| 单词 | floating |
| 例句 | I’m so in awe of the floating dust particles in the air, I don’t notice that Courtney has stopped dead just inside the doorway until I smack right into him; he doesn’t budge. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Potatoes, big chunks of meat, and okra was all floating in some thick juices that almost made the spoon stand up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It took a certain degree of agility, and she was eighty years old, weakened by staying awake for twenty-four hours while floating near her ceiling, thinking only that she might drown in her own home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The confession hovered in the air a moment, before floating away with the smoke rising from her cigarette. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It seemed to take all afternoon floating down into the abyss, and he had been very glad to see it at last vanish, with no sound at all, into a forty-foot snowdrift at the bottom. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “You said the orangutan came floating on an island of bananas.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z These towers, joined together by what looked like floating arches, were emblazoned with countless embellishments and statues that seemed as real as life. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z At that point, it didn’t even matter that Chloe and I were often standing knee-deep in piles of garbage and filth in the shadow of rich-people floating houses. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And that swimming hole...it would be so nice to jump in with Jason and relax in the shade of the trees, floating in the nice cool water. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Now, sitting in this cave of lightly perfumed silk, what had seemed constant and unquestionable feels as delicate as the steam floating over her tea. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the same way, I like to imagine my brother and me, floating together since the world’s beginning on our raft of eggs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z So I start to ask Janae, thinking that she might have the answers, but her eyes are fixed on the setting sun, and I'm sure her dreams are floating with the clouds. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I frantically unzip it, starting to slide out of it when I see Patches, floating away. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I tried to plug my ears and picture my prayers floating up to God. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z As I descended the stairs to street level, I had the persistent and disturbing sensation of floating above myself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z And godless though I am, the fact of being human, the fact of possessing the gift of study, and thus being remarkable among all the matter floating through the cosmos, still awes me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z That January it got so cold you could see chunks of ice the size of cars floating down the Hudson River. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She tethered the boat to a small floating house bobbing up and down in the reeds. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I was on my back when I came to and there was a white face floating just above me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She came floating on an island of bananas in a halo of light, as lovely as the Virgin Mary. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The plane was gone from the sky and the white plumes of floating smoke were thinly spread, vanishing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Soon I was floating on a sea of dispassionate calm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Soon, many hands pick me up and lead me to a rope ladder hanging off the side of a larger boat floating alongside ours. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A sailboat floating on the bright blue sea. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z And then Harry saw it, marble white, floating inches below the surface. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z There were some small pieces and bits of paper floating on the surface inside the plane— dirt from the floor of the plane that had floated up—but nothing substantial. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “What’s this game going to be about? Drinking milk shakes while floating books in a hot tub?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z I have pictured it many times—Hope!—wondering how I would catch such a thing one-handed, if it did come floating down to me from the sky. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Pococks set up shop in an old, derelict shed floating on timbers fifty yards offshore in Coal Harbour and then finally resumed what would be their life’s work—crafting fine racing shells. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I'm floating outside of everything around me, unable to stay anchored. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I was hot, for one thing, and also I’d been remembering a floating trick Blu Jackson told me about last fall. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They, his foster parents Frank and Cora Mercer, had found him floating on an inflated rubber air-rescue raft, off the coast of New England...or had it been Mexico, near the port of Tampico? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It's floating, but not in a benign way. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The ship left hundreds of crates floating on the surface. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z When I open my door and look out, I see a thousand little plank-and-cardboard houses floating at every conceivable tilt on an endless ocean of dust. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled her close and whispered in Polish: “There were no ghettos, no armbands. I often fell asleep to a breeze floating through my open window. It’s true. It was like that once.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I see a floating door. We can use it as our lifeboat. See you back at the ranch, Fred. You too, Tater and Scruffy.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It was lit by thousands and thousands of candles that were floating in midair over four long tables, where the rest of the students were sitting. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The river tore the edges of the farm lands and washed whole acres down; it toppled barns and houses into itself, to go floating and bobbing away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Its twin, floating on the sea beyond the ship, shimmered red with every wave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mom's eyes follow the floating dollars as she keeps talking. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When she looked through it, she saw those drifting golden sparkles, the sraf, the Shadows, Lyra’s Dust, like a vast cloud of tiny beings floating through the wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Others were already out on the dance floor—spinning, flying, twisting, and tumbling in time with the music, which thumped out of floating spherical speakers that drifted throughout the club. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And worse, the teeth had braces, bands of corroded scummy metal with pieces of fish and driftwood and floating garbage stuck between them. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The upper part of his body was floating but I knew his feet were dragging on the bottom. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Gramps said, ‘Well, this ain’t our marriage bed—” That night I dreamed that I was floating down a river on a raft with my mother. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He had never seen the godswood like this, though—grey and ghostly, filled with warm mists and floating lights and whispered voices that seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Native Mexican women dressed in pale tunics slid their paddles into the lake and rowed slowly, serenely across the water toward what could only be described as densely vegetated islands floating on the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The cushions were floating all around the boat in the moonlight and he fished them out. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm somewhere between euphoric and half dead; floating spots drift in front of my eyes whenever I look too long at one thing. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Her parents were puppets, animated before her, and Pet was turning its head slowly, as if it could smell how quickly she was floating away. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z My body feels like it's floating in a dream, until a mosquito decides to bite me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z And he had seen a man half-mummy, half-skeleton, floating in the waters of the China Sea, eaten from below while his back side, sun dried, gradually turned brown and leathery. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I ignored my floating hands, and dozed off fitfully for a couple of hours. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was cold salad and clear soup, with translucent mushrooms floating within the broth in cloudlike clusters. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z As she gazed seaward, far off on the water she saw something floating. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything was faded and silent in the dawn—dirty teacups, unmade bed, snowflakes floating past the window with an airy, dangerous calm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The tanker was huge, one of the workhorses of the oil age, almost a floating city in itself. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A dark bluish slick surrounded the boat, and the men in the Coast Guard inflatable were laying out yellow floating bumpers, to keep the oil and grease from spreading. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Full of air and tension, both anchored and floating. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z He spots a sneaker floating near the riverbank. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Next she fell into melancholy, grumbling about the lazy British commanders floating at anchor off Staten Island, observing New York through long spyglasses but making no move to invade. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z And as it shifted, Cole felt himself floating upward into a cloud. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Bodies on the ground, and bodies floating in the river. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z About her feet in wide vessels of green and brown earthenware, white water-lilies were floating, so that she seemed to be enthroned in the midst of a pool. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She thrashed so much we almost collided with a floating mine. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z And yet their boat was hardly more than a little floating shack with a bright green tin roof. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When I looked down the hole of the latrine I noticed a couple of little bags like the one I held floating on the dark smelly waste at the bottom. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Only a veil of smoke, floating embers and ashes, pressing down. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z They are not terrified astronauts floating in an endless atmosphere—they are just four ordinary explorers here on earth. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Just before dark on the fourteenth day, they saw a piece of floating kelp. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She saw something rare there, and when she thought of him a particular image often came floating back to her. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But as he revised his text Galileo went on to represent objects floating in containers, such as a tank standing on a table top. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I catch in- timidating snippets of the conversations floating around the auditorium. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Daisy called the ship a floating palace. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z “It has come to our attention,” my mother begins, “that some serious misconceptions are floating around this house.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z In just 200 million years, possibly less, the Earth was essentially formed, though still molten and subject to constant bombardment from all the debris that remained floating about. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Still, there was just as much money, maybe even more, floating around. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the silty, drippy, turdy timbers lugged up by the floating cranes look nothing like the shining galleon in the paintings. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The crew looks out and sees only dead things, floating and rotting on the surface of the ocean. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The kids from the floating building have heard her yelling. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He points to something that’s floating, moving forward and backward with the rolling surf—a dark outline in the rolling water, visible for only moments between waves. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z These are the days when Alcyone broods over her nest floating on the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Rays of sun dance through the valley, painting light on the plains even as the floating isles cast patches of shadows; flocks of white birds cry out in formation below us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “There they were. A box of ’em just floating there in the water.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z It was spooky, like seeing a ghost floating facedown in the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z More wizards were joining the marching group, laughing and pointing up at the floating bodies. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Here’s your place floating over Asheville on a day when the clouds are as gentle as dolphins.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He dangled there for a minute, grasping the edge, staring down into the water, until he spotted a big board floating underneath. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z I would enjoy hours of floating, day dreaming, imaginary conversations with my New York musician friends. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The boathouse was basically a large shed floating on the water. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He rinsed them in the floodwater and noticed that the canoe wasn’t floating anymore, but resting on the grass beneath. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z All the things on his desk were the same as when I first walked into his office last summer: the same mirrored cube, the same little globe floating in the air. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Or that Pet’s arrival had tossed her out of the world she used to live in and left her floating in an uncomfortable nowhere. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z They grew more numerous, then floating seaweed told of land not far ahead. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “My own fault, really. This world is built on the power of story, boy. Seems my story is intertwined with this here floating death palace. Cotton and the Maafa.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The wind of the world blew now from the West, and the great clouds were lifted high, floating away eastward; but still only a grey light came to the dreary fields of Gorgoroth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He saw it, floating above the yard, tethered to the house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Instead, I'd just imagine myself living in a moated sugar-cube castle, floating from room to room on a king-size magic carpet. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes the bed seemed to be floating on a dark sea with little sunlit islands that resolved into the crooked lamps when he focused on them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 She had drifted up about twenty-five feet and was leaning against the railings of her floating platform, completely lost in a new book. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Turner wondered what it would be like to float down the New Meadows with his house on a raft, floating to where he did not know. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “This is the floating house they stayed on this summer” I said with mock authority. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Had the lifeboat drifted back into that floating trash? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Bacteria and a host of other microorganisms could find their way into cultures from people’s unwashed hands, their breath, and dust particles floating through the air, and destroy them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I would rather be in a small wooden boat carved from an old tree, or even a floating nutshell. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z "They catch the fish, then process and can them right on board. It's a floating factory." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z When I got to the end, about us always being together, you stared off into the distance as though you could see a palace floating in the air. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z They watched a vulture turn lazy circles in the distance, floating on updrafts, gliding. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z When everything was ready we stood by the door and people began to tumble in with wide smiles, wearing their best clothes, arms full of flowers and sweets, rose perfume floating in the air. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They were under houses, tangled in shrubbery, floating in water, hanging in trees, drifting under wreckage. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z It would be difficult to spot a small rowboat floating in the river. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As evening drew in, and moths began to swoop under the canopy, now lit with floating golden lanterns, the revelry became more and more uncontained. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And then she saw it: a broken wagon, floating toward them. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Weightlessness can be a lot of fun, but in many ways it would be a dreadful nuisance if everything in our town had to be tied down to prevent its floating off somewhere. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam wasn’t looking at me; she didn’t seem to be looking at anything beyond the dust floating lazy and free through the air to my right. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I was a loose kite in a gentle wind floating with only my will for an anchor. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I find myself standing on one of what seems like a million floating islands, staring down into the most beautiful valley I’ve ever seen. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Both of us just two beings floating around in the world but not really living no more. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z There was still something of him, or by him at least, floating around out there. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z It started with a rumble, sending puffs of black smoke drifting out of the tailpipe and floating over the yard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Simon was still floating around in the quarry. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He kicked to avoid a floating patch of wildfire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She opened her ears to city noises floating in on warm air that came through the open windows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m floating back to the elevator bank, my limbs and bookbag and good-luck rabbit foot drifting around me as if suspended in the syrupy ooze of celebration. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z But before he had even started to plan a possible counterattack on a boggart-Voldemort, a horrible image came floating to the surface of his mind... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z One of the car’s tires had come off and was floating in a backwater eddy of the Cocytus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then she sends another gift: A ragged old sheet comes floating down. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z You do not agree with my politics but you never have, and there are no new rumors about my distant past floating around. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It looked like little bits of powdery sand floating in the air. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The floating people were suddenly illuminated as they passed over a burning tent and Harry recognized one of them: Mr. Roberts, the campsite manager. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I trail slightly behind my parents and Connor, who is still obsessed with jellyfish, and is now going on and on about how he hopes we see some floating in the water. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “How are we supposed to teach with those horrors floating around?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I expected it to be on a floating buoy, but the pole is actually a wooden post that drops into the depths, presumably all the way to the bottom almost seven miles below. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She has a gentle, graceful way of floating around, from years of ballet lessons. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Swordfish and the hulk were gone, blackened bodies were floating downstream heside him, and rihnkmg men dinging to bits of smoking wood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I tilt my head back to find office furniture floating above me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z It took a moment for my brain to process that I wasn’t floating in space. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The fast numbers were a riot of energy, and the ballads put the entire place into some kind of powerful, floating dream state. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair spills out behind her, waves of red floating in the air as if she were suspended in water. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Maybe it came floating right back to me because this Herman E. Calloway really was my father. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The sky and the mountain were at an immense distance, shimmering in the heat; and the reef was lifted by mirage, floating in a land of silver pool halfway up the sky. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Before three purple-robed Syrian bishops murdered by the Portuguese were found floating in the sea, with coiled sea serpents riding on their chests and oysters knotted in their tangled beards. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just a big metal ball floating in a bigger metal room. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Out of the way, out of the way!” sang Mrs. Weasley, coming through the gate with what appeared to be a giant, beach-ball-sized Snitch floating in front of her. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And then I remembered being underwater, inside the van, the floating box of Triscuit crackers pinned to the roof. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Near 0 g the slightest motion sends our friends floating and tumbling up in the air. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of us waited in the shallows, where the water’s slick shine was veiled with a dark lace of floating ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you see that thing floating in the cauldron?” asked Aru. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I saw bodies wrapped in newspaper floating above the sidewalks. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I seemed to be floating in pure, abstract blackness. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I see a red car, a Ford, floating. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z It is almost impossible to say anything that can console you at this difficult hour and remove the deep clouds of disappointment which are floating in your mental skies. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I remembered being at Marcus’s party, sitting by the pool—then I was on the ship—but I had no idea how I’d ended up floating on a sea of sandspurs and goose grass. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The floor and ceiling are so black I’d think we were floating if I couldn’t see the metal rails that guide Lord Kensington through the center of the space. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z But there was also something solid inside, about the size of her shoe, floating on top of the blue liquid. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In school I was a yellow balloon, smiling and lazy, floating above the classrooms. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z But while she was talking to me, she was looking at Colin, and her expression was funny, as if her stomach might be floating too. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z It’s a girl floating on top of the water, surrounded by fireflies and water lilies. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z And then I was back at the entrance, staring into the dark, two torches floating alongside me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I ravage the pantry and fridge, but we don’t even have tortillas—nothing except condiments, eggs, and one sad pickle floating in a jar. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It simply lingered, motionless except for the designs on its skin and its round eyes floating on their stalks. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z When his vision cleared, he saw why the boy had let go: He was floating with his head down, blood streaming from a bullet hole in the back of his neck. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I lifted the plate and brought it to my lips and saw floating on the surface of the black liquid green and white bits of mold. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, it was pretty fun at first, launching ourselves off the walls and going like vvvvvvvvvvvvv and hitting other people and wrestling while floating to the floor. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Chandelier-lanterns hang from the high ceiling, floating up and down like jeweled clouds, bathing each floor with a tiny glow. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Acre-size patches of bobbing vegetation, the famous “floating islands” of the Amazon, drift by. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “The ghost. A big black ghost floating and rattling right towards that man. The fella’s backing up, backing up. Then Uncle Louver hears one of his traps snap.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Wine is poured, dark green with pieces of gold floating in it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “It is approaching a blizzard,” Dad says, pointing to a single snowflake floating its way to the earth. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think badly of him,” she told me in a distant, floating voice. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or,” said Reginald, “perhaps we can find another floating barrel. That was a jolly good ride.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They also engaged the best seamstresses to make the floating graduating dresses and to cut down secondhand pants which would be pressed to a military slickness for the important event. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He showed up just a minute later, carefully floating down the hall with the bomb held in both hands. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a paper airplane floating on a current. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I was floating somewhere, somewhere that didn’t rub too close against life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The days sort of ran together, with me floating through a blurry obstacle course of worried faces, a multitude of moving mouths, everything safely on the other side of my Trazon bubble. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Lazlo looked up: at the shining citadel of alien blue metal floating in the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And then, without the slightest warning, it became the shimmering, flickering spot of light, floating in the darkness ahead of him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She drank down a big cup of goldenrod tea every morning, with a nutmeg floating in it, and declared she didn't need no other medicine. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z By mining the forests upstream for firewood and floating the logs downriver to the city, they were removing ground cover and increasing the likelihood of catastrophic floods. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But when I climb into that leafy cradle, it’s like floating on treetop mist. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Shay danced, shifting her weight back and forth on the floating board, dodging imaginary obstacles. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was a heavy, solid construction designed for stolid floating, not for navigating, though I suppose that if we had been thirty-two to row we could have made some headway. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The players finally appear, scattered at opposite ends of the mass of floating islands. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The Story Box burned with light so bright it seared my vision and left behind floating dots of color. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Simon was floating in the water and kicking with his feet, and Maurice was practicing diving. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z But at the same time, it prevents me from floating away into meaninglessness. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Everything we can see on Jupiter is floating in its sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a glorious autumn day, and if you looked up as you swung, it gave you the feeling of floating. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z We have nothing but bread and tea and she doesn’t want the tormenting neighbors to see us with our tongues hanging out, suffering over the lovely smells floating up and down the lane. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I could live with that—large floating bubbles above me, speaking for me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Along the walls are large stalls with all sorts of crazy vehicles parked inside them, everything from floating bicycles to flying saucers. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z When one wave finally pulled him in, he felt his body floating on top of the water. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z This face was older, and floating above a soft cashmere sweater. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Ignatius opened his eyes and saw white floating above him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Moaning Myrtle was floating above the tank of the toilet, picking a spot on her chin. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The floor was a carpet of sea urchins, which would have been uncomfortable to walk on, so Leo was glad he was floating. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The whole of the Scientific Revolution is encapsulated in Galileo’s little treatise on floating bodies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble; it was a comforting thing to have words “I hate romance” hanging over her head. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z A floating blue island in a pink house where I spilled out my guts and then hoped I wasn’t tossed out to sea to wait for my punishment. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like when I stared at a common word I should know, but I couldn’t make sense of it because one or two letters were floating around. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “And her life insurance wasn’t much, but it was floating us these last few months.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Now there was only the cold river and Montag floating in a sudden peacefulness, away from the city and the lights and the chase, away from everything. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z And always floating around was James’s question about whether the game had actually been finished before Mr. Griswold was attacked. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z They clambered out of the City of Seattle, onto the floating dock, and reenacted a universal ritual of winning crews: the dunking of the coxswain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Now the ship’s gone, and there are luxury condos floating there instead. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z All kinds of hazardous clutter could be floating in your path—boards, driftwood, coconuts, ropes—and it wouldn’t have taken much to wreck the propeller blades on the old Evinrude. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z After a long time of floating on the land and a short time of floating in the river he knew why he must never burn again in his life. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z When I let my sight unfocus, she became nothing but eyes, floating in the ether. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He thought of the house floating down the New Meadows with all the Tripps inside, and Mr. Tripp holding the house together and steady against the waves. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z At dark, they would light the candles and send their wreaths floating down the river. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The sugar and chocolate and caramel scents were all floating out of the box, landing in my nose, and even though I’d eaten breakfast, my stomach gurgled. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z He had his eyes raised upwards as if we were floating above him in the air. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z From down below, the sound of the music had begun floating up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I find myself floating off again to another possible future, where Kareem is getting married but I am not the bride. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z It came floating down the street towards them, bumping into the housefronts, dull and soft and half submerged. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Her face is the blue of death, framed by a floating mat of hair. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Clear vats shaped like cradles hold floating babies. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Harry could see the floating skull reflected twice in her enormous, glassy eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He picked up the rope floating near his hind legs and began to pull again. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The way Darkness moved wasn’t really walking or floating. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z On and on she wandered in desperation until she reached a bit of land which was floating on the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave the coffin lid a yank, sending another waft of odor floating up. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Then finally, last year in fifth grade, I went into the kitchen one morning and saw my fish floating upside down in the bowl. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z He moved suddenly, with speed which was effortless and floating like a mountain lion. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The songs floating out of jukeboxes were still about women and liquor, but they had a Christmas twist. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Worms squiggled frantically from a billion holes in the ground and drowned, their pale bleached bodies floating everywhere. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Elis experiment belonged to a different world entirely—a world light-years ahead of the floating disks and squat cylinders previous ancient authorities had imagined our planet to be. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z And finally I saw the body of Florence, floating motionlessly in the dark water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Through a tunnel of washy sounds, I hover just above his arms, floating on a current above this chaos. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But it was gone, the memory slipping away like a leaf floating down the river. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “You mean on the boat. I must say, Blackberry, you’re a clever fellow. I remember now that after we’d crossed that other river you said that that floating trick might come in handy again sometime.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The floating dock and its anchor moved and swayed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The steam from the soup kept floating up into Blount’s face, and after a little while he reached shakily for his spoon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z In my second year at Howard, I fell hard for a lovely girl from California who was then in the habit of floating over the campus in a long skirt and head wrap. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He sawed it back and forth, one end out, then the other, and finally it broke free, though floating still in little more than a foot of water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Still, the last sad memory hovers round, and sometimes drifts across like floating mist, cutting off sunshine and chilling the remembrance of happier times. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Baitfish below swarmed madly among the potato peels and eggshells floating on the water. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z If the philosophers were right and the habitable earth was a sphere floating on the surface of a larger globe of water, then a map should show the habitable earth as a circle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Past an iron tub of empty bottles floating in soapbubbled water. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Renovated the whole thing, did all the woodwork and stained glass herself. Incredible, isn’t it? Two stories, three bedrooms, two baths, great kitchen, skylights, wraparound decks on both floors. It’s a floating paradise.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z His name and stats also appeared, floating in the air above him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At that moment, he spotted a plank, a foot wide and sixteen feet long, floating in the sideyard. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I sometimes felt as if I were floating through a strange universe, waving at strangers who acted as if they knew me, boarding planes that lifted me out of my normal world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The plane starts to move backward, and I’m surprised by how smooth it feels, like we’re already floating over the ground. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Movies and floating homes and his brothers pranks, like last night when John wore a scary clown mask and tapped Jack while he was asleep. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z It did not rise out of his roots and come floating up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The greatest British warship of them all were called men-of-war—floating cities that could hold a thousand men and almost a hundred big cannons. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z He felt as if he were floating on that light, or drifting in a boat on very quiet waters. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z But that first time we went to get water we saw a dead fish floating past. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “I feel good. I feel a little like ... like I’m floating. Or swaying. How do you feel?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z When I get close enough, I see what looks like a black ball floating in the water. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z And so when the rulers of Rome sought to parley with Sextus Pompeius, he demanded they do so thus: each party situated upon a floating platform, shouting to each other across the waves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Found it floating in sea, but only paper inside. Sorry.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He was floating just below the surface of the water and I could plainly see his eyes. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “You will see him,” she said, as the room began to fade and emerge again, flying needles, adult diapers, floating around in the haze that was now my mind. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z His shoes were still floating around in his living room at home; his socks had been ripped off in his ride through the flood. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z The theories, all of them, the photos, the words on the T-shirt, the pods on the Wheel were like floating strands in my brain. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes keep floating back to the sentence about psychological distress. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z These are new images floating through my head. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z BaiMa, still a dragon horse, his mane and mustache floating like the tentacles of a squid, walked on a road of white sand. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z A poster of The Goonies hangs lopsided on the wall, and his desk sits under a big window with a view of other floating houses. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z A corpse floating in the black water of a basement among the trash and rusting ductwork. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Without the sound of rain, I could just make out the quiet song floating from the car speakers, and Liam’s deep voice as he sang along. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Although the style of each varied in crudity, the subjects of the paintings were relatively similar: camellias floating in bowls of water, azaleas tortured into ambitious flower arrangements, magnolias that looked like white windmills. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m going to find out,” Olive said, and before anyone could stop her she’d gone to the cellar doors and leapt through them, floating gently to the bottom. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Louder it seemed to ring in my ears, and the floating motes of dust to take new shapes to the sound as they danced in the moonlight. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The amount of soot and floating ash from the impact and following fires would blot out the sun, certainly for months, possibly for years, disrupting growing cycles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It takes a few seconds for my eyes to adjust to the darkness of the well, then slowly, thirty feet below, I make out the shape of human figures floating on top of the water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As I coughed and sputtered in agony in the now-calm water, I saw one of the boys floating before me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Dodging flying missiles, floating dangers, avoiding stepping in holes and warmed on the wind now at their backs until they gained comparatively dry land. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z She was floating away from the rocky hill and down until she lay upon a grassy meadow soft as a bed and fragrant with flowers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Like tiny specks of floating dust, people hang from their harnesses far above, cleaning the ceiling. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Like I’m floating just above, watching Skiff Beaman row and row and row. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Pattie makes soup that is cloudy white with curly pieces of green onion floating on top. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It is perfectly correct to claim that in a boundless fluid a floating body displaces its own weight in water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z From far off at the other side of the tilting ground the sergeant’s voice came floating on the still air. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Her next lunge to the surface brought her forehead smack against a wide log, floating free in the water. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Then, obeying my mother’s floating voice, I hunted for a spot of earth, dug a shallow hole, and buried the stiff kitten; as I handled its cold body my skin prickled. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They shot past floating platforms and transshipment loaders. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “I want you to know the truth, and not some rumor that might be floating around. Mr. Terupt is in a coma, which means he’s not conscious.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z “We are floating beautifully. And sooner or later a ship is bound to come along and pick us up.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z I could practically see the happiness floating above her like a halo. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I have moved out a bit farther into the shallows, floating alternately on my belly and back. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t have the metal bat anymore, and even if she did, what good would it do against a floating pile of dust? Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I didn’t have a stick or an oar to propel the raft, but the rotted thing jerked into motion by itself, floating slowly at first, then picking up speed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She strides out into the rain, picks up the discarded white ring still floating at the edge of the pool, and squeezes her body back into it. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I followed the gesture and gasped at the sight of a beautiful city that seemed to be floating in the middle of the lake, encircled by a magical mist, bedazzling us with its towering splendor. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I am floating on a buoyed raft in the Baltic Sea. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Imagining her floating from the grace of the day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z As Boomer runs off to chase a stick floating down the stream, I draw Gram’s sweater tight around me, settle into the nook of Throne Rock, and begin to read. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Beyond there glimmered far away, as if floating on a grey cloud, the white head of tall Methedras, the last peak of the Misty Mountains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Then I heard a voice from far away, floating out in the thick rain-filled air. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They could see far down into the valley now; the mists were lifting and floating away upon the breeze. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When I walked behind August in my bee veil, I felt like a moon floating behind a night cloud. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there’s Asher, the team’s captain, who is the farthest from where I’m floating. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The words wound through Aru, powerful enough that she imagined she could see them floating around her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I nudge my sister and we duck behind a sari floating on the line. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And if you injure a jellyfish, you might find hundreds of little clones floating about, tiny replicas generated one after another from the damaged tissue, as if spit out from a 3-D printer. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I’m pretty sure a lot of the fish were already floating. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z And maybe when He says Rise the eyes will come floating up too, out of the deep quiet and the sleep, to look on glory. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A wide wooden ramp ran from the sliding doors down to a long dock floating parallel to the shore of the Cut. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I can hear little bits and pieces floating out over the yard. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Sansa heard it too, floating through the woods, a kind of wooden clattering, snack snack snack. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I feel like I’m floating in the ocean.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z About as much fun as watching ice melt—until all of a sudden the winch line goes slack and the Mary Rose is floating free. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Concentrated particles of the splendor are floating around us, sparkling like diamonds turned to dust. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It meant that Burnham could use Root’s floating grillage for foundations without having to worry about catastrophic settlement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He saw a plastic bag floating in the corner and bent down to reach for it. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z They were thin slips, like paper dolls floating down the walks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But something clicked when the floating voice asked me if my name was Cade. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He watched it floating on the water for a few seconds, then threw his pad in after it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A piece of tattered paper from the window blew into the room, floating for a moment between Pinmei and the others. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z We pile out of Noodle's car in front of Brick's place, and everyone is floating high. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Once a week, after payday, they would wait on the boat dock and wave down the fruit boats heading to the floating markets in the city. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She was floating on her back, her legs limp and broken. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z It was the Beta Capsule, floating just a few centimeters above the ground, spinning clockwise. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His voice came floating like an echo from a distant mountain so that I thought I was having a nightmare. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The club itself was a massive cobalt blue sphere, three kilometers in diameter, floating thirty meters off the ground. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But really I was floating into the air. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z But I was staring at a pair of glowing yellow eyes, floating in the dark. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z She thought of her desire that way, a thing floating away from her and vanishing safely into the water. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They made whiskey in backyard stills and felled trees, floating them down the Cumberland River in the spring, when the water was high. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I pick it up, but before I say a word, Mom grabs the floating receiver out of the air. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Al Ulbrickson stood on the floating dock, listening to the lake water lap at the shore, watching them go. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They rushed forward, brushing aside floating mirrors that reset themselves in the air once the pair were clear of them. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z There was one small, slatted floorboard and this was floating. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Keep moving and stay in groups, ” said Mrs. Baker, which is the same strategy to use if you’re floating in the ocean and surrounded by sharks. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Liquid putrefaction like drowned things floating like pale rubber flabbily filled getting the odor of honeysuckle all mixed up. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m floating over the whole field till The Red Hearts of Limerick clap me on the back and tell me that was a great goal, Frankie, you too, Billy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z A milky, transparent blob floating near the surface of the water. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But they manage to find some pieces of wood floating nearby. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The first day I lie in bed, floating in the glassy delicate clarity of fever. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He had them brought to him early, while the mist still hung above the hills, with the sun swimming in it like a ball floating in murky water. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She had been bicycling through the air, ice cream in her hand and a book floating in front of her face. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Kaltain swept past them, the skirts of her dress floating in the air around her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I knew floating homes could have more than one story, but it’s different to see it in real life. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z But the Cloud-Men were much too busy with what they were doing to have noticed the great peach floating silently up behind them. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z My reverie was punctured by a raucous cackling and complaining from a tiny house floating past us. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hearty-looking stuff, lots of veggies floating in a thick brown broth. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z High above the Empire State Building, Olympus was its own island of light, a floating mountain ablaze with torches and braziers, white marble palaces gleaming in the early morning air. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z And of course bees and butterflies were there every day, happily floating through the flowers. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z But when she felt the corpse floating beside her, she started pulling Pita out of the water as if she were a sopping Raggedy Ann doll. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z "I understand why you're doing all this. Still, from a selfish point of view, I miss my wife. Hey, are you floating?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “So in an unstable composition, I could have Lil floating away to New Zealand.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit in my chair, the wreath on the ceiling floating above my head, like a frozen halo, a zero. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He swallowed the rest greedily, then set the bottle floating in the blackness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A voice floating in the air scratches a sentence in vuvv and then translates, “Is breakfast included with the double king-size room?” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The constant pipe-organ sounds reminded Jason of the floating lair of Aeolus, back in Colorado, except here the winds seemed in no hurry. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then she was across the porch I couldn't hear her heels then in the moonlight like a cloud, the floating shadow of the veil running across the grass, into the bellowing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Sunday night, as I tromped down the back hallway—I’d just finished putting up all my pictures again—to the living room, I heard my parents’ voices floating out of the kitchen. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Rhythmically, without haste, it sucked down a floating sedge fly and sank back under water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We went to sleep to a cacophony of crickets, their chirps floating through the windows. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z At dusk I could see the remains of other people’s suppers floating by the window, chicken and pork chop bones, lettuce leaves, breadcrumbs, sometimes noodles. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z In another display there’s a jar of twins, real dead identical human twins with their placenta attached, gray-skinned, floating in something that looks like dishwater. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They were past the Really Deep, only yards from the Other Side, when they collided with a floating log and the little boat tipped over. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe a toe here, a nostril there, or a mustache, floating like a little curl of seaweed among the other flotsam. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z After the sinking of the Canton there were parts of men floating around for miles that even the sharks had forsaken. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I look up and see a floating yellow sphere. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "Wouldn't it be better, sir, to grab a piece of the floating wood even if it means letting go of the flag? This way, you might live to fight another day for your country." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z At Fifth a cab passed and I tried to hail it, only to hear someone's voice arise, the sound floating gaily by. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z His long arms and legs moved flowingly and flawlessly, his body floating as if his feet weren’t touching the ground. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was floating in a fog of colors and smells and warbling birds and voices singing, “I like you, and you, and you, and no one else but you, and you, and you.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Now he stared at the tiny moon floating high over the ice-choked river. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The spores of various yeasts are floating in the air just about everywhere. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She could also hear the boy’s voice from above floating down. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The Gran had arrived and was standing on a floating platform at the center of the fountain, water splashing just below her feet. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z When we finished eating, Liam set both of our bowls in one of the many plastic tubs floating by. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Maybe it would be better not to include cows but instead rely on other food sources, such as shrimp floating in large plastic bags full of water. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A girl, pixie haired and smiling, was floating above the ocean, rays arrowing out from behind her, where a brilliant red-orange sun was rising. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Even his fatigue, it felt fine, the stiff muscles and the prickly awareness of his own body, a floating feeling. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There are all kinds of pieces of wood, trees floating in the water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z It was a little crowded, especially when the little ones added their boats and floating dinosaurs, but it was fun and warm and yelpy and soapy. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He returned his gaze to the Deadheads, a glowing disk still floating in his vision. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It appeared as a jumble of cascading windows floating in front of me, displaying text, maps, photos, and audio and video files, all indexed, cross-referenced, and pulsing with life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At times, descending, it appeared Snuffy would slip and fall, sailing out between silent echoing walls, floating like a romantic, suicidal dreamer toward the green ribbon far below. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Holding the grid with his tweezers, he dipped it into the water and brought it up slowly underneath a floating slice, like a fisherman lifting up a dip net. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared out into the harbor, as though the answer might be floating in the water. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The wonton soup smells wonderful with delicate sprigs of cilantro floating on top. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the glass doors of his den 1 looked out to see a few dead leaves floating on the water of his swimming pool. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Climbing down from the loft, we all went and looked at the three big stinking rats, floating in the barrel amongst the ears of corn that had been the bait. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Julie had shot the factory from a crane, so that the effect for the viewer was of floating just above the snaking pipes and smokestacks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Within hours, tens of thousands of dead fish were floating on the surface like autumn leaves. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z A home with a floating bed, and books that knew when to flip the pages, so you didn’t have to get up from your pillow or move your hand…. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z A few snowflakes drifted by thq open window, floating on the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My foot is in my ear and my head is floating away. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I shined my flashlight into the hole and saw a half-chewed cheeseburger floating in brown carbonated muck. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z So they stood there at sea in the fog, floating, and locked their hands together. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Not the one who is floating around in the air. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s super quiet when Mr. Tobin hangs up, like a thick secret is floating around. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Along one canal more than 500 dead fish were seen floating or lying on the bank on a stretch of less than a quarter of a mile. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There were bloodstains floating like crimson flowers across its surface. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I can almost see her thoughts floating away into the sky, imagining herself older. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I close my eyes, concentrating on the cool air floating around me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z His large round face with its wide-set eyes leered down at me like a giant floating balloon that I’d seen in a Thanksgiving Day parade. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Way back when the creek had water in it, I came floating down it in a wicker basket waterproofed with pitch. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z To see them all the way out here soothes him, as though he has turned and found an old friend floating beside him in the middle of the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When I looked up, I saw dust particles floating in the lamplight, August standing, looking down at me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt felt as though he were floating over the scene. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t really–” she starts to say but we hear a door close and a singsong daddy, daddy, daddy floating down the hall toward us. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z If there was a breeze and clouds was floating by it felt like the earth was spinning. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If the body remains horizontal, the air resistance gives the illusion of floating. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Florida, this is like floating on a cloud. Try one.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z And in a year...I smiled, seeing a pristine, imaginary manuscript floating in mid-air, with Esther Greenwood typed in the upper-right-hand corner. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z From somewhere at the bottom of a passage the smell of roasting coffee—real coffee, not Victory Coffee—came floating out into the street. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Everybody is aware of what happened with Imani, so it looks to me like Mrs. Garcia is working really hard to soften the uneasiness that’s floating on the edges of everything. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The air was so damp that fish could have come in through the doors and swum out the windows, floating through the atmosphere in the rooms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Nita looked out at the ships against their floating docks in the distance. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A shadow-figure with arms outstretched and toes pointed, his body floating on the wind. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z As she entered the room, she brought with her the winged presence of Clara, floating in the room before the loving eyes of her husband, who had not seen her in several days. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “We are floating beautifully. Now we must all sit down and keep perfectly calm. Everything will be all right in the end.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The sands began to move around Nathan and Pond, floating in circles and hovering above the desert floor. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I find myself floating above a spectacular, ruined city surrounded on all sides by walls of colorful coral. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “There is a floating battery olT the shore at Cambridge. They are more likely to spy us there than if we approach the city from the south.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The prison was full of sounds, and it was hard not to jump at every one of them—voices floating down the stairwell, the metallic clang of doors opening and closing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z His voice sounds somehow detached from him, like it is floating between us. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z They were a poor folk, fishers and frog-hunters who lived in houses of thatch and woven reeds on floating islands hidden in the deeps of the swamp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z First, there is the implication, floating between the lines of the entire Report, that an authoritative new presence has appeared on the scene and taken charge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But the Frog was at least a boat again, floating high on the slick calm of the swells, her sails up and drying. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt a great peacefulness floating in the air. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Behind his glasses, Isaac’s eyes seemed so big that everything else on his face kind of disappeared and it was just these disembodied floating eyes staring at me—one real, one glass. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z For a few seconds, she felt her body suspended on the water, and then she was slammed against a floating log and knocked under the water. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The graveyard is completely silent, and a thin fog hovers just off the ground, making the tombstones look like they’re floating in clouds. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z We stood on the edges of the room surrounding the posters, like we were on dry land and the posters were floating out to sea. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The floating statues remind me of God’s promise. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z A substantial human presence on Jupiter itself is much more difficult to imagine—although I suppose great balloon cities permanently floating in its atmosphere are a technological possibility for the remote future. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You don't really know how attached you are until you move away, until you've experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I was too tired now to even chuckle at Mrs. Lee’s shirt—navy blue with a bunch of otters wearing space helmets, floating in a star-filled sky with the words “Otter Space” underneath. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I am flying and floating, light as a petal. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes after I emerged from the door in the cargo hold and stepped onto a large floating piece of wood, I watched the giant ship sink in front of my eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They have me play the song twice, and I’m pretty sure I’m floating. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Because quantifiers like both and either have a disconcerting habit of floating around the sentence, the phrases that come after them may end up nonparallel, and that grates on the ear. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Under my floating body, I heard a bush rustle. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He catches a long toss from me, cups the football under his arm and points to this buoy floating out past the waves. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z We were like astronauts floating in a starless universe. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The melee seemed to halt for a split second as all eyes turned to look at Og, who was now floating at the center of the dance floor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Their breathing formed a single cloud of steam that drifted up, floating away over the banks of the arroyo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Between the car floating real soft down the road and Lefty Lewis’s boring stories about the railroad and the union and baseball I was out cold in no time. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Directly ahead, drifting toward her and swinging around to present a tempting plump target, was one of the Lannister hulks, floating low in the water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z While at the Job Corps Center, Wes had felt his problems floating off in the soft country air of Laurel. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He stared in shock at what was floating in the water. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the shreds of gray stringy beef floating in the stew, and I wanted to retch. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She pulled rings from behind our ears and rubber spiders from a bowl floating with gardenias. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The scenery was altered in only one regard: the long summer of drought had dramatically lowered the level of the lake, exposing brown earthen banks and leaving the floating dock high, dry, and useless. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Nailer could just see pale objects floating on the surface, starting to sink. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Barack could happily end a day in a faraway hotel with all sorts of political battles brewing and loose ends floating. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Slowly, I put my face in the water, my arms floating on the surface. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Remembering the boar from the floating island—shot clean between the eyes—he obeyed, unbuckling his holsters and letting them drop—Executioner and all—beside the Lady of Mercy. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The woman smiled, opened her mouth to say something, and then thought better of it, floating out of the kitchen as quickly as she had appeared. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z As Sophie watched them, they all started floating towards the cave entrance, which was still open. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, she was an astronaut clipped from her vessel, floating endlessly in endlessness, with no possibility of ever returning. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Stoned out of our minds, we navigated through the long madhouse days of the voyage as if crossing the ocean in a floating sanitarium. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z And there, floating in the center of the pond, was an old gray goose. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “I believe it to be a good sign. I don’t remember ever drinking a glass of good bourbon with any particulate matter floating in it, do you? What do you think of this color?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The dungeon floor was composed of floating circular platforms arranged end to end in a long line that stretched out into the darkness ahead. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I arrange my face in the middle of the book, my hair spread like seaweed floating in the current of the story that sweeps me under and away to sleep. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “Sure, sure. But of course you’re aware of some of the sentiments floating around down here anyway.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This time, she had left the beach behind entirely; she was floating, hovering up high, ascending toward the glass windows set into thick, frozen walls. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z This floating and swishing I like. these days: cranky and bad-tempered, raining soot on everyone else’s head. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z She had the feeling of letting go, of floating away. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z The channel is choked with burning warships and the floating corpses of horses. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He had been floating lazily in the Lake of Heavens. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Over it hangs a glossy painting called Three Oaks with three trees floating in the air against a yellow backdrop. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Up above the treetops, a crescent moon was floating in a dark sky, half-obscured by mist, like an eye peering through a veil of silk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My mother goes off to hunt online for jobs, she says, but I find her half an hour later doing nothing, with a screen floating in front of her, motionless. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Both of his arms were floating on the water. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He even offered to row them there, but he wanted too high a fee and so instead they went the long way, threading around drowned and rotting streets, down floating boardwalks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He walked past me, kind of floating like a ghost in the dark. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But I get in as close to the rock as I dare, with the sea slurping over the top and the seaweed floating like a woman’s hair, and I pull up the first trap. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The dirt road and all the trees seem like a completely different world, like the bottom of a lake with flecks of dust floating by in the silvery light. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Grace grabbed the edge of the floating table and gave her answer in a thick, slurred voice. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I had the strangest sensation of floating, of drifting farther and farther away with nothing and no one to cling to. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Her patterned dress was spread out on the surface of the water like a great floating flower. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Here was my friend, floating in his underwear in my pool. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Velia asked, still staring at the body floating in the river. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It was colder here than up in the main castle, and would have been quite creepy enough without the pickled animals floating in glass jars all around the walls. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I lit a cigarette and I heard a song floating out over the sunlit air. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He organized a floating hospital ship and had it moored in the Congo River. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shows how much you know,” Juanita mumbled, looking at the dead man floating in front of her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z And he had to be careful not to hit anything sharp floating in the water. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z She’d take a penny and go down to a store on Moore Street that had nothing in it but fat Jew pickles floating around in a heavy spiced brine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish I had something to eat but there’s nothing in the icebox but cabbage leaves floating in the melted ice. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When it was just the two of us floating down the highway, he was mellow, lighthearted. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Violet was sitting in a floating chair with lots of cables. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of them have their Warcross level floating over their heads, along with hearts and stars and trophies. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He looked out at a piece of stick floating down on the even two-mile-an-hour current. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He handed her a full glass with pulp floating at the top, and she smiled as she took it. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Now, as he lay on the couch in his trailer, sun in his eyes, he was dead tired but still floating on air. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Instead of thinking, I picture a body of water and me on my back floating, still and peaceful, no movement except my heart beating in my chest. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I will never forget how beautiful the earth appears from a great distance, floating silently and serenely like a blue and white marble against the pure black of space. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary Poppins was in the upper air now, floating away over the cherry-trees and the roofs of the houses, holding tightly to the umbrella with one hand and to the carpet bag with the other. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Jinny couldn’t imagine floating in the darkness, in the cold, with only the stars for company. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z We wait a couple of beats and then we’re off, floating around the dance floor in a swirling sea of people. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z There would be no such sound if floating down stream. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “There was so much gob and spit floating in the water, I thought I was swimming through jellyfish,” chuckled Mamaji. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s curved like a cooking pot with a floating dot. You call it bey.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z There are no mountains, valleys, volcanoes, rivers; no boundaries between land and air; just a vast ocean of dense gas and floating clouds—a world without a surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Is there a dream floating around in here now?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Contact lenses,” I say, staring down at a clear disc floating in liquid. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He stopped to grab a door that was floating by. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z There’s a glass bowl with ice cubes floating in it on the table in front of her. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z It lacked the lyrical eloquence and the floating optimism of the Jeffersonian version because it was grounded in the palpable sense of contingency Adams had internalized over his long career. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The parlor looks the same as it always has: two cribs beneath two Latin crosses, dust floating in the open mouth of the stove, a dozen layers of paint peeling off the baseboards. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Two ravens skimmed deliberately along the distant treetops, floating into the open over the ninth lake and drifting down through the subsequent meadow- land, heading into Deerhair Canyon, where the Milagro posse had retreated. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I moved off over the black water, floating, sighing . . . sleeping invisibly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I lie in bed with the scrub pail beside me, floating lightly on waves of fever. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z At first, just floating around is great fun, but then after a while it becomes annoying, and you want to stay in one place. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My father said never eat anything floating in water for the rot that might be in it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The trio walked quickly, and Nailer almost lost them twice amongst the thump of workers and crew on the floating docks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The floating clouds glowed red with the coming sunrise. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The tray was faded but still pretty, with a big rainbow in the middle and three cherubs with harps floating above it. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The otter likes to lie on its back in the kelp beds, floating up and down to the motion of the waves, sunning itself or sleeping. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like he was moving so slow that he was sort of floating down toward the ground, like he was just gonna settle soft and light as a feather. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z "Suddenly I was free," he remembered, "my body just falling...even better than floating in a swimming pool, I remember thinking." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I noticed the beer can that Shelly had used to clobber the speedboat driver floating about twenty yards off the beach. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I saw boats with fan-shaped sails floating on wide coffee-colored rivers, a barricaded university, newspaper offices burnt to the ground. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I felt like I was floating on a flowered, cake-scented cloud. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I felt light, almost weightless, like floating on water. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I looked down at the bee jar still clutched in my hand and saw a teaspoon of teardrops floating in the bottom. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d have thought that knee-jerk skepticism would have been knuckled under by the sight of the enormous floating seraph in the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He picked one out and they turned it over, using the roots for leverage, until they got it half floating in the water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Just big mats of floating plants going by with stilty-legged birds walking around and around on top, every one of them no doubt thinking he’s king of the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the floating cloak he was tall, thin, and bony: and his hair was red beneath the black cap. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z A flock of fairies twinkles past like floating Christmas lights, their laughter like tinkling bells. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Eventually, she pushed aside the reeds and saw Crocodile Guts’s boat floating right where she had left it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were bits of old speeches floating about, as well as recited lessons, gunshots from old wars, babies’ cries, auto horns, waterfalls, electric fans, galloping horses, and a great deal of everything else. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The long dining tables had vanished and a golden stage had appeared along one wall, lit by thousands of candles floating overhead. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z It kicked out its legs, turned its wings and alighted in the water, floating as lightly as a cork. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I am a sea bubble floating, floating in a dream. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z He imagined floating, alone, through the streets of his city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Spray from the rapids is floating in the air. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I found her house, which was a little house with her parents’ upcar parked outside it and some kind of a sculpture in the yard, with some hoops or loops and a floating, spiky ball. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Days, weeks afterward, there were ashes, paper bits from wallets, purses, floating into the school yard.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z I opened my mouth to protest my innocence—and stopped when I noticed a cup floating toward me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z My legs and torso followed suit, and I pushed my foot against the pool’s edge, which sent me floating in no fixed direction. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The gut had disappeared under the foot of water flooding the yard, bringing with it the same floating dump heap we had seen swirling about the front yard. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the floating obsidian hoverboards waited, bobbing up and down above a rail. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He interpreted Bodin, quite wrongly, as advocating a very large sphere of earth floating in a sphere of water, thus retaining the core principles of a traditional Aristotelian argument. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The back window of another car was shattered, but the glass shards had not fallen; they hovered like ice chunks floating in still water. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Olive exclaimed, nearly floating out of her shoes with excitement. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Consequently, a block of wood floating in a tank displaces less than its own weight in water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That just before he went and stubbed his toe, I was actually floating? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I wasn’t scared, only numb, and felt as if I was floating upward, toward the sky. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She peered down the sewer and saw him floating face upward. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And they were floating a tiny bit above the ground. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It reminded me of the floating door in the opening credits of the original Twilight Zone. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Any minute now her body will disappear, leaving just a grinning floating head in its wake. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He pulled a ball of water out, floating it in the air, and Anya scooted away. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The soup was tepid, and you were lucky if there was a limp potato floating in it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I felt like I was floating in a cloud that was passing from one year to another in no particular order. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “This is messy work, bindings and charms,” Hector says, floating to the other side of the desk to get a better look. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was unconscious by the time I reached him—a small red-haired boy floating, face down. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I look at the screens floating behind the desk. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z No matter what I run on them, each one looks like a cube of gibberish floating in my view, locked tight behind a shield. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Collision with a floating mine might explain explosion, but seems fanciful, besides highly unlikely as sinking started at stem, which in all likelihood would mean that hull breach was at stem too. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I’m no longer floating in an ocean, but standing in a cavern encircling me, trapping me in. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Below the glass counter at his waist were trays of more plump samosas, and what looked like pale, diamond-shaped pieces of fudge covered with foil, and some bright orange pastries floating in syrup. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z And there, there—now just passing into the courtyard—was Robin’s lovely mother, the veil of her coif floating and mingling with that of the Queen whom she attended. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Lying on it felt exactly how floating on a falling leaf would feel. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His clothing took fire, and for an instant the khal was clad in wisps of floating orange silk and tendrils of curling smoke, grey and greasy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Between two weeded rocks on the barrier Doc saw a flash of white under water and then the floating weed covered it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I spend Thursday floating through classes in a fog. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z He did not bathe himself with the gourd but would plunge into the fragrant waters and remain there for two hours floating on his back, lulled by the coolness and by the memory of Amaranta. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It tugged the floating carton toward the ocean, which, at high tide, had crawled across the beach and was making the far side of Atlantic Avenue foamy with surf. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He was not driving; he was simply sitting and floating along smoothly through darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He said it was calming not to have all those words floating around and “creating static.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "I don't know, Brother. He don't come in so regular these days. Things are kinda changing up here. Ain't much money floating around." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Pushing open the doors, I see the yellow balloon floating, its string tied tightly to the vase. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “I saw you go into that fire on the floating island. I seen you give up rations so the crew could have more. Some folks, knowin’ when they’re gonna kick it, might play it safe. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z These would be boiled with the bone to make a rich soup with shreds of meat floating in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There were figures of pelicans floating in the water and flying, of dolphins, whales, sea elephants, gulls, ravens, dogs, and foxes. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z They found the pup racing around the well, and Rednose floating in it, drowned. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Thanks for showing me your houseboat. I mean, your floating home with no motor,” I say, getting up. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z During reproduction, the helices separate, assisted by a special unwinding protein, each synthesizing an identical copy of the other from nucleotide building blocks floating about nearby in the viscous liquid of the cell nucleus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The buckets were full; we fished out floating leaves and twigs and took the buckets in. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I feel myself lost in the world, like a feather floating floating. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z It was like losing my balance on earth and floating in the air like a balloon. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And we pray the same way at the same times, waking to the sound of the call for prayer floating in from the nearby mosque. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z An odor like crystallized ginger, or sweet iced tea with a dark clove floating in it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She consented to pause, floating a few inches from the ground. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She couldn’t even see the cavern roof—just blood-colored clouds floating in the hazy gray air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He thought of how he used to imagine that he’d been floating in a river like Moses and his mother just happened to find him. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z There, near the fringe of the forest, tall spires of curling black smoke went up, wavering and floating towards them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Calder paused, the box in his right hand, and looked at the rainbows floating on the far wall. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Bowls hold floating tea lights and flower petals. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The dentist promised it would make her sleepy and relaxed, but Hazel felt like she was floating away from her own body, panicky and out of control. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I watched the fetus that was me, floating in a dark watery world, and wondered if I should remember that, too. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z So Dicey and James each carried the weight of a younger one floating beside. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z A quiet bubble floating on a sea of noise. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel had never thought of it as actual smoke, but as she watched it curling around Arion’s legs, floating through the broken arches of the ruined courtyard, the hairs stood up on her arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “My limbs are okay. I’ve been floating in a bubble for the past hour!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I tried to bury the remembery, but it kept floating to the top of my mind like a cork in a stormy sea, and foolish tears spilled over. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam whirled to see the mask seemingly floating in the wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z A guard coasted off of a rail to a floating stop a foot or so above the ground, his forebear humming as he balanced on it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z We went on scavenging trips together in the shadow of the floating houses in Barrington. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Every object in the tree house was floating as everything plummeted together. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was almost like there were clouds inside Grandpop’s head, floating just behind the glass. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Maybe I’m fighting the wind, this place called Detroit, my cousins and their walls, the prison that keeps my mother, my broken home country floating in the middle of a sinking sea. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I’m floating through the intersections, smiling at strangers, totally captive to my own triple-knotted stomach. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Even my colors feel light—like the sun and the sky floating above me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them, and all three turned toward it, toward the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a pop, and a little man with wicked, dark eyes and a wide mouth appeared, floating cross-legged in the air, clutching the walking sticks. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z They seemed to be modifying their usual attitude of floating, chronic disapproval. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Not floating in water, but slouched on its side at the bottom of the well, zipper still open just an inch, just enough for Gulliver to breathe. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The northern sunshine seemed to pick up faint particles of whiteness floating in the air and powdering the sleek blue sky. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z For all the floating citadel overhead, Lazlo had as yet no clear context for what life had been under the gods. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But I also remembered Momma’s voice floating out of the radio. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z They found the missing canoeists floating dead in their life jackets in a lake. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He might have been floating for all he could tell, but he supposed it more likely he was walking and just couldn’t feel it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Lots of them were just parts, elbows floating next to a pair of crossed legs and, next to that, three pairs of feet. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Unlike me, my room is one big blast of girl, with all the dresses I make—floating and not—hanging all over the walls. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I pictured the world, all pretty blue- green and floating out in space, creatures and forests and deserts and cities. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z It’s pitch-black everywhere, like Moreau’s cage is floating in an ocean of shadow. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The water deepened, and they finally came to floating docks, where they were able to pull themselves out of the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Then you’d see her stirring a pot of brown liquid with turkey neck bones floating at the top. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z My heart was light like a feather floating in the air. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma boiled some yam slices, and we ate them dipped in palm oil that had chopped red peppers floating in it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z "There's enough garbage floating there already; a bit more will scarcely matter." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Of the outer wall, nothing remained but a vague shadow and a few dim lights floating in the dark. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z So many good smells are floating through the house—cinnamon scones, lemon pound cake, chocolate cake. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The varsity poured it on for the last thirty seconds, just managing to pull even with the freshmen as they reached the floating dock at the shell house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Like the clouds above us stopped floating over the mountaintops. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Over the course of those few days in South Africa, I felt myself floating. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Provoked, Galileo embarked on a series of experiments to study floating bodies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She was naked and held a bundle in her arms, and she walked as people do in dreams, with the shimmering green halo floating out around her body. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, and now she was drifting, falling back, floating, almost there. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The fish had disappeared and the young otter was asleep, floating on its back. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee saw flags floating through white smoke, disembodied, like walking sticks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed to be floating. j\\lore alive than he’d ever been, and floating. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because there’s no motor. It’s a floating home.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Noah and I must register the name of the floating paradise at the exact same moment, because we both blurt out, imitating Mom, “Embrace the mystery, Professor.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It makes me feel safe, this time be- tween day and night, as though we’re floating together in an in-between place where anything is possible. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He admired the sky lanterns that lit the streets, strung so cleverly that they looked as if they were floating. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The night is dangerous, parents are required—tall ghosts in khakis and down jackets floating behind the children. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The flippers and life jacket keep me floating on the surface and it only takes a few minutes for me to get used to breathing through the mask. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In our notebook, I write Before I die I want to... but that’s as far as I get, because all I see is Finch’s line floating on the page: And kiss Violet Markey. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Helmuth is intrigued by the sinking ship, by the drowning sailor who clings to the naval flag, by the debris floating about. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z If I stare hard enough, it seems as if the seats were simply floating over the ground, with nothing separating us from the outside. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Fleas floating dead In the water where I washed. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Longships filled the sea, sails furled and oars shipped, floating at anchor or run up on the pale sand shore. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It will be like floating in a pool, drifting off until there’s nothing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Large, dark bubbles form on the surface of the water—the floating bodies of those who couldn't "go the distance." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I say, because the dummy seems to be floating in space. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z It makes the floating isles wobble in the air. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This is the last thing I remember with perfect crispness—her breath floating down to me like a tiny parachute, collapsing without a trace among the piles of shoes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There were shouts of wild joy floating up. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I waited until the dark spots had stopped floating in my eyes, and tried to swallow to ease my dry throat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Ishmael kept to the middle of the group, swimming and keeping low, breast- stroking, and tried to think of himself as a dead marine floating harmlessly in Betio’s lagoon, a corpse borne by the current. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I fly straight through the floating isles like a ghost, angling up to go as high as I can until I can’t get any farther from land. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I’m easing in along the shore, about a hundred yards from the Crofts’ big floating dock, when a boat pulls away from the dock. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Boots ran back to him with the ball, dryer lint floating in her curls. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It popped into the air like a lazily floating balloon. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes can no longer envision Pilar, only floating parts of her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The city would be the hot zone, and the floating ship would be the gray area, the place of refuge for the doctors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had wished her out of my life, and she had acquiesced, floating out of her body to escape my terrible hatred. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They found Squint floating facedown in the moat, his entrails drifting behind him like a nest of pale snakes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The shapes of people and objects burned themselves into my retinas and stayed there, floating around behind my eyelids like hungry ghosts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Stepping inside, I breathe a sigh of relief when I see the yellow balloon floating on top of the water, a few feet from the edge. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z A green feather, like the one Harison had picked up on the floating island, for his mother. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I held the mop so that it was floating on the top of the water in the bucket. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Plates, cups, spoons, pot lids, the heavy aluminum rice pot, the frying pan, all half submerged in gray water with a greasy scum floating on the top. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Furthermore, they would be sailing day and night, and they needed to get beyond the limit of floating ice: if they rammed a chunk in the dark, their journey would be a short one. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She looks up at the rafters, the air, her gaze floating through the timbers like she has forgotten I am even there. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z She held out two bubbly pink drinks, each with a cherry, red as candy, floating in the ice. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Four fresh bodies are floating in the Straits of Florida. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks at me, steps away, stops, comes back, kisses me on the forehead for the first time in my life and I’m so happy I feel like floating out of the bed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Spread to the horizon was an army of monsters—flocks of winged arai, tribes of lumbering Cyclopes, clusters of floating evil spirits. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I locked eyes with this one Mexican kid, about me and Rondell’s age, and I felt like I was lifting off my feet, floating into the air. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The webworms seemed to mirror me, floating in their own balloons of gauze in the pale turquoise sky. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The Great Hall, with its four long House tables and its staff table set at the top of the room, was decorated as usual with floating candles that made the plates below glitter and glow. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z My body doesn’t stop rising until I’m standing right in front of Quinton’s floating desk. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z There weren’t any Good Samaritan beer angels floating around waiting to gift us our weekly Friday buzz. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I looked out across the water, thousands of corpses floating silently. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Hundreds of pages were floating in the clearing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He spotted a huge bale of cotton floating close by. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Looking out the window, he saw Lucas’s car speeding away, dust floating everywhere. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I was always hearing about somebody found hanged or floating in the wharf. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And always floating around was James’s question about whether the game had actually been finished before Mr. Griswold was attacked. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z All night, since Enrique’s last call from a pay phone across the Rio Grande, she has been having visions of him dead, floating on the river, his body wet and swollen. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She watched until the delicate flames consumed the rag, watched until the blaze was hot and floating in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “In the six hundreds. Right underneath the floating stethoscope.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z It was as if he could see his trumpet and his fine big school go floating away. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Or perhaps there are living things that do not have a solvent system at all—solid-state life, where there are electrical signals propagating rather than molecules floating about. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But even as he stood there, flooded with excitement, something Harry had once heard Mr. Weasley say came floating out of his memory. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z She peered down into the water, past the floating peanut shells. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If the universe could not spring forth from the void, then something had to be floating about before the birth of the universe; there had to be a universe before the universe was born. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Jordie’s body was beside him, barely recognizable, white and swollen with rot, floating on the surface like some kind of gruesome deep sea fish. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I have to believe they have these moments too, when a picture of what life is supposed to be comes floating into their heads out of nowhere. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z All royal authority seems to have ceased on the land, and the governors preside only over their floating town and this sickly island. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The paddling would start me moving and I’d still be floating, so I’d calm down enough to realize that if I just kept going, everything would be fine. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Then, through the gloom, I saw her—a woman the color of the water, a ghost in the current, floating just above the sword. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It was like a floating white cloth, flat, taller than the huge avocado tree in our yard in Enugu. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Kelp floating in packs past the small swells. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Whoever had painted the picture loved the floating man and the floating woman. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z But on the other hand, we’d been floating in a rowboat for most of the day. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Afraid he was going to drown, he searched desperately for something to grab on to and spotted a bed floating nearby. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Why do I have a green diamond floating over my head? ” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I thought he would look like an angel floating in the sky. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Reilly sat frozen on the sofa staring into her drink as if she had just discovered a roach floating in it. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I still couldn’t see much of the island—just mist and rocks—but floating in the water were pieces of wood and fiberglass, the wreckage of old ships, even some flotation cushions from airplanes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z They both stood and watched it floating there for a moment, before a large tentacle rose out of the water and scooped it beneath the surface. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z All of the carbon in our bodies was originally floating in the air, as part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I felt like I was a dry leaf floating in the wind wondering where I’d land. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The sea was dark, but in the moonlight he thought he saw a glistening object floating near the monster—maybe the unconscious body of Frank Zhang. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z That’s how it would be at night on Parker Head, where folks knew that, come winter, their houses would still be on Parker Head, not floating down the New Meadows. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z She’s floating on her back, borne up by her belt and death, staring into that relentless sun. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Jack Allen’s exactly like a floating house—unexpected. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The water was choked with more rocks and ship wreckage and floating mines. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The air filled with screeches and floating white fluff. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Ready to sink, he found instead that he was floating, buoyed up by the garbage. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Og set the dance floor’s gravity on a counterclockwise spin, making all of our avatars slowly rotate around the club’s invisible central axis, like motes of dust floating inside a snow globe. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I realize I am floating, frozen, trapped inside a set of ruins with only a small eyehole through which I can see the rest of the game unfolding. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There it seemed to Frodo that he descried far off, floating as it were on a shadowy sea, the high dim tops and broken pinnacles of old towers forlorn and dark. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A floating reception force of more than four thousand Indians—two hundred war canoes, each carrying twenty or thirty people—greeted the Spanish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He turned back, took a right turn, and saw an odd golden mist floating ahead of him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The woman was exactly as they’d left her, in her foyer, floating near the ceiling. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She’s so obviously in love with him I expect to see heart bubbles floating around the room. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He told how he raised the alarm when I fell from the branch, then ran downstream, plunging into die water to intercept my floating body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Too many responses—some true, some not—are colliding in his head and breaking up into floating letters he can’t seem to wrangle back into words that make sense. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z “I found myself floating slowly down toward the ground,” Heiberg recalled, “with all our equipment, twelve huge containers, floating down through the moonlight behind us, and the plane disappearing westwards.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Jamie spent a night floating in the North Sea and afterward had to have four frozen fingers and all his toes amputated. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z To see his top hat floating away in a red river. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I still felt like I was floating, the Star Wars hero music in my head. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Out of the floating material that was left over, two microscopic grains floated close enough together to be joined by electrostatic forces. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was about nine in the morning when Mammachi and Baby Kochamma got news of a white child’s body found floating downriver where the Meenachal broadens as it approaches the backwaters. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The tiny ball of light the Governor had held a moment ago seemed to be floating beneath her skin. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He sank into the waves and swam under the floating dock. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He was floating in utter darkness, unable to see even where the water ended. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Dawn was just breaking the sky into pale gray, illuminating the floating docks and the distant mist-shrouded structures of drowned Orleans. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Her enemy had a face: ugly dishwater eyes and cratered skin, with a few limp locks of hair floating around her cheeks. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It was like floating to the surface of a warm depth of feeling. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z A large flat-screen television was mounted over the fireplace; I looked up to see a network newscaster talking about my parents, a picture of Malcolm and Maud floating next to his head. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z There’s a heart, animated with lines, floating in the last frame, when Khadija, the Prophets first boss and first love, fifteen years older, sends a marriage proposal to him. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I remembered Dad saying that you always stay with a boat as long as it’s still floating, because a boat is easier than a body for searchers to find. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I looked toward the thousands of corpses floating in the water. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Aunty Onenu’s weave was longer and more incongruous than the last, high and coiffed in front, with waves of hair floating to her back. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But a few seconds later, up it came again, and this time, up it stayed, floating serenely upon the surface of the water. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “In that case”—he grins wickedly—“I hear that Pluto and Jupiter and the earth are about to align. I wonder if you want to join me in a floating experiment.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The ice on the river broke into great floating blocks, and gradually thinned and disappeared. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Somehow Id ended up on my back, because I found myself staring straight up at all the junk floating in the sky. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Early editions of Archimedes come with illustrations which show objects floating in a vast ocean of water, an ocean which stretches right around the globe, and Galileo drew such sketches in his own text. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When I shut my eyes in the warm bath, I feel as if I’m floating inside a cloud. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z There are snapshots of us having a picnic in the park, posing in new outfits, and floating in a plastic kiddie pool. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It was like I was floating through the hallway. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His very teeth were floating and his voice was a plaintive cry as he begged our father to rise from his throne and enter into family life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z His voice is floating somewhere high above us. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z As they passed her they turned and their eyes watched her slowly floating away from them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I remember strange details about the moment we pulled into the parking lot—the smell of oil floating up from our leather gloves, the sandpaper feel of dust on my fingertips. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He’s dodging people left and right, and I can barely hear him go on about how there was room for Jack and Rose on that floating door or how they could’ve at least taken turns. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z When I first saw Louise she seemed to be floating about two feet off the ground, levitating. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In front of us, a path of floating stones led through the clouds up to Mount Olympus, hovering six thousand feet over Manhattan. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Around our sloop-of-war lay a great confusion of ships, a floating town. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Shanti cried, her words floating out in front of her in strings of black type. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It’s a standard desktop display—except it’s floating in midair. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Or a group of science people doing research about plankton or the chemicals found in floating seaweed, all these waterproof monitors beeping and flashing next to ’em on deck. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Toby ignored them, nearly floating as he singsonged his love and intentions for everybody to hear. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And William has a small bubble floating above his beak, filled with the word Quack! I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A little north of the rock fight, John and the Williams boys, oblivious of the fray, continued their game of diving and floating. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It felt like I was floating in space! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Way at the back of the church, somebody went floating by in a flying-trapeze kind of outfit, which is also not the kind of thing you should wear to a funeral. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Harry left her floating there, looking utterly bewildered. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Then he paused at the sight of the apparition floating in midair. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She was in the air, and the dreamlike unreality of floating warred with the gruesome truth beneath her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The floating heart pulsed from dimness to darkness. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Others look like makeshift cloth tents or small thatched-roof huts floating on the water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A ravenous piranha surfaced briefly to eat several floating sequins. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The bayou birds' morning melody, floating through the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She held up a picture of Pandora opening up the box and a whole shebang of gremlins floating out. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I was floating on a river of light. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They climbed the high steps that led to the Gran’s home in record time, and Seven was grateful to be floating instead of being on foot. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z A happy home had nothing to do with three men in a bubble eating sawdust food and watching pencils floating in the air. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z My boat is right where I left it, floating upright and waiting for me, ready for the journey. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The water had a few cherry blossoms floating in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z To keep the can from floating she weighed it down with a wrench. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The first thing I saw was a large black object floating in the water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It had been floating about for almost thirty years in the circle of theoretically inclined geneticists intrigued by gene duplication. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z There was a man not much older than she was, with salt-and- pepper hair, floating behind the large circular countertop in the center of the room. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z How could principle, an abstract thing floating in the air, wedge itself so solidly between them, and turn Blaine into somebody else? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Of course: Nearly all the soil of Jackson Park was competent to support floating foundations except the one portion destined to bear the fair’s biggest and heaviest building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As she speaks, the glass in her hand fades, but the wine remains, floating in the air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Then she spun back around to face me, suspended and floating, smiling and holding out her hand, beckoning me to join her. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Bridge squeezed her eyes closed until she saw glittery things floating in the dark. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z It looked incongruous, floating there in the water, so odd in its shape compared to the sleek, slippery design of fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They found Pong's robes floating near the shore, but no body. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Inside the egg was chaos, and floating in chaos was Pan Ku, the Undeveloped, the divine Embryo. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Pieces of the sun were tearing off and floating toward them, trailing long ribbons of light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I felt like I was floating the whole trip back to Coalwood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It had not occurred to any of the rabbits that they were floating beside the path up which they had come earlier that evening before the storm broke. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a peculiar floating sensation coming over him, as though he were floating up in the air like a balloon. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z There was the sailboat floating on the blue water like a toy. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Thorn’s father, Leaf Laroux, walked down the floating spiral stairs at the center of the bookshop. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z In her mind’s eye, Luna could see the pearly heart of the Sorrow Eater floating in the air between them. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z A bundle of walking sticks was floating in midair ahead of them, and as Percy took a step toward them they started throwing themselves at him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I was a dainty ballerina girl standing by the curtains, waiting to hear the right music that would send me floating on my tiptoes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Until on the Day when He says Rise only the flat-iron would come floating up. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was as if heavy clothes, embroidered with glowing threads of gold and red, had been tossed down by a giant or a god, and were just floating there, on top of the water.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She glanced at the floating silk swirls of the departing women. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z And I was in his arms, cradled against his chest — floating, all the pain gone. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The water at the bottom of the horses’ buckets is murky and has oats floating in it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “It’s got things floating in it,” she said. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There were three hundred or so chickens floating in the big steel tank of ice water. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The compass was still gyrating loosely, but the altimeter was functioning accurately, as far as he could judge, and showed them to be floating about a thousand feet above the seashore and parallel with it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The two boys moved so quickly, it seemed that their discarded clothes were still floating to the ground as their bodies hit the water. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z "But I like floating," whispers Helmuth into the shimmering darkness, and he does. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z And with this light, Minli saw that the sky below her had somehow become a vast lake of pure water and the night clouds were made of floating lilies. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “But first, we have to avoid those floating rock lasers. Everybody, hang on tight—I need to be sure you’re not rolling about, getting sick over everything.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Her heels click against the floor as she approaches the floating day-lantern. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Biff played an astounding solo — the notes just seemed to shimmer in the air like floating fire — and Mr. W. was simply incredible. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He was floating in a great lake of light, and the voice was singing to him. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z They awoke to the last traces of mist floating above the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a bird of spectacular appearance and beguiling habits, building its floating nests in shallow lakes of western United States and Canada. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Outside of my parents’ house were white balloons, tied off on either side of the white fence’s gate, floating arrows that pointed us up to the open front door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It was pleasant, floating there, a welcome change from lying in bed waiting for the next dose of Dilaudid. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Two seconds later, Sierra Russell was floating in the air, drifting up and to the left. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The summer of 1958 came, and with it, floating ships of clouds that lazily drifted by, docking sometimes in the afternoon to produce a shower to loosen the dust off the houses and the cars. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I said, and pointed to a floating pavilion filled with laughing people and lanterns. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I plunged after her, I dove under the wrecked hull of a yacht, wove through a collection of floating metal balls on chains that I realized afterward were mines. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z And me and Mong and Rondell were hiding out watching the ocean to make sure nobody came floating up in a raft to try and invade our island. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It wasn’t floating peacefully the way she would have thought. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Frost-white chairs and chaises crowd around tables like swans floating on a serene pond. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I walk over to the coffee table, where an option called in-room dining is floating over it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z One could, for example, argue that far from there being one earthly sphere floating in the ocean it was now apparent that there were two. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Then she began to pray aloud and Ben, her son, had an image of her prayers floating light as pollen into the ear of God. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So he’d snuck a look: and there they were, floating on twin inflatable rafts, in twin blue wading pools of water. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike in New York, here I can see his name floating over his head, telling me that his name is Jiro Yamada. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But the gate was now floating in midair, suspended several dozen meters above the planet’s surface, over the crater that had been created by the destruction of the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The rest of the house was flotsam that had come to him, floating in on the tide, as I had, sometimes into our own little cove, sometimes on Cuttyhunk, where no one else wanted it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Dad would rub imaginary spray out of his eyes, and scan the horizon for possible sperm whale, Flying Dutchmen, or floating ambergris. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She started to say something, but the ancestors broke their ghostly huddle and returned to their floating semicircle. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Underneath the lighthouse’s copper dome lay sixteen reflecting prisms and four projecting lenses floating in a bath of mercury. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I was drifting above my body, floating there like a bee above a flower. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The older shrew appeared out of a reed bed, balanced upon a large floating tree trunk which he propelled skillfully with a long pole into the side of the bank. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I wondered if I would blend into the buildings, and appear as nothing but a floating face. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I looked directly into her eyes and saw tiny moons floating in them. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Then there were pennons floating from the tops of the tents, and sheaves of spears leaning against them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z With the light behind him, Arm thought, he looked like a uniform with a hat floating over it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Before they could turn round, the copper sky of summer had assumed a cold and lowering bronze, while the biggest white flakes that ever were seen were floating about them and settling on the battlements. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The screen was full of floating asteroids and I'd've died in three seconds flat. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Asha could see the beacon fire burning atop the watchtower, a faint orange glow floating in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Dazed by the collision, he found himself floating in a sea of molasses so thick he could not stand up. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It has islands the size of countries and masses of floating vegetation the size of islands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with the help of a perpetual tailwind. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I could almost see the words floating through her head as she struggled to find something to say. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I made a sweeping gesture with my right hand, and a three-dimensional hologram of Castle Anorak appeared, floating in the air in front of me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They could grow floating in a culture medium that was constantly stirred by a magnetic device, an important technique Gey developed, now called growing in suspension. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I felt like I was floating in my daddy’s world of summer, and hide-and-seek, and fishing when I opened the paper and read the greeting. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z They grow on the floating kelp leaves and there were so many of them that much of the kelp near the reef had been dragged to the bottom. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The boat looked like a floating teahouse, with an open-air pavilion larger than the one in our IHt. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Dishes were floating around their feet, along with boxes and cans of food, but nothing to drink. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z I been bailing Rose for months, getting up before dawn to pump out the bilge and keep her floating. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He carefully lifts out a crystal bowl filled with round balls floating in a thick honey-colored syrup. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Suddenly she remembers her great-aunt’s hands floating on a white surf of keys, overlapping like gulls in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Now they’re just floating around out there, lost at sea, stranded. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Romance was floating in the air like moondust and the two lovers, for some reason we younger ones could never understand, did not seem to be very keen on us tagging along with them. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z When Leo woke, he wondered if he was a ghost in another flashback, because he was floating weightlessly. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z If there are floating rocks, I’d push them together to create a bigger platform. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She was bloodless, detached, floating in a world where darkness descended too soon and everyone walked around burdened by coats, and flattened by the absence of light. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Of course,” I said, ready to get back to floating. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Suddenly, Jilly was up and jumping into the pool, diving down and then resurfacing, her dark-blond hair floating on the water behind her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “It’s still Spender, sir. We found Biggs floating in the canal.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z A fourth stretcher, no doubt bearing Ron, was already floating at his side. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The boys backed the Husky Clipper into their starting stall, on a floating platform that had been specially built for the Olympic trials, and waited. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Thomas kept his eyes riveted to the area of the invisible floating square, trying to burn the distance and location in his mind, remember exactly where it was. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z But by the time we reached the house, I was floating. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Now we’re standing on a hovering isle, surrounded by a hundred other floating isles, overlooking a beautiful lagoon. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Jam slid her hands into her pockets and listened to the crickets hidden in the grass, her earphones floating unused around her neck. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Plastic bags floating like jellyfish, and a deflated birthday balloon—one of the shiny metallic ones—lifted and zipped through the air like happy shrapnel. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Then she saw the pale crescent moon, floating high above the grass, and it came to her that this was no more than her moon blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A floating crystal staircase led up to the club’s only entrance, a circular opening at the bottom of the sphere. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I felt myself floating, lost in them, my will no longer my own. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z Zeitoun had never imagined that the day would come that he might see such a thing, a body floating in filthy water, less than a mile from his home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z At Christmas time, Jerusalem and Bethlehem felt crisp and cool, flickering with candles in windows, buttery yellow streetlights, and music floating from shops—thin threads of light and sound. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t so much seem to be standing behind the pitcher as floating over him. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Or was she floating amongst the trains and masses of Lithuanians, searching for her husband? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Then I saw Miss Brown floating majestically upward at the front of the line. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z My vision blurs in and out of focus as I strain to make the two moons floating up in the sky into one. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Harry felt a floating sensation as every thought and worry in his head was wiped gently away, leaving nothing but a vague, untraceable happiness. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Out of her depth and helplessly floating in now-receding circles of fear. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I felt as if those of us on the stage were floating in another layer of the world, removed from those below. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Downstairs, my father is playing the piano—soft, sad notes floating up from the living room. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Apparently, all my adjectives are lost in this haze of wonder I’m floating around in. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The rest of our family and friends are asteroids and comets floating around the planets orbiting the Sun. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z When I flipped through them, it looked like the man was floating up through the sky. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t tell if it represented Greek mythology, or if the characters floating in the clouds above were meant to be biblical. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “No,” said Nina, pointing to a dark spot that seemed to be floating in the sky, unaffected by the howling wind. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The classic honeymoon stage where everyone feels like they’re riding a unicorn on floating rainbows while drinking Skittle smoothies. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z He made his way out toward the floating docks, swimming slow and off the main marked path through the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Then the watch lifts from the table, floating into the air and hovering as though it were suspended in water. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z By the time the fire engines got there, the gambling boat was a floating torch. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Then the lechuzas, all thirteen of them, vanished into thin air, leaving only downy feathers floating innocuously in the rays of the morning sun. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Handcuffed to the chair with the jellyfish floating silently behind him, Alex was left alone. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Taran saw a creature which, at first glance, looked like a bundle of sticks with cobwebs floating at the top. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z From the field behind the sugar mill a group of workers were watching the balloon floating in the air. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Once complete, this grillage of steel would be filled and covered with Portland cement to produce a broad, rigid raft that Root called a floating foundation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I wiped my hand on my shirt and another floating light came very slowly down and I looked at my leg and was very afraid. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z There was only a little puddle of water with floating lemon peels at the bottom of the bowl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Like a child’s drawing, her pale face was floating in a sea of brown fabric. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z She was floating, held up by the arms and the water. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z A man appeared above the porch, floating in the air—a blond dude in a white toga, with sunglasses and a cocky smile. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Almost to the raft, I flip to my back and give in to the lightness of floating. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She spent a whole summer with the gray ball, the little ball of fur and string and hair always floating in the light near her but which she did not see because she never looked. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z My entire body felt like it was floating. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z As I turned a corner, the white blossoms of an unexpected hydrangea—luminous clouds, floating pale in the shadows—brushed against my cheek. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I imagined floating up to the ceiling of the gym and looking down at all those different groups, dancing in their tight circles. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The drawers had burst open and there were tools and plastic silverware, plates and cups floating in the water. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The guide led them past the outer piers into the floating market. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Pascal’s new hydraulics is an extension of his vacuum experiments, but Galileo’s work on floating bodies is not path-specific in this way. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Morning light slanted in, picking out floating particles of ash. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z And after a while the flat irons would come floating up. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t know that a hurricane had sunk the ship and left her crate floating on the waves for days until it finally washed ashore. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He turns to what he thinks is Lucas Cader to find none other than the Lazarus woodpecker seemingly floating beside him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z First, because he wasn’t the type, and second, because he finally understood how fragile she was, how unmoored and untethered, like a shiny balloon floating through the air, no hand to steady her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The telltale sound of tires starting down the long wooded stretch of Argyle Road sent the Owner floating back inside the building. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z When he found their floating shop in Coal Harbour, he told the Pococks that he planned to establish a veritable rowing navy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “How can you read with all those colors floating around?” asks Michelle, the girl with the dirty book. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z We were two bodies floating in space, brighter than stars. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z In those brief moments when she was floating free, Kaede had almost forgotten what it was like to be corporeal. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Dicey looked around at them, gathered together there in the fairground, their hands held high, their friendly wishes for good luck floating around the car still, like cherry blossoms blowing down to the ground. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z His soul is prob-ably still out there somewhere—floating in the darkness, looking for hope, hoping for forgiveness, and terribly, terribly frightened. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The balloon kept floating free, drifting on its way to brighter shores. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I look back at the attic overflowing, filled with floating wood and memories. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z That way if I started floating, the Preacher could have pulled me ’long home like a kite. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I was panting, as after a strenuous exertion, but floating, without effort. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Roy shut his eyes and felt like he was floating on the sunny slope of a cloud. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Millard ran tap water into a glass and brought it to him, and Dad reached out and took it, as though floating glasses weren’t at all unusual. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Hello,” they called, and their voices, faint and ragged, were almost one voice floating up to me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Balls and tendrils are floating everywhere, and of course I’m late for homeroom. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z And I’d be floating alone three hundred and fifteen miles from shore in a life jacket. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was floating on the water close to the path. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He tried not to breathe too deeply as he cleaned, wary of dangers floating in the air, until his manager told him he was being fired because of a downsizing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In a world without ears there would be no sounds, only vibrations; in a world without noses there would be no smells, only particles floating in the atmosphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If he was floating atop water shared with the lake, surely fish had been swept into the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I focused on Jorgenson’s brand-new boots, then on a pebble, then on my own face floating high above me—the last things I'd ever see. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt like being in a rectangular lunch box floating on the ocean. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Leo was glad he was floating, because he probably would’ve been too dizzy to stand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I move onward, through the colors and cheers and music, floating into my future, and it is a clear, open space that stretches wider than the sky and higher than the Andes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven was in a sitting position, floating in the air beside Valley and Thorn as they walked. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Only the Third Gate remained, a crystal doorway floating in the air above the crater where the castle had stood a moment before. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Since the statues were really holographic projections, they had chisel-type labels floating in front of their pedestals identifying who the famous people were. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Then, to his relief, a voice came floating in through the train’s open door. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Standing on a floating island nearby is Max. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then he felt a cold breeze on the back of his neck and sat bolt upright — Peeves the Poltergeist had been floating next to him, blowing hard in his ear. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The river was empty but for great chunks of the greasy yellow soap floating here and there. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As my time at Healdtown was coming to an end, I had many new and sometimes conflicting ideas floating in my head. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Cara jogs into the atrium, her hair askew and floating over her forehead. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The little pier was connected to a floating shed that had to be a boathouse. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It’s a lovely night with the June moon floating high over Limerick and you can feel a warm breeze off the Shannon River. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The audience screams in delight as each of them remains standing only on islands of rock floating in the lava. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The pail was floating instead of standing, and they were going to have to wade through knee-high water to return to the shore. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z The sky brightens when the seal of the Capitol appears as if floating in space. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z By the time they found the floating island, it had been over six months since they left the Paradise Islands, and they were feeling the effects of starvation. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She knew that bodies had been found floating, unclaimed and uncovered in the water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Purple snowcapped mountains marched off in either direction, with clouds floating around their middles like fluffy belts. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A flurry of papers and heavy-looking boxes seemed to be floating up the hill beside her, small grunts coming from behind the various packages. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z And on the wall above the keyboard was a picture of a man and woman floating over a city. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z The hotel itself is at least twenty stories tall, sleekly designed, with a virtual image of floating koi swimming across its entire side. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The next day, I checked on my goldfish, Ethan, but to my dismay, he was floating on his side in his small mixing bowl. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Even the bosslings wouldn’t stand a chance against the giant floating towers that guarded the foothills. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Ifemelu sensed, between them, the presence of spiky thorns floating in the air. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Through the branches I can see the seal of the Capitol, which appears to be floating in the sky. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z With a millisecond to spare, he’d summoned the winds and avoided becoming a floating patch of demigod grease on the surface of the Adriatic. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They were handed over to their mother fast asleep, floating on this fiction. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something richly appealing in her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the gold highlights in the strawberry hair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The lanterns had been lit fore and aft, but die fog was so thick that all the dwarf could see from amidships was a light floating out ahead of him and another following behind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There were beds ringing, docks smiting in belfries, standards floating—until the whole air above them seemed to be alive. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As Ixtali rowed on, we passed a fisherman pulling up a turtle in his net and two women picking fresh vegetables from a floating garden. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He whipped around and saw Moaning Myrtle floating hazily in front of him, gazing at him through her thick, pearly glasses. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I could just see pages of the Bible floating in the air. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z A dark mass to my left attracts my attention; something dull in texture is floating on the surface of the darkening stream. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Her long hair was so fine that it trailed her, floating in the air like a cloud. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The floating Artillery Batteries heaved on the Water. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It made sense, surely, to see if the twins were there, fooling about with the hoses, or floating facedown in death, indistinguishable to the last. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I thought about my white, bloated corpse floating in Puget Sound. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I kept the part about floating up out of my body to myself. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Patrick Moore told viewers that they could experience the phenomenon by jumping in the air at the exact moment the alignment occurred. If they did, they would feel weightless, like they were floating.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Then Obinze’s voice, his words floating into the air, into her head. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I put it aside and fell asleep and dreamed that I was floating on a river. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “It’s caught in the current, and it’s floating away!” screamed Petunia. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The hippos were still floating in the central channel. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Pork chops smothered in gravy, green beans floating in butter, cornbread hot and fluffy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z It's not like he would be floating in on a cloud, or anything like that, but the man standing before them could have been any man. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Ascended to the next plane, merely a pair of eyes floating through a dopamine haze. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The ghost of a girl had risen out of the toilet in a cubicle behind them and was now floating in midair, staring at them through thick, white, round glasses. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z For a minute she allowed herself to hang deep underwater, floating somewhere between utter desolation and euphoria, all alone and yet surrounded by the hands of a million murmuring ancestors. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z There were tea leaves floating upon the surface of the water. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Emma and I sat down just as the curtain opened, revealing a straw boater hat floating atop a gaudy red-and-white striped suit. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z She wore her silvery hair tied back, but strands were always coming loose and floating around her. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Jule didn’t like the lemon slices floating in it, but she drank some anyway. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “I thought this tavern was on a floating barge like the others,” she whispered. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z No time to waste floating around on the wind. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Like well-run factories, cells are thrifty; part of the cellular machinery chops up and reuses anything that is floating around inside, including bits of the cell and foreign invaders such as viruses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The last thing that he remembered before he fell into deep dream was a glimpse of high white peaks, glimmering like floating isles above the clouds as they caught the light of the westering moon. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Then, you would have a house like a boat, almost floating on air, and the long, leafy branches stretching above like sails. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z We were headed east, out of Detroit, literally floating on air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Luna reached out a pale hand, which looked eerie floating in midair, unconnected to arm or body. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z When I open my eyes, the water is thick and dirty, and a group of mermaids tangled in garbage and seaweed swim toward me, their long hair floating all around their faces. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Maybe someone was trying to tell me something, what with me missing the train and the blue flyer floating back to me, maybe Deza Malone was right. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Her dress was short, and she wore her hair in Mexican braids, not floating and loose. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Everywhere she looked she could see gold, just as Atal had described it: sparkles of light, floating and drifting and sometimes moving in a current of purpose. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Empty plant seedling trays and irrigation tubes lie stacked on floating shelves. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A whole crowd of merpeople was floating in front of the houses that lined what looked like a mer-version of a village square. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Long enough to see an empty wooden crate floating by her. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z I was raised in a gaunt house with a garden; my earliest recollections are of floating lights in the apple-trees. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I mean, it was an egg floating in a hollowed-out basketball. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The men scanned the water ahead desperately for floating ice to melt and drink, but found none. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z ‘Dreams,’ he said, ‘is very mysterious things. They is floating around in the air like little wispy-misty bubbles. And all the time they is searching for sleeping people.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They found bodies everywhere, tangled in kudzu vines of the jungle, stuck in the trees high up, floating out in the surf. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She had let herself go With it—swimming quietly, floating—till the boat arrived at last.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z He’d checked out; he was on some floating island made of graphite and paper where this reality didn’t exist. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “All those names and the black surface. It’s like looking in a mountain pond at night, but with the names floating on it.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But looking at Dimple’s open face, hearing her earnest questions, his usual inhibitions turned to puffs of cloud, insubstantial, floating away as he tried to grasp them. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He is floating his fingers through my hair. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But while she was talking to me, she was looking at Colin, and her expression was funny, as if her stomach might be floating too. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z He seemed to be in the trough at the eejit pens, floating in yellow sludge. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I obey, and when I look to my right, there is a floating blue sphere. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Mothers and grandmothers were floating among the tables with smiles on their faces as they touched and picked up all the fun things on display. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And several yards behind, marching beside the young men floating the coffin upward, I looked into the face of the old man who had aroused the song and felt a twinge of envy. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The river’s starting to bend and I keep on floating down it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He had to get the water out and get her back to floating right. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not your fault, the monster said, its voice floating in the air around him like a breeze. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z For a split second Wormtail gazed into the apparently empty cellar, ablaze with light from the three miniature suns floating in midair. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z We rescued a big floating plank and carried it up the beach above high-water mark. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Across the tent, people toss them at each other like snowballs, though instead of breaking they bounce off of their targets, floating gently down. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When she waded into the swamp, the reeds twisted themselves into a boat, and she climbed aboard, floating across the deep red of the algae coating the water. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Instead, floating about two and a half feet off the ground, lying wrapped in a tight little ball with her nose tucked under her tail, was a small black-and-white border collie—dozing in midair. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “But the other kicked and kicked, and in the morning they found him there, floating on a big pat of butter.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s about some kids floating around in the ocean far away from land, and there are sharks—so many sharks. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z At Monet’s, they serve them with tiny marshmallows floating on top. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z We both turned to see a column of floating fire curving through the water toward us, and with every second it picked up speed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They’re lying down, not on top of each other, just side by side, floating in space. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z But a man built a great floating hutch that held all the animals and birds until Frith returned and let them out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A decade later, she might have likened their family to astronauts, floating in space; that was how ungrounded they were. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z But this one sentence keeps floating around in my head. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Hibiscus bushes lean over floating purple flowers like dancers trying to glimpse their own reflections. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The Apple Jacks box was a problem, and I started to get a bit scared when at first I couldn’t find it, but then I saw it floating, the paper box dissolving like a wafer. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He had started with one anomaly, the floating chip of ebony, and discovered another, the floating needle; as a consequence he had done his best to make sense of surface tension. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For a long while Jimmy Cross lay floating. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That night she served asopao with a solid dark ball floating on top of each of our bowls. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I looked down at the blob of milk foam floating on the coffee’s surface. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z He squeezes his eyes tighter, repeats the last words, chants them fervently, asThouwiltasThouwiltasThouwilt, until they wrap around him and the floating feeling comes. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I am a sea bubble floating, floating in a dream. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z It was delicious, but we both hated to see those long yellow-white hairs floating around the vegetables. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z My name is like this floating blue string. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of walking I was floating through space, not clear and sharp, but with a gray film over everything. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Tearing through wreckage near the collapsed “El,” he suddenly spotted a mass of yellow hair floating in a pool of molasses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I drank some chocolate milk and then lay down on the sofa in the living room, not really sad, just floating, trying to imagine what it was to be dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt heavy lying in bed instead of floating free as I had been doing for the past week. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Reaching for anything: a wall, some bit of floating junk, anything to tell him where he was. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The wax hardened immediately, floating on the surface. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A lot of those secrets ended up floating down the Nansemond River just down the road from us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Davis darted up a flight of floating marble stairs, leaving me alone with Noah—or so I thought—until a woman I hadn’t seen called out, “That’s a real Picasso.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z With that, I’m drifting back down the hall, out to the street, off to Duane Reade, floating and stinking and smiling, off to the Mitchum deodorant aisle, a grown-up in New York City. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “I read that there had been really tall sycamore trees down here along the creek, and they all ended up in Ventura County, or floating in the Pacific Ocean like broken matchsticks,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “A lot of ducks were put in the lagoons yesterday, and they are floating around contentedly and quite like life this morning.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “We shouldn’t go into the water today. The pond is pretty clean, but there’s still random stuff floating around in there, and those bandages aren’t waterproof.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Someone’s voice seemed to call to him, and soon he found himself in the arms of an angel, floating high above a burning city. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I say, trying to get the thoughts floating around in my head to land on the paper. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z But I knew that die wood floating up on the beach consisted mostly of branches or stumps that had been in the water for weeks or months. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At night he saw the stars in the heavens and the sickle-shaped moon floating like a boat in the blue. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But a rowboat is floating, caught between our two houses and a bigger willow tree that kept it from floating down the street. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z These “floating warehouses” were then anchored in international waters for six months or even a year, beyond the reach of the Coast Guard. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They kept floating out there, suspended, as if the horizon had finally become what it always seemed to be from shore: the sea’s limit, beyond which no man could sail. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z It came out confident, but now that the words were floating between them, Luke worried she’d dismiss the idea of coming with him in a hundred different ways. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Though each of the others vanished and reappeared like fragments floating round a pool, Pipkin never left him; and his need for encouragement became at last Hazel’s only support against his own weariness. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She remained quite still, floating in midair, staring down at him, and a sense of hopelessness engulfed Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z With each breath, little snowflakes of floating ash choked them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The boat’s rope must be floating deep, loose inside the water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z As silently as a floating feather, the servant combs the oil through Padma's hair, making it shimmer in the subtle light like onyx. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The floating blade moves where I tell it to. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I’m floating.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “I feel vulnerable floating up here like this. Couldn’t we set down in the river?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There are tiny bugs floating dead in the water; others are skimming, still alive. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z I looked straight up at the crystal gate floating twenty meters above me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry, Pa,” Kim repeats, his words softly floating in the air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, Suma is floating next to me in her pod, her brain being wiped anew. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Matthew added, “I’ve got to go number one. My teeth are floating.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Merely floating the possibility of the role to Lola might provoke a crisis, and could Briony really hold hands with her before the altar, while Jackson intoned from the Book of Common Prayer? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then he saw Mr. Dalton and another white man standing at the far end of the basement; in the red shadows their faces were white discs of danger floating still in the air. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There were plenty of scorpions and snakes here, but they were all dead, floating in bottles filled with alcohol. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in a great, billowing white cloud, floating in the whiteness, and there were huge buckets of water being thrown on him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dusky shadows, Frankie’s eyes were as luminously gold as the constellations of dust motes floating above our heads. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I let my fingers trail down his floating, outstretched arm. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Fried eggs covered with grease, fresh-squeezed orange juice with seed and pulp floating in it, thick hand-cut bacon, a white-hot mound of grits and biscuits. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Ah, it was bliss, not to think, it was as though he were floating, dreaming . . . just answer no .. . say no . . . just answer no. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I picture him standing on that floating runway, his lovely blond hair hidden under a drab helmet. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I reach out and extract one of the fronds floating on the surface. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z How easy it would be to fall into a trance, and let her mind drift away with the floating particles... The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He went out of the back door; a few fine flakes of snow were floating down. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The ghost nodded at Ophie before floating back over to the man. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The moon, floating above us, scraped against the clouds. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His tiny forehead has been decorated with considerable struggle with sandalwood paste to form six miniature beige moons floating above his brows. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The next memory she had was of waking up in that tub six miles from home and pulling a tired old cat from the water she was floating in. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Imagine my teenage wrath when, time after time, my homework was returned with this well-meant floating apostrophe struck out. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z He turns up the volume so I can hear the music floating across the morning air. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s floating somewhere in the sky—no parachute needed. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z She went back to see, and I heard her tell Maman how it was, a desolation of lost shoes and hats, of blood, of burned ballots floating in the breeze, sticking in the blood. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Funny, how his mind was clear suddenly, apart from his body, floating above his body, floating above the pain. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There were islands in the middle of the water, little floating restaurants where grown-ups could order Turkish coffee while their legs were still in the pool. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She moved probably a little like Jack, a little unapparently, she probably just seemed to get from one place to another, floating majestically through her life until the day the internist informed them otherwise. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When the world faded back into view, she noticed more clouds floating south past the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z My hands kept floating up in front of me, and I wished I had pockets or somewhere to put them to keep them out of the way of all the switches on the instrument panel. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As if we both were floating in the air, the land, buildings take shape. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She takes my hand and I think how otters sleep floating on their backs in water, holding hands exactly like this, so they don’t drift apart in the night. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z And yet, not a half hour earlier, he’d been wondering what it would be like to be floating down the river by himself. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Bunny’s ears were floating on either side of his one-eyed head. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z It felt like an idea, a particle of dust floating around in the air that hadn’t landed yet. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z It appeared as a three-dimensional globe floating in front of me, and I gave it a spin with myhand. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I keep picturing myself floating high above the earth. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The number of dead floating cells had increased twenty times! The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Each of them floating by themselves, out in a vast space. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Then several of them climbed into a small boat that rocked and tossed in the waves of the large water, and they rowed out to the floating house in the distance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But not with arms stretched out like airplane wings, nor shot forward like Superman in a horizontal dive, but floating, cruising, in the relaxed position of a man lying on a couch reading a newspaper. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I was back in the dark, moldy hallway with two torches floating alongside me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z And then the instructor’s face was gone, his hand was gone, and his voice was saying, “You’re floating.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Adrienne comes back, holding what looks like a glass of frothy milk with brown and green stuff floating in it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Snow swirls over the pavement outside, floating on the wind. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I let the rip take me, dove down again, up and down, until there was Noah floating faceup, alive, but not conscious. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He lifted high into the air and hung there, floating. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Aristotle might have had difficulty in following Galileo’s argument that the size of the container matters when trying to understand floating bodies, but Archimedes would not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Me holding the panda, the two of us standing on either side of the pool cue, us floating underwater, the filled table at his birthday party, me spinning around and around on the icy pond. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z She seemed really smart from what she said, and she was pretty, and I was still thinking about that globe of juice floating in front of her face. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But I decide to include it because anything that can start out floating around defenseless in the ocean that size—and then defeat the odds to grow into this powerful creature—has to mean business. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Annabeth stared at the distant shape of the Argo II floating above downtown Sparta. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There is a name, a real name, floating alongside a photo of the real-life user who is Zero. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z With the plesios out of the way, Magdalys could see clearly what had been behind them: a platform floating just in front of the Red Hook pier. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “My boy’s floating around in our tub all day long. I can’t hardly get in my own bathroom no more.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Happiness is a dandelion wisp floating through the air that I can’t catch. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z We glide and I feel as if I’m floating. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Not bad, he thought, though he noticed a dead fruit fly floating on the top. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z The sand lay in a pale sheet without any crocodiles floating over it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Packets of tea were floating in the folds of the crumpled mainsail that hung down through the top hatch, staining the water in brown clouds. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z As he was, sometimes he looked like a bunch of clothing floating through the forest. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z To his surprise, Jack saw a potato floating in the thin soup. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Thorn followed after, gracefully floating across the water and landing gently on the ground. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The remainder of the fairies assembled above the basement, floating in an enormous ring. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z We put on his ruffled Sunday suit and I tell him that we are expecting a sweet angel and where angels tread, the hosts must be as beautiful as floating hibiscus. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z It was floating on a cushion of shimmering air. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z "You are to act as if you're an artist floating through this world. Your sole purpose is to beautify, and transform the Gris. You are a Belle." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The hall outside the Belle apartments stretches like a great river I never want to stop floating on. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “If you see me floating unconscious out to sea, though—by all means, come and get me.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The bag was floating next to him but he had to get it out of the plane and onto the raft, then back to shore. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “You look nice,” I said when she appeared, dreamy and floating like she always seemed, framed within the front door. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Soon enough the dwarfs’ beards were floating in the foam and there was panic in their eyes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “It did. There was close to a ton. It still makes me sick when I think of all those bananas floating away and going to waste when they were mine for the picking.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Werfel could tell it was a spell because the elf was floating several inches above the bed, surrounded by crackling sparks. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The principal in my dream had a long beard, and was floating around the room and pointing at me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Black closed his hand around the floating key and said, “I haven’t left the apartment in twenty-four years!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He reached up to grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z There were some shouts from the floating pavilion, and I strained to see faces of Amah, Baba, Mama. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just remember seeing a pair of great, big, yellow eyes. My whole body sort of seized up, and then I was floating away. She looked dreamily at Harry. “And then I came back again. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Macbeth is totally delusional and has hallucinations of ghosts and a pesky floating dagger. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z In the days that followed, the reversion to a strict shift system dispelled the sense of floating timelessness of those first twenty-four hours. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Most of the time he worked as a doorman at one of the floating apartment buildings of the wealthy. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s all just floating in a million universes you made. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z And when they saw the great golden peach floating past them not fifty yards away in the sky, they gave a yelp of surprise and dropped their shovels to the ground. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The lamp looked as if it was floating along in midair, and even though Harry could feel his arm supporting it, the sight gave him the creeps. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z High above them, floating along in midair, four struggling figures were being contorted into grotesque shapes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I saw them suspended motionless above me, then two floating off, first their heads, then the tips of their finlike fingers, moving dreamily from the top of the case. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Days later feathers and down were still floating up from his den and being blown out to sea. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He kept his pants on—they were not so heavy—and entered the river, pushed away from the bank until he was far enough out to start floating a bit. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The room was dark except for the faint glow of the lamp in the living room floating through the half-open door of my room. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Golden plates and goblets gleamed by the light of hundreds and hundreds of candles, floating over the tables in midair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z As he walked, Toby was either floating or sinking. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Don’t know when my toes have ever been so cold, standing in icy mud, mid-November, in wooden clogs—thought so much of Jamie floating in the North Sea. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The floating pedestal with the Story Box on top trailed him, still spinning. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It reminded me of the killer floating spheres in the Phantasm films. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But tonight, as I lay in my bed with my mosquito net floating like a ghost around me, I did not hear any laughing. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z |
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