| 单词 | furniture |
| 例句 | But they also did some shopping for furniture, dishes, and clothes, including a morning gown for Emma. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But other than a rocking chair, two straight-backed chairs, a large table, a sink and stove, there was no furniture. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember this stuff, because when we were children, Auntie An-mei didn’t let us touch any of her new furniture except through the clear plastic coverings. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time he clambered back down to the shore, Pima had returned with a load of the clipper’s cracked furniture. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I circle the furniture, letting my fingers drift over its plush cushions. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Not to mention our furniture, which every stick of it has all been previously owned. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Pattie and I stand in the entry and stare at the stacks of newspapers, magazines, and mail surrounding the discount lawn furniture, which I decide is the exact color of a white rabbit's eyes. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Since the furniture was stored between us and the cabin, we couldn’t knock on the wall to get Mom’s and Dad’s attention. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Morning. I want to ask you about the empty room down in the basement, right near the elevator. I saw some old furniture in there. Is it being used for storage or something?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The furniture is very old, but the rooms are the cleanest I’ve ever been in. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom and I had picked out a few pieces of furniture for it at the crafts display counter at Ben Franklin. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z They could hear the whooshing and banging of furniture below. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z None of it had even been secured, as if the rich swanks thought a storm wouldn’t dare rearrange their furniture. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Now they only had a van of furniture. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z No turdes or elephants on her bedroom furniture, but a few statues spread out round the room. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The monster stomped around the interior of the house, crushing every piece of furniture it could find with satisfying crashes and crunches. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z We’re having to cut corners and sell off our uncles’ cars and the furniture from my grandparents’ house from when Papito was making money. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Here was clear evidence of a fight: furniture scattered and overturned, pictures knocked off the mantel, stripes of wallpaper shredded to ribbons. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z One president’s furniture gets carried out while another’s comes in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He’s found some neat stuff like old flags and broken furniture that looks like ninja weapons, but mostly he just finds food leftovers, cigarette ashes, and beer bottles. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Anything that could be done on such short notice to prepare for a Griever attack had been done: windows boarded up, furniture moved in front of doors, knives handed out as weapons . The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Quarter-cut oak just means the way the oak tree is cut into boards for Mission furniture like Devon’s Mission chest. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Can we spend the fare money on furniture and cars? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The furniture had aged without ever having become familiar. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The house is dark, a bit musty, full of primitive, mismatched furniture. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z We turned to the left and passed through an enormous great room with furniture and boxes piled all around it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The furniture is at least two decades old, but it all matches. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Anya ran to the ice furniture, clasping the oversize tunic around herself. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Grain fields—landscapes of food!—were part of the mental furniture of people in Mesopotamia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Beans and Mutto kept leaving their chairs and wandering around and flopping on furniture. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Kiyo was the only son still in camp, and he had gone off to help someone else load furniture. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The office sat in the front corner of the building, with sun-flooded windows and mismatched furniture that made it more homey than institutional. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z His only furniture was a box spring, a mattress, a chair, and two crates for a table. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Out went the ornate bric-a-brac, the austere furniture carved with the family crest. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as shabby as the hallway and the furniture was old and mismatched. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z They wandered back to the rooms of fine French and English furniture. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sitting in the leather armchair that we bought from Heal’s just after we got married—it was the first piece of furniture we got as a married couple: soft tan buttery leather, expensive, luxurious. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Stores, shopping centers, garages, furniture outlets, restaurants, quick-food stands: the cement procession marched on, broken only by traffic lights dangling from heavy wires over the roadway. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z There were sounds of bolts and locks, of the moving of furniture. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z To my left was a darker room, another sitting room, this one filled with foreign furniture: dark green leather sofas, paintings with hunting dogs, armchairs, and mahogany desks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The mahogany furniture that had filled the place was gone, confiscated. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Not a speck escaped Aunt March’s eye, and all the furniture had claw legs and much carving, which was never dusted to suit. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll need you. For getting myself adequate furniture. From other apartments, as you said.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “I said, those books we got from y’all, they were all missing pages. I can fix busted furniture, but I can’t make pages appear for the little ones to learn their lessons.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And at the other end of this long, long room, I could see doors leading into more rooms, more furniture, then more doors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z "Do all the teachers live like this, with no furniture and no kitchen stove and no bathroom?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Over time, Barack and I would take steps in this direction, hanging more abstract art and works by African American artists on the walls, for example, and mixing contemporary furniture in with the antiques. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The only furniture in the room was a huge chair puffed with gray silk cushions, a tilted reading table, and a floor lamp deeply hooded. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s like all of a sudden he let go a million moths all over the dusty furniture and swan-neck shadows and in our bones. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, the gold light from the candle illuminated old furniture, boxes, wrought iron signs, and empty trunks marked for Christmas. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Possibly she’ll put a hand on my shoulder, to steady herself, as if I’m a piece of furniture. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I was forced to walk lopsidedly across the room with one shoe on and one foot bare, weaving through the mess of furniture and junk. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His siblings would recall him careening about, hurdling flora, fauna, and furniture. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z This was evidently the portion of the castle occupied by the ladies in bygone days, for the furniture had more air of comfort than any I had seen. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I don't stare too long at the framed photos or the shiny wooden furniture. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In Smyrna people had taken their furniture down to the waterfront; and on television now people were carrying furniture, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Beyond this was the conservatory, with tall glass doors showing them the rain outside, and ferns growing damply around and over wicker furniture. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Arm threaded the razor wire into a long curved needle like the ones furniture makers used to sew upholstery. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The floor-to-ceiling windows curve outward and are covered in dust and grime, and there’s a giant stone fireplace in the wall to the right, but no furniture. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Kainene said little when they arrived in Orlu and saw no carpenter and no furniture; the men had disappeared with the advance payment. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Dad’s office is painted this creamy white color, and all his furniture is white, but her office is colorful. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Collins’s apartment was stocked with hundreds of chess books, chess paintings and statues, and furniture and draperies decorated with chess figures; it was a virtual chess museum. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His face is a room overstuffed with massive furniture. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The room was crowded with furniture draped with cloth. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She supposed this was the sort of thing people with decorative furniture did. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z They were so lifelike it was as if a flock of mallards had flown in the window and settled all over her furniture. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Clear medium brown skin, gleam on it like on good furniture. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a salesman at the big discount office furniture store off 108th Street. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She was looking around the room, at the furniture and the wallpaper, at Father’s large, cluttered desk, at the framed pictures on the walls. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z In the pipes and under the cypress tree there had been no room for furniture and the little niceties which are not only the diagnoses but the boundaries of our civilization. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z June’s room was pretty, all soft blues and greens with white wood furniture. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture— must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In her drugged dream, I am no more interesting than the furniture and of less consequence. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Mom, Dad, and I worked silendy to restore the furniture and straighten up the great room. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hadda take him to the vet’s this morning to get a vitamin shot. I don’t want that poor bird coughing all over my furniture.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “But perhaps your accommodations—your cottage—your furniture—have disappointed your expectations? They are, in truth, scanty enough; but—” I interrupted— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z His furniture was mismatched and thrift-store shabby, yet on the floor beneath them were museum-quality tapestries that could have been priceless. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I tilt my head back to find office furniture floating above me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z They put their feet up on the furniture, drank the senator’s Scotch straight from the bottle, and broke his classical records one by one. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z These grand homes, with their high, cool rooms, their polished mahogany furniture, their servants flitting between the main house and the separate cooking building, were meant to command attention, to show power and wealth. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He eyed the pile of firewood and the furniture with approval. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I could see the front door and watched the usual lobby druggies who crashed out across the furniture all day hop up and slink out the front door. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The woman, who lived in our neighbourhood, was envying boxes brimming with dented pots, knives, spoons, forks, broken mirrors and articles of furniture; things which, after being thoroughly cleaned, we would use as housewares. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After dinner Gran and I sat on the plastic patio furniture on her back porch. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It was more furniture than she had in the living room. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Some things they do a lot better—like climbing the furniture and swinging from the drapes! My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “If you ever want a job in my furniture factory . . .” he says, but stops in mid-sentence. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I distributed the furniture among the various tenants, except the dining-room table, which was still intact despite the worms that had got into everything, and the wrought-iron bed that had belonged to my parents. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I moved furniture and packed the ugly dishes while receiving advice in a nonstop stream. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He met a man who said he had been moving furniture in his house just after the storm hit. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z After my parents leave, Rachel shows me a binder filled with pages of different kinds of furniture sets clipped out of magazines. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z What I draw is the furniture in the apartment: the overstuffed sofa from the Sally Ann strewn with shed clothing, the bulbous lamp lent by a roommate’s mother, the kitchen stool. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z My dad asked which of those people would take in two adults, two children, and a dog who eats furniture. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He was leaning casually against the shabby pine desk, which is all the permanent furniture in that room, flexing his bony hands in front of the electric heater. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Simple pieces of furniture, plain lamps, and only a few things on the walls. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z The living room sat empty, with a big ghost of furniture crowded in the middle, and whenever I passed by, I imagined the severed television huddled somewhere in the scrum. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “They are just like trees, pieces of furniture. Just there. Don’t pay them no mind.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The bedroom is just like I remember, the furniture painted white with dark knobs. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Up close, it is filled with garbage, clothes and furniture, ugly catfish and eels. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z She hires Daniel and his hockey team to move furniture. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z During these fights, we destroyed most of the furniture and threw the mattresses out in the yard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The rooms were deserted, the curtains drawn, the furniture covered in white sheets so that each shadowy chamber they passed looked like some kind of forgotten seascape cluttered with icebergs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It would drop white dollops like antimacassars on the good furniture, and that would be the end of that. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I find Mom pacing around the living room, on the phone with the movers—the ones Ben couldn’t believe we hired when we aren’t even moving furniture. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The fire warmed and dried them and they were silent for a long time, watching as the furniture of the ship crackled and burned. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I need a mom who doesn't look at me like I’m a worn-out piece of furniture that doesn't match the rest of her house. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The building has a festive air: its usual smells of Dustbane and furniture polish and mouse droppings and snakes mingle with other smells, of winter clothing, cigarette smoke, and women’s perfume. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I could smell the old furniture, which was probably Victorian. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever he came home, he brought stuff: most of the things we owned, our furniture, and even some of our clothes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He found the living room furniture covered with sheets, as though waiting for the walls to be painted. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Thomas was looking around the room, which held many of the same pieces of furniture as the rooms above. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The place was roomy and a little chaotic, home to the family’s five children and stuffed with heavy Victorian furniture and antique glassware that Santita’s mom, Jacqueline, liked to collect. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This is the Mission District, a gentrified hotbed of sushi, tapas, hip Mexican restaurants, and upscale furniture stores. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Cilia had backed out of the picture, standing aside ready to serve if called upon, or ready to be of no more importance than a piece of furniture if not spoken to. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the same kind of cheap, gaudy- looking junk that you can see in any of the black ghetto furniture stores today. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I freelance a little, then get a part-time job refinishing furniture for an antique dealer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He certainly had no budget to buy them, and the parent population of Truman had no such furniture to lend. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Imagine breaking into someone’s house, eating all their food, breaking all their furniture, and then sleeping in their bed. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Well, as far as I’m concerned, it’s the capital of Adirondack furniture. Look at that house!” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Clara let him scream his head off and bang on the furniture until he was exhausted. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The entirety of its furniture was a small bed, a wardrobe, and a rolltop desk. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The first thing she did in the new home, while Johnny was helping the ice man carry in the furniture, was to nail down the bank in a closet. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound of furniture flying, David shouting, a lamp breaking. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The funeral home smelled of old hardwood, lemon furniture polish, and white lilies and gardenias. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Petty items like furniture crowded the spirit chamber, so Kaori kept it sparse. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Hoping I was truly alone, I made my way around boxes, barrels, piles of newspapers, and broken furniture. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z This furniture is a clunky imitation of the early Scandinavian furniture of ten or fifteen years ago, now drastically out of style. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Bieber tucks a bow between his paws, and he nips and tugs on it, and everyone’s just kind of draped over various pieces of furniture. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Shortly after the sounds of furniture being moved had ceased, the bar of light showing under the door had also gone out And, of course, our parents were gone. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Conrad and I were so tired of looking at grown-up furniture and being told not to touch it or sit on it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The first house is completely empty, still waiting for a family to move in; the second contains furniture, but no sign of people. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Then there was a mad scramble to shift furniture and get pans and bowls and buckets in all the places where the roof leaked. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was old and dark and filled with antique furniture, cookies, and Nat King Cole records. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He had his own furniture there, brought out from the country house, but he’d chosen it carelessly and it was an atrocious mix of styles, upholstery, light and dark woods. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z There is little furniture to get in the way. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I could hear the bolt being slid into place, and then a racket of furniture banging and panicked dialogue. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Casting aside furniture that lay in their paths, they rushed for their guns. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z When we came down from the second story, we saw the floors and furniture were covered with sticky mud. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They will share everything from their innermost thoughts to their opinions about apartments and furniture. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The furniture is old, but it looks well taken care of. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The public would see this room, I supposed, and Frith, if he showed them round, would know the history of the pictures on the wall, and the period of the furniture. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Behind the stage, others were carrying pieces of scenery and furniture upstairs, and carrying new ones down. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Bodies, furniture, clothes, and all kinds of property were scattered all over. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We had threadbare furniture, busted old sofas with holes worn through the fabric. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Then they take off in a new-to-us 1967 Chevy Nova, hunting for furniture bargains at garage sales and in thrift shops. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “He hangs upside down from the furniture like a bat,” his mother wrote. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no stains on the carpet, or on the white furniture. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He looks around my tiny room, taking in the unmade bed, the clothes, both clean and dirty, piled on my desk chair, the blank walls, the cheap furniture. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Powell said, “I suppose furniture is built into the wall. Or maybe we’re not supposed to sit or sleep.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Rooms so filled with antique furniture, Oriental rugs, and heavy chandeliers that you complain that they are also filled with antique air. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s piled ragtag with parcels and boxes covered in leather skins, bits of furniture and large baskets, all tumbled together, almost overflowing with itself. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He took a wood shop class to build needed furniture for their one-room apartment. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z There was a bunch of expensive-looking white furniture, and on a table in one corner was a large wire pet cage. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The parlor came next, where the furniture, loose and sloping with age, was set about helter-skelter. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z In the main bedrooms things were a little better with furniture just pushed to one side and fairly clean. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Dashing out through the rain, Sam entered the mill house and picked up a box he had made with boards Bando had cut for his furniture and discarded. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Despite the run-down condition of the few pieces of furniture and the torn curtains on the window, there were touches of pride all around. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Many years ago, the psychologist Norman R. F. Maier hung two long ropes from the ceiling of a room that was filled with all kinds of different tools, objects, and furniture. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Every household,” she said, “needs one piece of furniture in really bad taste.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I woke to the sound of heavy furniture being dragged across the floor. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a shame, the way they paid three and four times what the furniture had cost, because they could get credit from those Jews. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone had pitched a tent in the side yard, and I was amazed to see a seating area with furniture from my house. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a few weeks I had strength enough in both arms to pull myself up on the furniture, and from there I could release myself to a stand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a little hard at first to move the furniture, because the feet of the chairs had frozen into the ice. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z When he returned, the Moscotes had put on formal clothing, had rearranged the furniture and put fresh flowers in the vases, and were waiting in the company of their older daughters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She had also actually observed that Gregor needed a great deal of room to creep about; the furniture, on the other hand, as far as one could see, was not of the slightest use. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get your big behind off my furniture. You crazy?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Two rooms near Briony’s had been dusted down, new curtains had been hung and furniture carried in from other rooms. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I thought it was a ridiculous notion, but I helped her carry the furniture we could handle outside. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We snake through a labyrinth of old furniture, car scraps, and oddly shaped metal sculptures that Annie welded together. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Often accompanied by hymn-singing women, she conducted raids throughout Kansas, “hatchetizing” furniture and destroying paintings and kegs of whiskey and rum. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She had the floors of the house scrubbed and changed the position of the furniture. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Yes, but was it possible to sleep through this noise that made the furniture shake? The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in the Pine-SoI-scented office of that furniture warehouse that I began my first novel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He tried not to imagine what was happening just below the attic floor: every single thing they owned—their furniture, Cleo’s toys, Mom’s cookbooks, Dad’s trumpet and all his music—being covered with water. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Just a few dry, weather-worn boards leaning haphazardly against a crooked frame, showing daylight through to the cracked furniture within. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The all-white furniture, accented with black animal sculptures and black-and-white paintings, was as polished and camera-ready as she was in her cream pantsuit. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He was sometimes possessed of strange rages and would strike out with his walking stick and even smash the furniture. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all very impressed and couldn’t wait to get started, but soon realized they weren’t going to be changing the furniture into animals for a long time. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z There is wooden furniture strewn everywhere, all the tables empty but one. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And even if nothing is missing, you get that creepy feeling like somebody’s been looking through your private stuff and dusting everything with lemon furniture polish? The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I had just stepped out onto the gravel between the thick redwood railings when I saw Tessie and Father Mike sitting on the black iron patio furniture. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She first had noticed the new tenant on Saturday, September 29, when a furniture wagon stopped in front of the rental house. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The knife flies again across the room, over furniture of velvet and intricately carved wood, passing perilously close to a crystal decanter of brandy. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Natural light comes through a tall window and shows a dusty room full of random junk: boxes, discarded furniture, metal folding chairs. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Elegant mahogany furniture, a linoleum floor covered with throw rugs, a radio, a fancy lamp, everything first class. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When they finally left, the flowers were destroyed, the furniture broken, and the walls covered with drawings and writing, but Fernanda pardoned them for all of the damage because of her relief at their leaving. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The house, furniture, neighbourhood, and roads, were all to her taste, and Lady Catherine’s behaviour was most friendly and obliging. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Mami glances around at the gleaming wood furniture and at the ceiling lamp that has big teardrop crystals dangling from it. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z In their luxurious sublet in Ann Arbor, Mia had taken various pieces of her hosts’ furniture apart and arranged the components—bolts as thick as her finger, unvarnished crossbeams, disembodied feet—into animals. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He pushed aside an array of mesquite branches to reveal the furniture: remnants of a filthy old mattress, two metal stools, and an ancient, rusty pot-bellied stove. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Expert and reliable packers and movers were en-gaged to convey the furniture, carpets, pictures— everything movable, in short—to places or security. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Rachel had put some yard furniture around the pool, and there was a sawbuck table under the fig tree. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Holmes equipped his shops with furniture and fixtures that he bought on credit. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the dim light she gradually saw a long attic where the dark shapes of cupboards, tables, bookcases, and furniture of all kinds had been put into storage. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The dimly lit corridor smelled of flowers and of furniture polish, with just the slightest tang of formaldehyde and rot beneath the surface. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Mama and I used to walk past his furniture store to admire the window displays, but we never could have afforded anything in it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The walnut cabinet made the television look like furniture that blended in with the living room set and reminded me of ours back in Brooklyn. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z It's a long jump from here to the ground, but the movers still have furniture laid out between the truck and the building's entrance. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z One-room cells, with the most rudimentary wooden furniture, housed the inhabitants on the second floor. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Pushed against one wall were various bits of furniture heaved out over the past year or so—broken tables, old fridges, that kind of thing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She darted around obstacles—broken furniture left for the trash heaps or for scavengers, stoves and refrigerators that were past repair, peddlers sitting on the pavement with their wares spread out around them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Ray sniffs around too, especially over in the living room where all the furniture is missing and there are new floorboards. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The walls and high ceilings were white, and the room itself was sparsely furnished with a few pieces of antique furniture. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The only furniture was a folding lawn chair. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Tufts of goat hair floated through the air and collected under the furniture in clumps. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The girl’s eyes were open again, watching him across the fire, reflecting the blaze of shattered ship furniture and picture frames. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “Running backward, making applesauce, doing jumping jacks, gargling, blowing bubbles, slicing garlic, making a house out of playing cards, stringing popcorn, organizing furniture, drawing mazes, and making pinatas.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z A van had broken down, spilling clothes and furniture all over the road and creating a big backup. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Unless there was the sound of breaking glass, screams, or splintering furniture, Mr. Larson didn’t even look up. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z We returned to Macún in a rickety truck, our furniture and cooking utensils tied to the sides, our clothes and bedding bundled into cushions. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “I just got off the phone with Mason Crew Collections, which is a furniture store,” Mr. Shephard says. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z And if the furniture prevented him from earning out his senseless crawling about all over the place, then there was no harm in that, but rather a great benefit. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z “Actually, yeah. Or something like it. I mean, look at this furniture—I can’t believe he makes you live in this hellhole.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A big one that was like a piece of furniture, like a cabinet with a screen in it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z So we moved all the furniture around the living room and Dad sang along to “Three Little Birds” while Mom and I danced. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z There was no furniture in the cube-shaped room, and only one window. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In February we had some of our furniture and all of our Chinese things crated for shipment. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The basement rec room was a throwback to the sixties: shag carpeting, modern furniture, a small bar jutting out from the wall, and a Ping-Pong table. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The Hague gallery is furnished like the home of someone from the new wealthy middle class: with upholstered wooden furniture, fancy, well made, and ornate. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z To get all nine of us, plus our clothes and the odds and ends of furniture we’d accumulated, from Owens Valley 225 miles south to Long Beach, Papa had to make the trip three times. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z So they rented a house across from the cemetery and established themselves there with no other furniture but José Arcadio’s hammock. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When the furniture was all changed around, she asked, smiling and fanning, if I thought my mother and Loma would like it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Most streets in the immediate vicinity of the fire were impassable due to the crowds of people or abandoned furniture. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the furniture was new, and Tess’s parents just hadn’t had the time to take the plastic off yet? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Dust the furniture, hang the laundry, I know. Let it wait, Cook. The Commandant’s gone for an entire day. Can’t we appreciate that, even for a minute?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Two- and three-story wood-frame houses bordered the park on all sides, identical in construction, distinguished by paint color and the type of furniture on their long porches. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Come on, Frick, all of this furniture has to go,” instructed my superior. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Luckily, everyone in the community rushed to donate new furniture and art and worked together to cover up the horrible words that had been sprayed on the walls with fresh coats of light gray paint. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z She had it washed and painted, changed the furniture, restored the garden and planted new flowers, and opened doors and windows so that the dazzling light of summer would penetrate even into the bedrooms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Garden furniture, ornaments, windows like shiny eyeglasses, and no sign of life. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a monthly fee to pay the warehouse in Los Angeles where she had stored what remained of our furniture and silver just before we evacuated. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Mina and I stay in the playroom, perched uncomfortably on child-size furniture, while Mr. Cohen entertains the children, kneeling on the floor and letting them drive their cars up his legs and arms. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z And though Mama wasn’t the kind to ask for things, I’d heard her tell Queenie she was go’n see if her Pa would let her swap our mismatched parlor furniture for Granny’s nice parlor suit. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We end our walk in a burst of black and bright: black stage, black furniture, black fixings lit up by lights from all directions and vantage points. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Greek fire was burning the tables and furniture, spreading up the circular stairs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “We can’t break into SeaWorld,” I said, and then I pulled over into an empty furniture store parking lot and turned off the car. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I’ve stopped drawing the furniture at the apartment; I fill the bathtub with cool water and get into it, but I no longer read in there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The furniture seemed to have been dumped here arbitrarily, having served its purpose in another part of the house. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z They plop down on the furniture and enter that resting mode of teenagers in which they are neither fully asleep nor awake but are nonetheless utterly aware. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z She walked over to the large piece of furniture that housed the family’s record player. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Glass, pieces of Sheetrock, broken furniture, cups, nail polish, pans, hair brushes, mirrors, bottles, plates, rugs, clothes—almost everything imaginable floated in streams of water from apartments that looked like flooded basements. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Most of the house was shut up, the furniture draped with heavy white cloths to keep the worst of the dust off, the skittering sound of mice echoing hollowly whenever Ophie opened a door. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He’d salvaged boats that crashed in the treacherous Keys, and claimed the cargo—silver, furniture, silk, you name it. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z We had nothing, no furniture, no mosquito nets, just thin mattresses placed flat on the ground. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Everywhere they looked, piles of things teetered—books with leather and gold covers, gold and silver trays, bead necklaces hanging out of chipped teacups, old, creaking furniture of all kinds. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There was nothing she could do to retrieve the furniture, she said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Later when the boy was asleep he went to the house and dragged some of the furniture out onto the lawn. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z We went into a room piled up with furniture. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z My bed and a rough wooden chair beside it were the only pieces of furniture. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z There would be no furniture to get in his way and no little relatives to make him feel guilty for not sharing his motorcycle. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z He’s also brought down a few pieces of furniture I recognize from the palace—a silk-embroidered divan, satin cushions, a shimmering spider-silk throw, and a chalcedony set of tea things. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There’s no furniture in my room, but it feels claustrophobic. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z They were barred with ornate wrought iron fences and gates, and inside, women in flowered shifts dusted plastic covered furniture or sat on shaded balconies looking out over the commotion below. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Almost no new furniture, two bedrooms turned into the familiar shambles of clothes and books, not the slightest domestic touch in the apartment. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The furniture crowds the small space as if every inch of it is meant for sitting. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z After he didn’t make it in Nashville, they had moved back to North Carolina so he could work in the furniture mills. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The building on our right is a branch of the Keg Company, a firm from Zaandam, and on the left is a furniture workshop. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It was so plain and austere, very different from most West Side houses, with their gaudy furniture and show-off decorations. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z As he wandered through the couch-stocked maze, I stood near the room’s entrance, trying my best not to block pairs of roommates as they maneuvered furniture through the narrow front door. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z It said, “We have three rooms’ worth of furniture. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When Mrs. Murdo was there, shoes got picked up and put away, spills were wiped off the furniture, and Poppy always had on clean clothes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The list of objects blurred together—small pieces of furniture and little decorative items—until it was Wes’s turn. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Grown-ups pulled wobbling carts of furniture and clothes and pictures and rugs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Every single piece of furniture was covered in pink fabric—the kitchen cabinets were painted pink, the wood floors were covered in pink patterned rugs, and the couch was worn pink velvet. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Spilled cargo, broken furniture, plastic lawn chairs, a basketball. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The place is all mahogany and dark wood furniture and smells just like you’d think it would. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z We took another left, past a furniture store and down the street, until Sohrab pointed to the green awning above his uncle’s grocery store. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z It was a rich man’s mansion, with beautiful furniture and fine rugs and carpeting on the floor. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z It was kind of weird how the room looked so abandoned, like someone had moved out everything but the heavy furniture. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z When we lost our furniture in an apartment fire, she slept on the floor and made me a bed out of all our blankets. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z How could the people who owned such rich farms, such beautiful furniture and gardens, modern bathrooms, and electricity to run refrigerators have ever needed to come take over the Soviet Union’s peasant huts? A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The room didn’t have any furniture except an old dresser with no handles. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Like the furniture and the toys, and all of her mom's plants and paintings. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “I needed to figure out what to do with all of his things. Books, furniture, clothes.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z To my right was a large room, larger than I had ever seen, and it was filled with stiff teakwood furniture: sofas and tables and chairs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stupid rich man fed me tea and gave me a rickshaw ride home. But would he donate any rupees to our school? No! All the furniture here is falling apart—including these ancient desks!” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I don’t feel much—like I’m air touching the furniture or Ma’s hand. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Before we left our apartment, my mother had me help her drag out the pieces of our furniture we hadn't used as fuel to the balcony and push them over the railing. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z We closed up the windows with shutters and laid sheets upon the furniture, the house being prepared for dormancy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I put the frog in the garden and took the lampshade off a piece of my old dollhouse furniture to make a vodka-bottle floor lamp for the living room. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Afterwards, they walked to the Goodwill, and Eleanor found a stack of old Analog magazines and settled in on the least-disgusting couch in the furniture section. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z He didn’t know how many more Congs were hiding in the huts, half buried under furniture or mats, but he wasn’t going to risk any of us to find out. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We went through a narrow hall and a drawing-room crowded with furniture to a verandah facing a square clipped lawn. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The quiet time she spent alone there, a modest brick building filled with walnut furniture and fragrant with the must of old books, was the best part of her job. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She came in with such a proprietary haste and looked around so possessively at the furniture that I wondered if she lived here. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The next two days passed like this for Hazel—Jack-lessness and empty spaces and strange alterations in the furniture. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The crater was littered with broken wooden furniture, shattered china plates, some half-melted pewter goblets, and burning linen napkins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Her T.V. is color and big and all her pretty furniture made out of red fur like the teddy bears they give away in carnivals. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the only piece of furniture she had brought from Austria and it had stood by the hearth in her family’s hut for more than a hundred years. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He described all the ways the Library was suited for the blind—the routine, the unchanging furniture, the textured knobs and cupboards in the kitchen. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He was sometimes content to sweep floors, sort boxes, and carry furniture. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The flowing draperies, expensive carpets, and hand-carved furniture that surely belonged here had been removed. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the smell of furniture polish; the dust and dirt of the past season were forever wiped away. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We moved most of the furniture out onto the enclosed porch and took up the rug in the living room, so there was a great dance floor. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z A man they knew only as “Steve” let them into a small studio, nearly empty of furniture. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The furniture creaked weirdly, as if it would collapse again without warning. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It will include the broken glasses and damaged furniture.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bulging tongues of ice had broken doors off their hinges, and through their splintered jambs I could see evidence of a raid: kicked- over furniture, drawers torn open, snows of paper on the floor. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Finally he got up and went into the main house to dust the furniture, something mild and mindless that would keep him occupied. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Lace doilies covered everything, and the furniture was handmade in a style that favored curving lines and dark woods. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I get up from my spot in the back and I fold up the furniture pad. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z There was a strong smell of furniture polish. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It is without many furnitures and neat neat. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The chair really was more like real furniture. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z I staggered across the uneven floor and caromed off the walls and furniture. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z There was an apartment too, with furniture and room for the whole family. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z For the second half of the experiment, Dijksterhuis went to the furniture store IKEA, where people were making much more complicated and expensive purchases. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes he just hung around all day at the unemployment office; on lucky days he got picked up to unload furniture or do cleaning. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z My parents, unable to bear the hostility, had sold their home and all their furniture and left for Mexico where they hoped to find a new life. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At the lumber mill they chop up trees that end up getting turned into furniture and houses. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It was a job that cost fifteen dollars, three times what it cost to move all the rest of the furniture. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z All the furniture is roped off from the center of the room, with little signs telling them not to touch. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z We were sitting on the ribbed wooden floor, on frayed, stained blankets used to wrap furniture, feeling for one another with our hands. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But the world of radio is not as savvy as the world of food or the furniture makers at Herman Miller. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I skirted down Limanowskiego Street, ready to duck behind a busted-up piece of furniture or hide in a pile of old rags if I heard the Nazis coming. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z When the sun came up that morning, the Crowells packed up their belongings and furniture and moved out of the damaged house. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The furniture isn’t broke down and the walls are clean. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Nearby was a pile of dusty ragged sheets that Granny had kept draped over the upholstered parlor furniture. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He noticed the sturdy furniture, neatly arranged, and the bookcases filled with Mentor’s books. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The inside is missing its furniture as well, except for a single chair and a little table that doesn’t even reach my knees. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In the family room, our furniture is arranged the same way it was in the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The polished wood floor reflects the pieces of furniture. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z As he peers at his reflection, I catch myself studying Nelson: his elbows darkened by use, his skin many tones of brown, like antique mahogany furniture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “A simple apartment. Not much furniture, but nice and clean.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He suddenly felt very conscious of the old and well-worn furniture. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Harpo so black he think she bright, but she ain’t that bright Clear medium brown skin, gleam on it like on good furniture. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The man is as big as a piece of furniture you have to move in a truck. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Employees were running up and down the stairs like seasick rats and the President’s private guard were pushing furniture against the windows and distributing pistols to those who were closest to him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Darryl's told me a bunch of times that he and my mother bought the chair as their first piece of furniture together. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The heirs, Mrs. English and Mrs. Jarchow, had removed a vanload of clothing and furniture, yet the atmosphere of a house still humanly inhabited had not thereby been diminished. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The furniture and knick- knacks that came with the house were on display. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a parlor to my right, lined with bookcases and filled with shabby claw-footed furniture. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The house was ugly, full of cheap furniture and cheaper paintings of horses and saints. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The room was plainly furnished with simple wooden furniture; in addition to the small bed there was a wardrobe beside the door, and beneath the casement window was a cushioned bench. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There, at noon and again at around three in the afternoon, unnoticed by others in the furniture store, we would rinse our hands, faces and mouths, and softly meditate. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z On September 20th two covered carts went off laden to Buckland, conveying the furniture and goods that Frodo had not sold to his new home, by way of the Brandywine Bridge. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She looks around the room—at the fresh paint on the walls, the shiny tile floor covered with our rug from the Hideout, the furniture, some of it familiar and some not. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z They were in a narrow cell where the walls dripped with damp, and there was one stone bench for furniture. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Clothes, bedding, furniture, the pictures on the wallscreen—it had all reverted back to Generic Ugly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z My housekeeping tasks fall on the same day for every job I take: on Monday, I oil up the furniture. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z What I would put on the walls and the sort of furniture I would buy. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Men came to lay the floor for dancing in the great hall, and in the drawing-room some of the furniture was moved so that the long buffet tables could be placed against the wall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She does a lap around us, touching the most luxurious pieces of furniture, then waves a hand at the servants. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It was too bad she hadn’t made it clear that day at the store that Grandpa deeded her the furniture, too. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I appeared on the TV game show Concentration in 1968,” he announced, “and won a roomful of furniture and wood paneling for my rumpus room.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Marco’s flat was once plain and spare but now it is crowded with an assortment of mismatched furniture. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We move into a formal living room with ornate molding and green velvet settees, so full of heavy furniture I can hardly see the floor. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She resists it, getting up as usual, putting her hand on the wall or on the edges of the furniture as she walks, standing hunched over at the kitchen sink, a cardigan over her shoulders. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He has to be skilled enough to draw accurate pictures of machines, houses, furniture, whatever people need. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I help Mom and Dad move some of the furniture around—it won’t look great if the entire congregation of Temple Judea sees me tripping over an ottoman and knocking myself unconscious. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Inside the bathroom we could still hear the banging of furniture and the shouting of the Red Guards. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved slowly, struggling with the weight of mattresses and furniture. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It, like all other furniture in the Amity compound, is made of unpolished wood, and looks sturdy, like it is still attached to the earth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z They had mules loaded down with things to eat, oxcarts with furniture and domestic utensils, pure and simple earthly accessories put on sale without any fuss by peddlers of everyday reality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z There was no furniture except the chair, the wooden bunk, and a bucket. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Legionnaires stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the front room amid upturned furniture and broken bottles of jam. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The sentence sounds much better with the noun in between: “Your furniture and mine can’t live together. ” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s always the same furniture but it always looks unfamiliar. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In the hut in which we slept, there was no furniture in the Western sense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It's as if this is a whole backyard, complete with a wide canopy, outdoor furniture, plants, and string of gold and silver Christmas lights that Darius turns on from some hidden spot. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z There’s no furniture except for a bench along the back wall. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z They burn crates and papers and even antique furniture to keep warm. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Inside, the house was all color and brightness and matching sets, the kind that had furniture that was just for decoration. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He immediately recognized our furniture, but had no idea we were upstairs, just above his head. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z We pass lawns and porch furniture, bird feeders and birdbaths. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Her arms stretched in front of her as if she were blind, Violet made her way across the stage, stepping carefully around pieces of furniture and startled actors. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I’ll be back next week and if you don’t have the money, one pound eight shillings and sixpence total, ’tis out on the pavement you’ll be with the skies dripping on your furniture. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The furniture, while obviously good, was scarred and plain and there wasn’t much of it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I stood on the familiar front porch, surrounded by foreign wicker furniture. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The dishes clattered, the furniture shook, and the windows rattled. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The two of us go around the house, sucking up all the cobwebs from the corners and checking under the furniture for more spiders. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I hurry down the hall and close my door, then scan the room for the heaviest piece of furniture I can move. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Robbie, meanwhile, kept her part of the house like a mausoleum, the furniture swathed in protective plastic that felt cold and sticky on my bare legs when I dared sit on it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Inside the house, they sanded and polished the scratches out of the furniture. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z His father had died of stomach cancer; his mother had gone to live in Fresno, where Kabuo’s sister had married a furniture merchant. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They, too, were generous, providing her with cast-off furniture, clothing, and, most important, food. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z My father habitually bought sundry pieces of furniture whenever he stepped into a store; he showed little judgment in his choices. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, he had arrived with little furniture—a mattress, an old bed, and an unusually large trunk. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The only furniture was a bunch of folding metal chairs and wooden ladders leaned up against the walls. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z You have spent an enormous amount of money retooling your furniture factory, and still more making sure that, say, the mesh on the Aeron doesn’t pinch the behinds of people who sit in it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It was all light blues with white furniture and a white fireplace with small stone lions on either side and another vase on a dark table filled with pink roses. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But the furniture in the solar was not like that The devil's heads were there and the linen-fold panelling, but the wood was six or seven or eight centuries younger. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Surely we can use furniture made from other wood? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z She sings as she puts away the dishes, stacks the pots and pans beneath the sink, polishes the furniture. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Then we would have our own kitchen, our own rooms, and she would bring our furniture from Macún. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He closed his eyes and tried to reimagine this spacious room with the alien furniture, but he couldn’t. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z One facility manager likened the chair to lawn furniture or old-fashioned car-seat covers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z There’s no real furniture in our place except an itchy tweed couch and an old black-and-white TV. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It has crown molding, a marble fireplace, and grander rooms than they have furniture for. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It was good they didn’t have much furniture. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The living room, dining room, and kitchen blend into one another in one big space, separated by furniture and appliances. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z We did, and then she decided we should place the parlor furniture. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Pretty soon, all the teams were grabbing desks and firing up the tablet computers built into the furniture so they could explore the library’s online card catalog. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He did not notice that the walls of his house were eager for a coat of paint, that the furniture was falling apart, and that the kitchen had turned into a pigsty. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her condo was clean and modern, with white walls and white furniture and sprays of exquisite bright orchids adding color. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Mam goes to the St. Vincent de Paul Society to see if there’s any chance of getting furniture. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Tess’s house wasn’t much different from their house back in Brooklyn, except for the furniture—the couches and chairs were covered in thick plastic. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He promised her three meals a day and a house but said the place could use more furniture. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z In the swampy streets there were the remains of furniture, animal skeletons covered with red lilies, the last memories of the hordes of newcomers who had fled Macondo as wildly as they had arrived. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She turned around, the bowl of popcorn in her hands, and all three of them jumped, as if a piece of furniture had begun to speak. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Where are we going to hide up here? There’s no furniture. We can’t risk going downstairs again.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z When I see the desk and dresser against the far wall, it occurs to me that the loose floorboard could be beneath a heavy piece of furniture I won’t be able to move. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z He has on a mask and gloves while he and Mama clear out the dust from behind the furniture. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z When Rashid Uncle comes home after working at his furniture business and going to the market, he sits at the table and carves. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But the furniture was impressively old, heavy, and sent out signals of permanence and settled judgment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z After pondering a minute, Grandpa had agreed to give her the furniture with the house. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But Natalie was moving briskly toward her mother’s desk, a piece of furniture so vast and shiny that it seemed like it might have its own gravitational pull. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z When I came down the sidewalk, the sky was clearing and two trucks were blocking the road in front of my building, furniture piled in the backs like a house had been turned upside down. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z His nice leather furniture squeaked when we sat down. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z She wrote also with great pleasure of her brother’s being an inmate of Mr. Darcy’s house, and mentioned with raptures some plans of the latter with regard to new furniture. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z All furniture had been cleared from the main rooms. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Then, ignoring the furniture, he seated himself in the center of the floor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “I’m going to have a tough time taking Grandpa seriously when he tells us to show respect for the furniture,” Kendra said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He crouched and cringed behind the sofa as if neither furniture nor darkness were enough to hide him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z After the moving van arrived and two men crammed our Bybanks furniture into our bird-house, my father and I inched into the living room, crawling over sofas and chairs and tables and boxes, boxes, boxes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The house no longer vacant, the front porch was now decorated with hanging baskets of little pink flowers and white wicker furniture. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Visibility into the cell . . . must not be obstructed by . . . furniture, clotheslines, clothes, bedding, or towels. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We began eating nourishing meals, and my mother talked about getting some new furniture. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I was down to a day and a half a week when Valencia called a mover to cart a load of furniture to an apartment she'd rented for one of the deadbeats. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Bartenders and waiters could only stand by in complete shock as Nation splintered whatever furniture, kegs, and bottles she encountered. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z There were hangings on the walls, but the only real furniture was a small desk, a bookshelf, and a large canopy bed with the curtains drawn around it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was decorated with fine paintings, elegant furniture, and carpets. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes their owners stay for years in one place, plant gardens, build little walls of cinder blocks, put out awnings and garden furniture. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They had fine furniture, and Anna filled their home with flower cuttings from the garden and nearby fields. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “And don’t you go forgetting the rules. No trying to escape from the house. And there’s no need to break up the furniture either. Don’t make me demonstrate my full nelson.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Through Cavern Hole he clattered in the darkness, stumbling and tripping over furniture, his heart hammering loudly and legs pumping like twin pistons. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “So?” said Ron in a very low voice, as though he thought the furniture might be listening in. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z There was a family with no mother, a couple with no furniture, a man with no legs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t love the agency now, but, on the other hand, I didn’t kick the furniture in the morning anymore, either. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Long story short, they have a bunch of furniture they can’t use, and they want to donate to the room!” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The main floor was a huge open room with a polished stone floor, wooden furniture, a large fireplace, and windows. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Most of Gogol’s toys come from yard sales, as does most of the furniture, and the curtains, and the toaster, and a set of pots and pans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Old wicker lawn furniture, tattered fruit baskets, a large, cracked headboard. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I stay near furniture and walls to steady myself, and although I feel like I’m lumbering and loud, it’s easier than using crutches. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z As a surprise, they’ve bought new furniture for me, including a tea table, a desk, armchairs and a divan. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The room was crammed with broken furniture, bundles of clothes, stacks of books, and Mom’s art supplies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He sat on the far side of their furniture fire, arms wrapped around his knees as he watched Pima give her the rest of the orange. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Interspersed in these residential areas were a variety of businesses — paint factories, lumberyards, distilleries, gasworks, mills, furniture manufacturers, warehouses, and coal distributors. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “You’re lucky we didn’t know who you were when you were still lying under your bedroom furniture.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “It says it’s nicknamed the Chippendale Building because it looks like a piece of furniture. Huh!” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The first blocks are dotted with family stores: a nail salon, a discount-discount store, a diner, mattress store, karate school, furniture rental. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z They went through the entrance into a wide room with no furniture. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The first meeting was tense, but I broke the ice by laying out a few lines of crystal and commenting on my host's refreshing lack of furniture. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Chetachi and her mother must have already gossiped about the car; they were envious, chattering people who visited only to see what others had, to size up new furniture or new electronics. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The porch furniture looks like my lounging chair, and the trim on the gable is a weaving of gnarled oaks and maple branches. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone who buys the furniture will have contributed to the destruction of the forest, and the destruction of the forest contributes to the process of global warming. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z They had also peeled potatoes, scrubbed pots and floors, washed windows, and hauled boxes and broken furniture. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I cared little about the furniture, except for the fairy rug, which Mandy and I hid one afternoon when Father was with Mum Olga. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But no one has any need for my shabby furniture or my shabby shoes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z But the warehouse where she’d stored the rest had been unaccountably “robbed”—of furniture, appliances, and most of those silver anniversary gifts. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z One president’s furniture gets carried out while another’s comes in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the parlor, a few teacups stood out white against the charred furniture. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They lost their furniture and their dishes and their blankets and never got anything back. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They ransacked the house and shouted, knocking over cabinets and upending furniture. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The home is impeccably clean, with soaring ceilings and beautiful, modern furniture. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I even looked in their bedroom, feeling guiltier than ever, but there was only the usual furniture and some pictures on the walls. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z When the train from Anchorage rolled by, the furniture shook and the pictures rattled on the walls. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z These two pieces were the only wooden furniture in the hut—the supply boxes in Rupa’s quarter were made of cardboard. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Many helped their neighbors fight the fire or drag furniture and clothes to the safety of the street. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Still, I thought my buddy Dwight could have made a bit more of an effort to stay on his side of the furniture. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Much of the furniture in our house was garish and oddly colored and overpriced. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Hurrying in, I saw they’d pushed all the parlor furniture back against the walls, Miss Love had put on a new dance record, and by golly she was teaching Grandpa the turkey trot! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I looked at straw hats and other things, like wicker furniture,” Stumpf says. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The fire took the adjacent fabric store as well, a secondhand clothing store, a small furniture shop, a bakery. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It looked like a piece of furniture, the screen encased in wood and surrounded by little fake drawers. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z We all help clean up and put away the leftovers, and then we make ourselves at home on the newly acquired, used furniture. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z And when I reached the street there were several of them, men and women, standing about, cheering whenever another piece of furniture was returned. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z We waited in darkness as he fumbled through the house, knocking into furniture. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He could make out the shapes of the furniture, and the pale sheen of the silk coverlet on the bed. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Violet had guessed, during her climb, that it had found some notch in the stone, or part of the window, or perhaps a piece of furniture inside the tower room, and stuck there. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I push, drag the highest furniture over to the window. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z They were leaving most of their furniture for the new janitress. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivy moved forward a bit more, inching here and there to avoid the gaping holes between planks of wood and broken furniture. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The whole room began to tilt over and all the furniture went sliding across the floor, and crashed against the far wall. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Just before Christmas that year, we went to the stores in downtown Little Rock, where I saw bright Christmas lights, large plants, nice furniture, and pretty pictures on the walls. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The air was smooth with the scent of wax, and in the honeyed light, the gleaming surfaces of the furniture seemed to ripple and breathe. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The bedroom was crowded with furniture, and the wing chair, heavy and solid, was the most sensible spot for an elderly woman who was unsteady on her feet. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Man, you just wish you had furniture this cool. Buford, are you ready for Operation End Table?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Guests received fantastic dinnerware, delicate tapestries, and magnificent furniture. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The room is small, very small, and decorated much like the lobby, with teak furniture and large pictures of bright tropical flowers. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He stared past me, as if judging the broken furniture and brightly painted walls, and then he flew away. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z On the baby’s side of the room, they didn’t have much in the way of furniture, but they’d found a crib, a changing table, and rocking chair. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z If there had been any furniture in that flat, even a chair, she would have pulled it onto the trapdoor, but there was nothing. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z She moved the furniture outside so everyone could fit. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I can appreciate the bed as a well-crafted, functional item of furniture. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The furniture was oak, steel and white leather - impersonal and masculine. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The only furniture was a bench carried in from the village cricket pitch—again, the youthful Leon and his terrible friends from school. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His bedroom is blue now—walls, ceiling, floor—and all the furniture has been moved to one corner so that the room is divided in two. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I will fall on my knees, in my room, gratefully breathe in lungfuls of the stale air, smelling of furniture polish. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The furniture was badly made and the drawer stuck on the frame, but it jerked open a few inches. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Things are really awful, in case you didn’t notice. Do you get that we’ve lost everything? Everything, Ives. Pictures we can’t replace. Mom’s art. My lacrosse stuff. Dad’s computers. All our furniture. The house.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Two other carts arrived later with the furniture, the baggage, and the household utensils. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Some of the furniture is modern and shaped like boxes and domes, and some of it looks like it came from a fancy British tea party. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They stole furs, jewelry, silver, clothes, and furniture, anything they could carry. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The main room is paneled in walnut and outfitted with damask furniture, a dinette, and a Pullman kitchen. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z They pushed all the furniture out of the way, and soon the girls were leaping around the room. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Thomas groaned inwardly as he stepped inside and saw the one piece of furniture—an ugly, rickety chair with one leg obviously shorter than the rest, probably on purpose. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z We were ordered to dress, and then escorted to two large cells with cement floors and no furniture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That winter my mother and brother came and we set up housekeeping, buying furniture on the installment plan, being cheated and yet knowing no way to avoid it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In a shed, covered with tarpaulins, lay the crated heavy furniture sent from San Francisco and carted out from King City. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The ball and tenpins were made of a light plastic, so as not to dent up the furniture. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were a fool to buy such an expensive piece of furniture.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Moss cried because he missed his father, missed a misguided habit of picking up unowned furniture, missed that silly humor. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It would have been cluttered if there had been more than the few sticks of furniture: a small desk with a wooden chair and a single shelf above it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Her mother said comfortable with a faint shudder, and Olanna almost smiled because her mother had Odenigbo’s basic university house in mind, with its sturdy rooms and plain furniture and uncarpeted floors. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Beginning that day, every evening, straight from work at the furniture store, I went doing what we Muslims later came to call “fishing.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They owed to the grocery and they owed the last payment on some furniture. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Inside the house, everything was predictable, the high-ceilinged rooms, with heavy, sashed windows, the oak wall panelling and the oak doors, and the oak staircase, the massive furniture. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “Do you pick up furniture? What, three-week wait? Yes, well, this is brand-new, beautiful, let me describe to you. No? Then let me describe to your boss, okay?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Her room felt alien, the warm wood tones, the tan furniture, the wall-to-wall burgundy carpeting that cushioned her feet, the reams of space that made Kainene call their rooms flats. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He bought them some furniture and gave them some money until José Arcadio recovered his sense of reality and began to work the no-man’s-land that bordered the courtyard of the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She imported Italian furniture, artefacts, couture, jewellery, paintings, sculpture and architecture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And, of course, all the chief treasures, as well as the books, pictures, and more than enough furniture, were left in his possession. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Inside in the hall there was piled a large assortment of packages and parcels and small articles of furniture. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Down from Sweet Jimmy’s place a woman was bargaining with a used furniture dealer over the price of a lamp. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as they could afford it, they began to fill their houses with lovely paintings and fine furniture. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z She just stared straight ahead at the vinyl siding of the furniture store. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The walls of their flat tremble with the dragging of furniture, the packing of trunks, the nailing shut of windows. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z After we came home from the hospital that night—with no Devon—Dad was yelling and kicking the furniture and the walls and he started pounding the chest with his fists and shouting, Why? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I dropped my backpack in a room with my dad that smelled like furniture polish and lemon candies and decided to hike down the sidewalk for a side-by-side comparison of the accommodations. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z This, right here, standing at the edge of a room like a piece of furniture? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I help Gat and Johnny move the furniture around until Mirren is happy. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Moreover, for the most part they had brought with them their own pieces of furniture. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z The windows near the ceiling were small and dirty, the old leather furniture spilled its innards, the tables were mutilated, the walls ash-colored, the floor concrete. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The old furniture set well in the new house. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z They push the furniture in the living room to the walls and unfold two metal bridge tables and eight bridge chairs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Holmes called upon an Englewood resident named Cephas Humphrey, who owned his own team and dray and made a living transporting furniture, crates, and other large objects from place to place. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They’d stolen clothes and furniture from the palace and strewn it on the lawn. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In addition, many people had hauled furniture from burning buildings and abandoned it in the streets in hopes of saving it. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Even at our poorest we always had beautiful furniture and matching dishes. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The children watched us as if it were completely normal to set furniture outside. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “This silly housegirl does not clean furniture properly. Does she think I pay her to play around?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Antique furniture filled every available inch of space, some of it broken and some of it in usable condition. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The lack of furniture in the room made the words they said to each other sound funny. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Like the first, this one had no furniture or floor at all. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z There was no furniture, no pictures, no things. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The shine of the electric streetlights lay pale here and there on the ceiling and on the higher parts of the furniture, but underneath around Gregor it was dark. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z Great white bearskins lay about underfoot, and the only furniture was a lot of low beds covered with Indian rugs. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z When it came to apportioning work on an aptitude basis, the smaller girls were assigned to dust the legs and lower shelves of furniture; the older girls to dust table tops and upper shelves. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The kitchen was bare of all furniture except the chair in which he sat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The house was silent and there was no one in it, and yet all the furniture was still in place. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z He led me through an arbor; we stood in a small grove of dead vines trailing purple across furniture of marble. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There was no furniture except for a wooden platform with a corn husk mattress on top. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Fine furniture was draped with leopard and tiger skins, and real plastic bowls glittered with jewels. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The only other furniture was a narrow bed with a large, dark chest at its foot. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z After scouring the yard for half an hour, Kendra and Seth had come across various articles of furniture from the house or porch in unexpected locations, but they had found no other life-sized painted statues. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I went from room to room, turning on lights and looking anywhere a paranoid old man might hide from monsters: behind furniture, in the attic crawlspace, under the workbench in the garage. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone had piled boxes and old furniture in front of the door to the room. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Then—then she converted it like that, had furniture put in, and china.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z You’ll see how fast she loses interest in making furniture move across the room and predicting disasters!” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She glanced at her reflection as she ran past the window of a furniture repair shop. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z At home, we always had enough to eat, but Papa doesn’t like to have too much of anything, food, furniture, people. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z At this point he had nothing to do but wait, and overwhelmed with self-reproach and worry, he began to creep and crawl over everything: walls, furniture, and ceiling,. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z After nearly four months, there was still little furniture. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It took all her strength to remain still and silent, the way Syrio Forel had taught her, to stand there like a stick of furniture. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Papa is trying to find us a bigger flat so we can have more rooms and furniture, but I kind of like it here now. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The cart man rolls by with his busted wagon collecting trash and tossed-out furniture. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z They had inherited the furniture from Coraline’s grandmother, along with a wooden coffee table, a side table, a heavy glass ashtray, and the oil painting of a bowl of fruit. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “What is the point in providing food and shelter for an animal that just soils your furniture, makes your home smell bad, and ultimately dies?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He shot a Stunning Spell at Crabbe, who lurched out of the way, knocking Malfoy’s wand out of his hand; it rolled out of sight beneath a mountain of broken furniture and boxes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z There was no furniture in that corner of the room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z It was old and dark and filled with antique furniture, cookies, and Nat King Cole records. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s the good part of not having furniture—moving is super easy. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Maybe my sister is wishing that I was with her to see the stainless steel appliances and the doctor’s office furniture. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Ladders and old furniture, Ikea bookcases that have seen better days. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It’s filled up with old furniture and dust and things in wooden boxes and under plastic tarps. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z When we moved in, she busied herself with getting settled, arranging the furniture, unpacking dishes, hanging pictures on the wall. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a good thing the furniture was sturdy. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a thin layer of dust on the furniture and the air was stuffy and hot. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She could not go back to Baltimore—her condo was rented out and her furniture in storage—and so she went to Willow. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I didn’t even have a bedroom in California anymore; in October, my mother had written to say that she had sold the furniture and turned it into a sewing room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z There was every article of furniture looking just as it did on the morning I was first introduced to Mr. Brocklehurst: the very rug he had stood upon still covered the hearth. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Printer and publisher Mathew Carey watched sadly as “almost every hour in the day, carts, waggons, coaches, and chairs, were to be seen transporting families & furniture to the country in every direction.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Soon the fire was nibbling at this peaceful strip, igniting the fence that ran along Clark Street, as well as trees and shrubs and the furniture brought there for safety. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “A man saw them in front of my cabin and offered me so much money for them, I couldn’t refuse. He said they were fine examples of Adirondack furniture.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Abandoned pieces of furniture on the street and sidewalk were fiery torches, while shadowy figures darted through the night seeking a safe escape. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z She pointed to the faded velvet drapes hanging at the windows, the cobwebbed chandelier, the fancy marble fireplace, the high-topped walnut bed, the dusty matching furniture. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He was a compliant Catholic schoolboy who sold furniture at a department store to help pay for college before taking a job at a suburban high school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z There was broken crockery scattered among the remains of furniture and charred floorboards. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There was no furniture, but it had been undamaged in the storm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z We got to jump over puddles of dirty water and busted-up furniture, piles of trash. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Our furniture was lifeless: the glass tables did not shed twisted skin in the harmattan, the leather sofas’ greeting was a clammy coldness, the Persian rugs were too lush to have any feeling. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Winston noticed that the furniture was still arranged as though the room were meant to be lived in. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Sticky said, glancing around as if expecting to see them hiding behind furniture. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Besides the chairs, there was no other furniture except for a small table in the corner. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Not only was the furniture bought for sturdiness, chairs were made into trains; the children ran in and out of the house, taxing Parslow’s patience at times. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He can make out only several twinkling lights and shapes that could possibly be furniture. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Half-eaten plates of food, shattered liquor bottles, and pieces of broken furniture from a drunken rampage scatter his quarters. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It’s a huge place filled with broken furniture, piles of books and ledgers, and rusty weapons. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the responsibility and relative sacrifice meant something completely different, like a landscape taking on new colors, or all the furniture in a house being rearranged so that now everything appeared perfectly in place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There were sheets on some of the furniture and dust balls on the hardwood floor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Kinda like the beat-up old furniture Mom liked that we weren’t supposed to call old. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Nothing silly like a Gaming Machine, nothing frivolous like the soft upholstered furniture decorated with fringe that a foolish young couple down the road had traded for. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Inside, Palmer looked about for signs of primitive living—mud, piles of rubbish—but saw nothing but clean furniture, carpets, pictures on the walls. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The furniture had been put back in place in the front room and the withered leaves and fallen flower petals swept out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We have removed all of the furniture from the ship's common areas, every last chair and table, in order to accommodate refugees. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It had the same furniture, the same carpet, even a similar painting on the wall. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z That I treated Violet like a piece of furniture you favor although it needed something every day to keep it steady and upright. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They had civilized furniture in neutral colors and daffodils around their flower beds. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z George had been working at a Pier 1 furniture store in Houston before his car accident. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “He used to help us move furniture when we moved. Dad is a roofer, one of six kids, nice Mormon family.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Inside Erlan’s apartment, there were tons of people walking around, setting food on tables, moving furniture, turning on great big light stands. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z He was stretched out on the only new piece of furniture in the house, a tilt-back lounge chair. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We tried to ignore the feeling or to fight it off by building more things—bigger rooms, fancier furniture, carpeted hallways, things we did not really need. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The shack’s one room was bare of furniture and crowded with people. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The room still held the faint smell of coffee and tobacco smoke, but dust coated the furniture and the floor. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She owned more—furniture, wedding jewelry, cloth, photographs—but she had left such troublesome valuables behind in the family’s care. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As Lillian wandered about the empty rooms of the house carefully making mental notes about furniture placement and room arrangement, Colonel Meecham herded his children to the front porch for a morale check. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother had begun moving all of our furniture into the yard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Donnie has learned to open the doors and climb on the chairs & other furniture & he worries me constantly about falling. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Each screw, each piece of furniture was a reminder of that marvelous event. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the cramped living room, surrounded by the dark oversized furniture from the old house they grew up in, they were children again in a smaller, simpler version of the world. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I’m going to move most of the furniture out of the second bedroom and use the room for Algernon. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Our apartment looks way bigger without all the furniture and stuff. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Two of the men had been arrested for moving furniture, in situations not unlike Zeitoun’s. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They used her Uncle Nicolas’s books, the dishes, the boxes, the furniture, and the drapes of bygone days to arrange their astonishing nuptial chamber. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But she leapt anyway, and while the lamps shook and the decorative furniture quavered, she did not break a thing. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z In our parents’ room, more furniture: a wooden bureau and an old phonograph cabinet with no workings inside. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The door was hidden in a dark corner, behind piles of boxes and old furniture. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z For two years we lived in a garage with the gardening tools, old furniture, a tiny black and white TV, and a lone mattress in the center. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z They were taking only their personal belongings and the front-room furniture. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Now and then, Laila heard running footsteps, a wordless chase, furniture turning over, glass shattering, then the thumping once more. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I help Grammy with the cleaning, but turning the furniture back over is hard. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “For refugees. Once we remove the furniture, we’ll line this ballroom with mattresses.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z We hoped we could find some furniture or something to sell. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Next I walked over to a drop-leaf table and sniffed a beeswax candle that smelled precisely like the furniture wax. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It all looks kind of boring, since it’s old lobby furniture. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I found a furniture pad and rolled it up in such a way as to make a place for myself. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z A parlor with simple but tasteful furniture, things she had seen in the white shops of South Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z John Lowe was about to sit down when he heard the noise of collapsing furniture. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “John,” said his mother, “you sweep the front room for me like a good boy, and dust the furniture. I’m going to clean up in here.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Nearly everything in the room was broken; the TV, the pinball machine, the furniture. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Kendra continued scouring the tiny house, investigating every piece of furniture, searching every closet, checking behind every miniature painting on the walls. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Around me I know it’s empty, all the furniture is gone, the floors are bare, no carpets even; but despite this the cupboard is full of clothes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z After a minute the weighty piece of furniture was pressed against the door of his room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “The donation place can’t pick up the furniture until next week,” he says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He brought back chunks of driftwood, and he would pass long hours sitting on the steps carving myrtle limbs into benches, table legs, and lamps, filling our rooms with bits of gnarled, polished furniture. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She brushes fiery debris off her shoulders and sighs as she tiptoes through pieces of broken furniture and chinaware. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Not only the teacher and the boys; also missing were the furniture and fixtures, and there were long winding gashes puckering the walls where someone had ripped out the wiring. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I want to figure out what furniture we should keep, before Carlos schedules a donation company to come by for the rest. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z There are no agricultural fields in sight, just factories that make glass and furniture. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She was moving all over the house, opening and shutting doors, even moving furniture around to work off anger. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The lamps had been lit now and there was a deceptive normality about the big stone rooms with their colorful murals, animal skin rugs, embroidered drapes, and comfortable gilded furniture. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z I screamed and kicked the furniture until one whole leg came off the table and threw a hissy fit they could probably hear all the way to Egypt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather, he continued into the dining room inspecting corners and wiping his index finger across furniture. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Several pairs of rough hands lifted her like an unwieldy piece of furniture and she drifted into unconsciousness. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The furniture lay in heaps of splintered wood and feathers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The school office reminds me of a dentist’s office, with padded pastel furniture and one of those gurgling indoor fountains. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The furniture was straight out of a sultan's palace: ornate and inlaid with silver and mother-of-pearl. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I couldn't believe the kitchen gadgets, pretty furniture, shiny cars, and great toys the white families had in their homes. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Front porches were full of living room furniture, old couches and armchairs, people playing checkers, arguing, waving fingers, and breaking into laughter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “We should of got a warrant, I guess, and gone in and tipped over a little furniture.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His carvings and furniture and clever constructions were in high demand on the other side of the Road, as well. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Behind the musicians walked women bearing Monoma- tapa’s household needs, courtiers who carried his furniture and more soldiers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z His carpet is gray and his furniture is black. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Inside the trailer it looked like a small bomb had exploded—broken lamps, overturned furniture, dents and holes in the fake-wood paneling. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He skulked behind curtains and furniture, and he hid if he saw one of the Alacrans in the distance. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He became a collector of Louis XV furniture, good pictures and rare books, and all these beautiful things together with the two properties are still in the family. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Brave Orchid’s husband and children brought everything into the dining room, provisions for a lifetime move heaped all over the floor and furniture. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We can barely cram in all their things—the red velvet furniture and lamps and clothes and kitchen utensils and crocheted doilies. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z You are technically free, but as a result of your arrest and period of incarceration, you lose your job, your apartment, your furniture, and your car. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Mom helps me carry the plastic deck furniture up from the basement and I scrub it with bleach. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z As I enter this restaurant, I am prepared to shrink into the furniture, but it’s nice. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Jennifer keeps offering to buy me new furniture, and paint or put up wallpaper. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The furniture was neither antique nor modern, and looked extremely comfortable. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “He’ll get the furniture back in place? And what about my window? It’s still all boarded up. Will he fix that, too?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There he lived surrounded by his mahogany furniture, his Victorian glass cabinets, and his Persian carpets. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the sink were some old rags—and could you believe it?—a quarter bottle of furniture polish. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z We watched while they took the last of the furniture, down to Mr. Diamants chair and the rugs off the floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The furniture was white wicker up here, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Holmes was, however, beginning to feel mounting pressure from creditors, in particular from several furniture and bicycle dealers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After I ate too much dinner, and moved some furniture around for her, and took down the trash, I went to meet her other son, who had a job waiting for me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z It doesn't take them long until they have all the furniture tied down into the back of the very worn-looking pickup. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z When we arrived, Mary Lou's brothers were running around like crazed animals, jumping over the furniture and tossing footballs. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Soon they got the furniture burning merrily, and Nailer cut slices of ham for them to gnaw on. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Their house didn’t have a lot of furniture in it, but it was very comfortable. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z If you were to go now to view the solar of Castle Sauvage, you would find it empty of furniture. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair’s particularly bloodthirsty tonight, snaking all around the room, swarming the furniture, vining up the legs of chairs, stretching over the walls. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Well, Katherine was probably in the backyard making sure the staff had polished the patio furniture to a shine so that guests could be invited back to the house after the event tonight. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z If you went to the nearest curiosity shop you might find some clever copies of the furniture which it was supposed to contain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z At first she thought it was the bear, clanging the oatmeal pot against the furniture, but then the tiny attic came alive with girls. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “Your mother’s sister never spoke to us again. She was very against our marriage. She lives with her family in another village far away. Your mother’s brother took over the family house and furniture business.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was barely furnished with odd things, which seemed to have never been used; the furniture was something the same style as that in the south rooms, and was covered with dust. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I took on a security job, swing shift at a furniture warehouse in Sunnyvale. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He tiptoed after her into the room, which was cold and smelled of furniture polish, and miserably gray in the light from the rain-washed window. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z We had even managed to replace some of the furniture the two Zulu men had seized. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And there were advertisements for gadgets, fascinating things, for cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, furniture and beds and cribs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z At Devon, where every stick of furniture didn’t assert that Finny was a part of it, I could make it up to him. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew that in all likelihood she had been there, clinging to her furniture, for twenty-four hours or more. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They led the simplest kind of lives, and studied and wrote; they grew their own food, built their own houses and furniture. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The Mlothi provided us with many items we could not afford— clothes, knives, furniture, spoons, cribs, mugs, forks, plates and scraps of food. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The sheets and duvet covers were a bright, blinding white, too, and the only other piece of furniture was an oak cabinet big enough to have lunch in. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z This was a second storeroom, but for unwanted furniture rather than food, so he looked around quickly and moved on through the next archway. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It was very much like Celia moving the furniture out to vacuum the rugs and then moving it back again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Just three weeks before, he had chosen not to renew the part of their flood insurance that covered their furniture, everything in the house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Just outside the entrance are a few big pieces of furniture wrapped in fabric. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Warm as they looked at quilts and handmade furniture in a heated barn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “No. He didn't want to put me in danger. He brought them to the furniture shop. He built the Roodveldts a secret room behind a false wall in the wood shop. I didn’t know.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The two had been hired by furniture maker Herman Miller, with whom they had worked before, most notably on chairs called the Ergon and the Equa. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z ‘Father, suppose you set on Highboy’s lap. I believe you be more comfortable than scrouged up here with us and all this furniture.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It was early in the morning of the twenty- seventh of September, and as I walked up the steps I could hear angry voices inside the office and furniture being moved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowing not to sit on the furniture, she crouched, instead, in doorways and hallways, and observed gestures and manners in the same way a person tends to watch traffic in a foreign city. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z We both had books shelved and stacked and boxed and crowding out the furniture. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The boys pushed the furniture to the side of the room, creating a dance floor of sorts. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z In front of the house he saw wagons and carts and men loading them with furniture, chests, trunks, boxes— even old portraits. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat down on his twin bed, the only piece of furniture in his room besides a Goodwill dresser, and the lumpy mattress groaned under his weight. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Erin’s house was huge and full of New England old-money furniture, understated but expensive. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z A few large pieces of furniture people would pick up the next day wore red tags with names and phone numbers on them. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Cheap walls, dirty paint, plastic furniture, plastic flowers on the counter. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Then Mr. Popper moved all the furniture in the living room to one side, so that the penguins and the children would have plenty of room for real sliding. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Walking into the homes of strangers, sitting on their furniture, and drying the tears of their children was harder than cleaning up the sick. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Family purchasing committees, duly elected, bought the food, clothes, furniture, and athletic equipment. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Since he’s been working out lately, he’s almost too big for the furniture. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z In time she created a whole miniature world of household animals and people engaged in every trade: carpenters, laundresses, cooks, each with his or her own tiny tools and furniture. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We looked for treasures among the discarded stoves and refrigerators, the broken furniture and stacks of bald tires. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He could see the shine of polished furniture and the gleam of gold picture frames. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "What a beautiful room you have here," I said, looking across the rich cherry glow of furniture to see a life-sized painting of a nude, a pink Renoir. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, Mrs. van D. does the cooking and Mother does the dishes and polishes the furniture. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z What most caught Miss Hill’s attention was the fact that the furniture wagon was empty save for an iron stove that seemed much too large for a private residence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He sat down in the armchair, and for the first time she noticed how much space there was between the furniture, how sparse her flat was, how unlived in. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Your father could have used a good man like me at his furniture factory. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z My bedroom was decked out in white wicker furniture and a trendy daybed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Norma had to dress well; the house had to have fine furniture; Charlie had to be kept inside so that other people wouldn’t know anything was wrong. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The outdoor plaza was covered with twisted metal and shattered glass and broken furniture. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z There was also this dining room affair with the kind of furniture you see everybody put out on the street for the Sanitation Department in the spring. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z She rearranged the furniture to better accommodate the growing belly of the expectant lady, and rearranged the kitchen supplies so she wouldn’t have to reach as far. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Smooth, uniform stone walls, a lack of furniture or decoration, and only a single window. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Without saying another word, they proceeded to strip the house of furniture, seizing the wardrobe, chairs and table, saying that the goods were payment for a mysterious debt of honor my father owed them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The parlor stood ready for company, with surprisingly fine furniture for the neighborhood, and a portrait on the wall. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The front rooms and hallway of the house were full of furniture, chairs and desks stacked on tables and couches. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I hate her and her beige furniture from the start, but I just play along and pretend me no espeak English. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Together, we climb high on the boxes, the old furniture, trying to reach the tallest height, a flattop chifforo chest. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The rest of us had to get used to stepping over broken furniture and shattered glass. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The furniture seemed too small for them—the room seemed too small for them—and they scented the air with old cigars, starch, and sweat. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It’s more ornate than the one in the pantry, the wood smooth and varnished and still smelling faintly of lemon furniture oil. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Then we cut out other things—cookware, furniture—and paste them around the figures. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The Serjeant recommended we break furniture; our hostess’s wife remonstrated that this was not to our purpose. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Bob’s stubbly face smelled of cleaning supplies—fresh lemony furniture polish and Murphy Oil wood soap. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z On the night of May 16, 1977, police cars and a truck pulled up outside of the house in Orlando West and began loading furniture and clothing into the back of the truck. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was moved by the extreme poverty: the only furniture was a pine table, two crude chairs, and a bed on which several children were sleeping. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z To the right of the hall was a living room that had a huge fireplace on the end wall; there was no furniture in the room, and the wallpaper was peeling from the walls. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z After dinner, Dayi Jamsheed’s kids pushed all the furniture in the living room against the walls, leaving the large red and green carpet in the center of the room for us to dance on. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The room was empty and devoid of any kind of furniture—no bench, no basin, no bucket. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He made the furniture from driftwood, nails, and scraps left over from the cabin. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z She unlatched the clasps and opened it, revealing two floors and several rooms full of miniature furniture. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was a pretty farmhouse, with old furniture, but neat and tidy. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Her living room looks like she bought a whole showroom at a furniture store—everything matching and perfectly in its place. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Like someone had come in during the day and shrunk all the furniture just a tiny bit. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Two carpenters who lived on the farm lugged in furniture now and again—they were sweet on Sybil and kept their hands busy to distract from her indifference. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The furniture was imported from abroad, along with all the other comforts—silverware, silk-covered chairs, white christening gowns, porcelain washing bowls. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The worst of all was this house, with the dark rooms and the old furniture and the cases of moths, he would always have to come back to it. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The government said it would store their furniture. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Here the smell is no longer of furniture polish. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t know how to act, walking around in circles and jumping on the furniture. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z They sleep in a once stately Old World suite with the furniture shored up against the walls and chicken feathers clogging the marble sinks and newspapers tacked clumsily across the windows. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The plane is inside the building—breaking apart, exploding, melting, burning furniture and people. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z In his condition he couldn't function without the beneficial influences of his furniture. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z She sold my dad’s car and most of our furniture to pay the bills my dad left behind when he went back to Mexico. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The furniture inside was the color of crushed almonds. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He found the Chinese Palm Court, complete with not only live palm trees but high white-plastered rococo ceilings, marble columns, delicate hand-painted Asian wall murals, and Chippendale furniture. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Later on, when she found out that Arcadio had not only built a house but had ordered some Viennese furniture, she confirmed her suspicion that he was using public funds. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He says we’ll have to go to a secondhand furniture shop down in the Irishtown and haul the furniture home ourselves. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I like this, because it’s mindless and the furniture can’t talk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The various consequences of this infirmity—as manifested in architecture, furniture, etc.—have never managed to engage my attention. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They reviewed what couldn’t be saved, the furniture too large to carry upstairs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I walk through the red-eyed people, past the hunching walls, the graying paint, the collapsing furniture, the darkening windows, the moth-eaten air. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Men think they don’t like changes, but they can get used to anything. Besides, I think furniture likes to be moved. Wouldn’t you say so?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “If I could buy the furniture now hired for me,” said I, “and one or two other little things, I should be quite at home there.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z It was as if walls had shifted slightly, and furniture moved to new places. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z By three o’clock, the movers had laid out carpets, positioned furniture, hooked up the washing machine and dryer, and filled each room with the stencil-marked boxes that the Meechams would have to unpack. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the museum people had fastened all the drawers of their furniture so that they couldn’t be opened. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There was furniture overturned, the mattress was ripped open, bureau drawers upside-down on the floor, their contents strewn and mounded. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He’ll paint landscapes, still lifes, scenes of cafes at night, furniture, rooms, flowering trees, flowers—he is about to begin painting his favorite again, sunflowers. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She hid her book bag behind a tapestry screen in the rooms of French furniture. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Except for the books, the furniture, and the violet, it appeared to be empty. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Most of the furniture had been moved to Portia’s house, and the rest was tied to the automobile outside. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We never went on fancy vacations, and most of our furniture was stuff my uncle had bought from thrift shops. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The girl said, “I have no furniture. All these things”—she indicated the room behind her—“they were here.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Theodora shouted again, blundered against some light piece of furniture, cursed, and then the door beyond was opened and the doctor said, “Good morning.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Bast cleared the wrecked furniture away, stacking it near the kitchen door to be used as firewood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Inside, there was no furniture, just mats on the ground for sleeping. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The room lacked furniture, but countless paintings hung on the walls. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The early afternoon sun poured through the window, adding warmth to the stiff furniture I’d encountered two weeks ago. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Antique furniture, the kind I’d seen in films from the 1940s, was positioned around the room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Her rooms are modest in comparison to others hidden behind the circus tents, but they are filled with books and well-worn furniture. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They found just what they needed behind the doughnut shop and the furniture store in the next block, and brought them back to Egypt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They found carved furniture, sitting rooms, lounges, a bar with shattered liquor bottles, staterooms, art on the walls mangled and torn, oil paintings tossed about and punctured. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z All the heavy furniture and bedding had to be left behind, and these were promised to the Huangs as my dowry. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if I push furniture in front of the door, that will only keep him out for so long, and this time there’s no Doctorita down the hall. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She swept as hard as she could, and then immediately dusted all the dark shiny wood of the furniture. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z We still had our beds and chairs and bureaus and dining-room furniture, so we could get along, but even so, the house was bare and echoey. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The storerooms held supplies of every kind—canned food, clothes, furniture, blankets, light bulbs, medicine, pots and pans, reams of paper, soap, more light bulbs—everything the people of Ember could possibly need. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Look at the furniture higgledy-piggledy in the corridor.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z My family’s old furniture had been shined up into an impressive dowry and placed in the front parlor. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The furniture thumping to the floor, the teapot shattering, and the mayor’s enraged shouts made a clamor that covered the sound of her footsteps as she dashed to the stairway door. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z All the wood, my bunk, the sparse furniture. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z They scampered over, leaping over furniture in their eagerness, but stopped abruptly when they saw their servant. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z There was no furniture in there, only places where furniture had once been. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z There wasn’t much crime to deal with, but he was always on call to come help housewives move furniture, and anybody who needed a ride could depend on Tag to supply taxi service. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z August said it could make your fishing line float, your button thread stronger, your furniture shinier, your stuck window glide, and your irritated skin glow like a baby’s bottom. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The furniture consisted of some chairs and some cross-shaped sawhorses. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Most of the discussions were about items too large to take on board: antiques, furniture, expensive carpets. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z One by one, each child pretended to be a piece of furniture the others sat upon. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z He realized that there was no furniture in the entire room except for her throne; all visitors had to either stand or kneel before her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z This site isn’t for selling old furniture or finding a plumber. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She opens the door wide onto a large, sunny living room with views of the water, filled with floor-to-ceiling bookcases and antique furniture. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Richard smelled the saltiness of the air as Kainene led him through wide rooms with tastefully mismatched furniture, wood carvings, muted paintings of landscapes, rounded sculptures. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The thinking was that because we were furniture movers, we obviously weren't too bright. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Just one delivered to a human would break every bone, would turn any piece of furniture into splinters, would reduce an entire house into a pile of rubble. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Floors to vacuum, bathrooms to scour, furniture to dust, and twenty-five beds to change. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z At our new place, I have Dad’s old bedroom furniture from when he was a kid—a bed, a desk, and a bookshelf, all made out of the same dark wood. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The best guest room was shabby and the furniture was cheap, but at least it was clean. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The clothes and jewelry and even the furniture all have histories, like they didn’t just come from a factory—they had lives before they enter my life. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The furniture is aged white wicker that looks like it’s been sitting in the sun. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It takes us all day to haul the furniture on the pram from one end of Limerick to the other. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He spent Adam’s money remorselessly—new furniture, new carpets, a gas water-heater, and a large icebox. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I recognized the simulated wood-grain paneling, the burnt orange carpet, and garish furniture that looked like it had been scavenged from several disco-era yard sales. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My mother and father slept on a single mattress, our only piece of furniture, which took up a third of our space. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z For months we’d been moving as much of our furniture and apparel out of the apartment as we could. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Double you, double owe, dee, you know, like the stuff they make furniture out of—furniture, you know, and spears, and— well—spears, you know, and furniture.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There were alleyways and roads bordered by teetering piles of broken and damaged furniture, stowed away, perhaps, to hide the evidence of mishandled magic, or else hidden by castle-proud house-elves. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The cars were surrounded by piles of junk and boxes—furniture, rugs, computers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z They tune in to newscasts, concerts, operas, national choirs, folk shows, a dozen children in a semicircle on the furniture, Frau Elena among them, hardly more substantial than a child herself. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The yard was littered with abandoned car parts, tires, broken pieces of furniture, and other detritus. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Because Patrick didn't believe in having himself bonded, we rarely moved anything of great value, no museum-quality paintings or extraordinary pieces of furniture. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The set was styled after a New England farmhouse, with mock Shaker furniture and antique farm equipment, pitchforks and so forth, hanging from the clapboard backdrop. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z All their new furniture was nothing like the stuff in Blood Rose Manor. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Dad’s in the moving truck, making sure the furniture comes out in a certain order. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It’s unrecognizable, as if a tornado swept through, picked up furniture, and threw it against the walls. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The secondhand dealers had been prowling around for weeks, like wolves, offering humiliating prices for goods and furniture they knew many of us would have to sell sooner or later. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Mine is the only one that is clean and has furniture. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “Everything must be removed to create space. Carry the furniture out onto the dock. Take the tablecloths up to the arbor on the sundeck. They’re organizing a hospital ward up there.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The furniture looks as if it’s been picked out by her parents: a square-armed off-green sofa, a wheat-colored carpet, a coffee table, two lamps with the cellophane still on the shades. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When the secret police conducted raids, they always made a point of tearing things up, ruining furniture, wrecking stuff. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Dell then maneuvered around his heaps of junk, and took a seat on his patio furniture, which he used indoors in his living room. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Halls break away from the room, which is where all of the furniture must be. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He said, in a faint echo of bluster, “Look here. I’m allowed to search the furniture in your house, and anything else I find in it. You are in it, aren’t you?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z When we were both clean and dressed in new clothes and had moved the furniture back where it belonged as best we could in the sitting room we felt pretty cheered up. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z All that was left was the furniture that was absolutely necessary, the silver candelabra and table service, for the everyday utensils had been sold one by one to underwrite the costs of her education. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When he looked in, he saw sheets laid eerily over all the furniture and even on the carpet, as if an arctic landscape had lifted itself and dropped into a parlor in Phippsburg. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z No turtles or elephants on her bedroom furniture, but a few statues spread out round the room. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Who would ever want to live in a furniture catalog photo? The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The flat smelled of furniture polish and dogs. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z In Phnom Penh, I could run very fast around our home, barely avoiding the corners and sharp edges of furniture. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sets of couches and low tables were carted into the forum until it resembled a furniture showroom. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He points with his chin toward the room, and Gusty and Ronan begin to flip the furniture back over for us. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Chandresh asks when Marco reaches the suite that comprises the entire fifth story, each room lit by a multitude of Moroccan lanterns that cast fractured shadows over the opulent furniture. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z For the time being, the house was to be kept as it was, until he could decide which of the furniture to be rid of, which of their own to bring. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Despite the lack of furniture, the apartment did not feel empty. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then she and Blanca set about the task of covering all the furniture in sheets and blanketing the house with mothballs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The elaborately carved furniture and drapes matched the bed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Why, Werner—” She loses herself momentarily in troubled reverie, surrounded by sleek furniture, some of it wrapped in thick wool blankets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We proceeded down a hall I remembered being almost impassably clogged with broken furniture, past the staircase, now gleaming with varnish, curious faces peeking at me through the banisters, through the dining room. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z But in its stead, I felt like a man who awakens in his own house and finds all the furniture rearranged, so that every familiar nook and cranny looks foreign now. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “You’re so lucky, Virginia!” they say when they visit me at the hotel, ogling the indoor garden and skylight and elegant furniture. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning an ancient furniture lorry stops for them. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I would build her a proper home in Qunu, with a garden and modern furniture and fittings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Arm looked around at the sagging furniture and peeling paint. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They were about the same size and had about the same amount of furniture and closet space. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Glossy bentwood furniture, throw rugs over hardwood floors, Southwest accents: an Anasazi-style wedding vase here, a Georgia O’Keeffe print there. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Her eyes flutter over Ivy as if she's a piece of furniture in the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She looked around the room, mentally rearranging furniture, throwing out table lamps, removing artificial flowers. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The saliva would have stained regular furniture, but it went right through the plastic weave of the lawn chair, which was another plus. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I am a piece of furniture, not a girl who will remember every word spoken in this room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The hunting trail began where they’d said, between an abandoned haircutter’s hut and a cluster of charred bed frames marking a looted furniture shop. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In the room above the kitchen someone was moving furniture about. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Anticipating the sharp, smoky stink of old urine that permeated the walls and furniture, they clamped their nostrils shut well before the smell began. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It repaired roofs, walls, pipes, cars, furniture, and boots. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Then the trampoline broke, but I didn’t go back to the old routine because Mum said it would damage the walls and furniture now that I was bigger. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He went back to the tent with the quilts and the furniture. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Presumably he is a woodworm, not an earthworm, and Locke’s furniture was crawling with them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Since we didn’t have money for furniture, we improvised. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He thought about Grandmother’s silly gold statues of Chinese immortals, her superstitions about putting furniture in certain places and avoiding unlucky numbers. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I didn't get to see our families or their homes or furniture or anything. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There were clouds painted on the ceiling, and the few pieces of furniture left seemed too small for an average adult. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He was in high spirits as we carried the furniture out to our wagon. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The attic is filled with boxes and furniture packed so tightly it’s hard to move around. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They sit in the living room, on the furniture and on the floor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Their laughter echoes in the empty space with no carpets or furniture or houseplants to dampen the sound. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The larger pieces—mattresses, box springs, broken pieces of furniture—he left outside, leaning against the storehouse. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Why did he always feel the need to bring home every piece of furniture he found, like they were stray animals?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Medieval painting, for instance, is to a large extent “applied,” in the sense that it embellishes surfaces which serve other, practical purposes as well—walls, book pages, windows, furniture. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They were comparing furniture, tile work, the structure of a leaded glass window, the folds in a satin skirt. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He had decorated his waiting room with goldfish and one of the finest suites of cheap furniture. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She’d loved her home so much, always had some project underway—wallpapering, painting, refinishing furniture. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After we'd carried the furniture to the deadbeat's new apartment, Patrick offered me a job, and I took it. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They didn’t have much furniture, and the pieces they had wasn’t nowhere near as good as me and Pap could’ve made, but they was solid. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z She tolerated them fair enough, except for the muddy boots on the furniture and when they spread butter on their bread with their thumbs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wipe down the windows and sweep the floor before you uncover the furniture,” she said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Chess blinked, trying to make out the familiar furniture of the Boring Room: the desk, the chair, the bookshelves. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The room’s usual furniture had been pushed carelessly up against the walls. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She sits on an armchair, Dimitri’s only piece of living room furniture. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He pulled into the furniture store’s parking lot at about five o’clock one day, planning to wait and watch as she left at the end of her shift. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Well, why on earth are you going all over the house searching for furniture?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z He had seen what happened when a contractor failed to do this: ladders careening through windows and walls, tools damaging furniture, paint all over the lawn and driveway. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I don’t know what I expect to find, but it’s not the sight of my mother seated behind a card table with all of Aunt Lucy’s furniture pushed up against the walls. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The furniture was black leather, and every seat was taken. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “We don't need to pack up the bigger furniture. Mayor said just their personal items need to be collected. Now, what are we going to do with the rest of this stuff? Sell it?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Barack and I were surprised by how much furniture we had to pick out in order to make each room feel homey. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We took turns, one holding the bag while the other dodged about the furniture and up the stairs in pursuit. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A café burned, and so did a furniture store, an A&P grocery store, several abandoned houses, a dry cleaners. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Sonia and Ben will rent a truck and take whatever furniture they have room for. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Almost all the furniture in his own house had been around as long as he could remember, and whatever patterns and designs it originally carried had long ago been worn away. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Of course the sheets weren’t on the furniture when Granny had lain in state in there, but even then, because of her being dead and all, the blinds were closed and the draperies drawn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Instead there was that same look of desertion he’d become accustomed to: no people, but boxes filled with papers covering the furniture and the floor. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z It doesn’t even look like a bedroom anymore because the only piece of furniture left is the red dresser against the wall. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z He’d spent half his summer repairing the battered furniture the whites had tossed out. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I liked this new interaction with people—asking seemingly innocent questions about how much they loved their furniture or wall-to-wall carpeting. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I know that we have British furniture in our bungalow, like the upholstered wooden chairs in the sitting room and our large oval dining table and English china. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Sorry, Percy. It’s just . . . Louis the Sixteenth furniture. Delicious. Plus I always eat furniture when I get—” “When you get nervous,” I said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z This used to be where you came to get wholesale clothing, and it still is; but the old Jewish delis are disappearing, replaced by Chinese emporia, wicker furniture, cutwork tablecloths, bamboo wind chimes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The office is packed with too much furniture. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The only other furniture was a crooked wooden dresser and a small table, on top of which rested a lamp providing what light they had. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The room was entirely empty—not even a stick of furniture. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The cabins there, paneled in exotic woods, were spacious, with built-in vanities, plush upholstered furniture, Persian rugs, bedside telephones, and private bathrooms with hot and cold freshwater showers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was furnished in that generic way homes in furniture catalogs are. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The air smelled of furniture polish and long-ago meals seasoned with garlic and onions. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Everything is bright: bright peach walls, bright blue furniture, bright sunlight streaming in through big bright windows. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The rooms were small, and there was little furniture. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He splits it with Bea, but there’s not much of either of them in any of the high ceilings and heavy, jacquard furniture. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z |
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