In at ten, out at four, seven days a week, so on weekdays I’d only see him when he was leaving. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yossarian suggested casually, as he watched the four men in streaked fatigues shoveling heaping bladefuls of the copper- red earth back down inside the grave. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Almost all of the survivors were male teenagers and boys as young as three or four. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They covered the table, standing in orderly rows of four and marching away into the subterranean dimness. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s words echo in my head for the next four hours. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My father got the call around four in the morning. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I hoped whoever was doing that part was just running late, but there’s no way three or four days could pass. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“At the summit of Dark Mountain ask the four old Bear People. They are the only possible hope they have the power to restore the mind. Time and again it has been done.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The borders of the two tents in the clearing stood no more than four or five feet apart. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Koil Street? There are three or four. Which one do you seek?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our earliest ancestors began to walk on two feet about four million years ago, but how they were using their hands remains unknown to us. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

High schools were divided into four general categories: vocational, commercial, general, and academic. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Before the afternoon ended in Butte, we gave a TV interview, all four of us—me, Barack, and the girls—which was something we'd never done before. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Still, doesn't she remember she used to play Dark Passages with me when I was only four? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hilly’s never given me higher than a four. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The spec four looked me up and down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At four o’clock this afternoon, Monsieur Farival,” Robert replied, in a high voice and with a lofty air, which reminded Edna of some gentleman on the stage. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning, blood rain, fog, monkeys—those are the first four hours on the clock. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke of the four people and the long visits to his room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My arm muscles were already aching with the effort of carrying the bowl and we’d gone maybe four steps. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When they crossed the finish line four and a half lengths ahead, their official time was recorded as 10:11.2. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A fat orange tabby lay on his back in the grass, his four legs sprawled out in all directions. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was no door, merely four walls built of tin which did not meet at one corner, thus leaving enough space for one person at a time. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Safer is on his knees with a pair of binoculars raised to his eyes, looking through one of the four big windows. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Tossing her head in wolf happiness, she crawled out of her tent on all fours and nudged him under the chin. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only four kids kept their hands up: Cara and Joey and two other boys. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

When Marina was two years old, in 1914, Europe plunged into World War I. For the next four years, most of Europe’s young men fought, and millions died, on the battlefields of France and Belgium. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Marshall consolidated the Moton students’ suit with four others around the country into the US Supreme Court case Brown v. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Hudson River region, which included Maxwell Middle School, had won three out of the past four years. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they were gone for almost four days. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Using statistics, they detected four different encryption systems, each with multiple layers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“My mom said that there are four kids, and the three boys are going to share the other room, but the girl gets her own. I wish we could paint it turquoise.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

We’ve been in Cuba four days and Mom has done nothing but complain and chain-smoke her cigars late at night. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pack she gave me held four cans of chili—big cans of chili—and all the utensils. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Oh, God, she thought, four hundred fifty monkeys—this is going to take forever. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later in the morning, and just as the girls were going to separate in preparation for the regular four o’clock dinner, the hero of this inimitable charade walked in again. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

All afternoon I try to keep too busy to check my watch eveiy fifteen minutes, but by four o’clock I can’t stand waiting in my room anymore. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the hole was big, they placed the four boxes into it. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

After four weeks of slow, painful drills in the practice room, Erastis had still only allowed him to manipulate one object at a time. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Good Lord, so I did! Er, just four flagons, thank you, my good mouse.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A man’s home might be his castle, but the four fences of that yard became my mother’s prison. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

On one of my venturings in the yard full of activity below, I had noticed four men, officials, seated at a table with a telephone. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four of us had been lumped together last Friday to start on this assignment about an important woman from the past, and in two weeks we would have to do a presentation on her. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Four they are, and four traits we seek: Courage to face their darkest fears Cuming to outwit their foes Strength of arms and mind and heart Loyalty to break the soul. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I step back and throw my shoulder into the wall, once, twice, three times, four times. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They were four clean- cut kids who were having lots of fun, and they were driving Yossarian nuts. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

All four of em got a cigarette in one hand, they cards in the other. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

From the carpet bag she took out seven flannel nightgowns, four cotton ones, a pair of boots, a set of dominoes, two bathing-caps and a postcard album. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Two more from section three. And we still have to stare into each other’s eyes for four minutes.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

To reach it one had to pass through two impregnable walls, each with armed guards; and once inside, four massive gates had to be unlocked before one even reached the area where I was kept. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Four fears then; four fears now,” he says, nodding. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Carry us, marry us, ferry us, bury us: those are our four ways to exodus, for now. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she would tell him about her classes, what paintings she’d studied that week, and her favorite, the real reason she woke at four thirty every morning and stayed up late every night: photography. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had four telegrams, one each day since we started, and all to the same effect: that the Czarina Catherine had not been reported to Lloyd’s from anywhere. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

After it being just the four of us alone for so long, suddenly being around so many people, even if they were kids like us, was a little stressful. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The first one has only four words on it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’s watching the ring, where four men are placing a large metal box. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The four of us stand together, watching and waiting for the whale to show itself again. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as I eat my four puffs, Mrs. Levy-Cohen is waiting with another four puffs. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

We are four points in a rectangle and three of those points have these wild panicked eyes on me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The last time he looked at the clock it was quarter to four, and the faintest tinge of pink was brushing the window. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

For that reason, our discussion is merged with an introduction to four major arts: graphic arts, painting, sculpture, and architecture. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been in the country for four months, while Farmer had just arrived, but he seemed to know far more about Haiti than Ophelia did. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“One person can’t make enough to feed four mouths even on a good day,” I said. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was a large cage—perhaps four feet high—and inside was a strange-looking bird: black, as big as a small crow, but with stripes of color on its side. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Two of the four T-shirts that hung on the pegs by the door are gone. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How long do you think the Yunkishmen will want to continue paying wages to four free companies?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Grace immediately pulled the car across four lanes of traffic, swerving past two cars and exactly zero cops. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Clutched between her fingers were four small yellow flowers—wild weeds, by the looks of it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She had named a place where they could meet after work, four evenings hence. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There'll be four "shelves" total; two on the rover and two on the trailer. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four cage slaves were swiftly disposed of, but Julius had to be kept alive until Caesar decided on a suitable fate for him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

If every parent followed these precautions, the lives of perhaps four hundred young children could be saved each year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I come out of the crumbledown with four pieces of toast in my hand. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

‘Beds for four, and stabling for five ponies, if that can be managed. Are you Mr. Butterbur?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And a free- swimming one-celled amoeba is much more sophisticated; with about four hundred million bits in its DNA, it would require some eighty 500-page volumes to make another amoeba. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one customer is the old guy who's always in here, in counter seat number four. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He probably had three to four days before he broke with Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pressure to do well in school begins to build at grade four, believe it or not, and it becomes everything to students by grade seven.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley,. of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Then Mama and I cooked six tuna casseroles six different ways, and we baked four chocolate cakes and dusted them with confectioners’ sugar. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head and shows me four fingers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I have recorded the reasons for the conclusions I have come to. I do not propose to read them out. “Accused number one is found guilty on all four counts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five nights a week, six hours a day, for the next four months—and, fortunately, never again—I made my living by exhibiting the peculiar way I am formed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The M.P.s locked him up for the night in a cell with four stone walls. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He rolled down all four windows, found a towel in the back seat, and stretched out, using his jacket for a pillow and the towel as a bandage for his face. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Complicated though it was, Procedure 40 takes up only four pages of the huge History of Coast Guard Unit #387. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Indeed, in four blocks he sees only one soul, a woman outside what was, the day before, the movie- house. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She really said four, though, so we hung around outside the stage door by the picnic tables and the weeping willow tree. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Pat yourself on the back because you'll get instant access to six years of high school and then four at the top universities in the Republic: Drake, Stanford, and Brenan. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I had it four times before we ran out of it.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Katya was one of the four flying friends whom Marina had assigned so they could stay together. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Within four days, their ranks had swelled to more than 365,000, the largest walkout that had ever taken place in the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

So there we were, all of us laughing because we’d knocked out four oxymorons smack in a row—and that’s when we first saw the red kayak. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

All four of us trying to raise him high. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

At first, most of the buildings were low, four or five stories of soiled brick. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the houses were brownstones, set tightly together, none taller than three or four stories. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

The Fugees had now missed four shots in the second half alone. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The first time they raced to the ceiling and back, Coach Swieteck won by four seconds. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Icy air spouts from four slotted squares above our heads, a reminder that this room was intended to preserve seeds. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was now nearly four months since Justin and Nearly Headless Nick had been Petrified, and nearly everybody seemed to think that the attacker, whoever it was, had retired for good. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The four Africans drawed back once they saw that gun and the way it was jumping ’round in my hand. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I put the blue flyer back in the suitcase with the four older ones and put everything back in its place. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Those first couple of years, the four moms in the mothers’ group—along with us babies—hung out together almost every day. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Booth’s curiosity about the country’s reaction to the events of the last four days was limitless. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we go out the kitchen door, there’s a small courtyard, then the back side of another corner apartment unit. Were looking at an overview of the four streets that meet at the intersection.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then he spread his wings, flapped hard, and took off—but after flying four feet he stopped with a snap and crashed to the ground again, shedding a flurry of black feathers and squawking loudly. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sunrise was four hours away, so Cullen suggested that they come back to the Coast Guard station with him. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Windy Windkloppel took four names, and she knew who the fourth one was! The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, we were all sitting on the floor, sharing the enormous tray of petit fours. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Next, he hired four men who knew the wilderness. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nasya Boulos. Everyone loved her. She tortured me for four years. No matter what I did, she made certain I knew I would never be as beautiful or as popular as she was.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Nothing more was said until all four plates were clean, which took a surprisingly short time. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I made it four whole days avoiding him—taking different staircases, using different hallways, only going to my locker during lav breaks. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The land was useless for agriculture but had four plausible seaports and huge underground deposits of prehistoric guano, which Chilean companies mined and shipped to Europe for fertilizer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They squat and sit on the gravel road in four family groups. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One girl, an eighth grader who played the piano, was shaking so hard she had to start four times. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I take four samples of the mossy ground cover and snip off several pieces of a fallen elephant-ear leaf. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the time I alerted authorities, Katz would have been missing for four or five days. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I lift the cutout, and the paper people unravel—one, two, three, four. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Imagine that we had met any one of these four fresh out of law school, sitting in the elegant waiting room at Mudge Rose next to a blue-eyed Nordic type from the “right” background. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

This time he didn’t feel the desperate loneliness and fear of four days earlier. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Alone, that is, except for four burly men who sat outside the window and an unknown number lurking outside the door. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great groaning defense machine and all the nooks and communities it had built in the last four years weren’t about to disappear. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The frog pool was square—fifty feet wide and seventy feet long and four feet deep. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered why I’d spent a summer with her when I was only four. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Only after we were three or four miles out of Imre and we came to a good, straight stretch of flat road did I nudge him up to a gallop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He thought he was only going to be gone for four days max. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The bats could handle the load, but it meant four inexperienced fliers would be alone on one bat. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the four remaining soldiers ushered every single one of the prisoners out of the bus and made them lie down side by side on their faces in the middle of the road. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I popped a creamy petit four into my mouth. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

There was a formica-topped table in the center of the room, and the woman told the Tillermans to sit at the four chairs that surrounded it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just start bawling like I was four years old or something. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I attended as many as three or four forums in a day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only kid he knew who’d had to comfort his crying mother when he was only four, and sad himself. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He orders four other young soldiers to lift Lincoln back into the rocking chair and carry the president out of the theater. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m Gladys Swanson, and I’m the mother of four children here in Minneapolis,” the lady began. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Osh said, “She’s still too young,” which sounded odd, coming from the man who had taught me to bait a hook when I was four. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Good story, huh? Sometimes we get three or four Captain Reeds in one night. I can’t tell you how many times I heard that legend. It’s never quite the same, is it?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I missed all four of the debates because I had to work. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

My father could be seen standing by those four stone steps, deep in thought. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But after four years of marriage, Mariam saw clearly how much a woman could tolerate when she was afraid. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“And there’s a team-building exercise at four, followed by a Cinco de Mayo tequila party at five,” said a college-aged-looking dweeb in sneakers dribbling a basketball. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

How can I not think about it when we’re here, just four doors away? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn't have all her marbles any more--she's old as hell--and she keeps sending me money for my birthday about four times a year. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

When Sir Francis Drake first navigated through this perilous strait in 1578, it took him sixteen days and cost him four of his ships. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I hid it for four and a half months. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And in another three or four years, they’ll need to do further surgery that will make you look a lot more normal,” she said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“They kept coming. I’d take down one or two, and four more would replace them. They’d have rushed me, but the opening to the cave was too narrow.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Tehlu stood tall and proud in the back of a wagon drawn by four white horses. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Just four sets of differences appear to me to be the most important ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She broke the pie into four pieces and handed them out. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the army almost four years. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would lead the bear cubs around the fire four times before she presented one of them to Angeline, who would look at her with new respect. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

After searching for four days in a row, they had found nothing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I downed four pills as soon as we got home, another four after dinner. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Aristotle believed that all the matter in the universe was made_up of four basic elements—earth, air, fire, and water. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four of them ate it with ice cream, and then Zorya Vechernyaya made everyone go out of the sitting room, and made up a very fine-looking bed on the sofa for Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In the twenty-five years since, I had run into him three or four times on visits home but hadn’t seen him otherwise. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, the king’s four sons were killed. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The burden was then shifted to the remaining four bolts. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the four of us sat around the table and shared our blessings. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I'd been riding the Chicago el with my sister Amy, who was getting off three or four stops ahead of me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A notch below six feet four and slightly above two hundred pounds, he was a full head taller than his male contemporaries. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In practice, nomadic hunter-gatherers space their children about four years apart by means of lactational amenorrhea, sexual abstinence, infanticide, and abortion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Griffiths told us that he wants to make sure we’re making good progress with our research and that we discover any gaps before our big presentations, only four weeks from now. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The group collected four hundred thousand signatures from women who supported the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Tupperware containing various candies are laid out at two, four, eight, and ten o’clock. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

There they were, awaiting PapS, four little girls in look-alike pale yellow gingham dresses. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was four times as wide as the other fliers and shrieked at the runts in the pterodactyl pack. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

We’ve been at it for four months and the store still refuses to hire Negroes. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I get home four minutes before curfew, and my parents are on the couch. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

One night that winter, with the big contest only four days away, Baba and I sat in his study in overstuffed leather chairs by the glow of the fireplace. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Trees stand at all four corners, their branches filled with shoes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Just think, Jamie, Michelangelo himself touched this. Over four hundred years ago.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his black cloak and folded it carefully lengthwise into four, after which he wound it round his left hand and forearm as a protection. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had four months until that decision would be made. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She and two other girls from my college had rented a big apartment from four Harvard law students, and I'd been planning to move in with them when my writing course began. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

There were almost two hundred people gathered there, and four hundred animals—camels, horses, mules, and fowl. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would just have to get along without her for four days. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” Catherine said, but she was only four years old and mostly thought she should say “yes” because that’s what everyone else had said first. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The cattail pond now had steel gray and rust brown pipes running up from it toward the groves, like someone had connected straws together in four crooked lines. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd set the alarm for four and was pulling on my socks when he rolled over and lightly stroked my back. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Of course, we four black men were much too modest to make our contribution known, but we often wondered what went on in the laboratories after that secret disaster. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they returned to Ireland when I was four, my brother, Malachy, three, the twins, Oliver and Eugene, barely one, and my sister, Margaret, dead and gone. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He did so, and the four of us discussed the issue of my transfer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Bryson had held his own as best he could, but there were four of them. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The other four wolves snarled and moved in closer, making a tighter circle to make sure he couldn’t escape. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She got her report card: four “A”s and one “C minus.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

About four o’clock, the flats in the tenements across from Francie’s yard came to life. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said all four syllables very slowly; She could probably diagram each one if she wanted to. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She knew that it would take four months and lots of frozen fish to motivate Maxwell to make his way to the sky again. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

One day, several migra officers came in, arrested four migrants, and put them into their truck. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Granddad opens the doors to the four guest bedrooms upstairs. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It is a tower that stands tall and upending like a good soldier, for nearly four hundred years, not wobbling or falling down. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She headed straight back towards Miss Honey's house and she reached it in less than four minutes. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

For four years nobody knew where he was. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kindly report to my suite at four o’clock this afternoon. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

After four sunsets and sunrises, the spirit, too, was gone. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed four different spice stores, each with turmeric and chilies lining the shelves and spices in colors and with names I had never seen before. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The concert was four days away and no tickets had been sold. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes, nwanne m, my brother is coming back from overseas after four years reading there.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This was a three-inch-by-five-inch index card holding four lines about how one family was ending. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

For example, two years later, all the school cafeterias in town were serving delicious food at least four days a week, all because of Nick the Consumer. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be less dangerous for three or four rabbits than for hrair. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched as he and our other lead teacher huddled together with the four assistant teachers. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The sea, horse with its fish tail was so beautiful, it made you forget that there were horses with four legs at all. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know how disappointed you are, mi’jito, but your sister is only four years old,” she said tenderly. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But finally, at about four in the afternoon, I heard a rustling in the undergrowth opposite my tent, and a black shape appeared on the other side of the clearing. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She thought back to one of her earliest memories, when she was four years old and her sister Catherine was born. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

As a result of the raid, more than four hundred other youth groups—mostly political and religious groups—vanished. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie was given another loom and then another, and even at the increased speed of each loom, she could tend all four and felt a satisfying disdain for those who could not do the work. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’d wake up shouting three or four times a night, once so bad his grandma knocked on his door to see if he was all right. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The iceman in Springfield had four evenly spaced holes in the side of his neck from four evenly spaced jabs by something thin, round and sharp. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

For most people, four dimensions are one too many. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Aside from Ma and me, there were only a few other people at the shower: four women from the junior high school where we taught and Mrs. Ruiz. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He woke in the morning and turned over in the blanket and looked back down the road through the trees the way they’d come in time to see the marchers appear four abreast. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The Germans had the advantage of height, and the four competing Soviet aircraft weren’t prepared for battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

On either side of the doorway stand the inevitable Guardians, two pairs, four in all, arms at their sides, eyes front. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

How a four horse team whipped into a run on a straightaway consumes the road, surging and surging over it! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would not be able to stay much longer than three or four months, but we hoped that the authorities would get used to me during this time and let me stay on alone. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The children’s center turns out to be a row of four shipping containers surrounded by a broken fence. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was easy for him, with his four paws, but Harry, Ron, and Hermione were soon out of breath. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I waited a moment, and then, very gently, I gave all four of my ropes a little tug. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only four volumes of trial proceedings, which meant that the trial had been short. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Every day that September, the four of us escaped outdoors. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The word of his death at sea provoked a colitis attack that kept Ernest bedridden for four days, until he roused himself and hobbled, ashen, into an East Bay church for Mills’s memorial service. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The four people had been coming to his rooms now for more than seven months. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The cinder-block corridor was maybe four feet wide and eight feet tall. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She went to all of them, even as a freshman—even junior prom, when she was four and a half months pregnant. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

At six foot four, I’ve got inches on Drew, but he’s more built than I am. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

And every time I opened my eyes, I saw where each map had been—the four holes marking the rectangle, and the pinholes seemingly randomly distributed inside the rectangle. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In colonial times, as many as one out of every four trees in between southeastern Canada and Georgia was a chestnut—partly the result, it would seem, of Indian burning and planting. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were balconies on all four sides, and everywhere were mannequins clad in outlandish garbs—feather suits, and dresses made of smoke and fog and glass. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to! You take four hundred dollars to Ebgard and pay off the claim. It’s yours, right and proper. Then you come back and I forgive the loan.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There were four days between the time I found her and the day we buried her. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

She cut four strips of rubber from the tire, then wrapped them around the crutch tops and grips and secured them with twine in silence. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were four of them in a row, still little. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know anything about them other than they’re from Afghanistan and that there’s a mother, father, and four kids.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

If it is headed that way, the signal will reach Alpha Centauri in a little more than four years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

You multiply five by four and then by five again, and it’s no wonder I forget how some of them fit in. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You’d be free of this millstone around your neck and ahead four hundred bucks to boot.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Kristina must get to her soccer practice four miles to the north, and Kelsey to her practice fourteen miles to the south. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And though it would take me four more years, eventually I’d nab the solo. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sonny has three little sisters: Kennedy is ten, Paris is seven, and Skye is four. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They had set up a table on the corner of Grand and MacArthur and stacked it high with every Tupperware container they had between the four of them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You know, my chariot with the four deathly black horses,” I blurted out, then turned to run. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Superficially, the X-ray data was compatible with two, three or four strands,” they realized. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She and Joe were worried about all four of them—they were still having a hard time adjusting to the loss of their mother. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The dog landed on all fours and held still, head tilted to one side, alert to the abrupt change in Alex’s mood. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

We saw the three or four automobiles and the crowd when we were still some distance away. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“There are only four of them,” he said. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

God, he’s tall, has at least four inches over me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The head dropped to the ground three or four feet away from the writhing body. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Summer only lived four blocks away from me, so I was there within ten minutes. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“They jammed fifty-five Negroes in a jail cell built for four.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Dr. Zamborska is one of four children—all living—and Branwell is one of seven grandchildren on that side of the family. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Up to four, I think. Then they’re moved to the main block. The nursery’s in the kitchen block, like, right over the kitchen on the ground floor.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had nine brothers and four sisters, all living together in three small rooms along with the family goat. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Saying it gives me a flashback, like the words are coming out of my mouth four years ago. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had taken his seat again, the Chief Elder looked down at him and said the words that she had said now four times, and would say to each new Twelve. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I asked her four times before she said yes,” he’d always say, retelling one of his favorite Sinclair family legends. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It filled the room and seemed to bounce off the four walls. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It had been four days since their last conversation. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

By the time summer came, I think he’d had about four different girlfriends, but he kept them totally secret, and if I asked, he would deny it, as if having girlfriends wasn’t cool. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

About four in the morning the phone rang. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched the four sticks well lit and then went homeward, comforted. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

His precious motorcycle, his only means of transportation—four feet didn’t count—was destroyed. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Someone else, someone with a heart. Mr. Sheridan, what beats in your chest? Tell us, why has Romeo and Juliet survived four hundred years?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

"It's all right. The others are downstairs. All four of them. There's no one in the room. There can't be. You're imagining things, my girl." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“What creature,” the Sphinx asked him, “goes on four feet in the morning, on two at noonday, on three in the evening?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There aren’t any four hundred twenties in the mountains,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She looked around the table at the four pairs of hazel eyes, none as dark as hers. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with Beehive, there were four men here now. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

One two three four five six seven days: the firehouse. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the referee. He’s counting. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven ... Is the contender trying to get up again?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took four of us to get her back into the cart. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It is twice my height and four times my width and depicts an attractive woman with watery gray eyes and spectacles—Jeanine. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

On all four sides of the Glade, only the right walls were moving, toward the left, closing the gap of the Doors. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In any event, she brought out a man and his wife, with three children, one of them six years old, one of them four years old, and a three-months’ old baby, and another man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed he did have a face like a child, and such frail bones that after four weeks’ pack-carrying he already had flat feet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a school field trip, with four teachers and about thirty kids. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most nights I’d wake up three or four times gasping for breath, feeling like I was suffocating. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Although separated in age by almost four decades, the two players became relatively close and remained so for years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bates was in the first car with four of the nine, and a man introduced as C. C. Mercer. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it turns out I haven’t brought any money with me and we cannot put together $2 between the four of us. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stayed at the house for four days eating and sleeping. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Our friends, also around age three and four, lived a block away. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s match against Bent Larsen began in Denver on July 6 at four p.m., in the midst of an uncomfortable one-hundred-degree heat wave. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Soon every member of the squadron was singing, turning toward each other with lifted glasses, their voices rising powerfully on the last four lines: The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just Zmeyreka, a tiny village with a grand total of four Jews in it—three, with Papa gone—who all prayed differently than this community she sat with. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Seldom did we walk more than three or four hours on any given day. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He would indeed fight Max Schmeling again, two years later, and Schmeling would last all of two minutes and four seconds before his corner threw in the towel. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then it was four sols of easy driving. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was a simple matter to find four of them about the same length and pull them together. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t remember Salem. It’s been four years since we moved away. Go to sleep.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

First thing Wednesday morning, August 5, a black hearse pulled up in the driveway, and four men in dark suits lifted out May’s casket and brought it right into the parlor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The butter cross in the center square stood open to the four winds. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The writing must go through all four copies, he explains. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But eventually Reynie and Kate had dragged them back up onto solid ground, where all four now lay on their backs, looking up at the sky and panting from the exertion. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The four girls watched their father's naughty smile tilt on his face. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Dee-Dee was four years younger than me, only about fifteen then. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were four girls in the citadel, after all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m beat. I just finished opening four dozen ersters out in the backyard,” Santa said in her rocky baritone. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a gap between me and the guy ahead of me, a space big enough for four people. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Butler took the stairs four at a time. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The sergeant returned after about four hours, accompanied by another officer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tommy lived in what everyone called the home-house—a four- room log cabin that once served as slave quarters, with plank floors, gas lanterns, and water Henrietta hauled up a long hill from the creek. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was lit by thousands and thousands of candles that were floating in midair over four long tables, where the rest of the students were sitting. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

To these four volumes there was added in Westmarch a fifth containing commentaries, genealogies, and various other matter concerning the hobbit members of the Fellowship. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Gramps implored us, but for four old guys, his friends were the pickiest eaters I'd ever known. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Before that, they were inseparable since they were four years old. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was one of four old ladies with white visors and whistles who rotated lunch and playground duty during the week. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Before the afternoon had ended, the sale of four hundred and seventy-five boxes had been received—cold, cold cash—as the teams returned to school with horns blowing, high with the hilarity of success. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He whistled upward four times into his drooping yellow mustache and spurted away into the hills on the dented old green motorcycle he had purchased secondhand months before. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Since the age of four, I had always been working to help the family. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weary’s father, who was a plumber, actually did collect such things, and his collection was insured for four thousand dollars. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If for us the Gallery remained in a hazy realm, what was solid enough fact was Madame’s turning up usually twice—sometimes three or four times—each year to select from our best work. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You work twice as harder as other student, then you catch up soon. Maybe three time harder. Even if four time harder, you must do.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The table was set for four, with a lavish display of candles and damask and heavy silver. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at the logo. There are four stripes instead of three.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Hephaestus’s kids weren’t pretty, and there were only four of them, but they were big and burly from working in the metal shop all day. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He taught my mother the art of playing the harpsichord, and, when I was four or five, began to tutor me on the violin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

All four of them stared at me with their brows knitted and their mouths hanging open. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

For these reasons, I’d seen Blade Runner over four dozen times and had memorized every frame of the film and every line of dialogue. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

On her way to the washhouse one morning after breakfast Fujiko had seen her middle daughter—she was only fourteen—standing in a group that included four boys dressed nattily in Eisenhower jackets. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was the oldest building they’d seen: a simple battlemented tower four stories high. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I confessed that I was a bit low, and instantly an aide came back with an envelope containing four hundred dollars in cash. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A spec four asked me if I wanted to play poker. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Esteban Trueba spent four months wrapped in bandages, stiff as a board from splints, patches, and hooks, in a dreadful torment of itching and immobility, and consumed by impatience. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One hundred thousand dollars between four guys? He couldn’t have been that good.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He would see them only rarely for the next four years. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Things you never would see in my neighborhood, unless you counted Mrs. Wilson’s rotting “deck” made of two by fours, which she began to put together herself but never bothered to finish. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then she added four ears of corn from the box she was planning to take to the roadside stand to sell once we left for school. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

One classmate of Marita’s, a boy named Jose, said he sometimes wakes up at three or four a.m., finishes his homework from the night before, and then “goes back to sleep for a bit.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The clock said four forty-eight when the clerk came back and sat down without even looking her way. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

They became the four great rivers of the land, stopping the drought and death of all those on earth. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Three of the four Indian haplogroups are common in southern Siberia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the bridge I painted four stick figures. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Crawling on all fours toward her, he raised his hand and caught the foot in an upward stroke. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

These four stages establish the fundamental building blocks for children to develop musical literacy. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She would get up at four o’clock every morning, seven days a week, to make the tortillas for both meals. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The last vote was eight to four in favor of guilty. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, dividing the kennel into four more sections, he marked five more places, essentially claiming ownership and leadership over the entire kennel: all eight romping stomping pounds of him. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Before we tried to sleep, I took off my T-shirt and tented it on four sticks in the hopes that I’d be able to collect dew come morning. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I've met four girls this month alone. It’s not my fault none of them is adequate.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Yellow fever had scattered the residents of Philadelphia to the four winds. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silence fell between the four of them as they looked up at the sky. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the 1920s, some 80 percent of black Durham residents lived in substandard housing, a figure that remained unchanged in the Hayti area four decades later. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But he would be much obliged, he repeated, if I could 'give it a go with four'. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, I would not go so far as to say it is a bad staff plan; after all, it enables a staff of four to cover an unexpected amount of ground. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

We hang an old sail between four trees as an awning to protect us from sun and rain, and nail a bar between two trees for the pulpit. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Two at each gun turret, four at the front gate, two walking the walls, so at least eight on a normal night.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We had seen the only four saved, and for what? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alfhercht paced out a long, wide area, and dug his fingers into the soil at four points. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now, four months into his term as sheriff, he faced a seemingly unsolvable murder and intense public pressure. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Why, a pint’s the ’alf of a quart, and there’s four quarts to the gallon. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In our conversation, he used the phrase “the world’s largest collection of black Santas” four times, and I laughed each time. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Their feather rose off the desk and hovered about four feet above their heads. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Headmaster Clarkson, Mr. Thompson, and four other members of the board sat in the chairs onstage. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

There were four minutes remaining in my lunch period, which was the perfect length for a Mom conversation. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I decided I would take four or five centuries to tell her about the special misery of living with T. Ray. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, true or not, they called the four great mountains of the range Mount Head, Mount Shoulder, Mount Belly and Mount Knees, and the foothills to the south were known as the Feet. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A burly security guard—maybe six four, 250 pounds, his hair in long, ropy dreadlocks—came up behind her. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

They came at him from four sides and they came at him with teeth and nails and tears and the fury of four small nations who have nothing left to lose. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Eva’s house there were four dead robins on the walk. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Michael was just four days away from turning ten when I was born, Gary was eight, Paula seven, and Catherine four. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Inside were the four fifties and a two-word note that said emergency fund. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I now had all four limbs stuck in the mud. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I rested on all fours and kept in the center of the bed and each time the bed moved, I moved, following it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all four cases, there was historical evidence of altered states of consciousness, frequently in connection with the outbursts of violence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shady hoisted up four jugs full of whiskey and placed them on the bar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled out four or five volumes from his encyclopedia and threw them on the floor. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were men, probably about four of them. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Built four years earlier in 1915, the tank stood fifty feet high and ninety feet wide. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Why is she the one that all four of us kids are related to? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Alsvindr himself, a horse bred for war, ran smooth and fast, all four hooves off the ground at the same time. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

It was a sheets- and-towels day, and the loads were heavy; four porters really weren’t enough to carry it all. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like it was me against the other team, but in reality, I had four other players on the court with me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Once I'm out of the airlock, this EVA suit will only last four minutes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he had not understood the four people at all. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Today” finally came on August 30, more than four months after the James Caird had sailed away. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

We tried all the rooms as we went along, and in the dining-room, dimly lit by rays of light through the shutters, found four servant-women lying on the floor. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

One moment she was talking and the next she was on all fours, wide-eyed and red-faced, trying to draw a breath. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were lamprey pies, capons glazed with honey, a whiskerfish from the bottom of the Greenblood that was so big it took four serving men to carry it to table. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Three short and one long, the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the Morse code signal, V for Victory. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Usually only four or five students entered the contest at MAHS. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

There were only four real rooms in the Lapham house, the two bedrooms on the second floor, the kitchen and the workshop on the first. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bed sat on four squat lion’s paws, as if the weight of it had crushed the lion underneath. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma had raised four daughters and four sons, and she was a true matriarch: Her husband had died after my mom got married, and she cared for the family on her own. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He then notices the four people up the back. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When they had all four tickets, Dicey started walking along the concourse. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t just sit at the bottom of this tree and stare down at die lake for four days. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was barely room for all four of us up on the log. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“There are only four ways you can miss. Short, long, right, or left. That’s it.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the four hours with an old lady’s scalp in my face. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I caught only snippets of it: Should have never let him go alone... always so handsome, you know.. .four of them... tried to fight... The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Can we just hang on four more months and then it will be over. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This book’s chapters are divided into four parts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Would the four winds blow in from the four directions of the world and smother me as I made the weapons? Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We get to Dream & Bean, and Dylan is seated in a corner with four drinks and a box at his feet. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I switch on the television, rotate the channel dial through the four channels, and settle on a serialized show called All My Children. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I got to the sawmill, Mr. Leroy and Mr. Polite were sitting next to a fresh-cut hunk of wood ’bout four foot long and one foot wide. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And standing in front were four figures, holding hands. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Udell had called four rows of students, and the room was filled with the sounds of zippers and backpacks being dropped onto wooden desks. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

If the mutation rate is too high, we lose the inheritance of four billion years of painstaking evolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we’ll come back to the island after four or five months,” said someone else, “depending on the weather.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ruta Skadi was four hundred and sixteen years old, with all the pride and knowledge of an adult witch queen. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building itself was nothing special—four stories, the top three just rows of narrow, rounded windows, like an old office building. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Away down below single file on the path comes a woman with four girls, the pale doomed blossoms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw no one on the path until near the entrance, where she passed four sporty guys wearing Santa hats and holding flashlights, starting up the trail marked in yellow. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

De la O was introduced to his platoon, made up of four squads of seven or eight guys each. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The trip will re-create Lincoln’s journey from Illinois to the White House four years earlier—though in the opposite direction. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans even made it a rule: Every flat must hold at least four families. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though nearly four months had passed since his injury, he could not stand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother held her hand and wiped her hair back from her sweaty forehead and didn’t mind that Grace kept calling her Mommy, like she had when she was four years old. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

AT four o’clock that afternoon, I walk as fast as I can from the bus stop to the Church a the Lamb. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Each morning my mother would take Florah, George and me, and the four of us would join the throng of black men, women and children flocking down there. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the age of four, she could read fast and well and she naturally began hankering after books. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But four days later he called and asked me if I could come down to Nairobi for an interview. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home it was easier, because I was letting gravity drag me down the hill, but I’d still only ever walked four or five steps in a row before. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When the four people had gone, Singer slipped on his warm gray overcoat and his gray felt hat and left his room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He wore his pants low in hip-hop style with about four inches of his shorts showing. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 5.8: These are also all G chords, but they are four different G chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I could do the multiplication table through ten and read and write simple sentences by the age of four as a result of all those long nights working with her. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

About three or four o’clock one morning, we ran into this white boy, in Creole Bill’s speakeasy. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the course of that debate, which lasted between four and six hours, things were said that had never before been uttered in any public forum at the national level. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The boss had to make out a check for nearly four hundred dollars—the balance due on the involuntarily canceled account. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He goes from kitchen to bathroom to dining room to living room and all sorts of combinations of those four rooms over and over. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It was only after he’d killed four Germans that Kabuo saw how right they were, how they had seen deeply into his heart with the clarity of older people. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The four or five inhabitants took turns cooking for one another, went drinking together, and chased women together, without success. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, Nora and I are standing in front of our building, ready to take our very first walk with all four dogs. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The four bags of cans filled the carrier like a boxy baby. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

She is short, and her white hair flies like her hands on the piano keys as she tells us about the four parts of a choir. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She had a class on Thursday afternoons and was not scheduled to be home until four, the time the bus would normally drop me off. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy, stem face and the four fingers filled his vision. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was a big strapping boy when I last seen him four years ago and now he be fifteen and must be big as a oak! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He holds up his fingers to indicate we must be gone in four hours. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

That night, I read Treasure Island again, and I don’t want to brag, but I’ve read Treasure Island four times and Kidnapped twice and The Black Arrow twice. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Added to the real diamond, that makes four. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Yup. The Toyota’s at the repair shop. If he’s right, we could be looking at four hundred dollars, minimum.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I’m not working four months like an escaped criminal. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Rowan had been on four gleaning expeditions with Goddard so far. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I had just started my first real job, as a camp counselor, which meant leaving my house every morning at seven thirty and not getting home until four thirty in the afternoon. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Like magic, four names and addresses appeared, then disappeared. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute, he had tethered all four venti. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Fadi hadn’t caused a lot of damage, but they had to buy four of the Barbies, whose arms and legs had snapped off. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Nyles took pictures and then offered pipe tobacco to the four directions. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

We’d learned so much in four years, putting the right people into place around us, building systems that generally worked. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In history we are divided into groups of four and told that each group will have to present a big project at the end of the marking period. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Over the next four months, they removed more than 3,000 tons of sand and soil, carefully inserting steel rings into the tunnel as they dug beneath Berlin's streets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had been in the room for over four hours. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The core group of three hundred would spend four nights at campsites along the way. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby Moch tried to organize activities, hustled the boys about, and got unceremoniously tackled and tossed in the water three or four times for his trouble. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Heck, I could hit four home runs and you could pitch a nohitter today. If he is a scout, he would sure notice, but you know it can’t make any difference.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you kidding? They went to the midnight showing on opening night. They waited in line for like four hours, too.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The magistrate gave the defense four months to sift through the eight thousand pages of typed evidence and twelve thousand documents to prepare its case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four attackers followed up with a rush to take spears from the fallen men. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans loaded the four badly injured men into a truck. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It could not have been more than four cups of rice,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He stands there, pants around his ankles, two large pizzas balanced in his right hand and four Sprites in his left. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She and Estha were five, Lenin perhaps three or four years old. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yessuh, there’s four of us,” he stammered, trying to show that he was not as stupid as he might appear. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or four and a half, depending on how you count. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

And he knew just where to find one, four hours’ ride away. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only four inches of rain fell a year around Midland—about the same as in the northern Sahara—and water for humans came in on the train once a day in special containers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

X-Ray picked Armpit up at four o’clock in the morning, and they drove to the Lonestar Arena. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s tradition that Chelsea, Isaac, and Nadine come, and after we eat the four us hang out for a few hours. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Then, four years later, Baird prosecuted another trial that provided an insight into Baird’s thinking as he considered the Shaw case. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The arms are small and end in four stubby fingers. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know how to slice an apple with only four cuts, so there’s no core, only fruit. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

At four a.m. in the blackness of my room, I can still see. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The four Nolans rode along on the ice wagon to their new home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, I began work by cutting the lawn, which took me about four hours with their riding lawn mower. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was rainwater, about four inches of it, sloshing about the floor of the lifeboat—Richard Parker’s own freshwater pond. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even with a computer it was reckoned it would take at least four years, and the chances were very high that one would make at least one mistake, probably more. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most were three or four stories tall, each floor overhanging the one beneath it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The British army finally appeared—four thousand Redcoat soldiers, marching in endless lines. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

It bowed to each of the four tables and then became quite still again. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

One Saturday morning my parents sat down with their four older children and had a family discussion. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Three or four had seen us searching, three or four more joined these, soon a small crowd of advisers and helpers followed at our heels. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They sent that four and a half minutes ago," Martinez continued, "while looking at satellite data from nine minutes ago." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Spread that blanket out on the ground,” said Boatwright, and when she did, he packed everything in the center, gathered in the four corners, and swung the bundle over his shoulder. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Liyana lay on the other twin bed, idly reciting, “One potato, two potato, three potato, four.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

These four now suddenly remembered what the joy of this house had driven from their minds: the house of Tom Bombadil nestled under the very shoulder of those dreaded hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I slept until four, but then I had to go next door. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Michaelis and several other men were with him--first four or five men, later two or three men. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Brian’s a machine, a machine gun, two at a time, three, four, underhand, overhand, both hands. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Then the two men pushed, and the four horses pulled, and together they dragged the branch to the side of the track. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Between them, they had four balls, yet Benji never seemed to be able to grab a rebound. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I find four pennies fell out of Daddy’s pocket, and one of my old marbles I been looking for. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The program for Redwing included the first airborne drop of a thermonuclear device, which created an enormous fireball four miles in diameter when it detonated fifteen thousand feet over Bikini. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They were all fairly short—the longest was four and a half minutes, Lina had heard—but there had never been so many so close together. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Those four, they'll steal anything that jingles, even your hands if you got them tucked and they're making too much noise. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jimmy told them, “All right. He’ll ride over with you four, me and Herm will meet you there.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

What kind of vow was it if he broke it four days later? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He had four hundred Ligaroti pennants printed up in the horse’s colors, cerise and white polka dots, and attached to canes for waving. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see at least four cross streets where Helena could have turned. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, a formerly incarcerated person living at or below the poverty level can be charged by four or five departments at once and can be required to surrender 100 percent of his or her earnings. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He has to pick up four cards now. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They had four boys, and only one lived to be an adult. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was the biggest, heaviest rocket we’d ever built, four feet in length, and I found myself wishing on the drive down that Mr. Bykovski was around to see it, and Mrs. Bykovski too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our group of five went back to being a group of four so easily, and it’s like I was never part of it at all. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The night before Halloween she woke up several times with those four words throbbing through her thoughts. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kabuo was in jail on the morning their son began to walk, but in the afternoon she brought the boy and he took four steps while his father watched from behind the visiting room windowpane. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her four years of secret study had prepared her, at the end of college, to escape as far as possible. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty iron sconces were mounted along his thick stone walls, but only four held torches, and none of them was lit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sanctuary was far from any major road, so I was shocked when I turned a corner and saw four guys trudging up the driveway toward us. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He walked through first class—there were only four first-class seats, three of which were occupied. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember,” he went on, “writing in your diary, ‘Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four’?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Why, the skates alone were worth four times that much! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the coldest days, Tata lit up the oven and the four burners on the stove. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“As a matter of fact, one of those Gypsy—blighters—called here this afternoon. Around four o'clock, when housewives and children are likeliest to be at home, unprotected.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She smooches Ford’s cheeks, four kisses on each one. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The very next week, my coaches moved me straight to level four. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The best estimates put the number of victims at between four and five thousand men, women, and children. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of Chairback Mountain, four miles farther on, there was a dirt logging road. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They should have been in four days before the end of school, but he didn’t see the sense in that. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The exhibition was rather a success, and masters who had hardly ever spoken to me over the past four years would come up and say things like, ‘It’s quite extraordinary’ . Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma Slater is survived by four loving children who grew up in Norvelt, but none of them live in town any longer, having left to find jobs. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the final opera of the four, The Twilight of the Gods, Wagner made mayhem with the Icelandic concept of Ragnarok - the destruction of the gods as preordained by fate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The waiter took it away and brought back four nickels which he laid in a row. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Pete was just a boy, lie must of been four to five inches taller than Norris. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was how her mother worked: one project for four or six months, then on to the next. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My last visit had been over four months ago—for Gran’s birthday in January—and the house had been as spotless then as it was now. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She could hardly admit starting four days after her sixteenth birthday. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t anybody in the fours who could give him much of a race. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She slides the Netbook into a file with four others, stands, and guides me through a doorway and down a hall that creaks under her heavy footsteps. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“You three have to leave and go far away. Geak is four and too young to go. She will stay with me.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also he presented gifts to each of the four people and to Mrs. Kelly. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Miss Heather would come to Bannon’s three days a week for four hours each day; on the other two days, I was on my own. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Alice was quiet while they went on all fours up an icy hill. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Force-carrying particles can be grouped into four categories according to the strength of the force that they carry and the particles with which they interact. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was one of these very, very tall, round-shouldered guys--he was about six four--with lousy teeth. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Lovely blond, like hay I see the three or four spots of sun thrown across her face. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Each filovirus strain contains seven proteins, four of which are completely unknown. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

During one Sunday visit Olmsted and the boys found four bands playing, refreshment stands open, and a few thousand people roaming the paths. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There were four lamps, two tall ones that stood on the floor and two short ones that stood on tables. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She is five foot four, slim, with blond hair and blue eyes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Firemen were instantly summoned by the four policemen who had been guarding the sidewalk entrance to the mosque. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, only four were left, because when that first crate crashed against the rocks, the robot inside shattered to pieces. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The boys made a compact little group that moved over the beach, four plate-like shadows dancing and mingling beneath them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

About four o’clock she would be due in Detroit. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Leading the procession along with Dr. King and other civil rights leaders were an Episcopal bishop, a Jewish rabbi, a United Nations diplomat, and four Catholic nuns wearing long black habits. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time, we’d travel together as a family, all four of us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Once I set four places at the table, then caught myself and put the extra plate away. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

I let in a group of four homeowners. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my graduating class from public school there were only eight people, and in Cordelia’s there were four. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped back All four flippers came out and the creature tried to make its getaway. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three, four inches of it surging back and forth with the movement. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to end-of-summer sales and bought everything in a size four; six months later she would be forced to donate it all to a thrift shop. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to read when he ate, and he was on page four of a new novel. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A crowd of four drunk young women headed toward them, crossing the bridge precariously on high heels. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When Susan finished, the four of us managed a modest cheer, but that was about it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He can sing prettily in four tongues, Lord Steffon had written . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“This number hasn’t come up in four months,” he told them, showing them the tickets. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Next to the fireplace there was a small stove with four burners close together, a narrow counter with shelves underneath, and a deep sink. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"It was of this man sitting on a stoop just like we're doing now. And it was selling for like four thousand dollars." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Just the Kings and the man and the four of us, frozen. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the first, we were shown a series of three drawings and asked which of the four adjacent ones might best complete the sequence. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I tossed in bed and had anxiety attacks. We slept two to four hours each day throughout the four years of the war.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Those loyal Dauntless gathered in the lobby and split into four groups that stormed the stairwells simultaneously, surrounding the Dauntless traitors, who had clustered around the elevator banks. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Grudgingly I let myself be pulled down onto all fours, straddled, and spurred by bare feet into a sluggish gait. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

What grocery store wouldn't have costumes for sale just four days before Halloween? Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Kathy was found guilty on only one of four counts, and Rusty' Bernstein was found not guilty and discharged. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walkway that encircled the abyss in the center chamber was about four feet wide, and as they inched along, it creaked and groaned. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Twice as high as the grandstand and almost as long was the mountain of crates housing the five thousand birds—four thousand and something now that the shooting had begun. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

When we first acquired the motor-boat, my youngest sister was four and I was seven, and by then all of us had learnt to swim. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vaults were constructed one bay at a time, a bay being the rectangular area between four piers. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

The full edition of his speeches runs to eight volumes and more than four million words. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He sat on the edge of his four- poster, thinking hard about everything Aragog had said. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It was almost four o’clock when I reached the car—much too late to try an alternative hike elsewhere. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I cut away the material over her chest, revealing the four deep puncture wounds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth May pointed and held up four fingers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the same room on the same date in 1861, one hundred and four years earlier, President Abraham Lincoln had signed a bill freeing slaves impressed into the service of the Confederate army. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t say you bought four buildings and the inn in the village?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was about four feet away, but I could still smell it was booze. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

US officials had known that the Soviets would eventually be able to build a nuclear weapon, but the nation's top intelligence experts estimated that the Soviets' nuclear capability was still four years away. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We crawled into a ditch and slept there, all four of us, until morning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He identifies them for me with a pointed finger: Lakshmi; Shakti, the mother goddess, in the form of Parvati; and Krishna, this time as a playful baby crawling on all fours. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

During “weeding combat,” which occurred between June and August, primary school students worked from four in the morning until dusk pulling weeds in corn, bean, and sorghum fields. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Most of them were young, four or five, seven at the most. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we got to Hermes, four additional unmanned missions brought us fuel and supplies while we prepared for our trip. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered how long his would take, and what people who had more than four corners in their houses did with the rest of their corners. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I need almost four times my current plan's production to survive. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four girls, still dressed in their pretty go-to meeting frocks, watched him with fascinated, admiring eyes. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On either side of the highway were about four inches of pavement, then a sharp drop into the gully. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I knew immediately he was a chasqui, a foot messenger, one of the men who ran along the roads delivering news and goods to the four corners of the empire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

All four taxis filled with family members had been stopped. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Such wonders you have never seen, ladies and gentlemen, acts and performers gathered from the four corners of the earth to delight and entertain you, acrobats, and tumblers, and aerialists of the highest caliber.... Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Kathy Link came from Highland Park, an old planned community of what are now multimillion-dollar homes four miles north of downtown Dallas. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Several miles farther south, on an isolated farm near Bryantown, Maryland, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, his wife, and their four young children were also in bed. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worming her way on all fours through the bomb craters made the night seem to last forever. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s friends had thrown her a shower at work, because they knew that with four young kids moving in, she might need some help getting up to speed. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The path to the Rock of the Falling Flowers was steep, and Tree-ear leaned forward, sometimes on all fours, as he climbed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“And how’s the faithful dog?” he inquired, giving Tock three or four strong and friendly pats. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they spent as much time on four legs as on two, and it was at this point that they became a new creature. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He had rheumatic fever, chicken pox, pneumonia three or four more times, started coughing blood when he was six, was anemic, drowsy all the time, constantly sniffling, weak and miserable, and—everybody thought— dying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as we’re within shouting distance, three or four bus hawkers immediately surround Baba, negotiating the best price to Adana. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was spacious, certainly large enough for the four of us, and had its own toilets and showers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spend our mornings in Instrumental perfecting our songs and our after noons in workshop, making Boom Chachalaca posters and T-shirts and figuring out how to get four tuxedoes by Saturday. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He tells them about the first three nights and four full days in twenty-four-hour lockdown. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He replied patiently, “Well, now, that’s good. Elections are a fine and civilized thing. In America we hold elections every four years to decide on new leaders.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I overturn my hamper and riffle through dirty clothes and sheets, looking for the pants I wore four days ago. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Chess had been four; Emma, two; and Finn, only a baby. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In hospital for four months, multiple surgeries, months of physical therapy. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The court case was about Linda Brown, an eight-year-old African-American girl from Topeka, Kansas, who lived four blocks from an elementary school, but because she was African-American, she was unable to enroll there. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Madison did need to come up with at least three votes on assumption—here Jefferson's account is accurate—and eventually four members switched their votes, all of them congressmen from districts bordering on the Potomac. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There’s a basement, too, so it’s four floors altogether. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lianne closed her eyes for a second and her face lost all expression, as if she’d aged three or four years in an instant. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The stage was against the far side of the barn, and staggered across the enormous dance floor between it and the doors were four huge cages on raised platforms. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was four months ago when Hilly showed me the picture, out back by her swimming pool. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He can make each face a solid color in less than four minutes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The passengers were all obliged to alight, and the four men ordered by the coachman to push the wheels out of the rut. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He went out on a promotional tour to gather a cast of thousands, contacting four hundred friends, mostly movie people, and talking them into coming to the track to cheer his horse on. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polito, who spent his life wandering around, getting married three or four times and taking care of sheep in Wyoming, Montana, and Utah, had died young of the flu. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little after four in the afternoon, the time court normally adjourned. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of Grandma getting married so long ago, bringing the four beautiful trunks full of gifts her mother had sent from Tianjin to Shanghai. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Habib added four cubes of sugar to his coffee and stirred slowly. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Thwaites received four strokes, and by gum, they were four real whoppers. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am so dizzy my two feet look like four. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned down, picked it up in her teeth, and tried to run on all fours. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But you put all the utensils for an entire class in one pack, and four big cans of chili, and you’re carrying quite a bit, and that’s going to slow you down. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Just last night she said that the four of us had to be a united front. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It was my decision not to worry you with the four obstacles, Nathan,” Darkness said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A large fairy, more than four inches tall, hovered in front of Kendra. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The bones of the history are that they had four kids, grew apart, and divorced. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

After we ate, we starting talking, and before we knew it, it was four o’clock in the morning. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Half that money is Megan's. She just gave it to me to give to the Animal Rescue League. I only made a hundred and four dollars." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The girl lamented about how, for the first four years, they would have to get approval from the selection committee for their gleanings. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Also, they had to stare into each other’s eyes for four minutes without talking. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a movie—like a movie set, anyway—painted on plywood and propped up by two-by- fours. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, in an effort to avoid suspicion, the White Sox made it close, and in the end lost the series five games to four. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She was the only daughter; her four brothers went with her father, husband, and uncles “out on the road” and for some years became western men. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had driven 350 miles to get to Pennsylvania, had spent four long days in the state, and walked a net eleven miles of the Appalachian Trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

One tiny sliver of the leaves I collected could kill all four of us. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The stew in the kettle was made for four, not six. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls of the low house were four feet thick, and the round pole rafters were tied on with rawhide ropes which had been put on wet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Horses, four times as massive, were profoundly, terribly novel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This crack in our front hallway has been there for three or four years. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was a tiny bathroom and a little living room, too, with four chairs, a table with a plastic cloth, and a transistor radio. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

There were four plates of roast pork and vegetables. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I had had in the meantime more opportunity to observe the house; it was taller than it was broad, comprising four floors, with ivy covering much of the front right up to the gables. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Why, Spencer, I don’t know if I got three, four months.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

For me, that meant four days in the warehouse, and even in my clouded state it was clear I might freeze to death for real. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her house sat eighty feet from the sidewalk and was backed by four huge pine trees, from which she got the needles she stuck into her mattress. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing I notice, though, is that Mama really has four tickets. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Or how about four thousand painkillers? That would be great.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was in the hospital for about four days. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Two days a week, she joins the women, taking on this second job now that there are four more mouths to feed and the money she gets from part-time teaching isn't enough anymore. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

And I thought I had it bad staying here for another four weeks,” he said. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

There were eight of them down at the river, four young boys about twelve years old—my age—two girls, a man, and a woman. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Almost as much as you had with your first big operation when you were four.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

My mom took me to four different stores. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Liza Hamilton arrived about four in the morning. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Louisiana National Guard had called four thousand troops into service. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Men are diving over and over, three or four of them—they all look the same. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I also wasn’t very good at it because when I got home from school on day four, there was a holographic gift bag on my bed. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Is it true there are four balls? And two of them fly around trying to knock people off their brooms?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Things came to a head for Yolanda Hughes some four years ago, when her son Max was three. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She retold the story of how Estella won the dress by dancing until four in the morning. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one forbade him, so he clapped again, loudly, four or five times and greeted each man politely. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley’s, and Dudley was about four times bigger than he was. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When they got to the gate, all four of them leapt upright against the fence, snarling and snapping at Curly on the other side. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chong was a retired piano teacher and my mother had traded housecleaning services for weekly lessons and a piano for me to practice on every day, two hours a day, from four until six. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg had wanted to make four copies of each page, but quickly realized this would take forever. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For a moment above and below eye level, all four limbs stuck out, and then, just as quickly, all four disappeared. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And make sure when they cut the six-packs into fours and twos that they don’t puncture the cans with the knife.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It took them more than four hours to free the four men who had been trapped in debris, including John Barry, who had come close to dying of suffocation before the rescuers arrived. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I lost the first round four–nothing, the worst result possible. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In one room, a beautiful woman sprawled naked on the floor while four little men crawled over her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Down the street lives an aspiring rock band composed of four middle schoolers. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tyrion moved his saddle to Jyck's spotted gelding, who looked strong enough to last another three or four days at least. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

How could I get ten right when I could barely get four? Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

My dad kept a file, and at least four or five times a year he would write to Washington, D.C., asking someone to please help get his father’s coffin back to Florida. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Trusting to the fact that Hagrid wouldn’t miss him, with the attractions of four dragons and Madame Maxime to occupy him, he turned silently and began to walk away, back to the castle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Hasn’t got a name. Never name any of my dogs. Dogs one, two, three, and four is all. When I want ’em, I whistle; when I don’t, I give ’em a kick. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

About four hours later, a red Acura pulled into the mall parking lot, and this hipster-looking Asian girl stepped out and shielded her eyes against the sun as she looked around. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It took me four hours to drive the hundred miles from Coeur d’Alene to the top of Lewiston Hill— which, to me, was more of a mountain than a hill. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I fed the chickens, gathered the eggs, and divided them, too, four apiece. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

As she started up the four flights to the roof, Boori Ma kept one hand placed over the knee that swelled at the start of every rainy season. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I could run four miles without even breaking a sweat. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“His dæmon changed four times while we were speaking to him.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They were no match for her, even though there were four of them against one of her: She was a witch, as Harry knew, with prodigious skill and no conscience. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Here he has four lovely little boys, says Minnie, but it’s no comfort to him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Some along the back wall and scattered in aisles three, four, and six,” Holly answered with a wave of her hand. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“She’s four syllables, Thomas. Those who live to four syllables know all there is.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember how I took you to a baseball game? You were only four.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

My mother—all four feet eleven and a half inches and 217 pounds of her—patrols the streets of Brooklyn at night in a skintight uniform, clanging with enough antiriot gear to quash another Attica. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

That women’s wages be increased from one rupee twenty-five paisa a day to three rupees, and men’s from two rupees fifty paisa to four rupees fifty paisa a day. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman and a partner had seen Enrique and four other migrants drying off after bathing in a river five miles to the south. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Farther away, in all four corners of the compass, flights of spy-angels cruised tirelessly, keeping watch. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The four of them move around, setting the table, making the final preparations to the food. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I let her play with her buttons and feed her four pieces of lemon cake while she sits by the door. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A spec four from the first platoon had wandered away from the company and was riding with us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When all four of us were seated for lunch, Swart came out holding the two bottles and turned to the guests and said, “Gentlemen, which wine would you like?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, there’s four swallows and a parrot, right? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I don't know what prompted me to turn on the television, but I'd been away from home for four days and hadn't seen any headlines. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Michaelis was astonished; they had been neighbors for four years and Wilson had never seemed faintly capable of such a statement. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“He has a twenty. You owe him four dollars and twenty-six cents.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The four bases protruded out from the backbone, like leaves emerging out of the tendril of ivy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

I drowned four of ‘em right off. She couldn’t feed that many.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

This arrangement, however, is not perfect, for dry land emerges from the water, and on the land all four elements interact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A family of four came out of the elevator and headed in his direction. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

In entering Lituya Bay four canoes were swallowed by the waves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All in all, four churches and two houses were damaged by explosives that night. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“You put the wrong one down. You need a four to play.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Most students spend at least three or four terms finishing their apprenticeships. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This was where my father built for us with his own hands a four- room house. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get to her room at four forty-five. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

In three to four days he’d be home and there’d be a malt and a hamburger and his mother and father. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are four X marks on the stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But Mr. Banks, who owns it, said to Mrs. Banks that she could have either a nice, clean, comfortable house or four children. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Milo’s eyes opened wide, for there in front of him was a large dog with a perfectly normal head, four feet, and a tail—and the body of a loudly ticking alarm clock. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The win raised their record to four and one overall and a perfect two and zero mark in the district. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was among a group of three or four fine does who were talking quietly together and seemed to be feeding as well. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom has already scooped servings of pasta and clams into four bowls, each garnished with sprinkles of parsley and squeezes of lemon. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was almost four months ago that the door was sealed shut between Hilly and me, a door made of ice so thick it would take a hundred Mississippi summers to melt it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I’d spent the past four years locked away in the padded room of college, reading Keats and Eudora Welty and worrying over term papers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The same boat that had been dominant all fall-—the boat built around four of last year’s freshmen—had won by an impressive three lengths in a time of 6:43. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At the end of the fifth test, the subject was sent home to New York with three or four aspirins in an engraved envelope for his sniffles, which turned out to be bronchial pneumonia. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

A good muzzle-loader could on average fire about three to four shots a minute. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had gotten off the fewest pieces in one day since she’d had four looms, and she still had to go home to the burden of silent little Rachel. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Three or four more fruits followed, each equally strange to me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Almost exactly four years ago, we evacuated Phnom Penh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the one my mom’s heavy crew used to pull sheet iron. Said he could lift four times what a man could.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“To win this game, your team must be the first to complete four laps of the second-floor balcony without spilling any of the three dozen books stacked on your rolling shelves, no matter the obstacles.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

A group of four men turned around the corner I was heading for, dressed too casually to be heading home from the office, but they were too grimy to be tourists. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

One, two, four, five, eight, ten flights of stairs. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Olinski said, "That is either the most honest or the most dishonest answer I have ever heard. I must notify the bus driver that I'll be driving you four souls home." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

After this junk went on for three or four days I sneaked the pillowcase full of dinosaurs out and headed over to where Rufus lived. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom stares into the four cups of tea at the counter, entranced by the little milk eddies she stirs up in each one. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Franklin was pulled over nearly four miles away from the site of the shooting, at 5:56 P.M. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“We could hardly believe it,” Jesse later told me, recalling that first morning when they gazed up at a squat, ugly, four- story apartment complex facing a suburban highway. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prosecutor asked Govan why, if he admitted many of the actions in the four counts against him, he did not simply plead guilty to the four counts? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once safely in the lead, Pollard slowed him down, and Seabiscuit galloped in ahead by four and a half lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the Astrea, and some four hundred other vessels, started in a vast convoy, guarded by British warships. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Chattahoochee is part of four million acres—6,000 square miles—of federally owned forest stretching up to the Great Smoky Mountains and beyond and spreading sideways across four states. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Their mothers walked in groups of three or four, some in burqas, others not. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was no mention, in his tribute, of Nixon’s efforts to undermine Johnson’s peace talks four years before. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Diallo was followed to his apartment building by four white police officers—members of the elite Street Crime Unit—who viewed him as suspicious and wanted to interrogate him. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

With scarcely a word said, four of us, the chauffeur, butler, gardener and I, hurried down to the pool. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The jug was passed, and each got three or four good swallows before the next hand reached for it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We sat on the curb in front of the store, and I finished dinner in four bites. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

One night, a few minutes before lights out, an older prisoner named Moshe, who had been in four different camps in three years, stopped by Jack’s bunk to visit, as he often did. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the door he had his four best swordsmen, so no one could enter the tiny chapel, but, still, there were a lot of people screaming where the Brute Squad should have been. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“What about What walks on four legs in the morning’?” “I beg your pardon?” the Sphinx said, clearly annoyed now. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was four hundred square miles of forest, so they said, and enough for all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

This idea tickled Jo’s fancy and put her in good spirits, but Meg didn’t brighten, for her burden, consisting of four spoiled children, seemed heavier than ever. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at my Daniel when he was four years old, and I said to myself, How will I teach this mind what it is to have a soul? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

If I left it in place, I could have four stacks of seven cells. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Superficially, the X-ray data were compatible with two, three, or four strands. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Peewee and the spec four played checkers for a while and then he played with an Italian from Connecticut. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Digory now saw that where four trees grew close together their branches had all been laced together or tied together with switches so as to make a sort of cage. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The other four waited till the fifth returned. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Already cooked enough for you. See? One soup, four dishes. You don’t eat it, only have to throw it away. Wasted!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And by the time he’d finished the sentence, the cavern, the miners, and the Dodecahedron had vanished, leaving just the four of them standing in the Mathemagician’s workshop. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a skinned person creeping on all fours, bent, a horrifying open gap where a mouth should be. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She looked like a little snowman as she walked down the stairs carrying four ridiculously full tote bags. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He had come home after working until four a.m. at the Pen and Pencil Club, the North End bar he owned. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

A week after three of the four kids in my neighborhood were buried, the president made a formal address to the nation. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The catalyst for the change was the Whiskey Rebellion, a popular insurgency in four counties of western Pennsylvania protesting an excise tax on whiskey. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had had the best game of his life—seven for nine passing for 194 yards and four touchdowns. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Definitely not the smile of someone who’d had a baby four weeks earlier. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“No,” said Holly, “not fugitives. Campion’s there. We ran right into him and three or four more that Blackavar recognized. I believe Woundwort’s there himself. They’ve come for us—don’t make any mistake about that.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all the years he’s known Ms. Dale—and he’s known her through five different hair colors and four school years—he’s never once seen her alone. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The four relay runners were practicing baton handoffs. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

One of the four would open his or her eyes, and from there the movements were brisk, the house quickly growing loud. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

So now Ms. Morales was driving all four of the kids back to the Greystones’ house. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been best friends since we were four. He lives down the hall.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The teachers all told me I was going to have four hours of homework a night, but I didn’t believe it—plus I believed I could handle it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room the dwarf stood with his servants, and four strangers in the black of the Night's Watch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In my pocket I had three peach pits from the orchards of Mentana, and four Micro Machine cars to jump over them as if they were boulders. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A 1993 survey found that 13 percent of jockeys suffered concussions over a period of just four months. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that case, the colors of Jupiter speak to us of chemical events that four billion years ago back on Earth led to the origin of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time his father had stolen into Matt’s room, crawling on all fours. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasted four whole years with him—from the age of eighteen, when she started working at the office, to the day she died. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A quick survey of current diseases lets us trace out four stages in the evolution of a specialized human disease from an animal precursor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It first became clear when I was four,” she told me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Nergal beat all four of his wings to change direction. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The four men at the table regarded the silent man who stood looking back at them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in the heat of the conflict, four firefighters turned their hose on me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I have outpatient therapy from four to five, remember?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I was partway across the quad, and I peeked back—four guys from the hockey team had surrounded him at the foot of the stairs behind David Hall, sucking him into their swarm. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, well, it looks like a two, which would be really bad news, but maybe it means four?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Percy hadn’t noticed before, but she had a tattoo on the inside: the letters spqr, a crossed sword and torch, and under that, four parallel lines like score marks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I slept for about four to five hours. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At just the time that Henry Cavendish was completing his experiments in London, four hundred miles away in Edinburgh another kind of concluding moment was about to take place with the death of James Hutton. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

So they called technical fouls on four of our players for leaving the bench and on Coach for unsportsmanlike conduct. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

About three or four years old so they would always feel like he was their own father. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like I’d never prayed before, I had: at the Presbyterian church sometimes, and when my goldfish, four of them, had died—one after the next—and other times, too. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Number one, three, and four looked almost right to me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There are four thousand temples. Which one do you want?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Leigh was four months old when the Air Force sent Jerome to Korea, and during the thirteen months he was gone, I continued to live with my parents. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons we lay on our beds for an hour in the gymnasium, between three and four. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hastily, she cut the remaining half of her caribou skin into four strips and a circle. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't be silly; it's just two minutes to four." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s four of them, still,” said a tart female voice. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He picked it up by the hair and took it with him, crawling on all fours. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isa set the oven to four hundred degrees, shoved the roasting pan inside, and let the oven door bang closed. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Well,” says Radar, “the good news is that we will be stopping. The bad news is that it won’t be for another four hours and thirty minutes.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The cards of address alone remained to nail on: they lay, four little squares, in the drawer. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

As he pulled into the driveway of number four, the first thing he saw — and it didn’t improve his mood — was the tabby cat he’d spotted that morning. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Yesterday afternoon at four o’clock, as I had decided, I took my gun and went down the hill to the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Put another way, if you double the distance between two objects, the attraction between them becomes four times weaker. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

At dinner, we sit at a massive table carved along all four sides with images of piping fauns and dancing imps. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They found four men inside, and something about them and the scene seemed amiss. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The four of us exchange worried glances, and guilt begins to gnaw the pit of my stomach. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It had faded over the last four years. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Living in her respectable house in the center of town, crowded by four other houses, each so near anyone could peer through the windows and whisper a judgment, Faye felt trapped. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And so here were the four who had flown to the citadel and lived to tell the tale—though they apparently hadn't told it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In a typical Bach fugue, such as the ‘Gigue Fugue’, the tune to be imitated would be much longer than the four notes that begin 'London’s Burning’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

"Roger, Flight. . . message sent. Minimum reply time three minutes, four seconds." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it wouldn't even be an issue—Park might never get any taller than five foot four. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I noticed the others falling into columns of four, and I was alone in the rear, like the pivot of a drill team. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m so angry, I study the Civil War for four hours straight. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Pretty much the same look as when she’d dropped me off at Gran’s four days ago. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I prepared myself to look into the tunnel of light and see my great-grandma and the little Chihuahua dog I had when I was four that got run over by a UPS van. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Nick’s family did a lot of reading, so book-shelves covered three of the four walls in the family room. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are four hundred of them, plus thirty instructors and fifty more on the staff, NCOs and cooks, groomsmen and groundskeepers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

These four eras are further divided into anywhere from a dozen to twenty subgroups, usually called periods though sometimes known as systems. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The last four digits of her social security number. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Radar showed up at my window precisely four minutes later. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh that, I’ve got a cheddar cheese that four badgers couldn’t roll, plus ten other varieties.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“It’s nonnegotiable. Now let’s discuss the end of last semester. You missed four, almost five, weeks of school. Your mother says you were sick with the flu.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It just looked like four arms and four legs, connected to one big astronaut helmet. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Then, after only four months, Mrs. Hines announced that Luke and I were going to live with my grandfather. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The bus stops and four people get off. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Evidently there were nesting holes in the sheer face below them, for as the light grew they saw three or four martins dart out over the stream and away into the fields beyond. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of us spend about four hours in the cold digging for those tough old vegetables, planted last summer, until we have a gnarled and ugly pile. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Be back at the car by four o’clock,” Rodney said to me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of these four phrases begins with one or two pickup notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I guess it was about four thirty when I made my way down the hill on the path toward the lake. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Miraculously, inside each egg one cell became two, two became four, then eight. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t of been much trouble for Mama; all Grandpa ever wanted in the morning was four cups of coffee and some yeast bread, toasted hard and dipped in boiling water and then buttered. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He shared a room with another man—there were four rooms per housing unit. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

To my right was a pillared building whose four cupolas dominated the skyline. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dropping his books, Ben turned to face the four antagonists who now bore down on him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was in contrast to the only Wizarding photograph on the walls, which was a picture of four Hogwarts students standing arm in arm, laughing at the camera. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then with my fingers, I slowly felt around the object It had a head, I discovered, four feet and a tail Timothy had spent all that time carving a cat a Stew Cat. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy swiftly drove the four blocks back to his apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to spend the next year or the next four years refighting the same fights that we had in the 1990s,” he said. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But when subjects thought that there were four others also overhearing the seizure, they came to the student’s aid only 31 percent of the time. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the highway you probably get all four parts—the sunrise, the day, the sunset, and the night. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

But a new management team eliminated the late-afternoon limo to send a message: four thirty is the middle of the workday, not the end. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I open the Walkman, pop out tape number four, and flip it over. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Unmotivated, it covers four to five metres in an hour. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s four teams left in the state of Texas, and the Permian Panthers are one of those four,” Gaines softly told his players moments before it was time to take to the field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

So four quarter notes would fill up one measure. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And while he’s doing this, which is humiliating, four more doctors enter the room, and he starts talking. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But the creature in front of Gregor rose at least four feet in the air. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All four of them were clutching seating plans, so that they could help show people to the right seats. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Henrietta’s were different: they reproduced an entire generation every twenty- four hours, and they never stopped. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I started out by dressing in a white coat and sitting on a tall stool in a room with four cadavers, while Buddy and his friends cut them up. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t had a new dress since they sold the sheep four years ago. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since I was four, when I tried to organize my fellow preschoolers into going on strike for better cookies at snack time, I’ve had the same problem. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They were now down to just four canoes for twenty-one men. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I was right ’shamed at how only three or four hours in chains had did so much damage. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“The sun only tells you it’s going on four, Finnick,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Too sweet, even though on any day of the week, Genie could take down three or four rocket pops with no problem. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that we’re on day four—so I think the theory’s only one day off.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

All four of us looked at one another. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurried to the root cellar and packed his rucksack with enough nuts, venison jerky, and big potatolike Jerusalem artichoke roots to feed himself for three or four days. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

After four days on the train, with no baths except for the sponge variety, we were not very sanitary when we reached California. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smith arrived at the barn at four the next morning. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn to each of the corners—the four directions—as if to bow to every single possibility around me: north, south, east, west. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Gently I touched the bubble to leaf four. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Molly Roswell stole my clothes during gym all through tenth grade. She has four children with two different fathers, and a DUI. “ We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

An anonymous hedgehog sent four or five dirty leaves with fleas on them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Squirrel returned, the other four were with her: gaunt grey-haired Myrtle, Willow Witch-Eye with her long black braid, Frenya of the thick waist and enormous breasts, Holly with her knife. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of an overcoat, she was wearing what looked to be about four sweaters and a shawl, a pair of corduroy trousers, and some old sneakers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"You've been pottering around for the last four thousand years just...gardening?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The most popular attraction after the Eiffel Tower, sad to say, was a human zoo of four hundred Africans. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

People crowd into the car around me, so we stand in four rows, shoulder-to-shoulder. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“The four crosses were there, sir. The names were still on them. 1 wrote them down to be sure.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, their father's eyes glazed with tears more than once as the four girls went through their paces. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Scholars once believed that agriculture spread from a single Middle Eastern point of origin to the four corners of the world. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine, while I grind everything up, boil four cups of water.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were bunk beds against all four walls and a nest of them in the middle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

That way, from each log, I’d come out with four rails. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully she gathered the skins on which she had slept these four nights guarding her mother’s spirit. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guards announced marriages three or four times a year, usually on propitious dates, such as New Year’s or Kim Jong Il’s birthday. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Sun Man pulled out his things: four sets of new clothes two pairs of new moccasins two strings of white shell beads Kaup’a’ta smiled when he saw these things “We’ll gamble all night,” he said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had laid four eggs, smaller and not as white as the ones our neighbor Doña Lola gave us from time to time. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The truck continued thus for three more days and nights—four in all since my awakening. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“NO! I’m keeping it. If you don’t want it then I’m pawning it. We have at least four or five months’ rent here.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I was so small, four and five years old, riding on the long seat of the old black touring car, with Papa at the wheel. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he himself was wondering was: Why now, four years later? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Some three or four nights later I launched my first raid. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can now “read” human genomes, and we can “write” human genomes in a manner inconceivable just three or four years ago. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I have not seen Halmoni since I was four years old, so I can’t be quite sure of how death takes her even farther from me. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

And I took a bulldozer and cleared four acres and moved in more or less like I owned the place. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now he closes his eyes to remember; it’s a habit of his, he’ll often shut them for three, four seconds, as he gathers what he’ll say. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tank snorted past, four inches from their heads, amidst the hard laughter of the soldiers and the howl of the fire engines. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some 500,000 slaves were brought here, and there were four million enslaved African Americans at the time of emancipation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

One girl, prettier than the others, was made to go with four or five different men every night, until finally she hit one with a rock. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Harry fell to the ground on all fours as the spider released him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe that it was already almost four o’clock. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be four days before Katz and I crossed a public highway, eight days till we came to a town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

For the next four years they would continue to defend him from the rivalries and rules of academia. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We four stopped running at the tiny beach down by Cuddle- down House. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The bathtub was raised off the floor by four stubby legs that ended at four feet with claws on them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw the four of them, all connected. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was four months since she had known him but she couldn’t forget. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael stood four feet six, with another two feet of attitude. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was assigned here, to the country’s top university, at twelve, four years ahead of schedule. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As die Dufarges came into range, he suddenly raised his face, gave a terrible laugh, and neatly, even fastidiously, regurgitated all four bullets. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“One day there’s nothing and then the next day—boom, there’s a new burger place or a coffee shop or whatever? First a single store, then two, then four— exact replicas spreading across the country?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But four people, including a woman and a child, shot dead in cold blood? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the weeks that followed, no fewer than four million letters, telegrams, phone calls, postcards, and other expressions of support poured into the Republican Party’s headquarters. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He too stopped, less than four feet away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I decide to wait the dog out, but after three or four minutes on the log, it gets boring and I start off again. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elisabet was still modestly wrapping her pagne as she stumbled to the door, and four men entered with such force they shoved her against the wall. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t eat for four days and he refused to go to the toilet. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the dance floor it seemed to be more than it was: one hundred couples, two hundred people, four hundred dancing legs seemed to be a single festive flowery creature, a fabulous millipede. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure your parents are going to want to know that the four of you are safe,” one of the kindliest-looking firefighters said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Someone had spotted where the firing was coming from and estimated it to be four hundred and fifty meters in front of us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five people in front, plus four on my right side, including me, plus six on my left equals fifteen. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

For instance, if I neglect to tell you that I’m four foot eight, feel free to picture me a few inches taller. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Yep,” I agreed as I handed him his homework, which had four problems wrong, nicely scattered throughout the assignment. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning: two more lids popped up; and that afternoon: four lids. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The car pool horn would honk, and she would rush out to join four other Japanese women who had fixed their hair that morning, applied the vanishing cream, and sported freshly ironed hankies. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read an article about what babies do at four months. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Things started to change about four years ago, when I was thirteen. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

There had been three or four people on the second floor. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Four years seemed like a thousand years then. But I wish I would have just put in my four years.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Brilliantly painted red and gold animal dens line two of the four walls, their sides propped open to reveal lions, tigers, panthers, jaguars, bears, chimps, and spider monkeys—even an orangutan. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Vonetta said, “And four plates, four forks, four napkins, and four cups.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It showed a gigantic picture of a family of four rich white people sitting in a car driving somewhere. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The stinky place: Nothing smells like a sheep barn with four or five hundred sheep crammed in. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After four days on the run, he makes a critical mistake, boldly supporting Lincoln’s assassination while eating dinner with strangers. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

If only she could fly to the Westing house on a broomstick instead of scrambling over rocks on all fours, what with all she had to carry. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can get four people all talking at once, and a fifth can be present, but generally I can’t get him to talk. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyndon Johnson had halted the bombing of North Vietnam four years before. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I know the exact day she would have turned four months.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then he will look to you as a second father, and if not, well . . . four years is a good long while, my lord. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One bedroom is a small place for four people, and it takes exactly three days for someone to lose their temper. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Three or four times a week after dinner, the new people sit through an hour or more of meetings. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night soon after Christmas all four of the people chanced to visit him at the same time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If she had twenty-one dollars, I took three or four. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The four tall windows, frosted with vapor from the steam radiators, allowed a gray snowfall light to descend into the courtroom. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Fred?” gushed Tater as the four dogs received head pats and ear rubs. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As they stopped to pick a line into the undergrowth, four big rabbits appeared out of the long grass and sat looking down at them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chances are one in four, we learned that at the Center. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four of them so high, they look over the city. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The bull was squared on all four feet to be killed, and Romero killed directly below us. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Anne got a job in the high-school cafeteria, saved her money, and bought silk stockings, two short dresses and four flimsy pieces of underwear known as teddies. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was time for each of the seven regions to make its toughest cuts and choose the four members for its Library Olympics team. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

So my plan is: Head south four kilometers, then search around till I see the green flag. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We make small talk as we go, and Max nods and smiles, wearing a hat and coat I found in a trash heap and washed four times. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“And monkeys in Red Gate. There were four monkeys.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She studied her palms, the four perfect crescents in her flesh. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He had been a pilot with Korean Air for almost four years after coming over from the Korean Air Force. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

"This would doubt-less involve the four men your man Bronn searched for so diligently in all the low places of King's Landing. A thief, a poisoner, a mummer, and a murderer." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

After four days, I only had to show up with my bucket, and the worms, drawn by my footsteps and the promise of water, crawled to the surface. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I leaned up against him like I used to do when I was four and he was ten and he was reading me a book. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What, afraid the Dauntless are going to change their minds about you? Realize that even though you’ve only got four fears, you’re still a coward?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Well, these four chairs belong to my family,” Teddy said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

JetBlue now has four hundred reservation agents, like Dolly, working at home in the Salt Lake City area, taking reservations —in between babysitting, exercising, writing novels, and cooking dinner. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Only a few people were watching at first, and half of them were Heck’s Angels, a roving tricycle gang of four- and five-year-olds. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She explained that we'd be taking four tests, each of them timed. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

On the second play of the game, Comer went sixty- four yards for a touchdown, his seventh of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ones causing the epidemic to grow — the ones who were infecting two and three and four and five others with their disease — were the remaining 168. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could see them coming from the Cornucopia, but if all four Careers attacked, they’d overpower us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They got to bed at three or four in the morning. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I have in my hand four lengths of rope of the sort fishermen use for mooring lines. May I ask you to inspect them, please?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Far ahead of us four boys, looking like white flags on the endless green playing fields, crossed toward the tennis courts. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were little, maybe four or five,” he went on. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four eldest sons of Davos Seaworth had perished in the battle on the Blackwater, when the king’s fleet had been consumed by green fire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ida asked impatiently as soon as the four of them had climbed aboard. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

We also watched Methuselah, who after four months of liberation still hung around our house mumbling. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He supposed it would take “three or four days.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

If I had my way, I would empty the buildings out right now and hurry up and knock all four of ’em down and start a new beginning. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you’re sorry. Well, with your sorry and four hundred a month, I can buy gas so I can raise my kids in the true faith. You’re sorry.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

As children, Henrietta and Day awoke each morning at four o’clock to milk the cows and feed the chickens, hogs, and horses. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That post on those four little girls who were killed in that church. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When Old Chao suggested they might take a walk around the block, just to have a look, they did, all four of them. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She prepared fish and soup every night; meat or pork every other; at least four kinds of namool, prepared vegetables, and then always something fried. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally had spent the last four years staring at the skyline of New Pretty Town, thinking it was the most beautiful sight in the world, but she didn’t think so anymore. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly our kitchen went from one pot on the stove to three or sometimes four huge cauldrons of steaming food cooking all hours of the day. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He ripped open the package of hot dogs; Cruz ate four, one after another. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Someone has to combine our four papers into one report, and it isn’t going to be me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My dad was born four years later, followed by my two aunts. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was providential that we would live together for those four years at college, and after graduation, we continued a friendship that was a healing balm. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Rain pounded against the window of the bedroom I shared with four others at the foster home. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His parents permanently separated when he was four. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I was so deliriously happy that it didn’t matter that the rent on my studio was really only four hundred thirty-five. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stay up till four a.m. working on Germ, me on my laptop, Brenda flat on her back on the floor, legs up the wall. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The blade slashed through three of his four chins in a spray of bright red blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the time I was four years old, I was asking questions neither my mother nor grandmother cared to answer. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paused on a photo of four girls at the beach. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Alex thought about all the prayers he had said in the past four months and how few had been granted. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There came a time when my grandmother’s brothers sold my grandfather and four of his colored children into the very cotton fields he freed himself from.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He crawled to the boots on all fours, sat, tried them on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In February, the ninth- grade girls began assembling a team for an interclass track meet, and in a class with only four boys, Louie was the only male who looked like he could run. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

That was the first wild chimpanzee infant that I ever saw close up, nearly four years after I had begun my research. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Constance nodded and flashed the light again: four quick signals. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, washing and preparing the body required four volunteers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bill Clinton traded in a hand of low cards with the help of a college education and a Rhodes scholarship and emerged decades later with four face cards. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed so long since I had used it, and yet it was only four months ago. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

All four of them walked through the empty basement and up the stairs in a clump, almost like a single creature—an amoeba, maybe. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“But I could get out of the finite dimensions fairly often when I was four,” Teddy said, as an afterthought. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I bathed her more and more often, sometimes three or four times a day in the pool. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was my first time in a vehicle since I had been separated from my parents four years before. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rabia was four years old and Safa was three, but with their matching black curls and dimples, people often mistook them for twins. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A few hours later that same evening a captain came to our cell and commanded the four of us to pack our belongings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Harry — move diagonally four squares to the right.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He remembered once when he was very young, maybe three or four, and he’d followed Mother into Dad’s office while she was cleaning. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

All four wall panels lay ready to be lifted into place. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

At that location they would all rendezvous at four o’clock to return to Ashton Place. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Now that I thought about it, I’d be pretty mad if somebody dumped four million pounds of manure in my home. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had four children and raised them to work hard, but the oldest went off to Darrington to set choker cables, and the second and third went off to war. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

These mansions had been built by wealthy white families in the late nineteenth century and included two to four bathrooms, electric lighting, gas furnaces, and steam heat. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Somewhere to the west. They have been doing this for four or five summers now. But I don’t remember seeing this many.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

About four o’clock in the morning we reach a record: all eleven men, guards and visitors, are squatting outside. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had mine already,” I told him, “and I can only stay four minutes anyway.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There are four wheels on the pram but one is bockety, it wants to go in a different direction. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then, directly under his eyes, four white fingers caught hold of the icy edge of the water tank. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was no power in the arm and it took him four tries to pull and crawl his way up onto the bunk. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It Had been two days since Papa came home and four since Ivette left with the brigades. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

When I woke up it was four in the morning. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were only nine weeks left until the final duel, and some of the others, including Nox, were doing well enough that those four spots were starting to seem rather precious. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He dropped to all fours again and went on gnawing his meat. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Had come to Boston and had four sons and three daughters. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We get in line, and not a minute later four more people are behind us. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Adnan had done well since emigrating over a decade earlier; he owned and managed four Subway franchises in New Orleans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In fifth grade, the four of us had Mrs. Kingston. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Crouching on all fours, Matthias forced his way into the hole which proved to be another tunnel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t been to the salon in four days, and so my dad found her appointment book and called all her regular customers to indefinitely postpone their appointments. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The boys said naw like there was just one voice for the four of them. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He was maybe four feet tall, even shorter than Coach Hedge, with bowed legs and chimp-like feet, his clothes so loud they gave Leo vertigo. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Since I had my burlap feed sack already with me, I used it as a container, removing the four eggs first. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The four boys stared open-mouthed at the wound and the scrap of flesh, like a button mushroom, curling in the cherry blood that ran into the comers of the slate. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Except for day four, when I suffered some kind of setback and had to walk the whole mile, almost on my hands and knees, I know that I've made progress. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He had a house on the top of the mountain with four doors, one on each side, allowing him to see danger coming toward him from any direction. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The four children and their parents all scrambled after him. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

She did, not caring who might be watching, not caring that it was nearly Midwinter and she stood in four inches of snow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Over the next months, Allen’s squad was repeatedly sent into the bush for three or four weeks at a stretch. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It weighs between two and four tonnes, the female being larger than the male. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She insisted on leaving before Act II. At home, getting ready for bed, the four theatergoers went about their nightly routines. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We had bought on the way a hand of plantains, of which four remained, and as we had not eaten since morning I brought these out, giving two to my husband and eating two myself. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to see the other houses; I particularly don’t want to see the one four doors down, the one that used to be mine. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Delaying it for four years while True Belle came and took over but remembering the floorboards as a door, closed and locked. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the open market was a towering wooden building with four separate roofed sections and fenced- in courtyards. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I managed to get up on all fours. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After the harrow, for the next two days came the Fitzgibbons themselves, all four of them with hoes and bags of seeds, planting lettuce, beans, spinach, potatoes, corn and mustard greens. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

When they finally reached the Jade River, the road broke off in four directions. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They spent almost four dollars on supper at the mall, and none of them had dessert. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are, apparently, a great many more dimensions than four. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty much everyone starts out playing in fours, and being the lead bowler is a nice, gentle way to begin. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was four or five boxcars down the line. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

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

Each of these tables, Harry noticed as he passed them, was positioned exactly beneath the four House tables above, in the Great Hall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

This was a small sketch of a very simple palace—just a square, really, with four thin turrets coming up from each corner. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were only four words written on it, each one capitalized. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And here’s the thing about truth, right here, right in this room with these four walls. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He made her go, even though there were only four weeks left, and everybody was already studying for finals. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to be a fully functioning Arthur when your heart lives in four envelopes. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

An hour later they reluctantly left the sunlit common room for the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom four floors below. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Soon an elderly white woman approached the four. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the northern lords studied the castle, a sally port opened, a plank bridge slid across the moat, and a dozen knights rode forth to confront them, led by four of Lord Walder's many sons. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You come crying back soon enough,” said Gabriel, with malevolence, “soon as they whip your butt up there four or five times.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But after four long years, and more than 600,000 dead from both sides, the people of the North can be forgiven the joy and excitement that now floats through the air. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The bus picks up students in groups of four or five. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

In four years of fighting, nearly eight million Soviet soldiers and twenty million civilians died. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After all four of us are on the western side of the gorge, thirty minutes of rough bushwhacking returns us to the Stampede Trail. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got into the game in the second quarter and gained four yards on his first carry of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other four men were taken to London to prepare for the job. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the space between dreaming and wakefulness, I think of a real argument, long ago—four years ago—after our first and only round of IVF failed, when I wanted to try again. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was four, Mama was the moon and the stars. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Those who could add up while yelling themselves hoarse knew that Gryffindor now had four hundred and seventy-two points — exactly the same as Slytherin. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

"Within four days of running out of food, he'll barely be able to stand up, let alone control a rover. Plus, his mental faculties will rapidly decline. He'd have a hard time even staying awake." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two or three years Miss Trixie had been carrying these bags with her, sometimes accumulating three or four by the side of her desk, never disclosing their purpose or destination to anyone. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wex held up five fingers, tapped each one with the dagger, then folded four away and tapped the last again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The kid was small and scared, about six or seven years old—maybe just four billion miles or so—with thin buckwheat hair that was plastered down against his ghostly skin. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

In less than four days, unless they found him and freed him, Nico would be dead. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He played a lovely game of billiards and with the handicap I was only four ahead at fifty. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Has tried four times to swim from Cuba to Florida, but each time had to stop because she’d been stung so badly by jellyfish. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The voice on the radio droned on: “February twenty- first—one hundred and forty-one. February twenty-second—seventy- four. February twenty-third—two hundred and six.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The other four men were strangers to her. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It must make you better satisfied that your other four are single.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“No. I told him we'd been married four years. You see, darling, if I marry you I'll be an American and any time we’re married under American law the child is legitimate.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When she opened them again, they told her that she had slept four days. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The captain pointed to Aaron Molete, the youngest of the four of us and a very mild and gentle person, and said, “Why is your hair so long?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a reluctant backward glance the well-disciplined child held to her nurse's hand and was pulled out the door, just as Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys that clicked full of ice. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Manhattan Chess Club was organized into four groups, based on playing strength. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I think of my lost obsidian pendant Lita gave me four centuries ago. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Pa and Cor, the youngest Van Gogh, take Vincent to the depot for the four o’clock train, parting is difficult again. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Archer picked out a cube with four pips, dropping the last two in his cup and placing a copper coin in the pot. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first had been a widower with four children. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about, Harry? Perhaps you’re getting a little drowsy? Great Scott — look at the time! We’ve been here nearly four hours! I’d never have believed it — the time’s flown, hasn’t it?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Or at least you do for four blocks. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We made only four miles today, still in the wrong direction. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

"He can't be a baby forever. He's a Stark, and near four." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I measured two coffee mugs of buckwheat flour into a bowl, stirred in four spoonfuls of Royal Baking Powder—the only kind Aunt Ivy ever used—and half a spoonful of salt. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I tuck it into my fur waist-sash, then go to treatment room four. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As the four came to the beach a sliver of the sun broke over Tom Work’s land across the head of the bay and it gilded the water and made the rocks yellow. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I graduated from playing fours to triples and then to pairs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Janet, who was sitting four rows away from Nick, promptly turned white, then bright crimson. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three months later, he sat down next to four black youths on the subway and started shooting. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began at Mike’s table again, carefully putting one drop of water in each of the four squares. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Inside my backpack are the first four tapes, which are one or two more than I’ll probably have time to Page 19 listen to tonight. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Once there were four white families on our block but they all moved away except for the old lady who lives by the tree. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Porter, Guitar, Freddie the janitor, and three or four other men were exploding, shouting angry epithets all over the room. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Question Quigley says he ran away from home and spent half the night in a ditch with four goats. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He filled the thimble bowl with tobacco so fine- cut it looked like hair, then lighted the pipe, took four long puffs, and let the pipe go out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The trip to Calcutta is four months away. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Newlyweds chattered smugly of their Bobs and Michaels, of how they had been married to Bob and Michael for four months and Bob and Michael had gained twenty pounds apiece. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

September come and a church in Birmingham blows up into a million pieces, with four little colored girls inside. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

This time I had a solo—not a big one, just four measures. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he slips four candy bars into his pocket. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Behind him, four men at a card table under a green-lidded light in the corner glanced briefly but said nothing. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

This reminds me of my dad crawling around the living room on all fours, pretending to be the puppy I begged for. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“They literally swam around with the dinosaurs four hundred fifty million years ago.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Four hundred and three, four hundred and four, stupid numbers, stupid night. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had to fan on it blow on it He made the nest ready again, held the hatchet backward, tensed, and struck four quick blows. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, for the weather. There’s gonna be record cold down there over the next four or five days. Gonna be well below zero in Atlanta tonight.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The beat went up a notch, to thirty- four, then another notch, to thirty-five. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Everybody can do action unit four,” he began. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The four men proceeded to the other side of the station to wait for the train. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

A strong hand knocked my books and papers to the floor as three or four football-player types squeezed me into a dark corner beneath the overhang of the auditorium balcony. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were up six to four, but our center was shooting threes. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

We ran some four- on-five plays to learn how to avoid traps. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had decided four days off school for predicting the death of a close friend was enough, and after we ate, they drove me to Jefferson. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Slowly it grew: four stories; eight hundred cells, 476 feet long. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like having three Indian grandparents, four if you count my dead grandfather. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I would like to make someone suffer. ” “’four time will come, ” said Botticelli. 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 was not the size or demeanor of the bears that troubled me—they looked almost comically unaggressive, like four guys who had gotten a Frisbee caught up a tree—but their numbers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When Mum had to go back to England after four months to manage things at home, the Africans wanted, in turn, to help me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

All those numbers, the fours and the threes and all that, yeah, add a "hundred" on the end, and then add a "meters" on the end of that. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She had four sons, each with a different father. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Slowly, as if lifted on a magic carpet, the four of us rose to the upper reaches of the car’s interior. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He started the older boys, his new varsity, at four miles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I raced up the four flights to Marcus’s classroom, the dentist’s scrawled note in one hand, and burst in, yelling, “I need Marcus!” and waving the piece of paper in Mr. Anderson’s face. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I hoist myself onto the picnic table and lie down, and as my eyes adjust to the bright four o’clock sky, I squint a little and look for planes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They were coming—all four of them—and I suddenly couldn’t wait. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The Frog jumped up to a speed of four and a half knots. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shot had come from the side of the mountain, and I figured I had about four minutes to clean up before the poacher arrived. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes; these four evenings have enabled them to ascertain that they both like Vingt-un better than Commerce; but with respect to any other leading characteristic, I do not imagine that much has been unfolded.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

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

By walking backwards we found we could track it as it slowly arced from six o’clock anti-clockwise to four o’clock. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Distracter showed that no single segment of the Sesame Street format should go beyond four minutes, and that three minutes was probably optimal. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put on a clean shirt at two o’clock, another at three o’clock, and another at quarter past four. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the process was completed within four hours; moreover, the jury, including two alternative members, was extracted from the first forty-four candidates. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cockroach painstakingly added up four and one on its legs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before we drive home, the four of us sit at the bar while Dale makes virgin cocktails for us and not-so-virgin cocktails for Lee. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was truly a load off my mind when I could tell that, even with it dark as it was in the stable, she didn’t have four arms atall! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She said, “No. Nothing. I haven’t seen Perry in four years.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your father passed away about four minutes ago.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

All were nearly four feet high and just over seven feet wide. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Velma, for instance, one of the four Anne Klein women, said that she picked none of the men and that she made up her mind about each of them right away. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

We sat on laps several children deep as the four adults in our party climbed into the front with the taxi driver. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I arrived at the baseball diamond Bunny and the other four players on our small team were already practicing. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Soon he was fully four feet outside the Glade, jerking his body from side to side as he tried to escape his collar. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

What I mean is the California of four years ago, before we moved here, when Eleanor was a sophomore and I was going into ninth grade. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At her words, the girls abandoned the tray of petit fours and scrambled to sit in front of the television set. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Of the four canoes stored there against the cliff, I chose the smallest, which was still very heavy because it could carry six people. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Becky took down a second tray and set upon it four goblets, two bottles of claret wine, and a crock of mustard. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had an outboard motor and four seats. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The diets of cornbread and sowbelly and syrup, the crowding of four and five persons to a single room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget, there’s only four more days to turn in your surveys. Only four more lonely days until your true love is revealed.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

When you march in the Marines, you count in English like this: “One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Well here we are, just the four of us that started out together,’ said Merry. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, that last day on the Island, we were in our side-by-side bedrooms, the four girls, setting out our clothes for going to the United States. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A dozen books were lined up on four shelves. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

If a cabdriver charged her four dollars, she'd wrangle him down to three. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In order to bring the new Buchis bull to its temple at Flermonthis, a city near Thebes in Upper Egypt, Cleopatra traveled more than four hundred miles on the Nile by boat. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

We got home too late for prayer meeting, so after supper the four of us just sat out on the veranda together in the cool dark. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So Mama had me bring out our four cowhide bottom chairs. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He begins to laugh until he realizes that there is no way on Earth he can walk the four miles home. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

We were kept there as prisoners for four winters. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Juan said at least four of them had been caught in the colorful web of his tattoos before they finally grabbed Robbie and ran off with him. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“It was four feet long before his parents would let me shrink it!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the excelsior nest sat a squat, black metal machine with four blades on the front and a glass reservoir on the back into which my father poured kerosene. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Suppose four people are drinking in a bar. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those were your worst fears? Why do you only have four...” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And that means four to five stings every single second. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The trunk of the tree split in four directions, each branch thicker than both of Emily’s legs put together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t make any sudden moves,” he announced to the four other occupants. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In addition to the occasional shot of Haldol, I now take four pills, twice a day. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The foot had four toes, and two of them were partially joined together. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The grandchildren ranged in age from four to fourteen, and one of them, Violet, was twelve years old when True Belle arrived. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I remembered Popo once telling me four is a very unlucky number because if you say it in an angry way, it always comes out wrong. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got in late the previous night, having sneaked out with a fever of a hundred and four, there were angry words. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Uncle Carlos pushed the quadruple stroller back and forth, trying to put his four kids to sleep. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“There was some activity down near a stream about four kilometers away,” Brunner said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the past four days, I faced four fears. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Spent? What four thousand dollars you talking ’bout?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Pauline, the oldest of us, owns her own home, but she sleeps on the living room sofa, while her four grown children and three grandchildren fill up the bedrooms. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed her one spider with four sacks of eggs swinging right over his table where he could watch her while he ate. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She gives him a piece of chocolate to eat at four o’clock at the office, but nothing helps. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She washed her face, ears, and hair four more times with wipes, wishing she’d remembered to bring a compact mirror. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It’s now the fashion to have a spool with four nails pounded into one end, and a ball of wool. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I began to get three and four rabbits before they got one. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like I’m so fatigued that I can’t even count to four. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

‘You fellows have been playing with your cyclotrons for four years. It’s time you got back to work.’ Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I fell to the ground and stayed on all fours until I caught my breath. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He shifts forward so his chair is grounded again on all four legs. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they’re the four hugest words in the world when they’re put together. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just four minutes from the moment of the explosion, it was all over. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a thousand years old, roughly contemporaneous with a report of an organ at Winchester Cathedral that boasted an extraordinary four hundred pipes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Neither China nor North Korea released figures, but estimates of these economic migrants ranged from tens of thousands to four hundred thousand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

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

She mentioned her experience as a four- teen-year-old growing up in war-torn Bosnia. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

All four of them trooped down the stairs. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I remember getting lost at the grocery store when I was four. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Will L. Wilson’s heart attack came four days earlier in the bedroom of his brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The clocks were connected by wire to four flashlight batteries. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After four days in bed, I finally decided that it was time to move on. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

In contrast, four species of big mammals—the goat, sheep, pig, and cow—were domesticated very early in the Fertile Crescent, possibly earlier than any other animal except the dog anywhere else in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of Ernestine’s sheiks drove a motorcycle madly around town, and used to buzz our place three or four times a night in hopes of catching sight of her. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smart gangs usually sent their messages in four- or five-letter groups to make them harder to crack. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I know your shift's at night, but you leave at four.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

So one can specify it by four numbers or coordinates. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up and up I go, four, five, six branches, and I’ve never seen the sky so blue, blue between green needles, hiding me. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Kathy was tempted, but it was already seven o’clock, they were about to eat dinner, and she knew she wasn’t about to drive through the night again with four kids and a flatulent dog. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

What we now call Euclidean space-time is very similar except that it has four dimensions instead of two. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And before he stepped inside, he looked up and down the street four or five times to be sure he wasn’t being followed. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She pumped four pails of water at the well, just as Mother had asked, and hauled them back one by one. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Did you know that the light from our nearest star takes four years to reach us? The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Predict the next four sets of octaves in a harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The last four weeks have been like that. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would go to tea at Sillington House at four o'clock on Saturday afternoon. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each hand had four pus-filled lumps on the palms, just below the fingers. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At one meeting, Kennedy scrawled “coup” four times on a sheet of paper. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There were six men to occupy four bunks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It rained for four years, eleven months, and two days. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the boat Bobby Moch took a look at the four lengths between his bow and California’s stern, and hollered to his crew, “OK, you lugs! We’re one length behind.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Although he had eaten four cents’ worth of candy that morning, he was very hungry and made Francie run all the way home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I pop the last four chicken nuggets into the toaster and jiggle the broken lever until it stays in the down position. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Tally saw them hiking through the orchids, four figures carrying hoverboards and dressed all in white. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

After B flat major, name the next four flat keys, and name the flat that is added with each key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Next to this is White Gift, which is in four panels. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

If Gog put his tallies in groups of four, and counted in groups of four and 16, his number system would have worked just as well, as would groups of six and 36. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Always he was thinking about the future, about events that would occur two, four, or ten years hence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Approximately four hundred miles east of where Arthur Clutter then stood, two young men were sharing a booth in the Eagle Buffet, a Kansas City diner. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

All nine flight crews survived the June 2 battle, and while they’d been in the air they shot down four of the enemy fighters themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Out of the four of us, Yakov was the last one I expected to get arrested. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Three, four times he hit and finally there were sparks. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

If the state police did not stop them, they expected the march to last at least four days, allowing plenty of time for press coverage. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started another settlement and went back to Spain, this time kidnapping four hundred Arawak people to serve as slaves. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

There were four or five cars parked outside. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs were the two bedrooms where the four of us would sleep. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ben followed him, staying four or five rungs behind his friend. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Listening Rock was close—the distance to cross was four large skips on a dry day. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

All four were merrily flapping their arms, giving each other high and low fives. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He rolls me behind my answer board and lets me practice with the four color-coded buttons. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

There were only four men in that squad. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she got to Sunnydale, the home for the aged, it was already four o’clock and turning chill. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the other students at Kabarak lived in the big cities; they’d be home within four or five hours of school closing. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pawn to queen bishop four,” responded Collins in a basso prof undo that could be heard across the street. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In human societies possessing domestic animals, livestock fed more people in four distinct ways: by furnishing meat, milk, and fertilizer and by pulling plows. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He later appealed to a mayor, hoping he might be able to get four more pounds of the rare grains. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

After four days, she came to the end of the land. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon it became obvious that I could only do three or maybe four lawns a day if I worked from just before dawn to just after dark. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Some whites had been upset earlier when four blacks ignored the invisible line, plopping themselves down on the sand as though it was nothing out of the ordinary. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In its luminance, four new figures were hunched on the ground, covering their eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It would be at least four hours before it was dark and the cucos came out. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Three subsequent running plays went for four yards and they punted. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he assumed the presidency, the ANC had seventeen shillings and sixpence in its treasury, and he had boosted the amount to four thousand pounds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first days since the beginning I can write three or four pages on my subject and then another page of breezy analysis in less than an hour. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Courtney’s parents split up when she was four years old, and her father moved with his mother to a town two hours away, in the Pocono Mountains. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

This is what happened: At about four o’clock this afternoon I knocked on his door and went in. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A new weapon appeared and those of us who had traveled to three or four bases mastering the old one were sent on to a fifth, sixth, and seventh to master the new. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

So if you have only four eggs, reduce all the other ingredients in the recipe by half. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly four times as many Hispanic drivers as non-Hispanic drivers in North Carolina have been charged with driving while impaired. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There’s JV girls, JV boys, varsity girls, varsity boys—four teams from each school is a lot to coordinate. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Prams might be packed with four or five babies squalling away because the prams are old and the wheels bockety and the babies are rocked till they get sick and throw up their goody. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When she died, he remarried and four more came along. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blackjack was in the lead, followed by four of his white friends. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She wore each style for three months, even four months, until her scalp itched unbearably and the braids sprouted fuzzily from a bed of new growth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The girl crawled on all fours until she found her stick, then sprang back to her feet, bruised and dirty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He built four clubs on his ace pile. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, players tried to roll a six, a five, and a four in descending order. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: I didn’t even know it happened until about four hours later. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was no longer a single student with an itinerant soul but a wife and mother of four children. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I started a nature club with four members—my sister and me and the Cary children, who came to stay almost every holiday. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The other man had shot Grandpa four times—twice to his head. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He liked eights best, but he’d settle for fours, sixes, twelves, sixteens, any even number, really. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Note: Two of last four episodes occurred near mirrors. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were us four, plus two of my father’s grad students. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Eventually Dr. Swango pled guilty to four murders, but investigators believed he had committed many more. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

How can a person cope with the fact that they came to the hospital walking and left four months later in a wheelchair? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For the nth time, four different people checked over the ration books and parachutes and papers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Then Washington slowly edged out to a slight lead of about four feet. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She’d helped her parents pick the paint four years ago, and her dad spilled a whole bucket of it on his shirt. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

If a student takes four courses and gets A’s in two but fails the other two, he receives a GPA of 2.0, or a C average. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The four of them leave and, as they do, Tim shrugs in my direction. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I liked it that way, and four years after I moved into his apartment, we got married. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after four days of play, the United States team had taken a humiliating beating, falling to the Soviets 20–12. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The cataclysm began at four o’clock in the morning. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first few months of class I received maybe four or five notes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He was unable to balance himself on all four legs, so we held him up. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

This tree looked like an umbrella, held overhead by four trunks that spread out from their common source. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flowery meads and bird-fruitful spinneys of the Arras teemed and rippled over the four walls. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The four of them rode out to Canarsie on the trolley. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I look back, the four adults are watching me like hawks. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It struck her how quickly the meeting had unfolded, how little time it took to confirm four of her family dead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had seen one of the guards before, but the other four were strangers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Waiting for them were four carnival-sized rented tents, pitched in a black farmer’s field. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he died at sixty-seven of strangulation on a chicken bone, he had groups of four girls in each of thirty-three small towns in New England. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fie told Montana about the four guards who, in their astonishment and grief, resembled a barbershop quartet. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

All four got down on their knees, pulling rope and knives, cutting a branch the width of a wrist, tying it and binding it for the long walk back. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the surface, the line tender, the family, the police, and the paramedics wait for four tugs on the line. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The son was about four years older than me and head and shoulders taller. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t Jewish and she had four or five kids. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can walk across the room on crutches, go up and down four steps, transfer from standing to sitting, and fall safely?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A train wreck had killed off two units of four girls each. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As many as four in ten of these patients died. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the light quanta seemed to measure out at three or four meters long; sometimes they appeared to be “just a little bundle of energy,” Beams recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And when he closed with a rousing “As Flows the Rapid River”—and it wasn’t easy to be rousing with four sharps—she actually, really, honestly, truly clapped. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He also devoted a chapter to the psychoses of four chess masters, selected from the millions of normal people who’d played seriously over the years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“One—two—three—four—five—six,” he counted and spanked, slowly. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are three or four runs left, and James says if I wait a few minutes I can take Helen home and drop off a big order at the same time, so I wait. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The skeleton of our primate ancestors developed for millions of years to support a creature that walked on all fours and had a relatively small head. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used the garden hose to fill the cooler to the top, then dumped in four trays of ice cubes. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

We would walk from about half past seven to four. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She repeated after me, making the four syllables into four separate words. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday we passed four hundred thousand, but the number has to be even higher than that now. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

By the time I’d finished, the Preacher had only shot three of the wood hunks and was sighting in on number four. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The story had its start four years earlier, in May of 1792, when Washington approached Madison to help him compose a valedictory address. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The houses aren’t huge, maybe only three or four are two stories high. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was four o’clock in the afternoon when Jody topped the hill and looked down on the ranch again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smugglers put twenty- four migrants into an Overloaded boat in Mexico, he says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Vivian answers after four rings in a strained, too- loud voice, as if communicating with someone far out at sea. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was four steep miles to the summit at just under 4,000 feet. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She chose the gaudiest one there—four-inch-high ballet dancers in purple tutus, their pink legs pirouetting on a greenish four- in-hand. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Four years of high school...no, five. Because something would come up to delay me. Then four years of college. I’d be a dried-up old maid of twenty-five before I was finished.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother refused to buy them for her, preferring instead to buy white socks, navy blue school underpants, four gray blouses, and a dark gray skirt. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

For a space of three or four seconds things seemed to hang, almost to stop. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conflicts between these four familiar types of evidence are what make Japanese origins so controversial. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This square was better lit than the rest of the village, with four lanterns casting menacing shadows on the paving stones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The four boys are hustled into the courtroom. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey picked out a one-quart aluminum saucepan, four ponchos in children’s sizes, a packet of hooks and the smallest, lightest reel of fishing line she could find. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a few feet before the parked police car is the subway entrance, marked with two tall green lamps and a black placard with the numbers four and six in green circles. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The next morning I woke up later than usual, probably because I hadn't gone to sleep until four in the morning. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Behind me, leading up to the gate, were three sets of footprints, four counting mine. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ever since Apa had to go four times to clear up some mistake with Joon’s Social Security number, he has become paranoid that people are trying to trick him. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

We got to the last four or five tin can plates and Deza said, “You ever kiss a girl at the orphanage?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She hasn’t spoken more than four words to me in as many days, but since she’s been out in the greenhouse from dawn until dusk, it has been easy to avoid me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

We’re doing a screening process of the four hundred people who were in the hall at the time.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waiter walks by, glances at our wristbands, and brings back four waters. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She was released upon payment of a ten-dollar fine and four dollars in court costs. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

When they came out, he stood on the rise of the church steps among the four enrobed ministers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had had four—his two and Styx’s dropped ones. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s been three years, Jackson. A cat can do a lot of learning in that time. I read the dictionary four times last month.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Now surely, since Africa harbors 1,500 languages today, it is big enough to have harbored more than four ancestral languages thousands of years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They came in sets of five, since four was bad luck. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In those four words he showed how deeply he felt about Bobby, although the world already knew. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I told him about my schooling, my books—four published novels to my credit now. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In two days, I'd join the other four members of the US women’s Olympic team at the Karolyi Ranch to prepare for Rio, but at that moment, I didn’t look anything like an Olympic hopeful. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If you forget to knock before you put down that second-to-last card, you pick up four. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It takes almost four hours to plant all of the stuff. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The room is a cluster of fidget, every three or four children practically breaking out of his or her own skin, hopping. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But she seemed to be distracted by the desire to make her four legs work together. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She'd had to keep them alive—four babies in her care, inside a crime scene of corpses and ghosts, and herself just a traumatized child. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

This inventor, who gave his initials as R. T. E., envisioned a tower four thousand feet tall from which he proposed to hang a two-thousand-foot cable of “best rubber.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Arya recognized the Hound, wearing a snowy white cloak over his dark grey armor, with four of the Kingsguard around him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A fugitive didn't evade capture for four years by making stupid mistakes like that. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They ran down the block to the corner, where they could look all four ways, but still there wasn’t a person in sight. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

All four girls had been put back a year when they arrived in the country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“She spoke four languages. You wouldn’t think to look at her. Little slip of a China girl.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Which is fine, because I only have three or four more of those. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

His voice would drop down three, four, five notes, and he’d hold the Good Book level, and you’d think he had the angels at his command. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Bald eagles were always about—sometimes as many as four sitting in trees around the house. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had the same red hair and slight build, but he was taller, clearly three or four years older. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

For the next four days, Celaena awoke before dawn to train in her room, using whatever she could to exercise—chairs, the doorway, even her billiards table and cue sticks. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After a couple of years, when the tree was completely shot away, Lee replaced it with four gunny sacks of sand and the same antlers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our preparations worried the government; four days before the election, the state ruled that a gathering of more than ten Africans in any urban area was illegal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took him to the capital, where he died four days later. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had about five words for things that most people had only one word for, and could use four of five in a single sentence. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you four nerds so excited about?” said Haley Daley as she waltzed past with the gaggle of popular girls in her royal court. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

At four o’clock a lull took place, and baskets remained empty, while the apple pickers rested and compared rents and bruises. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd surged toward the water, raised its four hundred thousand hands, and shouted. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They had brought four others to safety, too. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For Thanksgiving, Titi Magda always tells the family to show up at two knowing we won’t get there until four, which is the actual time the kitchen will be ready. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Between you, me, and these four walls: once in a while.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It means it’s seven thirty on a Saturday night, and I’m four stops away from the first act of my love story. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

All I could see above me were four bright lights. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Yet, in four years we will be college graduates. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She would be out in four years, maybe less. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

No one dreamed of being able to write a superb critical analysis of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake from the age of four on. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We also practiced karate-chopping each other on the sides of the neck and four inches above the knee. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said after I landed on all fours then sprang back up. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Italians—four of them veterans of the crew from Livorno that had come within two-tenths of a second of beating California at the 1932 Olympics— also looked like a threat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His seventeen might kill three, four, five times their own number, but in the end they would be overwhelmed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They also attended a weekly two-hour laboratory session for hands-on training in one of the wind tunnels, shouldering an average of four hours of homework on top of a six-day workweek. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Once belonged to the queen of Spain,” he said, “about four hundred years ago.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Cordova sons and daughters had scattered, as the saying goes, to the four winds. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anything left undone would have to wait four months until the next conclave. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My daughter does not know that Saint had to wait patiently for four years like a dog in front of a butcher shop. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am instantly four times more exhausted than I was when I left the diner parking lot. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“He cut his hand, then. No more than four hours before he drowned.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

For my first official game, Frank signed me up to be lead bowler in a team of four. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Bach and Handel, the two musical giants of the eighteenth century, were born just eighty miles and four weeks apart and yet they never met. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was four guys who were regular fixtures at Rainbow Park and me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The hill was near the center of a large amoeba-shaped forest located on the opposite side of Ludus, over four hundred kilometers from my school. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The other four were there, but he was absent. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The four of us kneel in the brambles beside the hole. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Prairie Avenue sat less than four kilometers from my tenement, on the other side of the Chicago River. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Weakly he climbed over the four empty popcorn boxes that had accumulated before his seat during the movie. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four girls giggled through stuffed mouths, and Pearl raised her napkin to cover a smile. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We do have someone who can run on four legs,” Taran said suddenly. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“You just getting here don’t mean nothing,” the spec four said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of the four singing parts had its own duration-value sequence that started and ended at a different point, creating an overlapping lattice of notes of different lengths. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He was almost four years older than me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It took a lot of concentration to keep all four limbs moving independently of each other, which was perfect. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got into his car and backed out of number four’s drive. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

After subtracting out the cost of the food and ignoring the cost of the ruined sleeping bags and the lost tools, we made a grand total of four dollars. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He dribbles four times and then takes off at the foul line, spreads his legs, and soars. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were twelve of them—eight men and four women—each wore a spectacular fleece-white robe, the back of which had a number between one and twelve embroidered in gold and green. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When 1 turned my head, I saw four shadows, with the moon in back of them. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Huh. It would be cool to just shed something and swim away,” he says, crawling on all fours and then picking up the crab. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

And some four hundred young men, born into an America that is bursting with opportunity and promise, have ended their lives on Vietnam’s steaming soil. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Brian was a senior and he’d had Leon as either a classroom teacher or as homeroom supervisor for four years and he was still uncomfortable in his presence. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were four bedrooms off of the living room, each of them with two twin beds and a dresser. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When I opened my eyes, four oversize fetterlings were writhing beneath both of her heels, like roaches being smooshed on a kitchen floor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Most of them were small, but we kept four decent ones for dinner. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Nowadays known as the ‘perfect fourth’ and ‘perfect fifth’, these are the pleasing-sounding combination of a note and the one four or five rungs above it, which we encountered earlier in the chapter. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Four Watson kids and each of the four kids has two kids; one has three. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He watched the spectacle for a while, then decided that the whippings were going too slow, so he had guards set up long tables and lined us up in rows, four across. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

By 1951, Harvey had managed to scramble all the way to the top of the CIA's hierarchy, becoming the head of counterintelligence in just four years. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This happened, like, four times, so by the last sandwich, I was so stuffed that I felt like throwing up. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Joff had unleashed a storm of arrows against them, slaying four, and then shouted down that they had his leave to eat their dead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The authors, as part of an appeals process, had examined four men convicted of seemingly unmotivated murders. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a cold or rainy day, the gym could fill with upward of four hundred inmates, and there were moments when I would be the only officer there with them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Entries were driven through them in sets of four. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Over four days in my first months on the job, I got to enter another realm normally guarded jealously by senior officers: transportation detail. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “She died four years ago, ma’am.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

When the last class was dismissed, the four of them went out onto the plaza and sat on a stone bench. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

After four seconds, the crack of thunder sounds like a giant breaking the sky in two. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“He can’t hurt you. Not as long as you stay with me. I promise. Why—you’re trembling! Here, have some more petit fours, sugar for my sweet one. There you go. Feel better?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was going to wait for the postman on the corner of Privet Drive and get the letters for number four first. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I opened the “dead” fly pouch and picked out ’bout four of’em that had a good amount of juices leaked out and I tossed ’em right into the spot near the cattails. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Of the four candidates who made it through their final test, only two were ordained. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“It was my sister’s idea, actually. She thought I should audition for season four. She kept bugging me about it.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The boys in the California boat weighed a total of 1,557 pounds; the boys in the Washington boat weighed 1,561, just four pounds heavier. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Roger slowly closes the refrigerator and sets down four cans of soda. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The Mary Rose was Henry VIII's flagship that sank in a storm four centuries ago. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

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

Here were four kids who could speak in complete sentences without a single you-know as filler, and Holly Blackwell asked them nothing. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I, who was on Julian's left had four two's; Noah, who was next had four three's; Nadia had four four's. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

In a little less than four hours I was equipped, riding on big heavy-duty tires of a kind that should have been there in the first place. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This fellow and four of his friends robbed me about five days ago. I didn’t recognize him at first. He was clean-shaven then, but it’s him.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Three or four times a day she made up a poultice. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s three stories, or four if you count the turret that points into the sky. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

We visited Butte, Montana, on the Fourth of July, which happened to be Malia’s tenth birthday and about four months ahead of the general election. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

All four of us stood in the hall, the sickly smell of mold in our nostrils. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The house where he lived was squared into four rooms and the rent was a dollar fifty per person. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After covering just four miles, the growing storm forced them to turn back toward the cabin. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four of us were shackled together and put in a windowless van that contained only a sanitary bucket. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming home after four weeks felt very strange at first. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

You have to count five beats in every measure instead of four. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two more punches, I turned away and pushed through the wall of people, which, by that time, was four bodies deep. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The long hair was pulled forward and tied into two droppy pugs which protruded three or four inches from each ear. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The six young men, four of whom were budding lawyers, saw themselves as merely a circle of like-minded friends. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In the four years since leaving graduate school, Katherine had not once regretted her decision to exchange the high-profile academic opportunity for domestic life. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Had all four of them been out on the grounds tonight? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“We haven’t decided, because, after all, there are four of us, and this is a mighty big decision.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I could end that in just four sols. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just found out that I have an early showing of one of the houses I designed this afternoon, for one of my biggest clients. I’ll meet you at the university by four.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The Deeping Wall was twenty feet high, and so thick that four men could walk abreast along the top, sheltered by a parapet over which only a tall man could look. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. It’s very whistle-worthy. The winners will receive four years of paid tuition plus free room, board, and books. Lots and lots of books. Now go find me my champions!” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Jane and Michael saw all four of them go down Cherry-Tree Lane, and then they turned a little to the left and went up the hill. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He remained thus, utterly impassive, as the train began to reverse course, backing four miles up the river for the beginning of the varsity race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There were also four possible approaches for separating fissionable U-235 from natural ore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He had served four terms; that he should serve a fifth in the year of the fair seemed fitting, and a wave of nostalgia swept the city’s wards. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Two of them were open, but the other four were locked up tight. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

My brother, who was driving, was shot four times. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But nearly four decades had passed, half a lifetime for both of us. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Any of the four would lose his job if convicted of a felony, he said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The little kids will be home in twenty minutes or so," she said, "and we'll eat dinner around four thirty. I like to have everything settled before Richie comes home." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

But of course we can always see each other, the four of us. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun watched, dismayed, as it rose four, five, six feet in the house—above the electrical box, the phone box. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He's about four feet back from the door, and he looks anxious. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “It’s a kind of cake. It has four pink and yellow squares in the middle and it has marzipan icing round the edge.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you’re here to make us more like a square—four points—a solid foundation.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She said the girl hadn't come in four days—sick, probably, or gone out of town. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At window four, Apa doesn’t speak, just hands over my green card to the young black man in the same dark blue wool sweater. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

And there's five times the minimum protein in each food pack, so careful rationing of portions takes care of my protein needs for at least four years. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the silver chill of the Maine afternoon, as I bucketed and lumbered over the pitted surface of a wood road, I saw four lady mooses moving with stately heaviness across my bow. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Say a man died and left his mule to his four sons. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The female lit on a bulky stick nest where four nestlings huddled. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then he ran into the forest They threw stones at the child with no nose, now, but Walt was supposed to be in the forest still, running on all fours and dressed in skins. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s over four hundred feet until the bottom. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Yet he couldn’t help but notice four black vultures flying high above the forest. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Through the white carven carpet that had been High Street pushed four oxen, buried up to their middles, dragging behind them a heavy plow. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

In Paris they keep vigil over the body for three, sometimes four days. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

After nearly four weeks I had learned quite a lot about the monkeys. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bird I drew when I was four hardly even looks like a bird. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young jockey named George Woolf, aboard for one of these woeful performances, summed up the colt’s mental state in four words: “mean, restive and ragged.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madge watches while I write down nine times four equals thirty-six. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

When I get out of the truck at four thirty and have to walk the long route back to the cabin, my footsteps are slow. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A few feet away, Pa and the fathers of the four other families who came with us on the truck listen to the representatives as they give out instructions. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least with the Collective, the four of them had food on the ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’s one of the four black girls in the senior class, and if Seven just wants to date black girls, he picked a great one. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

So I kept working all day and felt let down when I came home with only four Zim dollars. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I was just about to ask Cecilia if she even had one when the tray of petit fours started making its way around the room again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Four shirts and four pairs of pants hang in the first closet. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The chaos inside the country intensified, and the village was raided four times by Cossacks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Forty- four, counting the ten she had already. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

In all, the workforce in the park numbered four thousand. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In four minutes Frightful covered the air miles to her mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He can go through four or five in his annual visit. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over the course of his life, Wesley traveled ceaselessly among these groups, covering as much as four thousand miles a year by horseback, reinforcing the tenets of Methodist belief. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two to four weeks—if we’ve got it, we’ll send it over,” she’d promised, and Mrs. Richardson filled out her own address, attached a check for eighteen dollars, and dropped the envelope into the mail. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cheesethief ignored them as he moved among the bodies that had fallen from the high branches; four rats, a ferret, and one weasel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I’m almost done, I hope. It was four pounds.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They put four of the unbroken jars in the burlap sack, in case they might be able to use them. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It had four floors; a cook and other servants could stay in the attic and in the basement. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had passed the four subjects she had elected. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After four seconds, the shaking died down and the ship returned to weightlessness. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hallway feels too tight for four people, and I’m more self-conscious of that now than ever before. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

As the four of them tucked into their pancakes, Radar sat at Alex’s feet, staring at him intently. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was already four o’clock in the morning. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A total of sixty-four American planes hit four North Vietnamese patrol boat bases. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Sounds of pursuit, this time from all four Grievers, followed close behind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“He made a go of it all right. Raised nine children. I’ll bet he hasn’t got four bits laid away. How could he?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He crashed his car into a milk truck and broke both arms, his right leg, and four ribs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nurse Duckett made a note to give Yossarian another pill, and the four of them moved along to the next bed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She washes the four jam jars we use for mugs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She’s glued down maybe four buttons while the rest of us have worked at full speed. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And I want you to know that you have become part of my life these last four years. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The minivan lurched to a stop, throwing all four of us forward. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But only four days before my birthday, we heard terrible news and Mother canceled the cake. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

What do you see yourself doing in the next three or four years? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He puts Enrique with four immigrant men being routed to Orlando, Florida. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then all four rabbits sat as though transfixed by the sudden, blinding light that poured over them like a cloudburst. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An old man we met on the road, is all. He was driving an old nanny goat and four kids.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Metaphysically? No. In reality? Yes. In about four minutes,” I answer. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

After dinner he asked to use the phone and talked long distance for the rest of the evening—“perhaps for four hours,” Browne later recalled. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the sublunary zone the four elements—earth, water, air and fire—which form the basis of all our daily experience of matter are to be found. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the top four boards, the Soviets managed to win only one game out of a possible sixteen. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But after four thousand nights among them—in their homes, on their skin—Sarai knew humans in a way the others couldn't, and she'd lost that easy ability to hate. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

One of Chicago’s main hospitals was four or five blocks away, down toward the lakefront. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

By rights, the child should have turned four years old on January 1 in the year 0 AD, five in 1 AD, and six in 2 AD. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"Primus is certainly learning caution," said Secundus to his four other dead brothers. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then we saw Lily coming out of the stockroom with four or five off-the-shoulder summer blouses in soft green. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Besides the four names assigned to him, he has two more strips. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The four posts which had held the platform continued to burn like torches, one for each of the directions of the wind. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is pure white with four black feet, and it makes me laugh. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

No matter how many times they’d been to Calcutta, his father was always anxious about the job of transporting the four of them such a great distance. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Six dementors entered this time, flanking a group of four people. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

On the living room floor Glen and four other guys were sitting cross-legged around a tall brass-and-glass hookah. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He remembered Mother saying she’d wanted four boys, but would she have wanted a girl even more? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Alaska. Six hundred twenty-six thousand, four hundred twenty-five square miles. State mammal: the moose.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t afraid a no windows. I clean Miss Walters’ top to bottom ever four weeks.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The sentence imposed was four years in prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The demand for labor is so great that every weekday roughly four hundred workers fly in from the mainland for construction, gardening, plumbing, and other services. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They dropped to their knees and cleared away more stones to discover four one-foot-wide rough-hewn beams clamped together with thick metal bands along the edges. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Our calculations put it just under four miles. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When it was done, Rashid Uncle took out five bowls, and I spooned rice and dal into four of them and then one with just rice. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Coach Quatrini had us stretch for three minutes, then do four short sprints down the length of the gym, and then stretch for another two minutes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday!” cried the four old grandparents as Charlie came into their room early the next morning. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The flour left white stains on her, the four points of the cross. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had four miscarriages before I finally had you.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When he pushed die door open, three of the four candles fluttered out He led the bride into the mist, where the wedding guests were waiting. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s enough beans for four men,” George said. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put it on my camp necklace—four beads now. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The doctors decided the best time to operate would be when I was about four and a half years old. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“The path down to the double rock pillar chamber is simple. When you reach the four forks in the paths and crawl spaces and have to make a choice, remember: right, right, left, left.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Five votes in favor of arresting the Gran, four against. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You can draw it out of your own wallet. Any man with a wife who’ll pay fifteen dollars for an old preacher’s moth-eaten stovepipe hat has four bucks to spare.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The midwife grabbed the miller’s screeching wife and slapped her—once, twice, three and four times. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two, three, four, fought one, then turned to fight each other, were themselves attacked. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere I looked, I kept seeing those four raggedy girls with Papa’s and my own deep-set eyes staring back at me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was only three or four years old then. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, the four of us ate a picnic down on the tiny beach. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

In the place of his dreams, Mike Winchell had just had the worst performance of his Permian career, four for twenty-four passing for fifty-seven yards and one interception. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Based on Chambliss’s best guess, it should have gone off around three or four in the morning, which would have prevented our congregation from meeting for church but would not have harmed anyone. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Of course we had to make our own way, just like Jules and Aileen—the four of us, outcasts mounting our own private and necessary revolution. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My grandparents were almost done raising their boys, and now here we were, four young children who needed the kind of attention and care that Grandma Nellie thought she was about to retire from. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She and four others sit between the two rows of elevators, kept in place by Dauntless with guns. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

At Poillon’s initiative, the patent case would drag on for another four years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z