lack of grasp of the situation is nicely caught. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Having made a special case of Ernest Lawrence in one of his first official acts as Berkeley’s president, Sproul was not about to skimp on his new star’s research budget. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to push it arid make the first move. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It began to dry the island, and toward noon, I heard the first cry of a bird. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scott snuck glances her way too, but where Mom’s eyes were filled with concern and confusion, Scott looked at George as if his sibling made sense to him for the first time. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

And then I go back to EleanorandViolet.com, search the archives till I get to the first post, and move forward through all of them until I’ve read every single one. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In my fantasy I was the first wife but I knew there was no guarantee of that; I might be hidden anywhere in the long chain of wives. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Like the first, they had no necks or bodies and wore helmets that vaguely resembled athletic gear. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was negotiating the cheese, trying to figure out how to take that first bite without burning the roof of her mouth, when the scythes arrived. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Tendai gritted his teeth as he waited for the first blow. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In this dispute the question of the relative merits of ancient and modern science was at first entirely secondary. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I just want to say first that Hudson and I are really, really over. We’re not even friends anymore. You know that, right?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In fact, a study by the Vera Institute found that during the first month after release from prison, people consistently were more preoccupied with finding work than anything else. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“But Jesus, man, if you hadn’t gotten yourself into this mess, neither of us would be here in the first place.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But for the first time he thinks of that moment not with terror, but with gratitude. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

While we did that, Father began to tell me about his life as a boy on our farm, his first years with Mother, and his first years over here in the demon land. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered his first meeting with Perry in the interrogation room at Police Headquarters in Las Vegas—the dwarfish boy- man seated in the metal chair, his small booted feet not quite brushing the floor. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, they wrote infrequent letters, but as cybercafes opened, cell phones spread, and Facebook flourished, they communicated more often. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was only the first of many chambers leading off under the earth. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Johnny got back with Mr. Lorne, Rab had Mr. Adams’s text in his hands, reading it as a printer reads, thinking first of spacing and capitals, not of the meaning. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard enough when we first moved to America. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

My parents will be the first to admit that a favorite Iranian pastime is to sit in judgment of others. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When they reached the mouth of the Simois, one of the rivers of Troy, the first man to leap ashore was Protesilaus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to give you this first,” he said, and opened the food container. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I could still fake it with all the guys, or try to, but hanging out with Jules made me feel for the first time since Vinny that I could do something right, something good. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Change out of my tux first, will you?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The first fields they encountered were covered with a mist of new leaves. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Miss Taylor’s loss which first brought grief. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

A stupid comment, but it was the first thing that came to his mind. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When we first met Abel, he smoked a lot of weed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Just like that first time, Bodega needed something from me and didn’t know how to ask. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was those first three lines that grabbed me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

That first day back in the classroom I take notes on everything Mrs. Margolis says. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The first shells came down in the trees beyond them. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I couldn’t even talk—I just sat there, dripping and panting like a tired old dog. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Which was why when I’d first spotted him watching me at the music studios at school two years ago, I’d been convinced he was making fun of me and I’d hidden from him. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the first note, Gilbreth children came dashing from all corners of the house and yard. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar — a cat reading a map. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And for Andrecito, who still calls me Mama, even at age four, I take a photo from his first birthday party, cake smeared everywhere. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uri had found us by our first morning inside the wall. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He stopped and quietly asked, "Do you know, Mrs. Olinski, how Julian first invited The Souls to tea?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first butterfly lady wears white gloves as she puts the injured one in a box, saying, “At least its wings aren’t torn.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I was born in this hospital,” he said quietly, “The day before yesterday was the first time I’d been in it since I was born.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When the war first started and Germans burned down buildings, we hated them for it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he disclosed the details of a prearranged meeting between the leaders of the first two teams of saboteurs. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

But the policeman urged me to go first, and indeed as soon as I was in the hall, the crowd surged forward and overcame the cordon of policemen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere out in Winterfell, a second wolf began to howl in chorus with the first. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“The first adventure which I suffered—indeed it wasna far from being the single one—fell at the Castle of Maidens. It were best not tell of yon, before the Queen.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years later, Joshua Colemans granddaughters would recall their grandfather saying that from their first meeting, he had a premonition that Jimmy Goble would not live a long life. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you’re small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you’re wrong.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up another thorn and used it to poke and prod at the first one. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel dizzy. You go on. It’s the first door on the left.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“And it doesn’t stop short at little girls. So never mind the empty threats, just start reading. Now. At once. And I want to hear something out of that book first!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Warm rooms and warm suppers beckoned them, and as they hurried away, leaving the cold square to the two gray cats, the miraculous autumn departed too; the year’s first snow began to fall. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when, several weeks later, I happened to see it next to her bed unread except for the first few pages, I was furious and suddenly wanted to cry. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Out of all those times, I was scared just twice: the first time and the third. I’ve been handling it ever since, right?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman spat on the ground and looked at the interpreter first and then at the redhead, a long pitying look. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She became the first girl in our class to really need a bra. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

They headed into the houses first thing, carrying rolls of carpet, stacks of drywall, cans of paint. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The men look first at me and then at August, whose gaze is steely. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As they went out, Francie wondered whether everyone in line would tell about his first pay. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lewis Isbel, a black barber who claimed to have shaved the city’s first mayor and President Abraham Lincoln, talked about his work with pride. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He did this every spring religiously, when the wild geese left him, and every autumn, when be saw the first returning gaggle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got another single from our left fielder, Mattie, and the score was 3—2 with a runner on first and second. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I would just have to redouble my efforts so I could take first position when I claimed that empty seat in my old classroom. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Always precisely at midnight, at the moment the grandfather clock in the foyer begins to chime, the first plates are placed on the table. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The words were the same on the hundredth reading as they'd been on the first, when Sansa had discovered die folded sheet of parchment beneath her pillow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Centaurs and men made war for this, but the drunkard first brought hurt upon himself. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He bought it with his first big check. Wore it all the time.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Since we had never retrieved the car—or any of our stuff—from the failed Grand Canyon expedition, the first thing Mom needed was a set of wheels. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lassa fever was first observed in 1969 in Nigeria, where it causes a fatal illness so contagious that Nigerian hospitals have been closed down if even a single case appears. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tried the eraser, but it wouldn’t even wipe out the first toe. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The others waited for her to say something first. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half the Negroes from those programs end up a shambler their first month on the job. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Now it was time for the first test with passengers, and the weather could not have been better. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It must have been apples the first time I saw her, though, because I’ve always thought of her as the Apple Lady. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Their first child was sent away into a lonely life. I suppose it makes sense that they decided to send their second child to something better, maybe.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dad seemed to notice the record player for the first time. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached the end of the refrain before Aloine’s first stanza. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not only was her mother willing to name her Temptress in the first place, but she wasn’t smart enough to know what that word even meant. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Now that I'm back in contact with NASA, I have to go back to being all "safety first." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she had been his first love and five years later when he got back from his voyage, he thought about her again. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hollister looked at them again as if he hadn’t fully seen them the first time. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t know whether to be angry at the people laughing at me or flattered by the fact that he chose me first. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But the first night the hamster made so much noise running around in his wheel that I had to move him down to the basement. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It took just one day for the first of them to come.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the second little bird was so far from the first that Miyax knew they were out of the nest and impossible to catch. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reaches the first step before Byrd says, “The plan is we spend more time together.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

On the first of June, airplanes flyover the city, extremely high, crawling through the stratus clouds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I did not want him to know how afraid I had been when I first saw him coming. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was still being kept separately as I was a convicted prisoner, and these sessions were my first opportunity to talk with my colleagues. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We the jury find the defendant, Richard Eugene Hickock, guilty of murder in the first degree, and the punishment is death.’” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a vidcap of their first attempt to open the gate.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dear Joana stood alone on the first page, a title without a story. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The Space Age began when the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, in 1957. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Students who are already familiar with notation and basic musical definitions can skip the first sections and begin with this introduction to the physical basis of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She pointed to Nyame’s circlet, and at first I didn’t notice anything unusual. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Attention, everyone! We’re about to do the first outdoor shot, where the victors greet each other at the beginning of their marvelous trip. All right, Katniss, big smile, you’re very excited, right?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the same room she’d been in that other, much happier day—her first day as a messenger. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

You know when a person has a unique feature on their face, it’s always the first thing you see. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At first it was grey, then faintly yellow, then golden, and the floor of the woods was rust-coloured, where the dead leaves lay. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Sure, but that’s not what I meant. Do you remember how big and scary the car seemed to be die first time you were behind the wheel?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill has been very sentimental lately because he can feel his first year of teaching coming to an end. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mine used to say Jennica, but I changed it after the first month. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He remembered the cheers of the Sons of the Six all around him, whooping and tossing their spears high as the first hints of true, unfiltered sunlight began to dapple the ground before them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The flare caught her like a hurricane, spinning the pod at first until the fins caught. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

For the first time in her life Helvi had a pet. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Colonel," he said, "please do us the favor of not being the first to sign." One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I thought I was imagining it at first. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The first witness called by the prosecutor that day was the county sheriff, Art Moran. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once my eyes adjusted, the first thing I noticed were the skeletons. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of the first week of our stay my father received word that the witch doctor would now receive him. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked like spiral doughnuts and tasted great - just the right combination of crispy, sugary and buttery - but when Nico first heard fartura he knew Percy would have made a joke out of the name. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This isn’t the first time my cystic fibrosis has taken me out of the running for some class trip or sunny vacation or school event. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you’re one of those. Second place is the first loser, right?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He and Bessie settled in San Antonio, where the first of their two sons was born. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I made straight A's for the first twelve weeks. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

"His was the first familiar face I had seen in a very long time," Powers recalled. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Egypt,” he says in a clipped voice, and it’s the first word I’ve heard him say that he sounds happy with. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

This is one of the first photographs ever made of Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were just at the top of the stairs fixing to go down again, when the first cop stopped quick and I looked to see what he was looking at. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A complete, consistent, unified theory is only the first step: our goal is a complete understanding of the events around us, and of our own existence. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have some debts to pay off first.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But this one really irked her, and it wasn’t the texting and driving piece, at least not first and foremost. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Pots and pans were everywhere — don’t ask me how I had somehow not noticed this on my way downstairs the first time — and Jeffrey was stirring some pretend concoction in the deepest pot of all. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She screamed at first when he put his hand on her shoulders and began pulling her gently into his arms. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it’s on the ground run like hell,” I said to the batter who had just come onto first base, and he nodded at me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

For the first time all day, Boy21 is looking into my eyes, and maybe it’s me who’s crazy, but it’s like he’s trying to communicate with me, sending messages through our pupils. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry pulled his booklist out of his pocket and consulted it for the first time. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mother answered so promptly that it seemed that she had given this more thought than was apparent at first. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first thought was that I must be dead, but then I began to wonder whether he was real or not. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first fifteen miles the road climbs through a desert landscape almost devoid of settlement and prone to fog. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But first,” he said, “may I tell you about Muhammad?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Old Kingdom forms the first major division after that, ending about 2155 B.C. with the overthrow of the Sixth Dynasty. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Leon seldom called a student by his first name. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that where the killer straps the girl to a dentist’s chair and uses a drill on her, but first he says, ‘Now, this might sting a little. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Clippinger swore at us at first, calling us fools; and, when he saw that this booted him nothing, grew fearful as the boat dipped lower in the current. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He looked at the pieces of gun on the table and realized that it was the first time he didn’t want to touch it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I did not want a lecture about how I needed to concentrate on my own life first. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

During the first of his three years in prison, Perry had observed Willie-Jay from a distance, with interest but with apprehension; if one wished to be thought a tough specimen, intimacy with Willie-Jay seemed unwise. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I finally really push for the first time, something inside me clicks. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

For as the wind first filled their sail, both had felt a heavy foreboding, cold as that winter wind. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Ash must be losing his edge, picking you first.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Then here,” said the first, “upon the couch?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But he always worried about the first essential step: the making of the team. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was beyond anyone’s wildest imagination to think I could win the biggest international meet of the season, especially my first time, so Mom felt safe shaking on our deal. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For the first time, the fact that Seth was going to die fully entered her mind. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Don’t know. Maddy told us all to go different ways. Since I was flying solo, I went all the way around the greenbelt first to get them off track.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

The Queen looked at Con with a trace of regret on her face, and for the first time that day, the glamour she wore cracked. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I glanced up and saw the screaming horde of first graders rushing down the aisle to sit in the front rows. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not my first patrol and not a particularly risky one. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals. from the moment of conception until death. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And many students, having studied first the book and then the Playboy interview, wanted to hear in person this so-called “fiery Black Muslim.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys didn’t know who to hug first or what to say. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It is the first time he has touched her bare skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We kept it secret and at first she understood—even said it was romantic and star-crossed. Yeah. Star-crossed. Then one day she said, ‘Let’s make a statement. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Scheherazade lives at the end of the thousand and first night. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Hey, do you remember what the first rule of punk is?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“So, today,” Ms. Rochambeau starts off, “you’ll have just ten more minutes in your table groups to prepare your arguments, and then we’ll get to our first mock debate.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He made me so mad at first that I wanted to kill him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“No. Last night was our first ‘date,’ if that’s what you mean.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The first day, five coyotes had followed him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a lot at first, but Todd put five slices away in as many minutes. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

For the first time since she had been taken from her mother, the girl Hel smiled, with half a mouth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The first boy that I hit yells like a baby. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time we both understand each other without even exchanging a single word. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At first Belknap declined this offer as well, but feeling perhaps that he had been overly rude in avoiding the roof, he relented. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t cry, but I am in a position to realize, for the first time in many years, that the tear ducts are still there and still capable of doing their job. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to point at other men, conveniently dead, starting with the ones who first scooped up mud from riverbanks to catch the scent of a source. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the first occasion they were lucky enough to find and kill a sick owl that had eaten a mouse that had eaten poison-dressed seed corn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, they had won, so on the blackboard in the shell house the next day he finally listed the sophomore boat as the first varsity boat for the first time. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Then the poisoner didn’t know Slughorn very well,” said Hermione, speaking for the first time in hours and sounding as though she had a bad head cold. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

After that, for the first time in his life, Billy Ray started wondering about the Lord, whom he’d previously always considered a kind of stern Santa Claus. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time Crazy Joe tried to kill himself over Henrietta, he ran circles around her in the middle of winter while she was on her way home from school. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Finnick’s real charms of self-effacing humor and an easygoing nature are on display for the first time. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps it gets easier after the first time. Number ten, getting lost.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

These were the first magic items my avatar had ever possessed, and they made me feel unstoppable. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When the first trolley stopped, she shouted at the conductor, “Downtown?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

That fall, they started the first school for colored children near Marshall. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, at the seminar at which they announced their discovery, I remember that they called the first four sources to be found LGM 1—4, LGM standing for “Little Green Men.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are so many things we should discuss, but I have a feeling your visit will be brief. So, first things first.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Two nights before the first communion, Father Antonio Isabel closeted himself with him in the sacristy to hear his confession with the help of a dictionary of sins. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain, for the first time, raised his voice. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bond bigger than any crown pulses through the five of us, and, for the first time since the start of this pageant, I know it’s me who has the upper hand. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Papa asked, speaking Igbo for the first time. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Which can be tough, deciding what to open first. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The French coast was bombarded with 5,500 tons of bombs during the night, and then, at six in the morning, the first landing craft came ashore. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I think I’m actually as disappointed as she is. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When did Wasden first get the sense that his son was something special? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

On May 6, 1961, he had traveled to the University of Georgia to deliver one of his first major talks as attorney general. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I almost couldn’t. At first I thought you were a shadow or something. But you look like you did in my dream. You sort of came into focus.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The first day the weather lifted a little, a chopper came in with a priest. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first few days after she left, I felt numb, non-feeling. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Really, it was simple: The first thing was that I hated being a lawyer. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The first time I ever met him, he was teasing the Coopers' dog, Lady. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before lying down, I grabbed my leather- bound journal off the nightstand and turned to the first blank page I could find. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The adult-size mask slid off George's face when the first jolt of electricity struck his body. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“This is the first thing that ever happened here,” said a ghost boy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Pigs, was his first thought, but after a second sniff he changed his mind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, after this first real encounter, I totally get what Jupe was saying about how Rae Chin makes her want to “not be so guarded.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“The first order of business is getting to know one another.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had ever known that to happen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the Christmas Eve when Francie was ten and Neeley nine, Mama consented to let them go down and have their first try for a tree. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only this: Despite what I said, I knew you were the warrior from the first moment I spied you,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Nah, you planted that ball. Your first baseman would be lucky to catch a cold by himself. No offense.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was the first time Immie had used the word love. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I read through the afternoon and into the evening, developing for the first time a vocabulary for the uneasiness I’d felt since childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

That was the first wild chimpanzee infant that I ever saw close up, nearly four years after I had begun my research. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He knew exactly who had once read her those stories, for he had recognized her face the instant he first saw her in Capricorn’s house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was at a Thanksgiving time that Francie told her first organized lie, was found out and determined to become a writer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn’t gambling, he’s cheating. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the results on the first page had to do with the cartoon character. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There he was selected to be one of the first Rhodes scholars at Oxford. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It don’t come out the first tug, or the second. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won’t feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the first chat of pleasure he was silent; and then, in a graver tone, began with, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I waited, leaving it to her to make the first move. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, Bobby was a little reserved with him, but as they talked—for about seven hours—he warmed up. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing I hear when the elevator doors open is a very familiar voice. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be the first time she ignored the rules and followed her heart. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

If they come again, could use some rest first. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, soon after receiving Ferris’s congratulatory telegram, Rice cabled back that in fact the first car already had been hung. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Their first target was a Cherokee town of about two hundred homes and two thousand people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time anybody white had ever called me Miss. They cared what I thought. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes, I am, darling. The hairdresser asked me if this was our first. I lied and said no, we had two boys and two girls.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

The first time the sight of the island cemetery had saved them. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rage came first and then a coldness, a possession; noncommittal eyes and a pleased smile and no voice at all, only a whisper. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I first became interested in flying when I was about nine years old. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But always her mother went first, gliding and smiling, enclosed in salvations glow. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In April 1850, the organizers of the first Ohio Women’s Convention, in Salem, invited Stanton to speak. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was the first time in her life that she aspired to fail. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The first log was a log of ash wood. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Harry became aware that this was the first time that he had been alone with her since those stolen hours in secluded corners of the Hogwarts grounds. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I watched as the first group of players passed through the opening at the far end of the bleachers, heading toward their cars. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at her again, as if he were seeing her for the first time. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They were always very polite at first, and it amused them very much that I should be an American. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And not just any college—a historically black college, one of the first in this country. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His first thought at seeing her was that she was there to gloat over his arrest. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s Ben’s first date. This is an Instagram moment.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Holton was the first to untangle herself from the crying party when her two children saw what was going on and commenced bawling too. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He led the way to the first shelter, which still stood, though battered. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The first was a powerful feeling of pride: I had actually done what I’d set out to do. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I took the book off the shelf and opened it to the first page. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

For instance, who decided that the first number of one’s genetic index would be Caucasoid? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

During the first week of school, I was in the locker room, changing into my gym shorts, when Julius Olsen tucked his hands into his armpits and started flapping his arms like wings. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

His eyes looked odd and unfocused, and at first I thought he did not know who I was, he stared at me so hard. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In his first e-mail to her—a cybercafe had just opened in Nsukka—he gave her a list of books. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you know someone else with the first name Thomas? Or someone else with the last name Schell?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As Dill was about to ask Lydia what she had first period, he heard laughter off to the left. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

We started up the road and then went across a meadow and found a path that crossed the fields and went toward the woods on the slope of the first hill. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The first is the genome of the DNA in chromosomes, the genome of the famous human genome project, which proclaimed its success with great fanfare in 2000. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He put another bite of cereal in his mouth, definitely not looking at the rubbish bin, where he had stuffed the plastic bag full of leaves he’d swept up this morning first thing. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Felicia first notices her second husband-to-be when he pedals by her furiously on a clunky Russian bicycle, his hair vertical as a sail. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be able to hide out, if there is danger at first?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first I wasn’t certain who it was, but once I recognized him, I began shaking my head. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When I look over my shoulder, I see Jamie watching me with the same adoring smile he has from the first time I met him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At first glance, the soil seemed similar to what one would find in, say, the grain belts of North America or Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On our first practice run we couldn't even get out of the harbor without shaming ourselves in front of the entire boating community. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I’d stood in front of a boy this way. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The first head, as white as snow, breathed out air. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined Ravi would greet me first and with a tease. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Katherine, oh the other hand, like the engineers around her, got into the habit of reading newspapers and magazines for the first few minutes of the day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She could not remember who first told her that those furious hoofbeats meant the patrollers were going past, in pursuit of a runaway. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In books and movies they say, “Let’s talk about you,” or, “Tell me all about yourself”—but that is when they first meet, and seems trite anyway. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But when you see me, the first thing you notice is my body. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Since this was the first night, a sort of cordiality reigned. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want the good news or the bad news first?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then he looked the sheriff in the eye for the first time. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Throughout the first few scoldings, Tree-ear had braced himself, ready for the pummeling that would surely follow, like those he had endured when caught raiding a rubbish heap. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Her own ward had been redesignated as an overflow to acute surgical, but the definitions meant nothing at first. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Both Sloan and Zuckerman were intensely interested in chess, Bobby, and women—interests that Bobby resoundingly shared in the first two cases and peripherally in the third. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to understand—you’re the first person to ever know me in more than one body. I’m not used to this. I don’t know how you’re going to react.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Fourth cook, I knew, was just a glorified name for dishwasher, but it wouldn’t be my first time, and just as long as I traveled where I wanted, it didn’t make any difference to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lists off every person in the room, but I lose track after the first few names. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was the last as well as the first time she was ever to leave Medallion. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the first half of the nineteenth century, owners of whaling ships amassed fortunes from oil and built the still well-preserved Federalist and Greek Revival mansions on upper Main Street. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon, nearly evening, and for the first time for months, it seemed to Malcolm, he could see a sunset. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

My mind had not only snapped during the first killing, it had also stopped making remorseful records, or so it seemed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“The first human to set foot on the moon.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to turn the volume down on my Lobot ears, but I got confused and turned them louder at first, which kind of shocked me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Only two of those cases mentioned the people those cells came from: the first, in 1976, involved ownership of an important human-fetal-cell line. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Twig hesitated, and for the first time that night—maybe even the first time ever—I saw uncertainty in her eyes. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Later, when lots were being drawn to see who had which turn at watch, Denna and I drew the first two shifts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Ten-hup,” he bellowed to his children as the first cataclysmic strains of the Marine Corps hymn reverberated through the upstairs rooms. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. I’m sure I can keep us in first place.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“I like how you’ve changed them. I noticed at first you just had pictures of things around the Cape. I like the people here much better.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The first officers to respond had been working undercover, thus the “hippie” clothes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My first indication that something was wrong was that Granny became terribly still, then she pushed me violendy from her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see much of the first picture because I was too conscious of her sitting next to me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were, in fact, in the fifth boat, the lowest rung on the ladder and the last place in which anyone would expect to see serious contenders for next spring’s first varsity rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The first night I burned half of the wood and slept curled against the mountain. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why not just use the verb that spawned the zombie in the first place, like appear or perform? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

That first day, Kaztauskis walked to the entrance of one of the meatpacking plants, joining a crowd of about two hundred hungry-looking men standing outside for the morning “shape-up.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘As you can see, our home is quite clean, quite safe for a child,” Mrs. Sen had said at their first meeting. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“If you make haste, you may wash and eat first.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it is their first time in the city,” Dr. Tamba replied, and busied himself putting away our documents. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

By seven o’clock the first thin flakes were falling. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I pledged my love to her every day we hung out together after that first day too, and I meant it more each time. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first is, he was in the funeral business. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Was the house built on top of it first, trapping it underneath? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” Ranofer answered, realizing for the first time that he had no idea of how to proceed. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

This one felt different right from the first. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“So, something just happened,” Ms. Albright says, slowly, “and I wanted to talk to you guys about it first. I think you have a right to know.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Operation Gold had been blown before the first shovel of soil had been removed from "Harvey's Hole." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The first time Bloom witnessed this melee was also the last time. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembers that when he and Moushumi were first dating they’d spent an entire afternoon, in a bar, drawing a plan of the ideal house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He worked very quietly—first the tray—then get out the glasses without breaking any. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those first few minutes, he made it brutally clear that he hated Wilson, he hated English, and he hated me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I remember when I first went to sea being astonished that the men who sailed over the world and touched the ports to the strange and exotic had little contact with that world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it had been from the first her great mistake—to meet him, to marry him, to love him as she so bitterly had. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

While at first he had seemed a little wary, he had lapsed back into a self-satisfied smirk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I liked the move because for the first time I didn’t have to share a room with Jim, who never made any pretense of liking me or wanting me around. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In that moment, all Aru knew was that Mini was her first true friend in a long time...and she would not—could not—lose her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They’d fight with myriad virtual heavy weaponry across elaborate virtual terrain, seeing which team could get fifty kills first. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"I am not going back to Castle Black a failure on my first ranging. We will find these men." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Jinny wasn’t sure what to do at first, but then she had an idea. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The first lie I told was about the lost compass that wasn’t really lost. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me a tiny smile, so small I wasn’t even sure I saw it at first, but it was there. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My preferred date would be 1564, the very next year, which saw the first published catalogue of the Frankfurt book fair. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But her first glimpse of them told her more than she wanted to know; these soldiers had no dæmons. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first she tried to get it in the normal way, through marriage, but that didn’t work, as I think you’ve heard. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile that boy who is my cousin by first communion or something asks me to dance and I can’t. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might have been the first time she ever said those words in that order in her life. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

That was the way I passed the first year in Georgia: waiting all day for Lynn to come home and then playing with Lynn until bedtime. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And he couldn’t seem to catch his breath at first, or stop coughing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When simple plants colonized the land and the first creatures crawled gasping from the sea, the Appalachians were there to greet them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The first warning I should have listened to was when Daddy Cool and Joey followed the arrow to the left and I went to the right. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After our first evening meal, Chou and I are told to gather around the bonfire for nightly lessons. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or since her first day on the bus, when he'd ordered her to sit down. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Luke ran into the dark night, a strange sense of peace filling his body for the first time in years. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

On the first day of our Ten-Foot Tower Contest, Big Rose was first into my city room. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Although there were five people in it, waiting for the King, perhaps the first thing which a modern visitor would have noticed would have been the room itself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first few days after the alleged theft, he seemed not to understand the trouble he was in, and our chirpy little conversations had continued. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I returned to first and saw our player who had been on third and who was now halfway to home plate turn sharply and start a panicky race back. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, Rodney says, “I did. I was the first one to board the plane. Just as I gave my boarding pass to the agent, I reminded Mr. Dimming that you were missing.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

On the night of the transaction, they leashed a stand-in timber wolf for Black Wing, first dyeing its left hind foot snow white, to look like Black Wing’s. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I realize we have a problem. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They made their way down the corridor, Leo going first with the fire. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was starving, so I lifted the lid off the first bowl. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I says he’s not the first fellow that’ll have to do things he doesn’t want to. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t too well himself after his first mild stroke, and Lelia and I, despite our discord, were mutually grateful that the woman had been taking good care of him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pattie remembered the note that Willow had written the first day she met her social worker at the nail salon. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

For the first time, Shackleton began to voice his doubts about the future of the expedition. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Meggers’s message of limitation, published within a year of the first Earth Day, resonated in the ears of readers newly converted to the ecological movement. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes. At first, that’s all it was, didn’t expect anything to come of it. But then last semester, we started talking more and spending more time together, and it like...evolved.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was on a TV there that I saw that the first building had fallen. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first stairway consisted of about nine steps, a sharp turn, and then seven more steps to the landing of the second floor. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Along with Cassius, I really was more worried about how his brother Rudolph was going to do, fighting his first pro fight in the preliminaries. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, I kinda wanted my first jersey and shorts to be the ones I ran my first race in. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Not only was the first woman in space, but two space capsules were in orbit at the same time. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was Wilkins who had first excited me about X- ray work on DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“We have completed your American family tree. Let’s meet your first American ancestors!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

For the first day at sea, they didn’t speak to each other. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was the first stillborn baby to be buried in that cemetery. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know what to make of this unconventional teenager any more than we had on the first day of school. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Now,” said Mr. Elliot, his voice far away at first, then closer. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

So it was that Sticky stepped in front of Reynie and said, “May I go first, Mr. Curtain? I’ve been looking forward to this ever since my last session.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

At first Lefty forgot short-term things like where’d he put down his fountain pen or his glasses, and then he forgot what day it was, what month, and finally what year. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It took a long time to get the work done, that first day, because I had to stop and look at everything until I could understand what it was. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It tipped downwards in earthy showers, back into the trench in the Abbey grounds whence it had first come. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Ben grabbed for a history book Mary Anne was taking to her first afternoon class. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way, Sophie Mol learned to recognize the first whiff of the approaching stench of unprocessed rubber and to clamp her nostrils shut until long after the truck carrying it had driven past. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went over the first line many times until I memorized it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody talked about it, but by the end of the first day Salva had become the leader of a group of about fifteen hundred boys. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three emergencies, actually: first, Lawrence recognized that he must spend more “in order that this giant new machine may really be safe.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He had let his love, a tender maiden, come alone to a place full of danger, and not been there first to protect her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while they felt faintly the sense of stifling which they had noticed when they first ventured into Fangorn, but it soon passed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Into the calm lake of our lives the first stone has been tossed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We packed all our worldly belongings into Nan’s old hatchback on Thursday and were on the road first thing Friday morning. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Robin, looking over his shoulder, saw Geoffrey Atte-Water, the same lad he had first seen limping through the corridors of St. Mark’s. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Booth and Herold spurred their horses, riding southeast to their first safe house a few miles away. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought that over and added, “Never mind. Your brother always come first. But you must guard very well. If you cannot, I will carry both.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At first it seems arbitrary, then I see a pattern, like an intricate maze, appearing in the moonlight on Beetee’s side. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He arrived in Vienna with a sore head and a foul temper—and quarreled with the botany examiner on the first day of the three-day test. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

At first light, he got up and quietly scrubbed away the mud Jen had tracked in and up the stairs. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“When we’re little, one of the first things we learn is the alphabet. Those twenty-six letters make up the millions of words we use, and those words can form anything we want, including poems.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

At first, the evening news puzzled her, a litany of fires and shootings, because she was used to NTA news, where self-important army officers cut ribbons or gave speeches. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He'd need to make sure he was ready, and to put his best foot forward, first and foremost, he needed to not smell like a...forward foot. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Silly and I chose to be the deer first; David and Daniel would hunt us with their water guns. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the people who attended her first diversity talk, at a small company in Ohio, wore sneakers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The first stars were appearing in the fading light of the sunset. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For it was as though I were looking at my own legs for the first time—independent objects that could of their own volition lead me to safety or danger. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I should go down first and get a rope from camp—” As I was in midsentence, Andy abruptly turned away and moved over the lip of the ice slope, leaving me sitting there dumbfounded. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“So let’s get stinky! But first you are going to pick up every single one of those cards.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He remembers lamplit hours in Monsieur Hebrard’s bookshop listening to the first radio he ever heard. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The first stop I made was at a Turkish bath. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is like it is the first time in weeks that my brain truly has been able to rest from trying to remember. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Wait. Let me go in first. Drive down the street some, then walk back. You know which window is my room?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time I’m aware of being thankful for clean, cool water. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

After all, it was the first time either one of us had a chance to return the invitations we had gotten. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Good gracious!” cried Maria, after a few minutes’ silence, “it seems but a day or two since we first came! and yet how many things have happened!” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z