Some plants got their names from leaves, some from flowers, some from seeds, some from roots. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“All the flowers that grew at Down were beautiful,” she said, “and different from all other flowers.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman waters flowers; an old traveler in gabardine walks a poodle. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I pulled a limb down, and all I saw were leaves, twigs, and flowers. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find an amazing, fantastical fabric embroidered with moths and butterflies and ferns and flowers. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He could still smell her rose perfume in his nose and even in his mouth; the sharp flower scent rested against his tongue, as if he were tasting her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to smell like flowers,” I said, rubbing my eyes of suds, “I’m not a girl.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The friends drape the coffin in a white cloth and surround it with masses of flowers, dahlias and sunflowers, “yellow flowers everywhere.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His plate was intricately fashioned and enameled as a bouquet of a thousand different flowers, and his snow-white stallion was draped in a blanket of red and white roses. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Courtiers and ladies came to her for love potions made of heartsease, another name for my beloved pansy flower. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Have you heard of the flower Korean Fire?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Lace flowers and a lucky leaf bloomed on a black back. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around my bedroom for ideas: from the checkered rug on my floor to the calendar of Georgia O’Keeffe flower paintings Dad bought me at the art museum he took me to last summer. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning when she wakes up in the pink bedroom she shares with Theo, she tells Vincent in this first letter, she looks “straight at that beautiful flowering peach tree of yours.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Burrs and grass flowers enhanced their dull socks. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something like Mirjam risking her life for a relationship whose only evidence so far is a cryptic note, a dusty trail on jar lids, and some flowers Mina says Mirjam once received at school? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Those are the only two memories I have of Aziz: the little river of flowers and sewage, and a sad old grin giving me stale candy. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She touched the white flower behind her ear, the one from her uncle, and wrapped me in a tight hug. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When he says to his dad, “How can you contemplate leaving me? Of the world’s flowers, my share is only thorns.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Roz noticed chickadees fluttering through the same flowers and singing the same song every morning. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When the triumphant fliers got back to Moscow, they were swept up in a parade through streets filled with flowers and cheering crowds. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A winding covered walkway lifted up from the cloudy water like a lotus flower. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of running and falling water was loud, and the evening was filled with a faint scent of trees and flowers, as if summer still lingered in Elrond’s gardens. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The young man’s head was wrenched sideways, not quite facing the flowers, and even in the shade a single blade of sunlight sparkled against the buckle of his ammunition belt. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She comes over for a hug, but I hold up the mess of flowers in front of my face, with a smile, to indicate my unfortunate busyness. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Today there are different flowers, drier, more defined, the flowers of high summer: daisies, black-eyed Susans, starting us on the long downward slope to fall. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks just like the flowers at home,” she marveled. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Dad stopped and put the twins down so that they could be closer to the flowers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Clummer was creeping over the grounds around the castle; sky L_Jand lake alike turned periwinkle blue and flowers large as cabbages burst into bloom in the greenhouses. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

June burst into bloom—daisies, larkspur, meadowsweet and thyme, foxglove and thimbleberry, purple thistle flowers, and yellow whorls of blooming fennel. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dunes were covered with mats of sand flowers, which are red and have tiny eyes that are sometimes pink and sometimes white. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

On it was a jam jar of blue flowers, harebells perhaps, and a full ashtray, and a pile of books. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I sit up in my seat, and it’s as if my insides are like flowers that have blossomed after a tiny bit of rain. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Every few miles, I see a bright desert flower or white crosses with plastic roses on the side of the road. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We take him to the People’s Park to see the lovely flowers, play with dogs, roll in the grass. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Petey pulled more paper from the tree trunks, the bushes, the flowers, whatever wasn’t strung up too high. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

On the windowsills, Tyson had set out water-filled vases with sea anemones and strange glowing plants from the bottom of the ocean, more beautiful than any flower bouquets the Demeter kids could whip up. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Turning at the gate, he always added: “An Astroturflawn! And plastic flowers! That proves I’m right!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She be in every breeze and cloud, every leaf and flower. She smilin’ at you right now.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sent the flowers early, so they’d be there when you got home. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The garlic stalks, which Mama hated and Doc loved, had recently blossomed into fat flowers, adding their sharp, stinging scent to the air. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Pecola turned to find the front door and saw Jesus looking down at her with sad and unsurprised eyes, his long brown hair parted in the middle, the gay paper flowers twisted around his face. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she got her pot and sleeping skin, her ulo and man’s knife, the bones and her flowers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought if we won,” I said, “I would use the prize money to fly my mom to New Mexico. If we could get there, and she could see these flowers...” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A flower crown of red, orange, and yellow roses and peonies sits atop her wavy, black hair. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Good morning, Sister Poppies,” Matt called to the sea of blinding white flowers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark of the trees he could smell splintered wood and see white upturned faces with wide white dirty flowers and he looked out to see a battery working steadily, firing into the woods. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the scent of flowers has gone to my head, because an idea sprouts there. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

In the 588th, people embroidered their foot cloths with flowers—using blue thread pulled out of their regulation men’s underwear again! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Along the path through the park there were hundreds of flowers of different colors that excited the twins. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You think too much of your ‘toilette,’ Adèle: but you may have a flower.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

My grandmother's china, covered in tiny red flowers. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Small paintings with gilded frames line the walls, and just outside David’s office is a pedestal with a bouquet of flowers on it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The golden Cornucopia sits in the middle of a green meadow with patches of gorgeous flowers. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at the child, I suddenly became hungry for my country, for its fat bees carrying nectar from apple flowers and for the birds singing in clusters of hazel. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

From behind an ornate Myrish screen carved with flowers and fancies and dreaming maidens, they peered unseen into a common room where an old man was playing a cheerful air on the pipes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Underneath a huge group of flowering bushes, there is a small stone house that we made the summer before second grade, hoping fairies would move in. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Charles’s American friend Asa Gray was one of those people who wanted to see God’s hand in the design of flowers, but he also thought that Charles’s argument for natural selection was right. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zillah is blond and skimpy, like the frail flower girls of a few years back. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This morning he had placed a flower in a vase on his desk, a single scarlet hibiscus, and the vase sat beside the black velvet-lined pearl tray in front of him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way back I picked some flowers, some wild roses that grow beside the road, and at home I put them in a vase and took them to his room. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There where the wild mountain flowers would grow in the spring, I laid him away. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dede held up the dainty oil lamp, its pale rose chimney fluted like the petals of a flower. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And there’s a daisy,” I said, throwing a circlet of the white flowers with their sunlike centers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The church had been decorated, with sparse flowers from kitchen gardens and hedgerows, and with streamers of colored crepe paper. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squint at the dark purple flowers on the bush. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A young woman in a flowered dress is breastfeeding her baby. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She picked bouquets of white clover in the lots believing they were the most beautiful flowers God ever made. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Virgin’s robe was slightly chipped, which Celia disguised with a spray of artificial flowers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he drove, John told Mom and Lori about the area, about the duck farms and the flower farms and the Indian origin of our town’s name. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke from the burning pizza changed into something fragrant—the smell of a dean sea breeze with wild- flowers mixed in—but I had no idea if that meant my father was really listening. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had a new friend named Chit—that really was his name—and he drove a yellow VW bug with bright pink and orange flower decals. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

We talked about gowns and shoes and flowers and hairstyles, and carved out of the emptiness a small mental space in which our closets and bellies were full and the road before us was straight. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ash could smell the scent of her mother’s skin now, and it was the fragrance of the Wood, oak and moss and wild- flower. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was a delicate, rare, and beautiful flower. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They hurdled flowers and stuffed animals, pounding down the brick-laid sidewalk until they reached a wall of people lining up to board a bus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The mud dried and the spring flowers came out: yellow coltsfoot, and white wood anemones in profusion—and the wall being built around Asgard was a glorious, imposing thing. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

"It's poison. Just like the one that was used on me. It's made from the pollen of bloodroot flowers." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But these colors—they were as bright as the leaves and flowers in the greenhouse. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After a while I started laughing again ’cause I realized I could sort of smell the red flower a few feet away from my head. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the altar the coffin loomed in its snow pallor of flowers—the black shadow of something that wasn't there. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It smelled like money: roasted lamb and hothouse flowers. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mami ran from the window, her face glowing, to the basket of house clothes and slipped out of her flowered dress into a faded shift. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

All around the Opel, the flowers creak on their stems and nod their heliotropic faces as if in some sad accord. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Upon leaving, each mourner laid his or her flower over the casket. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I began to arrange the flowers in the vases that Robert had filled with water. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Baskets of sabzi—parsley and watercress and tarragon and basil and mint, stalks of green onion, fresh radishes carved into flowers—sat on each table. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The hedges had gone wild and the lawn was a riot of weeds and flowering plants. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was like putting out his hand for a flower and coming back with a slug or sodden handkerchief. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"So where do these flowers come from?" he asked. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He lay back on the flower, put four of his arms behind his head and winked. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

You after My Fair Lady, holding the flowers Alex gave you. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The flowers had the petunia’s distinctive mauve hue and the pansy’s particular petals. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The scent from the garden rises like heat from a body, there must be night-blooming flowers, it’s so strong. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that night when were all sitting on my bed, Vonetta announced, “I’m the flower girl.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Ah, the flower of southern womanhood,” the crippled man at the kitchen end of the counter sighed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was thin without the taut look of wiry people, and her printed voile dresses and flowered hats were as right for her as denim overalls for a farmer. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Du Barry gave each of us a different chest, engraved with our initials and the flowers that we're named after. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

On the hearth stood the jar of flower seeds that Momma had collected, seeds she never had a chance to put into the ground. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was unfolding, like a flower coming into bloom, radiant with possibility. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“These flowers are a gift, and if that’s how you’re going to treat a gift—with a complete lack of respect and gratitude—then you, Keisha Almond, will be the only girl without flowers.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She was bending down, picking flowers in the front garden. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was no guessing what mineral wealth hid in the soil, untapped because the old ferns, flowers, bushes, and trees had tired themselves to death. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that is all right because he is a part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I enter the garden and find a corner behind a tree, away from the spot where community gardeners have been planting fruit trees and flowers and making the world glow a little more. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Lithe young maidens danced on marble plinths, draped only in flowers, or poured air from shattered jars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It took every effort to ignore it, to focus instead on the elusive thread of energy that had come so easily to her when she had seen that purple flower. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Older folks water their flowers or bring out their trash cans. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A breeze sends The fancy napkins On the table Blowing like flowers. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had no time, and certainly no inclination, to explain that plunging vase and flowers into the water would help with the natural look she wanted in the arrangement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Quite a fancy name, not so ordinary like flower name. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed because the allamanda flowers were so yellow. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

As if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Zero's face was lit in the starlight, and there was a flower petal in front of his nose that moved back and forth as he breathed. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Not her wanting to get rid of the cards—she couldn’t care less about them—but definitely her giving away the flowers, or as she called them, her “lovelies.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The road was rough, and Hari’s head wobbled on his neck like a flower too large for its stem. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

A hatbox is blazed with biohazard symbols, which are red, spiky three-petaled flowers, and it is used for storing and transporting infectious waste. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was a tangle of brown and red and gold, autumn colors, with vines and twigs and withered flowers woven through it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He held a handful of small rocks and dried flowers, and here I realized I had made a critical error. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Auntie Fatima returns from the living room, holding three bouquets of flowers. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

There was a light breeze, which lifted a faint scent out of the flowers and rustled the stiff leaves, and Mary imagined a huge, dim benevolence holding her up, like a pair of giant hands. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

If you visit in spring or summer, you might ask, Does anyone in this place ever plant a flower? Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some plots sported brick pathways and flower borders, while others looked haphazard. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They put on their most cheerful expressions, bring flowers and gifts for birthdays and holidays and are always ready to do what they can. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“This flower survived in the face of chemicals and toxins, and it turned all that death into something beautiful. That miracle field, Natalie, that’s the happiest place in the world.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Their green sepals drew back a little and the white tips of the flowers rose delicately to meet the open air. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Give Charles my love. Will you buy some flowers for him or something?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then came the main attraction—a long logging truck draped in flowers and green foliage carrying the varsity crew and their shell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Henry swings a violent U-turn that takes down a little crepe myrtle tree on the island between lanes, and we’re beached there, spinning our wheels, kicking up leaves and pink flowers. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The water’s very clear, and schools of bright-hued fish and strange sea flowers decorate the sand floor. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stitches flowers made of fire, each one a beautiful flame of thread against oily black silk. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then they drew huge multicolored doves, butterflies, and bloody flowers, with hand-lettered verses by the Poet and appeals for the people to unite. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when the butterflies have finally stopped, on a low tropical bush with pink flowers, and he’s down on one knee focusing his binoculars, three uniformed men in a jeep drive up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she could reach the flowers if she stretched, and began to gather some. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the guests back up, making way for this rarity, this dazzling creation with blue-green, white-tipped icing waves swimming with fish and sailboats, seals and sea flowers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There, in a sandy place by a blue flower vine, Spiderwoman was waiting for him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later, before they buried the urn, we were each supposed to throw a flower into the hole. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The common was peaceful and sunny; butterflies perched on thistle flowers and grasshoppers serenaded each other with their ceaseless cadences. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Should they show the plant at a moment in time, or show both flower and fruit in a single illustration? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was a good while and he no longer carried the flowers, and when he returned to the gate, he was engaged to be married. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a gray dress with tiny pink flowers. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They opened out like huge flowers, pink and almost transparent. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a small stain across an intricately threaded flower in shades of gold, part of a landscape that portrayed rows of tall sunflowers near a pale green stream. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood up and twirled so the long flowered skirt floated around me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The front of the school is nice, with a big hill of grass and trees and flowers and stuff. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

And lastly she placed the bouquet of flowers in my arms. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The branches were slick with rain, but they were sturdy and had knobby, flowered handholds. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ofelia still hoped for suitors although her mother had long since driven off the few men that dared come around, nervously clutching flowers or mints. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was their favorite meeting place, whether they wanted to dance or bathe their fair bodies at the river mouth or gather flowers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Johnny Mercer would soon take all the wilting flowers away, but he would leave the lavender. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Within its trunk was a hollow holding a single white flower, its petals shining softly. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He repeated this action for each empty space until the white-petaled flower was clearly visible against the dull clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Three girls with lips stained damson and flowers in their hair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I threw my hands up and backed away from the assortment of plastic flowers. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Dad must have left it there along with the flowers on Grams’s headstone. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Unperturbed by the near riot around him, Seabiscuit began gently plucking flowers off the wreath and eating them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

From her bed she heard Úrsula’s weeping, the steps and whispers of the multitude that invaded the house, the wailing of the mourners, and then a deep silence that smelled of trampled flowers. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

After this encounter, Miss Kenton did not attempt to introduce further flowers into my pantry, and in general, I was pleased to observe, she went about settling in impressively. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He grinned and said, "According to Erishkigal, the flower's in a cave down below. Let's go find it." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t go outside because of all the drug dealing in the neighborhood, but she told him she wished she could have flowers in her front yard. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We'd get the flower, and by this time tomorrow, everything would be back to normal. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We cleaned the grave and planted some flowers. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent has friends who send him “a beautiful delivery of flowers every week,” which serve as a model for him to paint. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Bobbing hibiscus flowers the size of dinner plates. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As a boy he was taught that the last line of the anthem refers to a certain type of mossy lichen with exquisitely tiny white flowers sprinkled in amongst the green. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odd dried plants and flowers hung from the ceiling, and the walls were covered with pictures of Inti and Mama Killa, as well as of the stars, the rainbow, and Illapa, the thunder god. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Cantor and I took flowers over to the groom and his best man to put in their buttonholes. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The women wore tunics too, the length of dresses, but their hair was braided intricately and adorned with flowers and little stones I did not recognize. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

"She used to be able to understand. We'd sit for hours----" He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I smelled flowers right before they burst out of their green cocoons. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Her bedroom was all satin and flowers in vases, and her maid, who was Black, went around saying “Lawsy, missy” all the time. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere he went he saw people wearing the white flowers. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The Uncle’s memory of the Spare holding the cursed flower. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bouquets of flowers and a dish of tangerines flanked the drawing. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

There are fountains up and down this roadway now, and squared-off beds of flowers, and new, peculiar statues. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She loved the aromas of the dirt, the grass, the flowers; the rain. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, the women in the flower parade had their heads lopped off. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He looked at me mournfully, like he was already picking the kind of flowers I’d like best on my coffin. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But the flowers, the smell, the movement of the leaves persist, rich, mesmerizing, desolating, infused with grief. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In due season all that lives returns to dust, making the earth fecund with life. Smell how the air tonight is pregnant with the flowers’ blooms and their bee-sought sweetness.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Beautiful flowers adorn the platters—roses, edelweiss, bloodroot, violets, laurels, and tulips. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

With that camera, Gey and his mentor, Warren Lewis, filmed the growth of cells, a process so slow—like the growth of a flower—the naked eye couldn’t see it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I know she didn’t mean anything by naming me after a flower, but it’s sure not something I tell anybody about. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She rocks for hours in the corner under one of the dumb smiling flowers. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week, in his home, by a window in his study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink flowers. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was then I noticed that Millie’s pencil box and paper flowers and Andrea’s fortune-telling cards were still under the tree and I began to feel sorry for myself all over again. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning I made my puja at the kitchen shrine, careful to present an offering of fruit or a few scattered flower petals. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pinned the flower to the young woman’s winter coat. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

There were sunflowers big as flowers on Mars and thick cockscombs bleeding the deep red fringe of theater curtains. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was just after the message about the flowers you are to send to your aunt,” Mrs. Montague said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He kills thousands of harmless insects as well, including some that actually do good, such as bees that pollinate the flowers and give us honey. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I took my flower down and with a purple crayon I added, “I have a dog named Wishbone.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Objects began to rain down onto the sand as the people threw flowers, laurels, coins, pieces of jewelry, articles of clothing. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I soon saw the first flowers in the garden I had planned out with my own hand and that, with a few minor changes, is the same one that’s there today. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Designs of fruit and flowers are carved into the molding and small, fat children with wings look down at us from every angle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She smells like jasmine flowers—but I don't see any in her hair. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I made a pattern of marigold garlands in honor of Hari and to remind me of the hours I had spent in stringing the orange flowers. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Robbie was wanting to persuade her to erect a pergola and train along it a slow-growing wisteria whose flower and scent he liked. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mist hung just above the trees, burning off in patches where bright sun dulled the intensity of red hibiscus blossoms, yellow morning glories, the purple centers of passion fruit flowers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She puts the flowers in water and sets them on the table between us. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Everything is the color of a wilted flower from my mom’s shop. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Light pinks and purples, the color of the munca flowers, were beginning to creep through the mountains. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

We used to sit on the flower boxes until the day Tito saw a cockroach with a spot of green paint on its head. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like right now, she just drew these pink flowers in my notebook, the one I used to write all my poems in. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

But then, next thing we knew, the little house right down the road from us turned up with a funeral arch made of braided palm fronds and flowers and sad, sad faces in the yard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Giant agaves flowered among the palms, looking like spiders squatting there with their long spiny leaves. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But mostly they talked to one another about what flowers were growing well this time of year and who was having a baby and who was getting married. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Amma's lullaby about the moon climbing over mountains to bring us flowers was a message about how the moon never gives up too. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I scrub my face and hands from the heat and dust and pull on my special Sabbath blouse, a dark gray gauzy one with black flowers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I add a dainty flowered teacup and some English digestive biscuits to the breakfast tray so Mom can have tea in bed. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They can bind colored chemicals and become pigments in the eye, or in a flower. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There’s the kind of mishmash of flowers that look unplanned but are oh-so-carefully planned. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was Jomo’s useless flowers, after all, that attracted the birds. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It happened after our game against a team from a place called Moreno Valley It goes like this: I am just standing there, and first I smell something sweet—like flowers or maple syrup. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

People still waved and bowed, cheering and laughing, throwing flowers and other nonsense before their horses. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Dyed flowers are unnatural and perverse and, I suspect, obscene also. I can see that I am going to have my hands full with you people.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She polished the lotus flowers until they gleamed like ivory. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I dreamed of being an actress, holding bunches of flowers, bowing again and again to answer curtain calls. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as they approached the spot, Minli realized that the yellow was flowers — in front of them was land full of blooming trees. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I draw them and also a dogwood—the state tree AND flower—with a cardinal in it—the state bird. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the crockery was laid out, I carried my mug through the front room, past the polished tables and backgammon boards, past the beautiful new painting of a meadow full of flowers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched the two children decorate the dead branches with paper flowers, and wondered if that was the most that Weep could ever hope for. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They press the buzzer, peer through the glass door into the empty, carpeted foyer, at a big vase of flowers at the foot of the stairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath the cloying fragrance of the decaying flowers, the air was laced with the odors of gunpowder, damp hay, and the dusty musk of horseflesh. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

"Hmm. I did find a flower out in the desert south of Basra....Like an orchid, but totally adapted to an arid environment. I was amazed that it could survive there." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

We eventually clap and Mrs. Clawson takes the stage to thank her and offer her a bouquet of flowers. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I’m casually rearranging the food on my pretty flowered plate, pushing the meat around, wondering if I can slip any into my pockets and throw it out later. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s sprinkled gold glitter as earth and added purple and white flowers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Look closely: There's Aunt Alicia, the baby girl, curls spiraling over her shoulders, her hands cupped around a bouquet of flowers. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk sprouted trees; the bars on windows were replaced with flower boxes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When the brush meets the damp paper, pink petals of color unfurl like morning flowers. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She dropped a handful of flowers into her bowl and dusted off her palm. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Did you leave the flowers on her grave?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He said, “You need a messenger. Listen, I’ll tell you what to do”: Bring a beautiful pottery jar painted with parrots and big flowers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dust and bits of dead grass flew everywhere and until I figured out the steering, the mailbox, my mother’s flowers near the front step and a small bush were in danger. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Small green shoots were forcing their way up through the red earth of Dobby’s grave now; in a year’s time the mound would be covered in flowers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“But there are more flower patches to check.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

On the way he picked one of the flowers. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The knowledge had revived her like a watered flower too long left unwatered. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers grew and grew, until he could see only her shoulders above them and her flailing arms high above those bobbing, snapping heads. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The centerpiece was a tall vase filled with exotic flowers of vivid, electric blue. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There were flowers from dozens of Johnny’s friends that Katie had never heard of. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garments the sisters took from them were decorated with black hearts, grey lions, dead flowers, and pale ghostly stags. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The air had been heavy with perfumes, some pleasant, some not, from the flowers Celia had become interested in. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was fair and pale as almond flowers and she had a little low nose and thin red lips and her feet were small. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Why were there not flowers at her head? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I told him to take the flowers of the Pyrenees away and bring me a vieux marc. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In a silver bowl at the center of the table, delicate milky flowers floated in water. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He found his new wife beautiful, the only oddity about her being that she always wore a delicate flower on her forehead. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“SemperVIVum, man. It’s like this flower that’s hard to kill. It kinda looked like a star inside a star inside a star.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the faces, the flowers, all surrounding the place where it must have happened. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t yield much, but sometimes Osh painted a single yellow flower in a pale green marsh, and it was all the better for being just one. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I put on my flannel pajamas and Andrea put on her flowered nightgown and we lay in the dark and talked and talked. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since leaving the toy booth moments ago, Hugo’s left hand had been clenched into a tight fist, which now he slowly opened like a flower. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Rather, every flower, shrub, and tree was to be deployed with an eye to how each would act upon the imagination. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Ear and Eye bent toward the Mellower like flowers to the sunlight. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I went and sat down with a book and The Times and my knitting in the rose-garden, domestic as a matron, yawning in the warm sun while the bees hummed amongst the flowers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Crowds of bright flowers were rising up from the dirt. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The rangers laughed, and Tonk said, “We just work the edges of the infestation, to keep the flowers from spreading. This spot is right smack in the middle. No hope left.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear saw sparks flare up and fall again . . . like tiny flowers. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

How could my own sisters go on and on about being flower girls, wearing pink satin dresses, and getting their hair pressed and curled for Papa’s wedding to another woman? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was pale blue silk with tiny pink flowers, ankle length and sleeveless, with a low, scooped neck. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

When she could no longer see the top of it, pink flowers and branches began to blossom out of it. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Vases of flowers adorn marble pedestals around the edges of the restaurant. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She got up, tied a flowered bonnet on her head, and started for the door. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black top hat, white gloves, and a bouquet of colorful plastic flowers sat on the counter at his elbow. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I was beginning to think it would never wear off and I would have to leave you here to ... smell flowers, or whatever you wanted to do while you were on that stuff.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The three girls in the flower dresses were standing on line looking at us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a powerful scent of flowers—too powerful—as we paused in the lobby. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You were never interested in flowers. Daoud taught me how to press them." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It smelled like a bouquet of flowers was on fire. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But then one of the kids in the group saw the weird angles in the flowering chasm that floated holographically around us. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Septa Mordane says most . . . most highborn girls have their flowering at twelve or thirteen." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We could grow flowers in the garden and talk to songbirds and walk on the beach under perfect blue skies. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, I help Mom in her flower garden. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It flowered with bald-faced ladies in head-dresses which looked like crescents or cones or the astonishing coiffure worn by the Duchess in Alice in Wonderland. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring the aromatic scent of wild flowers, redbuds, papaws, and dogwoods, drifting on the wind currents, spread over the valley and around our home. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worried at times that my crocus was too elaborate a bloom, not a common perennial but a hothouse flower, a hybrid named by its originator like a rose. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This symphony grew slow like a big flower in her mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake making flower beds in Janie’s yard and seeding the garden for her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

In Australia, there are exotic flowers, kite races, and complimentary koala plush toys for any children. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The smooth blue of her chest was unpierced by the iron finial, and her hair was still studded with flowers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the closet hang a few moth-eaten girl’s dresses and a sweater on which embroidered goats chew flowers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I stuck another one in and shot it at a yellow flower sprouting from the rock wall. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I touch her lips, painting them to look like a flower in bloom. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And from everywhere came the sweet scent of flowers. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The shield of Hercules rolled away and wobbled to a stop in a patch of poison flowers. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The maids shrieked, and then went in a body to the dining-room; and I laid what flowers I had on my dear mother’s breast. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When he came to visit, he brought us candy, and once he brought Mami flowers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal,—that is your success. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The borders are lush with flowers: tulips and daffodils, irises, peonies, pinks, chrysanthemums, something for every season. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

All she needs is a garland of flowers in her hair. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was as though here were a palace long dead except that early lilies bloomed among the rocks of the gardens and the golden flowers of the early trees of spring blossomed upon bare branches. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mary crowned with dying sweet flowers on the first day of May. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cobalt Blue Orchid became my favorite flower in the world. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"He wanted to create fragrances. We Arabs invented the perfume-making technology, you know. Distillation, steam extraction from flower petals. He kept a kit back at the deli." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The pine shelves smelled sweet and clean, like they were fresh cut, and were filled with bottles and jars of roots and dried flowers. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Almost everything is too big, but a few pieces will work—a sky-blue cardigan embroidered with white flowers, a brown dress with pearl buttons, several sets of stockings, a pair of shoes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She flew combat missions with little bouquets of flowers stuck on her dashboard. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The flower shivered, and the pink of its petals began to run like it was melting. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

"Yes, but this poison smells and tastes like flowers," I say to the queen. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of flowers and birds sang everywhere. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When it gets over a hundred,” she said, “the flowers dry up and there’s no food for the bees. They stay in the hives fanning themselves. Sometimes they just roast.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was full of flowers always— flowers in the garden, in the windows, on the tables. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s delicate and impossible to harvest with machines—you have to pinch them out of the flower by hand. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I noticed the soft yellow globes of chamomile flowers on the path I hiked most afternoons. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Saint Sarah sits, barking questions that she’s collected from previous Quiz Bowls, her silk flower turning with her head to gaze at the person she’s asked or aimed her quizzing at. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

As four pageboys struggled to haul the four-foot-high solid-gold trophy to Howard in the winner’s circle, Woolf was wreathed in flowers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wash drove his shovel into the flower bed and turned the soil. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Like here”—Gilly now felt forced to justify an opinion which she didn’t in the least hold—“like here at the end, ‘the meanest flower that blows.’ The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The flowers stirred, opening their hungry yellow mouths. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gave me a bouquet of flowers, and then Asifa presented me with a traditional Kashmiri shawl, and Mr. Zardari laid a hand on my head, a gesture of respect in my country. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As they walked, the patterned stone pathways gently massaged her feet and the sun seemed to disappear like a closing flower. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Daisy, Daisy Hempstock...to obtain his flower and to depart, for, truth to tell, the young lady was making him exceedingly uncomfortable. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He says that the things that move in are common weeds, and cockroaches and rats: soon all flowers will be dandelions. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he’ll show up at my house with flowers and a box of chocolate.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

We both put down flowers and sometimes a card. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

A porcelain vase of pink and purple flowers stood in the center of the table, just like the painting. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Taisin stroked the flower with one finger and bent her head down close to it, trying to breathe in the air around the tiny growing thing. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They should have turned me into a fish or a flower when they had the chance. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

A whole person could go through the wringer and come out flat, neat, completed, like a flower pressed in a book. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

For over a week mourners arrived into the darkened sala, where the window shades had been drawn and the scent of flowers hung heavy in the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her back was to him, and he watched her while she took down a bright, figured vase, filled with flowers only on the most special occasions, and emptied the contents into her palm. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then he handed me three crepe paper flowers, one red, one white, one blue. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They planted the abundant garden behind the house, and Anna filled 26 Markt with cut flowers. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There were Paderewski, Houdini, Tesla, Edison, Joplin, Darrow, a Princeton professor named Woodrow Wilson, and a sweet old lady in black summer silk flowered with forget-me-not-blue named Susan B. Anthony. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We plow through the dry grass and leap over the flowers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg watched a phosphorous bomb hit a house, and saw the explosion spread in the air like the petals of an enormous white flower. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Matt turned, still in a daze of music, and saw Celia dressed in the flowered dress he remembered so well. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man wore a pair of pin-striped trousers and a morning coat with a flower in the buttonhole. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

All the flowers seemed to be in full bloom. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“The lagoon is at the edge of the Cursed Forest; just beyond it should be a big field with our flower.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cecilia went to the kitchen to fill the vase, and carried it up to her bedroom to retrieve the flowers from the handbasin. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They put the trunk down and stared at us and we stared back at them till Grandma said, Are ye goin’ to stand here all day lookin’ at flowers an’ gawkin’ at each other? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Like decorating my windowsill with flowers every day for a week when I was contagious with the chicken pox. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tender plant with flowers like white stars hiding under the leaves, which were like the flower petals but green. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the wall above the chair, a picture, framed but with no glass: a print of flowers, blue irises, watercolor. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The various fraternal organizations are working together to beautify the area around the spring with flower beds and benches and are building a special fountain so that all might come and partake. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When she talked, it was in the prim and proper voice of someone who understands flower shows and country homes. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

We passed beds of flowers while I tried to teach Char a few of the words he’d just heard. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s because she is a flower,” said Flora’s father, “my lovely flower.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Grace Wexler had supervised the decorations: copper pots hung from the ceiling; the pews were padded with flowered cushions and fitted with hymnbook pockets and drop-leaf trays. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, I take a seat right next to the flowering bottlebrush tree. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the flowers are poisonous. I’m not eating the flowers. I’m eating the roots.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma drove through a roundabout planted with pink periwinkle flowers and lined with bricks painted alternating black and white. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent has made at least a dozen paintings of sunflowers: sunflowers in a vase, sunflowers on a table, sunflowers alone and with other flowers, sunflowers in full bloom and halfway to death. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Motion caught her eye, and she spotted a small bird hovering among the flowers, flitting from one to the next to alight on the longest petal, thrusting its beak into one after another. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sand slid whining under; the blue hills drifted by, drifted by, leaving their home behind, the raining pillars, the caged flowers, the singing books, the whispering floor creeks. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like when Lola plants flowers along side the veggies in her garden and says that even though they’re opposites, they help each other grow. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Someone had left an orange on a hanky in my spot—peeled and opened like a flower. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mother assumed she had made her point in the flowers and bees. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now multiply that sudden flowering of talent by every field and profession. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The flower she loved the most was the anthurium. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She comes back into her room and starts screaming at us that she forgot—forgot about her mom, of course—so she takes the flowers, drives off campus, on her way to—what?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The possibility of being the favorite shrivels like a dying flower. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mama held a stoppered vial with dried flowers in it that Anya had made into tea many times. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A bee hummed by me in search of scent, bumbling, noisy, and then creeping inside a flower was suddenly silent. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even if Mrs. Danvers did put the flowers on the mantelpiece and the sheets upon the bed, they would not bring her back. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

This little flowered book has now survived a couple of decades and multiple moves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Let me go! I want one of those flowers...” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

The flowers swung in the light breeze, tickling her face as she crossed the terrace and carefully negotiated the three crumbly steps down to the gravel path. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I look up at the ceiling, the round circle of plaster flowers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tonic was a clear yellow-green, with a gentle aroma of fresh flowers and grass, reminding Minli of a spring morning. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Normally it was in full red flower by now, but this year, for some unknown reason, it had chosen to flower late. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The greed and hunger were so obvious in her face that Tristran was now certain he could have made a better deal, but he gave the old woman his father's flower. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

"The properties of one flower could cancel the properties of the other." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was always magically full of fruits and flowers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother wanted flowers in the guest room and Cecilia was happy to oblige. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Since Anna was an excellent artist, and specialized, like a lot of women of the time, in painting flowers and plants, she hung her own beautiful botanical watercolors on the walls. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To one of the older women he says, “We do not want pretty. The bowdy is not pretty like a flower. Draw what is there.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was the one who believed in this flower—in all it could do. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I could not see the flower tubs any more, nor the smooth paved stones. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I stand in the wings, dressed in a lush black tutu embellished with black feathers and blood-red flowers. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wind Being returned to its human form made of swirling winds and dancing flower petals. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Toomer, tell me some way I can repay you for the flowers. Let me fix you up an apple pie over the weekend.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another woman tells the Wireless Officer he should see what they have growing in the garden, you wouldn’t believe the flowers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“This may sound kind of absurd, but”—Tamika leaned in, her face hard and serious—“when things were really awful with my uncle, I survived thanks to my flower.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The flower's light spread over Belet, and I watched her sigh, the pain already lifting. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

People who lived in Owens Valley during the war still remember the flowers and lush greenery they could see from the highway as they drove past the main gate. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I made a wreath of flowers and fastened it in my hair. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the pavilion, the glowing flowers repeated the colors of the painted rainbow, and the white clouds above echoed the cresting waves of water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He wandered along to the right, past hotels with awnings over brightly lit entrances and bougainvillea flowering beside them, until he came to the gardens on the little headland. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll pick one of those magical blue flowers, and Mom and I will study it, and everything will go back to normal. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Little Raphael,” as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are usually flowers and candles adorning the bloodstained concrete. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She had a new rinse made from dried camomile flowers. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after that, Shasta noticed a delicious smell of flowers and fruit. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Merry napped and Mama worked in the flower shop, making a Thanksgiving arrangement for our dinner table. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The flower beds had shriveled up and were crawling with the fattest, slimiest slugs I'd ever seen. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Prim named him Buttercup, insisting that his muddy yellow coat matched the bright flower. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She placed a bouquet of flowers on the altar along with a framed picture of Abuela smiling. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The green and flowering land was ice-bound and lifeless because Persephone had disappeared. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly frantic, I held the flowers as far away from me as I could and began shaking the bouquet, hoping to dislodge the bee. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had a terrible vision then of Mrs. DiAngelo angrily ripping up the butterfly bush and the flowers I’d planted and heaving them all over the fence. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

They hurdled flowers and stuffed animals, pounding down the brick-laid sidewalk until they reached a wall of people lining up to board a bus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The commons realized in the same instant as Ned that the blue of the flowers came from sapphires; a gasp went up from a thousand throats. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She looked down at her flowers but didn’t sniff them again. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re voting on a theme next week. I suggested Tropical Paradise. I hope it wins! We can have flower garlands and fruity drinks with those paper umbrellas. You guys should totally join,” she said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

With a cry of triumph, he threw the cloth wrapping to the side and exposed a beautiful kimono, red and orange with white birds and white flowers. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Why would he make me a handmade bouquet of flowers if this “little thing” between us was over? Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

‘I’m going to be the flower boy at your wedding, right?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They’re like bees on a particularly sweet flower, stubborn and focused. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Under the watch of Mr. Bird and Mr. Onion, they marched into springtime fields so full of purple flowers they looked like carpets in the house of God. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I gotta say, I never thought getting a flower as a gift would be cool. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It must have been fascinating, to rub elbows with all the glorious flower of elfin nobility and knighthood.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The last time you put her off, all the flowers in the floral delivery division wilted. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You said the rule was to take a picture only when I saw a flower I really liked.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He nodded, still staring down at the white expanse of flowers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She led him up to the coffin, where they admired the flowers. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ma keeps it adorned with garlands of fresh flowers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dressing for company meant impersonating a crazy flower, apparently. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Do you like strawberries, Ambrosia? Or flowers, even?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Feeling grateful and happy to be among them for a second year in a row, I climbed onto the first-place podium to accept my medal and the ceremonial bouquet of flowers. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Those flowers must have taken someone a long time to stitch!” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he could find out, he thought he might take a bunch of flowers, and he laughed at himself for the impulse. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a mango tree with fragrant flowers in the courtyard. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I opened it—the bluish gel smelled like flowers and rubbing alcohol, like a fancy hair salon. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He inhales more deeply, and there are other flowers along with the roses: lilies and irises and crocuses. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

First off: My cousin Nazgol got her name from the Farsi word for flower. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You took long enough. This place is so boring;” said Honorata, yanking a flower from the ground and tossing it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Yellow flowers everywhere. And a spring yellow dress, like a normal wedding dress only yellow. And he would wear a yellow cummerbund.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The driver pulls the netted covering of flowers from my carriage. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As Luna ran, each foot' step blossomed with iridescent flowers. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was hot, and she used the flowered apron to wipe the sweat from her face. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Get the flower and bring it here. I should be able to use it to make a healing potion for the pox Nergal is spreading." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We have our bungalow, and a coop for the chickens, the flower and vegetable gardens, and the cottages where Kazi and the groundskeeper, Mahit, live. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In her palm lies the tin of flower seeds I had gathered with TiTi. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She walked with light steps, whispering the names of every tree and flower, careful not to trample any saplings or mushrooms as she stepped. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He knew names for most of the flowers and trees. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Livening up the action of the Lonesome Highway: two roadside memorials, with plastic flowers and photos of a dead woman and a dead man, killed in automobile crashes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And with that he toppled out of the flower and fell snoring into the grass. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The grounds, in places, bore signs of the geometric Victorian trimness which had been their original form: drained fish-pools; the long white colonnades of skeleton pergolas; rock-bordered parterres where flowers no longer grew. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mama sighed and continued sweeping up the broken glass, dead flies, shattered frames, and Mo's flowers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Now the henna artist was swirling intricate designs of flowers and birds onto her feet. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The girl glanced down at the flower, and then up at him again. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Edward helped me into his car, being very careful of the wisps of silk and chiffon, the. flowers he’d just pinned into my elaborately styled curls, and my bulky walking cast. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She was making a cake out of flowers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And you would have to understand the sheer impossibility of a blue orchid in order to understand the miracle of these flowers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He hugged the girl tightly to his body, trying his best to protect her as he thumped against the hard-packed dirt of what had once been a flower bed. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as my skin was dry, I pulled on a flowered skirt. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was to follow the outline and stitch the flowers in thread. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They came to a patch of milkwort—a blue as deep as that of the sky—with long stems creeping through the grass and each minute flower spreading its two upper petals like wings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a stone was out of place on the path they drove on, not a flower in the garden seemed to be wilted. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge unknotted the scarf and let the flowered silk float down around the booty: her father's railroad watch, a pearl necklace, cuff links, a pin and earrings set, a clock. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Insane with grief, tears boiling from her reddened eyes, she would probably tear my corpse from the coffin, screaming drunkenly, “Don’t take him! Why do the sweetest flowers wither and fall from the stem?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It spun past us like a small cyclone of ice, taking the flowered hat with it, and whirled up the stairs, leaving us frozen speechless in the parlor doorway. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

We walked across the dried grass field dotted with purple flowers until there were none. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then she rolled the sleeves of her flowered calico dress above her elbows, and she knelt by the tubs. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he and his wife, whose name is Margaret Ann, wrap them in a refrigerated shipping bucket, which will keep the flowers hydrated. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“She is the river, the flower, the bud. She is the regenerator. Her faith in her offspring is always alive.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Scolding the hound again, she knelt down and arranged the flowers on the grave. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dead flowers—Miss Finch pointed to the bundle of dried flowers on my teacher’s desk—do not grow or bloom anymore. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His left greave did not match his right, his gorget was spotted with rust, his vambraces rich and ornate, inlaid with niello flowers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I think she enjoyed the fuss it would create, the sympathy of people, the visits and messages from friends, and the arrival of flowers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It had been freshly whitewashed that summer, and flowers circled the wooden cross that stood in the front. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The rest of the things she found were stuffed into a flower patterned backpack I pulled down off a display for her. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The words are confusing—the moon doesn't have hands to bring flowers. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The next one showed him frowning in concentration, hunched over the flower press, not even aware of the photo being taken. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A skeleton wedding, complete with priest and flower girls, marched across a lawn. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cluster of mashis and meshos surround them, telling them continually what to do, when to speak or stand or throw flowers at a small brass urn. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ferula was waiting for them in their new house, which still smelled of paint and fresh cement and was filled with flowers and platters heaped with fruit, just as Esteban had ordered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my mind I said, “The flowers are marvelous. That one grows in Kyrria, but that other I've never seen before. What do you call it?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, nor felt such thorns,” returned Laurie, with his thumb in his mouth, after a vain attempt to capture a solitary scarlet flower that grew just beyond his reach. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the flowers there was a freak plant, a zinnia with six bronze petals and two red. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She bought me another cake studded with icing flowers and adorned with my name in green letters. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I opened my jacket and carefully drew out the flower. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Betty Jean’s house was small and white, with neat flower beds in the front. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my flowers are going to be glorious!” she said as if she could see them already. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

For Troy must perish, as ordained, that day she harbored the great horse of timber; hidden the flower of Akhaia lay, and bore sso slaughter and death upon the men of Troy. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And went back to rolling the paper for his next flower. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

At the end of the room was a small dais, and, on it, a cream-colored casket with several displays of flowers arranged about it: scarlets and yellows and whites and deep, bloody purples. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Carefully he laid her down in the flowers of the garden. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She’s got a bulletproof titanium case of crafting supplies open on the couch next to her and is serenely embroidering flowers onto a napkin. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The flower tree by the parlor window wasn’t dark, but the thick trees were. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went through my dresses hanging from the pipe in the bedroom and picked out one with blue flowers that buttoned up the front. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the buds on the trees turn to flowers, she raises her black eyebrows in surprise above her wide blue eyes and declares: bougainvillea, hibiscus, why, tree of heaven! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others ancient and delicate as a dried flower. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“We should also be on the lookout for dead flowers. Nightbeasts’ presence makes it impossible for flowers to thrive near them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

This one would include flowers and plants, but its focus would be the insects feeding on those plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Lily said as I took the flowers from her so I could put them in a vase with water. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

We had agreed to wear white carnations to identify each other, and the porter kept my flower in the diner’s Frigidaire until we reached the small hot town. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning I slapped an enormous bee between my hands just as it had lit upon a flower and it stung me in the tender center of my left palm. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled out a pink flowered dress and draped it in front of me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She was renowned for being the first in Europe to coax the West Indian pineapple to flower and grow fruit. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We kept on walking through the maze of green, brown, and orange, the weird shapes and smells, sprinklers misting over the flowers, people in green suits spraying and trimming. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The entrance was a huge neon flower, the petals lighting up and blinking. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She crumpled to the flowered carpet in a faint. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was made of small five-petaled flowers, and he had just put his head in to sniff the perfume when he heard footsteps coming up the path. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my balance, but my penny loafers had no grip, and a second later I lay in the mud, too, my flowered dress splattered with gunk. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Seeing the flowers on Rubin’s grave, she picked them up and looked at them. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching in the back of the wagon, Toomer chose a bunch of wilted flowers wrapped in Spanish moss and said, “Give these flowers to your mama when she gets home.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the cobblestone streets and the brilliant sunshine and the arched doorways and the flowers spilling over people’s roofs. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The flowers glowed red and golden: snap-dragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A yawning lady with a flowered scarf tied under her chin lugged a food basket jammed with Jell-O boxes, paper napkins, and coffee filters. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up the flowers—two dozen dark red roses on a sheaf of ferns. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we wandered through the leaves and trees and flowers, I picked my favorites and she said “Good choice” for everything I listed. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This one was green and white, flowers swirling over the cover. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Hazel turned back and joined them among the big, rosy-veined, magenta flower spikes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma slid off the stool, walked down an aisle, opened a trunk, and withdrew an ornate box embossed with vines and flowers. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The flower sat there, opening and closing its petals, like some bizarre, many-lipped oyster. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She took a big smell of the flowers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: No, I meant it as a nice thing, you smell like a mixture of fresh flowers and fresh—bread. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

There were fountains, and once upon a time there had been gardens full of fruit and flowers, but those had all withered in the accursed shade. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Sparrow’s sorrow was manifest in the withering of flowers around her feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then it sleeps, eats, and sunbathes until it’s ready to flower— a teenage plant. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Luster knocked the flowers over with his hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It tasted of woman and man, of sun and forest, of animal and flower, of every fruit, of every pleasure. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He supposed that Privet Drive would be hot and leafy, its flower beds a riot of color, when he arrived there that evening. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The first thing she did after he left was to throw away the red and white plastic flowers on the center table. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a high ceiling, with lights shaped like morning glories hanging down on chains, and a plain gold cross up at the front with a vase of white flowers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

It smelled of trees and flowers and a warm summer day. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The lines on the pages were planted with words that opened up like rows of flowers, each with a different shape. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The flowers in the corners of the page were pink, with green tendrils and leaves. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But this morning she wore a ready-made dress covered with flowers. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The woman standing at the counter was an older version of Tamika, dark-skinned with big hair, only no weird flower. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I tell her I’d like to plant flowers from Vietnam in her backyard. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And mixed with the smell of flowers there was this other smell so that she couldn’t stay in the room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Each square had a plain white background, but in the center was a pinwheel-shaped flower, every petal a different colored fabric. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

"In Latin, of course. I never got even one right. A flower's a flower, right? It's pretty and smells nice, and that's enough." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And it led through a lush meadow of shadows and flowers: the garden of twilight, just like Id seen in my dream. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The children were young and named Rose and Violet, after flowers. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

But a strange kind of flower indeed, because it seemed to go through a number of seasons in a single day. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On their second morning, they sit in the Place Chateaubriand across from the historical museum, where sturdy benches face flower beds ringed by shin-high metal half loops. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For the second time that evening, Briony felt a flowering of tenderness for her cousin. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then my jerk brother leans over to the next flower. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Amy is with truth considered ‘the flower of the family’, for at sixteen she has the air and bearing of a full-grown woman, not beautiful, but possessed of that indescribable charm called grace. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Ben knew the translation and he let the God off with a smile, let him go back to his song, and back to his flowers on River Street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a bunch of walking and me pretending to look for a flower that I really, really liked, Lovey stopped. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Rishi ran his hands across the leaves of some bush with brilliant blue-violet flowers as they walked, releasing that green plant smell. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Werfel’s elfin guest certainly seemed nervous about the dance of the flowers, supposed to represent the wonderful bond between goblins and the natural world. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When Jule walked in again with her suitcase, she saw that Immie had put four vases of flowers in the room. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of platforms filled the interior, some supporting no more than a few flower beds, others holding huge ferns and bushes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Margie had earlier laid flowers around the graves, and she bent down and straightened one. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Are you coming to help me with the flowers?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I could smell the flowers across the room, even from their pressed petals. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her lips are soft as flower petals, but with an intensity behind them. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

There were worse fates than being a flower. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Nobody had ever planted these flowers, I felt sure, nor harvested them either; these were works that the Lord had gone ahead and finished on His own. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sewing Mistress approached, bearing a needle, an assortment of colored thread, and a round of white linen marked with a design of flowers. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Calypso tucked the flower into my T-shirt pocket. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’d seen both Doc and Mama weave strips of palmetto leaves and sea grasses into baskets and other shapes: flowers, crosses, and such. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Light pours down upon it from the sun, true, but also heat rises, from the flowers themselves, you can feel it: like holding your hand an inch above an arm, a shoulder. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last of my teammates didn’t arrive until 4:30 p.m., and the final stragglers in Fischer’s group came in even later, by which time a serious storm was in full flower. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Food arrives and overpowers the fragrance of flowers. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Unscrewing the top, he gathered bits of grass, flower petals, a twig, and a pebble, and placed them in the jar. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

"I'm good at drawing butterflies and flowers and things." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I heard the footfall of the flower spring…. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You, Mohammed Aziz, rookie botanist, actually found the flower of eternal life and didn't know it. You coulda been rich and famous at a young age, if you hadn't..." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The orange-gold flowers waved slightly in the wind as the sun set to their left, casting the entire area in a golden haze. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Here Spring was already busy about them: fronds pierced moss and mould, larches were green-fingered, small flowers were opening in the turf, birds were singing. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Is this the flower you can suck? The one with the sweet juices?” he asked. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I draw a flower with eight petals, and each petal is a dancing woman. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Park Avenue was my favorite in the spring because of the million zillion tulips in the huge flower beds in the middle of the street—yellow, pink, orange. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tamika said, her smile as big as the white flower tucked behind her ear. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My own name, Flora, was short for Floramundi—a world of flowers. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Every day or so, I stopped at the portrait with a fresh flower and a little talk. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yard by yard, puff by puff, the breeze hauled the figure through the blue flowers, over the boulders and red stones, till it lay huddled among the shattered rocks of the mountain-top. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They had civilized furniture in neutral colors and daffodils around their flower beds. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Above her hung the two dozen framed flower prints she had selected and arranged with the greatest of taste and care. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baker’s wife stepped forward and took the flowers as the villagers turned and walked away, leaving her to sort out what was the Devil’s work and what the baker’s. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just that week the lilacs had thrown their first flowers. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She says the flowers have no scent and the waterfall has no water and the trees have no roots. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

A pink headband with a knit flower circles her head. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I pluck a chocolate flower from a cake with my fingers and nibble on it, so beyond worrying about manners. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fragrance of wilted jasmine flowers mingled with the smell of goat droppings and every other bad smell imaginable. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The canyon was the way he always remembered it; the bee- weed plants made the air smell heavy and sweet like wild honey, and the bumblebees were buzzing around waxy yucca flowers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It could be a fake memory, because one of the pictures we still have—a baby picture—was me in the backyard standing in front of a wall of white jasmine flowers and red roses. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then she, waiting, caught from him the heat of his blood and she bent over and slipped, like a flower crumpling upon its stalk, to the ground, and she clasped his feet and lay there. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Though a large vase of flowers had been placed on a desk in front of the small window, their perfume could not disguise the lingering smell of what Harry thought was gunpowder. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Duchess, alone and full of food, sat in the clumps of blazing-star flowers and stared down on the blue-green landscape. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Everywhere lawns and gardens flourished—residents promised to keep weeds pulled, to grow only flowers, never vegetables. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her face looked smaller, like a dried-up flower. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Fifty thousand flower children protested the war at the Pentagon today. They all say you’re wrong.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

My white sandals were decorated with flowers and had little lights in them that glowed whenever I walked or banged my feet together. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

For several hours one night, he tucked it into Madame Manec’s geraniums in a window flower box, then convinced himself the geraniums were wilting and dug the stone out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He would bring her the gifts real maidens love, little birds and gay flowers and the shining tears of amber Phaëthon’s sisters weep, and then dream that she thanked him with eager affection. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Surely it is the lowliest flower of all.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

No doubt about it: The new flowers would be a stunning addition to Miss Mallory’s lawn. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

There are flowers on the table, and candles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Serena’s parlor, with the dried flowers, on the Chinese carpet, his thin body. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

No flowering cactus burning myths in the desert. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sang of flowers and gardens and sweet, sweet nectar oozing from every petal and leaf. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It’s a picture of a frowning Will, a wilted bouquet of flowers in his hand, a bubble caption underneath it reading “Sorry.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I told her the secret hope of my heart—my dream of taking Mom to the miracle flowers and saving her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Ivy looked at the paintings of flowers and mountain scenes already hanging on the walls. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Roza scooped her ancient flowered bag off the belt and trailed the students to a man who held a placard with the name of the university written on it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But Aunty Ifeoma spent a little longer showing Jaja her flowers before we piled into the station wagon and she drove off. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere wild flowers may be little noticed—but never in Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found themselves in a great garden, where paths and beds of flowers were set in immense lawns of soft grass, which glowed a brilliant green in the light of the lanterns. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Seven pulled out her flora field map, where she’d marked all the places they could find the flower beyond the Cursed Forest. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I say nothing to the federal prosecutors and nothing to the reporters who call and send exotic flower arrangements, hoping I’ll grant an interview or release a statement. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Someone as interested as she herself in the flow of her imagined hair, the thickness of the mattress of flowers, die voile sleeves that closed below her elbows in gold-threaded cuffs. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I notice a bouquet of flowers resting in his basket, which makes me wonder if they were for Abuela or maybe someone else. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The book has a purple leather cover with a gold hibiscus flower embossed on the front. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We pass the children’s grave with the overflowing brown and crispy flowers, fluttering in the wind like cockroach wings. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The trees were breaking into leaf and a few early dandelions were in yellow flower on the lawns. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When it came to Nergal, the desert hybrid had neutralized the effects of the original flower I'd brought back from the Sea of Tiamat, as Ishtar had suspected would happen. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Kendra led him away from the pool through the garden to some flowering shrubs on the outskirts of the yard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Then she’s the one to get the company, the Wives rustling up the stairs, clucking and cheerful; she gets the cakes and pies, the jelly, the bouquets of flowers from their gardens. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned, and when it turned, the whole circle turned inside, and the images that showed through the little holes changed: rainbows into stars, blimps into planes, flowers into dragonflies. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

After my last song, they stand up and cheer and shower me with rose petals and flowers and everyone is begging for my autograph, even the Doctorita. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only two bunches of flowers were left that day. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decide I won’t think about how mad she makes me and I’ll think, instead, about how all the girls get to carry a bouquet of flowers. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The wind picks up, fluttering the pages of my pad, revealing the drawing of that purple flower in my mother’s garden. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they were foolish enough to believe that the earth was the centre of the univose, do we not ourselves believe that man is the fine flower of creation? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colors seemed brighter, and the beaded raindrops gleamed like jewels on the petals of the flowers and the leaves of the trees. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I never let them take it off. I feel like it gives her strength. And Sophia adds flowers to it weekly." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was the lady in the seat behind him, a middle-aged Hispanic woman in a flowered dress. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He rode along with delight blossoming in him like a roseate flower, listening. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They left muddy combat boots, flowers, flags, and Purple Hearts. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her question was answered a moment later when a gout of flame shot from the machine, squirting across the river to ignite another patch of flowers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The flowers swayed in the cool afternoon breeze as I strolled through the garden toward the bushes bordering the main verandah. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Around her, the theater crowd guffawed and cackled as three microraptors that had been adorned with flowers and fruits cavorted in ridiculous circles across the stage. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I padded barefoot in the grass along the river, watching the flowers and candles turning slowly in the water. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Everything was curved to fit the walls—the stove, the sink, and the cupboards—and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects, and birds in bright primary colors. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They were at Mass. “Oh, Jenny, the beautiful chapel with all its lights and everything! You would say: The flowers and the candles.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Garlands of dried flowers hung on the backs of the chairs, and a couple of them sported squash. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The smells were different, too—earth and grass, flowers and milk. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

"We've decided to help you. There is a way to stop Nergal and save your city. You will need the flower of immortality." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, she looks at me like I’ve just handed her every flower in the garden. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the front of the room, a set of golden gazebos cluster to the left and right of the throne platform, each one covered with a canopy of flowers and garlands. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I asked and looked in the can to see if there was anything I could pull out for him; there was nothing on top but coffee-grounds, dust and some dead flowers. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He looked at the centerpiece, a wooden vase of what he called “durable flowers.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A hollow of dead brush where flowers used to bloom. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

At the word love, her hands itched so fiercely that she was afraid she would drop the flowers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Everything but the seat of the bike and the sidecar bench was covered in flowers. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The white walls and towers of the Convent of Santa Clara rose out of bougainvillea hedges dense with violet and crimson flowers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of grilled meat and fresh-cut flowers. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My seizures always begin the same way: I smell flowers. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she went downstairs to the kitchen, ran her hands over the sticky, grease-stained counter, the vinyl, flowered curtains that smelled like burned meals. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Arthur was the heart’s king of a chivalry which had reached its flower perhaps two hundred years before our antiquarian author began to work. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The track was flanked on either side by knee-high grass and speckles of white and bright yellow flowers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The way those bees flew, not even looking for a flower, just flying for the feel of the wind, split my heart down its seam. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I envy everyone who gets to visit graves, bring flowers to them on birthdays and anniversaries. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

OPPOSITE: Plate 12 from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, showing a banana flower and young bananas, Maria also includes a saturniid moth with its caterpillar, cocoon, and pupa. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ana and Javier keep flowers in every room of their house, so I take a closer look at a corner of vases. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

On the velvet hundreds of little pink flowers were embroidered. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Talking about Uncle James and the flower he gave me,” Tamika said. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Every now and then she would look into the shop window just to make sure the hat was still there and that the pink roses on it had not turned into common flowers like marigolds. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Your cigarette will get wet. Take the flowers.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She climbed the fence with the letter in her hand and went through the brown, rattling flowers. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held out the card and the flowers and the teddy bear. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Maria arranged flowers and fetched painting supplies for Marrel and his apprentices. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was no wastebasket in sight, so I crumpled the flowers up and laid them in the deep white basin. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I trace the outline of my sister's drawing, lungs molded from a sea of flowers. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Then they saw torches, countless points of fiery light upon the black fields behind, scattered like red flowers, or winding up from the lowlands in long flickering lines. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He crossed the empty square and turned into a narrow street that was abruptly quieter even yet, and stopped before a frame house and went up the flower bordered walk to the porch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more I look, the more shapes I see—faces, cars, flowers, trees, babies, clowns—and then, for some reason, I start imagining Lorena as a cheetah running through a forest. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When I got my sight back, the girl had gone from the window, leaving behind her a shimmering field of exquisite, twice-blessed, enamel flowers. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Beyond the houses and the street, rolling green hills frilled with clumps of trees and flowers brushed up against a brilliant blue sky. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we should put those flowers in water?” my dad suggests, louder and with more emphasis on the “we” than necessary. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The birds and flowers whispered the message ahead: 7he emperor is coming! The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The earth covered them almost entirely; grass and meadow flowers had sprung up to obliterate them further and make them part of the mountain itself. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Mother looked down at the bread and the wilted flower. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“This flower used to be one of the rarest plants in the world. A white tiger orchid. In Rusty days, a single bulb was worth more than a house.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I sink to my knees on the cold tile and squint at the flower, as the whiteness seems hard to focus on in the stark fluorescent light. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I just thought the flowers from the Key Food on Broadway were for the people on their way to Wyckoff Hospital,” I say. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I point to a pot full of pretty white and violet flowers. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

"Well, someone has taught you to he well. You may be grateful for that one day, child. You die a child still, are you not? Or have you flowered?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The tiny white flowers were fun to braid into crowns to put on the goats’ heads. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

To his eyes the vase had been perfect, its width half its height, its curves like those of a flower petal. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I was so proud of that flower and didn’t have a soul to show it to except Rosaleen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wouldn’t be any cake with pink and purple flowers. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I held to the fence and looked through the flower spaces. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Omakayas planned out a flower and began immediately, imitating Mama, to sew the beads into the design. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She reaches out to me, but I retreat farther into the flower bed. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Roadways dried, and newly opened flowers perfumed the air. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Nearby was another hedgerow and beyond, moving gently in the breeze, stood a field of broad beans in full flower. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the hallway, above the front door, is a fanlight of colored glass: flowers, red and blue. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

With summer approaching, plants coming into flower, and Alys in need of more help as her strength began to ebb, there was a great deal to do. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The flowers were buried, and the lawn; everything had disappeared. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It had a lot of things in it he couldn’t identify: flowers, chemistries, dusts, winds. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember this one thing: My room was full of flowers. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It had a party feeling too, candles and—something rare in Salinas—a bowl of flowers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the Grace, my father lay down on his bed to rest for a while, and I sat on the porch and stared at the sunlight on the flowers and the ailanthus. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She was famous for her gardens, flowers spilling over the front and backyard, more petals than grass. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There were also hollyhocks and oleander bushes with pink and white flowers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Elaborate funeral cars stood along the curb, one a dull black with windows shaped like Gothic arches, through which I saw funeral flowers piled upon a casket. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not in the shrinking flower kind of way. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The row of tall parasol trees that lined the inside of the school yard was festooned with more da- zi-bao, hanging like flowers from the branches. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the side of the barracks was a small, pretty house where early spring flowers were opening. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was always encouraged to embellish my flower painting with caterpillars, summer birds and such little animals, in the same manner as landscape painters do, to enliven the one through the other.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A house that smelled like flowers all the time, with birds in the walls and a pool. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

To make hybrids, Mendel had to first neuter each flower by snipping off the anthers—emasculating it—and then transfer the orange blush of pollen from one flower to another. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And all of us with our closed eyes smelled the frangipani blossoms in the big rectangles of open wall, flowers so sweet they conjure up sin or heaven, depending on which way you are headed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold my hand out and the lady says, “Would you like a flower or a frog or a dragonfly?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven crouched down near one of the flowers and touched its petals softly. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He even saw something that looked like an orange flower in the distance. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

At a memorial service in Carnegie Hall, attended by two thousand admirers, a silent piano stood at center stage, flanked by flowers. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Uncle Ted’s husband, Rory, is a graphic artist, and he wrote out my parents’ Jewish marriage contract in calligraphy, decorated with colorful flowers, vines, and stars. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Every leaf, every flower, every small creature that crawled or flew was beautiful. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white flakes made a queer sort of confusion before her eyes; they brushed her cheeks like tiny flower petals and caught on her eyelashes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve got a small fountain for birds and enough flowers to give a botanical garden a run for its money. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Ben had seen the flower boy each time he had ventured downtown on River Street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out Mother has an extraordinary talent for flowers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birds were singing and the wild flowers along the roadside were bright and gay. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is asked to remove her Murshidabad silk sari in favor of a flowered cotton gown that, to her mild embarrassment, only reaches her knees. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The hummingbird is small, fast. It lives on flowers.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

And it really, really didn’t help when my father pointed out that she had wanted to be a flower child, and so here was her chance. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Now that my eyes have adjusted to the light, I can see that the plants in this room were selected for beauty, not practicality—flowers and ivy and clusters of purple or red leaves. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Gardens were bursting with sweet-smelling flowers that almost covered up the garbage stink. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers had been laid evenly to cover the mound of new-turned damp earth, and already the wind had frayed the blossoms and flung the smaller bouquets out into the path. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were part of his aerie community, like the flowers and the huckleberries. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that pretty smell, like by the holler creek, where those itty blue flowers grow along the bank.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some are bare, but others are like small gardens with pots of green-leafed plants and some flowers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I stayed up reading the day-old newspaper Abuelo left behind or traced the flower patterns on paper napkins with a ballpoint pen. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When they finally left, the flowers were destroyed, the furniture broken, and the walls covered with drawings and writing, but Fernanda pardoned them for all of the damage because of her relief at their leaving. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And there were only two flower arrangements in his hospital room, one from Ms. Newberry and one from Snow Hill School. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

It was like any other bedroom in the house—there was a dresser, a wardrobe, a vase of flowers on a nightstand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Hattie was delighted with the flowers and buried her face in them. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was so excited that my flower exploded, the petals bursting through the wires like thick tentacles, knocking my sisters' cages to the floor, and stretching between us like an octopus creature. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Even without sunlight, there were actual plants—clumps of reeds, scrawny leafless trees, even a few sickly-looking flowers blooming in the muck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The flowering branches have sprouted thorns so thickly that petals are barely visible. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were tons of pictures of flowers, but most were of her and her grandmother, who I recognized from the funeral. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Petey threaded her fingers through his and pulled him into a patch of wildflowers, more weeds than flowers, a patch that came up almost to their elbows. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

My eyes, going in and out of focus, locked in on the bunch of flowers on the ground—most of which I recognized from the funeral. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even the painted lotus flowers on the back panel had been clawed by the thorns. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the complete overhaul that your mind is crying for, you have a brain that could really grow and flower here in N.Y. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house hasn’t lost its Nana-ness though, with its permanent odor of potpourri, flowered wallpaper, and hints of pink in almost every room. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Instead of lying on gritted ground, he tumbled with Gray and his brother kits across a snowy tundra spiked with starry blue flowers. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But it felt like nice silk, and the flower decorations were pretty. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“A flower child is beautiful and doesn’t do anything to harm anyone,” said my sister. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Arya of House Stark comes here to be wed. A woman grown and flowered, truebom and noble, she comes to beg the blessings of the gods. Who comes to claim her?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Waves of lines that ended in spirals, or flowers, or sunbursts. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It seemed like I could actually see the leaves and flowers growing and changing. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like the flowers, but know I would not go to such lengths, make such efforts, get myself so dirty to produce them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture Betty Jean as a twelve-year-old girl, but I kept imagining a smaller version of her in a big flowered apron. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There will be pretty paper flowers decorating the picture of his mother, a large Bible in the front room. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

His girlfriend was wearing sandals and a nice flowered dress. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It clenched and unclenched, siphoning all the ecstasy from her body into its secret flowerings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The men had taken up the floor already in the hall and the flowers had been carried away. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Around midnight the first night of travel, they left the brook that led down to the bald-headed hill, and followed a dry creek bed through the white flowers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She made the fields once more rich with abundant fruit and the whole world bright with flowers and green leaves. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Summer,” Mr. Chris said that night after the fireworks were over and they were all having homemade ice cream on his front porch, “is fruit time mostly, just the way spring is mostly flower time.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine the flowers’ petals are actually wings, but all I see are clusters of flowers. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The beads around her neck are small and expensive, glass coated with real gold paint, and her blouse shimmers with flowers of finely stitched gold and pink thread. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aren’t I in a sorry state?” she said to the flowers on the picnic table. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

There were flowers, a forty-ounce Miller, pictures of saints, and pictures of the deceased, with six large candles burning in the form of a cross. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The tradition called for girls to make wreaths of flowers and candles. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were tide pools over there, full of bright petalfish, the watery flower creatures that shrank when they were touched. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Daoud turned and elbowed the vase of flowers off the countertop. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The first thing Amari noticed was that the newcomer was clean, smelling strongly of the scent of too many flowers. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The desert flowers, so abundant in April, were dying now. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Jack hesitated still, and Hazel wanted to say something comforting, give him some bright plastic flowers of words, but Jack would see them for what they were. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

They laughed and frolicked in the beauty of the flowers, their cares forgotten for the moment. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We're all going to wither like flowers on a vine if we work the way they want us to. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“You’re right, I am a bit of a hippie. I believe in love, peace, and flower power. But I’m also a teacher.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I sat there for five minutes staring at the green lawns and the flower tubs on the terrace. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Next to them, sandstone gods with eight hands who sit cross-legged on lotus flowers watch over the temple ponds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spring again was a time of flowers, and water ran in the ravines and flowed down to the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she returned to the car and asked the driver to send someone to bring flowers to her father’s tomb. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But down in the black underworld Adonis could not hear them, nor see the crimson flower that sprang up where each drop of his blood had stained the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made her laugh to think of maybe finding a flower Mr. Chris had never met. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I would guess that the latter was the case because the trees did not seem to bear flowers or fruit. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every minute the water breathed round the death rock and flowered into a field of whiteness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He drove up and down Highway One in a black Cadillac SUV, and he wore bright flowered shirts and smoked real Cuban cigars, just to let the world know what a big shot he was. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Many of them were already frustrated with the boys playing football in the street—lost in their game, the players would curse, run through flower gardens, and scatter their quarter-water bottles across the sidewalks. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A can of camomile flowers for me, a package of fortune-telling cards for her. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got as far as the flower bed. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Elements are already slipping away, dripping like the flowers around them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The branches echoed with birdsong, and the paths wound around lush flower beds and between heavy emerald bushes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

To help her students learn, she engraved a series of elegant flower prints they could use as templates for their own work. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As the tributary climbed its way into the mountains, the fields around her filled with flowers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Green buds could be seen on the vines that crawled up the walls, and tiny white-and-yellow flowers blossomed near the ceiling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Ms. Bethune took the flowers and pointed for him to sit across the desk. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

But, exhausted by his cogitation, he'd have energy left for only one word, the name of the flower. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Today it's "Erika," a song about German girls and German flowers. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

So while Dilsey held the horse Luster put a splint on the flower stalk with a twig and two bits of string and gave it to Ben. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calm as still water, she took the Bull by the arm and drew him back behind a tall flowering hedge. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“The flowers and birds and all, you mean to say that’s your Gospel.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rubs the strawberry across Amber's lips, then tickles Amber's cheek with the flower. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Yep, just a peck, followed by, “I want to show you my all-time favorite flower,” and that sweet smile. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

You remember her with songs, with shrines of shells and flowers and beach glass, with an arm around her daughter and, later, daughters of your own named after her. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She sang about the wolves, her house, and the little feather flower on her table; and when she had no more to say, she crawled to her door and looked out. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as he spoke, the bloodstained grass turned green again and there bloomed forth the wondrous flower that was to make the lad’s name known forever. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian suggested flowers, and the doctor sent an orderly out to find two small bunches of fading ones with a strong and sickening smell. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The gasoline made a dark, oily blotch on Lexie’s flowered comforter, on Trip’s pillow, on Moody’s plaid sheets. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of fish, autumn flowers, and dried mushrooms. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eighty-one days after being approached by two young girls about where flowers might be found, George Stinney was pronounced dead. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Embedded in the ground is a license plate, one that suddenly looks familiar, and circling this is a small garden where someone has planted flowers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I recognized him immediately in that flowered Hawaiian shirt, but just the stink from his cigar would have given him away. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mama’s flower arrangements tumbled into the mourners or crashed to the floor as people tried to get out of the way of the moving casket. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk sprouted trees; the bars on windows were replaced with flower boxes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I tried to think about Gatsby then for a moment but he was already too far away and I could only remember, without resentment, that Daisy hadn't sent a message or a flower. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The teacup elephant scratches her blue-painted nails on my dress, and flashes me the chrysanthemum flower on her belly. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I remembered watching my mother pushing a silver needle in and out, gently nudging flowers and leaves and vines to bloom on the cloth. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the flowers could not destroy the musty smell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Twig, grass, pebble, flower petals, mirror, and all. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Dead flowers didn’t bloom, and they didn’t grow. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, over a watercolor of Venice, nostalgia would transform the smell of mud and putrefying shellfish of the canals into the warm aroma of flowers. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was early rainy season, and the frangipani trees planted next to the walls already filled the yard with the sickly-sweet scent of their flowers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She held a bouquet of cloth flowers; he made a joke about them and they laughed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They followed the goddess’s dusty footprints through the poison flowers, deeper into the fog. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was a flower painter like her stepfather. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The inside of the store had a clean, warm but fragile scent, like odorless flowers in a hot room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

No fluted plates or flowered cups, no circle of blue flame burning in a stove eye. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m able to make out some of them—flowers, a duck, a baseball, smiley faces, a rainbow. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I think of the flowers inside the compound, and the wood floors, and all the beds in the hotel that are unoccupied, and say, “Do you ever help them?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mr. Chris knew about flowers and birds and things, but Joe was the one who knew about bugs and the queer plants that grew on stumps and fallen trees. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was gathering flowers with her companions in the vale of Enna, in a meadow of soft grass and roses and crocus and lovely violets and iris and hyacinths. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fragrance of sun-dazzling flowers was deep, and soft, and beautiful. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, one stem at a time, I decorate her body in the flowers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Annabella had told her that most of the flowers and leaves could be dried and used later. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She recognized landmarks Jason had told her about—the hippodrome, the coliseum, the temples and parks, the neighborhood of Seven Hills with its winding streets, colorful villas, and flowering gardens. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Soon after that, a flower shop, headstone engraver, and funeral parlor offered to sponsor me in national tournaments. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took my hand in his, carefully slid one flower off my finger and slid it onto his. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She rifles through her closet: the turquoise silk blouse with red buttons, the pale pink flowered dress with a ruffled hem. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I decided to go exotic, with a flower-print sarong, black hair loose and a hibiscus flower behind my ear. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rupa was out in the garden gathering marigolds, the flowers of victory, to make Neel a garland. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The front gardens were bursting with rosebushes, honeysuckle, and flowering bougainvillea. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

All the flowers suddenly appeared black, the gray rocks became a lovely soft chartreuse, and even peacefully sleeping Tock changed from brown to a magnificent ultra-marine. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was staring at the flowers as he cleared his throat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded, for I expected everything: jungle flowers, wild roaring beasts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re silly,” he said, tossing her the head of a flower, a wilted dahlia, which she jammed into her hair. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood outside nerving herself for the ordeal, knowing her desk would be the only one without flowers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city constructed a large pavilion in a park, and the casket lay on a platform decorated with flowers. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Scattered around it were faded wreathes and crushed bouquets of plastic flowers, which made the place seem even sadder. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The bodice was embroidered with hundreds of tiny crystal beads in a complex pattern of flowers, and in the dusky light that came through the window, the bodice shimmered like the scales of a fish. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

No flowers grew from the dry and thirsty earth, but Chasca bloomed so beautifully that the people couldn’t help but stare when she walked by. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Every year the Greek girls mourned for him and every year they rejoiced when his flower, the blood-red anemone, the windflower, was seen blooming again. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the gravestones flipped over, revealing a grasping corpse; a headstone turned around, flowers replaced by a grinning skull. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The tender budding of our new year, the periwinkles and the jasmine, the soft, scented champak blossom, had yielded place to the fierce flowering jacaranda and gold mohur, before Ira’s time came for giving birth. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a puzzle picture of wild flowers—all yellow, red, orange, and white in a field. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Clutched between her fingers were four small yellow flowers—wild weeds, by the looks of it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A window of fresh summer flowers—that would be good. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We’d better make a fresh batch of juniper and mullein flower.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He sat in the middle of the seat, holding the repaired flower upright in his fist, his eyes serene and ineffable. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since such a tiny thing as a flower in a brown bowl at the library had thrilled her so, she expected that the great city of New York would thrill her a hundred times more. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reaches up and kisses me on the cheek, and I can smell her shampoo, which reminds me of flowers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She found herself in a garden full of white, rich-smelling flowers. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I grow grapes, a variety of vines, annual and perennial flowers, and, in one small area, tropical plants. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She could smell the flowers that bloomed around the Santa Barbara Mission. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He held up the flower, staring into its delicate mouth. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a flower that resembled an oversized artichoke in his buttonhole. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

With delicate fingers, she positioned each flower in a row, keeping them straight across the cracked glass. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She ordered flowers, she discussed canapés and drinks with the caterer, and she spent a whole evening with Lyra deciding whom to invite. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

On May 4 Seabiscuit and War Admiral were brought out on a grassy lawn before a pink flowering hedge to pose for an army of photographers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d never smelled such fresh air or so many trees and flowers. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

With the wealthy folk, it seems to me that they do flower gardens and big lawns. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was like we planted a beautiful flower,” he says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s like saying ‘I’m sorry you’re going to die but at least people are going to bring you flowers.’” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mom was running around, tying up more balloons, her hands still stained with dark dirt after planting all of the new, pale flowers that flooded over what once had been a yard of plain grass. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Olmsted valued plants, trees, and flowers not for their individual attributes but rather as colors and shapes on a palette. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She had admired Seer’s work and told him she would bring seeds from her own flowers. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

A generation of children grew up who knew no more of violence than picking flowers and tumbling on the sands. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I painted Chloe sitting on a throne in a dress of burnished gold, surrounded by flowers. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So it was not just coral trinkets and flower bulbs that this seafaring friend of Hannah’s brought from afar! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The more I looked at it, the more I loved that bush that had never flowered. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“More addictive than most drugs. Sampling a lotus blossom awakens a craving that will never be silenced. Many have wasted their lives pursuing and consuming the petals of those bewitching flowers.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Noticing, Kira laughed, and leaned over to wind a stemmed flower around his neck. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Every flower shop in the next town, too, until she had more than two hundred daisies. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Oh, maybe I should explain,” she said, straightening the oversized flower behind her ear. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She went out of the room, taking the flowers with her. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

If you have a magnolia in a moonlight courtyard, do you paint its flowers? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The white schoolchildren were filing out of a large, red-brick building with many large windows, in front of which were beds of multi-coloured flowers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it isn’t at all surprising, at least to Axel, that Byrd’s flower beds filled with slugs and sunlight are happy spots for the garter snakes. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

His house was detached from those around it, surrounded by flowers that bloomed in splendid colors and overwhelming fragrances. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He wanted to tidy up his mother’s flower garden, a treasured patch of disheveled foliage that grew beneath her bedroom window. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air on the way to Madame Ruelles bakery smells of myrtle and magnolia and verbena; wisteria vines erupt in blossom; everywhere hang arcades and curtains and pendants of flowers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Something with white shutters and red bricks, something with manicured shrubs and flower boxes in the windows. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Ranee adjusts the necklace of golden flowers on the photo of her husband. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or when she accidentally—well, not accidentally, but how was she supposed to know?—picked the red flowers in Grandma's garden that were a hybrid experiment. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

So gazing she was changed into a flower, the sunflower, which ever turns toward the sun. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And of course bees and butterflies were there every day, happily floating through the flowers. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Had he known it was the flower of immortality? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Tell your daughter that she has a bright yellow flower painted on her cheek.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The year Mama died, the older girls let me make a wreath of flowers and candles with them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The deep rumbling of discontent in our cities is indicative of the fact that the plant of freedom has grown only a bud and not yet a flower.... While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The story behind the book was that she saw a movie that talked about one poem that compares this woman’s hands to flowers and rain. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was running a finger over a flower petal. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Stop tossing flowers out the window at passing girls and stay inside where you are safe. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always wore big flowered hats and bright-colored dresses, never “quiet” clothes like nice ladies were supposed to wear on the street. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Where we had a table with a cloth and a vase for flowers and some chairs, they only kept a empty blue baby crib with a tired old white sheet over one corner. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And one tall yellow flower was called a dogtooth violet but was different and was really an adder’s-tongue. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She saw crimson firelions and great yellow serpents and unicorns made of pale blue flame; she saw fish and foxes and monsters, wolves and bright birds and flowering trees, each more beautiful than the last. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She’s in one of her best dresses, sky blue with embroidery in white along the edges of the veil: flowers and fretwork. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the flowers aren’t the only surprise I get on Sunday. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

More cars pulled up, and a few people approached with bags and balloons and flowers. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Her staff was topped with a white lotus flower. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then a shoulder bag made of canvas printed with gray flowers. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

That day, they drove to a farm stand where you could pick your own flowers. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Little flowers grew among the moss, littler than I had ever seen. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, we put flowers or dolls or other little gifts on the graves of people we knew, but we never stayed to talk. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The rangers only pick up uglies in the white flowers,” David explained. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Persephone was magically changing the flower arrangement on the table, turning the blossoms from red to yellow to polka-dotted. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

In that interval of nearly two years, successive crops of plankton had flowered and faded away, but the poison, although no longer present in the water, had somehow passed from generation to generation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, “That’s a flower.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

On Sasha’s first full day in the hospital, a stranger dropped off a bouquet of silk flowers—three white roses and four stalks of orange Chinese lanterns. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She stuck the flower for the baby to its coat with tape. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

No one ever left flowers here for Holmes, but as it happens, he was not entirely forgotten. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They both watched with amusement as the young man’s lovesick gaze followed Claire, who was helping with the flowers. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"And you fell asleep and a snake came along and ate the flower." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Luster came away from the flower tree and we went along the fence and they stopped and we stopped and I looked through the fence while Luster was hunting in the grass. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba had even carved flowers and leaves into the wood. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The other kids had made a bunch of flowers ’cause I guess they had a bunch of blessings. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

On a low glass table stood a giant spray of hothouse flowers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He flung out all his favored maxims as if strewing flowers after my brother. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Every pot grew some sort of herb, flower, or other plant Babulya carefully cultivated and tended to. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Whatever misgivings he’d previously had about them seemed to have been abandoned, because he was fastidiously studying Nkrumah’s journal while two little girls decorated his curly hair with flowers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

This year it was to be a plantation of sun flowers, the seeds of which cheerful and aspiring plant were to feed Aunt Cockle-top and her family of chicks. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

On either side of us the fields grew wild, bursting with flowering weeds and humming with late-summer insects. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There are flowers, sickly smelling, wilting in a vase, tubes going into her arms and nose, the sound of terminal breathing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Oh! it will be very fine; all my best of everything—crystal, silver and gold, Sèvres, flowers, music, and champagne to swim in. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

He loves to gather words the way Axel loves to gather clues, the way Ray loves to chase squirrels, the way Byrd loves her flowers, and Emmett loves his fancy foods. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She wore a long white dress like a bride’s and a tiara of sugar flowers made especially for her by the plantation pastry cook. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The house no longer vacant, the front porch was now decorated with hanging baskets of little pink flowers and white wicker furniture. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The only flowers I’ve ever seen are wild- flowers, or apple blossoms in the Amity orchards. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Everybody else learned it later, when Clara died and the house lost its flowers, its nomadic friends, and its playful spirits and entered into an era of decline. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tall girl wearing a bright blue one with many white and yellow flowers. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Beth and I are going over to Kitty Bryant’s to get more flowers for tomorrow,” added Amy, tying a picturesque hat over her picturesque curls, and enjoying the effect as much as anybody. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She strides in, her hair fashioned into a tower made of blond strands and blue flowers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It opened up like a fist, or a flower. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The one she had written on her flower for the Garden of Blessings at church. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

As I moved closer I could see she was wearing a freshly starched, flowered cotton dress just like my own grandmother might have worn. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly Lissa began picking up the clothing, but she insisted on wearing the flowered hat. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The wrought-iron frame mimicked the weave of vines, decorated with flowers and leaves of green copper. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Butterflies fluttered around flowers that filled the air with light scents of vanilla and cinnamon. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Oil and flames were flung across the courtyard, and flowers of fire bloomed from the frozen earth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the day of her daughter's funeral, she wore a giant pink flower pinned to her lapel. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The bamboo, pine, and plum leaves seemed to shine in the sun as if carved from emeralds, and the accents of the pink and red flowers were like nestled rubies. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He beat down a square of tall grass and wild pink flowers, all without once ever looking at me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her gardens are full of roses—sprawling, old tangled bushes, quite a few of them autumn-flowering damasks with their last flowers still nodding and drooping in the rain. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He slings his rifle and carries the big battered transmitter—its leads, its inferior microphone—through the flowers to the Opel, its engine running, Neumann Two and Volkheimer already in the cab. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bride and groom were sitting uneasily side by side, Ira stiff in the heavy embroidered sari, white flowers in her hair, very pale. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny white flowers poked out of dead leaves. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Hmmm. I don’t know. How about you come over every now and then and water it for me. I mean, you’re already such a flower master.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The broad, circular table was laid with a cloth of pale gold silk printed with twining crimson and green flowers, and there were eight courses. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This black woman, Leona, who had a garden and talked to us, came over and gave me some flowers she'd grown. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had painted a heart next to the name at the top, and there was a bunch of dried flowers on the stone steps in front of the memorial. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Every window on its facade has been broken but the walls are hardly scorched; two of its wooden flower boxes hang on. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Can I take my belt of silver flowers and my gold collar with the black diamonds you said looked like my eyes? I won't wear them if you say I shouldn't." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The type of friend who brings you coffee made just the way you like it, buys you flowers, gives you books, and bakes you muffins. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He brought me strawberries in dead of winter and flowers every weekend. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and I waited for it to grow while the Korean Fire, our survivor flower, blossomed around it—but that iris seed refused to sprout. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But someday you’ll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The new Miss Forcible wore a white dress and had flowers in her long yellow hair. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Travelers had placed little stones, twisted straw, and dried flowers at its base to ensure a safe journey. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The British army paraded up Broadway the next day, cheered by Loyalists all wearing a red ribbon or flower in their hats in support of the King. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

For certain the pumpkin flowers do their work, but I believe it is the love of Serafina and the many good souls of this dusty village and God that makes me once more whole. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He limped to the window and watched the bright strip of grass and flowers beyond the wall. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They placed a spray of flowers by her grave and left for the station, where they would catch the train back to Tres Marias. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl fidgets with the camellia flower in her hands. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Not only did the adults prefer the nectar from certain kinds of flowers, but they laid eggs only on certain plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But Ben’s park still won’t have the smell of the desert flowers after the rain. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing a yellow sleeveless pantsuit with flowers winding up one of the legs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The counters are full with makeup, flowers, teddy bears, Vaseline, and energy drinks. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She rose, carrying her glass, and went to examine a bowl of glass flowers. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at the lovely flowers they brought,” the fat, huge nurse said. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’d made sure that she had the front seat, but Roza curled away from him like a flower seeking the sun as everyone else rattled away in Polish. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

This work, it seems not to be about dirt and flowers at all. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hands of this God would be bright with flowers that would never die and this God would sing and stutter and limp along an alleyway and pass judgment in the land beside the river. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one trip, he watched with gentle amusement as women in flowing skirts and love beads put flowers in soldiers’ guns, then sat on the lawn, holding hands, trying to levitate the Pentagon. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s beige with blue flowers made from a fabric fuzzy and thick, perfect for this cold day. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Once he had a herd go in and eat those very flowers she was after. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It is. But it’s like a layer cake. Brown earth or rock on the bottom, green trees, then blue sky. Did you know cacti bloom flowers? Every color except blue. We’ve even got roadrunners.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I just thought she was looking for flowers. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She placed colorful flowers around her face to disguise her glowing eyes, and any bare patches were covered with tree leaves and strips of moss. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I was fine. It was just a bunch of pretty flowers to me, and I started with two weeks of food.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Tuxedos went to the cleaners; flowers came from the florists; Bunny put away his copy of The Bride of Fu Manchu and started carrying around a volume of Homer instead. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I wandered along the highway leading to the village and paused at the edges of fields, filling my basket with herbs and flowers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It had a bright red background with giant white flowers all over it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me about Sister Marguerite, whose beauty is like the golden flower she is named for.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She pounced on it, saw a flower she had trampled, and ran up the heave to it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an uncertain moment, neither of them knew what to do with the plastic flowers: Olanna held them half extended while Professor Achara touched but did not grasp them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Levi lives in a small, neat white house that’s decorated with purple flowers and large pumpkins. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle the pink flower have tiny green bananas. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily had picked up a fallen flower from the bush behind which Snape lurked. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The lemon scent, the photos, the flowers, the quietness of the night, and the swaying shadows combined to bring him back. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“That the one. That’s my son. Toomer, the flower boy. For eighteen years he be right there in that alley makin’ a nice livin’ from his flower, his herb, and his honey. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, far beyond this endless curtain of white, green leaves and flowers were growing under a bright warm sun. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Are the migrants hiding in clumps of yellow flowers between the tracks innocents traveling north or dangerous men who are running from the law in their own countries? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was floating on a flowered, cake-scented cloud. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I got my Valentine’s card and the flowers and the teddy bear and got them ready and took them to school. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was a folded-up disposable paper tablecloth covered with red flowers, left over from some picnic they had been on several years before. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

By the time he got out of the hospital the town had come alive again, like the miraculous reblooming of a withered desert flower that all but a handful had given up for dead. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not stopping to pick flowers at the stream. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In Congo a slashed jungle quickly becomes a field of flowers, and scars become the ornaments of a particular face. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone in the Old Town gets a flower,” said the small man. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I will look pretty in my flower girl dress. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And in confirmation, a little Arctic flower, a purple saxifrage, blossomed improbably where the witch had planted it as a signal in a cranny of the rock. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Just checking up on you,” she said, straightening that awful colossal flower planted behind her right ear. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

How could I tell him about the apple tree, about what I had thought that morning while I picked the flowers and the poke greens? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Though the trees are changing colors, flowers are still in bloom, and there are bees everywhere. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At the grave site my father cleaned off Lynnie’s small stone and laid down a bunch of white flowers. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We were running through tall grass, and the scent of a thousand different flowers made the air intoxicating. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The flowers nodded like bright, knowledgeable children as I trundled them down the hall. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the flower petals that had covered her fell away, but others seemed to cling to her with a loyalty as he carried her to the once flower bed and lowered her into it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We watched a honeybee lurch from one fat flower to the next, drunk and staggering under the weight of all that botanical destiny. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

You need the camera you got for your sixteenth birthday and the flowers you dried. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the strong flower smell getting to her head, but something felt really off. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her teacher ushered her into a beautifully appointed room lit with two globe-shaped oil lamps, one on the desk, one resting on a dark wooden stand carved with lotus flowers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On every vessel—blooming from wine cups and jugs and vases and bowls—the simple eight- petaled flowers caught one’s attention and seized it as if they would never let go. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She got off her board several times to inspect the flowers, looking for insects or anything else that might match the words “firebug eyes.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She came in holding a large vase of flowers and said with a smile: 'Mr Stevens, I thought these would brighten your parlour a little.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing I want to tell you is this: They are older than dinosaurs, older than insects, older than trees or flowers or ferns or fungi or seeds. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That was just her empty shell over there, whereas here I could touch things she had touched, look out on the flowering plants she had looked at, and walk through her house. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Gina has the three white flowers you sent her and wonders where you were at lunch and doesn’t yet know that Marco will avoid her after school, or why. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Whenever I think of my sister’s crushed organs, I want to scream in a field of flowers until I’m hoarse. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Yet any blackguard He was lying beside the box under the window bellowing that could drive up in a limousine with a flower in his buttonhole. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Satyrs hate going underground. No searcher would ever try going in that place. No flowers. No sunshine. No coffee shops!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

This time she came out very cold and still and her small oval face was white as the flower of her name. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was actually an old flowered handkerchief from the thrift store, and Bebe scrubbed at her eyes. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could not sleep at night, thinking about the flower and what he had done to his wife. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Good job, Sik," whispered Mo as he came up from behind to gaze at the flower. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

No one was going in or out, but the glittering chrome doors were open, spilling out air- conditioning that smelled like flowers—lotus blossom, maybe. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The lavender that Mama had woven through his collar stuck up like the flowers on headstones in the cemetery, stiff and straight. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I ate the flower of immortality! Why am I not healing?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

However, their hopes for that night were disappointed, for the rain returned before dusk, settling in on a northwest wind and carrying up the hill the sweet-sour smell of flowering privet from cottage hedges below. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get out of this sun—I’m melting out here and so are my flowers!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were scattered white flowers in the dark purple section. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We’ll walk through all those unnaturally bright flowers and talk about everything that happened in these past few months—maybe even in the past few years. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I came only to seek a flower for my—my friend. I must go now, Ancient. May your ka be joyful.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I told her the flower was from you, Pop, and that you wanted to play her in War.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flower arrangement with gladioli sits on a polished table beside it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Can so,” Mila said absently, weaving another tiny flower along her crown. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was just like the kind the Mexican Indians made, he said, only they made theirs out of cactus that went right on blooming with bright red flowers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even in a flowered dress, she is lost in a sea of pinstripes and gray suits, high heels and elegant short skirts, Reebok sneakers, dashing from building to building. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

These ladies-in-waiting of the imperial court were forced to sell flowers and other favors to the fishermen near the scene of the battle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been stabbed so many times it looked as if his tunic was patterned with scarlet flowers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Did you ever touch it—the flower, I mean?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Some were well kept and painted nicely with tidy yards and groomed flower beds that Mom admired. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen them lying on their funeral beds covered in flowers, being wheeled down the street by their families on the way to cremation. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She later framed the cherished relic with dried flowers that had decorated Abraham Lincoln’s coffin at the White House funeral. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he didn’t work, he and Mami rustled behind the flowered curtain, creaked the springs under their mattress, their voices a murmur that I strained to hear but couldn’t. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then the white ones were everywhere, covering the floor of the woods thicker than the bloodroot flowers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Riding on its back was a red-skinned giant with flowers in his rust-colored braids, a jerkin of green leather, and a drakon-rib lance in his hand. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She wanted to reach Taisin, take the flowers out of her hands, touch her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sill was alive with flowers blooming in pots, and around the frame someone had pasted single pages of books and magazines. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lovely as the basket was, there were flowers as lovely to fill it with, sweet-smelling narcissus and hyacinths and violets and yellow crocus, and most radiant of all, the crimson splendor of the wild rose. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is not our omniboos,” said the Professor, waving the loaded vehicle away, and stopping to pick up the poor little flowers. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Then his Hindu followers burned half the flowers, and the Muslims buried the rest." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I picked some flowers and put them in a jar for my desk and some in another jar for Mom’s desk too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The tropics will intoxicate you with the sweetness of frangipani flowers and lay you down with the sting of a viper, with hardly room to breathe in between. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Butterflies flitted through the moist air, bigger than any I'd ever seen, and there were flowering plants everywhere. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sheryl hands me something else—a tool belt—but in the pockets, pretty flowers and ribbons poke out in soft colors. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The air smelled faintly of creosote and the yellow sweetness of locust flowers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things are all flowers and sunshine for the rest of the evening. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was while she sat there that the flower, which she had been grasping in her hand, suddenly withered. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It seemed a bright enough place to Ged at first, the house under the flowering trees. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The lawn outside the American embassy in Islamabad was neatly mowed, dotted with circular clusters of flowers, bordered by razor-straight hedges. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think it would be crazier to stay here? And sell flowers the rest of your life?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“The desk without flowers on it will be mine.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A colorful bouquet of flowers abandoned on the sidewalk stopped Emily in her tracks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was a bush with flowers and another with hard red berries. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then she explained that we would make construction paper flowers and write one of our many blessings on each one. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She was Cassandra, Priam’s daughter, he told his wife—the Army’s gift to him, the flower of all the captive women. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pugmarks of a lion preceded him like flowers printed in the dust. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

For standing among the brilliant flowers and fluttering butterflies was a beautiful woman dressed in blue. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She also finally had time to sort through her jumble of insect notes and paintings from years of flower and caterpillar investigations. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Maria deftly combined scientific information with gorgeously stylized leaves and flowers. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was staring at an old lady wearing a straw hat, wondering if the flowers on it were real, and if they were what they would taste like, when the train lurched to a halt. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we can put some flowers on his grave. Abra would help us. She likes to.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The flower child gives Ma a half-hearted Namaste. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her front window always had lots of cupcakes on display along with fresh flowers. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

George would bring up big wreaths of flowers to the stage. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A line of small-leafed weeds ran along the edge of one of the stone blocks, tiny yellow flowers peeping through as if searching for the sun, long disappeared behind the enormous walls of the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I waved my hand with its bouquet of flowers and cried, “Pansies for the prince!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When they told Mama the lie about the flowers, she said, “Sissy, you shouldn’t have spent your money.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The supporting poles were entwined with white and gold flowers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I patted the flower that was firmly in place and warming my heart and gave him a double okay. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The line that leads to your dad filling your dorm room with flowers on your graduation day. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Paths of white stones meandered among flower beds, hedgerows, vegetable gardens, fruit trees, and flowering plants. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The garden smelled so good and looked so pretty in die afternoon sunlight Edna plucked all the bright flowers she could find, and went into the house with them, she and the little dog. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The humble home she lived in sounds so different from Thaya Jaan’s three-story house with its green gates, carport, manicured lawn filled with fruit trees and flowers, and my favorite veranda. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Among them was Gallius, perfumed and wreathed with flowers; the floor was filthy, soiled with wine and covered with withered garlands and fish-bones. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I think about spring, grass and flowers, hoofprints and movement and a body, intact. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Instead of wooden bleachers and a huge scoreboard, all I saw was a world of large paper birds hanging from the rafters and five- foot cardboard flowers lining the walls. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an ‘instinctive’ hatred of books and flowers. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every year the early spring flowers shiver in the last snow of the season. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have a flower on your cheek now. It doesn’t look like it made a whole lot of difference.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Stonecutter! This one’s more fit to become a ratcatcher or a twiner of flower wreaths. Well, come along, come along.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And there’s always that big vase with fresh flowers in the front office, too, with a smell that gives me the creeps. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Some of her paintings hang in the upstairs hall, greenish paintings of flowers, of lawns, of bottles and vases. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tall trunks bore unexpected pale flowers all the way up to the dark canopy where life went on clamorously. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They would be beautiful anywhere, but Greece is not a rich and fertile country of wide meadows and fruitful fields where flowers seem at home. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you believe it, Neeley. He’s too busy watching all the little sparrows fall and worrying about whether the little buds will burst into flowers to have time to investigate us.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had raked underneath the frangipani trees, and dead leaves and pink flowers lay in piles, ready for the wheelbarrow. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we’d finished, we walked around the beds of colourful flowers. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a long garland of flowers, draped over her elbows like a feather boa. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The streets of Chicago couldn’t have held more faces, the faces of strangers, bobbing like flowers in a breeze, each one indistinguishable from the next. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But now as he sat gazing at Big Thumb and the meadow full of flowers, he couldn't help but wonder about it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He closed the door, left her alone with her suitcase and her flowers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’m wearing one of his flowers in my hair. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They held stones pulled up from the edge of Mrs. Fuller’s flower bed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tables on this side are graced with red and white checked tablecloths, silverware, and vases of flowers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It would have made better sense to take the flowers out first, but she was too irritable. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ivan’s mom smelled like the river after a thunderstorm, and a handful of salt crystals, and some kind of flower that Anya couldn’t place, and an ice-cold winter night. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The back cover showed a woman wearing a white apron and a flowered dress. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village square was decorated with a hodgepodge of greenery, flowers, and leafy garlands, plus a small birch tree the villagers had moved from the forest to the square. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

As the marines walked, dripping, onto the sand, local schoolgirls stepped forward and placed garlands of red and yellow flowers over their necks. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The elder son ran from the shore and brought his mother back a phlox flower, which he presented to her with great show of gallantry. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She took the scissors from him and began to cut the clumps of blossom, and she and the three men started to fill the baskets with the flowers. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I was only about five feet off the ground, but already I was surrounded by leaves and oak flowers. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The furniture had been put back in place in the front room and the withered leaves and fallen flower petals swept out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a long pause Tamika fiddled with the flower tucked behind her ear. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Imagine driving past this field of dirt every day on your way to work, past all that nothingness, and then one day: flowers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At five past seven there was still no one in my driveway except for me, and I didn’t have flowers in my hand because Handy Stop didn’t sell flowers and neither did Burke’s Burger Box. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It featured a flower arrangement sent by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A strip of bright flowers lay in front of the house, blooming against the cold. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

To keep American science in full flower, he asserted, what was needed was “a more leisurely and normal research environment.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was an exotic bloom he’d seen in a shop window, and he would have been abashed to know it was called a passion flower. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They eat from white china plates rimmed with little red flowers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All our neighbors have these great maga- zine-cover yards with flowers that match their shutters and expensive white rocks that border fresh mounds of mulch. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The dress had a single shoulder strap and delicate organza flowers sewn across it, each one with a tiny crystal at its center, and a full skirt that cascaded richly to the floor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Yet here stood a woman in a pink dress and a flowered hat, calling herself a “cryptanalyst.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My parents owned a flower shop, and one of their customers was a big deal in the parks department. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then came April and Melanie as the mourning populace, scattering flowers and chanting, “Weep for Prince Pete-ho-tep—fallen in battle,” in a high mournful wail. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their smiles went sour as the room filled with the sweet, acrid smell of rotting flowers and burning hair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jellyfish blooms, like garden flowers opening up to the sun. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was overlaid with a tracery of flowers and leaves wrought of silver and gold, and on it were set in elven-runes formed of many gems the name Andúril and the lineage of the sword. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The bud was plucked before the flower bloomed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl looked at the flower then at Emma but still held on to her brother. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Once the dust settled, a cool breeze blew between his wrists, hovering just above the desert floor and carrying pink cactus flower petals. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Eventually there are only a few cars on the road, no signs for tourist facilities or campgrounds, just more farms and woods, the fields full of blue and purple flowers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on that fountain, face upturned, drinking in the sunshine like a flower, looking completely beatific. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There is considerable overlap: a naked goddess wreathed in flowers, with a couple of dogs standing by; biblical people with or without clothes, plus or minus animals, trees, and ships. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably painting flowers for one of Master Peale’s daughters who watched him with stupid cow eyes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then, looking at the turquoise flowers, I exchanged it for my father’s suitcase, a gray Samsonite. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When she embroidered a flower, bees would try to nestle in it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s true. Two directors have ignored the flowers, and on both nights, the show could not finish.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“And we’ll tie the shoestrings into a bracelet, a pretty bracelet, and you can wear it on your arm. Okay? You can add shells to it, or stick flowers in. It’ll be fun.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He taught her all he knew of painting flowers for profit. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Nip it in the bud, not butt, Ms. Hardwick, she answers, then adds, Sorta like when you prune a flower in the budding stage, to keep it from growing. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

One hangs from a meat hook, stuck through the solar plexus, another has trees and flowers painted all over her face like fine tattooing, with a delicacy I wouldn’t have suspected from Jody. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Past the store that sold paper pellets that opened up into flowers when you dropped them in a glass of water. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Neat,” Melanie said, and, taking the flowers back, she repeated the ritual, adding another refinement by tapping her forehead to the floor three times. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Uh-huh. I do believe I’m starting to get the picture. You didn’t get her flowers, did you? You need to start taking my advice.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The shirt under his overalls was dark blue with fancy red and yellow flowers printed all over it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached into her jacket pocket and pulled out a twig with bright blue flowers. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the peoples want surpleases of blossoms in those hard stone walls, they plant violets and other dainty purple and blue and white flowers. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The flowers the Cursed Toads had been meant to find for their impossible task. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Blue flowers hang down in clumps over where she sleeps, making for a richly perfumed bower. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I was the only one who knew that despite her sharp ways, her heart was more tender than a flower skin and she loved me beyond reason. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk past a potted plant with a garish flower blossoming among its branches, and toward the dormitory that has become our temporary home here. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, tonight at seven o’clock I’ll be pulling into your driveway with my woman at my side and yours in the back. Hopefully you’ll be waiting there with flowers in hand. What do you say?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I took the flowers off the altar in the church. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Together we picked flowers, paintbrush and clover and prairie violets. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

I could see it happening: the flowers are turned upward, and if the sraf were falling straight down, it would enter their petals and fertilize them like pollen from the stars. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Was she going to have new kids and give them cake with pink and purple flowers when they got home from school? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Ambrosia flowers wink and bloom from animated wallpaper. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She left her daughter with Clara and took the bus, carrying a clown’s valise covered with flowers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The very small living room incredibly contained—aside from things to sit on—an organ, a piano, a garden of flowering flowerpots, and usually a darting little dog and a large, drowsy cat. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around it are wide wastes, wan and cold, and meadows of asphodel, presumably strange, pallid, ghostly flowers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I point to a light-blue dress with red flowers and the pleated navy-blue one trimmed with ivory ribbon around the edges. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The flowers are proof to myself that I'm still alive. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“If she doesn’t have flowers in her hair, she can’t function.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The jam is good, the pots remind me of crude flower pots without the hole in the bottom. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fall rains had brought life to the paloverde trees, making them bright with delicate yellow and orange flowers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t find much, though, just a wooden chest with faded flowered dresses and tarnished bracelets. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He bumps his fist against Cash’s as he passes, and Amy nods up from the denim jacket she’s needling yellow flowers into. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But it was the flowers that really made it Mo's. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a warm rain would soak the fields and the flowers would give off their deep red color—rivers of red, like the yolk of sunset burst over everything. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There were no flowers in front, nothing but a big, brown tumbleweed, which had been blown to one side of the front door. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Her hijabs are always brightly colored, with flowers or geometrical designs. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She also gave him her own drawings of flower bouquets to copy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Nathan noticed that there were pieces of turquoise embedded in the middle of elaborate silver flowers. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The moon above hung low, eerie as its light cast a silver sheen over the overgrown flowers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She handed Sierra a little flowering bulb of garlic, its crackling paper skin fluttering like broken wings onto the kitchen floor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“What about the flower we grew? What do you mean?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They are full of new pink, yellow and bright purple garden flowers growing in neat rows. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't know whether you like flowers, sir," the count said, "but I took the liberty of just bringing these roses." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

"Well, we can't let a flower wilt away in the desert sun, can we?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Tamika faced me, her bright white flower tucked behind her ear. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh that! The janitor puts the flowers in. Or somebody. Anything else?” she asked impatiently. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me a flower and her hand went away. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around: There were a number of large white stones, smoothed by the sea, marking the edge of the flower beds. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Everywhere it reflected the authoritarian spandrels of his character, from its surfeit of policemen to its strict rules against picking flowers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Lucas and Nina must have moved on to flowers, to things that couldn’t fly away. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She’d even drawn a picture of a flower with a big, fat, stupid bird trying to land on it. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled and lifted one of her shoes, pulling a crushed but unburned flower from the sole. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Long cream-colored banners whip through the air, flying Eldred’s symbol—a tree that is half white flowers and half thorns, roots dangling beneath it and a crown atop. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She smelled the flowers and heard the neighing of the plumed horses of the funeral carriage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no flowers or blooming vines crawling up the buildings, no benches where students can relax. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I finished the one section that she wanted and started digging out a new flower bed. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She keeps fresh flowers on her desk and she likes to start each day with these deep yoga breaths so we’ll all be “centered” and “at our best.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

In practically every account of the 2014 World Championship in Nanning, there was some mention of the bee that climbed out of my bouquet of flowers as I stood on the gold medal podium. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ugwu looked at the flowers and shook his head, as if he could not believe her foolishness. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe how many big vases and baskets of yard flowers had been brought in and set on tables and on the floor around the coffin. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Except for Avalon’s ugliness, this neighborhood is richer—brownstones with flower boxes instead of high-rises with ugly window air conditioners. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s papered in small blue flowers, forget-me-nots, with curtains to match. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the young girl was led out, the flame-of-the-forest swayed and flowers rained down. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother gathered the flowers of particular climbing vines and sapped them of their essences and combined them with honey that she pulled from the wild hives in the tallest trees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

So she concentrated on the decorative arts: flower patterns for embroidery and fabric design. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Years later he would paint under the hot sun day after day for hours and hours to capture fields, flowers, the sun itself. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He recalled every detail—an oleander bush with peach-colored flowers, an adobe wall with paloverde trees draped over it, a fountain tinkling into a copper basin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her disappointment blooming inside me like a black flower. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Grains of rice lie about, as well as a flower just beginning to wilt. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On every gold clothed table was a glass bowl full of pale yellow flowers. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mom’s flashlight is pointing at a very real shrub with little yellow flowers. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was alive and still sending me flowers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of the flower helped, and she envisioned it in her mind’s eye; she could feel the life of it, pulsing. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A small diamond set at the center of a gold filigree flower. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A vase full of flowers decorates the center of the oak table behind her. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Her long tress, artfully folded back and attached to the back of her head, was adorned with a garland of fresh jasmine flowers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the azaleas began to bloom, a garish display of pink, the rainy days leaving the flowers littering the ground. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Have to send flowers, of course, but Merrigot is most reassuring.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Abuela’s house was two stories high and made of cement, with a front garden on which grew medicinal herbs and flowers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The bird looked like it was made out of the same colors as the flowers in front, with a rich purple body, a yellow mask, and a bright red belly. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she could practically smell the sweet Italian breezes, a mix of lemons and flowers and the sea. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Dashing past the barn, the smokehouse, and Mama’s flower pit, I ran through the house and got to the front door just as Papa hurried up the walk. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A small table set with a teapot, cups, and a silver plate of cookies sat next to a flowered armchair. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to see his daughter married by the bishop, in a white gown, with an eighteen-foot train held aloft by pages and flower girls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the newly budded flowers of the throne brown and wither. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My eyes moved immediately from a flaming pink flower in the bottom left to a strange storm brewing in the top right. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The froth of her stiff frock pressed rough lace flowers into Velutha’s back. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I went all over tarnation to get those and all you wanted were some dead flowers?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Botany smells like glue and blotter paper and pressed flowers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I put the flowers in a vase and the greens in the cold cellar; they would be for dinner, in the nature of a surprise. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And the suitors mad with fear at her great sign stampeded like stung cattle by a river when the dread shimmering gadfly strikes in summer, in the flowering season, in the long-drawn days. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would scoop the flowers out of the water and arrange them into piles. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Where it had lain there was blooming a new and lovely flower, and they called it by his name, Narcissus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas grabbed the two bars outside of where she held on, moved close enough to smell her—a surprisingly pleasant scent of sweat and flowers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She took up a hoe instead, and began to put every square inch of her sandy two-acre rented lot under cultivation: peanuts, sweet potatoes, and four dozen kinds of flowers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king speaks into a voice-trumpet, and his words echo from a sound-box peeking out of the flower arrangement on our table. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There were flowers and vegetables and trees and vines. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

My brain sorted the hexagons into the usual shapes and flowers. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Not to bring them cards or flowers or gifts. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Swallowing hard, I smooth the skirt of my favorite dress, the flowered one, and rub together my lipsticked lips. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the left was a grove of cedar trees and on the right a huge flower garden. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The allamanda bushes bordering the garden bloomed heavily with yellow, cylindrical flowers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes grazed over the crowd, not taking in any faces, until I spotted something familiar: an enormous white flower. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sidewalk was splotched purple, as was the grass itself, and the rocks in the flower beds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In Greece there are most lovely wild flowers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had sidewalks, front lawns, and beautiful flower gardens. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

There were no cars and very few flowers. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is waiting in a flowered shawl by the fountain for her lover, her Spanish lover, the lover before Jorge, and her hair is twisted with high combs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minli nodded and waved goodbye until the flowering trees looked like brush strokes of golden paint on the mountain. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Georgiana sat on a high stool, dressing her hair at the glass, and interweaving her curls with artificial flowers and faded feathers, of which she had found a store in a drawer in the attic. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

You can see Vinny now, in homeroom, smiling as the Valentine’s Day flowers are handed out. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

A blue sari embroidered with delicate gold flowers catches my eye, and I buy it, along with sweets, trinkets, and toys. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the conspirators, the tables were turned that night, for Hayes sent up a wilderness of flowers, with a lovely basket arranged in his best manner for a centerpiece. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised that Jenna is wearing a dress with tiny pink flowers on it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Multicolored candles of all sizes surround bags of tiny flowers and ground herbs, a ceramic goblet, and a tin bowl. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I just want to say about that brown bowl...what it has meant to me...the flower always in it.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the trail there were small blue flowers shaped like bells. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers on Big Ma’s muumuu now seemed bigger, just like the comfy chair she had been sitting in for the past seven years now seemed bigger. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A fast-paced Indian song pulses as Bollywood actresses in crimson outfits twirl in perfect coordination in front of a stage decorated with yellow and red flowers. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The plants were stunted anyhow, with few flowers and less fruit. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw Caddy, with flowers in her hair, and a long veil like shining wind. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

What about the other caterpillars she found on leaves and flowers? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Abe’s grandma used to have a yard full of flowers you could smell a block away. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Dyer’s greenweed,” the woman announced, poking with her cane at a shrub with small flowers. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between 1867 and 1871, he pushed himself even harder, growing thousands of hawkweeds in another patch of garden, emasculating the flowers with the same forceps, and dusting pollen with the same paintbrush. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They buy sugar flowers and do not eat them, wrapping them in paper instead and carefully bringing them home. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I got up to pick fresh flowers to replace wilted ones. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

All had paths of flowers to their doors. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except we’re on the ugly flower sofa and it’s only one person slamming and I’m not wearing hockey gear, only a thin sweatshirt, and he’s reaching under it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s one thing for him to hurt himself,” Mrs. Jarzab said to my mother, pushing a flowered box of Kleenex toward her. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night, right after dinner, Abuela slipped into her room, put on a faded green nightgown embroidered with small yellow flowers, and undid her hair. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There’s a big heart made out of red and white roses, a “K” made out of calla lilies, and an arrangement of flowers in orange and green, his favorite colors. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When V had set eyes on the crow-haired girl with the flowers ... it was too much. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

That night Aru had stayed awake dreaming of narrow winding streets and gardens so fancy that even their flowers looked haughty. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She turned to her two children and told ’em, “Y’all go on in the garden and pick Mama some flowers. Make sure you bring me some them pretty purple and white ones.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The stink of dying flowers is making me queasy. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Every Christmas since, she sent my parents a gift box containing hot sauce, a flowering cactus, and a photograph of Mrs. Watson and herself in front of some national monument. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Manchee follows along on the road, doing his business and sniffing every flower. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But it left something with him; as long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the edges, near the tracks, tall weeds have taken over—tough plants with stringy stalks, small leaves, and compact flowers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

"The flower of immortality. The cure to every illness, even death itself." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mother opened the door, and I threw myself into the warmth, held the red flowers between my hands, and brushed my cheeks with their petals. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I had to follow the path to keep out of the wet grass so I didn’t see her until I was pretty near there, standing there in a black cloak, looking at the flowers. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threw the flower away and made a wry face. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sprinkler sputtered in circles out in the garden, leaving glistening drops of water dripping off the okra and settling into little pools inside the yellow flowers of the cucumber plants. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

There will be nests of curls to look for, and dried flowers all winter long. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

One day she came back grinning her horsey grin, her hair all tangled and her clothes covered in mud, clutching a raggedy bunch of purple and green flowers for Father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dad says Valentine's Days and Mother's Days and No-Armed Goalkeeper's Days're all conspiracies of card manufacturers and flower shops and chocolate companies. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem like part of school anymore—the corridor was thickly carpeted, and the walls were painted a chipper light blue and tastefully decorated with black-and-white photos of flowers. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He liked the busy little creatures and thought their tiny bodies, rippling with feathery gills, were every bit as nice as flowers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A straightforward statement like He didn’t intend to ruin your flower bed comes out His intention was not to ruin your flower bed. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pa and Miss Hendrix are too old to have a fairy-tale wedding with flower girls and harps playing.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The woman was pointing out the flowers and the leaves of the bushes in order to cajole the girl forward towards the building. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Nelson was weaving together palm fronds to make a funeral arch of leaves and flowers to set over the table. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her long hair is in two braids, and she has a bright yellow flower pinned on one side. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Now, scram. All of you. I’m healing here. And take your lousy flowers with you!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

For that spring, while the crocuses bloomed, while the headmistress checked on the daffodil bulbs in the flower beds, Calliope, too, felt something budding. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was a dead tree, and Ari-Eil was holding Hayva on his shoulders so she could hang paper flowers on its branches. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"Dear Wife," he said, "why do you always wear that flower? Even to sleep, you never remove it." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I assayed to try my own hand at botis mots, saying to her in the morning, “You are — you are come down to the breakfast room as the — some dew on the flowers. Falling.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The violets? They were always her favorite flower. When we were girls we used to pick them together.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And my mother, who used to throw fits because I dug holes and buried her flowers. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The air was empty of the smell of plants or flowers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In nineteenth-century England, everyone from country parsons to teenage girls collected butterflies, flowers, even stuffed birds and fossil bones. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her long and elegant hair is pinned up in a golden swirl, and she reminds me of the chrysanthemum flower on the Orléansian emblem. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He had used the power of the Uncles, of nature and animals and streams and flowers, a sacred power, for truly horrible things. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He reached back and struck Ben, breaking the flower stalk again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the light of the full moon every tree and flower and shrub was visible, and they could see the houses and cages quite clearly. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“The flowers? Oh, yes. The roses for Mamá,” I yelled back. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

As Miss Love had promised, there was a black grosgrain coat for Mama, and for Loma a thin, expensive-looking white dress with big pastel flowers embroidered on it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered if he had ever aimed his rifle and stared down a flower girl eagle-eyed at a protest rally when he really wanted to dance with her at the senior prom. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She was deep in admiration of the flowers when Junior said, “Here!” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even took one of her hats, a big one with flowers on it, really hideous, and then I made Diana go to the third floor. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The place was full of children and flowers. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

On the back of an envelope left beside the museum phone, she has sketched an enormous tree, laden with flowers, the branches squirreling over the flap. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you noticed? Vicky doesn’t have a mustache anymore. And do you know what else?”—getting up now, smiling—“even Lucille’s starting to smell okay. Every time she comes over, I smell flowers.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was a small waiting area—just two chairs and a table with a big flower arrangement. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When I turned to my right, so they wouldn't see my tears, I could see the trees and flowers outside. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I like the smell of these flowers,” Seth said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A red gold fox poked its shining snout out from his breastplate through a circle of lapis lazuli flowers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Over meals they talked about plans for a huge wedding in Cleveland Heights—a two-day bash, lots of flowers. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, little tree,” I murmured so no one else could hear, “but I want you to grow and give us flowers.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Broad white hats in a dappled pattern hid their heads, and she realized that if they ducked down into the flowers, they would practically disappear. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Emily heard a careful tread on the stairs—Cecilia at last taking the flowers up to the guests room, a simple errand she had been asked many times that day to perform. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The camellia flowers peel away from the Gris girl's body like wax, exposing her to the crowd. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Tonight, it smelled of sparkly red punch and older brothers’ cologne and flowers from corsages and whatever those things are called that girls pin onto a guy’s jacket. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Only when they ordered him to put his back to the wall did Arcadio see Rebeca, with wet hair and a pink flowered dress, opening wide the door. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was trying to paint a bouquet of purple and orange flowers but the teacher, Ms. Murphy, wanted us to only use primary colors, so I blended the paints to get the colors I wanted. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It seemed for a second that, should I wish to, I could count the faces in the crowd around me, like flowers in a field. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She picked up her gigantic white flower lying on the patio table. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Her chin was firm and her mouth was as sweet as a flower and very wide and pink. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were little flowers she did not recognize, white and palest blue; and endless, tangled vines; and here and there a fallen log, half rotted but soft with patches of sweet green-velvet moss. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the audience before me, I explained why no tears were to be shed, and why we had no flowers, or singing, or organ- playing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Maybe it thought you were a flower," he says. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Before I even think of running upstairs to change and fix my face, Kasim is standing in the kitchen with a smile and a bouquet of flowers. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She wanted to be a Rose, somebody’s Rose, their Rose—and she would have been company for the flowers. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, Elizabeth would rendezvous with a Soviet agent in Washington by standing in front of a drugstore in Georgetown, wearing a red flower in her hat and holding a copy of Life magazine. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They haunted the laundry lines and pub doorways of Coal’s twisting lanes, drooping like wilted flowers, eyes flicking toward us and away again. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I meet my parents and Nora in the atrium, and my dad’s carrying this giant bouquet of flowers that looks like something out of Dr. Seuss. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

By treating wheat strains with such “shock therapy,” Lysenko argued that he could make the plants flower more vigorously in the spring and yield higher bounties of grain through the summer. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She kept her long grey hair in two braids like a little girl with a flowered kerchief tied over her head and under her round chin. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Rich people have lots of colorful stonework tiles around it, like you’re pooping into a little babbling river in a field of flowers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When she sees the second set of plastic flowers and the poster, weather-beaten and faded, Always in our Hearts, Annabelle stops right there. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We stood quite still, not speaking, looking down upon the clear white faces of the flowers closest to us, and Maxim stooped, and picked up a fallen petal and gave it to me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

My mother always loved anything that normally grows or lives out of doors— anything—lizards, trees, cows, caterpillars, birds, flowers, crickets, toads, ants, pigs. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was a painting, a vase full of delicate flowers, bright blue, lavender, and red carefully painted on a scrap of wood. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had it washed and painted, changed the furniture, restored the garden and planted new flowers, and opened doors and windows so that the dazzling light of summer would penetrate even into the bedrooms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

No one in Henrietta’s family ever saw a Hopkins doctor without visiting the Jesus statue, laying flowers at his feet, saying a prayer, and rubbing his big toe for good luck. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

White flowers vanished in the second generation, the hybrids, only to reemerge in some members of the third. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Spring’s glory, with its birds and its flowers and its trees, was lost on Ollie. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scrubbed from top to bottom with something sudsy and bright colored, like sun yellow that smelled like rotten lemon, or mutant green that smelled like if every flower in the world sneezed. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Coffee and muffins and flowers and scented candles from the gift shop. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Somebody had planted blue morning- glories below each of the four wide windows, and the vines of the blue flowers were climbing cotton strings that had been nailed to the window frames. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And there, next to a small garden plot and a stable and two wooden chairs seated in a flowering arbor—an enormous tree. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When Paganini tried to eat it, Mr. Jeet reached down to rescue the flower and handed it to Laney with a gallant nod. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Each had a small, rec-tangular plot of lawn in front, with a straight line of dull-looking flowers edging the path to the door. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like the brilliant Indian flower Dimple knew she herself would never be. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

What would have transpired, one may ask, had one responded slightly differently that evening she came in with her vase of flowers? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are also little flowers that look like gears for a gold machine. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sick for over a year and yet there is not a single card, letter, balloon, or wilted bouquet of flowers in my room. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

At five o’clock in the morning, Blanca awoke with an upset stomach from the cloyingly sweet smell of the flowers with which her father had adorned the nuptial chamber. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ferns and shade flowers grew out of one wall, the mountainside itself. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom knelt and wrapped me into her, and she smelled like a strange mix of old and new—like her flower shampoo and a newer, deeper scent of dark chocolate. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And it’s printed with bright multicolored flowers: tiny on the bodice, growing bigger toward the edge of the skirt. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

One contains bloodroot, a flower with white petals and a yellow center. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

With the leftover money, she bought a small bouquet of flowers and laid it on the boy’s grave. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held out a large flowered bowl filled with water. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing that strikes me about Millie’s house is how everything—from the fake flowers to the paint to the throw pillows—matches. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The yellow daffadowndillies have burst into bloom, and the tiny cupped flowers of crocuses are spreading their pied blankets of white and purple. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her entire baggage consisted of a small trunk, a little rocking chair with small hand-painted flowers, and a canvas sack which kept making a cloc-cloc-cloc sound, where she carried her parents' bones. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Over the years this clearing had grown over with a strange mixture of high, rank grass, tall weeds, berries and wild flowers. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Afternoons I would see her coming from blocks away, heading home, her tiny figure warped by heat waves and that bonnet a yellow flower wavering in the glare. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

What wonderful names he knew for that flower! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

For a heavenly smell, warm and golden, as if from all the most delicious fruits and flowers of the world, was coming up to them from somewhere ahead. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

A goshawk flew overhead; a rock fell off the cliff and bounced past the blazing-star flowers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The fuzzy red flowers on the branches were like pipe cleaners. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Cheap walls, dirty paint, plastic furniture, plastic flowers on the counter. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The flowers all start to swim together, the blues and the pinks and the whites all twisting and turning and blurring together, the colors coming off the page and reaching toward me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A flower now bloomed on the side of the bush facing the water, the first to bloom of hundreds of buds that studded the tree like pale gems. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She is standing at the entrance to the living room, buttoning down a multicolored, flowered houserobe. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Babies napped in the tall grass, their blankets covering the wildflowers with embroidered flowers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tied my wrapper around my chest, over my pink-and-white flowered nightgown, and padded out of the room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

So we were both flowerless as we went into the reception hall, but no one would have seen the flowers anyway, since the hall was so dark. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Most look like fragments of things, single words or phrases that don’t make sense on their own: Night flowers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Would she Understand that fire was not light or flowers moving toward her, or flying golden hair? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened and Darlene came in wearing a satin cocktail dress and a flowered hat, flouncing her skirt gracefully as she walked. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man with the beard and the turban was almost out of flowers. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He cuts and I watch, happy and sad, as flowers, butterflies, and birds fall to the floor. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Why is this bird trying to land on a flower, Momma?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they came to a flower bed, they went right through it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was even getting used to her silly white flower. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

As we walk around, Thaya Jaan points to the designs on the walls and shows us different patterns like flowers and trees, almost like windows in frames. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Ms. Keen has spent a week teaching us the finer points of stamens and pistils, seedpods and flowers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Who would go through the trouble of enchanting a whole field of flowers?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I watched as he examined flower after flower, looking for a suitable small bloom that would fit onto his pinky. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie took one of the flowers from the vase on the dining room table and tossed it at Laney’s feet. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And a picture of flowers won’t dry up in a week. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh good! You know where all the best flowers are!” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A tiny red dragon’s head was spitting out flowers over the stained paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“My shoes melted crossing this big patch of burning flowers.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A bright flower of flame blossomed against the bruise-dark clouds, and the craft drifted down slowly, ablaze like a beacon, and floated, still blazing, on the water. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing tall before the brush is a white house with a garden of yellow flowers, and standing on the porch is a little girl. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I asked for God’s blessing and carried red bougainvillea flowers for my mother. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes for seeing the blooming purple flowers coming back to say hello after being gone all winter long. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It looked like all the flowers on her dress were bobbing in a gust of wind. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I arranged his spray of jasmine and stems of gardenias in a vase on the little table, then took the rest of the flowers into my bedroom. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moths and clouds and flowers and fire and ghosts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“What kinds of flowers do you prefer?” he fired off. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“We should go to the fabric store and pick out something really cool! You could do flames or flowers or just a solid, like hot pink!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Around us was every shade of green you could ever hope to imagine, broken up here and there with a flowering tree blushing to a light pink. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Quincy stuck her flower in the glass vase. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were the most magnificent animals I had ever seen—red horses, blue horses, horses of all colors—draped in gold and flowers, heads high, hooves raised as if prancing to the music. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Comfort,” Mama said, “I’m going to need your help in the flower shop.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then the flowers began to whisper to her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The room, barely six by eight, featured a single- paned window in the shape of a face that swung out to a discreet view of my father’s exquisitely landscaped garden of cut stones and flowers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book falls open to a page with yellow flowers and I shut it quickly because it was Peeta’s brush that painted them. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A row of cushions on the living room floor, draped in a bright flowered tablecloth. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Rashida headed for the small patch of flowers behind the hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was quiet for a long time, patting the soil, even though the flower was already planted. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Not far away, Ess and Sam sat picking flowers beside a large boulder, while farther off, the others chased after what Jinny assumed to be a lizard or a kitten in the grass. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

According to Park's mom, everything Eleanor was doing with her hair—washing it with whatever, brushing it, tying in beads and silk flowers—was dead wrong. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

There were giant crystal bookcases along one wall, and like a scene out of one of Seven’s dreams, black planters with every kind of plant and flower you could think of hanging from the ceilings. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

After that they went back to their own attempts at painting flowers, dots, and in the case of Loo, a big blodgy handprint. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Fruit, knives on the edges of tables, fish, bread, lobsters, flowers, and, of course, sneakers. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I brought you flowers,” he said quietly, producing a bunch of roses from nowhere. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Butterflies flew in and out of the bunches of field flowers now loosened from the top of the bier and lying in a small heap at the edge of the grave. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Our parents were ready with flowers for us. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She wished she could find some flowers to put in a glass in the middle, but there were none in the back yard. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flowering trees grow from the seeds from the tree on Never-Ending Mountain . Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Banana and coconut trees laden with fake fruit and hibiscus plants with fake flowers are everywhere. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hill was covered with fake grass and flowers, and at the top was a throne. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In exchange for our honest sweat we’d so far earned flowers and leaves, but nothing we could actually have for supper. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Members of a local secondary school marching band, wearing rented tuxedoes and vintage top hats, practised a piece of the Mozart requiem, and children were given bouquets of flowers to carry. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The flowers were like new acquaintances; she approached them in a familiar spirit and made herself at home among them. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nurse takes Theo the flowers first, to see how he will react. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A small burial mound in the middle of Nathan’s garden, where vines and flowers have long since unrolled to feed insects and children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s fumbling with a paper cup of coffee, a stack of folders, and a bright pink flower. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“But what about you?” he asked her, pausing to pluck a flower that he had just willed to grow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Every day I changed the flowers and said a few words. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’d get in a room and swap notes on flower arrangements and who married who.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Cade’s voice was as sweet as jasmine flowers on an early summer evening. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Beyond the open window, the garden lay in the heat of the early afternoon sun, full of bees and vivid flowers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Mom and I used to spend all our time in here, touching and smelling the flowers, talking about life, and soaking up sunlight. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The decorations even extended to the walls, where grapevines had been cut and woven into wreaths, and then peppered with fall leaves and dried flowers. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A moment later, the bee flew out of my flowers again, and I carefully retrieved the bouquet. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Laura Friendly showed up with a massive bouquet of flowers and a bottle of wine. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how old she was, the woman was always surrounded: by men, by flowers, by laughter, by children...and then by disease, by screams, and smoke. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Each of us chose a trough and dug into it like a dog excavating a prized bed of flowers, our cupped hands scooping mounds of ice onto the floor. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Do you think this drill is made to toy with like a lotus flower? If Pai sees me idle here...” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Her head looked like a garden, with the flower clips attached all over it. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In the clear night air, Tally could make out individual fireworks unfolding like bright flowers, everything in perfect miniature. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sheriff heeded the voice and looked at the room—flowered chintz, lace curtains, white drawn-work table cover, cushions on the couch covered with a bright and impudent print. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The houses we drove past had sunflower hedges, and the palm-size flowers brightened the foliage in big yellow polka dots. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like how you love the rain because even though it can make a mess of things, it still makes rainbows rise and flowers grow. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But the memory is that flower smell, the glare of the glass, squinting to see my sister on her side with her dolls, and the birds in between sitting safe in their orchard. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then he tilted back his head and began to sing: There is a little beauty In the op’ning of a flower. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

At eleven, my coworker Quines and I are checking the table, making sure all the napkins are perfectly folded, all the silverware perpendicular to the table edge, the flowers arranged just right. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you think about my theory on flowers?” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

By that night, when we came to the wake, the house looked festive, decorated with flowers and candles. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I change it, just as I will the little girl, shaping the flower's fibers and veins and petals. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I bet he doesn’t even know that those flowers are poison. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In my head there’s a square of darkness, and of purple flowers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a panel he’d done around two years ago, of a boy of about ten or eleven making paper flowers out of a heap of crumpled pages while rain poured outside his window. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I helped Papi string colored lights across the yard, and we decorated an eggplant bush with crêpe paper flowers and cutout figures. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She insisted that he hire their gardener, Jomo, to come in twice a week and plant some flowers in the yard. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I painted layers of black over houses and flowers and suns, and when I drew on the blackboard, I put a layer of chalk on top. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few birds were quarreling among the red flowers of the rhododendron, and there stood Dustfinger looking lost to the world, and juggling. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Did you finish your art assignment? The one with the red flower?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The morning sun was coming through the window behind him, falling on the pink flowers of the hibiscus plant that sat on the sill. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even this late in the year, the lawns were still a fresh-looking green and flowers hung on in the gardens. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was perfect growing weather, especially for flowers and com and strawberries. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers look beautiful and savage in the daylight, like vicious creatures suspended in time, motionless. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Something dropped out of the shadow—something I couldn’t make out completely, but it looked like a flower with fuzzy white petals. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And she likes having the space to herself, the stillness and the calm sweetened with the subdued scent of frozen flowers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Could some groceries be brought in, and fresh flowers? Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Their delicate winged bodies, prone and limp, were snarled in the girls’ hair, attached to their clothes, even stuck to their bare arms and legs, like dried pressed flowers. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She adjusted a flower cage on its pedestal. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the gardener plucks the weed and the flowering plant can fill the world with its brilliance and explosive color. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And she took off her crown, and plucked from it one of the little scarlet flowers that, while she wore them, remained as fresh as if they had just been picked. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lay on the lawn, their pink and white flowers grazing the grass, their roots waving lumpy soil in the air. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a grand mansion surrounded by a beautiful garden with flowered fishponds and red-pillared pavilions. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Otis laughed and strummed his guitar, and the flavor of the Littmus Lozenge opened in my mouth like a flower blooming, all sweet and sad. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I put fresh flowers in the vases and platters of fruit on all the tables, as Clara had in the days of the spirits, and the air filled with their fragrance. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of branches and twigs breaking, of the flowers being crushed. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

That one flower stood all alone in a patch of sun, one bright pink spot on the brown leaves under a maple tree. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“When I get a message from that thing,” Theodora said, “I expect it to be about hidden treasure. None of this nonsense about sending flowers to my aunt.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s knee length and pink, with blue and green flowers. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She came out onto a small balcony in the evenings and tugged petals off flowers in the window box. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Miss America probably gets a full spread with candlelight and flowers on the table and real fancy china to eat her food on. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There we stood on the train platform amidst the chaos, me in my flowered nightgown and my brother in a baby blue summer coat that nearly touched the ground. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Some would be walking in cool woods and picking bunches of wild flowers. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Their mind-muddying effects were daily diminishing, the Emergency was fading, and minds long closed to truth were opening again, like flowers craving sunlight. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

"That I'll pay with goodwill!" said Dunstan, and with that he leaned across the stall, amid the twinkling jingling of the crystal flowers, and planted a chaste kiss on her soft cheek. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Valley wrote dead flowers, right beneath using cucos, on the board. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Although the plants had been sprayed before the flowers were formed, the nectar later produced contained the poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The image of the guard in his elaborate flowering prison flashes through her head. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I'm sorry I didn't thank you earlier for the lasagna and the flowers. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Tris and I meet Nita in the hotel lobby after midnight, among the potted plants with their unfurling flowers, a tame wilderness. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In between the two are old, pretty houses that seem to shine in the sunlight like charms on a giant bracelet, linked together by the flower gardens that spill over their neat picket fences. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks—already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kat had put flowers from the garden in a glass vase in the middle and a wooden board with stacks of bread. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay. Just tell me one thing. Where did you get these flowers?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she didn’t remember about the enrabbiting of Glerk or the flowers in her footsteps or the power that was, even now, clicking through its gears, pulsing, pulsing, pulsing inexorably toward its end point. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Beneath the trees were ferns and flowers and damp, black dirt. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"I need you to be careful with the flower of immortality when you find it. If you get contaminated by it—if its pollen or sap enters your system—there could be adverse side effects." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Taking the thistle flowers, she dropped to her knees and bent low before the birdbath. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Planted flowers in coffee cans. She said this year, she planted a baby instead.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She’d been planning to work in her flower beds, the way she usually did to pass time between orphans, but she was currently facing a conundrum. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her hair is chemically straightened and smells of flowers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The giant plucked a flower out of his hair and regarded it absently. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She stopped to sniff the wilting flowers in a vase on the side table near the staircase, even though she knew their scent would be gone, before walking upstairs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were vegetables, including choy, which is a little like the demon broccoli only with yellow flowers. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember how I took care in the arena to cover her with flowers, to make sure her loss did not go unnoticed. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have a vase or anything, so I took my toothbrush out of my toothbrush holder and filled it halfway with water and left the flowers there in the bathroom. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The flowers would open and close, then the green fruits behind them would shrivel and turn brown. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She makes us cucumber sandwiches, the edges scalloped to look like flowers, filled with thin slices of salami. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was from these seeds and others, and from the flowers and roots beneath them, that Mr. Ages made the draughts and powders that could sometimes save the sick from dying. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Each flower is individually wrapped in cellophane and tied with a red ribbon, and he’s got a sign that says $3 that he props up against the bucket. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She handed me the bouquet once I stopped, and I sprinted down a sidewalk, placed the flowers on Karin’s doorstep, and sprinted back. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Daoud picked up one of the broken frames and tried to gently lift the flower out. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The window boxes puffed with flowers and the tree branches stooped heavy with ripe plums. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Come on. An ugly waiting around in the flowers with a hoverboard and a survival kit?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was embroidering a border of lotus flowers, a proper border for a wedding sari, because the lotus pod’s many seeds are scattered to the wind, suggesting wealth and plenty. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd, full of good feeling, replete with food and drunk with the music, vicariously excited, pressed round, eagerly thrusting over their heads garland after garland of flowers; the earth was spattered with petals. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lantern flared to life, and I saw more shriveled flowers on the ground. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A security guard was sitting behind the desk in the lobby, reading a big black book with a flower on the cover. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a flowered apron with a wand sticking out of the pocket. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But I don’t think they were looking at the flowers. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We swung around, the tires of the Saturn churning soft earth as we plowed into a flower bed. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Gardens had sprung up everywhere, in the firebreaks, between the rows of barracks—rock gardens, vegetable gardens, cactus and flower gardens. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was closing itself in, like a giant flower, with the passing of light. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shelves are lined with apothecary bottles that twinkle like jewels, as well as clear jars and magnificent flasks containing resins, balms, waxes, and oils made from flowers, plant secretions, and extracts. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

One day after Zella had swept the floor to make it look neat and clean, she picked up a stick and drew a rug of flowers, deer, and butterflies in the earth. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she writes responses for them: And do you remember when we ate pistachios, when we ate those lemon ices shaped like flowers? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Up at the High Table, Dumbledore had swapped his pointed wizard’s hat for a flowered bonnet, and was chuckling merrily at a joke Professor Flitwick had just read him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The spring flowers in a wet year were unbelievable. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What you’re after is a horse that works hard and doesn’t waste time looking at flowers.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then all the clouds rolled away, and the white sun shone, and at his command the vale of Gorgoroth became a garden of flowers and trees and brought forth fruit. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He had just enough time to walk home, clean all the fast-food wrappers and soda cans out of the Hearse, take a shower, buy some flowers from the White Hen, and pickup Marie. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful, standing on the shelf with flowers and leaves and birds and moons carved all around her, and the large star at the very top. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were always aromas of tasty dishes, flowers cut from our backyard in vases, doilies that Grandma India crocheted on tables, and squares of tapestry she had made on the walls. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I have a tiny clothespin at the bottom of the calendar pages, so I don’t cheat and peek ahead — I want each month’s flower to be a surprise. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The last cutting you sent me was from the flower of immortality." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A trail of cactus flowers followed it, hovering right about its shoulder area. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Everything else was just brick paths and flowers in pots. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Laney had discovered a box of flower clips under Isa’s bed and was attaching each one to her ponytail. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was a light yellow snake, covered with bright copper spots, like the wild flowers pulled loose and traveling. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then Mother made me take my clothes off and get into the bath and she said I could use her towel, which was purple with green flowers on the end. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Except you don't smell as good as a flower. In fact, you stink," Shyam, the new class bully, told her, and his friend Srikant snickered. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She wore her thin hair in a knot, and except in winter always had a flower stuck behind each ear. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He would spend the day in the rear of the store writing wild notes, which he would send to Amaranta with flower petals and dried butterflies, and which she would return unopened. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She stopped to pick a flower and lift it to her nose, posturing for me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The scent of lilies is stifling and when Celia can no longer tolerate it, she transforms all of the flowers into roses. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

While Dudley lolled around watching and eating ice cream, Harry cleaned the windows, washed the car, mowed the lawn, trimmed the flower beds, pruned and watered the roses, and repainted the garden bench. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I would hold my breath and count the petals on her wilting flowers and I would watch snow fall outside, but I would not speak. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As we approached the main house, we passed a small gated-in garden filled with flowers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When was the last time he squirted Snail B-Gone around the flower beds? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the briefest of moments I imagine clearing away the rock and digging a pond to grow water lilies and red bog flowers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to imagine this Mr. Marshall complaining that the flowers by his bedside were too symmetrically displayed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the swamp, standing right on the fringe of flowering reeds growing out of the muck, a very old woman leaned on a gnarled staff. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose so,” she said, sniffing the flower, which smelled of rain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She wanted them to love the music she loved, the flowers she gave them, the books she admired. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"You sell glass flowers, you say," he said. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would you walk across the flowers? Just walk around. She growing some flowers.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’m nodding back at her like a fellow flower, when the table beneath Broken Me-Blob No. 8 gives way and my self-portrait tumbles to the floor and shatters into pieces. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She followed me to my room, where a large flat package covered in bright, flowered wrapping paper lay on the bed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He said naively, “I’ll ask our father where it is so we can take flowers.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the front of the card there’s a vase of flowers dropping petals onto a tabletop and floor. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

For a solid month before Valentine’s Day, everyone was all worked up about the carnations—a dollar a flower, to benefit the school library. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Could she dream of a flower if she had never seen one in real life? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They relaxed in her presence, brought her crayon drawings or flowers they had picked from their mothers’ gardens. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not if you stayed five years or six to hear how hard it was for the flower of the Akhaians; you’d go home weary, and the tale untold. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are hordes of parents out here, holding flowers. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I wanted her to wear the pretty purple dress that didn’t hide her body like all of her other outfits, but Amá chose the bright yellow one with the pink flowers I’ve always hated. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I put the vase on the kitchen table and carefully lowered the flowers into it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I fought against my instinct to toss the flowers onto the floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And yet here she was, fretting over flowers. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

On our way to the door, we ran into Mrs. Terry, who was talking to a lady in a fancy hat with flowers on it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The scent of soot and carbon in your hair excites me with suggestions of glamorous Gotham. We must leave immediately. I must go flower in Manhattan.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suffragists screamed and waved their banners and tossed yellow flowers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A bright flower garden bloomed in front of the house. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Now a weird symbol appeared to be stitched into it, like a sun with rays that stretched out to infinity, or a flower with long petals. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Do you see anything, Sergeant?” the colonel cried to his son, Ben, dug in behind the flowered sofa where Okra slept. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head bowed, he walked up to Clara’s grave and threw a spray of half-withered wild flowers on it that looked as if they had been stolen from some garden. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a lovely thing to do, though such flowers always looked rather wrinkled and hurt for a day or so. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I did not expect her to know that the flowers were symbols of faithlessness, and that with my gift I rebuked her for being disloyal. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It falls right into the flower, and its head bobs down with the weight. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The statues had been replaced by pots of flowers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a limp flower bud there, tucked behind a clump of grass—the only splash of purple anywhere in sight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She poured him more beer in a thick pottery cup with yellow flowers painted around it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Just the flower heads. The leaves and stems make gold.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was filled with a blue flower, a rock plant of some sort, and the overflow hung down the vent and spilled lavishly among the canopy of the forest. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She could smell the fragrance wafting up from the wine: honey, peaches, flowers in midsummer, as intoxicating as first love. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But even with the knowledge of the special care those ladies took with the flowers, I could tell these white roses were not grown in one of their own gardens. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In some of the cakes she had put strips of little red haws and spots of dried green plums, making flowers and patterns. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z