“You made your first free throw—all net, may I add—with that shirt on. It’s got basketball mojo. Just like my coveralls have Mr. Fix-It mojo.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Deep Lake, Sable Hall, and the Long Barrow. All garrisoned with free folk, under the command of our own officers. The Long Barrow will be all women, aside from the commander and chief steward.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was free to go out of the hall and never see another Communist. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I vowed to do that one day, slip free of the ropes that held me. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Circe was a wise and generous employer. I had room and board, a good health plan, dental, pet leopards, free potions—everything! And this demigod with his friend, the blonde—” “Annabeth.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He increased the volume and they sang along; there was an exuberance to the song, its rhythmic joyfulness, so free of artifice, that filled the air with lightness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I bury my free hand deep in my pocket. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When a certain leader of the free world tried to impose a ban on Muslims entering the country, I thought of my own family immigrating here, but I also thought a lot about Mamani. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

That meant a lot to Joe; several weeks earlier, Joyce Simdars had returned from Montana, and free admission meant that he could afford to bring her along on dates. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The heather which he had brought was set up dramatically in a cup with no water—she was every inch the homebody—and he was free to go. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Someday,” Mami mused, “you might like to be a stewardess. Then you can travel all over the world for free.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The moment I did, his free hand shot out, and with a speed that belied his bulk, he grabbed me by my wrist and held me with the strength of stone. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then I see JB wink at Miss Sweet Tea after he hits a stupid free throw. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

We spent the rest of the evening confessing to our giggly, over-chaperoned girl cousins the naughtinesses we had committed up in the home of the brave and the land of the free. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The quarry had the best of it at first, but then another hunter flew free of the cloud. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Rowan unsheathed his sword and stalked forward, feeling the hunger, living in the moment, just as Goddard had said, and allowing himself to feel that hunger was freeing in a way Rowan couldn’t describe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There was no free space in the car except for an aisle in the middle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Or—Ouch, get off!” said Mini, finally freeing herself from the chair. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If I had Sunday afternoons free, I’d figure a way to earn my pennies. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted her hands to be free of the robe so that they could make patterns of their own again. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, the cuffs and blue helmet freed Sticky, who rose, wobbling, in a state of weak confusion. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ishtar gently frees herself of her daughter's grasp. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I spend most of my free time at the library now, reading and soaking up what I can from books. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You are no longer slaves, doomed to die at a master’s whim. I freed you. Why should you wish to end your lives upon the scarlet sands?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But at last she struggled free and ran up onto the steps of the school. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like a stupid thing to say, like it shouldn’t have mattered what sport he played in his free time, but it had also begun to feel like a blatant omission on his end. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Constance replied grumpily, sliding her tiny wrists free of the metal bands and slipping her head out of the helmet. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Said he: “Two men are here—two strangers, Menelaos, but nobly born Akhaians, they appear. What do you say, shall we unhitch their team, or send them on to someone free to receive them?” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was amazed that we had been given all of this food for free! Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Omakayas decided to set this last bird free and she gently undid the basswood fiber twine from a sharp black-clawed foot, its neck, a ragged baby feathered wing. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Magdalys couldn’t see it, but her whole body screamed to do something, anything, to get her friends free. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Jon said, “Your Grace, the leader of the free folk has agreed to my terms.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Her father beat her so often and so brutally that she was never truly free of pain or fear until she came to us.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There had been no one to help me free the lobsters. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He wrenched free of their grip and ran, half-blind, for the door. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s brilliant, Uncle Heath. I mean, who wouldn’t want to live in a river-view tower? I know I’m looking forward to my free penthouse apartment. Care for a mint?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I cannot rely on plague to save me from my enemies. Set Pretty Meris free. At once.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The board must have sailed along with her, just below her feet for those terrifying seconds of free fall. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Proud men might shout that they would sooner die free than live as slaves, but pride was cheap. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t confined to a lamp, but I too was not free. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to free Piper, but he was still weak. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And I got free ice cream for me and the whole gang at El Anon. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m working that day at the arts center, but I’m free after 1 p.m. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Will you draw your sword with your free hand?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

As Pennsylvania was a free state and Maryland was a slave state, it came to be regarded as the border between the free North and slaveholding South. k Several Civil War battles have two names. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Standing up, it’s easier to scan the savannah for game or enemies, and arms that are unnecessary for locomotion are freed for other purposes, like throwing stones or signalling. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is very important to save places where wild, free animals live. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mama beat on his chest, then pulled free, glaring at him. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I just wish you didn’t need it, Sarai. I wish you were free to dream.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Towards morning I was possessed by a kind of nightmare; I felt the fiend’s grasp in my neck and could not free myself from it; groans and cries rang in my ears. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many abolitionists wanted to free the slaves but didn’t want black people living nearby. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was free now to let my teeth rot or to put my feet up on the backs of seats. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Dimple blew out a breath, and with her free hand, tucked a curl behind her ear. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Irene’s face was bright against the dark of the sky, her eyes all shimmery wet, pieces of her hair blown free from her ponytail. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Everything I did I attended to with my whole mind, leaving no part of me free for remembering. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His legs kicked a desk drawer free and sheets of paper spilled to the floor. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At my old school, almost all the kids got free lunches, not so many here. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ten times to ring out their old lives and ten more to ring in their new ones, their free lives. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

What were these rumors compared to what they had been freed from? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He tapped his temple with his free hand. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I hear that you have been most free and bounteous, giving your private time to him. What is between you?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

What do you do in your free time?’” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

While still holding the steering wheel and keeping his eyes on the road, he takes his free hand and cups it over his chest. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He will free Thanatos from his icy chains—’” “Wait, who?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The man speaking had tribal marks all over his cheek; there seemed to be no area of skin free of the ingrained lines. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I really feel it in here, especially late at night, a current going among us, like an invisible needle stitching us together into the glorious, free nation we are becoming. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment the demon’s second hand was free, but before he could do more, Tehlu flung himself into the pit and landed with such force that the iron rang with it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

France had freed slaves but then consumed itself in violence. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The words of the bald-headed man came to me: “If the British win, we’ll all be free.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her free hand, she reached back into the car and pulled out a cane. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint: the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The free ride may be provided by mosquitoes, fleas, lice, or tsetse flies that spread malaria, plague, typhus, or sleeping sickness, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“For free! Do you know how much an education like that costs these days?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

After the pictures, we’d be free for the rest of the day to mourn the final moments of our unstructured summer. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was so bad that the teacher decided we weren’t learning anything and we got a free study period instead. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

No light switch, no water running free and clear after a turn of a tap handle. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, accepting the offer of a job meant working for free, but it also meant the chance of protection for himself and his family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He was going to go to prison for a while and then be set free with the same nothing he had going in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I stop only long enough to allow myself to be sprayed by a girl giving away free squirts of some venomous new perfume. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But even if she had, Hagar, at least, lived long enough for the Fourteenth Amendment to free her. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I freed myself and righted the table, Hamlet had disappeared and not even his footsteps echoed in the empty foyer. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My little cousins and siblings love my new business, since it means free sweets for them. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all in all, her life was blissfully free of care. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m deeply afraid I’ll never be free of the hurt, or the rejection, or the indifference. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Yet now the government was saying we not only were free to go; like the move out of Terminal Island, and the move to Owens Valley, we had to go. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it took too long to get through Easton, Dicey would have to fish for an hour, while Sammy had free time. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We found a shovel and pickax at an abandoned farm and spent just about every free minute digging a hole. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe folks who’d got free would do this to us! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Harry raised his head very slightly off his arms to free his other ear. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She was toting a long-legged child all straddly on her hip, and with her free hand was scratching at her short hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to give her something for free. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He called me to share his meals openly, and he seemed to listen when I talked to him about freeing the slaves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Not far away, Leader tentatively lifted one foot and found it free of the entangling vine. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“But there’s not much free about this free homestead land.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Kaisa slid off her horse and went to the stag and pulled her sword free, and the stag’s body shuddered once more. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now married life prompted him to place a higher value on his free time from fund-raising and managing the lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I try to roll free off the arms that are carrying me but succeed only in tearing a length of paper chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Get past the fat stoner, I told myself, and I'm a free man again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Thomas jumped on the one holding Dave, tried to jerk the kid free, hoping the creature would retaliate. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He spoke in short, jerky sentences, hopping nimbly from thought to thought, as though his mind worked in a free, associa- tional manner. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t get free of the thing that had me and I couldn’t get to her. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The witch would have cured the injury by now, but would probably not come after her until freeing Bahumat, since Kendra had such a big head start. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He pulls free and heads for the door. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, familiar arguments would likely resurface about the need to be tough on “criminals,” not coddle them or give “free passes.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

With my free hand, I point below, and she nods, her hair fanning out like seaweed. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was free as a bird, rich, and best of all presumed dead. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Next thing I knew, I was lying on the floor while everyone was getting free Cokes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Soon the ship would be free, and their journey could continue. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“But,” she says, walking over to me and placing her hands on my shoulders, “Puerto Rico isn’t a bad idea. We could fly for free and stay with your great-uncle Ermenio in Old San Juan.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

A scrap of notebook paper, loosely tied with red yarn to my lowest branch, broke free. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It looked endless; wild and lonely and free. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I flipped onto my back and clawed at the stones with my free hand, but I was sliding too quickly. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Business? We gotta pay for these chocolates? You said they was free.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Animals rights people say we should free domestic animals, but domestic animals cannot survive in the wild. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Izzy, at ten, had been apprehended sneaking into the Humane Society in an attempt to free all the stray cats. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Father I am not an Englishman, I am an American, and I am going to fight to keep my country free.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was neither under his spell, nor free of it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

People from all over the country sent the postcards to President Woodrow Wilson, asking him to free Fannie. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Because there was no evidence remaining, the bootleggers had to be set free. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“What do you think about this Daylight Saving Time plan?” she asked, tugging on the yarn ball to free up more yarn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ever since we heard that Amos had a crush on her, it was like she’d gotten a free pass into the popular group. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The huge face wavered down to mine as he tried to push me free. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

David is gone with Mom and I’m free, walking down the road with Kristi. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its generals planned to attack Pizarro, he said, and free the emperor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the train rolled eastward, the boys kicked back, feeling free and easy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I am so fascinated that I lose the perfect opportunity to cut Frightful free, because, in spite of the hood, she bated and hung down, exposing her jesses. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, one could say that free will is an illusion anyway. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he finally breaks free, he straightens his lapels and glowers at his now-sulking wife. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Once arrested, one’s chances of ever being truly free of the system of control are slim, often to the vanishing point. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Who’s got time to worry about books when there’s plenty of free food?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrapped his arms around her and shook her hair free from its braid. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You know you are not free to marry me. You have said so yourself.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The charter then lays out the requirements for a free and democratic South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If this is true,” Inej said slowly, “then I’m free to say no.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The wheels spun, one moment, two—the car lurched forward and backward, and her mother swore even more colorfully, and then they were free. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the end, black North Carolinians were granted only those very limited rights enjoyed by free blacks before the war. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

While she was at work, Mandela would be free to do as he pleased. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Her physical condition—cut-up skin and a heart trying to break free of her ribs—didn’t feel fake. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I ball my free hand into a fist and pound my left thigh with it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Emily is solemn as she bites into her sandwich, which I noticed is kabob free today. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And that awful night he talked about the boy hanging, saying, “His whole body shook like he was trying to get free. They said he was too small to break his own neck.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully he pulled it free, then laid it on the table beside the carcass. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They could be free of this wretched unending brightness, and they’d never have to think of it again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

On that day, long ago last summer, she had freed him from the tight bonds of his tikinagun, let him tumble and play. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the saddle, emancipated from their bodies, Pollard, Woolf, and all other reinsmen sailed eight feet over the world, emphatically free, emphatically alive. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cost of weapons is small here because the Black Disciples had a side deal with local gunrunners, helping them navigate the neighborhood in exchange for free or steeply discounted guns. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Victor rubbed his face with his free hand, as if he could wipe away the shock. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The extra help has freed Luma to focus her energies on her real love: coaching. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I had a chance be at home and knock around the city in my free time. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Since my new friends and I never had any money, we devised what we thought was an extraordinarily clever way to ride for free. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The great European powers were equally unwilling to recognize the land where slaves had freed themselves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The instant the long blue line marched into town, the slaves of Richmond were free. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the coyotes fleeing back into the darkness, and he saw himself opening the trap to set the rabbit free. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even better, it’s a great place to find free food, if you know where to look. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Carefully, he freed one hand and turned the knob of the door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But two bombers still walk the streets as free men: Thomas Blanton and Bobby Frank Cherry. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They said you could run away, get to the North and be free. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Violet breaks free and goes right to the roller coaster and lets John strap her in. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then they saw how great a diviner he was and they freed and rewarded him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder how different my adolescence would have been had I been free But no, it is my parents I see—their optimism during those years when they were entertained by Italian grand opera. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So listen, she might call back. Can you leave the line free, please?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“And someday,” Mami continues, “we will be free, and all your cousins and aunts and uncles will come back and thank us.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The dead were free and the living were safe, and there was an end to the dream. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Well . . . the Princess Pea gave him free access to the upstairs of the castle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The guard dribbled it into his own back court as he watched for Sanders who was maneuvering to get free underneath. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can’t predict what they will do. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was easier here with a heater in every room and plenty of fuel thanks to the free gas from the oil companies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But just when I think I’m home free, a frowning, bald guy slips into the elevator with me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Row by row we marched single file out the door, down the stairs, and into the free world where the sun was shining. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grocery stores are good too, the ones where they have free cantaloupe pieces on a toothpick. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I forgot that she has her first period free. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Those thorny old barbs of guilt bore into me once more, as if speaking his name had broken a spell, set them free to torment me anew. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

However, Puthoff’s device is one in a long line of “free energy” machines—none of which, in the past, have withstood scientific scrutiny. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“What if the kidnapper doesn’t set Callie free?” the hand was saying. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“If you’re going to live in a free society, you have to give people the liberty to do what they want.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Apart from the obvious question of cost, which would prove astronomically high, where could the freed blacks be sent? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We were simply sparked, ignited—free to wander hand in hand, all the world before us, not what it was but what it could be, the world to come, the one we made ourselves. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if he was dreaming about running free again without a rope tied to him. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

My hand frees itself from the wire and has just closed on the feathers of an arrow when the metal cylinder smashes into the side of my head. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You have a free afternoon and a mall filled with things you don’t need.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

How can I ever walk free in the world, after the clap of those hands in the marketplace that were plainly trying to send me away? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was more than Caleb wanting to be free of his chains. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

In the midst of a long silence, Will asked our mess whether; if we win, the slaves down in the Sugar Isles going be freed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The coin was not actually minted until the 1830s, when it was used in Sierra Leone, the African colony designed for freed slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When it was all done and Estella was dead, he wished he could bury her with her mother and so be free of the shame of it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked them over and pulled one of them free and squatted and turned the wheels and then stood and pushed it up the aisle and back again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Franz drove Alex the rest of the way, chatted with him there for a while, and then returned to town, where he lived alone, rent free, in re-turn for managing a ramshackle apartment building. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like that he was a free man. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was hard for her to absorb the fact that she was truly free. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friday night, we're free as anything, Hope and Dell's bikes skidding along Hall Street, my knees bumping hard against the handlebars of my red three-wheeler. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The flashlights, rolling free, sent their bright beams willy-nilly about the room. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

His heart was free of worry and desire. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Special knowledge did not make a slave any less a slave—you were neither freed or paid. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s a relief to be free,” he said, jumping around the shelf. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He checked his teeth in the mirror, ensuring they were free of debris or goop. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Well, Mr. Timothy, let me be the first to call you by your free name,” Inez said, lightly pinching the boy on his chin. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could help him do that, and free the city from his attacks. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Think of all the free stuff he’ll be getting too!” another boy said enviously. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ants begin to crawl out of the blisters on my hands and I can't shake them free. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He let the pegasus's. reins go slack just long enough for the black steed to kick him in the head and fly away free over Miami Bay. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

His free hand hovered over the length of the hose, gliding it back in our direction. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Now Ernie had one hand free and was using it to unwrap the other. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Lucky Strike had been collecting real power ever since his first bit of luck freed him from heavy crew. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘I feel nearly done in. Don’t think I could crawl away far, even if I was free.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He freed one of his hands, released my wrist, only to gather it carefully into his other hand. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The witch’s spell was broken now; the rest of the body was free to all who came. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

How will it feel when, one day, I am free? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the antebellum South, the lowliest white person at least possessed his or her white skin—a badge of superiority over even the most skilled slave or prosperous free African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter that we were all free, that Momma made sure to pay everyone a small wage each week for their hard work. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was rescuing a throw pillow, thrashing it back and forth to free it from a tangle of imaginary vines, when he heard the cellar steps creaking. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You real dummy, Henry. Don’t you know? You just free dance ticket. She just using you.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ivy,” Mom gasped, reaching for Ivy with her free hand. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Ma pries her arm free and hands me her purse. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Cecile said, “Paper isn’t free. Ink isn’t free. My printing press isn’t free. I’m not free.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was one small problem with my new lifestyle; fencing wasn’t free or cheap. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We’d set our minds at ease and the Grasshopper would be ours, free and clear. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s grumpy,” Charlie says, and grabs one of my ears with his free hand. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They looked at each other and smiled, and I realized that from these two people I had learned to love the magical beauty of the wide, free earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who wants to try some apple cake? A free sample!” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

First time I have the whole place to myself, and I let Shiloh run pure free. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cried out, wrenched her hand free, and gave him such a push that he fell down. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody says anything for a few minutes, and finally Mom announces we’re free to go. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“We need to go out into the storm, head down to Atlantic Avenue, and free Duke and Tater from the Seaside Sandman Motel.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Would he try to free her if he did? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was the most famous wood carver of the Solomons, an artist of great originality—but that did not free him of the necessity to grow his own sweet potatoes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My parents, who wanted so badly to free the Scholars but who only managed to get themselves killed. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A moment later, a door opened and Luma was free to go. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Got the winch rigged at the deep end of the dock, to pull the Mary Rose free of the shore. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She did not look back when Gwen called after her, and as soon as she broke free of the crowd, she quickened her pace so that she would not lose her nerve. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how much I struggled, I couldn’t free myself. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He yanks himself free and scrambles for his chinos. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was time to free ourselves from the other Agena, the one on our nose, so we released it and said goodbye as it slowly sailed off into the distance. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drink in their drinking-bowls seemed to be clear cold water, yet it went to their hearts like wine and set free their voices. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ever since her parents divorced and her dad moved out of town, Sierra Russell had been incredibly quiet and spent all her free time reading. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

For ten minutes or more, he had deliberately been standing just out of conversation range of the other boys, his back against the free Christian Science literature rack, his ungloved hands in his coat pockets. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The grip yanked at my arm, the voice shrieking in anger, but I was free of my body. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“If we free Thanatos,” Hazel told Nico, “I may never see you again. Thanatos will send me back to the Underworld ” Nico took her hand. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I quickly shake my head free of the image. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I Finally pulled free of the sergeant’s grasp. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want to know what wights will do with us once free to do anything? Come—I show you.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He panned a faded striped sofa on the sidewalk with a free sign, a Giants pennant fluttering on a rooftop deck. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Despite his more frivolous side, Rostipov had caused an uproar in scientific circles because he spent his free time curing hysteria with magic wands and hypnotic trances. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She nests in a box at my home on the mountaintop. And she is free.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I guess I can’t blame Chokecherry for that—this isn’t the only town to give some juvenile delinquent a free pass because he happens to be popular and good at sports. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Live wires flung free, fires breaking out, rubble making a familiar path a maze. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He said that he needed this information because he was going to free the slaves, on a large scale. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped hiking after that and spent my free time inside, reading. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She saw herself in a house from The Cosby Show, in a school with students holding notebooks miraculously free of wear and crease. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Because virtually none of his customers had owned a car before, he gave free driving lessons. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The better gift is basically a good deed you do for free,” Dad said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I stuck out my free arm, feeling blindly in the dark. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I want to thank all of you for recognizing me and what I've been through. Y'all are being very kind to me. I'm just happy to be free.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One way or another, people whispered, we would be free by year’s end. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But pay no attention to that bully. In Norvelt you can be as free as a bird—or a plane.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If you have been down in one of the old-fashioned diving suits which used to be standard in the Royal Navy before frogmen and free diving came along, you will know why divers move slowly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn't shown a moment's interest in Jemmy's scheme to free him. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

So they went to this early mass, got it over with and went home and slept all day with a free conscience. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the shortages, and the blackout, and the bombs, and the rules, and daily life so drab and dull most of the time—once you cross the English Channel you are free. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The big guy made it across in three swings, which was a good thing since, just as he landed, the last iron bar ripped free under his weight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

One of them suddenly cried out in despair, “Let me go back. It is better to be a slave than to suffer like this in order to be free.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There we go,” Meir said, once he had freed my second hand. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Black brothers, northmen, free folk, Thenns, queen’s men, all of them fell quiet, listening. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mesmerized by the politics of open source, I’d started writing for the site for free. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sort of wrestled free; he looked right up into my eyes and whispered, You’re the best drummer in the world. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was completely free of ambition, with no affection for money, property or things, no greed, no desire to command attention or compliments—no ego. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It be place where, if you get there, you be free inside and outside.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

More of the free folk chose the woods after that—one in ten, perhaps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The result was the famous Mason and Dixon line, which later took on symbolic importance as the dividing line between the slave and free states. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Harry could feel her digging at the rope’s tough fibers to work the knots free. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Once a week, he was obligated to put in a few hours at one of the free clinics. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did have an ideological alternative to free- market capitalism—political Islam. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

All I can do is curse at him and threaten what I’ll do to him when I’m free. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

All I knew was the crowd liked it, and that was enough for “Harriet Tbbman,” who proclaimed, “Either you want to be free or you want to be scared slaves!” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One ot them all but closed his jaws on Snowball’s tail, but Snowball whisked it free just in time. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

We broke free a minute later, making a left toward the Ferris wheel while the majority of the crowd turned right toward the more fun rides in the park. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Once he was free, everything would hang by a thread. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her chest felt tight and she needed some time to breathe slowly to free it, to free herself so she could answer the questions the elders would present to her at the meeting. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Harriet thought that the ghost of Nat Turner had joined the ghost of Denmark Vesey, the carpenter and free man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pilots and navigators of the 587th kept a long-running volleyball competition going whenever they got a free moment, with the two flight squadrons making up their opposing teams. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Now she was free to look at the books themselves. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Tell you what. You can have it for free.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then the crack at the base of the screen widened; we pushed it open, and we were standing on the roof of Nimh, free. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It is our duty as Americans, and as a nation dedicated to freedom and free commerce, to stand behind our fellow Americans and not cast.. . things at them. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we pretty much gave you a free pass last year because of the tragic circumstances.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My fingers fumble with the pouch on my belt, freeing it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

"Then let me make it a gift. I will set it free in the lake, and it can continue to bring joy to the hearts of all the villagers." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

For now, it will simply have to mean being free to walk out of this camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Over in Britain, the world’s first national broadcaster, the BBC, came into being in 1922, ushering in an age when music would come to belong to everyone, everywhere, often enjoyed completely for free. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Jamming the torch end into a crevice in the stone floor, I used my dagger to cut his bonds free, starting with his feet. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

We became particularly hot upon some boorish sneer of Drummle’s, to the effect that we were too free with our money. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

And he knew that he would have to get down to Pownal to free her himself. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I scrunch up the earpiece wire protectively in my fist and fling the head shackle back in his face with my free hand, but he catches it easily. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Master, I am not free to be your pupil,” he whispered. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The fifth, with the broken fingers, spat and pulled free a dagger with his left hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Connor didn’t have to go through a kiosk or anything like that as he entered the park because admission was free—all the money made was from paying for the many “attractions” we had. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She dragged one hand free and wiped them away, drawing a ragged breath. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The messengers of the Aesir rode like the wind, and they asked each thing they encountered if it wept for Balder, so that Balder could be free of Hel ’s world. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was keeping tabs on everything going on around you and making sure you were acting appropriately, while leaving you free to concentrate on the main problem at hand. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Together, we’ll push the trunk and I’ll leap at the end. Off the roof. Try to hit the rowboat. Use my body’s motion to set it free. “Let’s stand.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Emperor says that we are a free people who live under his benevolence. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She wrenched herself free and rolled across the bed and stood up on the other side. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“An hour off base. There’s room for one more, if you’re free.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Everything was in readiness for breaking free of the ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Their Olympic passports gave them free access to nearly everything in the city. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The sleeves were much too long; I shoved them back so I could free my hands. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The old hammerhead was free to drag his nose if he wished, or to pause and crop grass beside the road. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And her pay, at least for now, is free dinners a few times a week. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A holiday for the whole district with free food and entertainers brought in from the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in your free time, if you wanted to, you could help out, take orders, fill water pitchers, that sort of thing.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In their new home, they were free to travel as they liked, without fear of getting stopped by authorities hostile toward their ethnicity or religion. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“How about Frederick Douglass and his North Star newspaper that helped free the slaves—I mean, the enslaved Africans?” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to wriggle free, but his grasp was iron. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At one point he got tripped, and picking himself up, placed the ball on the ground to take the free kick himself. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was so close to leaving him behind forever. So close to being free of him.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I have no weapons on me, and you’re free to search me,” he said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She jerked it free of the ground, and it fell, scraping down the house. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt so dumb that I hadn’t known his place in the hierarchy of this stupid school, I felt dumb that I’d never asked him what he did in his free time. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in a tan jacket and pants and strode with a gait as free as Sam’s. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Matthew swung an arm around her side, letting her lean on him, and pushed Mr. Remora’s door with his free hand. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was because Olanna had already grabbed Baby and run ahead of him and his hands were free. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I worked for the college radio station. I used to get all kinds of free records. And if I liked a girl, I used to dedicate songs to her.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I want them ready for the day Ireland will be free from the center to the sea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The words suddenly pushed themselves out of Joaquin’s lungs, making him feel lighter, freer. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"I did not steal your bird. Its chain was snagged upon a root, and I had just freed it." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

This meant that I had to float free of the spacecraft, letting go of the handrail as I used both hands to recock the collar. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nowadays he’s got more than he ever had in his life, he has everything but breeding, he’s freed himself from every stigma, but he sits nursing his hangover of hatred....” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There went my chance at a free waffle. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and you go on losing those new friends that you make just like you lose the new house you build. Don’t you want something better, purer, freer in this life?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clutching Alfie with his free hand, he tried to pull away, his face sulky. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even in free Illinois, the road was not without danger. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But he was so beautiful, he looked so strong and free and wild, that I couldn’t kill him. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he was free aboard the ship somewhere, that could be an advantage, assuming Percy could figure out how to communicate with him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even more sunburned, covered in mud, or trying to scratch patches of bug bites with their free hands. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

One day she would be free of dreams. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“A free black walks different than a slave,” he said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s not for him. Our play’s about a time when we were free. It’s like a hidden protest.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it is a truism to emphasize the stunting of free Greek city life in Hellenistic times, Cyrene in the early third century was no mere political appendage of Alexandria. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I raise my free hand to cover my mouth. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Wolf was caught by surprise, his hands coming free as he plunged into the swirling night air. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I’d resign because I couldn’t reject them. A man couldn’t let his own go free.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Who could compete with somebody who worked for free? Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyhow a free mule in town was something new to talk about. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Dude. Come on. We have the chance to tease Travis about a girl and you’re just letting it fly free like a dove.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I was free, and, better than free, employed; and now, unencumbered by the terrors of the night and pursuit, I was fully sensible of the exhilarating sensations of that liberty. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In Mendel’s experiments, every gene had behaved like an independent entity—a free agent. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that we’ve wanted elves to be freed for years?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Kilrain said, “He’s only been in this country a few weeks. He says he’d like to go home. Since now he’s free.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Chil the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free— The down on their arms would stand on end, golden in the light of the bedside lamp. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course I know where he is. If I didn't, I wouldn't be spending all my time and energy figuring out how to free him, now would I?'' “ An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Even those, like Jefferson and Madison, who looked forward to the eventual end of slavery, also presumed that all freed blacks must be transported elsewhere. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Nailer clambered through a service duct, tugging at copper wire and yanking it free. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

If the bullet has enough energy—if its frequency is high enough—then it knocks the electron free. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Most people wouldn’t expect that, but during the school year you can get free breakfast and lunch and sometimes after-school snacks. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the midst of all this controversy, Walter White and Sol Hurok began to discuss the possibility of a free outdoor concert by Anderson. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I’m usually good with free food, but free food with my mom and her friends? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"Best free meal a person can get this side of the Tigris," I said to Belet. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Only with Sula did that quality have free reign, but their friendship was so close, they themselves had difficulty distinguishing one’s thoughts from the other’s. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Cunningham, a man of uncompromising rectitude, had given her a pint free of charge for having guessed his name yesterday, one of the tiny things she adored about Maycomb: people remembered their promises. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The pastor is saying something about how Charlie was a free spirit. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

This was the only place she could be free. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We’d have to come up with another plan to get a whole day free. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The accused man himself was set free immediately and walked out of his cell without leg irons or handcuffs; standing just outside its door, he kissed his wife for a long time. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was always beautiful to me, but now she is free. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And washing his body he laughed again, for he washed it now for no woman, and he laughed because he was free. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Thinking that freeing an island from U.S. control could be done with passion and intellect. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A free man, the Americans believed, had the right to what he had built with his own strength, brains, and will. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He’s punching me upside the head, screaming and punching, till finally I set him free. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

For in that case each would still be a self-contained uni-verse, freed forever from the sobering influence of external danger. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He jerked the tiller free from the rudder and beat and chopped with it, holding it in both hands and driving it down again and again. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After eating, we’re free to go outside to the courtyard for the last fifteen minutes of the lunch period. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“They can’t hurt me. I’m not like the rest of you. There’s no one left I love,” Johanna says, and frees her hand with an impatient shake. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Not quite free as a bird,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The story does not say what Hera was about at the time, but it is clear that she was off guard and her husband free to do as he pleased. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she frees them from the plastic bag, they disappear in the folds of her shimmering dress. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was free to live his fantasies, and free even to die, the how and the when of which held no interest for him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been so free I'd spent most of my time on Dylan Thomas. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

A false rumour that the whole household was being distributed free spread like wildfire; and before long the place was packed with people who had no business there, but could not be kept out. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He squeezed his fingers into fists, but the mullet easily jetted free, leaping once before it rejoined the fleeing school. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his free hand he reaches in his book bag and hunts around for a pencil. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She managed it, too, but Basta had a strong grip on her legs, and hard as she fluttered she couldn't break free. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

An independent commission would preside over the election and make sure it was free and fair. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goose shouted to the nearest cow that Wilbur was free, and soon all the cows knew. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s fine, Sean. You are, of course, free to leave. If any of the rest of you do not wish to stay and play, kindly deposit your library cards in the discard pile.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The woman mopped her sweaty face with the free end of her sari. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“If your name is called you will advance to the third stage of testing, so please remain seated and await further instructions. Those whose names are not called are free to go.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Morgan was like a small, steel robot, writhing to be let free, with a strength that frightened Ifemelu. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He cried and flailed his free hand while the woman descended the tree, laughing at her startled partner. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘Didn’t it used to stand here, at the Temple of Zeus? Feel free to tell me I’m wrong. I’d love to be wrong.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He tugged his arms free and glowered at Percy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She wrested her arms free of the guards’ grasp and faced the Council of Guardians. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she looks straight at me and says one of her riddles: “You will see them before they come back but only after you are free.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

We think that their bizarre costumes, their verbal tics, are chosen, and that when the time comes we also will be free to choose. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Someone broke free of the crowd and ran past the soldiers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stops, not bothering to wipe her face free of the tears streaming down her cheeks. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Though, I know Ray would want to be there when we set Braviary free. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Lonesome Highway may be a safer route, but it is clearly not free from danger. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At first, he wanted to give it back—the idea of driving around in a free car from some rich white dude made him sick to his stomach considering what had happened. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“By the way, you have done a great job of keeping the windows free of cobwebs. It’s hard to clean that far up, and I figured someone should tell you so.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Father never went, because he did not want to waste any of his free time. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you try to come over? I’m sorry. Mom had a free day and made me go shopping.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She walked backwards down the hall away from him, her eyes now clear and free of tears. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He yanked it free as Rashid spun around and let out a bitter laugh. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Asked him who owned him, Papa said, ‘I’m free.’ Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None of your concern. Oye, your free food is taking away our business.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Her mother reached for a fresh tissue with her free hand and dabbed at her eyes. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

She had never wanted to be free so badly. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A freedman who had plotted to free others violently. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Since I was now a member of the Arcanum, I was free to explore the stacks, something I’d been waiting my whole life to do. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He cut it free and dropped it into a Ziploc bag. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I think you should talk to someone. You can always talk to me, but I think you need a professional. I can try to find you a free program.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He made an empty gesture with his free hand. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The goddess Nike tumbled out, free from her golden net. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He squeezed his way free—and ran straight into the girl. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had paid them even when illness or injury kept them out of work and established an exposition hospital that provided free medical care. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Instead, he opened his arms and the two men said goodbye in a tight knot, free at last of the hatred and rancor that had poisoned their lives for so many years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he was only in second grade, he was technically free to backpack through Europe, or go on safari in Africa, and breeze through customs upon his return. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Wynn carried three folded lawn chairs with his free arm and set them up on the sidewalk in front of the Fabric Barn. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They just liked his free gifts and flashy parties. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Once I attacked, however, Atlas was free to attack back directly, with all his might. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I charged a small service fee. It’s not illegal. It’s called free enterprise, protected by the Constitution.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She grunted and panted as she wrenched free the closet’s packed-in stuff and tossed it behind her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If they had noticed it in time, they could have freed it, but now all they could do was throw it back into the Mediterranean. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Francie found that a raw potato tasted just as good and this she could have for free. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nin must have freed them, with her slender tools and miraculous hands, and they’d all gone running into the sunset together. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was ready to get to work with his knife, when Portia turns everything upside down again and the judge ends up freeing Antonio. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He should have offered us forty to play for the evening, free use of the public hall, a good meal, and beds at the inn. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Only mass education, he used to say, would free my people, arguing that an educated man could not be oppressed because he could think for himself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You make that clearer with every word you say. It has got far too much hold on you. Let it go! And then you can go yourself, and be free.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As I softly sang the song, I thought, Dr. King is free now. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I yell and with my free arm I’m already reaching for my knife and bringing it round toward the birthmark’s hand, slicing it across the top. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Now you're free of illusions," Jack said, pointing to my seed wasting upon the air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He screams frantically and tries to break free. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some survivors think it’s good luck, though, to be free of District 12 at last. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"Only kids under two get in free," he says. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She sweeps it up and sets it free. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He was free to hang around her apartment if he cared to, but there was no certainty that she would be there. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sportiello, head of the local, thought maybe he should have advertised the fact that the union meeting would have free food. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since then Luma has been free to run her program the way she sees fit, and to fund-raise toward her real ambition: building a tutoring center and soccer facility within walking distance of Clarkston. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Mornings free, Mother trusts me to shop at the open market. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Why does the First Amendment end at the school door, when many lads, especially geeks, have spent much of their lives in the freest part of American culture— the Internet? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winterfell’s great main gates were closedand barred, and so choked with ice and snow that the portcullis would need to be chipped free before it could be raised. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her mood had been in free fall since Mr. Donnelly’s departure. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “Help him, Adam—help him. Give him his chance. Let him be free. That’s all a man has over the beasts. Free him! Bless him!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I would be able to pay my respects to those who have made it possible for me to be as happy and free as I am now. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I freed it and found that it contained pictures of big beautiful houses, white people’s houses. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you even think about—!” I yank the earpiece free and let it hang from its wire. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It would also free more doctors, nurses, and hospital facilities to care for wounded soldiers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, the teachers here are always encouraging me to be free, to feel at home. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But Ireland is free, says Dad, and that’s a grand thing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And before I’ll be a slave, I’ll be buried in my grave, And go home to my Lord and be free. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of people have had years of their lives wasted in prison—years they would have been free if they had been white. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Three Broomsticks was packed, mainly with Hogwarts students enjoying their free afternoon, but also with a variety of magical people Harry rarely saw anywhere else. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Once, when you were three, I took you to the park to shoot free throws. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

First, there is hardly any free time except for prayers. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow, I’m the one who will be set free. Not you.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I struggled, trying to get it stretched out in front of me After several terrifying minutes I managed to get my arm free. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sprite had already begun to unlock some of the cages, and those who had been set free started to follow Kaede and her burden out of the cavern. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the American Community School, Luma was free to play sports as boys did. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He tugged the folds of cloth of his pants and undershorts free from his crotch and gave Yossarian a limp hand to shake. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When the woman reaches up to her cheek, the boy breaks free, pushes against anyone standing in his way, and starts running back toward the main gate, where the buses entered. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe they have to get free lunch tickets and deal with all the same shame I had to deal with when I was first in school. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I need to move, to go somewhere of my own free will, otherwise I'm going to explode in an ugly way. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When my shirt is open she pulls it free of my trousers and looks me in the eye. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“We have run away—all the way from Charles Town. We are heading to Fort Mose, a place where everyone can be free.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constance’s free paw snapped the herb pouch from the fox’s belt. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I guess I should be feeling free all the time, then.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kim said, “Yeah, our dad gets to travel all over the country on trains for free!” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Why would I take on the risk inherent in stealing information from you when you’re willing to tell me everything about yourself for free? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

For school concerts he had to play Schubert, Beethoven, and Mozart, but now that he had graduated, he was free to play whatever he liked, which was swing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But there’s almost always a nice lady out front with free samples. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

By this time I had managed to blink my eyes free from the tears and I could see Pike squatting in the alley. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The Second Sons are amongst die oldest of the free companies,” Inkpots said as he was turning pages. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The ghosts had no free will, but what about Feral and Ruby and Sparrow? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I gave the drapery a prodigious yank and was free. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God,” I said, grabbing the bar with my free hand as soon as the wheel began moving. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was no doubt about it—if they hadn’t been going out, she would’ve spent almost all of her free time working on her prototype. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t really a newspaper. It was one of those free ad-vertisements, you know, that they stick on your door.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And he was good for it too because he wasn’t on free breakfast and free lunch, so I knew he had food money on him. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day was cold, the sky was as gray as wet wool, but William had never felt so free in his life. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

"I wouldn't mind, but my father would consider my revelation the most extreme treason . . . You're free of him now. I'm still his prisoner. You have been freed, don't you understand? I've still my battle." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pretend we’re playing pool. We got to punch the rowboat free. Hit its back end, so the front pokes free. Ready?” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She got her hands free, took off her engagement ring with its tiny diamond, and handed it down to Mary. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, if you have been deemed special, and thus do have the proper permissions, please feel free to move on to the next page. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

If there is a big job, we all pitch in together to get it done, and then we can be free to have fun sooner. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“You can’t even tie a decent knot,” he crowed triumphantly, freeing one arm. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a fraction of a second Baruch had leapt on it, and Balthamos was twisting to free his wings. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now that it was free, the Athena Parthenos filled the chamber with magical energy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Franny suddenly put out her cigarette in the tiny ashtray—with some awkwardness, not having her second hand free to brace the ashtray. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Bran closed his eyes and slipped free of his skin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

First she told me that I hadn’t set any lobsters free. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, feel free to post your videos and make fun of me. But now you know the truth. At least our school is getting a couple million out of this.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is when confronted by the overwhelming signal of free molecules of endotoxin, evoking memories of vibrios in great numbers, that the limulus flies into panic, launches all his defenses at once, and destroys himself. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She twisted free from his grip and charged him so abruptly that he fell back against the vestibule wall. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once class ended, after about an hour and a half, we would have open or free fencing, during which time everyone would also take individual lessons with their personal coach. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of her eye she saw the packhorse tied to Con’s saddle tear free from his lead rope, fleeing into the trees. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Vivi is waving to him as he tries to squirm free from his mother’s grip. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They had gone to bed believing themselves free from white people’s control and commands about what they should do and be. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The diode goes between free ends of the two wires and meets the leads of the battery to complete the circuit. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The blue knight let his broken shield drop to the ground to free his left arm, and then the Knight of Flowers was on him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Every time I see them, they seem kind, loving, free. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Now that my job’s done,” said Mr. Bigelow uneasily, “I feel free to ask what you’re going to do with all this.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she was free and the judge and everybody up there smiled with her and shook her hand. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

We’ll find Roger and your father, and then let’s open the way to the world outside, and set ’em all free!” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I'm free to sing as loud as I want, anytime I want. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Funny to think rich people, who can be free, build fancy cages to live in. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

So he was free to lie in the river and drift slowly with the current. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also served as Muster-Master General to the English forces in The Netherlands between 1586 and 1593, where they were helping the Protestant Dutch to free themselves from the rule of Catholic Spain. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Matthias’s chair clattered on its side as he sprang forward, breaking free from the restraining paws of the Abbot. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"Don't let him push you around. You're a free spirit," we remind her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The mountaintop was never free of it, the gorge was blocked; only on the warmest days could I hear, deep under the ice, the trickle of water seeping over the falls. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My belly is free and my back is free for the first time in so long. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Or was it better to be cold and to be free? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sniffed all the spices for free before buying nutmeg and pepper. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my free hand I grabbed a fistful of dirt in frustration. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Without quite shifting her position, Lola seemed to move away, or to move her shoulders, half shrug, half sway, to free herself of Briony’s sympathetic touch. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Only their scratching pens, kids' stomachs, flies entombed in the strip lights, and distant cries of free kids ruckled the silence. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

As it goes over her head, her hair falls free of the collar and bounces down around her shoulders. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

This was the life Imogen described herself as wanting, free of ambition and expectations, with nobody to please and nobody to disappoint. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was looking hopeful, as if he were home free. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

That means you wouldn’t have free will to do what you wanted. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No...my oldest boy’s father. Miss Hannah, her father. He always said he’d free me in his will, but he didn’t. It was just another lie.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Odd values—unthinking school spirit, proms, jockhood—are exalted, while the best values—free thinking, nonconformity, curiosity—are ridiculed. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If this is all we get, then let’s take it. I want to be fearless and free,” she says, giving me a look, daring me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“YES!” burst out the small lion cub, wriggling free of his mother’s paw. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Let him free all who have been imprisoned, banished or exiled for their opposition to apartheid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slinger puts a stone or slug in the pouch, picks up the strings by the free ends, spins them around a few times, and releases one of the strings at the proper moment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“If it’s free and they lock people away, Ignatius oughta be there.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He freed his flashlight arm, but the other remained enmeshed in the web. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Curly managed to get one arm around the boy’s neck, but he twisted free and hurled a handful of dirt into Curly’s face. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, having aimed imaginary arrows at imaginary foes, she was to set me free by untying me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Chatham couldn’t very well keep the reporter away from Mrs. Granger because, after all, America is a free country with a free press. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt heavy lying in bed instead of floating free as I had been doing for the past week. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time when she should have started, Mary did not understand that free education was available for people like them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully, she lifted her fingers, which no longer felt like her fingers but like butterflies, light and free. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Of course. I would never expect you to do something like this for free. Keep that in mind for the future, Joy. Don’t ever let anyone take advantage of you.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

‘I will go forward free,’ he said, ‘or I will go back and seek my own land, where I am known to be true of word, though I perish alone in the wilderness.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I keep having to drop my head and tear the rucksack free of stuff so I can barely look ahead enough to follow her. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He punches at the air, kicks with his feet to free himself, and cries for someone to help him. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Still they churned and pounded inside her head, fighting to break free. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It didn't mean they got free lunch because they were special. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

In some places the oysters clung to one another so that they came free in lumps. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was she the bird trying to batter its way free, or was she the cage? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“She came here with her family in order to be free,” Sister Mary Joseph is explaining. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

But audience members are always free to wander around the landscape however they wish. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If Sir Ector had not kept one section free of them' for the boys’ bathing, all the water would have been covered. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sure enough it was not only there, but also—Bernabe having checked his watch with the time-of-day recording on the free long-distance line to Sierra Bell’s castle in the capital—right on time. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love being a sixth year. And we’re going to be getting free time this year. Whole periods when we can just sit up here and relax.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“So—for the first time, I’m a free woman. Not a care—not a care in the world.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Charles used his free hand to slap an “L” on his forehead. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Who are you?” she asked as she shook her dress free from my hand. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

A life free to love and be loved. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He tried to pull free of Habib’s grasp, but he was already on the back of the truck. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A time before our present freedom, and so much freer! Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As the crowd surrounded us in the bakery parking lot, everyone munching on free day-old doughnuts, I relished my relaxed state. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was freer than I had ever been. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she shook that thought free; she would never want him to know these horrors. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They swear at us when we demand our fee, But what man can afford to work for free? Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“No! We were pledged to Scythe Faraday and no one else! He died to free us, so we should be freed!” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He waits for the soft, dry throat-rattle that will free him to go pace elsewhere. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

As indentured servants, people agreed to work for employers for a set number of years, after which the agreement ended and the person was free to find other work. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

There are at least three other free cabs in the immediate vicinity. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

This was the longest I’d ever been away from home, and I have to say it was so amazing to suddenly be free of all that stuff that made me so mad. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“We’ll even throw in a set of free steak knives, but you have to act now. Operators are standing by.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Killed your whole crew so you could stay free?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I was first imprisoned, the hardest thing was that my thoughts were still those of a free man. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then there was a sharp sound like a bell breaking and the demon’s arm jerked free of the wheel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That we pretended to be rustics not ruled by custom but free to choose our love? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Erin and I grab our basketballs out of the garage, and on my backyard hoop, we each shoot one hundred free throws. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought his free hand to cover hers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Shut your mouth!” she said again, her free hand clawing at the ground, her face twisted with rage and anguish. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m grateful for the book, of course. I can definitely let you go free, son of Mars. But I have a long-standing problem with Hades. After all, I owe my godly powers to Demeter!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Just say ‘of my own free will I sever this knot’ and then blow on it. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“This is free,” he said, binding the fur to the tip of a brush handle. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Katie remarked that it was a free country and ignored the note. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let the federal government have all the free hand-out programs it wanted. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our goal was to get the chain to touch the floor, at which point we’d earn a free day. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

A severe epidemic of measles reached the Faeroes in 1781 and then died out, leaving the islands measles free until an infected carpenter arrived on a ship from Denmark in 1846. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I consider it, but I think going to church just for a free meal isn’t OK if you don’t really believe in God. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

During the Civil War, the Barnett family fled to free Canada, then resettled in Chicago when the end of slavery made it safe. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Though I was free of that discomfort, I had a suit of clammy clothing to hinder me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Isabelle wiped her hair away from her face with her one free hand. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“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

Pasang Kami, a Sherpa on the Japanese team, freed Smanla from the rope, then continued down the ridge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A volcano erupts because a terrible creature is imprisoned in the mountain and every now and then struggles to get free. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were under a yoke,—I could free them: they were scattered,—I could reunite them: the independence, the affluence which was mine, might be theirs too. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I felt so free and at ease with him, I started to breathe again, to enjoy life a little. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He just wanted to get his free CDs and get with the sister. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I loved any time I could glimpse my daughters in the context of their own worlds—free from the White House, free from their parents, in the spaces and relationships they’d forged for themselves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I am free to leave the convent grounds if I wish. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The prosecutor is also free to file more charges against a defendant than can realistically be proven in court, so long as probable cause arguably exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And it just so happened that I was free. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The youngsters, falconers say, are “at hack”—free to fly and hunt. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I mean I want to go back to free my mother." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Having none at hand, I am free to make one up. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he pulled his foot free and unlaced his boot, wincing at each motion. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He frees the train of the gown from the hedge. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A new Acme had opened, and the bakery section always had a tray of free samples sitting on the counter. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And maybe he is wrong, and you and Tidbit will be forever free!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mere thought that these avenues of action were open to him made him feel free, that his life was his, that he held his future in his hands. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knelt on the ground and pressed my hands into the cinders, wanting so badly to pull my father free. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu's words had been light, free of shadow, and yet he heard in them the sting of other meanings. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dessert came and the revelers moved inside to be free of the mosquitoes while Big Anthony’s punishment continued. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Like Vincent, he has spent much of his free time taking long walks into the countryside outside the city, past fields of wheat, inhaling the familiar aromas of hay and potatoes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, she was free to find presents for everyone on her list. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

And she could remember climbing into her makeshift bed and clutching her hands to her heart, praying to the stars that she might have a night free from bad dreams. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Bast struggled furiously to free himself, but Kvothe stood behind the bar, arm outstretched, motionless as steel or stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The locker room was empty and polished, the black carpet free of the tape and the tobacco spit and the shoes and the shoulder pads. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The free men and women of color, the fugitives who stayed and the ones who moved on. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Beckendorf s sacrifice wasn’t in vain. You have scattered the invasion force. New York will be safe for a time, which frees the other Olympians to deal with the bigger threat.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Student! Which side are the English arguing? God or free will?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year after the Quinn Chapel meeting, a posse of slave catchers came up out of Maryland into Christiana, Pennsylvania, acting on information that four slaves were hiding out at a free black farmer’s home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Today a criminal freed from prison has scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a freed slave or a black person living “free” in Mississippi at the height of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They let me pass, and T rub to Lynn’s side, holding her free hand, which is sticky with blood. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They were a birthday present!” shouted Ron, revolving slowly in midair as he struggled to get free. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I had been free fencing with my teammate and gotten really into it when I scored my last winning point. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He takes a step closer and holds his free hand out to me. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Negative liberty,” he said, “is the freedom from external obstacles or constraints. An individual is free in this sense if they are not physically prevented from taking action.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For some reason, Mr. Burke, who, of course, owned Burke’s Burger Box, thought that because my brother had gone missing he could help me out by giving me free hamburgers. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Yes," said the voice, "the village will he free from taxation for the next year. And I will take the painting." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

When the nation came together again after the bitter and bloody four-year Civil War, slaves had become free. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There is one situation and one situation only in which a butler who cares about his dignity may feel free to unburden himself of his role; that is to say, when he is entirely alone. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The free Negroes, the Quakers, the Methodists, the German farmers, who helped runaway slaves in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, started using phrases and words suited to the idea of a railroad. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something else—slimy and cold—touched my face, just above my mouth, and I couldn’t free my arms to brush it away. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Besides, I got to go to school for free and my parents kept our refrigerator full. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And instead of being grave and mysterious like most Calormenes, they walked with a swing and let their arms and shoulders go free, and chatted and laughed. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“But you just do what you want and everyone gives you a free pass. And you don’t even care who you hurt.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

As Gregor broke free of the roaches and ran for his sister, a shadow passed over him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Using a pulley system of airplane seat belts, they hoisted the hammock-bags high into the trees, free from the surging tide. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

If I managed to get Rosaleen free—an “if” so big it could have been the planet Jupiter—just where did I think we’d go? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I wanted to, he would have traded his Cowboys for my Raiders and given me free use of the Uzi for a week besides. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Nico wrapped his free hand around the rope and concentrated, a bead of sweat trickling down his neck. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He pointed down the road with his free hand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He scooped up the chicken with his free arm. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Shirley freed herself and burrowed through the passengers to the door. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was clutching a magazine to her chest; large letters on the front announced that there was a pair of free Spectrespecs inside. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I—” She wiped her tears with the back of her free hand. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

At the time Walter was set free, Alabama was not among the handful of states that provided aid to innocent people released from prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“They tell you a lot of lies in the Children’s League, the biggest being that you’re free,” he said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Free blacks had papers to prove they were free.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The guitar came free of the stone with a prolonged metallic shhingggg! Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Number six was that the university happened to have free computer time between three and six in the morning. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Leon would be free, needing only to top her up occasionally if he thought she was beginning to recover. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“He thought he was watching Grindelwald hurting you and Ariana....It was torture to him, if you’d seen him then, you wouldn’t say he was free.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The white horse broke free and streaked for the brow of the hill. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He forced the tip of the shovel between the dirt and the top of the metal case and tried to wedge it free. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And don’t say something stupid like “Love is free.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He said he looked forward to the moment football ended and he could spend all his free time “working with Jesus, working with Christ.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By early afternoon the central prison had been opened and the prisoners set free. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As they left the rice fields, Polly could hear the workers being called back to work—no free time just because of a little snakebite. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog squirmed free just as I found the doorway, and when the kid jerked to catch the thing, he brought his knee right up into my balls. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

No sooner had he settled in front of the TV than a Mother Paula’s commercial came on, promoting the weekend special: $6.95 for all the pancakes you could eat, plus free sausage and coffee. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our eyes locked, and he released a sharp “maow” as he wriggled free. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They fought so that this could be a country where every man would be free and equal. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We leave the room free of everything but our scent. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I followed him to a table with a couple of free seats, and watched him tear into his lunch while I dumped mine out of its paper bag. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“My fiancé, Mr. Axelroot, and I are planning on returning to America,” I would tell them, “where it’s a free country and you can get anything to eat that you want.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His new authority seemed to give freer rein to his mean streak. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And although from time to time there arose a courageous pope like Pope Sixtus, neither Fortune nor his wisdom could ever free him from these difficulties. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“So if we could free Thanatos, then the dead would stay dead?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

While Xenophilius’s banging and scraping drew nearer and nearer, Hermione managed to free Ron with the use of a Hover Charm. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“A life of weightlessness, free of pain. But you rejected my proposition.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her hair was long and curly and hung in a thick braid down her back and gave the impression of straining to burst free. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had a “free” watch poodle from the pound. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His eyes misted with love as he broke free of the others and took her into his arms as if she was the most beloved of his daughters. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was not free yet; until he was, he must play their games. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And go home to my Lord and be free. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, Malcolm was free, once he’d done his morning tasks at the Trout, to cross the bridge and call at the priory. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“There is no master here. Athens is free. Her people rule.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hopped down to free up the cot for the next invalid. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It must be done before the waning moon or her powers will be too strong and she will be free to terrorize Ravenskill once more,” said Mr. Dimblewit. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was so cool, he could chat with one friend on his cell phone while using his free hand to knock knuckles with a dozen more. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Those gates looked so close ... and if the talk in the slave pens could be believed, Meereen remained a free city for the nonce. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was free of restraint, free of the fear of consequences; it did not take the familiar shape of a relationship with a parent. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Moments later, Mandela broke free again up the middle of the field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Only a few things here and there were useful to us in our efforts to free Walter, but all of it was interesting. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Rumor has it that the Resistance fighters have been getting bolder, recruiting not just Scholars, but Mariners, from the free country of Marinn, to the north, and Tribesmen, whose desert-territory is an Empire protectorate. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A number of the newer regulations regarding study and free time were immediately rescinded. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window slid a few more inches, and Julia’s free appeared in the opening. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

With his free hand, he pulled the lever on the recliner, leaning back. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They seesawed the stake back and forth to loosen the dirt until they could pull it free. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in there was a lecture on personal hygiene by the head Englishman, and then a free election. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The agent poured himself a cup of free trade coffee from the wheezing pot, took a sip, and frowned. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was how Mrs. half-jokingly said, “The slaves have been freed, Delphine,” whenever she saw me doing things the long, hard way. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

If he had ever been free, he didn’t know when. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Al had the good fortune to be in the vicinity and was able to score a sleeping car and two flats for a song from railroad officials desperate to free up their siding. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In the end, he struggled free of the hands that clawed at him, trying to drag him back, and he ran, faster and faster, down a long tunnel. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

At the word wash Matt wiggled harder, trying to get free. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started to work the raft out of the mud and float it free when he thought of something. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later she adds, “Feel free to feed me, though. I’m as hungry as an old lady who hasn’t even been offered breakfast!” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I fell in and out of sleep under a strange dream of awful weight that I had to move to free myself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our hope in bringing you here,” Eril-Fane said, addressing them in a beautiful salon of the guildhall, “is that you will find a way to free us of the thing in our sky.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The carriage ride to the hospital was an hour-long free fall. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sure, free men still needed to obey laws, but only if they had a say, a voice, in making those rules. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

One of Chicago’s founding fathers, William B. Ogden, argued strenuously for expatriation-sending the freed slaves far, far away to countries in Central and South America. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some of her Unsullied reclaimed their birth names after she had freed them; others chose new names for themselves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“He isn’t going to be happy to see you, Percy. The store got half a million phone calls today from Los Angeles . . . something about free appliances.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The absence of Cleopatra’s own voice and only faint words from her subjects leave us free to draw our own conclusions. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

"This is our place. Craster keeps us safe. Better to die free than live a slave." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So for the first and last time Bon and Judith might have been said to have a free field—might have been, since it was really Ellen who had the free field. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She thought your dad was a beggar asking for free food. What he should have said was ‘sal,’ which is the word for uncooked rice.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He stood with his free arm across his body, disappearing under the left side of the cape. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The master had promised to free Old Rit, but he hadn’t. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

These ghosts would kill her in a minute if they were free. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Let them go as fast as they want. They don’t bother me and I don’t bother them. This is America, a free country, no?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Pushed and pulled by the slightest shift of air, but never falling free into the tempting darkness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It helped to break down global regionalism, created a more seamless global commercial network, and made it simple and almost free to move digitized labor—service jobs and knowledge work—to lower-cost countries. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

We did not want to destroy the country before we freed it, and to drive the whites away would devastate the nation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So I’m wondering what you’d like to do for your free day.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

They wished to hold Greece in almost the same manner as the Spartans held it, making it free and leaving it under its own laws, and they did not succeed. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The end result was that in exchange for playing three evenings a span I received free room and board. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Anytime I went somewhere without a fuss, it felt like a small victory, an exercise of free will. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now that my head was static free, I heard my conversation with Morris Ditmer loud and clear. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's absurd that we are free to determine our method and criteria for gleaning, but not the number of gleanings we accomplish. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I watch as the people feast on the plentiful crops and go to sleep at night with full bellies and minds free of worry. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The 1966 agreement says: “Everyone shall be free to leave any country, including his own.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Just when it seemed it would pop free, thorny vines shot out of the ground and entangled it further. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She cried out and tried to pull her arm free. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supposed to be the land of the free, but we free? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Still, I stuck close to the theatre and, in my free horns, to Mr. Pope's. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Poseidon felt satisfied and went off contentedly to plan some other storm somewhere, and Athena, left free to act, calmed the waves. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there is any one amongst you who cherishes my freedom, Oliver Tambo cherishes it more, and I know that he would give his life to see me free. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, Tidbit, you no slave. You free man, just like your mama dream. You never be slave again.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The foundation of self-government was that all men were free to voice their opinions and equal in their value as citizens. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m even thinking of bottling up free samples of my dip bait.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Wealthier districts were by no means free of fire hazards. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a big maroon Harvard sweatshirt and jeans that were covered with marker stains and little holes, like she spent her free time poking them with a fork. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I pulled the pendant free and Fiona threaded the silver chain through the little eye on top. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But he has seen the military results of maneuvering by armchair commanders Halleck and Stanton, and he insists that the Army cannot be commanded from Washington, that he cannot accept command without a free hand. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could only get hold of them, if at all, by scrounging more or less furtively on the “free” market. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Whenever she had a free hour she stole away to work at the drills Syrio had taught her, moving barefoot over the fallen leaves, slashing at branches and whacking down leaves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The hare pushed him aside and straightaway began to free the tail of the now empty lion skin. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Thoughts and feelings are free to wander, like characters leaving their books to taste life in other stories. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If you need extra time, feel free to take the project home tonight, as well. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I had only asked to be free, had accused no one, and had denounced nothing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For those who don’t believe me: I’m assuming that after more than two thousand years the exhaled molecules are uniformly spread about the world and the vast majority are still free in the atmosphere. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed free in ways I could not be. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In what is left, let all who fight the Enemy in their fashion be at one, and keep hope while they may, and after hope still the hardihood to die free.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His donation to us of the more than one hundred volumes of the preparatory examination free of charge was a generous gesture that saved the defense a great deal of money. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as his legs were free he tried to bolt, but one swift curl of the Elephant’s trunk round his waist soon put an end to that. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

And yet we would shoot at them again and they at us if they were free. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

If everyone felt that way, we would have stayed in our home, a whole country, safe and truly free. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

No caste system in the United States has ever governed all black people; there have always been “free blacks” and black success stories, even during slavery and Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s much better to freeze and bleed a free man. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He gives kids free meals if they bring in their report cards. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The payoff to the gun seller—usually $50 or $100, but in one California buyback, three free hours of psychotherapy—isn’t an adequate incentive for anyone who actually plans to use his gun. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I felt light and free and excited from the run. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She reached into the closet for a free hanger. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Why should my life be free from pain and suffering when Christ suffered all things for us?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The day elections were announced, our first free ones in thirty-one years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed not to know there were places where we could be free. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Hopefully that would free Penelope of the possession and Ophie could help her after that. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Look at these prices!” cried Eye, who seemed ready to faint again, but the maitre d’ insisted on serving them for free. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She would be lucky to make it there, let alone back, before Bahumat was free. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

To her the truth would set me free. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was a kind of paradise, free from cars and full of kids playing softball and jumping double Dutch or sitting on stoops, just hanging out. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to force her will on him, and she saw that he was detached and free. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each player paid a dollar, with two free entries allowed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I kill since six. Mother of Dragons says I am free. Why not free to fight?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, Dad held down my fists with his free hand, the other holding both his cigarette and the steering wheel, and said, “That’s enough, Mountain Goat.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I have some free time this week. If you want someone to go book scavenging with.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The computer voice recited the number, and Colin pressed 1 to be connected immediately free of charge, and on the third ring, a girl picked up. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I tugged it free and the window came open easily. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He assumes that free cocoa is a benefit of being a member of the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The point of a wind tunnel, of course, was to simulate as closely as possible the conditions that prevailed in free flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He turned his face north toward Virginia, where he had been free of his hometown for a time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The word “independence” in Africa and the word “integration” here are almost equally meaningless; that is, Europe has not yet left Africa, and black men here are not yet free. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Kat and I proceed to free the wounded arm. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

How, instead of being freed, she and Rowan had ended up with Scythes Curie and Goddard. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

On the other side is the wide, free road. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It’s pleasant to imagine the brothers becoming reacquainted, hunting, sleeping, and playing together as they roamed free across those stony, broken hills and warm, sheltered valleys. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Gey just gave the cells away for free, she said, for the good of science. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If there was any chance of breaking free, the Boss wanted to be ready for it, and he was burning half a ton of coal a day to keep the engines fired. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“The principal has declared that next Friday is Quiz Team Day, and the entire school is being treated to free pizzas and sodas!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Every Saturday morning from June until mid-November, I went with Mother to the Farmers' Market and helped her sell her fresh produce and free range eggs. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

More disturbing is the new habit of plucking away at my shirt or my khakis with whichever hand can be freed up for the task. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We talk about leaving Bellmont all the time, moving past the history of our families, breaking free. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sip did not answer their question; saying only, blankly, “I’s already a free man.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

High winds whipped through the trees, shaking free leaves and fruit. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It said Khrushchev wanted to take over the Belgian Congo and deprive the innocent savages of becoming a free society, as part of his plan for world domination. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it was free, it still took work. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the edge she had freed, gripped it hard between forefinger and thumb, and pulled the dressing back in a sudden stroke. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ophie knew that colored folks had not always been free, and she understood that her work for the Carutherses resonated within the same patterns of history, even if she was paid a modest wage. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In every class, the teachers gave us free time. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Lander’s rhetoric inflamed passions; he fomented rebellion; he was too uppity to allow to run free. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Generate some irrefutable proof. Tomorrow’s Saturday. Are you free at, say, eleven?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

In France, one side argued that slaves must be freed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

On other paths of the village were the half-burnt remains of those who had fought fiercely to free themselves, only to die outside. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, longtime no see, Nathan,” Aunt Heidi says, clicking one of those free pens people get at banks, click click click. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Feel free to use these as interchangeable adjectives. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers pulled a match free and struck it on the side of the block. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever they shook hands, Mr. White squeezed her fingers, a gesture thick with suggestion, and she would pull her hand free and avoid his eyes until they left. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If the winds were kind, his fleet might well be on its way back to Eastwatch even now, with as many of the free folk as he could cram aboard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Martinez wasn’t sympathetic, not when it came to money, not when it came to giving something away for free. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed at my free hand, but I turned around and kicked him in the stomach with such force that he fell to the ground. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It tingles when I touch it but is otherwise free of pain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A man gets on and walks all the way to the back, even though there are free seats closer to the front. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At last Kepler’s position had been regularized, although Tycho continued to dole out his wealth of data in penny packets, as and when he thought Kepler needed it, rather than giving him free access. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

This is why they invite me: they even buy me free beers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The message was that if something is free, you should take only the best. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There were little boys, fair, dark, freckled, and all dirty, but their faces were all dreadfully free of major blemishes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to be free again to tell what I knew and what I believed about our Vietnam policy,” he said of the decision. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For now that it appeared that I was being freed, I dared not believe it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The years had whitened the man’s hair, but Nat recognized him—the Mr. Morris who had offered him a chance to tutor his children—if he could have been free to leave the chandlery. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You drive the truck there. Fifteen minutes down the interstate, and you’re home free. Lily will go ahead and make sure everything at the mill is clear. You guys unload the cigarettes and...” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

With no trees, no birds nor other free critter, no water, just noise and buildings that made you feel you was this close to dying. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Well-meaning but misinformed people think ani­mals in the wild are “happy” because they are “free”. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He kept one hand on Hassan’s back and undid his own belt buckle with his free hand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the way we greet ’em into being free. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He was feeling Will’s right hand carefully with his free one. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as she heeled over to the breeze she rolled her rail out from under the Lillian’s nose, shook herself free, and stood away to the southard. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

They camped and hiked on their own, free from the Hitler Youth parade drills and flag salutes. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t make free to rap on the door. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If this is what it’s like to be free,” he thought, “I believe I’d rather be penned up in my own yard.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

She slung her free arm over Rasheed’s back and her fingers dug at his shirt. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing was free in this world. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Men and women had to flood the areas around their cars and pickups in order to get them unstuck; they pulled them free with Ray Gusdorf s tractor. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began biting at her leg to free it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

For if Congress has a power to regulate the conditions of the inhabitants of states, within the states, it will be but another exercise of that power to declare that all shall be free. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When it was securely fixed, he threw the free end out, and at once six witches darted toward it, caught hold, and began to pull, urging the cloud-pine branches toward the Polar Star. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The door latches behind me with a clunk', my sheepskin slippers flop over as I step free of them. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hazel had to cut them free so they would disappear—and finally be beyond Gaea’s reach. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Under naval law, a ship’s crew is free of obligation when the ship sinks. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

As it was too late to regain my dignity, I resolved yet to free the lamb. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On the back, it has the address, and says, free lunch! Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Any savage balked in the forest would utter the double shout and hold up the line till he was free again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Lightning were awarded a free kick from fifteen yards out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She will no doubt attempt to pass for a free girl, and it is likely she has obtained a free pass. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I sit on the one next to his, glad to be free and at rest, finally. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When we get to the road, Noah shakes free of Oscar’s hold and pushes ahead of us. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“The Bomb is still out there, and both of them nearly gave their lives to free me from Balekin’s dungeon, only to find you here, gloating.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When Petey pulled her hand free, she wore a brown sleeve of insects. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I sling one over my shoulders, loop two more over my arms, and still have a free hand to drag my wheelie cart. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” said Ron delightedly, gazing at his schedule, “we’ve got a free period now...and a free period after break...and after lunch...excellent!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And that even if she was free, others were not. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We had known without anyone in our home ever expressing it that we had felt prouder not to be at the depot where the free food was passed out. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One ride drops you 108 stories on a cable at near free fall without so much as a mattress to keep you company on your way down. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Chances are the thread viruses can survive for some time—if the surface is free of sunlight, which would break apart the virus’s genetic material. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are no savior of mine. Do not make yourself a Christ. Christ made me free. You made me a prisoner.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother is freed from the belly of the wolf. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She had been an enslaved girl but was a free woman. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had breathed fresh air, walked on paved roads, mingled freely with white people, rested upon green grass and eaten free hot dogs given to me by whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was supposed to write up evaluations of her students’ progress, but she’d spent every free minute painting, and now the deadline was on her and the evaluations were unwritten. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A Fugees forward struggled free of traffic to take a shot that flew a good twenty feet over the crossbar and into the parking lot behind the field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Kostakis Brothers Trucking sent three giant dump trucks to move everything from gym to warehouse free of charge. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Ice had released me when the ball was on the floor, so when Nick grabbed it and threw it over his shoulder I was free. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She raised her stomach in order to free her shirt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Or this bit about Nick: “Everyone agrees that Nick Allen masterminded this plot that cleverly raises issues about free speech and academic rules. He is the boy who invented the new word.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took the lines in his hands; he freed them from the rocks and the figure from the wind's indignity. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

One major food category was nuts, especially chestnuts and walnuts, plus horse chestnuts and acorns leached free of their bitter poisons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each segment of rail took an hour to get free, and required all six of them to carry. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Some masters free their slaves when they die,” said Penny. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Trying to be polite, I ask, “Are these free?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Then a stranger threatened to damage Wilson’s car in a confrontation over a free spot, so Wilson switched to the subway. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’d jump in the Jeep and roar off into the countryside, my foot pressing heavily down on the gas as if speed could set me free. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, that works. So. Okay. Are you free tomorrow at, like, eight?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if I can give them away for free.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“He proved an alibi and he’s free. Tell me, did he leave you holding the bag?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I’m not good at a lot of things—like lay-ups, free throws, jump shots—but I can waste money.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just going to go to bed,” he mumbles, pulling his arm free. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Chavez mentioned that Vivian was “free for adoption,” which sounded like she was a kitten being given away at the flea market. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

As the Party slogan put it: “Proles and animals are free.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

This ‘King’ you’re asking about, I hear many people—those that went to school and can read newspapers— say that he was a God-fearing man who died fighting to set his people free. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She broke free of the great heavy arms of the Wood and emerged, breathless, at the hawthorn tree. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking of redundancies, think twice before using expressions like advance reservations, final conclusion, foreign import, free gift, prerecorded, refer back, or safe haven. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t just give something away; you give it away for free. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you don’t know the half of it. How would you like to babysit these spirits all day? Always ‘Please don’t let me be dead’ or ‘Please let me across for free.’ The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You will go north and find Thanatos in the land beyond the gods. You will free him and thwart the plans of the giants. Beware Gaea! Beware her son, the eldest giant!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His spear yanked itself free of the god’s flesh and flew back to Bob’s hand, which made Annabeth gulp in amazement. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Meera knelt, undid a twist, pulled at a corner, tugged deftly here and there, and suddenly the direwolf was bounding free. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They could keep their own civilizations, like Esquimaux and Hottentots, if they would give each other freedom of trade and free passage and access to the world. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a free kick coming from the spot where the foul took place. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his way to Atlas to ask him about the Golden Apples, Hercules came to the Caucasus, where he freed Prometheus, slaying the eagle that preyed on him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He accidentally beached the hull on a sandbar, and this time there was no easy way to free it. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They left her to her crying and finished their tea, while Dobby chatted happily about his life as a free elf and his plans for his wages. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But when I promised him one of my free cream puffs from Goldman’s Best Bakery, he gave in. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

All he had to do was reach those gates and pass beyond, and he would be a free man again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You can be a sly fox in the head,” Daddy told Jermaine, “but you can man up too. You not gonna man up and free yourself from me?” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He seemed to enjoy that, and at the end of each day would announce on the intercom that we were "free to go." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“No, she’s here. There’s only one more thing she needs from me. For that, she needs my free will.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was one stupid dinner, and then she’d be home free. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t beep, and I’m free to go on my way. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

That sort of thing went on all the time amongst the free companies of the Disputed Lands, she knew. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So he sat down and, in his free evenings and weekends, wrote an eight-hundred-page textbook on the subject, painstakingly reviewing the available evidence for the most common problems a general practitioner might encounter. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He clambered up the hill, swiping at the leaves with his free hand, swatting at the twigs and branches with his bag. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A teacher had donated his bicycle to the soldiers, cobblers were making soldiers’ boots for free, and farmers were giving away yams. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just another year or two and she could go home—home free. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He has a hundred and one reasons not to marry the cow so he can buy the milk for free. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the crowd streamed past, Ranofer tried impatiently to free his arm, but the donkey’s owner held it fast. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I am free to act as desperately as I wish. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The navy coxswain was still exerting himself, cursing and ramming the throttle back and forth, to free the landing craft from the reef. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Asta and Ben tried to comfort Pantalaimon, but he wriggled free; he wanted to be with the little pale form that could only weep and weep. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

All the members of chiefly lineages, bureaucrats, and some craft specialists were freed from the work of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her spear caught between two trees and brought her to a jolting halt before she wrenched it free and kept running. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spider Woman had told Sun Man how to win the storm clouds back from the Gambler so they would be free again to bring rain and snow to the people. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"The gods are good. I am free to heed my heart. I will wed your sweet sister, and gladly, ser." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I felt free, as though I could soar above the clouds. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fire and water collided, superheated steam, and I shot upward from the heart of the volcano in a huge explosion, just one piece of flotsam thrown free by a million pounds of pressure. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Weapons lay scattered along the road, dropped as the Russians fled, free for the taking. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Boy makes v. free use with my Library. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

For that moment we were technically free, and there was pandemonium in the court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he spent all of his free time there, he couldn’t quite manage to broaden his life. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s how the boat comes free, a few inches at a time. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I draw diagrams of the arcs a ball might take from inside the prison wall to the free space outside. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to a lot of movies and because of who Pa is, the theater owner lets us kids in for free. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a musician would sense, know, without even knowing that he knew, that Cholly was free. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Harry Potter freed Dobby!” said the elf shrilly, gazing up at Harry, moonlight from the nearest window reflected in his orb-like eyes. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Eze was the wealthiest man in the room, an owner of oil wells, and as many of the Nigerian wealthy were, he was free of angst, an obliviously happy man. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Prosecutors are free to “load up” defendants with extra charges, and their decisions cannot be challenged for racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It comes to me like a soul freed from the bonds of flesh. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She took her jacket off the hook and poked it above the suitcase, so that she had a free hand for the knob. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

If we studied birds, maybe we could learn to be free. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I say no, I’ve already had a stint of free lodging and now I have to take my chances with the market like anyone else. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran her free hand through her greasy black hair, and a flurry of dandruff settled on her broad shoulders. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As Matthias battled to free his other paw he felt himself enveloped by two pairs of wings. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He told me that the cottage at Victor Verster would be my last home before becoming a free man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book had broken free from its restraining belt and snapped viciously at Ron’s ankle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I became dauntless and free of fears, intoxicated by the physical fact of San Francisco. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our vows ... we are sworn to protect the realm ...” “Once the free folk are settled in the Gift, they will become part of the realm,” Jon pointed out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the ship had gone onto its side, the service panels that had been in place on the floor had come loose and fallen free, revealing the huge gears and interlocking hydraulic systems. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

And now, a detective has asked me to sacrifice a bad guy so my mother can be free. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But Tía Mimi used her free time so poorly, she might as well have been married. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, opened the package to free the curved needle and silk thread. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He told me the catfish heads were free and that tomorrow we would have them for lunch—catfish-head stew over spaghetti. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his free hand, he’s eating a blueberry muffin, and he’s eating it the way he always eats his muffins, first the stump, then the top. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She had somehow freed a candidate, and together they had discovered that the final test lay in Jahara. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The first point was to free Puerto Rico from the United States. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

This is not the greatest free democracy in the world. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was at least free from the offense of Mr. Darcy’s further notice; though often standing within a very short distance of her, quite disengaged, he never came near enough to speak. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Only the dead got into the cemetery for free. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

In 1868, after a trial failed to reach a verdict and charges were dismissed, he was released, a free man. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt so relieved to see the wayward chicken again that she put her hand out enthusiastically to shake the boy’s free hand. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Third, we mean to set up a committee of private citizens to oversee free elections. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew swung an arm around her side, letting her lean on him, and pushed Mr. Remora’s door with his free hand. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“And that’s why I’m here. You could break free too. Start over. In Iowa.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He says, “Please feel free to sit down, anywhere you want. Is the councilman expecting you?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember, it’s still the trial period, so we get to take all their classes for free.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t tell her that my meals are free and part of my scholarship package. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps best of all, the field was free. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

At that moment the rope swung me out into the sky, I was free. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give it to her, for some reason, in the formal Korean way, with my eyes down and my free hand guiding my extended wrist. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bartender is much too free with the cocktails, and the thought of climbing to the crow’s nest just makes me more anxious. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“But our wills are free even to frustrate God’s intentions.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, the electromagnetic and weak forces, which are not asymptotically free, get stronger at high energies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not understand why Narciso, who did good in trying to help Ultima, had lost his life; and why Tenorio, who was evil and had taken a life, was free and unpunished. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, White could see that the girl had broken free and was running. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I worked all morning to dig it free and then, having scraped it clean, could not decide what to do. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that it was Harry who set Dobby free?” she asked. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was a kind of science to freeing the demons from the mound. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad once made fifty free throws IN A ROW. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

To put it another way, the fall of the wall enhanced the free movement of best practices. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was older and, as a result, freer. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

His bird terrified in the smothering darkness of the box—it’s like a coffin—when suddenly one wall springs up and light pours in and he’s free to go. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I sang naturally, as free as a bird,” she said. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“If we were free,” said Penny, “we could find the queen. Or go search for her, at least.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Frodo, neither the Voice nor the Eye: free to choose, and with one remaining instant in which to do so. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Now they were bringing out pitchers of free lemonade. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom was sandy, but mostly free of coral so that my hooks would not snag. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the handle of the purse tore and she was free. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The long walk would be more easily done with her feet free and bare. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” Assef said behind us, “I didn’t say you could take him for free.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

With a sudden jerk, I broke free of Meir’s grip and wormed out from under him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The voluminous tweed trousers were durable and permitted unusually free locomotion. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I’m locked in a small room that smells like chorizo and stale popcorn while my archenemy continues to brainwash the community with reggaeton and free sunscreen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

No fields of cowslips will rush into that opening, nor mornings free of flies and heat when the light is shy. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled on the string, freeing her bangs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

How poor do you have to be to sell something that’s free? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He liked the feeling of safety here in this warm and quiet room; he liked the expression of trust on the woman’s face as she lay in the water unprotected, exposed, and free. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can be free of words now, I can lapse back into wordlessness, I can sink back into the rhythms of transience as if into bed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The government suggested that Bantu Authorities would free the people from the control of white magistrates, but this was a smoke screen for the state’s undermining of democracy and promotion of tribal rivalries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I now had nothing but free time, and I had the money and the means to fully explore the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I tell myself I'm free, I'm outside where I dreamed of going, but I feel like a fish in a net being lifted out of the water I've lived in all my life. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In the night-time, as soon as the kids were in bed, she was free. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If I free her from the ship now, will she take me with her? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Feel free to delete this if you want, but I hope you don’t. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“These become sticky when I turn the power on. When I turn them off, whatever’s trapped is free,” Petey explained. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Said I, “We are an army that but waits to be mustered. We shall join whosoever doth free us first.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer was rare among theorists in conceding value to the uncomplicated perception of nature, free of abstractions, that happened to be Lawrence’s approach. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She told them about their quest to free Thanatos in Alaska. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t fight to free himself, though, only observes me with the wary look of someone who still hasn’t ruled out that he’s in the presence of a mutt. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We walked down to the lobby for our free breakfast. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I yelled and struggled, trying to break free of him, afraid of the staring crowd of men and women, but he would not let me go. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a tournament was more like a free fight. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two lambs without a shepherd, free for the taking. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kenny and Allen almost lost their minds when Arnold told them that the concession food was free to my guests. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I can complete the volcano with- out anyone catching me, I will be free and the world will be saved. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it slipped through, free for a second before it thrust, spitting and screeching, into the dirt below. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I won’t take the whole store. Maybe a bolt of any fabric I want against me cleaning the rest of that backroom free of charge?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I mean I had the whole evening free, and I thought I'd give her a buzz and, if she was home yet, take her dancing or something somewhere. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

In 1878, he started Chicago’s first black newspaper, the Conservator, and called blacks to action: “We are no longer slaves. We intend to act the part of free men.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

People think they’re free just being in this country, but it’s more than that. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The woods pressed close around them, and the steady pattering of rain on leaves was accompanied by the small sucking sounds their horses made as their hooves pulled free of the mud. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then Sydney lets off a nervous little chuckle that gives away the cold, hard reality that there’s no such thing as free water—and Hali realizes why she hasn’t seen Sydney until now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Early next week I get a lot of day shifts, and I go over there every night I have free. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Instead of being assigned missions, free hunters were allowed to go looking for trouble. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Katie had to do two washings free for the girls to make up for it and Francie’s voice lessons were abandoned forever. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Otherwise feel free to come back in a span or so. We should have things updated by then.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now free to do as he pleased, the murderer killed them one by one, each time carefully collecting the discharged shell. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He snuck up behind Mom and slid one arm around her waist while the other went to work freeing a hot dog stick. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

From the elegant boardwalk surrounded by pine and birch trees, I looked out at these naturists and wondered what I always wonder: What is it like to feel free like that? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

About as much fun as watching ice melt—until all of a sudden the winch line goes slack and the Mary Rose is floating free. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There waren’t no sense in going back to the stable to try and free her and them Africans. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Could it be that your conscience is ethical and you recognize what a merciless action it would be to cage a free creature of ALLAH? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I told him, Let me try to free you. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But she on her side must remember that he had not married her and was free to leave her whenever he chose. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Periodically, his free hand floated up and his thick fingers bat­ted at something in the air. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He sounded not at all Ghiscari, he knew; but half the Brazen Beasts were freed slaves, with all maimer of native tongues, so his accent went unremarked. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In 1946, the Smuts government passed the Asiatic Land Tenure Act, which curtailed the free movement of Indians, circumscribed the areas where Indians could reside and trade, and severely restricted their right to buy property. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you step on the court with players like Kobe Bryant or six foot eight point guards who can dunk from the free throw line, your mind begins to concentrate on your other options. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“My few free hours belong to my mother. I’m all that she has.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled with all of his might to get free of the shallows, then he seemed to relax as the water became deep enough for him to swim. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t signed a contract, and I wasn’t fencing on any scholarship, so I was free to go, just like Josh had before me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Back home they probably would have had the decency to whisper, but here they felt free to say whatever they wanted, face-to-face and in a normal tone of voice. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lovey pulled it free and started waving it around until the image started to appear. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I probably shouldn’t have told him anything, but it felt good to throw the truth in his free. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Of my own free will, I sever this knot,” Grandpa said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I asked them when they were free and we decided on a date and time to meet at the park. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I work my bent neck free and struggle into a sitting position. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The Texans, they say, didn’t want to pay taxes and, second, Mexico had abolished slavery in 1829, and Texas, being part of Mexico, was required to free its slaves. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head bumped along beside his filly’s thrashing legs until his leg snapped and his foot came free. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a little while in the morning he had to censor letters, but he was free after that to spend the rest of each day lying around idly with a dear consdence. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The phrase Where I told you to run, so we’d both be free is the most troubling because at first you think he’s talking about when he told her to flee, presumably to safety. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He kicked his foot free from the rock loop, and his body rose to the surface and his black hair gleamed in the sunlight. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the list of agreement errors above, for example, the last two sentences appear on my screen free of incriminating squiggles. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The rich people pressed enough cash into someone’s hands to keep it lush and vagrant free, and a new, all-American bandstand stood whitewashed against the greenery at the back of the property. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You’re not dead. Not yet, anyway. And neither am I. I'm setting you free. Here, sit up.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was free because on the inside he was tied up in knots. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I know if I can’t get free I will be dragged into the narrow space between the copper planks, and crushed—digested by the pitch. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In her degrees, she prepared them for the liberation that awaited them, for she had pledged to set them free upon her death. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All men were free and equal and this was the foundation of government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What finally convinced me was Patria’s argument that the letter might help free the men. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The riders were thrown free, but their panicked horses dragged the golden chariot diagonally across the track. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I ain’t, I give my boys, and give ’em free.’” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were not men who were free with their compliments, but because I was the first of their sister’s sons who had come to learn their ways they were happy. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For no apparent reason, the probationers were given a half day off, free from study, though they were to remain in uniform. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Simpson said that we were trying to free the South Vietnamese people to do what they wanted to do. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a freshman, she had no free periods, but she devoted several lunch periods to research in the library. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He hung with us for a good five minutes, trying to talk his way into a free shirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“What?” he bellowed, writhing in his attempts to free himself from Ron’s grip. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Harry darted forward and began to hack at the ropes binding the small girl to the statue, and at last she was free. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If I had been told, the next morning, that I could stay outside the fence as long as I wanted, that I was free to go, it would have sent me sprinting for the compound. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I post an offering of free red lava landscaping rock. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She misses her son’s habit of always holding on to the free end of her sari as they walk together. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Best thing would be to break into the desk of a British commander, steal a pass and forge her name and his name on it, and act free. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some dropped to the deck coming over the transom, others he deftly maneuvered free. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He remembered the day they’d been told they were free, and their bold decision to move north, away from the memories of the fields and the overseer. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But how can I be really free without Papi in my life? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Thanks to those remarkable men, plus others uncounted who died on the way, Angola has wrested itself free of Portugal and still owns its diamonds and oil wells. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl was about to spend the night in a building filled with books and she was skipping all the free food and pop so she could read? Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Let us recognize that the first right of every American is to be free from domestic violence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The creator has given us certain inviolable rights: the right to life, the right to be free, and the right to achieve happiness.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He would make it up to her—he would see to it that she was freed, and after that...After that... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After all, the Latin terms survive more or less in free variation with the Greek, and Puttenham’s English equivalents are abundantly charming—albeit that charm is conditioned by a certain quaintness. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Michael Antoniou, her fiance, had returned to Holy Cross and now she had her Saturdays free. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Cade and I ate there at least twice a week because the food was free for us. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She struggled and tore at his hand before her jaws unclenched and he pulled his hand free. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She hated restaurants and would not enter one even if the meals served were free. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to yank his arm free of her grip. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Then why not go be free with the rest of the family in Nueva York?” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

But which of the missing prisoners were dying back in the barracks, and which of them were running free in the woods? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I balk and pull the knife free, running out of the room. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I understand she will try to pass as a free girl. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He placed the cage in a slot against a wall, slid open the end, opened a matching door in the wall—and I was free. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And in that realization I feel oddly free. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Naomi tilted her glass to free up the last sweet drops of lemonade at the bottom. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy asked loudly, before using her free hand to pull her sister behind a half wall by the beds. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I roared like I hadn’t in over a year and it felt good and filling and free. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

By 1962 twenty-one countries declared themselves free of Aedes aegypti, and the world seemed very close to ending yellow fever forever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I have placed the crucifix over the head of my bed—I imagine that my rest is thus freer from dreams; and there it shall remain. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Soon there was a free aisle down the center of Fifth Avenue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They slipped the ropes free of the pulleys and rehooked two of them to the front of the block. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen times a day they had to stop to free a wheel that had stuck in a rut, or double up the teams to climb a muddy slope. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the course of these walks, Michelson so ingratiated himself to the President that Grant agreed to secure for him a free place at the U.S. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I cut free a sleeve from my shirt, wrap it twice around his leg just under his knee, and tie a half knot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sullivan, never easy on his peers, became furious with one of the firm’s junior architects when he discovered the man had been using his free time to design houses for clients of his own. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you dare,” Mom said, using her free hand to try to pry his big one off her other trembling fingers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Sheep and swine huddled in their pens while the castle dogs ran free. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I struggle to free myself, to find my brother, but my muscles won’t work properly. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wall of faded paper took a beating as the wind blew through the fences, ripping some of the more decrepit sheets free and making others flutter like hummingbird wings. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The free companies, well mounted, could reach Yunkai in six days of hard riding, or eight at a more leisurely pace. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“That smell... like snuffed-out souls. Thanatos is free, eh? Bah! It doesn’t matter. Gaea still controls the Doors of Death. Now, why have you brought me here, son of Mars?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He wiped at the tears on his face with his free hand. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

She had a long, bright knife in her hand and had been busily cutting the horse free from the wreck of the hansom. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The volcano, rageful and belligerent, bellowed and rumbled and spat, trying to hock them free. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

What followed was a series of fatal errors that set the fire free and doomed the city to a fiery death. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He must get one of the free lunches. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

But maybe that wasn’t the only way to get free. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was surprised when I felt his hands pull free from mine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When told that I might attend Central High School, I knew it was a way to get free. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We will be free! and We can do whatever we want! The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“But I thought you said he gave you total free rein over the park.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She found that Old Rit had originally been willed to a young woman named Mary Patterson, with the provision that she was to be freed when she was forty-five. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house--just as if it were five years ago. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I had read that slaves in colonial times were happier and more free than their masters, because the masters were burdened with the cost of their care. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Jess, feel free to try anything on. That sparkly blue one would look so awesome on you.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Resisting the urge to take a look, Harry walked on by, thinking that Justin might be using his free time to catch up on some work, and deciding to check the library first. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went into this investigation imagining history to be a unified narrative, free of debate, which, once uncovered, would simply verify everything I had always suspected. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Tutoring my older brother was not how I wanted to spend my free time. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I said this almost involuntarily, and, with as little sanction of free will, my tears gushed out. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The glad days that dawned gave me liberty for the free play of impulse and, from anxiety and restraint, I leaped to license and thoughtless action. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I know a lot about living inside my head—and to keep going, I need to keep hoping I can find my father and free Amma. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

"Or why you were finally able to free yourself from your prison of the well to this lake?" When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He said, “That will be the last time in your life when you’re free.” ... of Tremont Street announces that he will keep the famed Richelieu at stud this season. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cat springs free and disappears under a bush. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is how our free time goes, what little of it there is. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But if speculators got hold of that inside information, they could use it to enrich themselves—and, in the process, they might send France, and possibly the world, into financial free fall. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They all make a sound that lets me know that they agree, and something wells up inside me as if it’s been sitting there all along waiting to be set free, and I cry. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They do have free food at the community center food pantry, but that’s pretty far away. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“But that was a dumb place to stand. 1 couldn’t stop myself. Drop in at the cafe sometime, I’ll give you a free egg salad sandwich, or a hamburger, or a milkshake, whatever you like.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time he thought he was free, Ricky would pop into his head. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Some of those words might be freed people prettifying things, but some of it was real! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Then you’ll be free to do whatever you want with the tree.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I know that Mama put Charlie in a free preschool, but she only goes for half a day, and now the clock in the car says 1:07. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I thought she wanted to be free and seek a mate, but I could not let her. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was so unknown, in my experience, that I wondered if he was too soft, if he gave them too much free rein. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He switched on the light, supporting her with his free hand. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like a “buy one, get the rest free” sale at the mall. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The DEA has offered free training, intelligence, and technical support to state highway patrol agencies that are willing to commit their officers to highway drug interdiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh! Guess what? There’s a new bubble tea place opening today. They’re giving out free samples. Let’s go check them out!” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She peels it free, delves both her hands between my thighs to spread them, and reaches down for my balls. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He sawed it back and forth, one end out, then the other, and finally it broke free, though floating still in little more than a foot of water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He could have the vessel drive to land; but if it were unfriendly land, wherein he was not free to move, his position would still be desperate. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And that if you can catch a butterfly, whisper your deepest wish to it, and then set it free, it will carry your wish to the spirits, who will grant it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Behind the figure he could see all the rest of them—the swarm of them with their blank faces and staring, harrowed eyes, and he couldn’t wrest the pole free. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Break free of the skin-seeping smell of people who are more than happy to be trapped here. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There lake and plain smile fair and free, ’Mid rocks their guardian chivalry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was no free fuel for its aging factories, no guaranteed market for its often-shoddy goods, and no access to cheap, Soviet-made chemical fertilizers on which state farms had become dependent. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

His prospects were limited by his race, to be sure, but Caesar had grown up believing he was free to choose his own fate. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She gave a little snuffle and I thought for sure she was fixing to cry, but she just said, “I hope he knowed how beautiful his girls look when they free.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I keep on thinking, letting her see my Noise as free and clear as I can. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then she turned and, with her free hand, made a gesture as though to push back the cuff of Lane’s sleeve. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The moonlight had broke free of the clouds again and lay in gray pools beneath the windows. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonial societies could not become too oppressive, because their members—surrounded by examples of free life—always had the option to vote with their feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Polyneices had been given burial at the price of his sister’s life; his soul was free to be ferried across the river and find a home among the dead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I get so...profits is nothing. I give free.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once my feet are free, I get up and throw my body into a run, into a sprint, my feet quick on the stone, the red moon in front of me, the ocean gone. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But he resisted, saying he preferred to work outside in the fresh air, where he was free. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That left Father all his free time to work on flying. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to see parallels: The Africans wanted to be free from British rule, just as colonial Americans did two hundred years earlier. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Kaisa seemed unperturbed and merely asked, “When will you be free?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The discovery that a wild carnivore was free in their midst created an uproar among the citizens of Zurich. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Everybody poor. Everybody hungry. I give free egg roll. Feel sony. Then everyone come for free egg roll.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the dollhouse was monstrous, too, and it left me only one small corner of free desktop. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I struggled to free myself, but his powerful grip held me firmly in place. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As the big goon in the key moved up to guard him, Will bounce-passed to Todd, who was free under the basket. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She wanted to live in that moment—free of monsters and gods and evil spirits. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I spent the little free time I had reading Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and memorizing a poem for English and keeping up with current events by reading the daily newspaper for my history class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He was glad to be free of the endless female biologic functions for a while. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is disgusted by this free and independent Ireland that keeps a class system foisted on us by the English, that we are throwing our talented children on the dungheap. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The second giant was still rummaging through the peach cans, which meant Beckendorf s left arm was free. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

After a few days of that, I started shooting free throws in my head. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

While we walked, I used the free Wi-Fi to do a search. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

‘A bunch of dead losers waiting for a free handout from Gaia, whining that the world owes them something?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then I see why she can’t free herself—there’s a bolt through her lower back, keeping her attached to the bow. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

His theory was that the problems of many troubled patients rested in forgotten psychic traumas, and through free association and the interpretation of dreams the key to the problems could be unlocked. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I was free to change myself—free to feel the entire impact of what I was doing. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He described party allegiance as “the last degradation of a free and moral agent” and claimed that “if I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She liked factory people better and she liked keeping her mind free while she worked with her hands. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we pass the doorman, I slap his skin with my free hand. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I was finally free of them, all of them, forever. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Even though he was a Fabrikator without training, maybe he could have helped to draw the parent out of Nina’s system and set her free. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A teacher had coughed quietly on the other side, and said, “Dear, you’re free of boogers. Trust me. I can see quite clearly.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Only favorites. They free them from the woes of the world, to accompany their beloved master to the grave and serve him in the afterlife.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Somehow Ryan had managed to free himself from a pile of debris that had almost buried him when the molasses wave struck. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Since I wasn’t screeching at him to get away, he must’ve thought he was free and clear to a fine, feathered dinner. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The window seats are free,” Seven said, running inside before someone else took the coveted location. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” June said, wiping her face with her free hand. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He sprinted for the light, and then he was free, back in the sunshine. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Not a minute is given for free wandering. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Since he was the one who was doing the ringing, I had to do the counting so whoever was listening would know how many people got free. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Some in the ANC wanted to make the campaign simply a liberation election, and tell the people: Vote for us because we set you free. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to shake himself free for speech. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Filth, filth, filth, from morning to night. I know they’re poor but they could wash. Water is free and soap is cheap. Just look at that arm, nurse.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of poor connectivity on the island, it was impossible to access email—he’d pay for this later in catching up on correspondence—so he actually had free time. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We shared a plate of dumplings and drank free tea. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wheel rolled over the stone, and the coach was free to continue the journey. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

We help carry the food downstairs and then are free to go enjoy the party. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He said, “Flying free, son. Like the Reverend Young herself.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty packed, but there are some free games open. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

This was the new math in our family: We had two kids, three jobs, two cars, one condo, and what felt like no free time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Carrying the dog tucked under her free arm, Kira leaned on her stick and followed Thomas; they edged their way around the crowd and back into the quiet of the building’s corridors. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was oddly free from doubt, though at first glance it was hard to understand why. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I can tell that most of these people are tourists, with their sea of Cape Cod T-shirts bought from that famous “buy one, get twelve free” place. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Coughing at the smoke that was getting thicker and warmer with every passing second, Frankie pulled on the metal bar, urging the door to break free. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They don't work on the Sabbath, but they have a fairly loose understanding of what constitutes "work" anyway and usually spend their free time dancing to jazz records. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Someday, please Amon, I will grow as big as he, and then I will free myself of him somehow and go back to goldworking. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Holmes, newly free and land rich, brought a new woman to the fair, Georgiana Yoke, whom he had met earlier in the year at a department store, Schlesinger & Meyer, where she worked as a saleswoman. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

By the time he stood up and made off with his goats, Boots was free—freer than he had ever been since he played at his brother’s side in his native jungle. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was a fine thing to be free again. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Still holding Cassiopeia’s hand tightly with her free hand, Penelope allowed the judge to lead her to his table, with Alexander and Beowulf following close behind. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you want to help Dorian? Once he’s free of her...” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was like Pearl’s, like her own had been as a little girl: the more you tried to smooth it, the more it insisted on springing free. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In what free time she had, Helen thought of her friend, but there weren’t many minutes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hair has slipped free of its braid and lays in hopeless tangles. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When they broke free, the two men huddled and then Dad sought me out and tossed me the keys to the Buick. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And how odd, too, to watch as Ugly Betty and her friends were free to walk the streets of New York City, while we were trapped inside with nothing to do. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Ah, sir,” said Winky, shaking her head, “ah sir, meaning no disrespect, sir, but I is not sure you did Dobby a favor, sir, when you is setting him free.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The constable knew Mr. Armin, and when he was satisfied that the duel had arisen over stolen property, he let us go free. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He held the pouch in his free hand and emptied the contents onto the ground. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Wrote a poem for you. The assignment was: Find a small treasure and offer a gratitude for living in a free country. I wrote it this morning, before the rain.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“You no listen. Warbeak say, cut wings free, fly up and open door.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It summoned up all its courage and let loose a mighty croak, which cracked the acorn to bits and freed the witch. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Bate, his buddy, and the Arab are free on bail pending trial,” Bando says. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then we bust everyone free and fight our way out as needed,” Redd said. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He fought to get free of me, but I backed him up against the wall of Mary Lyon. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Game’s over,” I said to Ruth, freeing her hands and pulling her to her feet. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of those atoms—when set free in 1945 into the atmosphere above the New Mexico desert—found their way into me: my hands, my head, and my heart. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s good to be free,” he wrote to a friend. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I got lots of free riding that way. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was seconds behind her, muscles pumping, face smiling, watching her break free and throw arms forward and back in wide strides. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

After years away from the plantation, after taking a wife and starting a family, they had convinced themselves they were free. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But still, at that rate, it would be a matter of hours, not days, before the demon was free. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Nothing came free, not from Jimmy, not once in his life. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

With Styx we were free in every possible way. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She felt free for the first time in weeks, and she just wanted to linger there. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

By the time the nurse gets there to take him to the emergency room, his shirt is stuck to the tiles, and he has to be cut free with an X-Acto knife. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Set upon by the civet cat, the spy, the eye, the hunger of a superior need, Methuselah is free of his captivity at last. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what happens to filthy little traitors who steal keys and set prisoners free.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She had a smile like the Listener, She Who Hears Prayers, who refused release from the cycle of lives until all her brothers and sisters too could be freed from sin. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Rani can make jail guards sleep and help set my mom free, like in the Krishna story. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But if she wasn’t, did this mean I would never be free? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Here!” he said, and his voice was free of disapproval and sarcasm for once. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

With his free hand he grabbed the armored manikin by the neck and heaved it toward the bleachers. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I dig my fingers into the tendons of the brute’s arms, trying to work myself free. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She was Prospero and I was Ariel, and when she gave me my last command and said, “Be free, and fare thou well!” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Johns Hopkins was born on a tobacco plantation in Maryland where his father later freed his slaves nearly sixty years before Emancipation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They all showed up, too, since Shelly was pouring free drinks. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Most of my free periods are spent in the library. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We use the whole rest of the jar of Vaseline, but when we pull again, Edna swats at us with her free hand. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Minya, being Skathis’s daughter, had always had a festering bitterness at the core of her, that she hadn’t inherited his power—the one power that could have set them free. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Jinny reached for the mug with her free hand, but once she was holding it, she found she wanted more. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“But then I got free from that master. The others in the town became my friends. I made a name for myself. I was a great blacksmith. And that’s how I met Sigurd.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Therefore nobody here is quite so free as a free male anywhere else. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

If England could take an American's property, he was not a free man. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then Emma let go, too—Bronwyn and I being all that kept her from falling—and with her hands now free she reached down and clapped them around the tongue. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Everything was all right. I even went on with Joe’s lessons. Me! I told her I would free both of them.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They get to go for free and meet all sorts of basketball celebrities. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If someone’s little brother disappears, don’t give him a free hamburger to make him feel better—it doesn’t work. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

As proof of her love, she offered him the enormous effort she had made to free herself from her numerous addictions. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least we have some free time?” said Mini. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I took this photo, and for just a moment pretended I was free and equal and happy. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They ferried him to an evacuation point, whereupon a helicopter flew him to the airport and he was given a free plane ticket to New York. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

To be free, we had to fight the white man, shed his blood, vanquish him on the battlefield. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of getting in there and taking things over, couldn’t we learn to disconnect altogether, uncouple, detach, and float free? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, our dictator was running a free country. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe”—he comes closer—“you’ll finish when you come back to see that free movie.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

But I cannot sell my birthright, nor am I prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So as long as she wasn’t noisy about it, she remained free to make her own enquiries: into breasts and how much they hurt. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body that committed the murder would inevitably get caught, but the murderer would go free. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Men came in, were disappointed and yet they stayed, held there by free cigarettes and the evidence of recent booze. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They were in this together, and she’d had such hopes that her gift might set them free. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

More than three thousand of those children qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a common measure of poverty within a school system. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

How he felt humanity squeeze his hand, and how he let that hand go — shook himself free of it, even, like a young boy confronted with an overardent admirer. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grappling lines were cut, and Davos felt the deck move under his feet as Black Betha pushed free of White Hart Her oars slid down into the water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

To free two brothers from their captivity there. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I wish I never thought of them; but desire turns my mind to them involuntarily and I am afraid for it might be impossible ever to be free of them again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We've been in the land of the free for four months and Ma continues to forbid me from going out alone. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Luckily, he was just a poor guy who wanted free pizza. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Criminals who would have previously been set free—for drug-related offenses and parole revocation in particular—were instead locked up. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She called Curt and he sounded upbeat, thrilled to hear from her, and she imagined getting back together, being in a relationship free of depth and pain. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s a free lunch without the part where I have to say it out loud. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s gonna drive us down to the Bronx Zoo. They have over six hundred species. Tigers and gorillas and giraffes, not goats and sheep. They’ve even got panda bears! You’re free on Sunday, right?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She finds him in the cafeteria later, where he eats his free lunches alone, or sometimes with Travis Bohannon, another thoroughly odd duck with a sad story of his own. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Three Free Throws Tonight Each night after dinner Dad makes us shoot free throws until we make ten in a row. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The writer is freed from the obligation of finding an auditor in public. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While my eyes were thus burdened with the page, however, my ears were free, and followed Bono’s tale. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you make yourself free to come tonight?” he could not prevent himself from asking. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Why would you want that when we could get you a bed for next to free?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe she has also realized that even if she guards over me like a hawk, terrible things can still happen, so she has loosened her grip and let me be free. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Madge sees me looking at her and says, “I don’t care about going together to Belle’s concert anymore. Oma says it’s too far, and anyway, we heard Belle for free.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Or because I have run away, because my flight is accomplished, because I am at last free again and stand like a child beneath the sky? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Curiously, later in the tournament that “free” point almost led to his downfall. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That here at Maxine’s side, in this cloistered wilderness, he is free. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was nearing my seventeenth birthday and I was wondering if I would ever be free of this plague. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victor brewed some coffee and gave the boys some olives while they told him what had happened since he had freed himself from their bathroom prison. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

"We are free men, and free men by rights sit on all war councils." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The way Aimee always kept it real, even just now when she set me free by telling me she wasn’t in love with me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The crowd began to break apart and stream from the yard, queen’s men, king’s men, and free folk alike, all anxious to get out of the wind and the cold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As Guth has remarked, “It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sheltered child once, from a reserved Presbyterian home, Luce was now liberated, free of antisexualism. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As there was no longer a Defense Against ’ the Dark Arts teacher, they had those lessons free. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I shook my arm free, but her fingers closed around a handful of my jacket. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

In his free hand, he held a rocket launcher. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The moment their heads are freed, the horses rear up, then gallop for the riverbank, where the boats wait. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her feet battered on the hay and she writhed to be free; and from under Lennie’s hand came a muffled screaming. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I had to root for Methuselah to learn to be free. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was short—almost squat—but her hair was so huge, once it was freed from her headscarf, that it took up the whole room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We just have a week left for free classes,” I said under my breath. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"For an instant in time I was free and alone in the dark night," he recalled, "poised between two worlds, belonging to neither." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the other still struggled, and Jason freed one hand and struck him on the head. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the stock market boom meant money was free! The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I was free now to be with Maxim, to touch him, and hold him, and love him. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like stock photography, like the picture that came free with the frame. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Instead of sliding easily free it of its scabbard, it came halfway out and stuck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She jerks her hand free and starts walking. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He thought of water weeds, though nothing had brushed him as he dived, and raised his empty hand to free himself. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Holly and I only had a few free moments after closing to set up the back room for her first class. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Since there is no restriction tying the singer to a “fixed” notation, children are free to just imitate or to explore, improvise and play with the sound. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I detach him from my leg, so I can kneel down and wrap my free arm around him. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They’re her dance shoes for when she takes the free dance class at the Tango Palace downtown. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“This time there would be no free ride,” Edwin said. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The sprite who had attended Elowen that last day remembered the name of the one who had saved them, and she repeated it to every fairy she set free with those keys: Kaede. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Not free for the likes of you. Get off the street, get off the street.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow they were able to tell their friends that there was a free lunch on my side of the mountain, and more and more arrived. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless there was a vague understanding that had to be tactfully broken off before I was free. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Juju don’t care as long as they pay to get into the party. She ain’t giving nobody nothing for free.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Keeping it safe just long enough to set it free. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I spent years and years doing what I wanted to do most of all—being with wild, free chimpanzees in the forest. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once I’m free, I can start looking for work. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I tried to reach his face with my free hand, but something stopped me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene wrestled free and ran around behind me. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In another letter to Anthony, Stanton confessed that she often wished she “were as free” as her unmarried friend so that she could “stump the State in a twinkling.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Dinner over, I put the remains in the plastic bag that served as a tablecloth and tie it up tightly to discourage the flies that have free access to my essentially screenless abode. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her name is Marin or Maris or something like that, and she wears dark nylons all the time and lots of makeup she gets free from selling Avon. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

If an art is true, if an art is free of falsenesses, it is, a priori, beautiful.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

While Mr. D was returning the test papers, he gave the class a few minutes of free time to sharpen pencils or stretch or talk. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then, struggling to free himself, he found he could not. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took her elbow, but she wrenched her arm free and walked on, outwardly unmoved by his pleading. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I will write a note for you to take to the lawyer’s office before you go home, and another for Anne, telling her that Elihu will be soon set free.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Lincoln spoke, one observer, Mrs. Lincoln’s dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckley, a free black woman, standing a few steps from the president, remarked that the lamplight made him “stand out boldly in the darkness.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he brought up the fist of his free hand to punch me once, and again as the patroller had done so long ago. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We heard Freddie, but it was the sound of him breaking through brush again, freeing himself from a bush. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I had deep feelings because of the fact that I wasn’t even free,” Allen said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It might have been the gyptians’ sledge dogs, or it might have been wild spirits of the tundra, or even those freed daemons crying for their lost children. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The boy I last saw, screaming his head off, trying to tear free of his restraints, could never have made this. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I let go of the rope and let Shiloh run free for a while. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

New lies sprung up about his free- mule doings. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

In fact, the Virginia Resolutions described the Alien and Sedition Acts as “alarming infractions” of the Constitution that violated the free speech guarantees of the First Amendment. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Because I was trying to free her from the confines of her life? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I think that would be great, Maisie. You’re going to have so much free time, once school is out tomorrow. And after we come back from our little weekend trip, of course.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Something changed in Greg’s expression; a slick smile took over his face as his free hand landed on my foot. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mama didn’t see the sense in buying a drink when you could get it free from the well or a cow. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He wriggled free, his throat so tight he could scarce talk. ". . . yield . . ." he managed to croak faintly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Finding itself trapped, surrounded by predators, it would beat itself to death trying to get free. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She had a servant to carry her basket, so her hands were free to pinch up her skirt, and pick her way through the muck, daintily, daintily. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

In this place, he was probably better protection for me than free papers would have been, but I didn’t want him here. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was free to do what I wanted during that time—with the exception of work. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband got sick then got caught whilst they were getting free, but her and their two little girls got through. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

With the golden summer upon me, food was much easier to get, and I actually had several hours of free time after supper in which to do other things. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Technological advance required the freest possible pursuit of knowledge, so Holland became the leading publisher and bookseller in Europe, translating works written in other languages and permitting the publication of works proscribed elsewhere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your dad’s such a nervous wreck he couldn’t stand still long enough to line up for free medicine down at the clinic.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then days and months grew full and waned, the year went wheeling round, the seasons came again, before at last the power of Iphiklos, relenting, freed the prisoner, who foretold all things to him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, if they could control mesarthium, they would be free, and safe, not to mention a force to be reckoned with. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The dog glanced at Felix, but he wasn’t about to give up his free meal. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That gives her a free pass to act like an idiot?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He offered to pay for the scythe’s groceries—which was pointless, because scythes got their groceries for free anyway. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But when he slaps his big hand on my chest, I cry out, “I wasn’t doing anything! This is a free country!” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Rosalie turned her head, and I was relieved to be free. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And I, slowly, delicately, went to work on Rufus, began to push him toward freeing a few more of them, perhaps several more of them—perhaps in his will, all of them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“And her dream will be complete and we will be free!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whence came this madness? Should I count myself fortunate that you did not free my own slaves when you were my guest in Qarth?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One of the men said, “Didn’t no one bust me free when I was in ’Bama. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But Glenn was able to take advantage of the superb state university system of California, where tuition was free to residents. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Of my own free will, I sever this knot,” Seth said, as Goldilocks squawked noisily. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As well as the windows where sweethearts, free and illegal, tell each other things. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twisting wildly, attempting to turn and kick, even to bite the soldier’s arm, Jonathan kept trying to free himself. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I let the tears break free, rocked back and forth on my knees. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Where you see smoke, you find fire, Country. Don’t worry. The day of our liberty will soon dawn. This country is going to be free, and you and me with it.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shelling continues but it has lifted and falls behind us, our trench is free. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hamilton children loved it when their father’s mind went free. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a pun on free for all, ” I tell him, although I know he knows this. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then I read that the year before, a record number of innocent people were freed from prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Since you haven’t been there in a while and you live so close. I can even get you a free ice cream cone.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even if he wasn’t suffering from severe dizziness, Gillespie knew there was no way he could free the men from the debris by himself. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

With one foot free I pushed myself back and sat my bottom on the edge of the grass. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The cloisters were once more free of strangers and the corridors cleared of beds and pallets. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I spent my free periods in my room trying to read about religion. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The fly’s tiny black legs flayed the air fiercely, then its wings were free again, buzzing noisily, but its body remained glued fast. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ninety percent qualify for “free or reduced lunch,” which is to say that their families earn so little that the federal government chips in so the children can eat properly at lunchtime. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I remembered how we’d act like we were sneaking up on a plantation to kill the lot of slave masters and make a run for Canada with some happy, smiling, free slaves. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They walked to a village, borrowed two horses from a farmer and pulled the Renault free. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I dashed into the street, trying to free Manman from the crowd. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And then there was a school where my mom taught music classes for free until they let Natalie in. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Back in Raleigh, we’ve got a fence around our yard, so he can run free back there,” I said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was as if Farmer had built himself an alarm system that, with any extended free moment, set off a recording saying, “You’re forgetting Haiti.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A civil war had to be won first, hundreds of thousands of lives lost, and then—only then—were slaves across the South set free. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ten free throws each, switching shooters every two shots. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In no time at all, they reached the prairie, where the wild cats and the chickens had free range and chased each other back and forth. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

One of them said, The very time I thought I was lost, My dungeon shook and my chains fell off....We cannot be free until they are free. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We sent out free goat cheese croquets with fresh fig jam to every person who came in to eat. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

How we live in government-subsidized housing, or how I get free lunch. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Get up there,” he growled, and I knew how it felt to be free and trapped at the same time, treed by a bear that would follow if he was hungry enough. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Thus, in that situation, the time traveler would have no free will. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor did the free wild geese, his sometime followers, ever again settle on the other island—previously a haunt of theirs—from which their captain had been spirited away. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion heard her tunic rip as she fought to free herself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But when they are grown up, they break away from the seafloor and are free to pulse through the ocean. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Armpit charged into them, freeing Zigzag from Zero's choke hold. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Lena continued, “And Noah, that slave she brought with her, I heard tell she got legal papers all writ up for him, so when she die, he be free.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time, seven free slaves came into the Settlement all at once and the Preacher took it on hisself to welcome ’em. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I thought the lights were the ghosts of those slaves coming for me because they were jealous that I’d been born free. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My limbs were freed and I ran straight into Rachel, Nico, and Annabeth, who were standing in the entry hall, their eyes wide with dismay. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She broke free to dance in a small circle, and her joyous cries came out as throaty, high-pitched whispers. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They were springloaded and when he had them undone he took hold of the strap at the bottom of the board and pulled it and the board slid down and came free. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

With my newly freed hand, I push back my hood to find Noodle steaming toward me. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was the end of May before the Silacci boys brought the news that the salmon-pink blossoms of the azaleas were breaking free. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once more she tried to free her hands. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She could not stop herself, even as she stumbled over tree roots, but at last she broke free of the Wood and began to cross the meadow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mr. Richardson grew restless with the rules constricting black life in Memphis and moved the family, including daughter Mary, whom Jones had come to love, up to free country in Alton, Illinois. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The orator, still gripping the neck of the microphone, his shoulders hunched forward, his free hand claw-ing at the air, had gone straight on with his speech. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He opens the door with his free hand, and I follow him into the dark. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Important historically, these were the free people encountered by France and Britain—personifications of democratic self-government so vivid that some historians and activists have argued that the Great Law of Peace directly inspired the U.S. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he brings home bits of the free lunch, rye bread, corned beef, pickles. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“So the mission is this: Find the Ocarrion, and seize it. If the kidnapped orphans are already on board, we free ’em and commandeer the Ocarrion back to port.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It started one day during the hour of free time, when the children in their class were playing on the front steps of the school. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He whispered a prayer to the nameless gods of the wood, and slipped his dirk free of its sheath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But at least he freed him from the stinking gag. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now he is free of the world’s prison. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Bren and Mop are in the middle of tossing free throws when I get to the court. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Since no one remembered Water Island was right there beside Saint Thomas, slaves escaped to Water Island to be free. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was gone: Someone had cut him free. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m not caught, Bear. Were both leaving. To go free. But you have to come. Now. You must move yourself?’ Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Citra, who also was granted a free afternoon by Scythe Faraday, was out. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

One of the hens broke free in an explosion of feathers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He now had free rein to explore the house. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When Martin was little, the stock boy at the feed store was a wizened, stooped man named Jericho, freed many years previously. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We were living in New York State, out in the country, and the dogs were free to race through the forest. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She yanks another weed free, its thin roots wilting in her grasp. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They like to be free, I tell him. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Still, the fact that roving gangs were free to travel on the main thoroughfare didn’t bode well for the condition of the capital. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand closed around the hilt and pulled it free from the bedding. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Eric was free in the mornings, but that was when we did our homework, and there was gobs of homework. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I felt he was strong enough to build a life with us somewhere else where we all could be free. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the streams of fleeing slaves became rivers of newly freed southern blacks entering Chicago each day. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dreaming of the day she could funny her mother free of all the work, of all the stress she seemed to wear on her face like thick makeup the wrong color for her skin. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I knew when I see Biddy look down at her toes, like she waiting for ’em to do tricks, that I be free of scrubbing. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The water pelted windowpanes, running down the charred west side where the house had been burned evenly free of its white paint. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the dawn of new era, one where most of the human race now spent all of their free time inside a videogame. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The hysterical tensity of his nerves urged him to speak, to free himself. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Madam Hooch spoke angrily to Flint and then ordered a free shot at the goalposts for Gryffindor. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Through the rough and welcome hugs, Petey snaked a hand free for a shake from TimeStar, who asked, “What happened to you?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

For instance, if you have a ball in free fall, it moves in a parabola, while a frictionless spring wobbles back and forth forever, and a spring with friction slowly comes to rest. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He held her off the ground with one arm and spanked her bottom with his free hand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whether a piece of music is a march, a sonata, or a theme and variations, the composer is always free to experiment with the overall architecture of the piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why, but I don’t trust the word free anymore. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The Greek mythologists are not rhetoricians and are notably free from sentimentality. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threatened to keep me from my husband if I did not submit to his whim and destroy a paper that might help me get free. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In a country of free speech and press, they starved him out for expressing views not in harmony with their prejudices. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We want you to feel free to express your emotions—so cry if you want to, or ask us questions—whatever you need to do to get through this. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Metal screeches as the bridges pop free from their columns. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

No one knows this better than the freed slaves of Richmond. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He sold his share of the farm to Charles, for less than it was worth, and with that and his half of his father’s money he was free and rich. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hands grasp and claw, but I twist free from them and bolt out the door, tumbling down the stairs, into...wetness. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Many of the lecturers’ children clung tightly to him, as if the tighter they held him, the less likely he could break free and leave Nsukka. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They strummed as a captured fly tried to wiggle free. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She said she looked at them, looked at their small brown fists, and thought of them as treasures, tiny treasures who would be free with the help of the Lord. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems, with mere hours left in the challenge, the court case was conveniently dismissed, and you were free to spend the money again. The timing felt motivated.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She briefly considered letting him down, but took a deep breath, shook her head, and told him she was free for Friday night. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

My legs sink into the mire, and my feet make sucking noises as I pull them free. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ghost wrenched free of the other hand and crept away, red tongue lolling from his mouth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The pastor shouts, “The fight for freedom and equality for all of our children must continue until every single American is free. Until there is truth and justice for all of God’s children.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Some. But don’t you think it’ll be a relief? No more hiding, no more pretending, just—being free!” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

While the members of the executive were pleased that I had been freed, they were also eager to evaluate the man who had been released. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

SAD cases are admitted for free care at the Amnesia Sanctuary on Nomansan Island, a state-of-the-art facility where patients live comfortably, under strict quarantine, while the cure for their disease is sought. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As Louis Uchitelle has reported in the New York Times, many employers will offer almost anything—free meals, subsidized transportation, store discounts—rather than raise wages. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had already gotten wet once, and while I couldn’t believe I was actually trusting her with it, I needed both hands free. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then it had been getting free of Tante Heleen and the Menagerie, and after that, surviving each day, getting a little stronger with every morning. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He’d got himself set to win the war and throw the British out of the country so we could be free, and when Sam was determined he usually stuck to things. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would come back with a signed document that would declare the war over, that would proclaim a free Biafra. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

How could one side of the river mean you were free and the other side mean you were a slave? Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

After cutting the dragon free, Minli’s knife was dull and the skin on her fingers and toes was wrinkled from having been in the dragon’s lake of tears for so long. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The man was turning and twisting in the white men’s hands, trying desperately to free himself. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the carriage left and dishes were washed and Lady Seymour was sound asleep, I started my free day, still trembling from Madam’s threat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabs the handle of the car with his free hand just as I turn off the engine. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ben and Mary Anne found themselves in an upstairs room alone and free from the stares and sympathies of the wives. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Harriet could not believe it possible that anyone could be taken out of the free state of Massachusetts and sent back to a slave state. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time since Mother had died, I was free of fear. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We will need every cart and wagon made ready to transport the free folk to their new homes. Othell, you shall see to that.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I know Pi isn’t being adopted—or given free to a good home. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Also,” Mr. Peckleman continued, “you are free to enjoy the brand-new Lemoncello video arcade machines recently installed in the motel’s game room, right off the lobby. There is no charge for any of these games.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The bald man took hold of his hair with his free hand and twisted it cruelly, till Bran sobbed in pain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Burnham and Root realized that Jenney’s innovation freed builders from the last physical constraints on altitude. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I was free to ignore “I wish you would put on a shawl,” or “Why don’t you go to bed now?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Agravaine, hiding has eyes with the free hand, flinched from the knife. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I contemplated Bigger and what he meant, I said to myself: “I must write this novel, not only for others to read, but to free myself of this sense of shame and fear.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were the ones most likely to be freed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He threw the long sable cloak back over his shoulders, to free his arms for battle, and took his sword in both hands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He squinted as his hood was suddenly yanked free. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Battle cry...rises from the throats of free men everywhere,” he wrote, imagining the movie opening with a prophetic voice-over. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Then one person, at any rate, will be completely freed from suspicion.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel free to, and I didn’t know why this was so. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had freed their slaves, yes... only to hire them back as servants at wages so meagre that most could scarce afford to eat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have lunch, but headed for a free classroom, where Harry tried with all his might to make various objects fly across the room toward him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The front half of my bike slipped free of the bush. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They split into two groups, one heading for the police station to free the cook, the other heading for the hospital to finish off Tayama, who had been concealed under a hospital bed. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zu pointed at the glove I was twirling around with my free hand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It wrenched itself free of the other trike’s horn and spun, bashing the triceratops with its thick tail. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Pete Earley’s book Circumstantial Evidence was published a few months after Walter was freed, and it provided a detailed account of the case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There is in our time much Ionian science, although not in politics and religion, and a fair amount of courageous free inquiry. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

How were they going to stay ahead of the game if the boys had free lemonade to sell? The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Both Mr. and Mrs. Bacon were looking at Adam now, and he knew he had to make some explanation for letting his good land run free. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I sent him away so he could be free from her influence. Not that a heathen would understand salvation.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A fat rain droplet landed on her head as the thunderstorm broke free, and that was when she woke. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I gasped and felt my body pull back on the free part of me, drawing me in like a crab on a fishing line. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Those advocating an African solution might profitably study the recent English efforts to establish a black colony in Sierra Leone, where most of the freed blacks died or were enslaved by the local African tribes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I scrambled to free my hands—tucked into the waistband of the jeans I hadn’t bothered to remove—but Stan was way quicker. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“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

Bawling and clawing his way free of the limbs and logs, he was on his way. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Quaker William Allen, who had sworn off sugar for nearly fifty years while he battled against slavery, drank his first cup of tea with a spoonful of white, free sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

At last I was free to bathe and dress. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

If only he could make peace with Dana Matherson, even temporarily, then he’d be free to focus his energy on solving the Mullet Fingers dilemma. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was free—or as close to it as she could come. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In Spanish, he’d sound light and free notes he never could manage in English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt it fly free as he tumbled along underwater. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes went over May’s wildly colorful cabinets, and I was free again. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jesus, I thought, jesse took on a University of Chicago dean over free will? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Union lawyers argued to free Fannie and the men, but they lost the case. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Pulled the ponytail free and ran a hand through my hair. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

An increasing number of people shunned church and went instead to the taverns, where they drank and gambled; too many others spent their free time in theaters which displayed “rope-dancing and other shows.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The bird squirmed a little but did not struggle to get free. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The children of Vietnam, who’d forced him to grapple with his conscience, needed and deserved to be free from falling bombs and searing napalm. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I felt free, as if the wind had picked me up and carried me away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was not born with a hunger to be free. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys quivered on the edges of their seats like moths fighting to be freed of cocoons. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I also didn’t like how I had no free time anymore. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He lived during the Jim Crow era—when black men were considered free, but were barred from voting in elections, living where they wanted, or getting the same education or services as whites. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I immediately went over and pushed the car, which helped free it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized that I was talking, too, as I tried to free him. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Scientists knew they had to keep their cultures free from bacterial and viral contamination, and they knew it was possible for cells to contaminate one another if they got mixed up in culture. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He needed to be roaming free in open country and living among untamed animals. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mountain Air, he says, is an “environmental consulting firm” offering help to people with asthma and allergies as a “free service. ” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the war ended, newspapers had been free to tell the public that the atomic bomb had been built by scientists at Los Alamos, led by Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cap slipped out from under his fingers, and the shovel fell free. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A tall freckled boy with carrot-hued hair slicked back was holding a smaller dark haired boy in a headlock as the rest of the crowd laughed at the smaller boy’s efforts to free himself. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rubs his forehead with his free hand. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He pulled the blankets free and strapped them onto the knapsack. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Fischer thought of himself as a warrior in all things, not just chess—and living in Iceland, free of incarceration, he made no exceptions. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By fall of 1791, the French passed a law making free blacks and people of mixed background on the sugar islands legally equal to all other Frenchmen. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I yank my hand free and press the boxes of napkins, utensils, and condiments close to my chest and brush past him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But if I ever managed to break the curse, in a month or in twenty years, I would find him and win him over again if he was still free. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I and you, the people, are not free. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You could have got away free. The giant has been tracking me. If you had just left -’ ‘You’re welcome, cupcake,’ the coach grumbled. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

What do they think I’m going to do if I have my hands free? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was strange to see him work without his gloves, but in moments, the lock clicked open, and they were free. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You must know that already. Any girl who can hold a needle and thread would’ve sufficed. Free labor is free labor.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as she had saved money enough to take care of any emergencies that might arise, she would go back there for her family—and anyone else who wanted to be free. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of those who took the time to write accused the government of violating the suffragists’ right to free speech. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

As she wrenched it free, a mailed hand grabbed her arm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Pulling it free, he read the newest souvenir—a business card they’d be adding to their bedroom shelves. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When Master Lester started up again, he was talking to a free people. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And remember: hard work and healthy living will keep one free of sickness. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yes, probably, Matt decided.The water was free, and El Patron loved a bargain. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, I was already starting to feel a twinge of guilt for the way I was about to take a lot of Tina’s free time away from Connie. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still wasn't sure how much Joan knew, after our trip to the Emergency Ward, but a few days later she had come back to live in Belsize, retaining, however, the freest of town privileges. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But unlike the early Christians, who had freed themselves to interpret parts of the Old Testament as metaphor, Maimonides was unwilling to Hellenize his religion completely. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t safe, and she wasn’t free, and Weep’s problem had just grown much more complicated. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It helped, too, that gas and electricity were included in my rent and that I got two or three free meals each weekend at the nursing home. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the bathroom pass is free, all you have to do is take it and go. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

For while no slaves were freed by the bill, it marked a great change in the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Plus, she’d never seen so many people who looked like her acting so fearless and free. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Her wrist, I notice, is free of the Tribal braid tattoo that would mark her as married. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She caught glimpses of masked frees: huge, inhuman eyes staring at her unblinkingly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I waved nonchalantly at Tina with my free hand and hoped she wouldn’t notice the sweat stains spreading down my shirt. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can now see that her boxing-glove T-shirt has words on the back: touch me and your first lesson is free. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Hrothgar thought that it was a long time since he had heard such a free and easy sound in hall Heorot. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces were so full of grace, so free of blemish, so perfect, that even today, even in the old black-and-white film, you can almost see the pink blush of their cheeks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After all, criminals are the one social group in America that nearly everyone—across political, racial, and class boundaries—feels free to hate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I knew this was my chance to free myself from Magistrate Tiger. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know anything! I saw her talking to the Reds and smiling at them. Giving them free seafood.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“About the fruit free for the taking. But later I thought it had to be a fantasy dreamed up for hungry children.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then he easily switched the dangling bird from his right hand to his left, freeing his right hand to grab another. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Now they’ve fled, and the country is going to hold the first free elections in thirty-one years. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Instead of trying to wrestle his way free, his forefinger veers off and makes a deliberate X on the back of Cato's hand. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

‘You like it at the café? Do you get good things to eat free?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had been born free—one of the lucky ones—to a black mother and a white father in North Carolina. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At lunch, in class, and even in our free period, when we’re supposed to be sitting together, I see the three of them with bent heads, giggling and whispering. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He had seen my ship, after all, the little lander that had brought me down on planet; he had free access along with anyone else to the engineers’ reports on the ship and the ansible. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Things started to be freed, and the prison gates swung open. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sweets says that her cousin did her hair for free last week, and all she had to do was sweep up the floor. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

While the woman was entertaining Drennan, the others freed the wolves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He pulled and tore at it to loosen it and just as it broke free and his heart leaped to feel it rise he looked up, above the bag. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most exciting thing about the church group is the free coffee and cookies, which I run to immediately. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In all likelihood, she continued to run in whichever direction seemed the most fire and smoke free. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z