Abanazer Bolger picked up the card again, by the edge, and waved it back and forth, slowly, as if running the edge along an imaginary flame. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“You have to hang on to the handle up there so it doesn’t slide back and forth too much.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Now praise our Lord’s mercy!” said Brother Luke fervently, at the same time putting forth a high stool for Robin to sit on. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

And from that day forth people figured Cleofes was in trouble up to his eyeballs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poet looked at the point of his spear and then the curtain wire and, deep in thought, walked back and forth across the stage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl squints, her sleepy eyes going back and forth between me and Bertha. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I can see the judges whispering back and forth at their table with their desk lights glowing. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But she moves back and forth from the dining room table to the kitchen. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two friends ran the dialogue back and forth until they could say most of the lines without looking at the page. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Dad flicked it a couple of times, swaying back and forth; then he held it up to the light and studied it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

All afternoon, the natives come back and forth to our ships in their canoes, bringing sweet-smelling fruits and other food from their island, which sits, green and lush, nearby. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Cal shook his head back and forth as though he couldn’t stop. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He passed the flat of his hand squeakily back and forth over the face of the medicine-cabinet mirror, wiping away most of the mist. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

We plowed through the woods, lugging the gunnysack, passing it back and forth between us when it got heavy. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He remembered the look on Father's face when Theon Greyjoy brought forth Ice, the spray of blood on the snow, the way Theon had kicked the head when it came rolling at his feet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Octavian, of whom I have written, and William Williams, another servant of the College of Lucidity in the days of our ascendancy, set forth seven days ago with a foraging detail navigating the Rappahannock River. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The threadmaster was sitting atop his spool of thread, swinging his tail back and forth and eating a piece of celery. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Servants rush back and forth, bringing tankards and inkpots and maps. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Golden Hours turned away, whispered back and forth, came to a decision. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I know Chaff by sight because I’ve spent years watching him pass a bottle back and forth with Haymitch on television. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then they stand on either side of the tree, passing the spool back and forth as they wrap the wire around and around the trunk. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

For those who remained, a singer was brought forth to fill the hall with the sweet music of the high harp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then I spit in the toilet again and sat on the edge of the tub, rocking back and forth. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, the locket swung back and forth, back and forth. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I swam after the raven as it darted back and forth through the mist. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Declaration stalked all the way while Peach darted across Rural Route 2, back and forth, shouting at all the wonders he discovered along the roadside: “A caterpillar!” and “Dandelions! Make a wish!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Now let’s try,” he whispers, and presses the earphone against his ear and runs what he has decided must be the tuning pin back and forth along the coil. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I knew the melody and I joined in, hesitantly at first, then strongly, swaying back and forth. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Again his eyes moved back and forth along the rows of students, and again he nodded, as if someone had confirmed what he’d said. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My mom ran her fingers through my hair, and rocked me back and forth, even though I was standing, and she said, like a poem, “You’ve got your father’s eyes and my nose.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I developed a technique of zigzagging back and forth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head turned back and forth, sniffing at every strange sound and looking at every black shadow. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Celia rocked Matt back and forth, all the while murmuring comforting words he could hardly take in. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing next to a rack of jump ropes, tossing a basketball back and forth from hand to hand, and occasionally spinning it on one finger, but only for like half a second. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We had several friends in common, and we’d recently started tweeting each other back and forth every day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“At least he can go back and forth to his country. Not like us; we can’t ever go to Cuba again. Isn’t that sad?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Furious as a hornet, he raced back and forth among the Huntsmen, bobbing up and down, his blade never still. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s weird when Coach Noles and Webb go back and forth like this. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She keeps going back and forth between the living room and the kitchen. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Our arrival was not unseasonable, we issuing forth to the side of the conflict, so we might outflank the enemy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t let my sister carry half-true histories back and forth between Miss Trotter and her sister. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They passed the jar back and forth until it was empty. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Reetika and I painted our faces in her bedroom, passing a hand mirror back and forth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I look back at Tobias, who is pacing back and forth in front of the windows, gnawing on his fingernails. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Shay danced, shifting her weight back and forth on the floating board, dodging imaginary obstacles. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They go back and forth as they try to get more than nods and grunts from him. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

These are the terrible creatures you ride forth to meet, Your Majesty. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She sat on the floor and rocked the cradle back and forth, back and forth, until the baby went to sleep. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The virus jumps easily back and forth between them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the barn doors noisily slapping back and forth with the force of the storm, and I couldn’t help but feel powerless. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He pushes me back and forth a few times while I let that thought simmer. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t pace back and forth in her living room like always, so she just tapped her feet as if stamping out a campfire. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Hanako didn’t know any of the words, but she got quite involved swaying back and forth just like everybody else. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the Xi came a bit closer to observe them, but most seemed to rapidly lose interest in their activities and began to pace back and forth, eager to move on. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘I am here. The last host of the Eorlingas has ridden forth. It will not return without battle.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He put his finger on the words alternate placement and rubbed it back and forth until the ink was smudged, the whole time shaking his head no. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magnus turns it back and forth, like, ten times before the thing finally clicks and the door slides out of view. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Callie’s boyfriend is overattentive and rubs his hand up and down her thigh in a weird way that makes me shiver while she and El whisper back and forth, sharing secrets, I’m sure. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Jimmy was behind the counter, running a hunk of ham back and forth in the electric slicer really fast, the way he liked to. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Ben’s mumbles and footsteps shift back and forth in the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He kept swiveling his head back and forth, like he expected someone to appear and guide him in the right direction with road flares and fanfare. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They stood toe to toe in the center of the ring, whacking, slugging, thumping back and forth, flinging sweat, elbows, fists, knees, jab the middle one, hook the middle one. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tiptoed into the room and lifted the top mattress of his bed and pulled forth the gun and slipped it inside of his shirt. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His green eyes shift back and forth as he searches for the right place, his fingers nimble, built for turning pages. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Both of them were shining flashlights back and forth. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She took off her shoes as the boy waited beneath the crossbar, rocking back and forth and growing more anxious by the moment. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I have to control my body to keep myself from rocking back and forth like those kids you see in the Orphans of the World infomercials or whatever. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Only the fountain seemed real, spewing forth sand like a reminder of Gaia’s limitless power. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For example, music for walking or marching is in duple meter and uses steady quarter notes, running music contains eighth notes, skipping music uses dotted rhythms, jumping music contains large interval leaps, and so forth. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

From the outset, he ran back and forth on his sideline, barking at his players in a hoarse bellow: “Man on! Man on! Drop it! Drop it! Turn! Turn! Turn!” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Pinmei looked back and forth at both sides of the walkway. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“No old mama to protect ye this time,” Matthew says, swinging his machete back and forth, like he’s trying to cut the air into slices. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It sounded like toenails clicking back and forth on the floor. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

It has gold or silver woven through it and sparkles as she slides it back and forth across her shoulders. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Thus reassured that the white, the red and the brown would stay where they were—would not explode or burst forth from their restricted zones—he suddenly felt hungry and looked around for his hands. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I traveled back and forth between the trial courts in Orleans Parish quite a bit on the Carter and Caston cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"If any man in this hall has other matters to set before His Grace, let him speak now or go forth and hold his silence." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was as blue as the sheen of water and it just kept buzzing back and forth among the bloodred flowers of a tall bush that arched over me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keys were passed back and forth between officers all the time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gram is rolling dough for a rhubarb tart, back and forth with the big rolling pin, dusting the yellow dough with handfuls of flour, stretching it to cover the brimming pie dish. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Laleh rocked back and forth on her heels and glanced at the counter. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

After a few hours rocking back and forth, her face turned the color of guacamole and she went below to lie in a hammock. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted Grandpa Bobby’s coin from my chest and turned it back and forth in my fingers, the gold catching the sunlight. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Another principal need is someone able to “case” these places’ physical layouts—to determine means of entry, the best getaway routes, and so forth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a small notepad from his jacket pocket and jotted down some notations, all the while looking back and forth from the pad to the glass of water. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was natural, too, that the divine power which brought forth the grain should be thought of as a goddess, not a god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Buick swerved back and forth as I steered it through one curve after another. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

On game days, the kids from rival high schools razzed each other back and forth. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If she were in Zmeyreka, she would have helped Mama make potions, or ridden Alsvindr back and forth on the roads. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

We already know that 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, and so forth has a limit of zero; thus, as we subtract the terms from 2, we have nothing left. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I spin my head and see Ben, his eyes shooting back and forth between me and a corner of the room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then they began to pace back and forth at the foot of the rock, sniffing the air, for they could smell my tracks and knew that I was somewhere near. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hours lost in forming lines and walking back and forth between the factory and Płaszów could be better spent producing goods and making a profit. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Like a kind of summer molasses, it poured turgidly forth upon the cinnamon-dusty road. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were only a few feet off the ground, but the plane got higher quickly, rocking back and forth as it climbed. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jacob read the letter quickly, though he pretended to read it slowly, stumbling over the words, repeating some of them, using his finger as a guide, back and forth across the sheet of paper. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I may never find out what’s happened to him, she thought, as one of the blue fairies rocked back and forth on a twig above her, its face bland and happy. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then new shoots began to be put forth and grew with abnormal rapidity, giving a weeping appearance to the trees. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They pulled teeth like maniacs, barking at us in whatever their native tongues were while they yanked our heads back and forth like rag dolls’. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the servants used this stair, for the fourth floor held only servants’ quarters, storage closets for linens and out-of-season clothes, sewing rooms, and so forth. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

His calm gaze went back and forth between their faces. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The river was nowhere near straight, looping back and forth and actually flowing slightly north back along itself at one point. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He waved his hand back and forth as if to indicate he was speaking about all the prisoners on the hall. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Often the hallways were empty, and Conrad and I could run back and forth enjoying ourselves before we went into the library to sit quietly at a table and spend hours looking at books. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ghostlike, mere smudges on the computer screen, they were moving back and forth. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It’s only sharp words back and forth; no fists or blunt objects. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I dropped my eyes and brushed my foot back and forth across the trampled grass. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The other three shuffle papers back and forth and murmur something about the previous contestant dodging questions. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The mainsail was slashing back and forth like a demon gone mad. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wild chorus of voices, a complete cacophony—not soft grillos—shouts crazily from everywhere it seems, urging me forth. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He puts the basin under my hands and pours water over them, back and forth. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Pond then hummed and swayed his long body back and forth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There wasn't time to write back and forth for legal sponsorship from Ruth. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As though an invisible hand were leafing through them, the pages of the Parmenides rippled back and forth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

So we lay in the tall grass between the soccer field and the woods, passing the bottle back and forth and tilting our heads up to sip the wince-inducing wine. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Nazgûl came again, and as their Dark Lord now grew and put forth his strength, so their voices, which uttered only his will and his malice, were filled with evil and horror. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then we walked back and forth, picking out broken glass, like chickens pecking seeds. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m pacing back and forth on the steps in front of my building. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He wrapped him in his own parka and wrapped him in the blanket and sat holding him, rocking back and forth. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Someone was walking around, she thought without interest; Luke was walking back and forth in the room, talking softly to himself; surely an odd way to play chess? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each man can respond only when the finger of bravery curls and beckons him forth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Piper paced back and forth between the mainmast and the ballistae, practicing her lines. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Much needed rain,” Gary whispered, rocking back and forth. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

People in plastic suits sprint back and forth with fire extinguishers. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He gives it a single knock and shouts, “Come forth, my old friend. Come forth, Vladimir!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Whether or not Pasiphaë had created a new Labyrinth, Hazel believed they were still in the same cavern, being made to run aimlessly back and forth while Pasiphaë and Clytius watched in amusement. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He and Tess were tossing the squeaky toy back and forth, just out of Samantha’s reach, and she was running back and forth frantically. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His eyes swept back and forth over the abandoned campsite, stopped on the axe. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As each swelling was popped, a large amount of thick yellowish- green liquid burst forth, which smelled strongly of petrol. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I saw him take her by the shoulders and shake her, her head bouncing back and forth. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the silver queen would come forth from her city, smash the Yunkai’i, and break their chains, they whispered to one another. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The old woman rocked back and forth with malicious glee. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s head started going back and forth fast like a pendulum in a clock that the weight’s fell off. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

You have to learn to walk smooth, even as the train rocks back and forth beneath you. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to turn the doorknob back and forth over and over again to see if it was true. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Yengwa draped himself with a blanket, rolled up a newspaper to imitate an assegai, and began to stride back and forth reciting the lines from the praise song. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no sitting on the front porch, no saying hi to the neighbors, no kids running back and forth between houses. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Waves from the pudding were slogging me back and forth, back and forth. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You rogue! You traitor! Jo, how could you?” cried the three girls, as Snodgrass led her friend triumphantly forth, and producing both a chair and a badge, installed him in a jiffy. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came forth steadily and without break, albeit slowly, and he realized that she had planned this whole thing out for herself. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They go back and forth like it’s a competition. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

One visionary put forth a tower five hundred feet taller than the Eiffel Tower but made entirely of logs, with a cabin at the top for shelter and refreshment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the sky, where daylight begins, a dense radiance like a shooting star breaks forth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Corcoran party,” said Bunny, hands in his pockets, rocking back and forth on his heels. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sun slid behind a big white cloud and the street was plunged in cool shadow; quickly the sun edged forth again and it was bright and warm once more. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Otis Amber delivered groceries from the shopping center to Sunset Towers, back and forth, to and fro. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Academy, prison had been likened to a village—a self- contained world with its own school, workshops, hospital, and so forth. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, after going back and forth, in his mind about who he’d want to live with, and messily jotting his thoughts in the notebook, the smooth, dark road hypnotized Genie, finally coaxing him to sleep. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We play back and forth till Billy gets the ball and goes speeding and dancing up the sideline so fast no one can catch him and in goes the ball for a goal. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had dreadlocks wound up in a bun, and she rocked back and forth while another woman wrapped her arm around her and fanned her with one of the church fans. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he glimpsed the tigress, pacing back and forth. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The other man grabbed Jon by his armpits, and together they swung him back and forth. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Just say it, Mom,” I say as I rock my feet back and forth on the stool. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He threw a switch, and the machine hummed, and the sample began to move back and forth, the toast crumb sliding across the edge of the diamond knife. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paces back and forth in the doorway of his closet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

What I could see was that a group was passing newspaper clippings back and forth and reading them aloud with little squeals of delight. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bouncing melodies back and forth between them like brightly colored balls. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He slashed back and forth, destroying the demons one after the other while Small Bob the kitten sat on his shoulder, arching his back and hissing. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Between communities water traffic continually darts, hopscotch- ing back and forth with the speed of gossip even though many boats are still powered by pushing a long pole against the bottom. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She leaned in until her nose was touching Hanako’s, and then she rubbed back and forth a couple of times. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

From the scabbard at his side he drew forth a mighty sword. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The numbers, neat and clear, shuttle back and forth between my earmuffs. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Aunt Pooh and Scrap go back and forth about the Crown. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I sat back down, picked up the can, and rubbed it across my greasy forehead, back and forth, back and forth. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Gabrielle plucks the tart from her hands, and they fuss back and forth until Claudine orders the servant to bring her another. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I switch back and forth between Mom and Dad, trying to figure out if this is good or bad news. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Amil just rocked back and forth, unfolding and folding his paper. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We go back and forth for a little while, and then I set off down the hallway, toward the noise and the people. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Our two young people discovered it and through it they were able to whisper sweetly back and forth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a member of the relief committee, my father was already there and would be going back and forth for a long time, I supposed. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orestes went forth from Athena’s tribunal a free man. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was another pause, during which the only sounds were forks being placed on plates while glances passed back and forth. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Letting forth a great sigh, he summoned enough strength to heave himself up to his hands and knees. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I want to define my place in their worlds and not try to understand the definitions the senator spews forth about his own. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It was much easier to be sad than to go back and forth between emotions, and this gave me the determination I needed to keep moving. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The train rocked back and forth, back and forth. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They run back and forth, filling troughs, tossing hay, and hauling away dung. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Turning down the lane, the jockey weaved back and forth, sweeping his flashlight beam from side to side, hunting for the driest, hardest path. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like pouring one glass of water back and forth between two glasses. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Inside, crowds of blue-shirted people sit around tables, typing on computers or bent over books or passing sheets of paper back and forth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Back and forth with their criticism, sometimes of me, sometimes of Gum Baby. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We just sort of drifted back and forth between our two apartments and I got less sleep than ever. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She whipped it back and forth past the dark columns of tree trunks, shooting through them at top speed, so fast that her hands and face collected dozens of scratches from the branches blurring by. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When it was quite late he murmured something, went to a closet, and drew forth an evil weapon, a long yellowish tube ending in a bellows and a trigger. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back and forth they went until the floor was full of sawdust heaped as high as the barrier in the doorway. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably a million trains have gone back and forth on that platform since then. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He moved jaggedly back and forth, as if he were trying to suss out something. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear’s eyes flickered back and forth between the small pieces in his hand and the larger container, his brow furrowed in thought. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Sai Fong put the cricket cage in the middle of the table and then went back and forth to the stove, bringing over steaming bowls of Chinese food. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some rocked back and forth, trying to erase the terrible memories of the past few hours. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were small and lean, and they paced back and forth in the trees, watching her carefully. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you stand between Emma and me, and you can go back and forth between looking at both of these computers with us. You might see something we miss.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“So before the accident were you two texting back and forth to each other?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Here. The person who used to work 011 the files used to wheel back and forth on this along the lower drawers. Try it.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nod, and Morgan shrugs, and Anna’s eyes shift back and forth between us. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Clytius snarled, turning back and forth as if he couldn’t decide which of them to kill first. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I felt the way you feel like when you’re on a boat, rocking back and forth. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The cab driver sang loud and free, clapping his hands and rocking his head back and forth. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I keep walking back and forth in front of the sofa. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took up a second ball, and along with the first, began to throw it back and forth. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I really don’t know. I’ve gone back and forth like a thousand times about it all. Each time I reread it, I think something different, you know?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

As we crossed back and forth, the cars slowed down. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She ate hers in less than a minute, and then fidgeted, swinging back and forth on her chair and plucking at the plastic strips of the woven seat while he finished his. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back and forth from the shopping center to Sunset Towers, again and again and again and . . . hey, this is a new direction. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta: “I birthed a black nation. From my womb black creation spilled forth to be stolen shackled dispersed.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It brought forth a smattering of chuckles from the room. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He still had his yarn and needles in his hand, and was waving them back and forth. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“You have been observed, Miss Podgórska, going back and forth from the ghetto. We have seen you passing goods at the fence. We have seen your sister at the fence...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She half carried me to her chair, pulled me onto her lap, and rocked me back and forth, back and forth, humming a lullaby I’d never heard. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Some of them were on regular runs back and forth while others moved over single operations. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to swing it back and forth. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I kept my eyes on the clouds as I pumped back and forth so I could avoid anything I did not want to see or hear. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I did not want to hear that I could not set forth to seek Hallows with a fragile and unstable sister in tow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It became three-dimensional, a towering monster glistening with fresh paint, long arms stretched out in front of it as it raced back and forth. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In a case like this the experimental method requires you to move smoothly back and forth between nature and artifice. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The director’s eyes dart back and forth between the battle with the bat hybrids overhead and the fight going on in the hallway. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I stared at the ground and rolled a small rock back and forth under my shoe. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

As they came to the gates Círdan the Shipwright came forth to greet them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Often they sat at the same table, tossing ideas back and forth. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The arrangement saved him “making two back-and- forth trips to town.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Westcott must be going back and forth to see to his cows. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mac rubbed his eyes and paced back and forth in the kitchen. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Presumably countless thousands of people rolled the toylike figurines back and forth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was drifting, drifting like a fat white lazy cloud back and forth across the blue. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

There were many staccato footfalls back and forth in the bathroom, which meant, he knew, that his mother was attempting to accomplish several phases of her toilet at once. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed Fig’s front paws and waved them back and forth. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He put his hands on his head, flattening his Iocs, rocking back and forth in that way people do right before they punch a wall. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I rock back and forth on my chair like a baby, craving so many impossible things: justice, forgiveness, redemption. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elinor looked so funny hobbling from the wall to the door and back again with her aching feet, back and forth like a clockwork toy. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Charles Chiltington was outside, as usual, walking back and forth on the sidewalk, carrying a protest sign that said “Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Is Execrable.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Bunny pinched a piece of the rich, yellowy cloth near the cuff and rubbed it back and forth between his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He pressed this V to his mouth and between this suggestive triangle flicked his tongue back and forth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Babou looked back and forth at the road signs and said something in Farsi. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He rolls a toothpick back and forth in his mouth with his tongue. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I collapse on the last stair and rock back and forth silently. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He turned the radio back up and jerked his head back and forth, singing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And, believing this, their sap began running, their buds grew fat, their branches suddenly burst forth into flowers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The veerboots, the ferry boats that shuttled cars and people back and forth when the bridge was swung open, were tied up and empty. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw his eyes in his rearview mirror, skipping from Sohrab to me, back and forth, back and forth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the bronze man lifted a pointed crag to hurl it at the Argo he grazed his ankle and the blood gushed forth until he sank and died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if all the scorn and insults I had ever endured were pouring forth from him. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

After a while I was singing loudly, swaying back and forth and clapping my hands, and once I saw Reb Saunders looking at me, and his lips curved into a shadow of a smile. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Finally he waved it back and forth in the smoke from the incense burner, chanting, “Hear us, O Thoth, ancient and wise. Hear us and answer.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his foot down, pointed behind us, and swept his finger back and forth. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But the young man answered smartly, “Yes, but they do not stay there. They branch forth and bear flowers and fruits.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Over these months they will get to know each other intimately, writing seventy-eight letters back and forth. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I followed her hand, Alef swinging back and forth in it. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“What do you want us to do? Fly back and forth? And who’s going to pay for it? The flights alone would cost...” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He pulled forth another piece of brown paper and wrapped it round a coal. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was near about impossible to make out what was going on, because people all around us were singing, dancing, banging their plates, waving their arms back and forth like trees in a hurricane. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the morning at the computer, flipping back and forth between my religion and English papers. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Have been in clinics back and forth all my life. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she’s past, dress swaying lightly, cane roving back and forth, and he watches her continue up the street until the fog swallows her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’s pacing back and forth in the goal, ready to throw his body in front of the ball. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rode their bikes back and forth on the sidewalk. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They reminded Percy of his mom’s gas stovetop back home, when she had the flame on low—waves of ghostly blue flames rippling back and forth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He spends the days of orientation rushing around campus, back and forth along the intersecting flagstone path, past the clock tower, and the turreted, crenelated buildings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a little back and forth, they decided to meet for breakfast at six o’clock that morning. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Luna flipped back and forth, stared at her handiwork. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The class went back and forth like that day after day, and when the bell rang it was always a surprise and an intrusion. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the surface of the floe was firm enough, the men would exercise by marching back and forth, always on the lookout for predatory leopard seals. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The lead bounced back and forth between the two teams a couple of times. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I'll probably be moving back and forth from India to America my whole life, just like my parents have. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As it was, when she spoke with Reta she moved back and forth between a genteel grace and a childlike exuberance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lazarus come forth, he thought, and pulled out a cool chicken. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Toad was seesawing his head back and forth with his hands as he continued to scream. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Outside, the wind howled and sent the tops of the leafless trees casting back and forth in the night. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The beast shook as he transformed himself back and forth between his goatherd self and the grotesque form of the fiendish chupacabras. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

One day I heard some Spanish academics whispering back and forth to each other, and their sounds seemed ghostly voices recalling my life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luminous these were too, beautiful and yet horrible of shape, like the demented forms in an uneasy dream; and they gave forth a faint sickening charnel-smell; an odour of rottenness filled the air. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her determination drained away as her sightless eyes roved aimlessly back and forth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I paced back and forth in front of the phone the way one does to remind someone ahead that others are waiting. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paces back and forth on the shore, makes a couple of steps into the water as if to swim out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I lolled them back and forth as the narration continued. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The detectives trudged back and forth, searching for tire tracks, but after a half hour gave up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Grandpa was laughing so hard he hurt—rocking back and forth in his seat, grabbing his stomach, slapping his leg, flopping his arms, and shouting like somebody getting religion at a camp meeting. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I took the ball from them and bounced it a couple of times, dribbling it back and forth between my legs. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Grover cowered by the railing, his hooves clopping back and forth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We laughed and talked, and Wynn ran back and forth for refreshments in between Nan hollering suggestions and inspiring quotes from the porch. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I rub my finger across the wood back and forth harder and harder until a splinter cuts me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back and forth, forth and back. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I thought about it as I tossed back and forth, but couldn’t come up with an answer. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His left hand twitched and moved back and forth, pretending to pull the at.oow over his freezing body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The road trips to Irving and Abilene and San Angelo in that endless caravan of RVs and Suburbans and plain old sedans rising forth so proudly from the bowels of West Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gushed forth praise for the Abbey victuals. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Reb Saunders stood with his back to the congregation, swaying back and forth, occasionally clapping his hands together, and the child stood at his right, swaying too, in obvious imitation of his father. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She noticed Reyna looking back and forth between Jason and Piper, her brow creased, as if just beginning to realize the two of them were a couple. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We’re tossing the ball back and forth in a hard fast rhythm that feels great. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I barked once, like a dog, then let forth a high whine. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Smokestacks fume and locomotives trundle back and forth on elevated conduits and leafless trees stand atop slag heaps like skeleton hands shoved up from the underworld. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The three of us had all started out with good intentions, messaging back and forth, but it got hard keeping it up. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was working up a sweat from scratching his itchy side back and forth against the rough bark on a prickly oak. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Diego rocked back and forth on his heels, his hands in his pockets. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My mother sat quietly and my father paced back and forth, from the door to the window. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They rocked back and forth, with their eyes staring. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a few carefully worded inquiries, the facts spit forth freely. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Even Steve got in on the party with his bobbing back and forth. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her fingers would commence sliding back and forth twixt her left ear and her mouth like they were tracing over a invisible welt that got whupped into her. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Levi is rocking back and forth from his heels to his toes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A slender stream twisted back and forth in its broad bed of gray sand, and the water was not milky with silt but clear and pleasant. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His dark eyes traveled back and forth, willing every eye to meet his. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thunder subsided, rumbling back and forth across the sky, searching for someplace else to go. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Hour after hour, mile after mile, lurching back and forth in the wagon, Mollie crossed the wild, empty landscape, not yet carved into a country. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When they sallied forth together the neighborhood emptied suddenly of not only cats but of dogs as well. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two plesiosaur artillery units had peeled off after her; she could see the glow of their lanterns shivering in the ocean breeze and hear their riders yelling back and forth. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Servants moved back and forth, feeding logs to the fire and boiling wine. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I try to get the swing going myself but all I can do is move it back and forth and I’m angry because Freddie and Malachy are laughing at the way I can’t swing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As she spoke, she paced back and forth. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They were catching one another’s weapons, tossing them back and forth in a display of strength and agility. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

For the first month or so, Helda would shuttle back and forth between all-night diners, drinking coffee to stay awake. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re arguing, and the voices back and forth make a squeezing pressure inside him and a sense of panic. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Whispers passed back and forth in the crowd. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya directed them to put the branches next to the sukkah, and then they lifted her up so she could put each branch on, laying them alternating back and forth. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

There didn’t seem to be a thing we could do for Winn-Dixie to make him feel better, so we just sat there and watched him run back and forth, all terrorized and panting. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She and Tab watched the kids running back and forth in the knee-high dust. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The key was stubborn, and he wiggled it back and forth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The families of graduates were spread out across the bleachers, and I ran back and forth across the basketball court a couple times before I spotted Mom and Dad about halfway up. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Or rather, she was running back and forth crying on the shore. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He paused in his efforts and looked at Flora in an apologetic and hopeful way, and then he returned to wobbling back and forth. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

It moves its hooves slightly back and forth. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He did not stop the flood of treasonable oratory which poured forth from men like Warren and Quincy. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened it the rest of the way and saw a woman in a blue print dress, rocking back and forth on her heels. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Following closely behind them perhaps there would have strode a professional pilgrim, supporting himself on a stout knobbed staff shod like an alpenstock and weighed down with blessed medals, relics, shells, vernicles and so forth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to rock back and forth where I stood, yanking on the railing and stomping my feet, sending shockwaves up the stairs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It is as though we have always been in this position, the front porch swing moving gently back and forth, the sun warm on our faces, the day only halfway over. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Only the kings would step forth to the manger and offer their gifts. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s eyes ticked back and forth among the three of them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Every story is good, every story is new to me, but they go back and forth like it’s normal to just be chatting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miles away, we could see the blocky shape of a freighter steaming south, and a few deep-sea boats trolling back and forth. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It had been her care which provided me a companion in Clerval—and yet a man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances which call forth a woman’s sedulous attention. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’d stood up out of my seat, I was so moved by what he said—how he, too, had finally come forth with the truth. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Up and down, back and forth he went until the storm wore itself out, and Edward saw that he was beginning, again, his slow descent to the ocean floor. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Love that sets forth the soul like springtime and ripens it like summer. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When I stop rattling on, it gets quiet, even though we’ve been talking back and forth nonstop. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

They re up there dancing to rap music and throwing their booty back and forth. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Hildy’s rubbing Viola’s back again and I see that Viola’s eyes are wet and leaking and she’s started to rock a little back and forth. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I could be in the south of Spain, at the beach; I could be in Italy, the Cinque Terre, all those pretty coloured houses and the trains ferrying the tourists back and forth. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I have no name,” I said, my rage bursting forth. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We shall say the office before it is time to set forth on thy mission.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Behind it, Captain Reed prowled back and forth at the rail, looking into the mist, then turning around again to stare with equal intensity at the crate. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Holding her elbows, she rocked back and forth mournfully on her creaking chair. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

If only I could ever bring forth all that I knew quickly enough to suit Father. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put forth an alternative that I knew would be unpopular. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he started swinging his hips back and forth, humping the desk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The magic horn had become so attuned to her emotions it could amplify her anger, love or grief and spew forth its bounty accordingly. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Come to the city pier, we stepped forth upon enemy soil and charged our muskets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

As I pass him, I grow very conscious of the frayed rope in my hand leading the cow, and the rhythm of my ponytail swinging back and forth behind me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t going to work, Red,” Bongo said, strutting back and forth on the lawn. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I handed Mrs. Willibey that paper and watched her eyes dart back and forth as she read it. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Petra was pushing her grilled cheese back and forth across her plate. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway the shunless one brings forth the fun No hatred; the summer’s almost done “How long have you known that song?” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

People hanging out, calling back and forth or gathered in knots in the street. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm sick of being yanked back and forth between old-lady hands. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Meggie heard them running over the wooden floorboards above them, back and forth, jumping, sliding, giggling, and squealing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He storms back and forth, bellowing like Genghis Khan at a troop inspection. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I like throwing a baseball back and forth, but not today. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He dreamed on, and traveled in time and so forth. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blisters burst on my right hand as I awkwardly drag the knife back and forth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As the deck tilted back and forth, Captain Kontoulis didn’t stumble once, and was even able to light one of the Indonesian cigarettes he favored, dipping his cap’s braided brim to cut the wind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I practice walking from bed to bed back and forth back and forth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He’s ducking his rump under the current, swishing back and forth until the bandage comes off and floats away. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A clamor filled the pavilion, as other men loudly set forth their claims. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were darting back and forth now like a hare caught in a trap, looking from the vines to the approaching warriors to the vines again with visible panic. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Poppet asks, looking back and forth between her brother and Celia. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His icy fingers touched inside of her and at once she spoke, not a word, but a sound that gave forth a meaning of horror accepted. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At last he was able to bring forth a choked whisper: ‘Fiend.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sails immediately began luffing loudly, slapping back and forth in the breeze. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the game flipping my focus back and forth between my homework and Miles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The ground was muddy everywhere, so for the sake of my pants I stayed standing with Otto, rocking him back and forth and humming. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Aleph said, ‘No. All personal things must be set aside, and you must punish or reward only what you yourself witness from this day forth.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Between the third and fourth day, my mood jumped back and forth erratically from wild exhilaration to gloomy apprehension. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My parents’ footsteps pace back and forth above my head; the sounds of the household, the Mixmaster and the telephone and the distant news, filter down to me as if in illness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I tried to fall asleep, I could hear Grandma rocking back and forth in her chair, singing hymns that must have given her the strength to stay alert all night. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since vaccination taught her instantly the difference between left and right, she thought that school would bring forth even greater miracles. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you could watch these waves, it would not even look as if they are traveling back and forth. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The shadows of his little goat legs moved back and forth under the barn door. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The vet took a hand-held electronic scanner off the counter and waved it back and forth over the dog’s back. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

His herd stopped, too, as one, whinnying and stamping as he paced back and forth. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Wearing his dress uniform, polished black boots, and clean red sash, Lee rides forth. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The boy, no older than sixteen, darted his head back and forth, apparently looking for cops, customers, or both. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Without the people passing back and forth, the streets seemed wider and darker. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Calvin broke his gaze and looked away, then down at Radar, whose bandaged ear twitched back and forth. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

But prudence warned me neither to waste the time nor weaken my resolve by too much thought So I reached into my pocket and drew forth the small vial. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The two scholars breathlessly handed the magnifying spectacles back and forth. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The King went forth with two great dogs following him, his sole retinue and bodyguard. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded, and the long black beard went back and forth against his chest. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The stream didn’t slow us down much, but over the next half hour we had to cross it three separate times as it wound back and forth across the road. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The saw gave forth a single sluggish twang that ceased with lifeless alacrity, leaving the blade in a thin clean curve between Luster’s hand and the floor. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white tail began twitching back and forth. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Also, by 2000, traders by the thousands had begun to move back and forth across the border supplying food and goods for markets that had all but replaced the government’s public distribution system. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The two dogs were trotting back and forth along the foot of the mound, watching Rontu. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids whispered to one another, fidgeting in those uncomfortable auditorium chairs, kicking the chairs in front of them and rocking back and forth. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Moving back and forth, the priests looked like men at a hammam. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On his way to the fire, he leaped back and forth, chasing schools of fish. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I carried the letter in my teeth until I was back in the house so I could pass the heavy mussel pail back and forth between my hands. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Dad’s weird because he’s afraid we’re going to be cripplingly and emotionally damaged,” Maya replied, her pen between her teeth as she flipped back and forth between her physics textbook and her lab book. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

‘Here I must put forth all such power and skill as is given to me,’ he said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He hobbled over to the basket where he kept his odds and ends, and brought forth a piece of twine. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

A few shadows still flitted back and forth throughout the building. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And back and forth it went until I was Jackie and my father left the hospital mad. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I glance back and forth between my parents. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she even climbed the trees and danced among the upper branches, her toes gripping the limbs as she moved back and forth, teetering a little less every day as her balance returned to her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Weird how this memory flashed through my mind as I raced the boat down the creek and into the river, my eyes sweeping back and forth across the water, looking for Ben and his mom. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I haven’t seen Walter yet, and I pace back and forth in front of the open door, scanning the lot. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Those guys might have spent their whole life going back and forth with messages on their heads, like a living piece of notebook paper,” James said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Griffins flew back and forth in the sky, cawing, while knights sitting on their backs brandished lances, spears, and bows. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

After a while the children began shouting questions at the men like had they ever killed anybody and weren’t they afraid of the Rebels and so forth. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined the plain wooden crucifix above the altar swinging back and forth as Father Amadi raised the host at consecration. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

So she set forth to find the goddess who was looking everywhere for her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly we both spurt forth with laughs—petrified ones. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Unto the woman God said: I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept her eyes on her work and moved the big broom back and forth laboriously. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the claspknife in his left hand and stealthily drew forth the maimed hand to steady the loaf. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had tossed it back and forth between his hands a few times, then thrown it again to Asher. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bowing with the air of one accustomed to public praise, he stole to the cavern and ordered Hagar to come forth with a commanding, “What ho, minion! I need thee!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only a matter of time before we’re passing the bottle back and forth as we walk. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She then replaced the cap on the bottle of lacquer and, standing up, passed her left—the wet—hand back and forth through the air. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He shook his head wildly back and forth. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her voice, which everyone said sounded as if she were hoarse, came forth in the rhythmic jíbaro dialect I loved. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Many of the girls are practicing their splits, and a boy is posed on a skateboard, and two other boys are juggling balls back and forth. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As you walk down a narrow pathway that zigzags back and forth, you can see the history of the region in the various layers of rocks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noah paced back and forth, gritting his teeth. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

For a long time—as his brother was taken back and forth to a special medical home and was forced to wear braces on his legs, which left him limping—Morrie felt responsible. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched as Selena and her brother stomped back and forth and side to side. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

In front of me, Matt is writing notes back and forth with Calvin Umbatoor on a single sheet of paper that’s sitting on the floor between them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone was speaking in hushed voices, racing back and forth from the dressing room, even though the audience hadn’t even begun to gather yet. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His blue eyes flicked back and forth between Cate and me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The wind was blowing harder, whipping the treetops back and forth. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Also, of course, there was no force pushing me down into my seat, and my body bobbed back and forth against the shoulder straps and seat belt as I moved. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beginning with one ball, he demonstrated how to toss it back and forth between his hands. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It sounded like orduorwenorgoch! And look at him, running back and forth on his perch. Do you think we’ve upset him?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She had spent the past week mostly on her computer, going back and forth between researching Melissa Taylor and researching teenage birth mom support groups. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Pete would dash back and forth in the infield, clicking his stopwatch, yelling encouragement and instructions. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

We went back and forth that way for a time—pork chops and spinach, chicken and grapefruit, beef Stroganoff and eggplant—and she was right, dead right every time. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was an unpleasant reminder of Sodom, Gomorrah, and so forth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It will not be long I fear,’ said Éomer, ‘ere the coming of the king’s host will be known to the leader of our enemies, Saruman or whatever captain he has sent forth.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I pumped my legs back and forth on the swings. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was just curious about why I rushed back and forth to the pump. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, the two of us could go back and forth insulting each other for hours. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Anya picked up her last piece of dough, rounded it into a ball between her palms, and then rolled her hands back and forth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

"If any man has other matters to set before the King's Hand, let him speak now or go forth and hold his silence." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I hoped that Frodo had set forth at once, as my letter had urged, and that he had reached Rivendell before the deadly pursuit began. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lily looked down at her lap, though her eyes were shifting back and forth. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He rocked it back and forth a few times to get the fuel flowing into the engine, and once he smelled it he put his entire weight into a big swing. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not...” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It swam back and forth like a flickering minnow. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I follow Dylan down a little winding path, my eyes darting back and forth trying to see everything at once. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We went and sat in the swing, where we rocked back and forth, making little pushes on the floor with our feet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Haliax’s hooded face swept back and forth to look at each of the figures sitting around the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But his arms remained folded across his chest, and he stood there, swaying slowly back and forth, and looking at me intently. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Joe’s seat slid methodically and silently back and forth on the greased runners beneath him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

While she checks the numbers on the calculator against the numbers in the checkbook, Uhmma absent-mindedly rubs her thumb back and forth. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

We girls giggled and tossed pennies back and forth into our teacher Miss Stiles's chair before she arrived. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He lifted Sophie’s picture and kept turning it, his eyes darting back and forth, as if he might steal something new from the shape of her face, another profile, an unwitnessed angle. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The year brought forth little according to the entries which became sparser as the year wore on. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was flushed and sweating, his eyes wide and darting back and forth as if he expected a monster to leap from the shadows at any moment. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Twice the midwife refused to come to laboring mothers who had nothing to pay, and so the unfortunate women had to bring forth their babies with none but a neighbor to help. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of snoring poured forth from the dining room. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

It opened slowly: a figure came out into the twilight and stood on the step; a man without a hat: he stretched forth his hand as if to feel whether it rained. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ben asks, looking back and forth between my parents. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He knew now why the Archmage had feared to send him forth, and what had darkened and clouded even the mage’s foreseeing of his future. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He ran a shaky hand through his hair, his eyes flicking back and forth over the empty rotunda. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The little Guadalupes swung on their crescent moons back and forth, back and forth, like girls on playground swings. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I dig my hands into my pockets and rock back and forth on my heels, waiting for Jake to say something. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s just, I thought you’d probably try to push back, and then I’d insist, and we’d go back and forth, and I know we don’t have a lot of time. So.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She hugged herself and rocked back and forth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

With every blow Kuba swung back and forth like the pendulum of a grandfather clock. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Beneath the crosses, Therese kneels on the hard floor, rocking back and forth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Wishbone’s tail swished back and forth in the dry red dirt. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In the dance pavilion at West Port Jensen the night lanterns were kindled; tourists from Seattle poured forth from the excursion steamers to perform the Svenska polka, the Rhinelander, the schottische, and the hambone. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He dangled some wool before them and soon had them springing back and forth and tumbling on the carpet. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

This was the code name of Niels Bohr, whose gloom reflected his misgivings about the horrific weapon being brought forth by his own discoveries. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Now, Mither, serve forth yon porridge, for I have not broken my fast this day.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Back and forth, and I don’t believe she knew where she was or even that she paced. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Then he had been straight and strong, standing there in the courtyard as the men rode forth. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

She had heard him pace back and forth on the second floor, had seen his eyes’ longing look when he talked to Ahmad on the phone. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I would not have been surprised to see a long tail snapping back and forth behind him. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Desperately the companions flung themselves back and forth, fighting against the mute, iron enemy. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She lifts the other whip and flicks its tip back and forth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It echoes back and forth between the mountains around us. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath and slowly ran his hand back and forth across his mouth as if he were trying to erase it and the lecture he was supposed to deliver. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Miss Volker shimmied her hips and shoulders back and forth and high-stepped up and down a little bit as if she were trying to shoo a bee out from under her dress. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He’s barking round the tree and the squirrel’s skittering back and forth on the tree trunk, taunting him. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I smiled to think of the sunflowers bursting forth from those cans come August. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Kids dance in midair, squealing and laughing as they’re carried back and forth by swirling gusts of wind. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

At the top of the mountain, the road dropped precipitously and swung back and forth until it bottomed out into a long, narrow valley. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The old lord kept mostly in his own apartments, coming forth mornings to pace up and down the snowy inner courtyards of the castle-keep like an old sorcerer who has been brewing spells all night. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The man tried to speak but only a coyote sound was heard, and the tail moved back and forth sweeping ridges in the sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A soybean field between my house and his has a path worn down through the middle of it we’re back and forth so much. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her high blond ponytail flips back and forth. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Officers sat quietly by, joking softly, respectfully with each other, keeping an eye on the old man walking back and forth, back and forth, stopping to stare at the eastern hills, the eastern haze. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,” RFK had said. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His legs kicked out and he rolled onto his side, thrashing back and forth as if someone else were trying to strangle him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kelly hurried back and forth from the breakfast table to the kitchen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A series of letters, photos, and packages went back and forth through April. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But then, during the first orbit, the capsule’s automatic control system began to act up, causing the capsule to pull back and forth like a badly aligned car. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He began to pace back and forth like an animal in a cage, pausing only to point a finger at Violet. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The whole wrapped-up bundle, which was shaped like a large vitamin pill, bent slightly from side to side, then was still, then bent back and forth again. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Flies with heads and tails make eggs with heads and tails, which make embryos with heads and tails, which grow into flies with heads and tails, and so forth, ad infinitum. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Despite the miserable weather, the planes are flying diligently back and forth. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Her tail thumped back and forth, hitting my knees. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I expected Richard Parker to burst forth from the boat, sailing through the air, teeth and claws reaching for me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Lord of Demons called forth his power and the city was brought to ruin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I say, smiling hopefully and looking back and forth between Camila and Mya. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Then the stranger held forth at greater length. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He ran back and forth or played ball or did a little series of rapid pushups to use the time. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It crept across the countryside suddenly to expand and burst forth over all the peaceful woods and meadowland. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Such shadows as I bring forth here will be terrible, and no creature of the dark will stand before them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He said, Flowers, and they ran back and forth, pointing, trying to say Flowers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My uncle had worked with him over the years when Big Schoolboy ran a freighting business, carrying goods back and forth by horse-drawn wagon between his home in Chinle and Gallup. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sent Tree-ear back and forth between the house and the kiln on various errands. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

There aren’t just sparks between us, there’s a giant flame leaping back and forth, engulfing us. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“It makes no sense,” said Jessie, pacing back and forth between the couch and the picture window. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The dog paced back and forth, his voice taking on a preach- erly kind of grandness. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The baby screecher skittered back and forth in the basket. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Then she pulled forth a golden spider toy and dropped it to the ground while the captain talked on. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another division issued forth, and we all progressed forward by some forty feet in our queue. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I blinked and reached forth to touch them. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a very scarcity of life in the pose, except for a subtle rocking back and forth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Eyes closed, lips moving soundlessly, Muriel stretched forth a bloody hand, and a gust of wind stripped away the sparkling dust. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

So they went about fingering, taking up the streamers of gold, moving them back and forth, grabbing them to themselves, babbling, talking gibberish among themselves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shut the door, and as she lowers the window, I stick my head in, rock it back and forth, and stick out my tongue. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

This back and forth movement between theory and evidence, hypothesis and experiment has come to seem so familiar that it is hard for us to grasp that Galileo was doing something fundamentally new. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She buried her face in balled hands and rocked back and forth. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

With a few strokes back and forth, I can get rid of any evidence if the SIM come to our door. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

His entire body flopped back and forth in the air, swaying against the wind and jolting at every bump of the Berg. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Let me see, what else? There will be entertainment, charades, and so forth; it would be most desirable for the children to participate.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The inhabitants could pass back and forth from one to the other, depending on which activities were involved. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grinned and shook his head back and forth. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He glanced back and forth between me and Babou for a second. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then a babble burst forth from all the children at once. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her hair waved back and forth with each step down. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

No matter how fast they moved, how fast they cut and swiveled, how fast the sticks popped back and forth, I slowed everything down and remained focused. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I sang them to Arthur as we swung back and forth, going as high as we could. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She could make out tiny little microdactyls, medium-sized minidactyls, and then the fully grown pterodactyls, all sailing back and forth, snapping at each other or whatever prey they could find, dancing across the darkness. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

To them, the numbers 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, and so forth aren’t approaching anything; the destination doesn’t exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Foster issued forth with another exuberant round of oaths, yelling his way down the hall. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They move like dancers, whirling back and forth across the room, graceful, liquid, deadly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I looked back and forth between the road and his face, more confused now than ever. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

One cannot help but be surprised by the sheer volume of what pours forth from Tiny's distended mouth. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

No more, the cool gray sift of days, the diligent waiting for the future to trickle forth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And that's all I ask of you: to reach into your hearts and minds and bring forth that measure of justice. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

We exchanged a few pleasantries as we climbed a narrow road between tall trees, he inquiring after how I had slept at the Taylors and so forth. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the vacuum cleaner roared back and forth across the carpet, Matt looked so worried that Ralph began to worry too. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Marvel minced for us in his size 12 shoes, the sides of his gown swaying drunkenly back and forth from his big hips. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You had a secret e-mail admirer who you were e-mailing back and forth with, and you thought it was my brother?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She hugged herself tightly and swayed back and forth. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Frank bashed the giant’s face back and forth until his metallic features began to dent. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Group singing played a major role in society, for emotional expression, entertainment, social cohesion, and so forth. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

James, who was standing between Emily and Matthew, had been swinging his head back and forth between brother and sister as their debate went on. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You think we’re going to grow old here?” she asked, looking back and forth between them, gesturing to the walls around them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When she tried, in response to Alys's words, to think of her mother, there was little that came forth. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Max says his footsteps go back and forth on the other side of the wall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They swooped those long necks low, glancing back and forth, and then rose back up to their full, terrifying height. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Her eyes darted back and forth before she answered the door. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Monique’s high heels clicked on the polished floor as she paced back and forth. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still made sure to switch back and forth between my two pairs of nonsneaker shoes every day so I wouldn't wear down the soles too quickly. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They are beyond her strength, but somehow she makes them come forth. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Strapped to a table that tilted back and forth, her heart functions were measured for 30 minutes. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was early morning, and the road was quiet as the two boys ventured forth. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the fourth solution—to swing one rope back and forth like a pendulum and then grab hold of the other rope—occurred to only a few people. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She begins to rock, back and forth, back and forth. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Back and forth over the unfamiliar nakedness of her ring finger. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

His bloodshot eyes bulged, darting back and forth. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I watched her eyes flit back and forth. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

His favorite pastime was walking back and forth across a thin, long wire that my mother sometimes used for hanging our clothes to dry. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Terry starts, looking back and forth between them. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

White electric ferries made their way back and forth, shuttling fans over to the west side, where an observation train awaited them, its thirteen white-skirted flat cars outfitted with bleachers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He swept the weapon back and forth as he walked, looking for any interlopers. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Trepid rubbed his hands rapidly back and forth as if he were warming them. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was very upset, pacing back and forth, saying whatever came into her head, and she still hadn’t gone upstairs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He was shaking his head back and forth. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aarfy was tapping the bowl of his pipe against his palm leisurely as he paced back and forth in corpulent self-approval, obviously delighted by the stir he was causing. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She shook her head seriously, her strawberry-blond hair swinging back and forth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Throughout recorded history, people have been moving back and forth between Europe, the Near East, and North Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Back and forth, back and forth it swung. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I watched them moving back and forth on the strip the coaches had marked off on the floor using masking tape. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Voices, tears, reconciliations: I remember them as waves of words, going back and forth, running over my head, around, past, through me. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s back!” all the men kept mumbling and chanting and calling out hysterically as they rushed back and forth. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The wind howled about the bus, and the wipers slooshed heavily back and forth across the windshield, smearing the city into a red and yellow neon wetness. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

May rocked back and forth, slapping her arms and scratching at her face. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The honour of a soldier and eyes, even brighter than your brilliant orbs, the bright eyes of danger, call me forth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two women go back and forth for a little while longer until the information lady refuses to say anything more, just keeps pointing to the other window. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe Dad would be so proud he’d forget all about how tired he was from the long drive back and forth to Washington and the digging and hauling all day. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

It is from this singularity that all the matter and energy in the universe spewed forth, creating all the galaxies, stars, and planets that have ever—and will ever—exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Eventually the mayor and constable ran out of things to say to fill the silence, and merely sat there looking anxiously back and forth from me to each other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Underneath their painted leather vests, their withered dugs swayed back and forth, shiny with oil and sweat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Out of joy strength came, strength that was fashioned to bear sorrow: sorrow brought forth joy. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

For a long time, he made his way back and forth between the cliff and the river, up and down over the rocks and sand. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He moves his thumb absently over my cheekbone, back and forth. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The rabbi continued reading, and I saw that he was now slowly moving the upper part of his body back and forth. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It sounded as if a raccoon ran back and forth, mashing on the keys. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Men were calling back and forth from the teams. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day was 1 Zip, the following day was 2 Zip, and so forth, until they reached 19 Zip. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

His eyes flicked back and forth, skitter quick, high and fast, looking all of them over. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He slid the salt-shaker back and forth and kept smoothing his hair. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Of course, for the back and forth, I had to buy a new car,” he said. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How did you—?” His eyes flicked nervously back and forth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But though the dory rocked back and forth with the swell of them, the whales never came so close that the boat might capsize. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It took place in the spring when the vine begins to put forth its branches, and it lasted for five days. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn't for the pressing demands of so on and so forth. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were turned outside, where they swept the woods quickly, back and forth. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She flailed wildly, and the sky rocked back and forth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zed threw a few fake punches and zipped his feet back and forth like he was bobbing and weaving to avoid an opponent in the ring. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached into the trunk, lifted it out by its neck, and rattled it back and forth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Here at noon, jazz blared from jukeboxes and dark holes issued forth the cool odors of beer, wine and flesh into the sunlight. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paths made from years of walking the same ways, from Ray running the routes, back and forth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She felt the pulse of life in things and nursed it forth to make them grow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Wind body back and forth with hands straight and stiff, cutting the air. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

With her legs crossed at the ankles, she swings them back and forth, and it’s the most beautiful thing I see all day. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He nodded his head at the murmur of greetings directed to him from the seats, and his long black beard moved back and forth against his chest, and his earlocks swayed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She gripped the sword in her hand and savagely slashed the air back and forth, as if in an instant she could cut that man out of the picture in front of us. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Usually branch scampered eagerly back and forth, leading the way, then circling back. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve never seen anything like the way his hand races back and forth across the pad, the way his eyes seem to suck in every morsel of the models posing before him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The domovoi in his cat form sat beside her, and his tail whipped back and forth behind him against the ground. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

That was his domain, and he directed us all in the planting of useful foods, all to the Glory of God and so forth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had whisked her sister across the ocean by jet and then made her scurry up and down the Pacific coast, back and forth across Los Angeles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mustafa asks, looking back and forth at Mama and Baba with raised eyebrows. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He did not say a word, but his eyes flicked back and forth. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same way Aimee’s orphan question rolls back and forth in my head. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The murmuring, the shouting, and the conversations were crossing back and forth. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Neither man had taken up a shield this morning, so it was a game of slash and parry, back and forth across the deck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But it’s not easy to find because that part of the other world looks just like this—rocks and moss and so forth. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some fifteen minutes later, our launch set forth on its final leg, leaving dock and bloody ground behind. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

One artist offered a giant bright installation titled “Underground Springs” made from tin cans roped together, painted flashing purple and silver, spilling forth from a map of Israel on the wall. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then Hector’s soul flew forth from his body and was gone to Hades, bewailing his fate, leaving vigor and youth behind. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A ship’s anchor with a saucepan hanging off the bottom. When she flexes her muscles, the pan swings back and forth a bit.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Then I heard her light up another, and all they had for me after that was the sound of them passing the cigarette back and forth. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

We went through a little back and forth along these lines for a minute. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was too long, and trailed behind her, its hem worn to a sheen from dragging over the floor, back and forth, back and forth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I came back to the apartment after a full day of running back and forth in the markets, and the best I’d been able to get for our money was kasha. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They could throw it into the air and spat it back and forth with their hands. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is where I left her, hunched in the hay, rocking back and forth and talking softly to herself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Two teenage boys, kicking a football back and forth twenty yards away, stopped to watch, bent double with laughter. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fed a piece of spinach, to Yellow-wing, who hopped happily back and forth on his perch. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he pressed the metallic bar to his lips and started blowing and sucking, moving the harmonica back and forth like a cartoon character eating corn on the cob. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was as if his eyes changed back and forth between gray and blue, but she wasn’t sure if that was possible. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a branch of driftwood and swept it back and forth through the stained water. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The other goods, tools, cake-mix boxes and so forth were tucked out of sight in our pockets and under our waistbands, surrounding us in a clanking armor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For sure. Yes, ma’am,” the others mumbled, shifting back and forth on their feet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was a Greek demigod - the first person in living memory, perhaps the first ever.; to go back and forth between the Roman and Greek camps without telling either group that the other existed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The rocks parted, the rowers put forth all their strength, and they too came through safely. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swiveled his head back and forth in the mirror. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The concavity in the center of the bed is rectified by sleeping on a folded-up towel, and so forth. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nina startled and looked up to see him rocking back and forth on the balls of his feet. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

From the grille at the counter the steam of stew came pouring forth, with a sour metallic smell which did not quite overcome the fumes of Victory Gin. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was another man behind him, much older and dressed just out of this world, with a tall hat and glasses and a cloth drapery dress and swishing an animal’s tail back and forth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran full out, almost tripping over the huddled shape of Minerva where she sat, crouched on the ground, rocking back and forth and muttering words I couldn’t pickup. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Ralph moved the lenses back and forth, this way and that, till a glossy white image of the declining sun lay on a piece of rotten wood. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Until long after midnight a changing crowd lapped up against the front of the garage while George Wilson rocked himself back and forth on the couch inside. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Helen’s door swung back and forth like a broken wing; Helen clung to the dashboard. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A one-armed bunk master sets forth rules in a belligerent torrent. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This brought forth a little startled yipping sound from inside. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They go back and forth, punching and swatting at each other. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Back and forth you could go, confirming the exact correspondence between reality and image, making and unmaking your own world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even worms coiled back and forth to escape capture and death. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

We argued back and forth about this for a while. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Modern mathematicians know that the terms have a limit; the numbers 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, and so forth are approaching zero as their limit. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I cannot deny that it is an enticing vision the captain has put forth. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I rock back and forth in the blocks to get myself ready and take a deep breath before settling in. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He rocked back and forth in an agony of impotence. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She began a game of solitaire using her hand and her lips, flipping the cards back and forth with great agility. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Beside her, Lena gently tilted back and forth on a rocker, watching the moon rise. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

So feel I. Living in the Congo shakes open the prison house of my disposition and lets all the wicked hoodoo Adahs run forth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can hear Jasmine’s words—it’s not my secret to tell—but I look at my backpack again, pulling the zipper back and forth. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

When sunset was down to a faintly glowing ember in the west and the moon rose in the east, I went forth on my bicycle. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

An altar had been erected, and the priest was prowling back and forth to one side. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must say that I admired the efficiency with which she whipped the material back and forth under the massive electric needle. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were times when it seemed to stop altogether; then it would surge forth again, mellow, nostalgic, sweet. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he would remember this—me walking my dog past him and his brother throwing a baseball back and forth—one day far into the future, after we were married. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The body of Dragonwings swung back and forth drunkenly and then hung at an odd angle. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was down beyond the Methodist church now, and the pigeons were flying back and forth around the steeple, and when the band stopped I could hear them cooing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was smiling a little now, and the upper part of his body was swaying slowly back and forth. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as I step through the door, Elsie rushes over and pokes her head into the hallway, looking back and forth before closing the door behind me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Vonetta: “I birthed a black nation. From my womb black creation spilled forth to be stolen shackled dispersed.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One shoe on and tied, the other shoe missing, he suddenly got down on his hands and knees and passed a hand back and forth under the radiator. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

In a minute or so I felt myself being lifted up; and swinging back and forth in the net, I was carried with my three companions to the white truck I had seen earlier. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Teresa followed him with her eyes as he walked back and forth. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The only sound was a slight scraping noise from the rooftop, where the weather-vane swung back and forth. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

My father and I usually argued back and forth about which one to take, but we didn’t this year. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

She had been inside the dream for less than a minute—two mere spans of the great seraph’s hand, paced forth and back—when she realized that she had a smile on her face. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It rattled ominously and hopped back and forth on its rubber feet. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Will’s footsteps echo back and forth, back and forth, in front of the doorway, and I tiptoe to the door, almost pressing my ear up against it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I looked after her, trying not to stare at her cute little bottom swinging back and forth down the hall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wilson says that we toggle back and forth between our conscious and unconscious modes of thinking, depending on the situation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The two teams traded punts back and forth to begin the game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rock back and forth a little, to dispel the image of her collapsing in the street from my mind. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But when the Word has gone forth from the mouth of God nothing can turn it back. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The mash lay in his mouth, or dripped forth, cutting a channel in the soil of his chin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Tessie’s eyes were moving, though; under the lids they skated back and forth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He rocked back and forth in his seat, gripping the frame of the Diplomat, trying to propel his body out of the vehicle. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I spent the day dealing with accident reports and insurance forms, rental cars, going back and forth to the hospital....” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Beneath it are three people—one is sitting on a stool, another is sitting on the ground, and a third is pacing back and forth. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The chandelier of fire swung back and forth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Oliver read it out loud, then started pacing back and forth. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

‘But always I have let my horn cry at setting forth, and though thereafter we may walk in the shadows, I will not go forth as a thief in the night.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were the notes, too; the notes they’d passed back and forth in school since kindergarten, the notes he’d left behind the brick under her window. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Eleanor didn't want this new talking thing—like, really talking, back and forth and smiling at each other—to stop. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

One by one white stars sprang forth as the sky faded. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The walls gave forth a shimmer like sunrise on fierce water. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The wipers arc back and forth, and there’s this kind of tightness in my chest. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He opened his mouth, but all that came forth was a single, pained groan. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The ephemeral bloom of a sego lily peeks from the toe of a ninety-foot stone arch, and canyon wrens call back and forth in plaintive tones from a thatch of scrub oak. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Meat is supposed to be gray. They doctor up the color for the ads and so forth, but there's nothing wrong with these. You'll see." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As I watched her smiling and swinging back and forth, butterflies went into my stomach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Auri thought about that for a moment, looking up and tilting her head back and forth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Together they smuggle the wire home and loop it back and forth through nail holes in the eave outside the attic window. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As Matt and Lydia go back and forth about what imaginary things these imaginary people could have said to each other, I sneak looks at both of them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

So I brought her wheelchair to the stairwell, and they hollered to each other, which was kind of weird, because their voices were traveling back and forth but they couldn’t see each other’s faces. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He began to prowl the length of the living room back and forth, and by seven o’clock he had made them all nervous. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“May I see your papers, comrade? What are you doing here? What time did you leave work? Is this your usual way home?”—and so on and so forth. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I feed them stick after stick of metal, running back and forth, and by the middle of the day, I’ve learned how to repair a water pump. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

So we asked him all the natural questions: where he’d been and where he was going and so forth. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In English, it’s fairly easy to go forth and multiply. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari listened to the thunder that their feet made and thought ruefully, The feet of my people bring forth rhythm even when the noise of the white men can produce none. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jus looks back and forth between Dr. and Mr. Rivers, who are both smiling but obviously waiting for some kind of response from him. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But when Miss Trotter’s tears fell, Vonetta placed her hand to her own lips, as if to tell herself to hush, to stop carrying their tales back and forth. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

And of course, as happens with baseball, one thing led to another, and pretty soon the two of them were tossing a ball back and forth. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest of the boys—I guessed his age at about twelve—rocked back and forth, his gaze glued to my wrist. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He grinned and eagerly hopped back and forth. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The portal gaped, and a congregation of flames issued forth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Dad stood up and started pacing back and forth. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Calder was flipping back and forth in the book. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He checked his hands to make sure no puke got on him and then he looked back and forth between us. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We plucked the folded Batman square back and forth—a lazy game of table football. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

His father’s Roman and Greek personalities screamed back and forth in Frank’s mind with the usual soundtrack of battle noises—explosions, assault rifles, roaring jet engines—all throbbing like a subwoofer behind Frank’s eyes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I settle for simply swinging my legs back and forth beneath the table. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were not awarded with any comfortable view, for the launches put forth their oars and made their way back toward the ship. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In the east, the first sparks of sunlight streak forth from the horizon. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She glanced back and forth between the archer and the princess. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

War banners rustled from cedar ceiling beams as aurae blew back and forth, keeping everyone’s plates full. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Allen took the bus back and forth, eager to listen to King and to keep marching as a foot soldier in the struggle for racial equality. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They not only bring forth “great individuals and great deeds”—one traditional definition of history—by demanding human effort on a large scale, but they make these achievements memorable. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

August started to sing then in a humming sort of way, “ ‘Mary brought forth her firstborn child and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in the manger.’ The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rowed with cold rainwater running down their backs, pooling in the bottom of the boat, and sloshing back and forth under their sliding seats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After having gone back and forth with Aston for fifteen minutes, Tuttle finally waved his wrinkled hand at him like he was trying to shoo away a fly. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I planted my feet on the waffle iron of the footrest while he swiveled me back and forth before the flashing mirrors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He regarded her with a concerned shake of his head, the jowly folds under his chin waving back and forth, his clawlike hands clutching the sheets. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Ma went back and forth on this for weeks while the realtor pulled out his hair trying to decide if his commission was going to come through or not. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan came in from the fields at sundown as Ira was setting forth. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truck’s headlights catch tire tracks and prairie grass and insects weaving back and forth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

One by one the other dancers join her, palms reaching upward, swaying back and forth. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked his way down the side of the ridge, winding back and forth across the slope, the way horses did to keep their footing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Through the lighted window he watched a woman move back and forth across the room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I looked back and forth between them, their faces all serious with concern. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The vomit, which was an eerie blue color in the moonlight, had its own wave action, sloshing back and forth over everybody’s boots. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Ladies of Mrs. Corcoran’s age usually went in pretty heavily for the Valium and so forth but she had enough speed to send a gang of Hell’s Angels on a cross-country rampage. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The narrow road curved back and forth and round and round. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I ran over to Jessica, and we worked on moving the ball back and forth between us as the other girls took their turns at the net. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“That canna be,” she had said loudly, and began to rock back and forth in her chair as if to try to soothe a deep pain. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Between me and Lewiston was the treacherous road with its hairpin turns that twisted back and forth down the mountain. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They he morning had dawned clear and cold, with a set forth at daybreak to see a man beheaded, twenty in all, and Bran rode among them, nervous with excitement. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In my head I was going back and forth between the two options. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The rebel nodded sadly; then gestured back at the house from which he had just issued forth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But when he taught, his personality strode back and forth between mad prophet and galley-slave drummer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes catcalls would issue forth; today, they were especially obnoxious from P-north. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was midwife to whatever spewed forth, not being able to choose as with the old and sick. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come forth, you miracle workers,” said El Patron. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

James looked back and forth between the two emblems. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His right arm moved slowly back and forth in front of him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as I lay in bed, my mind swung back and forth—even when I tried to silence it—and it spun and spun, pointing in all different directions. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I craned my neck to see, and there he was, standing in the middle of the hallway as the crowd passed him by, looking around and rocking back and forth on his heels. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He took long breaths, holding his head out of the water sloshing back and forth on the floor. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re leaving here on the warm updraft. This is our moment for setting forth. We are aeronauts and we are going out into the world to make webs for ourselves.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Looking back and forth from list to list, Sharon raised her hand. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! when a gallant young man, like Mr. Frank Churchill,” said Mr. Knightley dryly, “writes to a fair lady like Miss Woodhouse, he will, of course, put forth his best.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The drawbridge creaked down, the portcullis winched up, and Lady Catelyn Stark rode forth to rejoin her son and his lords ban- nermen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I swept it back and forth, tormenting him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He had not been back to Nigeria in years and perhaps he needed the consolation of those online groups, where small observations flared and blazed into attacks, personal insults flung back and forth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The girls kept looking at Rondell, who was looking back and forth from them to me like he had no idea what we were talking about. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We were delirious with it, tossing the chorus back and forth between us like a ball, making up new lyrics as we grew bored with the old ones. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He glares at me, his jaw moving back and forth like a cow chewing cud. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her tailbone ached as she hugged her knees to her chest and rocked back and forth, considering plan after plan. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A patient with one foot and one crutch was hopping back and forth swiftly in panic crying. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Min held it forth, but Tree-ear could not move to take it. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“ON THE GROUND!” yelled the scythe, with such volume it echoed back and forth between the brick buildings of the street. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Back and forth the flare gun flew, the girls never breaking stride. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The boy’s eyes shifted rapidly back and forth, as if calculating something with great concentration. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

His authority bolstered by a title on the door and personalized office stationery, York set forth a “working philosophy” for Livermore calling for “always pushing at the technological boundaries.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He is still going back and forth, sometimes pretending it doesn’t matter and at other times letting the cast know what it will take to get there. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She turned to Bit, who was rocking back and forth, anxious. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Seeing them all running back and forth in the lobby, chasing a white mouse smarter than many of them, was the funniest thing that had happened in a long time. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

So you have a bunch of regularly-spaced waves that are trapped, bouncing back and forth in a container that fits their wavelength perfectly. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She glanced back and forth between Mr. Underdown and Father like a nervous child herself, unsure which of the two men was entitled to give her a licking. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It inches back and forth a few times and finally comes to a full stop. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

James intently studied the pencil he rolled back and forth under his fingertips. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Jamie gives a polite smile, but his eyes flicker back and forth like he doesn't want to look directly at her. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She crooked a finger, and I went forth. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pacing back and forth, tip to tip, end to end, on the roof, Spot’s scared. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The tail began to wag, and the hide made little ripples back and forth over the ribs. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few people gasp, some keep turning their heads back and forth while others reach out with their hands to see if they can touch anything. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Yet another parent busting forth with the “man” thing! Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She thanked him! And she smiled and smiled. After he had gone, she didn’t smile, though. She walked back and forth. And Granny said ‘Stop stewing about that boy and take care of yourself.’” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The muscles in his jaw were moving back and forth the way they did when he was trying to hold his temper. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

And he was allowed to go back and forth from the darkness of the dungeon to the light of the upstairs. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

They go back and forth because they’ve been living there since way before those borders existed and they have no paperwork because they don’t belong to anybody. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In their absence, it was painfully quiet, and the creeping thoughts that had waited in the back of her cell seemed to crawl forth to meet her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Genie asked, his brain bouncing back and forth between being happy to see his mother and totally freaking out. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She looked at Luna and then looked away, back and forth, as though afraid to let her eyes rest on the girl for too long. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And I actually felt what I was thinking bouncing back and forth in my chest. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Prince Cardan is my prisoner,” I remind them, pacing back and forth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His face goes from normal to zombie and back and forth. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I open and close it, folding it back and forth on itself. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Madame Semele hooted and hugged herself, swaying back and forth, bony fingers clutching her sides. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Agreed,” my dad said, but after dinner, when I went back to my room and played Resurrection on mute, I could hear them talking quietly back and forth. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I veered back and forth between hope and its opposite, a growing certainty that something terrible was wrong with me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Indians denied the visitors permission to land; refusing even to touch the Europeans, they passed goods back and forth on a rope over the water. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“See this blood,” I said faintly, and waved the handkerchief back and forth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He frowned and wiped his brow and paced slowly back and forth on top of the wagon. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

She sat on the floor and wrapped her arms around Winn-Dixie and rocked him back and forth like he was a big old teddy bear. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The morning is wet and shining, and I am swelled with the idea that I'll be setting forth with the children. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Raw memories tumbled forth about my war-ridden childhood and the brutal refugee camp. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They writhed back and forth in a hypnotic pattern, looking for an opening. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They’re familiar with the musical genres, timbres, modes, and instruments, rhythmic and melodic patterns, and have learned the culturally acceptable cadences, harmonies, texture, and so forth. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

James twisted his computer chair back and forth as he thought. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

All I see is Caleb and Susan on the ground in the corner, passing a jar of peanut butter back and forth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby, in the playing field, children were running around with a ball that they passed back and forth; he could hear their shouts. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We really would,” agreed Milo, and as the Which rocked slowly back and forth she told them this story. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

As they flew down the last few hundred yards, their eight taut bodies rocked back and forth like pendulums, in perfect synchronicity. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He paced back and forth, testing his legs. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back and forth the boat went, crossing the river as the trashman made his way south to all his stops. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Tucker raced back and forth on the shelf. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sound of a quarrel came from the back room, which was probably the kitchen—a deep voice and a lighter male voice yammering back and forth. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a little girl sitting on a swing, kicking her legs, flying back and forth, static electricity for hair, happiness for a face. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The aroma had Old Tallow pacing back and forth hungrily. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon, all my volunteers are stretched back and forth across the front of the school, while the unbroken chain rustles in the cold wind. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She has been shuttling back and forth between patients and families all afternoon. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried him back and forth across the room and cried tears of joy as he sang for him. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Women with children walked back and forth to the farm from family housing, but most of the farmworkers stayed in a dormitory on the farm. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We catch up, back and forth, my children, his children; the insurance business, his practice in the capital; the old house I still live in, his new house near the old presidential palace. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back and forth, back and forth we went: Perilee hauling water up from the well, and the rest of us forming a bucket brigade. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Inside, people rush back and forth carrying plates. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The forest shifted gently, rocking back and forth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Missy surged into motion, her tail thrashing back and forth furiously, propelling them toward the blockade with dizzying speed. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“You really think it could go back and forth that quickly?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My pleading eyes switched back and forth between Mom and Dad. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

At last one day when she said this he could not bear it and he burst forth, “This I cannot bear! I would sell all my land if it could heal you.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Figure 3.13: The fundamental pitch is produced by the whole string vibrating back and forth. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The third voice added, “Like Huey said, ‘We should all carry the weight, and those who have extreme abilities will have to carry extremely heavy loads’ ” There were words thrown back and forth. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We go back and forth for a long time, trading stories about Gram and Abuelito. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Sorry I got angry about the paint,” I said as I pushed the brush back and forth over the cracking wood slats of the house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

So the noise poured forth like a jazzed-up fugue, louder and louder to cover the whisper in every man’s soul. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simple melodies are passed back and forth between the violins in playful repetition, rather like the push and pull of a pendulum. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I hug my chest, rocking back and forth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I wish that those Seenicruisers would be discontinued; it would seem to me that their height violates some interstate highway statute regarding clearance in tunnels and so forth. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, whenever Pia'd skate back and forth across the parking lot outside the salon, Marcus, who was always pouting while sweeping up the hair inside the salon, would come out with her. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

In fact, most people of the time still believed in “spontaneous generation,” a theory put forth by the philosopher Aristotle in 330 B.C., almost two thousand years before Maria’s time. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Users could now teleport back and forth between their favorite fictional worlds. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Bark was enclosing her; leaves were sprouting forth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We leaned up against the crates and passed the now-warm root beer back and forth. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Jess is wearing a dress with red flowers on it, she’s wearing little silver earrings with birds on them—I can see them moving back and forth as she talks. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mercenary looked up, his eyes meeting Kvothe’s then sweeping back and forth behind the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Em used her thumb to flip back and forth between her Patrick photos: ankle, knee, ankle, knee. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I go back and forth about whether it’s a good thing that a baby octopus starts out life the size of a pencil eraser, because the eraser on my pencil is pretty darn small. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Shaking my head back and forth, I sputter, “It's just my mom. It's nothing new.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I’m hungry, and the two of us pass the bag back and forth, back and forth. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They laid the carved gemstone on the table in front of them and started to inspect it closely, muttering little scholarly notes to each other and passing the magnifying lenses back and forth. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Back and forth, he moves down the gym floor. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It made a deep huffing sound and began to circle the fire, slowly rocking its head back and forth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The guy at the fish counter is tossing words back and forth with a woman, about what’s fresh and what’s a good deal today. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

And of course, the ever-present toothpick danced back and forth from each side of his mouth. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

On his balcony Hitler peered out from under the visor of his hat and rocked back and forth in time with the chant. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t play with matches! Fire is dangerous!” he said, rocking back and forth. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I make myself walk back and forth through one of the periodicals sections, stepping carefully around chairs and tables. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waved his flashlight back and forth as if to day of eighth grade we defaced his yearbook picture with staples and left it like an effigy behind his seat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He gave forth with a low, muffled “Gaaaaaaaaaa!” all through the emotional remarks Daddy made about Aunt Florentine. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“His High Holiness has commanded that you present yourself as the gods made you. Did you have sandals on your feet when you came forth from your lady mother’s womb?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he rattled me back and forth a little with that heavy arm. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

As if that weren’t bad enough, they were using it as a football, punting it back and forth. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the floor of the state house, in the editorial pages, the question was put forth: Why cede this supply to the Yankees? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I put on my bathing suit and jumped around as it sprayed back and forth. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And how could it be supposed that his uncle and aunt would spare him again?’ and so forth—I always felt that something would happen in our favour; and so it has, you see. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The woman looked at him and cuddled Lyra closer, rocking her back and forth. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But even with their money secured, they still traveled back and forth to Daffodil Manor instead of staying on like Cook and Mr. Henry did. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He rocked back and forth on his heels with cold and discomfort. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Back and forth in front of the windows, the way he did when searching for inspiration for one of his speeches. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wish to prove to them that we have not flown here, so much as settled upon a firm place, from which we shall sally forth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

All around are flat-roofed, boxy warehouse buildings, and beyond them the flat railroad lands where the trains used to shunt back and forth, once the only entertainment available here on Sundays. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then perceiving that the valour of the City was already beaten down, the hidden Captain put forth his strength. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I try to sound exasperated, but the truth is, I like going back and forth with him. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He’d manhandle one of the beleaguered cats up onto the keyboard and coax it with a scrap of ham to walk back and forth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The idea he put forth was that a testing moratorium would halt research into making H-bombs safer, thereby leaving the United States with an obsolete “dirty” nuclear arsenal. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Buckley brought forth the knife and purse Bigger had hidden in the garbage pail and informed the Court that the city’s dump had been combed for four days to find them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The pine trees above them swayed back and forth. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

A second later, he was rocking back and forth on the platform. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Melquíades answered that effort at communication at times by giving forth with phrases in Spanish that had very little to do with reality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He began to sweep with a wide broom while the radio poured forth sad songs about lonely highways, broken hearts, and jail. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it looked like they were talking back and forth. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I pace back and forth, the lounge a blur in front of me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It was a good place to watch the piazza; people were always going back and forth or stopping to drink coffee in the café opposite. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

In four or five places around the ruins, the ground turned to green goo and armed gemini burst forth, Kekrops himself in the lead. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sansa tried to look forlorn and abandoned as other heroes of the Battle of the Blackwater were sum-moned forth to receive their rewards. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Like that, hitting the ball very fast back and forth, pocketa-pocketa-pocketa. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Will shook his head back and forth in the grass, shaking the thoughts out of his mind. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

We drove back and forth across the field, a half a mile in each direction. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Your pinky made its way under the top of my panties and rolled back and forth, from hip to hip. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Darkness had fallen on the construction site and swab lows were swooping back and forth, chasing mosquitoes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guard was swaying back and forth with laughter. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the universe could not spring forth from the void, then something had to be floating about before the birth of the universe; there had to be a universe before the universe was born. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He saw all this without moving his head, letting his eyes slide back and forth. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frantically, she looked back and forth between them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Alec leaned out into the open a bit farther, sweeping his gaze back and forth one last time. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There were so many people on the bus that it started to rock back and forth. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then I started rocking back and forth, but the chair wouldn't rock. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He will go forth from Muspell with his flaming sword and burn the world with fire, and one by one the gods will fall before him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

As she left his office, Dr. Barnes sat down again and swiveled slowly back and forth. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

In their wooden boats and motorized canoes they ferried illegal goods back and forth across the lake, using the Sese Islands as hiding places. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rolled a coin back and forth over his knuckles and made it appear and disappear, made it spin and sparkle. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrap my arm around his neck and cradle him, rocking back and forth. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had never met the Señora before, but had often seen a sinister shadow rocking back and forth behind billowing lace curtains, back and forth into the night. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

We’d go back and forth like that, adding on, until Ma would say it was time for bed. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Then she turned her glare to Oliver and Hyacinth, who had been spectators to the entire exchange, their gazes bouncing back and forth. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He ran back and forth, jumped up and down, pulling his fingers through his hair, so I knew—mangjile!—what a busy, exciting place this Pacific Telephone was, this place where he worked. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was rescuing a throw pillow, thrashing it back and forth to free it from a tangle of imaginary vines, when he heard the cellar steps creaking. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A German policeman patrolled back and forth in front of this gate, and when he saw me staring, he yelled and waved his machine gun. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Blackjack speeding along next to us, darting back and forth to avoid the pig’s wings. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then, from somewhere deep inside the earpiece, a stream of consonants issues forth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Back and forth they walked across the basement floor in the glare of the furnace with their hats on and with cigars and cigarettes in their mouths. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Spotted Cat proposed to challenge the enemy to send forth a champion to face him in single combat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I stand at the edge of the stage as the committee members—my mom included—converse back and forth. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He swished it back and forth, getting a feel for how it cut through the air. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As my dad rocked back and forth in pain, I grabbed a dish towel from under the sink. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was so tired of this going back and forth; I wanted so much for it to be over. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The staff wobbled back and forth and then fell toward him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He stared at the basketball game, his head going back and forth as the boys went up and down the court. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as Jane had read Mr. Gardiner’s hope of Lydia’s being soon married, her joy burst forth, and every following sentence added to its exuberance. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Argaven stood there sullen as an old she-otter in a cage, swinging back and forth, from foot to foot, back and forth, baring his teeth in a grin of pain. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

So now the Lord Faramir had gone forth again, and had taken with him such strength of men as were willing to go or could be spared. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

While the gods are divided, fighting each other in this mortal World War, he will send forth his armies to destroy Olympus. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But she just stared back, unflinching, her eyes haunted with fear and sadness that only softened when Henrietta rocked her back and forth. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She could hear Madame Antoine’s heavy, scraping tread as she walked back and forth on the sanded floor. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Now, however, it was jerking and jolting and rocking back and forth. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

One demanding French countess, with a habit of holding forth for hours on the telephone to friends in Paris, began to suspect that her walls had ears. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He continued to rock back and forth with the chanting of the crowd, rubbing his right knee each time he leaned forward. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as I spotted them, I kept my eyes averted and spent the rest of the time moving one foot back and forth and staring at a crack in the tile floor. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He tilted the spectacles back and forth to catch the early sunshine. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Diligent mice tended the neat little vegetable patches which every season gave forth an abundance of fresh produce: cabbages, sprouts, marrows, turnips, peas, carrots, tomatoes, lettuces and onions, all in their turn. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Somewhere at the top of the arena, the voices of the game’s analysts argue back and forth about today’s game. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother hugged her neck, her strong perfume nearly choking Alma, and swayed back and forth until finally letting go, leaning back to look at Alma’s face, and then going in for another hug. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Much farther out I could see Jasper and Alice, at least a quarter of a mile apart, appearing to throw something back and forth, but I never saw any ball. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

For a long time, our little brother goes back and forth to the hospital, his body weak from the lead, his brain not doing what a brain is supposed to do. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I’m so tired of my emotions flipping back and forth. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Somebody seemed to be wheeling a baby back and forth under my window. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

So she rode back and forth in front of the house about fifteen times, trying to pick the right words. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The bomb’s thunderclap bounced off the mountains and echoed back and forth across the desert. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wandered forth upon the streets of the town without knowing what it was he wished. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Ernie was on the ground, now curled into a ball, rocking back and forth. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The massive wedge of a head swayed back and forth, back and forth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I agreed, and drove slowly enough so that the squirrels could run relay races back and forth between the wheels of the car without getting flattened. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But they both know it’s out of the question for him to leave New York, that she will be the one to fly back and forth on weekends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was moving clouds rapidly across the sky, and as they crossed over the moon, darkness and light rolled back and forth like the men wrestling on the ground. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The harder I try to look steadily at someone, the more my eyes jerk back and forth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The man turns to Mustafa next, glancing back and forth at him and then at his passport. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And the kid had fallen for it, hook, line and sinker, although the conversation had gone back and forth for a while. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again trumpets rang, and a press of roaring men leaped forth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I’m not saying I will, but I could go on for hours escorting the reader—forcibly, if necessary—back and forth across the Paris-Chinese border. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The two traded blows back and forth, and for the moment, James was holding his own. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He stood at the end of the picnic table and glanced back and forth at us while he shoved pizza into his face. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Twas he had driven them forth at first, without his killing e’er a one of them, and he himself was ben the castle at the very time. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he went back and forth between rabbits and fbolbirds when he could, filling in with fish in the middle. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad slowly shook his head back and forth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His grandma’s precious clock, hanging over the mantelpiece, the pendulum swinging back and forth, back and forth, like it was getting on with its own, private life, not caring about Conor at all. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Over the next fortnight I moved back and forth between Qunu and Mqhekezweni, staying by turns with my mother and No- England, visiting and receiving friends and relatives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each wife would swap every two weeks, commuting back and forth from the rural areas with her children. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

‘A little. But I’ll be going back and forth between the camps a lot. I have some shrines to build.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My mother had trouble persuading me to carry one because I was a lady, but I now realized that a handkerchief was an invaluable tool for a counterspy—to erase fingerprints, and so forth. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cafeteria was noisy with kids laughing and talking sometimes in English, sometimes in Spanish, and sometimes in a combination bouncing back and forth between languages. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I had started kicking a rock between my feet like it was a soccer ball, chasing it back and forth across the sidewalk. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Oh, yes. I have a few that are my special friends. We can sing back and forth for hours. They carry messages for me," she says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They argue back and forth until she calls for the servants to take Edel from the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There it was, in a clearing of flat stone — the evil animal was pacing back and forth as if it were waiting. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes keep going back and forth between Edie—dragging her fork through her food, her eyes glued to the table—and Ruby, who is talking to one of the Graces. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He began prowling back and forth, back and forth, moving closer. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Instead, I just ran back and forth across our property line like a guard dog on a tight leash. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They sang at the top of their lungs, and swayed back and forth and cried and moaned and beat on tambourines and chanted. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then suddenly M. D. Naidoo, a member of the South African Indian Congress, burst forth and said to his Indian colleagues, “Ah, you are afraid of going to jail, that is all!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn, our beloved Elf King—may he reign forever and so forth—will meet upon a nearby field with Ghohg the Evil One. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Brother Gerald dragged his teeth back and forth across his lip. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below it the trees were moving in impossible directions, shaking back and forth, then swaying like fainting giants, then popping out of sight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He would turn on the lights and then pace back and forth for a while without taking off his coat, hands clasped behind his back, shaking his head. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Already it had put forth young leaves long and shapely, dark above and silver beneath, and upon its slender crown it bore one small cluster of flowers whose white petals shone like the sunlit snow. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The hospital is packed with people, all of them yelling or racing back and forth or yanking curtains shut. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I look back and forth between my friends. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Then he says, “Now what I want you to do is hold on to the bars and just rock back and forth on one foot, then the other.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Little children sit on the decks with their feet dangling in the water as the boats rock gently back and forth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silk sheets, clenched in Ruby’s fists, burst into flame, and an instant later the cloud burst forth rain, severing the dove-and-violin sigh and dousing her before the rest of her bonfire could kindle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The refectory was a great, low-ceiled, gloomy room; on two long tables smoked basins of something hot, which, however, to my dismay, sent forth an odour far from inviting. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He started rocking back and forth, gently at first, but then more and more violently so that when he came forward his head knocked against the bare stone of the wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It was lawlessness that came forth from Babylon! Law less ness!” declared the Reverend, waving an arm impressively toward Babylon as if that turbulent locale lurked just behind the school latrine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bit was at the end of the driveway, rocking back and forth, antsy. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I wandered back and forth from my barn to the house. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes go back and forth from the receptionist to me. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Him telling me what to do and so forth, and stuff about what it was like when he was my age. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Isa heard the rain stick’s pebbles shift back and forth on the water wall. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The locket, suspended from the long nail on his paw, swung back and forth, back and forth. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her parents were there, and he nearly broke into laughter at how excited Hishaam seemed, his hand waving back and forth frantically. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I pried the tight lid open, working it back and forth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ever and anon the furnaces far below its ashen cone would grow hot and with a great surging and throbbing pour forth rivers of molten rock from chasms in its sides. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the alley, he saw Mr. Trepid scooting back and forth, peering out into the black night. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Gilly hesitated for a moment, waiting for the sermon that was bound to pour forth, if not from him, surely from Trotter. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He just rolls the skateboard back and forth under his feet. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Parking the car, He goes back and forth Until it’s just right. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish fought hard, dogging back and forth across the flats. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And we tried to take a few steps, to shuffle back and forth, in place. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She frowned and looked back and forth between Edward and me, this time very deliberately. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He would turn his thoughts toward Hatsue then and keep them there until at the verge of sleep the war swam back to spill forth horribly anyway in his dreams. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The vomit that yellow fever patients spewed forth, as well as the blood and offensive odors, were particular horrors to most people, even those medically trained. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Dad started to laugh, and as he rocked back and forth he shook the house so that loose whitewash flaked off the ceiling and landed on the top of his head. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still she lay curled up in the fetal position, whimpering and moaning, rocking back and forth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She paced back and forth across the linoleum floor, picking the red polish off her nails and talking an incoherent stream about a murder she’d heard about on the news and the traffic in Atlanta. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others were out pulling wagons back and forth across Boston. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

She studied going back and forth on the El. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above the desk, there was a birdcage, rocking back and forth. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He tramped steadily back and forth beneath the twisted paper and the Christmas bell, hunched, his hands clasped behind him. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Boomer and I slip under the barbed wire a few minutes later, it’s to find squirrels scurrying back and forth, gathering up the acorns that have fallen everywhere. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

For five or six strokes, the bows of the two boats contested for the lead, back and forth like the heads of racehorses coming down the stretch. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They plodded upward, winding their way back and forth across the face of the mountain as the steps twisted and turned. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He waved his whole body back and forth in place, like a round little willow tree bending in a gentle breeze. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt paced back and forth along the edge of the basin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From there to Charlestown boats were going back and forth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice, made metallic by the amplifiers, boomed forth an endless catalogue of atrocities, massacres, deportations, lootings, rapings, torture of prison-ers, bombing of civilians, lying propaganda, unjust aggressions, broken treaties. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But none of that brought forth an indignation to equal this. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Sleep on, thy graceful soul, till Christ calls you to come forth into His bright heaven.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one who had come forth was distraught. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Beside the huge machine were ladders on wheels that the workers pushed back and forth and climbed up on to reach the high parts. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He carefully threaded the blade between flesh and plastic, working it back and forth to saw the cuffs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But they walked back and forth multiple times along the Leavenworth side and the Sacramento side, studying every nook and cranny for a spot where you could hide a book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A wily speaker will have the capacity to jump back and forth between the judicial and the deliberative branches like an oratorical orangutan. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

But I end up with a bunch of the cheaper properties, so we trade money back and forth. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Aunt Elizabeth said it was better for the baby, but also: I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shall bring forth children. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was fiddling with something small and pink, rubbing it back and forth in his hand. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Several white men went freely back and forth through the corridor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Alex and Nunu whirled themselves dizzy, then staggered off, teetering in wobbly circles until they both fell over laughing as the dog ran back and forth between them, like he wanted back in the game. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The defenders clustered on the wall above the gates, yelling insults at the tortoise formation as it staggered back and forth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The smallest, oldest, most tangle-headed of the women, rocking back and forth in a rocking chair, said, "Might as well." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I pull it out and walk it back and forth along the dock to measure it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I’m distracted as Ellen and Callie file into the classroom, laughing back and forth about the costumes they have planned for tomorrow night. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He swayed back and forth weakly, and as I stared, his face crumpled into tears. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rocked herself back and forth on her heels. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you one thing,” he said, looking back and forth as if someone might be sneaking up on them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She was swinging her arm back and forth, playing violin music. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wanting food on that dead isle, they would be flying forth some year when they were grown and hunger came upon them. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mamá’s eyes shifted back and forth, looking for a response. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Alec was just shaking his head back and forth, in obvious disbelief as he continued studying the object in his hands. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Grandma began pacing back and forth like a teacher at the board. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Simon glances back and forth between us like he’s waiting for the punch line. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I need a watchman to go forth and proclaim to them all that twenty- six years is too long to play a joke on anybody, no matter how funny it is. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I pace back and forth in my room, trying to remember. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I rock back and forth as hard as I can. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I must have passed the statue of Atlas a thousand times going back and forth on the campus of the Hardcastle Public Schools. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The photographs skip back and forth in years, and the family marches across the kitchen table unstuck from time, beaming at me from their happiest moments. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His eyes went back and forth, back and forth, following the locket. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The longboats are already making their trips back and forth to the mother ships. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She rocked us back and forth, whispering, “He’s gone for now, okay? He’s gone.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mama and Merry sat on the porch swing, and Mama creaked it back and forth. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We keep going back and forth. If it’s a boy, I want to name it after Karl, and if it’s a girl, after his mother, Charlotta.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I scan back and forth, pressing buttons to get closer and farther away, but I keep coming back to those rustling trees. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The cold drove him forth to mend the fire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When the plants were watered, she sat alone, knees to chin, and rocked herself back and forth as the sun began to rise, a faint pink stain creeping up the eastern rim of the sky. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taisin said again, her voice harsh and deep, “Reveal your true spirit! I command you to come forth.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They usually travelled back and forth across the same home territory, an area of between several dozen and many hundreds of square miles. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Golan swiveled his head back and forth, nervously sizing us up. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Back and forth I cruised in the night beyond the lights. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

At first I thought the draccus was asleep, but as my eyes sharpened I could see its head weaving steadily back and forth, back and forth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"You read just as I do," he said, "walking back and forth across the pages." We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The god was horrorstruck to see the blood gush forth and the lad, deathly pale, fall to the ground. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some demigods were playing with his water sphere, joyously pushing it back and forth over the top of the crowd. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Olive spun the dial back and forth, then tried the lock. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She said, “Is that your point of view, Father? How interesting that you think so,” and so forth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The delegates found their voices and poured forth a deluge of questions. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Den Haag, back and forth on the train? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Taisin put her hands on the baby’s forehead and said, “Reveal your true spirit—I command you to come forth!” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I am no longer just a girl on the train, going back and forth without point or purpose. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The snow will hide us. Are you deaf? Bolton is sending forth his swords. We have to reach King Stannis before they do.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They passed back and forth with pots and kettles, all bare-chested and unashamed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sawed back and forth, but before he could make any progress, the bones shifted and he slid down into deeper darkness. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take care of that easily echoed back and forth across my mind, and when the echo stopped I knew it was not going to be easy. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He gagged a few times and held on to his stomach, rocking back and forth and searching for his wind. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Madam wore a groove in the floor pacing back and forth awaiting news of the final British victory, her footsteps tipping and tapping in measure with the ticking of the clock. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he pulls his face in front of mine, his eyes dart back and forth. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The two weeks would be a welcome relief from trudging back and forth to school. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the genius of these institutions. They want the working classes, laborers. Boys who aren’t stamped by”—Herr Siedler frowns— “middle-class garbage. The cinemas and so forth. They want industrious boys. Exceptional boys.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It had a sleek head feathered in gray and talons that clacked on the wooden dresser as it sidled back and forth along the edge, as if to get a better look at me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But the friar—Master Bacon, apparently—is still staring at Jacob and rocking slightly back and forth. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He also could not seem to rule out the possibility for himself Over the course of many letters back and forth across the ocean, the two friends discussed God and design. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m always hopping on and off the bench, pacing back and forth, rattling the safety fence, and spitting sunflower seeds. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

They learned how to take a city bus back and forth. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“You sat in your stroller just staring out at the lawn. You’d sit in the tub and pour water back and forth from one cup to another for an hour if I’d let you.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The light swung back and forth behind her head. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Father Abbot was tending the wounded in Great Hall, Friar Hugo was constantly sending Cornflower and her helpers back and forth to the ramparts with food and drink. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Rocking back and forth, her arms tightly folded, she regarded him with intensity. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The bidding went back and forth, a hundred dollars at a time, until it reached seven hundred dollars. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But he just rocks back and forth like he’s listening to music. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I would use the ejector for steam and oil so those gauges would swing back and forth but come back to the middle. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After his rehabilitation, my father didn’t need us shuttling back and forth anymore. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

From somewhere unseen a chorus of swelling chant rolled forth, filling this celestial space with sounds that made me think of the measured beating of angels’ wings. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Outhouse, outhouse, outhouse!” all the spiders chanted, waving their front legs back and forth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His arms jerked back and forth, and his feet smacked the ground, raising puffs of dust. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

All afternoon, we walked back and forth across Key West, trying to sell our gum. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust motes danced in the beam as he swung it back and forth, revealing scarred metal and rows of bolts and protruding edges and ridges. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It looked at them with two bright black eyes and, opening its mouth, which was pointed like a thorn, sent forth a little trill. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Wesley usually team up, going back and forth, with Sterling on guitar layin’ down the beat. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snakes move back and forth together in motions resembling a strikingly formal dance. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But I was surprised at the wanton display of grief which spewed forth once his death became official. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

For years, scientists have argued back and forth about why this is the case. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama began to weep, great silent tears, and Papa was now limping back and forth beside the bunk, like a caged animal, brandishing his long, polished North Dakota cane. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paced back and forth on the sand where they were having their picnic. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

How much extra would it cost to haul it back and forth? Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shifts her weight back and forth a bit before saying, “It was a weird summer.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I crossed back and forth in front of him. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He paced back and forth in front of me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Throughout the long night, I listened to the sound of her anxious steps on the tile as she moved back and forth between the door and the window. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Inside the community center, Hearth & Home people shuffled back and forth everywhere. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

By this time we have a living room floor, hardwood, waxed by my mother down on her knees, polished with a long-handled weighted brush that she pushes back and forth, making a sound like waves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her tumid eyes filled with tears and she began to cry, rocking back and forth slowly in her chair with her hands lying in her lap like fallen moths. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We went back and forth, week after week, as I remember it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He rubbed it back and forth between my teeth so hard that foam came out of my mouth and my nose. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rocked her chair slowly back and forth with her eyes closed. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat down on the driveway behind the car and passed the joint back and forth in silence. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I sat outside in the sun, rocking back and forth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

So frequently do these acts recur that when I was halfway through the first draft of Native Son a case paralleling Bigger’s flared forth in the newspapers of Chicago. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It crackles, and a stormy arpeggio from the final movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata bursts forth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

My head whipsawed back and forth, caroming off the wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We bounce back and forth in the truck as Amar drives over the railroad tracks, staying close to the high cement wall on our right. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She built up the fire, closed all the windows, and three times called the baby forth. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up her Bible and read aloud the verse that cleared away the tears in her eyes: “And Ethiopia shall stretch forth her wings.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I kept shaking my head back and forth and back and forth. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And his right hand went behind the desk and pulled another coin from his pocket, and the coin rolled back and forth over the knuckles. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a nearby porch, other ghosts snickered as Vitellius paced back and forth, tripping over his toga and hiking up his sword belt. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the years before with Antonapoulos they had walked back and forth to work, but except for this they were always alone together in their rooms. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I pace back and forth in front of him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his fetters, he manages to sway lightly back and forth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Indoors, too: When we walk into the foyer, a young girl in a white nurse's cap paces back and forth with a sobbing toddler, trying to calm him. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Would it oscillate back and forth until it came to rest? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Back and forth the arguments ranged, and Lyra felt her eyes closing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

How do you estimate the total need, per patient per year, for doctors, nurses, drugs, laboratory tests, hospital beds, x-rays, and so forth, in the best of rational worlds? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, in medicine we have become used to moving back and forth between case histories and epidemiological arguments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I watch my mother sleepily from the edge of my bed as she argues back and forth with Dr. Hamid. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

No doubt there had been sorties and skirmishes at the start of the siege, and arrows flying back and forth; half a year into it, everyone was too tired for such nonsense. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Back and forth they went, gluing the grass to the birdlime until it was covered up. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy ducked, looked around with a terrified expression, and ran for it, doubling back and forth like a rabbit. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But Laura and Mary ran along the lake shore, picking up pretty pebbles that had been rolled back and forth by the waves until they were polished smooth. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, with a great snapping of twigs and thrashing of branches across the windshield, as if the countryside is loath to release them, the car bursts forth onto smooth pavement and the light of day. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I picked up my pencil and wrote as she paced back and forth and spoke wildly off the top of her head while her arms sliced through the air like karate chops. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Taniot’s head lashes back and forth, her long black horns cutting into the redcap knight’s shoulder. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She lowered and let her legs dangle over the branch, swinging them back and forth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The word whished back and forth across the circle like a shuttle in a race. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then she crosses one leg over the other and swings her ankle back and forth, back and forth, which makes me feel even more nervous than I already was. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The man held his wife gently as she rocked back and forth out of sheer terror. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without any further introduction, she begins dribbling the ball back and forth between her knees. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He yipped and whined and ran back and forth in the show. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

By the halfway mark, the oarsmen in their sliding seats were sloshing back and forth in several inches of it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"BLLLLAAARRRRGGGGH," he answers, and then sucks in a desperate wheezing breath before more pours forth. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Nately ripped offhis hat and earphones in one jubilant sweep and began rocking back and forth happily like a handsome child in a high chair. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Saw them rock back and forth, the sound of their hearts breaking, weeping, sobbing, all in the pitch of pain. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We could move it back and forth with our hands and lean it way to the side when we jimmied it from underneath with a pick. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s lucky I have something to hold on to because the jungle’s tilting back and forth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It moved its whiskered head back and forth with jerky caution, then stepped forward. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

They were also swiveling back and forth, keeping us pointed straight up, and it was this motion we felt, as we jiggled slightly in our seats. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly they lifted their long hands to their mouths, and sent forth ringing calls, clear as notes of a horn, but more musical and various. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Beneath the hills on either side the rock was bored into a hundred caves and maggot-holes; there a host of orcs lurked, ready at a signal to issue forth like black ants going to war. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

On one side of a raging bonfire is a noodly guy with a bottle of tequila in his hand, swaying back and forth like a reed. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But this time I clung to wires all the way, and was able to stop my motion when I got there, rocking back and forth a few times before I got myself steadied. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn't do anything but watch and shake her head back and forth as if to say, No. No, you won't be home soon. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mama cried silently, rocking back and forth in the creaky folding chair. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And so the argument goes, back and forth, among the teachers. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He twirled the tiny blossom back and forth and waited for me to talk. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She looked out not upon a moat teeming with monsters or guards marching back and forth, but on streets indifferently paved with cobblestones. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Two queen’s men brought forth the Horn of Joramun, black and banded with old gold, eight feet long from end to end. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That would explain the presence of half a dozen lawyers inside the room solemnly passing documents back and forth to one another, which they culled from the filled cartons surrounding them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When all was ordered, the Captains rode forth towards the Black Gate with a great guard of horsemen and the banner and heralds and trumpeters. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I mean . . .” Mr. Brunner wheeled his chair back and forth, like he wasn’t sure what to say. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

If everything one did, or which one’s fathers had done, was an endless sequence of Doings doomed to break forth bloodily, then the past must be obliterated and a new start made. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sighed again and shook his head slowly, the gray beard moving back and forth. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As I looked on, the stranger pushed aside his cape and brought forth a wallet. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A serving boy ran back and forth with skewers of meat while Masha drew beer from the kegs, chewing her sourleaf all the while. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He swore that he had never seen her until just now when she had sprung forth, newborn, from the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I can hear her pacing back and forth, a heavy step and then a light one, and the soft tap of her cane on the dusty-rose carpet. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the subject of whether the dog smells comes up, for example, Bill and Sue banter back and forth happily, both with a half smile on their lips. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But this time they could hear her upstairs, opening and closing her drawers, moving back and forth from the bed to the closet. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Along this they went westward, with the city ever climbing up like a green cloud upon their left; and as the night deepened more lights sprang forth, until all the hill seemed afire with stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He could see little, for the rising mists swirled above the turf, and he made out only shadow shapes hastening back and forth. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The navy coxswain was still exerting himself, cursing and ramming the throttle back and forth, to free the landing craft from the reef. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

To this end, the very first spell the novice illusionist must learn is the extremely simple spell that casts aside illusions set forth by others. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Your dad was shaking his head back and forth just as hard and fast as Mr. Bundini was nodding his up and down.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rekh watched him speed back and forth between shop and courtyard, and finally stopped him, smiling. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to tell him,” Clevinger insisted, as the two of them sat high in the reviewing stands looking down on the auxiliary parade-ground at Lieutenant Scheisskopf raging back and forth like a beardless Lear. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Burning blue eyes darted back and forth as she took deep breaths. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I burst into tears and ran to Teacher Sarah, who opened her arms wide and rocked me back and forth. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Lillian held each other in a long embrace and they rocked back and forth without saying a word to each other. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon, we were high enough that I could feel the tree swaying back and forth in the wind. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Writing back and forth to them used to make me feel less alone, but now I know it’s all a lie. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

His dad didn’t say anything, just twirled a tire wrench back and forth on his thumb like a gunslinger. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Francis had been pacing in the hall outside, prowling restlessly back and forth like a cat. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sierra opened her eyes and realized she was swaying back and forth, a slow salsa step with an imaginary Robbie in her arms. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

People getting their legs blown off and so forth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Calder was scraping the T back and forth on the wooden bench. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

TimeStar rocked back and forth on his heels, crossed his arms, puckered his lips as if he might start whistling casually. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They called the songs back and forth in their own language between a leader and the rest of the group. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira picked her up, cradled her, and rocked her back and forth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this time, she’ll be able to see if it’s been coincidence or a doomed fate pushing her back and forth all day, like wave after wave. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

White steam now belches forth, blending with the black smoke as the fire licks its wounds. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The craft were small and flew low, banking back and forth in lazy zigzags, and the noise of the surf had covered the subtle whine of their propellers. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The bartender touched an edge with a dirty fingertip and rocked it slightly back and forth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She rummaged in the larder and brought forth a slice of “Gruy&re” and some crackers. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the alley behind Ford’s, John Peanut walked Booth’s impatient horse back and forth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe later marveled at how easily she moved back and forth between art and science, between the “inspection of nature and the aims of painting.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Barack was flying back and forth to D.C. all the time now. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I twirled the jack of diamonds in my fingers, flipped it back and forth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he sat down miserably on the floor and put his arms around his knees and rocked back and forth like a baby, back and forth, back and forth and back. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the cannon marked the evening, Captain Mackay sent his aide, requesting we go forth and pull Serjeant Clippinger from his amusements. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Shortly before he set forth on this final voyage, Octavian, my dear Octavian, spake to me of writing a treatise upon government. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

On a black screen, a binocular-shaped template of vision sweeps back and forth, taking in the distant refugees. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Okay, let’s take turns tossing them, zigzagging back and forth out there. If there’s some kind of magical exit, hopefully it’ll work with rocks, too—make them disappear.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Clumps and clusters of birds in flight were questing back and forth, black dots against the blue sky, moving in some kind of desperate Brownian motion. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

As James and Maddie tugged the book back and forth in front of Emily, the bar code waved like a black-and-white flag until it finally got her attention. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The others waved their torches back and forth as they slowly approached my father. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seesawed the stake back and forth to loosen the dirt until they could pull it free. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And when they came forth evening had fallen and many stars were in the sky. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

With the feeling that he was speaking to O’Brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote: Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He glanced back and forth between Willy and me, and I focused on the grease stain on Paul’s T-shirt. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mostly they would just be driving back and forth from Jerusalem to Ramallah to their house, which sat so neatly in between. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As Rhonda studied the girl’s face, she pulled forth the vaguest memory, and tried to grasp at a name. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Radar whimpered and paced back and forth but wouldn’t come in. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

And then she cut loose like a wild woman and paced the room back and forth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The train was curving the mountain, the engine loping like a great black hound, parallel with the last careening cars, panting forth its pale white vapor as it hurled us ever higher. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His parents were friends With Jeanine Matthews’s parents, before they died. Your father and Jeanine used to play together as children. I used to watch them pass books back and forth at school.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Forty years later he’d still be espousing ideas put forth by Armstrong and the Plain Truth. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He reaches out and smacks a large white hand on my shoulder and starts to rock me back and forth, like he’s thinking of shoving me off my feet altogether. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Helena looks back and forth between the two of us. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Snarling, he paced back and forth in front of the gate, then threw himself at it once more. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

High-pitched squeaking sounds with clicks at odd intervals over the top of him, back and forth. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The circus left him behind, sailing forth, and yet he cannot turn away from the shore. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“But even Plato knew that class and conditioning and so forth have an inalterable effect on the individual. It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He swished the roots back and forth in the pond to wash off some dirt, then chomped and chewed. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Redtooth swaggered back and forth on the churchyard paving as he recited the formula from memory. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was like being swept under a bird’s wing, and that’s how we stayed for a while, rocking back and forth with me tucked under there. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Distantly, the rendering sails wash back and forth, a borealis yielding some mysterious benefit to our business partners and guests. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The stopper would shudder back and forth so fast it looked like it was splitting into two separate coils. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She almost always flitted back and forth like an anxious hummingbird. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Using the wrong voice can make the reader crane back and forth like a spectator at a tennis match: See that lady with the shopping bag? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He removed one of his hands from the pole and waved it back and forth in front of his face. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I walked back and forth in the stable, looking straight ahead, looking as if I had nothing to hide. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They drew knives from their belts and as our warriors rushed upon them the two lines surged back and forth along the beach. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet drag along in the dirt, then I push myself just a little and swing back and forth. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Around me, kids are going back and forth between the social studies and the science room where the wall usually is, and they don’t seem nervous at all. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He looked up briefly when the two women came forth, but now he is back in position, head down, eyes to the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mom paced back and forth, punching redial on the handset, muttering under her breath, how could you forget your only daughter’s birthday? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Yossarian followed the small fishing boats and military launches plying back and forth far out and found them unreal; it did not seem true that there were full-sized men aboard, going somewhere every time. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Jess sniffed and looked back and forth between the picture and the note. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This star, in turn, contains an even smaller pentagon, which contains a tinier star with its tiny pentagon, and so forth. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Art Bullard walked into the locker room, his long arms swinging back and forth, and a broad smile on his face. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laney grabbed Mr. Ritchie’s hand and swung it back and forth. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Letters flew back and forth praising the match. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chamber- lain strode back and forth, watching the Regiment form along the ridge in the dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke lay on his stomach on the floor and idly ran the toy train back and forth on the track. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

While he moved the atoms back and forth, I sat on the top of my desk thinking about the form of the letters that I soon could write, saying that we had found something interesting. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Jonas knew, on days when he arrived to find The Giver hunched over, rocking his body slightly back and forth, his face pale, that he would be sent away. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dylan tosses the thermos at me like it’s a grenade and we pass it back and forth before I finally throw it in my backpack. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The pad of her thumb was moving back and forth against his skin in circles, slow, deliberate. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the cast sits on the dugout bench except for Tiny, who walks nervously back and forth in front of the players. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

She stood there for a moment, her eyes flicking back and forth from Lina to the children. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The tortured air had calmed but still shifted back and forth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Amari could hear loud, excited words tossed back and forth, much like the tones of bargaining her mother had used on market days. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cari paced back and forth in front of the porch until Wash told her to sit down so he could teach her the names of his tools. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the students walk back and forth to class. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She thought back and forth about what had happened in the making of a voice out of a man. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Up and down, back and forth, quiet and loud. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, if you have a ball in free fall, it moves in a parabola, while a frictionless spring wobbles back and forth forever, and a spring with friction slowly comes to rest. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“All men come into the world in the same way. We are born in pain, for it is written, ‘In pain shall ye bring forth children.’ The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They raced back and forth across the pool. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It’s really cold this morning, so we both kind of hop back and forth from one foot to the other to keep warm. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She could see the thin, restless form rocking back and forth before the fire, the hair already streaked with gray. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, trampling the fallen, he rode forth, heeding no longer any dart. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It’s embarrassing to be watched while I walk back and forth. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was like birds calling back and forth and then joining together in a loud, trilling chorus. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He pressed himself against the rail, his gaze traveling back and forth across the waves, tracing their shapes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Our letters were like a yearlong conver-sation, answering questions back and forth, continuing face-to- face at Christmas or between summer school sessions. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She was rocking back and forth, having her orangeade break and reading her new book, which she’d gotten from the bookmobile. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But “if a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sails back and forth behind the bakery counter, explaining the ingredients in her cakes and pies to her clients. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran my light back and forth, then down and up, only managing to irritate an owl. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Gray hairs sprouted from his ears and nostrils, and more straggled forth from his eyebrows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I repeated this a dozen times, dropping the leaves off the roof, watching as the wind took them away in a mad dance back and forth across the courtyard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a while all you could hear was crickets cricketing and the swing creaking...back and forth, back and forth. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Shortly after dinnertime, the grooms found Seabiscuit walking in circles, clutching the distraught goat in his teeth and shaking her back and forth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They'll never fully comprehend what it's like to bounce back and forth between two worlds and two cultures without offending either side. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The God of Fire, sometimes said to be the son of Zeus and Hera, sometimes of Hera alone, who bore him in retaliation for Zeus’s having brought forth Athena. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the robe was tied on and the hen's legs came through the bottom, she rippled her body back and forth, as if to see how much she could still move. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Um, boys, why don’t we go upstairs and get your stuff ready to go,” Ma said, her eyes darting back and forth between Dad and Grandpop. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Dogs bark back and forth in the distance. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart began tramping back and forth reflectively in the narrow corridors left between his bushels of plum tomatoes and the desk and wooden chairs in the center of the room. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The shattering of the jug created thunder, and the water pouring forth was the rain. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Claire snapped the whip at one shoulder, then the other, back and forth. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dylan’s eyes go back and forth between the two pedestals. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The little group of Believers had gone, but the protesters with their signs continued to pace back and forth. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

People squealed, rocking back and forth, wiping tears from their eyes. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Back and forth, back and forth it went, an intricate, silent dance. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

As for Neeley, his round blue eyes rolled back and forth following the little swinging rod until he hypnotized himself into unconsciousness. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squint to keep the sweat from burning my eyes, and pull with all my force back and forth until the crack starts to make a jagged opening. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Vasiljevic, also applauding, looked at him approvingly and smiled; Bobby leaned back in his chair, swiveled back and forth, and smugly basked, Mussolini-like, in his courtiers’ adulation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mother’s hands and face had burst forth in sores. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Madam Mina, you are, as always, most wise. You shall with us come; and together we shall do that which we go forth to achieve.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

His sister sneaks up to Werner’s cot, and together they lie on their stomachs and pass a single pencil back and forth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had carried that bag back and forth to school every day. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

As Despereaux looked up at her adoringly, Furlough happened to scurry past the princess’s room, moving his head left to right, right to left, back and forth. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her head drops and she rocks back and forth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A tear fell from Grandma’s eye as she looked back and forth from Genie to the truck. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then borrowing from the school’s motto, “Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve,” I added: “If you elect me I will go forth to serve all of you.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She's kind of rocking back and forth in her chair, trying to get her breathing to slow down. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crew raced back and forth from the trees to the ship, bringing meat and eggs, heads of wild cabbage and casks of freshwater. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She came and sat between myself and the children, and her head moved back and forth between us, like a spectator at a university debate. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Piper and Jason walked back and forth along the deck. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She rolled the mug back and forth in her hands. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She started pacing back and forth, her face shining with sweat as the woodstove clanged and seemed to suck most of the oxygen from the room. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For a second they both shuffle back and forth, one jerking an arm forward and then retracting it, the other kicking and missing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He paced back and forth, guarding the door with wide swishes of a brush tail; he jumped up on Helen and Theresa as they tried to dodge by with grocery bags. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her eyes shut, Lin Nai-Nai shook her head back and forth as if the world were more than she could understand. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two go back and forth — Oscar saying “cuh” and Crummy “at” — each time faster and faster, until the sounds blend together to make cat. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flopped into the rocker and pushed back and forth, that got-you-now grin glued on his face. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed in the room for a while, running back and forth across the cages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stay in Ballygunge, Tollygunge, Salt Lake, Budge Budge, ferried by endless bumpy taxi rides back and forth through the city. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That way she could make her points and there could be no verbal sparring back and forth. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“This,” she said, reaching into her shoulder bag and bringing forth a tape player. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the ghosts waiting in darkness until he and Cilia were gone before they stepped forth to take possession. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bubbles popped, and thousands of tiny black spiders swelled forth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She paced back and forth in front of the window. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The mystery pistol was shaking and sliding back and forth in my hand same as a weather vane in a January storm. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I heard Ira begin to sing a low dirge; she was rocking gently back and forth, and she was crying. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were all talking back and forth about our naked graduation. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The gate to the ghetto is just down the street, a German policeman walking back and forth in front of it. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was an ancient custom meant to call forth the powers of the seen and unseen worlds. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can move the pan back and forth like a chef so the sprouts turn without a spatula, so I do that. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Nick stalked back and forth, scowling and slicing the air with his blade, as though to fend off the truth that was attempting to seize him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

These, in turn, are intercut with close-ups of the stroke oarsmen grimacing with effort as they rock rhythmically back and forth, leaning into the camera and then back away again. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m tired of packing all this stuff back and forth.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Rakharo, go forth and look on the rest, and tell me what you find. Take good men with you—and women, to go places where men are forbidden." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“No,” she said, even though she played once in a while with Taylor, kicking the ball back and forth in their oversized, wooded backyard. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Many jobs, big houses, good schools, make a living, they say back and forth. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Now, for example, I would be reassuring the Pharaoh that the flood was a gift from the gods, that once it receded, the rich black earth of the delta would bring forth abundant grain. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ethan looks back and forth between us, his leg jiggling and shaking the table. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

With one finger he tapped the loaded envelope back and forth along the tub edge, seeing, apparently, if he could keep it in motion without letting it fall into the tub water. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He’s silent, but his eyes dart back and forth across the passing landscape, like he is reading words that are hidden from my view. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Otto let the disappearing camera fall, now so light and insubstantial, it arced back and forth slowly, like an autumn leaf released from a tree branch, before it touched the stage lightly. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I notice Tiny looking blankly at me, swaying back and forth like a skyscraper in the wind. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

That she seemed to float back and forth like a ghost, dipping cool cloths to lay on Popo’s bloated face. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't take my eyes off the pale, stubby white fingers traveling back and forth from the poet's salad bowl to the poet's mouth with one dripping lettuce leaf after another. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He rubs his long fingers back and forth over his lips. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I edged in beside her and stood awkwardly while she bantered back and forth with him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He paced back and forth in front of the bench. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’s calm now except for her eyes, which seem to be moving back and forth in her head, as if they are still searching for a way out. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba held me close to him, rocking me back and forth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nora and I go back and forth, each reading a different argument from the list. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The road climbed steeply going up and back and forth through chestnut woods to level finally along a ridge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He looks back and forth from end to end and then one of them catches his eye. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I pretended not to care and bounced up the steps, the peas jiggling back and forth inside the bowl. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

You are constantly seeing signs such as, “If this sign is under water the road is impassable,” and so forth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both laughed, but soon they got quiet and stared up at the trees swaying back and forth against the blue sky. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was moving fast, almost running, and her long braid swept back and forth across the pale blue of her dress. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

While we crewmen do our business, pacing back and forth on deck with no seeming point to the endeavor, the captain stands above us at the helm. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Jinny startled and flipped herself up, tilted upright with a gasp, as her arms beat the surface, became a sudden frenzy, and her head jerked back and forth in all directions, searching, hunting, wondering. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The plastic Christmas balls rocked back and forth while he looked at me like I had escaped from someplace I shouldn’t have escaped from. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

‘Behold! I go forth, and it seems like to be my last riding,’ said Théoden. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

You’d think that there’d be men marching and drilling and people hurrying back and forth and lots of talk about the fighting. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four of them stood in a circle, passing the notebook back and forth as they each took a turn conversing. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

So it went, back and forth, Ralph playing at husband, Helen at wife. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Karl shakes his head at me when I try to tell him about the scientific studies Mr. Campbell set forth in his Soil Culture Manual. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I'm pacing back and forth between the kitchen and the TV room, back and forth, and my whole life is on hold. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a time, Dr. Trefusis shrugged, went to the desk, and drew forth the text, and, he having set it before me, we began to read of the plebian revolution in Rome. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They said the usual things about resting now; and not talking till he was stronger, and so forth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short, bald white man steps forth from the audience. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ben turned and saw the blade glint with a pale, slim hunger as Palmer twisted it back and forth in the light. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Tate had also paid Hooks money to travel back and forth out of the county around the time of the trial. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I cannot find my way back, I am shut out though I entreat earnestly and put forth all my strength. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crouched down, scanning row after row of books, his finger gliding lightly over their spines, his eyes bouncing back and forth in his head. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She cradled him and rocked him back and forth until even I could feel her warmth, her yielding softness. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He hissed at Hazel and waddled back and forth so quickly, she was afraid his loincloth might fall off. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My hands wrapped around the handle of the pitchfork, and I wiggled it back and forth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But then she looks at me kindly, slaps the three coins back and forth between her hands like a piece of dough, and throws them on the table. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when April and Melanie started tossing the idea back and forth, decorating and elaborating the way they always did, it Worked just the way it was supposed to. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s always a couple kids busting out their latest dance routine, flipping and pop-locking up and down the aisle while the train rocks back and forth. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wells rode them back and forth to school in her car, and every afternoon they had to stay on the front porch or in the house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He put both of his hands over his face and shook his head back and forth a couple of times. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He rocked her back and forth as she wept. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We crouched down as she rocked back and forth and whispered her prayers to Lord Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So when Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west—that cloud field of the sky—to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They knew from her voice and her pacing back and forth across the room that something bad was going down. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I would run outside to the middle of the soccer field and rock back and forth, my arms wrapped around my legs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Over the next half hour, Zafoona’s cheeks grew pale as she paced back and forth while Habib described what had happened. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In no time at all, they reached the prairie, where the wild cats and the chickens had free range and chased each other back and forth. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The days of endlessly schlepping back and forth to church were no longer my problem, and I was lazily sleeping in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

White-clad mess-hall workers mill around the steam tables, walk back and forth wiping off the tables with rags, tie up bags of garbage, and mop up spills. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It snorted and stamped and whipped its head back and forth, trying to pull itself free, but it was trapped. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What,” he said, swinging it back and forth, “is this rope made of?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It moved into Greek, as phuein, meaning to bring forth and make grow; then as phusis, which was another word for nature. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was faking to protect his skin. Some folks switch back and forth. One day they’re for the King, the next, it’s all ‘liberty and freedom, huzzah’! Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his head in the snow, wiped his beak back and forth, but couldn’t remove the hardening syrup. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

"But why are you riding back and forth?" asked Megan impatiently. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

In stall number one, the quickfooted Specify began acting up, backing, ducking back and forth, and kicking at his handlers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not want to be skiing back and forth from Thessicher’s farm all day long, so I hung around Sassinoth, and bought a large, good, cheap lunch at one of the hot-shops. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pinched his lower lip with his thumb and index finger, and pulled it back and forth in small tugs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She fingered the money and, looking back and forth from the coin to her son-in-law, shook her head and laughed. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He covered his eyes and nose with his right hand and leaned forward, his elbow on the open Talmud, the upper portion of his body swaying slowly back and forth. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Twitching aside his grey cloak, Pippin drew forth his small sword and laid it at Denethor’s feet. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Håkon was quiet, tail flipping back and forth against the cave floor. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The fetterlings swayed back and forth as they slipped closer and closer. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He turned his head side to side, peering back and forth between Emma and Chess, like they were the only other ones in the room. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We catch glimpses of him as he paces back and forth on the median, impatient. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Still, the men ventured forth, and ten minutes later we were able to put away the candles. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She swung back and forth to a waltz. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, anchored ships swung, silent and shuttered, back and forth on the roll of methodical waves. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The first time, almost everything rotted, and the stench issued forth from the locked rooms, spreading through the house and seeping out into the neighborhood. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter who fathered those children, she felt them kick inside her, brought them forth with her pain and blood, nursed them at her breast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It required only a rich winter of rain to make it break forth in grass and flowers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the animals had assembled in the big barn, Snowball stood up and, though occasionally interrupted by bleating from the sheep, set forth his reasons for advocating the building of the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The school counselor goes back and forth between looking very happy and very anxious. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“If anyone is thirsty,” my father shouted, “let him come to me and drink! If anyone believes in me, streams of living water shall flow forth from his heart!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the lighthouse was a pinpoint in the distance, not a sun-bright flash, and its light only traveled in one direction, not back and forth, searching. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sarah Ruth rocked Edward back and forth, back and forth, and Bryce took out his harmonica and started to play, making his song keep rhythm with the rain. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I say, “What if evidence comes forth? What if you have to?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stalks of corn swung high and low, back and forth, like someone too big to squeeze down the rows was forcing them apart. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now, he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in the wide, wide world. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She was back and forth to the pear tree continuously wondering and thinking. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But the dark waves slither back and forth like adders, and I am sufficiently afraid that I will do exactly what Clotho says. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Two girls in the next row keep passing notes back and forth in class. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As Grandma spoke, she rocked back and forth a little faster, and turned her attention away from her sketching to look at me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood over her friend, sweeping her blade back and forth to keep the giants at bay. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But that moment was also locked in darkness, was wordless, and would not come forth. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The whole string can vibrate back and forth. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I can clearly see the trail Mango left behind him when he went back and forth between the litter box and the foot of my bed. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The odds would change back and forth all night and they fed the negro rum and lighted cigarettes for him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Cole lay thinking about the sparrows, pain surged back and forth through his body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He held it up, waved it carefully back and forth in a wide arc, left to right and back again. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bunny picked it up and turned it back and forth in his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was a pause, and the riders looked back and forth at each other uneasily. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He paced back and forth as he gave us a speech about how everybody was saying it was our year, the newspapers, people in the league, even TV sports news was covering us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The gloomy creature flung his hands to his head and began moaning and rocking back and forth. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the space between the dash and the hood, his gaze slips back and forth from me to the engine. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Come,” she says, and walks with her cane tapping back and forth in her right hand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A tin roof of a building hung from the branches by electric wires and the wind swung it back and forth like a mighty ax. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Western civilization eventually had to make a choice between Aristotle and the Bible, which says that the finite universe sprang forth from the void and prophesies its ultimate destruction. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I could tell she was going back and forth between being really mad and really surprised. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The value of the partial sums flips back and forth between 1 and 0; it’s not really heading to a predictable destination. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Boldly enough the animals sallied forth to meet them, but this time they did not have the easy victory that they had had in the Battle of the Cowshed. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They chatted like this, back and forth, moving slowly toward shore. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist—or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A mighty cry for vengeance went up, and without waiting for further orders they charged forth in a body and made straight for the enemy. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Swinging back and forth across the great waterway, she searched for a cliff like the one she had been raised on. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I swear on the Bible I won’t tell nobody. Not Billy Jean, not Joyce Ann, not Momma—” She was jerking her head back and forth in solemn emphasis. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

In a birdcage by the window, a green parakeet, the last surviving member of my grandparents’ former aviary, was moving back and forth on its balsa wood perch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My brothers looked expectantly back and forth between me and our mother. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Back and forth my mind went, weaving a yes by night and unraveling it by day to a no. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eisenhowers brochure put forth a vague, practically useless timetable for when the United States might be expected to achieve a variety of objectives in space: “Early,” “Later,” “Still Later,” “And Much Later Still.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

My father was sharing some anecdotes and holding forth on his opinion of the situation. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The agreement also set forth target dates for the release of political prisoners and the granting of certain types of indemnity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thrust high into the jet stream, the mountain ripped a visible gash in the 120- knot hurricane, sending forth a plume of ice crystals that trailed to the east like a long silk scarf. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Besides soldiers, weapons, and supplies, Oshiro and Big Jim carried highly classified information back and forth to the camps in locked bags. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, don’t go losing your nerve now,” she says pacing back and forth in front of us. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They battled back and forth, thrusting and parrying. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Each wave would be oscillating back and forth between the state on the right and the one on the left. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The rain battered the car, and the wipers danced back and forth, never really clearing the windshield. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was blowing harder, and the mare’s long tail streamed around them like tall dune grass; the corral gate bumped back and forth in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We tossed a little plastic ball back and forth for a while, and I tried to think of a good way to ask Stick what I should do about Maxie. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She and Pheoby Watson visited back and forth and once in awhile sat around the lakes and fished. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Adam had seen and studied a fine color broadside which set forth the valley as that region which heaven unsuccessfully imitated. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day she relented, and we set forth from the castle in a fitter enclosed by curtains and borne by servants. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Uhmma holds the certificate in her hands, tilting it back and forth so the light will catch the gold medal stamp. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

A bottle of Rebel Yell was passed back and forth between the four men until Red drained the last swallow and flung the empty bottle into the bushes along the road. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pick up the simple phrase and bounce it back and forth between them in sweet harmony. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Across the street from the school the police had set up wooden barriers to keep the crowd back, and they paraded back and forth, ignoring the jokes called to them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I call, and run to the cage where my parakeet dances back and forth. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

A bright LED beam dips back and forth across the lawn. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In a little while Colonel Cathcart’s arches began to ache from pacing back and forth so much. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the cabin floor, rolling back and forth, was a can of bite-sized ravioli. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed through her front window and across the street to where the laughing man was pacing back and forth on my comer, doing his kicks. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Dilsey led Ben to the bed and drew him down beside her and she held him, rocking back and forth, wiping his drooling mouth upon the hem of her skirt. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the messy apartment I was sure to walk into; the flight numbers and so forth left deliberately, so it now seemed, by the phone; both were oversights unworthy of Henry. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“How wondrous—eyes reading back and forth. Now he’s writing his thoughts down. What’s that thought?” she asked, pointing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They talked back and forth to each other, their voices rising. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She looked at the dress, and her red stitched mouth wiggled back and forth, as if she couldn’t decide whether she liked her new outfit. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Folding tables were hurried out while hot foods were rushed forth and plates and fine damask napkins and good silverware were laid. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She swung the door to, then jerked it open again, making the bell give forth its single small note. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raymie closed her eyes and saw the single lightbulb from Building 10 swaying back and forth. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Håkon’s blue eyes shifted back and forth, looking from one end of the floor to the other. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The remaining hullbeasts leaned back and belched forth a mass of brand flies. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The day of his first paycheck, he had crossed back and forth outside the establishment before getting up the courage to go through the door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jojo stares at the ground as he rolls his front wheel back and forth a bit. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sitting in a circle passing a tissue box back and forth, talking about how hard it is to watch your parents skinny up, watch their hair thin and fall out, watch their bodies turn disloyal. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

But they weren’t just watching — they were whispering back and forth at top speed. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rolled it back and forth in his fingers and sniffed it again. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Completely by coincidence, as we moved back and forth between these churches, I noticed that each one had its own distinct racial makeup: Jubilant church was mixed church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We passed it back and forth in silence and sipped our beers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The twins—sleepy, red-nosed, rumpled—were sprawled on a bench like a couple of teenagers, passing a cup of coffee back and forth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He stood and began to pace back and forth on the far side of the table. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A barge of mist floated along the water, and dragonflies, iridescent blue ones, darted back and forth like they were stitching up the air. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dash back and forth, hooting and grunting, doing a gorilla dance of happiness. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

His rage stayed with him for a while as he walked behind the horses, back and forth along the length of the field. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Far below, like the blood of the earth, From the center of nowhere rushing forth,” he sang under his breath. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He waves his go-chu back and forth like a fireman hosing down a burning house. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The pastor would grab their heads and violently shake them back and forth, shouting, “I cast out this spirit in the name of Jesus!” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the string came to life, and rode back and forth and around in a circle. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to see the wolf pacing on the path now, back and forth like a sentry. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Their bodies worked rhythmically back and forth, and the sandstones produced a series of harsh, grating screeches that caused icy trickles to run down Ranofer’s spine and set his teeth to aching. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Her heart had so much love, it began pouring forth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The voice from the telescreen was still pouring forth its tale of prisoners and booty and slaughter, but the shouting outside had died down a little. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It’s like they’ve been rapping back and forth like this their whole lives and have their own special Bengal Tiger to Lollipop Morse code. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Waiting for him to explain, but he’s just looking at the ground, shuffling his feet back and forth with his hands clenched into fists. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He followed her back and forth between the cabin and the wood stove, the henhouse and the stable. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I ran seven times back and forth between the hills of Mt. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally she found someone pacing back and forth and had to step away quickly. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I find the girls dancing like it’s their last day on earth, their hands flying in the air and their hips swinging back and forth. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You know there’s a price,” said he, reaching under his mattress and pulling forth another volume. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sim looked back and forth between us, plainly surprised he had to explain himself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The tribunal set forth a ten-point code of ethics now known as the Nuremberg Code, which was to govern all human experimentation worldwide. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Graces brought forth an ivory chair and a golden bowl. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"And we estimate it would take four trips back and forth. But that's all an edge case. We don't anticipate any problems with the docking process." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wes and Woody tossed the football back and forth, waiting for other kids to show up to play. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Was it his imagination or did he hear whispering in other rooms, footsteps walking back and forth, and the clip-clop of horses on the street outside? The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But when business was slow, he paced back and forth in front of the store window, monitoring Sam’s Pizza. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yep,” Tam says again, rocking back and forth on his heels. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Farid must have seen my stupefied expression; shuttling people back and forth to Kabul, he would have become familiar with that expression on the faces of those who hadn’t seen Kabul for a long time. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This time, it came forth in a swell, surging through her so fast her knees buckled. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When I step off for the last time, I take Violet’s hand and she swings it back and forth, back and forth. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And Wang Lung, without knowing what he said, muttered forth, “Well, and I do not know that I want anything.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She had to see bits of herself, of course, to attach earrings and so forth, but she had avoided putting the bits together. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drew and I sat in front of his desk as he paced back and forth behind it. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Three of them were doing the juggling bit with a ball, like Tommy Acoso does, but they were passing it back and forth, too. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stomped back and forth in their cabin. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only then did the woman, whose eyes were burning with fever, come forth and greet Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held Michelle's hand, and they swung their arms back and forth like little kids. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pious Louis leaned across the table, until his hair swung back and forth across his cheeks. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Nok rolled a pebble back and forth across the dirt with the toe of her shoe, trying not to count the minutes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Together, they rocked back and forth in silence. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Look, we’re getting nowhere by going back and forth, so let’s get something to eat.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe people are going back and forth about who wants to buy something I made. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The thought pulled forth unbidden memories of Dimple—her sparkling, watchful eyes, her frown with the crease between her brows, her curly, wild hair. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My dad shook his head back and forth. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She swiveled her head back and forth the way actresses did in the movies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She oinked several times and pushed the nearest piles carefully out of her way before rolling onto her back and rocking back and forth, a pig gleefully wallowing in mud. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I sneaked a look down into the alley and saw him running back and forth in just a T-shirt and a pair of sweatpants. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He tied the bundle on at the back, and they set forth. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He raised on his knees and rocked back and forth, ready to jump off if it started over. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stood at the top of the stairs while German planes flew back and forth, and I knew I was on my own, that I couldn’t count on others for support. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The shaman’s eyes were closed, and beads of sweat stood out on his forehead as he rocked gently back and forth. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an urgency in her voice, a soft flash in her eyes none of the young men’s faces had called forth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rocked the vial of HeLa cells back and forth in his hand as he started talking about how careful you have to be when you handle them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Milkman rolled his head back and forth on the cellar floor. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next year after that was 2 AD, and the next 3 AD, and so forth, replacing the two dating systems then most commonly in use. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Away south upon the Hornburg, in the middle night men heard a great noise, as a wind in the valley, and the ground trembled; and all were afraid and no one ventured to go forth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The little fingers were colored blue, the index fingers red and so forth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the cave again, I listened to my mother move back and forth, a pale shape driven by restlessness and rage at the restlessness and rage she felt in me and could not cure. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rabbits move from place to place, while most bells can only go back and forth—and they can't even do that on their own power. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The line curled back and forth across the netless tennis courts. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He reached into his pocket and drew forth the roll of bills. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I go back and forth between nodding and shaking my head because I don’t know what to do. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As she talked, she bobbed her head back and forth to the MTV music, even though the song was the kind of manufactured pop ballad she professed to hate. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Two come forth today to join their lives, so they may face this world’s darkness together. Fill their hearts with fire, my lord, so they may walk your shining path hand in hand forever.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Able to move now, he rocked his own body back and forth, breathing deeply to release the remembered pain. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the trees wild people stepped forth, gods and goddesses of the wood; with them came Fauns and Satyrs and Dwarfs. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lily and Lydia were out on the patio passing a cigarette back and forth between them. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I wiggled the key back and forth in the stubborn lock until I heard a click. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Robin flipped cards back and forth in her hand, arranging them just so, and Ivy caught a glimpse of a ring on her finger. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Some of the guys glanced back and forth from Freddie to us. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He nudged Lily with his shoulder and they did that back and forth for a bit. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They were peach trees, budded most delicately pink, and willow trees thrusting forth tender green leaves. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The track was slick, though—a heavy double downbeat you could feel in your gut and clickity-clack rim shots bouncing back and forth like two stuttering ghosts. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

So why not send the northmen forth to battle Stannis before the farce unraveled? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

X-Ray paced back and forth by his car, which was parked in front of Armpit’s house. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I bounce back and forth, waving my hands over my head, praying that Agent Magnus will turn around. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Together, through the windshield, Mrs. Das and Mr. Kapasi watched as Bobby and the monkey passed the stick back and forth between them. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Until it was time to leave he flipped back and forth through the missal. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the toasting-fork and sausage from me as he spoke, and set forth the Aged’s breakfast neatly on a little tray. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a rainbow that summoned forth anything but thoughts of death. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

After a few trips back and forth, I realized my mistake: the mosque was there all the time, but I had walked right past it. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Raymie’s mother arrived and pulled Raymie into her arms and held her close and rocked her back and forth and back and forth. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I saw Mr. Alums walking back and forth whacking a yardstick in his hand. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Z had shrugged and looked off toward the window while Rashid transferred his weight back and forth, trying to come up with something else to say. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Louisiana’s grandmother had a tissue in her hand, and she waved it back and forth in front of her face and said to no one in particular, “I am positively prostrate with grief.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The children rocked back and forth to simulate the tossing of the ship in a storm and howled with merry abandon. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Safer leans toward me and shakes his head slowly back and forth. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes, they are. I use that tunnel to get back and forth from town. It’s actually a more direct route than the road. It also helps me hide my movements from the sheriff.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I held forth the spoon, and answered, “Because Slant of our Company is dead; and Jocko of our Company is dead; and Pomp of our Company is gone. And John of our Company is sold.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Laughter muttered back and forth across the hall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The world seems to sway gently back and forth, as though the town is drifting lightly away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z