Joseph’s mother turned to him and said, “Would you mind getting me a glass of water, Joseph? My throat’s a little dry.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I got up and looked out, but the glass was covered with a sheet of thin ice, and the only thing I could see was the crazed pattern of the streetlight outside. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The last thing he remembered was the horrifying crack of the glass. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Billy traveled in time, opened his eyes, found himself staring into the glass eyes of a jade green mechanical owl. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey poured herself a glass of milk and sat down. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dipped the glass pen in a pot of ink and held it over the paper. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She takes the glass back from me and tips it to my mouth like I’m a little baby. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

M. Yoshoto leaned his newspaper against my water glass, and the three of us ate in silence; that is, they ate and I systematically swallowed in silence. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He tapped the barrel and turned the wooden spigot, spilling a couple of inches of warm golden-brown liquid into a clean glass. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I was just looking for that glass girl poem.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We walk to the Pit and up the path that leads to the glass building. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I watch the glass building above the Dauntless compound shrink behind us. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We sit on top of water as still as glass. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I got some milk from the fridge and poured myself a glass. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A pale white hand slapped against the darkened glass of the van’s rear window. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I press my forehead and fingertips against the glass. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He sat the glass of water on a table and folded his hands behind his back. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The thick glass windowpanes are covered by dreary dark brown curtains. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She holds my stare in the glass, level, unwavering. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grab your magnifying glass and your decoder ring because you’re going to be investigating! The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He took a quick sip from his glass, then got back to the question. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When we made it to the third floor, we stood in front of big glass doors, in the tiny space between the stairs and elevator and the lab. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And this time, he didn’t need to shatter any glass to win the game. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The glass building above the Pit reflects sunlight into my eyes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Cool,” I say, catching up with him and taking the glass by the handle. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I press my open palm against the glass, breathless as if I’d done that crazy stunt myself. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” I said, sipping a glass of orange juice and wiping the sleep from my eye. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while Dede hears the clink of the rum bottle against the rim of his glass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would take it out of its glass frame. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It's all there. I only deducted the glass beetle your brother broke last time. Sign the receipt here. You can write, I hope?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Draining his daiquiri glass, he stood up and said, “Now I really must run.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when they got back to her house, she picked up a glass from the cabinet and threw it against the wall. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everybody else had been treating him like a glass vase, but Percy . .. well, he seemed to figure that if Jason was on deck he was ready for action. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Shady filled a shot glass for her and couldn’t help smiling. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I extract a glass of wine from her. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I check them again to make sure there are no cracks in the glass. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He opens the sliding glass door to the balcony and stands outside. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So I’m standing at the refrigerator staring through the glass, when I hear a voice coming from behind me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I cleared a circle in the mist on the glass so I could meet the smirk on his face with the look of disgust I had ready for him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Helen was thrown so hard against the door that her head bumped the window glass. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was still drumming heavily against the high, dark glass. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"If I get water on the glass I got to get out and clean 'em." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We sat on overturned planters among climbing roses, a kerosene lantern on the grass between us, dawn not yet broken beyond the glass walls. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The water here is calm and clear, like blue glass. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A swarm of faces—some encased in glass tanks, some covered in fur, some with way too many fangs—quickly surround the three of us, hurling questions at me from every direction. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the reflection of the glass bay doors, she looked like she’d swallowed a teaspoon of salt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The jars are sitting on top of a glass case displaying small pastries. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A glass of brandy would help a restless patient get to sleep. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He took the empty glass from me gingerly, as if it were dynamite, and set it back on the table. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Just as water evaporating in a glass leaves behind a film of salts and minerals, water evaporating from irrigation channels leaves deposits in the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She took a chair out onto the balcony, looked out over its white-painted railing to the sea shining like blue glass beyond the buildings, and tried to think of nothing, nothing at all. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He glances at the pile of broken glass. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She held up a blue glass Fates amulet she kept around her neck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her through the glass part of the door. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The principal’s office was a cramped, achromatic cubicle separated from the library door by a glass trophy case that overflowed with the gilded booty of athletics earned over the past thirty years. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After lunch, each of them was allowed to select one item from those displayed under the glass counter. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I poured a glass and took two of Armand's pain pills. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Arturo claimed at one point that he had found salsa, but when I picked up the jar and looked through the glass bottom, I laughed. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When the glass reaches her lips, she adds, “It’s not in a child-friendly spot.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She paused, and suddenly picked up her glass of milk and brought it to her lips. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“So now we have to find a glass elevator?” said Akimi. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I could see Aunty Em’s dark reflection in the orange glass; her headdress was gone, revealing her face as a shimmering pale circle. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Suppose I had a glass of wine,” she says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” June said, “I want to draw a glass girl because of this.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“They’re not sitting around getting wasted, denying the existence of God or anything. My dad considers himself a believer. But he also believes in enjoying a glass of wine now and again.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Pour up, Lily,” I say, lifting my glass. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

And now, I’m standing so close to the glass, I can almost see myself in its reflection: the faint curve of my cheek, the straight line of my nose, the dark gleam of my eyes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then I put on my “talking to white folks” voice and said, “Can you get her a glass of cold water?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the white youths went further, filling cored apples with broken glass and hurling the fruit at blacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If I could reach through the glass, I would put my hand on his shoulder. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was rolling the glass against her cheek. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had just finished serving a glass to a gentleman when a voice behind me said: 'Ah, Stevens, you're interested in fish, you say.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maxine pours him a glass of wine, not asking if perhaps he might prefer something else. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She moved her elbow and knocked her empty glass off the arm of the sofa. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glass is completely clear, so that I can see part of a room beyond it, along with large paintings of Warcross worlds on the walls and a long meeting table. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Above him was a dark brown head, perfectly bald, with deep eyes that looked as if they were polished slabs of black glass. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They were the glass kind, the ones with gilded rims and no handles. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Too much,” I said and held up the glass and sighted at the lamp on the table. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The only rule, which had not been rigorously enforced, was that you couldn’t aim at anything made of glass. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Lenny stooped, and Doreen went flying up on to his shoulder, and her glass sailed out of her hand in a long, wide arc and fetched up against the pine paneling with a silly tinkle. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

There were glass bowls of cookies and candies, but I could not take my eyes off the cake in the middle. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Judith really is stunning, with her pale parchment skin, molasses-colored hair, and a gaze that could cut glass. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But indeed, the address on the card brought her to the gleaming glass building of Dykman, Strauss & Tanner on Wall Street. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hands shaking a bit, she picked up her glass and took a sip of chilled water. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When it sees me staring, it sticks its belly out, pops open the glass door, and pulls out the soda tray for me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The fusty smell seeped from out of the chinks in the dolls' glass cabinet, into the room. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He dropped the piece of glass and came back to his feet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"You make me feel uncivilized, Daisy," I confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Pong would have thought it was all a bad dream if he didn't still have the faded glass orb tucked behind his mat in the boys' bunk room. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

At the top, transparent glass lining the metal heads. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“A hot shower and cold glass of orange juice will do you wonders. When you go see Penny this morning, you don’t want to scare the child, do you?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Seema soothed the girls while I cleaned up the shards of glass. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They made the glass from a mixture of beechwood ash and washed sand that was melted at high temperatures. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

The mynah lifted on a rise of warm air as it coasted over the garden wall, over the snapping electric wires and broken glass and machine guns. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I overslept, I discovered, because I was in a block of ice, and none of the morning sounds of the forest penetrated my glass house to awaken me. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Sam poured another quarter glass of wine into her glass, then filled it the rest of the way with water for the next blessing. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He packed the trays, bottles, glass plates, preservatives, rubber boots and a blanket into the back of his car. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She poured the syrupy liquid into a measuring glass and tested the volume and density. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was a soft tapping on the windowpanes as various flying creatures of the night threw themselves against the glass. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I looked at the monster in the thick glass carboy, with its freakish eyes and multiple limbs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She sipped a glass of lemonade and did not look at Cora as she said, “You’re going to get us murdered.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“This Potter,” said Aunt Marge loudly, seizing the brandy bottle and splashing more into her glass and over the tablecloth, “you never told me what he did?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It is one large wall of glass that ends now at a bench. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Their black noses click and clack against the glass, begging to be let in. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In a Fairfax hotel, a night watchman sitting by a window was showered with broken glass and thrown to the floor. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There are paintings and framed photographs all over the walls and glass boxes full of pottery and sculptures spread out all over the floor space. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Babou shook his head, but then Mom thrust a wad of bills under the glass partition before Babou could stop her. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Owlery was a circular stone room, rather cold and drafty, because none of the windows had glass in them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My dad brings over a glass of water and urges me to take a tiny sip. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He drank and set the glass down and went and put his hand on Mother’s shoulder. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the nickel in my fist, I left Mr. Hardin’s office and headed straight for the glass cases and counters in the center hallway of the courthouse. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I got up at once, shaking the table clumsily as I moved my chair, and upsetting Giles’s glass of port. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a flat ridged disk perhaps two inches irf diameter, and it was thick, like the bottom of a drinking glass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I rolled the cool glass against my neck. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

During those college years, I discovered that a glass or two of wine took the edge off my inner pain and helped me forget. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The fly crept along the glass as if looking for a crack so it could go in and feed on my parents. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I hand TaShon another glass of milk, but he shakes his head at it. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was dreadfully improper, I know, but I couldn’t resist the temptation, and lifting one end of the curtain before the glass door, I peeped in. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Frank who brought me a plate of chicken and ham that I could not eat, and Frank who stood by my elbow with a glass of champagne I would not drink. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Only one piece got through—a big chunk of glass that hit my chest and probably should’ve killed me, but it shattered against my skin. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Curious, I press my face into the glass to get a better look. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I served him liquor; he bought me a large glass of Coca-Cola. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To graduating, and to a wonderful dinner,” she said, raising her glass of Coke. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The craftmen’s workshops had glass roofs to let the sky in, while the painters survived in dark hovels that were a paradise of misery and grandeur. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning it was raining and a hard wind was rattling the glass at the rear of the building. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Because of his helmet, I could not see Mr. Shakespeare's face directly, only his reflection in the glass. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the glass of water and draw lines in the condensation. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They noted the broken glass strewn on the hood and on the ground beyond. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The windows have two panes of glass with blinds, somehow, between them. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then, in the green tinted glass, I saw her. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I hear pounding—doors flung open by wind; shutters slapping against windows; glass cracking, breaking like a thousand bottles. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He shoves me through the doorway, sliding the glass door closed behind us and locking it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Know this,” she said, her voice as clear as a shard of glass. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hidalgo went to the kitchen and came back a minute later with a glass of water that I instantly gulped down. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Salinas lifted his glass of orange juice. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He tipped the glass of sticky coins into his jacket pocket, and then tapped the pocket to show, unmistakably, that it was empty. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He slammed the door of the carriage shut, and the cracked glass shattered completely, letting in the rain. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Big Dub rattled the ice in his almost-empty glass as Robert Hicks, the Perkins football coach, pulled up to his house. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I assume that answers your question,” he said confidently, then sipped generously from his glass. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The girl behind the glass window spoke without looking at Dicey: “Next? Little boy?” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No pillars, no straight walls, so much glass that they’ll need three Mr. Vendleri’s to keep it all clean. That kind of modern.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“A robot with a trigger that shot glass projectiles. It was a cannon! You could’ve put somebody’s eye out with that thing.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He had a sense of enormous unnatural fragility, like hollow glass. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when her children cried with hunger, she scrounged together enough to buy a bit of tortilla dough and mixed it into a big glass of water to fill their bellies. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I walked into the sanctuary, toward the stained- glass window of Jesus, his kind face and loving eyes focused on me, and that’s when I heard it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I feel my way up the steps to the kitchen and see the glass window in the door has been shattered. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Look! Look! Look! See, two horsemen follow fast, coming up from the south. It must be Quincey and John. Take the glass. Look before the snow blots it all out!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

"Ten, Khaleesi, because you are so lovely. Use it for a looking glass. Only brass this fine could capture such beauty." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A guy with long curly hair, old-fashioned clothes, and a looking glass. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I set the glass on a bench and knelt so that the sunlight entering the small window shone on my head. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” says Dad with a weird sort of pride, “he’s not. The other eye is glass.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I turn away as the glass shatters, and the force of the water throws my body at the ground. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I leaned my forehead against the cold glass. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

They crawled on their stalk legs around the curved perimeters of the glass as if the world had shrunk to that jar. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glass is cold, but resting my head against it helps relax me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Holding a glass of deep red wine, she sits on the chair farthest away from Brandon. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He shook his head and finished his drink; he had earlier put the straw aside, sipping from the glass. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

One night he dreamed that he’d unscrewed the bulb, broken it, and with the broken glass cut his wrists and ankles. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the excelsior nest sat a squat, black metal machine with four blades on the front and a glass reservoir on the back into which my father poured kerosene. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A big painting on a canvas, actually, but clearly a glass girl was at the center. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had the disconcerting sense that if he looked through the glass he would see himself running drills in the training rooms, seated at the long table in the dining hall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I slam my other hand next to the first and drive another crack through the glass, this one spreading outward from my palm in long, crooked fingers. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Tied to an empty crib behind the glass is another bright-yellow balloon. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Anderson’s floor was a warren of lawyer’s offices, with rich carpets, walls of dark brown wood, and doors inlaid with frosted glass. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My turn came and I stood in front of the big desk with holy pictures under the glass while the Sister Superior read my letter. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set down my glass and picked up a letter and matching envelope. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She put down the glass of milk and touched the little girl gently on the hand. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The beads around her neck are small and expensive, glass coated with real gold paint, and her blouse shimmers with flowers of finely stitched gold and pink thread. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its eyes were black and weeping more black and they stared into mine, inches away through the glass. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I visit them daily in their spacious glass dishes, and like any good mother I cajole, I celebrate when they reproduce, and I take special note when they behave oddly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a sip of her drink, then ran her hand across the cold moisture on the glass and pressed her palm to the front of her neck. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond a pane of glass, aisles stretched far ahead in every direction. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The flames lit the darkening glass of the window where the boy stood in hooded silhouette like a troll come in from the night. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Probe for the invisible cracks through which one might fall out of the white glass ball, and fall, and fall, and fall....An unrelaxable tension little by little took hold of all my muscles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I squash them against the glass, leaving red smears of my own blood. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

If God cared, he would have made the wasp smarter, so it wasn’t stuck, bouncing against the glass, trying to get outside to the sunshine and the rest of the world. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Now Mom came back to the table with a full glass of chocolate milk, frothy from a fresh stirring. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I was at the game! The girl at the end of my row was covered in broken glass!” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Massive stone walls, hundreds of feet high, moving like sliding glass doors—an image from his past life that flashed through his thoughts. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I poured him a glass of water from the pitcher beside his bed, and shook out two aspirin tablets. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nazario’s and Bodega’s speeches were as different as a glass of tap water and a glass of wine. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Remora sighed and picked up the full glass her brother had left by the sink. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She collected prayer cards and missals engraved with gold initials and filled glass jars with holy water, which she later used to baptize Ilda Limon’s chickens. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the ostentatious nature of the glass castle, she had to admit that it did look rather beautiful at times. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Trying to force them into one cup or one glass meant I never really got to know them. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I was staring at it and wishing it to tip and then my eyes went all hot and funny and some sort of power came out of them and the glass just toppled over." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He picks his way through the crowd, grabbing a glass of wine off a passing tray and downing half of it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“This is my last night, Ivan,” she says, and she presses her palm to my glass. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The candlelight glowed dully and ruby red through the thick glass. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know why the glass in the window is shatterproof, and why they took down the chandelier. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She placed it in a glass case and kept it for years in the family’s photography studio. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He gets to his feet, goes over to the sink and pours me a glass of water. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

HeLa cells, it turned out, weren’t picky—they didn’t need a glass surface in order to grow. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He swung the paddle, and the glass fell inward with a crash that might have sounded loud in normal circumstances but that he could hardly hear for the noise of the water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Late in the program Cody himself demonstrated some fancy marksmanship, dashing around the arena on horseback while firing his Winchester at glass balls hurled into the air by his assistants. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

You pointed at the river that glittered like crushed glass far below us. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The woman held a long-arm nearly as tall as she was, shooting hollow glass orbs and targets effortlessly. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Bee,” shouted Giles, “I felt a spot of rain, so we’ve put on the cover. Maxim says the glass is falling.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was all the tastes she had ever known, and none of them . . . and then the glass was empty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Noggle calls on a girl with silver hair and a laugh like shattering glass. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Through the pane of glass, Hank was watching me roll away, looking all white and scared behind the smiling face of the dead girl on the door. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden I saw sparks flying, glass shattering, and blood splattering. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

What I see is not the machines, but Ofglen, reflected in the glass of the window. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do these glass panels change, like the windows in the car I just rode in? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So I handed him the paper and then walked over to the glass case and looked inside. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Shingles were missing all over the roof, half the windows had the glass broken out of them, and the porch sagged in the middle. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“To Frank for finishing the house in record time,” George says, raising his glass in the air again. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I cleaned the rest of the glass out of the rim with a towel. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the still woods, the only movements were bars of sunlight glinting like green glass through the leafy canopy. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

For two, perhaps three seconds, a gigantic, blinding white shard of glass from a broken cosmic window danced in the sky insubstantial yet over­whelmingly powerful. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Through the glass doors of his den 1 looked out to see a few dead leaves floating on the water of his swimming pool. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Pattie carried over one hundred shades in their squat little glass containers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

There he lived surrounded by his mahogany furniture, his Victorian glass cabinets, and his Persian carpets. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew what it would be—she got the same thing every year—and sure enough, I pulled out a tiny glass figurine. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The glass jar shatters, a sea of black truffles scattering across the floor. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Gathering her plate and glass, she went inside. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then, glass crunching beneath his shoes, Rashid crossed to the door and pulled it open. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ugwu had the water ready, ice cold in a glass placed on a saucer. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Four told me he would delete the recording of me breaking the glass. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And there was not even a glass window where Hanako could see her reflection. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As Grandma tore down the bumpy hill, then over and through the winding roads to get to the hospital, Genie did his best to hold the glass of milk steady. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The light in the glass structure was blinding. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two singed pink nodules drop into a glass of fluid. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I slam the glass down on the counter, half expecting it to break. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I pushed my feet through the grass until I hit the concrete slab by the glass door—too black to throw a reflection. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

"Let's enjoy a little more of this," Brett pushed her glass forward. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“They are. But if you string together the first or last word of each game title…” He tapped the glass in front of the first box on the bottom shelf. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She’d opened the supply box and almost dropped the two glass vials she was holding. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The wasp keeps flying at the glass over and over and over, like it doesn’t know the difference between glass and open air. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Lark’s curly hair is all that Axel can see before she slaps the glass. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The sound of breaking glass seemed to come from all around them, and then desperate cries for help. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then she handed the glass to Mom, who tipped it over her tongue for that final drop. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I can feel the wind seep through the glass and penetrate my shirt. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She waved me closer to the glass and whispered. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Holding the glass of cognac, I went over and opened the window. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The broken glass inside him was beginning to smooth at the edges. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She looked at me, and her eyes seemed small and sharp through the glass of her lenses. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He got out an enormous empty glass jar that was the size of a washing machine. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking down on us with one hand pressed to the glass is Noah. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The gate's rusty hinges squeaked like glass about to shatter. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Congratulations to our top sixteen trainees!” says Director Van Helsing, raising a glass of strawberry punch. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then she drank a glass of wine and waited. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Over my shoulder I watch Matthew lift the gun over his head and fire straight up, at one of the glass panels above him. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Her past and future were seated on a glass throne. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I washed the empty glass jars Mama’s customers brought back, and Jay dried them. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Light flowed in from all the stained glass windows, making the room sunny and warm. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I were walking on broken glass. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Every night Pong lay there, with the used-up glass close to his head. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Instead of a satisfying crash, the bar thumped against the glass. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have journals full of sad poems, and they didn’t smile from ear to ear when Ivy taught them how to draw cute animals and glass girls. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was holding his glass and thinking of many years ago. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Scythe Rand kicked in the glass of an emergency case, pulled out a fire hatchet, and handed it to him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I remember saying the glass was half full. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then I filled a regular glass with water from the fridge and went to the cabinet where we kept everyone’s medicine. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Among her collection of wooden ye’iis were eight large glass jars filled with seeds of different colors and shapes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

E & J, by contrast, had a far more ornate bottle: more squat, like a decanter, with smoked glass, foil wrapping around the spout, and a dark, richly textured label. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A half-moon floated above the Bell Tower and cast its reflection on the roof of the glass gardens. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My mother drank from her glass of wine. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Like most families, Becca’s parents had nailed sheets of plywood over their windows and glass doors to protect against the storm. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She looked at him as if he were behind the glass wall. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

They staggered over slick glass ledges, around massive boulders, avoiding stalagmites that would’ve impaled them with any slip of the foot. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was a piano, too, and Charles was playing, a glass of whiskey on the seat beside him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Under the picture of the man with the burning heart there is a shelf with a red glass holding a flickering candle and next to it a small statue. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

White columns surrounded the edges of the pool under an opaque glass ceiling. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Through their thick, diamond-shaped panes of yellow glass Jaime glimpsed the gnarled limbs of the tree from which the castle took its name. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mamou had this stained glass partition separating the living room from the dining room, and the light filtering through it cast constellations of color across my family’s faces. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I breathe deeply and put just my hand over the ceiling, looking through the glass to see my target. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

It collided with the invisible glass again and again, bumping its tiny head, until Mo opened the window and let it out. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, I’m going to need a few more details about this glass girl thing,” she said. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She asks for a glass of champagne and looks carefully at the wine list. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the edge of a small town they sat in the cab of a truck to rest, staring out a glass washed clean by the recent rains. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

To that stupid glass bowl that he missed so much. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s the most foolish thing I’ve ever seen,” Nehemia said, scanning the ceiling as if she could see through the stone and into the glass sections. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She finished her water then placed the glass in the sink. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She stood straight and tall in her maroon robe, and when the sun came through the clear glass windows, her hair glowed like molten silver. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel the gray gristle of the felt that cushioned the window glass pressing into her chinskin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced again at the banner in the glass enclosure. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was sorely tempted, too, by the perfect, moving model of the galaxy in a large glass ball, which would have meant he never had to take another Astronomy lesson. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

His eyes flew open and I saw his face harden up before he disappeared from the glass. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Careful not to make any noise, I navigate my way downstairs in the dark and swallow down a tall glass of water in three gulps. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I rang the doorbell and heard Myrna Mountweazel’s paws scurrying on the hardwood floors, and then she was barking like crazy, staring at us through the sidelight glass. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tía cracks the egg into a glass of water and holds it up to the light. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He took a coin from the candle flame of a candle on the wall, another from his beard, a third from Shadow’s empty left hand, and dropped them, one by one, into the glass. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The heads on the wall observe with eyes of imported glass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger, a young man wearing a black suit, white shirt, and bow tie, set his briefcase on the bar and asked Shady for a glass of water. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He took a long swallow from the glass of water and then looked up at her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she stood concentrating in the dusty light that filtered through the glass roof and slanted down past the upper galleries, she didn’t notice that she was being watched. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She commenced a little flirtation, he smiled, and each time she smiled back, he approached with his silver pitcher to refill her water glass. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Finally we came to Gatsby's own apartment, a bedroom and a bath and an Adam study, where we sat down and drank a glass of some Chartreuse he took from a cupboard in the wall. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then he licked up the salt and took a swallow out of the glass. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Suddenly his nurse was tapping on the glass. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glass was cold beneath his hand, and he watched the snowflakes come crashing down to earth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I walk to the glass that separates us. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He gestured to the popcorn popping behind the glass doors of the machine. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There’s a huge table dominating the middle of the room, and on it are maps weighed down on the corners by chunks of glass and metal objects. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you not see the glass—there and there. She was wearing bangles.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered why she didn’t pour herself a glass of tea, then remembered that there seemed to be an unspoken rule that she could cook our food but never taste it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cheers to Hudson,” Dylan says, raising a glass. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

His faceplate took the brunt of the blow, the safety glass shattering into hundreds of small cubes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Justyce picks up his glass and gulps down the rest of his tea. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Toby lifted his glass high, burped loudly, and downed the beer like he had the last two. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The Fiat’s windows had shattered, sending brighter glass like frosting across the dark beach. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The grease on the glass that covered the photograph showed the frequency of these affectionate onslaughts. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catherine stopped sketching for a second to get herself a glass of iced rum. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I wake up several times during the night from a nightmare where I’m trapped in a glass room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She got up from the kitchen table and poured herself a glass of wine. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I raised my glass and she joined me in a drink, moving close. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wes ran to the kitchen and rushed back to her with a glass of water, splashing some on her face and pouring some down her throat until she came to. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Her dangling earring reflected the rays of the streetlight like tinkling glass Chinese ornaments. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even better, the glass structure threw brilliant reflections into his eyes, and Will could see that for a moment he was almost blinded. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped, shrinking in fear, and held the glass to his lips with a trembling hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a piece of wax paper and used it to grab three chocolate croissants from the glass case. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Caroline is with him behind the glass, scanning the crowd like she considers herself the owner of the school, so these people are all her guests. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Marco escorts the man in the grey suit through the library, sliding the stained glass open to access the empty game room and continue their conversation. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The first thing he felt was pain—glass everywhere—followed by a sudden hollowness that made him want to throw up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

What came next happened so fast no one saw how it happened — one second, Piers and Dudley were leaning right up close to the glass, the next, they had leapt back with howls of horror. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He went behind the bar to get a glass of water and contemplated means of sabotage that could finish Lana Lee forever. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the pages on the desk under a glass paperweight; then opened the door in answer to a faint scratch. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went into the kitchen and poured myself a glass of orange juice. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had two bangles made of glass beads and some plastic toe rings, nothing more. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve never been in the hospital unless you count the time I went to the emergency room after I cut my ankle on some broken glass. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She empties a dustpan of broken glass into the trash and looks at me straight on, briefly, then bangs the dustpan against the can to get off all the last particles. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“So you’ve known Denna for a while,” I prompted as he poured each of us a glass of pale red wine. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was in the hospital for over a month and has splinters of glass in his spine that the doctors can’t remove. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear a loud noise and the sound of glass breaking. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It shattered and I was left with a thin, curved shard of broken glass about the size of my palm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We arrived in a small courtyard with a miniature mosque that had been fitted with absurd arched windows made of painted glass. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the men passed Somkit's room and started down the stairs, he heard it: the soft tink-tink of glass on glass. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I start to pour a second glass when I hear Dad's voice. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten o’clock, Booth finally lowers his glass and walks back to Ford’s Theatre. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to smash through the glass wall with his sword hilt—again, no luck. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And behind the glass the rattlesnakes lay still and stared into space with their dusty frowning eyes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky, the land were distant then; trees and hills moved past the windshield glass like movie film. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This time we told people which glass was Christian Brothers and which glass was E & J. Now you are having sensation transference from the name, and this time Christian Brothers’ numbers are up.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

What would she call him if he threw the glass salt and pepper angels across the room? Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She looked into her glass for a while. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as we walked into the examination room I spotted the glass jar of Band-Aids. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came back with a glass and a damp washcloth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when he finished the second glass, he didn’t stop Val from filling it up again. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The tension in the air was as taut as the glass string I was tug­ging with my bloody hands. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

PS It was pretty exciting to find that glass egg in the nest box. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He went down the steps into the vestibule and stood looking out into the street through the plate glass of the front door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I watch as she brushes her wavy, sandy-brown hair out of her eyes, staring at the baby through the glass with a determined focus. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The glass windows I pass reflect a distorted vision of myself—face elongated, dark jeans stretched too long, black gloves, beat-up boots, faded red scarf wrapped around my black hoodie. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We do,” Marion said, setting a glass in the drying rack. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The school is made up of several tall brick buildings that surround a playing field and a four-season swimming pool completely encased in glass. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The dozens and dozens of shells in glass jars. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Wednesday walked out into the firelight, a big old man with a glass eye in a brown suit and an old Armani coat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But I’m only half done with my apple drink, so I sort of chug it, and hand the empty glass back to him. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She went back to the kitchen and returned with a full glass. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Randalls were drinking wine out of goblets of cut glass and looked as if they had drained a few bottles. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

What we were trying, what we should be doing, do you really think you should be having a second glass of wine? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burnham imagined terrified men, women, and children trying to slide down the glass flanks of the roof and breaking through, then falling two hundred feet to the exhibit floor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She left a few things inside the hole: a precious box of matches, some glass beads that had come off Aunt Shuvai’s bracelet, some of the copper wire Uncle Kufa used to decorate his snuffboxes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The accounts of the initial encounters between Indians and Europeans are windows into the past, even if the glass is smeared and distorted by the chroniclers’ prejudices and misapprehensions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A woman reaches for a glass of water and her silhouette is lighted by the moon. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We watched for probably a full hour, till our breath steamed up the glass too much to watch much more and our feet started to get sore. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He handed her the glass, then abruptly sneezed and pulled out a handkerchief, fumbling with it around his nose. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put her glass down and hugged me back, her thin fingers holding on to me tight. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I reached out to her instantly, hitting the tips of my-fingers on the glass. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I put my thumb on the mouth of the pipe, sucked air — blew out, and all this while the glass is getting colder duller orange blood red mud red black. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

One girl my age got a large coloring book of biblical characters, while a less greedy girl who selected a smaller box received a glass vial of lavender toilet water. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He filled the glass with grappa from a short bottle. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

His hand felt so small and fragile, as though it was blown from glass. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A palm presses to the glass in front of my face, and for a moment as I stare through the water, I think I see my mother’s blurry face. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Behind the man, Roza slapped at the glass, scratched at the door, trying to find the lock. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was the same soldier who, when they arrived at the training camp, a former primary school with buildings sheathed in palm fronds, shaved Ugwu’s hair with a piece of broken glass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a glass of orange juice on the nightstand, too. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He sat crosslegged in the leaves at the crest of a ridge and glassed the valley below them with the binoculars. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was a glass door, and as he opened it, he felt the unnatural heat in the building wash over him, and he heard the familiar screeches of monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Before I ascend the metal stairs that will carry me above the glass ceiling, I wait in darkness and watch the light cast on the Pit walls by the sun. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Werner can still see Frederick kneeling at his window, nose to the glass. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Laura loved to look at the lamp, with its glass chimney so clean and sparkling, its yellow flame burning so steadily, and its bowl of clear kerosene colored red by the bits of flannel. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the last pieces of glass fell and disintegrated on the terra-cotta floor, movement and sound returned to the East Hall in an ever-widening wave. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I liked to watch the nurses leaning in toward the glass, cooing over little Samson. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The glass exploded, sparks flew, and the light sputtered out. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flashing toys blink from the glass counter under his arms. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It looks like a towering sculpture of lighted glass and metal, like a machined piece of art. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I raised my glass, gave a cheer and, following suit, slammed my drink back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then she poured herself a big glass of wine. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A pretty, bohemian-looking strawberry blonde in her twenties sat behind a glass counter display full of handmade jewelry, staring intently at her laptop screen. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

When Jon folded back the window with its thick diamond-shaped panes of yellow glass, the chill of the morning hit him in the face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He jiggles the ice around in his glass. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“You are a fine boy, but this twice- tough glass was made by my own hands. Broad-shouldered Cammar could not break it with an anvil hammer.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He picks up the big pieces of glass and stacks them in a pile. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He’s in his shirt sleeves, his shirt untucked, hanging loose; he’s holding a toothbrush, or a cigarette, or a glass with something in it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not say whether the stiff moths, inside their glass cases, interested him or not. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He began to put his glass on a table, and the maid robot managed to slide a coaster under it before it touched the wood. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m inclined to tell somebody if his glass of water is dirty. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sit down for a few minutes and you’ll be all right,” she said, “wait, I’ll get you a glass of water.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She wishes they were somewhere alone instead of at Will’s house, where she can hear Robert and Tracie downstairs talking and having a glass of wine. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Had the glass, the walls, the floor been made to withstand Fabrikator manipulation? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Across a low cement wall is the upper level of our neighbor’s apartment, whose glass doors also open onto the terrace. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gritted my teeth, and then before us, broken glass glittered in the blare of the sun like the road was wearing jewelry, and that spot must be the spot. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Once when he was very ill Samuel asked, “Liza, couldn’t I have a glass of whisky to ease me?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The fire...the bandits...I still cannot believe that you defeated Regibald du Burgh in single combat. You were smart to lure him up into that broken glass tower.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Sawl-e-nau mubabrak,” the kite seller said, taking the twenty and handing me the kite and a wooden spool of glass tar. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My face looked back at me from the thick glass. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glass doors of the airport terminal slid open. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Governor reached his other hand into his pocket and drew out a glass orb, clear and thin as a soap bubble. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

My head, my back, my shoulders—I felt like a 142-pound sack of broken shards of glass. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He started along the glass passage that joined Block C to Block D and here at last there was something different. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Instead, I keep my fingers wrapped around the glass of lemonade balanced on my knee. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car spilled crazily off the road into a ditch, flinging Teece against the glass. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I'm there, and I'm looking in through the glass in the door to the listening room, and I'm glad I came. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slughorn heaved himself out of his armchair and carried his empty glass over to his desk. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I crouch to see where the water is coming from, but it seems to be coming from nowhere, rising up from the box’s glass bottom. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Z, why you so corny? You should have this instead of that,” Layla says, swirling the glass around while holding up her pinky. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

All the way to school he sat alone, his wounded cheek pressed against the cool glass of the window. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held her glass until Kate had emptied hers, then gulped it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had glass sides and looked as if it might have been used to write memos during the Civil War. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The pharmacist went into the back, returned with a little glass bottle, and handed it to me. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Got that right,” Grandpop said, coming from a door just off from the living room—which was just off from the kitchen—glass in hand. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In one of the pawnshops in Gallup, Nathan stared at the rows and rows of bracelets, rings, bow guards, and stones displayed in glass cases. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Through the glass he saw Ms. Steinert pushing a cart of books. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The impact jars me hard; for an instant, all I can see is a blur of water outside my glass view. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She moved the water glass to the end of the line, and put the wine glass first. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

What if she's lying in bed and she sees a creepy guy face pressed against the glass? Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Then, from a short distance away, came the rumble of a motor, then another, and then the gleam of glass and mirror reflecting the midday sun winked into the horizon. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

After a while there was the low howl again out in the shrubbery, and shortly after there was a crash at the window, and a lot of broken glass was hurled on the floor. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“And I want to build you another drink,” Father Pinckney said, taking Bull’s glass to the bar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind chimes jingled against the glass door as it swung open. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The houses had countless windows, mostly with shutters but some with glass, more than I had ever seen before. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped the glass he had been polishing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He lifted a hand and managed to pound on the back window, but he couldn’t break the glass. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was standing by himself in front of some glass doors, his back to the room, smoking a cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He took a final swallow from his rum glass before he answered, “That’s what my mother says. Get me another one, would you, Mami?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Avery Jenkins’s letters, handwritten in print so small I needed a magnifying glass to read them, convinced me that he had been very ill for a long time. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She nabbed a glass of champagne then moved carefully around the circle. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Genie held the glass of milk up as if he was making a toast. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Someone opens a third- story window and throws out a shot glass, and off it goes spinning, over and over, down toward the rue Vauborel, and out of sight. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She waved her hand at the nightstand, where someone had set a glass of orange juice and a plate of poached eggs and bacon on toast—Frank’s favorite breakfast. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mama pours me a glass, and then takes a package of cookies from the pantry, the ones we brought back from Pakistan, and hands it to me. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I heard a pop and a tinkle of glass. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I walk toward the windows until my shoes bump up against the glass, then look out at the city in wonder. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only inches away on the other side of the porthole’s glass is a body, a living body. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He calls the waiter in Greek and his glass is refilled. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Banana leaves cover the dirty glass like papery window blinds leaving long narrow triangles for my eye. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Ruth’s room at that centre, it also had these big glass sliding panels, so she could easily see the outside from her bed. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You sure you need two glasses? I could bring one glass and two straws.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

"The doctor had to take some glass out of your hands, but no stitches. The burns will heal okay." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

An older woman had given me a tall glass of sweet iced tea as I sat there listening and responding to questions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A glass orb the size of a watermelon hung suspended over the silver prongs of the barge’s motor. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The glass didn’t break until it hit the ground after bouncing off the man’s chest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Through the next glass pyramid, he glimpsed a big dining hall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Slughorn stared at him, his thick fingers absentmindedly caressing the stem of his wine glass. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My hand was so weak I almost dropped the glass once I got my fingers around it. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon, a wildcat still, crouched on the table six inches away, his green eyes following it round and round inside the glass. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The glass case winked in the early evening light. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I looked at her out of a deep emptiness and refilled her glass and mine. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She searched but couldn’t find it on the glass panels. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She gets into her beige bathtub, behind the crackled sliding glass doors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Up close to the front door I can see through the edges around the frosted glass design. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the middle of the glass there was painted a pink lasso with yellow polka dots. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

This room had a glass door that led to a balcony. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He learned the technique of shaving with broken glass, of judging a house before knocking to ask for a handout. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kyle and his team went into the cafe, where they found Haley Daley seated at a table, eating half a grapefruit and staring blankly through the glass walls into the rotunda. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Through the glass panels, the world below us falls away, and just like that—we’re airborne. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She produced a glass vial and snapped it under the driver’s nose. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was extremely cold, and clear as glass, and refreshed him very much. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

One long table was stacked with glass jars filled with pickled things—severed hairy claws, huge yellow eyes, various other parts of monsters. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She brought the end of the bar to the glass again and again, the bar thumping instead of crashing. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Their windows have glass panes instead of wooden shutters. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The walls are made of glass—I guess I know which faction designed my school. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I watched as the sun dropped toward the horizon and the glass of the sanctuary windows cast beams of blood red and royal blue across the dim nave. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I wouldn't want to sit in a glass box all day either. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We followed her to a room with glass partitions. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The craftsmen were the master quarryman, the master stone cutter, the master sculptor, the master mortar maker, the master mason, the master carpenter, the master blacksmith, the master roofer, and the master glass maker. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

And between my room and my sister’s, the wall was one giant sheet of glass. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She remembered watching her youngest through the portholes in the incubator, nearly pressing her nose to the glass to be sure Izzy was still breathing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Let’s hope not,” Oriana says distractedly, her eyes on Oak, lifting her glass of canary wine. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit only sips his wine, regarding Widget over the rim of his glass. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I set the glass down, I was unsurprised to find my left hand trembling. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Behind us came the sound of screams, laughter; ahead the footfalls of the running boys, distant fire trucks, shooting, and in the quiet intervals, the steady filtering of shattered glass. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The autumn leaves are more beautiful than stained glass. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Everything is still quiet on the other side of the glass. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I walk toward the elevator and pass Zeta-4 happily holding out her tray as a woman exchanges an empty glass for a full one. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Take this drink to your father, darling,” she added, handing a silver glass to Karen. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went ahead and got a glass of water and the balm, even though I knew she was right. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She heard the sound of glass exploding and ducked as flames burst out and flickered toward the dark sky. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The police station was a brick and glass building with an American flag cemented in the ground out front. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t close his eyes without seeing Roza’s slim hands slapping at fogged glass, the gleaming black SUV swallowed up by the gathering dark. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” I say when he hands me the icy glass. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I press my forehead, my palms, my forearms against the glass. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fridge seemed to be made out of car parts, while the oven seemed a mix of wrought-iron fencing and safety glass. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Over my head, a glass ceiling etched with the Orléansian royal emblem lets in light from the early evening stars. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I stare through a glass panel—outside, the sun warms their yard. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She ran barefoot down to the living room and found Rasheed already by the window, in his undershirt, his hair disheveled, palms pressed to the glass. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I spread on a modest amount and set it on a pink glass plate, the kind that came free in bags of sugar or flour or laundry soap. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Lane gave his Martini glass a brief glance, then looked back at Franny. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

We looked through the rest of the box and found some horse figurines, an old hair brush, and a glass case that reminded me of an aquarium. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Behind the bar Mr. Thirsty, a skinny man with a large Adam’s apple, polished a glass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Someone poured a glass of water and I could hear it fill up very fast, then the rapid rill-like trickle of the final drops dripping from the pitcher-lip into the glass. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crawled through the window, taking care not to cut myself on the glass shards jutting out of the frame. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an old-fashioned silver pocket watch with a round glass face. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The music started, and she clinked my glass, said “cheers,” and took a sip of brandy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

A glass of beer stands in front of me, I've learned to drink in the army. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas shrieked before he could stop himself, jerked away from the window—but the thing bounced backward, leaving the glass undamaged. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

‘Snake people know how to make Bundt cake. Kind of orangey, with a hint of honey. Needs a glass of milk.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There her eye was caught by a sparkle on the floor by the desk, and she found the glass paperweight, and after that the remaining sheet of the note on the desk. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they laid a sheet of the study on the glass, the cardboard covered the “Top Secret” stamps, but not the text on the page. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I advanced on her, which wasn’t easy, holding a sword and a glass ball. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It used to be sedate wood-rimmed glass counters, with gloves in standard models, appropriate wristwatches, accent scarves in floral prints. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone seemed to know Hagrid; they waved and smiled at him, and the bartender reached for a glass, saying, “The usual, Hagrid?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The moonlight played on the glass as I poured out a little into each of our cups, and I liked the way the reflections wrapped around our hands, too, like a long, pale scarf. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had some explanatory pictures next to their glass cage that showed a couple of bats sucking the blood out of a horse’s neck while the horse was sleeping. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Charlie takes a glass from the cupboard and fills it with tap water. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I got him another glass of water, and cleaned up the floor where the first one had fallen. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It squatted there like some toad made of glass and wood and shingles. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drained his glass and Jan poured another round. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It felt odd to be wearing shoes in June, but I was glad to have them since the streets were sharp with bits of glass and metal, filthy with dust and dreck. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Through the glass, I make out the shapes of three sea lions doing laps around the rocks, their flippers stretched out and noses pointed forward. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He bows his head, pressing his forehead against the glass. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I spent so many days with my forehead pressed against my glass window, bruising myself with my futile wanting. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Agent Fiona gives the far wall a knock and it shifts into clear glass, revealing a strange group of people. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I write my name on the glass with my knuckle. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, Gregor filled a glass with icy root beer and made Boots a bottle of milk. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They stare through the glass, they cluck their tongues, they frown while I watch my TV. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Stepping foot in the historic glass palace with vaulted ceilings that offered unobstructed views of the dark night sky was a sight to behold. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Some bread in the toaster, some cereal in a bowl, some juice in a glass, and he was ready to go, sitting down at the little table in the kitchen to eat. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She was drinking with both hands around her glass. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the darkness emerged a wall of shelves lined with glass jars. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I make it to the door first and peer out the glass sidelight. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I take a sip and swirl the glass and listen to the ice cubes clinking together. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Malloy warms a small pot of milk and honey, then pours it into a glass for me. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In contrast to the more traditional surrounding architecture, such as the county attorney’s office across the street, the three-story courthouse sports steel trim around a checkerboard of clear glass windows that stretch the buildings height. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My job was to hold these glass tubes over fre and stretch them into test tubes. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This expression closed in New Haven. glass ceiling. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She focused her eyes firmly on the creamy bubbles, now resting halfway down the glass. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The walls are made of glass, the air smells of mint, and harps are playing through the speakers. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The glass has shattered in multiple places, including in the area by the tennis court. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It also requires a little luck, which she gets: On the table, she spots the juice glass ringed in burgundy. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The cuts were full of glass, some of it in splinters, some of it in powder like shining sand. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let one forget his reason for being, they’d all droop like tulips in a glass, each with their arms around the other. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a pane above me; I am in a glass box. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He sets down one ice water with a slice of lemon perfectly placed on the top of the glass—far enough away so it’s out of Hector’s reach—and one spoon close by. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We had panes of smoked glass to peer through; and, for more precise accuracy, a refracting telescope trained upon a piece of paper, so that the image was cast down upon it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The airshaft was topped by a miniature, slant-roofed skylight whose heavy, opaque, wrinkled glass was protected from breakage by heavy iron netting. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone looked towards me, holding up his glass. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There are bottles too, made of glass beautiful enough to rival stars I Cannot see above me because the citysky has hidden them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a glass bowl with ice cubes floating in it on the table in front of her. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows were of clear glass, grimy with neglect. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before they could knock, Mrs. Sawyer, the manager, appeared behind the glass door. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As I lifted my glass to my lips, I noticed that his remained full. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He retrieved his ring, set it back on the nightstand, then handed her the empty glass. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They peer into taxidermists’ drawers full of feathers and talons and glass eyeballs; they flip through two-hundred-year-old herbarium sheets bedecked with orchids and daisies and herbs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Others had their faces pressed up against the glass. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She looked at me, her hand on the table, her glass raised. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She crawls around the floor, but her fingers feel only bits of wood and what might be shards of window glass. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When he was finally overcome, a long glass shard with cloth wrapped around it for a handle was found in his waistband. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lanterns swung from iron chains above the doors of inns and pleasure houses, but within the gates, they were made of colored glass, not parchment. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The nun’s blood arrived at the C.D.C. in glass tubes in a box lined with dry ice. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cecile finally turned as she got to the glass doors and looked to see where we were. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our private room has two leather loveseats and a smoked- glass coffee table. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finished with the last bite of lasagna, I lifted my glass and chugged the remains of my milk. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She bent down to fill her glass first. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At dinner the other night with Wambui and some friends, Curt had reached out and refilled a wineglass here, a water glass there. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He pauses and looks into my eyes, then hands me the towel and the glass of water. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We stop in front of a big tropical fish tank, and it takes everything in me to look away from her at the brightly colored fish behind the glass. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

On the University of Washington campus, the glass skylights at the basketball pavilion caved in, giant Douglas firs toppled over, and five sections of temporary seating in the football stadium blew away. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Three of the fairies had elaborate butterfly wings with the appearance of stained glass. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

When I set the glass on the counter, he lifted his brows. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It pulverized the glass doors, sending up a blizzard of shards that obscured the entrance. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The face in the glass stared back at me and laughed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then we stopped by a shack where brightly colored sweets were packed tight in glass jars, and you chose your favorite color—green. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The original is Georgian and made of wired glass. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“And I drink ‘long life to your resolution’, Teddy,” cried Jo, baptizing him with a splash of lemonade, as she waved her glass and beamed approvingly upon him. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cheap glass body broke off and fell to the ground, leaving me holding its handle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The woman watched me drain the glass and smiled at me with a look of great satisfaction. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She knelt in the bits of plaster and glass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Paul turned to face me, smiling with his hands flat on the glass countertops. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I brought her another glass, and she sighed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would sit at a restaurant alone, at the bar, ordering sushi or a sandwich and a glass of wine, simply to remind herself that she was still capable of being on her own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the windows, even though there was no glass. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy was so close that Ralph could see the glint of his one glass. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I had two with a glass of milk. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It descends and splashes into the middle of the pond, ripples and spray exploding the quiet glass. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I looked dubiously at the glass of thick, white liquid. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A family of them now reside in the New York Museum of Natural History, dead and stuffed, with standoffish glass eyes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One flag headquarters was behind the glass door and the other on stage right. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at my empty milkshake glass and apologized again. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

After a while, I get out of bed, fill a glass with water, and wander over to my computer. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I give her the glass and watch as she swallows the pill and water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

When he realized I didn’t know what he was talking about, he left the building in a huff, pushing the double glass doors of the library open. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The man screamed and banged on the glass, jumping up and down like a fat fly trapped in a bottle. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She steps onto the large glass elevator, overlooking the east lobby, just past a large, decked-out Christmas tree they must’ve put up early this morning, long before the Thanksgiving leftovers were even eaten. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They were all over the place—on my desk, in a pile beside my bed with a glass of old water on top, and under the windowsill. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Rogers had just come in with a glass of brandy. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Ronneberg had wrapped charges around half the machines when the sound of shattering glass broke his focus. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmother taps her temple, and then repeats the gesture on the glass. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Catherine was sitting on the bed, looking at the cut glass chandelier. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Moving boxes are calling your name,” her muffled voice came through the glass. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And my father is staring out the window, tapping his fingers on the glass. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay down on it, my eyes closed, listening to the sounds around me: matches lighting, glass jars tinkling together, liquid falling into glasses. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Several shot straight through the window, showering the back row with broken glass. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He unlocked a tall glass cabinet crammed with more books, preserved birds, bottled beasts, and other curios. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Huge glass windows in lopsided shapes, cube-shaped offices, color schemes like aqua and fuchsia and marigold, which have never once made it past my mother’s beige limitations on interior design. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"He's my brother," Barrel said, holding the foaming glass between his long fingers. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had crossed the avenue I looked through the glass, seeing him still there, and it occurred to me that he was the same man who had followed me over the roof. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a long while since he last looked into a glass, but he knew how old he must appear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sierra gazed into the murky mirror over the sink, past all the hearts and names etched into the glass. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The pane of glass thus constitutes the picture plane, and the image drawn on to it can then be copied on to another surface. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was a glass box in the middle of the station, full of Mardi Gras T-shirts and paperweights. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Where you can pop the cork and put the cold glass mouth right up to your own. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not so fast,” Joe said, taking the glass out of my hand. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He took his glass counter and held it close to the water; finally he stuck one end of it in the water. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A few strange, antique portraits of the men and women of other days decorated the stained walls; a cupboard with glass doors contained some books and an ancient set of china. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was back in thirty seconds with a glass of cider for me, but he handed Annemarie what looked like plain water. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It had grown dark outside, and the glass turned into a mirror. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He lifted his glass to his lips, started to sip, then put the glass down. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We pass grand ballrooms and glass solariums and ornate parlors. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Dad tried to straighten his face out when Momma and Joey came running back with a steaming glass of hot water, but the tears were still running down his cheeks. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood there, her palm against the glass, staring down at the street. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

No one would get a phone call, or a telegram, or have to look through a glass window in some cold and foreign basement. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while they just looked out through the silted glass to where the track curved away in the waste of weeds. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then he curled his fingers over the glass, and blew hard, and several more golden coins dropped into the glass from his hand. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I had to press my forehead against the frosty glass, had to deep-freeze my brain and ice down my anger before I could even lift my arm and rap on the door. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She ran to one of the glass walls and placed her hands against the crystal surface. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He sits in the topmost tiers of polymer, glass, and steel, dangling his pulsing legs, surveying at a distance the writhing life of the planet. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This speech so dried out Doc’s throat that he drained his beer glass. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke lifted the pot easily, holding it as she scooped the thick mash into a glass bowl. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Or, moving back in the high grass, he could see himself reflected in the glass pane. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I hand the empty glass back to him. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

When the flame danced into life, its reflection wavered on their dusty glass and silver. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She picked the anchovies from her slices and dumped them into her water glass. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

We pick our way around crumpled cars and shattered glass. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We could break them open in a glass of whiskey.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I finally make it back to the dormitory that evening, I find a note from Tobias tucked under the glass of water on my bedside table. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The whisper is hard as glass, and it cuts into my sleep, yanking me back to the world, back to the pain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He lowered the glasses and pulled down the cotton mask from his face and wiped his nose on the back of his wrist and then glassed the country again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The plate glass windows had gotten a little steamy, figures inside were indistinct. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push my way through limbs that scratch my face like broken glass, faster and faster, because I can hear screaming. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Petrified, I lunge for him, but I'm caught and thrust back into another room, and a glass door seals between us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She makes a very wide shadow on the frosted glass. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom was on the back porch, sipping a glass of lemonade and watching us, a small smile on her face. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I help her over to a chair and give her a glass of water to drink. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She has hair like black glass and a wide, half-moon smile. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Middleton High seemed frozen somewhere in the fifties, a sprawling, one-story tile, glass, and brick complex, many of whose students were headed inexorably toward lifetimes of low-paying jobs in small, conservative Idaho towns. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to draw June’s glass girl—that was for June to create—but she did want June to see how Ivy saw her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Once we heard the glass doors slam shut and the elevator ding-dinging down, she said, “What are you doing here?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

A bit of blood, a handful of glass splinters, another source of pain. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear a bang, and the glass cracks. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Why then, when he puts a magnifying glass to it, do its depths reveal tiny daggers of flames? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I raised my apple cider glass, and we clinked. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

At the base of the glass, the water creates a delicate suction, then lets go. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She could not remember her last glass of tea. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sunlight glints off the row of glass cases, and my gaze is drawn to the weapons within. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The old man had lived so long that he was nothing more than a pile of glass bones covered by a yellow skin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he noticed the glass in front of Toby, he laughed. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The sides of the glass are piping hot. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the Cal boys showed up at the Montlake Cut on Wednesday morning, the sun was out in full force and the water was glass smooth. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I know,” Harry murmured through the glass, though he wasn’t sure the snake could hear him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She brought a glass of lemonade to the table and sat down. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I believe it to be a good sign. I don’t remember ever drinking a glass of good bourbon with any particulate matter floating in it, do you? What do you think of this color?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Henry went to his bedroom to refill his glass. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he placed the ashtray on the glass top, with a world of care, as if he believed an ashtray should be dead-centered on the surface of a night table or not placed at all. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The big gun detonates a third time, and glass shatters somewhere close by, and torrents of soot rattle down the chimney, and the walls of the hotel toll like a struck bell. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And I grin at Peter, and he takes my glass away, and then he takes my other hand and laces his fingers through mine. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The man turned the game off and unlocked the glass door for Raul and Matt to pass through. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the shelves stood glass bottles filled with preserved animals: snakes, lizards, toads, and many creatures Jule could not identify. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now that we’re here, and safe, I realize that there are cuts all over the bottoms of my feet from running over rough pavement and bits of glass from broken windows. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She takes a single glass filled with emerald-green fluid from my tray and lifts the drink to her mouth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It shatters with the first blow—not an explosive sound, more like the popping of a light bulb, followed by the patter of safety glass pellets. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She put only one glass on it, which was for me. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raised an eyebrow and said nothing, empty glass in hand, face half in shadow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He gazed at the bubbles swirling in his own glass. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Her shattering heart was sharp, jagged pieces of glass everywhere. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Martin must have turned the faucet up all the way, because I could hear the water sputtering as I stepped around some of the broken glass from the store’s big windows. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He would set the glass next to the sink and call for his wife. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I walk down the hallway and reach for the glass knob and open the bedroom door. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Aru took the tiniest of sips, the kind she occasionally took from her mom’s Sunday glass of wine just to see why people fussed over the stuff. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I heard my friends leave, and the big glass doors shut, and then I turned the knob to Mom’s office all the way before stepping inside. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The third oldest turned her glass, stem up, and giggled without much enthusiasm when the father puffed out his cheeks again for her benefit. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Castle came close to the glass like a drowned face. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the remaining glass wall, men were shouting from the walkway. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lining the rotunda were huge glass cases filled with trophies the school had won over the years: athletics, music competitions, color guard. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She put her glue stick down, turned the glass up to her face, and shook a piece of ice into her mouth. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Henry shook a few aspirins into his hand, along with a couple of mystery pills from his pocket, and washed them down with the glass of whiskey Charles gave him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A cool glass of fresh milk, and a few apples and pears laid at the foot of the steps. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the floor: oranges, an over­turned magazine rack, a broken jar of beef jerky, and shards of glass at Baba’s feet. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. He’s got the lights on. He’s sitting there like he’s reading. Jesus, how that guy does read. You’d think he’d ruin his eyes. He’s got a glass of beer in his hand.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found a juice glass and joined him at the table. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I gaze back down at the tiny glass and stick out my tongue, but the sad image of me doesn't change. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Take a look at this,” she said to Brandon as she wiped the glass with the edge of her shirt. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t bother me for them,” he said, then made another stripe on the glass. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I feel frozen in place, like a butterfly pinned under a glass frame. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Getting through it was painful, like dragging myself over page after page of broken glass. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We faced each other, looked down at the glass full of milk with the brown blob on the bottom, looked at each other again, then at the milk. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The DiAngelos’ kitchen is twice the size of our living room, with its own fireplace and glass doors that open onto a patio. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She put her hand on a pane of glass, savoring its frozen bite. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

An object his mother used as a paperweight stood beside the inkwell: a small glass sphere, on a black plastic pedestal, containing a snowman wearing a stovepipe hat. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the Agriculture Building a giant pane of glass fell from the roof and shattered the table at which, just a few seconds earlier, a young woman had been selling candy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Without being asked, Margaret lifted the bottle, raised it to the rim of Vivian’s glass, and poured in a single motion. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my way there, I happened to glance out into the dining room and saw Francesca standing by the sliding glass doors, her face a mask of complete anger. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The city dissolved in a shower of ancient glass and splintered quartz. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought the glass of water was to keep evil spirits away,” I said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She looked gorgeous, even from that distance, even separated by a pane of glass and a span of air. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She tapped the glass And pointed an angry finger At the molcajete, Packed with dirt And sprouting a forest Of twigs and popsicle sticks. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the glass door to the courthouse swung open and Clark was summoned inside. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Citra felt odd not being of service at the table, so she got up to refill the scythe’s glass of water. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Harry pulled out the tiny glass bottle and showed it to Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Kate stared straight ahead at the green glass shades of her desk lamp. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hand on the dirty glass and watch the city disappear in a haze. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

His lips folded upon the glass in a peculiar way. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sweet maker next door studied his ledger next to the glass display of sweets in rows of orange, yellow, and pistachio green. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I park next to my friend Aragon, of the Bronx, who always puts The Club on his steering wheel; I see it through his tinted glass. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I stood before a shop window staring at my own reflection in the glass, trying to recover from the ride against the woman. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tips a tall glass and pours beer slowly down its side, avoiding a foam head. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

With Keav keeping an eye on us, Pa and Ma wave from their table behind the glass window. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jewelry lines the glass display case—nothing of value, just cheap-looking costume pieces—along with used lipsticks and half-empty bottles of shaving lotion. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Gogol pours himself another juice glass of Chianti. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The building housed employees of the glass factory where my father worked. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

My only interaction came when people slid money over to my side of the glass and I slid back their tickets. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He lifted the glass and drained the liquor and set it down and leaned forward and toyed with the cigarette in his fingers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Erik and Arthur stayed inside for a minute, invisible behind the tinted glass. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time there came the crash of glass, shots; fire trucks in distant streets. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once in his possession-choked apartment, Dell peeled off his stinky shirt and poured himself a tall glass of red wine. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I talk myself through each step of the plan, like I’m coordinating a heist with glass cutters, guy-wires, and suction cups. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She found a juice glass and joined him at the table. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I can’t see anything beyond my reflection in the glass doors. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her wounded arms, arms she had cut on the window glass when she’d leaped to the tree, were wrapped in bandages. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Grisha power had been used to create this glass, she felt sure of it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Bits of sea glass among the mermaids’ purses and limpet shells. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The hall-door, which was half of glass, stood open; I stepped over the threshold. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He stuck his little finger out from his glass and haughtily twisted his mustache. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

That night in bed, she lay awake trying to think of some way to stop Evan from selling even a single glass. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then, worried I was in danger of melting down into sentiment, I raised my glass again and urged everyone to start. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Meggie tried to catch Tinker Bell, but the fairy slipped through her fingers and whirred up to the ceiling, where she hovered like a light made of invisible glass. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Ifeoma was busy tending to a heathen,” Papa said, pouring a glass of water from a bottle Sisi placed on the table. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, she turned to the bar in the living room, reached up for a bottle of Scotch, and poured a glass half full. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Their own shapes sectioned in the thin and watery glass of the window there. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He never comprehended, for example, the transparent nature of glass, and in moments of great emotion he would charge the windows at a gallop, with the innocent intention of catching a fly. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that she had laid out the geography of the bedrooms and the bathrooms, Vivian took another drink of wine and drained her glass. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drew a careful line on the glass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I peer out through the glass of the train window, which is streaked with rain and dust, and there is the landscape of my early childhood, smudged and scentless and untouchable and moving backward. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We stow the things carefully in our boots; we have to take them to protect our feet against treading on wire and broken glass on the other bank. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced up at Mother, then back to his spinny-go-round glass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like a freak-show Cinderella, getting a strange glass slipper put on, but that image vanishes when I realize that the socket feels...good. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She filled the rest of each glass with beaten egg and milk mixed with a little sugar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glass doors to the red and green balconies with the gold joy symbols were left wide open so that we could run out and climb the fire escapes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the jam back in the refrigerator and grabbed a glass. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The third is the Quality of Working Life building, or QWL, a conference room with sliding glass doors and a wooden deck used for training, meetings, and parties. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cloudy glass cleared quickly, revealing more of the thing’s head, including the circular edge of an eye that was as big as a manhole cover. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A group of boys milled around outside, glancing anxiously at the upper windows as if expecting a hideous beast to leap out in an explosion of glass and wood. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Through the window glass I tell him the subway station at 45th Road but he shakes his head at me and so I say Manhattan instead. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not remember why, but instead of finding rocks to break the windows like everyone else, I punched the glass with my fist. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We scoured the side of the road for discarded bottles to exchange for pennies when the glass man came around. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

All the curtains were drawn at the next-door neighbors’, turning the panes of glass into blind rectangles. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Blinded and very frightened—I had to put my hand on the glass to keep my balance. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I make the bed, put the log and the phone in the bedside table, go downstairs, pour myself one final glass of wine and drink it quickly. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the glass, I see the doctors working feverishly on Peeta, their brows creased in concentration. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She arranged glass, bowl and book on the window sill and climbed out on the fire-escape. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the same operating table, the same glass syringes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The rain drummed on the high windows, and the floodlights, shining through the glass, cast a pattern on the walls as if dark rivulets of water were streaming down them from ceiling to floor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Adrienne comes back, holding what looks like a glass of frothy milk with brown and green stuff floating in it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The school at Ruelle Vaillant had open classrooms around a courtyard, the courtyard surrounded by high walk topped with broken glass. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other, there’s clinking and shouting as white-jacketed white men set up glass after glass of lemonade, forming pyramids of full glasses on the counters of their red and white striped concession stands. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Its shimmering waterspouts looked more like fancy glass sculptures than liquid. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Like a pile of fine metal shavings or powdered glass. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They study me with faces too distorted in the curved glass to recognize. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was so hot, if you stood still too long in the vacant lot, the sun bouncing off a chunk of broken glass or metal could fry a patch on your hide. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rub my hand over the glass, and my hand feels wet. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she finished the glass of wine and poured herself another. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the image, was a thick red glass filled with yellow wax and a wick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the wind bellowed and raged against the glass spire, but it could do nothing to shatter the walls. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Through the glass windows of the exit doors, I could see the headmaster, Mr. Bonsai, wrestling with the lode, a crowd of teachers piling up behind him. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I reach in and wrap my fingers around a triangle of glass. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

If He wanted a pint He could wave His hand over a big glass and there was the pint. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now that the day is almost done, the world of glass recedes, the butterfly threat diminishes. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” she said, and rested her cheek against the pane of glass once again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

His glass never wavered from the point toward which he stared. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dorms are quiet, save for the pounding of rain against our atrium’s glass ceiling. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two men linger on the patio, holding brown glass bottles in their hands. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"You know," she said, "I've been thinking very hard about what you did with that glass. It is a great power you have been given, my child, you know that." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

A rectangle of glass with blood smeared on it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The command came from my mouth as abrupt and jarring as shattered glass. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His glass, in any case, was empty and so I started towards him. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

His blood falls onto glass, and he is the first of us to switch factions. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Never mind. Go to sleep. I am going to sit here for a while and have another glass of tea.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She stood holding the glass and I saw Robert Cohn looking at her. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Even without the nighttime fights and fireworks, the city’s surfaces shone with glass and metal, the unlikely spindles of party towers casting thin shadows across the island. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mark barely has time to notice this before Alec throws his body forward and tackles Boss, the two of them slamming into the glass of the large window. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Obviously we have one of those debates over whether the glass is half empty or half full; the increases that seem to have mollified many economists do not seem so impressive to me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winston, sitting in a blissful dream, paid no attention as his glass was filled up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If I put a glass up against the wall, I could hear you flipping through magazines. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He heard what sounded like the pitter-patter of heavy rain on glass. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She let the cold tap run and then filled the glass. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

With a smooth twist and jerk of the knife, he pried the glass from its frame and caught it in the palm of his left hand. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I filled a glass from the tap and bolted it, a case of too much, too quickly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The stone was too smooth to be carved from a mountain, the glass too clear to come from an ordinary forge. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The candle in the red glass beside the Mary statue still burned, looking like a tiny red heart in a cave of darkness, pulsing out light to the world. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I was tired, too tired; my mind retreating, the image of the two glass eyes running together like blobs of melting lead. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked through the glass; no one was in sight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I smell smoke twice, wince when glass shatters on the floor, and listen in on the other phone to his conversation with the turkey hotline lady. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They will never breathe the air of a damp New England morning, see smoke rising from a neighbor’s chimney, shiver in a car waiting for the glass to defrost and the engine to warm. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I do, she gives me a tiny glass filled with juniper-scented liquid. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the sunlight, telephone wires looked like glass strings high overhead, bushes glistened like cakes made of diamonds, starbursts of frost etched themselves against our windows. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I crawled through the broken glass and stood, unsteadily. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The glass was milky and full of bubbles, and a wet dusk was falling outside. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He took a glass from a narrow shelf and filled it from a faucet. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Calder gulped a glass of chocolate milk, stuffed a cookie in each cheek, and set off at a run. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the girl disappear into a room a few doors down carrying some sort of glass bottle. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Candles were lit, wine was poured, the perfume of thyme and morels filled the room, and I raised my glass for a toast. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He looked at Jam, his eyes glassing over with tears. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There’s a martini glass filled with green liquid, a pack of cigarettes, and a pill bottle with a skull and crossbones label. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were walking past Prides, a small coffee shop wedged between SavOn's and Von's Supermarket, when I looked in the big plate glass window and saw my father. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He had broken the glass from some old Martian buildings in the hills. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morn was clear as glass, and I was happy as a singing bird. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

As I would pass each man, I would take a sip from an offered glass. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hit the glass with a thunk—not nearly loud enough to attract attention. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sound of rain against glass continues quietly in the background. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“To the future of Faerie,” I say, tapping the globes together, making the glass ring like bells. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath, said a prayer, and rapped on the glass. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He presents the glass with so much ceremony, my gratitude dissolves like the pills in my stomach. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearts are not made Of glass Or bone Or any material that could Splinter Or Fragment Or Shatter. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Once my hands got steady enough, she even let me help pour the sweet, flowery perfume into little clear glass bottles that Mama would sell at her stall the next day. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Will you have a little more water, sir? I spilt half of what was in the glass,” I said. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I count them down, “Three, two, one...go!” and they all sip as fast as they can until Jack drains his glass first. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The glass is shattered in a star radiating from the corner of Scott’s eye, so it’s difficult to read his expression. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wash the blood away and realize that there are shards of glass in my knees that I wasn’t even aware of. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She would be in shock, too, if she’d gotten glass in her eye. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was no glass in the windows—most were covered with something white, either paper or cloth. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He tapped the table lightly before setting his glass down. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Beyond the glass structure stretched a vast misty jungle. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The only visible wisp of discord was the broken glass in the windows of Jewish businesses. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Potters smiled and waved at Harry and he stared hungrily back at them, his hands pressed flat against the glass as though he was hoping to fell right through it and reach them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They are a new kind—blue, with intricate designs made by layers in the glass. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t like seeing all those animals and birds and fish behind bars and glass just so a lot of people can stare at them. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The glass of mead was now knocking quite insistently on the side of Vernon’s head; he attempted to beat it away. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Winds slant sideways, crushing raindrops mixed with sea spray against the glass panes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you set the table while I’m gone. Wineglasses for Vivian and me. Coke glass for you. You know where everything is.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the glass gone, he could crawl through the frame, but only if he moved fast. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But during breakfast, Papa’s hands kept shaking, so much that he spilled his tea; I watched the liquid creep across the glass table. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I poured a glass of water while Dad pulled down our bottles. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Joon holds the yellow balloon with both hands like it is made of glass. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The carpet of green grass, with its trails and Mom’s tree, has been replaced by a floor of iridescent glass glowing from below. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I took a closer look but was distracted by the sound of clinking glass as people gathered around the model. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“He wasn’t as good as you,” Momma says, going to the sink for a glass of water. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to be a woman,” she said, and poured Mary Lou a glass of milk in a Princess Pony glass. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He drank the rest of this water and extended the glass to Mariam. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A turban made of kente cloth, necklaces made of glass beads, and a rainbow of bandanas are spread out on the stairs. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger looked longingly at the books as a man dying of thirst might look at the last glass of water in existence. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was holding his glass and looking at the floor. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She took him in through the glass door and walked him over to a large white box. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hagar believed she could spend her life there among the cut glass, shimmering in peaches and cream, in satin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eastbound riders had a well-lit modern glass awning that actually kept them dry. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Pascagoula is watching me, the shot glass in one hand, a raw biscuit in the other. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Enclosed in glass, all he could smell was himself. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were still spiral staircases of glass leading to thin bridges in the air. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the nearest object—a glass paperweight—and hurled it at Rowan, just as Esme had suggested he might. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Nothing said “Mom’s watching” like seven giant panes of glass. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As I push my glass toward him, there’s a knock on the door. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I saw Halley tilt the bottle and the oily amber of brandy sloshing into the glass. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped a fork, and when I tried to retrieve it, I knocked over a glass of water and it spilled on her dress. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

This floor of Erudite headquarters is all glass, even the walls. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mommy gets up to give you a glass of water in the middle of the night. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studies the ornate balconies like a burglar, gazes through the blue panes of stained glass until he spots her with the Spaniard, naked and sharing a cigarette. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both watched it move toward the opening over the hay pile, the steady noise of glass over and over and over soft barn wood, a hollow sort of noise. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

A dozen different pieces lie across the surface, and he holds up a sharp needle attached to a glass vial. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I rolled a small stump over beneath the glass, climbed on top, and peered inside. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

This antique glass was a gift, supposedly imported from the Republic’s islands of South America. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need her help, but I didn’t say anything as she rose from the couch to get a glass from the kitchen. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The building was a fine one; the lobby was chrome and glass, with ashtray stands and plastic couches arranged in semicircles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier that morning the children—all three of them—hadn’t appeared for their morning glass of milk. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to get to him, but the broken glass beneath my feet slows me down. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Someone had drawn a heart on the grimy glass. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Usually before leaving Antonapoulos waddled gently to the glassed case in the front of the store where some meats and cheeses were kept. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The eggs had broken on the floor, there was orange juice and shattered glass. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carefully squeezed a few drops of clear liquid into the glass, a tincture of nux vomica. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Masson drank a lot of wine and kept filling my glass. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I sit there, listening to the gentle plunk of water smacking the bottom of the boat, looking out at the ocean that has opened itself before me, still and flat like black glass. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bethesda Hospital is made up of several buildings in a large complex all connected by glass corridors. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He put a glass of water on his wife's head and shot her just above the eye. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I reach under my seat and grope around for the cold glass. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I clean up the shining shards of broken glass. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with shelves of polished mahogany except on either side of the fireplace, where there were two glass cases filled with marble ana hard stones from the Orient. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strickland studied the faded tapestries on the walls, the arched windows with their myriad diamond-shaped panes of red and white glass, the racks of spears and swords and war- hammers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Ma is in the room, I often stand in front of the cabinet, my palms pressing flat against the glass, drooling at the candies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled him back before he could touch the glass. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

We stood before the class as if they were agents behind glass. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Frank ran for the exit, only to slam into a glass wall. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I try to catch some of the gleams on broken glass. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some of them had no glass remaining inside their frames at all; others looked like mouths with jagged teeth. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

"Can you please tell me how much a glass of lemonade costs?" The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

"Nor you for me, Sybil dear," I said, filling the glass again. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

To her right waits her little bedroom, the window glass blown out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They had all become little agents behind glass evaluating who got to check into the Economy Lodge Motel of Edmond. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I watched him over the rim of my glass. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As we get closer, the illusion weakens, but only because the glass has gotten dirty. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He eased down the hall into the kitchen, microwaved a bowl of oatmeal, poured a glass of apple juice. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The brass coatrack had toppled in the entry hall, surrounded by hooked triangles of broken glass. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Brett came in the room, a glass in her hand, and sat on the bed. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The Hungarian woman plunked her shot glass down onto the bar top and wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

People shouted below, and the light bouncing off the glass castle blinded her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At length he folded the glass and put it on the table. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We had glass in our windows and their barn wasn’t the size of ours neither. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got up to grab a glass of water from the kitchen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was a nickname given to the waiting room because of the large glass walls that separated it from the rest of the airport. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

And Nina suspected that the glass she was peering through was mirrored on the other side, so that a Heartrender in the cell wouldn’t be able to locate a target. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I turned back and touched my hand to the dirty glass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked in that direction, put the glass to her eye, and, after a bit, handed it back to me. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

You get to know the woman who wants four glasses of something, but doesn’t want to ask four times; so you wait till her glass is two-thirds down arid fill it up again. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head was still intact and his two glass eyes stared up at her with the helpless look that is the specialty of taxidermists. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sincerely believed that he would shatter like glass. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father figured out a way to remove his glass.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I could see a group of kids milling about in the glass and trash and charred wood that littered the streets. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There was the clink of glass on metal, and the whisper and bubble of boiling water. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking from face to face, Cara said, “Have you ever looked in those glass cases in the front hall by the office?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Malfoy, who had reached for the glass eye, said, “I thought you were going to buy me a present.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

You are met not with floor-length unadorned planes of mirrored glass, as you half expected, but hundreds of mirrors of varying sizes and shapes, each in a different frame. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The mirror flipped like a tossed coin, and where cracked glass should’ve been there was a fat green tentacle, tapering down to a tip the width of a carrot and whipping about. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

All of your edges are worn off, like sea glass. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The IOI skyscrapers were the three tallest buildings in the city, mighty towers of steel and mirrored glass joined by dozens of connective walkways and elevator trams. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Nathan came to the end of the glass case and saw a sign that read “Dead Pawn.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He looks over at me, seems to think a minute, opens another and pours a full glass for himself and half a glass for me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Due to the extra stress she had allowed herself a second glass of wine, which had gone warm. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting on the sofa in his living room, a glass of wine in my hand. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Master and the Librarian were old friends and allies, and it was their habit, after a difficult episode, to take a glass of brantwijn and console each other. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I drink my entire glass of water because my mouth is suddenly dry. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

“I stepped on a piece of broken glass,” I tell her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the little hole in the bulletproof glass, the whole waiting room would hear as she shouted at them, “Where is the 533-C form?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Two other girls sat playing at tiles before a leaded glass window. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I marched toward a mound that looked like it had lots of glass and tin. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I put the sprigs of jojotle in a glass of warm water, hid it under the sink, and then slipped back into bed in the blue room. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Giant diamonds of glass marked out an impressive star. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was bored and much too warm, but he refused to give anyone the satisfaction of seeing him in his glass prison. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Very handsome,” said Slughorn smoothly, handing Ron a glass of clear liquid. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Only this time I could not go to the soda fountain and order a limeade or ask for a glass of water. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there an intact building stands without its window glass, the filigreed trails of smoke grown up from its windows like the shadows of ivy that have been ripped away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This time, she had left the beach behind entirely; she was floating, hovering up high, ascending toward the glass windows set into thick, frozen walls. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sound of broken glass can cut through other noises, even if it’s just a bottle of wine somebody dropped. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Frantic, I bang against the glass as hard as I can. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Those with windows have glass that is tinted and shadowed; those without are dark as coal. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I felt like a rescue worker, plucking faces from the debris, brushing away glass and wood rot. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Even when he heard the tinkle and clatter of glass he did not move. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just then, Shady brought me a cold glass of milk. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But even if they’d had a heavy glass bottle, something hard to conk him over the head with, what then? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And there it was: like a sheet of glass hanging unsupported in the air, but glass with no attention-catching reflections in it: just a square patch of difference. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He drew a glass of beer and sobbed gently. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mayan stepped pyramids of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and I. M. Pei's glass entrance to the Louvre in Paris are but two examples of the pyramid shape of different times in different cultures. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then would come the glass of tea, the Afternoon Service, the ritual of the contest—Danny didn’t once miss finding his father’s deliberate errors—the Evening Service, and the Havdalah. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Seattle skyline looms behind us, all the steel and glass shining like salmon scales in the sunlight. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I see Stella look up through the glass and we make eye contact just as a strong gust of wind knocks the air right out of me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It may not look it, but all the glass on Earth is flowing downward under the relentless drag of gravity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Nathan and a serving maid whisked away the tablecloth and broken glass. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here there are several empty storefronts, their glass window s scrawled with soap. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And beyond Oakland was the bay, smooth as a pane of green glass. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea was a pane of rippled glass spreading endlessly before us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He was wiping down the glass fronts of the refrigerators of soda and beer and milk. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the last hour or so, he’s sat quietly, his brow knitted in concentration, staring at the Nut through the window glass. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Because before hummingbirds could discover his upside-down bottle, a bunch of flying ants happened by, and in no time they drove themselves like lemmings up the glass tube into Herbie’s jar-shaped slaughterhouse. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to press the plastic flat and lean my forehead against the glass to even recognize Faith. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She stood in front of a glass wall looking down into the multistory canyon that ran through the middle of the ship. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The family Bible and a huge dictionary with its own magnifying glass lay side by side next to a red plush album full of cramped formal portraits of my ancestors. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

My mom places a cloth napkin in my lap and fills my water glass and then Carla’s. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tap the glass in front of me a few times, and the camera angle switches to one inside the building the invaders have just forced their way into. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

An explosion shook the walls, and glass fell out of a nearby window. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“This will make it stop, Professor,” Harry said, his voice cracking as he tipped the seventh glass of potion into Dumbledore’s mouth. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I put a fresh glass of water by his bed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Behind the steering wheel, Mariam saw round glass panels with needles behind them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. But he’s okay. He got glass in his eye.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

On the walls behind the glass, older weapons had been arranged in an elaborate display—axes, spears, longbows. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As I turn to shut the car door behind me I can see Nick looking at me through the glass. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the glass and sipped greedily, once, again, and again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer raised his glass in support of Alex, adding, “May he stay out of trouble.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He went to the front door and read the little vacancy notice pasted on the glass and saw that the flat was a rear one. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

That morning an apple and a glass of milk were enough for him; because he touched neither coffee or tea, he was accustomed to begin the day on a cold stomach. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie poured some tea into his glass, before adding hot water from the samovar. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I threw a glass ashtray, a fairly cheap one which didn’t break. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I not forget," Amari stated, her voice sharp as broken glass. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Governor closed his fingers over the light in his hand and touched the glass orb. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Underneath, stenciled on the glass doors: NO SOLICITORS. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chumley takes a sip of water from a drinking glass and continues. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

We started away, a piece of glass crunching under my foot. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. My father stayed with him for twenty-seven hours straight. And remember the time Claudia Odom cut her foot on that broken glass? He sewed her up so good you can’t even see the scar.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Two tiny windows were created out of bits of glass that had been puttied together. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

One person had complained that an architectural print above the desk had a visible speck of dust under the glass. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Black Santa took a few gulps from his own glass, the same kind of glass that now sat in front of Genie, Ernie, and Tess. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Ifyouwantto step on broken glass, Uriah, be my guest,” she snaps. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the night, she had done the same with the golden faranji, standing right beside him while he did furious work in a laboratory of spurting flames and shattered glass. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My mom puts the glass down on the table, a single clank to spell out her annoyance, in case I couldn’t see it from the look she gives me now. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The weight vanished, replaced by a thin silver chain from which hung a white lily made of the same kind of glass as my slippers. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Padva remarks, subtly tilting her glass in the direction of the door, where Marco is standing quietly to the side, his hands clasped behind his back. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Uncle Basil arrives at the table last, and right away chugs his entire glass of water, giving himself a killer brain-freeze. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Spinning on his heel, the Owner crackled across the broken mounds of glass, flung himself inside his car, and left in a screech of tires and dust. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Something very small and gray was bobbing in and out of sight beyond the glass. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Clay rolled his eyes, looked at Mrs. Derby with disdain, and drank another glass of wine. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was illustrated with a cartoony-looking detective in a checkered hat who was holding up a magnifying glass to examine books on a shelf. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to make it believable,” she’ll say, and I find myself reaching for that dirty glass a hundred times to wash it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was movement through the thick glass, and someone appeared at the far end of the room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I become fascinated with the effects of glass, and of other light-reflecting surfaces. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been so preoccupied that I’ve just now noticed Miss Andersons companion, a sickly pale man who is draining his third glass of wine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Mother handed me a glass of tea and followed my gaze. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she wanders around gazing into the glass cases full of stuff so sparkly, some of it hurts Scoob’s eyes to look at, he decides to try and make the most of her distraction. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Her mom had a glass of red wine and sat with her feet tucked under Lydia’s dad’s leg. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He quickly handed his empty glass to Hornet. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of all of that glass was a little envelope, about the size of a wireless Internet card. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He choked back the tears until his throat ached the way it did right after he gulped a glass of ice water. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I took my pills and gulped down the whole glass of water. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As I drank, more slowly this time—bolting the first glass had made me slightly sick—I looked at Henry’s solitaire poker game. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As I crossed the street, I had to curl my toes and walk on the edges of my feet, courtesy of a couple stubborn slivers of glass. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Whenever she tells me to get a glass of milk, I feel like a Pepsi and vice versa. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She turned her chair around to face the table and occupied herself with her water glass, twisting the stem around, making damp links on the white cloth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was not to be imprisoned behind a glass case. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I reach for my glass with a trembling hand and nearly knock it over. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

On the outside there was a border of flowers and vines made from bits of colored glass set into a lead frame. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gray glass marble from the bottom of the toy box sat, dully, in the pink palm of her hand. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It’s only cut glass, but a very pretty shade of green that happens to set off my hair and eyes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you were very sick in Corcoran, Papá, I saw the devil in the glass of water you kept next to your bed.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

By the second glass Frankie poured for me, the pain in my shoulder had mellowed to a subdued throbbing. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the table there was a little Japanese pagoda with glass pendants that tinkled with strange musical tones in a draught. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It isn’t his eyes that are made of glass. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I looked at the stained glass windows all around us depicting several holy scenes. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He didn’t bother looking for a glass; he just held his face by the spout and pumped. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

With my eyes closed and ear pressed against the cool glass, I soaked up the honeyed singsong radio commercial for a local grocery store. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He pulled himself up and out of the truck, his vision blurry and every part of his body feeling like the broken glass that was spread across the highway. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I steadied the glass by putting my hands over his and peered closer. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Joaquin drew a pattern on the table from the condensation of his glass. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

For the next twenty minutes, flat glass fronts, one after another. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She managed to come out of her room now and then to get a glass of water. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When it’s finished, I look through the glass on either side and see each of my teammates in their own booths. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He told a servant passing with a tray of drinks to give Rowan a glass of champagne. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My mom smiles a little too brightly as she hands a plate and glass off to me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The lights dim and the glass falls away, leaving just the metal skeletons of buildings. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like a crystal glass that’s going to shatter if the noise and the tension, if the struggle and the fighting, if the loudness of it all rises even one decibel more. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is an elevator and a glass room and a rush of cold air. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She took a swig from her water glass, as if wishing it were something stronger. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Through the glass, he saw various well-suited men and women cheering wildly. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you okay, ladies? Sir?” the young man asked as he peered at the body of the drowned man sitting propped against the glass of the back window. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The glass bridge rose before her in a gleaming arc, shimmering in the blue flames of the lanterns on its spires. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Instead, she took her own brimming glass to her room and sat in her little rocker by the window. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hairwoman: “The description of the house with bits of glass embedded in the walls—what does it mean?” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He turned his gaze back to the looking glass. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

"To Mami," the father said sheepishly, lifting his glass in a toast. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And against the opposite wall there was a beautiful glass trophy case. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He pushed his plate aside and reached for his glass. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

And presently, round the corner of the glass case the owner of it appeared. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Under the glass lid, I glimpsed the delicate white shrouding over the chest and up like a hood about the face on which I tried to concentrate for as long as I could. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faces of children glimpsed at windows appear to be crying, but it is the glass pane dripping that makes it seem so. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are separated by only a sheet of glass and my shaking hand as I reach to turn the lock. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A beam of sunlight slanted into the rotunda and glowed on the floor, like Zeus was up there with a magnifying glass, trying to fry puny humans. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The flight attendant handed Shadow a glass of beer. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The next morning he asked for a glass of milk, the first sustenance he had volunteered to accept in fourteen weeks. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for grasping the glass, he hasn’t moved a muscle. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

One man had died, but now the remaining sixteen, with their eyes clear in their heads and their faces pressed to the thick glass ports, watched Mars swing up under them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hand tightens around his damp glass of tea. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She just watched me, watched me until my smile had hardened up and I was staring through the glass at absolutely nothing. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I see them through the glass sliding doors. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a pin on the sweater, in the shape of two birds with red glass jewels for eyes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I nod and she pops the cap off with the opener mounted on the counter, pours it into a glass. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

High among the high rafters of the workshop a half hundred glass spheres hung from chains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were a bunch of dusty spiderwebs in front of the little window and someone had pasted old yellow newspapers over the glass so the kids who got locked in here couldn’t peek out. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Walls, doors, ceiling, floor, everything is made of glass so that you can see out!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, I lean over, kissing his reflection on the glass. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Emily searched for a juice glass among the various moving boxes and bags that still cluttered the counter and floor, lost in thought about The Gold-Bug. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The flaming grasshopper was even more attractive without the glass glare blocking our view. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He turned over toward the light and lay gazing into the glass paperweight. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then a shaggy creature who looked half-human, half-animal stumbled across her path, and finally she almost stepped on a tiny little man who seemed to be made entirely of glass. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I also unwrap delicate bangles made out of glass, covered in newspaper with Urdu lettering on it. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I startle when I catch someone staring at me from only a few inches away and then realize it's my own face reflecting back in the glass. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A very cute puppy, trapped in the back seat, presses his nose and paws up against the helicopter's smoky glass windows. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They reach both shores, but within a minute the surface is glass again, the sneaker’s splashy entrance forgotten, and I am minus a shoe. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The concrete and glass buildings are huge, not tall, but wide and deep and far apart. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s nice to have a glass or so,” he said uneasily. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sound like crunching glass, just loud enough to hear over the bathroom’s running water and the buzz of the drink coolers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Rain dusts the glass panels above our heads. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wilfrido raised his glass and quickly took a gulp of his drink. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I leaned against the glass until daybreak, until the sky began to lighten over the earth. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

After a moment of maneuvering through the maze of timber and iron, we came to the hanging row of glass spheres with fires burning inside them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One entire wall was covered with a single sheet of glass, and walking over to it, Alex realized that he was looking at a gigantic aquarium. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I looked at it, at a piece of glass, small as a stub of diamond, burrowed in a puckered setting of skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touched a finger to the cool glass. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

With delicate fingers, she positioned each flower in a row, keeping them straight across the cracked glass. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Next to it was a five-gallon specimen bottle of thick glass containing the strangest beast I had ever seen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He sighed explosively and stared into the been Doc had already finished his glass. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing but shattered glass around the empty bar. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh, dear,” Henry says, peering down into his empty shot glass. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

With its soaring steeples, stained glass windows and chiming bells, it was a way more mainstream affair than the little white clapboard number that had spirited Stan away. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He held the tin mug upside down over it and then slipped the card out from between them, so that the creature fell into the glass. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often, at the far end of the parking lot, a car drives down the road and a sliver of light glides from one end of the glass to the other. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

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

On the bottom shelf behind a row of salves in squat clay jars he found a vial of indigo glass, no larger than his little finger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bring myself to break the glass and call. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slams the bat into the driver’s side window, shattering the glass. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He waited as the machine warmed up and slowly began dripping into the glass carafe. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He saw that he was looking at his own face in the counter glass before him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Want some pie?” he asked, backing out of the refrigerator with a glass dish. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know her way around Atlanta, but the strange mixture of gleaming glass office buildings, columned houses, stucco mansions, and long stretches of worn-out row houses gave her a sense of discovery. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Through the sliding glass door, I saw Mrs. Moss cram Luke into a high chair. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was a small round sort of box with a glass top and on the glass an arrow marked. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I gave her a glass of hot water to warm her up. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew crossed to the kitchen and opened cupboards by the sink until he found a glass. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The roof was a string of domes all made out of glass. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The place seemed to be a geometrically reconfigured 1960s bachelor pad, with open stonework, pile carpeting, and magnificently ugly mushroom-shaped stained glass lampshades. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I poured myself another glass, too, and we sat without speaking for a minute or more. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Aly, who was waiting nearby, refilled his glass and slipped away again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the gym was a big glass trophy case, filled with plaques and medals and glossy golden cups commemorating Fry High achievements in sports and academics over the years. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Leaning on the sink, I held the glass to my temple; from the living room, Francis whispered something indistinct but angry, and then Bunny laughed harshly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Take it easy on the young lady,” the guard tells the woman behind the glass. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Curious, he put out his hand, and she dropped a sharp, curved fragment of glittering white glass onto it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the morning sometimes he’d return with the binoculars and glass the countryside for any sign of smoke but he never saw any. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Cushions lay deflated, feathers oozing from slashes in their sides; fragments of glass and china lay like powder over everything. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She added that the glass of milk and the crackers that schoolchildren used to receive each day had been discontinued, and that mothers were quieting their children’s hunger with cups of tea. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barbarossa slurped the remaining wine from his glass and slammed it on the table so hard that it nearly broke. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I carried the glasses with me for weeks, until one evening I crushed them underfoot in rage and despair, shattering the glass into splinters, because he wasn’t coming back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Now Mack opened his throat and poured down half the glass without swallowing. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if I’ve only had half a glass, she takes one look at me and she knows. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I pull out my chair, sit on it, grab my orange juice, glug it down, and thump the glass onto the place mat. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This necklace that had almost bought my heart and mind now had one bead of crushed glass. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed pressed against the window for a while, then went and cleared off a few pieces of glass from the floor in front of Our Lady. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light the color of washwater congealing in the dirty panes of glass. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“When they were killed, Nerissa became as frail as glass, Henry as hard as stone.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm rolled into a room with glass doors, and another nurse appears at my bedside. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Manman said that Matant Jo used to have the sweetest birdsong voice—so sweet that she could make a man fall in love with her just by offering him a glass of water. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If I were Jeanine, I would send the majority of Dauntless soldiers to the Dauntless entrance above the Pit, outside the glass building. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Jackson helped himself to a freshly baked blueberry muffin and a glass of cold milk. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

If that should change, and you are passing this way, we would be more than happy to see you over a glass of wine and discuss this further. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was carrying a glass of red juice in his hand. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

My uncle got me a glass of water and helped me take a few small sips. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Hastily straightening his glasses and unsticking his cheek from the glass, he pressed his nose against the window instead and squinted down at the pavement. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I press my hands to glass on either side of my body. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We stand outside one of the rooms I'd noticed earlier, the ones with clear glass windows. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He found pieces of old glass, mottled with rainbow swirls, and fragments of pottery. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Selitos stooped to pick up a jagged shard of mountain glass, pointed at one end. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even after they’d been dating several months, their relationship had always felt new and delicate, like a glass sculpture. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her tiny outstretched hand pointed across the room, where the proud, gray head of a wolf stared balefully from yellow glass eyes. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

In a glass jar on a shelf my mother kept a big brown hand with pointed claws stewing in alcohol and herbs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew she would get up and get the beer herself while the ice slowly melted in the water glass. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at them as if they were behind glass. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her dæmon leapt from one side of the little glass cabin to the other, looking ahead, above, to the left and right, and calling to her constantly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

After he’d been rescued and gone home, his mother had put the hatchet in a glass case in the living room, where she kept the china handed down by her grandmother. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

One of the children, who had curly blond hair and eyes of pink glass like a rabbit, was accustomed to sleeping in the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A basket of fresh fruit and green tea-flavored snacks sits on the glass coffee table. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He held a glass of iced water, the cubes jammed to the rim. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben then lifted his glass and touched it against his godfather’s. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She poured the milk slowly into a plastic bin, making sure the teeth stayed in the glass, then tapped the glass on her palm until the teeth came rolling into her hand. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She accepts it but doesn't drink, holding the glass in both hands. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ugwu touched his head, with the odd tufts of hair that the jagged glass had missed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

While the boats are anchored, we passengers are allowed up on deck, and so I stand at the railing to watch the longboats glide through water clear as turquoise glass. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Everything seemed too nice, all silk and carpeted corridors and brass and copper and little glass lanterns. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Uriah slides into the seat next to me, leaving his halfeaten muffin and half-finished glass of water on the other table. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Behind the dusty glass case, sitting on a creaking wooden stool, is Donna Lufkin. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She drank half the glass in one long gulp, then wiped her mouth daintily and said, “Did you have a nice day at school?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hatsue would remember on the day of her wedding that her first kiss had been from this boy, Ishmael Chambers, while they clung to a glass box and floated in the ocean. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Watching her, feeling the exhilaration swelling in my chest, I couldn’t say I was all that aware of the broken glass and flickering monitor displays, either. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I edge up to the glass and raise my face, squinting against the sunlight. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

So, I sat back and drank the fresh glass of tea he made for me, without milk or sugar this time, so that the leaves’ strong, earthy taste lingered like smoke on my tongue. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The glass in his eyes breaks and punctures me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He took his meals alone, with two dogs to wait upon him, and always ate from the Crown Derby dinner service which had been in the glass cupboard in the drawing-room. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And leaning over the youth’s chair, she took the glass from his hand and held it to his Ups. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I put my arm through the broken glass and I opened the door from the inside. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are glass jars of paintbrushes in all sizes along the edge of the table. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The vertical pane goes from my knees to my waist, three glass shelves of items piled on top of each other behind it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I slid on the lid, it went into a tailspin, throwing itself against the glass over and over with pops and clicks, reminding me of the hail that landed sometimes on the windows. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scipio opened a glass cabinet and took something out of it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bright marigolds looked like little suns sprouting from glass jars. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I’ve been trained to deal with guys like this, to watch them from the other side of the glass. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But her son had called saying he didn’t want Deborah or Little Alfred visiting until he could see them without looking through glass. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They studied wrinkles, reflections, shadows, wood, glass, and fabric. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He put the squat glass on a tray and brought it to the table. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down at the table while Betty Jean filled a tall glass with ice and poured in the tea. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opens onto a spacious living room, with a sliding glass door to the right, a kitchen to the left. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stare, too, but all I see is our kitchen lamp with dead bugs in its glass basin. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Both have smears of red and yellow powder on the glass over their foreheads. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the prince’s status, we were allowed to meet one another in the consulting room, not the normal visiting area where one is separated from one’s family by thick walls and glass. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull finished his first beer a full second faster than Colonel Causey, stepped quickly aside for Reynolds, who had sucked down three large swallows before his opponent’s hand had touched glass. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carrying the flashlight like a full glass of water, they walked carefully through the shadowy maze of halls and storage rooms. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The man he was talking to was small and far away, behind a wall of glass. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a small child pounding the glass with his palm. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The building held shops for glass- blowers, joiners, potters, and glaziers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She squatted down in front of a glass case full of small objects: vases and jars, some partly cracked or broken, crudely made jewelry and tiny statues. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently he turned, and with a single graceful bound crossed to the desk; but for once he was careless, and his hind leg knocked the glass paperweight to the floor. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Camilla went to the piano and took a sip from Charles’s glass. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was like I was talking through glass to some sort of prison inmate. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I considered calculating how many were in the glass container. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Miss Gage brought a pitcher of water and a glass. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He opened the satchel, and in it I saw some glass jars and A Field Guide to the Insects, his lunch packet, and a miniature silver flask. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I did remember the sleek black car, the glass in the windows darker than that on a limousine. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He wiped off the glass in the front of the alarm clock and the radio too until he could see his own reflection. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I poured myself another glass of orange juice. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He smoked cigarette after cigarette, and sipped Scotch out of a short glass. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Stop!” she cried, “don’t sing that. I don’t want you to sing it,” and she laid her glass so impetuously and blindly upon the table as to shatter it against a carafe. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Today we turn in the opposite direction from Soul Scrolls, to where there’s an open park of sorts, with a large old building on it; ornate late Victorian, with stained glass. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment the water below him looked like some window, glazed with grimy glass, through which he was peering. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“It feels like I’m wearing broken glass,” I tell him honestly. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But the tea was helping, and the little drip-drops from the glass on Genie’s legs were helping even more. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The BFG was taking the glass jar from the pocket of his cloak. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She handed him a glass, sat down, and folded her hands across her middle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, high on the seventeenth floor of the building, an explosion blew out a shower of glass and concrete, and she had disappeared under their weight. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Bod dropped the brooch into his pocket, where it sat beside the heavy glass paperweight, the paintbrush, and the little pot of paint. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Inside was what looked like a miniature glass spinning top. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He carried the glass of pink fluid and his hand was steady. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I turn back to look at them through the glass door, I see my mom gesticulating wildly. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The night was very cold and dry, and the stars were cut glass. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed greatly cheered at the prospect of my arrival and held out his glass. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In my mind I see the face of Hamlet, his blue eyes reflecting my image like a watery glass. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I waited before knocking at the glass door. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As the driver turned and headed toward the seashore, Hazel knocked on the glass partition. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I’ve spent thousands on him. Thousands,” he said to me, taking a careful sip from the trembling brim of his glass. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maddie brought us three glasses with little umbrellas in them, all set on a nice glass tray. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The inner surface of the tall wall seemed smooth as glass. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

On the glass door, a delivery person had left a self-adhesive note. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Their sightless glass eyes made Penelope feel intensely observed, and the whole room gave her a sad and queasy sensation in her tummy. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Joost threw himself to the ground, covering his head as the rapid hammer of gunfire filled his ears and bits of glass rained down on his hands and back. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I instantly feel like the world has turned to glass. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“And does a glass of apple cider sound good?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I can’t suffer looking at the university’s gleaming glass administration building—all clean lines and razor-sharp edges that cut to the bone. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The window shattering like the ice on a pond in spring and covering us all with little bits of glass. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost drop the tray of glass bowls. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

An elderly couple swept up broken glass and debris along the sidewalk in front of their barbershop/beauty parlor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, he reached inside and pulled out the sphere of glass. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I should have brought my own food from home to hold me until I learn about the food in this country, I thought as I drank my glass of orange juice. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was a large, stately apartment, with purple chairs and curtains, a Turkey carpet, walnut-panelled walls, one vast window rich in stained glass, and a lofty ceiling, nobly moulded. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The stuff went on like paint, then dried clear as glass and hard as steel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I rubbed my hair against the glass like the tank was a genie’s lamp and the action would stir up some magic. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Knotting my tie and looking in the glass I looked strange to myself in the civilian clothes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Wherritt shook it and broke its glass but could not get it open. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I looked outside at Mrs. O’Leary, who was breathing against the glass doors and smearing them with hellhound drool. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“So about An Imperial Affliction. Anna’s mom, when the book ends, is about to—” Van Houten interrupted me, tapping his glass as he talked until Lidewij refilled it again. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Dad mops up the spill, pats Emma’s back, and tells her it’s just a glass of milk. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He sipped it, slowly, then set the glass aside and leaned over again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t take my eyes off the broken glass on the ground. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The sky seemed to reach into the exposition, and somewhere glass shattered, not the gentle tinkling of a window extinguished by a stone but the hurt-dog yelp of large sheets falling to the ground. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Beyond this was the conservatory, with tall glass doors showing them the rain outside, and ferns growing damply around and over wicker furniture. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors also took some samples of blood from her arm and put it in glass tubes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew now that for seven years the Thought Police had watched him like a beetle under a magnifying glass. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The farther they went, the brighter and noisier it became, and with every step Sefia felt Archer growing more and more tense beside her, until he seemed hard and brittle as glass. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Wooden clubs, stone axes, mauls, spears with fire-hardened points, knives of bone and stone and dragon- glass, wicker shields, bone armor, boiled leather. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Current of Faith reached the city at dusk, when the sun was a globe of molten glass sinking into the black water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A seed floated in the thick layer of pulp that formed at the top of the glass. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ones who thought they did not need folded blades, packets of lye, shards of glass taped' to their hands. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood in a gooey room full of broken glass, and I didn’t care. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would be the perfect Cinderella story for me—no glass slipper, just a “how was school today?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When they arrived at the house, Mrs. Clarke had to sit down and drink a glass of blackberry cordial to settle her nerves, so young Margaret was instructed to deliver the message to Lady Constance. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The creature stuck out a long black tongue and slapped the glass with calloused hands. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The great day dawned misty and over-cast but the glass was high and we had no fears. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I pressed my cheek against the glass to see as far south as possible, where the skyscrapers rose. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We drink and drink, one glass of water after another. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Loeffler was waiting for me with a glass jar full of yellow tulips. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His eye lingered on the centre plaque of looking glass and the seven little china figures. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It's been rehearsed, yet I can't stop my fingers from trembling and my body from quivering like there's a tiny landquake inside my glass ball. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Just as I’m barely exiting the bathroom, Aunt Heidi hands me a glass of orange juice and tells me to sit on the futon. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then, the sound of glass breaking followed by my father howling like a sad dog. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The students pressed against the door’s glass abruptly disperse, and their shadows move aside to make room for a tall silhouette. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Even the crack in the stone ledge has a purpose: to draw attention to the glass of soap by setting it slightly apart. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Bad trouble, Brother; they trying to —" Then the harsh sound of breaking glass, distant, brittle and fine, followed by a crash, and the line went dead. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he returned with a glass, I felt a little better. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Not even in our lab on Wednesday, when I broke our watch glass, spilling chemicals all over the table. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I did not mean to make you feel ashamed,” she said, dropping her cigarette into the half glass of lemonade in her hand. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The glass was cut into a square shape with a grozing iron, a steel rod with a sharp point at one end, to the right shape and size for the window. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she was thirsty and reached for the glass of strawberry crush. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The ink drips down over the glass like rain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One thing I loved doing at the time was using a magnifying glass to burn my name into pieces of wood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Curtis brings me a tall glass of water. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Someone has built a shrine to Finch in one of the large glass cases in the main hallway, near the principal’s office. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

You’re on the other side of the glass even before you step outside. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

This 1846 lithograph by Currier & Ives shows the nine steps of “the drunkard’s progress”—from having “a glass with a friend” to the decline into criminal activity and “death by suicide.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was a glass vial, only half full. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

"Yes, you're quite right," I said, giving my glass a tinkling twirl. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind us, to the left of the entrance from the glass hallway, was a counter. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They’d walked to just beneath the clock face, where the outside light glowed honey gold through its translucent glass cover. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When the wind started blowing, everything froze, leaving the ground as slick as glass. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was unwilling to reach for his own glass, even though he was extremely thirsty. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted the spigot at the base of the oak barrel and captured a few ounces of amber liquid in a glass jelly jar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had learnt to think of the painted surface as a piece of glass that you look through. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The glass was still on the table and I swept it across the room, hearing it rumble and roll in the dark. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there, reflected in the glass of a long-closed butcher shop, is the man with one eyebrow, hands in his pockets, pretending to look at an ugly poster about Jews. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When he knocks on the glass to get her attention, she keeps dancing and pays him no mind. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On the cell phone, the explosion is soundless, but I can imagine sounds—screaming, tearing, slicing through concrete, steel, and glass. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Only then did Aru realize they were in a long line in front of the entrance to the Night Bazaar, which glimmered on the other side of a pane of glass. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He spun to a stop, flopped into his chair, and guzzled his o.j., draining the glass in three gulps. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even though the elevator would save me time, I sneak to the back stairs to avoid curious eyes through the elevator’s open glass. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’m standing back to the wall, with a new, full glass of wine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had to touch his own hand to remember what year it was: thick welted scars from the shattered bottle glass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was putting the last glass in the dishwasher when Evan walked in. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

We asked them to snap a pic of us with the weird glass penthouse behind us. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Frowning, I take the frame from him and look down at the picture inside the glass. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We keep walking and not talking until we get to a giant concrete and glass monstrosity of a building. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She handed me another glass of brandy and touched my hand very softly when she did it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The three boys stood quietly and watched the skillet smoke through the glass. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Two arched, narrow, plain glass windows were set into the side walls. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big room had two windows with glass in the panes, and it had two doors, a front door and a back door. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dragged the garbage off to the side and tossed out the biggest pieces of broken glass. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the school seemed to think so too, because I got a lot of dirty looks as I stewed there in full view behind the glass. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The fighting came right outside, gunfire and breaking glass, and when the shots finally slowed and stopped, Henek crept up to the street. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He imagined the homemade box was probably full of nails or broken glass set at cruel angles for a similar purpose. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

When George wipes the fingerprints off my glass, his cheeks are wet. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

When I held the glass, I could see my hands trembling. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I’m standing in an open-air courtyard surrounded by enormous sheets of glass panels. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The diary is covered in purple and red silk, decorated with small sequins and bits of mirrored glass sewn in. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And if they don’t, the school is filled with glass. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Junie, can you get me a glass of water with lots of ice?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She knew she had to tell somebody about what had happened with the glass. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ay, that was one of her failures, she explained to them, a child's double-compartment drinking glass with an outsized, built-in straw. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She was stranded in a world of glass. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The glass door to Rosie’s closes behind me, and I hear three locks immediately slide into place. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

But the heavy glass, iron fencing and dirt of many years refused to filter the light through. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ashoke returns from the kitchen, a glass of water in his hand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Already his feet were sliced up, and he knew there had to be glass and nails everywhere. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sun poured in through one of the stained glass windows that lined the walls and the golden hue made Florence look like an angel. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Double garage with separate entrance. Finished basement. Sliding glass doors.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window had bars across it, but no glass. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to rip the student center’s glass doors off their hinges and smash them. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Find a pool of water with a sheet of ice across the top, still fresh and new and clear as glass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even look through the glass, probably because she assumed the tank was still empty. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She’d pull herself out of bed, press her hands and face to the glass, and watch her children play on the lawn. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Intoxicated by the uncontained torrent of relief, Aureliano Segundo broke the glass on the china closet and piece by piece, without hurrying, he took out the chinaware and shattered it on the floor. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There’re stacks of stories where the glass spells out something like S-A-T-A-N-I-S-Y-O-U-R-M-A-S-T-E-R, shatters, then the kids have to call a vicar. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He still held his Stygian sword, but his hands were dark and transparent like smoky glass. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It had a glass canopy over a seat with at least a dozen levers and handles banked in front of it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Byrd reaches across the table and, as best she can, chimes the side of Axel’s glass with a spoon. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sophia is peering into two flower terrariums, tapping her fingers against the glass. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Shamika roared with laughter as she passed Moss a fresh glass of water. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Behind a sliding glass partition sat a young woman in a modern nurse’s uniform, not a white one, but a light blue pantsuit with white trim. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It went from black to a charcoal grey, the rain like pebbles thrown against glass. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was in raking the yard, searching for nails and glass pieces blown over from Mr. Lucas’s house, that gave my eyes a downward place to look. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He put down a glass of some hot drink and a plate of chicken pie. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He stands for some time in the spot where he found Celia hours before, scrutinizing the familiar bookshelves and the wall of stained glass. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We’re standing close enough to the buildings sliding glass doors that the cool of the air-conditioning washes over my skin as people enter and exit. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally turned to look at her, she was gazing through the glass at the great expanse of fog outside. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sun beamed down through the curved glass above me, warming my day dress, turning me into a hotcake. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As she drew nearer, an irregularity in the surface of the ancient glass foreshortened her image and she confronted the child of fifteen years before. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He put the water glass to his lips, moistened them, then put it down on the polished black tabletop. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In small spoonfuls, it went down smooth with a glass of milk and it made me feel full, which had become a foreign concept. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Harry looked over the top of Ginny’s head to see Dean Thomas holding a shattered glass in his hand, and Romilda Vane looking as though she might throw something. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Impatiently, Henry splashed some whiskey in a dirty glass and shoved it at him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’d rather tell you about a new horse, a forest of glass, and a long good night. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Father’s taught many a boy to blow glass. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, she held the globe close, peering through her magnifying glass at portions of it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Henry brought up his glass and drank the rest of his whiskey in a long swallow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He found three, one injured by a piece of glass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just looked into the glass to see the reflection of whoever was there. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, it didn’t stop when June released Ivy’s hand and looked down at the sketchbook in Ivy’s lap, ready to create her glass girl. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kugler’s office can also be reached from the hallway, but only through a glass door that can be opened from the inside but not easily from the outside. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Dumpy and muscular in her smudge-fronted uniform, the wall-eyed nurse wore such thick spectacles that four eyes peered out at me from behind the round, twin panes of glass. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In those days windowpanes were brought from France by ship and the animal’s mania for crashing into them became a problem, until Clara thought of painting cats on the glass. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than once I thought I saw one of its glass eyes look in my direction. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I run outside to pick a couple of daisy flowers I saw blooming in the side yard and ’range ’em in the skinny glass vase. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The north wall of the Library was made entirely of glass, with doors leading to a terraced greenhouse that refracted light like a prism. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The building was a twelve-story showcase of modern architecture, all glass and concrete, rising like a mirage from the site of Benjamin Duke’s old estate, Four Acres. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake took it and filled his mouth then gagged horribly, disgorged that which was in his mouth and threw the glass upon the floor. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He led her through the tall glass doors and out into the chilly night. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved through the markers until he got to a grave covered with a sheet of grimy plastic or glass, its edges slimed with filth. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Unbidden, a waiter came and filled his glass up with Victory Gin, shaking into it a few drops from another bottle with a quill through the cork. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The glass girl from her poem wasn’t actually made of glass. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then the door at the bottom of the stairs slammed shut so hard that the glass raided around him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Ben waves me over and silently points out the green glass alligator tchotchke lying alone in the case, almost buried in the dust. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It looked like a glass jar, one of those square ones with a screw top. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mean to steal the nickels from the baby’s glass piggy bank. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Someone could’ve bought a plague cure with the money spent on this glass that I use to drink water out of. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, I am going to have a glass of red wine. It goes well with steak,” she said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When I turned and walked away through the litter and broken glass of the empty, middle-of-the-night street, they were following close behind. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When you turn you cannot locate him in the room, though there are more patrons walking along with you than you had seen within the glass. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She checked her makeup and kickboxed her own image in the reflective glass of the lounge window. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Twice more he stole the ball from the opposing guard, dribbled the length of the court, and laid the ball gently in the white square painted on the glass backboard. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He froze, nose to nose with his own scared-looking reflection in the dark glass. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When I pressed myself against a porthole’s glass, I lifted my face up out of the water and so was unaware of the eyes studying my mollusk. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He moved his hand and knocked his glass of water over. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not afraid of you or anyone else,” she said, and she drank off her second glass. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seated on his glass throne, the King of Adarlan watched him back. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"Do you think Mrs. de Vries has a magnifying glass?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Through the window frame I focus on the slivers of sparkly glass that escaped the vacuum. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

After drinking the glass of milk and putting on a fleece-lined cap, Mr. Clutter carried his apple with him when he went outdoors to examine the morning. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great towers topped with rooms of glass and mirrors, they sent beams of light across the dark water, guiding ships into the smooth harbor of the capital on the hill. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Maxine takes the lemon wedge that’s on the rim of her glass, squirts it into her water, and takes a sip. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her brow furrowed at the thought of glass beakers bubbling with potent chemicals. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We end up breaking all of the bottles to get enough glass pieces. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I reach forward and slide a hand down the frosted milkshake glass. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t any job they hadn’t done during their long lives, it seemed, including working as healers, and their cottage was filled to the brim with potions and herbs, glass bottles and mortars and pestles. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She put the glass in my trembling hands and helped me tilt it back. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I feel like I’m being kept under a magnifying glass. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Excuse me," he said again, and rapped the glass with his knuckles. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Cora’s grandmother was sold a few times on the trek to the fort, passed between slavers for cowrie shells and glass beads. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Nothing but a hodgepodge of brick, glass, and concrete. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Our house stood behind a high stone wall which had chips of broken glass sticking up from the top to keep thieves away. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look. Don’t worry about me.”Through the glass, I see the spy arch his back in agony. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The glass elevator actually hitched a couple of times on the way up. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And there she was, for the last time, in the silvered glass: Calliope. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As she ate she drank a glass of water to help wash down the swallows. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At home, I walk around to the back and let myself in through the sliding glass door. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She begins to trail off, but perhaps emboldened by a glass and a half of wine, she continues. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I looked from his face to the glass, thinking, he's disemboweled himself just in order to confound me . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Finch smiles at me and offers me something to drink—water, juice, soda—as she pours herself a glass of wine from a corked bottle in the fridge. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That shelf would have the tea glass and the tray with paper clips and rubber bands, because literature has not been the focus of this dynasty. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I keep my gun in hand and start toward the path that leads to the glass ceiling. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A glass: half empty or half full, depending on how you look at it. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom walked to the kitchen and took a glass out of the cupboard. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sayle gestured at a glass display case and Alex noticed three harpoon guns and a collection of knives resting in velvet slots. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Directly beneath the glass ceiling is a heated turquoise pool, perfectly square and ready to be jumped into. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When Dr. Finch pulled at his drink, Jean Louise saw his sharp brown eyes flash above the glass. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There were circles of charcoal, tire tracks off side roads and, since the men came back from the war, broken bottle glass all over the reservation. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My fury might have been squashed thanks to Dad’s skills of fixing Fig’s DVD with some glass cleaner, cloth, and toothpaste, but the damage was done. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was a glass of iced tea and a piece of pecan pie on the kitchen table. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him I wasn’t thirsty, but he set a frosty glass down in front of me anyway. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He studies the items in the window, and his reflection in the glass, wearing the cap she’d bought for him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She forced glass after glass of milk down him, and she didn’t leave him alone for a second. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Viftas reached for a thermos and poured me iced water in a glass cup that had measurement marks on the side. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to the house, Wynn was making scrambled eggs for dinner, and Nan sat at the kitchen table drinking a glass of juice. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

That’s when I saw a long, black tongue pressing against the outside of the booth’s glass. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of anyone, but someone had turned the lamp off, and someone had set a glass of water at her bedside. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He patted the good shoulder, forcing the younger man to fill his glass. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of Uriah lying on the tile surrounded by glass and metal. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

One entire glass wall opens up to my own private patio, half of which is taken up by a shimmering blue infinity pool that goes all the way to the edge of the balcony. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like a glass of water or the Sunday paper. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Dad was thirsty, so I brought him some water and tipped the glass to his lips. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He slid off the arm of the sofa and came towards me, his glass in his hand. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Shards of glass slip down the wall and into the sink. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was like a bird that has dashed its head against glass and that has been picked up by a human hand. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

She served herself a full glass and, as she always did, offered me some, too. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He reached up and grabbed hold of a window frame, careful of the jagged glass around the edge. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr Lewis shrugged, raised his glass to all the company, drank and sat back down. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The empty green screen stared back at him; he saw himself in its curved glass, a story as still as the others had been antic. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a mighty racket outside, crunching steel and shattering glass. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As I push open the glass door, a tiny dog with a pushed-in face yips at me in black streaks. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Remove a pane of really old glass from the window of a European cathedral and it will be noticeably thicker at the bottom than at the top. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I glanced up at Lovey just for a second, then I dove back into my glass. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Drank my glass of water and filled it up again. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He tried to peer though the rain- spattered glass. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We walk to the sliding glass doors, and my mom takes off Charlie’s coat and then her own. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

George raises his glass and says, “Three cheers for the chef.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Just as he flickers away, Mom leans over and leaves a lipstick kiss on the glass. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, Cole went to the cabin and brought back the glass mantel from his lantern and placed it over the candle. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I nudge my empty glass toward him without lifting my head. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

We end up at an area that’s glassed off, with people passing in and out of glass doors. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

My breath makes tiny flat clouds across the glass. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson refilled Pearl’s glass from the carafe of juice on the table. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Think of the glass itself, with its five grand colours stained right through. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached for the glass and bottle, and carefully, on my knees, with bent head, crawled to the farthest wall Cobwebs touched my face with the softness of moths. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The stairs coming up from Tata’s room on the first floor were marble, with a landing in between, and a colored glass window with bunches of grapes and twirling vines. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The best glass came from Myr, but a good clear pane was worth its weight in spice, and green and yellow glass would not work as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I knocked my glass over as I reached for it, and the blood-colored juice crept over the white lace tablecloth. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They dropped and broke the glass jar and had grape jelly and glass everywhere, when I should have been watching them. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And in the very center of the gallery, a spotlight falls through the ceiling onto a pedestal; there, inside a glass cube, glows a small blue stone . All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After the Mass, the celebrant had passed out through a stained-glass lamb in one of the church windows, without breaking the glass, thus signifying the immaculate conception. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a long beard and was jolly and always seemed to be drinking hot tea out of a glass. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of trash here—glass and things. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole sipped water from the glass she held to his lips and struggled to swallow the pills. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The truck’s motion and the beer were soothing; the steel and glass closed out everything. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I filled the glass up again with more juice and vodka. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sunny morning when a Storm Trooper posted a sign in front of the Berlin glass shop owned by Gaston Ruskin’s grandfather. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I poured a little in my glass, then a glass for Brett, then filled my glass. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The sun had not yet come up, and the stars were sharp and clear as broken glass, spangled across the sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The secretary placed a tall glass of lemonade with ice on the coffee table. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he looks at me, his eyes are so pure and brilliant I think they’re made of glass. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He refills my glass and goes to refill his own with whiskey. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The sides were as smooth as glass, and the lowest window opened two hundred feet above the ground. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She moved as though she were surrounded by a glass shell. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s window exploded, spraying glass all over her bed and bringing the sky with it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

They settled themselves in some soft moss at the edge of the forest, once they’d checked it for pellets of glass. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

A glass of champagne and a plate of fresh fruit sit on the table separating the lounge chairs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Barry couldn’t walk half a block without someone shouting hello from a porch and waving him up for a chat and a glass of iced tea. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hadley shook her head, but I gave her a glass anyway. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She watched as he placed both hands on the wall beneath the mirror and pressed his forehead against the glass. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a brief hiss and a thin line of smoke rose from the black glass. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For the glass had been cast unevenly, so that there were odd little flamelike curves in the colors. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like there was broken glass in his throat. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

On his desk stood what looked like a large, cracked, glass spinning top; Harry recognized it at once as a Sneakoscope, because he owned one himself, though it was much smaller than Moody’s. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He laughed and uncorked the bottle, filling each glass to the rim. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

So I picked up my plate and glass, which still had an inch of milk in it, and took them back to the table. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I cross the room and stand in front of the windows, staring at what we can see of the compound, which is just more of the same glass and steel, pavement and grass and fences. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I burn my tongue on a cheese bubble and swig half a glass of ice water. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Leader stretched, and sipped from the glass of water on his desk. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

They gathered around the base of the glass dome. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Manman,” I whisper to the glass, hoping that my voice will ease through, fly above all those people’s heads, travel on a plane back to New York, and reach her. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Catch it if you can, then!” he shouted, and he threw the glass ball high into the air and streaked back toward the ground. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It’s Prince Henry yet again, glass in hand, watching Prince Philip and his bride spinning on the ballroom floor. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He opened the refrigerator and poured himself a tall glass of cider. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

A glass vessel fell to the floor and shattered. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

All of these instruments relied, at least in part, on glass manufacturing skills and provided visual information. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The guards were on her and pulling her away from the glass. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

A vertical wave of plate glass breaks against it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the ribbons, the locket, and the book, all laid out on my dresser next to the hummingbird’s nest in its glass box. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Crashing sounds of breaking glass peppered the singing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I pray to every statue, to the stained glass windows, the Stations of the Cross. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Having answered the Count’s salutation, I turned to the glass again to see how I had been mistaken. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When he and Linda first moved to Milagro he bought a fiber glass fly rod and some salmon eggs, and that had been one way to work the tension from his system. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We carried the tree home and decorated it with Grandma’s antique ornaments: ornate colored balls, fragile glass partridges, and lights with long tubes of bubbling water. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a chair from the living room and sat, sipping water from a glass Amaka had brought him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped forward in the hallway, into another gust of wind, which stung her cheeks and face with invisible sand, sharp as needles, sharp as glass. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He shooed the younger kids back to the sliding glass doors. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Or, instead, maybe she could break the glass case and act like she’d been cursed. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She pulled on her jacket, peeked through the glass in the front door, then hurried out onto the porch, almost running around the house to the car. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward he held the glass in his hand and we looked at one another. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In front of us is a sea of crumbling concrete and broken glass. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We picked up the knocked down chairs and table, cleaned the glass from the broken lanterns, and put the books back on the shelf. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Behind the glass, the spy suddenly yells something at Commander Jameson and thrashes violently against his chains. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He would lean with Cletus over a glass case in the museum, and his arm would lie softly about Cletus’s shoulders as they read the words off an old yellowed newspaper. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ten months later, after recounting this exchange to two dozen wedding guests in the basement of Grace Lutheran Church, Lil raises her glass in a toast. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The whole assembled group followed as Werfel carefully picked his way among the giant curls and shards of broken glass with Regibald, dressed in full armor, clanking behind him. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I remember I was cryin’ and crawlin’ around on my hands and knees— that’s the only thing that got hurt on me—I got glass in my hands and in my knees. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sunlight shone through the doors, illuminating the Champion’s splattered blood like stained glass. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The glass echoed the wood in its hollow curve. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

In less than a week, the Dauntless-born initiates will find their families on the Pit floor, or in the glass building above the compound, and do whatever it is the Dauntless do when they reunite. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The Mask scoops up a shard of glass from one of the broken jars. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I watched him fill his glass at the bar and wondered how much time would pass before we talked again the way we just had. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a leopard-skin cap and a necklace of small bones and glass beads. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture the scene: the drunken old father, in a three-piece suit, swishing his Scotch or whatever it was he drank around in the glass. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Once in a while, Master would stand up and raise his glass and his voice—“To that brave black American led into the University of Mississippi!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

During Prohibition, there were so many accidental deaths caused from wood alcohol and other toxic brews of bootleg whiskey that a killer could also spike a person’s glass of moonshine without ever arousing suspicions. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My eyes catch on a funny, rippling square hanging like a warped pane of glass in the air. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He felt like broken glass was working its way through his stomach, into his intestines. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The dome was wide and shallow, all silver filigree and glass. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A little boy was staring up at him with huge eyes the color of amber glass. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

It took all of my strength to open my mouth and sip the warm liquid in that glass. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In France, Mersenne received a rather garbled account of Torricelli’s experiment and tried unsuccessfully to reproduce it, but he lacked the right sort of glass tube. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As I poured OJ into a glass, my ears tuned in to my parents’ escalating conversation. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

‘There’s glass all over the seats!’ they shouted. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has a glass of water and my bottle of antidepressants. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Through sweet and smoky air, great columns rose to dizzying heights, while enough multicolored light poured down through stained glass so as to turn the hard stone floor into pools of liquid hues. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Percy pounded his fist on the glass and mouthed: Break it! The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He taps his glass to Lark’s and then to Aunt Nancy’s. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Gwin climbed up to his shoulder, baring his tiny teeth, sharp as splinters of glass, as if he had recognized the hatred in Meggie’s eyes as they rested on his master. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His face glowed greenish in the light of the screen, and was reflected in the glass: long hair, serious expression, deep-set eyes that scanned the terrain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flashed the light onto the glass and saw why no water had come out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“He really does look exactly the way I imagined him. ‘Colorless as a glass of milk.’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Gasping, I press my face to the glass above me, sucking in as much air as I can. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then he opened the second jar and rose and carried them back into the kitchen, holding the glass in his other hand with the candle rolling about and sputtering. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There is a tray full of glass sundae dishes filled with brightly colored ice cream. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The rest of him is transparent, like a reflection in glass. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He picked up his glass and emptied it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The dying sunlight flashes my own reflection on the glass. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I could see Mr Lewis smiling at his wine glass and shaking his head wearily. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I broke forty-six glasses... well, it turns out there are many ways to break a glass. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She lighted one of the candles in a red glass and then she knelt to pray. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not much of note. Though I met a very interesting young woman,” she said casually, leading him down a window-lined stairway into the glass section of the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Sierra stood up and poked her head through the glass doors. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But I saw her reflection in the glass. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The window glass shattering and falling to the floor. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He purchased a beautiful cut glass carafe and matching drinking glass and put them on the nightstand by the bed. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a grandfather clock that appeared to be made entirely of glass, so you could see all the gears turning. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Each one cups a glass lotus-shaped votive—their faces radiant above the candlelight. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The people gathered around this glass jar all have auction paddles, and I realize that an auction is happening for it right now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Stretched far across the glass, we begin to mb and polish. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Seder began again, she would get another glass of watered wine. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its outer walls are made entirely of rounded glass, but a circular tube of dark metal encapsulates the glass walls. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My father was on the other side of the glass. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was a particular blue, made of light and darkness mingling, clear as glass, smooth as glass, as much like water as sky. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look like lockers, boxes, glass shards, lips with triangle brown leaves. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We were half-below street level here, and the stained glass was a dim muddle of colors. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He had lost his job at the glass factory, and he had lost something even more precious: his dignity as a human being. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She picked up the salt shaker and tapped its glass base against the tablecloth a few times. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Two soldiers threw down their rifles and lunged at Bekhir, but not before he punched his fist through the glass. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Unlike the other rooms in the school, they are separated, not by glass, but by mirrors. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I remember falling forward, and a warm hand on my arm, dragging me inside and pushing me onto a couch, and pounding, pounding dance music and a glass being thrust into my hand. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was an eerie and frightening feeling to be standing on clear glass high up in the sky. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Framed in the frosted glass panel, the squat outline waits, dwindles, and then disappears. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Yes, and then Ethel would tell about that night and show the glass. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She handed me a plate and a glass of milk and said, “Boy, you can take it over to that chair along the sideboard.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got to my feet in a panic and nearly put my elbow through the glass patio door. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Nita stands beneath the glass chandelier and holds her arms out, wide, to encompass the room in her gesture. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A net made of my signature pink flowers stretches along the glass curves in order to tell everyone my name—Camellia—and to hide me until I'm revealed to the royal court. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She passed a tall span of glass windows that overlooked a sunny courtyard; she passed the balcony on which she had stood with the huntress. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day’s menu had been pasted on the glass and a special dinner with all the trimmings was laid out to attract customers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She turned at his step, and he stared at her, and at the glass she held, with wrath and horror. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

On the mantelpiece an ornate gold clock with a domed glass front ticks loudly. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The nurses know him from last time, with Helen, they know all about him, everyone knows; he’s the last to approach the electric glass doors. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I stand, holding the glass out like an offering, like a trade, like I’ll give him his glass back and he’ll unlock the door and let me go without hurting me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“See more glass,” said Sybil Carpenter, who was staying at the hotel with her mother. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“These are the kinds of pictures that they will later lay over the image of a champagne glass or something,” Ma said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Mia hesitated outside the glass lobby for a few minutes, watching the reflections of the people on the sidewalk glide over, and past, the shadows of the people within. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She lifted her glass, and she was lovely. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

My secret hope of spending the afternoon alone in Central Park died in the glass eggbeater of Ladies' Day's revolving doors. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Ellis asks as she shuffles across the kitchen and gets herself a glass of juice from the fridge. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“See that one with the glass in it. Look at him. He laying in there. See him.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally retraced her steps to the exact window they’d jimmied, a dirty, forgotten pane of glass concealed behind decorative bushes, and found that it was still unlocked. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He tried to speak with them, but they just floated around, occasionally bonking against the glass. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Your dad and I need a minute to talk. Why don’t you go get yourself a glass of water, and we’ll be right in.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When me and Doris got upstairs to our apartment, Jazz was sitting in the window drinking a glass of iced tea and working on her scrapbook, which was one of her favorite things to do. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Rising, she got to the bourbon bottle, a little unsteadily; she refilled her glass and again drank swiftly. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I finish up the water and set the glass on his grandma’s coffee table, beside an ashtray that’s definitely been used. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I did nothing but watch the rain pelt that tiny, foggy pane of glass. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She poured herself a second glass of wine and served the pasta. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

That first day, gray drapes covered the large glass windows that separated them from the public. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Trapped inside the glass, the Governor’s light was still bright, though a little less raw and frightening than it had been a moment before. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It glowed in the sunlight, looking like a glass of apple juice. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore plunged the glass blindly back into the basin, refilled it, and drank once more. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I watched as she drank her milk to the bottom of the glass. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later I was at work at the glass factory and the foreman, a German man, came over to me and told me I had a phone call. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You mean you were sitting where you are now and you told the glass to topple over and it did?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It cracked the inner glass container. Like a bottle of beer when it freezes. Then ate through the metal of the canister.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z