| 单词 | flesh |
| 例句 | I tore at decaying flesh that did not respond. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And she slept and ate and took on her body this soft smooth flesh. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It’s the first woman I ever seen in the flesh. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z At least the flesh was tasty and unfishy, and the crunchiness of cartilage was a welcome respite from so much soft food. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She peeled carrots as if she was enjoying skinning their flesh. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The thud of Ignatius’ fall had attracted Miss Trixie from the ladies’ room; she came around the files and tripped on the mountain of supine flesh. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Cole realized the gulls were fighting over bits of his own torn flesh. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I hitched gusts of air, tears gushing down my cheeks, stinging the raw flesh of my lips. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She grabs hold of my arms, her fingernails digging into my flesh. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother could contend against the hairy beasts whether flesh or ghost because she could eat them, and she could not-eat them on the days when good people fast. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The relish in his voice made Harry’s flesh crawl. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And my fingers were forever picking away at bits of dry fat and dry flesh that clung to the inner sides of shells, rummaging for food in the automatic way of monkeys. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I believed, and still do, that our bodies are our selves, that my soul is the voltage conducted through neurons and nerves, and that my spirit is my flesh. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Her dæmon’s sharp nails were pressing into the flesh of her upper arms, and she gripped his fur for reassurance. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z All of them had pale flesh and black hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The chaplain’s wife was a sweet, soothing, considerate woman, and he yearned to touch the warm flesh of her slender arm again and stroke her smooth black hair, to hear her intimate, comforting voice. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The Pickwell kids cheered when he showed up and treated him like a legend in the flesh. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She took it, running her fingers over the flesh. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z An inextinguishable elation gripped the room and the voices of the young aviators were fleshed with bravado. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd continued to boo as guards entered the arena to remove the prisoner’s remains, tendrils of smoke still curling from his ruined flesh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She’d like me pregnant though, over and done with and out of the way, no more humiliating sweaty tangles, no more flesh triangles under her starry canopy of silver flowers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Think of all the embraces, all the private jokes, customs, greetings, names, dreams, all the shared knowledge and capacity of a black family injected into that vessel of flesh and bone. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I gnawed the cuticles off from around my fingernails, leaving welts of exposed, oozing flesh which would harden into rinds and scale off. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Ever they circled above the City, like vultures that expect their fill of doomed men’s flesh. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z His stomach caved in as Janza’s fist sank into the flesh. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Müller explains that he has a flesh wound in his thigh; a good blighty. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A chunk of hanging flesh he was trying to push back in place. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z His flesh is very pale in the sunlight and he no longer looks strong and stocky. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z His body was bent and emaciated to the bone, almost flesh- less. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z After one exasperating day, Garfield said to his personal secretary, Joseph Stanley Brown, “These people are merciless; they demand blood, flesh, and brains.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But the cold wind whipping up off the water made goose bumps rise on his flesh. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The reasons for that are complicated, and Tony gave them flesh and blood by befriending some Mexican kitchen workers at a restaurant owned by an earlier, successful immigrant from Greece. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z When the Americans finally heard the VC and detonated the mines, hundreds of small steel balls exploded back at them, tearing into their flesh. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The smell of baking bread and sweet spices mixed with the pungent coppery scent of raw animal flesh being chopped by seasoned butchers filled my nostrils. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “You know it, I know it, God knows it. Do not compound your sin on the flesh of innocents! It shall not cleanse!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Before sleep, for a few minutes, I try to accustom my flesh to the burial that is coming. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z As the numbness crept into the hand, or stole past the foot and up the leg, the flesh stiffened and grew cold and the victim’s skin took on a greyish hue, resembling stone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This was the masculine Mr. Sedaris, who wrote knowingly of flesh wounds and tractor pulls. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The sagging flesh of her face quivered; her eyes, large, dark, deep-set, wide apart, glared at me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It had a more chewy texture than dorado flesh, but I didn’t find there was much of a difference in taste. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Wherever you went, you saw the same wooden frames going up—like the skeletons of houses waiting for their wooden flesh to be attached. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I reached for the king’s hand, which he granted unwillingly, and I pressed them into the flesh of his hot, moist palm. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z One can speculate that grieving parents were unable to let go of their children’s bodies in a society that viewed the spirit as adhering to the flesh. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Press it in the wounds for me, Lyra. Fold the flesh over it and then hold some snow there till it freezes.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Here, the Romans burned a tattoo into your flesh, as if to say: You belong to us. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He also had a feeding tube fixed in the front of his neck, which pushed lumps of flesh to the sides. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Z’s hands squeezed the wires he was holding so hard that Frankie was amazed they didn’t cut into his flesh. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z One agent, he claimed, had sniffed the air and cried, “Don’t you smell that human flesh burning?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I pull the flesh apart to see how deep the wound goes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z We slept the rest of that night, and in the morning we saw where the fleas had feasted, our flesh pink with flea welts and bright with the blood of our scratches. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z His hair had fallen to the wrong side and I could see the long scar at his hairline, all dented and puckered, with ridges of white flesh cutting across it to the browbone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He felt the metal of the wheel grow hot beneath him, blackening the flesh of his arms and legs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The flesh of General Eisenhower consumed by generations of predators will speak aloud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His face is cut and bruised, deep reddish-brown bruises; the flesh is swollen and knobby, stubbled with unshaven beard. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z His fingers stopped their tapping and curled until he felt the fingernails digging into the flesh of his palm. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The flesh melts, the forehead bulges more prominently, the cheekbones protrude. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The empousa's favorite tactic was to make a guy fall in love with her, then drink his blood and devour his flesh. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Her gigantic head rose out of the water, jaws spreading, and everything around them seemed to tremble, like Missy herself was a singular aquatic earthquake made of flesh, blood, tooth, and bone, and utterly unstoppable. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z His bones were clearly outlined and the wrap of his arms was flat, in a way that would be impossible if he had some flesh underneath the skin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Her breath quickened as his fingers traced the curve of her neck and wandered careless toward the soft flesh below. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They are growing, she realized as she watched them snap and squabble over the blackened flesh. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Black flakes of skin had peeled away in places, showing raw flesh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “The beast devoured Barsena’s flesh. Dragons prey on men. It was killing, burning...” “... burning men who meant harm to your queen. Harpy’s Sons, as like as not Your friends.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The hatchet sticks in the frozen turkey flesh. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Thirteen soldiers were killed by lightning, too, the coins in their pockets melted and their flesh roasted. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The flesh is white and tender and very sweet. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I drank milk, ate steak, but it did not give me an extra ounce of flesh. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I treat her torn flesh with oil. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z What could I say when I, too, was intent on keeping my own flesh safe. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I see the patterns the grease leaves on the metal, I see the moons of my nails, the raggedy flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The golden skin of the peach had been torn open, and where a chunk of flesh was now missing, a sweet, sticky juice was dripping like crystal beads gliding off a string. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Their short skirts rode up, flashing warning lights of flesh: backs of knees, the curve of a calf, a smooth plain of thigh. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Thomas crashed to the ground; he felt a grave marker dig into his back before it snapped in two, burning a deep scratch along his flesh. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The bear sinks its teeth into the fish's flesh because it must; it never terrorizes a deer for a night of fun, just because it can. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She could not, she had thought as she bent to kiss the baby’s flushed cheek, have loved this child more if it had come from her own flesh. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Each growl that echoed up that metal throat was his as surely as if issued from his own flesh throat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The flesh was stringy and fishy, but it was all gobbled down voraciously, nothing remaining but the beak and feet. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned the blade until the cool edge creased his flesh, then jerked it up. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Thick and numbing, like an animal’s den, a mix of blood and scorched hair and excrement and the sweet-sour odor of moldering flesh—the stink of the kill. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "He's a big, grotesquely ugly giant with the strength of a thousand elephants and a gigantic appetite, for human flesh especially. The usual." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z A mother’s body remembers her babies—the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The flesh hardly looks like flesh, from what has been done to it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They're cutting open my knee again, pulling back my flesh to reveal the bones underneath, scraping at it with their scalpels. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The weather drove upon her flesh, harsh and minute, but the scene was empty of all else that moved. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z My teeth sank farther into the soft ripe flesh. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The cuts were mostly flesh wounds, but they still needed to be cleaned, or they would get infected and then who knows what could happen. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z She knelt down before him and unbuttoned his shirt to suck the soft-firm flesh of his belly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Vola took the controls from him, and instantly the marionette seemed to become flesh and blood. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Her feet were nothing more than ragged flesh. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Her flesh was cold as ice, and sticky. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I feel the red lips and the flesh and the air inside her, and with my eyes closed I feel her for just a second. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z And she heard his direwolf, snarling and growl-ing, heard the snap of those long teeth, the tearing of flesh, shrieks of fear and pain from man and horse alike. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He looked a little soft but it was the softness of muscle gone to flesh. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Peering from the place where he stood hidden behind some shrubbery, he was reminded of what The Giver had told him, that there had been a time when flesh had different colors. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z She was a fat, dowdy, middle-aged woman with black hair and a slight moustache, but she was made of human flesh. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Their flesh was firm and sweet and would fill even the hungriest stomach. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Rumbling and hissing, eighty vibro-vacuum massage machines were simultaneously kneading and sucking the firm and sunburnt flesh of eighty superb female specimens. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The hero in one of the Norse stories who laughs aloud while his foes cut his heart out of his living flesh shows himself superior to his conquerors. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “My own flesh and blood,” she says, crying. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They both started working on the dead girl’s rings, tugging them from the cool flesh, trying to get them off. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The tall, bald man, white as fish flesh, flicked a glance at her out of his queer, pale eyes, but he said nothing. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z What they were really talking about was the need to protect Southern women from the depravity of black men, who—whites all knew—were sexual brutes craving white female flesh. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z At last, my spirit was descending into flesh, and there was more, not less, of me to praise God. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was laved with warm liquids, felt gentle hands move through the indefinite limits of my flesh. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But best of all, better far than this, the actual living and the dreamy flesh itself. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When I took it to bed, its hard unyielding limbs resisted my flesh—the tapered fingertips on those dimpled hands scratched. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z But under the hood, his hair was white and thin, and his flesh had an old man’s greyish undertone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I was raised in the belief that these were obscure little engines inside my cells, owned and operated by me or my cellular delegates, private, submicroscopic bits of my intelligent flesh. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when he fought, Redemption fought for the beauty of what his body could do, for the frailty of being human, the power and vulnerability tangled up in being flesh. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The flesh was burned and puffed away from a wound big enough to put a fist into. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All of that immense mass of flesh and bone and consciousness will disappear by absorption into the earth, without recognition by the transient survivors. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She locked her arm in his as they went into the theater, feeling the flesh of his bicep. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z A big man, but pop-eyed and wide of mouth, with dead white flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When the fat man laughed, his flesh bounced so vigorously that Tyrion was afraid he might fall and crush him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With its sinuous trunk it stroked the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of tom thick flesh. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Ever so gently, she begins to clean the mutilated flesh on Gale’s back. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Beneath my fingers, I felt the loose flesh around Morrie’s bones, and I thumped him hard, as instructed. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The subtlety and precision of the modeling, the fine gradation of planes and ridges, the feeling for the relationship of flesh and bone would be remarkable enough in themselves, quite apart from the early date. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the sounds of ripping flesh and popping sinew, her next words came over her shoulder, cold and final: “If I see it again, I’ll throw it in the fire with the logs.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He splashed whisky on his bleeding hand and kneaded the flesh against the alcohol sting. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He's flesh and blood and makes mistakes just like other people. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z The crows had stripped the flesh from the man’s face, and a feral dog had burrowed beneath his mail to get at his entrails. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Here at noon, jazz blared from jukeboxes and dark holes issued forth the cool odors of beer, wine and flesh into the sunlight. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t move, but he allowed me to pull the bag over the raw flesh. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It’s not red and swollen—it just looks like flesh—but it’s still very graphic. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Scars covered his arm halfway to the elbow, and the mottled pink flesh still felt tight and tender, but it was healing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Madoc does not bother to separate off the flesh, eating bones and all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Shin peeled away their skin, scraped away their innards, salted what was left, and chewed the rest—flesh, bones, and tiny feet. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z My fist sinks into her flesh, forcing a heavy breath from her mouth that I feel against my ear. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z No sight, no sound, no feeling except the unrelenting burning of flesh. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The flesh under his chin bulged in and out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z So much of the prince’s flesh had sloughed away that he could see the skull beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was so small she could almost hide it in her palm, and overripe too, but when she took the first bite, the flesh was so sweet she almost cried. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The carcass now sank down, and they disjointed shoulder and thigh bone, wrapping them in fat, two layers, folded, with raw strips of flesh. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In the air, the smell of burning flesh. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It sank its fingers into their steaming hot flesh ... Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Caggo took the man’s head off with one swipe of his arakh, the Valyrian steel shearing through flesh and bone and gristle as if they were so much suet “Too much noise,” he complained. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The disease which was rotting his body had eaten away nail and flesh to the first knuckle. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I recall flying fish as being quite tasty, their flesh rosy white and tender. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z This didn’t stop the reporter who was haunting the parlor, looking for more flesh to add to his story. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z If I stop being angry, I’m afraid I’ll fall apart until I’m just a warm mound of flesh on the floor. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He saw only his uncle with flesh on his bones, still. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She felt her wrists pulled back and bound, hard plastic cuffs cutting into her flesh. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z This tall man who had flesh on the outside and feelings on the inside that she knew nothing of, but somebody did, knew enough about him to want to kill him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I reach Boggs first, try to make sense of the torn flesh, missing limbs, to find something to stem the red flow from his body. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z His ears were nothing but shapeless shreds, ragged at the edges, seamed with ill-knit scars and beaded here and there with lumps of proud, bare flesh. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Brekker’s touch burned like brimstone—a single brush of his bare skin caused your flesh to wither and die. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, she had thought again as Pearl’s eyes fluttered closed once more, and she was certain that no one could ever love this child as she did. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was no small thing to try to restructure a society, to find the pus boiling away under the scabs, to peel back the hardened flesh to let it out. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The basilisk’s blade had scarce slipped from its leather sheath when the hammer’s spike slammed into his temple, crunching through the thin brass of his mask and the flesh and bone beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If you hit flesh, you’re rewarded with a burst of fake blood. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It made you depressed, and every once in a while, for no reason, you got goose flesh while you walked. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The vine around his ankle tugged at him, bit into his flesh, anchored itself there, and sent a new shoot upward. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Hands wrap around my arms and shoulders and chest, forming a cage of flesh and bone, but I keep straining toward her. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Pouches of flesh hung from her eyes and jowls. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was shaking inside her shirt, against her bare flesh, his fur needing her warmth. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Slamming him back against the mast, he squeezed till the Yunkishman’s face turned as black as the fingers digging into his flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The mist rose from her pale flesh, and for a moment it seemed as if pale, sorcerous flames were playing about her fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But it only brought back the memory of Jordie’s cold flesh, the way it had grown loose in the salt water, the bodies crowding around him in the flatboat. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z His fingers found stiff cloth where they should have found flesh, lips, teeth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I float alongside the fantasy, giving it breath and flesh and bone. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z My mother took her flesh and put it in the soup. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the unmistakable sound of knuckles hitting flesh: Ron grunted in pain and Hermione screamed, “No! Leave him alone, leave him alone!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Dane, fully flesh and blood, but one hundred percent of nothing. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z There is loathing in her voice, as if the touch of my flesh sickens and contaminates her. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Concave faces have the appearance of what they will look like once the flesh rots away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was crushed in, and a huge area of dried flesh was missing entirely from just above his left eye. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The whip grew taut as human flesh and bone could bear and I felt that my arm was being torn from its socket. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was too dark to make out clearly, but odd lights flashed from an unknown source, revealing blurs of silver spikes and glistening flesh. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It’s gold with stretchy links that look like they’re pinching her flesh. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z About how one of them was fed a steak, only to find out it was the flesh of his own son. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z My leg burns with pain, but I ignore it—it’s just a flesh wound. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Somehow I’m afraid to stop because my flesh doesn’t seem to be burning and I know Cinna must be behind whatever is happening. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Westley screamed then himself, in horror and surprise, and the Snow Sand gouged at his throat, for what he had grabbed was a skeleton wrist, bone only, no flesh left at all. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z His flesh hung loosely on his bones, and Sour Alyn and Ben Bones said he twitched. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The hound took it with a growl of appreciation, his teeth sinking deep into the flesh of the animal he had chased. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We gathered them at low tide in baskets and carried them to the mesa where we cut the dark red flesh from the shell and placed it on flat rocks to dry in the sun. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z During volleyball games, these other girls lollop and thunder around me, their voices outsized and raucous, their new, extra flesh wobbling. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I sawed into the flesh at the tail. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Two cats sidled through the legs of the crowd, sniffing the burned flesh. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the evil one had become flesh like Jesus! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled a glove off with his teeth and clasped Snow by the hand, flesh against flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As you see it it is, while the seeing lasts, dar\\ nightmare-history, timc-as-coffin; but where the water was rigid there will be fish, and men will survive on their flesh till spring. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Underneath their dresses flesh tightened and shivered in the high coolness, their small breasts just now beginning to create some pleasant discomfort when they were lying on their stomachs. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The female Tidemaker screamed as the metal burrowed into her flesh, and she tried to turn to mist. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When the earth is rendered chaos, regulations of speech and propriety are rendered impotent, just as city may become desolate, and street, battleground, and flesh may become fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I pressed them down, hard into my flesh. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The cubs dangled their tongues and let the scent of warm edible flesh enter their noses. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Now his legs and arms were so emaciated that I could see all the bones in them, and his knee and elbow joints looked outsize, with the flesh shrunk away. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The noise, the rank stinks, the shouldering contact of human flesh soothed his jangled nerves. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z For a week the dead prisoner remains strapped to the stake in the courtyard, his flesh frozen gray. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The dark, the warmth, the quiet, enclosed Cholly like the skin and flesh of an elderberry protecting its own seed. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Only when a splinter caught under her fingernail, biting deep into the tender flesh, did Naomi react. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z For a heartbeat it seemed as if a mischievous boy was peering out from inside the cheesemonger’s bloated flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Red silk and blue flesh sang against each other, the colors seeming to vibrate. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z His flesh gripped him and shrank as if it had been plunged in acid. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z And since most of the silk available came from underclothing and evening dresses, the quilt was glorious in strips of flesh pink and orchid and pale yellow and cerise. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I pictured the pink flesh around her molars. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I lay my hand on my chest, over my heart, and I can feel the flesh and bone and the hard, erratic beating of the organ that is keeping me alive. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Sierra watched in horror as mouths opened along their shadowy flesh, gnashing and churning in silent protest of their sudden enslavement. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z An overpowering stench of burnt flesh and clothing began pervading the witness room. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Theon raised his voice to be heard above the smack of wood on flesh. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The drakoris flesh dissolved, and it collapsed into a hollow scaly tunnel of armor. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She removed the container of salve again from her pack, opened it, and applied it thickly to the gaping slice in her flesh. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The first policeman snaps flesh off his apple with his teeth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But once started, the flesh continued to coat the foreign body until it fell free in some tidal flurry or until the oyster was destroyed. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d seen Her Majesty’s face dozens of times before, in history books, on television, and on currency, but here she was in the flesh, looking at me intently and asking questions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The scent of my burning flesh chokes me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z And as for us, any real illness, anything lingering, weakening, a loss of flesh or appetite, a fall of hair, a failure of the glands, would be terminal. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Before long, everyone’s mouths were full of soft, sweet peach flesh and groans of delight. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t believe it. No flesh burns, no broken bones from her fall—nothing. A few blackened feathers. She should be fried black.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I reached up with one hand to tear at the fingers that strangled me, but instead of warm flesh, my nails sank into unyielding cord. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It was the color of bruised flesh and storm-dark seas, the bleak and hopeless blue of a dead girl’s eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I am pushing a rusty wheelbarrow in a town where the air smells of blood and burnt flesh. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It’s weird seeing her in the flesh and not as a bunch of pixels on TV. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Cain, once again a man of flesh and blood, walked over to the sprawled assassin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Under his tokar he was a skeleton, all bones and fevered flesh.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Humans and monkeys are both primates, and Ebola feeds on primates in the same way that a predator consumes certain kinds of flesh. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Drogon landed on the carcass and sank his claws into the smoking flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His Adam’s apple stood out stark against the flesh of his neck. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z For those who believe the smallpox is but the expression of the Christian God’s will, there is no cause for aught but celebration in a death, which is a liberation from this flesh. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Hour after hour his body suffered; his mind had fled from the tormented flesh. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Worst of all, the flesh on the palms of my hands was peeled, swollen, and blistered. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Her skin is so pale as to be translucent and I can see the fire glow through her flesh. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z You have to save every piece of flesh and give it a name and bury it near the roots of a tree so that the world won’t fall apart around you. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Are you screaming at me,” my father said, incredulous, “at me, your father. You-you-you my own flesh and blood,” he stammered. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Yunkai’i claimed that she fed her dragons on human flesh and bathed in the blood of virgins to keep her skin smooth and supple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It took on flesh as if someone were pouring gelatin over its bones, covering them in glowing, transparent gray skin. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “They’re better fresh,” he says, ripping a chunk of flesh from a shell and popping it into his mouth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Peeling the skin back with my teeth, I bite into the flesh, knowing that in Amit's presence, I can eat it Bengali-style. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The animal would be skinned and gutted, then the flesh was cut into long strips and hung in the smokehouse to dry over hot, smoked wood. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A spark flew where the steel bit into the stone man’s calcified grey flesh, but his arm tumbled to the deck all the same. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Just an angry mass of red flesh where the face had been. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while, I can hear the pop and crackle of the frying flesh. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Most of the woman’s flesh had been eaten away, and he could see her partly gnawed bones sticking out from her dress. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She brought her hands slowly together, pressed them palm to palm in an innocent, prayerful display of flesh on flesh. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Corpses lined the benches below, grey-brown flesh sloughing off their bones as they raised their cups to toast, worms crawling in and out of the holes that were their eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Anya yelped as the claws split her flesh in three gouges. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z If she choked on the blood or retched up the flesh, the omens were less favorable; the child might be stillborn, or come forth weak, deformed, or female. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “My flesh is withered, Father, but not my spirit! The devil is tormenting me.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A person is more than a body, more than blood and bone and flesh. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Strong indeed. But may I ask—does your flesh repel arrows?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The jeepney will circle the neighborhood while selling halo-halo, a sweet concoction of ice, milk, red beans, tapioca pearls, jackfruit, and coconut flesh—with even sweeter condensed milk drizzled on to stir in. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Hrothulf speaks: In ratty furs the peasants hoe their fields, fat with stupidity, if not with flesh. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The touch of his hand would have thrilled her once; now it made her flesh crawl. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Ash picked up a piece of the apple and bit into it, and the flesh was crisp and sweet. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The flesh at the joint was pale blue and frozen solid. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The sharp edges of several rings grazed my flesh. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z In another moment, a .36-caliber bullet would explode in his face, and the hot black powder would, at such close range, not only kill him instantly but also burn his flesh a hideous black. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His horse played nasty tricks on him, suddenly becoming a formidable female, a hard, wild mountain of flesh, on which he rode until his bones ached. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He touched the sharp blade to the throat, just touched it, as if expecting the knife to cut the white flesh of itself, as if he did not have to put pressure behind it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The birds were slashing at any bit of exposed flesh, driving everyone into a panic Now that the birds were closer, it was clear they weren’t normal pigeons. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It felt, I promise you, as though someone had laid a red-hot poker against my flesh and was pressing down on it hard. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Mudd made a cut on the boot near the ankle, careful not to cut too deeply and open Booth’s soft flesh. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He bent down to draw another line, quickly, with a fierce determination that shook the flesh on his arm, which was hanging low like a brown leather pouch. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The peach flesh was sweet and juicy, and marvelously refreshing. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z And worst of all, the smell of festering flesh. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But it would be so hard to raise the knife, drive it into the flesh I had saved so many times. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Jafer's right wrist ended in the ruin of tom flesh and splintered bone left by Ghost's jaws. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She had three bloody puncture marks above her right ankle, but there didn’t appear to be any missing flesh. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z A hint of a mocking smile lay in the flesh around her eyes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z As soon as Dr. Philobosian had severed the cord of flesh, another, spiritual connection had grown up in its place. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I think I can actually smell the ring of flesh around my chest burning, and Johanna’s fighting off withdrawal symptoms. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “I have heard it said that the silver queen feeds them with the flesh of infants while she herself bathes in the blood of virgin girls and takes a different lover every night.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Soon I would have torn the flesh from his face just to see if I was right about the gold and nobody would have understood that kind of curiosity. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And of course, her visits always reminded Wu Tsing of Fifth Wife’s low-class background and how foolish he had been to be lured by her earthy flesh. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I woke him by touching his arm with one finger, softly at first, then harder and harder till I was jabbing into his flesh, marveling at how hard it was. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Game was scarce, forcing Franklin and his men to subsist on lichens scraped from boulders, singed deer hide, scavenged animal bones, their own boot leather, and finally one another's flesh. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The monkey has a protrusive, doglike snout with flaring nostrils and exceedingly sharp canine teeth, able to rip flesh as easily as a honed knife. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The pain in my thigh explodes, and I look down to see the arrow being slowly pulled through my flesh by a sandy hand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z "The blood . . . there's bloodstains on their clothes, and . . . and their flesh, dry and hard, but . . . there's none on the ground, of . . . anywhere. With those . . . those . . . those . . ." Sam made himself swallow, took a deep breath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I turned back to the worm and made another cut and began to pin back the worm’s flesh, taking meticulous notes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Opening my eyes, I looked down at my hands and saw each dark pore, each black wrinkle in the hairless flesh. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This time she takes my hand and guides my fingers, moving them against her flesh. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z An illustration of a twisted, half-decayed face grinned at her, flesh falling from its bones. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z So she went on thinking back to her young years and explaining them to her friend in soft, easy phrases while all around the house, the night time put on flesh and blackness. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I went to market laden with smooth-skinned brinjals and pumpkins, round and fleshed like young women. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z His black eyes accost me as if I am the devil made flesh He wears a severe black satin doublet and hose. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Amari liked the fact that she didn’t look at her as if she were ugly or an animal or a piece of flesh to be used. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He could taste the smell as he inhaled the scent of decomposing flesh. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z A glance into the classrooms of the Los Angeles public school system, where my sons are being educated, fleshes out the abstract debates with the faces of children. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As his father was of old, And I shall be the miller, When my father’s flesh is cold. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z I pull the filthy plaster off the end of my finger and look at the pale, wrinkled flesh beneath, dried blood caked at the edge of my fingernail. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She was pregnant again, and her belly pressed against the fabric of her dress and strained the seams that zigzagged down the sides, where bits of flesh showed pale and soft between the stitches. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z A wild rain lashed down upon his black brother as he tore at the flesh of an enormous goat, washing the blood from his side where the goat’s long horn had raked him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The talons had tom a bloody path through fur and flesh, but the bird had not been able to snap his neck. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “She has thrown her face into the eastward-flowing stream. Her ancestral spirit is lost forever. The person you see is just decayed flesh, evil, rotted to the bone.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But when he tried to eat the flesh of his ox his gorge rose and he could not swallow it and he drank only a little of the soup. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Then, she was being channeled through Taisin back into her own flesh and bones again, as if she were being squeezed into clothes that were much too small. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The sure square hand sawed out a round hole in the flesh, and the breath came bursting out of the hole, throwing a fine spray of blood. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z His flesh was wrinkled and spotted, the skin so papery thin that he could see the web of veins and the shape of bones beneath. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Therem had been the son, child of the flesh, of this old lord. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The rope broke then, disturbing her peace, making her aware of flesh and something so free she could smell its bloodsmell; made her aware of its life below the sash and its red lip rouge. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For a few minutes old Barbee had made me see the vision and now I knew that leaving the campus would be like the parting of flesh. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He spat on his hands, then he split open the hot clay and smelled the sweet flesh of the hedgehog, which had cooked, slowly, in the embers, as he had slept. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I love the taste of the sweet flesh, the crunch of tiny seeds between my teeth. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was impossible to tell where the shreds of his saturated coveralls ended and the ragged flesh began. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The crocs took his left ear and a long strip of flesh with it going right down his left cheek. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Mama had always been squeamish about lizards and snakes and bugs and things, and you could tell that it just made her flesh crawl to have to touch this one. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I cringe, clawing my flesh, and flee for home. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Its shrunken body bore an uncanny resemblance to the creatures that had haunted my dreams, as did the color of its flesh, which was like something that had been spit-roasted over a flame. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Then she drew a huge jagged tear through the flesh, which gave way easily. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She dropped dead; her very flesh had melted away. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The third strips me and hands shivers to my skin and to my flesh and bones. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z But here was a flesh and blood man, belching and laughing and sweating in poems. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z "The Great Rider is too strong for me. Hold him still while I draw the arrow from his flesh." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z What Townshend didn't know was that the first bullet grazed Garfield's upper right arm, leaving a minor flesh wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Rather than hitting flesh, he knocked out of my hand the glass thermos bottle that my friend Mr. Luftig had given me as a parting gift. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z His next words pierced her flesh like darts of scented ice. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Humans are obligated to kill zombies, just as zombies have an obligation to seek out humans and feast on their flesh. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z As time progressed, Aditya became more and more fleshed out, more substantial. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z V Mrs. Levy lay prone on the motorized exercising board, its several sections prodding her ample body gently, nudging and kneading her soft white flesh like a loving baker. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But there were other places in this world where men were known to break their fast on human flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Not to avoid injury—there was no possibility of that—but that the injury would be like Luke’s, a wedge of flesh, so I could go to the house, too. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I try to roll over her body by pulling on one arm, but the flesh disintegrates in my hands and I fall back on the ground. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I dig for flesh and bone and maybe, if there is one, for a soul. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He pressed the small fat shining bodies to him, and putting his nose into their soft necks he smelled of the sun-browned flesh with easy affection. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Each twinge, each murmur of slight pain, ripples of sloughed-off matter, swellings and diminishings of tissue, the droolings of the flesh, these are signs, these are the things I need to know about. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt the pain in her cheek, like it was her own flesh being ripped to pieces. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “This is not an automobile. You must think of the fingers, touching this flesh, or the running of the hand over. This must be tactile.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It uncurled upon a nickel, moist and dirty, moist dirt ridged into her flesh. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His small eyes were imbedded in pale flesh, eyes that seldom smiled despite the giggle and the grin that sometimes flashed across his face, especially when he knew he was reaching people. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But when she opened her eyes, she saw no blood, no shredded flesh. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “You...you really saw it in the flesh?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Mom grabs an inch of my flesh, twisting it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z We have neither flesh nor muscles any longer, we dare not look at one another for fear of some miscalculable thing. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z This is supposed to signify that we are one flesh, one being. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z So when the pig was done, the spit no longer to be turned, the table garnished, everyone sat down to feast on all the savory flesh he craved. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The thing that had devoured Skiorh's mind and possessed his flesh made the body take a step towards Ged, and the arms came groping out towards him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The skull of old Major, now clean of flesh, had been disinterred from the orchard and set up on a stump at the foot of the flagstaff, beside the gun. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I would tear at their flesh with my teeth if I knew it would make a difference. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z My tongue probes the ragged flesh and I taste blood. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It cleaves through flesh and bone, revealing places within that were never meant to be exposed to the light of day. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The acceleration dragged at her body with invisible hands, stretching the flesh over her arms and face. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Odin and his brothers made the soil from Ymir’s flesh. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh...” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z And with this, I hoisted the needle and sank it into my flesh. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z My flesh prickled with shame, for I knew the Negroes rightly resented me for attracting such unfavorable attention. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I search those pieces, the borrowed blues, reds, and violets, blended with glimmering flesh. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z A tremble went all the way down the tentacle as its flesh blistered under Leo’s touch. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Cloaked and hooded, once, but the wolves had tom their clothing into pieces in their frenzy to get at the flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He dug his fingers deep into the soft flesh of her arm. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He would merely give out the communion with the usual disturbing allusions to eating flesh and drinking blood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Rain poured down, my clothes were in shreds, and my flesh was one big purple bruise, clear signs that I was still in the real world. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And once again Wang Lung did not count the passing of silver, which was his flesh and his blood, a hard thing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The sucker-cups along its tongue, withered and reeking black smoke, hissed from its flesh. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He dreamed of deserts and great empty cities and imagined he could feel the minutes and hours of his life running through him, as though he were nothing but an hourglass of flesh and bone. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Snuffy crept quietly into some bushes and saw that they were naked in the big shallow pool, Joe passionately munching on Nancy’s plump flesh; chill autumn winds whistled down the river. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Audience members saw themselves as communicants, humble supplicants at the high altar, even while Wagner was still very much flesh and blood. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It began with the betrayal of his flesh: Thirty years after a bout with polio, the symptoms mysteriously flared anew. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The thin man came up to Amari and lifted her upper lip, pinching the flesh with his long, bony fingers. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Censorship kept Call from revealing very much about where he was or what was going on, but in what he didn’t say there was enough to make my flesh crawl. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He oiled himself with warm, peppered coconut oil, kneading his old, loose flesh that stretched willingly off his bones like chewing gum. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My first impulse is to cover my nose to block out the stench of soiled linen, putrefying flesh, and vomit, all ripening in the heat of the warehouse. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He had set human flesh on the table for Zeus when the god was his guest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The stench was overpowering—men unwashed for months and puke and muck and rot that was eating living flesh. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see their beefy fingers sink into the soft flesh. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a forest fire the flame roared on, and burned your flesh away. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Bare fists like avalanches pummeling him in the face, the arms and hands, ripping away bits of flesh, bringing up bruises and blood. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Nothing so much as a pound of flesh is at stake.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z And again, her fist making wet smacking sounds against Nin’s wrinkled flesh. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “I am only sorry the youngsters of today shall not have seen her in the flesh.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Larvae hatch and feed on the flesh of the morels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Root was a notorious bon vivant, whom Louis Sullivan once described as “a man of the world, of the flesh, and considerably of the devil.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Jonas carefully washed his injured knees, wincing as he rubbed at the raw flesh. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z However, she added, he seemed to be in good flesh and happy- “ ‘The old woman, a resident of the mountain resort town for ninety-seven years, called this office to report her observation. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A strong whiff of something burnt stung his nostrils; a sick mixture of overheated engines and charred flesh. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I empty my mind and let the sensations run through my flesh, happy to lose myself. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She leaned back into me and her flesh captured in my arms shook and yielded. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Before I can stop him, ’80s Finch says, “There are different ways to die. There’s jumping off a roof and there’s slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z My hands grow cold and my flesh creeps; and yet the night is warm. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z On both sides of his rib carriage, the sharp claws had laid the flesh open to the bone. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Passing through the village, the stench of rotten flesh and human waste hangs heavily in the air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A moment later our intercom buzzed, a jarring blat-blat that punched right through my flesh and bones. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Taylor tried to lead the way, but many of the girls ran scattershot for the forbidding jungle, scrambling over brambles, scraping their tender flesh against the prickly trunks of the palms. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z And then I become an empty coconut shell without its sweet water and flesh when I think of my mother. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She placed the flesh in his mouth, her fingers streaking dark red over his lips, and she marked his cheeks as well with crimson slashes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When he trips and falls to his face, I see the scorch marks down the back of his shirt, the red flesh beneath. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It is incomprehensible that I shall use this weapon against men of flesh and blood. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Am I to take it that you are attacking even without the full moon now? This is most unusual... You have developed a taste for human flesh that cannot be satisfied once a month?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z His right hand was so cold that all he felt was one cold piece of flesh touching another. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Plus, it had those teeth and claws that would easily turn Anya's flesh into ribbons. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The knight absorbed the beatings silently; the only sounds were the muttered curses of the slaves who beat him and the dull thuds of their clubs pounding against Ser Jorah’s bruised and battered flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z About the only thing I have not eaten is human flesh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But had he not abandoned himself to the impulse he would now be a heap of mangled flesh. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Sierra yelled, scrambling madly away from the hideous cold flesh. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He saw her as the passionate spirit of innocent youth, now beleaguered by the trick which is played on youth—the trick of treachery in the body, which turns flesh into green bones. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Tall, it was, and gaunt and hard as old bones, with flesh pale as milk. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I was hot and sweaty, and the earpieces of my glasses were cutting deeply into the flesh above my ears as a result of the head movements that went with my pitching. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “You’ve got the look about ya. Pathetic. Stupid. Weak in the knees. Demons wouldn’t even bother with someone like you. An utter waste of flesh.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z They heard the sound of battle as they approached the fields around Valhalla; they heard the clash of metal on metal, the thud of metal on flesh. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He knew that they could not see color, and that their flesh, as well as Gabriel’s light golden curls, would be no more than smears of gray against the colorless foliage. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He felt the impact of the blow throughout the length of his arm, jarring his flesh slightly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I looked up to find Father Amadi s eyes on me, and suddenly I could not lick the ube flesh from the seed. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Once the children devour the tasty morsels, it’s revealed as human flesh. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The liquid in the giant kettle gurgled and splattered as it ate away at his flesh, and he screamed in what must have been excruciating agony. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The skin of his face had shrunk back against the skull until it defined bone, not flesh, and made the nose and chin seem sharp and fragile. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The feeling of her skin against mine makes my flesh crawl. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z This was what I was thinking as I peeled another layer of soggy cat flesh away from soggy cat muscle. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Then I’ll struggle, she’ll lean into me with all her weight, press her flesh, and then somehow the clothes start coming off. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z An Orc stooped over him, and flung him some bread and a strip of raw dried flesh. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I lean close and open my eyes very wide, trying to see beyond the sagging flesh. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z When my mother washed her long, black hair she tucked in the collar of her blouse and I could see her shoulders and the pink flesh of her throat. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I held my fountain pen in my left hand, the nib sunken into the tender flesh of my right forearm. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Instead, she runs, her spirit lighter than air, lighter than the copper of her flesh, more willful than gravity. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Meanwhile he was at a loss to know how to destroy the only one that they had found, the Horcrux that currently lay against the bare flesh of his chest. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “When white phosphorus touches flesh, however, it burns down to the bone; you can’t put it out with water.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Valerie sleeps through it all as they climb the flesh of her thigh. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The smell of rotting flesh had become unbearable in the hot car. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z My heart races, causing searing pains to shoot up my spine and burn my flesh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was made of dark green nylon with an aluminum frame, but now it had the curious look of flesh. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “He coughed out water and started breathing air, but it forced all his flesh and blood to his upper body. That’s why his chest is so thick and his legs are so skinny.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Tyrion touched his face, plucking at the proud flesh with blunt thick fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She slid down the drainpipe, the flesh of her feet and hands tearing open as the metal cut into her skin, but she didn’t let herself think of the pain. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She gripped it tighter, until its edges dug into her palms and the flesh of her cheek, and then she took it with her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “People have always been against me. Why should the system take my own flesh and blood?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The burning in her bowels did not cease—that burning which, eating inward, took the flesh visibly from her bones and caused her to vomit up her food. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Guarded by Spot, a surly Dalmatian who took hunks of flesh out of reporters who got too close, he stormed around the barn and fretted, pouted and balked in his workouts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Lolo always brought ripe mangoes; he’d score lines into the flesh so we could flip the halves open and eat the sweet cubes. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Like, Okay, you haven’t been the best dad, but here you are now and you’re trying to make it up to me because I’m your flesh and blood and because I love you. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z He pressed his blade into the girl’s flesh. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z There was only the muted sound of falling things, and flesh on unsurprised flesh. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaned forward, his buttery dark skin wrinkleless from the great flesh of his cheeks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The room smells of old cigarette smoke, old rubber, the worn intimacy of cloth too long against flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z With deft movements of his claws, he ripped aside the dead man’s clothes, opened the body with one slash, and began to feast on the flesh and blood of his old friend. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I pressed my thumb into his hardened flesh and he didn’t even feel it. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In a few days, the scent of rotting flesh would drive us out. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z He could have ripped through the blanket and torn my flesh if he had so chosen, but the Handsome One was always gentle with me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Up this narrow stairway then, in the rooms above him, there were these women in flesh and blood, and men went up to them—other men than he, of course, but men! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Its flesh was tart and chewy, with a bitter aftertaste that seemed familiar to her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He’s never seen anything like it—the smooth muscles, the indentations of flesh, the breathing, bleeding life of it, all carved by Giambologna out of marble. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Mortify my flesh, that I may be multiplied. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Cracks ran down his face, fissures opening in the flesh, and he reached up and ripped the mask away. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His mouth trembled at the firm sweetness of the flesh. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The bone in Shae’s shin was exposed where the wolves had torn out her flesh, and Con had to hold her down while Taisin and Kaede wrapped her leg with a clean cloth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She lifted Aunt Jimmy’s hand and looked closely at it—fingernails, back skin, the flesh of the palm she pressed with three fingertips. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I only know you are men of flesh and blood; and that blood will spill and flesh grow cold. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z When the breeze blew against it, I felt how my flesh resisted enjoying the cool wind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Finn shouldered the young man aside but slipped when his shoulder hit not flesh, but a slick surface, and he spilled to the dirt. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She wasn’t even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z And they ate the flesh of the carp. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I clasp a hand in a sea of flesh and know it’s Marlena’s from the look on her face. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She looked down at her arm, expecting to see ruptured flesh and broken bones, but it was unharmed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They struck as they passed, their claws slicing her flesh. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I hear gravel crunching under tires, car doors slamming, and next thing I know I’m surrounded by doughy flesh, flowered prints, and gloved hands. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He felt a discomfort in his very bones, as if they contracted so that they might struggle out of the mercenary peel of flesh and walk abroad. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “The condor is big, slow. It lives on the flesh of the dead and transports the dead to Beyond.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Taking a piece of sinew from the ground skin, she threaded it into her needle and pierced the soft flesh. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The distress I sensed in her voice was as sharp and painful as the lash of a whip on my flesh. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Nina sank the ink into her own flesh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z There’s perfume in the air and stale smoke, and the scent of working flesh. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z No other blade, not though mightier hands had wielded it, would have dealt that foe a wound so bitter, cleaving the undead flesh, breaking the spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Your weak flesh. Yours. Not mine. You and I both know it. And God does too.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He takes a bite of it, tearing the caramelized pink flesh with his teeth. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z And of the flames that devoured her flesh. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched the cat drag a large gray bird almost up to the nose of the unconscious dog, then slowly and deliberately begin to tear at the bird’s flesh. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He rolled up his sleeve and showed us the blistered pink flesh of the burn on his forearm. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither man nor woman, neither and both, cyclic, lunar, metamorphosing under the hand’s touch, changelings in the human cradle, they were no flesh of mine, no friends; no love between us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He grabbed the nearest snake, and though his gray flesh began to smoke on contact, he strangled the basilisk with one hand and flung down its limp body. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Nights, I laid it beside me so that my hands, waking, could touch his suffering flesh instead and be tamed from their shameful wanderings. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hold still,” he says as a two-inch rectangular metal bar descends and presses into the soft flesh on the inside of my wrist for a few seconds. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Her face was pale and thick with flesh. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only is the cast getting moldy from my sweat, but it’s beginning to cut into my flesh and leave ugly welts on my skin. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I curl back up on the bloodstained mattress, not cold but feeling so naked with just the paper to cover my tender flesh. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Her face in the dirt, her flesh swollen and cut. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The pig had been caught early before it lost flesh and the leg was a large one and O-lan had salted it thoroughly and hung it to dry. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They watched the harpies cautiously, but for all that, the lure of the warm flesh and blood, those strong heartbeats, was too much to resist. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The flesh of his face was becoming transparent, letting me see straight through to his skull. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The godswife took out a silver needle and a bobbin of silk thread and began to close the flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Unused to the taste of live flesh, Pax retched and twisted away. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z And after destroying the birds, beasts, reptiles, and fish of the Earth, the Nephilim began to eat one another’s flesh and drink one another’s blood. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I cried out loud only a little, because soon my flesh began to burst inside and out and cut off my breathing air. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I enjoy all types of music, but the music of my own flesh and blood goes right to my heart. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The pale flesh under his arm flaps like a flag. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It’s why I often tried to introduce myself with a hug, to slow down the moment and shuck some of the pretense, landing us all in the flesh. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This was the art world I'd been dreaming of, where God-given talent was considered an unfair advantage and a coldblooded stare merited more praise than the ability to render human flesh. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “But it is cold, and flesh creeps at the thought of it,” said Robin, shivering. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z His skin erupted, stinging as the spiders bit into his flesh. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The crowd of women had torn the trousers from his body and all who could get near were grinding their heels into his flesh. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the flesh from the thigh was off, too. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And she asked at last: “Gabriel...that Royal...he were your flesh and blood, weren’t he?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Indeed, one of the books found in the bus with his remains was a collection of stories that included Tolstoy’s "The Kreutzer Sonata,” in which the nobleman-turned-ascetic denounces "the demands of the flesh.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He plucked them out one by one, cursing the holes they had made in his layers of mail and leather, and yowling like a babe at the few that had buried themselves in his flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z So Lyra clung to Pantalaimon and her head swam and her gorge rose, and cold as the night was, a sickly sweat moistened her flesh with something colder still. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I was nauseated by the smell of burning flesh, which turned out to be my own as I climbed up the hot ladder,” he said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath her nightgown, her ribs reached out from inside of her, showing bones where flesh and meat should have been. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z His flesh froze with horror at the thought of it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Axel likes to imagine peeking underneath George’s white hair, underneath the flesh and bone, and into the pulsing brain of George M. Flores. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There was bare flesh lounging everywhere, most of it plump, and Hungry Joe began to die. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z His hands are tied behind him with roughly woven rope cutting through the flesh of his wrists. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There were the sounds of a fight: grunting, shuffling, cursing, the banging of elbows and knees on wood, the smack of flesh on flesh. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It comes to me like a soul freed from the bonds of flesh. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He imagined tigers ripping the flesh off his bones and pythons strangling him slowly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z When an apparently healthy person, especially a healthy young man, elects to forgo the enticements of the flesh, it shocks us, and we leer. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Once there, Raymond said that they were only flesh wounds and that he could make it to the doctor’s. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z A mountain of flesh, she lay rather than sat in a rocking chair. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z With deft hands, she slices open their bellies, pulls out their goopy organs, and washes their flesh in a bucket so they’re ready for roasting. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking over her left shoulder she could see the imprint of an open hand standing out distinct and crimson on the pearly flesh. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who did not carry pistols because they became pistols; did not carry switchblades because they were switchblades cutting through gatherings, shooting down statutes and pointing out the blood and abused flesh. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z His cheeks and brow were scarred with intricate tattoos in green and black, ancient Valyrian sorcerer’s signs that supposedly made his flesh and skin as hard as steel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Every fish that hit me was like an arrow entering my flesh. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The wound itself was burned black as if the iron had scorched Elowen’s flesh, and Kaede had to swallow her nausea as she wiped the blade on the very edge of Elowen’s ermine cloak. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He caught the first man in the back of the knee before they even knew he was there, and the heavy axehead split flesh and bone like rotten wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When the flames had licked at Rattleshirt, the ruby at her throat had grown so hot that she had feared her own flesh might start to smoke and blacken. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I scramble around, digging through chunks of tile slick with blood, shuddering when I encounter bits of warm flesh. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The backs of her legs were mapped with dark blue veins, and her upper arms sagged like the flesh of a roasted eggplant. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z As I listened to these rumors, he came alive in my mind as more legend than flesh. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It is time to enter the market, rather than feeding on your own stale flesh.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I was really ready to do anything that would clear my head from thinking about this old lady melting her flesh in a kitchen pot. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We would never find a piece of animal flesh with as much fat as a chicken nugget. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Now his fingers dragged across her flesh, and his icy eyes burned with a strange fire. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She studied her palms, the four perfect crescents in her flesh. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z And I myself preferred not to see him in strong sunshine, for his pale, membranic skin was no barrier to the light, which pierced deep into the flesh and illumined it to a hideous translucency. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve never been able to get past the meaty pink of it, so similar to human flesh, the white stripes of fat running through it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Who knows, your very flesh may be polluted, dirty as an oily beach, sure death to shore birds and unborn babies. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He lay quivering, every nerve of his flesh awake. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Nothing but a minor flesh wound,” Mom declared after studying the deep gash. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I heard Golan’s flesh singe like a cold steak on a hot grill. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I wait till the coast is clear and tuck the cash between my left arm and my rib cage, hidden by a layer of non- reflective flesh. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Lazlo did hold Sarai in his arms that night, and she was real and flesh, blood and spirit, but not laughter. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There were streamers of the red flesh of some luckless opponent still clinging to some of the points, though other soldiers were trying to clean them off. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Now all fire and all flesh are but cold ashes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Across half one cheek and well down her neck, her flesh was stiff and dead, the skin cracked and flaking, mottled black and grey and stony to the touch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He slept and tears came from under his closed lids and they were warmer than the flesh they fell on. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Trolls eat raw flesh and are not fussy in their prey, which ranges from wild animals to humans. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Smells bad, like flesh rotting in the desert sun. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Every ten to fifteen seconds, sharp metal spikes popped through its bulbous flesh and the whole creature abruptly curled into a ball and spun forward. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She remembered that some of them had fought to free themselves, tearing fur and flesh to get free. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny could see him, clear as in the flesh. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But what a great fish he is and what will he bring in the market if the flesh is good. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And left patterned trails of bumpy goose- flesh on his body, like flat chalk on a blackboard, like a swathe of breeze in a paddyfield, like jet streaks in a blue church-sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Felicia watched the thickset butchers cleave and carve the flesh like sculptors, could scarcely tell them apart, in fact, from the marbled slabs of beef at their elbows. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the hall was pitch black, and the only sound the crunching and munching of bones and flesh. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt as if somebody was putting a hot iron on my wrist, then dragging it through the flesh. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “And some of our brothers have taken vows against the temptations of the flesh. I must refuse.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I thought, “Once this creature stood here. It was alive, had flesh and hair. It had its own smell. It could feel hunger and thirst and pain. It could enjoy the early morning sun.” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It looked as if someone had literally used a blade to cut the flesh under my feet from the heel to the toes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Ranofer sat straight up, the goose flesh rising on his arms and little trickles running down his spine. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I see a glowing fire that heats my flesh. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A fat man tore off his bandages to show the court his burned arm, where the flesh was still raw and oozing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Papa’s white shirt, with its perfectly tailored lines, did little to minimize the mound of flesh that was his stomach. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I will further confess that, driven by the extremity of my need and the madness to which it pushed me, I ate some of his flesh. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Their faces, their flesh simmered with whiteness and they seemed so much a part of another life, so separated from me now that I felt consumed with loneliness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Leathery patches of skin hung off his face, among patches of raw red flesh seeping with pus and crawling with flies. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The four were not the first to taste human flesh during this grim march, she would wager—only the first to be discovered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z You have to peel parts away in order to eat the flesh of a fruit, and so on. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It would amuse him to know how much she had idealized him, how he had become a person made not of flesh but of little crystals of perfection, the American man she would never have. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In addition, Amari figured out a way to catch crayfish in the shallows, the tangy flesh a delicious treat as they began their seemingly unending nighttime treks. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh! my dear, human flesh! You quite shock me; if you mean a fling at the slave-trade, I assure you Mr. Suckling was always rather a friend to the abolition.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “Were you so resentful of my leaving that you had to exact your revenge in flesh?” he asked, only half joking. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She could feel her flesh sear and blacken and slough away, could feel her blood boil and turn to steam, and yet there was no pain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Their meat was never as tender as the flesh of the animals that hadn’t anticipated death. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And the way his flesh would flinch and quiver when Mama poked the needle through, it must have hurt. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t stop seeing those bodies, the angry red flesh peeking through their burnt black casings like banked coals. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In the electric chair years, he complained that he could smell flesh burning after the midnight executions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Newspapers reported that even in Bristol, a port city with a harbor filled with slave ships, “the popular sentiment has been very strongly expressed against the continuance of that traffick in human flesh.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He lets out a horrible scream and falls to the ground, fire consuming his flesh. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Now I was back in weak, helpless flesh. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “So I touch this thing in my lap and it’s like—this warm object that feels just like human flesh.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z It feels like a chair skeleton with barely any flesh to support it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He was so close to me I could have touched him—he was beautiful in the flesh, hollowed out and coiled like a spring, nervous energy radiating off him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z His cold fingers touched her warm flesh, and sought still warmer and softer flesh. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And yet, if we were not close, why did only Caroline have the power, with a single glance, to slice my flesh clear through to the bone? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The mango flesh was a brilliant orange color, and when Oliver bit into it, the sticky juice would drip down the mango and onto his clothes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z There was a knife with a smooth wooden handle, and she used it to peel the skin of a round, red fruit; inside was juicy orange flesh that tasted both sweet and tart. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z On the gate I read words from a psalm: My flesh also shall rest in hope. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I stared at her not believing, not wanting to believe...I touched her and her flesh was cold and hard. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Many a night his sister’s pack gorged on the flesh of sheep and cows and horses, the prey of men, and sometimes even on the flesh of man himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My hands curl into heavy fists, nails digging into the flesh of my palms. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z His snores are so deep it sounds as if he’s being suffocated by his own flesh. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “She don’t have to meet him in the flesh to know this boy, Summer,” he said, looking at Cletus’s interested face. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z A few revellers had decayed bodies with grey flesh, matted clumps of hair and nasty wounds. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Lamb and dog and mutton and the flesh of man. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We fill supermarket cases with their flesh, all slick and gleaming on heaps of ice. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I’d had too much experience that women were only tricky, deceitful, untrustworthy flesh. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I have no wish to run my fingers over this woman’s goose-pimply flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They were only people, silly creatures of flesh and blood, mortal trash. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z It was turning colder and the air was heavy with the threat of rain, but the kind of rain that on cool mornings is bled out of the unsubstantial flesh of the fog. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, it was Hamlet, in the flesh and blood,” Horatio said, defying my disbelief. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The dead are hungry, and the thing they’re hungry for is flesh. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z If you didn’t look too closely, you could almost believe they were human, but their flesh was transparent and their bones shimmered underneath, like X-ray images. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It explodes, and her trunk dives instantly into its red flesh. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z On his deathbed, Ser Aegor Rivers had famously commanded his men to boil the flesh from his skull, dip it in gold, and carry it before them when they crossed the sea to retake Westeros. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z How was it that his voice was so cool when the hand holding the chalk was so tense, the veins sticking out, as if threatening to burst through the flesh? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When the claw-stick caught in the bull’s flesh, he tossed the trainer into the air with his tusk. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z So I am left to the girls, real girls at last, in the flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I went over to her, looked at her, and saw the bones in her face where the flesh had been cut away. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A headache began to assert itself above his right eye, the pain digging into his flesh—migraine. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The flesh, heavily despised by the brothers, held secret the love appetite soaring inside it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The king touched her cheek, his fingers brushing across the rough stone as gently as if it were living flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I cannot picture prim Oriana doing such a brutal, brave thing—pressing the point of her knife into flesh, finding the right spot and slicing. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In a for instance, I’ve never seen a woman nor a Spackle in the flesh, obviously. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z At such moments my flesh is thin and tight, and the unbearable hunger to be part of it drives me out to search in the dark corners and blind alleys of the night. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z There were several distinct splashes and then the slapping sounds of fish against flesh. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I pulled off my dress and we both looked into the open flesh on my side. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa then separates the meat from the bones and cuts the flesh into very thin slices to soak in the lime juice that Ma has prepared. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What came after a goddess—a real goddess in the flesh—looked you in the eye? Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Besides, Lyra’s hands were deft, and she was desperate to help; so the small human tent over the great bear-king, packing in the bloodmoss and freezing the raw flesh till it stopped bleeding. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “In the village they are eating human flesh,” he whispered. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I dropped my eyes, kneading the dying flesh of his feet between my fingers. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He hooked aslant with one white tusk and ripped out flesh above the knee, but missed the bone. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Diggers would come and sprinkle a layer of soil over the flesh, but even so it would be eaten by the clawing, hungry creatures that came at night. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Except that underneath he loved her very much, loved her plump gentle flesh, her quiet way of sewing, cooking . . . of being true. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We caught and cooked some turtles and ate their flesh and their eggs. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z As I grasped hold of the cord, my fingers closed around warm flesh. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Her flesh was maggot white; wrapped in the violet tokar, she looked like a prune gone to mold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z You are innocent when you do not know, my mother cried, but already you know too much about the flesh and blood of the Márez men. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Somkit held one of the rinds, scraping out the last bit of flesh with his fingers. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Here, try some nice fresh moon flesh,” he says, and into her mouth goes something that tastes a lot like cheese. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Haze hangs over the city like wet smoke; it covers my skin with an oily film, seeps into my flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And there would be scraps, charred bones with bits of flesh still on them, the remnants of Drogon’s kills. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The flies crawled upon it, and here and there the sharp points of gravel pressed up through the flesh. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Weaker. You have true flesh, we have not. Still, you must come with us.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The knots refused to yield, slipped from their numb fingers, and only bit more deeply into their flesh. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z His eyes sat deep within puckered flesh, and he blinked slowly. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z You have to picture what it was like to see that great mountain of flesh suddenly uncurl and rise into the sky. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z In the air hangs the unmistakable smell of rubbing alcohol and stale flesh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It fed upon Picassos and Matisses in the upper halls, like delicacies, baking off the oily flesh, tenderly crisping the canvases into black shavings. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We waved off the flies and tried some of the flesh. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We knocked on their tough green flesh to be sure they hadn’t gone soft, then we scooped up one each and hightailed it back toward the woods. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But then he would remember the way the hook-hands of Count Olaf’s associate had glinted in the library, and would imagine them tearing into his flesh, and he would wake right up and continue reading. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “Satan is no joking matter. Satan has no body. He works with weak flesh.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The flesh of his hands is so deeply sunken the bones of his fingers are perfectly revealed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The only flesh I touched was dead flesh. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Steel bit into flesh just above the Dothraki's waist, and opened him from backbone to belly button, spilling his entrails into the dust. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Victory and Joe exchanged looks, but it was Joe’s flesh that cooled and his throat that tried and failed to swallow. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “The flesh gave each of us a few mouthfuls,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z When I revealed it, each word felt like a hot iron hook being ripped from my flesh. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The wound now looked several days old; new skin stretched over what had just been open flesh. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z We learn to sit up straight, eyes front, faces blank, both feet on the floor, listening to the whack of rubber on cringing flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Dressed more casually than Whitby, he had his sleeves rolled back to expose a green inked dragon curling up his right forearm, its tail encircling the letters KAT burnt into his flesh. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A sharp pain shot through the tender flesh below his thumb. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Where the sleeve of his robe rode up, a flap of pale flesh could be seen dangling beneath his forearm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It took her and Dad most of the evening to cut away the dead flesh. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The boy was flesh and blood and bone, yes, but also pulsing with light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z This helped for a while, but when the cloth began to stick to the raw flesh I knew it was the end. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Even now it seemed to want to get back at him and finish the injection which was now working through the flesh of his leg. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy sucked in his breath, squinting in expectation of the blow, his back pressing against the rough bricks until their edges dug into his flesh. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z If anyone peered under the bushes and chanced to glimpse human flesh it might be Samneric who would pretend not to see and say nothing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Once that was done, he told Fabian to poke holes in the sheep’s flesh. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z His flesh was soft and moist, and his breath smelled of lilacs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Its flesh nearly matches the grayish-brown color of the sand. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z A shaggy beard covered his cheeks and neck, but the hair would not grow over the scar, so a shiny seam of puckered, twisted flesh divided his face like a crevasse through a snowfield. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I smell the smell of my own flesh melting. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z He pulled free for an instant, his mouth full of leather and cloth and bloody flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “You’re bleeding all over the floor,” she said, turning her attention toward me as if she wanted to wash her flesh meal down with my blood. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Shifting from one hip to the other in his lumbering, elephantine fashion, Ignatius sent waves of flesh rippling beneath the tweed and flannel, waves that broke upon buttons and seams. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma’am, I wonder if you could help me flesh out the story some.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Something else slipped out of the pages, though, something breathing, a creature made of flesh and blood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z If you bleed into the third space, you bleed into the space between the skin and the flesh. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When his mouth opened, she could see bits of broken bone and charred flesh between his black teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The next round lifted me, and I felt something hit my wrist and tear into the flesh. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The brown mustache, the knobby chin, the sallow yellowed flesh and small dark eyes, all melted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Entering the destroyed warehouse, the thick smell of burnt flesh quickens my pulse. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath the surface, claws of metal raked into her leg, splitting open her flesh. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z There, shining white on the back of his cold hand, were the scars which Dolores Umbridge had forced him to carve into his own flesh: I must not tell lies. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Black and slimy, they attach themselves to my flesh with suction cups, sucking my blood! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she begun to cry again, talking about how her own flesh and blood rose up to curse her. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the flesh already starting to swell. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I pressed my sleeve against my cut cheek until the throbbing pain spread like red-hot pincers, twisting into the flesh and burrowing deeper. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She wore heavy makeup and she had one of those unfortunate bulging figures where the flesh appears to be strapped in all around the body to prevent it from falling out. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z One day, he will grow too old to be told that a wandering man is a mirage and that naked flesh is a dream. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Poet sewed a lot of leather and would seam it cleaner than I could, but if blood and flesh bothered the old man, it would only make things worse. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He released her neck, slid his hand down to spread his palm over her heart, pressing into the soft flesh. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z But she trusted to her flesh, and to the strange truth she’d learned about angels, perhaps especially those angels who had once been human: lacking flesh, they coveted it and longed for contact with it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And then, for no apparent reason, the balance shifts, and Michelangelo rises in their thoughts, his slumped body, the dancing flames, his burning flesh. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “And how exactly does a killer squid rend the flesh from its victims?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They dragged her from her chariot, tore off her clothes, and, armed with aba- lone shells, flayed her flesh from her bones. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The darkness was black, complete, and Ugwu imagined the spider’s hairy legs, its surprise to find not cold underground soil but warm human flesh. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Despite this, the distraught listeners could still make out the hollow thud of bull hook hitting flesh, again and again and again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Snow pellets borne by 70-knot gusts stung my face; any exposed flesh was instantly frozen. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Swords and spears and fire; and nails being pounded into the tender flesh of a man’s hands. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Her fingers and palms became damp, shrinking at the ghost’s thick short hair like an animal’s coat, which slides against warm solidity as human flesh slides against muscles and bones. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would that I could make myself devour raw your flesh for the evil you have brought upon me.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Hollows appeared under his eyes during those weeks, as if someone had suctioned the delicate flesh, leaving his eyes sunken in. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Her flesh was still warm, and it seemed unreal that she was truly dead. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He was good as new in his camouflage and combat boots, translucent gray flesh covering his bones like glowing Jell-O. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z We learn to sit up straight, eyes front, faces blank, both feet on the floor, listening to the whack of rubber on cringing flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He dug out several inches of the pulpy flesh within, then placed the gourd atop the neck, fitting it down so that it sat firm. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She nods and taps her toe impatiently, which makes the flesh of her calves jiggle. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then came trout fresh from the river, baked in clay; her prince helped her crack open the hard casing to expose the flaky white flesh within. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He had been slashed sixteen times by mighty boars, and his legs had white weals of shiny flesh that stretched right up to his ribs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He can feel solid flesh through the wool of the sweater. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Someone had sewn the tom flesh together with catgut, and their clumsy stitches were still in place across the seam of raw, red, half-healed flesh. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But Beowulf stood firm, holding the monster in a grip so tight that it almost made his own big fingers crack and the bones poke out of the straining flesh. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Musa had just lifted his foot and was trying to separate the sand from his flesh. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z No flesh remained on the arid bones, but the two friends cracked them open and worried away every scrap of marrow from inside. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z They’d admired these aspects of her personality from a distance before they actually met her, but now that she was living and working with them in the flesh, she was their ideal leader. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It began life as a single, long, exhaustingly forceful movement, but Shostakovich, in a white heat of besieged inspiration, fleshed it out to a further three movements. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She had the big eyes, smooth skin, and small nose, but her cheekbones were too tight, the skull practically visible beneath her flesh. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Yellow pus ran like sap from his welted flesh. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Hatchet hissed and dropped Sefia as bits of flesh and bone shattered in his arm. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It nauseated him to see Harley’s body jerking and twitching in the sagging barbed wire, with hands and knives so greedy for human flesh. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A father feasted—and the flesh his children. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There are smoldering remains of bonfires giving off the stench of burnt human flesh all through the village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The touch of the policeman’s hand was still there—a touch that made his flesh jump like the tremor of a horse’s flank when flies light on it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I keep thinking, they have thrown every piece of flesh that followed the child out of her body into the water. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z At dark the hunters brought their catch into Coral Cove, and there on the beach the animals were skinned and fleshed. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a meaty box of flesh, and her torso bent sharply at the waist to offset his bulk. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z An hour later I met Hall in the flesh. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z A bright bud of blood blossomed where his sword pressed into Mycah's flesh, and a slow red line trickled down the bby's cheek. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I bit the inside of my cheeks as I moved up the hallway, grinding tender slabs of flesh between my teeth. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Here lies our comrade, Kemmerich, who a little while ago was roasting horse flesh with us and squatting in the shell-holes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The solution was, after all, really a physical one: producing Mr. Reilly in the abundant flesh. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was good to remember it was Eleanor under all this new flesh. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z They were like nails being driven into my flesh. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He was almost unprepared for what it felt like to watch his own flesh and blood out there on that field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Not the wafer and the wine, but the flesh and the blood, vibrant and alive, and vibrant even when stooped, ancient and withered. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “That was brilliant,” Henry says, smiling, in the flesh, finally. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And this submerged communion with Antonapoulos had grown and changed as though they were together in the flesh. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z His flesh was a ripe violet-blue, his lips and nails bluer still, so dark they were almost black. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The path toward Pol was clear at last, and Kaede saw that the guard’s neck was bent at an unnatural angle, and his left thigh had been torn into a mass of bloody flesh. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “It is the cleanliness of your immortal soul that should concern you now, not such vanities of the flesh.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The flesh was green and rotting, and the ear tore off between his fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z All he could do was raise a shaking hand to his throat and feel the place where the locket had cut tightly into his flesh. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Steel slid through flesh and came out his throat in a welter of blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “For Avignon?” die chaplain’s heart missed a beat, and all his flesh began to prickle and creep. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The flesh on his thigh is burned black and red, the skin hanging ragged and oozing. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Maybe he would be punished for treating his flesh and blood so inhumanly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The outside of the onions is varying shades of greens and browns with white patches of fuzz, but on the inside the flesh is bright and good enough to eat. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She stepped from the carriage, flesh envivified; her brain tricked out in schemes; I have forgot my mantilla; only this do I recall; she ran. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z But the fox daemon tore at the cat Pantalaimon, and Lyra felt the pain in her own flesh, and sobbed a great cry as he fell. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She shows me how to peel off the hard skin and suck on the sweet-sour flesh inside. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z A procession of suppliants climbed the knoll on bare, bloodied knees to show their devotion or purge their grief or beg forgiveness in the slow tearing of flesh and bone. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A raven was perched atop one, pulling at the tatters of burned flesh that clung to its blackened skull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But last night’s cuts were only thin pink lines on my flesh, and there was no pain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if his own flesh went to feed him the old man should eat. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Part of this command superstructure that had accumulated over an entire career was not completely fleshed out but still had impact on the colonel’s persona as a commander. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell in the room was powerful—of charred flesh, and of comfrey, mullein and plantain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Their flesh was salmon pink, like a very good strawberry cream ice. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Meaning to the way your flesh connects to the earth, telling gravity to hold you and everyone else down. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z When he touched his thigh, the flesh was hot to his fin-gers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Silence terrifies you more than the pounding of a million pieces of steel chopping away at your flesh. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The animal’s teeth, however, did not sink into his flesh, but held him in an unshakable grip. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z He would often seize Thornton’s hand in his mouth and close so fiercely that the flesh bore the impress of his teeth for some time afterward. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z He would yet taste Nnesinachi’s sweetness, he would yet caress that soft flesh. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He looked vacant, not like a person but a person-shaped mound of flesh, and whatever had made him Harison, whatever had made him cringe and mutter and laugh, was gone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z My parents’ humiliation at this very public display must be gnawing at them like a vulture picking flesh off bone. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Selmy’s answering slash found the pit fighter’s left shoulder, parting the fine linen to bite the flesh beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I probe sore flesh and rub scented balms into stiff joints. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I watched as the veins on his forehead became transparent through his flesh and disappeared as he absorbed the contents of the book or thought about whatever else was on his mind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Even in countries where chimp flesh is not eaten, mothers may be shot so that hunters can steal their babies and sell them—for pets, for zoos and circuses, or for medical research. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Catelyn twisted her head to the side and managed to get a piece of his flesh between her teeth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was feeling the words of the preacher, feeling that life was flesh nailed to the world, a longing spirit imprisoned in the days of the earth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A few years before, his father had made him kill a goat, to show him the method of the knife, to show how a blade pierced flesh and snagged on tendons. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Her hair had become white and streaked with iron, and the flesh of her thin cheeks was wrinkled. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z With the knife, Ma peels the skin away to reveal flesh that is the same warm golden color. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “Five fingers and flesh with blood beneath. One could almost believe that on the other end of that hand lay a person of some sort.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Swords would not touch him, spears would not pierce his flesh. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “I’m going to grate the flesh of your throat off you like cheese.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z His flesh could sense the steel that enveloped it was in a kind of trouble, an augmented desperation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The scent of rotting flesh fills the air and I gag. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Partly out of angry frustration and partly because I didn’t believe in its flesh reality. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Vultures would find the bodies and strip them of their rotting flesh until only the bones remained. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z At first I just moved it around the plate, hoping that the flesh would fall from the bone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I took her hand, with its puffed flesh and gnarled bones, between my own small hands, which were not, as Cristiana claimed, fat and clumsy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I put a palm against his face and felt the bones close to the flesh and the tiny wet tears, as if squeezed from a dropper. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With his body he seemed to feed the voice that, succubus like, had fleshed its teeth in him. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Less a sense of heat and more of intense pain as the chemicals find our flesh, cling to it, and burrow down through the layers of skin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I dug my nails into my palms till I’d pierced my own flesh. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z So I don’t pull my arm away, I let his fingers dig into my flesh and I try to speak clearly and calmly. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Are you still my own flesh and blood, my last-born, or are you now the flesh of Africa? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “It offers up more heat more rapidly than the flesh.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn’t have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails till I was a bleeding wreck. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z To the touch, the crocus sometimes felt soft: and slippery, like the flesh of a worm. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z By rights the metal should have been cold against her flesh, but it felt warm instead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Andrew was Abel’s son, flesh of his flesh, blood of his blood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Then he heard the blast and felt the bullet boring through his arm, through flesh and blood and bone, the buckshot fragmenting, some pieces going through his arm and into his chest. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Their blood is a good, nutritious, salt-free drink; their flesh is tasty and filling; their fat has many uses; and the castaway will find turtle eggs a real treat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It went deep into the flesh and stayed there. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was good: tender flesh, with a taste somewhat like chicken, but still quite different. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z You wouldn’t catch Christ, in the flesh, living in the projects. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He took a small oyster from the basket, cut the muscle, searched the folds of flesh, and threw it in the water. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I got flesh to spare,” Grandma said mildly. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The pale exposed flesh of his belly froze her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z When I dream that I am wire without flesh, there is a letter on blue airmail paper that floats above the night ocean between here and China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On deck, Carlyle jabs at the squid with a mop handle sharpened into a harpoon, but the creature’s flesh is too thick for him to do much damage. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She calmly explained that our marriage had deteriorated and that she had lost her natural inclination for the pleasures of the flesh. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It must be said in explanation that the statue did not look like a statue; no one would have thought it was ivory or stone, but warm human flesh, motionless for a moment only. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Live in the flesh, Sparrow the rock star!” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Tyrion twisted until he could feel the links digging into die flesh of the man's fat neck. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “If you are forced to fight, you may use nothing. Nothing but flesh and bone.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The trilling of our neighbors’ tongues set loose knives that cut the flesh from our bones and made us fall down with our shame and our love and our anger. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon the creature’s back were wings made from soiled white tarpaulin or hospital curtains, melted onto the flesh and veined with throbbing arteries. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Slowly, Hel rips it free, rending the flesh of my neck as the metal releases. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z And to the third king he said, ‘You will die because your flesh will be consumed. I give you tuberculosis.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His fingers sink into the flesh of my neck, and I remember how it felt to have fruit jammed into my mouth, soft flesh parting against my teeth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The flesh on my feet is so swollen it glistens as if it will pop open. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It ruled their waking hours, sapped their bodily strength, and from time to tragic time claimed their mortal flesh. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As she spoke, playing on all their senses, the ghosts crowded closer, feeding on her words, remembering the time when they had flesh and skin and nerves and senses, and willing her never to stop. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Her gnarled hands touched the raised pink flesh and followed the map of it with one finger. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It turned the talon sideways, so that the edge pressed against soft human flesh. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “You he, you vile piece of carrion flesh!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I felt the beginnings of great loneliness, not because I was a Negro but because the man I had been, the self I knew, was hidden in the flesh of another. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He stroked her back and she purred, and slid her cheek against his cheek, and kneaded his flesh. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z When the herd passes, the thing that was August is a tangled mass of flesh, innards, and straw. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He stared at them in raw horror, his eyes skipping from Ruby to Feral to Sparrow to Sarai, trying to process the sight of their blue flesh. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I saw the grey, drawn flesh and the hooded eyes, deep sunken in their sockets, and I made to turn away but she held me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Her sleeves are rolled up to her shoulders, and I see that her flesh barely covers her bones. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Then my flesh melts, and my skin sinks into the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever had robbed her of her right foreleg would have suffered for it, if those teeth had met in its flesh. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Enlas, who would not carry a sword or eat the flesh of animals, and who no man had ever known to speak hard words. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I was fine but she was standing above me and pulling long, rotten strips of flesh off her arms and hands as if peeling a rotten banana. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Whatever else we were getting into as the weeks passed one another and my body swelled like a slow flesh balloon, it was not a joke. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z With each explosion, every bone in my body vibrated and hammered, clanging violently against the bell tower that was my flesh. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Their flesh could help prevent pellagra, a sometimes fatal disease that was rampant in the camp, especially in the winter. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I knew not whether he had enjoyed her in flesh; regardless, he now enjoyed her in fantasy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Bits of flesh still clung to the bear skull, Jon noted as he joined the line riding past. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Shallow lobes and a jagged border and hard veins that rose up from the rubbery green flesh. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Pay him his pound of flesh and deal with him later. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It smelled like exactly what it was: rotting flesh. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality sticks its fork into our flesh, leaving us standing there, together. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Weird how this is the last time I’ll be in this park—with flesh and a heart that works.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I mean small pieces, little strips that I meant for the gaff’s hook that, when dried by the sun, looked like ordinary animal flesh. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z That night we had big chunks of it for dinner, rolled in cornmeal and deep-fried, its white flesh still tanged with the undertaste of mud that didn’t seem to bother anybody else. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Can it be that our Mr Stevens is flesh and blood after all and cannot fully trust himself?' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The flesh of the Lord suddenly became as nothing. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The steady thud of knuckles striking flesh, the groans and ragged gasps, the scuffle of feet on the floor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There was a large spot of mingled blood, hair, and naked flesh on one shoulder. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, with wooden scoops and knives, they took out the pumpkin flesh and put it in a cooking pot. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Dad swerved the boat, cut speed, and ducked the craft into a little branch canal and under an ancient, crumbling stone wharf that smelled of crab flesh. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew very well why he hadn't: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z No wizardry would serve him now, but only his own flesh, his life itself, against the unliving. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z By varying the consistency of his pigments, the artist was able to capture the texture of Danaë’s flesh with uncanny accuracy, while distinguishing it clearly from bed sheets and covers. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But presently I gave command to my officers to flay those sheep the bronze cut down, and make burnt offerings of flesh to the gods below—to sovereign Death, to pale Persephone. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “The flesh fades but the spirit lives on to its eternal reward!” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If he were any closer, he would be too tempted to throw himself against the bars, grabbing for any part of the guard’s flesh. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A giant column of muscle and flesh suddenly leaped upward— ton after ton of flesh suddenly pouring itself skyward in defiance of gravity. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Bedraggled, dirty, torn uniforms, torn flesh, lost equipment. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z An arm of the glacier has withdrawn from this slope within the last fifty or hundred years, leaving the planet’s bones raw to the air; no flesh of earth, of grass. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Behind me, I heard a grunt of pain and the hard thunk of a shoe striking flesh. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They were a colorful blur against the pale flesh, a raised ax, a swinging machete. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He was the man who had trained me, who had treated me as if I were his own flesh and blood. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It had seemed to him to smell of burning flesh, and the sound of it was anguished as it played amongst the lines. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Their tongues lick blood and eat flesh while their innards writhe around them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 "Infest him, sire, with maggots in his flesh and spider eggs in his eyes. Put larvae inside here"—it tapped its forehead—"so he can hear them buzzing as they grow." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z A vague, medicinal stench emanated from her flesh. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Even the Congo has tried to slip out of her old flesh, to pretend it isn’t scarred. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When she peeled the skin of the fruit she held in her hand, the flesh that emerged was soft, juicy, and golden. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It was obvious he was tentative, the knee looming as if all the bone and flesh and ligament and cartilage lay there exposed for everyone to take a shot at like some carnival game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The flesh is a brilliant red covered with blisters. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It also took on the meaning of someone parasitic, living on the flesh of others. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ser Jorah broke the dry mud with his knife, pried the chunks from the flesh, peeled off the leaves one by one. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Only that proved she was made of flesh and blood like me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Looking down, Bran glimpsed pale flesh where the wool of his leggings had parted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The night air blew the smell of rotting flesh to my nose. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z You absolutely love it each time a zombie lunges at a human and chomps on flesh because it makes April grab the legs next to hers, one of which is yours. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I pushed a little harder and felt the resistance of Dad’s flesh. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Her cloak was in rags, and her flesh it was lean, And her eyes, her murdered eyes... Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The moment when he had stood above Mary’s bed and found that she was dead the fear of electrocution had entered his flesh and blood. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Seeing what was happening had somehow made it worse, as if the rubber was fusing with her flesh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She loved those children as if they were her own flesh and blood, although sometimes she would call them by the names of those long dead. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He preferred to flay it and let the exposed flesh dry and crack and fester. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then I hear a thud—the unmistakable sound of steel sinking into flesh. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Making use of the readily available poisons, she soon turns the blowgun into a deadly weapon by dipping the darts in lethal substances and directing them into her opponents’ flesh. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Great big folds of flesh hung down from his massive belly and dangled in dollops over each other along his four thick legs. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z As her cousin Joe had years earlier, she found it intolerable to think of her flesh and blood in foster care. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “They’re like knives. They cut my clothes”— she examined the ruined dress, with its long ragged tears— “but they don’t quite reach my flesh. It’s as if they’re waiting. Teasing me.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z All flesh is grass, I corrected her in my head. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She would slice the flesh away from the big flat seed. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z His black flesh picked up dull highlights from the bare globe overhead. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything about the creature was gray: gray clothes on gray flesh on gray bones. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There’s a grandfather clock in the hallway, which doles out time, and then the door to the motherly front sitting room, with its flesh tones and hints. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt Bartsia’s closed teeth come tearing out through his flesh and then he was standing above him as he fell back on the ground, kicking helplessly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed his shoulders, bit into his flesh with my nails, threw him away from me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They were neither ghost nor truly flesh, he could see that. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I was called on day and night to X-ray all types of ugly wounds to see if the bones behind the bruised or bleeding flesh had been cracked, chipped, or broken. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “Unclean! Unclean! Even the Almighty shuns my polluted flesh! I must bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until the Judgment Day.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Sorry, Viola!” she yelled, plunging the weed digger into the spongy flesh. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He raised the sword and brought it down upon the dead man, grunting as the blade sheared through wet wool and rusted mail and rotted leather, biting deep into the bones and flesh beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My flesh crawled, remembering the ironic, almost humorous twist he’d put on the last words—oh, God, I thought, my God, how could I have listened to him? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Slaughtered lambs, skinned and transparent as baby flesh, hung evenly on rusted hooks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The telescope itself provides a form of space travel; as Hooke put it, a ‘transmigration into heaven, even whil’st we remain here upon earth in the flesh’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She kept pushing, her hands enmeshed in the haint’s horrible rubbery flesh, the stench of death and fresh paint suffocating her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She leans forward, squeezing until the flesh swells between her fingers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Her figure faults were gone, the too bony elbow having fleshed out nicely; the opposite pudgy wrist could not have been trimmer. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The guards laughed as he opened his mouth, showing her the scarred flesh where his tongue had been. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Claudine appears in my head: doughy gray flesh, beautiful round frame, dull brown hair, big eyes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z There were only a few sticky strands of flesh to slice through. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z He thirsted for life and reached out ravenously to grasp and hold Nurse Duckett’s flesh. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I focus on my arm, and my heart races when I see grass growing out of my flesh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Black chimneys stood up in silhouette against the glowing sky, shooting flames from their tops, and the smell of burning flesh filled the air. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z One of Jonas’s arms was immobilized with pain, and he could see through his own torn sleeve something that looked like ragged flesh and splintery bone. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think I have enough flesh on the underside of my arm,” I whispered. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The chafe of his skin on hers made her flesh feel raw. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z His spear yanked itself free of the god’s flesh and flew back to Bob’s hand, which made Annabeth gulp in amazement. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Her other hand fans his body, chasing away the black-green flies that wait to lick his scorched flesh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With darkness, the flies disappear and the mosquitoes appear to feast on our flesh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A chill shivered up his spine when he saw the flesh of the fruits was black, shriveled, almost like... Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z When he bared his teeth, the flesh of his maimed cheek parted and revealed a row of yellow and black molars. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It felt like she was coated in their ashes, in the stink of burning flesh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Its flesh is a sickly shade of pink. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I tremble uncontrollably, knowing that if I do this, I will have to press the gun into the man’s flesh or I’ll miss. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z "Stark and silent, lay the Martians,” Pierson says, "with the hungry birds pecking and tearing brown shreds of flesh from their dead bodies.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He undressed he painted his body the whorls of flesh the soles of his feet the palms of his hands the top of his head. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Down by his jaw, you could see a hint of bone where the flesh had been seared away. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I wished it wouldn’t do that, wished my flesh wasn’t shrinking against my bones. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The oil and grime had been washed from his legs to reveal an area below his thigh where pieces of shrapnel were embedded in the flesh. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z That the woman back at the prison were a ghost, and the real Mama were here in the flesh. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z His legs were covered in dark greaves; his flesh all thick purple muscle, like the ground. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She pushed harder and felt the dried-up, dull flesh give beneath her thumbs, the eyes squish into nothingness. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Johanna’s digging something, I guess the point of her knife, into my flesh, twisting it around. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z His plan wasn’t fully fleshed out on what he’d do when he got to London, but he was sure he’d find a flight going to Peshawar from there. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Sierra drifted somewhere in the middle of all those souls—a flash of living flesh amidst so much death. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The man's flesh was pale, and his blood had pooled upon the rocky floor below him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He swung a leg behind Mama and sat down on the step above, digging his thumbs into the thick flesh below her neck. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z But the contact of tongues, alive and slippery muscle, moist flesh on flesh, and the strange sound it drew from her, changed that. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At first I’d thought it was strung shells with shriveled black seaweed, but it wasn’t — it was a chain of mummified fingernails, a black and curled strip of flesh dangling from the base of each. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He was flying as high as twenty feet now, and the sun, gleaming through the painted canvas, made the wings seem like living flesh. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie wished she could see him—just once in the flesh. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And once he saw that uninterrupted flesh, he would respond the same way everybody else had. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then indeed are they growing poor. Land is one’s flesh and blood.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Beneath the furs he was naked and feverish, his pale puffy flesh covered with weeping sores and scabs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And they were little boys, therefore fundamentally uncommunicative, with no gift for intimacy, and worse, they had diluted their identities, for she had never found this missing triangle of flesh. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was like meeting a fairy tale — Snow White, in the flesh. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z And then, it opened its jaws and unleashed a mass of chewed sheep flesh onto the forest floor. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z At first it felt like bubbles were shooting through the flesh of the bird; then the delicate bones started to churn. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The faded mole by her lips holds the folds of thin flesh in place like a flat black button. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z His flesh was blanched white as milk, everywhere but his hands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Elinor thought he looked like an oyster with the flesh and life sucked out of it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He remembered the dying horse, the taste of blood in his mouth, the smell of burnt flesh in the morning air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was cold down here, a cold that she. felt all the way through, cold flesh, cold blood, cold bones. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There is a lot of flesh to her, especially below the waist; there are folds across her stomach, her breasts are saggy and have enormous dark nipples. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The dogs attacked the protesters—ripping clothes and biting flesh. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s impossible to imagine my father, who in my experience was aroused mainly by the lowering of interest rates, suffering the acute, adolescent passions of the flesh. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Instead, she trudges alongside him, and he walks with the bull hook snagged firmly in the flesh behind her front leg. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Spidery networks of veins bulged against maroon flesh. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Eumaios, taking flesh from every quarter, put lean strips on the fat of sacrifice, floured each one with barley meal, and cast it into the blaze. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Fangs pierced his flesh over and over, relentless bites in his skin. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Mother had rushed Emma to town, too, but the flesh had been crushed, and there was nothing they could do. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Clouds of white swirl out from his flesh and he groans. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The feel of bare flesh on his fingers made him want to gag. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I ask her, trying not to recoil from the torn and oozing flesh. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She bowed and the soft flesh of her breasts hung loose and curved like cow udders. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she would begin to cry and say it was her own flesh and blood so I just says All right. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There was, instead, the subtle curve of the cupped hand—the metal flesh sloping gently upward to form a kind of great shallow bowl so that you couldn’t simply walk off the edge. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They no longer seemed like cardboard parents, but flesh- and-blood people who had almost died before I had even met them. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z With strange delicacy, the dog removed the biscuit without touching Ben’s flesh. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I noticed the imprint her fingers made on her forehead, the delicate chain of bloodless flesh. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z That thin wafer was becoming God, it was becoming flesh. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His fur shone with good health and you could not see the bones under his skin because they were padded with flesh. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They had just passed one that had been decomposing in front of a pizza place for a week now, its flesh eaten away by rats. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I pulled up the cuff of my shirt and displayed the quarter-sized disk of raised flesh decorating the inside of my wrist. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He just sprawled out, a mound of silent black flesh. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It burrows into me, like a foxtail inching into flesh. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z No one had moved since the beginning of his address, not even to pinch their noses to keep out the smell of Big Anthony’s roasting flesh. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z For its size there was a disappointing amount of flesh, only a little on its chest. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The boils, the sores, the putrid growths just melted back into healthy full flesh. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Increasing years had added more grease to his bulk, more flesh to his paunch; they had not sweetened his nature or endowed him with more kindliness. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The fire in my face burned on and on, deep through my flesh, scaring my soul. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The wrist was swollen and a bit discolored, but what horrified me was a tiny, evil burn on the underside of the forearm: a cigarette burn, gouged deep and ugly in the flesh. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “When you force humans into a subhuman mode of existence, this always happens. Deprive a man of any contact with the pleasures of the spirit and he’ll fall completely into those of the flesh.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Underneath all that, she was flesh and bone and smiling and alive. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The arm was crawling up his leg, rip-ping at wool and flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As if he wished to ascertain that the person addressing him was actually a creature of flesh and bone, a human being with a body and a belly. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Curious, I push my thumb into my swollen feet, pressing the flesh inward and creating a big dent. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "It means the bone is knitting, the flesh healing itself. Be thankful." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It might be gebbeth still, clothed in Skiorh's death, or it might be hidden in the gathering darkness, waiting to seize him and merge its shapelessness with his living flesh. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Eleven thousand dollars’ worth of flesh and bone and muscle that belonged to Maryland planters. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Heracles was made to wear a poison robe that ate away his flesh,” he said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The hand that grips me is brown, but not brown like flesh. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z And she might have a potbelly shiny as a mirror, and big sacs of flesh for breasts, and maybe she would only be wearing a loin cloth. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The longer he waits to tell us something, anything, the more tense my muscles become, until my shoulders feel like they are made of stone instead of flesh. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The molten gold trickled down his face like wax, burning deep channels in his flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was as though we were two halves of the same animal, sutured together by a bond deeper than flesh. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Only to think of it makes me feel suffused, inert, like the flesh of a watermelon. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But with all Wang Lung’s urging Ching to eat and eat well, the man still put no flesh on his bones, remaining always a small, spare, lean man of great gravity. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Lumps of glowing yellow flesh oozed down her forearms and spattered onto the floor. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z His flesh crept and he shivered in the evening sun. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Some shepherd tribes used to kill the offspring, eat its flesh, and then stuff the skin. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For an instant she could feel its teeth digging into her shoulder, as if it wanted a bite of her flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Throat and chest had been tom apart, and glistening green entrails and ribbons of ragged flesh dangled from where the belly had been opened. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She came to believe that she had lost her capacity to love, and that the burning desire of her flesh had been quelled forever. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And for him she was not flesh and blood but the painted picture of a woman. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The hatching larvae are parasitic, feeding on the flesh of the host. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Not that crows take off their feathers in the sun either, and these men were just a flock of crows: robbers, carrion-eaters who liked to plunge their sharp beaks into dead flesh. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Above him, among the oaken beams, the bats, their delicate copper bodies hidden under rubber flesh, blinked at him and shrieked. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The stallion lowered his head, flesh quivering on his massive, gleaming neck. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He had said that he would cherish her until the grave, and that he would love her nameless son as though he were his own flesh. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Whatever it was sunk its teeth deeper and deeper into his flesh. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I swing up my bow and blow up the first pod with an explosive arrow, which kills the nest of flesh- eating rats inside. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z One burrowed through his breeches into the desiccated flesh of his thigh, to emerge again from his shoulder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Behind her, Hodor was tearing eagerly at a chunk of hot charred flesh as blood and grease ran down into his beard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was a great horseman and he fed his horses human flesh to make them fierce in battle. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of singed flesh fills my nostrils, and I hear myself begging for mercy, then sobbing, then screaming. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “I have walked long and far to see if you are as beautiful in the flesh as you are in my dreams. And you are. Even more.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Queen Wealhtheow paced the corridors, wringing her white hands until the knucklebones nearly pierced the delicate flesh. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was already here, in the flesh, sitting less than ten feet from me, after all these years. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “You won’t be single long,” Dylan says, like he’s a Magic 8 Ball in white flesh. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It’s been five years since we last saw her in the flesh. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z I made it around the corner and stood beneath the poster, breathing hard, closing my eyes to the sound of fists hitting flesh. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “We care not of heads and tails, only of the flesh between!” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Only the fingernails had color; they were metal claws the same gold as the feathers, as if some essence of the figure had pierced the mutilated flesh and burst out from the cuticles. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Standing so close, odors of her body rose up to me from her white uniform, a mingling of hickory-smoked flesh, gardenia talcum and sweat. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His mouth was full of blood and flesh and hair, but he dare not spit or swallow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Jhogo looked terrified as he struggled with the stal-lion's weight, afraid to touch the dead flesh, yet afraid to let go as well. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The blood from her face cuts filled her eyes so she could not see, could only smell the familiar odor of cooked flesh. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z When his servant came running in with a lamp, Wei saw his arrows sticking in a ball of flesh entirely covered with eyes, some rolled back to show the dulling whites. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I... my lord, the men would never... giants eat human flesh, I think ... no, my lord, I thank you, but I do not have the men to watch over such a creature, he...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I put my face against the soft hair at the back of her neck and breathe her in, baby powder and child’s washed flesh and shampoo, with an undertone, the faint scent of urine. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Under Leon’s steady gaze, Bailey had stopped stroking his cheek, even though a pink welt had appeared, like an evil stain spreading on his flesh. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The body of a gebbeth has been drained of true substance and is something like a shell or a vapor in the form of a man, an unreal flesh clothing the shadow which is real. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The liplike flesh writhed up and then subsided. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, without soon being rescued they were sure to die, because their wounds were so infected their flesh had begun to stink and rot. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The flesh above his right eye jumped out as though it had been inflated. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Ropes of tom flesh hung from the great wound in his belly, yet there was no blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And if he grew too weary in the day he laid himself into a furrow and there with the good warmth of his own land against his flesh, he slept. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Lifting, dropping, lifting, dropping—by the time the drum cuts out and the trombone kicks in, her arms move so fast they’re a blur, her flesh an undulating, pumping mass. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z There they are, moving about in my cytoplasm, breathing for my own flesh, but strangers. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They cleaned the flesh from Alice’s skull and carefully polished her teeth, then covered her body with canvas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We gather round and eat the delicious sweet flesh with the salty bread from District 4. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z There’s jumping off a roof and there’s slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z A slimy yellow goo exploded from the flesh, splashing over Thomas’s legs as he drove the spear as far as it would sink into the thing’s body. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Cora jumped on Ridgeway’s back and strangled him with her chains, twisting them tight against his flesh. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As he had placed the Wafer on Mina’s forehead, it had seared it—had burned into the flesh as though it had been a piece of white-hot metal. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Is that anything to talk about at a time like this? Your own flesh and blood, and maybe Dr. Guarino can make him like other children, with the Lord’s help, and you talk about money!” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z So Nathan was silenced, for he saw they were men and had made their decisions, but how could I let them go, who were my own flesh and blood, without a fight? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z That no midnight eyes or marbled flesh would ever accost her and turn her into jelly. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But once you are able to separate yourself from the whims of the flesh and embrace the silence and nothingness of your soul, you will be liberated. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He ripped the flesh off the man’s frame and cracked his bones. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z As he replaced his wand in his pocket, Harry saw that his hand was blackened and shriveled; it looked as though his flesh had been burned away. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Food was more costly every day, whilst the price of flesh grew cheaper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I am the blood of the dragon, she told herself as she took the stallion's heart in both hands, lifted it to her mouth, and plunged her teeth into the tough, stringy flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, he had to struggle with his flesh before he could answer. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z All the poetry of war had left me upon my first scenting of decaying flesh. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Amari could hear her flesh sizzle, and she nearly fainted as she realized she was being branded. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He touched the sagging flesh on his own face with amusement. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z For a moment she felt them in her own flesh. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z And in her soul, the madwoman felt a thousand birds—birds of paper, birds of feathers, birds of hearts and minds and flesh—leap into the sky and soar over the dreaming trees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The restless dogs charged at anyone close by, grabbed children’s arms and legs, bit their stomachs, ripped flesh, and drew significant blood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His back was a great wall of black flesh, and I saw a cruel scar on one shoulder. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Again and again the sap spattered onto his arms until his sleeves were dotted with holes and the flesh beneath was burned raw. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z But my skin and flesh would not respond to the food. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In her hand was a butcher knife, which she raised high over her head and brought down heavily toward the smooth neck flesh that showed above his shirt collar. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes are shriveled up inside the puffy flesh of his face, as if the light is too bright for him. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the spot where flesh joined with plaster, stared at it uncomprehending. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z When the stench of burned flesh that many on the row claimed they could smell during the execution wafted into his cell, Myers dissolved. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The crowd was roaring deep in its gut, ocean waves that lapped at the ring, that drowned all pain and all feeling, drowned all sound but the drumming of leather against flesh. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Popo had swollen up like an overripe squash, so full her flesh had gone soft and rotten with a bad smell. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She drank in the scent of him, savoring the warmth of his flesh, the feel of his skin against her own. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The hammer blows were falling on the nails that ripped through the flesh. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Combat medicine was torn flesh, gaping belly wounds, splintered bones, burns, blood, and agony. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Chunks of reddish grey flesh and clumps of internal organs were strewn about. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Bull believed that when the flesh was torn away and the bones naked, the fighter would emerge in Ben. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The fire ate the flesh on Hugo’s face and hands, and the stench remained on Palmas Street for many months. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z One thinks immediately of the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who after having both his arms lopped off declares, “It’s just a flesh wound.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Ess stuffed her face with the sweet snaps, chewing their meaty red flesh and spitting out the pits. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z What heart I had left no longer felt like flesh and blood. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Such was the skill of the Chinchorro at preserving human flesh that scientists have been able to extract intact DNA from cadavers thousands of years older than the Egyptian pyramids. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Both of her knees had the skin ripped right off them, and the flesh underneath was scarlet and raw. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Needle went through his leather jerkin and the white flesh of his belly and came out between his shoulder blades. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She don’t look like the girls I seen in vids or in Noise and I never seen no girl in the flesh but there she is, she’s a girl and that’s that. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z There was even a pulse under the fur, a slow and powerful beat that pressed against her flesh. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Their children were like distant but exposed wounds whose aches were no less intimate because separate from their flesh. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z On the landing above—Turner and Nettle could just see boots and lower legs moving stiffly from side to side—a fight was developing, with wrestling grunts and a smack of knuckles on flesh. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then it bent over the discarded flesh and fussed over it, doing things with its hands that I couldn’t see. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She could smell the odor of burning flesh, no different than horseflesh roasting in a firepit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But at last the bones had regained flesh; the empty eyepits had filled up and the new eyes had seen, while meantime the restored beaks and mouths had cackled, barked, and caterwauled. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It would be on his track now, seeking to draw near to him, to take his strength into itself, and suck up his life, and clothe itself in his flesh. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He was the palpable reality that clothed the revolutionary rhapsodies in flesh and blood, America’s one and only indispensable character. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The moment he stepped out of the plane, Arisue was hit by the horrible stench of burning flesh. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z No excess flesh, a flat belly, small behind and smaller bosom—Rachael had been modeled on the Celtic type of build, anachronistic and attractive. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The other hunters swarmed over the lion and pierced its flesh with their spears, killing it quickly. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though I was outraged, I knew he did not commit this indignity against me, but against my black flesh, my color. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He was so huge that he took his horse down with him in a tangle of steel and flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The old man held him with his left hand and his shoulders now and stooped down and scooped up water in his right hand to get the crushed dolphin flesh off of his face. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And then they poured acid on his body to melt his flesh off his bones, to kill him even when he was already dead. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Like a miniature mountain range, large reddish weals upheaved across the white flesh of her wrists. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z His thumb slid down, and now it was stroking the hollow above her collarbone, then the flesh beneath it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Many months would pass, and countless surgeries on his heart and lungs would be performed, before Shawn and Emily would bring home the little twig of flesh that I was told was my nephew. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Massa’s wife hated that chile. Had Massa sell her when she was not much older than your Tidbit—sold her down to New Orleans. Massa sold his own flesh and blood.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Some folks said rubbing snow on frostbite was the best cure, but it seemed to me that getting the flesh unfrozen made more sense. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Now he experienced it as though Sarai herself—flesh and breath and hearts and hope—melted to nothing in his arms. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He could see the tom veins in the dead man's wrist, iron worms in the pale flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I felt a pinch inside me and couldn't stop myself from imagining her flesh covered in wrinkles, her heart slowing. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Caesar pictured his father cutting cane in a Florida hell, burning his flesh as he stooped over the big kettles of molten sugar. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A baby rabbit, terror ridden, squirmed through a hole in the floor and squatted off there in the shadows against the wall, seeming to know that nobody wanted its flesh at such a time. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Every name an asset, breathing capital, profit made flesh. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They reminded Cora of the buzzards that chewed the flesh of the plantation dead when they were put on display. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Then the skin of my throat began to tingle as one’s flesh does when the hand that is to tickle it approaches nearer—nearer. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “That explains the rotting flesh smell,” Maya replied, then ducked when Joaquin threw a napkin at her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z They ate nothing of the flesh without a split hoof, or that didn’t chew a cud. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Fires in Karhide are to warm the spirit not the flesh. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The skin burned off straight away, but just under the surface the marble-grey flesh was still cold and raw. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The stars were white and sharp beyond the flesh of the Martian, and they were sewn into his flesh like scintillas swallowed into the thin, phosphorescent membrane of a gelatinous sea fish. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The flesh stretches and pulls in my mouth and it’s hard to chew. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The other bodies in the room were little more than bags of flesh and bones, dumped across broken chairs and couches. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z On the contrary, he was a mountain of flesh, a great barrel of a fellow, whose arms and legs were as thick as tree limbs, and with a tublike belly before all. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It certainly fleshed out her reputation and gave people new reason to leave her in peace. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z My teeth sank into the crisp flesh of an apple. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The warm, lifeless flesh squished between my fingers as I tugged her forward and held her ruined hands under the water. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z My body tapers into a squirming, wormlike bit of flesh, as if I’m a larval version of myself, suspended above the dark ground. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z There the Graces bathed and anointed her with golden oil—a bloom that clings upon immortal flesh alone—and let her folds of mantle fall in glory. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The noise of rumbling carts laden with creaking cages and barrels of goods, the smells of raw fish and flesh, and the cries of sailors and merchants overwhelmed me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Telling myself my flesh hadn't suddenly shrunk against my bones and my heart wasn’t battering. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He was only in his fifties, but pain lines creased the sides of his mouth, and the flesh of his neck hung baggy. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The first news from the Ekumen on any world is spoken by one voice, one man present in the flesh, present and alone. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Even through the stab and sting of the juniper needles, his wincing flesh was aware of her, unescapably real. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z His ugly spotted dog stood on his chest, lapping at the blood pulsing from his neck, and every so often ripping a mouthful of flesh out of the dead man's face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z These corpses couldn’t have been more than a day or two old and weren’t visibly decomposed, but I still shuddered to think of Otto last night, drinking water steeped in rotting flesh. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Cooky and Aly loaded them with enough provisions to fill their packs to the point of overflowing: smoked meats, dried fruit with supple flesh, and enough hardtack to last for weeks. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Burned, Victarion thought, like a man who has been roasted in the flames until his flesh chars and crisps and falls smoking from his bones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “You could smell the flesh, because it didn’t stop burning,” said Adams. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He was famished but not yet so famished as to eat flesh flung to him by an Orc, the flesh of he dared not guess what creature. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Could I but have stiffened to the still frost—the friendly numbness of death—it might have pelted on; I should not have felt it; but my yet living flesh shuddered at its chilling influence. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I imagined the lion’s eyes on me like the eyes of an evil man, and felt my own flesh being eaten. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z My flesh will feed the wolves and carrion crows, she thought sadly, and worms will burrow through my womb. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z For any sound, a rolling pebble or a sigh, a little slip of flesh on rock, would rouse the watchers below. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet—she had seen many a half-starved runaway brought back in chains, not enough flesh left on him to provide a decent meal for a buzzard. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I was no longer free to be only a teenager, only a human, only flesh and blood—no, I had to be more than that. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She bit back a whimper as something tore through her jeans and into her flesh. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “And have you ever met anyone who could break a stone bench with his fist? Or dispatch a dozen fiends using nothing but flesh and bone?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z What pea brains, eating his ripped flesh as indifferently as they would bits of fish! Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z No flesh had ever tasted half as good. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Since the bone was broken at the thigh, it would involve no more than cutting through flesh and setting a tourniquet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Her jeans left a mound of pulpy flesh above her waist that disfigured her T-shirts, as though something alien were growing underneath. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z According to this story, if a Catholic priest dressed in his sacred garments solemnly said the right words at the right moment, mundane bread and wine turned into God’s flesh and blood. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair is lusterless, the flesh of her face pasty. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Asha took a sip of ale and fell upon the horse flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This is Zero, in real life, flesh and blood. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She gave him the flesh and went out to hunt lemmings for herself. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “A bullet hit him but it looks like a flesh wound.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Since all the convenient hotels were either booked or required multiple pounds of flesh in payment, we ended up off the beaten tourist path. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z With the first years of puberty, the last years of grammar school, we began hearing about ‘sins of the flesh.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the creature has been summoned, these marks guide the exchange: for the flesh of the sacrifice, the beast will grant you the victim’s strength. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He could remember the feeling of the hard claws as they dug into his flesh, the weight of the bird and the sound of its caawing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Even though I expect to see her as a ghost, I know I’ll still miss the flesh and blood Mama Ya-Ya. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The flesh disappeared from his legs and cheeks. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The tang of blood and the stinging reek of decomposing flesh. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And there Henry is, in the flesh, as classically handsome as ever in his tailored three-piece suit, all tousled sandy hair and high cheekbones and a soft, friendly mouth. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The flesh of his chest was as smooth as the rest of his skin. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He took her hand in his, slid his thumb along the soft flesh between each of her fingers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A hand grabbed his shoulder, five fingers hard as iron digging deep into his flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We knew immediately who they were, and our flesh crawled. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the same one I have danced with ever since I saw blue gel beneath my split flesh. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I will confess that I caught one of his arms with the gaff and used his flesh as bait. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She takes a hammer and rusty chisel and shatters each coconut, scraping the blinding white, perfumed flesh from the shells. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone who tries to occupy this ‘best of both worlds’ position needs to face up to a further challenge, that of fleshing out the notion that nature pushes back. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The coyote-man raised his whip; there was a long moment of expectancy, then a swift movement, the whistle of the lash and its loud flat-sounding impact on the flesh. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “This punishment will be brutal, my dear, but your mortal flesh will bear it, because it must. Take comfort that in reaffirming His order we give Him thanks.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He might be a little cold this day without the wadding of the winter garments, but he suddenly could not bear to put them on against his clean flesh. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Not taking her eyes off Pet for one second, Bitter stretched out a hand and blindly patted their duvet and pillows before finding Aloe’s arm and squeezing the flesh of his bicep. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He was dressed in brown rough- spun, and the soft flesh under his chin wobbled as he ran. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Well, he got two birthdays now,” smiled Sister McCandless, “just like he got two brothers—one in the flesh, and one in the Spirit.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He was painfully aware how hungry he was; soon Tristran began to think of himself as nothing more than hunger, thinly surrounded by flesh, and, as fast as he could, walking, walking.... Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Or I would help Rita make the bread, sinking my hands into that soft resistant warmth which is so much like flesh. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s gained a little weight, and the flesh of her cheeks is puffy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And they still had flesh on their bodies; not a single one was a walking skeleton. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z This was my first really big step toward self-degradation: when I endured all of that pain, literally burning my flesh to have it look like a white man’s hair. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Police!” a voice bellowed, followed by the unmistakable whack of a club striking flesh. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When her hand hits flesh, she freaks, like she's grabbed a lizard or something. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “La Negra’s watching her figure,” he says, and reaches over to pat the mounds of flesh spilling from her waistband. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I tightened my hold, digging my fingers deep into his flesh. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The relatives of the family had torn the flesh of their arms, bodies, and faces, so that they were covered with clotted blood;... Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They sit or lie upon the ground, arms too thin for human limb, faces too drawn for flesh, smeared white with powder. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The people at the Roxy and the No Doubt concert saw him in the flesh. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Peeled flesh hung down and congealed blocks of blood and particles of sand clung to each hanging bit of skin. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z In the ghost light he saw her bright hair, her firm-set mouth, her candid eyes; he felt the warmth of her breath; he caught the friendly scent of her flesh. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And her smile—an opening of flesh like celluloid dissolving under a drop of acid—was accompanied by a press of fingers on her chin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll have a gin and tonic, thanks,” it says, and there’s Henry in the flesh, sidled up next to him at the bar, looking a little tousled in a soft gray button-down and jeans. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z His teeth are gritted and his flesh shines with sweat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The ropy plant dug into Thomas’s flesh— his chest felt numb. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The boy’s body sank several inches into the creature’s squishy flesh, making a horrific squelching sound. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z As she settled Inej’s arms beneath the blanket, Nina saw the scarred flesh on the inside of her forearm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In the dark, Fifi gave off a fresh, wholesome smell of clean flesh. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z No matter how long the sentence, on the day of her release Mabel, as surely as tigers devour flesh, would still be around. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Without hesitating, she plunges the blade into the back of her hand, piercing through skin and flesh and cards and into the felt underneath. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Now he meant to turn me in as a runaway...I dug the nails of my free hand into his arm and tore the flesh from elbow to wrist. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z But though a furrow grew upon his flesh and a callus formed there as large as a bowl, no rain came. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Mary was aware of the smell of roasting corn, and the warm smell of the mulefa themselves—part oil, part warm flesh, a sweet horselike smell. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The crunch of bone when it is sundered, the sliced flesh and the tubes of blood cut through, shocking the bloodrun and disturbing the nerves. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a holiday to feast on the fruits of the harvest and those of the flesh. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z His enemies and doubters, however, said that this Gotama was an idle fraud; he passed his days in high living, scorned the sacrifices, was unlearned and knew neither practices nor mortification of the flesh. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The attractive smell he’d noticed had not been the smell of human flesh—he had no interest in that. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z We watch, utterly helpless, as the flesh melts off his body like candle wax. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z TTie wolves were grey, and so were the silent sisters; together they stripped the flesh from the fallen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The female goshawk rose, dove, and rose again, her huge feet with their black talons poised to grab her flesh. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The wringer is two rubber rollers, the color of pale flesh, that revolve around and around, the clothes squeezing in between them, water and suds squooshing out like juice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z People say the Khmer Rouge buried corpses next to them and now the palm milk is pink like thin blood and the fruit tastes like human flesh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He put an arm over my chest, resting it on unbruised flesh. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The thick ugly odors of unwashed bodies and rotting flesh from the shallow graves behind the buildings grew stronger. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He was able to pull the needle through his flesh, but he couldn’t tie off the thread. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The swollen flesh of Muzzen’s face quivered, and Nina thought he might be trying to smile. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z These days she is a gnarled crone, touching the raw flesh of my brain with her cruel fingernails. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z There was a little blood and the flesh was torn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The captain lay bloated, his face puffed and purpled, the sun baking and ruining his flesh. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It was only when he saw a piece of his own flesh on the floor that he registered what had happened, and passed out. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The other dogs followed closely, going for the face, the throat, the arms, the stomach, anything that was flesh, anything that belonged to the man who had hurt Toomer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t want to touch that swollen, unnatural flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She pressed her hand over her heart trying to feel a jagged edge under the flesh. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Root rolled the memory latex onto his index finger, where it immediately assumed the shape and flesh tone of the host digit. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “You don’t ever get over that, saying good-bye to a child. No matter how it happens. That’s your flesh and blood.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I hated her instantly too, for I saw her plain for what She was: a hag, a stooping harpy, a feaster on the flesh of beloved brothers. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I wondered what it had been like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in her darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It produced a fruit I loved—like a mango, rough and green on the outside, with reddish-yellow flesh on the inside, tart and sweet. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It was weird to watch his smooth, muscular flesh age, turn a jaundiced yellow, and start shriveling on the bone. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z On the Rena, we were no longer his flesh and blood, but a crew of landlubberly scum shanghaied from the taverns and fleshpots of many exotic ports. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z My teeth chattered, my skin turned to goose flesh, my knees knocked. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The beast dragged him off into the forest, where it ate a good part of his head, the flesh off his right leg and all his innards. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He would have been a handsome man, with his fine dark eyes, bushy black brows, contrasting smartly with the white tie-wig he wore, except for the color and quality of his flesh. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the first time they had had flesh to eat since they killed their own ox, and Wang Lung’s eyes widened. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z And when the newscasters mentioned the chunk of flesh missing from Salazar’s shoulder, memories must have rained down on Blanca like parachutes. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Young one, stand up, or else squat yonder, at the other side, unless you wish your eyes put out. The sand flies and it will cut flesh as well as stone.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z That night hadn’t changed my feelings toward Abel; it had only shown me, in flesh and blood, what he was capable of. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Into your flesh. Into your bloodstream, and get carried to your heart. Or your brain.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He yanks the rod out of his flesh and tosses it aside, like it's nothing more than a splinter. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Perhaps you’d find that you prefer broccoli to flesh and legumes to legs.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The odors of smoke and burned flesh still clung to Jon’s blacks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My hands recoiled from the coldness of serpent flesh, my nails clawed at my palms, the leaves I had parted moved back to cover it. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Nathan shivered, thinking about all those pairs of hairy legs, those long fangs dripping with venom, and all those eyes searching for human flesh upon which to chew. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Minimum damage to the flesh and no last-minute tension to toughen the meat. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The horses began to put an some flesh. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was two feet from the crow’s nest when he felt a hot blade of pain sear through the flesh of his thigh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A flight of arrows descended on them; where they came from he could not say, but they fell on Stark and Lannister alike, rattling off armor or finding flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She yelped as the blade sliced across her thigh, clothing and flesh ripping. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Seen in the flesh, the cause of the war was brutally clear. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “You hold your fingers and wrist stiff. All the movement comes from your arm. You begin by rotating the flesh on your arm so that your pen will form slanting circles.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Gross wounds and injuries marked the flesh of those closest to her, the two caught by the station agent’s lantern. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She pulled the knife from the folds of her brocade gown and plunged it into the white flesh under his jaw, where it sank all the way to the hilt. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z As for the legendary grue, lurking in the dark, waiting to dine on my flesh—I simply avoided him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The bruised flesh was inches in diameter over his right ribs, with a swollen and bloody scar where the spear had hit him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The haze grew denser as the guards shrieked, their flesh seeming to shrink against their bones. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The acrid stench of scorched flesh overpowered everything else. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “I admit that I am frail in my flesh. I, too, fear Claudius.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Grendel tore his victim limb from limb, picking off arms and legs, lapping up the blood with a greedy tongue, taking big bites to crunch up bones and swallow gory mouthfuls of flesh. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z They scooped out the yellow flesh inside and rolled their eyes back in their heads with pleasure. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He looked admiringly at the groomed bay coat, and he felt the firm flesh over ribs and shoulders. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z And his long face, stripped of its flesh, was still contorted in a silent scream. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It turned out that the bruises were from bullets that had merely torn my flesh as they missed killing me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z As I flesh out the day’s register, as I am tonight, I feel as if I am desperately prospecting for an alibi, one mine more than Kwang’s. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z His flesh crawling, Ranofer hastily turned his back, pulling away from the Ancient. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z She tells us there is no flesh left on Keav’s body. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But there is no give to the surface—only my flesh yields, my warmth taken. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He would go mad as well if he had to spend his days in this grey soup whilst his flesh and bones turned to stone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Each hunter may have gobbled down as much as ten pounds of bison flesh a day. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And all the while I could feel the rubbery softness of her flesh against the length of my body. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel translucent, like a hand held over a flashlight or the pictures of jellyfish I’ve seen in magazines, floating in the sea like watery flesh balloons. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Her flesh had grown as thin and ragged as Lannister hopes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His chalk approximates the texture of flesh and captures the play of light and dark over the nude forms, giving the figure a greater sensuousness. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Not the doughtiest soldier of old Gondor, nor the most savage Orc entrapped, had ever thus endured her, or set blade to her beloved flesh. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Blood dripped down his arm where Shaggydog had shredded the wool of his sleeve and the flesh beneath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Kino lifted the flesh, and there it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The yard was alive to the clack of wood on wood, punctuated all too often by thwacks and yowls of pain when a blow struck leather or flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In exchange the animals provided the humans their milk, eggs, and—yes—their flesh. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “He needs more flesh on him,” he commented impersonally, addressing himself to his brothers and sisters. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z So only he saw the lump of shadow that clung to Ged, tearing at his flesh. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I refuse to retrieve the pouches, pout, go to bed, stare at the photograph of a real papaya tree, wonder if I’ll ever taste sweet, tender, orange flesh again. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She pushes the white upper teeth against the inside flesh of the lower lip. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The four boys stared open-mouthed at the wound and the scrap of flesh, like a button mushroom, curling in the cherry blood that ran into the comers of the slate. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And now that was gone, as though after the three years he could trust his eyes alone to do the watching, without the flesh on his bones standing sentry also. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z My ruptured flesh fought back, twisting and pulsing. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The aisles are jam-packed with viewers, waving homemade posters of their favorite wild-card players, all gathered here to see us in the flesh. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He explored the long fingers, the shapely nails, the work-hardened palm with its row of calluses, the smooth flesh under the wrist. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The transformation is not entirely successful, however, and the end result is a great deal of liquefying flesh mixed with virus, a kind of biological accident. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I will rip the flesh from your limbs!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z My head strikes the floor, and then he’s kicking me until my flesh is minced. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I wasn’t the pretty, popular girl here at King Middle, and the fact that I’m being recognized is eating away at their flesh. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s an inheritable twitch and I will soon be moving on from fabric to flesh. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “How hard it is, to be rejected by one’s own flesh and blood. I see that you have experienced this, too.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Bernini is completely successful in distinguishing between the soft flesh of Daphne and the rough texture of the bark and leaves. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z An agent wrote of the bombing of the Smiths’ house, “The two women perished instantly, their bodies being blown asunder, and pieces of their flesh being later found plastered on a house 300 feet away.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When an Atuot person died, he came back to Earth as a lion, with a great hunger for the human flesh he once had. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Unferth stared at his own flesh with a bad taste in his mouth. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the officers fled toward the two exits in panic and jammed up the doorways like a dense, howling dam of human flesh as they shrank from going farther. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Meera Reed was turning a chunk of raw red flesh above the flames, letting it char and spit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I touched it, smooth and warm, flesh made into silk. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z We ’11 need to strip the flesh from his bones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She grabbed flesh off her body from here, here, here, and here.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The pictures were more like road maps colored in blue and red than flesh and bones. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z It didn’t know that it was its own flesh. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to argue with her, tell her that “sins of the flesh” is just a control mechanism—if you demonize a person’s pleasure, then you can control his or her life. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z His eyes rested in puffy little hammocks of flesh and his mouth drooped with discontent. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Not until I know that my flesh is all that be on his mind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It was slow work, but Old Rit got the fresh scars healed up, and then when Harriet began to get a little flesh on her bones, Brodas hired her out again. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Down one side of his face the flesh was darkening. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “You’re flesh and blood, all right, and bone and muscle! Come in, man, and sit down!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But now in this waiting, burdened silence it seemed that all flesh waited—paused, transfixed by something in the middle of the air—for the quickening power. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Her flesh was dark in the deep ebony of a lowcountry black. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The leading boy, the handle of the whip, started off at a trot, weaving to the left and to the right, increasing speed until the whip of flesh was curving at breakneck gallop. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sheriff Freas, his flesh unfolding from his voluminous neck and chest, urged the private detectives to discount Rose and her boyfriend as suspects. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I rotated my arm so we could both see the raised circle of flesh on the one side and, with a flip of the wrist, the waxy white twin on the other. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “That’s right, Lord.” “—if giving my flesh and blood is not charity?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben reached in, lifted the flap of flesh, and stuck a hand inside the creature. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In his agony he perceived the word “fire” and felt flames licking at the tom bone and flesh. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “It is cutting my flesh out to give to him and for nothing except that we are of a blood.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, she had thought. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She was so hungry that when her husband died from eating poisonous food, she ate his flesh and fed it to her children. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They heard the thud of wood on flesh. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s my own flesh and blood, but he sure does look funny when he goes out. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Jon raked cold flesh with his nails and kicked at the thing's legs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “It’s lucky the bullet went straight through the flesh. Any lower and it would have shattered the ankle.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Not easily. They’re strong and fast and intelligent. Also, they eat human flesh.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z All he could see of his forearm was ripped shirt and ragged torn flesh. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Despite its passing resemblance to the lobster, it should on no account be eaten, as its flesh is unfit for human consumption and will result in a high fever and an unsightly greenish rash. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “A good time needn’t involve wine and...and flesh,” Matthias sputtered. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z There was white in the flesh of his mouth and his cheeks and his hair was white and his eyes had faded, with white in the vague blueness there. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The enslaved parrot Methuselah, whose flesh has been devoured now by many generations of predators, is forcing his declaration of independence through the mouths of leopards and civet cats. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z With that precaution they tried to postpone the necessity of having to eat macaws, whose blue flesh had a harsh and musky taste. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He found Kehaar just inside the trees, snapping and tearing with his great beak at a foul-smelling piece of flaking brown flesh which seemed to be hanging from a tracery of bones. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The flesh swollen and discolored in the truss of the black stitching. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Gingerly touching them, I felt a pebble beneath the pink, tender flesh. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Shin, crazed with pain, smelling his burning flesh, twisted away from the heat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Holding them in his lap, he was reminded of the burden throughout the three hours of tanned flesh that filled the screen. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When the sinister, curling stem—in appearance not unlike the peavines that grew in early summer in their garden—reached his ankle, it began to curl tightly around his flesh. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z And the broken metal—and flesh—would then be chopped into sections. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Could he see what lay beyond her flesh? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He could not eat; he felt his body slackening, his flesh disappearing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Those blades would not be cutting into cotton today, but into flesh. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The flesh fell off their bones in days and they died. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z "He never lived, my princess. The women say . . He faltered, and Dany saw how the flesh hung loose on him, and the way he limped when he moved. "Tell me. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z If that weren’t trial enough, a few hours of standing in her proud new boots and her feet had swollen so that the laces cut into her flesh. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The tall grasses were green razors that could section a man’s flesh into an infinite number of fine, almost invisible slices. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mathematics is thought to be cold, since it deals with abstraction and not with flesh and blood. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound swells, as if alerted by our quiet words to the proximity of live flesh. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z And their loving man was any man, any morning, noon, or night—when one left town they got another—men could drown, it seemed, in their warm flesh and they would never know the difference. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “I call the gendarmes. They are coming. I smell that rotten flesh. I know you kill the child and keep it with you for evil.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z His flesh crawled; in that hot, dim little room of worn things, he was chilled. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z "King Louis is the most beautiful man I have ever seen, but his beauty radiates from his wisdom, his piety, and his kindness. Not the dust and flesh that cling to his bones." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z By the second attempt, the shrapnel stuck out two inches from his flesh. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The smell coming off my flesh had gone from simple stinkiness to something weird and almost appetizing, close to sour-cream-and- onion potato chips. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Tiny screaming mouths erupted along his gray flesh like welts. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The child in her body hung from her lean loins like a knotty fruit and from her face every particle of flesh was gone, so that the jagged bones stood forth rock-like under her skin. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I heard Stew Cat snarling and felt him leap up on my back, his claws digging into my flesh. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z These were growing flesh as I watched, turning into men, but men with dull gray skin, yellow eyes, and modern clothes—gray muscle shirts, camo pants, and combat boots. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The vise around my brain tightens and now there’s an ice pick stabbing indiscriminately at the soft flesh. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “You’re his flesh and blood, and even if he has another family now, he still loves you.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Kelley would do a “cut down,” using his scalpel to cut quickly and firmly into the flesh at the wrist or ankle to locate the vein—without cutting through it—to insert the needle. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Hungry fingers devour me, wanting to feel my flesh. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She would cough through the playing to remind them of the potential of the moment, and shake her head at the frailty of human flesh. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z They believed that Mark Antony would not support Caesarion’s right to rule over that of his own flesh and blood. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He grabbed hold of my shoulders, his thumbs digging into the flesh at the tops of my arms, and told me to calm down, to stop behaving like a child. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She was trying to hover him as he closed his teeth in the flesh of her forearm. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The flesh on my face twitched as we waited for the chief to grant us life or death. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She ran her fingers along the spiral top, letting the cool metal press into her flesh, turning her fingertips white. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z When the pieces were baked in the oven, Laura loved to spread the soft insides with butter and then scoop the yellow flesh from the rind and eat it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But once Celibidache and the rest of the committee saw her in the flesh, all those long-held prejudices began to compete with the winning first impression they had of her performance. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z His flesh was gray, like a Muselmann’s, his lips cracked and frozen at the corners. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I want to feel the flesh of them and the softness against my own. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The guard jerked his head toward a body rotting on the floor beside the door, its flesh green and crawling with maggots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He victuals himself and his little army by sending out small sail with landing parties to seize upon such provisions as are necessary—flesh and fowl—from rebel farms and plantations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z In those days he patrolled with a black umbrella but eventually surrendered and now his white blouses were stark against his tanned flesh. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Why is it that no African in the history of this country has ever had the honor of being tried by his own kith and kin, by his own flesh and blood? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They fed their dead servants on the flesh of human children . A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She watched how the flesh under the mayor’s chin bulged in and out as he spoke, and then she turned her eyes from this unpleasant sight and looked carefully around the room. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z If I ever get out of this lot...They could never be counted, the dreamed-up children, mentally conceived on the walk into Dunkirk, and later made flesh. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He carefully threaded the blade between flesh and plastic, working it back and forth to saw the cuffs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Brer leaped out of the tunnel entrance and landed next to me, finally appearing in the flesh and not as some magical face in the dirt. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Like a character from one of her own stories made of ink and paper instead of flesh and blood. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I buried my face in the soft, slightly acrid-smelling flesh of her neck and rocked her back and forth—babbling, mumbling, feeling myself fall down and down, into a dark, half-forgotten life. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She lays a clean cloth across his angry flesh and nods to Prim. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z With that, he reached to my upper arm, took ahold of the flesh, and pinched without cease. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Ticks and mosquitoes were indefatigable and present in huge numbers; the ticks were worse than the mosquitoes, Stirling remarked, because they had to be dug out of the flesh with a knife. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It is bad enough when the cane lands on fresh skin, but when it comes down on bruised and wounded flesh, the agony is unbelievable. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I unwrapped the second-to-last granola bar and mashed its bits into the sweet flesh. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z His shoulder was beginning to fester from the gnawing and digging that the R.O.U.S.s had done into his flesh. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z She can rub the smooth fur and feel the unresisting flesh underneath. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone you loved, because they were your own flesh and blood, but someone who was nasty too. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was pink, the color of salmon flesh, and the eyes had turned back in the head. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Too much knowledge had hindered him; too many holy verses, too many sacrificial rites, too much mortification of the flesh, too much doing and striving. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z When he felt it was safe, the dragon tore at the sheep’s flesh with his teeth, leaning his head back and coaxing the meat down his gullet. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The sky above Meereen was the color of corpse flesh, dull and white and heavy, a mass of unbroken cloud from horizon to horizon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The smell of singed hair and blistering flesh. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The good man’s flesh and bone would both nourish him and keep him restless until blood was spilled enough to still his heart. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I cling to the tree with one arm while I rip the barbed stingers out of my flesh. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z They seemed to flow into each other and move as one body, a coupling of flesh that came so easily that it embarrassed Ben. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And they all went over to the tunnel entrance and began scooping out great chunks of juicy, golden-colored peach flesh. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “He’s as argumentative as ever, but happier because riding trains he gets to see Negroes play baseball ‘in the flesh and on the lot, goddamnit.’ Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The aiakh cut was wide but shallow; his left nipple was gone, and a flap of bloody flesh and skin dangled from his chest like a wet rag. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Languidly, he caressed her flesh zeppelins; a mosquito landed on his knuckle, he flicked it off with his other hand. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I certainly hope you take greater care in monitoring the activities of your prisoners than you do in watching your own flesh and blood. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We, or at any rate I, had built such elaborate fantasies about him and the illusory mother that seeing him in the flesh shredded my inventions like a hard yank on a paper chain. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Touching the bare flesh of his ankles had filled Kaz with revulsion. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He found Nina tending to Wylan in a narrow cabin, her hands drifting over his arm, knitting the flesh of the bullet wound together. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The flesh around his ankles had been scraped away. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We girls eyed each other, suddenly aware we were frail flesh, fourteen mouthfuls crowding Doña Charito's patio and drinking up her lemonade. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He spent his free time riding his motorcycle and teaching his niece how to conquer pain and other weaknesses of the flesh. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She lowered herself into the chair across from him and tried not to think about the heat that seemed to be inside the flesh of her arm. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I thought I could read every contour of her skin and bone, every relief of her flesh. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It seared the flesh right off his leg. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The air rang with the whistling, and the crack! against Roy’s flesh. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I had worked the soil, which is its flesh, and harvested the plants and climbed the trees, which are its hairs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the mail there was a shirt of soft leather, but at one point the rings had been driven through it into the flesh. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z This would be bad enough, but every few minutes, George’s mother stops in to give me a lecture about “the sins of the flesh.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Between her legs, sparse hair clings to a swell of flesh. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She had known Manny practically her whole life—they all had—and now he was just a heap of lifeless flesh and bones slumped in a barber’s chair. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Tayo could see the lines at the corners of her eyes and a slight curve of flesh under her chin. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He leaves with his body soaking from the dew of our flesh. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The dead flesh was too decayed to hold on to the fishing hook; it simply dissolved in the water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The distinct smell of burnt flesh filled the air. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Hands that were not soldier hands took hold of me, pulling my torn dress and my torn flesh together. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They would tear to pieces the wild creatures they met and devour the bloody shreds of flesh. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The tattooing pen burned her flesh, leaving a trail of blue numbers in her arm above the wrist. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Zeke that cried out like a wounded animal, trying for a few precious moments to push the much heavier woman off him as she tore away a great chunk of flesh. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z From where they stood there was no sign of blood or torn flesh. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Truly, the gods had heard Jon's prayer that night; the fire had caught in the dead man's clothing and consumed him as if his flesh were candle wax and his bones old dry wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then she took the warm melted wax from the candle and covered the clay dolls with it so they took on the color of flesh. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I found it hard to believe they were made of flesh and blood as I watched them display complete mastery over the racket and the tennis ball. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z His Son Jesus came down t’ earth ’n’ put on human flesh ’n’ lived ’n’ died t’ show us the way. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Then again, so did I. One of the men cupped his hands into a flesh megaphone and yelled, “Boo!” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z She noticed how smooth it was, and the slight perplexing smell of Mrs. Coulter’s flesh: scented, but somehow metallic. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was the face that haunted him most; surrounded by a nimbus of fire, hair blazing like straw, the dead flesh melting away and sloughing off its skull to reveal the gleam of bone beneath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It charged into the middle of the clearing, and then it turned, and lowered its head, and faced its pursuer—which bounded into the clearing with a growl that made Tristran's flesh prickle. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The weight of the young man’s arm took on a quality of something beyond human flesh. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z After all, it was his own flesh and blood. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Hunch against the wall with the others as the explosion rocks the platform and bits of mutt and human flesh shoot out of the pipe and shower us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The man Henry remembers is both superhuman and heartbreakingly flesh and blood, a man who encompassed Henry’s entire childhood and charmed the world but was also simply a man. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Fairfax’s plan fleshed out the sketchy outline that Jefferson had provided in Notes on the State of Virginia. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I, too, withered away, the moistness sucked out of me, my bones showing plainly through my thin flesh. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z This is how he thinks of it: something he’s done, to Susie, to her inert and innocent flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The guy had seen him in the flesh. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I mean the leg-hair thing—you know, consuming the flesh of the living—not the whiskey, because that made me feel like the Wild Boy of Bainbridge Island. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Where the sores were, there is now pink puckered flesh; his limbs are untouched. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I was imprisoned in the flesh of an utter stranger, an unsympathetic one with whom I felt no kinship. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In the beginning was the word, the war, the way of all flesh. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It must have been devastating for him to find this out, this petaled monster, his trainer, the man he trusted so much, so completely, with his very flesh. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z 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 I got a glimpse of the wound on his thigh, gaping, charred flesh, burned clear down to the bone, before I ran from the house. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Now that he has both hands on his gun, I notice the ragged hole in his cheek where something—falling stone maybe—punctured the flesh. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Studies of sedentary flesh, painted by men who’d never been there. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z His shredded shirt exposed gashes with long strips of flesh missing. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z She put some more coals on the iron stove, hoping it would stop her trembling, but the cold was in her bones, not just her flesh. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Bodies once alive, then lifeless, seemed to live again as the bullets tore into the dead flesh and made it dance in the afternoon sun. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He picked the pearl from the dying flesh and held it in his palm, and he turned it over and saw that its curve was perfect. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Her flesh had thickened and grown heavy all over her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "Oh, no," I whisper, taking in the metal-and-plastic device that has replaced his flesh. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z They were made solid by her binding—substance and matter, if not flesh and blood. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Its flesh is red and dense, and the cloying smell of it fills the forests at harvest time. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He pressed the flat of the knife against his calf and tried to imagine slicing off a nugget of flesh because it offended him, because it wasn’t perfect. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The thought of getting into clean clothes with dirty skin made her flesh crawl. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Her sharp claws found flesh because the evil laughter of the coyotes changed to cries of pain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We stared as her flesh returned, swelling upon her bones and tightening her skin with muscles. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I could only stare at Ruth May’s bare left shoulder, where two red puncture wounds stood out like red beads on her flesh. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She stroked the tails, prodded the bellies, pried apart the gutted flesh. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z My half-sisters gossiped loudly, while I sat cracking seeds and laying their flesh in a pile. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s my body slowly giving up on everything, including the flesh on my bones. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He turns and sinks his teeth into the flesh of my arm. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z A child screamed and a man reacted angrily, but was cut short with the sound of wood meeting flesh. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Arm could sense the spirit: an old, corrupt warthog grown fat on the flesh of its young. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe—probably—he was seeing the scorn on his father’s face last night, and feeling it in the rawness of his flesh and the ache of his every movement. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was only a line burn that had cut his flesh. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Oft doth reason, enthroned in the pillowed seraglio of the brain, hang back; whereas the flesh, which must walk abroad in the streets, finds its own temerity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The skin puffs up and separates from the flesh like a bag. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The cold was biting deeper and deeper into Harry’s flesh. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He was imagining disembarking from the sleigh onto the seraph’s palm, and Sarai standing before him, as real as his own flesh and blood. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He had often longed to hear the noise that these clean and deadly missiles would make in solid flesh. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was just sposed to see if there were rumors of you on the road ahead,” Mr. Prentiss Jr. sneers, “but here you are, in the real honest-to-God flesh.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Well, he might never have wings in his waking life, but he would hold Sarai—not her phantom and not her moth, but her, flesh and blood and spirit. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I have heard many stories about other villages where people have eaten human flesh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He only knew that he was holding Sarai, the flesh of her shoulder hot and smooth against his mouth, and then he wasn’t. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Tubes and cables snaked across his body, coiled into his flesh, and wound in a tangle up to an incomprehensible mesh of blipping waveforms and drip-dropping fluid pouches. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z |
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