But my mother wanted a garden and I worked to make her happy. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been totally rebuilt from dazzling white marble, bigger and grander than ever—with golden windows and rooftop gardens. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lifting the latch of a gate, we passed direct into a little garden overlooking the river, where Mr. Pocket’s children were playing about. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The windows of the room looked out on a wet garden with a wall topped by an iron fence. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

On the weekends, after Baba cycles along the river, the two of them tackle the garden side by side, planting mums and seeding new raised beds with beets, radishes, and garlic. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I headed out through our postage- stamp front garden. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I saw they had little gardens going, I said to myself, "I believe I'll plant me a patch of goldenrod right here." Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to be a dad, he really did—I’m sure he daydreamed about kicking a football around in the garden with his son, or carrying his daughter on his shoulders in the park. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's the garden where we had a party when I graduated from high school. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She ran to the garden and got a big pan of earth, while Aunt Polly took Charley into the house and undressed him. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the back of the garden, where the footpath ended, a cave opened in the side of a grassy hill. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mendel’s garden plot may have been small—but he did not confuse its size with that of his scientific ambition. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, it soon stepped into a garden and began rooting it up. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

On the rooftops of beachfront hotels to the east, and in the gardens behind them, a half-dozen American artillery units drop incendiary rounds into the mouths of mortars. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When the Chamber of Commerce improved its gardens, the merchants each gave five dollars but Dora was asked for and gave a hundred. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Come four o'clock in the afternoon, Grandma would let me go with her to the garden in the rear of the backyard to water what she called her four-o'clock plants. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Women harvested fruit from the gardens of the dead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The gardens were cooled with fine sprays of water, and the rooms, for the most part, depended on shaded verandas to tame the hot desert air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘These wacksey big ears of mine is picking up even the noise of a man breathing the other side of this garden.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pausing only to employ a few of Uncle Vernon’s choicest swear words, he staggered back into the kitchen, clutching his head and staring out of the window into the back garden. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There had been a cottage, a couple, a garden. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When Gus came back in from the garden, we went out on the porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“He’s got a garden laid out with spring water running through it, and he’s set a place apart for flowers, roses and the like, and some of the bushes are coming clear from Boston.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

In a clearing spread a vast garden teeming with familiar and exotic plants, the ingredients of all the. varied medicines and liniments favored at court. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There must have been some seed he left, to cause a child’s vacant fairy-tale to come alive in that garden. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The green and yellow panes of the glass gardens were all in shards, the trees and fruits and flowers tom up or left exposed to die. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One morning, after breakfast, Kathy, Walter, Eddie Daniels, and I drifted over to the garden at the southern end of the courtyard where we appeared to be having a political discussion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy made a flat cake of white flour with a sprinkling of sugar on top, and Jenny pulled tender radishes and onions from her garden to give the taste of spring to their meed. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to tidy up his mother’s flower garden, a treasured patch of disheveled foliage that grew beneath her bedroom window. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ladies pretended to study the sky and the little garden behind the cathedral. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

True Belle was there, chuckling, competent, stitching by firelight, gardening and harvesting by day. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hopped up on the garden table where his mum used to drink Pimm’s in the summer, and he lifted himself up and over the back fence. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

If I planted watercolor roses in your garden would you laugh then? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the afternoon, it's the walk through the Residenz palace gardens, Papa and Maria on either side of me, holding my hands as we stroll to rehearsal. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“If we are to stay alive,” I said, “there is work that has to be done. There are the crops and the seeds, the garden, the animals.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He pulled back his hand and said he'd heard it was a community garden. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the small enclosed garden of the brownstone where we once lived. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

We stooped over and crossed the garden, where the flowers rasped and rattled against us. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was something about the design of the gardens, or the fact that the wrought-iron fence surrounding the lawns was nearly ten feet tall and unclimbable to my well-trained thief’s eye. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He shouldered his pack, left the garden, and set off through the hot, silent streets, satisfied. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I give you guys my money, you’ll let me hoe in the garden even after I ain’t no good at it. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man with a sun-weathered straw hat and faded overalls unbent himself from his chores in the garden to nod our way as we walked up to him. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

With my gift I accused him of being the serpent in the garden of Denmark. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I took Wishbone out in the yard and pulled weeds from between the marigolds beside the garden shed while he slept in the sun. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was as though someone waited down there, in the little garden where the nettles grew. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But so breathtaking were the streets that late afternoon, with their sentinel trees and tender gardens, that the sun itself seemed to waver, unsetting, reluctant to leave; it was the onlooker whose presence weighted everything. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell whether he’d taken a shower or sprayed himself down with a garden hose. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But over time I realized that the court of Elsinore was a lovely garden where serpents hid in the grass. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The ditch systems were similar to those still used today in the highlands to drain swampy areas for use as gardens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I always wore gloves. You got to understand—gardening ages your skin faster than a month of sunbathing. Not that that matters now," he said wryly, studying his wrinkled hands. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When they talk about gardening, usually it means they give the directions and we do the work. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here I am, dearest boy! In the garden!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Granny had serious doubts about being able to see them go any further, for the cost of black education had risen dramatically, and her earnings from gardening had not. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before you do,” said Malcolm, “what is that place back there? That garden?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The cottages were fewer here, and their gardens larger; they were walking toward the foot of the mountain in whose shadow Hogsmeade lay. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Janssen polishes her eyeglasses again while she waits for me to answer, rubbing off dust particles they picked up on the floor, murmuring something about the garden stake. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I weeded our garden, sold eggs from our coop, took odd jobs when I could find them, did every chore they asked of me, and then some. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

All the fairies gleamed brilliantly, outshining the flowers of the garden like the sun outshines the moon. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Run out to the garden and get a head of lettuce, Matty, while I finish cleaning the fish. Then you can make a salad while the fish cooks.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of the pale sky of a Würzburg summer morning, the white blossoms on the orange trees in the gardens. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I imagine myself going to the house, walking along the little pathway between their garden and the neighbour’s garden, climbing over the fence. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monday through Saturday my mom worked in her office and puttered around her garden dressed like a homeless person. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In her shock, she had not seen what was missing from the garden. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fingernails rough and dirty from pulling weeds in the garden. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I pick Evie up and we go out into the garden together. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crossed the garden in what felt like only two strides and threw his arms around the old man as carefully as he could. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She was sitting in the lush garden one Saturday morning with Clever clamped to her like a leech. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took on a rotating variety of chores such as gardening and soap-making. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In this swarm of cigarettes and dark sophistication they appeared here and there like figures from an allegory, or long-dead celebrants from some forgotten garden party. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Could it be that I am near the garden where the evil things grow? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

An early winter quill had etched an icy pattern over the garden. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the hospital was a wide, sloping lawn, bordered by flower gardens. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“You mean Lucia’s dogs? No, we locked them out in the garden because they ate my chocolates.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cecile’s gaze roamed from the hanging sheets, up the broken pecan tree, to the animals, the garden, and then out beyond the pines until I was sure she was staring off into her mind. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

This was the one she gardened and fished in, nibbled at the brim. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They heard from the secret gardens the singing of caged birds and heard the splash of cooling water on hot flagstones. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cargo shorts are frayed at the edges, and her gardening clogs smell like they’ve been doing exactly what they were made for. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Some were like small castles, while others looked like ships or space stations, and still others grew like trees, with fanciful balconies and rooftop gardens. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Most housewives, madam,” he said acidly, “would not bother with herbal trifles in their garden when there are mouths to feed and neighbors to look after. Why not grow something more substantial?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

From the garden sprouted a tower made of inky black stone. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Most of the garden was hidden by a screen of runner beans. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Outside her garden and the fishbowl where her goldfish died. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The party lanterns have been blown out and the garden is shrouded in darkness. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She was fortunate, she realized, that the garden had not been entirely stripped during her four days in the Field. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came padding in with their eyes lit up like cats finding a bunny in the vegetable garden. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We agreed he must have just come in from the garden. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

There would have been trees, and an herb garden. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was rain that meant business, and currently its business was turning the garden into a muddy, wet soup. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Miss Lilian was the snake in the garden, the witch in the gingerbread house, someone to fear even though she was dead. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

From time to time, I think I hear the chanting echoes from the church float on the breeze all the way down to the gardens, but Ethan says that is impossible. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

As she watched, a woman darted out of a clump of nearby trees, glanced at Kira, and then brazenly began to pull carrots from the garden that Kira and her mother had tended together. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fruits and vegetables from her parched garden, no doubt. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They are full of new pink, yellow and bright purple garden flowers growing in neat rows. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day Robin was sitting in the trundle cart finishing the child’s doll when Brother Luke came into the garden. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t Hayes give you the best out of our gardens? I told him to.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a warm day in the late fall, they were adding compost to the garden to prepare it for the next spring, and he stopped to rest. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Kaede was working in the cliff garden when she received the summons. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Three trunks were stacked against the far wall; there was an old wheelbarrow, garden tools, a coil of rope. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pretty little house stood at the top of the lane, with a garden before it, exquisitely neat and brilliantly blooming. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He’d keep me in the store, garden, and stable the rest of the summer. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And in the garden, and in the woods, and down in the stone cottage on the beach. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In every garden wallflowers blossomed in bright color and filled the air with perfume. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

This meant that we could move their home to a new place in the garden each time they had finished eating the leaves growing inside. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The voices were so loud that we Liars came up the walkway from Red Gate and stood at the foot of the garden, listening. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

With my loafers in my hand, I walk through the garden. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Soldiers studied battle strategies in the sand gardens. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And I got up once to take Tilly outside and stood for a long time in my mother’s butterfly garden outside the back kitchen door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She had, before coming out of the garden, looked around carefully to be sure Dragon was nowhere in sight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And then I went out of the kitchen door into the garden again. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In ten weeks, the garden had generated over ninety pounds of produce—from only about $200 worth of seeds and mulch. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The rabbit spent the day hanging by his ears, baking in the hot sun, watching the old woman and Bryce weed and hoe the garden. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Looking through the window, I saw him traverse the garden. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was the width of a garden hose but not very long. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

‘Oh yes, Your Majesty. He’s out there in the garden now.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are several gardens with gigantic palm trees lined up along the whole road. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The moon was bright over the mountains and sent a shimmering glow across the yard, making shadows that snaked around the dogwood tree and crept along the garden fence. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I’m sketching an outline of this one flower in the garden. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Indiscriminate in taste, the mariposas flittered over cultivated gardens as happily as they danced over thorn-ridden lots and neglected fields. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was a dry and bloated bag of skin that all the ants in the world were dragging toward their holes along the stone path in the garden. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We, like our seeds, were now planted in the garden. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rabbits died of shock, and the vines withered in his garden. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He glided forward through the vast garden, and once again Sophie noticed how he seemed to melt into the shadows wherever he went. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julie, it turned out, loved gardening and she talked about nothing else. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’m famous for my love of animals, too, and have created quite a little menagerie in the compound between the garden and the restaurant for everyone’s amusement. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I also like spending time in the garden,” she continued. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was in the garden on Saturday when the Mexican family drove up in a truck with a dead pig in the back. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How is the planting? Has the garden come up? And the corn?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The gentle sprinkler rain filled the garden with falling light. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garden on the little island was beginning to wither. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had many red columns and a peaked tile roof, and behind that what looked like a garden house with round windows. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room faced the yard and overlooked the long, sloping garden, which was filled with flowers: bright red geraniums, sweet-smelling mignonette, and purslane with red, orange, yellow, and pink blossoms. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Neel’s sister got up early to pump and haul water, feed the animals, make patties out of cow dung for fuel, wash clothes, tend the garden, cook, and clean. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

My father was mending a fence around the garden and stopped what he was doing. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even more astounding than the great temples and immense banners and colorful promenades were the botanical gardens—none existed in Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The house in Zundert with the attic bedroom and the room overlooking the garden, the garden itself—none of it is theirs anymore. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The entire sky garden was beyond recognition, burned and charred as though an unseen force had ravaged every iota of life there. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Some have gardens, and I wonder who tends them. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the memorial plinth itself was constructed in more recent times to satisfy Mozart’s Grave tourists and is placed in what amounts to a random spot in the garden. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I got up and followed Amil who ran outside to the garden. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Nearby, garden tools hung on the wall and lay on a long shelf, clippers in four different sizes, shovels, hoes, stiff metal rakes and long-fingered leaf rakes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before entering the museum, I take a walk around the gardens outside. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

So I decided to double the size of the garden. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They tipped the dirty water away onto the base of a clump of snapdragons which, Nettle said, made him homesick for his parents’ back garden. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Miss Lark’s two maids were rushing wildly about the garden, looking under bushes and up in-to the trees as people do who have lost their most valuable possession. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

In the garden, Dede is surprised to hear the radio in the outdoor kitchen announce that it is only three o’clock. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he spends most of his time gardening, reading, and writing articles that he submits to the Korean newspapers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But Daddy said he chose green because of his nice garden. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

As Kendra continued to survey the garden, startled disbelief melted into wonder. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was a normal garden shed with pruning shears, buckets, watering cans, and the accompanying assortment of cobwebs, dead bugs, and dust. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

While Dudley lolled around watching and eating ice cream, Harry cleaned the windows, washed the car, mowed the lawn, trimmed the flower beds, pruned and watered the roses, and repainted the garden bench. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The people in Bamiyan had told me I would find him easily— he lived in the only house in the village that had a walled garden. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A funny little garden gnome stands guard by Uncle Phil’s squash patch. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Swim across the lake in the woods, climb the quarry down Pig Lane, go nightcreeping across some back gardens. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Birds and squirrels and monkeys chatter merrily in the abandoned garden. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She could hear the raspy caw-caw-caw of the blackbirds that ate the pawpaws in the garden. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The word crashes through the garden like a bolt of lightning. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The garden behind the bungalow woke in fitful spurts. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you drop the other in the garden?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pounded fufu, made garden egg stew from eggplant and dried fish, and gathered more bananas, mangoes, and papayas. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Much the same. We have gardens. Houses. Families. But it is much quieter than this village. There is no arguing. People share what they have, and help each other. Babies rarely cry. Children are cherished.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I have always enjoyed gardening, it was not until I was behind bars that I was able to tend my own garden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As a matter of fact,” Mrs. Frisby explained, “they didn’t plow the particular spot in the garden where we live. It’s behind a boulder.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Across the roof hearing the roof loud now I could see Natalie going through the garden among the rain. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pull back a series of curtains, revealing a glass wall and a magnificent garden alive with roses of every color, flowers of every shape, and plants of every kind. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They were on the garden terrace, which was at the top of the great seraph’s breast, stretching from shoulder to shoulder, and overlooked the city all the way to the Cusp. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They set up in the front garden, near the generator house, and stayed until the last guests left, all of them slow and sated, taking food wrapped in foil. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They had entered a neighborhood of splendid quiet, hushed gardens, and columned houses. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lest they be frightened out of their feathers, a garden separated the birds from the ogres. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It strikes me then that what’s really odd is her showing up in my garden first thing on a Sunday morning. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was good, because I still had the rest of the garden to plant, and since it was late in the season, the cooler the weather stayed the better it would do. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We were putting out seedlings in her kitchen garden, and I nearly planted two tomatoes in the same hole together as she told me the story. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

At the other end of the table were various histories, theoretical treatises and practical handbooks on landscape gardening. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Endive and spinach escaped from colonial gardens and grew into impassable, six-foot thickets on the Peruvian coast; thousands of feet higher, mint overwhelmed Andean valleys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Several days later, once Father had regained his composure and both his eyes, he assured me that Mama Tataba hadn’t meant to ruin our demonstration garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was just rising, and through the window Matty could see that the gardens were bathed in amber light. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

We stayed in Manderley, in the gardens close to the house. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He hauled stones in off the desert and built a small rock garden outside our doorway, with succulents and a patch of moss. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then it was over—the car ride and the discussion, Mabel's body against mine—and we were letting ourselves into her garden and I was trying to call it back. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was a little late because Mrs. Mason had loaded me down with three hostas and five tall ferns “for your mother’s perennial garden.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

Today she rips her garden gloves from her hands, whips them at the kitchen island, and screams like she can’t stand the very sight of them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He saw them behind her, through the arcade, and as Weep’s dead answered Minya’s call, moving toward the arches that had for fifteen years stood open between garden and gallery, Lazlo closed them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And Father made a vegetable patch in the garden and I helped him. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Are we going to bury him here, Hagrid, in your garden?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the garden, we could hear its bustle, the horseshoes on stone cobbles and dirt, the conversation of sailors, the crying of onions and oysters in passageways. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Henry made us read portions of Walden Pond, and afterward I’d had fantasies of going to a private garden where T. Ray would never find me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With no servants, how could there be gardens? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

But they also destroyed Indigenous farms, gardens, and towns, killing men, women, and children and taking over stores of food in addition to their lands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly he slipped up a cobbled street, turned into a garden, stripped off his uniform and hung it on a clothesline. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was now sitting on his garden wall. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It was a white enamel tub up on legs, and we filled it with water from the garden hose. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She flexes her fingers and kneels before her garden bed. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was little food in the garden and no food to buy. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she walked away from him, out of the garden and toward her small house. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

They kept to themselves as much as possible, gardening, raising chickens and pigs and goats and even some sheep, only going down the slope to the village out of necessity. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The beavers became quite fond of gnawing on a certain hardy shrub at the edge of the garden. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There it was, surrounding me: my wild and tangled and colorful garden. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now his house was deserted and his garden withered away, and few people remembered anything good about Narciso. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those were her plants growing in the garden. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I add bouquets of columbine, fennel, and daisies from my garden. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you go out to the garden and pick some fresh tomatoes to go with our lunch?” she said, then waited till May was out the door. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stone wall of the garden lay in front of them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The TV is on, some kind of garden show. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They look relieved when they spot us coming back from the garden. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He remembered when he got chicken pox how Aunt Queen had made a warm poultice out of something she found in the garden, and the itch had disappeared. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawns and gardens were spaced between small houses and shops. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Across the street, which sloped steeply, was another hotel with a similar wall and garden. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

For the first time since Henry grabbed him and kissed him with so much certainty in the garden, the thought enters Alex’s mind: What if it was never his decision to make? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And before long, Ama, as she came to be called, was as much a part of our messy garden as all the rest of us. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

You have an early-morning gardening job tomorrow and you get drunk the night before. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

But the Frisbys had always come to the garden, preferring the relative safety and freedom of the outdoors. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I read books about animals, and I watched the birds and insects in the garden. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He dashed to the back garden, where Fang and Slasher were hurling themselves against the wire of their cage. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“All kin’s a vegetables in the garden, and if we want a little whisky we can sell a few eggs or something, or some milk. We’d jus’ live there. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cal slipped out the kitchen door and moved through Lee’s waning kitchen garden. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Hush, he’s in the garden! I forgot the confounded jelly, but it can’t be helped now,” said John, surveying the prospect with an anxious eye. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shall we sit here or go out in the garden?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When we got home, Howard was sitting in a lawn chair by the garden watching Gus doing some repairs to the fence. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was around this time that June and Neil started a first-class fight out there in the tomato garden. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not in the garden and I had to wait in the office of the hospital until she came down. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Puzzled and luckless, she dragged herself home clutching stalks of anything that blossomed along the edges of lots and other people’s gardens. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald spends most of his time in his vegetable garden, his nails permanendy blackened from his careful cultivation of lettuce and herbs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing long dresses and wrapped in shawls, they could have been mistaken for a group of grandmothers on a garden tour. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She nearly stopped forever just outside Ashton, because she came to a tiny cottage buried in a garden. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The girl in charge opened her mouth, but an older boy stepped up and leaned the rake in his hands against the simple fence surrounding the garden. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At the same time he became aware of voices, and two guards walked slowly across the garden, patrolling the back of the house. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Behind the hut grows a big, luscious vegetable garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house they lived in had a lake and gardens, a wide staircase, white doors and windows, and curtains with flowers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The women had been sitting in the garden, eating from a platter of fresh mulberries that Wajma had picked from the tree in her yard. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Lancelot,” said the King, finding him one afternoon in file rose garden, "you have been looking wretched lately. Is there anything the matter?" The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is why he had to say something when he saw one of those drug customers take a shortcut across the garden. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Or they might have to work in the garden, pulling weeds. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I could live there all alone, she thought, slowing the car to look down the winding garden path to the small blue front door with, perfectly, a white cat on the step. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he’s not gardening, Grandpa likes to re-create his favorite paintings from the Metropolitan Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I will help you grow a garden,” said the doe to the robot, “if you will let my family eat from it.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They don’t keep cattle or grow gardens big enough to produce food to get them through the dry season. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rented a house, cultivated a large garden, and plunged into the work of discovering and breeding caterpillars. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Yet another lure into a garden path comes from the statistical patterns of the English language, in which certain words are likely to precede or follow others. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

From the Truman Balcony, I could see the fullness of the garden taking shape on the southwest corner of the lawn. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She ran out the door, along the gallery past Mother’s room, through the rock garden into the next court which belonged to Third Uncle. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

But at the time I just glanced at the garden and went on to the barn to see after the animals. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Her head looked like a garden, with the flower clips attached all over it. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sah,” he said, although he was already thinking of what spot would be best for the herb garden: near the Boys’ Quarters where Master never went. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon, you two!” said Loudwing as she waddled into the garden. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I wander down the path into the garden and through the fruit trees, recognizing landmarks from stories Baba told. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She sat in the garden with her enormous head jutting in through the doorway. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He raced back up the slope, scrabbling over low stone walls, and pelted through the sheepfold, past the garden and through the cloister, still gripping his apple branch swords. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was out there pushing his garden up into rectangular, flood-proof embankments, exactly the length and width of burial mounds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet I couldn't believe that they would choose this occasion for a scene--especially for the rather harrowing scene that Gatsby had outlined in the garden. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Some part of Annabeth’s mind registered how beautiful the city was—the smells from the bakeries, the gurgling fountains, the flowers blooming in the gardens. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I knew if he went to whooping at me, Papa might chance to look out the store window and wonder why I wasn’t weeding the garden like he said to. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

From the garden I got peas, lettuce, and spinach, took half and set the rest on the porch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Doc mom fed us bagels with butter and sweet tomato jam she’d made from her own summer garden, and we drank black coffee and orange juice. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Stand right here, right in the middle of the driveway until they look up from the creek, across the front yard, over Byrd’s raised garden beds, over the fence and see him standing here. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was arched over a garden gate, head tilted back, arms loose around her face. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It sat amid lush gardens just across the Tiber River from his own residence. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The reverend nodded, adding that Clarkebury students were required to do manual labor after school hours, and he would arrange for me to work in his garden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must know that the gardens were the only dark way in and out of New Pretty Town. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the garden nobody hides; nobody means you harm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The odd thing is when Father was around she never gardened at all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama was out first, in her nightgown, running so fast that she was across the garden before Anya could blink. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The boat and garden would have to wait. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The godswood there was a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sang from hidden nests, and the air was spicy with the scent of flowers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Plus, Mr. Yang kept the house in impeccable shape, repairing leaky faucets, patching the front concrete, and coaxing the stamp-sized backyard into a lush garden. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She smiled as she stepped fully in front of the window to study the garden. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I will paint this town—from a distance, as if it is on a far hill—and in the foreground, an enclosure of gold, a secret garden, a retreat in which I am safe. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Holding the receiver up to my mouth, I'd look out across the garden and into the orderly homes of Valencia's neighbors. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Van Hopper sitting about in the garden of that house on Long Island, with novels, and magazines, and papers on her lap. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We walked down the path under the giant umbrella and out through the dark wet gardens to the road and across the road to the trellised pathway along the lake. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was frowning and wiping her hands on her apron, but by the time she and Wash made it to the edge of the garden, Beto thought he saw the beginning of a smile. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the cover is a garden bursting with flowers, and a silver key and key- hole. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dug a hole in the garden among all the gardenias. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I was going to have to learn to hunt and gather and garden on what amounted to a different planet, full of animals and plants I didn’t know. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Matty could see the slender palms and the strong fingers, calloused at their tips from the garden work, the loom, and the needles that she used for her complicated, beautiful tapestries. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He loved all the walking paths around the house—so much bigger than his tiny garden in London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The nasty little beast will only get into mischief if he goes out of the garden,” Aunt Spiker had said. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Fin was seated on a stool at her workbench, mending a gardening tool. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Carmen and I perch on the edge of the chairs, staring at each other, speechless, listening to the parakeets chirping in the indoor garden. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His name was everywhere: in stores, in schools, in churches, in shebeens, in the madam’s kitchen and garden. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she pretended his room needed cleaning as badly as the bread needed baking or the garden needed weeding. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around the shop like somebody planning out a garden they’re about to plant. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He thought I was trying to continue our earlier conversation in the garden. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The demand for labor is so great that every weekday roughly four hundred workers fly in from the mainland for construction, gardening, plumbing, and other services. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Ultima and I worked in the garden every morning, struggling against the llano to rescue good earth in which to plant. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran off as fast as he could to the far end of the garden and hid himself behind that clump of dirty old laurel bushes that we mentioned earlier on. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

But then I thought about going home again, or staying where I was, or hiding in the garden every night and Father finding me, and that made me feel even more frightened. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around the garden before we left. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He and I were the only occupants of the parlour: Diana was practising her music in the drawing-room, Mary was gardening—it was a very fine May day, clear, sunny, and breezy. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Father had already bent his will to Africa by remaking his garden in mounds, the way they do here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authorities did not regret giving permission, for once the garden began to flourish, I often provided the warders with some of my best tomatoes and onions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped the garden rows, pounding for the house. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If you zoom in close enough, you can’t even tell how lame this garden is.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I picked the most fragrant blooms, then ran to the herb garden hoping to find something useful. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

So I was glad when I found her out back and she said she’d have me working in the garden that day, although calling it a garden required a whole lot of imagination. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We watched her father as he packled in the garden below. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

He has a built-in garden of reasons to choose from. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, the light from the children’s bedroom that gave on the garden went out. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then into the gardens to help the gardeners in the last of the daylight hours. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Not as cool as having a garden on your rooftop, and cooking classes.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sunny shrieked, which meant “I’d much prefer gardening to sitting around watching my siblings struggle through law books.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She thought it was fine that we had a Mama Duck in our garden. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Umm...They were thrown out. God threw them out of the garden.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds scuttled away and the sun blazed, turning the yard into a garden of jewels. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

His idea was to get up early in the morning and gather up dew from his garden. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came bearing gifts: Angelo with his wine and pate, and Sue with a bouquet picked from her garden. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

This garden is the one I didn’t recognize—from Gram’s unfinished painting. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

With that the servant of the Prince came and led them to the Houses of Healing; and there they found their friends in the garden, and their meeting was a merry one. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Always talking about eating 'em out of her aunt7s garden when she was a kid and how she wanted to grow 'em someday. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

No longer must people till their own gardens to eat, or hunt for their own meat. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You’ll stay right here. Your mother needs your help, and that poor garden is like to expire. It is time for you to haul some water, little Mattie.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she refused they would bear false witness against her, claiming they caught her in the garden with a man. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all wildly hungry and one suggested they raid the factory’s vegetable garden, where there were cabbage, lettuce, cucumbers, eggplant, and radishes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And now that the dead dog was gone, he assured her, “The little garden is worth its weight in gold.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our clubhouse was a tiny clearing inside the circle of bushes behind the gazebo in the community garden. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At one end of the garden, William had planted a Talisman rose. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

With the smell came memories of what we’d once had, of cool mornings sitting in the garden of our Kinshasa house. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Across the channel I could see Osh in the garden, pulling weeds. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Every day I wasn’t staying over, I visited her first thing in the morning and always with an orchid from my garden for the girls. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Executives led them across the rock garden onto the large central plaza, which lay fronted and flanked by the Institute’s massive stone buildings. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the Wives have such gardens, it’s something for them to order and maintain and care for. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the while, our gaunt house by the garden descended ever more into penury. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Close to the stables were the kitchen gardens and the cutting gardens. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much later that night, Will and Lyra crouched in the lane that ran along beside the tree-shaded shrubbery in Sir Charles’s garden. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plant a garden in Manhattan for me, will you?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the summer, the rose gardens are in full bloom and the fountain runs, so people stop and make penny wishes. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And then one afternoon in January Thomas Sutpen came home; someone looked up from where we were preparing the garden for another year’s food and saw him riding up the drive. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has no children but has a dog named Lassie and a garden that takes up her backyard. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There’s a huge garden party at the White House, and Nora is there in a dress and blazer and a sly smile, pressing a kiss to the side of Alex’s jaw. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I passed a child’s wagon loaded with garden tools. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now we were walking on a narrow garden wall. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

His father sold the house and they moved to a garden apartment where no memories lurked around corners. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

He tells of gardens in a way that I know he loves the earth. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She led them through the garden, delaying, showing off this and that new planting. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a deep brown, almost the color of the earth in the garden bed. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He would tell Master that the garden was something to do until he started school, since the headmistress at the staff school had told Master that he could not start midterm. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Suraya walks with me to a corner of the garden and kneels as a drone whirs overhead. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There was a massive stone wall with a doorway in it, and in the farther part of the garden, the trees were younger and the planting less formal. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wanted to explain that I'd hunted for him early in the evening and to apologize for not having known him in the garden. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They were pursuing the sow along a road on the edge of the resort where bungalows were fronted by small patches of gardens surrounded by fences. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The hotel’s fourth floor, where garden rooms with French balconies open directly onto the ramparts, has become home to an aging high-velocity anti-air gun called an 88 that can fire twenty-one-and-a-half-pound shells nine miles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Off to the side is the garden—a bit of an overblown name for it, since it’s mostly large, uneven rocks surrounded by pale-green shrubs, the color of eucalyptus. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

If she could be this wealthy and have power over so many people but couldn’t grow her own garden, what kind of freedom was that? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

For a long time only these homely sounds were heard in the garden close, for the monks did not talk at their work. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I believe he is in the garden, sir.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She used to carry her garden tools around the yard in it and the bottom is still lined with sunflower seeds. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And driving along a back Connecticut road, tree-bordered and gardened, I knew he had made me feel better and surer. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I notice he happily waves preemptively at the woman “gardening,” and she flails her arms back at the happiness of it all. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

After doing our turtle walk, Margaret had gone to her volunteer duties at the garden club, and Grandpa Izzy had gone to his at the public library. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom says you can have the fink bedroom that looks over the garden and down on the bay and the Golden Gate Bridge. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen the garden and took note of the wood I had stacked. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Father asked, “What the hell were you doing poking round her garden?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I blushed, thinking of all the pots that had remained barren and the fruitless work I'd done at the community garden. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Jam looked at their gardens and driveways, still intact even after her and Redemption’s worlds had been shaken apart. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It is pleasant to sit quietly somewhere, in the beer garden for example, under the chestnuts by the skittle-alley. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I wish we could get at them while they’re in there. Still, never mind. Now’s our chance. Let’s see what we can do up this end of the garden while he’s busy down there.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other patients come to watch him as he paints in the garden. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She had let them in the house but immediately went into the backyard to do her gardening, leaving the Baudelaire orphans alone in her glorious library. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Not only the wild things but all the things in Daddy’s garden got ready for eating about the same time, until Mother said she felt food running out of her ears. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I spun about and tore back through the rooms I’d entered, into the garden. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He ambled over to a long stone bench in the garden’s center and patted a spot beside him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A neat row of daffodils lined up like soldiers along the edge of the chicken-wire fence that surrounded the garden. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It felt too good to walk across the garden unburdened by heavy skirts. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it is buried beneath cans, a garden rake, and more. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Mostly, he gardens and takes long walks on the beach.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There was a flagstaff in the garden, and on the roof was a gilt weathercock shaped like a telescope. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

It was a real smile this time, and it made her beautiful in the shadowy garden light. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She edged quickly past the wreckage and the half-built fence, and found the remains of her mother s color garden at the edge of the woods. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she put on her gardening hat and went uptown to the bank. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, of course not. The sliding door at the back, the one leading into the garden.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful in an earthy kind of way, like she enjoyed messy things that made you sweat—gardening and rock climbing and stuff. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“This is wonderful!” said the robot as she strolled around her garden. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Malcolm’s other constituency lay just over the bridge outside the tavern, in the gray stone buildings set among green fields and neat orchards and kitchen gardens of the Priory of St. Rosamund. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As the water heated, I scavenged in the garden again. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I passed some giggling wood nymphs who threw olives at me from their garden. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the voices of her three children in the garden under the consulting-room window. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She would work in the garden and kitchen—she would work day and night to make them like her! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time he had acquired the ability to blend into the background of wherever he was—into bookshelves, gardens, curtains, doorways, streets—to appear inanimate, almost invisible to the untrained eye. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I push, I realize she’s intimidated by the thought of just walking through the school’s imposing gate, past its security guard, through its neatly manicured gardens. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In every respect—he told Matt—he tried to duplicate that memory, only of course being vastly more wealthy, he could have dozens of statues, fountains, and gardens. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she picked the shiny green sprigs from the sandy patch that was their garden, Jinny thought about Deen, wherever he was. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He could run up the long garden paths of the quality an’ save Pat’s poor legs an’ earn a few pennies into the bargain. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And now suddenly, the whole place, the whole garden, seemed to be alive with magic. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes yes yes. 1 have found tree snails and garden snails. But I have never found marine snails.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“And below there are two domes. Huge domes. And the garden and the mosque.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Over this she hung a little kettle full of water and just as it began to boil her husband came in with a fine cabbage he had got from the garden. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In its place his wife had hired gardeners to create an azalea garden that was supposed to be gorgeous. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s some kind of shortcut, though, because after walking through a manicured garden, we come out of another gate onto a small back street that connects two main avenues. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We sat together looking through the crooked stick fence at the great variety of spurned blossoms in my father’s garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They followed him into a large garden, overlooked by buildings on two sides. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths so that he could "come over" some afternoon to a stranger's garden. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I walk up a gentle slope that leads to the bridge to get a long shot of Phil with the garden around him. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The three of us climbed trees and planted gardens together. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were huddled on bare earth in the middle of a garden of pink blazing-star flowers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A sound flitted through the garden, and some of the guards glanced toward the source. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It reminded Meggie of one of her favorite stories, the tale of the Selfish Giant who wouldn't let children into his garden. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The world should be like a garden with people bright as roses and lilies and tulips, otherwise it's all a waste, Maman used to say. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I was embarrassed to reveal that Granny raked leaves and weeded gardens, afraid of being laughed at. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait for my parents to ask about the garden or talk about Eleanor, to call her by name today of all days. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She flew up the drive and suddenly she saw Miss Honey in the front garden, standing in the middle of a bed of roses doing something with a pair of clippers. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

While Mrs. Dursley was in the bathroom, Mr. Dursley crept to the bedroom window and peered down into the front garden. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Meme swallowed her blush, absorbed her tribulation, and even managed a natural smile as she asked him the favor of leaving it on the railing because her hands were dirty from the garden. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She laid her hand on Antain’s arm and led him to her bundles in the garden shed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t looked that upset since the garden had died. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We can scrub your house clean, care for cows and pigs, work your garden, and carry just about anything.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was looking through the window at a fenced-in sandbox and swing set in the hospital garden. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The mobile units are pretty close together, but a wide-open space stands between the last trailer and the garden. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

When he’s not helping his parents, he still works on his art, painting weavers and winter landscapes and gardens and views around the village of Nuenen. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Skirt around the edges of the garden. Go up the mountain. As long as I am a bigger threat, he should ignore thee.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They walked along toward a round building with a great leaden dome, set in a square bounded by honey-colored stone college buildings and a church and wide-crowned trees above high garden walls. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered Calypso’s last request of me: Plant a garden in Manhattan for me, will you? The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The red of the smile is the same as the red of the tulips in Serena Joy’s garden, towards the base of the flowers where they are beginning to heal. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marble stairs lead down into the palace garden for Sophia's birthday game. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Did he think his mama would like some pickled okra from the garden when it was ready? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then he unlocked the back door into the garden and went outside. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or he would drive south to High- garden, no one would ever expect that. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Between the garden and fishing, I ate pretty well. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clara was in the garden and appeared to have been waiting for them all that afternoon. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just as well her garden had refused. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And I can live in a flat with a garden and a proper toilet. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They live on the second floor, since it’s cooler up here with a gallery running all along the back and stairs going down to the garden. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Ophie cast her eyes around the room for something to distract the cousins before they could get started on her when she noticed an eerie light out in the garden, just beyond the lace curtains. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

This mild breeze, carrying the moist essence of early spring, caused a dead leaf to flutter here and there, and across the garden near the fence it moved something that sparkled in the sunlight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And then all the clouds rolled away, and the white sun shone, and at his command the vale of Gorgoroth became a garden of flowers and trees and brought forth fruit. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I run to the bottom of the garden, down towards the tracks. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think we’d better start without Arthur,” she called to the garden at large after a moment or two. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We went along the fence and came to the garden fence, where our shadows were. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mum and Aunt Alice were having a stroll round the windy garden. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She glanced longingly at the glass windows that lined the wall of the castle, and then at the frost-covered garden. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance, and the Muggles’ fear of magic was undoubtedly increased by their dread of what might be lurking in their herb gardens. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then at the foot of the garden the wild ponies would come and look over the wall. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I had been regarding the field, the tractor—the valley—and the planting and garden, all as things of mine, to do or to worry about. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She liked to sit in a beer garden with a companion and a glass of wine, but only in good weather. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Tell me what happened,” I said finally, late one evening when the sky was striped pink and gold and the garden was lit with the last rays of the setting sun. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Hand me the garden stake. I'm going outside for a minute." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He hid in the garden and ate dirt untill his mom found him but she didn’t yell at him for eating it like she usually does. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But her comment still cut, reminding me of the thorns I drew in my garden sketches. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“We can go around the back and see if the kitchen door is open. There's a kitchen garden, from—from whenever in history they had kitchen gardens,” said Paolo. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I visited Frankie every day after work to help him out to the garden. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then a woman shouted, “They’ve crashed, Ted! Crashed in the garden!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Prosper could feel Scipio shiver with anticipation and impatience as they followed Renzo through the large door into the garden. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of soldiers on the roof of the Gallery of Paleontology peer over the gardens with binoculars. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The captain led her through a set of glass doors, and he pointed up as they entered into a garden. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Republicans and Democrats alike had tackled the problem at state and local levels, investing in healthy living, building more sidewalks and community gardens—a proof point that there was common political ground to be explored. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I thought of the eighteen shots of the back garden and the eighteen other shots, our last link to Salim. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since then it had spread like weeds in an untended garden, strangling whatever life grew in its way. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a movie version of an enchanted garden, gorgeous, vivid, and too beautiful to be real. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She just stood, then walked over to her own garden. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joost glanced at his reflection in one of the glass panels set into the double doors that led from the house to the side garden. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“This particular design will only work in one place. My ma’s garden.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Meggie went over to the window, rested her forehead on the pane, and looked down at the garden, where a couple of Capricorn's maids were busy tying up tomato plants. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Harry sped on, staring around, and soon the dwellings became more numerous; there were gardens of weed around some of them, and he even saw a pet grindylow tied to a stake outside one door. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m good with my hands too, Grampa. Gramma lets me help in the garden.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The garden churned through the seasons, teaching us all sorts of things. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She ran up towards the house, she stumbled and got to her feet and then just sort of wandered round the garden in circles. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watch the squash grow out in the garden? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Not to go trespassing in other people’s gardens 5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He was in our back garden breaking things. And then he ran away.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He kept the blinds closed, even though the windows looked out onto a beautiful walled garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exactly how much exploring could you do in a garden? The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I see Isabel retreating with quick steps from the far edge of my garden. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They’re all landscapes—of the river and meadows mostly, one of Old Joe’s farm at sunset, and one of a garden with a lily pond. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Apa waves to me and then leaves for his gardening job. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Some scraggly pink geraniums, marigolds, and spindly poinsettia plants, Lupita’s gardening efforts, bordered the front of the house. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The huge table-topped buildings were no more, in a few seconds, than a bed of geometrical mushrooms sprouting from the green of park and garden. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bono said, “She is a treat in that garden. That’s a very fine place to see her. She fix the borders different this year? She and Mr. Gitney had a plan last summer.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“But how can we get to my sisters’ garden?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

On Thursdays kitchen girls and garden boys, dressed in their Sunday best, continued coming to the townships to spend their day off with their families and friends. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was set at the bend of a river, and there were beautiful gardens out back. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He planned to make a demonstration garden, from which we’d gather a harvest for our table and also supply food and seeds to the villagers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Gloria and Ruth corner Mom and begin to pressure her into joining the garden club, I make my way over toward where Dad has gone to sit with Lily. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

For weeks, her empty garden testified to her miracle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Now his lavish home included landscaped gardens, an expensive Jaguar sports car in the driveway, and a maid. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Through a friend she found another gardening job in Rose- bank, one of Johannesburg’s posh whites-only suburbs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driveway approaching the main entrance curved around formal gardens of great beauty, now tinged with the first brushstrokes of autumn color. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Over the wall, through my stables, past my garden, to my window, throttle the Queen and back the way they came before we know it.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The churned-up dust settled back against the road, some of it mingling with the large dirt rectangle that had once housed Mom’s vegetable garden. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other abilities took longer to discover, and depended on environment and circumstance—like Sparrow’s, which needed a garden, or at the very least a seed, in order to show itself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When the fields yielded little game, they worked the barnyards and farm gardens. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Maxim had seemed almost irritable when he suggested we should go into the garden. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He sighed through his clenched teeth, rubbing a spot on his temple, and headed through the garden. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She had news to tell me that required an immediate walk in the garden. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garden was bursting with people, again in all their alien ways. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

We were walking, just the two of us, with the Sports Therapist in the asylum gardens. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

To relieve the monotony, some people planted small gardens or painted their doors bright colors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Poppins walked down the garden path and opened the gate. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“You get a lot of sun here. You ought to plant yourself a butterfly garden—like my mom,” I suggested. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“To see Nuwa’s Tear,” the Sea King said, “we must go to the garden. Do you not know that?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Maybe a thunderstorm. What do you girls do if it rains when you’re gardening?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He thought that one day he’d come here by right, and be made welcome, and stroll among these gardens with happy companions and feel at ease with life and death. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She took an active interest, for example, in Nick’s flower garden, often eating the heads off the daffodils and hydrangeas, also off the lilacs and roses when those plants bloomed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had sense enough to know my daddy really needed me to be home working the garden. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham’s garden had been lovingly worked with compost for many years until it crumbled like a rich cake in his fingers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He parked his car next to Aunty Ifeoma’s station wagon and took out a can of petrol and a garden hose that had been cut to a quarter of its length. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

About how, since we only had an apartment, he'd spent all his spare time working at the local community garden, and how it had been named after him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We got rope from the garden shed and tied it to the collar. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Those were the girls who lived in a garden at the edge of the West. With the golden apple tree and a dragon guarding it.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“And you said there was no serpent in this garden?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It stood a little way above the rest of the village, and even in daylight was slightly creepy, with its boarded windows and dank overgrown garden. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Near the churchyard, and in the middle of a garden, stood a well-built though small house, which I had no doubt was the parsonage. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I have to say that finding you two ladies gossiping in the garden when I got home was not what I expected.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would waste precious seconds to grab the weapon and load it—seconds when she could take their swords, cut their throats, and vanish into the gardens. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then she jumped up off the bed and said, “Show me the garden.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The soul was the body that fed the tobacco, and the spirit was the blood that watered the cotton, and these created the first fruits of the American garden. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Like it was a flower from one of the trees in the garden. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Standing here and there like frozen party guests were Medusa’s garden statues— petrified children, satyrs, and centaurs—all smiling grotesquely. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was a saying that the Evening Star hippies were the only farmers in the Miracle Valley rich enough to turn over their gardens and cut their fields by hand. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lose myself in his voice, imagining the garden in full bloom—pink cherry blossoms, burgundy leaves of the maple tree, yellow forsythia, red azaleas... Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But in the end Janis found a place for them, a garden apartment nearby. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bad news was, a greenhouse ran the entire length of the garden, right under the fence. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I have been here in the garden for hours.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when Pamela and I retreated to the garden to devour the candy, she asked why I hadn’t done what Mandy wanted straight off. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yvonne and Wesley must have spent more than an hour picking them from what was left in our garden. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Running down the hill on the other side was the vegetable garden, the rhubarb plot, the dahlia beds. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day at lunchtime we were permitted to sit outside in the spacious garden of a neighboring vicarage where we were supplied with a meal cooked by the redoubtable Mrs. Thayanagee Pillay and her friends. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birds returned and the old woman came back to the garden. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I remembered Seattle as a town sitting on hills beside a matchless harborage—a little city of space and trees and gardens, its houses matched to such a background. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid something has happened. Step into the garden, Scott, while I look up Mrs. Brooke,” said John, alarmed at the silence and solitude. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only in the garden or riding around in a car could we speak freely with each other. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the window, there was so much to see, and hear, and touch—walks to take, hills to climb, caterpillars to watch as they strolled through the garden. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

A new voice came from the garden behind me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

All too soon, there was a crunch of gravel outside as Uncle Vernon’s car pulled back into the driveway, then the clunk of the car doors and footsteps on the garden path. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I was five years old when we drove into town, passing block after block of colonial-style brick homes with tidy lawns and manicured gardens. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

I was helping her weed her vegetable garden, something we did so often I had begun to think that the weeds were wizards. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

These were all staples that would take up too much room in the small vegetable garden near the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They had started early that morning and what happened in the garden had not taken very long, so that Fledge and Polly both said they would easily get back to Narnia before nightfall. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

A small burial mound in the middle of Nathan’s garden, where vines and flowers have long since unrolled to feed insects and children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of us stroll through the small garden beside the pool, enjoying the balmy air. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had earned them all in the garden or at specially fortified places Father trusted. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy didn’t seem to mind about the garden much, because soon it was hunting time. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The circular garden that lay before him was like nothing he’d ever seen. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We passed some lovely gardens and had a good look back at the town, and then we were out in the country, green and rolling, and the road climbing all the time. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The other half was vegetables from her garden: snap beans, four turnips, a cabbage. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He got little tools for Tommy, and they went in the garden together. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She dropped down in the garden, like a leaf tumbling off the oak tree of life, just before I was supposed to meet you at Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sam led him along several passages and down many steps and out into a high garden above the steep bank of the river. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We stroll through the gardens outside the museum. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wash followed her gaze to the back garden. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Time I got down to the garden, Biddy on her knees peeking behind the bush. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But we see with understanding eye only if we have walked in the garden at night and here and there with a flashlight have glimpsed the mantis stealthily creeping upon her prey. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I took a walk around the library gardens, trying to figure out what to do. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He missed the sugarcane fields of Jalalabad and the gardens of Pagh- man. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Things had a way of disappearing in the garden, as if the garden itself ate them, or, as if with its old-man memory, it put them away and forgot them. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira followed the woman as she rounded a corner of the garden. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school hours there were the gardens to weed, and the first crop of flax to harvest in the hilly slopes above the town. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She looked over her shoulder, giving Dorian a sneer as she led the princess deeper into the garden. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

From the top of the wall I peered down into a small garden of flowers and herbs. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Audrey and I walked through what passed for a garden at the Quiet Oaks Inpatient Treatment Facility. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Lightfoot put her arm across her face just like Eve in the garden when God saw her nakedness. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Behind the house and up some stone steps is a square garden surrounded by high brick walls and in there are tons of flowers blooming already all in shades of white. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger hurried to the high wall behind which Capricorn's garden lay: vegetable beds, fruit trees, and herbs, protected by the wall from the cold wind that sometimes blew from the nearby mountains. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The statue unsettles me the longer I stare at it, and I waste no more time leaving the corridor to head to the sky garden. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

With a wave of his hand he indicated the gardens, the huge building of the Conditioning Centre, the naked children furtive in the undergrowth or running across the lawns. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I mulched the gardens, weeded, planted, and watered everything. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

‘I think it dropped out of my pocket yesterday. Kat said she’d have a look in the front garden for me.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You've been pottering around for the last four thousand years just...gardening?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Terryl could garden and be with them without being in their faces. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Normally she’d start spinning fantasies about an octopus’s garden and curtains of kelp and trout on the hassock but she’s giving me nothing. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The faint flavour of the ghost of my grandfather hung in a friendly way about the place, house, garden and all.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Elizabeth went outside and greeted her neighbor, the Reverend Simon Hosack, who was working in his garden. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The last thing he heard was the far-off thud of the garden’s trapdoor. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Still she spent hours with Charles in the garden, watching the worms. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when there was still no plant growing in the pot a month before the Moon Festival, the father confronted his son on his nightly stroll through the garden. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the porch, only a few fairies could be seen gliding around the garden. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I often sit with one of them in the little beer garden and try to explain to him that this is really the only thing: just to sit quietly, like this. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were coming to the house by way of the garden, Frith having told them doubtless that I was in the morning-room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Three different spouts on walls of building around garden. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man with a golden tooth that glittered when he spoke released them into the garden. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was relieved when they turned away from the seawall and explored the inland side of the gardens. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Out in back is a homely garden that, even now, in mid-April, has root vegetables waiting to be dug—blighted potatoes and yams and tough-skinned carrots and turnips. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Most people don’t want to learn to garden or hunt. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Probably. We never found out for sure. Apparently it violated some code no one’s ever heard of. Can’t have a garden in the hood!” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The little bag from Resthaven—the one Myanda had given him—fell out of his pocket and landed at the feet of a toppled garden gnome. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They went up the small tunnel to the garden and watched in the moonlight from a hillock a few feet away. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I came to the bottom of the hill, I called out that I was home and my grandmother yoo-hooed from the vegetable garden. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would have given anything for a dressing-gown, not just to keep her warm but to hide the whiteness of her nightie from watchful eyes in the garden below. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could have moved from the lane to a street or even an avenue where houses have gardens. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I stood looking into the neglected garden choked with nettles. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The herb and flower garden Ted had planted. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had special cultivated flowers, grown for the house alone, in the walled garden. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Just another transplant in our messy garden, it seemed. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But there was a measure of comfort standing in the butterfly garden because I knew it was there for Amanda. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The question doesn’t fill his brain long because, just as they emerge from the woods, there in the clearing, Axel sees Byrd in her flower garden. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He used the garden hose to fill the cooler to the top, then dumped in four trays of ice cubes. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“You could have your wedding at the Grand Regency. They have a nice ballroom, and the gardens outside are pretty. That’s where Freebie goes to the bathroom, but I always pick it up.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

People who had never once spoken to him suddenly remembered, with a pang of affection, having seen him throwing sticks to a dog or stealing tulips from a teacher’s garden. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of explaining, Ophie just took her mother’s hand and pulled her through the garden and into the house so she could discover the truth for herself. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It involved a climb over a garden wall and the results were three oranges, a melon, a fig or two, and a pomegranate. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was encircled by a wild, untended garden fierce in its reckless blooming and accidental color. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I have also improved my reputation as a worker, because she is weak, Chou has been taken out of the garden and demoted to a cook. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She said now the goats have a taste for them. She’ll never be able to keep them out of the garden. I’ve single-handedly ruined everything.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Floor-to-ceiling windows behind them overlooked a tiled verandah with wicker sofas and a sprawling garden. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It feels just like the inside of the greenhouse at the botanic garden. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

After their last class of the day, the Mysterious Benedict Society—minus one member—gathered in the rock garden. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

You just go through the forest happily picking mushrooms, kind of like picking tomatoes in the garden. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the garden they were always alone with themselves, but along the bank of the brook in summer lived five other mice families, all with children. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Add a mint leaf from your garden to each glass. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll work out the details. I have faith in us,” I say as we approach the garden. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Once, long ago, in a garden in springtime, Ulysses had seen a squirrel made of stone: gray, hollow eyed, frozen. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

They make for the hedge maze in the northwest corner of the gardens. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As quietly as I could, I got up and fetched an old coffee tin where Osh sometimes kept seeds he collected once the garden was spent. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

My grandfather frequently came by our house with potatoes and beets and other produce from his garden to make sure his daughter and his grandchildren didn't go hungry. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

As she pushed open the door and stumbled into the pitch-dark hall she quietly cursed the man who usually kept an eye on the house and garden whenever she went away. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

They have a garden and some laying hens but don’t grow most of their own food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Byrd has left her spot in the garden, already slipped off her gloves, and gone to Daniel’s grandpa with hellos. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, after everything has settled down, I put away my garden clothes and I run the mile loop. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Wemmick’s house was a little wooden cottage in the midst of plots of garden, and the top of it was cut out and painted like a battery mounted with guns. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I would pull out the grass in my garden by hand when the first little blades came up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lived now in the Bronx, in a one-bedroom apartment in a redbrick building on Tremont Avenue, next to an Italian beer garden where the old men played boccie on summer evenings. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We set it up along the edge of the garden plot and took turns climbing up it to “supervise” the weeding. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I was in the garden with Nehemia—with my guards, don’t worry—and he approached us. He knows all about me—and knows that I hold back when we’re with the other Champions.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I wandered through a few apothecaries and bottle shops, admired the well-kept lawns and gardens. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sun was shining on the hills and the house and the garden and the lawn and the trees and the brook; Eleanor took a deep breath and turned, seeing it all. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Had she picked pole beans out in the garden with Gus? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A moment later the two champions appeared from op-posite sides of the garden. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There’s a ceramic garden gnome hanging out on the shelf beside a container of pink liquid, and he watches me spread the Cookie Monster T-shirt on the floor before taking a seat on it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Dinner was served and the others came in—Sparrow and Ruby from the garden; Feral, yawning, from the direction of his room. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

You see, the garden was no longer scraggly. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

For one second he wanted to run back to the safety of the walled garden, but then the Praise Singer closed the opening. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them tried to stop in the front garden, but Anya pushed them into the house and shut the door behind them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her head was an overgrown garden, and she was lost inside. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was in the garden, doing something on his knees, too, although Aunty Ifeoma often told him “Kwusia, don’t do that” or “If you do that again, I will give you a knock.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d be tending my herb garden, clipping sprigs of fragrant leaves or replanting tender roots, then all of a sudden, a single tear would fall down my face without my awareness, surprising me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The garden had been allowed to go wild, except for the area on each side of the front walk. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wind blew through the leaves of the palms in the hotel garden. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

More and more, instead of going to his gardening job on Sundays, he stays home drinking beer and watching TV. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Precariously perched gardens bloomed with olive trees and rosebushes. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

God bless Rooster Jim; he kept my garden weeded and chickens happy that whole week. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Found her eatin’ at my garden this morning, and I chased her over here.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My staff and I had spent the past two months working to turn my idea for a garden into reality, which hadn’t been easy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I recognized the orange bursts of Butterfly Weeds and the tall red Indian Paintbrushes, but there were so many beautiful plants in the garden all I could do was smile with joy and serenity. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When it was finally secure in the tiny sty in her back garden, the old woman brought out two stone flagons of water. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

All through dinner, we grinned at each other as we listened to Teddy, who was chattering about the dinosaur bones he’d apparently dug up in the back garden that afternoon. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen the shed before, lots of times, through a gap in the tall hedge that ran round the garden of Warings. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Farther along, beyond their comparatively modest houses, the street broadened and the grand villas of judges and officials rose on either side in the midst of large gardens and vineyards. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The little clock ticked on the mantelpiece, and the boys played tennis in the garden. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

My voice seemed unnaturally loud across the garden. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But as soon as the peach rolled out of the garden and began to go down the steep hill, rushing and plunging and bounding madly downward, then the whole thing became a nightmare. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

They sprayed truck gardens and dairy farms, fish ponds and salt marshes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

From the air, I spied a particular rock lying in the rose garden by the fence. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My knees ache as I force my feet to move to the village’s garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a fortnight later she was able to sit out in the garden. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Galazza Galare arrived at the Great Pyramid attended by a dozen White Graces, girls of noble birth who were still too young to have served their year in the temple’s pleasure gardens. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She stood back by the arcade, just a few steps into the garden, her small body framed in an open archway. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Dig up the vegetable garden, everything that was coming up, flatten it, and cover it with dead leaves. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s the best reason I ever heard for making a garden,” Samuel exclaimed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This meant that it was someone who had the key to Mrs. Shears’s shed, or that she had left it unlocked, or that she had left her fork lying around in the garden. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We ran through the garden and up the office’s back steps. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

Then I noticed that the old lady who lives at number 39, which is on the other side of Mrs. Shears’s house, was in her front garden cutting her hedge with an electric hedge trimmer. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For example, peas belong to the genus Pisum, which consists of two wild species: Pisum sativum, the one that became domesticated to yield our garden peas, and Pisum fulvum, which was never domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

American wizards once kept Clabberts in their gardens to give early warning of approaching Muggles, but the International Confederation of Wizards has introduced fines which have largely ended this practice. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she didn’t care about the flowers; her eyes had fixed on the two people in the garden’s center. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In Kearney, Nebraska, citizens were instructed on disabling incendiary bombs with garden hoses. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She seasoned it with salt and pepper and with dried sage leaves from the garden. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole city had been a garden once. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They rushed down the front steps and along a winding path, going through darkened gardens until they reached the edge of the desert. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were stuck completely on the garden land being uncovered. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All summer the smells of nettles and daisies and rainwater purl through the gardens. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He saw the fantastic gardens of the Big House, the statues of babies with wings, the orange trees festooned with lights. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About as charming as the serpent in the garden. Watch yourself around him.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I was showing him around the castle pleasure gardens, which bobbed around us, when a bunch of rich kids came into the lobby from the garage. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Under morphine, Billy had a dream of giraffes in a garden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun radiated off of the snow in the garden, making the light in the hall nearly blinding. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Once there was a rabbit who danced in a garden in springtime with the daughter of the woman who had loved him at the beginning of his journey. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Different people came to our part of the garden for different reasons. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Servants bring in her garden dress, parading it in front of the onlookers, who fawn over it. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It opened on to the gardens and looked south across the ravine of the Bruinen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Your Highness, your party will begin momentarily. It's time to go to the gardens." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

While Washington worried, the city’s taverns, beer gardens, and coffeehouses—all 176 of them—were teeming with activity that Saturday. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

As Meggie was going through the dark garden behind the house she suddenly heard unexpected music. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Stricken, the girl spun on one bare heel and darted back out to the garden. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The wealthy owner continued to pay Frank to do the gardening, however. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The memory of her adolescence and Garcia’s kiss in the garden gave her the strength of hatred. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ranee frowns at her garden through the sliding glass door. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tarber found a garden out back, and they pulled some onions and radishes and filled a sack with cabbages before they went on their way. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The garden could only be reached through a dark, covered alley, which at first glance looked like little more than a black hole between the Casa Spavento and the neighboring house. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The back garden of the first cottage was just a marsh of triffidy weeds. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The paint had long disappeared from the clapboard walls and no work had ever been done on the garden. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would help them make their delicious feasts, gather handfuls of sage and thyme from their front-porch herb garden. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The garden sprinklers whirled up in golden founts, filling the soft morning air with scatterings of brightness. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They led to a far corner of the garden. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“In the garden,” Klaus said, shrugging the hook off of his shoulder. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

In person, though, he was just so much ardor next door, a boy whispering his heart through a solid garden wall. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She works in the garden, sir,” I said, the words barely audible, and the word garden hardly coming out at all. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often she was in the garden, weeding, in the evenings. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He watched more alertly as the cat approached the spot again, just an empty patch of grass between the hornbeams and the bushes of a garden hedge, and patted the air once more. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raps the tip of his cane against the floor for attention, then leads his dozen charges across the gardens to the galleries. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He worried that she would marry Master and bring her Yoruba-speaking housegirl into the house and destroy his herb garden and tell him what he could and could not cook. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

You pull it out of the garden and throw it away. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Barack’s administration was focused on improving access to affordable health care, and for me the garden was a way to offer a parallel message about healthy living. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Each morning, I put on a straw hat and rough gloves and worked in the garden for two hours. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would be home by now, Beatrice with her suit-case unpacked, going out into her garden and taking up her ordinary routine, and Giles preparing for his match, renewing the whipping on his bat. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Kazi would knock three times on the door if he sensed danger, and we were all supposed to climb out the back window and run to the garden shed behind Kazi’s cottage. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The garden looked distressingly poor, even with all the watering I had done and the brief rain. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the heap would roll down the slope and lodge against the fence, like the scarecrow rolled along a bean row until it caught in the brambles at the edge of the garden. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paused at the garden gate and turned back to Mama, who joined Anya at the house’s door. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When I go to visit I always find her out in her walled garden with her hands sunk into the mulch, kneading the roots of her camellias. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She says you can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunlight.” 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

There was a tall hedge in front of one of the gardens, with a low wall at its foot, and she sat there tucked closely in under the privet. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so, sir. Unless they’re indoors a lot. Usually visitors like to walk about in the garden, but the weather en’t been very nice, so...Would you like your pudding now, gentlemen?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The others agreed, and, with Constance riding piggyback, they left the rock garden and walked across the empty plaza. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fact I had him the longest of all my animals, for he came back to England with me and lived in Bournemouth for many years, with the run of house and garden. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I walked into the butterfly garden while Tilly went off to do her business, and spied a big toad making his way down the brick pathway in the moonlight. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Wandering lost and forlorn through the Prince’s garden was Fezzik, leading the four giant whites. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Pray that we will always have this—the front porch, my grandfather in the garden, a woman in a blue-checked sunbonnet moving through azaleas . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

That’s what I thought, anyway, as we rode in the sweet-smelling car, through the garden estate of the emir, past marble beds full of black tulips, to his castle by the sea. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Even though she was on the floor of the garden pagoda, she had slept comfortably, and as she sat up she realized that was probably due to the silk pillows she had been lying on. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Please note that the garden is wet and so I cannot do the weeds at this time, but please be assured this task will be completed by the end of the weekend. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the distance Matt heard a dove calling from the garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the courtyard was cobblestones, but a small, neat garden took up a significant part near the door. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Lillian spoke of the Old South when Bull was in earshot as though it were a private garden deeded to her in a last heroic proclamation by the Confederate Congress. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I loved the garden. And it died because it’s so cold. It’s August, and I’m wearing my winter coat and gloves and my garden froze to death. And I hate corpses! I hate them!” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

His eyes cast over the sky garden again, then stopped. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And what was this strange woman doing in our garden anyway? The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

So far, frosted food was brought from Earth in flying icicles; a few community gardens were greening up in hydroponic plants. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Something the rest of us don’t know about, Petra? Something you’d like to tell the police? No more secrets, now. And hanging out in Calder’s garden—really.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

"We need to get to that garden of yours right now." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I place the radio in the bark-spattered garden, crouch down, and press play. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Because you do,” Miss Maggie told me one day as I helped her pull parsnips and carrots from her garden. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

So I put the box away and took my drawing pad out to the backyard, where Mom was gardening. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t even in your garden. And why are they bringing you out to find me?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

But mostly we waited for spring, when there could be gardens. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took him to our garden and pulled several long stems, then wrapped Phiri’s head and elbows. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Back home, when I used to sit in my garden, I liked to observe birds, and not just the green-rumped parrots but also the migrating species. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It had a drawbridge, and gardens shaped like hearts. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He may find himself trapped in his own garden paths. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Thalia and I were about halfway around the garden. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We stood there in May’s beloved and practical garden, and Cletus searched the handout for some good words to say to bless the whirligigs that now had a place to spin and fly and live. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Squelch's dad's only a dustman but his garden's like a National Trust property. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Seems like a good idea to me. I noticed all the different kinds of butterflies in your garden. More than I’ve ever seen. Plus all the hummingbirds.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Some people around Welch cut tires into two semicircles, painted them white, and used them as edging for their gardens. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Paths of white stones meandered among flower beds, hedgerows, vegetable gardens, fruit trees, and flowering plants. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Precisely at that moment, the garden echoed with temple bells. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I might be a slob but I kept the yard looking tidy because Dad allowed me to drive our big garden tractor with a mower attachment on the back. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

People went to work Saturday through Thursday and gathered for picnics on Fri­days in parks, on the banks of Ghargha Lake, in the gardens of Paghman. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A young girl saw me eating the corn in the garden and immediately reported my presence to the priest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drive through the gardens and outbuildings that surround it, and peeking out from behind the edge of the compound are the airplanes, white and stationary. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She stayed by herself in the garden curled up beside Barrabas, refusing to eat or have anything to do with the funeral. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was loads of people still around in their gardens.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then I went into the garden and I found Toby’s cage behind the shed and I brought it inside and I cleaned it and put Toby back in it. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The moon shone on the garden like it had been hung in the sky for that purpose alone. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Once I was in Johannesburg studying and then working, I had neither the time nor the space to cultivate a garden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There was a large front garden and a maize field bordered by rounded peach trees. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father, a happy-go-lucky and reckless buck, had thought nothing of living close to human beings except that he would be able to forage in their garden in the early morning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a rose garden, a rose is a rose because of geraniol, a 10-carbon compound, and it is the geometric conformation of atoms and their bond angles that determine the unique fragrance. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood in the garden on a warm afternoon, the arbour heavy with blooming honeysuckle. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

People in the garden told friends and relatives. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to get the rest of the garden clear of these weeds. Sun’s ’bout to go down.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The houses and the gardens were very beautiful, very Roman. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Chief Rabbit’s lettuce was stolen by the Owsla from a garden half a mile away across the fields. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Whole city shuts down, but the garden just keeps going," Leona said. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of Sam Gamgee cutting the lawn came in from the garden. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a Saturday, and Granny took me along to her other gardening job in Pretoria, the capital of apartheid, because she needed help. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ducked under the tangled honeysuckle toward the garden path, using her trowel like a machete to hack through some overgrown vines that crowded her jungly little porch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She realized with a gasp that it was the garden patch, and Martin and Teresa, if they were still there, were too small to be seen. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa rushed to open the door, and it was like he’d opened onto a flower garden, Miss Love had on so much perfume. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The garden now teemed with fairies, and they paid Kendra a lot of special attention. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The hostess seats us at the window that overlooks the patio, which has a garden and outdoor fireplace. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was planning on assessing the acidity of the soil in my garden for the rest of the week. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But their well-tended vegetable gardens, small frame houses, and privies were blackened with soot from coal-burning steel plants nearby. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

You drink cool water From a garden hose And sit on the lawn, The sun riding a White cloud of autumn. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

With one ac-cord they began to creep as quietly as possible into the farmhouse garden. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They turned and walked into the garden, choosing a tree-covered footpath that would hide them from view. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Garland was so simple—seven acres of land containing exactly one house, one barn, a vegetable garden, fruit trees, a pickup truck, and only one other person. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

When he met the Lady, she’d been sitting in her ruined garden, still as a stone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Or almost abandoned, because a pair of monks lived there in a tar paper shack, tending a small garden and some broken shrines. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would not care to cook with the fresh basil that grows rampant in Gerald’s garden or to spend a whole day boiling blueberries for jam. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could not take my eyes from the garden that surrounded the small house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to her two children and told ’em, “Y’all go on in the garden and pick Mama some flowers. Make sure you bring me some them pretty purple and white ones.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She had reached the far corner of the garden, and there, at the edge of the woods where it met the fence, was a stump. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Times like when a snake is in her garden and she acts surprised. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

By the late summer of 1857, the first hybrid peas had bloomed in the abbey garden, in a riot of purple and white. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The windows around the garden were open and you could hear ten different TV's and radios. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a murmuring in the room, like the buzz of excited bees before they embark on their morning mission to the garden, but it’s quiet in Maddy and Stephanie’s station. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I was just heating some water in the kettle, and I have fresh mint from the garden. Can I make you some tea?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There are people in Scott’s garden—there are two uniformed police just outside the back door. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air swirls in a tempest around them, blowing open the glass doors to the garden with a tangle of billowing curtains. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A bunch of them from the farm below him got loose this spring and made a mud hole of his garden. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"With the war in the riverlands and Lord Renly raising rebels in High- garden, the roads are closed to south and west." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Besides the fairies fluttering about, the garden looked still. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Each had an image of life in the Golden Crescent painted on it—families sailing in the bay, children playing in the palace gardens, men and women in formal dress in this very hall. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I watched a wilted African lily fall from its stalk in the garden. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cement houses with wrought iron porch railings and flowery gardens were clustered behind the businesses. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I see them in the gardens, as I walk with Ofglen, to and fro. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hatsue, carrying a garden shovel and a metal pail rusted through in its bottom, dripped water behind her as she walked the tide flats; she was fourteen and wore a black bathing suit. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

From there, I could envision the whole garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The assistant director’s office occupies a dusty third-floor corner that overlooks the gardens: walnut-paneled, overheated, decorated with pinned butterflies and beetles in alternating frames. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Puzzling over how new species were created, he turned to experts in different fields: He talked to Elizabeth about gardening. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would dare each other to walk down into the dark garden at night. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse’s eyes had a wild roll to ’em but he didn’t seem to mind, so Pa picked up his reins and pulled the horse out of the flower garden. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He explored the garden and the pond and the forest floor. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He'd started the local community garden down the block and preserved his favorites in frames, decorating the deli's whitewashed walls with the brightest colors nature could provide. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even with fishing, I had a big garden that I worked on, grew my own vegetables. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So how long before their flying machines were in the air, delivering invaders to the garden terrace and to the flat of the seraph’s palm, right where Sarai now stood? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We walk back down the pathway, but he stops at the garden edge and rubs the back of his neck. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I can't help staring at her sari—bright as the garden flowers. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Of course not. I wear it. Sometimes. Right now, it’s in the garden, on the scarecrow. Scares the devil out of the crows, too, apparently.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, send her my regards. The garden club just isn’t the same anymore. We all still think about those margaritas she would bring.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The estate was a huge piece of land, acres, encompassing a horse bam, a large vegetable garden, and a pool, tended by a young white caretaker named Harry. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I returned to the garden and sat with him hour after hour saying it again and again, and most of the time I could feel the doors slammed shut so he didn’t have to listen. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Move along,” said Tam Lin as he and Daft Donald propelled Matt from the garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Past the orchards in the middle of the estate was a garden that must have covered nearly ten acres. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran upstairs and climbed out onto the terrace and I could see, through the trees, two women down by the fence a few gardens over. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is nothing to see but rain, sheets of it, and muddy water pooling at the bottom of the garden. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, Mummy cleans up while I show him the backyard garden. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

One day I came upon Serena Joy, kneeling on a cushion in the garden, her cane beside her on the grass. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first man walks in the garden on his way to a tennis date. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Castle was on a pair of stepladders clipping his hedge that divides his front garden from ours. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He looked around the garden a moment before his heart dropped. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

"We wouldn't be in this mess if you'd looked after the garden." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I tried imagining how white South Africans would react to blacks suddenly appearing in their “pure,” affluent, silent-as- a-tomb suburbs, not as nannies, garden boys, garden girls, washerwomen and maids, but as neighbours. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba and Ali had planted a small vegetable garden along the eastern wall: tomatoes, mint, peppers, and a row of corn that never really took. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My mom and dad were both out of medical school and had already moved to Isfahan, to the house I told you about with the jasmine garden and the birds in the walls. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She put down her edger, took off her garden gloves, and looked at the map. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A huge tawny creature, its body low to the ground, like a cat streaking across the lawn to a tree when a strange dog has got into the garden, was behind them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I guess I chickened out, afraid that to offer words of thanks for the pig and the mushrooms and the forests and the garden would come off sounding corny. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A flower opening in the garden and a butterfly lighting on a window were causes for excitement. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my garden gave me a window into other aspects of companionship. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We did the only thing we could do: we buried it in the garden in the courtyard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The terrace was the perfect place for a craft to land, much better than the garden with its trees and vines. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Six months later, Great-great-aunt Florentine died—-just like that—in the vegetable garden. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The air was sharp, and there was white frost thick on the ground and on the dead leaves at the edge of the wood across the garden patch. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

There are at least twenty of them scattered among the trees, with gardens in between. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I scrambled up onto the bed with her, staring out through the old foggy panes at the snow-covered garden. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I take my place in the row of chairs along the fence outside the garden. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By the time I pulled myself together Mrs. Deebs was saying, “Okay, everyone line up for a little piece of shoofly pie before we go to the garden, and later to the barn.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a sack of marbles, but when Virgil reached inside, he realized they were medium-sized stones, like the kind his mother used in the garden. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the sort of damage caused by normal, everyday gardening. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

So an open door leading to a garden could symbolize salvation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The woman across the street waves at me while directing some guy gardening for her, but I ignore the random act. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

"They took all the books from her library into the garden and burned them." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They would sit together at a window looking out at the garden where the fairies were building themselves nests, gently glowing globes that hung among the branches of the trees. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When they see a police car coming or that officers are conducting a sweep, they unlatch their front gates and usher migrants in to hide in their gardens and backyards. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The apartment was empty, the walled garden deserted except for birds. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It reminds me of Tara in Gone With the Wind except for its garden. Maybe it’s hard to get help around here.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Entering, Woody had passed through an immaculate rock garden, its sand white and freshly raked. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others commented about large clearings in the forests, some with well-tended gardens and cornfields. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

On most days, by the time I am awake, Pa and my brothers are already gone and Ma is busy sewing clothes for the family or working in the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a rack of greetings cards showing men dressed like Prince Philip fishing in rivers saying “On Father’s Day” or foxgloves in a cottage garden saying “For My Dearest Grandmother.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was a lovely woman and she would often come into the garden to chat with me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When they had made sure that the man had gone out, they went cautiously into the front garden and up to the fence. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her garden cherub’s silver arc dried up inexplicably, it was Dr. Velutha who fixed its bladder for her. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was raised in a gaunt house with a garden; my earliest recollections are of floating lights in the apple-trees. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They embraced in the garden, in view of the passersby and anyone who cared to look, until they came to their senses and understood how dangerous it was. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want Father and Mother jan. I want Sasa. I want to play with Rahim Khan sahib in the garden. I want to live in our house again.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs that lead to the gardens, a squat man is watching us. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Before long he had the finest garden in the neighborhood. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I can see Jess in her garden, and behind her a man walking out of the house. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no one else around, though you can hear the cries of kids playing in their back gardens, taking advantage of the last of the summer sunshine before they get called in for dinner. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I'm thinking this place needs a real garden. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The small garden was just a slip of earth on the side of the house, but it seemed like its own universe. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

My binder worked, and the bank has given Dell Duke the go-ahead to do the garden conversion. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma stopped to pluck at some browned leaves in the garden as we walked to the car, muttering that the harmattan was killing her plants. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had an invasion of those in her garden that were winning the plant war. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sure, he could have stolen some out of the garden in the back, but for some reason that didn’t feel right. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Genie also felt bad about those poor thirsty plants, so he started watering them, and plucking off the leaves that had died—tricks he’d learned from Grandma in the pea garden. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

After cutting and stacking the wood for her, I went back and finished turning her new garden. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We thought that it should be in the country, but not too far from a town, so that we would have access to grocery stores as well as barns and gardens. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, my father and mother tended to their garden, cutting weeds from their patches of com, beans, sorghum, and pumpkins. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One naughty night, Dedd left Jaimito sleeping heavily after sex and stole out to the far end of the garden to the little shack where she kept the garden tools. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somkit led Pong to a narrow structure that looked like a garden shed at the far end of the roof and swung open the door. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A Frenchified shotgun house, it sported a magnificent garden in the back and a tiny wrought-iron fence in the front. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then we sat in lawn chairs out by the garden and watched dragonflies flit over the tops of the marigolds. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Spring turned into summer and the grass in the garden changed into a ruddy gold color. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we didn't have any problem finding things to say to each other, because right away Mai wanted to know about the garden behind my house. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Every one of the women in the garden had been provided with something to fortify her nerves. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ted was shivering in his sports jacket as he surveyed the damage to the garden. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they lifted you up out of bed to carry you into the dressing room you could look out of the window and see the new graves in the garden. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Glowing like a beacon, especially compared to the display of paint cans on one side and gardening tools on the other. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“How about exploring the enormous garden full of fairies?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, while Chou and I feed the children their lunch of rice and fish, we watch the father walk up to Kim as he waters the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably only garden tools,” I said, while we lifted it together. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

An herb basket garden hung from the high wooden beams, and the room was full of Redemption’s family, loud and soft and laughing. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I feel immeasurably calmer when we go back outside, even if Rachel is still there, standing down at the bottom of the garden by the fence, watching one of the trains go past. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! yes, I am quite aware of that. It is the garden of England, you know. Surry is the garden of England.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

And just as the Witch Jadis had looked different when you saw her in our world instead of in her own, so the fruit of that mountain garden looked different too. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The gazebo, skeleton-like, looms at the end of the garden path. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In the back gardens the gophers push up the morning mounds of fresh damp earth and they creep out and drag flowers into their holes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I folded my legs and sat down in the garden outside Julia’s bedroom window. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was in the garden the next day, weeding, when she saw the rider out in the meadow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “sterilization of failures”—the weeding and culling of the human genetic garden—haunted him with its many implicit moral hazards. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A young woman emerged from the garden shed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The rose garden sighed with him and readied itself for the onslaught of summer, hot and sticky, bright and merciless. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had to move two blocks up the hill to a dahlia garden where they put out traps every night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept an herb garden for her “medicinals,” as she called them, and a much smaller vegetable garden than Ma Charles’s, but she had no hard, fast rules about where everything came from. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Hopelessly, round and round, a rotating sprinkler scattered lake water on Dr. Mason’s vegetable garden. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was on her hands and knees digging in her flower garden and obviously enjoying herself. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A small squirrel was scurrying through the garden. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I was out at the pond Saturday night. When I was walking by the garden, I saw a car pull up on the gravel. Was that you?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

We can do our laundry in the ole lady’s house and eat the vegetables from the side- yard garden. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I happen to know who has some: Mama Nguza. She makes her kids haul water up from the creek to pour on her garden. Haven’t you seen it? It’s sensational.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He wanted to ship it back to his factory in New Jersey. They have a garden.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Fireflies Matt had ordered from a catalog pulsed across the warm, humid garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As though conjured by her thoughts, Ruby stepped out into the garden. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I could start my very own statue garden, right there in the living room. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I planted tomatoes, lettuce, peas, and collard greens in my garden. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The front of the new sand-pit was all levelled and made into a large sheltered garden, and new holes were dug in the southward face, back into the Hill, and they were lined with brick. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

For one thing, there was a lot to do up in the Bag End garden, and he would have a busy day tomorrow, if the weather cleared. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t he the guy who got that garden up the street shut down?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Only then does he notice that the garden is melting. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A dreary place: but it seemed a charming and cheerful garden after the close Forest. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even so, city life was comfortable and pleasant, thanks to the wide streets, parks, gardens, and extensive system of canals. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

My mother was not too happy to leave her garden, but made the best of it: “At least it’s a chance to throw out a lot of that junk in the cellar,” she said. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Can you really be so blind, she wanted to say We don’t talk anymore, you boss me around, you keep to yourself, you’re not interested in my garden. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gardens behind the manse were just as pleasant, and far more extensive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She watched as an elderly couple in matching pastel shirts and Bermuda shorts tottered through a nearby garden. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But they always wanted to know what treasures their big brother had found, crowding around him to see his trophies when he came back through the garden gate. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We will begin felling the smaller trees in order to make room for our tents and gardens. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A lonely, lambent woman looking out at her embittered aunt’s ornamental garden, listening to a tangerine. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they reach the terrace, Celia glances back at the garden, where the roses and lanterns have reverted to dirt and stone. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was a tiny, beautiful restaurant with white tablecloths and bay windows opening onto a cottage garden—hedges and trellised roses, nasturtiums bordering the flagstone path. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After Teren got himself lost halfway through Fain’s garden monologue, I turned back to face him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The gnome can be expelled from the garden by swinging it in circles until dizzy and then dropping it over the garden wall. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie stood alone there in the garden for a very long time, thinking about the dead and their reasons for staying. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Some would be riding tricycles in their gardens. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

That evening he buried the core of the Apple in the back garden. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She sent her invisible servants to leave bowls of stew and goblets of apple cider at the edge of the garden. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She was kneeling in her vegetable garden, her back to Leo. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She is wearing her Wellies and her gardening smock, which is smudged with mud. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That week, a man put chicken wire around his garden, five feet high, complete with a little gate and padlock. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very quickly a crowd poured into the trader’s garden, trampling the plants and forming a semicircle in front of the house. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Ear, Eye and Arm arrived at Twenty- five Horsepool Lane, it looked as if the garden had exploded. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Ramon ran past and called to them, Matty and the blind man had been clearing out the garden, pulling up the last of the overgrown pea vines. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, I crept into Reverend Matyolo’s garden and stole some maize, which I roasted and ate right there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many sit with their backs against the sacks at the front of the car: they look like scarecrows shipping west to be staked in some terrible garden. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Apa is supposed to be at his only remaining gardening job, but here he is in the middle of the living room, hands on his hips. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

And another of them mistook Mary Poppins’s new hat for a rose garden and pecked off a flower. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Annie Oakley always made hers very homey, with a garden outside of primrose, geranium, and hollyhock. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time a farmer planted a little seed in his garden, and after a while it sprouted and became a vine and bore many squashes. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Signora Divino, without enough ears, gathers slugs in her garden and brings them and the snakes into the yard of our casa when she thinks we do not see. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

However, they spent most of their time right in their own garden. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lourdes refilled the mosaic-lined fountain with sweet water and built an aviary in the garden, stocking it with toucans and cockatoos, parrots, a macaw, and canaries that sang in high octaves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice, echoing through the house, and down the garden, careless and familiar like the writing in the book. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Roaming the pathways of the garden in a daze, Kendra saw that the fairy women appeared to represent all nationalities. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The first thing we saw was that the garden in front of the house had become a jungle. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We made our way around the back of the manor house and entered through a snow-covered garden hedge. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When she had an order for me, she’d tell me to meet her in the garden after supper when no one else was near. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was so sad that she started sleeping all the time and skipping garden club meetings. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Let them burn our gardens and the hospital and your picture, Mama, like it was never there at all. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A shimmering line cut its way across the black expanse of the pleasure garden, like a bright fissure opening in the earth. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go set up the sprinkler in the garden,” Gus said to me, tugging on his dirty baseball cap. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Even Mrs. Daugherty figured that my mother needed a perennial garden. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Little disregarded patches of ground revealed that they had been gardens all along, and nondescript underbrush around the gymnasium and the river broke into color. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Faramir for a long while walked alone in the garden, and his glance now strayed rather to the house than to the eastward walls. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

On another occasion the younger monk presented us with four ripe watermelons from his garden. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just as I passed the lych-gate of Saint Gabriel's, kids' shouts spilt out of Diana Turbot’s garden. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I ask you now, please go and do the dishes and do the weeds in the garden. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

They built row houses and single ones with big yards and vegetable gardens. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even your garden is all right except for the scorch mark on the lawn.’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Fairies are highly territorial, nonmigratory creatures. Put them in a livable environment and they stay put. Especially an environment like Fablehaven, with gardens and plentiful food and other enchanted critters.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Matt ran through the gardens until he came to the stables. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out here she could sit and take the air, read, admire the gardens near the house, and gaze at the majestic forest in the distance— “Ahwooooooooooooooooooo !” ‘Woof! Woof!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t easy, but I finally found a quiet fountain in a corner garden and sent an Iris-message to my brother, Tyson, under the sea. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

When she opened them, the garden patch had vanished far behind them, and Jeremy, searching the trees below, began a long, slanting descent. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I sit in the center of Mr. Bender’s garden. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Rather than the thick, unbroken, monumental snarl of trees imagined by Thoreau, the great eastern forest was an ecological kaleidoscope of garden plots, blackberry rambles, pine barrens, and spacious groves of chestnut, hickory, and oak. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The woman me told me the land was anyone who wanted a garden. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most notable were the huge windows looking out over the lawns and gardens. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Throughout the year, until the next frost, we took our meals from the smokehouse, the little garden that lay cousin-close to the Store and from the shelves of canned foods. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Sam had more on his mind than gardening. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Abby was in the yard, holding the garden shovel like a baseball bat. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

She limped around the perimeter of the house, looking for a garden, some carrots she could dig from the earth, a tomato she could pluck from a vine, but these people didn’t keep a garden. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She picked a flower from her garden—a sprig of silver moonlace. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He stood, looking out of the high window, down onto the garden and the copse. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We walk into a backyard, but instead of a garden or patio, the yard holds another house, one with a bright red door, sitting on a bed of bark. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

From down below—in the garden, it seemed—they could hear several voices whispering together, very earnestly and excitedly. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

There was a flash of light across the garden, and then there was nothing. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I did yard work and gardening for people. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was drawing a swirl in the sand garden on her desk when I said that. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The ground was squishy from water, and behind the house, where Mom had started raking out her butterfly garden, the earthy scent of marsh drifted up from the river. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Fresh food goes first, but I got a garden. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not with knitting needles or garden shears, or knives purloined from the kitchen, and especially not when we are pregnant. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A field of green, the color of Lita’s cactus garden, lies beneath the waterfall. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Not that he had spent a lot of time in gardens, but dang. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Though a fog had settled over the garden, I knew by heart the location of each bed and bower and could find my way in the dark. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A garden hose snaked from a dripping faucet to a hole in the yard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Out in the world waits a multitude of sanctuaries—gardens full of bright green wind; kingdoms of hedges; deep pools of forest shade through which butterflies float thinking only of nectar. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He swallowed and cast a quick look around the garden. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He held his sword in one hand and a garden hose in the other. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Each picture flashed up a different number of times, and then came a different three: camel, garden, moon. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know Mom had been joking in our backyard, but that’s how I would have imagined them in the end—lying side by side in our garden bed together. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Their home was a Babylonian garden of beauty. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She was as sweet as the scent of the garden and as gentle, and Sarai couldn’t help thinking how perfectly her gift suited her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My mother had begun working in neighbors' gardens and doing pickup work as a maid in town in exchange for mealie meal. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We were in her garden, planting more corn and beans that would continue to bear after the crops we’d planted in May were done. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Roy watched as a vein in Mr. Muckle’s neck swelled up and began to pulse like a garden hose. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one side, the village square is visible; on the other, the rear garden, from which this establishment presumably takes its name. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now she stood in the garden looking out across the meadow at the budding trees of the King’s Forest, and she felt something inside of her turning toward those trees. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He feels as though he is walking down a garden path. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

People now seem to think the garden is a good idea. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then he told her of all the things that were in his garden. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

When it came to the garden, I was a dictator. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

In a hidden place in the garden, surrounded by bushes, we had our “camp,” where we could light a little fire and boil water in a tin can, balanced on rocks. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Deep in the garden where we always went to talk, he told us about the gathering he’d just come from. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rushed out to my grandmother’s garden, hoping to catch a glimpse of our new guest. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

This is the weather, my mother says, Daddy loved to garden in. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

His teacher instead sent all of the “poor kids” to play outside or to work in the garden. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You might say it’s a staple. The citadel gardens lack variety.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Naw. He just said I couldn’t let him in the garden anymore.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Child,” she said, “as long as this is my garden, you’re welcome in it. But that tree ain’t going to have changed much by tomorrow.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to weed the garden and then you’re going to string up the new chicken wire Dad bought to keep the rabbits out.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

All this as they dodged and wove their way through suburban gardens. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She lives straight across the street from the garden. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nearly there,” said Malcolm, because they had come to a group of trees that cut off their view of the house, and the garden was behind them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They were some time acquiring a stove and when they did find what they wanted, a silver-scrolled monster with floriated warming ovens and a front like a nickel-plated tulip garden, they had trouble getting it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the last of the haze burns off, I weed the meadow garden and split kindling before returning to my tree. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon I fertilized the vegetable garden, this time using manure. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Can’t I just swim and work in my garden this summer?” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Just beyond the iron-gated entrance, about a football field's length away, stood a large two-story manor house surrounded by a park and garden. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Recently, after enduring more than half a century of relentless, pernickety attention, the ornamental garden had been abandoned. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the water pail and start to water the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran through the tall flowers in the garden and made it into the orchard. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was dark in the garden,” I said. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I hurry after Helene, spotting a flash of blonde heading through Grandfather’s vast gardens and toward a rickety shed at the back of the house. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was a charcoal grill in the middle of the garden, the big round kind that looked like a miniature red Starbase. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In my dreams, I was back in Hades’s garden. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The party towers were already lit up, and snakes of burning torches marked flickering pathways through the pleasure gardens. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He led them off the curving path deeper into the garden. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

With our fingers entwined, we walk together to the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in Gus’s lawn chair by the garden and stared down at the envelope. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She looked out at the twilight garden and felt a thin but bright thread of excitement within her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes; but we must not rest our claims on that distinction. Many counties, I believe, are called the garden of England, as well as Surry.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

She didn’t think they were old enough to do anything besides raise a ruckus in the garden. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned and looked at the garden, meticulously tended, by whom, I wondered. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robin’s face was drawn into a black cloud of anger, and if he had been able, he would have stormed out of the garden. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

My grandparents’ house has red brick and bright white trim and a pretty garden full of flowers because they love gardening. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He sounded as if there was absolutely nothing remarkable about the fact that they were prowling around in someone else’s garden in the middle of the night. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Looking out at the crowd in the garden, I was emotional. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The trees in the garden were gold and brown, half of the leaves already dead on the earth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She bossed the groundskeepers in her gardening gloves and blue jeans. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tire me, sir. We’ll sing something about cheeks, roses, and the garden swing.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Koffi's words echoed against the stone walls of the garden as the figure stepped forward, face still obscured. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Cartoon characters were popular—Garfield was in a lot of gardens with his arms whirling like crazy in the breeze. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Generous punctuation would also take the fun out of some of the psycholinguists’ garden path sentences, such as When Fred eats food gets thrown. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

That’s a tasty green I had once grown in my Connecticut garden And there was wild mustard, another green, growing out in the sun. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They stood directly on the street, unprotected by garden walls. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

That’s what makes the garden paths in the textbook examples so seductive, together with my real-word example that begins with the words The data point. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Harry hurried into the hall to fetch his rucksack, Firebolt, and Hedwig’s cage before joining the others in the dark back garden. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He was pointing at the raspberry canes that edged the kitchen garden. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

That was a very thick fence post at the corner of the garden nearest the farmhouse and the tractor shed. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He hurried off the plaza and across the rock garden, where several students gaped at him, surprised to see him still alive. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was looking at the root ball she cradled, at the garden all around her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Block, who befriended Maria, owned superb conservatories and gardens. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The windows here lead out to the garden, and the bead-like patter of rain can be heard against the glass. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once he'd reached the top, Hornet quietly gathered up the rope and helped him to lower himself into the garden. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Among the staff, the garden became a source of pride. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

We showed Mom and Lori the gardens, which were ready for winter. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Looking up from their chores, two men dropped their garden tools and hurried over to open the gate for us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He went into the garden and sniffed the air. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She’d left the doors to the greenhouse ajar, with just enough space for him to slide through sideways, and he inhaled deeply as he stepped into the garden. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I am toiling in my garden after a rain, moving tender seedlings. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth had not had much to do with FDR, but Eleanor Roosevelt had often invited her to tea and garden parties at the White House. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The garden stretched up into town, winding like a black river through the bright party towers and houses. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He went straight ahead up a road that did not appear to be much used, between gardens. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

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

She found the house in a pleasant street where each smallish building was separated from its neighbours by a bit of garden. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I helped him untangle the hose and drag it out to the garden. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then Alyce, with baskets tied to each end of a pole, walked with the cat to the abbey gardens to gather fallen fruit. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shouldered open the trapdoor, then pulled himself up and into the sky garden. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

After a while she got up from where she was and went over the litde garden field entire. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The well water is strictly for the gardens and cooking; to wash ourselves and our clothes we must walk a mile to the pond. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever she had a chance, she slipped outdoors to work in the vegetable garden or to tend to the animals with her father. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Because of the drought. All the gardens are drying up.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you do something? How can you let her get away with that?” she yelled as he pulled her to the other end of the garden. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rupa was out in the garden gathering marigolds, the flowers of victory, to make Neel a garland. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the garden was an orchard of pomegranate trees, their orange blooms neon bright in the dark. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They would sit in his small garden under an apricot tree. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I am proud to serve Lord Gwydion, and there is a chance to win much honor, more than by washing pigs and weeding gardens!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

All of us bore its taint—not because our distant ancestor had been tempted in that distant garden, but because each of us, lodged in Adam’s body, had actually tasted the fruit. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

In the half-light I could see Grandpa out in Granny’s rose garden. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender’s garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Right next to our stairs, in Papa’s rock garden, the moss was dry, the sand needed raking. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if God had given Adam a nice little laboratory in Eden, but then forbidden him from peering over the walls of the garden. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

From there he could see the bridge and most of the garden, and he watched as Lord Asriel leaned towards the shutter and spoke quietly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was just a watcher, but I was proud of the garden, as if it were mine. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the fair evening Faramir and Merry walked in the garden, but she did not come. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And nor did Feral consciously summon the sheaves of cloud that coalesced around them, blocking out the sky, the horizon, the Cusp, shrinking the world to here—this garden and this garden alone. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

While still wearing the big gardening gloves, I pulled out the flower. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And on the west, on the far outskirts of town, we drove past what looked like a garden shed. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s time to give up,” I said as Mom and I worked in the garden, weeding and watering. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So when she saw the huntress outside the garden gate with a black horse in tow, she had to look twice to make sure she was not imagining it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had visited Hugo de Vries’s garden in Amsterdam in the early 1900s and become particularly interested in de Vries’s plant mutants. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Around the house were a large garden and a wall studded with searchlights and alarms. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They will mow lawns, weed gardens, wash cars, windows. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was terrified that she would see the man with the dog down in the garden staring up at her. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked through the footpath in my grandmother’s garden, toward the main road. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Nate crawled along his uncle’s vegetable garden, tugging up weeds and flicking away fat green worms. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I found him sitting in the garden putting little green beetles in holes he dug, burying them alive. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I used the garden hose and some baby shampoo. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

To know me is to know my garden. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And I said, “I’m going to live with you because Father killed Wellington with a garden fork and I’m.frightened of him.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The lotus pond was one of a dozen pools of water in the vast gardens of the house. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, he eased his arm out from under her head, slipped on his tunic, and went down to the garden. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then he mumbled, “Follow me, Magister. There’s a garden over here with a low wall.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

They had only gone a few paces when Hermione’s bandy-legged ginger cat, Crookshanks, came pelting out of the garden, bottlebrush tail held high in the air, chasing what looked like a muddy potato on legs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But she parted the liriope spikes with her hands, revealing the ghosts that edged the garden. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“And also Matty continued in a loud voice as he headed for the garden just beyond the door, “it would be a nice end to a meal. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Inside grew hanging rock gardens in the shapes and colors of cabbage, winter melons, turnips, and onions. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you tell your mother we’re expecting her at the garden club next month. No excuses this time.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Several fairies darted over from the garden, hovering around her in a loose semicircle, interrupting the warbling tune with fervent chirping. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He claims a good garden needs good conversation. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

William Henry had left the suit inside the garden fence at the Big House. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the most part, the citadel gardens had been ornamental—full of exotic flowers, with little in the way of edibles. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A hummingbird feeder, a barbecue grill, a gardening hat hanging from a nail—there were many such domestic touches. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure if she ever had been in love, although she remembered the rush of emotions that accompanied her first kiss, with her classmate Liya, up in the crescent garden. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the garden, a dark figure approached - the silhouette of a man whose eyes shone like miniature headlamps, blinding Reyna. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Matt followed a winding path through the gardens. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed, one after the other, through a small, neatly raked garden, between brown raspberry canes and leafless apple trees, and walked slowly up the few steps to the porch. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

What a big yard for her garden and that long storage shed in back sure would come in handy. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had it washed and painted, changed the furniture, restored the garden and planted new flowers, and opened doors and windows so that the dazzling light of summer would penetrate even into the bedrooms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I touched one carefully, wishing I had on Gilgamesh's gardening gloves. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Without looking up, she motioned to the dry ground of the garden. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And there, next to a small garden plot and a stable and two wooden chairs seated in a flowering arbor—an enormous tree. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She saw a kitchen garden below, planted in neat squares marked off in red brick; a profusion of herbs staked out territory directly below her window. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today’s moving target was not an Me-109 or a pheasant but an empty tin on a stick, waved about by a very brave soul at the other end of the garden. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But I see the garden in the distance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It covered their poor house and bare land, and in its place, the stately manor and a glorious garden formed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The autumn days grew shorter, Lurvy brought the squashes and pumpkins in from the garden and piled them on the barn floor, where they wouldn’t get nipped on frosty nights. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

These rock gardens had outlived the barracks and the towers and would surely outlive the asphalt road and rusted pipes and shattered slabs of concrete. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

So while Theo is playing contentedly in the garden with his sisters, we draw a tinge of melancholy into his countenance, a slight frown, a worried brow. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lucas’s house sat less than a half acre beyond the vegetable garden to our right side. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

And even though he was freezing cold, Dell took his time watering Willow's new garden. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She used to spend long hours in the garden, weeding and sowing, pruning and picking, her neck arched elegantly as a bird’s, with her black hair coming loose around her face. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In bars, on street comers, in passing cars, on buses, at the beach—people grew it in their home gardens and smoked it like cigarettes. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He had been flung ears over tail by the stream of water issuing from a garden hose turned to full force. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

In our garden, the Angkar provides us with seeds and we may plant anything we choose, but everything we grow belongs not to us but to the community. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burglars apparently interrupted, forced warehouse door, fled through garden. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And what can I say of the jeweled dragon palaces or of the undersea gardens? Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

That squirrel was probably in the garden now, still holding that acorn, still waiting. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I stared out the window at Madame Edith’s garden until exhaustion and hunger produced a kind of stupor in me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The garden I’m drawing has only one red rose, right in the center, and I want it to be perfect. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Chalking roads for my Corgi cars down his garden path. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

That was pretty much the best description of my gardening efforts ever. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“What? I was nine! Who wants a garden when they’re nine?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“It has a tower with a red roof on each corner. Every morning the girls raise a flag in the garden.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I head to the garden and, boy, did I see me a sight. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

To her great surprise she found that she was not in the King’s garden but in her own dandelion field. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

But the next morning it was dead, and we buried it in May’s garden. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

We fan out, looking for a gardening truck or something that might have a hose, but no luck. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

At last the lanterns along the garden walk were snuffed out, and the room was dark. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The garden in which stands my humble abode is separated only by a lane from Rosings Park, her ladyship’s residence.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Was it going to be a house or a garden or an orchard; were they driven away forever or are they coming back? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Outside her window, her father was working in the garden. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed toward the far edge of her garden, where the woods began and there seemed to be a narrow overgrown path. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catch sight of him in the hotel garden and he is wolfing a Dairy Milk Bar and has two more sticking out of his trouser-pocket. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The Ameses lived on the edge of town, and behind their house were barn and carriage house, vegetable garden and fenced paddock for two horses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later, this brown sticky mess was flowing through every street in the village, oozing under the doors of houses and into people’s shops and gardens. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he was back in the Bag End garden looking for something; but he had a heavy pack on his back, which made him stoop. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She was not in the garden and I went to the side door of the villa where the ambulances drove up. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby, the head of a family of field mice, lived in an underground house in the vegetable garden of a farmer named Mr. Fitzgibbon. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“As much as work and your garden and even as much as David. I need you, too.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning early, every evening until it was too dark to see, Daddy worked in his garden or among the vines. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Before you knew it, the monkey garden became filled with sleepy cars. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall figure in a long, billowing cloak was walking up the garden path. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

During his decades in the North, Jenkins had a house in the countryside and cultivated a large garden that helped feed his family. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The shady gardens were like a town, swarming with bees. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then it hadn’t, and anyway he loved the dog fennel and the silver poplars and the hedge of lilacs on the south that separated Jenny’s well-drained kitchen garden from the dooryard. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was carrying the twins I had such desperate cravings I sometimes went out at night on my hands and knees and secretly ate dirt from the garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to be somewhat of an expert on earthworms because a good garden holds so many kinds of life. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The ghost stayed in the garden because every single one of the plants had been seeded with love. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He also likes his room and the view from his window: gardens with pine trees and poplars, and a large old house covered with ivy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I will soon have the garden covered with a crop of sunflowers, but in five weeks it will have to be replanted. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They came to the kitchen garden, and Asta said, “That shed—the last one—there’s a light there, like she said.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s sad when you think of how much Abuela liked going to the beach and gardening outside.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Young otters collected watercress and fished; Cornflower headed a party of mice to reap the early cereal crops; more youngsters tended the salad gardens. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The courtyard had been constructed over a landfill, and in order to start my garden, I had to excavate a great many rocks to allow the plants room to grow. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This can lead to garden paths in real life, too. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

Why there was a garden hose on the roof, Frank wasn’t sure, but every time the giants sent up a cannonball, Percy summoned a high-powered blast of water and detonated the sphere in midair. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen Grandma had her gardening hat on, with the chigger veil. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

After that day, I could barely enter the garden without a huge effort of will. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the garden at home on summer evenings, he had listened many times to the sound of grasshoppers chirping in the grass, and he had always liked the noise that they made. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Pocket was sitting on a garden chair under a tree, reading, with her legs upon another garden chair; and Mrs. Pocket’s two nurse-maids were looking about them while the children played. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ruby, Sparrow, and Feral were at the garden’s edge. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was holding a garden trowel and his hands were black with mud. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They stood not far from the Citadel-gate, in the sixth circle, nigh to its southward wall, and about them was a garden and a greensward with trees, the only such place in the City. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure why he hadn’t thought of the sky garden before; perhaps it was because it seemed more dream than real. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It still has not rained, and our wheat fields and gardens are wilting. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Whenever you spoke to me or looked at me, walked with me in the garden, sat down to dinner, I felt you were saying to yourself, ‘This I did with Rebecca, and this, and this.’” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

So I asked him how the garden was doing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the garden I pulled up the potato plants and left the weeds. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She loved her dolls. She would hold little tea parties for them in the garden, and I would make these teeny-tiny sandwiches for their plates.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In between the two are old, pretty houses that seem to shine in the sunlight like charms on a giant bracelet, linked together by the flower gardens that spill over their neat picket fences. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha stood there a long time and looked through the open gate into the garden. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fallen hobbits were laid together in a grave on the hill-side, where later a great stone was set up with a garden about it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I found myself in a nighttime garden and Old Mr. Chou was shouting, “Who’s in my backyard?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she hugged Felix, who was doing a perfect imitation of a garden gnome. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the door to the garden to let in some cold night air. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But as an aspiring architect, she couldn’t help admiring the terraced gardens, the fountains and temples, the winding cobblestone streets and gleaming white villas. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were no gardens about so no one would think of setting a trap for him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t think at first what would make the sort of light I needed, then recollected a clump of bear grass that Mama’d recently grubbed out, where she wanted to start a new fall garden. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calypso glanced over her shoulder, at the path that led to her garden and her cavern home. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The plantings in the gardens still retained their linearity and rectitude of bloom; but a chicken-house was mere ash, and the windows of the mansion were broken. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Sit,” the woman named Annabella said to Kira, ignoring Matt and Branch, who was busily sniffing the garden, looking for the right place to lift his stubby leg. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days before—when Mariam could think of nothing in the world she wanted more than to walk in this garden with Jalil—felt like another lifetime. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“No, the most useful maps are grounded in reality. Mazes can be real, too. Made from hedges in a garden. Mostly, though, they’re artificial, imaginary.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“All of’m,” he said, waving his arm stub over the big garden. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

At the center of the garden is a sunken lily pond with little mossy stairs that curve all the way around it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But gradually, Celia and Maria lured him into the walled garden and, from there, to other parts of the Big House. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once through the arch, Shasta found himself in a courtyard which was also a garden. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She let Paula show her the kittens scampering around with their mother in the tiny garden behind the house and followed the three children to the house where they lived with their parents. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For the rest of that day Pappachi sat in the verandah and stared stonily out at the ornamental garden, ignoring the plates of food that Kochu Maria brought him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The upright sprigs of Mama Boanda’s hair dripped from their ends, like a tiny garden of leaking hoses. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain in his scar was reaching a peak, burning as it had done in the garden of the Burrow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

He looked--and this is said in all contempt for the babbled slander of his garden--as if he had "killed a man." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was an enormous garden, very beautiful, with a large funny-shaped lake at the far end. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember, I had that vegetable garden in our backyard one year. So I can work in the fields.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They had winter gardens and salons, dining rooms that could seat 200, and porches like the promenade decks of ocean liners from which guests could drink in the wholesome air and survey nature’s craggy splendor. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“What a bunch of hooey,” I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the garden, the queer, off-kilter clock tower began chiming the hour. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A garden is thus both natural and artificial, and it is both of these things entirely and simultaneously. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I walked through the rows of the garden and saw that everything had come up; the earth had grown somewhat too hard and caked, but that had done no damage yet. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Only the scents of her garden made her feel a little better as she went up the steps to the front door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even this late in the year, the lawns were still a fresh-looking green and flowers hung on in the gardens. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She grew peonies in another garden along the side of the house and sold them to a florist in Seattle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her steps took her to the sept, a seven-sided sandstone temple set amidst her mother's gardens and filled with rainbow light. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know,” Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“This walkway divides the palace garden in half—in kind of a twisty way, of course—but still, in two.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I filled another kettle with water from my well and lugged it over to the struggling garden. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He wondered what other stuff Celia had tried on him from her garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had on his gardening clothes—old trousers, shirtsleeves rolled up past the elbow—and in the wheelbarrow were tomato plants and cucumber, flats of strawberry and sunflower and scarlet geranium. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He married Tipper and kept her in the kitchen and the garden. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Blake marched round his garden, trying to flush out a hiding kid. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the garden was a pool with a small fountain. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She remembered what Sparrow had said, how dreaming was like the garden: You could step out of prison for a little while and feel the sky around you. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She found herself in a garden full of white, rich-smelling flowers. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“You, too!” snarled the She Elephant at Tendai, who had followed the dogs to the front garden. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They crossed the broad stone plaza, then a modest rock garden, then waited as Constance shook the gravel from her shoes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She felt safe to draw water for her new garden. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he and Ernie headed for the garden earlier, they’d left Grandpop slumped in his chair at the table; it was obvious that he was disappointed that Dad wouldn’t talk to him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I walked secure and unafraid, knowing that the far reaches of the garden were bounded by walls. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A giant garden with traffic zooming all around it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

That night Aru had stayed awake dreaming of narrow winding streets and gardens so fancy that even their flowers looked haughty. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The fruits were apples and early pears and plums which Brother Michael had picked from the trees and vines kept trained flat along the garden wall. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

There were more vegetables, including potatoes, in a larger vegetable garden farther behind the house, next to a field of rye. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The whole mountaintop was in ruins—so many beautiful buildings and gardens gone. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Some of the cacti or prickly pears escaped from his gardens and by 1925 about 20 species could be found growing wild. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She dreamed of gardens full of white roses, their perfume intoxicating. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t much mind weeding the garden, usually. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“We have a few milking cows. They make plenty of milk, so I put out some of the excess for the insects. Keeps the garden lively.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I think I got the idea after I heard her yelling out in the garden and I wanted to know what was going on. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take my place in the row of chairs along the fence outside the garden. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That is, farmers initially selected seeds of certain wild plant individuals to bring into their gardens and then chose certain progeny seeds each year to grow in the next year’s garden. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I did get out, I couldn't go past the garden without slowing down to look, even though there was nothing growing. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned down Water Street, which ran north past Henry’s house, and as I approached I saw a dark shadow in the back of his garden. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“In a broad sense, lee means the sheltered side. A bird, flying over Mrs. Fitzgibbon’s garden, would notice something most of us would miss.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mary and the other black employees at Langley tended the new recruits as carefully and lovingly as if they were a garden. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Wave after wave of fetterlings swarmed over the rooftop gardens, and yet somehow we held them back. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I did my pacing, counting the strides it took to get from one side of the back garden to the other. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early that spring, a few days before the new school year started, Baba and I were planting tulips in the garden. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mom shook her head, looked out at her rose garden and her telephone-pole-thick fence. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After all, if she’d keep this enemy close, by George’s logic, she’d start to appreciate all that snakes do in her garden. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Evening sunshine flooded the valley floor between our garden and the Malverns. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The room overlooked a prayer garden that Rameel had designed and built for the church. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I took a sip of my tea and then went back through the kitchen and out into the garden. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The trouble was that there was nowhere to hide in the gardens of the comfortable houses along this road, and there was still no sign of open country. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean that it was a long time ago. And the butterfly garden has helped.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He lay dreamily remembering certain ladies, a ball, a rose garden . The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had auto parts and lumber; shovels, picks, rakes, and seeds for the little gardens the miners scraped into the sides of the mountains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her intentions of making me work on her garden hadn’t budged either. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I fled to the garden; I fled to the stone Bono had marked out for me to worship. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the damp box of the old kennel, the sound of the sea washes away all other sounds; she tends to the snails as though to plants in a garden. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The interview’s tomorrow afternoon at this woman’s home— she runs her business from one of those office sheds in the back garden—which just happens to be in Witney. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most times Apa’s hands are dark and hard with dirt from his gardening job. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The last thing you’d call the mansion with its gardens and fountains was a shack. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took only a little while, though, before most of them seemed to lose track of me, their focus centered instead on the fit of their garden gloves and the worms in the soil. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She’d cut every single rose left in her garden and piled them there. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Thick graffiti letters sprang from a swirly garden not unlike the one that surrounded them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Ash led the huntress up the garden path and into the kitchen, and she poured some water from the pitcher on the scarred kitchen table into a clean goblet. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn to look back at the garden and see Suraya, Ayesha, and the others looking at me with a mix of confusion and fear on their faces. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She stood in her gray garden and watched a sheet of ice slowly form on the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nico fell to his knees in Persephone’s garden, his face white with shock. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She wore gardening gloves and a variety of shawls. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then that he had two sisters, that he liked the cats that roamed through the garden, and that he worked very well with his hands. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, Mama never asked me to pick anything anymore, except in our garden. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Bean plants? He thought Levy Pants was a truck garden?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even donates a poinsettia for the garden when we're ready to plant. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I came in from the garden, eighty-seven kicks of the garden shed wiser, but I couldn’t make myself heard. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Flayrah? But isn’t it rather late in the morning to raid a garden?” said Hazel, glancing at the distant roofs of the farm behind the trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spend a good chunk of time for the next two days writing a proposal for an interior garden at our building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

When his health has improved even more, he goes outside to paint, capturing the garden of the asylum and, beyond that, olive trees and landscapes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They were little and egg-shaped, not like the tomatoes they grew in the village, but she had seen ones like them in the Portuguese trader’s garden. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful garden, and yet the girl was leading me through it, as if we were about to die. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

But eventually they relented, and we were able to cut out a small garden on a narrow patch of earth against the far wall. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does not tell her that he has only one dream, and it is just as improbable as a career in garden piracy. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Matt reveled in the clean white sheets, the soft pillows, the flower-scented air drifting in from the garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't remember which cutting it was; he'd sent so many, some to be pressed when he got home, others to be potted, and some to be transplanted into his garden. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Remember the feeling that the great public gardens, the long lunches, might all be undone by a physics, cousin to our rules and the reckoning of our own country, that we do not fully comprehend. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

On the right, winter-slumbering gardens were partly obscured behind a low wall; within the garden, across wide lawns of short brown grasses, was a wide tower made of white stone. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I decided to check out the weather in the garden. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I studied different gardening techniques and types of fertilizer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re eating out in the garden,” she said when they came in. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I asked her once if she was scared the hare was going to eat the whole garden clean before that trap of hers caught him. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They relaxed in her presence, brought her crayon drawings or flowers they had picked from their mothers’ gardens. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment, all four—dog, two little boys, and a girl—were playing there under a mild sky; she hoped they would be happy in the garden until the guests had gone. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the tiny hut, a bent and white- haired old woman was working near a lush flower garden. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo dug around the deserted gardens until she had found several sweet potatoes to roast. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please feel free to use the garden for yourselves, as I’ve offered before, and, Quincy, please use whatever you need in the kitchen.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

From the dining room window, there was a view of the garden, which was filled with mango trees, palms, exotic flowers, and bubbling fountains. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I’ve never had my own garden but I suddenly recognized something in the tangle of this one that wasn’t beauty. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gardens were sculpted with coral colonies and glowing sea plants. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As Harry’s birthday dinner would have stretched the Burrow’s kitchen to breaking point even before the arrival of Charlie, Lupin, Tonks, and Hagrid, several tables were placed end to end in the garden. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Shadows danced into the garden from the candlelight. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little island was an ideal place to plant a garden. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red raspberries appeared in the wilderness beyond where Fritz had plowed for Daddy’s vegetable garden. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She could just see the edges of the garden. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

For example, when a farmer sows seeds densely in a garden, there is intense competition among the seeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma came back in the afternoon when the buzz of a bee around the garden was almost lulling me to sleep. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Outdoors we strolled through the castle gardens while I kept listening for chimes. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seems even the garden misses your presence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Outside the walls of her secret garden, it is our town, with rain falling on houses in rows and on the distant, metal towers of the vuvv. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes go to the trees, and to Byrd’s garden, young shoots just starting to pop through soil. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And I said, “He killed a dog. With a garden fork. The dog was called Wellington.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We sat like that, close together in the white garden, lit by the cold white light of the stars, with only each other for warmth. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside in the garden, over the dinner tables, the three objects Scrimgeour had given them were passed from hand to hand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Joe was outside, down on his hands and knees, tending his vegetable garden that afternoon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She plants vegetable gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd-shaped tomatoes home from the fields and eats food left for the gods. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except that Penny, the woman we see, saw the community garden and got the program its own spot, to give us practice taking care of something and to let us witness "the miracle of life." Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The first rays of dawn were sliding over the garden wall, and the window was empty. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I dally in the palace garden to gather a few more things. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Yet now I felt best when I was out there alone, working in the garden or running the tractor. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Robin stopped to rest, watching the birds that darted about the garden. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

With Geak toddling after us, Chou and I and the other children work in the gardens and do menial labor in the village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cool outside, and the scent of the air was new to her — meadow grass mingled with herbs from the garden. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re making something a little stronger than tea today, though. Out in the garden, there’s some roseroot in the north corner. I need...” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But I already told the class about the wall of jasmine flowers in the garden of the house with the birds in the walls. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

If they want to return as much of the landscape as possible to its state in 1491, they will have to create the world's largest gardens. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then Giannot would bury it in the garden or conceal it behind a hidden panel somewhere in his walls, and that would be that. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Though he remembered that he had rarely been allowed beyond the garden. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“A butterfly garden,” she repeated, like it was a real enchanting idea. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Lunches in Brookhaven went straight from garden to table: tomatoes with basil, eggplant, corn, zucchini flower tempura. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we were able to get a glimpse of him in his garden, but that was all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went out to the garden I had been neglecting—I had scarcely looked at it for ten days—and the field I had plowed but never planted. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The battery in the next garden woke me in the morning and I saw the sun coming through the window and got out of the bed. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And she picked her words as one picks flowers in a mixed garden and took her time choosing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the journalist Mark Sullivan wrote, of that moment in the garden: Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Hearing the faint sounds of the hook-handed man talking to Justice Strauss in the garden, Klaus looked frantically around the library for something that could be helpful. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I understand that you’re upset, and I don’t blame you. You worked hard all summer in that garden.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

My Jamaican rear gunner and I took a tortuous route over a series of garden walls to avoid the checkpoint on the road. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Please listen to me. We need to leave this garden right away, and we need to leave Lkossa. It’s not safe here. You're not safe here.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I nodded towards the garden where no one could overhear our talk. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large plot stretched behind it with a cistern, a privy, a poor excuse for a garden, and at the far end, a carriage house and small stable. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kat had put flowers from the garden in a glass vase in the middle and a wooden board with stacks of bread. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming up past the Back Door and around through the gardens of the Great House, the three boys crossed the clear-running Thwilburn on a wooden bridge and went on northward among woods and pastures. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

This is what I used in the past to feed hummingbirds in my garden. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The first of the town houses look empty: windows shuttered, doors locked, vegetable gardens overgrown and untended. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I must have planted it. In Mo's community garden. That's what I did with all the cuttings he sent." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

You’ll find black poplars in a roadside park around a meadow and fountain—all Athena’s— but Father has a garden in the place— this within earshot of the city wall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “A garden fork,” in case he thought I meant a fork you eat your food with. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some kept the excess birds under control; some kept the rabbits from destroying his garden; others cleaned up the rats, mice, and voles. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was over as quickly as it had come: Harry stood shaking in the darkness, clutching the gate into the garden, his heart racing, his scar still tingling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the garden, under the oak tree, she found Colin sitting on the ground. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But they came to our underwater garden every night and filled the booths to watch us. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was buried under two sno-tubes, two boogie boards, and the garden hose. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Two years,” he said, looking out over the gardens. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Unable to abide not knowing what had happened, I climbed back upon the wall and looked into the garden. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In a single night, as if by magic, beautifully pruned gardens and flowerbeds appeared on the avenues; they had been planted by the unemployed, to create the illusion of a peaceful spring. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fat orange cat darted out from behind the garden shed and trotted along beside me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I think of them when I see any of the people who started the garden on Gibb Street. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not linger in the house, but with a few words to the shoemaker, left by way of the garden. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Her fingers caught the strands of a wire fence, the fence that separated Miss Rachel’s garden from the Finch back yard. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There had also been a very strange custom, whose origin was unknown, of marching every Sunday morning past a boar’s skull which was nailed to a post in the garden. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The garden place lay at the end of a short path through the woods, and on the way they walked without a sound, each lost in her thoughts. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her other parents were waiting for her in the garden, standing side by side. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

While she bathed in the garden, two of Joakim’s advisors spied her naked and cooked up their vile plan. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came to rest in the garden of a farm at the base of the mountain. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was King of Phrygia, the land of roses, and he had great rose gardens near his palace. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we approached the main house, we passed a small gated-in garden filled with flowers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He built our house with his own hands, and Mom’s vegetable garden fed us year-round. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the garden this morning I overtook the duke of Andona. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once the men were in the garden, Bear took command. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Down below were the gardens, bare now but beautifully regular, the gravel paths, the trees, the stone wall by the lake and the lake in the sunlight with the mountains beyond. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I listen to the birds in the garden, the chink of our trowels, the trickling of water from a nearby hose, and mostly to the voices in my own head. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Her garden, never healthy, turned yellow in the heat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Planting a garden at the White House was my response to this problem, and I hoped it would signal the start of something bigger. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His friends from school would come over, and tables would be set in the garden where El Patron used to have his birthday parties. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them rose the woods and the mountains; to the left Mrs. Frisby could see the big stone in the middle of the garden, near which her children waited. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We had stopped in the gateway of the walled garden. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She kept me busy doing anything but working in the garden. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Chou and I are to help look after the children, the garden, and various other chores while Kim fishes and collects wood with the father. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you seen the lights in the trees? Beautiful. It’s like a fairy garden out there!” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I avoid the entrance and walk around the side of the teahouse to the gardens near the veranda. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

To our left was a lot in which a few bold pioneers had planted gardens. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger had placed a garden bench on the edge of the lawn for his audience. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

On each side of the depression there were large trees—white pines that went towering up and shaded the whole place to make it feel like a quiet garden. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

People walk the paths of the gardens below, and the wind sings anthems in the hedges, and the big old cedars at the entrance to the maze creak. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I sit leaning back on one of the boulders in the garden. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She would have her own gardens, a marble bathing pool, a scrying tower and warlock's maze. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For a moment some old, flickering, here-and-gone feeling stirred in the General’s memory—the smell of wet cabbage leaves in a cottage garden, the sense of some easy-going, kindly place, long forgotten and lost. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she reached the edge of the kitchen garden, she went down a narrow stone staircase toward the sand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Besides,” she said, “my dreams wouldn’t be like a garden.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“The boats are cheap, graceless, clumsy affairs, as much out of place in what people are calling the ‘Court of Honor’ of the Exposition as a cow in a flower garden.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The swords flew at each other, and their steel song filled the garden and rang off the white tbwers of the Eyrie. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He often beats the little boy with the metal end of a garden hose. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Apparently Sister Rita, who was in charge of the garden project, felt the girls should learn as many different things as possible about the food chain. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We planted a garden, so we had fresh vegetables to eat, including cabbage, something I had never eaten before. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy babbled: "-a conch; ever so expensive. I bet if you wanted to buy one, you'd have to pay pounds and pounds and pounds -he had it on his garden wall, and my auntie." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But the only sound was the wind in the fruit trees, and the only creatures in the gardens were a few pale moths. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Osh didn’t say anything else all morning, but when he brought bowls of mutton stew to the garden for our lunch, he said, “Tomorrow we can go out there.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

My proudest achievement is the swimming pool, patio, and gardens, which I put in entirely by myself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night I dreamt I was wandering through the garden. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have fourteen days rest, because I have swallowed a bit of gas; in the little garden I sit the whole day long in the sun. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saying this was miles more difficult than running across people's back gardens. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They left the marble palaces and fragrant gardens be-hind and made their way through a poorer part of the city where modest brick houses turned blind walls to the street. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, despite the dead light and everything falling apart, the day in the Glade appeared to be proceeding business as usual—farming, gardening, cleaning. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He swam straight toward the Nest, waddled into the garden, and fluttered up to his mother’s shoulder. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I sit in the lawn chair in our backyard while Mom pulls her garden gloves on. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was walking with her mother, a bespectacled woman in a plum-purple dress, whose long, somber face was shadowed by a straw hat adorned with enough silk violets to plant a garden. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“When you had your first heart attack, I poisoned Matt with foxglove from my garden,” said Celia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And shortly afterward he had set to work, alone, digging the grave in the place that Bill had shown him at the end of the garden, between bushes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere, in Berlin’s parks and gardens, thousands of Hitler followers stood in military formation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Can’t say I’d want a snake crawling across me, but I don’t have to run screaming to Dad every time I see a garden snake now. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the harmattan wind tore across the front yard, ruffling the plants in the circular garden, bending the will and branches of trees, coating the parked cars with more dust. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Berries from the garden and homemade raspberry preserves,” Lena said, placing a platter on the table containing toast, butter, a pitcher of milk, a bowl of sugar, and a bowl of jam. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon, ma’am,” says the patch, tipping his hat and picking his way carefully across the ruined garden. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He told how the cows were going dry and the gardens were failing. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined going into the garden, where Jaja was on his knees, digging out a clump of mud with my fingers and eating it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring they appear around the corner of the house in their baggy gardening pants, smudged with mud, to see me off. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

According to the man at the garden center, Theresa’s geranium had died of drowning; they got a new one, the same color, and vowed not to water it more than once a month. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not trust Jomo with the herb garden and would tend it himself when Master was out, and this way, his arigbe, his herb of forgiveness, would never run out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t what we came for,” Patria reminded Minerva, who stood and walked to the porch rail and stared out into the garden. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. I just ran out the kitchen and went to the garden.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cabbages trembled in Miss Rachel’s garden, the back fence groaned, and Dill was with them. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, while waiting for his opponent’s move to come back from Havana, Bobby would gaze out into the club’s garden. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The last garden roses are blooming in the corner of Gram’s yard, forming a little crowd of pink, cheerful faces to welcome me through the white gate. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Their silver light is ethereal, impossibly beautiful as it spills over every rose and blooming gardenia in the temple’s sky garden. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her feet must have leather soles, Dicey thought as they crossed through the vegetable gardens on a dirt path. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They began to walk without another glance at the abandoned streets, the dead, empty houses, the gardens, the tombstones . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a timetable is a map of time, except that if you don’t have a timetable time is not there like the landing and the garden and the route to school. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now in the thin moonlight, her head throbbing, Cora appraised her tiny garden. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Her gaze skimmed over all of these things before they found a face, across the garden, in an upstairs window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I walk toward the community garden opposite the subway station, set right in between the basketball court and the playground. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

With this news, we returned to our companions, and spent the afternoon sitting in the garden. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But someone had to stay and help out with the garden and sheep camp. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I find myself in the atrium garden again, and this time, light glows behind the windows. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I act affronted, but since I’m half eyeing the Mercator girl and half looking into the garden for Helene, Grandfather isn’t convinced. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

So I went where I always go when I want to do my two favourite things, think and watch the weather: the back garden. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granny unexpectedly lost one of her two gardening jobs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost as if to prove her point, a private guard, his weapons clicking, passes by on the side of the patio open to the back gardens. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She sat very quietly, watching the houses and gardens of the city that was hers and not hers. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a thickly grown garden heavy with shrubs and trees, hard to see past from the road. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She led Ash toward the doors to the garden, but instead of going outside they went through a doorway into a servants’ corridor, where waiters were rushing by with flagons of wine. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are great caverns for the gardens of fungi on which the termites depend for their nourishment, perhaps also as a source of heat. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In elementary school, did you learn that some Indigenous peoples thought of corn, beans, and squash as “the three sisters”? Did you help plant a “three sisters” garden as a school project? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring and summer, vegetable gardens, cornfields, and fruit orchards were robbed. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chou and I continue feeding the children while Kim returns to the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a wooden paling around it, broken by a small wooden gate, and at length—there being nobody in sight to ask—we walked through to the garden and so to the house. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made Moon Orchid sit in the kitchen sun while she picked over the herbs in cupboards and basement and the fresh plants that grew in the winter garden. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had not occurred to Mrs. Frisby until now that a bird, flying freely over miles of countryside, would look down on many gardens. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

To these is added a new kind of fallout — the chemical sprays applied to croplands and gardens, forests and fields. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They had hidden the rubber nose outside the garden and it took them some time to get it ready for Rowsby Woof. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he got up from his chair one day, went down to the lakeshore, and began to plant a garden. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Change of plan,” growled Mad-Eye, who was holding two enormous, bulging sacks, and whose magical eye was spinning from darkening sky to house to garden with dizzying rapidity. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It stood in a large, well-tended garden, with shrubbery at one side and a gravel drive sweeping up to the front door. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were newer and some were older; some had large gardens like Babou’s, and some had an extra lane to park a car behind the house. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even the air of the garden was sweet to smell. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sprinklers in the garden switched on; the odor of wet dust drifted through the window. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to dig up the tubers of the Solomon’s seal from a big garden of them on the other side of the gorge. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sings to me: “When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls, someone thinks of me. ...” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out the back, through the kitchen, toward the garden. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The sprinkler sputtered in circles out in the garden, leaving glistening drops of water dripping off the okra and settling into little pools inside the yellow flowers of the cucumber plants. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We chat about hyperthermia and electrolytes until he is ready to order some finicky combination like soup of the day, garden salad, and a side of grits. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She works in the garden,” I repeated softly; perspiration stood on my brow. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room became dark and silent, though the clack of Sam’s shears, now nearer to the windows, could still be heard faintly from the garden. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sierra made her way up a narrow path surrounded by an herb garden and some scrawny trees. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

As Trashman munched his way through the garden, she retired to the Invalid’s Room with a glass of sherry. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It will be months before Theo can follow his big brother out the garden gate again. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The garden and the hunter vanished, along with the arrow in Reyna’s stomach. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We ran through the alley and some gardens, then back onto another dirt road. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He saw himself where he should have been: keeping watch in the garden that night. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Set far back from the road, it had a wraparound porch, an apple orchard, and a garden with prizewinning irises. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Time and again, they tried leading the Laughing Man up the garden path. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Mum was looking stonier and stonier as the rockery in the garden and the rockery in her blueprint got more and more different. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Down south already feels like a long time ago but the stories in my head take me back there, set me down in Daddy's garden where the sun is always shining. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

A bright flower garden bloomed in front of the house. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

So I walked down the path and out of the garden. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s new to the city, and no doubt in need of a guide. I’m going to offer to give him a tour of the temple, maybe the western gardens.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In Mother’s flower garden she kept finding things that Grandma had loved. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Since she was self-sufficient, relying on her garden and animals for sustenance, she didn’t know anyone in town. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He stands in front of the doorway, and the only other way out is by jumping off the balcony and into the garden below. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I crept under the kitchen window and then down the garden in the far shrubbery till I got to a water butt. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

His feet sunflower yellow, like the color of the ones that grow in Byrd’s garden, and each dotted with a black talon. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Emma was in the yard “looking at my poor darling’s little garden to find a flower of hers” when the messenger drove up. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran outside into the garden, but I couldn’t see anything. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper took them up to the roof garden to catch whatever cool breeze might be blowing. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

One Saturday, when the garden was fullest, I stood up a minute to straighten my back. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he will lose his cleaning job like some of the gardening jobs. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Landscape gardening was no more than a bohemian fantasy, as well as a lame ambition—so he had analyzed it with the help of Freud—to replace or surpass his absent father. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Despite the traffic fumes, there was a scent of fresh vegetation around, newly cut grass perhaps from the hospital gardens, or from young trees along the riverside. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The dormitories we passed were massive and almost anonymous behind their thick layers of ivy, big, old-looking leaves you would have thought stayed there winter and summer, permanent hanging gardens in New Hampshire. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roger Malecki says he put his entire cactus garden through his Magic Bullet blender, and extracted a gallon of water from it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sky, which had been black as an empty hearth since the children arrived, burst into a garden of color. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Is there a body buried in the garden or shoved under the floorboards? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Splitting wood for her, hauling water, planting a garden. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In the garden patch. Near the big stone.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And miraculously — inexplicably — the snake slumped to the floor, docile as a thick, black garden hose, its eyes now on Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The halls were empty and the lotus garden deserted, except for ibises meditating on the existence of frogs. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she always regained her sight in time to scold the two dogs for sniffing in her room, digging in the garden outside her window, or wetting on a table leg. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

From that office, they could not see the southern end next to die isolation area where there was a small garden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was busy now, for all the garden vegetables must be stored away. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside lay Celia’s garden filled with stands of corn, tomatoes, beans, peas. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at my pad and pretend to sketch, but my drawing of the garden is complete. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The First Officer and the Wireless Officer return from their tours of the house and the garden and they don’t look at the priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“That one, brother, he bite,” she said, pointing her knuckly hand at a small tree he was wresting from his garden plot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally crept along the river until she reached a pleasure garden, and slipped into the darkness beneath a row of weeping willows. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Harry stopped at the gate into the garden, staring out at its overgrown plants, rubbing his pounding forehead and thinking of Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Not only did we have our big garden, but we raised chickens. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newborn flowers in the garden were licorice allsorts blue, pink, and yellow. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

We have a pitiful harvest of wheat and vegetables from our gardens, but the Indians often bring us food from their own harvests to trade. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Sah? I can plant the herbs in a small garden. To cook more stews like this.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A south wind was blowing up from the sea, rustling the black trees of the gardens, and through that warm stormy summer dusk I hastened from him as from a murderer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

The free time allowed me to pursue what became two of my favorite hobbies on Robben Island: gardening and tennis. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We garden, we hunt, we pick wild mushrooms or berries. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, he led me to the shelter of the tall hedges bordering the garden labyrinth I had often seen from my window. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He’s avoiding me, presumably still angry at me for showing Dakari this garden. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, they even costumed themselves with dusty curtains and old tablecloths, scissoring through the faded fabric with Mamá’s gardening shears or tearing them apart with their bare hands. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

He and Aunt Gloria walked up to our front door through our front garden, which Mum says is the size of a postage stamp. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

With roses in hand, taken from Dada’s garden, he’d stood in front of Ms. Bethune’s desk, his head bowed in shame. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He laughs, his curious Mr. Bender laugh, and then suggests a walk in his garden. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“From the air, the way the owl sees it, the garden would look like this.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But what about all the other summer birds that fluttered in her garden? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But the dog wasn’t in the garden with her. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting hall is next to the church but separated from the grander building by a garden of white crosses, memorials to the deceased. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My brother stared past me, across the half-planted garden to the house. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

How we all sat shivering on deck chairs in The Cottage garden, watching the sun set. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He was turning in circles, eyes darting around the garden, apparently perplexed and amazed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

More golden than the king’s dragon bracelet, sweeter than a peach from the Queen Mother’s garden, and more beautiful than a Goddess of Heaven! Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. That is my husband, George. Passed away four years ago. He pops in every once in a while to check on his garden. He’s waiting for me.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As with the garden, I was trying to grow something—a network of advocates, a chorus of voices speaking up for children and their health. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

No animal caught in the garden that day is likely to escape alive, and all the winter homes, all the tunnels and holes and nests and cocoons, are torn up. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But first she had to plant a garden. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to “Annabel Lee” and we walked up and down the garden rows, the cool dirt between our toes, reciting the beautifully sad lines. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mami hummed softly, the yellow and orange flowers of her dress blending into the greenness: a miraculous garden with legs and arms and a melody. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I followed the jumping light into the garden, where dry stalks pointed to the skies like scrawny fingers, and rotted, wormy vegetables sank into the cracks of the parched soil. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garden was a copy of the neighborhood. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I had to put that out of my mind, 'cause over the very next fence waited the most dangerous garden of all. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When he looked up and saw the stars, he thought: I am sitting here under my mango tree, in my pleasure garden. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He twanged the guitar, hoping the noise would disturb the pair huddled in the garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole evening radiated an Old World ambience, as though the event were taking place in 1872, in a huge European beer garden, rather than 1972, in a covered Icelandic arena. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The gardens were sparse, suppressed by a long winter, and the buildings had not weathered well, but enough of the fair remained to give him “a tolerable idea” of what the exposition once had been. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He rose, said farewell to the mango tree and the pleasure garden. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

In gardening, in cooking, in naval architecture there are lots of culturally specific choices that we can make, but there are plenty of other things that simply cannot be done. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The music is some kind of oldies rock 'n roll that Lola might boogie to while gardening. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

As the short day faded, she flew down and landed in the back garden of the consul’s house. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was my mother pruning her garden right now? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The air was rich with the combined perfume of the garden and the river which was visible through a clearing fifty yards behind the school bus. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her resolve melted when she saw him before her, seated there beside her in the little garden, as if a designing Providence had led him into her path. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found a few books where he had left them, near the garden fence. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when they went back in the house to take care of the household chores, I helped Abuelita in the herb garden. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A prodigious breeder, the Horklump will cover an average garden in a matter of days. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wants her to get a view of this garden in the daylight. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But even with the knowledge of the special care those ladies took with the flowers, I could tell these white roses were not grown in one of their own gardens. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I could tell Annabeth didn’t like it, but she allowed Aunty Em to lead us back out the front door, into the garden of statues. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Up close, the mansion windows showed us nothing but ourselves in the mirrored garden. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But I have enough canned and dried stuff to live on; and if he had seen the garden, all in rows and weeded, he would have known someone was here. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Villas and gardens disappeared like crops under a tiller. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

I stormed up to the garage, over to the flower garden, out to the street, back to him. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Once we were home, I spent the rest of the afternoon in my garden. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Who thought to sink the garden?” she asks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A window faced south, and I looked out to see the garden and a labyrinth far below. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

This is where I wanted to die and where I tried one day but not even the monkey garden would have me. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, Ernie was in the garden, snapping pea pods off left and right. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It overlooks the garden, but Hannah’s table is hidden by a brick column choked with ivy. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z