“Percy first,” said Mrs. Weasley, looking nervously at the clock overhead, which showed they had only five minutes to disappear casually through the barrier. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The foundry that had made the statue had gone out of business five years ago, so good luck getting a replacement globe for Atlas. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Grandfather and I were riding along with five fever orphans who were being sent to the orphan house. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forty- five million Americans would tune in to witness the ultimate success or failure of MR-3. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then I boarded a plane and took myself five thousand miles away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With the twenty-five cents apiece that Dad gave Mary Alice and me, we could each buy five Nehis during our week, if we could slip off from Grandma long enough to get our allowances spent. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I abandoned it for five years and didn't pick it up again until I met Bas, when I transformed it into a scrapbook. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

For the next five years, Blake schemed a way to escape the high walls and drab food of "the Scrubs," as it was called by the inmates. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Years ago—almost five hundred—she made a promise to her guardian, Zosimos, that she never would. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Uncle says our cellar is safe. He says if it has lasted for five hundred years, it will last a few more nights.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Except when you had to spend five million in thirty days. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Had she been born five hundred years sooner, Raphael would have chosen her as a model for his cherubs. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Gobble-obble-obble- obble, they shrieked, even though they weighed five times as much as a hawk and could have stomped it into the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house--just as if it were five years ago. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Four, five years pass since we come to live at Titid’s. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked on his Coo speech until it was time to go, first making an outline, then putting his key points on three-by- five cards. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She had given birth at the zoo to two young ones, strapping males five and eight years old that were her—and our—pride. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was like a dignified, unpainted mime, and I was almost five before I realized that anything was wrong with him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The S.O.E. picked five of the best men for a special mission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly where Nico di Angelo had been standing was a potted plant about five feet tall, with drooping green leaves, tufts of silk, and half a dozen ripe yellow ears of corn. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When there were no futons and no duvets, the price of an ice cream cone was five cents. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At five my mother and I reached the superintendent’s office on First Avenue and found a throng of black men, women and children waiting on line. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew of one chair that had brought five hundred dollars. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was five years old when we drove into town, passing block after block of colonial-style brick homes with tidy lawns and manicured gardens. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A million years ago, when I was about five, I got sick in the wintertime. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“In this heat it’ll dry in five minutes,” she said, and grabbed her purse and keys and walked out with us. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But when I turn around, I see Tonesha with five other girls approaching the bus stop. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It would have been better if Aziz never dared hope anything in those long five years. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She had not missed her moment—it was five minutes to midnight. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve put away five dollars for every article. It’s up to thirty-five dollars now.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Kyro timed me at the track the other day, and I ran a seventy-one five. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Make a mark, say, five and a half inches from one end, dividing the foot into two unequal parts. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The policeman spent the afternoon watching baseball on television, but both Florida teams got creamed—the Devil Rays lost by five, the Marlins hy seven. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most have five strands and come in two colors. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only after five solid years of failure that he began to worry. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, at five- thirty-five, I hear this guy screaming out, ‘X-Ray! X-Ray!’ like some kind of maniac. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

During my five weeks in the United States, I spent a lot of time on planes and waiting around in airports, where the image of Americans as hard workers was clearly up for grabs. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I once scaled a four-story building in less than five seconds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Five sheep. How much blood do you think is in five sheep?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Meyers took out his programme and pointed to the number five with his pencil. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The Lost City of Towers. They found it in the desert five, ten years ago, I do not remember exactly. Were you with the expedition that excavated it?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He next spent five weeks tramping about the modest hills of Snowdonia and the English Lake District to learn what he thought he needed to know about climbing. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

His memoir had flopped, about five hundred copies sold from a printing of three thousand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was five feet ten inches tall, and her skin was the same as mine, darker than Mother's and lighter than Papa's. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Was it over four thousand five hundred and seventeen miles? ’Cause that would be the length of a round trip to Bakersfield from Columbus and back.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It had quickly become obvious that they wouldn’t be able to maintain over five hundred different blockades or fend off the massive influx of gunters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Michael gives me a high five and he’s smiling so much that I feel like a good friend again. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a few tresde tables and four or five old armchairs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just five and a half years of hard living. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Lady Whent had held the castle as bannerman to House Tully, but she'd used only the lower thirds of two of the five towers, and let the rest go to ruin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Ashwinder fives for only an hour and during that time seeks a dark and secluded spot in which to lay its eggs, after which it will collapse into dust. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s almost nine in the morning, but I’ve been up crying since five. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At any rate I wasn’t in the bathroom every five minutes. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb detonated moments later, killing more than 70,000 Japanese people in the explosion and the resulting firestorms, which obliterated an area nearly five miles wide. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And Amanda Wilkinson, whose face was always pinched up like she was smelling something real bad; and Sweetie Pie Thomas, who was only five years old and still mostly a baby. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I never had more than five minutes’ peace unbroken. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson was horrified and furious when he saw the assignments—lane one: Germany; lane two: Italy; lane three: Switzerland; lane four: Hungary; lane five: Great Britain; and lane six: the United States of America. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"Ares 3 was a failure, but we can salvage something from it. We're funded for five Ares missions. I think we can get Congress to fund a sixth." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had less than five minutes to get up to the fire. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There were seven of us in the group: five boys and two girls, not including the Elders. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The Pritchards were a large family that lived upriver about five miles. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s more than two! There’s one, two, three, four, five!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

At five in the morning, I go to my parents’ room. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a confession to make,” Citra said five minutes into the meal. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we would wait at Dr. James’s office for five hours or until seven p.m., after dark, while the white people often went inside for their treatment when they arrived. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Now—after just five minutes—the place looked more like a crazy house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But of course four or five thousand people had seen the transformation and the affair could not possibly be hushed up. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It had already been a long day, but it was only five o’clock when we pulled into their driveway in Jamestown. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Many people in the area who give are from small towns where roughly one in five youngsters has left for the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At five forty-five, a black thing streaks out in front of me and I feel a thunk. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I let you carry things when you were five years old.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to do your homework plus the five hundred times.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

These five factors help explain the limited success of experimental science in a medieval context. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He fished in his pocket and drew out a handful of coins, from which he gave her five gold dollars. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The lot was visible from where we stood, with only five small tables and a green awning in our way. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His mum didn’t look great, looked even worse after five days in hospital, but she was still hopeful about the new medicine she was being given. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Carefully, Tanin gathered up the five letters, shuffling them into place between her hands, and approached the mirror. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

For the rest of arts and crafts, I make five. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Work on them weeds a whole hour, and when five o’clock comes, I start back toward the shed. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was seven, Amá found out I hadn’t showered for five days, so she dunked me in a scalding hot tub and scrubbed me with a brush until my skin ached. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She give me a kiss and five dollars. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

While chomping on an apple, I looked down at the snail and drew a large circle around and around until I made the circuit five times with my pen. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“The guy who sends the Christmas cards every year with five bucks for me and Charlie?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She held an envelope containing five dollars—her first week’s pay. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The five friends had several classes together at Hazelwood High School. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It’s four ninety-five for the first five minutes.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“In my top ten favorite bands, maybe even top five.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The officers of the other five planes in each flight arrived in trucks for the general briefing that took place thirty minutes later. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t be able to smoke them out—her five remaining matches had perished at the same time as the kudu meat—but perhaps she could use a long stick to fish out the honey. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a five wrapped up in a one!” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

There we were, all five of us standing around a car with the temperature about a million degrees below zero and each and every one of us crying! “ ’top! ’top!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he did, he started these undertaking parlors all over the country that you could get members of your family buried for about five bucks apiece. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of barking, ‘Time up!” he would say, “Mrs. Mandela, you have five more minutes.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben was five feet ten inches tall and weighed 165 pounds; his father was six feet four inches tall and weighed 220 pounds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freezing rain, the kind that would have been snow if it had been five degrees colder. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She had become a teacher, and she taught five- to six-year-old children at a nearby school. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, about twenty minutes after five, she shows up. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Rounding the corner they saw before them a low cliff, some five fathoms high, with a broken and jagged top. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I had a strong will and tough leg muscles, but in less than five minutes I needed my fingertips to steady myself. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

American children at that age can count only to fifteen, and most don’t reach forty until they’re five. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Shoot, you can buy a bottle of the worst whiskey for five dollars. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

At five minutes to ten, I heard a voice at the drive-in ordering a burger and fries. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The sphere was constructed from five concentric rings, each inscribed with zodiac symbols—the bull, the scorpion, et cetera—and seemingly random numbers and letters. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Since parties went all night, you might need five or six DJs to keep the dancing going. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

So I began to complete every quest I could find, sometimes jumping five or six levels in one day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Cumberland Plateau is a wild and mountainous region of flat-topped ridges, mountain walls five hundred to a thousand feet high, and narrow valleys, some wide enough only for a one-lane road and a creek. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Five feet five inches tall,” the man replied. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next came my shirt, swatting it out of the tight ball it had been in for the previous five days, the wrinkles deep and seemingly permanent. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her hair in dookie braids, maybe five or six of them sprouting every which way like antennae. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Here are the top five names among high-end and low-end families, in order of their relative disparity with the other category. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re the same person you were five minutes ago and four months ago and eighteen years ago! This doesn’t change anything about you.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Nixon’s limo pulled to the curb about five minutes later. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That means Snow has had Peeta in his clutches for five, maybe six weeks. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I saw my child sick for five days. When that child doesn’t die, then you tell God, ‘Thank you.’” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Jane Fairfax’s perception seemed to accompany his; her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The orange message lights were blinking on his telephones—all five of them. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“We’re not going to play this weekend. You play the weekend after—you will have been together one week. So five years against one week.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"Five capitals and five smalls. After five days I'll know them all. Except on the last day I'll have to do twelve. Six capitals and six smalls." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Man, if I had five dollars, I could pay down on a suit. Five dollars is almost half a week’s wages for me.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the smell rose up with it, of about five months’ worth of flushes for our whole family. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

At first she tried to draw a picture on the front, wasting five or six precious sheets of paper in the attempt. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

That she didn’t respect him for being thirty- five and still a student. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The group collected signatures of five thousand women who did not want the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the whistle blows at half five men in caps and overalls swarm through the gate, their faces and hands black from the work. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As part of their expedition in 1990, Rob Hall and Gary Ball spearheaded an effort that removed five tons of garbage from Base Camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly five o’clock, and the construction site looked deserted. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At five o’clock the whistles from the mills blew for the first shift. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When Astelle came back five or ten or fifteen minutes later, she stood in front of me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Someone moved towards the opening in the fence, and the other five followed so quickly that it was almost as if nobody much wanted to be the last one out into the alley. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Large numbers of malignant tumors are discovered clinically in children under the age of five, but it is an even grimmer fact that significant numbers of such growths are present at or before birth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We were lucky to get four or five customers a day. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s classroom has chalkboards with rows of five horizontal white lines painted across the black. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It was by the large window in the centre that I had stood five minutes before. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The five rabbits hopped slowly along the planks, their great, sensitive ears full of the sound of the falling water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dreamed I was flying with Maddie, in the five minutes or however short a time it was when there was a lull next door and I actually fell asleep. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She wanted everything—all seven rooms and their myriad tasks—done in five days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After all, it happened more than five billion miles ago. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I went to the outdoor pump and worked at it hard for about five minutes but still no water. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly one in every five injuries is to the head or neck. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He failed the first time, Apparated five miles south of where he meant to, right on top of some poor old dear doing her shopping, remember?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Paul had to remind me that we had to leave a little before five o’clock. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It took Mini a full five minutes before she could say another word. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But when news of the events at Bree came to Tom’s ears, he sent them to Mr. Butterbur, who thus got five good beasts at a very fair price. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was tall, six foot five at least, and seemed too large for the suit he wore; a large portion of each shirt cuff showed; the coat bunched at the armpits. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had to sit out five games for the cleat violation. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“She picked my favorite. Not that I don’t mention that fact in the book at least five times.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

All the news was terrible, and when Kathy saw the picture of the family of five she was ready to turn it off. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

By the end of the 1800s, only a quarter of the indentures sailed back to India after their five years were over. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was only five years old and already he’d known two wars in his short life. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He edges through the compartments, his duffel bag heavy with books for his Renaissance architecture class, for which he has to write a paper over the next five days. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Plutarch’s attempt to cheer me up — laced with the news of another four, possibly five, murders—somehow backfires. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was an incredible mystery to Bernabe why people did not go off their rockers every five minutes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I stare at the screen of my phone for five minutes straight, smiling harder than I ever have in my life. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“You will leave tomorrow, so go up and pack your things. Pack for five days.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Three, four or five times a day there’s bound to be someone waiting outside the bathroom door, hopping impatiently from one foot to another, trying to hold it in and barely managing. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He pointed at a group of five marks. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That question, one of the most important problems of prehistory, will be the subject of the next five chapters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The five men were lined up in front of us on the training ground with their hands tied. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They rode now more swiftly, and by midnight the Fords were nearly five leagues behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

By late spring, construction was well along on five Alpha racetracks, two Betas, and a host of outbuildings for chemical processing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We do this once a month, take in about five hundred dollars on a good weekend. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In his first week on the trail, he managed just five miles a day, but he persevered, and by August, when he reached his home state, he was up to a dozen miles a day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And what if I tell you I’ve changed my mind, and I want six instead of five?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

If I’d had the money, I could have raised five hundred dollars or more, and he’d have had to call me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We visited the Aphrodite cabin, which of course got a five out of five. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Before he woke again five thousand new trees had climbed up into the yellow sun. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be months before Rush truly regained his strength, but within five days he was back on his feet and valiantly seeing patients in his home. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She tied a string to the back of the chair, knotting it five times, and held the ball in her spare hand. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Each person is made of five elements, she told me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It continued to rain heavily, but they eventually found a huge tatajuba, a type of rubber tree, that was five feet in diameter around the base. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Consequently, we need to think of science as being the result of an evolutionary process where good science has had, over the last five centuries, a better prospect of survival than bad science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But only 17 percent of those who had entered in the mid-1990s made the switch within five years, according to a separate study. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You too smart fer me. Yes, suh,” he says, looking busy as hell, putting five or six little packages into the wagon. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waited there for five minutes until the door opened again. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I whisper back, “It’s not like we live in L.A. or even Cincinnati. It took me, like, five minutes to get here. Nice house, by the way.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

While San Franciscans were reading his obituary in several papers, the decidedly undead Neves rode like a man possessed, finishing second or third on all five of his mounts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ever think it should be two days of school followed by five days off? That’s obviously the best schedule for learning.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And yes, these are all the scents that, until five minutes ago, made up the Fragrance of Possibility but now reek of crushed dreams. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Tonight at five: What would you do if your teammate was tragically injured on the way home from a meet?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Only difference was now the sound was timesed by five and was added to a bunch of whimpers and the hard sucking in of air. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

His naked body was found in a river near Rochester five days later. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

A voice echoed through the train: “We will be reaching Hogwarts in five minutes’ time. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I fall asleep, but I’m pretty sure that in the last five minutes her long-lost kids all come in and she finds her will to live. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A cross-country journey was a harrowing ordeal, five days of clanging, rocking, and bumping in a confined space. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could have spent that five bucks and stayed drunk for another day or two. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

But they are unprepared, and Beetee, apparently anticipating he would not hold on to control, has an arsenal of five- to ten-second clips to work with. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Tyson said with mock excitement, raising his hand for a high five. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He held the position, without quivering a muscle, for nearly five minutes as the photographers scurried around him, cameras grinding, shooting him from every angle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within five minutes I ran into a dusty haze kicked up by the troops, and I realized that they must be just ahead of me. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he is in his teens, Enrique is small, just shy of five feet, even when he straightens up from a slight stoop. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

College is not for, like, five years, Dad. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His conjecture that the orbits of the planets are circumscribed by the five platonic solids were no more supported by Tycho’s data than by Copernicus’. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Typically, they cover five to fifteen acres, but some encompass seven hundred or more. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Betcha five bucks he takes a dump on me, too,” I said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“There really were only five men,” I say, tho the word army is echoing round my Noise. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She wanted us to have more than five choices. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He could just as easily have said twenty minutes, and now that he was alone, assaulted by what city people regard as raucous silence, he wished he had said five minutes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been five blackouts in a row during the week. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was exactly forty-three blocks by five blocks away from my hotel. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It only takes a few weeks of work over a year to raise five hundred acres of industrial corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Drawn to words in any language, she took four years of German and five years of Latin. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mr. Brown smiled the same smile he had been used to use when he docked Tristran a morning's wages for five minutes' lateness. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Odessa High received the ball on the kickoff, gained five yards in three plays, and punted again. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day’s first class would be starting in five minutes, but I didn’t want to move. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I had not held my wife in five months or seen her smile with joy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father died one afternoon while Ishmael was in the newsroom at the Seattle Times banging away with his five fingers at a typewriter. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The guard took it inside and in about five minutes he came back. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine I’d been shoving that ice cream dish under her nose for five or six weeks before somehow it began to sink in that she wasn’t like the rest. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest girl reminded me that she was five now, which she said was too old to have a toy taken away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were shouts, and four, then five, men in camouflage were running across the grounds towards us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another trainer, Luther, told us he once stepped up to a fellow officer whom he had seen give an inmate five and then walk down the hallway, arms over shoulders, with him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first five minutes, nobody says a word while we open milk cartons, apply heaping amounts of ketchup to our plates, and take our first bites. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I hold up my hand for a high five. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

My cousin Matthew was shot five times in the head by a Mexican gang on February 8, 1996. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Just hearing her answer, so comfortably and honestly, caused yet another of my chronic blood-and-attention-migration episodes, and I nearly jerked my hand skyward for another high five with Seanie, but controlled the urge. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I saw four of my five rounds hit. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think nothing of it till about five minutes later when he pointed at some gigantic poplar trees and said, “Is that one n’em bald-head eagles?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She holds her hand up for a high five without saying a word. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mack, with a piece of chalk, drew five oblongs on the floor, each seven feet long and four feet wide, and in each square he wrote a name. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only five rooms in the house, and the bathroom just barely counted. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Every kid who wanted to audition got five minutes onstage. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“This little cylinder holds death for five people in it,” he explained dramatically. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were each given five dollars and a train ticket. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

And five yards away kneels this woman with varnished fingernails and hairless calves—a woman so entirely removed from Werner’s previous experience that it is as if she is from a different planet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’m tall, he’s short; I’m skinny, he used to be muscular, though most of it turned to fat after high school; I can count to five without using my fingers...Charlie has fingers. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He gave me a surprised look, smiled, and said: “I’ll tell you what. Get a new ribbon for it from the storage room and give me five bucks.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Civilian supervision was vested in an Atomic Energy Commission comprising five presidential appointees. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Roughly five minutes before she draped herself all over you,” he says. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to ruin your road trip—but for five hundred American dollars a week, I will.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Remember what I said: five minutes. Keep your ears open. If you hear my voice at all, don’t move. Don’t make a sound. Don’t come out. I’ll open the door when it’s safe. Got it?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Fern was five when we had come down for the funerals. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

On days four and five I began to think about drinking a lot. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For five minutes, the assassin and the servant argued about whether Powell would leave the medicine with Bell. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to leave for work at five.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

After five minutes, the man in black stopped dead. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Why the devil do I see these things five seconds after it’s all over? Mike, we’ve wasted hours.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

You might think this wouldn’t matter at five in die morning, but you would be wrong. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They had marched more than twenty miles again; it was now a hundred miles in five days. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every five minutes she glanced at the clock. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five Golden Tickets have been printed on golden paper, and these five Golden Tickets have been hidden underneath the ordinary wrapping paper of five ordinary candy bars. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The android autonomic nervous system isn’t as flexible at cutting in and out as ours. But as you say, this wouldn’t work for more than five or six seconds.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

"There were only five on mine. I guess I was a little late in the season." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She and I were worried about the same thing: What would Mom do when she saw my father on the five o’clock news? Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And how she found two of the five witnesses that were given immunity, suggesting, if not proving, that the act was committed by a scythe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I was five and my mother tried to hide it from me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was almost twice as tall as a normal man and at least five times as wide. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When he had five birds in one hand, I held open the door to the chicken crate and he stuffed them in. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But if I multiply five by one and then add in the three, I get eight. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She could be five years older than I—but then, she grew rapidly like a weed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m not one of those fishermen that changes lures and checks their bait every five minutes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer stared at Shin for about five minutes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

That means he bets five nickels to your one. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I had gulped down five Cokes in a row. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I breathe loudly and count to five, and then I say, “Patrice, I’m so sorry!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But five dollars was a lot of money. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I paused it after five seconds because I had all these questions for Mom. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even know him. I met him for five minutes. Why am I still thinking about him?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

By 1886 he and Margaret were the parents of five children: two daughters and three sons, the last, a boy named Daniel, born in February. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Stephen, I don’t know what’s come over you. Put the beer back. Anyway, what happened to that five dollars I gave you?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And so it was home to one runway and about five hundred bored American servicemen, mostly marines. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Once started, he went on and on—boomingly. “. . . five hundred and sixty thousand square Kilometers, divided into four distinct Sub-Reservations, each surrounded by a high-tension wire fence.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In further tests, Bell and Tainter were able to detect a lead bullet up to five inches away from the coils. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The train turns; our shoulders bump each other like another high five. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Just five yards more and he would have launched himself over the edge and down to the rocks below. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But Cletus and Ob were as enthralled as cats in front of a fish tank, so I just kept them happy by cooking five turkey TV dinners in a row and refilling their RC’s. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If it wasn’t for your stubborn insistence that we go back to Afghanistan five years ago, we wouldn’t be in this mess right now! ” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Today in the United States there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations composed of nearly three million people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since Jean de Satigny had begun to visit them, the boredom of the countryside, where after five o’clock in the afternoon there was nothing left to do, had become less oppressive. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Puglisi laughed and waved to me, his hand going from five fingers to one. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She felt like she could eat five more boxes of rice, and yet somehow it felt perfect, a perfect moment. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But now those five that weathered it got off to southward, taken by wind and current on to Egypt; and there Menelaos stayed. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t seem to matter that all he did was brag about his part-time job with his cousin, who had been in the country for five years. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The dining-room table was set for five; there were eggs, bacon, toast, jam, butter, milk, apples . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow it had the ability to slip through the slush of five o’clock noises to reach its targets. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew only that it was impossible to count them, and that this was somehow due to the mysterious identity between five and four. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, dear. I’m not that old, son! Billy died, let me see. He died about four or five years ago, I think. One of the first, I’m afraid. Can it be that long already?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“The two digits of every nine times table add together to equal nine. See? Fifty-four is five and four, and added they make nine.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Dad is one of five kids, so there are still lots more relatives out there. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sell mostly to other vendors, collecting twelve ounces of rice for five sweet cakes or ten cookies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The group met for over five months in formal meetings, and there was much correspondence and phone exchanges between them as they began lobbying the Icelandic government to consider Fischer’s case. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At five o'clock Otis Amber skipped out of the rooming house, hopped on his bicycle, and returned to Sunset Towers empty- handed. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has five different colors of nail polish and all kinds of surgical-looking instruments. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“First thing we’ll need is some sticks about five feet long. Take your ax, go over in that canebrake, and get us six of them.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The five boats that survived pulled back from shore to the President Adams for another load. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood and watched five others die, one in the mouth of a dragon, the others thrown off into the black tarn, sinking and vanishing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than five minutes later, a commotion erupted from the picnic tables. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

At five thirty, the Union artillery opens fire on the grassy hill from just four hundred yards away. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some even wore more than five gold watches on one wrist. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At the age of five, she accidentally set herself on fire, resulting in severe burns over her chest, stomach, and back. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Days three, four, and five passed in exactly the same way. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leroy’s at the plant until five and I’m feeling too heavy for my time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He had set the alarm for half past five, and then, after some more thought, moved it forward to five o'clock. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Nearly seventy-five Lithuanians and only five Soviets, yet no one dared move. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He stretched out his right hand and gave me five as I dropped onto the couch opposite him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

After five minutes, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross moved to the tunnel, leaned down, and examined the darkness. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s a sweetheart; he may get mad at me, but it never lasts longer than five minutes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For example, the classical music of India recognizes twenty-two different possible pitches within an octave; each raga uses five, six, or seven of these possible pitches. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It takes me about five seconds to realize I'll never fall asleep. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We were already a good four, five hours into Fang’s tomorrow, and I didn’t know if he was dead or alive, if he was home lying in bed or swinging from a rope. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

At five thirty, Dad parallel parks in the space in front of our house and goes into the backseat for his briefcase. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Between five o’clock and ten fifteen, what was I doing? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent five days in a hospital and the world around seemed sharpened now and pulsing with life. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

An additional five million people serve in the army reserve for much of their adult lives. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“So I scrubbed steps,” Marian recalled, “and I would get five or ten cents, or whatever. I did steps for four or five dif-ferent people.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“I was going to give orders that all cars should stand by for five a.m.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

"I could swim when I was five. Daddy taught me. He's a commander in the Navy. When he gets leave hell come and rescue us. What's your father?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Small bundle’s five dollars, big bundle’s ten. Cut you a deal on the whole rest of what I got if you’re interested.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There they took all the Jewish men in the village, some five hundred, to a meadow near the forest, machine-gunned them down, and buried them in a mass grave. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

This time, it took Jake less than five minutes to complete the complex series of equations and find his vectors. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Newt moved away from Thomas’s side and toward Alby—but five or six Grievers had already burst to life and attacked the boy in a blur of metal and skin. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Callers arrive at Western Biological to see Doc, and he crosses the street to Lee Chong’s for five quarts of beer. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tanks are overkill for just the five of us. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Five minutes, how could she think it through in five minutes? Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even played with Josefina for five years, but I kept her within arm’s reach for these exact occasions. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My dad was four or five years old and had never been trick-or-treating, and Grandpa Portman had promised to take him when he got off work. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There are five more places to see on my own. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There are five behind us, and when they find your trail upon the Road they will ride after us like the wind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The home I’d grown up in had had five bedrooms; now it had been expanded in all directions and looked as though it had at least forty. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was completely, irreversibly, asleep by five o’clock. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight... What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The master grounded the boat, jumped out—not more than five minutes behind the slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got back to O-Hall, everything seemed weird, like I was walking into the last five minutes of a horror movie. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The map was laid out in square five-thousand-meter grids—five-kilometer squares—and he saw that in some places the river wound back almost on itself inside the same five thousand square meters. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s very complex. You wouldn’t understand. And in the meantime, your taxes have been unpaid. There are fines for not paying. You owe five hundred rubles now.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Cinder could see her gravestone from the window of the fourth-floor unit he and Miss Fran had lived in together, five doors down from where Cynthia lived with her mom. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The wildlings outnumbered the crows by five to one, judging by how little black he saw. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I saw her when she was five—she could recite twenty pages of the Persian history books our dad gave her. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I suppose I’d better say hello to all you brats. Well, hello. Our activities director, Chiron, says the next capture the flag is Friday. Cabin five presendy holds the laurels.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

After five years in New York’s Latino community, he spoke little English and owned little more than the clothes on his back. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, the kids only found five: apparently, clearly, not certain, understandably, presumably. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

They sat still for five minutes, slumped down in their seats. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a pentatonic scale, only five of the possible pitches within an octave are used. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

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

Kevin tried driving—his first time after five years of horses and buggies. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The big guy, Simeon, stands at the door, giving everyone high fives like he always does. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

In five minutes, my carpetbag was packed with a few essentials: Tonic, my magic book, my dictionary, a shawl, and little else. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A child prodigy, Galton learned to read at two, was fluent in Greek and Latin by five, and solved quadratic equations by eight. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

By the time they had reached the Wabash Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, they were capable of setting off a powerful charge every five minutes. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It felt good to laugh; the stock market had fallen five points today. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are five of them, all silver with black roofs. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

At a conservative flow rate of two liters per minute, each bottle would last between five and six hours. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

After staring at the swirls of gray for five full minutes, I finally throw my pencil across the room in disgust. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Half past five finds me running down the main corridor, hastily tying my bonnet. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

One three five; she gulps breathes gulps breathes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were selling them at the door, only five dollars each, to raise money for the Refugee Scholarship Fund. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Styx grinned as he slapped us five, one with each hand. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a group of four or five teenage boys, shirtless and laughing and play punching each other, turned the corner. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

We usually went to my grandmother’s church, an old-school Methodist congregation, five hundred African grannies in blue-and-white blouses, clutching their Bibles and patiently burning in the hot African sun. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was some five minutes later that he found Powell by hit-and-miss. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He knew me well enough to know I was coming for him finally, but he’d maneuvered class so that the last five minutes were all about him and his brilliance. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Darwin returned to England after five years at sea, he was already a minor celebrity among natural historians. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Today, the presence of more than five hundred federally recognized nations is evidence of the successes Native peoples had as they fought to protect their nations, their homelands, and their families. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The black table was set for five, and everything sparkled and shimmered in the candlelight. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Tiara closed her eyes and blew out five sharp exhales. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She drew five lines across a big sheet of test paper—the lines about an inch apart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then she borrowed five hundred dollars from Felix so she wouldn’t go bankrupt. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

From her mom’s stories, Aru knew that there were five main brothers. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One bored docker resorted to timing Smith as he walked down the track, catching him at a clip of thirty- five minutes for the half mile. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to go. We have a team meeting in five minutes,” Tia said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Houston,” the lady says, pointing, “is just that way, about five or ten more minutes.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

For months they’d been coming here, four or five nights a week as the Voice requited. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We was at a spot where a campfire was burning and there was five or six other men gathered ’round. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

But five- and six-piece dance bands were turning out huge piles of graphophone records, and we tried to buy them all. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lying on the ground next to Middleton was Henry Smith, eighteen years old and also dying, the result of five gunshot wounds. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It takes a lot of nerve to go off on somebody, call them out, and tell them you love them within a span of five minutes. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

State officials added five more years to Joe's sentence because they claimed to have miscalculated his "good time." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They have been recovered from most of the major five systems and even from streams of groundwater flowing unseen through the earth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I could be like Amil and ask a question every five seconds, but he doesn’t answer many of those either. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Jack heard the rumble of trucks at five A.M., just at the moment soldiers beat on the door of the house. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

On November 17, 1896, he was taken to Mercy Hospital, where he died five days later, apparently of typhoid fever. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The hospital was only five minutes from where we lived, but it seemed like a long ride. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Francie had about five minutes for lunch—just time enough to report home for a sandwich which she ate walking back to school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seth went forward five feet and found the next hole almost instantly. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Constantine came to work in our house at six in the morning, and at harvest time, she came at five. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There were four or five other empty ones with names on them, too. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I won the first game, let him win the next one, and lost the next five fair and square. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One of the deputies aimed at Starzeleski and fired five shots into his back. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

They dragged her toward cabin five, while the other campers made way to avoid her flailing feet. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He should’ve been home at five, to make sure she was awake and didn’t have to deal with the twins as she was getting ready to leave. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When Woodhull took the stage, the crowd roared for more than five minutes, waving handkerchiefs and cheering. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ford is gripping two of my fingers with his five tiny fingers. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You’re playing teams that have been together five years,” she said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

And the five lucky finders of these five Golden Tickets are the only ones who will be allowed to visit my factory and see what it’s like now inside! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

And five of each so I don't have to share with my sisters who have all gathered on the stoop with Charlise for a game of cards. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “Three thousand five hundred and thirty years ago. Give or take.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The alchemist began to draw in the sand, and completed his drawing in less than five minutes. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten rings were bolted to the wagon floor, two rows of five, enough for the occasional big haul. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I felt a little rush of heat in my cheeks when I saw Carmen smiling, but it was probably because I was still hot from being in the kitchen for five hours. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“But to answer your question. There were five in my Epsilon unit.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dad had to go to work but Mum had the day off from being a nurse and it was half term so the five of us could go sightseeing, she said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lefty would wash the windows and, five minutes later, my brother and I would come along, leaning on the glass and leaving fingerprints. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She got five of them pulled, but the worst was the week after that. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

So it took five minutes to add 0.2 atmospheres to 1 cubic meter. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a little after five A.M., demon time, I had gotten dressed and gone out to the pump to get some water. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not for long. Like, five seconds. I thought you said you’d bungee jumped off a building.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Some family with an immense house—one floor, thirty-four or -five rooms around a Spanish-style courtyard—had invited soldiers from Fort Bliss to come for a Christmas party and dinner. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Settling in Georgia, he established his own machinery business, married, and had five children. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe I’m here, only five feet away from the most important man in education. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Starting now, the wizards of the Order of the Clean Hand are going to send out the trigger signal every five minutes. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Neither is exactly in my top five desert-island books, but I guess I wasn’t discerning when shoving stuff into my duffel. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Back then, more than five years earlier, the capital city was mired in corruption, with crumbling roads and buildings, slums in the middle of the city. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I’d been to the Bronx Zoo before, about five times probably, so Calista said I could pick where to go first. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

After four or five days in which we had seen scarcely a soul, suddenly we were inundated with company. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Many estimates place the number of dead at around five hundred. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Schmid declared that the second game would start at five p.m., and if Fischer didn’t appear after one hour of official play had elapsed, he’d be forfeited. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You spend five days in a row with them, and now its the weekend and you still can’t get rid of them.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Papa said we had to cover at least ten miles a day, more if we could, and it should take about four hours, but with breaks it would probably be closer to five or six. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Richardson’s parents had died, five years ago and within months of each other, she had inherited the Winslow house. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I mean, this kid is oh for five. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The school bell is going to ring in less than five minutes!” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There, in the playground, they would be waiting for her—the gang of four or five boys, blond, snotty-nosed, freckled-faced. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I found him amusing for all of about five seconds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She prophesied for five minutes or so and then stopped, sweating as though she had been running a marathon, her face drained of all expression. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stack collapses weren’t that uncommon, and if the scaffold supports buckled at the wrong angle, the domino effect could bring down four or five of the neighboring stacks too. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At first Ged did not know him, and then putting his mind to it recalled him as the one who had let him into the School on the day of his coming, five years ago. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Either way, by 1951, when Henrietta Lacks’s cells began growing in the Gey lab—just five years after the widely publicized “death” of Carrel’s chicken heart—the public image of immortal cells was tarnished. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The bracelet used to belong to her grandmother, but she had given it to Candice almost five years ago. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a horrible screech of pain and everybody looked around, terrified, to see Susan Bones of Hufflepuff wobbling in her hoop with her left leg still standing five feet away where she had started. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Take five tablets before bedtime and experience instant relief. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Next month I will be twelve years old, and I hope I’ll be five feet tall by then. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Addie said she understood, and then she was miserable for about five minutes until DuShawn came up to her and said, “Congratulations.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

It is not enough and I ask whether I cannot have five days for travelling. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than five years to plan your twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad picks up Semaj and holds out his hand for a high five. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Dad reminded me that London is five hours ahead of Epiphany, New York because London and all of England is on Greenwich Mean Time. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line five deep waited at the register while Holly finished reading the newspaper. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Jimmy and”—she counts on her fingers—“eleven little boys who are five, four, three, one and zero.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would turn south there and go down the river about five miles, to Verplancks Point. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

About five meters ahead, Nico was swinging his black sword with one hand, holding the scepter of Diocletian aloft with the other. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sprouts taste of fresh puke but Mum said I had to eat five without making a song and dance about it, or there'd be no butterscotch Angel Delight for pudding. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then the five of us left the school, crossed the village green and headed for the sweet-shop. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll bet you five bucks it’s a woman,” he says, taking another drink. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“How did we get so far ahead of the army? How come if I’ve been here five days we ain’t been overrun yet?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Our father was working at the Spreckles Sugar Factory, five miles from town and could not get off, or perhaps didn’t want to, for fear he could not stand the strain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Recognizing the five basic emotions is one thing. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bag of food each, plus five days’ worth of lunches. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

In order that Tucker could keep at least one of each kind of coin, Harry Cat figured out that they should bring over one half dollar, four quarters, one dime, five nickels, and fifteen cents. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows he's been one since the day five years earlier when he was fired from Goupil’s. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His father, who worked as a store merchant, court clerk, and bank cashier, remarried five years after his wife's death. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But we also say fifty and thirty and twenty, which sort of sound like five and three and two, but not really. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

At the time, black South Africans outnumbered white South Africans nearly five to one, yet we were divided into different tribes with different languages: Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Sotho, Venda, Ndebele, Tsonga, Pedi, and more. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And if they’re rich enough, they can’t be bothered to rent it out, so at any given time, maybe one in five of the cliffside homes in Laguna Beach are vacant. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Rock slaps me five so hard, it hurts. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, on a papyrus dated five years before her death, the queen is referred to as Cleopatra Philopatris, “she who loves her country.” Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

He takes five common marbles to school with him in a blue Crown Royal Whisky bag and comes back with the bag and his pockets bulging. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The first one is always like this, the rest are fives.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There are eight people in Mother, three women and five men, all in their twenties and thirties. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, she got hit by a car, about five years ago.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

So Meg wrestled alone with the refractory sweetmeats all that hot summer day, and at five o’clock sat down in her topsy-turvey kitchen, wrung her bedaubed hands, lifted up her voice and wept. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the army’s wanton destruction in November of five Japanese cyclotrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of men—in their thirties, I presumed—some women, and a few families with children five years of age and older. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My mother luckily secured a job in a white doctor’s office at the unheard-of-wages of five dollars per week and at once she announced that her “sons were going to school again.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Numbers four and five were from Quinby’s preferred trees, where she did almost all her digging. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Suppose,” Rick said, “I pay you five hundred dollars a month for ten months. Full catalogue value.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

In five minutes it leaked so much it pressurized the whole airlock to 1.2 atmospheres. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The legion was arrayed at the base of Half-Blood Hill, its five cohorts in perfect order, its standards bright and proud. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I was handcuffed and kept in a remote corner of the boat surrounded by five armed warders. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four or five people Jesse had never seen before were sitting about, whispering some, but mostly not talking at all. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You have had five teachers in this subject so far, I believe.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I wondered whether he had been able to write during the five years, or rather, whether he had been able to publish. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

These five parts roughly correspond to the sequence in which you might imagine putting a speech—or, more broadly, any persuasive appeal—together. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her tone the same, as though she had not wounded him, left him bleeding for more than five years. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been reading the same five pages in that book for days now.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Today we make five pounds of shrimp, some clams on the half shell, four vegetable trays with broccoli, cauliflower, celery and carrots, and three trays of mushroom vol-au-vents. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He’d been pacing the senate floor for five minutes, going on and on, trying to counter what Percy had told them about Juno’s plan and the Prophecy of Seven. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Why had this field escaped while another burned five miles back? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As Zach pulled into a parking space in front, I saw them— five or six white men standing by the ticket booth. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron caught up with them five minutes later, in a towering rage. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Four, five— Leeg 1 and Jackson sacrificing themselves at the Meat Grinder. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Paul had been my dad ever since Mom married him when I was five. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I gave her a nice mangrove snapper that I caught, and she had it cleaned and cooking over the flames in five minutes flat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was already five foot three, the second-tallest girl in my class. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And the ones after them will, for three or four or five years; but after that they won’t. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocellated icefish lives so far down deep in the frigid waters near Antarctica, his heart has to be five times larger than the average fish. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“It wouldn’t take her five minutes to find out who squawked.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

All five heads thrashed up and down as the song kept swelling to more ridiculous heights. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Because what would happen if I let her wake? She’d run away at once. And she wouldn’t last five days.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had my first operation when I was five days old. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

That same month, Marina Chechneva flew her five hundredth mission in a Po-2—her five hundredth mission in a little more than a year of combat. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

How about five columns that are each two inches wide? The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Roughly five hundred total had answered his call, but even with that many, we couldn’t defrnd more than a few blocks. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Tess and I could buy five of them if we wanted. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I will do five minutes of calisthenics daily. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he hadn't told them that Gerda was five months pregnant with his child. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Even if it’s just the five of us, I’ll share the stories I know from Lita’s mother and her mother’s mother...I will make sure the folklore of my ancestors soak into Sagan’s soil. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Obviously, I’m not doing this. I’m not wasting my time searching for some random guy I talked to for five seconds. Okay? Can we just chill?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He was five years older than Longstreet, and now he was the junior officer, but he was one of the rare ones who was genuinely glad to see another man advance. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The purse was five thousand dollars and I was due for half. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I usually worked five or six hours a week, which meant that if I saved every penny I earned, it would take about four years to raise the money. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A gigantic dragon was tethered to the ground in front of them, barring access to four or five of the deepest vaults in the place. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We move forward, and we all hand him our five bucks. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And to my coworkers, I try not to complain about how worn out I am with only five hours of sleep a night. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And could I have stayed on my feet eleven hours a day, five days a week? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could fit five people in the shower. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I can find all the fresh butter we need in Sicily for twenty- five cents a pound,” Milo answered. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There on the wide flats beside the noisy river were marshalled in many companies well nigh five and fifty hundreds of Riders fully armed, and many hundreds of other men with spare horses lightly burdened. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

From our condo, Jeremy’s house is about five minutes away: walk down one straight, main road, turn left and then right, onto a quiet, leafy street. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In a scramble in a women’s shoe store, somehow he’d grabbed five shoes, all of them for left feet! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within five minutes of getting out of the shower, I’m sweating. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He nodded to the man and took the five, letting his eyes smile, since his mouth was engaged in blowing and drawing. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“All right, so. Let’s take five, and then we’ll jump into ‘Food, Glorious Food.’” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And, just five days in, Laila had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which Tariq’s father sometimes played old Pashto songs, time stretched and contracted depending on Tariq’s absence or presence. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Each ward has about five hundred people, and roughly ten wards make up a stake, which has a president. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Another day: “Tell Mom Uncle Grover say yes for the addition, we paying five percent interest.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

During those early years of marriage, she birthed five daughters for her hardworking husband. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The family owned no more than ten objects—two pots, three bowls, a hoe, a cow, some chickens—and a good five of them were regularly lost, thanks to her father. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was the storybook place at Bedford and Atlantic, where the princess had been calling out to be rescued since Fern was about four or five. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Lydia squared off her five feet, two inches against Travis’s six feet, six inches. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“And there you go. Your answer in five words. See you in the a.m., pal.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A wave of dejection swept the group of five-, six- and seven-year-old boys. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took him about five hours to get ready. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“So she offered us a challenge to spend over five million dollars in a month, but we couldn’t tell anyone, and there were about a hundred other rules.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel had been anxious in case the shed door might be shut; but it stood just ajar and the five of them slipped in one after the other. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had five candlesticks on the windowsill, and she was just holding the lighted match to one of the black wicks when she heard footsteps outside. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I get out of the car and go over to one of the five wooden tables in the grassy picnic area. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was about eight feet long, five and a half feet wide, and floated well out of the water, and had not taken him more than two hours to build. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Its low-slung body is covered with thick reddish-brown hair, as are its five legs, each of which ends in a clubfoot. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Five hundred dollars! We owe you five hundred dollars?” Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And one guardian had five wards, all of whom died. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A Nick Eisner is a cookie with a random glop of peanut butter on top, because when we were five, Nick thought that’s what people meant by peanut butter cookies. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Work resumes on the Golden Gate Bridge. 103 men are put back to work, two quit, seven scratch their heads, five have their feet up, two eat sausages for supper, three do not...” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She promises it will be beautiful when I get back, and when the winter sun rises, I’m five kilometers down the road from Przemyśl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In 1605 the adventurer George Weymouth abducted five Indians, conning three into boarding his ship voluntarily and seizing the other two by the hair. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I added five to eighteen, the typical age for coming out, and came up with the usual result. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

This happened maybe four or five times a day for the first few weeks: on the stairs, in front of the lockers, in the library. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You have come again, Ifeoma. You know what I mean. How can a woman five like that?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Now get out. I’m going to celebrate by sleeping for another five hours.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I gather up my papers and take a last sip of my Coke, letting myself relax for five seconds before I have to go write the article. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Four or five hours a day, every single day, without fail. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

They were using five needles a day to give injections to hundreds of people in the hospital’s outpatient and maternity clinics. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We settled on the T-shirt idea pretty quickly and I came up with the slogan in about five seconds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She blurted, “I want five hundred rubles if we catch it.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

After all, Mozart was only five when he started composing for the piano and look what happened to him. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re a retardo, so you probably don’t know, but five times five equals the number of times I made out with your sister.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And the men in the cabin had four or five horrified seconds of knowledge before the zeppelin crashed and burst into flames. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the shop was leaning out the back window, less than five feet from her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t slept on a sheet, nor had a pillow or a blanket, for five years. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Say it five times and your neighborhood is safe. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He took his seat at the steering wheel and waited for five minutes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

"You heard the lady. She said we have five days to show them that our son is alive and well." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The arithmetical problems raised, for instance, by such a statement as “two and two make five” were beyond his intellectual grasp. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There would be perhaps five seconds before the guards could rush into the cell. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Her five daughters, who inherited a burning seed, had been lost on the byways of life since adolescence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Camp was a combined outing for grades five and seven, designed so us new kids could spend time with some of the older boys. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He is gone two to five days a week, to Boston, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Dallas, and most often Charlotte. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Henry stood patiently, gazing down at the floor; gradually his eyes began to wander, and after about five minutes he made an exasperated noise and looked up. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, five months later a blue jay appeared and a wren.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Well, to be honest, five days is almost nine million miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

We begin giving the children that at five. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was here five days ago,” I remind him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be your absurd Champion if you agree to free me in three years, not five.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mayan dominance of the region lasted more than five hundred years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

And there was a very big enclosure for the hens, with five henhouses in it, like the one in which I hid. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bo had gone in on a burglary charge, five, maybe six years before. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Their answers ranged from thirty seconds to five minutes, with the average answer two minutes. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Often, I couldn’t see five feet into the dense foliage on either side of the path. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now this tea shop was the only building in all that town which had an upper floor, except the Western Pagoda, which stood five stories high outside the West Gate. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The empousai emerged from the rocks all around them—five of them forming a ring. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We went twelve miles today, about five of them profitable, and the rim of the Gobrin is visibly nearer, north, above us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

If you think about it, it’s only five years. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But not too many other masters in the world would have survived for five. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I spent five sols driving in circles; I averaged 93 kilometers per sol. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it was after ten and we were dead tired from playing five games and wanted to get home, he made us help clean the restaurant. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The heat is turned off as soon as the workers leave at five. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Four or five mashed at the same time is even better. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“So, if I take you and Penny, your mom and dad, and me, that’s five. I wonder who else we could take?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I had been defending it for five years and I was sick of it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In exchange, Mother would five on-site, care for infant orphans, and help staff a demanding night shift. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

When we get outside, Lorena jumps up and down and gives me a high five. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ron came back five minutes later, carrying three foaming tankards of hot butterbeer. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I should explain that there are five fire extinguishers in the building. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He showed Kendra a hole about five feet from the last one on the path. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“You were supposed to be back at five.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The Nauset, hidden outside, picked off the sailors one by one until only five were left. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The house has seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, three sitting rooms, and two kitchens. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

On March 22, 1943, Lilya was involved in an air battle in which she and five other Yak fighters were outnumbered by the enemy two to one. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My father’s wife then pointed to the collared minister among the remaining five and said, “Pastor brought Marc to Christ before it was too late.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The five of them scuffled wildly under the table. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The main purpose of the five tests, one gathered, was to isolate and study, if possible, the source of Zooey’s precocious wit and fancy. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1929, even before the stock market crash, a national newspaper story reported, “In five years, if the oil map continues to shift, the tribe may have to go back to work.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Only submission and a simple desire to five. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He had given me an extra five dollars. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because it sounded like you were about to propose some sort of alliance between the five of us.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But she knew he’d be waiting for her at five o’clock. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least five minutes passed without Finn thinking about his mom being away. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Perspiration was causing her cheek to stick to the plastic seat; she was convinced that she would develop a medium-serious skin disease within five minutes after she got off the bus. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was perhaps five and forty years, with pale eyebrows and small eyes like apple seeds. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, finally, she gave her a tiny cloth purse with five silver dollars in it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

How many different names had been uttered in the last five minutes? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And nowhere in America was such a single temple potential available as in New York’s five boroughs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had five minutes before the first bell. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then he watched signs—the names of towns that lay twenty-two miles ahead, seventeen miles to the east, five miles to the northeast. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four out of five students from elementary age to high school attend afterschool cram courses. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“But will there be good room for five couple?—I really do not think there will.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The “Total” column represents their cumulative classroom learning from all five years of elementary school. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He was not compensated in any way for the five months he spent at the maximum-security prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The five of us rode up in the north elevator, taking turns listing the goods stored in our pantry by food group. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

One is good for ten meals and the other for five. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The newspapers tell you what you can purchase: five hundred grams of sugar, two liters of milk, two kilograms of potatoes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was a girl of five; and later, she was seven; and later she was, incredibly, eleven. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I cleanly decapitated five of them, eviscerated three, and I severed the aortas of the rest. If any of them had actually been alive, they would be dead now. I did just what you wanted.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

By five o’clock, when it’s growing light, I know pretty much what I have to do: I have to buy that dog from Judd Travers. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her seven rooms were always crammed to the gills, with as many as twenty-one men boarding at a time and five to six new referrals every day. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The village chief takes all five families to his house and gives us rice and fish for dinner before the adults leave to hear further instructions. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked five miles over low hills through the woods to the town of Etna, where I sat beside an old cemetery and ate my sandwiches, then packed up and walked home. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The horses start circling the ring at a trot, five white followed by five black. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Dagmer was no true uncle, only a sworn man with perhaps a pinch of Greyjoy blood four or five lives back, and that from the wrong side of the blanket. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She remembered her own baby, three-year-old Rickon, half the age of this boy and five times as fierce. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Aristotle names five of them: laws, witnesses, contracts, tortures, and oaths. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Though Iris was held in place by five large bolts, the force was directed entirely to a single one. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could scarcely believe that last night I had stood there in my blue dress at the bottom of the stairs, shaking hands with five hundred people. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to white obstructionism, and bolstered by the black upper classes jealously guarding their segregated domains, North Carolina preserved its lily-white campuses until 1951, when UNC finally admitted five black graduate students. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Percy figured he had maybe five minutes before they reached him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Venus didn’t have any moons or satellites or even a magnetic field, but it did have an atmosphere sort of similar to Earth’s, except it was super- hot—about five hundred degrees or more. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She backed away, then ran back to the five scythes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

His father had sat for five nights on a split-rail fence cradling a shotgun and in the end died protecting his property. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives me a high five so hard, I have to rub my hand on my pants. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

And he had — five June peonies, all pink petticoats, just like the ones the Kennedys were growing across the street. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Decipher a bunch of notes scribbled on the board probably five minutes before class started, then copy them down in your notebook. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

This was more than five times faster than the Buick could do on Little Daytona, and I found it difficult to imagine one of our rockets could really go that fast. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She raised the boys on her own. Prosper has just turned twelve, and Bo is five.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The warden says, ‘Son, your pardon hasn’t come through from the governor and it’s already five after. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They’d both been in the same ballet class when they were five years old. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The whole procedure for both my mom and me took five minutes. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

On a sunny Saturday afternoon when I was five, that feeling of protection was shattered. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Gran twitters on for another five minutes, filling me in on mundane news: Heather has decided she wants to become a librarian. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of people who lived in the home at any given time fluctuated between five and nine, which made for tight living conditions. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The baker thought the trip would take five or six days by coach. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, there is far more to learn about Islam than the five pillars, as we call them, but those are the foundations of Islam. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The beams bounce off his fingernails, five hard blue shields. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

You must remember that she was still hardly five years old and it is not easy for somebody as small as that to score points against an all-powerful grown-up. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She talks for five minutes to Sid in the butcher’s shop but doesn’t buy any meat. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

At the head was a huge crucifix and a picture of Our Lord Jesus with His heart pierced by five swords. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So, since we were five, you never even noticed any other girls?" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When Bobby was five, a botched operation on his appendix nearly killed him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

That is not to suggest that the nearly five million Mexicans who, like Peralta, are living in the United States illegally will never emerge from the shadows. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The three of us listen to Big Ben ticking toward five o'clock. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He handed Mr. Zuckerman two ten dollar bills and a five dollar bill. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The club leader’s name was Mr. Clifton, and there were five other kids in fourth-period math club, from all different grades. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were both about five feet five, though. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then five or six people would crowd into the bed together. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between five o'clock and then, only one person entered that building. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Because,” Natalie said, “it looks like every single one of these bills is either a one or a five. If someone robs a bank, they take twenties, at least. Probably even fifties or hundreds.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The four, five, and six seats are often called “the engine room” of the crew, and the rowers who occupy these seats are typically the biggest and strongest in the boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Isa looked at it and read, “‘Coupon good for reading five books aloud.’” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I flipped through the Sears, Roebuck catalog, looking at all the things I would be able to buy with five dollars. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Glen said about five more guys came to the gym today and asked about being on the team,” Ducky said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m Neumann. They call me Two. There’s another Neumann, the driver. He’s One. Then there’s the engineer and the sergeant and you, so for whatever it’s worth, that’s five again.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She wrote another memo, this one five pages, detailing the facts on the morning of the accident. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But Boukreev ignored Fischer’s instructions: instead of climbing with the team, he slept late, took a shower, and departed Base Camp some five hours behind the last of the clients. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The more deeply set your eyes are, the harder it is to see the five. Then there’s seven.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The cab spun in the road, doing five, then six full circles, as if some giant hand had reached down and spun it like a bottle. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That jetty was made of men, a long file of them, six or eight deep, standing up to their knees, their waists, their shoulders, stretching out for five hundred yards through the shallow waters. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was just the tiniest bit of light in it, like maybe it was five in the morning or earlier. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I counted four steps now to every breath from Amil and then five. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Troy raised his hand for a high five. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The noise around me muffles, and the image in my mind of the five thousand dollars starts to waver until it finally blurs into something I no longer recognize. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a bewitching moment: a gorgeous train rocketing through the winter landscape carrying five of history’s greatest architects, all in the same car, gossiping, joking, drinking, smoking. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The youngest, who is maybe five, is the “wow” boy; the oldest is a boy about ten or eleven. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Tison's trial in connection with the January shooting that left one teenager dead and another wounded is set to begin approximately five weeks from today. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If you could have seen him . . . piddling every five minutes during the night. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“What is it? English starts in five minutes.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I pulled my wallet from my back pocket and laid Fang’s two fives on the counter. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The section was at least five times longer than any of the other ones. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

On really hot nights, Gregor and his mother could spread quilts on the floor to sleep, but with five in the room it wasn’t cool, just lukewarm. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You have five, six years before you have to worry about getting a job,” she says. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

As the five picketers crossed Pennsylvania Avenue, twenty-nine police officers swept in to arrest them. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Fifty miles feels like five hundred on a horse, particularly if your body is more accustomed to a chair than a saddle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He said nothing for five, ten, fifteen seconds. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Though he towered over other jockeys, ultimately leveling off at about five feet seven inches, he hadn’t filled out his frame yet, weighing just 101 pounds, light enough to ride. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had had an allowance since he was ten, starting at five dollars per week and increasing steadily with inflation and age up to its current twenty dollars. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He gave a contact point for later in the evening and urged any Negro man who wanted to earn five dollars for himself to find him a date within this price category. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tried again, then called over Henry Dobbins and Rat Kiley, and all five of them put their arms and backs into it, but the body was jammed in tight. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On June 7 came another milestone, a 17-million-volt deuteron beam slicing through the air for a distance of five feet. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was short—only about five feet tall—but he was tough and strong. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they were beautifully made—this road, photographed in the 1990s, had lasted more than five hundred years without maintenance. cavalry. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She made it to almost five months before she woke at two a.m. with a terrible stillness in her belly, like the silence after a bell has stopped ringing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We're taking five laps around the field today, gentlemen,” I say in a deep voice. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The lamps, five of them, formed a solemn constellation of moons around the pond. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“But in five minutes I might not believe it.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It looked like a train, and it had five cars with rubber wheels because it didn’t run on a track. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Jaimito is five years old now and has a two-year-old brother. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said good-by at the hospital at about five o’clock and went out. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Will suddenly realised that his tradition-minded family had been standing, patiendy immobile, waiting for five minutes while he read his letter. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The economic advantage once believed to last only two or three generations is now believed to last closer to five. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You trounced me these last two terms, I was bound to catch a break sooner or later. I got five talents even this term.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I was just talking about Harry’s exceptional potionmaking! Some credit must go to you, of course, you taught him for five years!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I learned that the horizon, as seen from a height of five feet on a calm day, was two and a half miles away. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon she was running five miles a day and riding a stationary bike for another 20 miles. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even the girl sitting on the couch next to him—with her perfect side braid and about five layers of lip gloss—gets lost to the blur that surrounds him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was one time I stood up and then the prefect named the five people and I wasn’t one of them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We hiked till five and camped beside a tranquil spring in a small, grassy clearing in the trees just off the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He’s paid from eight in the morning till half five in the evening though he has to get the horse ready well before eight and settle him for the night well after half five. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“There are five of us up here on the third,” someone else called, and Tad’s breath caught in his throat. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She offered him another five dollars if he went back, and he built a small bankroll until he couldn’t deny he had found a true passion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But really what he was planning all along was to let her study for five whole years only to render that degree useless in the end. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if I turn into a fruit tree in five years, she thought. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the three of us were motivated to reclaim our glory during the team competition five days later. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The guards stood aside as the five horses and their riders passed. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

In a cloud of horses, Pollard spotted daylight five feet or so off the rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope it doesn’t take us another five years to decipher it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For five dollars, you could get fry bread. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

We lived in a hotel in Manhattan for five months while my parents waited for the revolution to fail or for the Americans to intervene in Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps not, but it is of great consequence whether Luxa does. Or so it will be in some five years when she comes of age to rule,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once you receive your green card, you have to wait five years before you can apply to become an American citizen. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

That’s because, as we saw in Chapter 5, there were no more than nine areas of the globe, perhaps as few as five, where food production arose independently. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those games when they play two minutes and then argue five. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

One big meriny colored woman was so ugly till it was worth five dollars for her not to come in, so he gave it to her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The whole sudden burst couldn’t have lasted more than five seconds. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In a period of about five or six years, these telecom companies invested about $1 trillion in wiring the world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was five, wearing his first boy’s suit, when his parents sent him off to begin his education at the village schoolhouse. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“So our team handshake should be a double high five,” I say. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

‘Go away and come back in five minutes!’ she cried, and I shot out of the room like a bullet. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made clothes for her five daughters throughout their lifetimes, and she also made curtains for the windows and sewed quilts for the beds. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And worst of all, Judy didn’t even ask me about the five words. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m taking a victory lap sixty miles from where I five. I came to find you, you idiot! And don’t think I don’t already regret it.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

All I had to do was yield, and in five minutes it would be over. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This was a man who had lost an entire regiment, about forty- five hundred men—a lot of them children, actually. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside there was a shout, and a man fell out of the sky, to land with a sickening crash not five yards from the entrance to the cave. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ishmael’s grandfather had been a Highland Presbyterian, his grandmother an Irish zealot from the bogs above Lough Ree; they met in Seattle five years before the Great Fire, wed, and raised six sons. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only 41 percent of low-income students entering a four- year college managed to graduate within five years, the U.S. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It takes about five seconds for the chute to open, and since you can’t see how close you are to earth, you keep wonder- ing, ‘Will I hit before it opens?’ Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were out until around five thirty, when my mother came clunking through the door. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

There were five of ’em all sitting the same space apart one from the ’nother. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Use as many as you can, but not less than five.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Some five hundred warriors hid on either side of the high, narrow ridge—about half of them in the gullies on the east side and the others on the west. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I took the phone out of the scarf that Grandma was never able to finish, plugged it in, and played those first five messages for him. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It took Adam five days to cross the short distance into Georgia. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It checked out the TV but did not seem interested in the program of the moment, the five o’clock news. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It takes the rest of the class about five more minutes to answer the questions. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“You could have told me this five minutes ago.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had gone up to one hundred and five. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The suits that I wore, the finest, I bought hot for about thirty- five to fifty dollars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But why was he saving half a refrigerator door and five rusty stop signs? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

After watching him for about five minutes, Gramps asked if he could try it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When we met the following day with President Habib Bourguiba, his response was utterly positive and immediate: he offered training for our soldiers and five thousand pounds for weapons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Good job, Sunny," Coach said, giving him a high five. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

From the next five months of Lumumba’s imprisonment, escape, and recapture, I recall—what? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I could not find the words in our eye language to tell him how my throat tightened at the thought of five days without Papa s voice, without his footsteps on the stairs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But after I wrestle with it for about five minutes, I know I'd be stupid not to tell him. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, because the last thing she wanted was to break it off five years down the road, when the two of them would be in so much deeper, it’d be like cutting off a limb. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Wilson spent five days in the hospital before heading home on many of the same high-priced drugs that Miele would be taking and under similar instructions to change his diet and exercise regularly. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Lyra sat up groggily to see Mary talking to five or six of the mulefa, who were surrounding her, clearly excited; but whether they were angry or joyful, she couldn’t tell. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Big enough for about five people sitting in chairs,” he answered. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

To open Cape Coalwood, I loaded Auk V with our bottle-tested formula of finely ground black powder and postage stamp glue, cured under the water heater for five days. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And on that day, Bobby Fischer became the first-ever champion to willingly relinquish the title and along with it the chance to compete for the winner’s share of a $5 million purse...five million dollars! Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They’re gathered around Dylan, too, giving him high fives and pats on the back. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“There won’t be another wave. Not tonight. Probably not for four or five nights.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the kings had been banished to the core of the earth, where they’d been asleep for five thousand years. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I reach into my pocket and pull out five one-hundred-dollar bills, which is more money than I have ever held in my hand, and may very well be Dad’s life savings. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday, December 17, when we had one more day to go before vacation, five of us entered the cafeteria. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was seven, freckled dewey was five, and Mexican dewey was only four. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh right,” I said, pretending I remembered the exact loca-tion of all five hundred students in the cafeteria. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She was short, only five foot one, and carried herself with an uptilted chin. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After that I saw no more of him for five years. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Gold was questioned for five hours that night, but the questions were general—there was no accusation of spying. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

How he must have wanted to look at them, especially at the daughter whom he had not seen for five long years. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was a different kind of wobbly because they were five years old. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I decide to walk because it’s five minutes from my house. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Out of the mouths of sucklings,” he said in a small, strange voice and remained very still for five minutes. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Attached to the front is a Crystal Ball that stands around five feet tall. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It turned out he’d been given confusing instructions on his last visit to the clinic, and he hadn’t received his monthly five dollars. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We live on the corner in a little brown house that’s about five blocks from the train station and forty-five minutes from the big city. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He’d been in the army for nineteen months and had less than five months of service left to fulfill his two-year military commitment. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For Joseph, this was the first Christmas tree he’d ever had, and when he looked at one and touched its branches and smiled —number five, sort of—it didn’t seem right to argue. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“But that’s a five,” objected Milo, for that was certainly what it was. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s five Huntsmen camped over the rise,” he said. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He looks five or six years old, but I really cannot tell. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you belong, you pay your two, or three, or five dollars a year—but who gives those organizations those two, and three, and five thousand dollar donations? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The march through town would begin at five thirty p.m., approximately the same time Rashad had been arrested for petty theft, resisting arrest, and public nuisance—whatever the hell that meant. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Only five thousand to go—or four thousand, nine hundred and ninety to be exact, as Brother Leon pointed out in that fussy meticulous way of his. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the first day, they had learned that the staff worked from nine a.m. until five p.m., a work schedule just like their father’s. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would find me in about five seconds. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I look around the room at the five other beds. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“To five so close to the ocean and not to have so much fish.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Crazy Horse and five hundred warriors had fought a thousand Long Knives. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He finished the job, replaced the originals before Ellsberg knew they were missing, and flew with his wife to New York, lugging five bulging bags. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s just weird, how this is decided by someone I don’t know and then I have to live by it. Like, I five on someone else’s schedule. And I’ve never even met them.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Well, what did she think we’d been doing for the last five days but talk. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The five bars and three diamonds of a sergeant major. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were followed by five more serving men, each one carrying a whole cask of mead, a barrel huge enough that each giant struggled beneath the weight of it. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was pitch black at five thirty in the morning in Los Angeles, but the sun would be up in Manhattan. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Cinco estrellitas—five stars, five little sisters, traveling through my domain in the sky. A warning for all to see, to let them pass unharmed. You are not dumb. You are not blind.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

If he had been here to feel my anguish in the last five minutes, how could I have kept them from being suspicious? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had watched them for five minutes, grinning the whole time. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

One day five lions sneaked into the pastures near Paguith, my first village. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At five minutes to departure, a commotion up front caught his attention. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Several times they just stopped and lowered their heads and stood blinking in the snow, and it took us five minutes of beating them and cursing them to get them going again. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the nearby town he found a former German engineer who was now unemployed and had five children to feed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It sat among the pine trees on a lot Henri rented for five dollars a year. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trap lay on its side at the bottom of a freshly scraped crater at least five feet across. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I perfected Lulu after watching the film To Sir, with Love five times, then briefly tried on Diana Rigg from a television show called The Avengers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Aye, she has the mark. Like all Borrells, for five thousand years. My daughter’s daughter. Not the one who makes the stew.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then falling forward, my head against his damp shoulder, I whispered, "I'll make it five dollars more." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were five bedrooms in the house, and two were “special rooms,” where you could go do bong hits or score an E tab. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Arcadio ordered them to give him a weapon and twenty cartridges, and he left him with five men to defend headquarters while he went off with his staff to head up the resistance. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Channel 10 is running my interview tonight on the five o’clock news! Be sure to tell your mom.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The doctors became increasingly worried, and I ended up spending five long months in the hospital while they tried to beat it. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“You get five shots—one per target. The one with the worst aim goes home.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And each time they succeed, they get rid of five to seven generations. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pings three, four, and five come in rapid succession. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was five or six at the time, I could barely read, but regardless, my dad gave me this impromptu geography lesson in preparation for an upcoming road trip or something. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“What’s that—begat?” asked the little girl who was just five years old. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Think of the glass itself, with its five grand colours stained right through. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came in sets of five, since four was bad luck. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Five. Look at the fine cloth. Here, feel it. Not a sucre less than five.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d felt guilty about her death for a long time, but seeing her in front of me was five times as bad, like her death was flesh and new. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We sit for five minutes before the conductor decides communication would be good. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A plan unfolded that November after the five Hayti neighborhood councils had merged into one areawide council. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One side of the hallway is reserved for people who have been convicted of drug or property crimes and who have relatively short sentences of five years or fewer. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mommy also taught summer school for the extra money, so she couldn’t just leave five kids at home alone all day. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I reach my street five minutes before I usually do, according to my watch—which is the only adornment Abnegation allows, and only because it’s practical. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The boy raised his hand, and Noor’s palm smacked against his in a high five. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It takes him five minutes to cross the living room, but nobody’s complaining. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I had never counted, but there had to be five thousand of us at roll call every day, give or take a few hundred. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘Five mills for the crackers who grew the weed and five for the dupes who rolled it,’ he said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They told him they needed at least six or seven years for a cleaner bomb; he quoted them as offering an “absolutely clean” device in four or five. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And yet, by the 1770s, the 1.75 million North Americans were actually drinking even more tea than the five to six million English. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The drive to Davis Square took only five minutes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Within the first five minutes in Small’s, I had left Boston and Roxbury forever. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to buy five packages of candles to make sure we’d have enough. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

They told me that Pancho Villa had ridden through about five years earlier, after raiding some towns in Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not tell her about the five hundred dollars or my secret plan for that money. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“So let’s get the money. You can use five dollars, can’t you?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Esperanza had walked out of the house when Maria was five years old and never returned. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he wore rimless glasses and was of but average height, standing just under five feet ten, Mr. Clutter cut a man’s-man figure. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Good luck charm or not, the word on the street is that this kid is shooting five hundred foul shots a day and making nine out of every ten. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was Mr. Highgate and he didn’t look nothing like the way he looked when he left five days ago. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was five years ago, when I was eight. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Now, there are only five minutes until the final game starts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My God, you don’t suppose there is a plot, do you? It’s a perfect time; the country celebrates; if Guilder were about to be five hundred years old, I know I’d attack them.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort, he stole forward five yards and stopped. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I often think how mad he’ll be if he was to die and find out there’s not any heaven, when he thinks about that five thousand a year. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had five written pages of information and she wanted to use them all. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They had lived this way for five days and were determined to continue doing so for as long as they could. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But this would buy me only five or six extra minutes, at the most. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If this were a movie, everyone would have been in the airlock, and there would have been high fives all around. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were four or five cars parked outside. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because five minutes ago, Genie hadn’t been worried about staying. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Ninety-seven point five percent is better than zero. Can anyone think of a safer way to get more time?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans arrived in Dresden at five in the afternoon. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would your viewers like to know the five basic components of the refrigeration cycle?” asked Jake. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

When Zhenya wrote a letter home five days after her squadron’s first flight, her tone was full of enthusiasm. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

With that, he modified Richard’s sentence from seven years to five years. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When I got back to the villa it was five o’clock and I went out where we washed the cars, to take a shower. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be stupid,” said Harry, “you don’t need to try out, I’ve watched you play for five years...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We watched her for perhaps five minutes, but the mosquitoes were chewing us up, so we withdrew and returned to our camp feeling considerably elated. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was short and unassuming, about five foot six and 150 pounds, and he lived at 1157 Wheeler, on the second floor of one of the street’s narrow apartment houses. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Before the next shapeup, Kaztauskis slipped five dollars to the uniformed man, and this time, as he stood with the others hoping to be chosen, the uniformed man pointed at him. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just then Sarah came into the kitchen and, as luck would have it, she was carrying four or five shopping bags and looking smug. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sliding back to her camp, she heard the grass swish and looked up to see Amaroq and his hunters sweep around her frost heave and stop about five feet away. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her son Alfred and a friend had been on a crime spree, robbing at least five liquor stores at gunpoint. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When he got to within five feet, the other boy’s stare fell to the ground. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Because James is a whopping five years older than I am and he dropped out of college. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They must remain hidden, and give the humans no hint that they were here, or that, unthinkably, five abominations had survived the Carnage and eked out an existence here for fifteen years. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

About five years ago, Mom discovered the Japanese tradition of making mochi on New Year’s. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t get suspended either because I was just helping to defend a friend when it was five on one. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In his next five games, Bobby won three and drew two; one of the draws was with twentyseven-year-old Arthur Bisguier, the defending United States Open Champion and one of the strongest players in the nation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Although he didn’t know it, he arrived at almost exactly the same time that Boston’s police were voting 1,134 to 2 to go out on strike at five o’clock the next day. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Dad’s just getting that now? Because I could have told you that five years ago.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I jump back to the middle of the room and tell the rest of the Glenn Burke story—how the high five spread through baseball, spread through all sports, and spread all around the world. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“You know,” Mom said, pulling the page out of the folder and settling into a chair, “I was treasurer of my tenth-grade class. I beat out five other students.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the Fourth of July celebration, the five suffragists squeezed into their seats in the press section as close to the front stage as possible. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

About five minutes later, he came out with his hands scrubbed clean, his shirt wet, and his face composed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

With a serious look on his face, he tore open the package and handed Hanako three of the five pieces of gum. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Come back at five! I’m surprised she didn’t tell us to use the servants’ entrance!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were five young ones in this settlement, one almost grown and the others somewhere in between, and being smaller than the adults, they could not manage the seedpod wheels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Four, five, six—seven times they met during the month of June. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A month ago, I mailed out fifteen resumes to Dallas, Memphis, Birmingham, and five other cities, and once again, New York. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It will then post a leaderboard for the top five players. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The speedometer read a hundred and five miles an hour. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And then our five starters, including me, ran out to the center circle to go to battle against Wellpinit’s five. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each of us has exactly five minutes to speak, and Mr. Griffiths has a timer that we have to press when we start. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And I know for a fact that five minutes after I had left Charley he had found new friends and had made his arrangements for his comfort. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m a shark and want to bite him with my five rows of razor-sharp teeth and twist him around in the water. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Along with some other cousins and neighbors, we split into teams of five, then hunted one another in the maize rows and across the dirt courtyard that separated our house from Geoffrey’s. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

My mother, Chanah, was the youngest of five children, two daughters and three sons. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In that moment, Cole realized how badly he wanted to five. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She looks up at him as if surprised to see that he is still there, as if they have not been sitting five feet apart for two and a half hours. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He fights you with all four feet and every tooth in his head and enough courage for an animal five times his size. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they say no, send Pig back pronto and we’ll come and get you at five o’clock on Sunday anyway. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Helen, Henrietta, Herbert, Hugh, and Hazel—just five of the thirteen Spencer children—straggled out of the last house on the road, the biggest house in all of Bumblebee. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Among the many honors he’d received were the five Game Designer of the Year awards he’d won back around the turn of the century. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t rank in the top five at the end of initiation, you will probably end up here,” says Four as he reaches the gate. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And then two or five or six hundred minutes pass before you start to wonder, Wait, did I get all the pus out? Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Each morning the thirty men working in the kitchen prepared three hundred dozen eggs, twenty-five hundred pancakes, five hundred pounds of bacon and sausage, and 180 gallons of coffee. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They all met at the thermometer and talked for five minutes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three years of trying, she had been pregnant five times, and there was still no baby. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If I walked twelve miles instead of, say, five, what would it gain me after all? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Everything looks the same as it did five minutes ago. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His closely trimmed beard was shot with white, making him look older than his thirty- five years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Even though five of us pulled the prank at the strip mall, I was the one who didn’t have the luxury of taking off—not after that lady recognized me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was almost six o’clock, and the meeting was supposed to be at five thirty. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The irksome security provisions of May-Johnson were liberalized, with penalties reduced to maximum fines of $20,000 and prison terms of up to five years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“One thousand five hundred meters,” the altimeter calls out. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Because this started on Tuesday, and now it's Saturday—that's five days. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If, for example, I played you five very high pitched tones, you’d be able to tell them apart. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down and said, “Five years! You are in for five years and you are so arrogant! Do you know what it means to serve five years?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the words “five times five” all stand in place and layer hands in the center of the circle to the beat of the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s Monday, so probably around five, same time as Dad.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

There are five of them now, white-headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I imagine any other teacher would’ve been on the phone to Psychological Counseling in about five minutes had he heard what Henry said about arming the Greek class and marching into Hampden town. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Aunty, you go on thinking I’m a lady, just for a little while, just until five o’clock when Atticus comes home. Then you’ll find out different. Well, goodbye.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It gave him more than enough time to pitch the hay and tend to the animals on his own modest property, located on five acres just outside Tremonton. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Baird was around five foot seven and trim but muscular, with the body of a fitness devotee, short hair, a square jaw, and almost preter- naturally straight teeth. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Four, five, six times I pulled the rope with the same depressing result. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“This fellow and four of his friends robbed me about five days ago. I didn’t recognize him at first. He was clean-shaven then, but it’s him.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Said the girl currently wearing clothing from five different decades.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

When my brother was five, he returned from a church barbecue he'd attended with a friend and announced "Jesus is in my bones." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I’d make up your mind in the next five minutes, if I were you,” Hermes advised. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Almost five hundred years ago, Indians lined the edge of the rise, taunting Orellana by waving palm fronds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She's been working for him for five years, and he always jokes that she somehow makes people want to wash even their clean clothes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

All in all he was probably in the stream for more than five minutes. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s five thirty by the time she gets there, and she’s clearly in a weird mood. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Finally they made it all the way to the port at Saigon, more than five hundred nautical miles south of Da Nang. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Or, ‘If I have to sit five more minutes in this traffic jam, I’ll simply explode’?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

And anyway, the bell is always five minutes late, which means it’s already a few minutes past midnight. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

There’s five of ’em, no, six, the men whose Noise you hear doing those freaky exercises in the Mayor’s house. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I'm about five steps away when her door opens behind me, and she says, "Hey ... can you come back?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crates were emptied, five pigeons at a time, into two white wooden boxes, each about the size of Dorothy’s bicycle basket. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was out again in five seconds, steam rising off his clothes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was so different from the way Papa had treated my maternal grandfather until he died five years ago. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When it rains in New York, people rush rush rush with their necks hunched low in their jackets and men stand at every street corner shouting, “Umbrella! Umbrella, five dollars!” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly an hour and a half had passed, it was almost five p.m. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Instead I scooped it off the floor and put the box on the top shelf of my closet and put five towels on top of it so I couldn’t see it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tired of living in a piano studio, she scouted out a much better apartment, with five rooms, a fireplace, and a sheltered porch where William could tinker and experiment with radios. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she needs reminding that I’m not five anymore. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sophia takes us to a dead-end street with five houses splayed around a circle. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back when she had received those four or five marriage proposals, she had gotten “quite weary of it.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled two copies of a little flat notebook, about two by five inches, from his pocket, and gave one to Nat and one to Ben. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had about five words for things that most people had only one word for, and could use four of five in a single sentence. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sets down his chalk, presses his slender fingertips together, five to five, and asks the boys to assemble the circuit with the parts in their kits. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There are five tabs on the site—Popular, New, Local, Promoted, Random—and I browse through Local searches first, as usual, to make sure I don’t recognize anyone....No one; good. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Seth asked.“Special artifacts of great power are hidden on those five preserves.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

My avatar could run at a maximum speed of five kilometers an hour, so it would take me over three days to get there on foot if I ran nonstop the entire time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Later, at dinner, she laments the fact that she’ll be thirty- five in a couple of months. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car pulled up to the main gate and Ben pulled down the sun visor and tried to age his face five years by assuming a stern, no-nonsense expression. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then the unthinkable: “I’ll be there no later than five,” she said. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

For five days, I walked from dawn to dusk, never coming in contact with any human being. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Isa swung open the door to their apartment, and together the five Vanderbeekers scrambled inside and let the door slam behind them. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It takes thirteen steps to open, and she discovers the sequence in under five minutes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“How did you get it over here? The nursery is at least five blocks away.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Her own parents died in a plane crash when she was five, and she was raised by an uncle who didn’t care much about her. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Age is difficult to tell, about five years old. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Benny could’ve learned how to play the bass five times by now.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

In fact, it was some five years later, by which time I had become quite thin. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you get home, check downstairs in case any phone messages were left for you between three-thirty and five. If there were, we’ll have to think of some reason why you didn’t take the calls.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Y'all vets better look out for this girl. She runs the eight hundred like it's a skip down the block," the coach said, giving Patina a high five. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Call me old-fashioned, but I think a wife who discovers her husband is in hock to the tune of five thousand pounds is entitled to some pretty bloody straight answers.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Road trip,” says Simon, leaning forward for a high five. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She waited until they were all in, all five of them, before she said anything. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got up at five. At five o’clock.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then it's like I'm five feet away. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dussel looked very sullen, didn't speak to me for two days and made sure he occupied the table from five to five-thirty—all very childish, of course. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe everyone sees this way at five and I didn’t outgrow it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Jean Louise,” he said dryly, “not much more than five per cent of the South’s population ever saw a slave, much less owned one. Now, something must have irritated the other ninety-five per cent.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For each step we take, about five people call out to him or nod a what’s-up. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Around five o’clock, he nuked a frozen dinner and popped the movie into the VCR. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cyrus Trask did have his five minutes of horror while they cut the shreds away and sawed the bone off square and burned the open flesh. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I want all of you to meet some expatriates. They are looking for land and I can arrange for them to buy from your father at five or six times the price.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Qur’an asked Muslims to worship five times daily: once between first light and dawn; again after midday; at mid-afternoon; at sunset; and lastly an hour and a half after sunset. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He was in full armour, which was getting rusty, and the rain came in at five places. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a ripped one in New York that, judging from the location of the hole in the wall, was one of the five boroughs of New York City. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

For the first five years, they’d smiled and giggled as their dad cracked corny jokes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Men with no work drinking from nine to five instead, down there in the lot. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we had dressed the M.C. came in and gave us each five dollars, except Tatlock, who got ten for being last in the ring. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more he thought about it, the more he realized that even after he had been living here for five years, most people couldn’t get past what they saw on the outside. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Boo looked outraged for about five seconds before he finally swallowed it. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She passed it on to her son Petras, who passed it on to his two daughters, who passed it on to three of their five children, and so on and so on. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won't shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds of exhausted? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Nat looked around the room that had been his home for five years. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black brother left ten to guard the wagons and the whimpery little girl, and split the rest of them into four groups of five to search the town. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t even care that the sun’s going to burn out in a matter of years, ending all life on Earth, well, five billion years, but still, guess what? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In another cupboard are a box of tea bags, Peek Freans shortbread biscuits, a five- pound bag of sugar that has not been poured into a bowl, a tin of evaporated milk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop says before they start to announce the top five. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

By the time one sledge hits the stake, five others are in motion. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was after five in the morning when he found him lying almost in the dead center of the Lawn. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A round of applause for our five brave volunteers.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I bite down on my lip and give myself five seconds to come up with something to say. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I refreshed my email continually that night, slept for a few hours, and then commenced to refreshing around five in the morning. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

One high note like an oboe—and then it sank down five tones and called again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Papa gave her his handkerchief, and she wrapped the other five in that for her second pocket. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

For the last five years, the Hunt had given me a goal and purpose. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But you have to understand that Target is like five minutes away from my house. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He knew he would fight to the last moment to five. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

No one spoke for a count of five. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When the timer rang, Fadi reset it for five seconds and used the tongs to pull out the paper and slip it into the indicator stop bath. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

As I hauled in the pot, something over five hundred dollars—my first real stake in Boston—John got up from the table. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figure by five fifteen that first hi-trading could be over. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was I even the same person I’d been five minutes before? Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She had six copper pennies, five rocks, the geography book, and two spools of black thread—heavyweight No. 30. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered now that the last time I had seen him was about five years earlier in a Denny’s restaurant where I was taking my mother for breakfast. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had changed—in five years he couldn’t help changing. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was no more than four or five years old, and not very big. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We haven’t talked in five months and we both look like different people, but it’s the same, same, same. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Oliver. We all need a turn, so we must plan. Ten minutes and five of us. Two minutes each.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

That is, until I spent a few months living in my little apartment with five other kids. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We have five fingers, including one opposable thumb. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the same vicious sneer as some of the kids at Camp Half- Blood, the ones from cabin five. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

You know how I’m making five dollars plus tips every Saturday? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Remember when you stole the yo-yo back when you were five?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was going to produce them from the air, and then give the girl the five bucks: she looked like she needed it. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I suddenly remember the time I was five and saw Amá put her jewelry in the freezer. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mother fiddled with a pen and paper for several minutes, but she wasn’t able to solve any of the first five equations. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

About one in five boys suffered from cholera on any particular day. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within, the stockade was cramped, some five hundred men gathered in a small and incommodious yard between tents. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“The complete price is $10,500, for two bedrooms, a large living room, kitchen, bath, and dining space, and five closets.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Less than a week after the buses were integrated, five white men jumped out of a car at a Montgomery bus stop and surrounded a fifteen-year-old black girl. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Once, five years ago, she had seen one of her own handmaids cruelly flogged. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

So I spend five more minutes sitting in my parked car staring at my email again on my phone. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Why does the only person in the world who might see things the way I do have to be five years old? A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And for the second time in five minutes, they all turn to me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Located just five kilometers from the fairgrounds, it took us only thirty minutes to reach it by cab. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The next morning Mr. Sir marched the boys to another section of the lake, and each boy dug his own hole, five feet deep and five feet wide. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Enrique shares one of five soiled, soggy mattresses with three other migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Francis means well. I know that. But he couldn’t stand up to Charles for five minutes.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Orgota noblemen drink that precious fire, brought five thousand miles over the foggy seas from Sith, as if it were beer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

By sunset our space is one straw mat, enough for us five to huddle together. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then he relaxed when Sapo slapped him five and they laughed at each other. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He’d just handed his entry form and picture to Ms. Bethune, five hours before his deadline. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Only five students,” said Mother, shaking her head. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s yelling, “I don’t care, Plutarch! Just give me five more minutes!” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Another five for me to hobble back to bed. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then I probably would've just stood there for about five minutes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Red shackled Ridgeway five times over, using every chain in the wagon’s boot. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We took the flowers and dropped two nickels and five pennies in Poncho Man’s guitar case. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the last name of the five brothers in the Mahabharata poem. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s not every day you see a remotely attractive girl hanging around a hospital, no more than five doors down from yours. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Some used crutches, and I counted at least five soldiers in wheelchairs. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t hear an apology. You’ve already lost five minutes from your screen time today. The longer it takes, the more you’ll lose.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It would be the first time in nearly five years that I would be free to leave Johannesburg, free to attend a meeting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pushed against a nearby wall on which height markers had been written by hand, from five to seven feet. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Many people went four or five times a week. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If the wind was blowing on race day, whoever was assigned lanes five and six would likely start off with about a two-length handicap to overcome relative to the inside lanes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mama Lessie had five little girls to protect, one of them my mother. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Its dining-room had one table, five chairs, and no fire; food was brought in from the village hot-shop. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was an instance where five whites charged $43 to put a corpse in a coffin and haul it downstairs to a waiting wagon. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Nobody says a word for five long minutes. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I know why Muslims do things. Like why we pray five times a day.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

There was a ten and a bunch of fives and more ones than she could count. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Two of those were so close to dead there was no hope for them, another five too weak to walk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Below, at each end, the hopper’s wheels are exposed: shiny metal, three feet in diameter, five inches thick, churning. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In Milan there were six theatres in which opera was performed regularly; in Naples there were five plus one more occasional venue. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Phoebe and I stood for five minutes outside the police station, trying to make our hearts slow down, and then we went inside and stood at the counter. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Still, of all the vehicles in Mattie’s brother-in-law’s back lot, it was the only one that looked like it might take him five hundred miles. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

One hundred fifty a day sought him out; his five assistants each saw thirty patients a day. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In the end, he whittled the list down to five names. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In the old days, five elfin warlocks would form a pentagram around the target and spread a magic shield over it, temporarily stopping time inside the enchanted enclosure. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

At five o’clock, Toomer drove his mule and wagon up in front of Fogle’s General Store at the base of the bridge. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you finish it, the hero usually wins. But if you kept reading five pages into the next issue and stopped...” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They followed a winding trail to the small hollow surrounded by five ancient trees, known as the Witch’s Handmaidens. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I found him and slapped him five over the heads of a few teammates in the huddle with his coach, and then I backed off. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They ranged from five to six feet tall. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Along with Finnick and Gale, the squad includes five soldiers from 13. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“No, ma’am, there’s just five of’em, a man, a woman, a girl, a boy, and a sick baby.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He popped open the bottle and poured five glasses. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As if a giant were swinging a sledgehammer, and that hammer were armed with five steel spikes... The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As he waited for an opening in the traffic, I checked him out, and man, he couldn’t have been over five feet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

All of them were in a festive mood—giving each other high fives, tying plastic bibs around their necks, breaking out the knives and forks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She was a fifty-four-year-old widow living off a small pension and social security with five kids still left to raise. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me? Pick her up! You seem to forget, mi amor, that the museum is just five minutes away and everyone shows up there wanting to hear the story, firsthand.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to explain: “It’s just that every time I’ve come home for the past five years—before that, even. From college— something’s changed a little more . . .” “—and you’re not sure you like it, eh?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"I move,” said Bill, "that we spend the five dollars we have saved to buy a collie puppy.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the wights and hollows failed again, this time they’d destroy a lot more than five hundred miles of empty forest. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Tuti, Frank has only been here for five minutes. Let’s not put him to work already.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But first, the five up in the citadel had to agree to it, and that couldn’t happen until tomorrow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ms. Parker expects us to practice twenty minutes times five days each week and prove it with a signed-by-a-parent sheet marked with Xs for every day we play. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Again at eight o'clock, when the dark lanes of the Forties were five deep with throbbing taxi cabs, bound for the theatre district, I felt a sinking in my heart. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“He rested pretty quiet till it might want a few minutes of five, and then he starts up with a scream, and screams out, ‘Here she is! Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

According to it, there are ten minutes until four thirty, and according to Aunt Pooh, who knows somebody who knows somebody, DJ Hype calls between four thirty and five thirty. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Its genes would be telling it to grow at a leisurely rate, sufficient only to bring it to maturity in five months. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of the sixteen pictures added to the Wall of Fame since 1982, five were of blacks. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She counts—one, two, three, four, five, six. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

This move would bring us to a total of five moves in ten years. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were five bathrooms for the five of us living in the residence, plus another ten spare bathrooms to go with them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“There’s no dead end in Norvelt, not today! Take those five library cards, Team Kyle! You won them fair and square!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I was five foot seven and a half, one hundred and fifty-four pounds. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

After about five minutes, Adam knocks on his forehead. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We each take five, leaving eight in reserve. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

On his desk Golomb has a row of five gold stars, given to him by his dealership in honor of his performance. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

We’re one of three meat and wool providers for the town, used to be one of five, soon be one of two because Mr. Marjoribanks oughta be dying from his drink problem any day now. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Must have made five or six tries already. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She must be running late, so I wait for five minutes. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She had five minutes left—five minutes during which she not only had to identify the poisons in seven goblets, but arrange them in the order of the most benign to the deadliest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I had learned to know these people better in five hours than I had learned to know my own family in five years. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, about five minutes after I got there, Henry and Savanna were standing next to me, literally hovering over me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He drives an old maroon Suburban that probably hasn’t passed inspection for the last five years. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Give you five baskets, give you?” he hissed. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Kansas victim, who followed the preceding five, was a grandfather; his name was Otto Ziegler, he was sixty-two, a robust, friendly fellow, the sort not likely to pass distressed motorists without offering assistance. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you bringing numbers five and eight, you vagabond,” said Mr. Trabb to the boy after that, “or shall I kick you out of the shop and bring them myself?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bread sold here for five cents a loaf, but across the “line” where white folks lived, it sold for four. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it was because of this that nearly all hog owners usually left four or five old barrows, or “bar’ hogs,” as we called them, to run with each bunch of sows. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can I get something nice for, maybe, five?” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had had my eye on one horse in particular, Prancer, the one I had dreamed about during all those months as I saved up the five pennies I needed to ride him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, at five minutes to six, Chester was about to begin the last public piece he would ever play in New York City. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And now it’s ten minutes past five,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them gabbed for a good five minutes before we resumed our slow march. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They took five in a grassy spot among aspens alongside the Little Baldy River. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took out my green plastic change purse and pulled out a crumpled five and passed it over slowly. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We need that money, sweetheart. For our future. I got five of you to take care of. A building is just a building, in the end.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Okay, my Fantasticos! Good news! All homework assignments have been passed in today. That’s worth five extra minutes of snack time.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The lady said we have five whole days. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They mobbed him, slapping fives, cheering his name. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Not really. We moved here just after Christmas. We lived here when I was five, though.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He left the house at five each morning and returned at eight each night, every day except Sunday. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But class ran until five minutes before the bell, which was just enough time to get changed, slather myself with extra deodorant, and run to geometry on the other side of the school. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then, around the corner of the house, came Bailiff Charles, leading five dirty, angry men. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even under the best of circumstances, building a prison like this would have taken four or five days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Will I ever have to five with him again?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Once the boards are back in place, Mrs. Bessermann slides under that bed, while Siunek crawls beneath the new one I bought off a junk cart five days ago. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In all, he spent five years with this family. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weismann had surgically excised the tails of five generations of mice, then bred the mice to determine if the offspring would be born tailless. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

From the way the light had shifted, Jon judged that he had been asleep for four or five hours. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, it’s three metres by five and I once worked out that it could fit 22,500 stamps. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A kind and generous man, Lewis Krakauer loved his five children deeply, in the autocratic way of fathers, but his worldview was colored by a relentlessly competitive nature. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten glass booths are arranged in a circle on this floor, five for us, five for the Demons. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In 1951, one of the school’s decrepit school buses crashed, killing five students. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“What could some of the minor topics of our report be? I will give you a hint. I spoke of at least five subtopics. Who can name a subtopic?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She drew and colored a picture of five guys with Afros and glued that over the dill pickle label. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Eighteen months later his sister was born, and five and a half years after the birth of his sister, his brother was born by Caesarean section, both in that same hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Within five minutes, I’m thrown a blue jersey with red and yellow stripes on it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“All I have to do is walk down a little path and I’m at the beach. It has five bedrooms, too. Mine’s the biggest.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Professor Croaker’s law—the furthest someone can go back in time without the possibility of serious harm to the traveler or time itself is five hours. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think we’re going to need the sled,” she whispered, as though there was anyone within five blocks to hear her. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Increased penalties were ordered for membership in illegal organizations; sentences from five years to the death penalty were instituted for “furthering the aims” of communism or of other banned organizations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We haven’t been able to wander lately, and we still have four or five places left on our map. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finch: Well, technically in, like, five or ten minutes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dad and I are supposed to leave for Australia in five days. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And if I’m really lucky, Mrs. van D. calls me to account five minutes later and lays down the law as well! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Wait a minute, I say, and run inside to get the five dollars. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

For five bucks, you get your top five. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Within five minutes, her head felt like a log being split to splinters. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I carried five baskets up the ravine and hid them near my house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Juno was right, an attack was coming in less than five days. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But it might have been a year, five years. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He stood five feet eight and was said to weigh over a hundred and seventy pounds. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d hear my name and I’d limp on over to my teammates, occasionally issuing a high five and talking about how we were going to crush our opponents. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I ran up the stairs and saw a big, lathered-up mongrel cornering a little black kid of about five or six against the monument. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The trip to Newcastle took about five hours, and when we arrived there, we needed three more taxis to take us from the station to the docks, where our boat would be waiting. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that my mom had been married five times. Five times!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He’s probably been reliving those five years of imprisonment all night. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“All pond water should be boiled for five minutes to remove germs. It’s in the Scout handbook.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that easy, Elizabeth. We’re five people living on one income.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And there's five times the minimum protein in each food pack, so careful rationing of portions takes care of my protein needs for at least four years. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I am one of five leaders of the Dauntless. We take the initiation process very seriously here, so I volunteered to oversee most of your training.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Although Zhanna was one of the five finalists in this "test," she would not be the one chosen to go into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I smack my forehead; there’s totally a charging station with retractable cords in the dugout, but even going back to charge for five minutes would add fifteen to my mission. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The Paqo nodded his agreement, and the five shamans moved away so quickly and quietly as to leave me wondering if they had been there at all. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

After what must have been five full minutes, I said, “What?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Any scale that uses only five notes within one octave is a pentatonic scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Will suddenly realised that his tradition-minded family had been standing, patiently immobile, waiting for five minutes while he read his letter. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The team of five boys and five girls was housed in various homes throughout the township: there wasn’t enough sponsorship money to pay for hotel accommodations. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the rocks of the rapids below it searchers discovered the bodies of five more, and also a long black cloak, slashed and tattered. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At that scale, with families of five and six people living off a farm the size of two hotel rooms, agriculture changes dramatically. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I found several large cans and used one of them to start the “time” can again, dropping five pebbles into it so that the reckoning would begin again from the night of the storm. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

All through the morning, many more small boats arrive to deliver their passengers and by late afternoon, ninety-eight people are onboard, each having paid for their escape in five or ten ounces of pure gold. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the boar only five yards away, he flung the foolish wooden stick that he carried, saw it hit the great snout and hang there for a moment. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It takes more than five years to pay for a house. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like she know you from five hundred miles away.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The class was now up to chapters five and six. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“And we’ll come back to the island after four or five months,” said someone else, “depending on the weather.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now that the Horntail had been taken away, Harry could see where the five judges were sitting — right at the other end, in raised seats draped in gold. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I was five he had a black girlfriend for about three months, and I swear they broke up because she couldn’t help him with my hair. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My father was dead five hours after having been released from the hospital with the simple instruction to “get some sleep.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

After doing the test—which takes only about five minutes—the students were instructed to walk down the hall and talk to the person running the experiment in order to get their next assignment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Because five hundred people here want to have a tolerance rally. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, all right. Five minutes. Just five minutes, now.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Gives me the creeps just to think about it. He’s just the sort who always stands up in the back of the courtroom during the last five minutes of ‘Perry Mason.’” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A strip of plastic had been drawn back in the casing above each of the screens to reveal a small compartment, cylindrical and about five inches deep. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Most of Maria Isabel’s neighbors, including twenty- five on her block, have no work, she adds. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“And what are the five categories of protections enshrined in the laws? Five categories of protections? Enshrined in Islamic laws? Islamic laws?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

What if it has been five years, or ten, or twenty? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She’d done that for every one of my sports teams since I was five. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We have Green lime And dark cola, And we have An umbrella of five colors. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t, and I’m here five days a week, all day. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was only about five feet off the ground, but already I was surrounded by leaves and oak flowers. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only one of the five Pandava brothers could light the lamp. Do you know where he went, human girl?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We decided, let’s go for broke. Let’s produce five full shows — one hour each — before we go to air and we’ll see what we’ve got.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within five minutes, she had cleared her plate and departed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And why were there five sets of two letters, evenly spaced, and then one letter at the bottom? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They captured the five and sent them to groups victimized by European kidnappers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After half a mile, Washington was seventh in a field of seven—almost five lengths behind the leaders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Smith taught him that he could trust his trainer and rider, and this became the foundation for the trials the three would share over the next five years. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s still five dollars a cord, and there’s three thousand cords in that little grove alone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You paid for five people in boat,” he says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Give you five baskets, give you?” it asked, as if the whole idea was a new one. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You could bind the ka of a man to his body for five thousand years,” said Jacquel. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The whole platoon was there, spread out in the dense brush along the trail, and for five hours nothing at all happened. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stories varied; some said there were a hundred men at Point Prospect; others put the number at nearer five hundred. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll see you in Jury tomorrow at five,” he announced, and then walked away. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Breathe in to the count of five, hold, expel. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Zach have been friends since grade five, when they were partnered up to make puppets of Lewis and Clark. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And he had not been in the house five minutes before he was aware that a change had occurred in the quality of her silence: in the silence something waited, ready to spring. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Little kids would gather around, four or five at a time. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Chase had gone on for a full five minutes about the upcoming Fourth of July picnic. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I have five minutes to get out the door and a crazy naked sister on the floor. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after five, George Kistiakowsky stood below the steel blast tower, a flashlight in his hand. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After five minutes, however, all four of us concurred: Hutchison’s decision to leave Beck and Yasuko where they lay was the proper course of action. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

"How much fuel—" "Use seventy-five point five percent of remaining attitude adjust fuel," Johanssen said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got here, she said, “I’m Morina, the Good Day, Bay! host,” and she vigorously shook all the teachers' hands and gave us kids perky high fives. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

On a scale of one to ten on the how-close-did-l-come scale: five. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Everywhere I looked, articles in magazines, newspapers, and online were declaring me America’s best hope to win five gold medals in Rio. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The “Malcolm X Committee” and I were exchanging goodbyes at the Accra airport when a small motorcade of five Ambassadors arrived—to see me off! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The five or six spent vanilla air fresheners hanging from the rearview mirror. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Twelve bucks. Two ones and two fives,” Genie announced, handing the money back to Grandpop. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But Sorrento and the Sixers had been at it for over five years and still had nothing to show for their efforts. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Give me five more minutes. Come on, don’t be like that.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Little is available during the five hot, dry months between January and April. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He flew into the country with five hundred rolls of film, .22- and .30-.30-caliber rifles, a shotgun, and fourteen hundred pounds of provisions. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I giggled a little when I found out the librarian I’d accused of being a Communist five years ago still worked at the library. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Darren and I give each other a shrug and a high five. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

That we might become better acquainted, I inquired of Sip whether his children were as musical as he; for he was prodigiously knowledgeable, acquainted with the tunes of five nations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There's a men's room up on five, and I'm betting it's empty. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They want to transform Finnick into a rebel leader as well, but first they’ll have to get him to stay awake for more than five minutes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She had been chosen as the most beautiful of the five thousand most beautiful women in the land and they had brought her to Macondo with the promise of naming her Queen of Madagascar. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Thousands of captives died in his quarries, chained to his sledges, or laboring on his five colossal towers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The slave sailors off the Selaesori Qhoran, sold singly, had gone for prices ranging from five hundred, to nine hundred pieces of silver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So much that five of us girls have formed a club. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Conversely, Europe, in its rush toward political and economic unity today, will have to devote much thought to how to avoid dismantling the underlying reason behind its successes of the last five centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That was before Doc sent me a personal bill for five dollars for “sutures and labor.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She thinks there are five fingers on a hand,” Esther put in dreamily. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Must have been four, five feet long, just lookin’ for somebody’s leg to wrap itself around.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lindsey had kissed five girls before, and had done other, mysterious, serious stuff with three of those. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

At that time, I didn’t know that five girls were in the bathroom. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

All five women earned full military and cosmonaut status, but only one would be picked to go into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Slow as their material and technological advance had been, little as they valued “progress” in itself, they had finally, in the last five or ten or fifteen centuries, got a little ahead of Nature. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I walk into the house five minutes early, humming “Love Me Do,” thinking I ought to go buy a short skirt like Jenny Foushee wore today. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There were known to be five regular or “platonic” solids, whose sides were regular polygons, as known to the ancient Greek mathematicians after the time of Pythagoras. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was five minutes until midnight, and though he now knew what the last Horcrux was, he was no closer to discovering where it was.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They were beginning what would be a three-day drive, minimum—more likely four or five. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They were mock-ups of the actual aeroplane, with wingspans of up to five feet. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s five years in a federal prison and a twenty-five-thousand-dollar fine....” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On rougher ground, you were sent out to clear a space five inches deep and five feet square. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

About twenty- five feet from me they caught him and down he went. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The five hundred or so people who had come out for the five-minute speech then left to go home, happy and satisfied. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This year, he’d probably spread the burden around, picking out five guys, say, and have them sell only ten boxes each. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met them almost five years ago, when I was eleven, after the Brysons left the neighborhood. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But I was four or five feet up in the air, trapped and weak. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I whistled as loud as I could, five times. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wept like a slob on the plane for five solid hours. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was slim, five foot nine, and just under 170 pounds. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was used to having breakfast at five forty-five. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

At five o'clock in the morning the noise of the toads and crickets outside the wall woke him up. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

After all, it was only five days until Christmas. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of dollar bills—ones, fives, tens, twenties, all wrinkled and worn—spilled into my lap. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At five o’clock Mom’s setting the recorder so Dad can watch the broadcast when he gets home. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She delivered at just over five months and left the stillborn baby's remains in a drainage ditch. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In high school physical education classes, I withdrew, in the regular company of five or six classmates, to a distant corner of a football field where we smoked and talked. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open up the front cover and there they is, not thirty or forty names, but hundreds, maybe five hundred, in the front pages, the back pages, along the rim a the inside pages. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Sisters and senior nurses had been drafted in to help, and five or six doctors were working on the most urgent cases. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even when I was five years old and we watched Bambi. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I think how unfair it is that of the five of us, Henry’s the only one who’s had water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We put a hundred lire on number five to win and a hundred to place and then had another whiskey and soda apiece. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

If we exceeded our five minutes, particularly if someone else was waiting to use the phone, Daddy simply unplugged it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s March, which means that the sun goes down around five, five thirty. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Or he will walk nine hundred miles as he might walk five blocks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If five cats catch five rats in five minutes, how many cats will it require to catch 100 rats in 100 minutes? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Poor Errol, who was elderly and feeble, had needed a full five days to recover from the journey. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was well past five o’clock when David, Cymbeline, and Louis Napoleon walked through the door of the back room arm in arm like they’d been friends their whole lives. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was probably five miles out of our way, but we managed to escape. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started preschool there when I was three, primary school when I was five. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There are five different prayers: for health, wealth, a death, a birth, a sin. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was five back then, so I only remember bits and pieces. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

That's right—the serpent had five other heads inside the main one, and they came forward now, all snapping and biting eagerly. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Nyanriak had her own five kids to take care of, but she knew that Tabitha was too little to keep up with the rest of the group. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were six large gray tents, and each one had a black letter on it: A, B, C, D, E, or F. The first five tents were for the campers. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The letter went on to describe their five cats—one had only three legs, and they all had peculiar names. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Of the five African groups, representatives of many populations of blacks and whites are familiar to Americans and Europeans and need no physical description. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Five dollars, the little one says, only five. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

This left the younger boys to lead units of five hundred to six hundred boys. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The advantage of only having to feed themselves, and not having to support five extravagant human beings as well, was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It is a family of five, parents with three boys, from perhaps five to ten years old. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark was still five or six hours away—not that it mattered. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

My memories of the hippos and the flying squads come from when I was five or six, when apartheid was finally coming apart. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I can be there in five, I write back. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

If the Gestapo can’t find the saboteur, they simply grab five hostages and line them up against the wall. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was five o’clock on a summer evening. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His frustration grew when he read a letter from Emma postponing the wedding five days. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have seven brothers and five sisters. And a mother and father and a great-great-grandmother who’s one hundred and nine years old and a horse named Greta if I can ever find her.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Sometimes five hundred dollars would be on the table. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are the five ants, one termite that I know of, and Man.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood watching for about five seconds before he pushed into the crowd. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’m the first of fifteen students competing, since each participating Islamic school program entered five top contestants. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There were five people waiting to talk to him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She looked at a watch on her arm and said, “Oh, no, Syl! I’m late! It’s five minutes after one, sir.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Then he’d spent five brutal months fishing for salmon on the Bering Sea, up in Alaska, to put together enough money to start at the university. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If I made myself American-pretty so that the five or six Chinese boys in the class fell in love with me, everyone else—the Caucasian, Negro, and Japanese boys—would too. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Donell: Yeah, he goes to our school and I beat him up about five times for killing my cousin. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would blow the whole place up in five minutes! Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He sleeps for five minutes straight before he starts speaking again. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

But instead of saying that all people have five fingers, he said that we all had five of something else.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t suppose you do. I think a size five will do. I’ll visit the armory later.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Like the feeling you get five minutes before you realize you’re going to throw up. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Levels four, five, and six were the compulsory levels. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Barely five feet tall, Elizabeth cradled her books in her arms as she desperately searched for the right place to enter. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And anyway, five hundred years was an awful lot to remember. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We could hear Diana Ross telling Sammy Davis Jr. something about five Jacksons and the lead singer, whose name was Michael. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

At this point the priest left and I told the story about the travelling salesman who arrived at five o’clock in the morning at Marseilles when the mistral was blowing. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I am. The thing is, there’s a five- dollar service charge on each ticket. So even though the tickets are fifty-five dollars, they cost sixty.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

So while cartography and navigational instruments taken in isolation are neutral devices, in practice they are part of a package of technologies that ensured Western global dominance for five hundred years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The round-trip took us nearly five hours — time far better spent earning money to pay for food, rent, and clothes for the children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had become the largest industry in the world, the most productive, the most sophisticated, outproducing the Germans by more than three times and the Japanese by nearly five. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At last they told us it was time to sleep, and I crawled up into a single bed with five other men. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Solid. Who are your top five goats then?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I followed her obediently over to where the sand dunes dropped sharply five or six feet to the beach itself. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He knew he invented the high five and that he was gay.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He stops crying as hard and says, “I stole ’bout five Gs from King.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Around five it occurred to her to do something, so she sewed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As one person the five biggest Egyptians turned and looked at their temple. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again without any apparent logic, the magistrate then asked if I had fired all five shots at once. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She polish it off in about five bites. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I would be walking down the hall at school and a complete stranger going the other direction would extend his hand to give me five. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Pretty good. Glad he didn’t decide to teach me five lessons.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He went out leaving the five copper coins on the table beside the bed. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing wrong with taking your time, Miss Celia. Believe me, I got five kids.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A minute later all five of them were in full flight down the cart-track that led to the main road, with the animals pursuing them in triumph. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“But we could use one of these pictures for our Christmas card this year. We didn’t get one of all five of us at the Sun Temple. Mr. Kapasi could take it.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He jogged around like Rocky Balboa and gave his siblings high fives. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There a stringy-haired man sat cross-legged on the ground playing a flute made out of a drainpipe, and five or six Believers circled him, clapping and singing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It usually takes a woman five or six months to get pregnant,” the doctor went on. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A clerical error early in the war, when food was still getting through to prisoners, had caused the Red Cross to ship them five hundred parcels every month instead of fifty. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At five in the afternoon, I hear a car pull up and see Stuart climb out of his truck. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He had been small enough to sit on her lap and play with her reading glasses—he might have been four or five. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Still, only five of us would ultimately compete in Rio, and our team name needed to reflect that. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I noticed the oven timer still had thirty- five minutes to go. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had to sit out five minutes until his nose stopped bleeding. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Right, you weren’t here for that bit with the Thunder Gong, were you? Must’ve been five years ago that happened.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And five minutes later he arrived at his own home. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, there are dozens of irregular plurals, but most of them are second nature to us by the time we’re five or six. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Number five was bright red—a real nasty paint job, as if the color had been splashed on with buckets and fists. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t understand. Why would the universe introduce me to this boy and then take him away from me five seconds later?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how much security Hideo usually has at his residences—but tonight, at least five cars are sitting here, and two bodyguards are at the front gate, waiting to greet me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Enslaved Africans crossed the stormy Atlantic chained together and packed into airless cargo-holds in groups of four to five hundred. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Scrawled across the paper in thick black letters were five words: She’s the last one. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I’ll need to be in the theater from three to five on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Taking up agriculture, the Finger Lakes people, by now consolidated into five main groups, lined the region’s hills with farms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There should be a word for that, when you hear something and simultaneously realize that it’s been swimming around in your brain for five minutes without your permission. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At five o’clock the next morning, with the stores loaded onto the boats, the men pushed off into the water again, rowing along the base of the cliffs. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He said he had borrowed from more friends than he let on, that the money from the shop alone was no longer enough to sustain the five of them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

None too soon, it seems, for less than five minutes later the guns were booming so loudly that we went and stood in the hall. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This walk was the old woman’s ammunition dump, and she used it so regularly that Nick had to lay down a new path about once every four or five months. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Garden Heights looks the same, but a couple of blocks away at least five police cars speed by. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Tigris’s shop sits about five blocks from the City Circle and Snow’s mansion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We lie on the tin roof and watch as five or six men turn the corner. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I gotta go, but my sister has five tickets to see Duke play North Carolina. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Some of them took a step backward, and all five moved a little closer together, as if they were afraid. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She opened a wooden chest and took up five unbaked loaves of bread. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been five in the morning when, downtown, I woke up a white actor I knew who lived in die Howard Hotel on 45th Street, off Sixth Avenue. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At five, he started smoking, picking up discarded cigarette butts while walking to kindergarten. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Gambling debts. A loan for a motorcycle. The records stop about four or five months ago.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

If we are caught being part of the operation as either an abettor or a refugee, the Vietnamese government could take our gold and throw us in jail for five years. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The penalty for breaking them was five years in prison. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“See that? It says June first at five p.m. And it is now”—he checked his wristwatch—“five twenty-four p.m.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And if I played you five very low pitched tones, you’d be able to tell them apart. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of only five students, we met in the greenhouse on the second floor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Calvin says, “I think we’ll hit the ceiling boards about five feet down. Maybe six. We have to keep the hole super perfect, Mason. We want the Sonotube to fit tight.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“About five years old, maybe. Do you remember?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

This dynamo measured five feet two inches tall, was forty-nine years old, and her misty red hair had mostly turned to gray. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the Germans told everybody else to form in ranks of five, with Billy as their pivot. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

How did those five divisions of humanity get to be where they are now in Africa? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But five minutes later, she again demanded the time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It grew longer and longer—three feet, five feet, ten!—and my jaw dropped as John Henry’s hammer hummed with energy. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Behind her I see our snow angels, a perfect five feet apart. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Hearing this makes me afraid and I walk over to Pa. “We’ve been walking and walking for five days now. When can we go home?” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at it as if he was trying to figure out if he wanted to give me five or not. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The fortresslike conference room was an interior room with concrete walls, fluorescent lighting, and ergonomically correct leather chairs that cost five thousand a pop. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A pair of sparkly silver stilettos gives her about five more inches of height. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The baby, a boy, is born at five past five in the morning. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In the Beyond, are we still dead or do we five?” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Also, it was only five minutes before the end of the day, and he’d have to stand up then anyway because he had bus duty this week. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

So over the next five or six days, I told him whatever he wanted to know, and he’d lie there, all hooked up, a gentle smile breaking through. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, his father was a healthy man, although he was old, who had not worked at all for five years now and thus could not be counted on for very much. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four or five strokes into the race, Gordy Adam and Stub McMillin “washed out,” their oars popping out of the water before they had completed their pulls. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If he had, he thought it must have just been for the last five minutes. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He waited five minutes and then softly, his hands wet, he shut and bolted the door. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded something like Valyrian, but he did not recognize more than one word in five. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Dad went through the five phases of grieving— denial, anger, acceptance, whatever—in like one day. I think he’s more freaked out that he is old enough to have a daughter who has a boyfriend.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1963, the South Vietnamese government had relocated more than five million farmers to heavily fortified villages. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was changing its shape in a complicated way, thinning at the base as a vertical column rose five or six feet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’m a carnivore, from a long line of carnivores going back five hundred million years and who knows how long before that. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached the lodge at Gateshead about five o’clock in the afternoon of the first of May: I stepped in there before going up to the hall. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And five minutes after that, they had opened a window in the pantry next to the kitchen two floors below and climbed out into the alley. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

All very nice - except the temperature was about a hundred and five degrees. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Carmen put her arm around my shoulders and spoke to me like I was five years old. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, when Mrs. Coulter realized this and explained how the earth and the other five planets revolved around the sun, Lyra laughed loudly at the joke. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

‘Four o’clock! I must be getting back. I was told to pick up a pair of gloves on Queen Street and be back at five.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bingo. There’s five thousand birds, men, and only one day to turn ’em into fertilizer. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It has been more than five years since Theo visited Vincent in The Hague and they walked together to the mill. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My punishment, on this occasion, was to write five hundred times, “I will never, never hit any student in Public School 125.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The best, who were fabled heroes, were able to cut up a steer in under five minutes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In Emmett’s first year, the jail held nearly three hundred prisoners, including four murderers, sixty-five thieves, two arsonists, twenty-four burglars, two forgers, five rapists, and twenty-four inmates classified as lunatics. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When we reach the summit, I make him stand there, about five meters from the edge. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

After five years, the government of national unity would become a simple majority-rule government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were five minutes of instruction that day; students spent the remaining fifty-odd minutes working on various stories they were writing. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny Wells got five swats and had to write it fifty times for running off and snitching on the teacher. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It took the chopper another five minutes to get to us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If people didn’t know us, they couldn’t find us, and we could five our lives in peace. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It took close to five minutes before he heard anything, but when he did, it was worth the wait. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“What kind of lady he gonna get for seventy- five cents?” the tall guy asked. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

With twenty-two Champions and five shots each, the Test took a dreadfully long time. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

What white kid could hate blacks after spending five minutes in the Beales’ house? Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa would be home because he went to work at five a.m. and came home early, by three. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After we sang a welcoming song from the Catholic Hymnal, Mother Lucy read Matthew chapter five up to verse eleven, and then we sang the national anthem. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Billy and five other American prisoners were riding in a coffin-shaped green wagon, which they had found abandoned, complete with two horses, in a suburb of Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Becoming south or southeast five or six,' I said out loud. ‘Sorry?’ said Salim. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doc’s paying us five cents apiece for those frogs. We’re going to get seven or eight hundred. How about taking a pint of Old Tennis Shoes just ’til we can get back with the frogs?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got here at five and no one was home.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stand five feet, five inches tall, a little shorter than freshman year. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I have five years of hair in my hand. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Covering five square miles and housing at least fifteen thousand people, Cahokia was the biggest concentration of people north of the Rio Grande until the eighteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At five to three they left the castle and made their way across the grounds. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Stacked on the same shelf, each in a different color, are five books. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

But after five months at Sing Sing, I understood. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It waren’t till about five or six rings that the bell got tolling real good. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

We’ve been here for only five minutes when the manager of the store comes out and says, “You Negroes stop harassing my customers.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were in the top row, about five sections to the right of us, near the east entrance. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s been five weeks,” Gabriel said as Cabot Searcy handed him a paper plate with a ham and cheese sandwich on it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Portia’s butcher knife was stuck in his belt, and on the wide, dark road he looked so small that it was like he was five years old instead of seven. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In addition to himself there were five other employees at the show—two men to operate the swings and take tickets and three girls to manage the booths. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As Cardan walks past the boy, apparently done with him, I am grateful that Cardan has five more worthy brothers and sisters; it’s practically guaranteed that he’ll never sit on the throne. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He knew it last night at supper and smelled it when he walked in at five o’clock this morning. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I tried reading five pages every evening, but often I was too tired to concentrate and did not understand what I read. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Say someone or other finished a manuscript every minute; in five minutes that would be five manuscripts stacked on the Fiction Editor's desk. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The adjoining racetrack had been torn down, and now more than five hundred companies contracted by the Nazi state were at work preparing the site for the Olympic Games. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I always manage to make a trip to the bathroom take five minutes. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

This year it just happened to be five hundred dollars. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took five weeks, but when the birth certificate arrived in the Richardson mailbox, it was a bit of a disappointment. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Aiyi is only five years older than my father, which makes her around seventy-seven. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why would five kids who didn’t know one another simultaneously decide to run away for a week and a half, without leaving a single word with loved ones? Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Details are still sketchy: Two down at the docks. At least five in midtown. Three in the Claw.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Bram and I have English and algebra together, which basically amounts to two hours of staring longingly at his mouth and five hours of longingly imagining his mouth. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

To step across every inch of the five feet. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I was about to nod when I realized if I said something, I could bring my word count for the day up to five. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At five o’clock in the morning bride and groom both could be found in the strawberry fields. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He read again: Immediately a cordon of five thousand police, augmented by more than three thousand volunteers, was thrown about the Black Belt. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not, in fact, wear the same shirt every day. I have five identical ones.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was somewhere between thirty and thirty- five, long and stringy, and nice-looking. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Fatima lay there for maybe six seconds, which were five seconds too many because a bus had pulled up and had stopped at the stop sign. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Eleven country hits; five rock songs; three hip-hop tunes. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are five in all, and the main one—the one I’m sure Oprah Winfrey stayed in—stares down at us with its beige paint and white trim, gold handles for the glass French doors. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Channel 10 is running my interview tonight on the five o’clock news! Be sure to tell your mom.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

At the dormitory the school official assigned her to a room with five other women, who were unpacking when she came in. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four old sweaters, ugly and full of holes, and five pairs of knitting needles. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Kristina is lying on my bed, dressed in sweats, looking awesome, even though I know she probably rolled out of bed five minutes ago, hasn’t showered and probably hasn’t even brushed her teeth. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It lasted fifty- five seconds, to be precise. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I also told her to make sure he got the extra five I left on the pew for him. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Three firemen and five policemen fainted and had to be carried away. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But there’d be five. Someone might get suspicious,” Mother said patiently. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

At least five different organizations had sent soldiers-for-hire into the city, including Israeli mercenaries from a firm called Instinctive Shooting International. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was as if someone had stolen his five senses, leaving him in a vacuum. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He guided them along one of five narrow ledges, all of which led to a grooved and rutted plateau. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other five were taken to a concentration camp and interrogated by the Gestapo. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fifth period: “If I don’t look at the clock for five minutes, class will end early.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mom says after galumphing downstairs from her office at ten after five. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“And wise and beautiful Draupadi, wife to the five brothers—what she wanted most of all was peace. I tried to grant her wish, but the closest I could muster was light.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“One for us and...and one for this guy, Glenn Burke. The guy who invented the high five.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

When I got to eleven, he was at five, and so on, always across from me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Even though he had been gone from the house almost five years, I still missed him, most often at dinnertime and on those evenings when we gathered in the dining room for family games. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a total of eight days in that glorified hut, but I mostly just slept the first few away.The last five were the problem. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

From January on, she was wrapped in a wet sheet and rubbed vigorously for five minutes every morning, which was supposed to stimulate her nervous system and circulation. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the age of five, six, well past the time when most other children no longer easily notice the difference between sounds uttered at home and words spoken in public, I had a different experience. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felix hadn't seen Mark in four or five years, and the last time had been by accident. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It only took the old man about five minutes to get the strings in agreement. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Shelly pulled back her thick hair to reveal five small, shiny hoops in her left ear. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It took him less than five seconds to eat an entire stem, and then he’d root around for more. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I sit at the window, drinking my coffee, biting my fingers, looking down the five stories. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, no. I wouldn’t read five thousand pages of something if it contained precise instructions on how to lose twenty pounds by eating Krispy Kremes and orgasming. Do you not have homework?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m kind of eccentric. I’ve always been one of those weird guys who likes to sleep at five o’clock in the morning.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There followed a terrible war between Cronus, helped by his brother Titans, against Zeus with his five brothers and sisters—a war that almost wrecked the universe. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The visitors proved to be five pheasant hunters from Oklahoma. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Luna was five years old, her magic had doubled itself five times, but it remained inside her, fused to her bones and muscles and blood. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Eventually, a voice, female, but not very feminine, shouted, “I’m coming,” but it was five minutes before the woman appeared. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had become an old man in the five years since she had seen him—an old man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her emotions soared for the time it took to reach the street, maybe five or eight seconds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I stood there absolutely frozen for about five seconds. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Yet somehow, after five cruel winters of war, I was still alive. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Each shooter gets five shots at a time. Count ’em. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

We’d been fighting for almost five minutes and there was no blood. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I can happily report that he’s up to at least five words per sentence. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I can’t stay. Mother’s sick—” “I told you five months ago to print my initiative and now another week has passed and you still haven’t followed my instructions.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Terrorists attacked the Twin Towers on 9/11. Except our teachers are taking baby steps. Teaching pieces. Treating us like we’re five instead of ten.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Toby waited an extra five minutes before he got out of the car and stripped off his clothes. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When she didn’t return after three, four, five minutes, he slid his pencil into the spiral of his notebook and followed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But even in that group there are people whose social circle is four or five times the size of other people’s. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then a group of five white children walked into the store, also carrying lunch pails and school bags. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Part of the five hundred dollar deal was that Ulibarri would deliver the cattle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to be five,” Mr. Ortiz said in his slight Cuban accent. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“In my grandfather’s time, cows were four or five years old at slaughter,” Rich Blair explained to me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I talk to Dad for about five minutes, but I'm not thinking about what's he's saying. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Spirit Bears five hundreds of miles south of here off the coast of British Columbia, not here in these islands.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I slid my hand through the crack in the door and gave Noodles a five before closing it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But here, for starters, is Quintilian: “The whole art of oratory, as the most and greatest writers have taught, consists of five parts: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

And he decreed there were to be five levels, all with the proper needs for his individual enemies. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I dig into my bag for my phone and see that it's five o'clock already. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And so I walked five thoroughly agreeable miles up Kittatinny to Sunfish Pond, a very comely forty-one-acre pond surrounded by woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A shadow-woman sat on the bench five feet away from me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She’s barely five feet tall, hunched over from years in the factory, but rock hard and still to this day very active and very much alive. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If he didn’t hurry, she might miss the five o’clock bus. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

They walked five or six steps and turned and squawked at the men. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Somehow, astonishingly, she managed to use her position of political influence to quietly help out an estimated five thousand people who might otherwise have been victims of Stalin’s purges. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We had already lost about five men, and the rebels were coming at the rest of us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was only calmwater and clear skies and those five crates lazily bobbing along an ocean current. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bartender has immaculate pink lipstick and stubble poking through thick foundation, and they rapidly line up five shots and a soda with lime. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Half were asked to take five minutes beforehand to think about what it would mean to be a professor and write down everything that came to mind. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Our guests are at work on the problem of the citadel,” Eril-Fane reported to the five Zeyyadin, which translated as “first voices.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But he hadn’t walked five paces before a high voice spoke, though Quirrell wasn’t moving his lips. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know exactly how big his boat is, but it could probably hold, like, five couches.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

There was something chilling in the thought, something a little melancholy, and looking at the clock I saw that five more minutes had gone by. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Glen calls out and Jimmy and Ducky are giving each other high fives. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I left George and Florah alone in the house, for I thought that at three and five years old respectively, they were old enough to take care of themselves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three children, the six-year-old patient, and his two sisters, Mary and Anna, who were eight and five. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cubicles were small, only five feet in any direction, with doors that sealed like a freezer’s to prevent contaminated air from getting inside. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We took the flowers and dropped two nickels and five pennies in Poncho Man’s guitar case. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a dry, uninspiring little kiss, and I remember thinking it was too bad both our mouths were so chapped from walking five miles in that cold wind. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He’d been accepted into five great colleges but ended up not going to any of them because his parents couldn’t afford the tuition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I did four or five media jobs in England, juggling them like a clown. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he runs, he looks like a camel—all knobby-kneed and loose-jointed with his neck stretched so far out that his nose is over the goal line five minutes before his shoulders. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that was before she met Sula, the girl she had seen for five years at Garfield Primary but never played with, never knew, because her mother said that Sula’s mother was sooty. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the final five feet of a tennis ball’s flight toward a player, the ball is far too close and moving much too fast to be seen. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I want them to say ‘I’m fine, thank you’ and ‘I’m five years old.’ Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Except for Don Hume, who seemed to again be fighting some kind of cold, they had put on five or six pounds each. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He appeared to be in no hurry to join me, and instead spent the next five minutes mingling with the patrons, basking in the glow of his victory. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Before examining her, he flipped through her chart—a quick sketch of her life, and a litany of untreated conditions: Sixth or seventh grade education; housewife and mother of five. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I stayed five steps in front of him as we made our way back around the rest stop, past the water fountains, through the silver benches and tables under the overhang. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The bodega is more than five blocks away, and we have to drive to the closest supermarket or Laundromat. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The stars told me five hours had passed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Domingo, Domingo,” he whispered, and then he was, at forty-two minutes after five, lost on his knees.... The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

No drunk teenagers who want chili five minutes before we close. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We were high up in the foothills, at least five hundred feet, and down below a valley spread out, filled with a tumbled collection of red mesas and boulders and spires of stone. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Kastor will deduct five points off my grade if I don’t hand my paper in by the end of first period!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Trained not to wait more than five minutes, she walked back to the bus stop and returned to Las Vegas. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both pull out fives and hand them to me. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She probably drives a new car, lives in a three-story house, and owns like five hundred pairs of shoes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Not since I was five, and the Weavers were under siege, had he been so certain that the Days of Abomination were upon us. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Before I knew it, five o’clock had passed. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When the five were gone, Aunty Ifeoma asked him to drink some water so the tablets could break down and start to help his body heal. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were five more moon landings after Apollo 11. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. You can find it on the programme. Number five I think.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When I think it’s time I wheel him back, and Mrs. Finestein says, “Don’t tell me it’s five o’clock already!” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day, after a few episodes of this bleeding that comes for four or five days, then disappears for a month, the Doctorita’s mother, Anita, comes to visit. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those babies cost five thousand dollars a pop,” Harris said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The two old dancers were still dancing at Sixth Hour, midnight, after five Terran hours. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually the Second helped him get all five throwing stars zipping in circles overhead, their strange dark shapes flitting like bats. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We stood face to face for the first time five weeks ago, when 1 arrived at this posting. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had some vigorous and healthy males left in his five sons. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We'll dig every one of the five hundred holes by hand over the next week. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Just five years old, she and her sister ship, the SS Washington, were the first large North Atlantic liners to be built in America since 1905 and the largest that Americans had ever built. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“We should invite all three of them to meet us in the Basement later tonight. Say around midnight? A private chat-room session. Just the five of us.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am. Split up when I was five. I’m pretty sure the world is only turning because they got divorced. Otherwise their fights would have probably made the planet implode.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And so they lived . . . one month . . . three . . . five. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the end, he had five kids who were as smart and disciplined as he was. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Okay, so period five was a stretch, and sometimes I wouldn’t get there until after you’d left, but periods one and four were at least in the same hall. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

At five foot four, he's shorter than I am, stocky but not exactly intimidating. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He was handicapped by illiteracy and he offered me the job of accompanying him on trips into the delta plantation area to write and figure for him, at wages of five dollars a week. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Radar drives no faster than five miles an hour. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Not five feet away, where a wall ought to have been, where a wall would be in a proper dungeon, the floor ended and the sky began. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

High school can be extended five or even ten more years, but only for people named Rude. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, all five of her daughters graduated from college. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Only five or six big ones went off, but what beauts they were. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I had five sandbags, which I filled and put in front of me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They were spacing five feet to our three. It was unbelievable,” he said after the race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She said it was from all the sun, but it changed like five shades, so I think she got it highlighted. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ever since he was about five years old, Mike Horan had been in the foster care system, moved from one family to another. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When the Chamber of Commerce improved its gardens, the merchants each gave five dollars but Dora was asked for and gave a hundred. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

House cleaners, like Linda Bates, five thirty or forty miles away. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He saw himself as a muckraking gadfly and had mortgaged his brownstone five times to keep The Phoenix going. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally they make it through security with just five minutes until boarding starts. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

That was the first time she saw Hagar, who was four or five years old then. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a late settlement appointment. Can you take Emma to soccer? Practice starts at five.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I’m fine with only five minutes of practice, especially when I’m so bad in comparison. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

My dad kept a file, and at least four or five times a year he would write to Washington, D.C., asking someone to please help get his father’s coffin back to Florida. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, all five of us can see them sitting at the dining room table, giggling and touching each other’s hair and examining each other’s nails and complimenting each other’s best features. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Black had proved twelve years ago that he didn’t mind murdering innocent people, and this time he had been facing five unharmed boys, four of whom were asleep. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Our flight didn’t leave until noon, but Mom woke me up at five thirty, turning on the light and shouting, “AMSTERDAM!” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z