“I don’t know,” Amil said, throwing up his hands, letting go of the grass. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The car was sitting in the grass on the side of the exit ramp. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Slowly I push off my shoes and let the cool grass tickle my feet through my socks. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘What do you think? Sit on the grass and wait for the Whiteskins to join the picnic?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Blades of grass and a pradeep’s slim, steady flame are held to Gogol’s head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the blessing of a glorious summer day, the whole of Mossflower was doom-laden with an awful tension that threatened to burst upon the captives seated on the grass. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We flopped down on the grass, finally, and he pushed a water bottle into my hand. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And he scurried off the further end of the bridge into the grass beyond. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dew-covered grass tickled Genie’s feet and he instantly started walking up on his toes just like the man, Crab, did. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was not a patch of clean soil in sight, and the only plants growing anywhere were rank weeds and coarse grayish grass. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were standing at the edge of the lawn in front of Mr. Crane’s house, the only grass that anybody had loved hard enough to get it to take hold. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Trees creaking with apples, fallen apples red on the grass beneath, the heavy sweet smell of apples rotting on the ground and the steady thrumming of wasps around them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Both from the great flat open spaces, one a prairie of grass, one of water. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

‘Maybe,’ said the Elf; ‘but a heavy boot might leave no print here: the grass is deep and springy.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Tall slender grasses whisper and rasp as we turn off the road to push through them. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She saw carved stone pavilions, manses of woven grass as large as castles, rickety wooden towers, stepped pyramids faced with marble, log halls open to the sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Thoughtfully, Brutus and Arthur had dug their doorway behind a tuft of grass, so that not even Billy noticed it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The grass was as dry as tinder,” he recalled. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

A gravel drive that curved up through a field of dead grass. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I left the mound and the green grass growing on it among the white shells. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lowered himself toward the ground and tumbled into the grass one last time. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The dead grass on the distant hills was a yellowish red, not orange but a drier color: orange-white, like the haze in the air. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled like grass and sawdust and gasoline all mixed together. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then he spat on his hands, took hold of the ropes, and began to haul the stone-boat across the meadow of grasses and spring flowers, toward the mountain quarry. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the middle of them was Lelia, sitting on the grass, cradling his dead blue head in her arms and lap and rocking on her knees. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood in the grass, my hands on the windowsill, thrilling in the rush of freedom. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There were dry bones everywhere amongst the marsh grasses, and the pools stank of centuries of decay. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Elinor heard the shots she jumped up so fast that she stumbled over her blanket in the dark and fell full length in the coarse grass. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The middle was grass covered, with a few low trees and some big rocks. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Slick grass under my palms and knees, the scent of stagnant water flooding my nostrils. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Twig, grass, pebble, flower petals, mirror, and all. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

So she took the plants and grass from them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Those girls’ whispers faded away as I ate, the sound like wind ruffling marsh grass. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She knew what grass smelled like, a rich brew of dirt and green roots, right after rain. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Scraps of a waltz played by a large orchestra drifted down to the travelers on the grass, and scraps of conversation too, from the people who were walking to and fro. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

At this moment the cottage door opened, and in the lamp glow that spilled across the grass, Winnie’s grandmother appeared. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I run to the end of the bridge and cut onto the grass, down the embankment to the bottom, which is an old dried-up riverbed full of cigarette butts and beer bottles. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A hundred feet below them was the narrow causeway, then the stony ground, then the grass dotted with heads, and behind that the forest. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Got on’y our heads sticking outa water, an’ up under the grass that sticks out from the side of the ditch. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls and floor were a mishmash of plastic bags, dirt, grass roots and stones. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He responded by punching the first boy in the nose, and soon the two were rolling on the grass, grunting and raining blows on one another. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Dad,” he said, and the figure moaned in the grass. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the furrow, Ellen sat down on the grass near the rail fence and reached a hand out to the boy. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass, growing in three- foot tentacles, lassos his feet. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they only emerged through the long grass at dawn. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plants were crowded with weeds, grasses and low vines. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I banged them on the dry grass over and over again, as if I were hitting a drum, the leaves crunching and exploding into chips and tiny shards. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

An owl came, with an ominous, swift whirring of its wings, down on to something in the grass. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Standing under the airship, his feet bare in the grass, he was transfixed. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

And even as the dark shape appeared, crashing through the grass, he was throwing himself to one side, knowing—too late now—what it was that had been wrong about the second footpath sign. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They spoke no more words, until they stood again upon the grass beyond the eaves of Fangorn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Seven crouched down and put Edgar on the grass. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as we were done, Mouse crept out of the grasses and attacked a small hole in the soil, dragging out a strand of sea lettuce so she could properly subdue it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The home did not have the money to check the growth of the wide stretches of grass by having it mown, so it had to be pulled by hand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fire ran along the dry grass and leaves, and took hold of a neighbor’s fence. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The figure seemed to take its bearings for a few moments, then set off with light, quick strides, its long cloak rustling over the grass. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They sang to the stars, to the waning moon, to the waving grasses. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crouched in the dry tufts of grass and watched. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The little rabbit cowered in the grass while his mother was killed before his eyes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few moments he could see little or nothing; but the smells of dew and elder bloom were unchanged and his nose brushed against cool grass blades. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was flat, not many trees, the same dusty red-clay dirt and grass as Soweto but with proper houses and paved roads and a sense of suburbia to it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Matt, that’s swamp grass. It’s awful stuff. What do you mean, plastering yourself with it?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zion tore a handful of grass out of the ground and threw it at me. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He thought about the coolerful of lemonade pouring into the grass. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

In the end everything he raises on his farm comes from grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He climbed from the ditch and wiped his weapon in the grass. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the south side of the office building, the stairsteps of a tiered grass field led down to an outside amphitheater and the cluster of classroom buildings that made up the campus. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She liked the sharp smell of the pines and sentinels, the feel of grass and dirt between her toes, and the sound the wind made in the leaves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Yesterday’s rain had cleared; the sky was a clear, pale gray, and the grass was springy and damp underfoot as they set off for their first ever Care of Magical Creatures class. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He sank to the grass at the side of the road, lay on his back, and closed his eyes. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He sat all the way down in the grass, and I did too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A colony of drunks was spread out on the grass by the bandstand, sleeping it off. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

So the Lords of the Eyrie planted grass and scattered statuary amidst low, flowering shrubs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Huge cylindrical bales of hay line the fields on either side of us, but the grass has begun to grow up again. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The grass was wet with dew and a million dewdrops were sparkling and twinkling like diamonds around his feet. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s find out,” Claire replied, and they tumbled into the grass. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I took the old beagle outside, and when I sat down on the grass, the beagle put her head in my lap and murmured in that special way dogs have. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They carried the man down out of the rocks, lay him on open grass. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her T-shirt was covered with grass and dirt stains, like she’d just run through a swirling Gaea. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He brought some dried grass in, tapped sparks into it, and watched them die. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass was knee-high and thick with cornflowers, gentians, cinquefoil. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smelled faintly of flowers, which I guessed was a perfume, but beneath that was her own smell, like green grass, like the open road after a light spring rain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The brush was wild but the grass was dead. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We wrestled in the grass until he got up and then leapt back on top of me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The long grass had to be scythed and hoed under. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come where the grass is greener,” said Bluebell. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A beam of light fell across the grass, hit the bottom of a tree, and illuminated its branches; there, crouching among the budding leaves, was Crookshanks. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

With the passing of the lemmings, however, the grasses had grown high again and the hour of the caribou was upon the land. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it was cheaper to feed corn to cattle, instead of raising them on hay or grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Sat beneath the table, safe there, and Deen had pulled the dune grass from around his ponytail and held it out. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The grass was dry and withered, and the cows must be taken out of the woods and kept in the barn to be fed. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tidings sat, tall and straight, on the tractor—as determined as General Sherman marching through Georgia—and cut the grass between rain showers. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I set down my bag on the thin bed of grass and tossed some change in the coin thing and dialed my moms. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was just a small place under a grove of blue gums, with tall grass grown up around a few concrete headstones. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I open the window and crawl out, land on my feet, and make it across the jungle of grass and wildflowers to the tent. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

As the dry season progressed, the grass shriveled and many trees lost their leaves. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been in the locker room so long that the sun was up completely now, although remnants of mist hung over the grass in the stadium. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I was relieved when Aunty Ifeoma said we would eat outside on the grass, since we did not have a mat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They turned to the horse, which suddenly stopped munching on the grass to regard them with deep, fathomless eyes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was thin, with padding on the bottom so it didn’t damage the grass on the green, and almost three feet high. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He loped across the grass, easily outraced them all, and gobbled the ball up, sweeping it into his jaws with that huge tongue. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

A drone, then a scream, and then a second bike appeared in front of him, roaring toward him, cutting a swath through the grass. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

My mind fluttered like the moths that veiled the street lamp which cast shadows upon the bank of grass below me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the daytime we went to the pool or to the movies or to the park to turn somersaults and roll on the grass. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following Fiver, he scrambled up the lumps and shelves of peat to the overhang of gravelly earth and thin grass that topped them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The movement unhinged his legs and he fell to his knees, knocking down the grass like so much chaff. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“And what’s this?” he asks, wiggling his finger over a mound of what looks like dead grass in the middle of its many legs. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The lemonade sparkled in the sunlight, like a bejeweled waterfall, and then disappeared without a trace, soaking into the parched September grass. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The sun was in the sky, the wind blew, the grass was green, the screen door stood wide. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes, people do go off alone,” she muttered to herself as she kicked through the grass, carrying her bag of honey, which was now beginning to ooze. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The grass is covered with sweat, and I stand alone with the wild card between my fingers. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Beaming, Harry threw it open and breathed in the smell of clean air and grass for a moment before walking down the steps into the dusk. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She could hear chickens were clucking outside the windows, scratching for bits of gravel in the grass. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bunk above belongs to Frederick: a reedy boy, thin as a blade of grass, skin as pale as cream. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And suddenly, Turner thought he could smell sweet grass. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then I sewed a big skunk cabbage leaf into a cup with grass strands. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew at once what had hap-pened; a wooden hutch, its slats shattered, lay on its side in the wet grass. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On the Bismarck side it is eastern landscape, eastern grass, with the look and smell of eastern America. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Lou fashioned a chain from grasses, carefully knotting them together, end to end. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Where the grass grows thick and animals refuse to burrow, there is ore below.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

All four of Ben’s assailants were stretched out in the grass in various postures of defeat and pain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The secret, Joel told me, is not to let the cows take a second bite until the grass has had time to recover. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“The thunder’s enough to turn the grass sour, but not much hope of it breaking before the evening, I’d say.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clearly going to be wet all day, but it was a summer rain, deepening the green of the grass and the trees, sweetening and cleaning the air. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They drove a short way up the mountain and pitched their tent in a clearing of moist green grass that sloped down to a stream. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this reason, an acre of mixed grasses can actually produce more carbohydrate and protein in a year than an acre of field corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Here, wait a minute,” said Hazel, pushing past Pipkin and Hawkbit as they came across the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This cane Held business appears at first to have just two colors: a too-big blue sky, and a too-much green cane, growing like giant grass. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the tip of the shovel into the grass and stomped on the lip. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The patch of grass is so small you can walk across in four long strides. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Black tar bubbles out from the cracks and grooves and drips down into the grass and sinks into the earth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I felt the warm wind and smelled newly cut grass, and a bird perched on a branch of the ailanthus and sang for a long time before it flew away. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell how long they had been lying in the grass. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One spiral gave birth to other little spirals, which coasted away, leaving burning grass in their wake. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

After I had finished taking a bath, I washed my clothes or, rather, soaked and spread them on the grass to dry. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Still so early in the morning the mist is rising up out of the ground, and when I come to a stretch of field, looks like the grass is steaming. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was star-dingly heavy for something made of twigs, seaweed, and grass. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Chuckling, Bill and Charlie directed the tables safely onto the grass, end to end, and then, with a flick of his wand, Bill reattached the table leg and conjured tablecloths from nowhere. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the ridge, the grasses rose around her, tall and supple. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Leaving her to worry what that might mean, I go down the stairs and out onto the grass. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Outside the wood, Bigwig and Silver combed their ears, sniffed the air and hopped away, following their own long shadows to the grass of the gallop. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This pond looked muddy and dark, surrounded by nothing but sparse blades of dying grass. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

If I were an indfgena guest, they would spread an estera of woven grass on the ground and offer me a seat there. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the country—all trees and grass and a little bit of blue sea in the distance, and something that looked like Margate in the background. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

For some time all three moved on quietly over the grass, while the shadows grew stronger and the wood pigeons clattered among the distant trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind began to hiss over the grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A steady wind blew, causing the grasses to bow and whisper among themselves. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their signs lay on the grass: PEACE, BAN THE DRAFT. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baugi had nine slaves, giants like himself, and they were cutting the grass for hay with huge scythes, each scythe the size of a small tree. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Each flower and blade of grass was decked out in jeweled pendantry with necklaces of sparkling raindrops. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then, all around her rock island, the kidnappers materialized from the grass. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The steam from the grass rose to our soles, and it gradually lessened the pain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some of the other students were out on the grass in front of Alain Locke Hall, in pink and green, chanting, singing, stomping, clapping, stepping. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There were tufts of sparse grass, a few bushes and rocks, and nearby he could see an area of thicker vegetation: broad, low trees outlined against the sky. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Seven grabbed her friend by the cloak and pulled her onto the grass. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I crossed the grass quickly, placed my person behind the bush, and before long heard Mr Cardinal's footsteps approaching. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her run towards the highway, and I was glad that she did not wander towards the river where the grass was stained— Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Groups of kids are scattered all over the grass. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Some of them are nightmares, like hanged corpses rotting in soccer fields with bloodred grass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The damp grass cushioned her fall but the breath went out of her in an "Oof." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Stretched before us in every direction, there were only miles of mesquite and huisache trees and tall brown grasses too dry and thin to feed to animals. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

At the corner of the building, four Twister mats have been pegged into the grass, and about a dozen kids are wrapped around each other, pretzel-style. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon we all gathered for an hour under a grass roof whose walls were criss-crossed poles. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He exhaled with relief when the grass went down. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He sighed and plucked a blade of grass to chew on. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The grass and the bursting hedges were gilded by the level rays of the sun. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Beside her, munching grass, stood a cow with a brass ring in its nose. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I draw Ziggy, and also some scenery, like grass, a sidewalk, and a tree. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The smells were different, too—earth and grass, flowers and milk. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Seven and Thorn were spit out by the hexed wood and thrown backward onto the grass. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She would wind into the sky and wait above me as I kicked the snow-bent grasses. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he went treading softly through the grass. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I run across the grass with Grammy yelling my name all the while. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She rubbed her fingers through the dirt, and grabbed a handful of grass to wipe between her legs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I pulled it back, the grass made a tearing sound, and underneath was a clump of red Oklahoma dirt. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Moisture from the tall grasses clung to her shins and shoes, making her toes uncomfortably damp. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As be did this, another arrow came whirr and frump, but this one buried all except its feathers in the grass, and stayed still, as if it had never moved. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lush green of the grass was cool, and beneath the grass was the dark earth, patient, waiting... Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That almost-empty Baggy of grass behind the bureau never crossed our minds. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I hated the piles of manure purposely hidden in the grass to spoil my shoes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised that she pulls over into the tall grass. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My first observation: The green receptacles are not always filled with just cut grass and dead flowers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We had disturbed the grass in front of the spider hole and the guy wasn’t sure. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was odd was that you couldn’t smell no grass nor trees nor even soil. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I bounced back and landed in the grass. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The meat she had laid out on the grass was gone. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here the dust and heat began to recede; the short grass and stunted corn seemed distant. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’s far away, belly deep in tall grass with others by her side. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Owens!” called the pale woman, in a voice that might have been the rustle of the wind through the long grass. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He grabbed me, and laughing, we rolled about in the grass like two pups. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then the sea blended imperceptibly into sweeping areas of land populated only by the figures of animal life unknown to her, hulking creatures grazing on tall tan grasses. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bare feet bleed on their way across the balding grass. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He sits on the grass and lets the sound pour through him. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Killing ten people at once may not be difficult for three people trained in combat, but it's hard for a lone person green as the grass. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The Death Down it was afterwards called, and no grass would grow there. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I slowed down the car and pulled over, bumping up onto the rough grass verge. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty of these pens were spread out across the damp grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We shed our black coats and loped through the grass, doubled- over like commandos, until we came to the path that led to the beach. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She imagined dew-dampened grass batting at her shoes and the legs of her trousers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The green ninja slid off the road and disappeared in the dark grass. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The ferns were thumped and beaten and he heard legs moving in the long grass. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the border of grass and leaned against a telephone pole. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mouse followed me, though not in a straight line, and then sat next to my head and licked her paws until something scuttled through the grasses nearby, and she gave chase. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed like there were acres and acres of grass and a pond and wonderful shrubs. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were crouched in a loose huddle behind the grass, taking turns peeking at the lighthouse. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He dropped toward the Washington Monument and set me on the grass. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Loo sat on the ground in the high grass, legs spread wide. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But the layered petals shatter, falling from her fingers to the ground, disappearing in the blades of ivory grass below. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Didn’t see much but waving grass and a setting sun. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The ducklings were completely hidden in the long grass! My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He lay perfectly still in the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The man led me to the back porch and offered me a ladleful of grass tea from a cast-iron pot. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

While August is off doing God knows what to Rosie, Marlena and I crouch on the grass in her dressing tent, clinging to each other like spider monkeys. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The shadows of the poplar trees had fallen across much of the lawn, but the sun was still lighting up the far comer where the grass sloped up to the summerhouse. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped and the grass dried. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Even Eunjoo smiled and sat in the fragrant soft grass to make a flower crown. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The sun pressed against the back of my neck as I ran out to meet him, the rough stone of the patio giving way to scrubby grass and then back to stone again. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As far as I can see, there are low buildings separated by trimmed grass and fledgling trees. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was no protection: knee-high grass, low stone walls, off to the left a low field of rye. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bigwig told him that Kehaar was outside he dragged himself up the short run and into the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she hid nearby in a clump of elephant grass. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember that some small-minded neighbor put it out, and children would tease us, that we ate “fried grass.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He probably would’ve fallen over into the grass if Lily hadn’t caught him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with humid summer heat which seemed to rise off the grass like steam. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The young man and his opponent twisted in the grass. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Malcolm brought the canoe up onto the lank and sodden grass under a yew tree, tied the painter urgently to the nearest branch, and hastened to fix the hoops into their brackets. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I really was starting to like Arizona—the constant sunshine, the smell of orange blossoms in the air, the soft green grass I walked on barefoot whenever I could. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

On the top they found, as Strider had said, a wide ring of ancient stonework, now crumbling or covered with age-long grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He stood in the tall grass near the shores and sprinkled magic water over his body and rifle. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She’d vamoosed into the tall grass, and off she was headed for the jungle, where it was plain to see he’d never find her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unscrewing the top, he gathered bits of grass, flower petals, a twig, and a pebble, and placed them in the jar. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“No more studying,” Ron sighed happily, stretching out on the grass. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The Paqo selected a cluster of dried grasses hanging upside down from the roof beam. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Someone would wander up and ask: “What’s the sound?” and if they liked the answer, they’d sit down on the grass and wait their turn. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the witches were asleep on the grass, and so were Will and Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One clipped the side and tumbled into the grass. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I’d seen both Doc and Mama weave strips of palmetto leaves and sea grasses into baskets and other shapes: flowers, crosses, and such. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Perched above the grass, they could see far in every direction. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She let me hold her like that, and we huddled together in the silent grass and the shadow of birdsong and we watched Fang climb. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He cast around, half looking for vines or grasses he could weave into a rope. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It takes years for the sea grass to grow back. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He chose from a salad bar of grasses: western wheatgrass, little bluestem, buffalo grass, green needlegrass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was livid, a sad expression on his face, trying to cover the hole in his throat with a plug made of esparto grass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Several heartbeats later, she bent down, pulled up a dry stalk of grass, and began to shred it with her fingers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dandelion, reacting instantly, shot out of the grass to the open gravel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned my hand a-loose and reached over in the grass and pulled out the most terrorfying creature that ever lived! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Across the afternoon, children chased it through the grass and onto the sturdy white bandstand at the edge of the park. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Instead he had a dirt floor, a pile of grass for his bed, a muddy buffalo, and a secretive friend. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the front of the house, Cora saw the street, and beyond that, a grass field. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Beside a tussock of grass a little way outside the opposite copse, a rabbit was sitting and gazing at them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leads us up ancient goat trails and sheep paths, through scrubby grass and meadows of mountain flowers, toward the cluster of small ruins Alan spotted earlier. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Flickers of gold-orange flames were visible, and even several yards away the acrid stench of smoke and burning grass stung his eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

One of the gardeners saw that her pile of grass clippings was all spread out. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk with it through the back gate to find Mom and Javier asleep on a blanket on the grass in our backyard. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The bricks were fashioned out of grass and clay, which was pressed into a wooden mold about seventy-five centimeters long. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Everybody just lived in grass huts on the beach and had to fish every morning to get their food. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mole broke into a run and, nose to the ground, worked the grasses and dead goldenrod spikes. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Asta was impatient to go and see to Pan, so they moved up to sit on the grass beside Lyra, exhausted, shaking, and looked around. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The air was full of the smells of warm grass, lake water, and wood smoke from Hagrid’s cabin. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They rolled in the dew, they cropped mouthfuls of the sweet summer grass, they kicked up clods of the black earth and snuffed its rich scent. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They lay on the lawn, their pink and white flowers grazing the grass, their roots waving lumpy soil in the air. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We spread out all over the place, tossing our cardboard squares and counting the blades of grass. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Our cowboy, who never takes off his tall, tall hat, delivers us to his huge house, where grass spreads out so green it looks painted. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Only moss, grass, lichens, and a few hardy flowers take root in the thin upper layer that thaws briefly in summer. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of us backed deeper into the grass. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horse spit out the grass he had been chewing. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far beyond, players in whites showed sharp against the red of the courts surrounded by grass, a gay vista washed by the sun. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I eased the car door open noiselessly, then padded across the grass and slipped through the back door, moving silently through the house, reaching my hand out to feel my way to the filing cabinet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hazel watched the mouse make off into the long grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cooter said, “And...and...and then she—” and started pulling at the grass and slapping at the ground. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

White ranchers pastured cattle there, especially during the dry years when no grass grew below the mountain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sun began to go down, and the tall grass looked golden. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uriah drops his gun in the grass and sprints toward me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw the marsh grass part, and two other brown bodies trampled through the grasses and mud. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As if answering me, something rustles loudly in the tall grass. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We take him to the People’s Park to see the lovely flowers, play with dogs, roll in the grass. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I must have lain long in the grass, for the shadow that was in front of me when I left the house had disappeared when I went back. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably bleeding to death right now, somewhere in the tall grass. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His backpack was on the grass next to him, with a bushy tail spilling out of it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Every time a breeze made the grass rustle, Frank thought about the grain spirits who’d captured Hazel. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was not hard to find foot- and hoofprints in the grass and soil, as well as the imprints of many drag poles. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The bird squawks and my stomach clenches, but then I feel something hard and metal in the grass. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The team exited from the hot zone in pairs, and stood around on the grass in their civilian clothes, looking pale, weak, and thoughtful. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he found two seagulls near his head, pecking fish chunks from the vomit he had thrown up in the grass. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When both twigs were undressed Nel moved easily to the next stage and began tearing up rooted grass to make a bare spot of earth. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And when we are kneeling, heads bowed slightly, I can hear from all around us a susurration, like the rustling of insects in tall dry grass: a cloud of whispers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fought amidst the grass and dirt and falling ashes beside the dead horse, until his brother rolled on his back in submission, tail tucked low. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He broke through the branches of an olive tree and tumbled onto the grass. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Tidbit replied, but he ran back up on the grass. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass concealed her, and he was looking elsewhere. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It settled on my hips and trailed in the grass. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

‘Oh, master,’ said Rabscuttle, ‘what good can this suffering bring? For the sake of Lord Frith and the green grass, let me take you home.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just in time he threw himself down in a patch of long grass behind a tree that overshadowed the road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Long turquoise grass moves in the breeze like gentle waves beneath the trees. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then colonizing species like lupine appeared, preparing the ground for the return of the grasses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I heard some Muslim homes were burned not that far from here. Maybe they were angry,” Amil said, bending over, ripping up pieces of grass. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When we looked at beef ranching, we learned how grasses and herbivores formed a partnership over millions of years of evolution. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He climbed over the blackened stones where there had once been a window, jumped down in the dry grass behind the wall, and crouched low. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The yellowness glistened like golden hair, and the wind shook it, and bits of gold spun down upon the grass. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Groups of vets stood in clusters or sat in circles on the grass, talking quietly. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Some houses are empty, too, but the windows are boarded up and their dry grass is low and still kept neat. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One fishes in the river or cuts grass with a machete, like a fieldworker, and whisdes to the others to set a trap. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The pilot and navigator’s cockpit was now ablaze; Masha and Galya’s clothes caught fire, and so did the long grass around the plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

So in a land which nature found suited to grass growing mixed with and under the shelter of sage, it is now proposed to eliminate the sage and create unbroken grassland. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Looking back to their bench, she saw that it had a new tenant, a man who had lain on the sodden grass. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

But have you ever really looked at grass? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And still some of them lived, flopping drunkenly across the grass until a wringer grabbed one by the neck and twisted and that was that. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He could blend with the land, changing form, becoming trees and grass. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Summer passed, erasing the last traces of wildflowers and green grass. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The grasses seeded and were harvested by the mice and the winds. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

With sticks the men laid the tall grass down. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shapes of dried blood in the stubble grass and gray coils of viscera where the slain had been field-dressed and hauled away. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When I zoomed in on the satellite image of the building, it looked like a black rectangle fronted by dull silver and then grass behind. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Listen for gunshots or raised voices but only the soft sigh of wind whispers through the grasses and bobs the heads of tiny flowers. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped where she was, in the open grassland, with the wind lashing her face and the cloud-shadows racing past her and the tall grasses whipping her thighs, and watched the canopy of the grove. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I scrubbed the grass off my shins, rinsed off at warp 9, then grabbed my borrowed towel and slunk out of the shower. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Hurt, John stood and brushed off his pants as if the grass spears were little annoying bits of Yo. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His laughter startled a flight of crows from the tall brown grass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were beautiful, like fine stone walls, with grass and moss growing over them. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, after a few months at Poky my steer will never have the opportunity to eat green grass again. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Bill sat down, opened up his bag, laid a big trout on the grass. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It’s coarse and damp, like he’s been rolling around in wet grass. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There was the aura of limitless freedom distilled from the rolling sweep of tall green grass swaying and glinting in the wind and sun. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pick me some fresh asparagus grass. These pests are a plague.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand in long grass and hear the river now for the first time. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They congregated in the grass, eating their sandwiches. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

June is only the beginning of the rainy season so the grass is still plump and green. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind ruffled their fur and tugged at the grass, which smelled of thyme and self-heal. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a divot in it, a crater where everyone dumped acorns, leaves, grass, those poison red berries if there were any. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He saw the sun on the frosted grass of the cloister. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly they came out of the shadow of the trees, and before them lay a wide space of grass, grey under the night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tied to a metal pipe in the bayou, surrounded by marsh grasses and lanky palm trees, the boat was the Farmers’ new home. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The windswept hills were barren except for rocks, grass and wildflowers - and, of course, a bunch of crumbling temples. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The ground rippled as the grass became folds of silk—the dress of a massive goddess. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And there was no grass at all, just dirt. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Past a deepblue beetle balanced on an unbending blade of grass. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had seen him and they were scattering between juniper trees, through tall yellow grass, below the mesas near the dripping spring. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Josh noticed a break between some trees that might have been a grass strip, but we couldn’t line up for it without any engine.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It is early morning on a Caribbean island, and African slaves—hundreds of them— are being sent out to the fields to pull weeds and burn the high, dry grass. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was dragged to the side of the road, hoisted like a sack of grain over a low hedge, and flung on my back in the grass. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The track was flanked on either side by knee-high grass and speckles of white and bright yellow flowers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

At the same time, grasses have evolved over millions of years to be eaten by cows. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The whole mass of them swayed side to side, like the tall grass around the kolba when the breeze swept across the clearing. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Turner skipped a rock down Parker Head, trying to keep it between the lines of grass. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her wispy hair was somewhere between brown and blond and gray, so it blended with the dry grass. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Wilcox'd grass me off, for sure, if the police got involved. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The grass was wet and thick near the stream and they made their way up the opposite slope, looking for drier ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A kiss of flesh-colored sunrise while I hung out the wash, a sigh of indigo birds exhaled from the grass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bridget let her eyes fall, like there was something incredibly interesting crawling around there in the grass. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He cringed before them in the grass as Hazel waited, stern and motionless, with Silver at his side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were saddened by the thought that these happy children of Goat would no longer be jumping up and down in the grass and singing their goat songs that they all so liked to hear. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

But beneath the starry sky, the field that stretches out below his tree is empty, as though nothing has ever occupied the space but grass and leaves and fog. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He caught a subdued hint of cut grass wafting from somewhere. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I focus on my arm, and my heart races when I see grass growing out of my flesh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man passed Gramps the pipe, and Gramps sat down on the grass, took two puffs and passed it to Gram. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Dicey pushed her way through the long grasses to the steps leading to the porch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steel points of pikes flamed red with sunlight, as if already blooded, while the pavilions of the knights and high lords sprouted from the grass like silken mushrooms. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I think of Hope Gardens, back in Bushwick, with its quads too, but with less green grass and cleanliness, and less of just about everything. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

If devilgrass could grow between the paving stones, other grasses would grow when the stones were gone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Someone down the road was burning grass clippings. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my grandmother remembered it, their land had been large enough in those days for real grass to grow in a pasture, enough to support one of the few cows in the island’s history. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lay facedown in pools of black blood that seeped into the grass, lit by a single streetlight. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We walked out across the wet grass and onto the stone wall of the fortifications. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

After granting him one final kiss, I dashed through the dewy grass back to the castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We walked through shaggy fields of prickly grasses until we found a clearer path toward the desert. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her feet were bare, and the cuffs of her pajama pants rose past her ankles as she sat in the grass, settling the book in her lap. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She leaned over to touch her toes, letting her legs hang over the blanket so as not to disturb any of her brother’s grass. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Try it,” he warned, “and I’ll set this whole field on fire. Stay dead. Stay away from us, or the grass gets it!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a clear section of grass. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They rolled cigarettes of dried grass in pages of the encyclopedia. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Weeds came from the grass where his body was. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dany pictured him riding toward her through the tall grass, smiling, his golden tooth gleaming with the last light of die setting sun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He slams on the brakes, startling the ibises that are digging for worms in the soggy grass. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, you don’t let no grass grow under your feet!” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My grass be kind a spotty and I still got a big yellow mark where Treelore’s pickup sat for three months after the accident. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And her new home had not a bush or a tree or a blade of grass. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was the rustling grass all night long. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Two piles of earth lay on the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there were huge bright yellow ones, twice as big, and torpid, so waxy and fat that they bowed down the grasses when they landed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There was no sloping hillside as there had been in Rook Hill; here the land was flat, and between the house and the trees was a meadow, the grasses golden and knee-high. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked the way the woman had watched Sammy roll naked in the grass. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But not hornbeam trees: these were tall palms, and they were growing, like the trees in Oxford, in a row along the grass. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The landing was soft as a whisper, the craft skimming over the tall grass until Soulzeren dropped the sail and they came at last to a halt. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was a snowdrop made of green glass and white glass, cunningly fashioned: it seemed as if it had been plucked from the meadow grass that very morning, and the dew was still upon it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It growled low down in its throat—rrrrrr! Its tail lashed the grass. I thought, That leopard could swallow my bundle of sticks and still have room for me.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sixth grader tumbles to the mat and has to join the spectators on the grass. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Choked themselves2— thrashed and turned sick, after all the trouble I had plucking their grass and cleaning their muck and not one egg. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Crossing the grass he felt half faint and he had to stop. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The bloodied stub lay on the grass with the barb still attached. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But that night they were back, filling the holes in the bark again and gluing grass to the barrier. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass was mostly dead, the dirt had gone from brown to gray, and the one tree that did still stand was bare and leaning like a creature over a small child’s nightmare bed. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The morning sky was clear blue, the grass damp and dew streaked. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her feet squished in damp grass as she crossed to the statue, thoughts of treasure chests in her head. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Helene looked out of the window halfway expecting to see a comfort station in the distance; instead she saw gray- green trees leaning over tangled grass. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a real big hole, with grass over the top like a huge eyebrow so nobody would ever have seen it from above. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Today, of course, much of the Sahara is so dry that it cannot support even grass. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were once more in the Wood between the Worlds; Uncle Andrew lay on the grass, still asleep; Aslan stood beside them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The slippery grass in the water sways back and forth to the rhythm of our movements, gently brushing against my legs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t move, just kept blinking at the wet grass. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We veered into a swampy area choked with marsh grass. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the grass banks above the lawns the gardener started his mowing machine. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the grass behind the hedge rested a large pie tin full of milk. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He beat down a square of tall grass and wild pink flowers, all without once ever looking at me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You did it yesterday!” cried Mrs. Frisby, remembering the figures toiling the wire through the grass, remembering how strangely disinterested Dragon had seemed when he saw her. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She picks a wish flower from the grass and blows it. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The tent smells of tar and kapok and brown paper with cheese grease on it, and crushed grass. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even the grass sticks up with its myriad blades. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crawled through the grass to the edge of the cliff and peered out. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Many of the trees had been cut, and the orchard now had stretches of cultivated grass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Presently a grass blade trembled and Miyax saw a young bird fluttering its wings as it begged to be fed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when it seemed that a crash was inevitable, he twisted his quad and swerved off the path, up into the grass. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I remembered the sunset earlier that day and how a squirrel scurried across the grass when I left for school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He suffered a good deal and was reduced to tearing at the stems of the long grasses for moisture. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blackbirds circled overhead, dipped into the grass somewhere. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

There's no grass, for one thing, and it isn’t dark enough for any of the flashing lights to seem quirky or romantic. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She gasped, then, in a hard intake of breath, and tumbled to the grass, where she lay with her face contorted, making small noises of pain. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

On Sundays After Mass, After the car Is washed And the lawn cut — blades Of grass standing up In salute — we go To the park. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Climbing, looking down, she thought of the soft green grass outside and the rolling hills and the rich trees. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every evening when I come home from work, I take a rag and wipe all the loose grass and dirt from the riding mower, and then I cover it with a big tarp. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, Joel moves his cattle in the evening because he knows that’s when the grass is sweetest. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Half of the tiny yard was a cement patio and the other half was another patch of grass that our imaginary cow would devour in two bites. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

A few yards to her left, an outcropping of rock the size of a garage jutted from the sea of grass. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If I stood still for a moment in the backyard between hanging up sheets to notice the damp grass tingling under my bare feet, His eyes observed my idleness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was only a little boy, ten years old, with hair like dusty yellow grass and with shy polite gray eyes, and with a mouth that worked when he thought. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger picked up his juggling balls and put them back in his bag, which was standing open on the grass behind him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the old days around here, though, people had smoked grass much as they drank tea or chokecherry wine. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we ate, I felt the dampness from the grass seep through the seat of my light blue pants, the ones Audrey had helped me pick out when we’d gone shopping. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

On the other was a dirt and gravel road that led through an open field, treeless, with high yellow grass. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tripping and lifting out Olakunde and the sack of muskets, we floundered through the water to the grass, captives again of the grosser elements. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A lightness entered into his body as more small cyclones of increasingly icy wind rippled across the lake and through the luxuriant summer grasses. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings were solemn and orderly with little plots of grass around them. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old trees in the orchard are in flower, white and pink; we climb up into them, breathing in their hand lotion smells, or we sit in the grass making chains of dandelions. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma hunkered in the grass with a butcher knife to carve it into cakes. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So what now?” she says, and I swear I hear our grass crunching beneath her feet, Libby walking out her worries so that I don’t have to. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I much preferred being outside in nature, being able to see grass and trees, to observe birds flitting overhead, to feel the wind blowing in from the sea. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out the corner of my eye, I saw a shadowy shape ooze from what was left of the broken bottle on the ground and creep along the grass. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Of such trivialities are moments made; and hours built; and years constructed; and ruins, finally, remain, with ornaments half-seen beneath the grasses. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The thin grass between their feet glowed with rays of the slanting sun. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Plodding up the hill through the mud and beaten-down grasses, he slammed his bare feet down hard. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see it in the grass; it looked like my sister was chasing a ghost. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Its rotor was broken, the grass blackened all around it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I sat in the grass and listened to a cricket chirp nearby, totally at peace. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

His very name meant “killer grass” because he was able to disguise himself as a cluster of reeds in the fields, allowing him to ambush his prey. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The earth was carpeted with a silky layer of dried grass and cotton stalks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isabella and I find a spot on the pokey grass, and just as I’m rearranging my beret for the millionth time, I see Julia. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

On the way to the barn, Jody noticed how the young grass was up and how the stubble was melting day by day into the new green crop of volunteer. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also plucks up handfuls of brown grass. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Looking out over the great plain, far away the riders saw it for a moment like a red fire sinking into the grass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Some are on the hills to the south, digging holes. I think they know we have them surrounded. Our men are all around. Some are trying to get in closer by crawling in the grass.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Their movement was disturbing, unlike that of trees or grass or rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss nodded his head and the six of them sat down in the yellowed, dying grass of the courtyard. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head and picks at the grass. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I can see perfectly well,” said Boo, picking his way carefully through the grass. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Harry’s ribs ached, he felt lightheaded with hunger, but he lay back on the grass beneath the reddening sky and laughed until his throat was raw. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The grass did grow and the green leaves appeared on the trees and filled the avenues with shadow and shade as sure as the millionaires descended from the North on Founders' Day each spring. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Joel, it was all one biological system, the trees and the grasses and the animals, the wild and the domestic. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

While she gathered plants, he watched the cattle grazing in the tall yellow rice grass that grew above the arroyo just to the edge of the juniper trees. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But at Polyface, it was understood that the trees helped the grass to grow and the forest fed the farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

People have got it into their heads, through the cinema and the comic advertisements, that knights in armour generally wore ostrich plumes, nodding like stalks of pampas grass. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cool, gentle breeze blew boiling small clouds of dust as my mother, Maria slung loosely about her back, swept the stoop with a grass broom. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he sat in the grass and listened to the purling stream, the barriers set up in his mind by the stern day went down to ruin. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We just couldn’t feed them as hard. Hell, if you gave them lots of grass and space, I wouldn’t have a job.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He watched her bounce up in mock alarm and then tumble kicking into the grass. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was lying on the grass near a picnic table, gazing up at the stars blinking to life. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The tall buildings had shrunk down into trees and long ribbons of wild, dying grass. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The scent of tobacco drifted across the grass and I breathed it in, reminded of my father. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Although he was two years older she had grown faster than him, and in the summer-time they used to wrestle and fight out on the plot of grass by the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before he had time to think again, he pushed himself off into a sprint, recklessly streaking across the grass. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dew soaked my boxers, grass stained my palms. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Here, Dicey took out her map again: Route 50—a four lane highway with a grass divider. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top some mottled-red boulders provided shelter from wind, and between the rocks grew more thick brown grass. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cattle grazed in thick grass that rippled about their legs, and goats with fat udders wandered with clanking iron bells tied about their necks. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, he heard something tear through the grass. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

This one had not bloomed and its flat spread of leaves was almost hidden under the long grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars were still out and the grass was terribly cold and wet, but daybreak was just beginning, far to their right across the sea. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

They had smelled the horse and rider and were looking up at the ridge; his motion sent them running, with grass still hanging from wet lips. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

More commonly, the dryness comes back and the fuzz of grass withers or a little frost curls it and there’s that amount of seed wasted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fire cleared away trees and shrubs, allowing wheat and other grasses to monopolise the sunlight, water and nutrients. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman who used to go out to cut grass for thatching once came across a place where there was a great deal of grass. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Cora and Caesar sprinted through the wild grass, exposed for the first time since the swamp. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then he closed his eyes, and curled into a ball on the grass, and drifted into a dreamless sleep. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

And the glass in the photograph frame broke when it fell onto the grass. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He took a step back and knelt and parted the grass with his hands. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He saw the wildflowers in the heavy grass, and he saw the red cows against the hillsides, moving up the easy ascending paths and eating as they went. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We cut down forests and plowed up the prairies to make room for the giant seed-bearing grasses. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Once out of sight, they sat on the grass to eat, breaking pieces of apple pie off with their fingers and licking all the sticky sauce before seizing another portion. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A clump of grass poked out from a crack in the sidewalk. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

With my hands I parted the rustling grasses and cupped the dying flowers’ heads gently, saying farewell to all that I touched. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She counted every blade of grass in the back yard and every leaf on a certain bush. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Finn sniffed a sleeve, and there it was: Mom’s unique odor, a mix of vanilla and Spring Breeze laundry detergent, with maybe some cinnamon and grass stain lurking underneath. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I drew a deep breath and smelled the smell of her hair, warm with the sun, the smell of green grass and her clean sweat and her breath and apples. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A lemming burst out of the grass near her foot and she spun around to look for its nest and young. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were whispering to each other; it sounded like a breeze in the grass, but the birdsong was louder by far. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I went outside, found a secluded spot under a tree, sat in the grass, and read my science book. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

All flesh is grass, I corrected her in my head. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he let himself rest, he set about collecting wood, and soon came across a circle of charred stones in the grass, where someone else had made a fire long before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She would naturally have lifted her skirts free of the uncut grass, but a new self-consciousness restrained her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A flock of starlings passed overhead, chattering and whistling, and a liquid dropping fell into the grass among the little group, but none moved or startled. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chas stood in front of the small circle in the grass and crouched in a hitting position, just staring at me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was a ditch, overgrown with thick grass and weeds. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

A woman stood under the persimmon tree, clad in a hooded robe that brushed the grass. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mud, sticks, leaves, and grass are our construction materials. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had fallen on its right side with its forelegs tucked under its belly; the hind legs were curled under to the left as if it were still sleeping in the grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem to notice Dalgard—he was staring at the grass. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa parked the Wildcat and we walked toward the field of grass the young MP had pointed out. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And then she stood on a little island of grass, too scared to move another step. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped to provide visitors with a banquet of glimpses—the undersides of leaves sparkling with reflected light; flashes of brilliant color between fronds of tall grass waving in the breeze. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She leaped clear of the grass, bit through the rat’s neck, then dropped it to the ground. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Their boots were deadened of all sound in the thick green grass. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming out into the grass near the lane, they found the darkness behind the headlights full of the fumes of exhaust—a hostile, choking smell that added to their confusion. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rained during the night and into the early hours of Saturday morning, leaving behind wet grass and sharp, gusty winds. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A young man in a beret and military fatigues knelt on one knee in the grass, holding a Russian assault rifle, watching us with mild interest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the tree and grass cover removed, erosion proceeded and valleys silted up, while irrigation agriculture in the low-rainfall environment led to salt accumulation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sun disappeared behind one of them, and its shadow fell across the green grass like an ugly mark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Feet and butter...and, and grass,” Jeanne said, chewing, chewing, chewing. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The soles of his boots hit brown grass behind the Palmer Events Center like he’s coming down from a much greater altitude than the back seat of a limo. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Like a footprint in springy grass, the hole would soon disappear entirely. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The meadow grasses, which just a moment ago had brushed his shoulders, now seemed flattened to a broad green bowl. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The boys would cut the grass and rake the leaves. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass is littered with tennis racquets and drink bottles, food wrappers and beach towels. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The horses dropped their heads, spread their legs a little, and tore ravenously at the green shoots of grass. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re like Seurat’s orange dots hidden in the bright green grass, the ones you don’t even see unless you know to look for them. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Naomi ran into the field behind him, hands held out into the high grasses. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cico reached into a clump of grass and brought out a long, thin salt cedar branch with a spear at the end. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They watched them step off the road and onto the wet grass, slipping and tumbling over each other. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Dany wedged herself into that comer, making a nest of sorts by tearing up handfuls of the grass that grew around the ruins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But then the third golden sphere flashed across her path and rolled far into the grass beside the course. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day we sat on the grass after lunch, listening to the wind snap the sheets Rosaleen had hung on the clothesline. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hopped to a higher blade of grass, preened, and sang its morning song. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot wind whined in the black tossing grasses on the hill. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

On rainy evenings, when a student woke up in the middle of the night, no one wanted to trudge through the grass and mud to the outhouse. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did they feel a phantom wind blowing tall grass against their legs? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The level ground was completely covered with the finest grass. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The bread was rather hard so they dipped it in the oil, ate in silence sitting side by side on the grass, and then went on. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then, with reluctance: "I want to get the grass cut," he said. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

All morning you could hear the rattle of the machine as it went round and round, while the tall grass fell down behind the cutter bar in long green swathes. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

My words land on my feet and slip off to the grass. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

On an impulse, Hazel hopped down the bank and went a little way into the open grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they sat in the yellowing grass to rest for a minute. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Meliton Naranjo was sitting in the doorway of the chopper, desultorily hunched over, smoking a cigarette; the pilot had stretched out on the grass nearby. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up, rivulets of water pooling at his feet, a colossal grass stain up the side of his suit. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

So, sometimes, especially when there were good spring rains, before practice we would be out there cutting the tall grass with a scythe. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The breeze, still cool, carried the morning scent of prairie grasses and moist soil. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Morning found Shadow back on the road, driving through a gently undulating brown landscape of winter grass and leafless trees. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Staring down the hill at the dancing grass beneath them, there was a flickering shimmer in the air. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We think of grass as soft and friendly stuff, but once it’s been dried in the sun and shredded by machines, it becomes hay. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Not so much as a stray piece of grass decorated the cutting blade, and the garage smelled not of death but of soap and Armor All. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I found Luke in a tub, alone, rather than on the grass. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Already clumps of couch grass are beginning to thrust up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scrub grass and thorny bushes covered its lower slopes; higher up a jagged tangle of bare rock thrust steep and sudden into the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And because they were still hungry and didn’t want to waste food, they picked the hot dogs off the grass and ate them right before a flock of seagulls usurped them. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Together, we draped Grover’s arms over our shoulders and started stumbling uphill through wet waist-high grass. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He says letters to him are like bugs and grass waving in the wind. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The shadows were really long on the grass, and the clouds were pink and orange. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I tear the blades of grass out of the gutter and stand up to leave. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting in the exact spot where I had all the costumes laid out on the grass the other day. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The grain in wild grasses develops near the top of the stem. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They lay down in the back verandah on a grass mat with an inflatable goose and a Qantas koala bear. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women wailed around bodies lying thick on the grass. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then, with lumbering grace, she moves on through the grass. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I looked over my shoulder at the choppers as they landed, blowing away the loose grass and debris on the ground. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us ran through the back of the barn and into the waist- high grass, and lay down. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She loved the sooty sparrows and thought that the very grass that grew in the lots was beautiful. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass was wet and my sneakers quickly got soaked through; so did the bottoms of my blue jeans, so I rolled them up to my knees. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The tramped grass was bathed in blood, as were the pen’s weathered posts and the stiff white bodies of the sheep themselves, flung about in attitudes of sheepish agony. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The wind had torn away the grass shelter, and she was exposed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took another bite of corn dog and stared at the patch of dead grass under my feet, chewing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

For a few moments, he was a small figure in a khaki uniform and high black boots, alone in the great expanse of grass. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was as if she could hear the trees breathing—the trees, the grass, the night itself. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Jack rose from the log that was his throne and sauntered to the edge of the grass. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Tim leads me out into the backyard, which kind of looks like a golf course where somebody trimmed every blade of grass with scissors. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

All sitting around a blanket my parents had spread out over the grass, eating whatever it was my dad was grilling. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I went on chewing my piece of grass. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He trotted her west, across the grassy flat toward the cerros, gently rounded hills of dark lava rock which were covered with a thin crust of topsoil and grass, edged with thickets of scrub oak. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It landed right next to me on the grass. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of wet grass, smoke, and grilled meat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When one of us fell off the board, we would roll in the sweet-smelling grass, and one of the pigs would come over to investigate where the kukuing was coming from. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

No low bush or grass could grow in that dim light, so the ground was carpeted with golden needles. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some are cooking breakfast, others are just waking up, and many are still asleep on the side of the road or in the grass. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were on the steps and he stuck his feet down into the high grass right next to mine. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We made our march into the field of elephant grass, tramped upon the big hill rising. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it—waterstained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling, when you reach it, of abandonment. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The amount of time it takes grass to recover is constantly changing too. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It bounded away through the high, dry grass, and she could hear the nasal bleats of greeting from its flock. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They stopped long enough to issue threats from where they stood on the grass surrounding the basketball courts. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It grew smaller and smaller until it seemed nothing more than a blade of grass. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

One morning, she sat up from the bed of grass in the boat and found the river deserted. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the breeze would rise up from the bay, cool and salty, passing over the grass. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass below my feet becomes black pavement and little stands line the winding road ahead. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was wearing an old tweed jacket with sprung elbows, and there were grass stains on the knees of his trousers; khaki gaiters were laced over his mud-caked shoes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then he woke as if from a dream, wheeled his mount about, and raced off through the tall grass at a gallop. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She poked holes in a calabash and padded it with dry grass to make a sieve, because unfiltered mutsangidza ashes were slightly poisonous. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pony’s tracks were plain enough, dragging through the frostlike dew on the young grass, tired tracks with little lines between them where the hoofs had dragged. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some would sleep while the shelling, futile, echoed along the summer roads; some would wind stalks of grass around their fingers; some would mutter to friends. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Inside that tank lives a type of bacteria that dines on grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She went down backward, steadying herself on clumps of grass, and at the bottom paused only to wipe her hands on her dress. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We plow through the dry grass and leap over the flowers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Lying in the tall grass under the willows, I watched the sun rise. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

After all, Auntie Aggie had sent me away from Rose Hill so that I could see the whole big world, and that meant something besides the grass of Miss Preston’s. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The storm clouds returned the grass and plants started growing again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A plank of wood hung from two thick lengths of rope, with a stretch of bare dirt below, where years of feet had worn away the grass. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I pleaded with God not to let all the wild green bushes and grass surrounding me bring up my asthma and allergies. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As I say, the craze really took off that summer, and during the lunch breaks you’d see all these clusters of students lying about the grass around the Walkmans. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman in a pink striped frock and a hair-net came across the grass towards us. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra laid them one by one on the grass, and then they were through, and moving among the bushes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He emerged in a clearing of burned grass and found himself face-to-face with a basilisk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was a ragged strip of grass bordering the street, and as Jake walked along the ground seemed to rise nearer to his face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he heard the grass rustle on either side of him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Or for me to have taken off my shirt, to have let the sun burn dark on my skin, and to have run barefoot on the warm wet grass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cabin with a gate and green grass in the yard is almost a big house, the boy thought as he followed the man. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was halfway across the meadow, stomping down the grasses in frustration, when she saw the buck standing at the edge of the trees. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dragon pulled himself backward along the grass, letting the yellow fluid flow in a long, viscous trail. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Blueprints rustled on the raven grass at their feet. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a strong breeze at the top of the hill, and I remember being surprised by it because I hadn’t noticed it down on the grass. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first rays of morning light lit the grasses. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hidden in the grass and underbrush, they breathed quietly and opened their ears to catch the lower tones of the men’s voices. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Now we are crossing the grass between the sidewalk and the street. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The others he nailed into the grave’s damp red-clay walls while both of us lay on the grass, me holding a croker sack blanket and a long nail, him propped on his left elbow, hammering. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The littles had finished their burgers and were doing cartwheels on the grass. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She lay back on the grass and turned her face in the direction of the music. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Chunks of brick littered the grass in front of her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only the still trees and the grass and the unmoving little patch of sea remained. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Above the long grass in front of the woods the Sparra warrior could be seen. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Most of the snow had melted and the hills in the north were already dotted with patches of green grass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was still covered in grass and I hadn’t actually washed my hair. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I saw the flag flapping, and the sun slanting on the broad grass. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otto was on my back, but to protect Songololo’s feet, I swung her over the sprays of glass shards that swirled through the grass. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the brilliant white bonnets were as thick as grass, driving every other color from the landscape. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Holly, gaunt, his staring pelt full of goose grass and fragments of burdock, was talking with the three hutch rabbits and reassuring them as best he could. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was nervous, and I went to check behind the barn one more time, and something moved in the grass. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

A day like that you can feel summer in the air, and the smell of cut grass, and the sting of salt from the harbor. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard my uncle, I leaped from my grass mat and hurried to her. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were marched across the plaza, down a walkway, and finally over a patch of grass. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She took off her straw sandals and felt the cool grass on her feet. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She bent down and held one of her palms above the grass. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Instead, the typical illustration portrays a happy family scene, father and son smilingly preparing to apply the chemical to the lawn, small children tumbling over the grass with a dog. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The smell of gas and cut grass tangled in the air. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It looked like a blurry part of the ground, like a puff of fir needles and leaves and grass blades. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Quickly, I left Mama and went to stand in the light of the burning bear grass. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, as my feet crunched the ichu grass, my mind went back to the twisting trail and the man who followed it to fulfill his right and true path. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He picked a spear of grass and set it between his teeth and stared up the hill to the sky. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He rinsed them in the floodwater and noticed that the canoe wasn’t floating anymore, but resting on the grass beneath. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Just as we were drifting off, I heard footsteps in the grass nearby, and opened my eyes to see no one at all. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Wisps of grass stuck to her toes and her calves and the hem of her skirt. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I spotted Hamlet and Horatio reclining in the shade of a great bush, while their horses grazed on sweet grass nearby. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I had just finished the second yard of the second day, and I was already a little sick of the sight of grass, grass, grass. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

No surprise that he once, drunk as anything, rode a horse across the grass while we were having classes, trampling blankets and books and sending everyone scrambling to get out of his way. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Someone practical like Perilee might tell me it was only the buffalo grass, warmed to sweetness by the spring sun. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They helped the grass, and the grass in turn fed the animals they hunted. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I bolted outside and down the crumbling brick steps into the grass, screaming, “Wait! Stop!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But the field had no grass, was little more than a rectangle of dirt and stones. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Gold was piled on the biers of dead kings and queens; and mounds covered them, and the stone doors were shut; and the grass grew over all. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The school was a different world from Jefferson, with a leafy campus straight from a movie: The main building looked like a castle, surrounded by a sprawling lawn of freshly cut grass. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stop thinking about the tiny birds strewn in the grass. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

All the grass had gone brown, long ago, but he was looking at the roots. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two goats and a few chickens sauntered around, nibbling and pecking at drying stems of grass. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He smiles down at me, thru that beard of his, smiles down at me in the grass. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of dewy grass, damp soil, sweat, and death. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She carefully got to her feet and saw that high above the shore, the land was bursting with trees and grasses and flowers. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She narrowed her eyes and glared at her family sitting on the grass in a large field. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Low rainfall ruined this year’s crops, and there have been food shortages. Many people have resorted to eating grass. Grass! Can you imagine?” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The ground turns into grass beneath my feet, and hands clamp around my arms, over my mouth. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

When a cow eats grass, it doesn’t kill the plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Whitworth begins to vomit on the grass, which stinks in the heat and has been torn to bits by cleats and the crash of helmets and the endless screams of the fans. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I often went out into the yard after dark and lay down on the grass and looked up into the sky, hoping to catch a glimpse of a satellite going over. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She waited on while Sam kicked through the weeds and grasses, still covered with snow. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They climbed the bank and looked out cautiously from the long grass at the verge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It still had the twigs and grass in it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t stop staring at her knees—the way the skirt of her dress drapes over them, fanning gently across the grass. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t escaped her notice either that she had been the one awakened to cut grass. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, between train rides, Enrique prefers to sleep alone in a tall clump of grass, away from other migrants, knowing it will make him less of a target. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he stooped and bent low with his face almost in the grass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At that moment, while he lay there on the grass with the dog circling warily and the pack moving slowly toward him, without knowing that I did so, I fitted an arrow to the bow. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

People ran about across the grass, blankets were brought, Mr Hooper raced off in a car and came back with another man, a white ambulance arrived. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She could hear rough voices from the woven grass palace on the hill. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Tally somersaulted in the air, turning headfirst for a few terrifying moments, her face passing low enough to spot a discarded bottle cap in the grass. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

At the bottom they stepped on to grass, and the hearts of the hobbits rose. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He turned over on the grass so that he was staring directly at the moon up in the sky. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Lying in the grass together at the North Meadow in Central Park, trying to find faces in the clouds. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed on all fours for a minute, then turned over and sat on the grass, resting his arms on his knees and letting his head hang like he was exhausted. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Cole stretched his arm out, picked a small chunk of fish from the grass, and brought it to his mouth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Bigwig could hear a worm moving in the earth nearby and faintly down the tunnel came the sound of some small creature pattering through the grass outside. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s where a group of portable chicken pens sat on the grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His companion had begun to shudder, his hairy fingers raking and stroking the green grass. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

We sat, Gus in his chair and me on the damp grass, as near to Funky Bones as we could get him in the chair. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She’s still brushing the grass from her shorts when I remember the other two kids even exist—once they were gone I was able to focus completely on Sophie. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Now a rosebush has been planted over the neat grass. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She tried to burrow back beneath the pile of grass she had tom up when she went to sleep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The candlelight illuminated the world: every tree and bush and blade of grass. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He also learned to use the stems of foxtail grass to spear grasshoppers, longheaded locusts, and dragonflies, which he roasted over a fire in late summer and autumn. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

His fingers flicker, like blades of grass shivered by wind. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a stretch of grass in a place where the palms left a wide band of turf between the forest and the snore. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her house was crushed in and her sleeping skins were torn and strewn over the grass. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truck crushes dying grass and snow beneath its tires, and soon the ground turns to the pavement in the Abnegation sector, and I barely feel the passage of time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The winter chill has swept away the fall leaves, and the grass beneath them is frozen. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

If you then send a message that says “Water the grass,” it means “Hide the money.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When she wrestles to get free, he knocks her onto the grass and pins her there, trying to force her ring back on her finger, alternately murmuring entreaties and spitting threats. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

One snowy heron soared down, folding its wings in at the last minute, returning to its nest deep in the marsh grass. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shaking went down the tree, then it came out and we watched it go away across the grass. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no grass, but deep carpets of green lichen stretched out like meadows. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Then he walked off and was soon obscured by the tall grass that grew in that part. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The wind went like grey waves through the endless miles of grass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His gaze wandered to the ripped-up grass under the splintered branches and crushed boughs. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Jam had her head on his shoulder, and Redemption smelled like cut grass and salt and himself. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Blood spilled over the grass and into the dirt; it splashed on his boots. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Along-side the procession, slaves ran lightly through the grass with torches in their hands, and the flickering flames made the great monuments seem almost alive. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They shrieked with laughter and rolled over and over on the grass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The expanse of water was clear ahead of them, and the only sound was its rush against the grass and the bushes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Nhamo lay back on the springy grass with a sigh of satisfaction. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They clambered up the grass, they clutched at each other, little ones rode on big ones. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the world was green grass and blue sky and shoulders hot with sunshine. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She tied the grass shelter more firmly to the trees and crept as far inside as she could manage. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sculpture of a guy’s head sits right in the middle of the grass, and when Isabella and I go over to look, I see that of course it is Ralph Waldo Emerson. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Now that the backpack was lying in the grass, I had a sudden urge to run outside and grab it. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As we walked across the dirt, tufted with dark green grass, Doc lifted his straw hat and wiped his brow with his fingertip towel. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now, I saw the damp lying on the bare hedges and spare grass, like a coarser sort of spiders’ webs; hanging itself from twig to twig and blade to blade. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It moved its tail without lifting it, two inthes sideways in the grass. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny buds stood on the heads of blades of grass all over the fields. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The park is all dead grass, and puddles of mud. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Money? Do you see any money? The goats are in a patch of grass over the dune somewhere. The people sleep right here. They eat right here. Their lives are extremely simple.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Felicia looks down at the trail of moist trampled grasses. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the air smells summery, of mown grass and warm tar, and from somewhere high in the trees I hear a woodpecker rapping. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought it over as he hopped down the bank and sniffed out a patch of salad burnet in the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the wet moss and crushed grass near his hand was beautiful. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Bridget reached in and pulled a blade of grass from his forehead. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Where the grass is cut with a scythe, where rooster combs and sunflowers grow in the yards, and pots of bleeding heart, ivy, and mother-in-law tongue line the steps and windowsills. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

His gaze reached a flat summit covered in grass. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She nodded, then turned and ran away silently over the grass. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lay on the grass and gave herself up to weeping. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hard grass crunched under our feet as we walked and the wind squealed, tearing holes through the air. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It went on tearing up the grass and took no notice of him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Squirrels and Carolina wrens hopped as close as they dared and drank from the puddles, and you could almost see the blades of brown grass lift themselves up and turn green. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the morning we’d had, filling my belly with papaya and sitting in the grass and staring at nothing sounded fine. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You will never, as long as the grass is green and the sky is blue, make me look like a fool in front of strangers!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held out his hand to help her up, but she got to her feet without his assistance, brushed the grass from her knees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then I cover the rest and replace the patch of long grass and dandelions. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Where the grass gave way to the woods, I found a stone wall crudely cemented together, not even knee high but nearly fifty yards long. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she disappeared into the thick grass that grew there, they all laughed. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The wind was blowing harder, and the mare’s long tail streamed around them like tall dune grass; the corral gate bumped back and forth in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he would pick his way with extreme distaste through the wet grass and undergrowth, taking a long time, and stopping often to shake his paws. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Most of these he made into a pile that glistened and sparkled on the grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“If God don’t think no mo’ ’bout ’em then Ah do, they’s a lost ball in de high grass.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Slowly I ease myself onto all fours, but standing seems like too much, and finally I let Ollie help me sit back down on a patch of frozen grass. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The form of the angel seemed to condense and swirl into a little vortex in midair, and then a blackbird swooped down onto the grass at Will’s feet. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her feeling was green, like grass, like a seed coming up through dirt, sprouting and growing toward the sun. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Malcolm shouted to Alice, and scrambled over to seize the painter of the canoe and drag it down over the grass to the water’s edge. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The flame rose and licked the grass and we all moved forward, chasing the line of brightness ahead of us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The edge of the woods was a few hundred yards away, up a slope of grass that was horribly exposed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Riley sprinkled a little hill of gray powder in the grass. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dany found eight before the sun went down, but there might have been more farther out, hidden in the grass. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For a moment the trilling water and the grass and the sunshine came back, and then... The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they had eaten and drunk, sitting upon the grass, Celeborn spoke to them again of their journey, and lifting his hand he pointed south to the woods beyond the Tongue. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I remembered them singing as I lay in tall grass that smelled like carrots. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Big cats would ripple across the street to disappear in the tall grass. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

To rinse the clothes, you’d repeat the process without soap, then let the water drain into the yard to help the grass grow. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The vast trunk, supported in the grove by its torn-up roots and out on the grass by the mass of branches, was high above their heads. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I stand in a field of dry grass that comes up to my waist. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They sleep in trees, in tall grass, or in beds made of leaves. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It felt as though his feet were glued to the grass, which had now become the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Soon the golden mountain slopes were covered with lush green grass. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

I see us at the Commons, the memory so vivid I can still smell the freshly mowed grass. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

So I reached up and picked one of those peaches, and I laid myself down on the grass and bit into it, and...and there I was. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They held a conference in the long grass by the side of the road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! Yes, very nice place. Very far. In the country. Lots of cows and grass. Up, up, up 78 West.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I guess I have to, thought Matt, turning to look one last time at the quiet meadow, the white plumes of bear grass, and the black-throated sparrows flitting through the trees. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was coming over the ridge now, glaring on the whitewash of the houses and barns, making the wet grass blaze softly. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got off the ground okay, but then fell over sideways so his backpack dragged through the grass. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny watched him jump in the grass a moment, then turned and reached for the next bit of rock above her head. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I think about how I read them, lying on my front in the grass on warm afternoons, my hair—which I was growing long then—always falling across my vision. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass of the Dothraki sea was not meant for sheep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dried grasses rustled as a wind gusted down the barren slope, raising several strands of Kaede’s hair. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The waving stems scatter papery white moths, who go down again to hide in the dark grasses. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Headlights cut through the night, tangling in the trees closest to the yard, as several cars pulled into the grass, the rowdy sounds of men echoing through the still night. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“These,” I opined, “are not rushes, sir. They are grasses.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The smells of grass and snow cut through the fetid breath of the tunnel. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It rested near some tall grass, completely untouched by the flames. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Her bloodriders would sooner have returned to their great grass sea, even if it meant braving the red waste again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mixed in with the sugars are important minerals the grasses have drawn up from the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Searching became harder, for in the wet the insects burrowed into the deep grass and had to be scratched out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed with this memory, taking in the scent of rain and grass, feeling the light breeze, until her partner reached the van, his rifle up and ready to fire. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mom reaches over, but I scoot down the couch, out of reach. at I pick up a lime-colored pencil and swish a tiny blade of grass on my page. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were maples and oaks to the west, and a hemlock forest to the right that pulled me right across the sweet grasses, into it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits ran about for a while on the grass, as he told them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Moody held his breath, afraid the camera might slip from her hands onto her daughter’s trusting upturned face, that she might tumble over the sill herself and come crashing down into the grass. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were in New York City, sitting together in the grass. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Like right now: We have the grass under our feet and Fluffernutter’s wagging stump and the spinning and the laughter and the sky growing dark above our heads. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She lay on the soggy grass bed and went over all she had heard about njuzu. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a few minutes later, she marched through a cluster of chickens hunting bugs in the grass. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

With a sigh and a groan he sat down on the grass alongside his Abbot who greeted him courteously. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At the same instant each girl heard footsteps in the grass. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm felt a little affronted on behalf of La Belle Sauvage and said nothing as he turned her over and let her slip silently down the grass and onto the water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I noticed that for quite some time the countryside had been buzzing with the sound of insects and the crackling of grass. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Rabbits not eat birds. Rabbits eat grass. We help you.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them on the grass the headless and paunched body of a sow lay where they had dropped it. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

As it came closer it moved past the other greystone that lay in the grass, and I realized my eyes weren’t playing tricks on me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The stone was shaped like a beetle, flat enough to be concealed by the grass but bulky enough to catch a toe if you hit it the right way. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A gentle breeze carried the smell of spring turned to summer—fresh-cut grass, the ocean, and wildflowers newly bloomed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I walk slowly here, in and out through patches of sunlight like empty mansion rooms, methodically listening to each footstep press the grass. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We walk around the back of the building and find four locked steel doors and nothing but ranch land, patches of palmettos dotting an expanse of gold-green grass. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bongo plucked out a piece of new grass and tossed it aside. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Monet stood on the grass at the stroke of midnight and looked at the stars— neck bent backward, unsteady on his feet from the champagne. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was silence and then, quite clearly, he heard Fiver speaking in the long grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She built the cook fire back up with dried dune grass, then added fresh wood in a rough pyramid shape. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the very last gray of the day, he could see Alice stumbling across the grass in great haste, carrying Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He’ll go look to see if the grass is good and for signs of predators or people who may want to steal the cattle. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass in Miss Celia’s yard is still a full-blown green. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I turn away, looking out of the window, where I see rolling hills of freshly mowed grass. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A small trace of blood flows from Marv to the grass. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

By the time the Ngoni reached the hill, the Chewa warriors had disguised themselves as green grass and slayed the intruders with knives and spears. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Put your seat belt on,” he hollered over the engine noise, and then he hit the throttle and the J-3 bop- hopped forward and we went speeding across the green outfield grass. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Tidings raked around the magnolia trees by the front parking lot—he didn’t like leaves bothering his grass. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Abbot Mortimer sat in the grass of the Abbey cloisters. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He bent down and plucked a shell from the grass, then put the open end of the shell to his throat and hummed low and long. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Harry got toast, coconut, baked bean, strawberry, curry, grass, coffee, sardine, and was even brave enough to nibble the end off a funny gray one Ron wouldn’t touch, which turned out to be pepper. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She sat there now, on dry, warm grass. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The grass beneath him was brown and dry. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And there was the patter of okapi feet and the murmur of a fresh jungle rain, like other hoofs, falling upon the summer-starched grass. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the rabbits went to sleep in the long grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed wickedly and threw the snakes into the tall grass on the hillside. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I walked a few steps closer and then sat down, right in the wet grass, to stare. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A breeze moved the grass and leaves; sand blew against my face. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It stuck in die mind like one of those spiny sticker burrs they had in the South, in Florida, small hooked seeds that lurk in the grass. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a little clearing in the middle of the grove, which was floored with soft grass and moss-covered rocks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They made a tight bark container, like a big makuk, and lined that container with bunches of dried grass. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A rider had come over the crest of the hill, was loping down through the tall grass among the boulders. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It consisted of no more than a few hundred people who lived in huts, which were beehive-shaped structures of mud walls, with a wooden pole in the center holding up a peaked, grass roof. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The freeway slipped past them: browning grass meadows on each side of them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Squeezing bamboo needles up every kid's fingernails, one by one, till someone grassed on the kid who done it.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It looked like a tremendous silver ball lying there in the grass, silent, mysterious, and wonderful. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I cut across the grass to the side of the building. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Her hair matches the color of the dry grass, and she is stout as a bale of hay. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I think this: All of us need to check every mound of grass and make sure none of those is Calvin. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The vast plain was hairy with dead grasses. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The giant slaves swept their scythes through the meadow grass and gasped and exclaimed with pleasure. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The scene could have been painted in watercolors, so pale was the green of the grass, so subdued was the blue of the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snowdrifts covered the stretches of grass that I had walked every day of my life, the mounds of garden earth that I had turned with my bare hands. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loading her rucksack again, she made her way down onto the coarse, rich grass of the prairie, aiming for the nearest stand of trees, four or five miles away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Its head jerked sharp, the teeth sank, Loo shrieked again and shook his leg violently, so that the snake flew off, like a rope tossed into the grass. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She went barefoot, avoiding barnacles, picking her way along the flats with the tide drawn out and the salt chuck grass sleek against the mud in sun-dried fans. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When she turned her head to look for him, all she saw was trickling brown water ... and the grass, still moving slightly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He landed flat on his back in the grass. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing I noticed was that there was no grass. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could pole a skiff quickly and quietly, and nearsighted as he was he could spy a crab by just a tip of the claw through grass and muck. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, they made their way across the muddy grass. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Clarence had sat beside me in a spot where the grass was soft. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Slowly, like a dancer dropping into a curtsy that keeps going all the way to the ground, Azareen sank down onto the grass. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A wizard had just Apparated at their fireside, and he could not have made more of a contrast with Ludo Bagman, sprawled on the grass in his old Wasp robes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The wet path in the dry grass gleamed in the dark. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Schist,” said an angry voice from the grass. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It contained a large room where many girls slept two by two on grass mats upon the floor. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walk out of the stadium to the grass where my classmates are milling about, wondering which way to start the next big walk into our futures, I think about Samantha. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nearest animal looked up incuriously and then turned back to the grass. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Will remembered his own absolute certainty, on seeing the patch of grass through the window in the air, that it wasn’t in his world, and he nodded. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bend down and run my fingers through the grass. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I could see a cat lying in the shade of our wall, and beyond was the grass of our back lawn and the ailanthus tree with the sun on its leaves. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

And it was so big, Meggie felt sure everything around it would go up in flames: the grass, the deck chair, and Dustfinger himself. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Two steps down and her feet are covered in grass and dew. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

On the other side the meads had become rolling downs of withered grass amidst a land of fen and tussock. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We went to a pickup zone that was different from where we had landed and squatted in the knee-high grass. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Planted along the grass at the road’s edge were two lines of hornbeam trees, odd-looking things with perfectly symmetrical close-leafed crowns, more like children’s drawings than like real trees. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then flopped around in her grass like a fish out of water,” I said. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then he bent over and began to rip out long handfuls of grass with quick, energetic jerks as though tearing out the hair of the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheep wander in lazy circles, nibbling on the grass. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Instead of walking up the lane, I cut through the “orchard,” feeling the soft grass under my feet, stepping around the early pears that have fallen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Before them lay a long lawn of shining grass, studded with golden elanor that glinted in the sun. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The master’s valet, 24-06, made good the preparations for the feast on blankets lain on the grass. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And the most important thing to know about grass, he told me, is when it likes to be eaten. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was very late in the evening when Uncle came back across the grass, looking very tired but smiling grimly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he misses the one he just left, he knows he will be a sitting duck, waiting for days in the bushes and the tall grass until another one comes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They got off the bus near Washington Square, a flat stretch of grass that sat in front of an old church. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He fell to his knees on the dewy grass and fumbled for the alethiometer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We landed nice as you please on the grass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of them was a field of waving sea grasses dotted with chrysanthemum flower anemones, but beyond that there was a silver glow in the darkening sky, as if the moon were rising. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The sun lights him up from behind like a saint, illuminating his hair and the tips of the grass and leaves. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ended up sprawled on the grass, and Sahil came to sit beside me with his food, our legs touching casually. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Let’s hold a meeting,” Molly said, and sat down on the grass. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

My mother used the tobacco, leeks, and grasses swimming about the hand to rub our sprains and bruises. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I listened to the wind bending over the prairie grass, I realized I’d never have my leg as good as new. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

At lunch, she put her head in Claire’s lap and let her stroke Maya’s hair as they sat in the grass in the sunshine. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Matthias tossed the last of the hazelnuts into the basket and stood awkwardly shuffling his large sandals in the grass. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A few yards from her tent was a bed of soft grass, and it was there that Dany drew him down. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The grass and the sidewalks are already covered. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The thick June grass was coated with dew. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Colors popped: the gold in the dune grass, the silver in the sand, the green in the sea. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Food for snakes that lurked in the long June grass. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the grass was tall and thick in the woods and the cows were giving plenty of milk, that was the time to make cheese. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bad enough,” she answered, stuffing a wad of grass in her lip like tobacco as we made our way back to Shady’s place. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The entrance was a wooden door in the grass, and it shook and rattled against Ivy’s palm as she wrapped her fingers around the handle. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But the dark-haired woman only shook her head and walked back the way that she had come, sparing but one last glance for the sleeping youth upon the grass. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

As I watched, he picked a blade of grass, poked it into a tunnel in the mound, and then withdrew it. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The grass was a welcomed bed, the space a luxury. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Thinking he’d been spooked by a snake in the grass, I whispered, “What do you see?” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The grass was still wet and looked almost black in the twilight. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A hot breeze carried the sweet scent of prairie grass through the open door. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A few days before I was born, the village had held a meeting and agreed that, with grass and water everywhere, it would be a good time to move. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring the tall grass grew along its sides— wild oats and mallow weeds and yellow mustard mixed in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She darted away, bare feet silent in the grass. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Without a sound, the leaves shone and the grass coruscated along the miles of the escarpment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon shone brilliantly on the sodden grass, the mossy gravestones, the crumbling mausoleum, the figures in their hideous embrace between the columns. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I looked around on the grass at the foot of the elm-trees. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It now wandered to where a half-charred log lay smoldering in the grass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The top of this was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarse grass and shaded with young palm trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I rode down a long sweeping slope where a scattering of huge, ragged-topped liveoaks stood about in grass so tall that it dragged against the underside of Jumper’s belly. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were hushed ones, the bloated gurgle of the stream, the respirating hum of the tall grass and shrubs behind him, the apathetic moaning of the dumb, translucent waves. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“That would be a sight worth seeing. The Dothraki sea is made of grass, fool.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had been going for ten minutes when he saw Mace’s head on the grass by a pile of dirt. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nhamo swept the floor with a bundle of grass and rubbed the dung in with her hands. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra felt it first on her cheeks, and then she saw the grass bending under it, and then she heard it in the hawthorns. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A moment later, she threw herself down onto the grass, flattening a patch with her back. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It flapped on the bright grass and the trees. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the sun on the grass beyond it was just like the sun on the grass on this side, except unaccountably different. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bugs buzzed so loud it hurt your ears, and tiny red birds perched on the ends of long grass stalks beside the road, all swaying this way and that. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I see that there’s already something bright lying there on the grass in front of the grave. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The edges of the grass were clipped very short and neat around the gravestones, and the hedge was straight. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Another layer of brush was piled about the khal's treasures, and bundles of dried grass scattered over them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A huge pile of topsoil appears in our backyard, then a pile of rolled-up squares of grass. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Clumps of grass rose high among fallen tree trunks and withered branches. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the wind rose roaring in the grass. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then, apparently feeling left out, he pulled up tufts of grass and flung them at us. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a silence in the empty fields, and Gimli could hear the air moving in the grass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And as he walked and sang the valley grew green with grass. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He looks a question at me, and I shake my head before I slump down in the grass. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The grass here was waist high with clusters of sleepy blooms nodding their heavy heads in the blue light. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We soon got the word that there were punji sticks in the tall grass we were jumping down into. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long grass was wet and cold against their legs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her left, she saw a long, narrow stretch of grass in the middle of a kind of courtyard of houses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe one of the molecules of iron from the corpse’s hemoglobin is in the strand of grass next to my ear. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m still hungry, Alyce, and there is nothing about here to eat but grass. Do you know if grass is good for people to eat?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this moment a window at the front of the cottage was flung open and a thin voice—her grandmother’s—piped, “Winifred! Don’t sit on that dirty grass. You’ll stain your boots and stockings.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked home down the quiet path, surrounded by trees and grass and blue sky. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“With my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a baby’s skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the day he was led into a van one early morning, a fuzz of hair, like carpet grass, had covered his entire jaw. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Does the dirt and grass ever get mad that we’re just walking along, kicking and standing on the miniature world beneath our feet without a second thought? King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Pet made a pleased chitter in its chest, its fur ruffling like grass in wind, but Jam was still worried. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I spit the rest of my seeds into my hand and toss them onto the grass. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Yes-there was no doubt about it, they were huddled into a tight knot of bodies in the central grass. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We hiked over black fields of grass dotted with black poplar trees. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Cattle and horses could eat it, mixed with grass, and get fat on it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ditch full of elephant ear plants and soggy grass. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You can gather up the grass while I cut.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Shutters slanted off, wild grasses bowing from the roof. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The street was still in shadow, the grass in the park wet with dew. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Here the grass was almost as tall as he was, rising up all around him, a shimmering green cage. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sitting there on the grass, looking at her beautiful stomach, I start to think about making out with Erin, running my hands up and down her abs. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here,” he said again, and put it down on the grass. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As they walked back across the grass she looked directly at him for the first time. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The burro chewed the dry tufts of grass as close to the gray shale as it could and strained against the reins to reach another sparse clump of grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I inched forward behind the dog, and a rabbit went bounding away in the high grass. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The grass was covered with termites all clinging on with their jaws. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A slow, lazy breeze floated through the grasses. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

In places the grass was gone altogether and everywhere there were clusters of dry droppings, through which nothing but the ragwort would grow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will took out the knife, but Lyra, sitting on the grass beside him, was already turning the hands of the alethiometer. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It's about the amount of soil you'd put in a window box, and the only seeds I have are a few species of grass and ferns. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they played, rooted in their places, she pranced around the grass in her bare feet and long lemon- yellow dress. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Looking at the sky, it’s like I’m lying on the grass at home, in Lithuania.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He stumbled through the thick grass with Lyra running ahead to see, and then back to help, and then ahead again, until they reached the stone pavement around the temple. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Joel how much food Polyface produces in a season, and he rattled off the following figures: It was hard to believe they got that much food from one hundred acres of grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t look Very inviting,” the bug remarked, for, as they climbed higher and higher, not a tree or a blade of grass could be seen anywhere. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

She cuts the grass bondage after an hour, leaving my fingers stiff and throbbing with pain. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house had a roof made of dried, thatched grasses and three rooms—a kitchen and two small rooms where we slept and, during the long rainy season, where we played. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clouds of water vapor swirled around me, winds so powerful they buffeted Hyperion and flattened the grass in a twenty-yard radius. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I’m sure it was occasionally just an excuse to get us kids out of the classroom and have us run around on the grass. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

There are no thickets here and if mowed grass is okay to walk on the City will let you know. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we, even if we had no meat or even grass to gnaw, still boil our water to kill the invisible creatures that would like to kill us first. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked away with Will, back along the grass under the hornbeam trees, and turned at the first corner they came to. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brought my passport for him to see, laying it on the grass among the wild daisies surrounding the grave. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Lee Chong did not give it these things, with the result that the truck stood in the tall grass back of the grocery most of the time with the mallows growing between its spokes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of fresh-cut grass when Dad mowed the lawn. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Alex turned to see Rex racing across the grass, chasing down a line drive tennis ball. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Tristran dismounted, and landed with a bump on the grass of the meadow. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Connor set his grasses down by the side of the path. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The arrows stuck in the straw men came out easily enough, but it took her a minute to find the ones in the grass. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The squirrel dropped out of the vacuum cleaner and landed with a plop on the grass. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

One of the windows was slightly open and a cord ran from it and across the porch to vanish in the grass. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Practice for all the teams began with twenty-five minutes of running laps on the grass just inside the asphalt track. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The star hobbled over to the injured unicorn and lowered herself to the grass, awkwardly, her broken leg splayed out by her side. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting against the trunk of a giant cottonwood tree, they listened to the creek gurgling and watched the horses munch on grass. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The meadow, with its high grass stretching all around them, was familiar. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday, Missy saw a garter snake slithering through the grass behind the blacktop. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Something about those steps...I back away from the house and stand on the narrow patch of brown grass. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There were no cries—no spitting of a cat, no squealing of a rabbit—only the crackling of twigs and the tearing of the grass in violence. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, well before sunset, Kehaar, flying westward down the Belt, spotted the rabbits lying up, all among the nettles and goose grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its door was gone and the grass roof looked unreliable, but Nhamo had no choice. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve already “planted” miniature plastic palm trees in the grass, and now I’m strategically placing miniature plastic people holding miniature plastic shopping bags to give it the “vigor of life,” as Mr. Waterman would say. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"The dean put me on duty so I missed him this afternoon. Just tell him that I said the grass is green . . ." "What?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dispatched an army of collectors to the shores of Lake Calumet, where they gathered twenty-seven traincar loads of iris, sedge, bulrush, and other semiaquatic plants and grasses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Frost crept across the rocks and grass around her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Kit colored and looked down at the browning grass. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The grass all round was speckled with their blood—little spots like those on trout, but with a kind of tail on each spot, like a tadpole. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about spring, grass and flowers, hoofprints and movement and a body, intact. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Tufts of Jaunty’s straw-colored hair stuck out around his ears and under the brim of his hat like tussocks of dry grass. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The wind blew across the wolf den, shattering the heads of the cotton grass and shooting their seedlets south with the birds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bird hanging on a grass stem released a happy trill, and Sigurd whipped around completely, bear cloak flapping behind him, as he strode toward them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

His fingers were clenched, and the grass all around his body had turned yellow and died. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And so following her directions, I drove through Pawhuska and headed west across the prairie, through the tall grasses, until I saw what she’d vividly described to me: scores of metallic towers invading the sky. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He limped to the window and watched the bright strip of grass and flowers beyond the wall. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I barely feel the wet grass underneath me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A few other tents are spread out on the grass behind hers. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The trouble, Brian thought, looking around, was that all he could see was grass and brash. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I lay down in the grass on the patio’s edge, looked up at Orion, the only constellation I could recognize, and called him. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, what about it? The grass is wet, you know.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wore out the grass and made marks on the ground. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Goats and catde cropped the grass, while small boys guarded them with switches. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He quietly made a fire and heated the grasses and then placed them underneath each of our hanging feet. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then he began to climb, sailed sideways over the grass and disappeared northward below the edge of the escarpment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached her, she had collapsed on the grass, dissolved in nearly silent laughter. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Crickets clicked in the rough grass, and moths fluttered in the starlight. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I’m amazed that I don’t fall on my face since the grass and the fallen leaves are so slippery. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Here on the road between the two there is nothing but old trees and long grass bending to the wind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I shrugged, tossed the rock outside of the playground, into the grass. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My parents’ SUV was parked in the grass just a few feet outside my dorm room, Room 43. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It sat on a relatively quiet block lined with similarly well-appointed houses, each by trees and grass. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I watch for bent grasses and hoof- prints. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed not over but through the sun-red grass, among the awakened insect movement and the light ablaze. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to get up, but the soft bed of grass made her lazy and sleepy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And we feed away in a sociable rank Tearing the grass with a sideways yank. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he shrugged and looked down at the man in the yellow suit, who lay motionless on the grass, the blazing sun white on his face and hands. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Headstones dotted the green grass ahead of us. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She placed the pot in one end of the boat and packed grass around it for protection. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gusty looks down at himself, his shoes covered in grass clippings. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Here there was a bank from which they looked out over the empty stretches of grass beyond. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She squelched him in a hurry: ‘You go eat grass!’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They listened, but beyond the rustle of the leaves there came from the open down outside no sound except the monotonous tremolo of a grasshopper warbler, far off in the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, I started to want her to grab my hand so much that I put it on the grass right next to her hip. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas and I were spread out on the grass, trying to stretch our stiff muscles. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Most migrants at the station hide between or inside boxcars or in the grass. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Coach said, but then he turned back and saw me scraping my shoe on the grass. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

No matter how kind the Matsikas were to him, they would awaken one morning and find him missing from the heap of grass clippings he preferred as a bed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The recent rains had filled hollows in the rocks, and the little folds of the mountain were green with bear grass. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane swooped down off the porch, then suddenly caught an updraft and climbed higher than their heads, looped and glided smoothly to the grass. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Outside, on the dewy grass, with the first rays of sun creeping across the island, the Ghost shows me how to climb trees silently. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The grass was burning in huge swathes around the pine tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A little spring fell tumbling down and fed the grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The boys ranged themselves in rows on the grass before him but Ralph and Piggy stayed a foot lower, standing on the soft sand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They waded through thick drying grass to get to it and Olanna looked around, half fearing she would see Mama’s skeleton lying somewhere. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Orange trees grew round it out of smooth grass, and the four white walls which surrounded the lawn were covered with climbing roses. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He hid overnight in some grass, then was captured and put on the bus back to Guatemala. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the park nearby, grass creepers edged out into the graveled paths. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But how could he grow enough grass to feed them? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

To the right and left, Dany glimpsed places where the grass was burned and ashen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A miniature teardrop traveled down her white porcelain face, like dew on the tip of early morning grass. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

We left some land open in grass for them, and hoped to have enough beef for the family and some to sell. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass was trampled now, here and there a part in the line as men stepped aside to avoid a dead body, lost the day before. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rode out together as the stars came out, leaving the khalasai and the grass palaces behind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The front yard—a rare thing in any house in the East Bay—was freshly manicured, the blades of grass practically uniform in height. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Men are mad and gods are madder,” she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mixed with the scents of grass and cattle came the warm, thick smell of a heavy cloud mass, still far off. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they were in the Botanic Garden, Pan ran away over the grass chasing a mouse toward the wall, and then let it go and sprang up into the huge pine tree nearby. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then he stepped from the covered walkway onto the grass. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Flowers, weeds, junk, pet houses, tree houses, vegetable gardens, rubber tires, grass ranging from desert-sparse to shaggy to trim as a marine’s haircut — the backyards were as different, as individual as faces. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a limp flower bud there, tucked behind a clump of grass—the only splash of purple anywhere in sight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I sat down in the grass along the edge of the lane and took off my shoes. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lucas shouted out the window as we passed an endless span of trees, grass, and nothingness. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

We’re nomads: We live where it’s best for the cattle, where there’s good grass and water, away from disease and pests. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon we had time for practice and I found a patch of grass to try my handstands. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Just past an old, flooded shed, the ground turns spongy under my heels and sends up the bready smell of decomposing grasses. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The grass is yellow and brown under my feet, and I’m surrounded by thick crowds of people. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

So grass is death, too—it grows out of our buried bodies. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had to follow the path to keep out of the wet grass so I didn’t see her until I was pretty near there, standing there in a black cloak, looking at the flowers. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Shasta sat down—painfully and cautiously—with his back against a tree and started on the pasty, Bree had a few more mouthfuls of grass to keep him company. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

They moved closer over the grass and touched the sleepers softly with nose, paw, whiskers, bathing in the life-giving warmth they gave off, but being infinitely careful not to wake them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But she's already down the steps and waddling across the brown grass on her tiny front lawn. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white lion ran through grass taller than a man. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was lying in a bower made by a living tree with branches laced and drooping to the ground; his bed was of fern and grass, deep and soft and strangely fragrant. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Nhamo made her way to a stand of thatching grass to fetch more bedding. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor and Theodora looked into a garden, their eyes blinded with the light of sun and rich color; incredibly, there was a picnic party on the grass in the garden. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Farid pulled up a blade of grass and tore it into tiny pieces. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the top of the quarry were grass and palm trees, and at the base was a clearing with a few old metal sheds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has rained during the night; the grass to either side is damp, the air humid. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on the grass with her hands on her knees and her head bent forward and worked at taking in great gulps of air. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He could smell wild flowers growing in the weeds and grass beside the road, and he heard the big bumblebees and the smaller bees sucking the blossoms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The grass would bend down before the hide, making a soft cushion over which the hide slipped easily. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I move off the gravel to walk on the grass. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, explosively, he coughed, ejecting the wad of grass. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Embers settled in the fire; the grass was stirring faintly with the night breeze. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

On one of the Ridgewood hills, he set his foot down wrong in a ditch hidden in the grass. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several people were dead in the grass, but I didn’t have a scratch.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He passed out into the sunshine and disappeared into the long grasses. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The man swung the door over and let it fall in the grass. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Green and long grew the grass on Snowmane’s Howe, but ever black and bare was the ground where the beast was burned. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The light wind could now be heard ruffling the grass. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Genie was now on the grass, but Grandpop had one more step to go. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Nothing stood still, no man or beast, not even the grass that writhed beneath the shadow, dark and ravenous. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the right of the stream there was a long slope, clad with grass, now grey in the twilight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He dug his foot deep into the brown dusty grass to put a spell on her that would make her mute. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Of course humans can’t eat grass, any more than you could eat a mutton chop.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She looked down the fence and saw that it was no hen at all, but a young crow, flapping in the grass, acting most odd. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You might ask Tidings as well. He misses Dismay, too. He hasn’t mowed the grass all week. He just sits on the mower and thinks.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I liked to mow patterns or pictures in the grass and had just finished the outline of something that looked like the Sphinx from the Lost Worlds book when Dad strolled out toward me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sweet, carrion scent of dogwood filled the air; in the evening sunshine, the insects hummed around the dense white cymes hanging low above the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of honeysuckle and damp grass. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“We left the plaza, remember? Went down a walkway—and then across grass.'” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We had to keep all our food safe from rats and mice and cats, so the women wove grass baskets for storage. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeping low, he ran past the fountain and across the grass. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A couple bullfrogs were starting to croak in the marsh grass, and every once in a while there was a little bloop! when a fish jumped. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The tips of the long grasses swished gently in the breeze. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Debris, dirt, grass, and twigs from the river still stuck to his clothes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She walked across the grass and spit into the street. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

You don’t hike the Appalachian Trail and then go home and cut the grass. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was bright sunshine, but it must have been raining earlier that day because I can remember how the sun was glinting on the muddy surface of the grass. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chicken manure fertilizes the grass, supplying all the nitrogen it needs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I asked, staring at the grass growing underfoot, a living carpet that felt as soft as anything you could buy in a store. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He would pick a piece of grass, think for a couple of seconds, and then set it down any old place on the blanket. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately the footprints of a pig were discovered in the grass at a little distance from the knoll. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It’s supposed to be a patch of grass. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Knotted grass roots hung down and brushed them as they passed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I almost fall down the stairs because of the swaying and burst into laughter when the grass tickles my bare feet. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They lay in the grass, their foreheads almost touching, their bodies stretched away from each other at a 180-degree angle. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Royal beasts parade along the grass—cerulean peacocks, rosy teacup flamingos, and fire-red phoenixes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The grass under their feet was smooth and short, as if it had been mown or shaven. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears’s house. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

An ember falls beside him, setting the dry grass on fire. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He fumbled through the grasses, seeking the gleam of his blade. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She loved the aromas of the dirt, the grass, the flowers; the rain. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shoved the bin, and a great wave of water heaved over the grass. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She put a doll in the grass beside each cup, making it look as much like a doll’s tea party as she could. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He pounced on the fish and shut his big mouth down over it and went romping to the bank, where he dropped it down on the grass and let it flop. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass underfoot, the branches, the bark, the leaves, all held a soaking sheen. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, every morning several of us were found hiding in the grasses by the soccer field. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

All was silent except for the wind moving in the tall grass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But they saw none and soon grew bolder, crossing open spaces and even stopping to nibble at dandelions in the patches of weeds and rough grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like a hawk watching a prairie dog skittering through the grass. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Monomatapa’s people went on in their timeless way, farming, hunting and thatching their round huts when the season of long grass was upon them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But this hindered them; for the grass was thick and tussocky, and the ground uneven, and the trees began to draw together into thickets. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So we spent that day in the cheery grove, with the vivid light of later afternoon falling on the grasses; we spent it bumbling about in the Blissful State of Mammalian Repose. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Eleven hundred screaming, cheering kids went suddenly silent at the sight of the eighth grade president stretched out, dazed, on the grass. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

There was a broad wooden deck on the edge of the lawn, right where the grass gave way to a slope of black lava rocks that lined the shore. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Combing through the grass together, they followed a series of nickel-sized holes across the lawn. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Her thick shoes shushed her through the grass toward us at a surprising clip. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some mornings I walked out into the courtyard and every living thing there, the seagulls and wagtails, the small trees, and even the stray blades of grass, seemed to smile and shine in the sun. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on the grass there was an astonishing sight, especially given what he and his guests had been talking about the night before. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Trouble was, when I got within ten feet or so, he would just move away and graze on another patch of grass. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lets go and rises so quickly the bench falls backward onto the grass. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mama worked on flowers, and Daddy helped Tidings mow grass and wash the windows of the Serenity Suite. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The grass surrounding the cabins was short and prickly, and pale pink crabs skittered at their feet, each the size of a fingertip. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Though day, the crickets called in the grass; my mother’s singing rose from the camp. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The llano was so quiet I could hear the drone of the grasshoppers and crickets in the grass. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the grave was finally filled and covered with grass, I joined the mourners back up the hill. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a quarter mile away, across a stretch of yellow, waist- high grass, was a straight line of trees—an ancient raised causeway, Erickson said. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She stepped from the drive into her yard, plopped right down on the grass, and held up her hands. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He’d wander a few feet and I would call him and he would bound back, his mouth full of grass. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was the cloudy notion of hunger when I breathed the odor of new-cut, bleeding grass. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the world was frozen, the distant trees, the telephone lines, the grass in the yards of the downriver houses, the ground itself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Directly behind each pen was a rectangular patch of closely cropped grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The grass along the road was wet and green, still growing, untouched by frost. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other mother was waiting for her, standing on the grass with her arms folded. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana’s eyes fell upon a small, shapely green lamp, exactly the color of the green grass she missed back home in the United States—who ever thought about grass when you had it? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tufts of onion grass sprouted across the soccer field, releasing their sweet scent. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The grass is damp beneath my feet, the air cool, heavy with the scent of rain and roses. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he called to her, and she came down, and they walked on the grass or sat under a green tree together, now in silence, now in speech. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She knew something else as well, and with the realization, she rose from the damp grass to go indoors, to find her father and tell him that she could not be his eyes. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the right, winter-slumbering gardens were partly obscured behind a low wall; within the garden, across wide lawns of short brown grasses, was a wide tower made of white stone. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

To Ekon’s horror, several Sons of the Six were already standing there, surrounding a larger group of people seated in the grass with bound wrists. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Idly Eleanor picked a wild daisy, which died in her fingers, and, lying on the grass, looked up into its dead face. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maurice, who had been standing ready to dive, swayed back on his heels, made a bolt for the platform, then swerved back to the grass under the palms. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“They’re like cattle running after greener grass. They scuttle north and south across my fields. Oh, yes,” he said when Matt raised his eyebrows. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘How dare the grass talk back to me! Set it on fire!’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Styx plucked a clover blossom from the grass. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She took the last few steps, her legs shaking, and saw that there was a gaping hole where there should have been earth and grass. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman shields her face as she runs with a book and towel across the grass. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The forest was largely made up of pines and spruce, with stands of some low brush smeared here and there and thick grass and some other kind of very small brush all over. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can imagine the silk texture of that cool air, the smell of Congolese earth curling its toes under a thatch of dead grass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled himself out and his fingers found grass. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The new growth covered the earth lightly, each blade of grass, each leaf and stem with space between as if planted by a thin summer wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was only the glint of the sun and the sight of the grass slicing itself in half that revealed the horrible truth. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Animals raised outdoors on grass have a diet much more like that of the wild animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We both looked at the grass--there was a sharp line where my ragged lawn ended and the darker, well-kept expanse of his began. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Lined with bits of leaves, grass, cloth, cotton fluff, feathers and other soft things Mrs. Frisby and her children had collected, the house stayed dry, warm and comfortable all winter. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the lawns on the university grounds are overgrown now; the long grasses stick up like green arrows. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he had finished them—which he did in a humiliatingly short time—he surveyed the lotus root, wiping it on the mat of crushed grasses and wondering how he was going to cut it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Harry saw his bald tail whip through the manacle on Ron’s outstretched arm and heard a scurrying through the grass. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The man in white climbed back into the driver’s seat and drove the truck across the grass. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’s warm and smells of grass and deep woods. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On our side of that sentence is empty land, grass and stretches of road. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But as she inhaled the sweet scent of grass, she tasted metal at the back of her throat and knew it had been real. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In our small grass hut at Ro Leap, Khouy sits next to Pa and talks incessantly. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rosie is peeing into the grass, her ears flat against her head, her trunk curled under her face. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

To the right of the car, the last fingers of a tidal creek groped among the extreme frontier of marsh grass that edged up against the backs of gas stations and hamburger stands. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waved his arms and trotted on his hooves as if the grass were hot. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

On the pasture nearby Hazel could see scattered, russet-and-orange-colored fragments, some with feathery light green foliage showing up against the darker grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the boys were looking down now, at the grass or their feet. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He tried to play basketball as if there were still grass beneath his cleats and pads on his shoulders. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow them to the grass to stretch. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She knelt down and joined us on the grass. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

We had a grass yard in front and in back, and at night raccoons, possums, and skunks walked through the backyard just as if they lived there. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The pastor says something about how we return to the earth the way we came from the earth and I feel the grass under my feet grab my ankles and pull me down. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The other half of the hut was divided into two piles of dry grass. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Taran caught a glimpse of Hen Wen dashing into the waving grass. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He had forgotten it and now reached around and took it out and put it in the grass. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just about went crazy then, threw myself inside and insisted he let me cut the grass today. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t high, and below it was grass, with a gentle slope away from the building. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In profile, with pumping thighs and knifing arms, we cut through the shin-whipping grass. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Near my heel, a few blades of grass poke up through the cement. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Already some of those embers were landing in his yard and igniting the grass and leaves. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He taught me how to find a kind of grass called apai and how to chew its sweet stems for food. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We saw nothing except grass, trees, crops, and the hard-packed dirt path as we moved. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

At intervals Miss Simon would make a tour of inspection, examining the pile of pulled grass beside each child, scolding or praising according to the size of the pile. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a two-foot package sitting next to the mailbox, in the grass. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Wab was still bitter as she stood, brushing the grass off the back of her faded sweatpants, the initials of a university she’d never attended stamped across the seat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The sun was climbing, and he could hear warbling meadow birds and mourning doves calling from the tall grass beside the road. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was right there, waiting for me to come lie on soft green grass under a dogwood tree, in the shade. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A short distance behind Dandelion, in the grass, was the white-chested tabby, wide-eyed, tail lashing, crouching. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

You are part of the trees and the grass and the dogs. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

They look at me cautiously then veer off the asphalt path and back onto the grass. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That hill is mostly tall dead grass, not jungle, so it would burn up in a flash. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drew up alongside the shore, skimming past mottled beaches and fields of grass. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I sprint across our grass to the edge of the lawn closest to Olly’s house. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She replaced the cap, flicked a tiny lever, placed one foot on the mower, braced the other firmly in the grass, and yanked the cord quickly. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The beech leaves grew darker on the boughs and fresh grass grew where the old had been nibbled close. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dukes and earls had rich rugs spread on the grass before their tents, with their shields hung up on display. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

As air gradually seeped back into his lungs, he strained to raise his right arm, but his arm, like a broken branch in the grass, refused to move. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Their swords were wooden sticks, broom handles from the look of them, and they were rushing across the grass, swinging at each other lustily. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All the other boys were sitting in the grass, holding their ears. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sun is coming weakly through the clouds, the smell of wet grass warming up is in the air. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Art explained that it was the grass diet that gave the eggs their color. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long I stayed there, facedown in the grass. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tall marsh grass obscured my view to the right, but as soon as we had motored around it, I glimpsed the remains of an old dock—a place where J.T., Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then he keeled over on the grass in a dead faint. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he picked up the coffee pot and poured the last of the old coffee into the grass, turning away for a long moment. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I did not think he could see me, since I had stepped a way off the blacktop to look at the pond; Faro was sitting still in the high grass. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In a few seconds he was followed by his younger brother Billy, who at age twelve was noisier and had an annoying habit of skimming rocks across the grass at anything that moved. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he came out he lay on the grass looking across the water at Tashbaan—all the splendor and strength and glory of it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then he unrolled the coal-silk tarpaulin and laid that out to dry on the grass. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She relaxed a notch, smelling barbecue and cut grass in the air. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found a spot on the grass for their picnic. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The grass was scanty, coarse, and grey; and the leaves in the thickets were faded and falling. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Something had crushed the grasses and weeds beyond down into a little nest. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The low early sunshine was streaming through the wood and the grass was gray with dew and the cobwebs were like silver. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Even though we’re blocking the sidewalk and people have to step on the grass to go around us, I take a blank card from my pocket and write ‘more than words’ across the top. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My elbows landed in the soft grass with a jolt and the cigarette broke in half in my mouth. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Trees drooped in the unrelenting summer sun; grass and leaves dried out. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell he’s happy to be able to actually walk down the street, instead of just peeing on the patch of grass in front of the building. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They stopped the whistling and laughing and we followed them into a park with a tall pillar and a statue in the middle and grass so green it dazzled you. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The grass track which crossed the bridge ran above them, at the top of a steep bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked past the iron fence and the garden to a big back yard that was filled with trees and grass. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great bowl of the Olympic Stadium, its floor forty-two feet below ground level, had been excavated and leveled, its central field sown with grass that was already lush and green. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Concentrating, she looked at every twisting grass blade and bobbing seed head. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

As August wore on, the square of unkempt grass in the middle of Grimmauld Place shriveled in the sun until it was brittle and brown. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There were sounds in the world now, too: insects were stirring, and a very slight breeze was rustling the dry grass stems growing higher up the dune. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He called for a while, then rested, and then made the noises again, in no hurry, and not really caring, growing mellow from the grass. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before she’d even gone halfway to the grove she heard a different sound among the lashing of the leaves and the streaming of the wind through the grass. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His hair was tied back with a strand of dune grass, but not well. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps to the porch. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She looked over the red hillside, at the rocks and the soil and the scrub grass, and then at the arch of the sky, pink and gold in the east. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow — an Elf.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She just stared down into her lap, weaving tiny little crowns out of grass and flower petals. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There was nothing on the road, nothing but long grass either side. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We were in trees and tall grass As we sloped to the creek bottoms, the ground grew soggy underfoot. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They stood in the wind from off the sea with the grass hissing all about them, the boy holding on to his hand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He heads into the field, which must have tall grass in it and some smallish bushes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he had been punished the cool green grass and the singing water soothed him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

No houses had been built, but the lots were marked with surveying stakes, and the grass was freshly mown. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Or I guess the grass is itself a child.... Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

And a moment later he was on the grass under the palm trees, and a second or two afterward Lyra followed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You’re the Taylor”—Josh let go of my coat—"who grassed on those little midget Kray Twins who were squeezing my brother for money?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes before he would have spit on this obscenity in the grass or he thought he would have done it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay back on the grass and let the high sunshine warm him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was a woody hill with live oaks dark green against the parched grass where the coyotes sang on moonlit nights. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just out of the woods on the other side of the hill, there’s a meadow, and I slump down in the grass to rest. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bear was skin and bones, like a lumpy white rug, lying on green grass with one paw lifted up in a kind of salute. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Why do you keep the truth from me? I remember the net of grass you wove before we crossed Avren. But in your hands today it was no grass I have ever seen.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

A day later: “The grass nearly burnt all along this Day except near the Lake.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The gosling kept hopping onto the rock and kept riding the wind and kept tumbling into the grass, until he started to find his wings. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The engine roars as Johanna presses the gas pedal, and we bump over the grass in search of the others. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Gram had abandoned her parasol to the side of the tent and was dancing with Old Joe, her long dress skimming the grass as she spun on bare feet. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She stood in the grass for a few minutes, staring at the arrow in her hand but not really seeing it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The cat leaped smoothly from the wall to the grass near Coraline’s feet. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Every yard was perfectly manicured with lush green grass. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They would picnic in the park and the baby would roll in the grass and laugh when the blades tickled his feet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he moved his lips, he tasted the acid of dirt and grass and gravel. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even a path so much as a series of hints— a broken branch here, a patch of stomped-down grass there—that people had come this way before. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The boles of the trees glowed with a soft green like young grass: early spring or a fleeting vision of it was about them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Seemed as if folks were seeing German spies and seditionists under every patch of buffalo grass. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The saltines lay in the brown, frozen grass. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond it was a deep fosse lost in soft shadow, but the grass upon its brink was green, as if it glowed still in memory of the sun that had gone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We unzipped our bags and laid them down like picnic blankets on the grass in front of the giant movie screen in the middle of the field. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I explained the circle of chickens and cows and pigs and grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The girl raised her head and waved at the driver, who tooted the horn, then bumped through the grass around to the back of the house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As the plane zipped over their heads, the men dove and lay flat on the marshy grass. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Sit out there and watch the grass dry up, is my social life at this point in time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Audrey blushed and glanced at the trampled grass under her feet like she was considering digging a deep hole and crawling into it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But then that day in Miss Geraldine’s class, Tommy had done this particular watercolour—of an elephant standing in some tall grass—and that was what started it all off. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all settled down on the grass to eat the oranges, and I watched Father Amadi laugh loudly with his head thrown back, leaning to rest his elbows on the grass. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It tasted like dirt and grass and a spice that made her eyes water, plus an unwelcome sweetness. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

From the window she could see her boys in the yard, the tops of their heads as they sat in the grass beside the overturned wheelbarrow. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked out over the cemetery, where bright green grass contrasted with the faded marble of tombstones, and the tombstones reflected the cold gray of the sky. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his rump and sat on the twister so that he fell in the grass. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even as a toddler, barely able to walk in the backyard’s tall grass, he had somehow understood the fear in his mother’s voice. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jacqui looks around in sheer awe, stepping off the cement path and onto the grass, and when her foot touches the ground, the dirt gives way. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The others, waiting in the grass, saw Jack and Ralph unharmed and broke cover into the sunlight. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

So maybe the grass is a metaphor for our equality and our essential connectedness, as Dr. Holden had said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I kicked my bare foot at a bunch of tall grass. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I thought the tall grasses would give me a signal someone was coming, but they didn’t. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Getting out, she kept her gun on John, then sidestepped to me, the screaming banshee in her grass. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was green; this do I recall; the haze in the atmosphere pregnant with the tinct of leaf and grass, so the water, the sky, all appeared submerged. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

At this time of night there was very little traffic, and the road where he stood was quiet, with comfortable houses set back behind a wide expanse of grass on either side. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At long last we bumped to a landing in a field of tall yellow grass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together the old man and the boy sat on the grass and shared the heart of the watermelon. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They moved quickly downhill, running over damp sand and scrub brush and narrow swaths of grass, steering clear of boulders, keeping an eye out for drapeweed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He told Nathan of how years and years ago, before the excavation of the nearby mining cave, this land was green, and grass would grow as tall as Nathan’s knee. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They’d go hand-in-hand through the grass, her father turning his head like a stag watching over his tiny herd, and when he said good-bye he always tapped her once, lightly, on the chin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As much as he tried he couldn’t hide the leftover smiles and laughter from his visit; his eyes sparkled as he sprawled himself out on the bed of grass. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The unicorn shook its mane, then began to crop the grass of the meadow contentedly. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

To this he added some pulverized, dried grass, worked almost into flour, and when it was all together, he gently used his finger to make a hole in the middle. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked down at the grass. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The snow that lay over the glacier looked strange to him, as if it were a white grass growing up out of the ice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They moved slowly across the sunset grass, nibbling as they went: Clover was soon absorbed in feeding, but Holly stopped continually to sit up and sniff about him at the peaceful, empty down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the first time I get to dance Tinikling, a folk dance that mimics a tikling bird hopping between stems of grass and running over tree branches. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Her silver was trotting through the grass, to a darkling stream beneath a sea of stars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He felt cold gusts of wind scattering dry oak leaves in the grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bones that lie helter-skelter on the grass, from which to tell our fortunes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lawn was flawlessly smooth, with the grass all of the same height. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I stepped over all the sunflower seed shells that had piled up between my feet like a mountain of dead flies, and walked, not on the track, but just beside it, on the grass. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When the sky went black, we brushed our spot of grass clear and lay down. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tufts of grass and the occasional dandelion sprouted from his earthen body. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I blink and blink and blink, but I don’t dare look up from the dirt and grass. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Mags and Finnick have created a hut of sorts out of the grass mats, open on one side but with three walls, a floor, and a roof. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The little yellow ones were too small to provide much in the way of nourishment, but there were red ants in the grass, and those were bigger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then she clamped one hand around the back of my neck and marched me across the outfield grass and up the Norvelt road. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It had disappeared into the grass, leaving nothing behind. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The rats were hauling it laboriously through the grass, inching it along in the direction of a very large wild rosebush in the far corner of the yard. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then it was back to the rocks, to chewing on grass stems, listening to the sluck of water and brushing away mopani flies. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the burn in my biceps subsided, I climbed the rest of the way, scrambling over the lip of the well to land in some grass. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He worried that his mother would judge the yard, the lack of grass, the condition of the neighborhood. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Once Goat had gone, Leopard crouched down and began to stalk Goat’s children through the long grass. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Mom scowled and flicked the joint into the grass. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Dress sleeves are rolled up, ponytails tightened, and with squeals of delight, the Amazons—as they’ve christened themselves—step out on the slippery evening grass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked behind us and saw our bicycles lying in the grass. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled Dill out to the center of the lawn and they flopped onto the wet grass, lying on their backs side by side. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In season, they fed on acorns, berries, wild plums, prickly-pear apples, grass, weeds, and bulb plants which they rooted out of the ground. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had first fingered then torn some of his mother’s clothes and sat in the grass looking at the things scattered on the lawn as well as in his mind. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she snapped a little twig off the pine branch she flew with, and sniffed the sharp resin smell with greedy pleasure, before flying slowly down to join the sleepers on the grass. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shakes his head and lowers his eyes, twirling a few blades of grass between his fingers. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

On The Brady Bunch, kids play together peacefully in their backyards, all the lawns have green grass, and neighbors even go camping together. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even as he spoke, the bloodstained grass turned green again and there bloomed forth the wondrous flower that was to make the lad’s name known forever. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dew turned up on grass tips again, compliments of the night; dogs dared to bark; flocks of hummingbirds returned to Onofre Martinez’s gingerbread kingdom; life returned to normal. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, as the low sun reached long yellow fingers through the tall grass, he had stopped beside a meadow to listen to just such a noise. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before them lay an open field of long, lush grass dotted with buttercup and sorrel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Totally panicked, certain we’d killed some unsuspecting playgrounder, we pushed through the crowd and found our rocket buried in the grass, with only its fins and nozzle showing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The girl could not understand why a man should wish to walk in the grass, but she did not say anything. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Not a blade of grass to choose between them, thought Hazel: Pipkin and Fiver looked as fresh as Silver and Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass withered, and the stones cracked as if something was moving in the earth beneath, trying to push its way through. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He took it off his shoulder and put it down in the grass beside him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then he dropped them on a pile of grass clippings. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The trees and the tropic grass were burned and sad from the ferocious northern freeze. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a garden, with grass and a shed and a clothesline. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to enjoy the way the days had been turning warmer, the grass wilder and greener. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tally spun head over heels twice more, and then the jacket lowered her to the grass. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I don’t suppose you’ve ever eaten grass by night,” he said. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The restless images gave way to a vast sweep of meadow, where Taran ran through grasses shoulder high, desperately seeking a path he could not find. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She parks the car in the nearly empty lot, and we all pile out and cut through the grass, still dewy in the frigid morning air, to where Baba stands on the steps. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Things slithering through the grass could wake up the dead. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abby was at the other end, kneeling over Scooter, who was sitting on the grass with his legs flat out like the sides of a triangle. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I walk on, eventually settling on a patch of grass some distance from the Fox Brothers menagerie. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Plug’s hooves crunched against the stubby prairie grass, speckled with little cactus. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But she didn’t just lie about on the grass or in a hammock or a rocking chair like your average eighty-nine-year-old woman. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass smelled like fresh chives, and the sunshine filled me with strength. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The people moved to new areas where there was grass for the horses to eat. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I skirted along the grassy bank, watching the water bubble between the stalks of grass, a sure sign that the fiddler crabs were scrabbling around just out of sight. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It is not the smell of rotten grass or my own body odor but a smell so putrid that my stomach coils. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the horse felt the pressure let up on his snout and heard Anya’s encouragement to go, he sprang forward, hooves ripping up the grass and throwing clods of dirt behind him. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He lay down in the green grass near the round tub at the brush line. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked across the dried grass field dotted with purple flowers until there were none. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Ibises, with wings clipped to keep them from flying away, stalked through papyrus grass and hunted frogs under the lily pads. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the gray sky, pools of stagnant water flickered among dead grasses and broken reeds. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

What a remarkable thought, that anything could have cropped grass here. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The grass was spongy with dew and the air was cool and sweet, filling his lungs until they pressed against his ribs and a stitch ran up and down his side. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The path was well maintained, though narrow; the dirt was hard packed in the center, and tufts of brown grasses grew along the edges. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ajax and the other dogs snuffled and pranced in the grass. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A piercing cry from somewhere close, in the grass. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A warm, good smell of sun-baked earth and grass and flowers came up to them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The sun was shining, fields of grass surrounding the parking lot swayed in a light breeze, bright little bird chirps ruffled the air. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Soon there would be laughter, when the men of her khas told the story of what had happened in the grasses today. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I avoided his kiss while he took the cloak from my shoulders and spread it on the grass for me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She had the air of a game warden pointing out an animal in the grass. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lush soft grass grew about its edge and a little ditch brought the water from the river to it and from it little ditches went out to the orchards. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thick, tall trees with wide, green leaves and fat elephant grass surround us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the castle, the starlings and green plover searched anxiously in the stiff grass. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But “nothing is more common than for the white people on this occasion to take the grass from them without paying.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was surrounded by a carpet of lush grass, kept short, she found out later, by the many sheep that grazed upon it. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the Black Jesus mural at the clinic, grass grows up through the cracks in the sidewalk. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

On his way home, though, he was surprised by a strange sound in the grass. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Though we have boxes to unpack and a whole house to marvel at and clean, I can’t get enough of this grass. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She crept along the grass on hands and knees, and rose silently to look into the room where the people were eating dinner. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the thick grass, my tears pour out for my sister and seep into the earth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found a small spot where the grass was soft and dry and lay down, wondering how many years it had been since she had lain on soft grass to be alone to think. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The boy looked around, wide- eyed and startled, and dropped his stick in the grass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was no soap, but in the forest there was an area that had a particular kind of grass that could be used as a substitute. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes later, his leg was stiff, the backside of his jeans damp from the grass, and the graveyard hadn’t revealed itself to be anything more than a graveyard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Feather spotted something in a bush and got low, his tail parallel to the grass. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The two women and the small boy stood absolutely still on the grass underneath the tree, gazing up at this extraordinary fruit. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian woman stroked him gently in reward, then ladled some of the meat from the pot onto the grass. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forest and pine and kelly and grass, all flowing together like a green ocean. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was a foot of water in the ditch, and the tall grass grew up from its sides. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The burning paper floated in the night breeze for a while, landing in fragments on the grass. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

No part of the big grass went to waste. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I take a switch of grass from beside the trail and I swat after him with it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I could show you a hill, with patches of grass. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The queer rasping call of the blackbird rose from the grass, and now and then they caught the flash of scarlet on the glossy black wings. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah knew she had no Uncle Shmuel, certainly no one as big and bearded as this man, who smelled of sweat and grass and horses. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My good Horse," said the Hermit, who had approached them unnoticed because his bare feet made so little noise on that sweet, dewy grass. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

There’s good grass there, though it’s drier than in the high country, with some rocks here and there. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust and bits of dead grass flew everywhere and until I figured out the steering, the mailbox, my mother’s flowers near the front step and a small bush were in danger. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He reached into the boat and took one of the crumpled towels and dragged it through the grass to moisten it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As Pax kept watch, he thought of doing favorite things with his boy when he found him: tumbling together outside, playing hunting games, exploring the grassed yard and the bit of woods behind it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Later, when Ted and his father went off to play volleyball with the others, his mother took my hand, and we started walking along the grass, away from the crowd. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Straight ahead, the grass sloped down to a rocky beach. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The grass between the house and the barn looked untrodden. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The robot sank her fingers into the ground and felt the spongy layer of roots below the grass. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“That sort of rabbit doesn’t hop out of the grass.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss had grown over the edges, and they were all tucked in with grass. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the glade, on the grass some distance from them, was an ornate golden crown, which glittered in the afternoon sunlight. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rabbits scattered about the grass stared at him in horror, several wondering whether this could really be the General. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never noticed the way the tall pasture grass bent with the wind. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The little girls took on that task, happy to find beetles and hoppers in the grass and bring them to Yellow-wing. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He could smell the trees and the trodden grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The going here was softer; the middle was overgrown with grass and the ruts on either side were full of dead leaves. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are enough cyclists and joggers around that I feel comfortable, especially since Rufus is keeping his distance by staying on the grass, where a young golden retriever is chasing its owner around. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Like ants on an orderly march to our hole, my family and I walk quietly across the grass field with several scientists and one other family with a blond teenager. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After it was over, we were all sitting on the grass—sweating, starting to get cold because of the wind. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The Death Down already stood there, black and tall and stony, and the great trampling and scoring of the grass by the Huorns could be plainly seen. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Limestone slabs rimmed by thick moss and grasses glare whitely in the sun. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, that small wild grass that started in the hills of Central America has become the star of the biggest, most expensive food chain in the history of the world. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She passed concrete plains, vast expanses cracked by thrusting grasses. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I drop my stuff in the grass and plop down on the second step. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“It’s a cat,” Marisol said, brushing off a piece of grass stuck to the bottom. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And C.P. was moved to hear how, as a child, Ann’s only dolls were the ones she made herself out of grass she pulled up, the tangled roots serving as hair. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

At its feet was a wide space of grass and reeds; and in the distance could be glimpsed another bank almost as steep. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the end of the season Salatin’s animals will have transformed his grasses into an astounding amount of food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“When he pulled us from the cabin, we fell on the ground, and the grass around us was burning,” said Masha. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

At dusk, when we gathered on the lawn to await the first firefly, my brothers stood on the porch while I set Petey’s jar in the grass. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Except, that is, that their corner of paradise seemed after a few days to be carpeted not with plush grass, but birds. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am straining and sweating by the time I get to a likely plot of dew-covered grass. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The grass was warm and sweet, like April, but the trees hadn’t forgotten it was October. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The road under their feet was slippery with spring mud, and the grass that brushed against their legs was wet with dew. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest kind were, indeed, no more than built imitations of smials, thatched with dry grass or straw, or roofed with turves, and having walls somewhat bulged. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The smell of the sweet warm grass came towards me on the air, and the sun shone down upon me full and strong from out of the white mist. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The ground grew soggier, the grass grew taller, and soon the robot and the gosling were looking across a wide, murky pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In bed that evening, Miyax’s spirit was stirred by the seeding grass and the restless birds and she could not sleep. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Babies napped in the tall grass, their blankets covering the wildflowers with embroidered flowers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid to mention our bicycles, still lying in the grass. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We were never able to catch up with him because there were miles of saw grass and knee-deep mud between us. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I find a patch with as few dandelions as I can and skim the grass with the shovel, carefully removing a sheet of dirt and sand and grass. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Not all the way—just enough that I could see the snow on the driveway, and grass, and the bottom half of a dark uniform. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the air and at the girl’s fingertips, stuck in her hair and in blades of grass, like she had just broken free. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But there is only Faro lying in the trampled grass by the tent near his dish, waiting to be fed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We left it on so long that the brown grass turned into a big slippery puddle and I wondered if the governor himself might come and tell us off. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madame Semele knocked the blackened bowl from the fire with a stick, and she stamped it out in the long grass. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I lean against one of the large spoked wheels and pass the time alternately picking slivers from beneath my nails and chewing long pieces of grass. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As we hurry across the grass, I stumble, and he is beside me, steadying me, his warmth seeping into my skin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Comb the grass back under the McIntosh trees. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Her progress was almost completely noiseless; she chose her path where the earth was bare, or where grass grew, and she avoided dead leaves, which would rustle and crackle even under her small weight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the calm of the long evening, it was pleasant to walk on this smooth road, with the sound of some cicada-like creatures in the long grass and the setting sun warm in his face. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The grass all over the hill hissed even louder, like one giant snake. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of all that grass stretching out before her had taken her breath away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At the feet of the trees, and all about the green hillsides the grass was studded with small golden flowers shaped like stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The other ghosts followed Roger, and Will and Lyra fell exhausted on the dew-laden grass, every nerve in their bodies blessing the sweetness of the good soil, the night air, the stars. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Twining his hands in her hair, he kissed her as if possessed, and they tumbled into the flowers, their bodies hidden in the tall grass. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Everything in the room smelled of wet grass simmering in the heat. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo had to strain to see the deer in the tall yellow grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel had barely time to flinch before Bigwig was sniffing at the pellets in the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked up onto the grass, staying rather apart from the crowds. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My feet rustled through shreds of plastic in the grass. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, Ugwu wondered if the child had liked it because it gave him a chance to rest, lying down on the grass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Its closest genetic relative is a mountain grass called teosinte that looks strikingly different—for one thing, its “ears” are smaller than the baby corn served in Chinese restaurants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In front of each house was a tiny square of grass, and in front of that was a thin gray sidewalk running alongside a gray road. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I saw us wrestling in the yard next to our house, the grass stains soaking through the knees of our jeans. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It lay upon slender blades of grass, and draped over the hood of the truck. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Was there movement beside them, imperceptible in the soundless night; did some footstep go invisibly along with them in the white grass? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

So for half an hour, as the girls watched from the grass, he paddled around by himself, trying to make it all look fun, irresistible. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Munching another bite, she went out to the grass clump to check on buntings, and a long time later returned to eat two more chunks of caribou. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stocks were installed on the front lawn in the lush grass. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The road widened and grew straight, and for the first time Catelyn noticed wildflowers and grasses growing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I looked out my side window and saw the field rushing up. We had landed on grass strips before, hut this one was dotted with mounds that looked like waves undulating toward us.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It belonged to little things with green and black bodies that knew their way through the tall grass. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Paper everywhere. In the bushes, trees, and all over the grass. I think it was the Rudes. Fighting for my honor and all that.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The grass was cropped short by all the unicorns, bulls, and homeless fauns that grazed here. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Fresh flowers popped out of the grass every day like all the new lessons I learned in school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Children stopped their playing on the grass to stare, and nurses at the nearby hospital came out on the roof to watch, their white uniforms glowing in the now unveiled sun like lilies. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had a god done this or was there some strange power in the grass? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they were joined by Silver and Dandelion, but the other rabbits, more hesitant even than Hazel, remained crouching in the long grass on the right bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they would see a few weeds struggling from some crack in the rock or a splotch of pale lichen, but there was no grass, and they woe above the trees now. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ron roared, and he stooped down and seized a stone lying on the grass, but before he could do anything else, Crookshanks had vanished with one swish of his long ginger tail. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A loud bang echoed around the stadium and a jet of green light shot out of the wrong end of Ron’s wand, hitting him in the stomach and sending him reeling backward onto the grass. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The tender grasses peek up, innocent yellow, through the ground: the children of the dead. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass had been new-mown, it smelt sweet and rich, like summer. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

During my high school summers, I cut grass in parks and on the medians of highways, unloaded trucks, and walked beside road-paving equipment with a rake to smooth the hot asphalt along the curbs. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Nothing grew there except a straggly, neglected cover of grass. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass was buzzing in the moonlight where my shadow walked on the grass. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julius led them, bent double, peering at the dry grasses and broken scrub, moving slowly, a terrible air of desperation about him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He laid the conch with great care in the grass at his feet. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The floor of the courtyard looked like it was made of huge stone blocks, many of them cracked and filled with long grasses and weeds. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

No one was in sight, I ran into the grass. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m walking naked as a beam of light along brick paths and squares of grass, phosphorescent and clean. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smuggling bits into my pocket is too risky since Julia spotted me last time and grassed on me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was served afternoon tea sitting on the grass in the cloisters. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Arturo walked to the edge of the frozen grass and stepped onto the ice again, tapping his boots against its marbled surface. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A small, dark-haired girl holding her mother’s hand, looking up at her, a smile like sunshine, her dress red as a poppy bursting against green grass. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He looked back and watched it bounce into the tall grass and tumbleweeds beside the road. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The browning grass had recently been clipped short, and the brick path leading to the graveyard was swept clean. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some knots she had to swim underwater and cut through the waving grasses. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The worm was easier to chew than grass and went down with the first swallow. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The sight of their dead comrades stretched upon the grass moved some of them to tears. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Green grass has large quantities of beta-carotene, vitamin E, and folic acid. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

For hamstring stretches, one person lies on the grass on his back with his leg straight up, while the other person leans in and slowly presses the leg a little higher. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He remembered how Bigwig had chased Hawkbit through the long grass, forgetting the quarrel of the previous night in the joy of their arrival. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We trooped through the grasses out onto the mud, where the rain fell densely all around us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Crows aim at the eyes and Pipkin, sensing this, had buried his head in a clump of rank grass and was trying to burrow further in. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We moved out quickly from the LZ and went into some tall grass. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could have heard us coming last Tuesday the way the prairie grass sang as we whipped through it. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Karpoi grain spirits—those horrible little piranha Cupids—were rushing through the tall grass abducting campers at random, pulling them away from the line. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He crossed the grass slowly, weaving among the headstones, his eyes fixed on me as he approached. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The grass was sandy and had empty snail shells scattered over it, small yellowish shells with a purple spiral. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a second, I thought something rustling the grass might’a been him, but it was just a little black squirrel. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking of the hens I saw at Polyface Farm, fanning out over the cow pasture on a June morning, pecking at the cowpats and the grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Within a minute their clothes combust, grass is set ablaze. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But he dropped his blades to the grass. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Hale rode up fiercely on his horse, emerging from the tall prairie grasses. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon Smith and Howard stood on the grass in the infield and gave Workman their own instructions. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys grumbled some more but sat in the grass to remove their shoes, clap them together to rid them of the dirt. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They didn’t need herbivores to turn the grass into meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I let the cow out and lead her by a frayed rope down another dusty road to the colegio grounds, where she grazes on the grass near the avocado trees. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning, so early that the dew still jewelled the grass and the clamour of the tannery had not yet begun, I went out on my errand. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the tall grass behind the cattle barn he found a folded newspaper. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

We settle down in the grass on the sidelines, near midfield. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The valley itself, with its brown, cool river, and grass and moss and wild flowers and rhododendrons, was such a pleasant place that it made you want to ride slowly. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Maxie held my hand as we walked back up to the grass. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But there had been no king for nearly a thousand years, and even the ruins of Kings’ Norbury were covered with grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Once he set light to the dry grass, and Dustfinger grabbed him and shook him like a disobedient dog until tears came into his eyes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her foragers returned he land was red and dead and parched, and good with gnarled cottonwoods, purple brush, sheaves of brown grass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He edged up the trunk, to his favorite place in the crook of two branches, and looked down at the Potter’s Field below him, a brambly patch of weeds and unmown grass in the moonlight. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I hear an engine, and crouch in the tall grass to hide, switching my flashlight off and keeping my gun ready. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Dicey decided that the pile should be a good way into the marsh, but next to the path so they didn’t have to tramp through the wet grasses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We position ourselves at the back of the pack, near a group of men wearing grass hats, with hula skirts over their running shorts. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They saw nothing more, until they stumbled over the body of Frodo, lying as if dead, face downwards on the grass with his sword beneath him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I watch myself drag Gavin Rose into the bush and beat him down to the grass, the dirt, and the fallen tree branches. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I crouch, listening to the thunder of wings behind me, and run my hand through the grass, just above the ground. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Claire started to pull her back down to the grass, and Maya fell to her knees, her bag thudding down heavily next to her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The fog had lifted, the day had warmed, and at times I could almost close my eyes and let my feet move along the still-dampened grass. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He licked the grass clean of every drop, then looked up, eager to express his gratitude. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She heaved herself onto the muddy grass slope and set her forehead against the wet ground. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I asked him hopefully, viewing the tall grass and underbrush between the road and the mounds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The boy’s face contorted with agony as Guy made him kneel in the deep grass in punishment. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Before the little kids in DR would go to bed the night before Three Kings, they would leave small boxes of grass underneath their beds. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I landed flat on my back in the grass. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“These fires burning off the old grass,” he observed, “in the ensuing Spring & Summer makes excellent fine sweet feed for the Horses & Buffalo, &c.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every morning before we start rehearsing, Met Bong wraps our fingers together with elephant grass. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed and leaned out the window, throwing the empty bottle into the grass. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was a unit in a brown brick building divided into four homes, with a chain-link fence, several feet of grass out front, and three steps leading up to a small cement stoop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Cole fingered blades of grass under his left hand, then broke off a few and brought them to his bps. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The craze was for several people to sit on the grass around a single Walkman, passing the headset around. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog romped through the daisies and weeds and tall grasses growing along the tracks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I can hear crickets singing, and smell the grass, so we must be in the country, and it must be night. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped in a small clearing filled with tall grasses and low bushes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Wisps of dried grass were glued all over him; he needed a haircut badly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The windows were blown outward, glass littering the grass in front of the house, nothing left of the door but a few charred scraps swinging on their hinges in the breeze. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Not a clue. Except that we’re cutting a lot of grass and I’m not getting much sleep. And this morning my mother said she was forgetting what I look like.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Tori brushed a piece of grass out of his hair. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dicey tried to remember the last time she heard Sammy laugh, and that had been laughing at Maybeth because a doll she made out of sea grass had been washed away by a wave. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He adjusted the string straps of the satchel, and set off over the tussocky grass. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We took the fine saddlebags off the horse and filled them with salves and herbs, blue grass for washing my hair, extra sweaters, dried peaches. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sliding back to her camp, she heard the grass swish and looked up to see Amaroq and his hunters sweep around her frost heave and stop about five feet away. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who is Stephen? He the one that weeds and cut the grass?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her feet squished in damp grass as she crossed to the statue, thoughts of treasure chests in her head. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It took no notice of this remark and immediately began eating grass. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She walked obliquely away across the grass as though trying to get rid of him, then seemed to resign herself to having him at her side. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Hazelnuts scattered out upon the grass from the rush basket he was carrying. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

First one, then two, then a third and fourth—four lifeless baby sparrows, scattered in the short grass where they had been thrown from their nest. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Going through the shed door one morning, with her arms full of linens to spread on the grass, Kit halted, wary as always, at the sight of her uncle. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

On January 16, McCandless left the stubby metal boat on a hummock of dune grass southeast of El Golfo de Santa Clara and started walking north up the deserted beach. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was woven with dried grasses so it reminded me of a wicker basket. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“No wonder, look here! That old snag was halffull of leaves and grass. Why, it was a regular old den tree.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed at the grass, his spear tucked under one claw. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They beat it in unison as if beating down grass were a dance, grunting softly in a long, low rhythm that ran back to us from the head of the file. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hit Flatnose in the middle of the forehead—an insignificant little stone, but the huge man collapsed in the grass at Dustfinger's feet like a felled tree. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The grass had become a field of dark daggers standing upright, churning and crumpling in on themselves. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led the way into the next field, a pasture: and here they all fell to feeding, nibbling their way over the grass as easily as though their warren were close by. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to touch the grass with my heel like all these times to make sure it was still hard. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Helene looked about the tiny stationhouse for a door that said colored women, the other woman stalked off to a field of high grass on the far side of the track. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

My earliest Mother memories lie laughing blue-eyed in the grass, child herself, rolling side to side as Rachel and Leah decorated her all over with purple-clover jewelry. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s amazing what you can hear when you’re stretched out on the prairie grass. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Leaping clear of the wires, he skimmed the grasses so swiftly that they barely parted. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The horse, which had been contentedly ripping up and masticating a clump of thick grass, stopped then. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He rolled into the grass, a soft landing. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z