Finally they stood by the lighthouse, exhausted, surrounded by water on three sides, pale green in the harbor, azure behind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the girl bending down to the sleeping dog, who, at her touch, opened one liquid eye, matted in the corners with what looked like green glue. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her green tank top, her beige shorts, and her hiking boots, she looked like she was ready to climb a mountain—and then fight an army at the top. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I stomped and stomped on it till it was green plastic splinters. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the dark green wool winter hat out of my backpack and pulled it on. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then the girl scythe, in emerald green, handed Esme a plate. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Then I placed the twigs on top of the grill, where the green wood would smolder rather than burn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to bring us in by that green cross!” he shouted. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

All of them had green shutters and all of them had green doors—except for one, whose shutters were as yellow as sunlight and whose door was as red as strawberries. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The painting over their fireplace, by Daniel Aronstein, was a modem depiction of an American flag: strips of frayed muslin layered with oil paints in greens and mauve. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then another wave rolled over her, and when she looked up and peered around again, the green smudge was...gone. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The driver emerges, a round white man in a green coat and cap. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the woman in green—Scythe Rand—emerged from the kitchen, bringing with her a man Easley’s wife had recently hired. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The seeds sprouted quickly, sending up delicate green shoots that I kept carefully watered, going several times to the well nearby for the purpose. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the quiet, the dull beiges and greens, the familiar farm chores, the complete lack of other people—this used to be my life; it used to be enough. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

"On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Both were clad in boiled leather and mottled cloaks of brown and green and black, with branches, leaves, and brush sewn about their heads and shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The queen was dressed as modestly as any matron, in a dark brown gown that buttoned up to her throat and a hooded green mantle that covered her shaved head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The man in green swung at Joey and Joey ducked a little and used his right to hit the other guy so hard it sounded like somebody had slammed a melon with an ax. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

My parents dead, and the green and white floor tiles beneath them. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Nothing green except the cactus and spiny plants. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were assigned a list of colors to study, not the hues, but the words themselves—“red,” “blue,” “green,” “black,” “orange,” “purple,” “white.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now there were woods, twisting rivers, and dark green hills. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

We were pecking through the piles, looking for all the green and black ones. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The shadows cast by the trees made a basin of cool green shade. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Emily pokes her fork into a baked chicken nugget that sits next to wilted green beans and an apple on her lunch tray. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

After being dropped off at the Bar Harbor green, Molly walks over to the library, a brick structure on Mount Desert Street. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His voice was lower as he moved away from the window and walked along a green wall, looking at the rusting clothes lockers and the faded posters advertising old prizefights. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took the green leather writing case from his tote bag and looked at it longingly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This, he supposed, was the crash, though he couldn’t imagine where all the green light came from. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Inside, the fire hissed and snapped and cast flickering shadows across the glossy green walls. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Someone had left a package inside her storm door—a box wrapped in green paper with a red bow and a white envelope taped to one end. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were unquestionably different from woods further south—darker, more shadowy, inclining more to black than green. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier in a green uniform and black jackboots walked in. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I waited for green mist to billow from the mummy’s mouth, like it had before, but nothing happened. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Her curly hair is in a loose bun, and her green eyes are outlined with dark eyeliner. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We picked out three colors: aqua, pale yellow, and a bright green. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

My palms are faintly green, for like everything else on the ship, the tiller wheel has turned to copper and has oxidized green in the salt sea air. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In an instant, the green hangings became scarlet and the silver became gold; the huge Slytherin serpent vanished and a towering Gryffindor lion took its place. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

My favorite is the luna moth, huge and pale green, with crescents on the wings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A heap of tiny pale green clams no larger than quarters soak in the deep porcelain sink. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This tree, unlike every other one she’d seen, still had its leaves—a massive cloud of green hanging low over the grassy land and supported by a mess of tangled branches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The image of a new species popped into my head: the rare seafaring green orangutan. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

One green eye and one black one peered out from under a lank fall of hair so blond it seemed white. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"And then—hullo! What's wrong with the Human? It looks pretty green. Why, I do believe it's quite faint. Perhaps it's mortal hungry. When did you last have a meal, youngster?" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

They looked almost green with infection, and Seven tried hard not to gag from the smell that had overtaken the valley as they transformed. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I wished we were back on the other side of the white line, heading back to the quiet green stretch of the campus. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The green notebook I had gotten so used to seeing her carry around was on top of the mattress. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

First a solitary thin tube of green, then two leaves opened up from the stem—one on each side. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord, honey, if it moves Arrabelle can cook it. And if it don’t move, she can always throw it in the pot with some greens and hamhock.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the traffic light turned green, I told him, “I don’t mind shaking hands with human beings. Are you one?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The compound is thick with people this morning, all dressed in green or dark blue uniforms that pool around the ankles or stop several inches above the shoe, depending on the height of the person. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I once saw a small green snake rub itself against a stone until its old skin peeled away, transparent and thin as paper. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Meggers’s “law of environmental limitation of culture,” her critics in essence say, is nothing but a green variant of Holmberg’s Mistake. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Garrett’s rind is still on his plate like a wide green grin. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

All around us, green mountain peaks jut into the gray sky. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad’s found a spot for the truck on the side of a cobblestoned road, and town houses of all colors—pink, blue, green,and more—line the street with rusting balconies. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

They dived into a trench as the green starburst of Greek fire singed Leo’s hair. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I wore a pair of green corduroys and a nice blouse with embroidery around the collar. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A flicker of green movement near his foot made him start briefly, but it was only a tiny lizard. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The fence surrounding the two green courts was as rusty as the playground equipment. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Far away to the left the river Entwash wound, a silver thread in a green floor. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When the light turned green, people mostly just passed by, their eyes on the road ahead. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After that, the four of us wander the mall, trying on purple lipsticks and eating sour apple candy slices crusted in sugar that turn my tongue green. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘Tall, thin, with gray and green eyes?’ asked Doctor Copeland suddenly. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even as the four of them stepped into the high green and gold grasses, a small orange kitten was worrying a big old hen into a frenzy near a rotting stump. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Habib took a handful of sugared almonds and made a pot of green tea. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They did that often, slowly detaching themselves from their friends, to sit in a corner by the library or take a walk in the green behind the laboratories. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I started to lower Doreen gently onto the green hall carpet, but she gave a low moan and pitched forward out of my arms. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

A wave of frantic, frustrated frogs, big ones, little ones, brown ones, green ones, men frogs and women frogs, a wave of them broke over the bank, crawled, leaped, scrambled. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, fireworks, bursting loud and bright against the green folds of the mountains. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The ceiling lights in the limo changed color from violet to blue then to green and to yellow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The long rows of onions looked endless, their sharp green shoots already half hidden by encroaching weeds. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

First, I pulled a striped green seersucker for my center pentagon, put a piece of strawberry-print cotton on the longest side, and kept going until I had my own perfectly mixed-up square. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Up the aisle, the moans and screams merged with the sickening smell of woolen black clothes worn in summer weather and green leaves wilting over yellow flowers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went on with his painting, covering the green shutters with sunlight yellow. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

A little boy spilled green paint all over my favorite pink shorts and when I yelled at him, Father O’Malley told me I wasn’t setting a good Catholic example. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The river with its spring tide racing seaward reflected the color with dashes of green and gray. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Gerris pointed to where a corpse slumped against a brick wall, attended by a cloud of glistening green flies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her eyes swept the surrounding hills and through them I saw for the first time the wild beauty of our hills and the magic of the green river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought for a moment, then said triumphantly, “Like Jojo. Then it gets tall and strong and green, like you, Papa.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Their greens are good, and so are their roots—a little strong and milky, but you get used to that. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Embarrassed at being singled out that way, Hannah spun around, right into the arms of a girl her own age, who looked at her with great, startled green eyes. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light turned green and Moss pedaled through the intersection. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was summer now, so the woods were a new and different place, alive with green and filled with birdsong and swarming mosquitoes and pesky blackfly. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She became a speck of glowing green, and then she was gone. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He indicated his bag on the carousel—a green army surplus duffel—and let me pick it up. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She tapped the green sheet and smiled, tossing Ivy a thumbs-up. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The road left the green valley at once, and we were up in the hills again. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As I grew older, my thoughts turned more and more often to the green hills of the Transkei. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow the rise of a rugged, green landscape, dotted with houses and buildings that look so tiny from here, they’re almost unnoticeable. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Far out on the distant water, a few red and green lights glowed like fairy fire—the running lights of clipper ships crossing the Gulf. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They sat in the kitchen and rolled dough, chopped green onions, minced garlic, offered bits of cucumber to Aziza, who banged spoons nearby and played with carrots. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Uncle, I—" "Kneel. Or are you too proud now, a lordling of the green lands come among us?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was heading for the green fields of left, and the runt kid, sounding like two runners with his flap-soles slapping the bottoms of his feet, was chucking dust for third. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They would have alerted you, but we gleaned them,” one of the other scythes said—a woman in green with PanAsian leanings. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There was dirt everywhere like red chalk dust, and me with my good green linen suit on the outside, wouldn’t you know. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bring a can of green beans and some applesauce up from the cellar. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall dividing our side of the house from the bar was made from shiny sheets of fake wood panelling, but the rest of the walls were rough, splintery boards painted pale green. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sunlight dappled green and silver and gold through the leaves in the apple orchard. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There's a green sign on the corner with 74th written on it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know the color green had so many smells. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He's practically shouting, and he's wearing a green sport coat. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the rats could detect the handful of greens he’d eaten hours earlier, they must have an unbelievable sense of smell. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The water becomes rich and blue, the trees turn green, the mountains in the distance are indigo. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The river in the valley was wide and green. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His glowing green eyes fixed me with a hungry stare. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

This time he found fabric in front of him—heavy green velvet: the curtains of the study. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land here was hilly and green, forests tucked in close beside the road, and the air smelled of pine. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing a green headscarf decorated with white teardrops, and makeup that shows off her dark eyes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There had been times — oh, such long ago times — when people’s lives had been golden and green. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the water begin to pull back from the rocks below him, saw the seaweed sucked out in long green tresses, saw the ocean yanked away from the dark, sharp mussel beds. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I had breathed fresh air, walked on paved roads, mingled freely with white people, rested upon green grass and eaten free hot dogs given to me by whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After delivering the water home and snapping green beans into a big pot to steam with a cinnamon stick, Sitti took Liyana to meet a neighbor who was stringing orange beads on nylon thread. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Ned grinned and unhooked the fish, revealing a green and yellow spotted fishing hook. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Let’s talk in green,” her son would have told her, trying to distract her from her misery. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wonderful,” Papa said, taking in the bright orange cubes of sweet potato nestled among the fried green beans and onions. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The only thing visible in the intricate tangle of hair was the teeth striped with green slime and his motionless eyes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Even this late in the year, the lawns were still a fresh-looking green and flowers hung on in the gardens. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Roz wandered the island, covered in dirt and green growing things, and everywhere she went, she heard unfriendly words. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Just a baby, drowning in an oversized Indy 500 shirt, complete with checkered flags and a bright green race car. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Perhaps something had caught his eye, a likely habitat for microbes, say, or a patch of green where none should be. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its spherical stone eyeballs, as big as apples, were iridescent green. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’d draw a rose, with a velvety red bloom and a green stem and yellow-green leaves coming from it. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It went up with a whoosh as swirling tongues of green and yellow fire leapt up crackling all along its length. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She took my hand, and the silent, magic powers she possessed made beauty from the raw, sun baked llano, the green river valley, and the blue bowl which was the white sun’s home. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Padva turn at the sound just in time to witness the creeping black fade into snow-bright white at the bottom of the skirt, until all evidence that the gown was ever green is gone. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

By the time Henry comes wandering into the kitchen in his pajamas, there’s an entire breakfast spread on the long green table, and Alex is at the stove, flipping his dozenth pancake. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Finnick goes to hammer the spile into the green bark of a massive tree with a rock, but I stop him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a large, sticky chocolate cake with Happy Birthday Harry written on it in green icing. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The afternoon died away; the circular spots of sunlight moved steadily over green fronds and brown fiber but no sound came from behind the rock. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

His hands were pale, with green veins and fingers that were like parasites, and he wore a solid gold ring with a round sunflower opal on his left index finger. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There are fine autumn days when the Shannon sparkles and the fields are green and glinting with silver morning dew. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The plan was that Auntie Buzz would go green by not having a car and we would save the Earth by carpooling. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He reaches into his pocket, pulls out a crumpled green bill, and presses it into George’s hand. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The rest of the rabbits, roots, greens, the rolls spread with the last bit of cheese. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She served mashed potatoes with butter in pools on the top, and green beans. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cold green ocean and a hot gold strip of sand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Probably a bit green by now, but I’ve still got them right enough.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The younger, no more than fifteen, had an even longer braid, dyed a garish green. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We took another left, past a furniture store and down the street, until Sohrab pointed to the green awning above his uncle’s grocery store. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even my hat would go; its green was sun-faded and brown, like a leaf struck by the winter's snows. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We arrive at the park—a waterfront park with benches, leafy green trees, and round concrete garbage bins. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He rode his horse slowly through the long stretches of green that separated the pastures, asking after her as he went, until he spotted her on the path that led to her hut. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was richly green: the color of newly budded leaves, of luminescent moss, of every possible shade of pine needle. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I reach out and touch the green rail, running my thumb across a ridged section where the paint is chipped and flaking. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The green jacket did its best to warm her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The press was an enormous lime green contraption, rollers and conveyor pulleys in a cast-iron housing; it started with the hesitancy of a nineteenth- century locomotive and shrieked and bleated while it ran. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a green, rank-smelling place, humid and enclosed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran across it and came to a dry riverbed lined with green. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Undoubtedly the special-effects department would give her six green legs and a pair of antennae, which Curly found intriguing to contemplate. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That I’m the closest thing to glory he’ll ever see on God’s green earth. What does, your daddy say about you?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I asked, nodding at the green blob a lunch lady offered. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Her armor is varying shades of blue as well, from oceanic to berry, with her green sash cutting across the breastplate. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jerome Paisley slipped the key card into the slot and was pleased to see the green light come on. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

We threaded our way through the crowd at the Number One Department Store, searching the store for just the right green schoolbag, large enough to carry ten big books. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared hopelessly at the tangle of red, blue, green, and white wires. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was no longer straight and flat, but had begun to dip, and now it ran at the bottom of high banks covered with green plants. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Underneath that towel I start to see ugly green. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Pines covered the hills, and maybe at dusk they looked black, but when we saw them at midday, they were dark green. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The routine of the house flowed on as usual; for me there was sleep, mush, greens, school, study, loneliness, yearning, and then sleep again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tracing with her finger the white and pink-tinged clouds against pale skies of gray or green, Kira wished again for blue. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day she made a stew with green beans and tinned sardines. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

To people born into a landscape of rock and fog, the conflagration of green must have been a dazzlement. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

With his tail pulled taut and the wind whistling through his fangs, Redtooth howled as the trees went by in a green blur. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Even though Papi didn’t live with us, he often came to see us and once showed up with strings of red and green electric bulbs, which we tacked around windows and doors. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Aside from the granite and the green window shutters, the whole building was shining white with a new coat of paint for the new minister. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Let’s think about this logically,” said Eye, sniffing the green ink on the dollars. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

By Kristina’s twelfth birthday on April 16, 2005, pale green buds had broken out in the oaks in front of the Links’ house. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She packed only one small green suitcase for the both of us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There was the same cool green light from the canopy, the same refulgent smell, the same awe-inspiring sense of variety. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the end the green skirt and beige skirt were sandwiched around the ivory blouse; the mauve sweater was layered in with a gray skirt Callie thought Theresa would have worn with it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a green Nature Conservancy T-shirt with pictures of endangered whales and tigers and stuff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to be wearing green or blue or something today, but I wasn’t. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

From each summit the panorama was sensational—for as far as the eye could see nothing but heavy green woods, denim-blue lakes, and lonely, undulant mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at him fiercely, almost a glare, and Moody saw that her eyes, which he’d thought were hazel, were a deep jade green. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s night when we land on the green of the Victor’s Village. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“No big Magnolia mystery after all. Just another homegrown calamity claiming a thousand small green lives. Faith.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They were in pairs—a yellow one and a green one together, then a little space, and then another yellow one and another green one. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Giant eagles circled the battlefield, doing aerial combat with two snake-haired ladies in green Bargain Mart vests—Stheno and Euryale. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I nod jerkily and realize that his eyes are not blue or green but a deep chestnut brown. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Since our applications for green cards were "pending," the government wouldn't give us the boot, unless our application was denied. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“May I pack the small green suitcase just for myself?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had cool green eyes and jet hair, a quick smile, and was the type of girl Jem fell for with monotonous regularity. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He looked lovingly into the flowing water, into the transparent green, into the crystal lines of its wonderful design. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of the menacing green of army uniforms, the shine of boot and gun, he saw a brown caftan and flat slippers and a familiar face that took him a moment to recognize: Miss Adebayo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Like sea things retreating with the ocean’s tide, water snakes and muskrats went back to the green areas along ditches and in the dampest vegas. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, a cool green shade, overgrown with trees and ivy: home. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Her beige apron with the green palmetto trees was around her waist. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ty'ree said Puerto Rico was like what pictures of Paradise look like—all green and warm and pure. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Our house was like a landmark: People knew to look for the big yellow house with the green roof. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Yet no one made a sound; and as the minutes passed, in the green shade, his feeling of triumph faded. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She owned herself for a few hours every week was how she looked at it, to tug weeds, pluck caterpillars, thin out the sour greens, and glare at anyone planning incursions on her territory. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Every house is huge and hulking, but crammed together with only slivers of plush, green grass between them. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My bangs weren’t the same shade of green as the Neon Iguana hair dye in the jar, but they were green. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She arrived with suitcases, a green sack, a full-grown daughter, and a granddaughter, and found her brother truculent, inhospitable, embarrassed, and unforgiving. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a green silk dress that made her seem as if she belonged on that green velvet couch with that green-and-gold wallpaper. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I am wearing a long black dress with gold cuffs and a lacing of green braid, a comfortable favorite. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

Soon the red and green running lights of the coaches’ launch disappeared upriver. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

She wore a white dress, turquoise cotton gloves, and an emerald green turban on her head. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong followed Somkit down the aisle that divided the room in two, squinting against the bright green glare. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The first one said “What We Want” in green letters. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three green suits backed up and dropped to their knees, hunching down to get the metal ramp between them and the shooter. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Even the girls working the chip counters and tables wore glittering green sheaths of silk and had their hair tinted a dark, unnatural red to mimic the look of girls from the Wandering Isle. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Pushing her way through the saplings and fallen branches, she found the arrow thirty yards into the trees, its red fletches bright against the mottled green understory. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I'm standing next to the truck, straining my eyes to spot one of those green street signs on the corner. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Mariam wore a cream-colored dress that fell to her knees, cotton trousers, and a green hijab over her hair. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Aphros looked like his brother, except he was blue instead of green and much, much bigger. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A can of spinach, two cans of green beans, a box of rice and another of instant mashed potatoes. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Harry saw his face reflected, upside down, in the smooth surface of the green potion. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The woods were on the move, creeping toward the castle like a slow green tide. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Two rows of trees stretched their branches toward the sky, reaching across the trolley wires and holding hands with their sisters on the other side, giving the street a huge green parasol in the summertime. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the towel I held, formerly solid yellow now with faded green splotches. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

We cross Queens Boulevard, not rushing, stopping at the center island and waiting for the next green light, terrified of the racing cars. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then fireworks exploded over the church in red and green and blue bursts. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After carrying countless kettlefuls to the green beans that morning, my arms felt as if they would fall right out of my shoulder sockets. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It looked like iced apple juice, with a green straw and a paper parasol stuck through a maraschino cherry. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But above us, forty feet from the ground, Timothy said, was a feast Big, fat green coconuts. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even had little gold earrings dangling from her ears and a green jeweled bindi on her forehead. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was thicker than any other potion Anya had seen, and instead of being a soft green, it was a dark, dark red. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And Ethir Anduin he saw, the mighty delta of the River, and myriads of sea-birds whirling like a white dust in the sun, and beneath them a green and silver sea, rippling in endless lines. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I see Sandy scratching at his shoulder, pushing the T-shirt sleeve up, and I see blue and green and yellow on his pale skin. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The flowers in the corners of the page were pink, with green tendrils and leaves. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She wore a long-sleeved leotard, with a big plume of peacock feathers fanning out from her butt area, studded with glittering blue and green sequins and trailing black-sequined feather boas from her wrists. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Roll after roll until the distance from the ship to the dock was aflutter with paper ribbons—red, yellow, blue, green. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The green light on the machine went off. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And to the east of us, behind the river, a rising rumple of dark green hills folded on each other like a great old tablecloth, receding to pale hazy blue. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Were setting down in that park,” Leo announced, pointing to a wide green space dotted with palm trees. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was spring, and everything was beginning to turn green. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her favorite piece was a casserole shaped like a fish and the green glass coffee cups. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so, just like that, we found ourselves heading for Roanoke and the sweet green hills of old Virginny. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The green paint in front of her blurred. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Small holes grow, like white stars against the green paint, covered again and again by our mother. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Not the growing green of the trees all around, but a dull olive, a color death might wear when it claimed these trees. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then his eyes open, unmistakably blue in the brown mud and green leaves. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When my dizziness cleared away, I found myself sitting on a small bed sheltered by a kind of abbreviated dark green canopy. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy had given her twelve dollars to buy me a new dress, and the lime green one was eleven. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Vast clumps of seaweed swayed in the current, forests of red and blue and green and all hues in between, home to creatures that had never existed in the natural world. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

This was a normal glow, nothing to get excited about, that faint green. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another time he tried a new variety—Rainiers—that wouldn’t take because he used too much nitrogen: lots of green, plants high and fluffy, but small hard fruit, a piddling harvest. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When we arrived at the United States-Mexico border, Papá told us that we had to cross the barbed-wire fence without being seen by la migra, the immigration officers dressed in green uniforms. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

One man has painted his face green, white, and orange like Ireland’s flag. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

With scarlet cap and coat of green A cruiskeen by his side. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Others stare at the pale green walls around them as if the answers might be there. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, the inside of the mech’s eyes light up, bathing the metal around them with a green glow. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She slipped another fabric over the green, a soft yellow stripe. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The parent would sit on the bench and read while Scarlett would wander off the path, a splash of fluorescent green or orange or pink, and explore. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

My arms shook on their own, and the green spiky leaves and toxic red berries of hollies growing alongside the road started to look appetizing. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Where they come from, out of the green? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

When the soldier left, the man in green took off his helmet. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I also have a white plastic sunglasses case with colored shells and sequins and a green plastic starfish sewed onto it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The part that you ate was called the heart, and it was a pale green crunchy stalk somewhat larger than a celery stalk. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land around them was hilly and green, turning slowly gold, then hazy purple. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Purple mountains reaching towards angelfeather clouds; a falcon soaring in a calm blue sky; God combing His sunshine fingers through green pastures straight out of the Psalms. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blue, green, red, gold and violet flickered and shimmered neon-like on its surface as it struggled. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Your eyes are really green. They almost look fake.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The fountain she spoke of rested in the center of the green space and was also frozen. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly where Nico di Angelo had been standing was a potted plant about five feet tall, with drooping green leaves, tufts of silk, and half a dozen ripe yellow ears of corn. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I lifted my camera and snapped a shot of a green truck and white snow and black clouds and the friendly shape of a good man inside and red glowing taillights, driving away. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He arrived in the evenings, in his green uniform, holding a gossip magazine or two, while his ADC, at an obsequious pace behind him, brought his briefcase and put it on the dining table. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The king's armor was a deep green, the green of leaves in a summer wood, so dark it drank the candlelight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Against the waxy green foliage, melon-breasted Hindu women bent over double, offering up orifices like prayers to the well-endowed men who answered them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In her private chambers, the floors were green marble, the walls draped with colorful silk hangings that shimmered with every breath of air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

What happens to the corn plants and the luxuriant branching vines when the grain is harvested, the grapes gathered, and the black frost sets in, killing the fresh green life of the fields? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underfoot the healthy green turf was brushed with dew, and ahead of us we could see a faint green haze hanging above the grass, shot through with the twilight sun. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as he stepped across the lush green of the turf, Taran felt exhaustion drain from his aching body. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Some places had lots of trees, some did not; some fields were green, some were not, and the hills in the distance were like the hills in every distance. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a low-cut gown of deep green velvet that brought out the color of her eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They stand outside and watch as four SS men exit the front doors, green files tucked under their arms, striding toward Grevenweg. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The color of the leaf is exactly the same color as Jenna’s name—a bright, shimmering shade of green with some yellow highlights. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But the shambler caught in the bobbed wire looked almost normal: a white woman with long brown hair pinned up on her head, wearing a day dress of green linen. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I did not return to the merry-go-round until the snow was gone and the grass was greening among the stumps. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

London was soon far behind them, replaced by neat green fields that gave way in turn to wide, purplish moors, a great city alive with cars like multicolored ants, villages with tiny toy churches. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Vola took up the bowl, began stirring the green paste inside with her finger. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Dad owned the red, yellow, and green properties and had them loaded up with hotels just waiting to bankrupt us out of the game. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The empty green screen stared back at him; he saw himself in its curved glass, a story as still as the others had been antic. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above the blue hills a green star rose. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a soccer/non-American football jersey, with a green stripe across the shoulder, a red one across the chest, and the lightly drawn outline of a cheetah’s head on the stomach. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Behind him, I see that paramedic with the sandy hair and the green eyes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Joseph shuddered as he pushed open the green door and prepared himself for bed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was quite green, like thick glass, and you could see the bottom. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always thought it was black, but when I look closely, I see that it’s actually green—the color of the support staff uniforms. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

On this day—so close to the Day of Sacrifice in the Protectorate, or Star Child Day everywhere else—the green was just beginning to inch its way toward blue. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Joey just stood there, leaning against the pale green tiles of the wall, his arms folded, staring at me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The red light went out and the green light went on, and Wilson opened the door. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Bertha bustled around the kitchen, and before long the house was filled with all kinds of good smells and the countertops were covered with bowls of black-eyed peas and turnip greens. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

You watch all that noise and business, then look past them to the rolling green hills in the distance, with antelopes grazing under flat-topped trees, and it doesn’t fit together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were light green, unlike the eyes of anyone else I knew, and they twinkled as if they held stars. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then, coming down from the hills there will be a prince riding, bright in green and silver with a hundred bowmen riding behind him, pennants stirring, horses tossing, jewels flashing... The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I veer off the road, onto a path through the eucalyptus grove, down into the green canyon, to the little stream where I used to look for watercress when I was hungry. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting back, she placed the green feather between the pages and closed the book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

If we even suspected she might want more water or milk or green beans or anything at all, we would run to the kitchen to get what she wanted. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hera and Poseidon were having an intense discussion with another goddess in green and gold robes - perhaps Demeter. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He knew it would not last long; the eyes would begin to cloud and turn glassy green, then gray, sinking back in the skull. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But they move the harvest scene of yellows and greens and blues from Arles and hang the baby’s almond tree in the most prominent place in their flat, above the piano in the drawing room. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That I hate sea-foam green, and besides, it’s none of her business if my windows are dirty? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The floor and the walls of the garage were covered in green shag carpet. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

There were bulbs, tubers, and greens to be had. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mop of bright red curls spilled out from under a crumpled green triangle hat. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The brown algae waved in the gentle currents and the green eel grass swayed and little sea horses clung to its stems. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a small barred window beside the front door, the only one not hidden behind green shutters. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Knight after knight, clad in beautiful tunics of green and red and blue, helms shining, swords drawn, are sinking into the sea. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Dora is a great woman, a great big woman with flaming orange hair and a taste for Nile green evening dresses. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dear Earth everywhere blooms in spring and grows green, as new, Everywhere and for ever A blue sky in the distance for ever ... for ever ... for ever. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Built in the 1950s, it has white metal awnings and is framed in tall green trees. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I happen to love green beans, you know. When my dad sautés them in garlic with just a touch of olive oil...” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I work my way down at a diagonal, but I find nothing except more lush, green plant life. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were dark green and ridged and longer than her pinky. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Jutta painted the vessel in ecstatic purples and greens, and she set it on the water with great formality. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

All had swords at their sides, and were clad in green and brown of varied hues, as if the better to walk unseen in the glades of Ithilien. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Beyond them, cedars wove a steep mat of still green. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The dense tropical trees along the river’s edge towered overhead, providing shade along the banks, while big-beaked toucans called out with their harsh sounds and flocks of parakeets flashed their green, blue, and red feathers. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The green of the river passed through a bright orange and turned brown. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hits the corner of my eyes, and a green glow covers my vision. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A few guards fly up into the air on pale green wings, blades drawn. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the walls of green silk, his captains and lords bannermen were waiting to hear word of the parley. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But gram for gram, nothing in the universe comes close to the green speckled recluse; among other spiders, compared with the green speckled recluse, the black widow was a rag doll. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Everywhere. And trees. Such beautiful trees. All is green but the mountains with their faces of stone.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it looked like a lady’s dress with some green ribbon, but I wasn’t going to tell her that. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one boy stood still, pensively staring up at the lush green mountains that surrounded them. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her skin is a glittering gold, her hair the deep green of ivy. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The silk pavilions of famous people, pitched on every side, were azure and green and saffron and chequered. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched her as she began to eat, dipping a green bean into the salt before taking a bite. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The girls with blue green red purple hair shrieking into each other’s arms. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Popper telephoned the City Hall to see about a license for Captain Cook, the penguin did his best to disconnect the telephone by biting the green cord. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I clutched the rail and stared into the green waves, contemplating the fish who might soon be enjoying my breakfast, while my father stood shivering beside me in shirtsleeves. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“So you’re an artist, a musician, a green thumb, a fish lover, and a reader?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The little green squares around each look-alike house seemed more like carpeting that had to be kept clean than yards to play in. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The cave floor was covered with soft green moss. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The counters are avocado green, and most of the stools are torn. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mother wore her green silk dress with the full skirt. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The grass grew green again and the woods were full of wild flowers. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Yes,’ said Faramir, ‘of the land of Westernesse that foundered, and of the great dark wave climbing over the green lands and above the hills, and coming on, darkness unescapable. I often dream of it.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The rows of green cornstalks had grown to over five feet high, and in the morning breeze they seemed to form ripples, like waves in the ocean. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

‘My fair lady, clad all in silver green! We have never said farewell to her, nor seen her since the evening!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Five and you nearly were killed when I brought the fish in too green and he nearly tore the boat to pieces. Can you remember?” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he picked thistles or wildflowers from the green and wore them in the lapel of his jacket. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe on board the Hispaniola, flying before the wind, mooring by a tropical island with green palms crowding the mountains and bright tropical flowers—real ones—poking out between them. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the patrolman’s pocket was the bright green scrap of clothing that had snagged on the Mother Paula’s fence. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You gotta get right up on the vine to find the pods,” Grandma said, reaching into the tangle of green. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The salesladies and Mrs. Walton decide I should wear the green, pink, and blue striped silk blouse with pearl buttons and matching blue silk skirt for the interview portion of the pageant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Good turnip greens, eggplant, okra by the bushel, all kind a gourds. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In her lap is a kelly green Bermuda bag with pink piping and wooden handles; inside the bag is a tube of 7UP-flavored lip balm that she draws from time to time across her mouth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was easy to lose sight of him, but I could pick out my uncle among the rows of soldiers in those sad green uniforms. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The adder’s voice was a cold, dark, green velvet fog that threatened to envelop him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was the fear and awe I felt when Grandpa took me to a sawmill to watch the giant whirring steel blades whine and scream as they bit into wet green logs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle the pink flower have tiny green bananas. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made the fields once more rich with abundant fruit and the whole world bright with flowers and green leaves. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The cut had turned a nasty shade of green. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She removed one of the cloth flowers from her bouquet and twisted it into the top buttonhole of his green suit. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Above the walls, the darkening sky was awash with sheets of green and orange light. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

James watched the back of the green truck. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is dressed all in green, his mouth pulled into a grim line. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The hills and green grass and flowers are much nicer than what you get when you’re alive. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I think people say that, because it looks like a green cheese,” she said. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was some sort of grass underfoot but it was not green. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riding on its back was a red-skinned giant with flowers in his rust-colored braids, a jerkin of green leather, and a drakon-rib lance in his hand. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The salad bar has types of lettuce greens I’ve never seen before and at least twenty toppings. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I've got my dark green robe on, so when I look down at my legs and my arms, the shapes are right. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns off the light, and from the hall to the adjoining teen stasis room, a faint green light glows on the floor. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Though you murder the world, turn plains to stone, transmogrify life into I and it, strong searching roots will cracky your cave and rain will cleanse it: The world will burn green, sperm build again. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light from the door worked paths through the thick bluish green glass of the Coke bottles; his eyes followed the light until he was dizzy and sick. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dots of sun danced on the green walls of the shady grove above low bushes weighted with pigeon peas, the earth screened with twigs, sensitive moriviví plants, and french weed studded with tiny blue flowers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty dark in there, so I can’t see much—a wicker table piled with mail and magazines, an old-fashioned umbrella stand, and a green plastic watering can on the floor. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They smelled sweet and tangy, and the dish was colored rich gold in places and olive green in others. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

We wore those dresses with green ribbons in our hair and black patent-leather dress shoes on our feet. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the years I still had left to live and decided that without her it wasn’t worth it, for I would never find another woman with her green hair and underwater beauty. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had wispy brown hair and green eyes, just like you. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I love a fresh mouth, ah, a scented mouth, And curving hair, subtle as a smoke, And light fingers, and laughter of green gems. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no undergrowth, only the smooth grass, very green and fresh, and the big gray trees well spaced as though it were a park. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Gale and I divide our spoils, leaving two fish, a couple of loaves of good bread, greens, a quart of strawberries, salt, paraffin, and a bit of money for each. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

From inside his coat he pulls a slightly squashed chocolate cake with “Happy Birthday Harry” written on it in green icing. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

When there is a division between the old and the new, it is apt to express itself on the most time-honored of batdefields: the putting green, the tennis court, or the marine berth. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t realized that by trying to take the job, May would be driven mad, plagued with fits in which her eyes would glow green and she would have shattered glimpses of her child’s future. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And their growth to me was constant wonder—from the time the seed split and the first green shoots broke through, to the time when the young buds and fruit began to form. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't notice that the man's gray golf pants were wet from the green bathing suit he'd worn underneath. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Now I see the windows, that their frames are painted a forest green. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

On the first corner he reached there stood a café, with little green tables on the pavement and a zinc-topped bar and an espresso machine. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like the green canal between the dock and the Clara Belle, but I quit looking down and planted my foot on the side of the boat. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

If only Anya’s eyes were blue like the sea or green like an emerald. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Emma had just turned her head to ask Chess, “That is our Ms. Morales, isn’t it?” and Chess had replied, panting, “Neon green shirt, so, yes, I think so. It has to be.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are red, but the green shines even now—even amid all the swelling and bruising—maybe even more so. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma had put some okree and potatoes and dandelion greens and a big piece of Mrs. Brown’s cherry pie on the plate. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It already streams green and yellow down the side of the cone. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He left his tom green shirt dangling from the antenna of Officer David Delinko’s patrol car, which was parked outside the emergency room. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached through the green wall and a secret latch opened an ivy-laden door. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The valleys, far beneath them, were so green, and all the streams which tumbled down from the glaciers into the main river were so blue, that it was like flying over gigantic pieces of jewelry. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He was pleased to see that Roy wasn’t wearing a torn green T-shirt. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This close his eyes are more green than brown, and they dance with humor as a smile quirks his lips. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And the pearl settled into the lovely green water and dropped toward the bottom. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

A section of the hull broke off behind him with a loud crack, and green seawater began to gush inside. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Taylor looked around as if she were seeing everything for the first time: the arsenal, the unassailable wall of green, the volcano stretching up from the land like an angry fist of rock. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I always like hanging out in Soojin’s room, which is smaller than mine and painted a pretty green. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Newly picked greens lay heaped on the table with a thick mutton bone near them, ready to add to the pot of water that was already simmering over the fire. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But there was no mistaking the man in the hideous green hat. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

But the longer he stared at that water, that foaming green water, rising higher every second, the more certain he became: The Titanic was in trouble. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

They threw themselves into its lush green arms and it drew them in, hiding and sheltering them, delivering them from one world to the next. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They wear a green and white jersey with the same color shorts, though no one cares about that. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Astrid is showing a few people paint chips, which she’s lined up in front of her like tarot cards, versions of an apple green she and Donald are considering for the front hallway. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My dad had to break the embarrassing news that he couldn't, because he didn't have a green card, either. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Joey hung the smelly green pine tree from the rearview mirror and scooted out of the car to let me and Rufus smell her fingers. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lush green lawns, wide streets, and clean, new sidewalks lead to a small downtown area with a library for Sunny and a record shop for me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had no one to talk with now but the little green lizards that crept up my wall. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

A shadow fell through the green glow of her forehead phosphor. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart caught as her eyes found a notably large green book, thicker than any other she’d seen thus far. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Their faces lit up: a wallet with a pretty lip of green in the billfold! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sidman came out with a dark green poncho that covered her head and reached down to her ankles. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Sooner than later, the greens and my final nub of bread were gone. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was at a picnic, under an old oak tree, in a green meadow. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The green light was gentle about them and the conch lay at Ralph's feet, fragile and white. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was clad as a rider with a cloak of dark green over a coat of fine mail; on the front of his helm was wrought a small silver star. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Amari could see seabirds flying overhead, and she looked with the rest of the women at the faint hint of green in the distance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She points to a table in the corner, covered in green cloth. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t get out of here,” I shouted, “you’re going to be red instead of green, and I mean that.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a triangular volcano spewed green pixels of lava. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He got green paste all over my cheek and hair as he wrapped me in those big arms of his until I couldn't breathe. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There were green meadows on either side of the valley, and along the bottom of it there flowed a great brown river. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We brought collard greens and fried green tomatoes, Mrs. Mills,” Hannah said. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The plank has a little green moss along the edge, but it’s still plenty strong. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nate crawled along his uncle’s vegetable garden, tugging up weeds and flicking away fat green worms. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

When Olga got off the bus to transfer to another one across the street, she didn’t see that the light had already turned green because she was looking at her phone. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In fact, from the airplane all I’d seen were green fields. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She keeps hitting the big green button, but nothing is happening. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

A majestic green mountain sat in harmony with the deepening blue sky, the sun spreading its light for the last time before it set. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They were as green as her robes; sad eyes, full of wisdom. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She stuck her needles in the ball of green wool in her lap. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She vomited up a green liquid with dead leeches in it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

So he rode to a green hillock and there set his banner, and the White Horse ran rippling in the wind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“All right, guys, load up,” my mother cheerily yelled as she threw in one final bag and slammed shut the trunk of our lime green Ford Maverick. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Ma tells us only to pick the old dark green leaves and not the light green ones in our garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To please him, Alba gave up the bay rum as an adolescent and rinsed her hair with parsley water, which allowed the green to reappear in its full leafmess. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined that I was dressed in a green cardigan and wingtips. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

After school was over, the same four boys and I would set out together across the village green and through the village itself, heading for home. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before they disappeared behind the wall, one turned and shook its fist at them, a brilliant green flashing from its hairy arm. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Frodo looked and saw, still at some distance, a hill of many mighty trees, or a city of green towers: which it was he could not tell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Now he stared once again at the pale green pipes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The calico slipped out of its knot; I pushed back the layers of muslin and uncovered a rainbow of patches—ticking and shirt cloth, gingham and calico, in faded blues and greens and yellows. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But now our town was swarming with men in green uniforms and Kalashnikov rifles. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He has my father’s dark hair and hooked nose and my mother’s green eyes and dimpled cheeks. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Such a herd was very colorful on the green prairie. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

At dawn parrots pour into the sky as if an unseen hand is opening, letting go a glittering gleam of green. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The men of the green lands were made of softer stuff, though he was not certain they would prove soft enough. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The mint green bathroom fixtures were right out in the open. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’ll need or not, however, if your meaning is “regardless of whether ’: Richie wanted to wear the green one, whether it had a gravy stain or not. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Northward beyond the dwindling downs the land ran away in flats and swellings of grey and green and pale earth-colours, until it faded into a featureless and shadowy distance. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Anything that would make me appear more like a Londoner and less like a green country woodcock, I was more than willing to adopt. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fried chicken, boiled potatoes, and frozen green peas. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Their long green hair floated listlessly around their faces. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Still, I remembered too well the strange green mist—the spirit of the Oracle—that lived inside the mummy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Handing out red, green, blue, and black markers, Miss Garcia asks, “How many social units do you belong to?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The guava bushes grow close to the ground, their branches laden with green then yellow fruit that seem to ripen overnight. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t remember if his eyes were green, or if she was remembering them as green because Dyedka’s eyes were green. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had sandy hair and green eyes, and last time I saw him, he was taking my father away in an ambulance. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was thrilling just to see a plant, a spot of green in the ghetto desert. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

And then a deep, booming gong sounded somewhere beyond the woods, and at once, green and red lanterns blazed into life in the trees, lighting a path to the field. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even the greens, her favorite shades of greens, flee the trees and assault her with luminosity. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There when they arrived everything was delightful, soft green meadows, lovely groves, a delicious life-giving air, sunlight that glowed softly purple, an abode of peace and blessedness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, make sure you stop by and grab him a plate before you go visit him upstate. I’m sure by now he’s got a hurtin’ for our greens!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Among them, nodding on slender stalks, were other flowers, white and palest green: they glimmered as a mist amid the rich hue of the grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The grass was super green, and the brick buildings looked majestic in the sunshine. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

More dead jungle ruins flashed past, an astonishing amount of wealth and materials left to rot and fall back to the green tangle of the trees and swamps. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jewels danced when he moved his hands; onyx and opal, tiger’s eye and tourmaline, ruby, amethyst, sapphire, emerald, jet and jade, a black diamond, and a green pearl. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But it was there, safe and clear, winding its way out of the dripping green maze. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Matt remembered Tam Lin’s words about his master: He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips go light green right about the time her boys go charging down to the slippery dip. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Charlie points at the creaky old sign above the green double door. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They had deepened to a green so dark they were nearly black. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Indians as poster children for eco-catastrophe, Indians as green role models: the two images contradict each other less than they seem. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He noticed one or two yellow leaves and a faint touch of bronze here and there in the green boughs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the inside of a green mamba’s mouth is pure sky-blue, for example. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the fields the wheat seed sprouted and pushed spears of delicate green above the wet brown earth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“And all day long, my father followed us through the fair, carrying his prize, a large, green teddy bear. He was miserable. He kept saying, ‘Fifty-two? Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Harry said his fence would take root in places, maybe, and get green leaves on it in the spring. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

In a birdcage by the window, a green parakeet, the last surviving member of my grandparents’ former aviary, was moving back and forth on its balsa wood perch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Henry has green twine and I'm in charge of that project while down below, the workers dig a huge hole because this bamboo they brought is serious business. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And she vaulted up and forward on her staffs fulcrum, sprinting away into the green. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She tried to count the green beads on her rosary, but couldn’t concentrate. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The townlands were rich, with wide tilth and many orchards, and homesteads there were with oast and garner, fold and byre, and many rills rippling through the green from the highlands down to Anduin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The cat pounced on grasshoppers in the green tumbleweeds and ate them from the curve of her claws. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“On, on, green and white,” the cheerleaders sang weakly, one looking at the other. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

What I can see, between alternating pairs of lavender and mint green leather boots, is a street full of bodies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There was a flash of green light, a yelp, and the fox fell back to the ground, dead. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother was a remarkable Mexican with green eyes,” he said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The banks were just all green and the river went ahead to the next bend. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid pointed out the red, green, and gold Chinese school. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second reason we would be quite unlikely to see any little green men is that possible civilizations are bound to be scattered in time, coming into existence and then dying out. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You picked out a red and green skirt. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Their eyes were solid green, and their teeth were canine fangs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He tried to hold it back, but the wind swept down from the green coastal mountains, whipping the rain into gray waves that blinded him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She saw the gleam through the green, she could not resist it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were all kinds of green vegetables in the chow yuk—string beans and pea pods, and also pieces of diced chicken. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the serpentine S, inlaid with glittering green stones: It was easy to visualize it as a minuscule snake, curled upon the cold rock. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He let go of the device with his left hand, felt along the side until he found the trigger again, fingered his way to where he knew the green button to be. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was gleaming brass against the green velvet, an alto sax. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were lots of green snap beans, stalks of yellow sweet corn, Sea Island red peas, crookneck squash, benne seeds, and purple okra that looked like fingers reaching for the sky. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As his head flipped back, another boot cracked into his shin and a little sporting cheer went up, with some uneven applause, as though for a decent catch in the slips on the village green. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His green eyes burned and sweat glittered on his forehead. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The thing he could not speak of hungover the little green room like an invisible presence, ruining, it seemed to Ranofer, everything he did speak of. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Matt had never seen so much green in his life. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the yard, a doomed ash tree was green with new leaves. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The houses in the neighborhood were old but freshly painted, some in bright colors like lavender or kelly green. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At a place where the undergrowth ended and the papyrus began—the water’s edge in winter, now a stretch of mud—he stopped beside a spreading patch of some low, green plant. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Just as Ulysses loved the green world outside. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

When she got back, she handed Loo off to Ben, who was chopping something green in the kitchen, and then headed for her cabin. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She was so green and slight that it was hard for him to recognize her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sixth section was a rich dark green. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m getting some things together,” Mama continues, putting my T-shirts and socks in my green basket. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tearoom’s dampened gas lamps and forest green walls gave the establishment a cave-like feel. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He kept giving me those mean eyes, sharp green now in the reflection of the traffic light. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

For reasons beyond our control, we never ended up getting a green card through my grandmother. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But then, after another hundred yards, I could definitely see a lightening in the trees ahead, a glow that was yellow instead of green. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Going to St. Anne’s Church on Easter and choosing a blooming crocus in a green plastic pot covered with foil that was silver on one side, bright yellow on the other. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But both Brother and Mrs. Fowles laughed at that, shaking their heads like Mother had asked if they take their boat to the moon frequently to fetch green cheese. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, they buy a whole chicken, two pounds of rice, onions, green peppers, and all the sweet plantains in the store. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The undergrowth parted, low-hanging branches giving up their accumulation of snow, and Grey Wind and Summer emerged from the green. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a gray afternoon, the kind of gray that darkens and deepens the greens of leaves and grasses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dinner, Raymie’s mother watched in astonishment as Louisiana consumed four entire pieces of meat loaf and all her green beans. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

For about a week, I was glued to the news and wore a green wristband in solidarity. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The milkweed is as green in October as in July. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

And with that, the two wizards stepped one after the other into the bright green fire and vanished. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a cloudy, rainy day in September 1975, I packed everything I owned into an old green duffel bag and Ma drove me to the Greyhound bus station. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked into his green eye, and then his brown one. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I tell her about Mom’s devotions, about the summer of coconuts and how we’d spoken in green. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its shell was mottled blue and green, its pincers longer than my body. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As he moved through the grass around the pool, a small green frog wiggled out of the weeds ahead of him, and splashed into the pool. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance I saw a little harbor bobbing with colorful fishing boats, and beyond it a town set into a green bowl of land. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She pulled out an ancient black book to match the ancient green book, and blew away cobwebs from it. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Normally the underside of the green roof was lit by a tangle of golden reflections, and their faces were lit upside down-like, thought Ralph, when you hold an electric torch in your hands. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was Manderley, our Manderley, secretive and silent as it had always been, the grey stone shining in the moonlight of my dream, the mullioned windows reflecting the green lawns and the terrace. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Drugs were hid-den in tennis balls painted grass green and thrown over the double rows of twelve-foot fences and into the exercise yards. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Joyce was standing with his father and the kids, jumping up and down, holding high over her head a sign on which she had painted a large, green four-leaf clover. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There was a hint of spring in her sloe green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the harrow, for the next two days came the Fitzgibbons themselves, all four of them with hoes and bags of seeds, planting lettuce, beans, spinach, potatoes, corn and mustard greens. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They ran until they could run no farther, till a river of green was a river of blue, blue water that crashed and swept them in a wild torrent. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I looked into Beau’s eyes, one brown and one green, as his face plummeted down away from me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She crossed her arms, her puffy green vest crinkling. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some creature—Matty thought probably a fox or weasel—had inflicted a terrible wound upon the small green thing, and the frog was almost dead of it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Pacific Bell Park sprawled below as they took an overpass, the park’s bright green diamond empty. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I looked back and saw them standing there, staring after the kid in the green army coat, who was still walking in the other direction. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They made for a pretty portrait, the proud old woman all in green surrounded by the little girls robed and veiled in white, armored in their innocence. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He clears his throat, and his green eyes fix on mine, serious. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Upon the west to their right the land was treeless also, but it was flat, and in many places green with wide plains of grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The neon lights shed their endless blue- green glow. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pikes with the bitterness in him as deep as a black, charred well of green acid. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both wore flowing Greek tunics, one trimmed in blue, the other in green. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Chess stuffed it into the pocket of his windbreaker—his dark green windbreaker, which looked out of place in the midst of so many people wearing navy blue and orange. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She could hear no sound, but from there she could see what the green was. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Vdaryon's shining Pride of Driftmark was trying to turn, but the demon ran a lazy green finger across her silvery oars and they flared up like so many tapers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The fat kapo’s was green, meaning he was a professional criminal. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would savor every tear she shed and replace that sweet green flower scent with the salt of her sorrow on his tongue. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The water is a deep green outlined by dark brown patches of land. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Except for the hum of the green cathode tube, it's quiet. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was lunchtime and the shaded benches on the town green were filled with people sprawling in the heat. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

As I pulled off the sleeve, his pale green identity card peeked out from his interior jacket pocket. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Outside the castle, the starlings and green plover searched anxiously in the stiff grass. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry asked Dumbledore, looking up at the green skull with its serpent’s tongue glinting evilly above them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He extracted a book covered in rich green morocco leather handsomely tipped with gold. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She led the way to a bed where the green leaves were spotted with black. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

The petition for a green card has to be filed through an immediate family member, and the “child” has to remain unmarried. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The following midday Ranofer was the first to reach the little green room in the thicket. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Then, again without thought, he began to row slowly, rowing through the watchful ocean until the blue land changed to gray and then brown and green. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Caught in a lush, green trap, Indian villages could not possibly have grown as large as he reported—indeed, Meggers once proposed an upper limit of a thousand on their population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Long-sleeved tees and green paper cups lie crumpled on the side of the running path. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The room was maybe half the size of my bedroom back home: a twin bed with olive-green covers, and matching green curtains covering the small round window above it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As we pulled in, crowds of butterflies burst into the air, swirling and settling in flecks of color against a backdrop of vivid green. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She puts on a long, fur-trimmed green coat with frog clasps. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Their eyes met, and what she saw in the bilious melange of green and orange was not shock, or guilt, but a form of challenge, or even triumph. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They buried Beowulf's body in a great green fist of land that stuck out into the sea. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light turned green, and Ma slammed on the gas for two blocks before making a sharp left at the Anacostia Library, then a right onto U Place. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some people have even planted green herbs and flowering bulbs around the tents. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The green light turns off above our table. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

About mid-day they came to a hill whose top was wide and flattened, like a shallow saucer with a green mounded rim. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s not clear how Marina got the green light to form her group of women aviators. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Scrimgeour was already rummaging in his pocket for the mysterious powder that turned the fire green. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He was all alone, and he looked like he was falling out of the sky and into this cold green sea. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

You can see the Pennines all around the city of Stockport, green and bare with fast-moving stripes of cloud and sunlight gliding overhead like a Technicolor moving picture. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They were the same color Osh made by mixing purple and yellow, blue and orange, red and green. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They all held hastily made crosses of green juniper and piñón branches. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Wes rummaged through the closet, moving clothes and boxes from one side to the other, he came across a small see-through bag packed with a green substance. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

DeeDee lay back on the pillows, bare-legged under her green wool dressing gown, and watched me with a little mocking smile. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Daniels has written in green and he apologizes for not being able to read my writing. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

A soft green light bobbed deep in the woods. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Red awnings with thick green borders hung across the wide windows of the large, squat building. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe the people from the lime green houses just got tired of walking into this building every morning. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were descending into a valley, in the middle of which was a town that, from here, looked no bigger than a postage stamp, overwhelmed by green on all sides. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She watched the hearth of Hestia burning in the middle of the green as the cabins turned off their lights for curfew. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This morning, past the Cedar Falls train stop, Annabelle runs on a friendly path of crushed rock bordered with trees, all bright green and yellow with baby leaves unfurling. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Are the leaves on the trees very green now?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He wore a scarlet dressing-gown and green silk pajamas and a turquoise ring. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He wore no winter jacket, only a sleeveless green sweatshirt, which ballooned over his enormous stomach. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother’s gone four days now without vomiting the green bile. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Pork chops smothered in gravy, green beans floating in butter, cornbread hot and fluffy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Dr. Finch chewed ferociously on his lunch and eyed his niece, who was arranging lettuce, hunks of avocado, green pepper, and onions in a neat row on her plate. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It held a number of small plants, all of them the same kind, with stringy roots and dark, veined green leaves that looked like mint. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“So is it okay or not?” she asked, pushing back two lonely green beans to the edge of her plate. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not odd in the way Cecile’s green, prickly stucco house was odd in Oakland. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Powders to turn fire green or blue or silver, powders to make a flame roar and hiss and leap up higher than a man is tall, powders to make smoke. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She is thick around the middle, and when she wears her green polyester pantsuit, she looks like a Granny Smith apple. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her orange hair was piled in ringlets on her head and she wore a green eyeshade. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unbelievably, green vines wove their way through the coral. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The once fresh green of the trees was dark and drying now and somewhere down below a clothesline peddler clanged his bell and called. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For my debut, she gave me one of her gowns, pale green taffeta with a pleated skirt and a million crystal beads. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dressed in a faded green suit, he felt awkward standing before the microphone and bathed in bright lights. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It killed me a little that those bits of green were my favorite parts, what Arletta Paisley would have called the “perfect pop.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Kabuo stood at the wheel in his cabin with a cup of green tea on the table behind him and flipped once more through the radio channels. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the green bank near to the very point of the Tongue the Lady Galadriel stood alone and silent. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Nobody ran out at him, no flash of green light burst from behind a tree. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then while she wiped all the green cheeses and rubbed them with butter, she told them about the dead, cold moon that is like a little world on which nothing grows. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he approaches, I see that he has one green eye and one brown eye, like he’s two people in one, two very intense people in one. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was staffed by forty or fifty people, some in white coats, others in overalls, all wearing armbands of different colors: red, yellow, blue, and green. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The redbrick buildings are covered in vines, which will bloom green ivy in the spring. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even in these early days of March, the grass was green. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

His ugly green army bag lifted on his back along with a rifle. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was a clear, cool day and I reveled in the beauty of the Natal countryside; even in winter, Natal remains green. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Scalp Ceremony lay to rest the Japanese souls in the green humid jungles, and it satisfied the female giant who fed on the dreams of warriors. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He eases himself down next to me and pulls out a small green bottle. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There was a flicker like green fire in his eyes, and his beard stood out stiff as a great besom. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The waiting room has several nondescript blondwood chairs in it, with seats upholstered in olive green, and three end tables. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was just after dawn and the air was heavy with dew and Olanna wandered around in the damp coolness, under the green foliage of the forest, sidestepping thick roots. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Under him his legs wavered and he felt the room begin to turn dark maroon cast over with specks of green. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A green light flashed on the collar, right where she couldn’t help but see it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

What I don’t love: pink sofas, green chairs, plastic cover on a table, stained mattresses, old clothes, unmatched dishes. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Inside, gold and green lights skitter over the ground like tiny fairies. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The soft grass made a green carpet for them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the edge of his green cap between his thumb and index finger and tipped it to them. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She reached in the bag and pulled out two small green turtles. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flipped back and tapped at the green highlighted quote with her fingernail. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The heat rises from the green hood, reminding her of the ocean the day before it wiped the beach clean of homes, God’s bits of wood. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The video starts in 1980 and then, like a horrific, crazy race, the dates go up and the green on the map goes down. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Every year he brought home a new batch of plants to try out in the yard; by August, the front walk had vanished beneath a tangle of green. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The old tree at which the saw was working was dead except one great branch that stood green among the masses of brown boughs. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The whole of San Francisco Bay spread out before us: the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, and the green hills and fog beyond that to the north. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful, with blond hair and big green eyes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Frank glimpsed a glowing green eye under one’s mane, and instantly he was hit with a wave of nausea, the way he felt when he ate too much cheese or ice cream. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We race to the elevators and dart between the legs of a tall green ogre about to step into Lucy. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As I walk, I search the horizon for a trace of green. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

As for Mr and Mrs Taylor themselves, I have ascertained that they ran the village green grocery here from the twenties until their retirement three years ago. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He walked away towards the edge of the green. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I always found it suspicious, because it had red kidney beans in it that looked like tiny eyes, corpse lights lit in the swamp of the green stew to draw weary Hobbitses to their graves. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The landscape had started to change, and here and there amongst the green were slashes of black where the Precambrian rock grafted sharp hills and cut into craggy cliffs. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We were a block away from the green stucco house, chatting and laughing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve chosen a safari outfit look for today—a white T-shirt and my favorite green jean jacket and a tan skirt that just skims my knees. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean my head against the car window, watching the scenery zip by, a tableau of dark green fir trees dotted with snow, wispy strands of white fog, and heavy gray storm clouds up above. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to laze away the afternoon at a dumpling house, sip plum juice by a green pond flickering with orange-and-white carp. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when he strained his memory during long hours in his cupboard, he came up with a strange vision: a blinding flash of green light and a burning pain on his forehead. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

We piled back into the old, dispiritedly lit coaches waiting for us, slumped into the uncomfortable green seats, and no one said much until we were miles away. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa explained that the flowers would close and form hard green bulbs which, in turn, would open to become cotton bolls. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She saw him for a moment, all black and green, the blood on his face dark as tar, his eyes glowing like a dog's in the sudden glare. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Another triggered a trip wire, and pots of Greek fire exploded into green flames, engulfing several of the snake women. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was sixty-four, but aside from his gray curls, he seemed decades younger, with smooth hazelnut-brown skin and youthful green eyes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In my dream the moon was full but it was green, bright green—I kept thinking, We’re in the limelight! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

All I could see was curly red hair, a freckled forehead, and curious green eyes. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He skimmed a flat stone over the dull green surface, and it skipped seven times before it sliced out of sight. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

And beyond Oakland was the bay, smooth as a pane of green glass. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had put on a green sequined dress in honor of the occasion, making her look more than ever like a glittering, oversized dragonfly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Conversely, when a rain squall is replenishing your fresh-water supplies, you also know that the humidity will affect your cured provisions and that some will probably go bad, turning pasty and green. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above, the surface of the water was a green mirror. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many I didn’t know, and others I couldn’t be sure about because they were so covered in green parasites. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They’d probably make her eyes a more intense shade of green. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

Every day, he took Thunder out and rode him to the green marker and back. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Staring at the back of Mei-li’s head, her short green and black hair, I tried to think for the first time about the girl’s side of things when it came to Diego. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

No matter what happens on God’s green earth, Father acts like it’s a movie he’s already seen and we’re just dumb for not knowing how it comes out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only then did I notice the green everywhere. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Through the green and yellow treetops below us I could see the water of one of the ponds sparkling in the sun. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I remain on the roof for a few more hours, and then I lie in bed looking up at the weird green glow of the galaxy Russ gave me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shimmering green mist hovers in the air around him. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Even Demetrius manages a shout or two, his green eyes flat and distant as if he is somewhere else entirely. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The green plush seats had a grimy smell. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was startled to see a live person in the shopcase, a hefty girl of about thirty, in a green, yellow and lavender chiffon dress. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I thought I could see her kicking at the bleached, known stones; the hard southern light surrendering to her boyish straightness; those clear green eyes, leveling on the rim of the arched sea. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Sleep!’ said Frodo and sighed, as if out of a desert he had seen a mirage of cool green. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He gives this painting more colors: blues and greens, browns and whites, orange. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Even a green boy should be able to see that. Are you blind?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the lords bannermen gave him queer hard stares as he sat there, as if they wondered by what right a green boy should be placed above them, and Him a cripple too. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry about your friend, Wallace,” Daddy said, still staring up at all the green. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Harry had torn open the parcel to find a thick, hand-knitted sweater in emerald green and a large box of homemade fudge. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have looked goofy were it not for the unimpeachably elegant green in her eyes. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

His eyes are my mother’s eyes—a dull green, almost gray, though his blue shirt makes their color appear more potent. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her green rhinestone-studded glasses slipped down her fleshy nose as she grappled with a tall triangular package and a stuffed shopping bag. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a two-storied building covered with pale green asphalt shingles. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

An empty green bottle flew through the air and shattered at the base of the stage where the director stood. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I followed a throng of spectators to a tent on a patch of green next to centre court. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing the sweater, I didn’t wonder how I looked, because I knew: basically like a fuzzy green potato. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The water glows green gold with the reflection of the surrounding trees. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They loaded up their trays as usual, to avoid suspicion, but carefully avoided touching their forks to anything but green vegetables. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured the world, all pretty blue- green and floating out in space, creatures and forests and deserts and cities. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

‘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

Far below lay the fields green with wheat, the flat pastures grazed by horses, the darker greens of the woods. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her green slippers were the most beautiful things he had ever seen. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not many guys have a sister with a green face.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We tend to look the other way when it's in a residential neighborhood. But right here, on the town green, we have to enforce the law. Otherwise we'd have someone selling something every two feet." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe the sun; maybe the clots of green showing in the hills promising so much; maybe the contrast between Shadrack’s doomy, gloomy bell glinting in all that sweet sunshine. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly in marched the gigantic figure of the Headmistress in her belted smock and green breeches. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Again he found himself thinking of the green park a year ago. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bright green lichens creep up the remaining bricks. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He could see his mother and Mr Hooper, turned towards one another on the green bench, talking and talking. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In the last bowl, dark green leaves mixed with cooked onions and the wrinkly purple things and some smallish white things. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“It fell,” she said from inside the green. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The backyards of these houses fell away in green slopes down to a strip of sand, and then the blue Lake Erie, lapping all the way to Canada. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A basket of fresh fruit and green tea-flavored snacks sits on the glass coffee table. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But get this: The boxes were light green football fields, with white grid lines at ten-yard intervals. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sat there perfectly still, its green eyes staring at him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Four of his were green boys, though, and none were giants. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They could see the rounded green tops of the great live oaks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His fur had darkened until he was all black, and his eyes were green fire. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And as he walked and sang the valley grew green with grass. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Its hide was dappled green and yellow, like sunlight through a forest canopy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Cheddar arched his back and in an attempt to appear fierce, showed his spiky teeth as his pale green eyes turned dark jade. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He was perfectly at ease, comfortable in the green maze, never seeming to feel any doubt about our direction. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"By the laws of the green lands, you might be. But we make our own laws here, or have you forgotten?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He did manage to find a clutch of hard green bananas growing along the road, but by midday, his hunger hurt so bad he thought he would faint from it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Next day they went on into northern Dunland, where no men now dwelt, though it was a green and pleasant country. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She returned with a freshly killed hen and a basket full of beet greens. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

About her feet in wide vessels of green and brown earthenware, white water-lilies were floating, so that she seemed to be enthroned in the midst of a pool. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Harry could see three letters addressed in green ink. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Just seeing all the green made Hanako feel better, and her energy surged. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I leaned over to look, I could see that most of the paper was covered with colorful guns—blue ones, green ones, yellow ones. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The deep red of plomms and the pale sand color of the beach itself, the black of the night sky and the green of the prairie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In her mind she walks a path in the Jardin des Plantes, the air golden, the wind green, the long fingers of willows drifting across her shoulders. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It all looked exactly the same to me—green farms, thick expanses of trees. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They put some strong logs in the ground and stretched green tarps across the top. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The microwave had stopped heating, but the little green oval halves looked exactly the same. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A green column of smoke, like a huge python, uncoiled from the mummy’s mouth and slithered down the stairs, curling affectionately around Rachel’s feet. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

At multiple depths, as far as I could see, there were evanescent trails of phosphorescent green bub­bles, the wake of speeding fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her green george wrapper hung stiff on her waist and made her hips look square-shaped. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Family members stood in line with people who were obviously homeless and waited their turn to be served chicken, and green beans, mashed potatoes, and bread, by Love. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the right-hand corner the green cathedral spire ascends into the pale blue sky of the evening. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the edge of the far field, beyond the pond, they grow wild; field cress looks about like watercress and, mixed with dandelion greens, it makes good green salad. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The division in the two tubes that resulted was very plain: the centre tube was white in colour, while the tube that surrounded it was decreasingly green as it approached the inner wall. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It has mouth parts adapted for piercing and sucking, and a prodigious appetite for the chlorophyll that makes the world green. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I peeked inside and saw a fresh tortilla, stuffed with rice and beans and onion and red salsa and green cilantro and grilled chicken. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Renewable resources, subsurface dwellings, artificial islands, and all without there ever being any less green or a sense of overcrowding. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The floors were the same, the windowsills were the same, even the tiles on the fireplace were the same color green. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Suddenly there were little green things everywhere! The soil was full of them!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they talked about picking broom corn, and as they talked and laughed I could see the rows of green broom corn and I could smell the sweet scent it left in their sweaty work-clothes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted Robin to his back and they went, down the green, to the brook outside the walls. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It lightens the polish to a bright vomit green and bleaches the carpet surrounding it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Desdemona would have felt no more ashamed had she herself been for sale, displayed naked on the green sofa, a price tag hanging from her foot. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

You have to pick an avocado that is darker in color, not too green. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

You can find calamansi juice and green beans for stewing at the farmers market, or a ton of Filipino restaurants and shops. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She wore a green chiton and laced sandals, and she was dabbing her eyes with a handkerchief. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The yellow ones weren’t “outward” rings and the green ones weren’t “homeward” rings; at least, not in the way he thought. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Next up, a song called “Road to Nowhere,” which is quite fitting, given what surrounds her—miles and miles of ranch fencing, and then brown and green and yellow hills marked with green scrub. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baxter gave us green beans and this thing with meat and potatoes all mixed together. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She had another song about the color blue, but the green song was one of my favorites. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I missed my school friends, I missed the mountains, the waterfall, the beautiful Swat River, and the lush green fields. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Daniels laughs, holding the little bumpy, bright green pea between his fingers. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Anyone can fight in the Summer Tournament, but if I want to be a knight, I must declare my candidacy by wearing a green sash across my chest. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It sits there like a beached ocean liner, the prow cutting through swells of green turf, windows without number. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tendrils got thicker, exuding a steamy green vapor that smelled of boiled cabbage. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Staring at thick, twisted tree roots, I scan upward, seeing green extending higher, glowing against craggy granite and rock. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She’s some sort of mechanized humanoid, made up of spare computer parts, all the leafy green vegetables that no one ever eats and thesaurus pages. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her on my bed, wide green eyes staring down at me. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dad did know all the rules about visas and work permits and green cards, because when students and researchers come to the university from foreign countries, they need one or another of them. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had washed the lawns, and the grasses and hedges shone emerald green. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three dressed alike, in green velvet trimmed with sable. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then, suddenly, there she is—that famous coppery green woman, raising her torch high in the harbor. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One egg was a deep green, with burnished bronze flecks that came and went depending on how Dany turned it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The room is cold, dark, barely illuminated with a faint green glow. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I went to my locker and brought out my green apron along with a stained heavy sweater. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Weasley took a small drawstring bag from his pocket, untied it, took a pinch of the powder inside, and threw it onto the flames, which turned emerald green and roared higher than ever. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The officer, who wore large, dark green sunglasses, must have heard us, because he glanced at us through the rearview mirror and said, “Sorry, can’t tell you his name.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The tallest was furthest away, standing alone upon a green mound. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And every green flash that disappeared was a life finished, one man for a fighter, a whole crew for a bomber. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Maybeth stood across the table from her grandmother and snapped the ends off the green beans. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, you can marry someone who’s an American citizen and receive a green card through your spouse. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was solid green and glazed with a clear lacquer. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Kind of a green smell that feels good inside your nose and down the back of your throat, like spearmint candy. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

An innocent teenager in the middle of God’s green hell with no telephone, and not on speaking terms with her parents? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There stood Mrs. Weasley, short, plump, and wearing an old green dressing gown. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Shallow lobes and a jagged border and hard veins that rose up from the rubbery green flesh. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could see nothing but a wall of green. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

We filled our entire car full of green grapes-—the trunk, even the glove compartment, and Dad piled stacks in our laps so high we could barely see over the top. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There in the last end of Egladil upon the green grass the parting feast was held; but Frodo ate and drank little, heeding only the beauty of the Lady and her voice. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Look at this. Disappointing compared to those old green bottles.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

"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

His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Tiny patches of green poked optimistically out of the cold earth. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I wear a green rubber hood and act in my role as the Speech Monster. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

I scraped off the green fuzz growing on a roti. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After she gets better I find a small knitted sock, pastel green, in my mother’s sewing basket. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We immerse the potatoes in pots of boiling water, then set out cilantro, green onions, and spices, plus yogurt and mint bunches for the chutney. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Once, Grandpa led Zack and me through the woods until we came across a huge piece of green foam that was half buried in the thick brush. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was water green in color, like the boat herself, and he thought that when it was in place, he and his vessel would be practically invisible. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her green eyes are ablaze with a mixture of hurt and fury. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

We went out the back door to the bus lanes, where an old khaki green bus, with a noisy engine and no air-conditioning, was waiting. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, there was an entire seam of rock, curving into the damp and deeply green forest, glowing like a river of embers. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The whole scene quivered vague and mysterious in the green light, then the door closed and the sound muted down. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shouted when my eyes fell upon the camouflaged men who jumped from the green truck that had crashed onto our property. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A green velvet dress with a wide ribbon sash. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was small and blond, in a neon green tank top that said E MOTIONS! Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It turns our village green into this underwater kingdom. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Leaving his family behind to pack up his library, White grabbed a birdcage “containing a talented green parrot” and drove toward a friend’s house where he hoped to store his possessions. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I look over strips of green grass lining the river, at church steeples and into the cream-and-copper halls of apartment buildings, I’m strong. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You better leave your things in the locker room," he said, opening a door through which I saw a room with low wooden benches and rows of green lockers. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flipped through its pages and carefully extracted a delicate green four-leaf clover that Joe had given her and she had pressed between the book’s pages. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He gave it a shake and the green stuff began to fizz like mad. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gently, gently, I picked at the knot in the frayed green nylon. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But they’re tall and thin and green and brown and big. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

A nurse in green long-sleeve pajamas met us at the metal slab. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My old nests were woven of leaves and sticks and shaped like his bathtub, cool green cocoons. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Ah, she was from another world, a world of beautiful dresses of muted greens and garnets. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thick green leaves tasted just like chewing gum. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Its green light was on its way to red. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

But in fact I remained a country boy at heart, and there was nothing that lifted my spirits as much as blue skies, the open veld, and green grass. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a fine morning for hunting, with the air still and the rising sun shining bright on the tall green grass and the greener leaves of the timber. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black fields with young green wheat, fields of rye, corn, and moors of heath. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One day, while she’s saying, .. got a white baby on one arm, green beans in the pot—” she stops. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There is so much green I cannot see the lieutenant. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Gaps showed between the planks, and as the weeks passed and the green wood dried out, the gaps widened. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children gathered up empty lard pails to collect the greens in and headed off to the coulee. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A hundred or so tufty little plants, purplish green in color, were growing there in rows. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a green dress tonight, and her hair was still in pigtails. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Trunchbull, this mighty female giant, stood there in her green breeches, quivering like a blancmange. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Along the roadside, oaks were spectacularly red against the green of pines. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The miniature Krum walked backward and forward over Ron’s hand, scowling up at the green rosette above him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The malls seemed so phony—all that glitter and shiny stuff—giant green balls and red ribbons hung from the ceiling, with signs like, The Magic of the Season Is at Midtowne Mall. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were peach trees, budded most delicately pink, and willow trees thrusting forth tender green leaves. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Neon signs blinked on and off in the street below, throwing pink, green, and blue mists against his smooth-shaven cheeks. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the photo, “G’pop” is leaned up against what looks like a white box on wheels with a big green W up under the driver window. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

At Broussard’s, I had supper in a superb courtyard under the stars—huitres variees, green salad, white wine and coffee; the same meal I had there in past years. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the multicolored bruises flowering under her green skin only remind me how impotent I am. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Her eyes glowed red, and her hair was a writhing nest of bright green snakes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It stood to one side of the green where the men practiced for militia duty, an exercise that Jonathan dearly loved to watch. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Later, while Bertha put turnip greens and cornbread and tuna casserole on the table, she told me we would talk about everything after supper. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Her long black hair is tied into a thick braid that reaches down her back, a green bow at the end. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Like maybe you got her green thumb. The two of us could plant something and see how it grows; test your thumb out.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves turned light gray and then green. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You won’t be killing anyone else tonight,” said Harry as they circled, and stared into each other’s eyes, green into red. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe my eyes were deceiving me, but I swear the skin of his upper torso was covered with patches of green moss. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It belonged to die half-grown child with the blond eyebrows and the long green braid. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But she isn’t reaching for the green book. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She pulled a stack of plates from the cabinet, then loaded each with baked chicken, mashed potatoes, and greens. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He leans close and whispers, “A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten...” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Then he wagged his tail so hard that he knocked some oranges off a display, and they went rolling everywhere, mixing in with the tomatoes and onions and green peppers. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He cut through another green curtain and savagely pulled on the handlebars, trying to bring the machine under control. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

There’s a hard little cushion on it, with a petit point cover: faith, in square print, surrounded by a wreath of lilies. faith is a faded blue, the leaves of the lilies a dingy green. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set up new hybrid crosses—tall with short; yellow with green; wrinkled with smooth. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Everything had the colour of winter, the faded lichen green, like a green velvet cushion which has been left in the sun for years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was red and orange and garish green. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Another long pause as they both peered at the gloom with her phosphor green paint lighting. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom of her light green sundress flows as she spins around. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The green welcome to abba town sign that led off the expressway would have been easy to miss because it was so small. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Albert’s green eyes were flecked with gold from the firelight, and he unconsciously lifted the bird charm he wore around his neck, rubbing it between his finger and thumb. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We first heard the bulls while we were eating our dinner of cornbread, roasted venison, and green watercress gathered from below the spring. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listened to it hit, falling like a dead bird somewhere out in the dark green. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Mist sank into the ground and the green light faded. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It had been emerald green, like the plumage of Dr. Dolittle’s parrot Polynesia. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was a tall window, and outside the window was the green, green world and the blue sky. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman—dark tangled hair, sea green eyes — runs toward us in nothing but a sheet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The flashing of white, pink, and green briefly transfixes me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

That summer of 1940, in Lansing, I caught the Greyhound bus for Boston with my cardboard suitcase, and wearing my green suit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaisa’s green eyes were flecked with brown, and her lips were shining from the water. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bathing suit is a blue and green splash of batik. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Red, blue, green, and gold drinks fan out like a quetzal’s rainbow of feathers across the six clear trays on Crick’s cart. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I do not think life anywhere else would look very much like a reptile, or an insect or a human— even with such minor cosmetic adjustments as green skin, pointy ears and antennae. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On that day she saw the proud house humbled; green silk and velvet blowing out of windows, and the garden trampled by many horsemen, and the big gate open. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was the morning when I thought I would fall dead from fear after I had stepped with my bare feet upon a bright little green garden snake. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alaska was holding a burning green candle in her hand upside down, dripping the wax onto a larger, homemade volcano that looked a bit like a Technicolor middle-school-science-project volcano. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The chamber was filled with a soft light; its walls were green and silver and its roof of gold. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The park sustained them, the green harbor they preserved as the town extended itself outward, block by block and house by house. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Lyra could see his dark eyes searching among the Scholars as they peered up at the slide of the Aurora, and the green glow of his daemon’s eyes beside him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The light turned green and Ben hit the gas. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

And it was cool, blessedly cool and green. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent my lunch period sitting in one of the green fields bordering the school, staring at the simulated scenery while I munched on a protein bar with my visor on. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Taking up most of the space in the poster was a full-length picture of a smiling, dark-haired woman in a green satin gown. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

We drove past the lime green houses and the citrus packing plant. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the trucks, the acres of cane are green and inviting. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unpacked a bag until I found my green jeans. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Luna cried, running in circles on the stones, each of her footprints erupting in green plants and lurid flowers. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The carpets on the floor were all different shades of blue and green, and in the corner was a sturdy square table and a chair with a back like a ladder. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Balls of green and orange flame crackled overhead, leaving streaks between the stars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The/ stood on cool, green grass, sprinkled with daisies and buttercups. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Raymie kept her right foot on a green square and her left foot on a green square and held herself very still. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was his houseplant, hopeful green leaves rising from three bamboo stems, and when she took it, a sudden crushing loneliness lanced through her and stayed with her for weeks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Turner was thinking of a quiet room and a square table covered with a green gingham cloth, with one of those French ceramic oil lamps suspended from the ceiling on a pulley. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There’s a martini glass filled with green liquid, a pack of cigarettes, and a pill bottle with a skull and crossbones label. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those green shoots weren’t going to cut it, not if I couldn’t even peel them open. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the top of her sack juts a sheaf of withered greens. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When the light turns green, he takes a deep breath and eases the car back into motion. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The kitchen fire fizzed in silver and glimmered green and violet. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a black ski mask and carried a large, complex green water cannon. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She wanted to place a memento in the dirt, underneath the green courts. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden everyone was looking off at the paintings on the walls or adjusting their collars—except for Emma, whose face was turning a certain shade of green. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Even if the snappers weren’t biting, we’d stay until sunset, hoping to see the green flash on the horizon. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

After a second he hauled up a scummy green rucksack. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the while, I kept my eyes open for bugs or greens that might appeal to our hungry baby screecher. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She was only supposed to feel that smooth base when the tree tips were green and the swallows were awake and singing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Soon they were stealing through the green, noontide depths of Mossflower Wood. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The two rows of green onions made my eyes water, and the smell was making me woozy. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That does have the green touch of convenience,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a flash of blinding green light and a rushing sound, as though a vast, invisible something was soaring through the air — instantaneously the spider rolled over onto its back, unmarked, but unmistakably dead. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They were bright green and looked like they were specially made just for him. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“One green,” she said, pointing at it closely with a chewed fingernail. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We passed the country club golf course, the biggest spread of green grass until the next golf course in the next town. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Here, there, I add green to signify shoots, new stalks, branches slowly, ever so slowly becoming baby trees. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It turns green and black before crumbling away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hyatt and every teacher after her always let Maria take charge of the green paper cutout candy canes and the purple-striped stars cut from wrapping paper. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He transfers the money in his bank account over to hers, and they have pale green checks with both their names printed in the corner. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then, beyond Chas’s shoulder, at the edge of the dance floor, I caught a glimpse of green surgical scrubs and soft black hair draping over the glint of a stethoscope. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tyrion saw one great fool of a knight trying to ride across, urging a terrified horse over gunwales and oars, across tilting decks slick with blood and mAlmg with green fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I went and read about chickens in the green chair in the corner of the library. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t want the ghosts of children with green mouths pointing bony fingers at me and clamoring for bits of my chocolate bar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They wore blue jeans and shimmering green T-shirts, and their brown hair floated loose around their shoulders as minnows darted in and out. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to get a sense of scale, because it was surrounded by so much green. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had declined the sauteed new greens, the tender and expensive leaves of bean plants plucked before the sprouts turn into beans. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A green path appeared on the floor of the arcade, leading from where I stood to the exit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Somehow that had a very definite psychological effect upon all of us, after we had pulled a job, walking around with that crisp green money in our pockets. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

From blue skies to golds and greens and browns. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The crumpled green roof of a compact car covered the crushed opening where the windshield had been, but the damage to the van’s front end didn’t extend beyond the cab. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The green mist around Quinton and Maria swirls in the air before colliding into the far wall. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The dandelions were lemon yellow with bright green leaves and thick stalks pointing at the sky. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Comfort food: pot roast, green beans, and garlic mashed potatoes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The greens were stringy and chewy, but I tried to remind myself to be grateful. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as we sat on the metal fire escape landing, Maribel slid her backpack off and pulled out a green notebook. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Even the pine trees down to Thayer’s haymeadow put on their darker green and hunched their branches closer as the mornings came in colder and colder. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

And I thought: what would it be like, ten years from now, to be up here gathering greens some morning with children of my own? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The green leather case was his mother’s most precious possession; he would never dream of looking through it, and he didn’t even know where she kept it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Station Inspector, in his green uniform, appeared at the end of the hallway, Hugo knew everything would be over. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Several feet down the tunnel, she had aimed her light at a small square of grimy glass that shone a dull green color. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Three outer islands bear low stone forts; a green lantern glows on the tip of a jetty. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And Cassiopeia’s dress was a marvel—a rich green velvet with exquisite silk rosettes stitched around the bodice. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

"And the waters of wrath will rise high, and the Drowned God will spread his dominion across the green lands!" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I remember this because Digger was trying to pick a fight, and it all started with J.T.’s green tea. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Hanako selected pink for herself and waited for her brother to choose his—he took a tan one with green sprinkles. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the Bonecruel Mountains rose up, green with pines but so far away. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He wore a green army coat every single day, no matter what the weather was, and had a tattoo of an eagle on his neck. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He points an elbow at a green beanbag chair. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Inside—the green taffeta gown, and a framed photo of the three of us by the lake at Bad Windsheim. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the adinkra was glowing, a soft green light that confused me for a second. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Charlie asked me about the people in the pictures, and I described a little girl in a green dress named Evony. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

On the left wall is a green board—a chalkboard. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I said it was a strange valley, but maybe that’s because I was born in a green place. Do you find it strange, Louis?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about that ambulance driver, the one with the sandy hair and green eyes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was the same iron bedstead, and the quilt was multicolored, faded but still cheerful with reds and blues and greens and yellows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My anxiety tripled when Samira explained that not having a green card or a Social Security number also meant we were breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Each day, at least one new wounded migrant passes through the shelter’s lime green doors. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I got my knife out and cut a green mesquite sprout. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an inch long, middling green, and otherwise unexceptional in appearance. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The ceiling glittered with different- color crystal formations—white and purple and green, like I was inside one of those cut geodes you see in souvenir shops. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

You ate apples in the fall and leafy greens in the spring. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They could hardly believe it was true, and yet here were green branches huskily rattling on their hats as they bent beneath them, and little coloured flowers curling round their shoes. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Rows of colored liquid—green, red, blue—lined the shelf beneath a great mirror. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, I separated the batch into three different bowls and mixed a little gel food coloring into each one—red, blue, and green, to match the Froot Loops. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Leafy greens of bushes and trees ran together outside their car. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A bright green shape flashed past, and then the branch shook again and a flurry of leaves cascaded in a slow, circular downpour around them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Though it wasn’t the sea she thought about, or the dark fin rising above her, but rather the vision she’d had of the small green boat. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a green humped structure with a bobble head attached to one side by a stubby neck made of coiled spring. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He lifts the paper bag dress to reveal a low cut crop top and olive green shorts so tiny they could be underwear. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I shake the green ball I’m holding at Malik. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The Princess was always brightest in spring, just after the conifers emerged from the snow, their deep green needles seeming almost black against the tawny browns of soil and bark. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I go to the green level—the jokes. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

We reach beyond the lavender patch into a thick green hedge. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Today she was wearing dark jeans and a light blue top with little green apples all over it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I never knew green could be so beautiful—but then I’ve never had a farm of my own before. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She wishes she could ask Nikhil if he’s seen it—a small green clothbound book missing its dust jacket, the title embossed in a rectangle of black on the spine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

He had green eyes and smile wrinkles around his eyes, but he wasn’t smiling now. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Is there a taxi here?" my grandmother said to the tall doorman in his green uniform. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I’d want to die with glory. On a green battlefield as an old warrior, with my friends around me.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Directly northward the rugged Adirondack Mountains stood in a green haze above the land. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We crossed the foyer—a large Afghan flag draped one of the walls—and the men took me upstairs to a room with twin mint green sofas and a big-screen TV in the far corner. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The municipal police, dressed in green and white, used dogs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The green water was warm as tears, but there was no salt in it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His head snapped round, and from between his jaws a lance of flame erupted, a swirling storm of orange-and-yellow fire shot through with veins of green. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing the same green dress and stiff black shoes as last time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Hermes’s chariot was green and kind of old-looking, as if it hadn’t been out of the garage in years. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He’s wearing a green, white, and orange scarf. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paintings too—mostly oils in deep blues and greens—had sea themes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could only steal glances at Mr. Pirzada, sitting beside me in his olive green jacket, calmly creating a well in his rice to make room for a second helping of lentils. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ralph hauled himself onto this platform, noted the coolness and shade, shut one eye, ana decided that the shadows on his body were really green. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She stared at the supper set before her trout wrapped in bacon, salad of turnip greens and red fennel and sweetgrass, pease and onions and hot bread. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the year turned to spring and the willows grew faintly green and the peach trees budded pink, and Wang Lung had not yet found the one he sought for his son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A smaller, soft green rug lies atop the carpet. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

In Hazel’s mind, green branches were straining in the wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They share blush and eye shadow in various shades of green and blue and gray. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Muhammad braves that one pretty well against the reds from Michigan, the yellows from Ohio, the purples from Minnesota, the oranges from Iowa, and the greens from Indiana. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Maman and Samira were still two years ahead of me in the process and had already traded in their green cards for US passports. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had on his regular green army jacket, but he was wearing gloves and had a hat pulled down over his ears. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The first time he’d seen the gorgon, posing as a Bargain Mart greeter with a big green button that read: Welcome! The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The huntress wore a dark green shirt, the sleeves laced together with a brown cord from elbow to wrist, and brown breeches with shining boots, but she did not carry a mask. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I glanced to the side, ribbons of flickering green flashed by the nonexistent door. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The lawns, mowed smooth and flat as a new-made bed, gleam a strange, poisonous green. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Alayaya stood in the doorway, dark and cool in gauzy green silk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the letter telling that Beth was failing never reached Amy, and when they next found her the grass was green above her sister. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on the green edge and looked out over the woods below them, while they ate their mid-day meal. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

That’s a tasty green I had once grown in my Connecticut garden And there was wild mustard, another green, growing out in the sun. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She takes the hardbound green volume, with gold lettering and a line drawing of a girl with abundant red hair in a chignon on the front, and opens it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Following the winding way up the green shoulders of the hills, they came at last to the wide wind-swept walls and the gates of Edoras. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He dumped the ashes from his palm into a heavy green glass ashtray piled high with the crumpled remnants of previous cigarettes. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mark could only catch a glimpse of a running shadow up ahead, but it looked like someone in one of the green suits they’d seen earlier, without the headgear. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then came a second gatehouse, larger than the first, its stones bearded with green algae. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Each year I watched the field across from the Store turn caterpillar green, then gradually frosty white. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fires, and green paint sprays across one of the windows, missing the camera lens. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The road dipped now into a broad green valley and stretched toward the horizon. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Vega’s mami had sent him out to get some rice and green plantains. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The Magpie sat, curiously rigid, in a green velvet armchair directly below her son’s portrait. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He knows immigrants drink from the trough, although the water smells like rotten eggs and is laced with green scum. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A blanket of pale mist still clung to the surface of the water, the murky green current swirling past underneath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were clear and green, but even Alex could tell she no longer knew what she was seeing. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

They were rundown and poor, their stucco walls a faded green. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a knock on my door, jolting me awake from my uncomfortable nap sprawl in the hideous green armchair by the window. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I was covered in a fine green film and tiny ants, which I brushed off as best I could. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a fence with green vines on it, and many trees. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She works in the middle of us: feet flat on the floor, she leans forward in her chair, takes our green plastic tub full of fresh garlic on her lap, breaks up all the doves. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the restaurant in Kensington, a candle glowed on the table, and the blond waiter, who seemed too tall and handsome to be a waiter, served tiny bowls of what looked like green jelly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He opened his eyes and saw a fishing village, the blue sea beyond, a swath of rolling green hills, and a cloudless sky. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was a little girl, with bright green eyes like her mother and curly dark hair. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I've a surprise for you," the nurse said as she installed me in a sunny room in the front wing overlooking the green golf links. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I fetched a bag of green grapes from the fridge and placed it on the countertop, alongside a knife and plate. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Lord Hand,” she said, her face hidden behind shimmering green veils. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The bushes were dark evergreen and aromatic and the many buds were waxen green and folded up against the light. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was a white-topped cap, and above the green shade or the peak was a crown, an anchor, gold foliage. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

After a moment, I could see the green ground below again, playing peekaboo with me through holes in the clouds. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up and saw a not-too-biggish kid in a green army coat. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Even Lady Isobel recoiled at the unexpected ferocity of these visitors, until the men were pushed aside and a woman dressed in hunting gear threw back her green hooded cloak to reveal a smiling face. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pale green tarnished copper ceiling drips with condensation. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“With some green slime or something,” I answered. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Seven and Thorn were crouched behind a rosebush near the Dimblewits’ estate—a large, garish house with green shutters and marble statues of the couple. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The lights on its surface were green and lovely. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sonia shows off her ring, six tiny diamonds surrounding an emerald, to the mashis, who wear their red and green saris. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the unicorn, at the merman with the pale green face, and at the lion, the winged lion. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only little bits of green here and there, and lots of gray moss dangling to the ground. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my avatar plummeted down into the museum, the green vector-graphic theme disappeared and I found myself in high-resolution full-color surroundings. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ember’s colors were all so much the same—gray buildings, gray streets, black sky; even the colors of people’s clothes were faded from long use into mud green, and rust red, and gray-blue. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But no green thing grew there in the latter days of Saruman. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Before going to sleep, I carefully folded the green multicolored ribbon around my medal and put it at the bottom of my backpack. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They took the DeSoto over snow-dazzled roads decorated with cracked and fallen branches and with the green twigs of cedars and hemlocks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Great trees, bare and silent, stood, rank on rank, with tangled bough and hoary head; their twisted roots were buried in the long green grass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I thought I'd buy her a pair that matched mine, but there are more colors now, including a mossy green that I know she'd love. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Amari had had no idea what to imagine, but the land she saw was surprisingly beautiful, with lush green trees growing quite close to a long, sandy beach. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were scores of buzzing steel saws biting into green wood with loud whines. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following is from Nicole’s journal: The prep room is cold green curtains. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

On the roof one day, with its view of Howrah Bridge in the distance, he smokes a bidi tightly rolled in olive green leaves with one of the servants. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All by itself, so that it wouldn’t shed green fuzz all over everything. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A mimosa tree, green and thin limbed, pushes up through the snow. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“And hung your green shirt on my antenna?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their tails are iridescent green, and their breasts are small and bare. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The notches in the doorway couldn’t keep the green boat from appearing, full of some drippy little boy she’d never even know but hated already. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

If she left, if she climbed into the green boat now, was there any chance the mist might knit itself magically back together? Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Hey! Get away from that!” a vendor yelled as the buffalo attempted to eat frosty green lettuce. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The little collection of fruit- bearers growing by the river was his attempt to contrive, rain or no, a patch of the paradise, the green, apple-scented Eden, he envisioned. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark’s attention was fully on the man in the green suit now, and a sudden gray tinge washed over the man’s face, as if he’d been possessed by some ghostly presence. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"The world is really and truly green all over," he says. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fudge had vanished in a shower of green sparks.Whatever the press and the opposition might say, the Prime Minister was not a foolish man. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Scythe Rand produced a device from her green robe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Bunches of pansies and roses were meant to bloom in the four corners, all connected by a border of twining green vines. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The green of the spring grass reached up to him. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And yet their boat was hardly more than a little floating shack with a bright green tin roof. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her green eyes are bright, but dark circles under them betray her lack of sleep. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She wore a green eyeshade, and she rolled a yellow pencil restlessly in her fingers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tore a long green branch from the boughs of the tree and whipped Rahim until he bled from his neck and arms and cheeks and ears. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He knew even at that great distance that he wasn’t seeing Xan’s magic, which was green and soft and tenacious, the color and texture of lichen clinging to the lee of the oaks. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

So they came to a wide green land, and beyond it was a broad river in a silver haze, out of which rose a long wooded isle, and many ships lay by its shores. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I make my way along the south wall of the house, past a clump of banana trees, still green with miniature fruit. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana stooped to see a chicken gobble a plump green caterpillar. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The tendrils unfurled, exuding their stinky green fumes as they crept toward Frank’s feet. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Lyra—over Roger’s fervent protests—picked out the oldest, twistiest, greenest bottle she could find, and, not having anything to extract the cork with, broke it off at the neck. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“A gloomy wood,” according to the one playbill, was represented by a few shrubs in pots, green baize on the floor, and a cave in the distance. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

There actually are a bunch of little sticks on the sidewalk across the street, and one green feather. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There are patchworks of orchards and crops, all shades of green, spotted with cows and farmhouses. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lawns were neat and clean and looked like green carpets. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crick brushes a droplet of green off his face and glances around to see if anyone saw. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He scooped water off the top of thick green moss that clogged the steel water trough under the windmill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The corporal handed us green head ties and said, “If you see anyone without a head tie of this color or a helmet like mine, shoot him.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the green wood hit the sea, it gave a shudder, as though it was waking. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There were huge stacks of wood, and some machines covered with green canvas to protect them from the dust. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were green and scared, and had no idea how to protect themselves or work as part of a unit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I weaken again at a clear green broth that I can only describe as tasting like springtime, and again when I try a frothy pink soup dotted with raspberries. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wednesday had drawn all over the maps in bright marking pens, fluorescent greens and painful pinks and vivid oranges. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Over it hung a velvety mass of bats, which had fouled the pillar with black guano—a different kind of guano from the green slime near the mouth of the cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognize its owl-like face, with its green and yellow feathers and its enormous gray beak that looks just like a nose. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She opened the roof; an autumn wind would come up, and the needles fell in braids—brown strands, green strands, yellow strands. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not like the ones from under the canopy of green leaves, among the waving ferns. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She pulled back, and his eyes were the same—green, long-lashed, touched with honey—but they were tired, defeated. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She wore a clinging green taffeta dress and high-heeled shoes, and when she danced dozens of slave bracelets clinked on her wrists. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Until then we had made it through one green light after another. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Ma did not eat any of the stew, concentrating instead on a green salad, fishing beneath the lettuce leaves as though there was gold hidden on the plate. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Watched the green boat drift for a moment. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A green light was flickering in his bulging eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

France is green and looks like a man with a goatee and his nose in the air. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I followed the green path out of 20 Grand Palace and up the busy street a few blocks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was like the day they had gone to the castle, all over again, the smell of the car reminded him of the long, green tunnel of trees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

This was one of our usual spots, the wooded area next to my father’s fields where our towering green stalks of sugarcane met the orange groves that dotted the landscape into the horizon. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Nest, eggs, and hens were all one package, wrapped in a vivid, slender twine of brilliant green. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every house in town had trees, but I had never seen a place so green. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean one of those yellow or green ones?” said Polly. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was only four when they stopped at a light, waiting for it to turn green, so they could cross the road. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could make as many guesses as you wanted, but each one cost ten silver, paid into the purse, which was a shabby affair of old green brocade held closed with a gaudy brooch. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His green eyes shift back and forth as he searches for the right place, his fingers nimble, built for turning pages. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A young couple stumbled away from the dance hand in hand, one woman dressed in gold, the other woman in green, and Ash saw the smiles on their faces before they kissed. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I meet his eyes, knowing my face must be some shade of green. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The address was a large green building, so noisy, children running up and down the outside stairs and hallways. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It really was a wonderful day, with a bright blue sky, and the fields and woods all a soft green. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She must’ve gotten a steal at the bargain bin on green material. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

‘Almost like I’ve been here -’ The green spotlight flashed directly below them, blinding Jason. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The yard was like a private park, without swings of course, but green, and scattered with trees. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small fields are green with alfalfa, timothy, and clover. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 12:10 I knock on the big green door of 21 Thirty-fourth Street. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

One has a padded dark green cover and pages edged in gilt. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He is thin and tall, maybe two feet above us and dressed in the standard green uniform but without the rifle and grenades on him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One woman, hardly more than a girl, had green and purple hair. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She swished the paintbrush around, watching the brown sludge swirl, revealing wisps of green. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Soon the dinner carpet was full with trays of kebab, grilled onions and tomatoes, platters of fresh chives, green and purple basil, cilantro, radishes, and dill. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It drank up the green matter that flowed to the top in a slow boil. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wore my green dress to that party, I remember that.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“The moss green suits her beautifully, but this lemon yellow is too much.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

As we walk, my eyes stay peeled for a black subway sign on green railings. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They’ve got huge green leaves at their tops, and their bare trunks curve upwards like fingers reaching for the sky. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then he selected another pencil from a leather cup, broke it, and set the pieces in a row on the wide green blotter, and selected another one to break. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Iron was in the red rocks, copper in the green. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

From his height he could see not just the lake but across part of the forest, a green carpet, and it was full of life. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside there was a gust of wind, and the fire flared up green and blue and white. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hester was no beauty; she was about as plain and scrawny as a hare could be; but her eyes were marvelously colored, gold-hazel flecked with rays of deepest peat brown and forest green. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he began to cut the green cloth on the table with long sweeping strokes of his arm. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The two men stopped in the road and looked out at the valley, green tinged from the early rains. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a small reservoir there, and where the water emptied into the river the watercress grew thick and green. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was turning pale green, the colour of sour apples. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at those green pastures that afternoon, I thought the only thing missing from the scene was a happy shepherd. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Now the last of the mourners had paid their respects and the mosque was empty, save for the mullah unplugging the microphone and wrapping his Koran in green cloth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Chalk—red, blue, white, and green—is powerful, sending me signals. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The thought of the second person, especially one as green as Derek, had not somehow hit him until just then, in late afternoon. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s much greener. And the air is so, like, thick! The air in California isn’t like that at all.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He smells like soap, the green bar kind. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I never tell them about the green sofa and the excitement. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

If the green brightened into a hotter glow, that would signify that his blood was inhabited by Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Republic of the Animals which Major had foretold, when the green fields of England should be untrodden by human feet, was still believed in. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Inside, the home is sunny, cozy, and absolutely immaculate, lined with framed photos and green potted plants, clay pots, and odd, metallic sculptures. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in a deck chair on a huge porch, gazing across a meadow at green hills in the distance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s face went from brown to pale to green in less than a tenth of a second. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Outside of White Sulphur Springs, the land is all hilly green, and she passes farms and tractors trundling up dirt roads. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was still green, and she could see David’s light bobbing along beside her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He watched the forest go from grey to green below him as light filtered through the silent trees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When the paramecium bursaria runs out of food, all he needs to do is stay in the sun and his green endosymbionts will keep him supplied as though he were a grain. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our weekly lunch menu consists of brown beans, split-pea soup, potatoes with dumplings, potato kugel and, by the grace of God, turnip greens or rotten carrots, and then it’s back to brown beans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He does a good job of describing the various shades of green his sister turned when she got seasick. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Percy’s intense green eyes were hard to read. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

Somewhere among them—those green and untested boys—lay much of the stock from which he would have to select a crew capable of going all the way. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The land was green: in the wet meads and along the grassy borders of the stream grew many willow-trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I remember now. All the green trees. But there was no one there.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Emma had to stand on tiptoes to see the screen, which was suddenly full of one green bubble of words after another. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The houses they passed had smooth green lawns and long white stone driveways. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A green striped canopy, of the sort used for lawn parties, was set up over the grave. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by the jungle, it is green and lush during the rainy season and dusty and flammable during the dry season. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another is painted in red, white, and blue stripes with La Casita written across the side, and a third has Kebab Express in green block letters. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She in her pink dress and me in my green suit, the two of us looking like a giant patchwork quilt. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Fine slivers of green and white circles cover the cutting board. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They tore along the high green lanes of Highdown Rise, along tractor ruts that nearly bounced them over drystone field walls and into a bed of mire and nettles and sheep. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In a moment the green campus with its vine-covered buildings was behind us. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long before, Grupo Beta found a bed of bricks inside, covered with emerald green leaves from a plant that looked like a bird-of-paradise—and two soiled pairs of panties crumpled on the dirt floor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Lord Balon might have given him the command, but Theon knew that some of his men saw only a soft boy from the green lands when they looked at him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I find the trees especially striking, the way the rising sunlight glints off the leaves, highlighting various shades of green in different places. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tall, handsome, and powerful. But gentle, too. You have his black hair, you know, and his green eyes.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was the white cat and its round green eyes gazed past him at the white face hanging limply from the fiery furnace door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

If he came over the ridge, as he had to do, he must have seen the valley and the green trees, because the ridge is higher than Burden Hill. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When he had been punished the cool green grass and the singing water soothed him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They traveled so quickly that the Wood became a blur of green and brown, moss and bark, but their horses did not tire. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All this he seemed to see in the large eyes of his mother and his sister, looking up at him through the green water, hundreds of fathoms down and still sinking. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The views atop the hill were bracing, yet it was the ringwall that drew Jon's eye, the weathered grey stones with their white patches of lichen, their beards of green moss. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A green light lit up and the cage door slid open, allowing me to continue on to the elevators. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The red light faded, and the panel turned a welcoming green. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late September, and the leaves on the trees were beginning to turn from vibrant green to rusty red and mustard yellow. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

With their mossy hair and green skin tinged with orange for the coming autumn, they were no more frightening than a pumpkin vine. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, we cross the wooden planks laid over the stinking green ooze. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In front of him was the green door his uncle had told him about. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was a dark old man with large green eyes that gave his face a ghostly phosphorescence and with a cross of ashes on his forehead. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

After dinner, we all had green tea and played cards in groups of four. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She wears green too and her hands are soft. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was delicious, thick with rice and chunks of chicken, cubed potatoes, green olives, and capers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, a curtain in the green house moved. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The only signs of green were the pale patches of lichen strangling the living rocks on which they grew. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The new Miss Spink was wearing green tights, and high brown boots that went most of the way up her legs. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

First there was Johnny in green wrinkled salt-stiff pants, an undershirt full of big holes, a derby hat and a disorderly mustache. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The queen’s green eyes were bright, and she smiled at Kaltain. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She was young—younger than Mrs. Coulter; and fair, with bright green eyes; and clad like all the witches in strips of black silk, but wearing no furs, no hood or mittens. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Before them, but some distance off, there stood a green hill-top, treeless, rising like a bald head out of the encircling wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had worked as a gardener in Buna and from time to time had brought us some green vegetables. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cut off a green twig and began to whittle. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does an au pair need a green card?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the one wearing a green hat adds, “And she got too much attitude.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His withered arms were green and purple with bruises. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I dress in a dark green shirt and pants. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the questions asked were, “Who’s wearing a green shirt?” or “Does anybody know what they want to do in the future?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As I fastened the last strap, out there in the hot sun with the mules snorting and stomping and twitching off green flies, he finally said it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Great smears of orange, blue, red, and green covered the black canvas above, as though a divine painter had attacked it with wild fury. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The old man wanted Charlie’s favorite new horse, a thoroughbred named Thunder, run out to the green marker. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The boys followed with the food: a large plastic bowl full of steaming rice and smaller ceramic bowls containing helpings of warm cassava, beans, potatoes, and stewed greens. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The still waters of Lake Washington, stretched out at the city’s back, slowly shifted from gray to green to blue. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as the little green leaves came up a gopher or something wiped 'em out. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best glass came from Myr, but a good clear pane was worth its weight in spice, and green and yellow glass would not work as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bran saw eyes like green fire, a flash of teeth, fur as black as the pit around them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And off she went for the green one. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The room’s walls were light green and the white floors were spotless, just like the uniforms worn by the nurses and doctors. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

In his hand was a parchment with a broken seal of dark green wax. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He made his way lazily among the green expanse of lily pads and beaver lodges on the south side of Union Bay until he found a spot he liked. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“And whose breath smells like the wrong green Skittles.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He made his way down a steeply descending gravel road to the river, crossed the wide expanse of green water on a steel bridge, and parked in front of the National Reemployment Service building. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“This is what comes of getting too close to Atur, I suppose. Tomorrow we’ll head south: greener pastures, kinder folk, prettier women.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nausea swelled in a great green wave, trembled at the crest, sank and rolled again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In green silks the color of forest pools, in silks the color of frog and fern, they waited. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its bridges connect to Manhattan and it’s split up by canals and creeks—filthy green streaks of water that remind you that it used to be a swamp. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“On, on, green and white, we are right for the fight tonight! Hold that ball and hit that line, every Big Creek star will shine....” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I glance around the shimmering green room and notice two more beds. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In gray ink, on pages edged in green, he wrote about something hed read. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isaac is Edmond’s twin, and they look exactly the same, only Isaac’s eyes are green and Edmond’s are the same color as the sky, which at the moment is gray. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after I slid my coat off the top of the basket, the baby sat calmly, peering up at us with her vigilant green eyes, rimmed in yellow. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The blue clothing was easy to see against the green grass. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

His hair was the same shade as mine—deep brown, nearly black—but where my eyes were pale green, his were dark enough to burn from a distance. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The smell of the green, standing corn was round them all day. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I saw a green vehicle parked in the middle of it. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Jody continued on through the large vegetable patch where the green corn was higher than his head. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he rounded a curve, he saw what looked to be a teenager pulling a large green trash can toward the street. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

A union button was pinned to the collar of her simple green dress. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I swipe the green check mark to answer the call. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The gorgons had taken off their green vests. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her gown was cream and green, with long lace sleeves, so modest and so innocent that any man who looked at her might think her the most chaste of maids. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Apa, please give me the green card, I say again, a begging note cracking my voice. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

A lot of green smoke came billowing out, and as it cleared, Harry gasped. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Toby was parked in the middle of a damp green lawn. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

His hair is unwashed and unkempt, his green eyes bloodshot, his mouth twitching into a frown. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A woman in a green tokar reached for a weeping child, pulling him down into her arms to shield him from the flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So I went to the green field on the way to Mrs. Windermere’s house and hoped that no one was around. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Oh, I had a vague notion of green grass, soft and wavy. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in her Girl Scout uniform, which she had sewn herself, and it made her look like a shiny green leprechaun. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He costumed the actors in green plastic trash bags. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bubbly green liquid spills on the front of her travel dress, and she curses. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His face turned a sickly shade of green. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Coraline’s mother looked in the fridge and found a sad little tomato and a piece of cheese with green stuff growing on it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Only the old oaks seemed reluctant to give up the summer, and their leaves re- mained an even mingling of gold and green. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Catherine was dressed in purple tennis shoes, green tights, a purple suede skirt, and the ugliest green sweater I’ve ever seen. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The planet’s only surface feature was a web of glowing green dots similar to the ground lights on an airport runway. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The snow had melted around the Maserati in a perfect circle, which explained why I was now standing on green grass and my shoes were wet. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It’s a sea of green, a kind of baseball Emerald City, with not a bald patch in the grass far as you can see. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A tall ebony-skinned woman in a lime green jumpsuit ran by him, and he caught her tennis shoes in motion. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The mirror flipped like a tossed coin, and where cracked glass should’ve been there was a fat green tentacle, tapering down to a tip the width of a carrot and whipping about. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The seas were blue, the lands were green, the mountains black and brown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It stood before them like a piece of raw green stone towering forever into the sky and disappearing into silver mist. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was a small skinny old hag with a moustache on her upper lip and a mouth as sour as a green gooseberry. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building, clean and white except for various edges painted green, was an open construction unfolding around an empty central room. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fields were green and there were small green shoots on the vines, the trees along the road had small leaves and a breeze came from the sea. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Their clothing is khaki, or navy-blue or gray, or forest green, colors that don’t show the dirt as much. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Medwyn passed through a cut in a bare shoulder of the cliff, and the next thing Taran knew, they suddenly emerged into a green, sunlit valley. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

And then it came to light, an unspeakable pearl at the heart of a green oyster. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would have expected to stand out in the crowd here, with her backpack and jeans and shiny green jacket—not to mention her dark skin and hair. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The queen looked at her, troubled, and yet Sansa could see kindness in her clear green eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a dome of snow with only the edges and tips of the leaves scattered green across the white. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It is. But it’s like a layer cake. Brown earth or rock on the bottom, green trees, then blue sky. Did you know cacti bloom flowers? Every color except blue. We’ve even got roadrunners.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

But as she was bending over the water she heard a little voice from near her feet, and looking down saw that it came from a green reed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came out with fabric folded in his hands, a deep green, and he let it unfurl and I saw it was a dress. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He remembered a statue of a winged baby and a fountain tiled in blue and green. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Difficult to know where to begin,” muttered Fudge, pulling up the chair, sitting down, and placing his green bowler upon his knees. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The air smelled fresher than it had in a long time, almost green and full of life. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t yield much, but sometimes Osh painted a single yellow flower in a pale green marsh, and it was all the better for being just one. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Oriana looks like a rose in bloom beside him, wearing a massive necklace of rough-cut green emeralds at her throat, large enough to nearly count as armor. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the spring and summer, the green ears of corn sit out in plain view with all the other fruits and vegetables. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was tall, dressed in hunting green, and his dark hair was streaked with gray. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only difference between the two giants was that the second one’s hair was green rather than purple. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I stood there at the edge for a minute, looking into all the green there. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Gran pulled the Oldsmobile into her driveway, butted against a lush green lawn on one side and bushes on the other. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

You were wearing a short pleated skirt and a green ribbon in your hair. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The small doorway in the wall led into a short corridor, which opened, or seemed to, directly onto a green lawn. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

One showery afternoon when raindrops sparkled like fairy dew on the new green leaves, Magister Reese sat dreaming over his mug of Jennet’s thin, bitter ale. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tiptoed to the back of the room and settled myself on the thick green carpet behind the big screen. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The truth is nothing more than a small green room with dirty windows and a lingering smell of cigarettes, even though it has been illegal to smoke on school property for years. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Scrubbed from top to bottom with something sudsy and bright colored, like sun yellow that smelled like rotten lemon, or mutant green that smelled like if every flower in the world sneezed. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

On the front of the yellow cigarette box is a poem by Robert Burns that Gram likes to sing to an old Irish tune: Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The hills turn to a soft green overnight and the air smells good. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako did not know if he imagined the same thing over and over, or if maybe he sometimes saw green melons and sometimes orange ones, all different colors. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, we stopped at a green door with Electrotherapy printed on it in black letters. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Tiny green plants pushed out of the ground. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We take turns gathering greens and keeping a careful watch for Cato, but as I anticipated, he doesn't make an appearance. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then she stopped staring at the green chairs, at the delivery truck; she went to the movies instead. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nightvision made it look like a green laser beam blasting out of the dog’s crotch. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The pea pods were still green yet, most of them no further along than snapping size. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He merely held out a bowl in which he had placed a small mound of rice and a little pile of boiled greens. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I kept my eyes focused on the bleak, unpainted spectator stands, abandoned for so long that tiny plants had started to push their green heads through the cracks in the cement. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

As they stood for a moment looking at the white water in the sunlight, Haldir came walking towards them over the green grass of the glade. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He brought out a bundle of dry green stalks and a small paper bag full of blue cornmeal. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing jeans and a green T-shirt and her long brown hair was braided with river grass. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Let’s speak in green,” his mother says, and they talk about everything that makes them feel green. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

For three days they were in sight of the green hills of Havnor as they worked along its eastern coast, but they did not come to shore. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a part of town I had never seen, and worlds away from the part I knew—maple trees and clapboard storefronts, village green and courthouse clock. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The gorgons were hard to miss, with their colorful snake hair and their bright green Bargain Mart vests. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You mean to tell me they put green makeup on Como’s lips?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who spoke to her had green eyes—emerald like a summer leaf, but cold as a winter snow. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was also very stylish, dressed in a cute green tank top and jean shorts. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, fierce man and would drive his bowl down the other end of the green so fast that when it connected with another ball it sounded like it was splitting an atom. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

We pass a car that looks purple at first, but when the streetlights hit it, it’s neon green. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The ivy was especially thick there; it made the world seem green and lush, hiding the hard, impenetrable stone. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The bolls were swelling on the plants, performing their miraculous transformation from hard green pods into fluffy white spheres. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I ask as the door unlocks with a click, a green light shining through the keypad. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I am bruised from the hardness of her copper hands, which have turned even greener than the rest of the ship. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The rest of the year the water dries up and the bright green vastness turns into something that resembles a desert. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Kira saw some of the men turn in their green volumes, finding the same passage. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twilight was beginning to fall when the mountains drew back from the road and the sea suddenly appeared beyond green hills, a sea as wide as another sky. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For walking in the bush, he wears a baseball cap, a black T-shirt, shorts, a curved African knife at his belt, and scorched, melted green sneakers— dried too many times over campfires. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would stare at the moon, and at me, and sometimes, at the little green house next door, where a boy who looks to be about her age lives. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The soldier in green looked at Amah, and a shock ran through her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When the time came to dress, she chose the green silk gown that she had worn to the tourney. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The path led them up and around the base of a great green hill, round and treeless, the hill that Ged had seen from the ship as they entered the charmed waters of Roke Island. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going up there,” I said, but when she fixed a plate of chicken and greens and salad and said she was going anyway I naturally had to go with her. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steel was polished to such a high sheen that she could see her reflection in the breastplate, gazing back at her as if from the bottom of a deep green pond. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The boys looked as elegant as Salvador and Lucky, and the girls wore beautiful long dresses of peach, turquoise, yellow, pink, violet, blue, green, and white. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I followed him through the rows of big green leaves, and we eventually settled down to feast, burying our faces in the huge wet heads of lettuce and eating until our stomachs ached. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hold up a solid white T-shirt and a solid green T-shirt. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The gentle curves of the vase, its mysterious green color. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They were bruised purple and green and blue from past injections. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The green light flashed around the room and she dropped like her husband. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth frowns down at her spool of green thread. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The trees hung over the top and there was nothing to see but a slot of sky and the water ahead and the endless, endless green. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

From her green wing chair, she could see everyone going almost anywhere in the house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Every day An Yi came to visit me, sometimes bringing me a bowl of sweet green bean soup from her grandmother. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went out back and found Luis kneeling by a Golden Dawn tree with his face buried in the green leaves. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the field were the elm trees, faintly stirring, and somewhere beyond that was the stream where the dace lay in the green pools under the willows. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The bruise on her face had gone from black to a sickly looking green. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I watched as the slope of the South Lawn gradually turned a lush and vibrant green. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The pastureland was green, and there were fine trees, and sometimes big rivers and chateaux off in the trees. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Although he tried not to eat anything much and spoil his appetite for the late-summer greens he was sure were simmering in the pot for him. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a little green, but even so, Brian couldn’t believe how sweet and rich they were—like small domestic plums, with a little more tang to them. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly they crept past the swing set, the laundry building, the dark green trash bins, the rows of parked cars. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

One by one we would be called home to fetch water from the hydrant in the back yard, to go to the store and buy greens and meal for tomorrow, to split wood for kindling. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The green paper gown was folded on the chair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They mixed with the water and swirled at the bottom of the tub like little green eddies before being rushed down the drain. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Their shiny green faces had been sprayed with small drops of blood. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A skinny boy of fourteen looked back at him, his bright green eyes puzzled under his untidy black hair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As I am writing this chapter, every few pages I see the green wiggly line of Microsoft Word’s grammar checker, and usually it flags an agreement error that slipped under my tree-spotting radar. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But then there it was, invariably, the little green bottle of musky potion that Joe also used, ready for him on my mother’s dresser. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His teacher, Mr. Lawson, is a slight, wiry, shamelessly preppy man with a surprisingly deep voice, reddish blond hair, smallish but penetrating green eyes, horn-rimmed glasses. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The gift is beautifully wrapped in thick green paper, looped with rainbow shades of ribbon. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They were like white bouquets God had stuck in the stands of ancient oaks and hickories, glistening green in their own new growth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pale green eye shadow that sparkled in the light. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

One at a time Leah sent her wobbling arrows through the slashed green margin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the island ran true to form and the incredible pool, which clearly was only invaded by the sea at high tide, was so deep at one end as to be dark green. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were tears in her beautiful green eyes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He saw her as the passionate spirit of innocent youth, now beleaguered by the trick which is played on youth—the trick of treachery in the body, which turns flesh into green bones. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“John Deere tractor. Classic green and yellow. Lots of horsepower...” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I watch the light leave Will’s eyes, which are pale green, like celery. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A few pines along the edge of the wood had been scorched, but deeper in the damp soil and green wood had defeated the flames. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Nobody said anything as I turned back to the clothing, took the bag marked dresses, and unzipped it, just to be sure, and found the deep green fabric. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I lifted the green plastic covering and looked inside. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The man was dressed all in green: dusty green trews, green jacket, and a dark green coat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He glanced at Rose’s drawing, then added large green teeth to his own. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Before her she could see the robes of the scythe in yellow, so she doubled back, only to find the scythe in green closing in. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He unzips the front pocket, digs around for a moment, and then pulls out a rose made entirely of green duct tape. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Everywhere you look is life; even the little ball of spit on the weed stalk, if you poke it apart, has a green worm inside it. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

It produced a fruit I loved—like a mango, rough and green on the outside, with reddish-yellow flesh on the inside, tart and sweet. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It has soft-textured, eye- saving green blackboards instead of screechy black ones, and tiled pastel floors instead of the old creaky wooden ones in Queen Mary. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A little white box with a green piece of the moon in it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

There were big green apples hard as knees. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has a broad green, an old-fashioned Main Street, a handsome campus with a settled and venerable air, and leafy residential streets. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at those,” he said, pointing at green beans that were well over a foot long. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I look straight into eyes so deep green, you’d think they were apple Jolly Ranchers. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The whole sky smelled sour green, and stray pieces of ash flicked over my head. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s called How to Survive the Loss of a Love; it has a pink and green cover. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

At intervals, a cold green light shone from a panel in the wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their voices faded as they took the bend in the path and vanished among the brittle vines and green ferns. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The bloom was gone from her cheeks and her drained face floated in front of me, green and sweating. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Lyra lay wrapped up as tightly as a mummy, fast asleep, and Pan lay coiled around her neck as a little green snake. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Aragorn had Andúril but no other weapon, and he went forth clad only in rusty green and brown, as a Ranger of the wilderness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Doggone,” he muttered when he saw the green door of the house open. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

A red, green, and yellow school bus is parked on the street to our right. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Huge green eyes glared at me behind a pair of cat’s-eye glasses. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was doing well, several inches high already, the young stalks shining bright green and looking healthy. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He went and stood by the window, looking out at the green lawns. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

From attic trapdoors, blind robot faces peered down with faucet mouths gushing green chemical. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train cut through deep green pine forests where the ground was covered with the slick brown needles and the tops of the trees stretched up virgin and tall into the sky. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I worry that if I look too closely I’ll discover that green Life Savers don’t exist. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pipes were decorated with gold, red, yellow, and green threads and beaded like holiday clothes. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

They skewered hot dogs on green branches, and when they were cooked wrapped them in slices of bread. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand leaves fluttered, and for a moment the forest seemed a deep green sea, storm-tossed and heaving, eternal and unknowable. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A young man sits on a green metal bench outside the church. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“You changed your outfit. Your butt looked nicer in that green sweater.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Think so?”—my father, jovially—“Maybe a little collard greens?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I eat one green gummy worm and one red. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through a narrow gap he could see a green lawn and bright pink flowers, but only enough to make him want more. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue and green houses had belonged to her family for generations. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I asked him when we were settled there on the soft green rug, the city lights through the windows, the nostalgia of everything taking me over. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Look at the fancy green door! Who else has time and money to waste like that? You know I’m right.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The girl wore a floppy green cap, like she was trying to hide her face. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

As it’s spring, today it is all a new fresh green. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And a guy whose name was maybe Zeep Creep came in wearing the same green pajamas as the nurse but twelve sizes bigger. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We rolled in a cloud of dust past the house, pulled up next to the classic green Ford, and climbed out in front of that other building. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my closet I pulled on my lime green shorts and looked at myself in the mirror. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Baba tugged at my sleeve and some­thing glowed green in the dark. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The children could look back and see their own car, green and lonely, in the middle of the parking lot. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard of the Great Barrows, and the green mounds, and the stone-rings upon the hills and in the hollows among the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a drab room for Devon, dull green and brown and gray, but at the far end there was a big marble archway, glisteningly white, which led to the pool. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perchance was tucked in a valley surrounded by wooded hills like a baby in a green cradle. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Patrolman Mancuso pictured the green hunting cap bathed in the blue-white glow of the television screen. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know him, lady. His speech stops only when the stars shine green in a yellow sky.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

So he asks Theo to send him his colors: silver, white, lemon chrome yellow, vermilion, geranium lake, carmine, Prussian blue, very light cinnabar green, orange lead, emerald green, and more. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The walls glowed with luminescent mosses—green, red, and purple. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“See you,” said Harry, putting one foot forward into the green flames, which felt pleasantly like warm breath. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Sargon buried his fangs into the disgusting creature's shoulder, and a fountain of green blood sprayed the ceiling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then, as we were watching, the mist swirled and retreated like a great green serpent into the mummy’s mouth. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Though Theresa had bought an ivory blouse to go with a certain green skirt, in practice she’d worn it with a beige skirt. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The green UP button on the right side of the frame began to glow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The tall grass tended toward blue green and waved in the wind the way I imagined weeds would wave in the sea. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor watched silently while he locked the hall door from inside the room, and then they went through the bathroom and he locked the connecting door into Theodora’s green room. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The dome is split into halves—the walls on the right side show cute furry animals in green meadows filled with flowers of every color. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The one in the middle is apple- green. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, fellowship at Christ Temple really means snack time, and snack time really means fried or baked chicken, potato salad, green beans, pound cake, and soda. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As he said this, he caught or fancied he caught a green gleam in Gollum’s eye. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I got some shallow scrapes on my palms, and the knees of my jeans were stained green, but it could have been worse. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The deep green pool of the Salinas River was still in the late afternoon. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I could cut a branch as thick as my little finger off a green mesquite with it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had tried to tape the severed portion back on with some of Dad’s green mine tape, but it wouldn’t take. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She put Coyotito back in his hanging box and then she combed her black hair and braided it in two braids and tied the ends with thin green ribbon. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The countryside speeds by, fields of blues and yellows and reds and greens, the patches and swirls of summer. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The skin around the cut was a horrible shade of green. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Above his head hung the cage of King George, the scraggly green parrot won in a card game. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We flew southeast, over the dry, flat plains of the Orange Free State and the green and mountainous Cape peninsula. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The cats! Dear Frith, why are their eyes glittering green like that? Look!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were goblets, sherbet glasses, ice-cream glasses, wine glasses, green glass coffee cups with matching saucers, and water glasses. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, in this mostly green wilderness, was a burst of well-tended color. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

His moment of greatness was escaping into the green foam. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The door of the helicopter opened, and out stepped, first a fair and ruddy-faced young man, then, in green velveteen shorts, white shirt, and jockey cap, a young woman. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then my gaze slid over the people to the blaze of green beyond the diaphanous curtains, and I felt as if I were sitting in the window of an enormous department store. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He opened his green eyes wider and gave us his maniac look, and only the smirk on his wide mouth with its droll, slightly protruding upper lip reassured us that he wasn’t completely goofy. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hunter noticed the green dress covering the woman, the black-blood spots on the sleeve. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neon lights reflect against the wetness, painting the ground a menagerie of smeared gold, green, and blue. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

She did have the same features and coal-black skin, and she was the same height as Rhonda, but gone were the puffy white dress and long green hair. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s calmer and clearer and tho you can’t see Noise, if Cillian’s always seems reddish, then Ben’s seems blue or sometimes green. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The air was fragrant with the smell of roasted meat and spices, and a slave girl with a turtle on one cheek was pouring pale green wine. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Patches of rougher and mare bristling green appeared in the valley. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

My eyes were swimming: green, green, worm, string, rotten pod, green, green. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They hiked up past the cabins, through the wide green meadow to where the low snap trees stood, at the edge of the cliffs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Jn her crazy lady clothes of reds and greens, she greeted the animals and the moving branches as she carried her porcelain cup to the river. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the scenes where Bruce was upset and was turning green and becoming the Hulk. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But Archer only smiled and handed her a long green feather. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

If I could have had perfect test conditions—a room with decent ventilation, and a glass of unsweetened green iced tea—I would have cut off another two minutes. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I dished myself out a helping of green string beans and turned to pass the tureen to the enormous red-headed woman at my right. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Taylor’s face was as hard as the lava cliffs jutting up from the island green. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Dell and Mai are both excited when they see the small, green seedlings. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The water below turned from green to grey to black. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was looking for a battered green leather writing case. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early evening, she put on a bright yellow halter top to show off her tan, jeans, and big green hoop earrings, and set out with friends to celebrate the Irish holiday. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that every plane has a red light on the left wing and a green light on the right for navigation?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then we traveled by train to Lahore, where my dadi lived on a sprawling village farm outside the city, complete with chickens, cows, and fields of turnip greens. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The o in Cocina was bright orange while the rest of the letters were outlined in green and black, and behind the letters was the faint shape of an island. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

By the time she was done with the unhappy meal, the board’s light had turned green. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Beautiful and otherworldly—glowing green and moving like water, calm and ethereal, looking precisely like heavenly bodies might look. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The cover was a beautiful watercolor of a dripping green heart, with one symbolic drop of red paint. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was wearing her favorite green army uniform, and the belt around her waist made her look even plumper than usual. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben waves me over and silently points out the green glass alligator tchotchke lying alone in the case, almost buried in the dust. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Off the green outfit you wore on the train," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And with Edward still on his shoulder, the fisherman walked up a stone-lined path and into a little green house. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

"My brother dreams as other boys do, and those dreams might mean anything," Meera said, "but the green dreams are different." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The maelstrom roared around him, up and up like the walls of a green well, with the bright eye of the sky and the silhouettes of the Crux and the Current circling far above. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The flames flickered in his one brown eye, and one green. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Pull back farther, and you got a sense of where Clarkston sat in America—tucked in a green corner of the country beneath the gray ridges of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Her eyes seemed to shine in the dark—not blue, though, but a bright glowing jungle green. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on a green ledge above the battlefield I saw the giant’s wives crying. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly there was grass under his feet again—the greenest, softest grass that Roy had ever seen. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you’ve ever seen a dog bury a bone, or a spotted green chipmunk rooting for a lost acorn, you will know what I’m talking about. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She walked up to her wife and planted a kiss on her cheek while Njemile dropped a big bag of greens on the counter. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was gratified by the eruption of hot flame, just like Miss Riley’s experiment, except mine was pink rather than green. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Billy and five other American prisoners were riding in a coffin-shaped green wagon, which they had found abandoned, complete with two horses, in a suburb of Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enormous dish was white with concentric rings of tiny green leaves on it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of mud, and with the abundance of precious water everything with the potential of being green flexed and groaned and desperately began to grow. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was papered in green and gold and had a small, ornate couch inside. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She used to buy a roll almost every day and feed me as many as it took to get to the first green one, which she’d eat. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is the moon really made of green cheese?” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was another rally in town today, at least a thousand people walking, and many cars covered in green leaves,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A vale it was, beyond a doubt, but no wood had grown here for several thousand years, be it black or brown or green. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were a block away from the green stucco house, chatting and laughing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d love to have some macaroni and cheese, collard greens, and baked turkey wings, please.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We marched up the aisle to the altar, which was decked with poinsettias and candles and curtained off with red and green draperies. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Only I pick the salad stuff out of my applesauce and make a pile of green leaves on my napkin. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Gran pulled a vial of something green and murky-looking from her cape. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They clashed like some sort of weird Christmas combat scene—the red versus the green. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Where I remembered patinas of green mold there was wallpaper and wainscoting and cheerful shades of paint. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

The paper had been painted in bright blue and green colors. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pot roast, collard greens, sweet potatoes, and baked apple pie. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This Tally was sleek, with ultrahigh cheekbones, deep green catlike eyes, and a wide mouth that curled into a knowing smile. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of place where you could sit for a while within the vines and watch the green world be green. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I fixed my eyes ahead on the long, straight road, which cut through hundreds of green fields that stretched for miles on either side. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

After the wire was up, she and Mother went back for a nice bouquet and some supper greens. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every hull was striped: black and yellow, pink and blue, green and white, purple and gold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Behind him, reflected in the rear mirror, he saw the traffic lights flash from green to red, and back again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the laundry room at the back of the house, the lawns rolled away, so smooth and closely mown, the ground itself seemed green rather than planted with grass. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Fumbling with the screen, I finally press the green button, and his face appears. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It was so humid that green moss balls grew on the electrical wires by the tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There's so much red and green and gold everywhere, it feels like we’re in a different country. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I saw the town with the hill and the old castle above it in a cup in the hills with the mountains beyond, brown mountains with a little green on their slopes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then Aragorn took the green stone and held it up, and there came a green fire from his hand. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Corporate sponsors, green technology partners, and microfinance nonprofits have helped fill the funding gap, and individual contributions are more important than ever. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There the green floor ran on into the wood, and formed a wide space like a hall, roofed by the boughs of trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She looked the same as she had in life: a green cap set sideways on her thick black hair, dark eyes and olive skin like her brother. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There wouldn't be any churches with spires in his story, or green hills like those he would see outside. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"He's about this tall, wearing jeans and a green polo shirt." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now that we were in the Sea of Monsters, the water glittered a more brilliant green, like Hydra acid. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Foaming water, green and white, rushed and curled about its knees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

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

The gaping holes in the hedges had closed up, and green branches snaked across to meet each other. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Joe brought the breakfast tray every morning—green China tea and cream and toast. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pointed to purple, but then quickly slid my thumb over to green. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The one on the floor was sopping wet and striped green with slime from the aquarium, which lay on its side, empty and cracked. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A green, slimy, and foul-smelling substance was stuck to Stans shoe. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I placed them on a nearby wooden park bench, painted green and flaking. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The skirt and shirt of her uniform—which were the exact same shade of green as the felt of a casino card table—were travel rumpled and creased. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Even though there are two yellow bedrooms for girls and a blue one and a green one for boys, it’s clear there aren’t any children living here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With green scarves the two guards now bound up the hobbits’ eyes, and drew their hoods down almost to their mouths; then quickly they took each one by the hand and went on their way. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Not the color. But he needs greens. Willow buds be good, and dandelion!” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was lit only by the cold green panels. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A row of green spines slithered across the waves—something maybe a hundred feet long, reptilian. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing but the events of the past two weeks, which he already knows, and the green flash. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Next came the living room with its tattered, overstuffed green velvet chair and matching couch. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gray pickup and a green Chrysler 300 are parked behind Daddy’s truck in the driveway. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, all I could see were flashes of green and blue as my father fought the Titan, and the sea itself was torn apart by the two armies. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was a little shelter of green branches outside over the entrance and in the dark the night wind rustled the leaves dried by the sun. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

All three were masked in black and green. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Bulkeley sent me to find some skunk cabbage,” he explained, waving a bunch of green. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the houses and the street, rolling green hills frilled with clumps of trees and flowers brushed up against a brilliant blue sky. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The monsters’ siege tower was still hurling explosive green fireballs into the streets. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He moved on to a pile of green chilies, slicing them into tiny slivers. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Green, the prince thought, his scales are green. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As my fingers pluck the green beans, my mouth waters. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because his uniform is green, and that means I have no choice at all. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They watched the foursome play onto the green and out, and move to the tee and drive. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eye went from purple to blue to green to yellow. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She walks down the steps of the porch, and in the porch light I can see that she's wearing the same green hoodie but now with red flannel pajama pants and socks. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

As the sun came up, the mountain turned silvery green, the color of the Mount Elgon rain forest, and as the day progressed clouds appeared and hid the mountain from view. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blue heron panned for small fish and a sail blazed against the shimmering green of the marsh. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t hide her face under a green cap anymore. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I put in the meat and roots, swap in fresh rocks, and go find something green to spice it up a little. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My mother, for her part, kept every one of these letters, binding them carefully in neat bundles with green tape, but this was her own secret. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

One offered a bit of soap when Enrique slipped into a shallow green river to bathe. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I loved my bright yellow one, which would stand out against my dark hair, but the green and white polka-dot one matched my outfit perfectly. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was a battered old thing of green canvas, with leather patches on the corners and edges. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Every May brings Atomic Bomb Awareness Month to Camillo Junior High, right after the greening grass and the yellowing forsythia. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“There is a bright green plant with red-rimmed leaves. Please avoid.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She held up a letter so they could read the green ink address: Harry made a grab for the letter but Uncle Vernon knocked his hand out of the way. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Without taking her eyes from my face, she very slowly put one of those gloved hands into her purse and drew out a small green snake. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She bent and flicked away a green aphid that had perched on her dress before she walked away. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In a different corner was another stack of clothes—silks of bright red and blue and purple and green. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eye, won’t some cook get a rum start when she sees his green eyes a-shining at her out of the dark! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Instead of a pole, the holster held a bronze trident, flickering with green light around the tips. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Westminster Bridge was a series of stone arches over the river, gray and green. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They all sat at the table without saying anything while Ekemeni chopped up some greens over on the counter. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The friend had since abandoned the parking lot for the hope of greener pastures, leaving Hali’s mom to inherit the spot. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I skipped hand washing, and instead I pulled on my lime green shorts and my Snowberger’s baseball shirt. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the views, from a faraway perspective, shows spring in Paris: full of light and color, a palette bright with green grass, blue sky, the French flag flying atop the mill. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And then it was a very steep descent—3,000 feet in three miles—through dense, cool green woods to a back road that led through exquisitely pretty open countryside. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He surveyed the green lawn, quickly but thoroughly, stooping often to the earth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He pointed with his new sword, out to where the green flames were licking at Seaflower's golden hull and creeping up her oars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“What in God’s green earth have you done?” cried the doctor when he saw Matt’s new environment. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auntie An-mei, who is sitting on my left, spills the tiles onto the green felt tabletop and then says to me, “Now we wash tiles.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a medley of yellow and green flowers on the walls, with mustard- colored appliances. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

When I’d first gotten to Colby, most of that garden had been just rows of tiny green plants poking out of the ground. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

This, he wrote, made it more important than ever to provide a counterbalance of “dense, broad, luxuriant green bodies of foliage.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Did you know green was the sacred color of the Aztecs?” he asked. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Customers in the laundromat talk about "green cards" and "papers" that give them permission to stay in the United States. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I wish you could’ve seen my acres in the spring, all green frizz creeping along the prairie, or in late summer, when the flax turned the fields deep sea blue. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He eyed the green brocade purse that had belonged to Calixte’s grandmother. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It is a beautiful country of rolling hills, fertile valleys, and a thousand rivers and streams, which keep the landscape green even in winter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the City, in its own way, gets down for you, cooperates, smoothing its sidewalks, correcting its curbstones, offering you melons and green apples on the comer. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Hyacinth took a closer look, she discovered that it was the same green velvet ribbon she had tied around the placemat she had made for the Beiderman. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My sides were made of impenetrable green metal. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z