A few of the cut pieces are still on the ground. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

All over the ground around her were great green leaves, each with a cleft in the side. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I hit the ground—not too hard—tried to scramble up, and found that I couldn’t. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed a thin crack in the ground. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Doc was sitting on the ground pulling off his rubber boots. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darkness had fallen by the time the Wills ground onto the shingle beach again. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Then they rested and slept without fear upon the ground; for their guides would not permit them to unbind their eyes, and they could not climb. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

After descending about eighty feet, I got back on reasonably solid ground. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all ways possible he maintained the life of an eighteenth-century squire, even to providing special walking sticks for his guests as they accompanied him around his grounds. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He had many trees in the ground behind his house, and he was very proud of these. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

A squadron of huge brown beetles hurled themselves against the light and then fell to the ground and moved their legs and felt around with their antennae. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She executed a perfect double back-flip, twisting around at the last moment to face Gregor’s direction, and landed on the ground as lightly as a cat in front of Boots. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Give us the witch!” they chanted and moved forward, but my father held his ground. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yaxley slid to the ground to lie curled on the floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I bet he did,” Liam grumbled as he searched the ground for his shoes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I catch a glimpse of our porch from where I lie on the ground. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He said, “The branches come down like a tent and their tips touch the ground.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He dumped all his batteries on the ground to sort out the dead ones while they talked. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They followed her footprints, which were clear on the ground, and traced her steps to the edge of the water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I wish I could tell him why I feel so conflicted ... explain to him why I, of all people, have reservations about burning Erudite to the ground, so to speak. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Making their horses gallop over the frozen ground, they rode toward the wood wagons. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Walk along the muddy shore until the ground begins to slope up and get firmer and drier beneath our feet. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He shoved me through the door and slammed me to the ground. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He wanted the president to expand ground operations into nearby Laos and Cambodia, and massively increase bombing of North Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It colonized so freakin’ fast,” I tell Poe, putting the front legs of my chair back on the ground. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Between them, the slave and his young mistress had cheated Marcus of his pleasure, humiliated him, and hurled him to the ground. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Sorry for the interruption,” Mr. Jacobs said, and he ran a hand through his short brown hair, his eyes locked on the ground. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They sit or lie upon the ground, arms too thin for human limb, faces too drawn for flesh, smeared white with powder. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They'd see the window open and notice something dropping to the ground. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The creature collapsed to the ground in a heap, dropping Ivan. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Gandalf came flying down the steps and fell to the ground in the midst of the Company. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Scattered among these tenements were smaller dwellings that had given over their ground floors to some business, usually a tavern. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

If you knew Count Olaf, and he suddenly served you a meal, wouldn’t you be afraid there was something terrible in it, like poison or ground glass? The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Tyrion pulled off his steel gauntlet and let it fall to the ground, wincing at the pain that stabbed up his arm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Koffi gave him an impish grin as she shook one of the boughs and sent more of the tree’s fruit to the ground. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You know, when Mama gets her feet on the ground,” I added. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And Ryna had thrown herself all over the ground, lost her mind, and was still crying in a ditch. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was going to be impossible to calm down enough to fall back asleep, not when I might wake up plummeting to the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

If, say, you were somewhere you shouldn’t be in the main house or the grounds, and you heard a guardian coming, you could often hide somewhere. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Donations from wealthy white businessmen were essential to getting these projects off the ground, but the guiding force was the black elite. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The blanket lay where the patroller had thrown it—on the ground not far from the house. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I ask Sara on Friday as we make a mixture of ground meat and spices for today’s project. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The four of them continued toward the other side of the field, still stubbing the ball along the ground ahead of them. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see what you think of these trees after you’ve had to hack a few out of the ground.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They’re not shy, but they were all looking at the ground while they talked with her. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even the union can’t put the coal back in the ground.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sprawls on the ground for every inch to a delighted, roaring crowd. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushes back from the table, his chair knocking backward to the ground. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That way, too, on the plain, the enemy’s ground forces waited: machines glinting brightly, flags astir with color, regiments drawn up, waiting. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And as Adam lay unconscious on the ground Charles kicked him heavily in the stomach and walked away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stand rooted to the ground at the side of the house. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark couldn’t believe how quickly she’d gone from totally fine to literally on the ground, too weak to stand. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But he wasn't grounded anymore, he was going to get to spend more time with Eleanor. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Come to the ground, and go through the preliminaries!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The howling was so loud now it shook the ground at my feet, but I still couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The ground would soon become wet, and sleeping in a puddle would be a surefire path to pneumonia, without any hope of a doctor or medications. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the hole in the ground came a rumbling, gurgling sound, and the workers began to run, their screams smothered by what had become a roar. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m allowed to walk across the grounds,” he said pointedly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She was alarmed to see, beyond the canal, the entire stretch of land called Port Meadow, acres of open ground, invisible under a gray and rain-swept wilderness of water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hummocks rose from the ground like the backs of great subterranean beasts breaking the surface, yawning black mouths leading down to cool and cavernous storerooms below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what the problem is at first and then I see the ground strewn with fresh pink and red roses. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They are covered with lush giant trees that shadow the ground, making the flame bursts seem particularly dramatic. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Molly peels herself off the ground, looking only half-conscious thanks to Edward, my heart is pounding so hard I can feel it in my fingertips. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The red dirt at my feet shifts as more of it rises from the ground, dancing up my limbs and seeping into my very bones. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Staggering away, the scribe felt his heel snag on the rough ground, and he began to topple over backward, arms flailing wildly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ground beneath me no longer feels the solid ground I walked on all my life. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

After he was lowered into the ground, our lives went on. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was wearing long robes, a purple cloak that swept the ground, and high-heeled, buckled boots. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

If he was seen to accept Bolton’s feigned girl as Arya, the northern lords who had gathered to bear witness to the match would have no grounds to question her legitimacy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They reached the large concrete bridge support column that rose out of the ground before the river. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind slammed into Cain so hard he was sent sprawling to the ground, his sword flying across the veranda. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I sifted through the papers on the ground with my toes, trying to make out the faded writing. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I watched it hit the ground and roll a little, still smoking. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The thing goes to the ground; it’s another girl dressed like an Attendant. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Guosim was seated upon the open ground, her eyes wide with fright, teeth chattering madly, her whole body trembling like a leaf. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The two of you fall—WHISTLE!— sideways, to the ground. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Baker had come along—probably because he loved camping, and Mrs. Baker was willing to put up with soggy ground, mosquitoes, sleeping on rocks, and dew for his sake. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Seaweed fell from her body, as she was lifted right off the ground. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The pale, waxlike body was wearing nothing but a pair of blue underpants, and his blond hair was frozen to the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

On the ground, it crawls to its next tree at the rate of 250 metres an hour, when motivated, which is 440 times slower than a motivated cheetah. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes of the stranger watched as the skirt dropped to the wet ground. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s awful to be alone with him, knowing he’s seen me in my underwear and crawling around on the ground, but I am too angry for embarrassment. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The pops are lightning hitting the ground nearby. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

At its sound, the girl fell to the ground and Minli and the boy covered their ears. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Those were the two things he wanted, and he got them too, but it cost him his family, which he ran into the ground and destroyed. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too late — the rat had slipped between Ron’s clutching fingers, hit the ground, and scampered away. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

My sister and I tried to find common ground with our half-American cousins, but that took a while to pan out. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Not a lot, enough to cover the ground. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I would have stood my ground when the chance was offered. Now we have let ourselves be run to earth like foxes.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I hit the ground so hard and sudden that my mouth came open and I swallowed a bunch of dirt and old dead leafs. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

My home was raided and burned to the ground, my family killed because two of the rebels gave Darin’s name to the Empire. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sharpened stakes were wrenched from the ground, planks were dropped across deep ditches, and the stockade gates were thrown wide. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nana said that one of these days he would miss, that she, Mariam, would slip through his fingers, hit the ground, and break a bone. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It had melted as it fell on the wet ground and now it was raining again. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The ground for the new section was so big it would double the size of the camp when it was finished. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

With every campaign event, every article published, every sign we might be gaining ground, we became slightly more exposed, more open to attack. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Jimmy grabbed Toby and threw him to the ground. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Unlike in Haiti, which means “land of many mountains,” the ground is level here and stretches as far as I can see—as if there are no limits to dreams here. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He scanned the ground and the trees and tried to see what might make her understand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I crossed my arms and waited for her tell me what my punishment would be, hoping she wouldn’t ground me and forbid me from going to Fall Fiesta. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

A small, roundish shape scattered along the ground nearby. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I got a burning cramp in the calf of my leg and collapsed to the ground. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She walked slowly, every plodding step a chore, anchored to the ground as if by some surplus of gravity. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I could tell the way it sat firmly on the ground that it was heavy, probably filled with water. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“There aren’t any tarantulas around here,” she told me as she raked the dirt ground. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It exploded in the air near Ivan, throwing him to the ground. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They came out upon a small open place where a giant spruce had crashed to the ground and left a hollow where the roots had been, filled now with drifted dry leaves and spruce needles. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Ma can answer, the ground beneath our feet shudders as the volcano belches out more lava and smoke. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He drags himself backward on the ground, using his forearms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Adam swivels around and hugs Willow with such force that her feet lift up off the ground. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was still pretty soggy from the winter, and the sand around the stakes was all wet through. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Thus, Taiwan Strait may have served as the training ground where mainland Chinese developed the open-water maritime skills that would permit them to expand over the Pacific. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Horned King sprang heavily to the ground and was upon them in a few long strides. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The ground slopes, and there’s this concrete ledge that curves around the courtyard. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He plunged the haft of his hammer into the ground, gripped the metal head, kneeled down, and closed his eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Max sticks the shovel in the ground and hops light as a cat from the hole. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I know so many people back in Haiti, so many families who would kiss the ground and thank Jesus for a street like this, especially one named American. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A door opened, and light spilled out on the muddy ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Calvin dropped his eyes to the ground, then folded his arms and glared at Alex like it was his fault. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The girl was sitting with her legs crossed under her, staring at a spot on the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Please follow your Heads of Houses out into the grounds. Gryffindors, after me.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There was frost on the ground and the pavement was slick in all the shadowy places. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We dove to the ground and covered our heads. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But for the glucose and caffeine tablets in his survival pack, he would have ground to a halt hours ago. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I was too terrified to feel pain, but I heard the little bone in my arm crack as I hit the ground. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They found Pollard lying on the ground, writhing spastically. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw that Trademaster was glancing now at the weapons near them on the ground. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Howard’s face turned pale as a ghost and his eyes flicked down at the ground. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The team doctor hurried over to my side, helping me from the ground and over to the trainer’s room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In the morning the house was warm from the stove, but when Laura looked out of the window she saw that the ground was covered with soft, thick snow. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stripping off my clothes, I let them fall to the ground in a filthy heap. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They all sit on a bench, and one of them doesn’t have legs long enough to touch the ground. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Another quick shower of soft dark earth and the moles were lost to view beneath the ground surface. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A second rock struck Shin in the head, knocking him to the ground and making him dizzy. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Plenty. They’re going to target you early. Whatever the level turns out to be, you’d better be able to cut out in front of them and get to clear ground.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hideous wrecks were referred to as “spills”; jockeys hurled into the ground were “unseated.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There's no sign of Rue, not on the ground or in the trees. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The ground cover, once cool, moist, and living, is hot, dry, and being destroyed. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Viola’s feet hit the ground running and I’m right behind her, heading for the lip of the road that goes down to the zigzags. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

At ground level, a full-sized tree would be ten feet through its bole, more than twenty feet around. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sit down, Uhmma says and sits back on her feet, butt close to the ground, knees sticking up to the sky. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

There was some talk about the cops making us lie down on the ground. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the scene was empty; the wet patch on the ground where Cecilia had got out of the pond was the only evidence that anything had happened at all. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Tonight it’s too hot for that, so I lift the reflector and lay it on the ground. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was painfully aware of the term used to describe the open ground between opposing trenches in the fields of France, Belgium, and Germany and of the deadly struggle for that land. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The coachman brought the carriage straight to the front of the house and assisted his passenger brusquely to the ground. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I hit the ground so hard it knocked the breath out of me. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched as Reg tried to lift himself up, but there was an officer’s knee in Reg’s back keeping him down and the sound of a crack against the ground. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She stood her ground until he reached her and flung both arms around her neck, dragging her to the floor. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, slowly, my feet settled to the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Twice he stumbled over loose stones in the passage, clutched at the ground, and pitched forward. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Big Bolliger let loose a cry and crumpled to the ground. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Bay Area has a reputation for its sourdough bread, so I figured the air outside my house would be an excellent hunting ground for wild yeast. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I want coveralls too,” Laney said from the ground, where she still hung on to Papa’s leg. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Anything left on the ground will get too wet to be of use, Nate. What we don’t get in, we lose,” Pa said as he led Vernon into the barn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The companions sat on the ground at his feet, and Aragorn took up the tale. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

TJ looked quick down at the ground, suddenly wondering what lived between the cracks in the concrete. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

A woman in front of us kneels in prayer, touching her head to the ground while her baby tugs on her shirt. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He throws some fine crooked limbs on the ground, reaches into a pocket on his vest, and hands me a pamphlet. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

An illusion flickered to life on the ground, showing a rocky cliff that dropped off into the sea. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Brother Daniel was shouting, “Fall to the ground, ladies, cover your heads with your folding chairs!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran through the ejection procedures, and everything worked as advertised, except that the ground rushed up so fast I wasn’t prepared for it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old cat jumped four feet off the ground. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

For ten years, the victrolas ground out their lessons on the second floor of our Montclair house. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They started at the Box, which was closed at the moment—double doors of metal lying flat on the ground, covered in white paint, faded and cracked. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Laney collapsed in a torrent of giggles, and Papa swung her off his shoulders and to the ground. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“If it makes you feel better, she yelled at him more than she yelled at me. I’m sure she would have grounded him too if she could have.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was always too busy looking at the ground, trying to survive from one day to the next. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A figure climbs toward the glass ceiling, and judging by the smooth way he walks, like his feet barely leave the ground, I know it is Four. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I, meantime, was struggling with a one-armed ruffian who had latched on to my tunic and was trying to pull me to the ground. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Parker peers over the wall, sees Madge on the ground, and pulls out her phone. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

When her feet were on the ground, she raised her face to us. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he grunted a couple of times and started to bend over but his big belly got in the way and wouldn’t let his arms reach to the ground. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The woman on the ground lifted her gaze and found Luna’s eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“It’s not hurting you,” said Lily, but she closed her hand on the blossom and threw it back to the ground. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I want my voice to echo and crack the ground beneath my feet. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Out of the very ground at their feet a shadowy steam arose and mingled with the swiftly falling dusk. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were said to have been seen at night rising from the ground like birds on fire. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Just bloody wads of paper on the ground. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The machine rumbled, and then Tally felt it lift from the ground. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We unanimously decided to tender our resignations on the grounds that we supported the boycott and did not enjoy the support of the majority of the students. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought perhaps they had caught him on the ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s because you’ve got that nose of yours stuck so far in the air that you never get to look down to see us common nits on the ground.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We slept in abandoned villages, where we lay on the bare ground and hoped that the following day we would be able to find something other than raw cassava to eat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She saw Con kneeling on the cold ground gripping Taisin’s hands in his. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Each fall, when the wind swept in from the sea and the leaves fell rustling on the ground, she brought her little companion into the cottage once again. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Kingdom’s forces on the ground—columns of riflemen, troops equipped with flamethrowers, with poison-spraying cannons, with weapons such as none of the watchers had ever seen—began to disengage and pull back. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"They'll burn it to the ground if someone doesn't stop them!" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She bends down and rifles through a laptop bag on the ground. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He walked fast, his body at a forty-five-degree angle to the ground, as if he was leaning into every step. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Harry jumped off his broom, a foot from the ground. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Winn-Dixie looked down at the ground, like he was trying to remember if he had. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rolling and tumbling, he tried to keep his pack up so it wouldn’t bang on the ground like every other part of him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He fell onto the ground and blood slowly leaked out of his head. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Stanley noticed Zero's canteen lying on the ground near his hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The gathering darkness, the rise and fall of the ground, the giant, silent trees around her like columns supporting the vanishing sky — all of it was familiar. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to take a thousand years for Mama to fall to the ground in a crumpled heap. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

After getting off the interstate, he drove some ten or fifteen miles before coming upon a wooden sign illuminated only by a single spotlight secured to the ground below it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then I hear your voice calling up from the ground. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A house three blocks over was struck by a lightning bolt and burned to the ground. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But remember, it was the two. That means shaky ground.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He merely stretched on his stool a little and shrugged his shoulders when Father Nicanor began to rise up from the ground along with the chair he was sitting on. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He put the two pails of water carefully on the ground. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

So in September, he starts using less expensive paint, pigments that are less finely ground. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You can protect other buildings that are threatened,” the young scythe said, “but you’ll let this entire compound burn to the ground.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

His head struck the ground, bounced once, and came to rest tilted slightly to one side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Francie dreaded the drinking periods—not on moral grounds but because Papa wasn’t a man she knew then. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was being beaten to the ground for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and not to mention for being the wrong color. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She stood on tiptoe and measured six feet from the ground. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to him, her heart pounding, and knelt down on the ground, pushing back her hood. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shambling a couple of steps away from the well, she squatted down and sniffed at the ground where Seth had thrown his salt. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He threw his cop hat and his billy club on the ground. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The ground came quick and hard, but I landed and rolled as the train lumbered on without a thank-you or goodbye. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

One day, while collecting wood, Ku-Ang saw something red glittering on the ground. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I opened the door to a chauffeur, and past his shoulder I could see some police constables dispersing to various points of the grounds. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But no white people had ever stood their ground and probed at me, questioned me at such length. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I throw my makeshift jai-namaz, my prayer rug, on the floor and I get on my knees, lower my forehead to the ground, my tears soaking through the sheet. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I hit the ground and popped up immediately, ready for more. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Move on, to higher ground in another place. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That dead man. Lying on the ground. His stomach was torn open and steam was coming out of it.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was the sound of death looming over me and my sisters, who were still unconscious on the ground beside me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I only know the middle ground where we live our lives. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed a couple walking back toward the pavilion arm in arm, the lady giggling as she held up her long skirts to avoid tripping over them on the uneven ground. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pelts stones at a tree with small, dark leaves, and bunches of a long brown fruit fall to the ground. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The halls had the vague animal smell of damp mortar, and the grounds were overgrown with grass, bramble, and weeds. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The ground was sodden and slippery, equal parts mud and blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Life was harder for ground crew than for aircrew. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When El-ahrairah spoke, he put his head on the ground between his front paws and whined for joy. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But a gymnastics beam is only three feet off the ground.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Before I could get up to him the patient rushed at them, and pulling one of them off the cart, began to knock his head against the ground. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

There were shouts, and four, then five, men in camouflage were running across the grounds towards us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed the spoon at the ground by her feet. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They dangled from every limb and trailed on the ground. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When the ground rose several hours later, we came up on the rear of another, smaller party. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Four pairs of hands lifted her up off the ground, and four pairs of hands dusted her off. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

My legs got straight, then I was on tiptoes, then I was off the ground. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below them was a frozen waterfall stretching fifty feet to the ground. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Julia looks down at the ground, but I can still see her face getting red. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Eventually he came to a complete halt and started to poke around with his foot a squashed paper cup on the ground. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hyena felt ashamed too and he lowered his head to the ground and howled through his yellow teeth. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Shining wood floors, huge windows, everything low to the ground. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They rode toward the high ground, an opening in the trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taisin balled her hands into fists at her side and followed, keeping her eyes on the ground to avoid betraying her self-consciousness. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In a moment she had dropped her purse and lifted Frankie off the ground, smothering him with kisses. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He turned in his stirrups, looked back at the high ground, the cemetery. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew that old Frank’s devotion to the house and grounds amounted almost to an obsession, and it amused them to see him limping across the garden, brandishing his stick and yelling croakily at them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But a second later a soft push of wind brought her feet back to solid ground. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The cart’s wheels crunched along the gritty path, and sand hissed across the ground in an early-morning breeze. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay on his side, half over the washboard, with his sunburned face on the ground. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the wellspring of hope, Levittown is now ground zero in America’s new narratives: income inequality, the fraying of the working class, suburban poverty. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

One of the figures was on the ground, another was bent over, hands on knees. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

One time, when I was in a blind in a tree, waiting motionless for game to wander by, I dozed off and fell ten feet to the ground, landing on my back. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We settled on a bench beneath a great spreading willow, then abandoned it and found more comfortable seats on the ground at the foot of the tree. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the far side of the ship, the man was standing with his hands on his hips like a proud mechanic as the huge ramp of the hatch door slowly swung toward the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The weight of his body pulled down the bottom strand of wire, pinning it against the snowy ground and Creating a small gap in the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The wind fanned the fire, causing it to flare up, and I saw it carried its thick body close to the ground, legs out to the side, like a lizard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A yawning black hole opened in the ground at the base of the tree. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Look! This ground beef is on sale for a dollar!” she says. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

More like dragging a stick on the ground. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Steps leading to doors went up and down from the ground. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The great bowl of the Olympic Stadium, its floor forty-two feet below ground level, had been excavated and leveled, its central field sown with grass that was already lush and green. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This is how she was going to get through the seven-hour leper-o-rama of school—with her eyes always on the ground. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Around us, men slept upon the ground, or with subtle convulsion, approached the small fires. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The Head of the Air Force glanced down at the ground below. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others squatted down to watch the ones that had lost wings crawl on the ground, to follow them as they held on to one another and moved like a black string, a mobile necklace. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In murky images, his horse would spiral into the ground, carrying Tommy under him, and Helen would wake into a life striated with fear. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Great now that my daughter’s back on the ground.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The Division was forming on level ground, down the road—great square blocks of blue. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are no other flights to D.C. on any other carrier, sir, nonstop or otherwise. That weather system has grounded everything. There will be nothing until later this evening. I’m so sorry,” she whispers. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I shifted and fished around on the ground for the offending item. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As for the Delaware, it was a handy dumping ground for anything and everything—household and human waste, manufacturing rubbish, and debris from the hundreds of ships that visited the city every year. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

One half still stood, slightly tilted, while the other lay on the ground. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then, if you have any liking for the road, go over the ground covered by the book, spending a few days in Chicago, Detroit, and Indianapolis. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Zvezda rolled his eyes up to her and, very slowly, very carefully, lowered his head to the ground. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“And then our parents will find out we weren’t at the movies, and I’ll be grounded for life.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then, with a bright white flash and a crack, a crystal ball fell on top of his head, and he crumpled to the ground and did not move. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then in a spectacular leap that no one thought her capable of, Ester knocks her husband to the ground, pulls at his hair, and bites his cheek. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding the container steady, we climbed back up to the top and placed it on the ground. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“That’s a good bowl, Robert. Now try to release the bowl closer to the ground, so it rolls out of your hand smoother.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then I got to my hands and knees and crawled along the ground, around to the back of the police car, where Collins had Doc. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She could hear the bukavac’s steps behind her, the scuttling rapid-fire of six feet punching the ground as it chased her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The ground where I stood seemed warmer than the moors. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the ground, and taking the dagger-hilt laid it on his knees, and he sang over it a slow song in a strange tongue. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But I would stand my ground, I decided. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He ground through twenty-four-hour endurance tests and “stamina runs,” in which contestants looped up and down local roads until their beleaguered automobiles exploded or shed their wheels—the last one rolling was the winner. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood next to Deborah, whose arm in his shivered incessantly with the cold, and watched while the long, plain box was lowered into the ground. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They rushed at me then, and about five of them grabbed me by the arms and legs and lifted me clear off the ground. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The raindrops hit the ground as if they’d been hurled in malice, breaking and splashing up into the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They sometimes do this by creeping near the cattle and spreading their urine on the ground. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Superman burst through walls, lifted cars, and caught people falling out of buildings before they hit the ground. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m as brown as that ice cream he made me drop. You can see it, on the ground, over there.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

At last she saw a modern building that nestled against the ground, down a low sloping hill. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he slid them to the ground he saw that there was a three-sided mirror at the far end of the room. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Probably he had said to someone to give something the old college try, and that had finished him; that would probably be grounds for expulsion at Harvard. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She throws a clamshell box on the ground. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He once torched a whole squadron of fighter jets on an empty airfield in the middle of the night and has on two occasions grounded airships by crippling their engines. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She clicked one of the buttons and swung the blue glow down to the ground to see what she’d hit. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Staring at me, he squatted and placed this object onto the ground. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He’s little more than a rag doll on the ground, just as he was when I dislocated his shoulder. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“No, that was on the ground when I said that to you. I said that to you on the ground, and then the two of us started to climb ...” he broke off. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Josh steps under Michael before I can stop him and I watch as Michael falls into his arms diagonally and Josh puts him upright and sets him carefully on the ground. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then his head suddenly came out into the air and he found himself scrambling ashore, out on to smooth grassy ground at the edge of a pool. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

After what seemed like hours, it finally toppled to the ground. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rebel ran up and down the village before he fell to the ground and stopped moving. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“There’s a way to go about it! You think you’re the only one tired? You think I wanted to see my best friend thrown onto the ground?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

From one of the plastic bags we carry our remaining belongings in, Keav takes out a bedsheet and spreads it on the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lilies had died back to the ground; the bark of the crepe myrtles had all peeled away; there was a mackerel sky. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

At a certain place she crouches and slides her hand along the ground until her fingers reach a latch. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The ground was hardest at the surface, where the sun had baked a crust about eight inches deep. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Hesitantly he raised his left hand off the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I stop and Zephyr barrels into me, grabbing my shoulders so I don’t careen face forward into the ground. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My foot throbs painfully as blood leaves a trail over the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One cloud looked like a two-humped camel, and another looked like an old man whose long, white beard nearly reached the ground. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bags were gathered on the kitchen floor, I started pulling groceries onto the kitchen table—half a watermelon, a coffee cake, milk, and ground beef. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The area on which Hunt had been built was marshland, and the ground grew wet during the night. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When I was at the bottom of the tree, I brought my feet to within an inch of the ground. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They went out onto the grounds in the afternoon; the snow was untouched except for the deep channels made by the Durmstrang and Beauxbatons students on their way up to the castle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It felt the same this morning when I dialed his number, like falling through the dark, not knowing when you’re going to hit the ground. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I search the ground for weapons—a staff, sharp rocks, anything I can use to fight them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay my cheek against the ground, and my tears mingle with the dirt. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Tell the old man I’m headed out to the tuna fishing grounds and he’ll rope me to a chair and call my dad, or worse. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She got Brooke’s legs, which scrabbled on the ground, grabbed them, got her good shoulder underneath Brooke’s body, and lurched her up and over. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then he stood up, lifted me from the snow by the pockets on my coat, and held me off the ground so that we were eye to eye. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya opened her mouth to speak, but beneath their feet, the ground rumbled. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The dwarf threw his axe to the ground and put his hands on his hips. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She dropped an armful of wood on the ground. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We stare at each other for a minute, and then I gently wrestle him to the ground. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He paused for a moment, staring at the ground, then added, “Your boyfriend plays in the second set. Coach Dub wanted to put his best two players first.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not a single morsel would be dropped to the ground or go wasted, for it was said that if the food were able, it would weep tears at being misused in any manner. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She rolled on the ground with such force that the stones cut her skin in tiny red gashes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Moments later he stalks off, cursing and spitting on the ground. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The lack of rain and the fact that the park’s waterworks were not yet completed meant Olmsted could not plant exposed portions of the grounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I pick up my trash off the ground and place it in the can. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He stood there perfectly still, rooted to the spot and staring down at the ground in front of his feet. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

If we didn’t understand something, we were expected to say so and then she’d go back and patiently cover the ground again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kneeling on the ground, Bear emptied his sack. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It landed on the ground, struggling mightily, right in front of the young man with scars on his face. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Had all four of them been out on the grounds tonight? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The Prince picked the spot himself, in the quietest, remotest corner of the castle grounds. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

As their horses pulled apart, they crashed to the ground with bone-jarring force. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Most of the people in the store kept their eyes closed and heads on the ground. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

So soon after watching his mother’s coffin lowered into the ground, he’d felt an unshakable need to bury the body. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The thatching was evenly trimmed, the walls freshly plastered, the ground smooth without the print of a foot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbled excitedly out of the airlock, falling to the ground then scrambling to his feet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grip finally came loose, the player slipping to the ground as if he was sinking into a swamp, and Comer broke off into the end zone. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He caught a gleam of red light sweeping the ground in front of the creature as if it came from its eyes. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Dad and I dump the bag of moss on the ground. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tears streamed down my face, tears I didn’t know I had left, and I slid down the column to the ground, burying my head in my hands. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Forty minutes later I was on the ground in Kathmandu. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Amari lay on the ground one particularly hot night, trying to escape into sleep. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shoving her sword through her belt, she slipped down branch to branch until die was back on die ground. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But I hesitated, and the opportunity was lost, for Hamlet threw the helmet to the ground with a curse. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Curly went off to his trailer while Officer Delinko resumed patrolling the grounds. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was so strong that it carried off some of the soil from the surface of the ground, and then the hurricane drove a wall of water up the Angara. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature unclenched its fist, and the dust blew to the ground. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Seeing her on the ground, bleeding, had ripped him open, too. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he watched as they took another rock and used it to hammer the stone deeper into the ground than the deepest ocean. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The hard ground made his hip and arm ache. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Faint with horror, I loosened my grip and dropped to the ground. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was half lying across the child as the ground shook to the unbelievable roar. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Kapugen had seen them walk long miles in spring, with legs and ribs for the mothers who stayed in the ground with their pups for almost ten days after birth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorian watched in wide-eyed terror as Celaena thrashed on the ground, waving away things they couldn’t see. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Those are the rules, but the ground is shifting. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stands absolutely still, staring at the ground. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The momentum pulled Tree-ear off balance, and he tripped over the cart and tumbled headfirst to the ground. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“They say there’s a witch in uncons—unconsecrated ground,” he said. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

His premonitions soon proved to be grounded in fact. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this was the big day for judging cattle, quilts, and cookery, so the grounds were packed, though it was a nickel to get in. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a rear door at ground level with a window on each side of it. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The land around Trebon was rough, mostly thick forest broken by stretches of rocky ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They walked together toward the massive hulk of Iofiir’s palace, where the combat ground lay flat and open at the foot of the walls. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was no roof over the shower building, and the walls were raised up six inches off the ground except in the corners. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Hold-Your-Nose Billy popped a clove of garlic into his mouth, ground it between his yellow teeth, and helped himself to a veal pie. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

She made sure the poles were deep enough in the ground that a stiff wind wouldn’t blow it over. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Leaving the castle grounds by a roundabout way, I looked back, expecting to see a spy set upon me by my father. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On September 1, the pilot of a Soviet interceptor jet launched air-to-air missiles at Korean Air Lines flight 007, which Soviet ground crews had mistaken for a hostile military aircraft. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

On the ground, Renly's head rolled sickeningly to one side, and a second mouth yawned wide, the blood coming from him now in slow pulses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

I run for Peeta, to knock him to the ground, to protect his body with mine, even though I know I won’t make it in time. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

On its front end a half circle of lights glowed, giving feedback from the board’s metal detector, which constantly searched ahead to see if there was enough iron in the ground to stay aloft. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And wasn’t that what this place was—a hunting ground? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It felt good to bring my forehead to the ground. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Matt dragged the metal chest to higher ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood my ground in front of my captor, keeping my gaze narrow and pinned on my reflection in his shades. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was nearly four in the morning, and the deathly stillness of the grounds felt as though they were holding their breath, waiting to see whether he could do what he must. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The warrior snarled again and lifted the priest up, bringing his feet completely off the ground. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He snapped his fingers, and their weapons fell to the ground. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Ridgeway knocked him to the ground with a growl and started kicking him. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She crouched down on the hot, ashy ground, too exhausted to even cry. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He wallowed into the ground and lay watching across his forearm. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When he’s not having the fit he sits on the ground at the top of the lane reading the books his father brings home from the Carnegie Library. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Also, it was above ground, and that never felt quite natural to us. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They must make a mile-long retreat over open ground that offers almost no cover. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He kicks back, lowers his grip, over and over, until he’s on the ground, smug, cocky. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But not before I had seen orange steel poking through thick ground clouds below. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

August and I sat in collapsible lawn chairs beside a crepe myrtle that kept dropping blossoms all over the ground. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the snow covers the ground and the benches, the hood of the groundskeeper's truck, and the trees. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Booth isn’t wearing a boot on his injured leg, and his foot and ankle are in pain and quite cold from walking on swampy ground in the thin shoes he took from Mudd. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Thicknesse had fallen to the ground with tiny spikes erupting all over him; he seemed to be turning into some form of sea urchin. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Yet I imagined Ade Coker and the rest of the staff in an office beneath the ground, a fluorescent lamp flooding the dark damp room, the men bent over their desks, writing the truth. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bare shrubs framed the front walk and snow-covered trees dotted the grounds. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The incessant rain tickled his cheeks and mixed with the blood from his mouth, dripping red by the time it hit the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I hit the ground hard and lost a third of my hit points from the impact. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But since the mech was lying flat, the head shot out on a trajectory parallel to the ground. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I pulled out the sack and rested it on the ground, holding it open for Denna to look. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her face is calm at the moment, her chin lifted high, her breasts and chin and belly jiggling as her feet hit the hard ground. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched them swing and connect, sending bug after bug tumbling to the ground. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She shrieked in pain and crumpled to the ground. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Down below it, on the ground, there is much bustle going on. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to hide, but he saw with dismay that he’d left muddy footprints all over the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard that we would be sleeping on the ground for three days, outside, under a tent, I thought that was insane. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The sight filled Kaede with dread, and she had to force herself to look past Taisin, where the ground plummeted down again. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Navigating using instruments without being able to see the ground was known in the early days of aviation as “blind flying.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When the wheels touched the ground, Percy floored the brakes, and they swerved to a stop just inside the gates. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The living are flailing their arms and legs, trying to swim or gain purchase on the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I was about to ask how we were planning to reach the ground when I saw Olive float into view past the edge of the roof. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And surely a hyena would smell of a predator to an orangutan, a reason for being vigilant when a piece of durian has been dropped to the ground accidentally. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The milk is fresh, the rain has stopped, the ground beneath them is solid. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As the plane hit the ground, she was thrown forward against the gunsight. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It floated a few inches off the ground, its feathery boots moving fast, just out of reach of the sunflower seeds. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

A cluster of figures round something lying on the ground; a few seemed to be darting this way and that, bent like dogs on a trail. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A knife slips out from the bottom of her tank top and clatters to the ground. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

R.C. could stand it no longer and fell to the ground, snorting and choking, trying to stifle his laughter. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The yarn and needles fell to the ground, and her hands covered her face. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The Vonnegut’s perfectly rendered steel loading ramp lowered to the ground, standing out in sharp contrast against the digital blackness of Archaide’s surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I said as the elevator settled with a thump on the ground floor. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The maples and birches turned bright colors and the wind shook them and they dropped their leaves one by one to the ground. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

As he hit the ground, the contratista kicked him in the side with the tip of his boot. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wonders if they repaint it every night as he turns another corner, and because he is looking at the ground, he nearly runs into the girl. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And Quirrell, though pinning Harry to the ground with his knees, let go of his neck and stared, bewildered, at his own palms — Harry could see they looked burned, raw, red, and shiny. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a guard on the ground level. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I knew we were walking, but I couldn’t feel my feet touching the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They sat in a wide semicircle, between the arms of which Faramir was seated on the ground, while Frodo stood before him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They opened the back gate, and I saw the man writhing in pain on the ground. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then, right before what was sure to be his final serve, Glenn made a grand gesture of pulling a tennis ball from his pocket and placing it on the ground. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The lady in the scarlet kirtle dropped her wooden bowl onto the ground. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could taste it then, just as plainly as I felt the air move as Liam lifted the man clear off the ground with a wave of his hand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s called Skeleton Hill because it was an ancient Indian burial ground, duh,” he said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I threw my mask to the ground in anger. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We had wild game for the killing, fertile ground for growing bread corn, and the Indians had been put onto reservations with the return of U.S. soldiers to the Texas forts. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath them the ground was soft and the soil was as black as coal. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her feet reached level ground, she ran, heedless of the dark and silent huts on either side, seeing only the firelight ahead. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When Beto undid the last knot, Wash tumbled to the ground and fell on his face. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boy made a strange grunt as he collapsed to the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Once Dandelion struck the smell of a stoat and they all joined him, whispering and sniffing over the ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she spotted something on the ground, and stopped. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Victor and Lorena seem equally discombobulated, but Elizabeth is on familiar ground. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The way his hooves tore at the ground was so desperate, and his family already gone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gave ground before the charges, still orderly but giving, and were shepherded along a glade of Sherwood forest—a wide glade like an estuary of grass with trees on either side. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few steps, I stop and kick the ground, spraying up the dust and loose gravel. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Luke dropped to the ground, but he couldn’t cry. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I follow his eyes to the big white guy now laying on the ground crooked and bloody and motionless. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

All he wanted to do was to be left alone to endure whatever was pushing his body to the ground. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There was a smell of dampness in the air as the frosted ground thawed, a smell of things getting ready to grow. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“What if she tells on us?” he asked as we looked at her as she now sat cross-legged on the ground, scraping the dirt with a rock. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I lay on the ground on my back. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The pastel jungle gym, or whatever was left of it, was stained black and twisting toward the ground. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The acid electrical smell burned his nose and mixed with the smell of wet vomit on the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The arrow she had nocked slipped and fell, flailing like a downed bird, to the ground at her feet. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then deep folds in the ground were discovered unexpectedly, like the ruts of great giant-wheels or wide moats and sunken roads long disused and choked with brambles. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a slaughtering of so many cows, pigs, and chickens for the endless parties that the ground in the courtyard turned black and muddy with so much blood. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

African American leader Booker T. Washington shared this view, opposing suffrage on the grounds that giving women the vote would undermine their moral and domestic influence. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Isabelle Derby cried out, “My baby!” and reached for the child on the ground in front of her, but her husband held her firmly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the cellblock was occupied, whippings were administered in an area of the ground floor called the Flogging Post. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even among fishes that range widely in coastal waters, many depend upon protected inshore areas to serve as nursery and feeding grounds for their young. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In gathering wild yams, they cut off most of the edible tuber but replaced the stems and tops of the tubers in the ground so that the tubers would regrow. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of it there was a great wide spot, dark on the frozen ground. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red ants cover the ground, and millions of gnats hover over the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I dared to look down and saw the yunka stranger holding Ucho by the neck, lifting him off the ground with one hand. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, Susan Kidwell and her mother had managed to sugar the pill and install a cozy atmosphere in their apartment—three rooms on the ground floor. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn and see Gale has lifted Prim off the ground and she's thrashing in his arms. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He shot off into the forest, leaving the crumbled cake on the ground. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ozwin gave her a kiss and loosened the mooring lines that kept the big silk pontoons firmly on the ground. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He pointed at an indentation in the ground with no marker beside it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She felt them lower her to the ground, and she realized she was screaming. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

We opened fire until the last living being in the other group fell to the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The other reason was that you needed Guess What to pump it out of the ground and into the tank of your car. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the ground was covered with cacti, the trip might take a lot longer. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t appear at the staff table at mealtimes, they didn’t see him going about his gamekeeper duties on the grounds, and Professor Grubbly-Plank continued to take the Care of Magical Creatures classes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They didn’t want to see the stores that had been looted or burned to the ground and the cars that had been set on fire. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He combed through her cookbooks every afternoon, following her penciled instructions to use two teaspoons of ground coriander seeds instead of one, or red lentils instead of yellow. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I slid down the tree, landing in a rough heap on the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But back on the ground, he was dogged by nightmares filled with the faces of the men who died. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She walked past them, planting her stick firmly in the ground with each step, planning to nod if they acknowledged her. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to the trailers, he put his knuckle on my bruised leg and ground it in as he got up. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Now she understood why the children had all stripped off their clothes, dropping them like bright rags on the sandy ground. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slammed it into the ground, whirled it over my head, but no matter what I did, I couldn’t dislodge her. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then, in a flash amid the chaos, somehow I got kicked to the ground. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I feel like I'm sinking lower and lower into the ground, but there's nothing below my feet to keep me steady. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

No lying or stealing, and no insubordination to civil authority, except on the grounds of religious obligation. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was looking to see how I could hitch the wagon to my bike without the handle getting stuck in the spokes or dragging on the ground, when Chris rode up. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

McManus had just begun speaking into the phone when right in front of his eyes the top of the molasses tank blew straight into the air, then fell with a roar to the ground. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Only my damp and bemired apparel; in which I had slept on the ground and fallen in the marsh. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In ten seconds, the Romans all lay groaning and dazed on the ground. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I haven't had water since the ship, and the ground seems to shift and roll beneath my feet. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

However, as soon as the tablet was laid on his back, Bauxi felt himself weighed deeper and deeper into the ground. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Blue Bill and Oksi stayed around the good hunting grounds of Delhi with Frightful. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But these marvels did not check his fury; he struck again and again until the great oak crashed to the ground. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sack ripped wide open, of course, scattering my belongings, but I made it to the ground with nothing more serious than a grass stain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The true climax occurred after the grounds closed, however. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I went outside and sat next to her, the cement cold through my pants, the ground mostly clear by then except for a few patches of dirty snow. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She focused all her love, all her questions, all her care, all her worry, all her frustrations, and all her sorrow on the bird on the ground. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Much smaller, I thought, and not nearly so menacing, and in the bright sunlight it was hard to picture what had happened on this ground some twenty years ago. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the ball hit the ground, it took the worst possible bounce right into Ms. Adams's yard, where Brutus the Rottweiler lived, chained to a tree. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The cat was some distance away, belly to ground and tail twitching excitedly, stalking his breakfast. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Antigone who symbolized our struggle; she was, in her own way, a freedom fighter, for she defied the law on the grounds that it was unjust. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thorn followed after, gracefully floating across the water and landing gently on the ground. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It went high into the air, ignited, then parachuted slowly toward the ground, lighting the entire area. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything a human could want was there, from the grand lobby on the ground floor to the elegant Starlight Room one mile up. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Behind, on higher ground, stood a splendid theater, a compulsory feature in any Greek city, and to its west, the Emporion, a complex of docks and customshouses where every ship was inspected. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I rooted my feet to the ground, waiting for him to pass. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As they sang, the ground in the clearing began to undulate. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Zu and Chubs were sitting on the ground, outside of Betty. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“If you say one word about my brother and the gun, you will be grounded until you turn eighteen no matter what your father says—do you hear me?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Under the moon, on the ground, alone, with not even the sound of baying dogs to remind him that he was with other people, his self—the cocoon that was “personality”—gave way. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His AK-47 went off as he fell to the ground, grabbing at the thin stake of wood. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

On the ground, he couldn’t see that the streets, which were paved in various shades of stone, were laid out in a complex geometric pattern so that the city looked like a giant mosaic. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Something clipped Kendra’s shoulder and sent her spinning to the ground. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have no chance to get ahold on to nothing, my legs gave out and I crumpled toward the ground. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She skidded down the hill on feet made clumsy from suppressed emotion, and sank down on the ground beside her mother’s grave, clutching her knees tight to her chest. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I can see my own body lying on the ground, just lying there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a chill in the air, and errant flakes of snow drifted down and melted on the ground. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A while later, there was a regular-looking fluffy black-and-white chicken pecking at the ground, with a little red comb and yellow legs. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Another series of pops sounded, and tiny puffs of white smoke burst from the tree’s trunk where it met the ground. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A Huntsman tumbled with him to the ground. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tidbit shimmied to the ground, a peach in each hand, and looked at her strangely. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It bounced off and clattered to the ground. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman Thomas shoots hasn’t even crumpled to the ground yet when I see the boy launch himself from the rooftop. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He offers me his hand, and we plop down on the folded-up blanket he’s placed on the ground. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And it was laid out straight on the ground—all neat and tidy. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed to fill the very air about them as it gathered momentum; the ground began trembling with the rumbling noise. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You can put them in the ground later,” she said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Stonesnake seemed to know where to put his feet as if by instinct, but Jon needed to be more careful on the broken, uneven ground. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was suddenly worried that they’d decided to totally remove all of my baking supplies from the house as part of my grounding. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

When she takes her hand from the ground, it leaves a red handprint behind. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Well, try to kill her on bare ground,” Mama cautioned. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I couldn’t touch it now that it was live, so I looked for a branch on the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they were already branching? Do you remember seeing any gray feathers on the ground near the nest?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He ascends, falls at a slope, strikes the rebar and returns to the ground. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The land was harsher now; for shade they had to rest in the shadow of rocks, not under wide-spreading trees, and the ground underfoot was hot through the soles of their shoes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went on like this for a few minutes and then crumpled to the ground. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They spread their sleeping bags on the ground and hurried inside them. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

No big thing to dump her intestines on the ground. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

That moment when I was off the ground, one foot against the side of the moving train, one hand holding on to the train or maybe an outstretched hand, that moment would last forever. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then your mom and I have agreed that you’ll be grounded for two weeks starting tomorrow.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

After a while, they noticed that the ground seemed to be sloping downward, though the trees were as thick as ever. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The ground descended in a slope toward the edge of the Wood, and when she approached the downhill portion, she knew where she was. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the top of the incline, before a group of cells fronted by a row of squat stone pillars, Mr. Das was kneeling on the ground, focusing the lens of his camera. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The first explosion was so loud that Ugwu’s ear popped and his body shivered alongside the vibrating ground. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But time wore on, and as the dirt mingled with the sweat on my body, I felt strangely comforted by the chunk, chunk, chunk of the hoe digging into the ground. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The boy grabbed her bow from the ground, took her hand, and pulled her toward the nearest tree, where he climbed to the first branch and hauled her up after. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

All these businesses were on the ground level of buildings with floors of apartments above. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had peeled and pounded yams and cassava, blown out the husks in rice, picked out the weevils from beans, peeled onions, and ground peppers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soon the pointed shoots of the playful daffadowndillies will break the frozen ground. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was hollowed out of the ground with tunnels leading out on all sides. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I staggered and tripped my way over the uneven ground, took out Izio’s shoes from beneath the coat and threw them in two directions. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He left his feet and fell forward, thudding, forehead against the ground. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped to a crouch, then completely to the ground. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Even after the two owls alighted, even after he watched them disappear like feathered ghosts into the ground, Officer Delinko continued moving away, backing up step by step until... Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

People lacking a union obviously, people without grounds. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got off the ground as soon as I saw that they hadn’t reached the top of the ridge. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swept the rat off and sent him flying to the ground. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It was late in the night when at length they reached firmer ground again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

‘After what happened yesterday, not to mention Ted breaking that glass just now! It’s out of the question. You’re grounded. Both of you.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hole in the ground the size of a house, full of bodies. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I come back to earth, my palms slap against the ground, a tremendous boom shaking everything around me. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The trail had been fashioned with large, flat rocks, inlaid into the ground, and fitted so close to one another that the seam between them could hardly let in a piece of paper. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A hollow voice rolled across the plains, shaking the warm fleshy ground. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It will clear most of the ground cover within a few days.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Then why are they flying so close to the ground?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The upside of being grounded for a week is hard to find, except maybe that you start to appreciate any kind of fun, even if it’s in the form of a homework project. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Going closer, he watched them hack the tusks from a motionless elephant on the ground and haul them away, spattered with blood. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then they put Gawaine on the ground, tied up so that he could not get away, and prepared for battle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gorged on so many beechnuts and acorns that they sometimes fell off their perches and burst apart when they hit the ground. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The work went on in shifts and the rabbits took it in turns to feed, play and lie in the sun above ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s on the ground with a bullet hole in his forehead just above his left eye. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Not a one of the boys would sleep in or under the wagon that night, despite the ground was wet as heck. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Then he grabs me with his powerful arms and lifts me off the ground. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

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

Worms squiggled frantically from a billion holes in the ground and drowned, their pale bleached bodies floating everywhere. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guns in hand and silver badges swinging from metal chains around their necks, the men pointed their weapons at Wes and ordered him to the ground. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Toby went to stand up, but Jimmy held a hand in the air, lowering Toby back down to the ground with just the movement. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Is it my imagination,” my dad asked, “or are you still grounded?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The ball of the world and heavens toppled and hit the ground with a whump! Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“He wore so much padding he looked like a stuffed goose. Bran knocked him to the ground.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was a Saturday and the sun was so bright that we couldn’t see our shadows on the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her bow rested on the ground while she bathed, half hidden in the pool. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The old man stood his ground and raised one hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The man staggered and the soldier slapped him again and again and again and he crashed to the ground and the key slipped out of his hand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then, just as Mr. Curtain was finally going inside, a couple of Executives came out for a leisurely stroll over the Institute grounds. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed off the ground and leaped into the struggle between Mark and the woman like a lion attacking its prey. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As a result, it had a popularity out of proportion to what it had achieved on the ground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strange lights shot through the trees, and she stayed low to the ground, trying to figure out what they were. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But as he got closer, he realized they were surrounding something on the ground, all of them looking down at it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It either went into my mouth that instant or was lost to Richard Parker, who was pawing and stamping the ground and huffing impatientiy on the edge of his territory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The frightened buzzards had settled back to the ground by the time we got there. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unable to find a hotel one night, he had slept on the ground, awaking the next morning to find himself beneath an olive tree. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He bent down to toss a bill on the ground, and waited for a throw. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Miss Peregrine tapped the ground with her beak three times, then ten times, then five. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Sounds like quite a recipe. But even if you can get it off the ground, and I’m not saying I believe you can, how you going to get it to explode in the air?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Great tears poured from beneath his clenched lids and fell in steaming dollops to the ground. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And suddenly out of nowhere there was Beans, swiping at Palmer’s head even as Nipper chuckled, sending the pigeon to the ground. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“We need to leave—” Too late, said a sleepy voice, humming through the fields all around them and resonating in the ground at Piper’s feet. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was low, yet still far enough above the ground to be out of reach of the highest-cutting hog. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Root’s teeth ground his cigar to a pulp. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Then one day Laura saw a patch of bare ground in the yard. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aaron lets go of me and I fall to the ground again, clutching at all the bruises he’s left on my chest. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Two other helicopters appear, filling the air with even more dust, so the visibility on the ground drops to a foot or two, if that. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In fact, the ground had begun to descend, though as yet not sharply. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A couple of pigeons were pecking at bits of squashed fruit on the ground. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In this sense at least, the original democracy was not the most fertile ground for such inquiries. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He thought reason, opinion and authority should all give ground before experience, but he lacked the language in which to express this simple idea. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some were men and boys, but most were women and girls, their wraps still in beautiful colors, undone and spread along the ground like butterfly wings. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he’s said it, his eyes buckle to the ground with shame. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sobered by the force of the rising tempest, I realized that I’d gotten down the trickiest ground just in the nick of time. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the children made their way to the edge of the swamp and collapsed on the relatively solid ground. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scoffed and threw the torn magazine to the ground. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He spread them out on the ground near Mona, taking care to avoid the fire. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lord Tywin almost always chose to command the reserve; he would take the high ground and watch the battle unfold below him, committing his forces when and where they were needed most. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The ground was broken by rifts and pits of naked black peat, where water lay and sharp white stones, some as big as a pigeon’s, some as a rabbit’s skull, glimmered in the moonlight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he now ground his face into a deliberately pained expression—a form, apparently, of self-criticism. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

As he ran off, I slid to the ground, my head between my knees. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then her plane, too, struck the ground on its belly. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Perhaps fifty yards in front of them, a brown-gray creature was pushing his long snout into the ground and snorting like he had a sinus infection. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Its dappled, highcrowned roadways make safe homes for birds; quick squirrels run the veins of its treasure-giving hand; but the ground below is dead. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing a club from the ground, I ran to help her. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground crew had already opened the passenger’s door. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The ground rumbled as another grenade exploded, sending spirals of whipped cream into the sky. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There had been a rhythmic vibration in the ground audible through the paws, so that ears swung and nose wrinkled, but that had stopped. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“For a walk. Unless I’m grounded for getting cut from the team.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The ground was baked too hard to use the hoe. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could imagine the feel of it, beneath his body, moving off and surging forward, vibrating and heaving over the rough ground, and on, through some dark jungle. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the foot with both paws and forced it up from the ground. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I lost my temper, tackled her to the ground, and sat on her chest, pummel ing her, screaming, “They’re my berries! You stole them! I saw them first! I hate you!” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just to the left of the low building was a graveled driveway that appeared to lead outside the grounds. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They lit patches of ground like the reflections from some tropical disco ball. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

José Arcadio's companion asked them to leave them alone, and the couple lay down on the ground, close to the bed. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A long, straggly line of townspeople was crunching through the snow, some of them swiping listlessly at the ground with sticks. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I carefully inch my way down to the ground—I’m agile, but I’m not Day—and follow shadowed alleys to the lakefront. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A few eked out a precarious existence on the ground and survived. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you let it, it will take over each and every patch of ground it encounters, adding the soil’s biological and technological distinctiveness to its own. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Remember, Mia had said: Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground and start over. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a few inches its metal feet dug into the soft floor and it ground stubbornly to a halt. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When the bell sounded from the castle at the end of their lesson, the three of them dropped their trowels at once and hurried through the grounds to the edge of the forest. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The uneven ground that had seemed interesting on the way in now seemed treacherous. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It walked slowly, its huge body digging an irregular rut into the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two days later, after we had run ourselves into the ground harvesting the rest of the honey, Zach showed up with the prettiest notebook—green with rosebuds on the cover. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon thought he knew where these led—to the other end of the temple's ground floor, not far from the stable. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Crickets whirred and owls hooted and the ground crunched under the horse’s feet. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It seemed to simply fall out of her mouth and hit the ground with a soft thump. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Two giant tears welled in his eyes and went tumbling to the ground, boiling two patches of moss clear away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The man let go, flying forward to land on the walkway; he crumpled to the ground with a grunt but looked okay. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When I get these flashbacks, I feel like someone scooped my soul out and trampled it on the dirty ground. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As the flaming Po-2 touched the ground, the searchlights came back on and caught a second plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She could see a number of cars, some up in the air on gleaming steel poles, others over pits in the ground, and still others parked here and there. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I guess there’s this hazy middle ground between laughing at someone and laughing with someone. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He pulled me down, and as I hit the ground, I felt my brain shaking in my skull again and my deafness disappeared. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The ground was spongy, and my toes felt deliciously wet and cool in my flip-flopped feet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rebel pushed the old man to the ground, put a gun to his head, and ordered him to get up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Although I think hitting a child would be valid grounds for expulsion in other schools, I agree such extreme measures aren’t warranted here. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

With a loud exhale, Bongo flew to the ground. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And pounding forward with a rush came the ugly Dilemma, snorting steam and looking intently for someone to catch on the ends of his long pointed horns, while his hoofs bit eagerly at the ground. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Moss ducked out of the way, but tripped over something on the ground. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s made out of big chunks of yellowish stone, and has a steep roof, and is shaped like an L around a big courtyard with fat pebbles set in the ground. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rode the winch lift back to the ground. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He hit the ground so hard his shoes cracked the sidewalk. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Jane and Michael and Mary Poppins spread the crumbs in a circle on the ground, and presently, one by one at first, and then in twos and threes, the birds came down from St. Paul’s. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He reached up and straightened the report card in its frame so it was exactly even to the ground. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, neither is mine,” said the man, and, looking at the ground near Reynie’s feet, he said, “Please don’t take offense, but my name is Harry Harrison.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Dead before he hit the ground. Arthur and I went over and looked at him, right?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So why were the man’s feet planted firmly on the ground? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But what I saw almost made my jaw hit the ground. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A tremor shaking the ground and ripples wrinkling the surface of the ponds were the only indications that some great force was passing through. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

What worried me as I left the King’s House and walked through the Palace grounds, however, was not my failure, but Estraven’s part in it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

By this time, word had spread among the bears, and every part of the combat ground was crowded. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A shell fell close and they both dropped to the ground and dropped me. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the closer tents are splattered with mud, but none are burned despite the charred ground surrounding them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I climb, and when I’m a few feet off the ground, he comes after me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I would be grounded forever—I was sure of it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Angry growls and the rending of grass from beneath the net on the ground heralded Constance’s awakening. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I felt a grip on my shoulder as I lowered her into the small hole in the ground. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She worked all day now and the child lay on an old torn quilt on the ground, asleep. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I made a detailed sketch of the prison grounds with particular emphasis on the exact location of the prison hospital and the gates leading out of it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark was perched on the ground where he could see inside. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Now all of them would be under the ground themselves. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was all a part of the racial relations laboratory that was Langley, and it meant that both blacks and whites were treading new ground together. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Luke stood up and pushed Toby, stopping the gyrations, but hard enough that Toby hit the ground. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Matthew held his phone aloft to light the ground, still protectively clutching his poster with his other hand. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You stick it in the ground and make a wish.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The ground crew rolled the steps away, the door was closed, and it taxied off down the runway. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

If I was going to faint, it was better to stay close to the ground. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For long moments nothing happened, except the ground getting closer, and Tally wondered again if bungee jackets could handle a fall from this distance. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I turned to see him in his bare feet, perched awkwardly on a bit of dry ground surrounded by huge puddles, one hand on the side of the barn to keep his balance. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an old man on the ground a few feet away, moaning and staring up at the grey belly of the clouds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was snow on the ground, rendered in black. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He pretended to jam a flag into the ground. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. The ground was fresh. It must of been stuck in there only last night or early this morning.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Habib jerked him up just as she crumpled to the ground. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Water was running out from underneath and the ground was soggy. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stick fell to the ground, and the man stumbled away. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

A windmill swung its giant arms in slow obedience to the wind and a farmer passed them carrying a sack of grain to be ground. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Todd fell to the ground, folded his hands neatly on his chest, and closed his eyes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground rumbled and seemed to open beneath him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He placed a pot of ground millet, a packet of snuff, cooking utensils, and a calabash of beer at the top. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There was no air resistance to slow it down, nor wind to turn it aside—and when it hit the ground it threw up crystals precisely in the center of the “blue patch.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The flashlight spun on the ground, and she threw her arms around Ivy. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He unlocks the car, tosses the bag on the floor of the backseat, and tries to get Melo up off the ground. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The ground itself became fluid and sticky, the grass pulling at Nico’s boots. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And another time I had imagined living in a lodge in the grounds of Manderley, and how he would visit me sometimes, and sit in front of the fire. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

May 8: A US Navy seaplane begins the first transatlantic flight, making stops in Newfoundland and the Azores before touching ground in continental Europe in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 27. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Instead, she went outside and sat on the backyard steps and watched a hen near the lemon tree, guarding six chicks, nudging them toward crumbs on the ground. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fog lay low on the ground like sauna steam. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were massive amounts of garbage all over the ground. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He ground his teeth every time he thought about it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She starts shifting her stuff around on the ground—lipstick, Kleenex, tampons, one of those circular thingies with the makeup in one half and a mirror in the other, a flask. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The paper birds swirled upward in a massive formation overhead before alighting in a great circle on the ground. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A false claim would have been considered criminal activity and would have been grounds to deny our adjustment-of-status application and deport us. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He filled the kettle and the pot with water, stood the mattress against the wall, pounded it with a shoe, told me to keep pouring water on the ground to drown the fleas dropping there. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I arrive at the grounds out of sorts, slightly late, anxious, and hungry. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just as I open my mouth to ask if we’ve arrived, the guardhouse plummets to the ground and lands with a thud. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

We all marched around in the area in front of Dragonwings, tramping the weeds down so the ground would be fairly level. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think maybe direct supervision might be helpful while it gets off the ground?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was too early for them to have fruit, so Nhamo paid them little attention until she noticed a stealthy noise in the dry, brittle leaves that littered the ground. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked he balanced himself with the help of a fence and kept his dark eyes on the ground. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I open my eyes, the first thing I notice is the hard, sandy ground beneath me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

“They destroy the ground cover so that the birds and animals of the ferns and mosses have no home. I would never let one on my mountain—never.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He placed the gun on the ground before his feet. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

We watched as Susie ran off, her feet barely touching the ground as she did. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nailer’s voice caught as he realized how uncertain the ground was between himself and the half-man. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the ground had changed into a tiny patch-work quilt that she withdrew her nose, and faced her mother again. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

A dead hare lay on the ground below; another, long ears twitch-ing, was about to expire from the bolt in his side. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And since your head’s the thickest part of you and most times leads the way down, it’s always first to bust the ground. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Happily he let out that for years organic chemists had been arbitrarily favoring particular tautomeric forms over their alternatives on only the flimsiest of grounds. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The liquid splashed over her skin and onto the ground, creating a small puddle of mud. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Misty tendrils of smoke bled along the ground at their feet, and the smell of burning wood laced the air. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I was also grounded for the rest of the month. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The latrines were so abhorrent that most people, Nepalese and Westerners alike, evacuated their bowels outside on the open ground, wherever the urge struck. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

So she curled up in a quiet corner of the combat ground with Pantalaimon as a wolverine to keep her warm, and piled snow over herself as a bear would do, and went to sleep. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It hit the ground harder than he meant, then bounced and skipped into Derek’s briefcase. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

At this moment, from out in the darkening field, there came the sound of a stamp on the ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Victoria's commander ordered the ship to proceed full speed toward shore, intending to ground her there in accord with standing fleet orders meant to make it easier to raise a sunken ship. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Shame rose from the ground and wrapped me in a hot, turbulent funnel that I wished would lift me out of this room, away from my school principal’s startled blue eyes and quivering, elegant fingers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She settled beside him on the ground, and a sweet smell filled the space between them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was damp and dark on one side, where it had been on the ground for who knows how long, and dry and beginning to crack on the upside that had been facing the sun. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He hit the ground on his belly and flopped over on his back. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the snowball made more snow plop from a branch to the ground, Ryan had a sudden thought. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Let the Capitol and the districts run one another into the ground and then sauntered in to take power. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He had seen that happen to men before, had seen how they writhed on the ground like squashed bugs, and he was afraid of it. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to move, but his feet seemed stuck to the ground. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady turn around, turn around, turn around, Lady touch the ground, touch the ground, touch the ground; Lady show your shoe, show your shoe, show your shoe, Lady, lady, twenty-four skiddoo! Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over her little corpse, we stood, a country maid and a Spaniard grounds man. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if she sailed on the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

What does she want, to run the town into the ground?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He dodges, and the cake falls to the ground. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Powell tossed his knife to the ground, mounted his horse and, instead of galloping into the night, calmly trotted away. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath me, a creature with a long, hairless tail that drags in the dirt scuttles across the ground. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So I do and he stares at me with his mouth open until I get to XYZ and then he falls on the ground giggling. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach is too busy trying to pick her jaw up off the ground to make Shanna sprint a lap and do a hundred squat-jumps—standard fare for cussing. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“You could get a pound of ground beef for the price of two of those yogurts. And they’re so small. I ate one and it was gone in three bites.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She slams the door so hard, the ground shivers where I stand. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I see a day when new scythes will be chosen not because of some esoteric moral high ground, but because they enjoy the taking of life. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But I knew in my heart that Mama still didn’t have her feet on the ground. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Wearing deep mourning, she would have laid on it, perhaps, a wreath of flowers, as other women did; and stood for a moment, head bowed, considering the unspeaking ground. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He poked the leaves with his stick and heard something—this time, from the ground. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Grief at last wholly overcame them, and they wept long: some standing and silent, some cast upon the ground. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They grounded me when I felt the pressures of being judged, having everything from my choice of nail-polish color to the size of my hips dissected and discussed publicly. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Bracing himself against the weather vane, Matthias shielded his eyes and peered down into the Abbey grounds. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She got closer and closer, and as I lifted my shirttail to wipe my nose I knew I was grounded for life before she wheeled into the parking lot. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Branches overhead had been cleared away, too, not quite to the top of the bush but almost, so that the sunlight filtered through easily, and soft moss grew on the ground. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody approached Harry, but he felt their concentrated gaze; it seemed to press him harder into the ground, and he was terrified a finger or an eyelid might twitch. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The only way I could make the ground stop moving was to close my eyes and grip the tree. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The catering truck had arrived, and tables were being set up all over the grounds. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Seven screamed, and with one final gust of wind, the cuco was up off the ground and through the window. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He zoomed down to the ground and then went shooting back up to the ceiling. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The grounds are sloping, white tiles carrying the sounds of their feet as they run. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Cook slaves pulled a heavy iron stew pot from the firepit, dumped the stew onto the ground, and returned the pot to the flames. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When she returns to her platform, she looks at the ground and tries to catch the tears falling down her face. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I search the ground for animals and birds that might have been trapped or killed in the fire, providing me with ready-cooked food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the draperies a story below, burning, lighting the night only enough for us to see that they were on the ground and some distance from the nearest wall. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Katrina would stay in camp, as she refused to hunt on moral grounds. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She picked a small stone off the ground and turned to Ivan. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I’m practically invisible at that height— the people on the ground keep their attention fixed on the street—and besides, up there I get the best view of where I’m headed. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Coming up through the barn lot, I saw him rolled up in a ball on the ground in front of the corncrib. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them had dark feathers—charcoal—and as they exploded on the ground and in the air, Palmer thanked them for so clearly not being Nipper. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Her eyes moved out over the sugarbush; patches of snow and deep brown leaves lay on the ground under the bare trees. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She tries to buy them each a wooden coffin so they can be lowered into the ground with some dignity. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He drew a map on the ground with his walking stick. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Josh practically falls into me so I step away and Josh lands on the ground. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Down,” I say, and he gently lowers my legs until they’re back on the ground. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I only stared as the small white flakes fell to the ground. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I was done walking around with my head down and my eyes on the ground. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The hobbits remained flat on the ground, as Grishnákh had left them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But when Annabeth set it on the ground, the reflection on the polished metal changed from sky and buildings to the Statue of Liberty—which wasn’t anywhere close to us. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Oskar!” she said, and lifted me from the ground with one of her hugs. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kwasi ran off then, laughing as he chased the grasshopper, his bare feet barely skimming the dusty ground. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I spot a striped bag on the ground, I think it’s ours. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He jerked his head off the ground and listened. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

An issue to tout, a side to stand on, a moral high ground to stomp with my righteous foot. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Everybody hit the ground, including me, and covered up the best they could. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the trees had run wild, and the ground was covered with fruit that was no longer harvested, for the people who once lived here had long since left to find an easier life elsewhere. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s dark and the ground is covered with snow. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They had sacks tied around their legs with string and ground sheets with holes in the middle for rain capes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Tony leaned over to pick up his hat—it had fallen to the ground during their fight. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I am staring at the ground beneath me. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Holly bent to the ground, brushing the dried leaves and twigs from the clay’s surface. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I stiffly unlocked my stranglehold on his body and slipped to the ground, landing on my backside. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"By the time we save enough for a ticket, I'll have a long white beard," I call up to Rani as I shift uncomfortably on the ground. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Tropical climate. Trade winds. This place probably has a monsoon season. We should scout out some higher ground just in case of flash floods.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Cleotilde had flung herself on the ground and begun to cry. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Why teach someone Latin when his only purpose is to dig holes in the ground? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Matthew held his phone aloft to light the ground, still protectively clutching his poster with his other hand. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A few hundred of us watch the barracks burn until they are just pits of smoking ground. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The doctors said I’d be better off with two artificial legs rather than having just one and a deformed foot that didn’t reach the ground properly. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Feet off the ground, I feel like I can fly. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Wait. You mean to tell me you’ve got a bunch of money just sitting out there in the ground? For any old thief to come along and steal it?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I heard feet hit the ground as she was made to stand from the bed and marched out the door. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The very first time I went, years before, my dad walked me through the entire paper-making process, starting with where the trees come in and are ground to pulp before being turned into paper. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We went down in the lift to the ground floor and made our way through the Reading-Room to the Lounge. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Nobody liked to fight in the cold, and when there was snow on the ground it was hard to march and easy to get sick. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Generally this meant being restricted to the grounds, as we were now, like any new class in its first week. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrestle the thing from the ground and brush it clean. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped over beside August, letting my elbow touch her arm, needing the weight of her next to me; and there was May’s flashlight, shut off and sitting on the wet ground. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ground his teeth together and tried not to hear as Sergeant Whitcomb chirruped exultantly over the tragic event. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The ground was uneven, with roots protruding from the forest floor, and when she reached out to steady herself on a nearby tree trunk she felt something move beneath her fingers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hit the ground with a thump in front of me, throwing blood on my socks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silk rope slipped from her hands and fell to the ground. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s staring at me and I want him to stop because it’s burning me to the ground. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The ground was soft and damp, with old leaves thick in the mold. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steward struggled to free himself, but Bear squeezed tighter and tighter, grunting like an animal, until the steward’s sword and dagger fell to the ground with a double clang. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried past the stone fence that surrounded the white graveyard, to the split-rail fence that marked our ground, and stopped outside the gate to pick a handful of chilly violets, wet with dew. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I am on shaky ground, in this testifying against men, because I live with one. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had stood my ground for what I felt to be right and I was not afraid. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She aroused them, and soon the assembly ground and seats were filled with curious men, a throng who peered and saw the master mind of war, Laertes’ son. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask as I fill our dog bowl with some more water and place it on the ground in front of Ziggy. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It’s the Mask who raided my home, who burned it to the ground. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

An arrangement was made to build an impromptu prison on high ground in New Orleans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She pumped her wings and carried it away without coming down to the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dad looked down at the ground, then peered down the hall. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You mean you buried a bunch of money in the ground and just put a little old stone on the top of it?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

They camped in a dry gully bordered by a tangle of shrubs, and took shifts dozing on the hard rock ground and keeping watch. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After a time the ground rose sharply, forcing him to clamber on hands and knees up a wooded slope. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He slammed into the side of one of the men, tackling him to the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“And how the seed died when it was planted on rocky ground?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The night was cold, the ground hard, her belly empty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The ground at his feet split open and skeletons crawled forth—dead Romans with missing hands and caved-in skulls, cracked ribs, and jaws unhinged. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At the end of each hallway is a blue lamp, but between them it’s dark, and I have to be careful not to stumble over uneven ground. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Anastasia and Mushie descended from the trees and joined me on the ground as we came upon a field planted with short, weedy bushes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing that he could not make up ground at this stage, the jockey changed his game plan, eased up, and settled in to wait. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was really very large and beautiful and there were fine trees in the grounds. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Harry’s eyes, however, were fixed upon the ground at the foot of the tallest tower. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The ground shook, knocking Corporation graph charts from walls. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The flashlight is still on the ground, and I take a step back, to pick it up, but then I see Ben pointing. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Burnham of course knew of Olmsted’s achievements: Central Park in Manhattan, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, the grounds of Cornell and Yale, and scores of other projects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Other species are slower, less nervous, seek protection in herds, stand their ground when threatened, and don’t run until necessary. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The knowledge that Bunny’s body actually lay about two miles to the southwest did not lend much interest or urgency to the search, and I plodded along in a daze, my eyes on the ground. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then the wheat, trampled to the ground as if a giant had stomped through. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I sat cross-legged on the ground, Cinnamon sat on me. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He was grounded, and he knew where he was going. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After their meal, Garvey showed Cole how to lay out wall panels on the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It was not growing so that you could see it grow as the new trees had done in Narnia; but it was already well above ground. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I felt stupid and looked down at the ground. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swing my backpack to the ground, search for my flashlight. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But for now the summer extended just a little bit longer, and all four of them ran across the open ground until they were out of breath. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

When Rani gets back on the ground, she takes some matches and things out of her bag. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Multicolored candles of all sizes surround bags of tiny flowers and ground herbs, a ceramic goblet, and a tin bowl. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know whether he had fallen to the ground or dived to it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The sun was long gone; and only the cold silver shine of the half-moon remained to light their way over the treacherous ground that lay behind them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Half of its body trailed along the ground as Zvezda backed around and aimed himself at the handcart. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He caught her and sank to the ground. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The brass merchant was still rolling on the ground. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A hunter in an orange sweater is kneeling on the ground behind a pig. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The dog looked after his master for a second and then bent his head to the ground, snuffling something. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the thin crust of snow, the ground was damp and muddy, slick footing, with rocks and hidden roots to trip you up. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sanford, the Supreme Court immunized the institution of slavery from legal challenge on the grounds that African Americans were not citizens, and in Plessy v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The short service ended, the casket was lowered into the cold ground. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The ground was hard, but he was used to that....His blanket was dirty and smelled disgusting, but he was used to that too. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He forced her to the ground and then kicked her in the direction of the passageway. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about to leave, but even as he swung the flashlight around, the beam picked up something lying in a heap on the ground. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Around the house and grounds, which stretched away on either side of the hill, ran a low compound wall. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Annabeth’s left, the ground dropped off in a series of cliffs, like colossal steps leading deeper into the abyss. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Scientists are rushing toward the edge of the clearing, where a couple of them are struggling to pull something out of the ground. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

As they sit on the ground, I take a closer look at those shoes. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was horrific to choose between the lives of the men in the helicopter and the wounded on the ground. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He reached down and grabbed one of the vines that went all the way to the ground and wrapped his hand around it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We crash together, falling to the ground, to our knees. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Then, after about a minute, he stood up and strode away, not back to the castle, but off out into the dark grounds in the direction of his cabin. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Du Barry and the Beauty Minister lead us forward onto the imperial grounds. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Conor fell to the ground, scraping his knee on the concrete step, tearing a hole in his uniform trousers. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

What must the previous history of the planet have been to create sheared rocks, buried boulders, polygonal gouges in the ground? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But from the ground you couldn’t see it: she looked through the spyglass herself, but the dense blue of the sky was all she could see. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He transformed into the great black dog before they left the cave, and they walked back down the mountainside with him, across the boulder-strewn ground, and back to the stile. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Although the find was of obvious archaeological importance, the object was so big and heavy that in the intervening eight decades it had never been pulled out of the ground. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The last of the walls crumpled to the ground. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A man might drop a coin on the ground and never find it again, but a crow will find it in a flash. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Statues lay broken on the ground—whether they were supposed to be beasts or gods I couldn't tell anymore. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We walk with our hands in our pockets, our gazes fixed on the uneven ground before us. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Every night when I fell asleep I would see myself tied to the ground in the middle of a long, open space,” Johnson later described. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Nasser’s home, in the Broadmoor neighborhood adjacent to Uptown, had been flooded, and he’d come to the student association for shelter, knowing it was on higher ground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When she found a place she got comfortable, spreading her blue shawl on the ground after she had cleared the area of pebbles and little sticks and made sure no ants were disturbed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My body falls to the side, and my wounded arm presses to the cold ground. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Millions of us had laid our hoes down on the dry ground and faced north. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Remora dropped to a crouch, covering his head, then peeked up scanning the ground. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The arrangement had been that Kehaar would find him whenever he might come above ground on the second day. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was scorched black where the flames had passed. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Santa ground the heel of her shoe into Mrs. Reilly’s ankle. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That morning, I found her elbow deep in an enormous glass bowl of ground beef, burnished a bright gold from all the turmeric she’d added. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

No matter whose turn it was, we would sleep on the ground. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He rammed the legs forwards, banging them on the ground again and again. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And I sank down where I stood, and hid my face against the ground. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But so thick were the pines that the morning sun barely touched the ground. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in the rain wiping it off our faces and listening to its sound on the tile roof and the gushing of torrents onto the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then he grabbed me by the throat, spun me around, and threw me to the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I decided I’d better get out of there before he changed his mind and grounded me. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They dropped to their bellies on the ground. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A large ball of white that reminded Ekon of yarn came rolling across it and dropped to the ground. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Here,” she said to him, and picked up a stick from the ground. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“See that ground vine with the tiny leaves? It’s a rare plant called drapeweed that flourishes in thin soil.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the ground and marked four spots. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear stole silently over the frozen ground, edged along the wall of the shed, and after a quick glance around, hunched over to put his eye to a shoulder-level knothole. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

A giraffe passes between us, its long neck bobbing gracefully even in panic, and when it’s gone I see that Rosie has pulled her stake from the ground. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The fire lasted all night and when it was over, my mother's high school had burned nearly to the ground. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes, feeling the peace of the afternoon on her skin, the warm breath of the air and the solid mass of the ground beneath her, and she fell asleep. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kick a soccer ball around with Marv at the local grounds on Thursday night and watch him get drunk afterward at his place. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The shoulder of the road is ground zero for a meteor shower of bottles, cans, tires, hubcaps, French fry holders, and discarded shopping bags. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Frankie said, grabbing a couple of extension cords off the ground. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One man was dead, his blood and brains crusting Lorren’s longaxe, but the second was still breathing raggedly, though Grimtongue’s spear had pinned him to the ground in a spreading pool of blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

Kyle was yanked up off the ground by a hidden cable and hurled backward, soaring above the board. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I think I do better on the ground.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The dying animal has collapsed on the ground, its legs no longer able to carry the weight of the body, its head lowered in defense. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I kept feeling that the ground was shifting beneath me and that I was going to fall over, even when I was sitting still. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girl screamed as the cannibal lifted her off the ground and began to tie her arms and legs with a rope he had with him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

With no one on the grounds the least bit interested in watching a claimer, the horse proceeded to work six furlongs in an unbelievably fast 1:11%. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cellar, she gathers, is merely a dank hole in the ground. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The creator of Tempest, Dave Theurer, originally got the idea for the game from a nightmare he had about monsters crawling up out of a hole in the ground and chasing after him.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My life had diverged from my sister’s, and it felt as though there was no common ground between us. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He stabbed the ground and swung over it, stabbed and swung, until he planted himself in the doorway of Vola’s barn again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They took off their clothes and let the rags lie on the ground until they were destroyed by ants. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

My gun clatters to the ground, half buried in the snow. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Milo stood his ground, taking shelter behind the hard-boiled egg raised protectively before his face like a magic charm. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

If she hit the ground on her back perhaps it would not hurt so much. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Three. She liked to plant things. She had a talent for it. She could stick a tire in the ground and grow a car.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He shifts forward so his chair is grounded again on all four legs. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In my book Mathematics and Humor I tried to show that both activities are forms of intellectual play, which often find common ground in brainteasers, puzzles, games, and paradoxes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perfectly okay,” commented Finny, running forward at top speed, “perfectly okay for the ball to touch the ground when it is being passed.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diego ran his hand over his mouth, which hung open a bit in shock, and then his eyes went down to the ground. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Together we pushed the cart to the burial ground. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were at a place where part of the mountain had been hacked away, making a space as wide and open as a parade ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then a pair of hands buried into her armpits and she was lifted off the ground. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Before I could react, he pulled me from the Jeep and set my feet on the ground. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Setting the body on the ground, I start to unwrap it, beginning at the feet. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was a dip in the ground near the center; they rode down out of sight of the Union line. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he shouted to his invisible children scattered about the grounds, “You help your mother today and no yappin’.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sister had insisted that Joffrey strip Blount of his white cloak on the grounds of treason and cowardice. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And before I could even get myself up off the ground, he had disappeared into the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

On Emmett still on the ground near the nest, on Ray licking at Axel’s hurt leg, on Byrd’s pleading, on Axel standing on his own two feet. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This time she swung round more sharply, dropping the calabash to the ground. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I felt an overwhelming sense of shame as I peeled myself off the ground, shook hands with Cecilia, and walked off the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Lina opened the fragile notebook and laid it on the ground in front of her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was rising and its reflection on the water made a long silver-white path that connected seamlessly with the ground. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps it’s just as well we wait, then. Tomorrow at sundown is Fortuna’s Feast. By then, we must invade— Amazons or no. In the meantime, dig in! We set up camp here, on high ground.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Major Major often paid strict attention to the horseshoes falling softly against the earth or riding down around the small steel pegs in the ground. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She pawed at the ground, her trembling hands clutching only air. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The bonobos weight, which I guess would be no big deal for another bonobo, was crushing me into the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was falling from the sky down to the ground, into a pond. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cast himself upon the ground and listened again intently. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Once the itty-bitty baby plant peeks out of the ground, it sprouts leaves, so it can absorb more sun. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

But instead, we turned another square of ground. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground, like a wound, would heal over in time. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The two of us fell to the ground, fists flailing and legs thrashing, every kid in Euclid Parkway instantly clustered in a tight knot around us, their hollers fueled by excitement and grade school bloodlust. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Arya scuffed at the ground with her foot, but she let the Bull lead her around to the front of the inn. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit reached out and clawed at the ground in front of him, then pushed off again. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a testament to our confraternity, however, that a curious ground of agreement was eventually reached: the necessity of concealing all mourning at the smallpox burials, and displaying only dancing and festival triumph. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A high whistle came through the trees, and General pulled me to the ground with him. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

If not, the Rebs would take it and there was no ground near that was any good. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Each portable is, of course, air-conditioned. As you can see, all of the buildings on our campus are grounded with lightning rods for our afternoon storms.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was moving slowly, possibly frightened of slipping on the snowy ground. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And yes, his sentences come marching out one after another, polished and crisp like soldiers on a parade ground. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The ground is cold, but I am warmed by Chou’s body heat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neylan originally opposed Sproul’s version of the oath, on the curious grounds that it would simply encourage its targets—the radicals assumed to be swarming over the university—to commit perjury. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He tried to protect himself, but Zigzag's fists slammed off his arms and pounded his face into the ground. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“We learned about them during the orientation for new citizens. They’re designed to penetrate deep in the ground before they go off. Because there’s no point in bombing Thirteen on the surface anymore.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Tall sycamores stood in front of the houses and their leaves threw cool shadows onto the paved ground. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Old Dionysus isn’t really mad. He just hates his job. He’s been ... ah, grounded, I guess you would say, and he can’t stand waiting another century before he’s allowed to go back to Olympus.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They flew low, Mark the key observer, searching the ground below them as they passed. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as the boat was grounded, Shackleton ordered a hasty departure. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They tripped him to the ground and started wrapping themselves around his arms, too. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Are these people so bored, so privileged, that they want to sleep outside on the ground instead of in their comfy beds? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Thandiwe placed her forebear on the ground and stepped on it, then looked at me and raised an eyebrow. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The ground had been dug up; the soil was still fresh from where deep tree roots had been. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My stiff legs gave way, and I fell to the muddy ground. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Without saying another word they executed Maneuver #21: stand your ground. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, after a couple hundred yards, I sink to the ground and sit there, looking into the distance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If it is now a spawning ground for Communism, the nation needs to know it.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was like when you lift a rock or a log in the forest and see the ground alive with a writhing mess of bugs and worms. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Can she get in the ground on that?” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soft flakes of iridescent snow float to the ground, falling from her like leaves from a tree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The upperclassman hands him a bucket and Frederick pours it out on the ground. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Pausing among the comfrey and ground elder, they stared at each other, seeking reassurance. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He staked the doghouse into the ground with three stakes, all he had. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped to the ground, as he had been doing every few minutes, to test the speed of their trackers. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We won’t get in trouble if it’s already on the ground,” I told him. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hit him. Jumped off the horse, knocked him to the ground, then beat him until he bled.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

Luftwaffe planes fired their guns at her and at the other parachute as they drifted defenselessly to the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Closer you get to the coasts,” Clarence whispered, pointing east, west, and then north, “the more water’s left that can be drunk. The middle grounds?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Pin me to the ground, boy, you **** up... On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue, the air warm and windless, and the sun beamed on the muddy ground with all the sweet impatience of June. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Marlene picks up the muffin from the ground and bites into it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

All day the dry oak leaves drifted down from the trees until they covered the ground, and yet the trees were unchanged. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later, I was on the ground. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

These are grounds of hope for others; for ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There a stringy-haired man sat cross-legged on the ground playing a flute made out of a drainpipe, and five or six Believers circled him, clapping and singing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you very much,” said Mrs. Frisby, hopping to the ground. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He stood there with the sunshine dappling him over and sometimes his hooves struck a spark from the stones as he pawed the ground. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brim of his hat doesn’t even cast a shadow on the ground. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Will hauled himself up painfully, peered through the deep darkness, and made out a blur of white on the ground beside the man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It just fell out of his hand and hit the ground with a thud. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They were almost enough to distract me from the patchwork of old bloodstains on the ground beneath his feet. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Plum stopped crying as the black hard stools ricocheted onto the frozen ground. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed up into the guts of its roots where they had been yanked out of the ground. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Edna and Robert both sat upon the ground— that is, he lay upon the ground beside her, occasionally picking at the hem of her muslin gown. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The maneuvers had her flying an open-cockpit biplane upside down about 10 feet above the ground and slicing through a ribbon stretched between two poles. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier pushed the other man onto the ground and placed a foot on his neck while aiming his rifle at the man’s head. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I lay on the ground for a moment, the way my father had taught me to do when I fell. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He rose to his feet, two inches off the ground. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Angelo, my hunting tutor, has taught me how to read the ground for signs of pig. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When her feet touched the ground her knees almost buckled, and she grabbed at the horse’s mane for balance, her other hand still held firmly in his grasp. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jenkins sat on the ground with his head in his hands, and I asked him how he was doing. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the clouds, the ground blizzard, and the flat, fading light, I couldn’t tell slope from sky. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground beneath them turned to ice, and their sandals were replaced with pretty metal shoes with blades on the bottom. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One foot dragged, so that as he walked, he made a little scraping sound upon the ground. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mark heard her crumple on the ground of the chamber. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He slid to the ground between a huge bag of rice and shelves packed with canned goods and spices. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Where it touched the ground it melted, but all about him rock and root and branch wore a thin blanket of white. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There are bars on the ground floor windows, not because we’re criminals or anything like that, but so no one busts in and steals from a bunch of kids who’ve already lost enough. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Valley slung her rucksack off her back and let it fall to the ground before crouching down and opening it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Astrid screeches and drops to the ground, slipping from the guard's grasp like a piece of silk. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Filthy clothes and blankets heaped in piles on the ground. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took another deep gulp and wiped his lips with the back of his hand, setting the empty bottle on the ground by his feet. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It commenced breathing hard and finally dropped me on the ground. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And at once he remembered him in the battle, his falling to the ground, the blood upon his blouse. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just outside, where her pupils played in the sand, a piece of shrapnel had drilled an elegant hole in the ground. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The man leant forward till he was flat on the ground. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Cloke took a last draw on his cigarette and ground it out with a deliberate, corkscrewing movement. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The old man was on the ground, trying to splint his leg with a wet branch. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The last night of lying on hard ground, and falling asleep to the murmured incantations of the shaman stirring his powders into the fire. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She found a stone on the ground—a bit of fallen ceiling—and hurled it into the water beyond the gate. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It felt a lot higher than it had looked from the ground. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But most of the geoglyphs in Acre are on higher ground, making them of little use for drainage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She yelped and ended up with a mouthful of dirt as she sprawled next to the boy on the ground. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Even after Ampai rowed them back to solid ground, Pong felt dizzy, as if they were still bobbing up and down on Kia’s house. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He lectured you about respecting your elders and then let me play with the keyboard until your grounding was over, which was kind of awesome. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was also ground down by a “battle of wills” with her father, who saw no need for a new doctor. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I ran miles before I could run no more and then fell to the ground. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bless her heart! She pities him, so she is good to him,” said Jo, beaming at her from the croquet ground. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, the father jumps frantically out from the hut and picks her up off the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can pump oil out of the ground, and water, too. But sap—you can’t pump sap. It either decides to come up or it doesn’t.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel sighed and relaxed and dropped his wand on the ground. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the ground moving, and people’s voices seemed to be far removed from where I stood trembling. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Gracefully, he moved to the ground and stood very still. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When she stops stretching and reaches for her sweatshirt, I climb from the ground and make my way toward her. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The high banks had been sloping down gradually, and now they came to an end, the water and the ground were level again. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The archery grounds were actually a wide field where Dyedka took the goats to graze during the warmer months, after they exhausted all the grazing nearer to their house. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

High above the ground and far from home, we had much more that united us than separated us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opposed the May Day strike on the grounds that the ANC had not originated the campaign, believing that we should concentrate on our own campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were low enough to the ground that no one could see me unless they were really looking, so I started opening my suitcase. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then there was the business of death, the complexity of how to deposit a badly burned corpse into the ground of a National Cemetery as quickly and with as much dignity as possible. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Then dig a hole in the ground,’ said Legolas, ‘if that is more after the fashion of your kind. But you must dig swift and deep, if you wish to hide from Orcs.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It also made a kind of clearing—with die tops of the trees gone the sun could get down to the ground—and it was filled with small thorny bushes that were covered with berries. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tumble until they look like they’re going to crash into the ground—and then suddenly pull up, so that they’re skimming right above the glacier. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Olmsted’s memory was not so destroyed that he did not realize he himself had designed McLean’s grounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The fat colonel could not mount or dismount from the ground. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small pointed stick was laid on the ground, then struck near one end with a bat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, an old city that was razed, burned to cinders, and crushed into the ground, even the roads disappearing, the earth left to run wild over the wreckage. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She held up the least abominable of the dresses, a floor-length sleeveless peach-colored dress that had a high waist and fell in soft folds to the ground. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Beating the air, a winged but grounded bird, intent on the blue void it could not reach—could not even see—but which filled the valleys of the mind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

At his touch they rained to the ground in quick succession of thunderous cracks. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The son raised his ax and rushed at the murderer but was wrestled to the ground by friends; then the murderer came at the prostrate son with an ax and was also wrestled down. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At least her feet were on the ground and she was coughing now. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Gram pulled her dress up over her head, and Gramps undid his buckle and let his pants slide to the ground. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was no more than a literally heated imagination, but the ground suddenly seemed distinctly spongy and resilient, as if I were walking across a mattress. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

After some minutes’ walking, they came to a larger clearing in front of a rock that rose sheer from the ground. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was searching the ground for the lacy flowers of the wild carrot when I caught a shift in the shadows ahead of me, a flash of motion among the tree trunks. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Campers and Hunters lay wounded on the ground. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even with my left leg stretched out beside me and one hand on the ground, I wasn’t stable. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

While the two fought on the ground, I lifted the handkerchief. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Bobby Zane was more or less in the clear and so I threw it at him; it was so heavy that he had to scoop my throw up from the ground. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yellow jackets lived in a nest in the ground and Charley stepped on it by mistake. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A youth, a mildfaced Acadian, was drawing water from the astern, which was nothing more than a rusty buoy, with an opening on one side, sunk in the ground. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hand opened and the file tumbled to the ground. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The clothes and backpack in her lap tumbled to the ground, and she bent down to pick them up. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mark fell to the ground, sucking the life back into his lungs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The theater was crowded, and when we came out we rode a set of escalators down to the ground floor. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I found a long strong stick to protect myself as I sat playing with leaves on the ground to avoid bringing up thoughts that occupied my mind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s a bad situation,” he said, his voice as soft and sorrowful as an autumn leaf slip-sliding to the ground, “but I’ll let it go.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath it are three people—one is sitting on a stool, another is sitting on the ground, and a third is pacing back and forth. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Coach Quatrini was going berserk again, and seemed to be trying to levitate himself off the ground. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Squatting close to the ground, he followed the long shadow cast by the continuous mounds of mining debris. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she set us back down on the ground, we were full of questions. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A car suddenly falling to the ground might be way more destructive—and dangerous—than a chunk of asphalt. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We were about the same height, but I hadn’t met a boy I couldn’t throw down to the ground. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound would rise in waves around her like water, almost as if it could lift her off the ground. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He could hang on to horses' tails and make them rear, tumbling their riders to the ground, where it was easy enough for Sigemund to finish them off. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was so disoriented she couldn’t tell the ground from the sky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He sat down once more, back against a gravestone, and began to drift slowly away, turning his mind away as you shift a field of vision with your glasses, moving to focus on higher ground. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lennie sat down on the ground and hung his head dejectedly. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all seems peaceful and undisturbed on the ground. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She fell to the ground and Moss tried to rush to her side, but his mother practically tackled him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, they were surrounded by great boulders of blue ice and beneath their feet snow lay thickly frosted upon the ground. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Blackcliff may have started out as a place to prepare the future Emperor, but now if s just a training ground for the Empire's deadliest asset. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then he spread his wings, flapped hard, and took off—but after flying four feet he stopped with a snap and crashed to the ground again, shedding a flurry of black feathers and squawking loudly. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Stella dug her toe into the muddy ground, but the fury she felt toward Dr. Packard flared up, and now there was no holding back. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then the notes grew slower and soft and it was like she was sinking down slowly into the dark ground. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tad looked at the items that had spilled out of the bag and to the ground. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the pole, lifted his feet up over his head, against the pole, and climbed down using his hands, until his palms were flat on the ground. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Finally she came upon a concave dish in the ground—the roost. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was very small and was looking tensely about him—wide-eyed as a kitten above ground for the first time—as though by no means sure where he might be. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We reach the end of the path and stand at the bottom of the chasm, where the rocks form unsteady ground, rising up at harsh angles from the rushing water. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

This is my test: I imagine them back there in the moonlight with the ground all around us boiling with ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man lunged at her, reaching for her throat: Then, with a bang and a burst of red light he was thrown backward onto the ground, unconscious. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The brilliant white stakes that marked the perimeters of buildings imparted to the land the look of a Civil War burial ground. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Sam sat on the ground and put his head in his hands. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then there was high ground to the right. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about thirty meters in diameter, and the ground was lush. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I almost drop all the candy on the ground when the guy at the register bangs on the counter to get our attention. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Irene swung her legs back over the arm and put her feet on the ground, leaned over her lap toward me. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Lazlo could see the ricochet of feeling in her, the tentative surge of hope flinching back toward the firmer ground of dread. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She starts to walk away, but I stand my ground and ask, “What if I changed my mind? What if I really want to see this now?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As I climb up on a chair, my eye is caught by a snow globe with the tiny deer nibbling the ground. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Maya was going to be home that weekend, but it wasn’t like I’d get to see her while I was grounded. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It took them no time to find the little group of people around Katie, who was still writhing and screaming on the ground; Ron, Hermione, and Leanne were all trying to quiet her. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

For a man who had built his fortune from the ground up and seen it demolished overnight, he had been so hopeful. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They wore beautifully colored woollen coverings over their humps, and headstalls with tassels of dark red, green, and blue trailing almost to the ground. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was litter about it, an unkemptness, a rundowness, a lack of plan; no flowers, and bits of paper and scraps of wood scattered about on the ground. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The golem set the scythes on the ground. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As soon as one pilot returned from a mission, the ground crew quickly reloaded its guns, refueled it, patched up any damage, and another pilot would take off in it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, there she stood, staring straight at me, sniffing and snorting and stomping her forefeet against the ground. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys in our group had something that looked like a fishing net, and they would put the net on the ground and then sprinkle it with broken corn to attract birds. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Blackjack is on his way. But if Silena wasn’t able to convince Clarisse, I doubt Blackjack will be able—” A roar shook the ground. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

This time, it knocked the tree over, causing an explosion of earth and rock as the tree’s roots tore out of the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko picked himself off the ground and smoothed the front of his uniform. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are now on less certain ground; there may, for example, be impediments in the evolution of the genetic code, although I think this unlikely over billions of years of primeval chemistry. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dino began slinking along Fifth Avenue, snout close to the ground. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They beat the drums and strum the mandolins while their feet tap the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grounds were crosshatched with downed branches, but otherwise the property was undamaged. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Roy knew they were out of the trees when the air got warmer and the ground beneath his feet got flat. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he heard a thundering sound, and he was thrown to the ground by a wind such as he had never known. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frieda and I dropped down to the ground, looking wildly into each other’s eyes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I struggle to get up, it gives out and Mags rolls off onto the ground before me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

With this dry wind the wheat seed that lay in the ground could not sprout and Wang Lung waited anxiously for the rains. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The crowd stood its ground, and then more policemen arrived, shoving and herding us back out onto the midway, where our view was soon blocked by emergency vehicles. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A bunch of girls in ball gowns were on the roof, screaming at the top of their lungs, balancing on the edge and shooting safety fireworks at people on the ground. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

After an hour or so, his calves became numb and he lowered his feet to the ground. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I look at the book on the ground. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Sand will do that to the ground,” she said, though dubiously. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The grounds were very dark now; the only light came from the distant windows of the castle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

If he could make his way to the ground floor without losing the sound of water, he should find the place it drained into the river. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Great bolts of lightning cracked from the low-hanging clouds, and thunder shook the ground. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The man with the sore on his mouth shuffled his feet and dropped the stub of his cigarette to the ground. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The ground was as stubborn as the weeds. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The grain I ground for chapatis had bits of chaff that got between our teeth. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

We marched purposefully down her little path to the lettuce bed by the gate, where she knelt in the leaf mold and began punching holes in the ground. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entresol is not the ground floor, and it’s not the first floor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At that moment Sam felt a tremor in the ground beneath him, and he heard or sensed a deep remote rumble as of thunder imprisoned under the earth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Sorry,” he said, and ground its glowing tip out. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Tents were spread out over an acre and a half of ground; all colors, shapes, and sizes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the earthquake stopped at the ground beneath my feet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He led them to the crest of a hill, motioned them to stay close to the ground, and pointed toward the Ystrad below. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Soon, they heard the heavy grind of Sherman tanks and felt the ground vibrate. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone had seen coffee ground a thousand times but on the stage it was a revolutionary thing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell to the ground upon one knee. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And though it still feels strange to be so far away from soft dirt beneath bare feet the ground is firm here and the one tree blooms wide enough to shade four buildings. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I turned and watched it recede from the rear window; the sun caught its treetops, bathed its low-set buildings and ordered grounds. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture on this one was grim: a man was lying facedown on the ground with a bunch of swords sticking out of his back. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I stood for a moment with my back against the door, turning my father’s pocket watch around and around in my fingers to ground myself in the moment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

To touch her he would need to pull himself along the ground with his hands, dragging his legs behind him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps brooms, like horses, could tell when you were afraid, thought Harry; there was a quaver in Neville’s voice that said only too clearly that he wanted to keep his feet on the ground. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“You got me!” she called, and fell to the ground, grinning. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stare down at the hole in the ground, seven stories below me, and then close my eyes as the air blows over my face. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Ben spread his feet apart, to ground himself, lifted an imaginary microphone to his mouth, and began the color commentary. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

This may be grounds for suspicion by the reader and a prod to self-improvement for the writer, but it is not a failure of consistency or logic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Chinook had uncovered a patch of rocky ground near the crest of the bank. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Nothing left of it that isn’t soggy from ground moisture,” he said. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parade actually leaves the school grounds, where it loops around for a block before coming onto the track circling the football field. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Lizards and little monkeys live their whole lives up above without coming down to the ground. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the pats had been just a tad firmer, he could have pat-pat-patted me right into the ground. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was about twenty feet below her. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As she walked on, distracted, she tripped on a rock, tumbling hard to the ground and falling on her satchel. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She struck the bird a mortal blow and dropped with it to the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

After a while, the vegetation thins and the ground beneath becomes rocky and hard. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

They sat on the ground, leaning against the soft ivy as they ate lunch, neither one of them talking much. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She collapses to the ground on her knees and her good arm. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Instead of lying on the floor of my living room, I was lying on the ground in the sun, almost directly over a hill of large black ants. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The gate between the rampant wolves was wrought iron, bearing the symbol of the sacred ash and bordered by a high, spiked fence that circled the Ice Court’s grounds. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Marco’s back slams against the ground as though he has been roughly pushed, leaving him coughing both from the impact and the cloud of black ash surrounding him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Each of these women, on her own, gauged the wind of her nation and used it to help her sister pilots get off the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Clutching the bag in tightly wrapped arms, George slid to the ground. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

And before he could even take a breath, something leaped out of the shadows and pushed him to the ground. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

For a while I stood there staring at the ground, like an idiot. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy started spitting on the ground like he was going to die. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The ground beneath me drops away and I plummet. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his fingers and let the axe thunk to the ground. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Immediately, while his horse’s hoofs were still loudly thudding the ground, Momma blew out the coal-oil lamps. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And there is a man. And a lot of birds are gathered on the ground. I think they love Luna, too. They’re all staring at her. And Luna is wearing her let’s-make-trouble face.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It fell on ground already saturated, and it filled every dip in every path. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They remained stupidly staring at the crumpled figure on the ground. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Instead of conferring with the general in the visiting area, I was taken to his residence on the grounds of Pollsmoor itself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are holes in the ground, and a mark where a perch fell and was dragged, probably by the coyote as she went off with the sharp-shinned. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, when nothing happened—as nothing would—he would apply the neutralizing compound to deactivate it so it didn’t just drip down the impervious metal and eat its way into the ground. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Many whites who supported Jim Crow justified it on paternalist grounds, actually believing they were doing blacks a favor or believing the time was not yet “right” for equality. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It lay at the outskirts of the town, on low ground, like a rubbish dump, and as I walked up and down the gravel paths, I could smell the stagnant salt marshes in the distance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It affects others so that they begin to rave, to run away—there was one man who even tried to dig himself into the ground with hands, feet, and teeth. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before there could be any further debate, the ground shook. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“He knew that one day the earth would be empty of life except what was sustained beneath the ground.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie felt sure Capricorn wanted to strike Fenoglio to the ground, but his fear was too strong, leaving him helpless to act. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In another few minutes, the raft lurched and I knew it had grounded. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked at her again, she was gazing at something on the ground, and I noticed for the first time how tiny lines had clustered around her eyes. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

For years, leftover beef scraps were ground up and put into cattle feed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are all on the potential combatants, readying themselves on the grounds. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

George started resisting while being pulled to the police car, and the two men began wrestling and fell to the ground. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The bird feeder is empty; I fill it, letting a little bit drop on the ground near my feet, hoping it might get some bird to come and pick me up. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I'm thrown backward to the ground, body useless, paralyzed, eyes frozen wide, as feathery bits of matter rain down on me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Beasts, even Strawberry, all turned their eyes on Digory till he felt that he wished the ground would swallow him up. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She kept grounding the ball into the net. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

They dropped to the ground and lay suppressing giggles. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nine fearsome, ugly, half-naked, fifty-feet-long brutes lay sprawled over the ground in various grotesque attitudes of sleep, and the sound of their snoring was indeed like gunfire in a battle. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bagman asked as they went down the stone steps onto the grounds. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She did not like the look of the ground—too many pitfalls and boiling pots and steamy depths that might cook her alive. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The ground was still muddy from the rains, but he sat down anyway. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Miss Riley poured on the ground a small amount of white powder from each of two little paper bags she had carried with her and then mixed them with a wooden spoon. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were closed, but he groped in the dark for the weapons that had been discarded on the ground. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bushes, gigantic trees pulled out of the ground. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Forgot why he left in the first place and was forced to sneak into his own home ground. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was packed so hard, the tip of my shovel bounced off it like a pogo stick. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d barely said the last word when the Berg burst into life and launched off the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Just before she reaches the circle of supplies that have been littered around the pyramid, she stops, searches the ground, and carefully places her feet on a spot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When Blake was sure that no one was watching, he scrambled up the ladder and dropped to the ground on the other side. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It's a long jump from here to the ground, but the movers still have furniture laid out between the truck and the building's entrance. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It was a most beautiful sight one obtains in the descent of the car, for then the whole fair grounds is laid before you,” Gronau said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She put the forked end over Sarnie’s neck and pinned him to the ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They indicated that he should sit on the ground, as was correct for a mere boy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The barrier fence that surrounds the grounds is made of wrought iron at least ten feet tall, and I wonder how Jackson was able to scale such a high fence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They cruised low to the ground, skimming over bushes, dodging tree trunks, and swishing past branches. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Boxer saw them coming and put out his great hoof, caught a dog in mid-air, and pinned him to the ground. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I drop to the ground between the guards my father just shot and lie as still as I can. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They had no sooner taken a stride forward than Adaon, with a great cry, urged his horse across the ground. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

We crawled our way back up the path, staying low to the ground until we were sure, positive beyond measure, that we were the last ones left. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She laid a trail of beans leading to a very deep, circular hole in the ground. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tidbit fell to the ground and buried his head in the dog’s soft fur. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good deserves good, urchin. The rice on the ground is yours if you can be troubled to gather it.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

On the ground in front of them, Ron’s face filled with anguish. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A pair of tall poles had been driven into the muddy ground in front of it, banners drooping from each staff. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My knees turn to water and I sink to the ground. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm barely on my feet before the third ball hits the ground where I was lying, sending a pillar of fire up behind me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It had not occurred to me that there would be frost in the ground in May, but then, I had not been on a mountain before. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gazes upon his bent back with flattened ears and then seems to adjust her attitude, swinging her trunk and investigating the ground in front of her. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He put the lantern on the ground and tried to see under the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we started out two days later there was a half an inch of snow on the ground which had fallen during the night. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound grew in anguish, and it filled the night sky as it spread across the castle grounds, over the walls, even into the Great Square beyond. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He rounds the corner and immediately lowers to the ground, his back sliding down the building, not noticing me standing just yards away. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Kitty Casini was squatting on the ground growling to herself and flicking her tail fiercely. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door was open, and the music pouring out of it was so loud that the bass shook the ground under Rishi’s feet. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And then the officers walked over to me, where I was still sitting on the ground, and asked me if I was okay. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Cholly was a long time picking his foot up from the ground. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stopped chasing the rock rabbits and started to eat grubs from the ground. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Then it began to crumble, sinking back into the ground. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A black boy bounded past me, thumping my straw hat to the ground, and yelling: “Straw katy!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel hugged her knees and looked at the ground. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Earth trembled, and when I lay on the ground I covered my head because I was afraid that stones might hit it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground gets way firmer and easier to run on and it’s sloping more downhill than it is up, which may be the first piece of luck we’ve had. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I want to throw my phone to the ground, stomp on it, and crush it into tiny bits of glass and metal. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I got in my defensive stance, low to the ground with my hand in Drew’s face. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Among them they sported twenty separate dressing rooms, four shower rooms, twenty hot-water showers, storage on the ground level for ninety-seven racing shells, and rooms full of massage tables for bone-weary oarsmen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She put the spyglass in her pocket and began the long climb down to the ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

No soft blanket of grass welcomed them.here, only the hard dusty ground, bare and strewn with stones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They put the white box into a hole in the ground and covered it with earth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Receiving no answers from us, she climbs down the steps to sit on the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an hour he pegged over ground that was so springy with decades of fallen pine needles, it seemed to lift him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Powerfully drawn, he ran out of the hedgerow toward the scattered ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you are grounded, and not even cash can buy away your trouble,” she replied with resolve. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"Take this one away to await the pleasure of the khal," he commanded, gesturing at the man on the ground. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He settled himself astride the motorcycle, which creaked slightly and sank inches into the ground. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The officers on the ground depended on them for support in case of a disturbance, and yards were a frequent site of trouble. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marker is straight ahead—a wooden stake poking up out of the ground in the middle of a pile of stones, no wider or higher than a pitcher’s mound. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Flat on the ground, his shadow was hanging too. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“I thought I was grounded,” I said nasally, and plucked out my bloodied nose plugs. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We hit the ground, me and Lieutenant Carroll will mark off the squad assignments. And don’t go shooting at nothing until you see something to shoot at! Let’s go!” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw us walking slowly, silently, toward a far, verdant part of die convent grounds, where suddenly, and without sin, I would put my arm around her waist. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The white police and firemen came and stood around watching as the house burned down to the ground. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He talked feverishly, unable to stop, and he ground his teeth from sheer nervousness. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, like a dancer dropping into a curtsy that keeps going all the way to the ground, Azareen sank down onto the grass. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was almost full dark, and my tooth hurt and my ankle throbbed and I’d spilled what was left of the tin on the ground beside my legs. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Upon landing, Columbus was to thrust his sword into the ground and claim the New World for Spain, while his men assumed positions that mimicked those depicted on a two-cent postage stamp commemorating Columbus’s discovery. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The flame left a black arrow on the ground, showing the Germans exactly where the gun was hidden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frozen to the ground, I braced for the pain. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

These sensors tell the doctors on the ground about your heart. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw a gray lizard crawl out of a crack in the ground. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Within a minute of the zeppelin’s hitting the ground it was a mass of twisted metal, a pall of smoke, and a few scraps of fluttering fire. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then the trail, the frustration, claimed' him again and he searched the ground avidly. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The two sisters began to hit at each other, first with their fists, then with sticks, then with rocks pulled from the ground. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

When you walked through the orchards, the air was thick with the sickly-sweet smell of fruit rotting on the ground. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man on the ground is a recruit. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was wet and heavy, and shallow pools of water dot- j ted the ground. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I step off this bus I will hit the ground moving. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The path ended here; all around us the ground fell away at crazy angles. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A mob looted his shop and burned it to the ground. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone agreed that it would be a fitting, middle-of-America backdrop for what we hoped would be a different kind of campaign—one led from the ground up, largely by people new to the political process. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And the sun beat down on the streets of the city and even tiny stones threw shadows on the ground. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I collapse on the ground and hold the body in my arms. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A stillness came over her, a surrender, like she was falling from a great height but would never hit the ground. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The only sound was their sneakers patting the ground. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“That ground up there is very thin—a skin of rock with fire under it. You’ll fall through as sure as anything.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He was twisting the hair he held and hurting her, but she stood her ground. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Six cement columns stick up from the ground like they are waiting for something to land on them. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Appleby scuffed the toes of his shoes into the ground sheepishly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Back around the buildings, safe on their own hallowed ground. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I think we were unofficially trying to find some common musical ground or something, because we ended up going back to all the stuff we’d grown up on, all the songs we knew by heart. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And this continued for many hours, for many days, until all those birds—hundreds, thousands, and then millions!—fluttered to the ground, dead and still, until not one bird remained in the sky. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other tiger kept creeping closer, belly touching the ground, eyes down, making a low, singsong sound. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Being grounded in the Keeley household meant you couldn’t do anything except, as his dad put it, “think about what you did that caused you to be grounded.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The ground in front of the zmeyok rumbled, a miniature earthquake confined to a square inch. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Haymitch appears and trips over a Peacekeeper lying on the ground. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the last one, however, he shot off in completely the wrong direction; the crowd laughed and booed and McLaggen returned to the ground grinding his teeth. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Harry roared; the night was full of hideous yells and blows as the giants wrestled, and he seized Hermione’s hand and tore down the steps into the grounds, Ron bringing up the rear. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Outside the door Snout gave a low bark, and then the air grew so quiet I could hear the food being ground up in T. Ray’s mouth. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This thing is out 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, feeding a constant stream of data to a bunch of ground tracking stations all over the world. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pluck my cape from the ground and tuck it under my arm. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Caesar had no pretext on which to leave the grounds until Sunday. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He threw himself on the ground and crawled away. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The lift reached the ground floor and stopped with a jerk. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Beneath the trees, warhorses whickered softly and pawed at the moist, leafy ground, while men made nervous jests in hushed voices. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“He has to be crazy to keep flying combat missions after all the close calls he’s had. Sure, I can ground Orr. But first he has to ask me to.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They walked outside, and there, on a level piece of ground, was a track, perfect for running. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He came upon him asleep and fell upon him, pinning him to the ground; and with his fists—he had no other weapon—he battered the monster to death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d go out in the yard and feed up to five hundred feet of string through a mixture of ground glass and glue. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ron shouted after her as she zigzagged back to the ground, dripping blood everywhere. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Hubbard's hard body forced him backwards, Hubbard's shoe tips slashed at his ankles, knotty shoulders bumped up into his chin, and the bullet head ground into his eyes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his pop-eyed hurry to pull bones out of the ground, he tore open the site with a bulldozer and didn’t bother taking notes, sketching maps, or executing profile drawings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mikwam came out along the path to meet his friends, and the men talked and joked before they made themselves comfortable, sitting on blankets on the ground. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She quickly kneeled on the ground and reached in her traveling bag for the two borrowed lines. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The ground beneath them glowed strangely, as if they were standing over an aquarium. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Though I want to help her, I hold back, scanning the darkened grounds around us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He said words in German that were foreign but ugly and spit on the ground at my feet. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The sand wouldn't have seemed very comfortable to you, but Shasta had been sleeping on the ground for weeks and hardly noticed it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I crossed the grounds and held my palm to the temple stone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As the rain fell again, the ground softened. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A whole dimension of drudgery—the tedious, mad, really quite pointless business of stepping over every inch of rocky ground between Georgia and Maine—had been removed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Otto and I returned to the road, and I took advantage of our moment of rest to lower him to the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘Tardy as usual, Hippolytos. I hope your news is worth the wait. King Porphyrion should be . The ground between them split. An even larger giant leaped from the earth like a breaching whale. ‘ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The rain pounds against my shoulders and head, dragging me toward the ground. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I grab a rock off the ground with my Hector-free hand and close my fist around it. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

One of the guards relieved Melisandre of her cumbersome standard, driving the staff deep into the soft ground. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The camouflage membrane had closed behind them and blended into the ground. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Stella the pteranodon swooped out of the night, landing with one huge claw on the neck of the tyrannosaurus, pinning it to the dusty ground. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She swings her trunk across the ground in front of her, fanning her ears like enormous leaves. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He held his hand about fourteen inches off the ground and was dumbfounded by my blank look. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Stones rattled behind him; an instant later, Eilonwy dropped to the ground. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, come here, then,” the Old Man said impatiently, and he tapped his stick on the ground again. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It is blasphemy to scatter a man’s blood on unholy ground, the farmers chanted. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All before the walls on either side of the Gate the ground was choked with wreck and with bodies of the slain; yet still driven as by a madness more and more came up. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Pilots, unlike ground troops, don’t always experience the close-up destructive work they cause on the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We spent the next hour sweeping the heavy mat of soiled and soggy rushes onto the ground, spreading a fresh supply from a wagon over the boards, then loading the old ones on the wagon. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before I even reached solid ground, she had risen to her feet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Frey made the fields fertile and brought forth life from the dead ground. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Even on stony ground there should be some trace, but I can see nothing.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, using only his elbows, he squirmed and crawled his way over the slippery rocks and up onto the grassy ground above the tide line. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When his boot heels hit the ground, they squawked like a chicken, then mooed like a cow. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

And so they tramped on through the cold night in silence, Tonks’s long cloak whispering on the ground behind them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The ones at the front come to a dead stop and are flung to the ground by the people behind them. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“When I got into a fight at school, I got grounded. How did you work Arnie’s out of it?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

But the only trace of an air battle the aviators could see below them was a fragment of a Soviet aircraft wing on the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I pointed to the woman who was still near the tracks about thirty feet away crouched down on the ground, crying with her baby and her son. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When the front edges were aimed toward the ground, the machine was directed downward. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes, going in and out of focus, locked in on the bunch of flowers on the ground—most of which I recognized from the funeral. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then he threw the cauldron to the ground and began to laugh. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Clothes left out of duffel bags were instantly filthy, and all of the meals, which the crews ate outside while sitting on the ground, were infused with sand. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It rolled across the ground with a hollow clang. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They passed through the lane; but hardly had Frodo touched the ground when with a deep rumble there rolled down a fall of stones and slithering snow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Military police manned all campus entrances, patrolling the comings and goings of everyone on the grounds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At last she came to the place where Taisin had fallen, and the ground was less steep here, so Kaede turned over onto her backside and carefully scooted down to her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It must have been hell on the ground.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was uneven beside the track, even though it looked smooth from a distance. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

My dad moves forward to try to reach me, but Suit #1 grabs him and throws him to the ground, twisting his arm behind his back. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He clapped his hands together, and a jagged spire of rock the size of an eighteen-wheeler erupted from the ground right in front of the fortress. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

George was still on the ground, holding her stomach, tears in her eyes. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

We thudded to earth as if the pilot had miscalculated just how close we were to the ground. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then the ground begins to roll beneath me, and I relax, knowing it won’t be long until I’m back on the sea, where I make sense, even if nothing else does. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Something bright white was gleaming on the ground. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They lower it remotely and lift Len on as it hovers a meter off the ground. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Outside, the ground feels slick beneath my sneakers, and my sack of clothes thumps against my back as I slow to a jog. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He staggered to his feet, took a few steps, and lay to rest where the ground was level. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are pieces of me on the ground. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

"Then the war hits, and he's overthrown. Saddam goes into hiding, and when he's eventually found, months later, he's filthy, dressed in rags, and living in a hole in the ground." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It sat on the ground with its legs folded up under it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was something I wanted to say, Hazel, about the newborn rabbits, when they’re ready to come above ground.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered what Brandon had done to get grounded for so long. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pawed the ground with my right foot and tossed my head as though I had a mane. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I collapsed to the ground and groaned the way I thought an animal might. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He laid the machete carefully on the ground and threw his arms in wide circles to loosen them out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your voice couldn’t have carried all the way down to the grounds!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Butler bent low to the ground, scanning the trolley’s underside. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Several more fires had broken out over the grounds, and the air was punctuated with the sounds of not only animals, but beastkeepers too. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I have to stand on solid ground again. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mini frowned and was opening her mouth to say something when new ground loomed up ahead. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But no sooner had he touched the ground than he jumped back up onto Seven and into her cloak pocket. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Later, the city wrecking ball knocked them to the ground. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Ranofer dropped to the ground, staggered with relief and treacherously numbed toes, flung himself out the gate and closed it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Between the trees, a pumpjack humped the oil up out of the ground. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some people make it by dripping water through a filter containing coffee grounds: they are relying on gravity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Finally flat ground gave way to a gentle upward slope of bushes, saplings, and rock. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped to the ground in fear when she saw a German soldier standing with his back to her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was located, of course, about a hundred yards below the tennis courts on the Dancing Trout grounds. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a matter of seconds, people started screaming and running in different directions, pushing and trampling on whoever had fallen on the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Gabe found himself looking down on his enemy, who was hunched over on the ground, whimpering. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Papi had left a few boards down the center of the room and around his and Mami’s bed, to stand on until the ground was swept and flattened. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The lights hanging slack overhead, the soft ground underneath and the canvas wall that faintly blew in and out, like cheeks puffed with air, made for the feeling of a country fair. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In complete disarray, the team managed to make its way back to the ground. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Not hushed, like the Abnegation speak, always treading holy ground and trying not to disturb. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As they sweep the grounds, I sense them reaching out to me, trying to seize me with their illuminated tentacles, trying to expose my face to the light. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She’d been sure she would find it lying on the ground. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Maddie untangled the harness and let the pilot slither to the ground. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Her toes only brushed the ground as blood spurted from the wound at her side. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I have assumed personal control of the active work within the grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When Werfel arrived, the Foreign Secretary was just giving the order for the three-headed wyvern to collect the capsule out of the sky and bring it gently, softly, safely down to the ground. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

People sat on the ground or stood near the walls and talked to one another in raised voices, wondering what the chief would say. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

A large limb, tom from a tree by the strong wind, fell to the ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the ground and the dirty buildings on either side fell away, dropping out of sight as the car rose; in seconds, the whole of London lay, smoky and glittering, below them. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Only I feel like I just smacked into the ground at a hundred miles an hour. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the early morning, when Burnham conducted his inspections, the buildings were a pale blue and seemed to float on a ghostly cushion of ground mist. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The fight lasted less than a minute before the fat boy was on the ground, his whole body shaking as blood leaked through his shattered helm and between his pudgy fingers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He fell to the ground, hitting the waste-paper basket as he did so, and broke into fragments. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The building wasn’t very tall, and Tally would bounce in her jacket if she fell, but the moment her feet touched the ground, the wire would sound an alarm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She set her water container on the ground, pulled up some tubers, brushed the dirt away, and began to eat. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One snorts and strikes the ground with a hoof. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

That she got her feet on the ground? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

There are not that many subjects that could be spoken about, between us; there’s not much common ground, except this one mysterious and chancy thing. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blinded by dense snow and freezing fog, Zhenya wasn’t able to see where she was landing, and one of her wings hit the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For a long time I lay on the ground, gasping for breath and praying that I would not die from the pain that racked my body before I could warn Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to lift him, put him over the rails, then lay him on the ground. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She bites off a hangnail and spits it on the ground. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Paper hearts on the walls have faded and fallen to the ground. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The sky choked on smoke and ash, and the people did, too, spending their days coughing and itching, their eyes turned forever toward the ground. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Precious stones hardly ever popped up around her by accident anymore, and pulling gold from the ground was easy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“The enemy was clearly not being defeated,” said Scruggs, despite American troops having been on the ground for five years. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She fell backward as another slab of rock and ice shot from the ground. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter could see it clearly in the wash of the floodlights, streaming with rain, an ungainly mass of machinery and wiring slightly tilted on the rocky ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The gnarled tree was dying, split almost to the ground and rotting. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They watched Lupin seize a broken branch from the ground and prod the knot on the trunk. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was well out into the great field and looking for a sight of the distant arch when he felt along the ground the first stamping thuds of the alarm. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped up to the brink where the solid ground plummeted to the water, bent down, and ran my fingers through the exposed dirt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I want to remember the good parts of our walk, not the part with me on the ground, hiding from Kristi, hoping Jason won’t notice. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being laid on the ground next to Lev for the first time. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The dirt sifts through his open fingers; some falls to the ground, some blows away in the wind. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I guess they would have kept on fighting till they leveled the house to the ground if it hadn’t been for a freak accident. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The call directed Frightful’s eyes to a perch on the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Hold your ground but a little while,” he called to Taran. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

As always, she slept out upon the grass in the Abbey grounds. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She stared at the ground, but kept glancing up at me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The people of the woods did not delve in the ground like Dwarves, nor build strong places of stone before the Shadow came.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t do carpenter work any more because it made him jittery to be more than ten feet off the ground. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I took a few steps forward and then gently lowered myself to the ground. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Héctor!” she called to my brother, who was practicing marble shots into a hole in the ground. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My eyes watered as I sat in the backseat of the cruiser, watching out the window as the two cops picked Shea up off the ground and led him toward the backseat with me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when I reach the edge of the carnage, the ground lurches and the battlefield stretches out ahead of me again in its entirety. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Cursing her, they beat her to the ground and sped away. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Then he could lower his nose and eat the biscuit as it fell to the ground. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Christ! Sounds like that one ripped a hole in the ground,” one of the twins shouted from the main latrine behind a dense thicket. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

After half a kilometer or so, Helena slid from my nearly numb arms to the ground in front of the Zielinskis’ gate. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now, as he spread his cloak on the ground, the white pig grunted with pleasure, waddled over, and hunkered down beside him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

That made me a bit cantankerous, because crazy as she was, I could see the sense in making a neat row of ground piled on each side to keep the moisture from running off. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was one of those that would charge a rider when he was on the ground. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have long to go before I’ll be in the ground. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, over time, the middle ground that people like Sprat and Bentley had sought to occupy between superstition and rationalism became increasingly embattled, and the pendulum began to swing the other way. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Cauldron-Born flung aside their weapons, seized him, threw him to the ground, and quickly bound him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The creamer mixes in and the coffee turns a light brown with some dark coffee grounds rising to the surface. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain saw through a break in the trees, blue hills very far away, hazy ridges miles to the west, not ridges, mountains; he was on high ground. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top of the arch was about twelve feet off the ground, higher than was convenient for jumping. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was quick and rolled out of reach again, just in time, then fell back to the ground and lay there, yelling louder than ever. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard something fall to the ground, heard Wormtail’s anguished panting, then a sickening splash, as something was dropped into the cauldron. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The twin on the ground grabbed the fish from my basket and threw it. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

He pulled down the coffins, one by one, from their shelves, and let them clatter onto the ground, shattering the old wood, spilling their contents onto the mausoleum floor. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He imagined the follicles on the cusp of drying out and falling to the ground like pine needles. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Clancy let me fall to the ground like a board, and actually stepped over me to examine his scratched cheek in a pot’s reflective surface. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Soon I was lying on the ground while his fists pounded my head and face, and his foot stomped my stomach. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She had almost decided she was being paranoid when the first monster dropped to the ground only five feet away. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was high ground at the peach orchard. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sits down on the ground, holding his head in his hands and feeling utterly lost though he has played in these very fields ever since he was little. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He rode slowly away to inspect the ground in front of him, between him and die Rebels. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben slapped the ground, declaring Earthquake the winner. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It was a horrible joke, but Doc Daneeka didn’t laugh until Yossarian came to him one mission later and pleaded again, without any real expectation of success, to be grounded. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

To one side, where I had cut down the last three rows of corn, Dad had marked off a long rectangle with twine wrapped around stakes in the ground. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A few other students are gathered inside the grounds, joking and talking nervously. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The press briefing room in the West Wing is ruled too impersonal, so they’ve called the press pool to the Diplomatic Reception Room on the ground floor. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The first goes away the moment you walk out of the school grounds and the second is forgotten as soon as the ship enters port. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went skimming over the earth like some magical hop-skip-and-jumper with his feet hardly ever touching the ground. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas stared in wonder as her eyes rolled up into her head and she fell back to the ground. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Fist tripped over his pants again and fell with a splat on the ground. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ziggy sniffs it a whole lot, paws at the ground a bit, and turns around in a few circles. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Straw hats were thrown on the ground, and heads were shaken. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The ground rumbled, the rocks under her feet gave way, and she fell, pinwheeling into the darkness below. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

About a hundred yards ahead of them, a blister burst on the ground. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Curtis said security threw her on the ground.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Hooper was lying flat on the ground in a lozenge of sunlight. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She hops to the ground and puts up both hands, so we can see that she isn’t armed. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

That amiable animal stood uncertain of the solid ground, and would not move. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

After the last bell, without a word, we followed each other out to the playground, dropped our backpacks on the ground, which was wet from the day’s steady drizzle. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They light up everything as bright as day, their light shines on us and we see our shadows sharply outlined on the ground. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Seabiscuit began banging around to get out, Smith held his ground, raised his hand, and tapped the horse firmly on the chest and shoulders until he stood still. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A farmer ran up to help him, and a larger group of Russian men arrived in a car, surrounding him as he lay sprawled on the ground. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It cannot be! Why, Lord, oh, why? I would rather the best city of my kingdom ruined! Razed to the ground by the infidel!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

On the ground beneath as the journey begins are the causeways and canals one sees today, except that they are now in good repair and full of people. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Holding one in each hand, she dragged them along the ground as she walked. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked out the window, combing the ground with her eyes. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

After the Civil War he came to Harpers Ferry and built himself a house, which is on one of the camping grounds used during the war. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There were holes and craters everywhere, most notably a pair of deep holes in the ground behind the south- end goalposts. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the ground in despair. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drew a map on the floor and showed him where the wintering grounds of the caribou lay. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then he beat up my sixty-year-old grandfather and left him lying there on the ground.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Across the swath of sizzling, newly empty ground, Annabeth saw the cause of the commotion. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Luxa slowly descended to the ground, but stayed on Aurora’s back. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was littered with broken rocks and splintered wood and pulverized shrubs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tension built as they found fresh footprints and spent bullets on the ground. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Giant snores shook the ground and made the tops of the trees tremble. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It hunched over, standing on six legs but using the front two to feel the ground in front of it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He circled the place one time, smelling the ground and wiggling his stub tail. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark joined him on the ground below the Berg, wary that someone might be watching from the ruined homes surrounding them or from the burnt woods beyond those. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A yellow cat was dying on the ground, mewling piteously, a crossbow quarrel through its ribs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Hi, Marlee,” said David, and he gave me such a big hug, he picked me up off the ground. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you compare the notes of a person on the ground and a person on a train moving parallel to the raven, they would disagree about the speed of the raven and the tree. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I swear I was four feet off the ground, curving in slow motion, with a kind of death-welcoming grace, and I looked down as I moved up, expecting to see him going away. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He dumped Nita unceremoniously on the ground and swung his machete in an experimental arc. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Harry and the Weasleys spent a happy afternoon having a furious snowball fight on the grounds. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I kicked something and looked down to see Maribel’s sunglasses on the ground. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

By then the enemy was on him, and Tyrion's battle shrunk to the few feet of ground around his horse. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He stopped, still several feet away, and sank gracefully to the ground, crossing his legs. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A couple of times, the old hogs on the ground got so mad that they broke ranks and charged Old Yeller. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then black despair came down on him, and Sam bowed to the ground, and drew his grey hood over his head, and night came into his heart, and he knew no more. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s moans were getting louder and she seemed to be sinking into the ground. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nun placed the smallest down on the ground and picked up the fallen child. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He climbed farther and farther from the ground, farther and farther from us. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We had collected him off the ground and made him sit on a bench. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I stare at the ground because I can’t look Arthur in the eyes right now. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

‘It will be quicker so. The ground is firmer in the Eastemnet, where the chief northward track lies, across the river, but Shadowfax knows the way through every fen and hollow.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Or noticed my body on the ground where it lay not far from the car. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He nudged a body on the ground with his foot and Olanna noticed, then, how many bodies were lying there, like dolls made of cloth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I feel how wobbly he is and plant my feet into the ground. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Theon let the bow unbend slowly and pointed the arrow at the ground. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Finds some dry ground to camp in swamp at sundown. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn my face to the ground to look at my feet. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Or it would bounce along the ground and they could kick it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They felt the ground beneath their feet smooth and soft, and after a while they walked more freely, without fear of hurt or fall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to die!” screamed Wilbur, throwing himself to the ground. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Afterward they sat on the frozen ground, huddled in their cloaks with Ghost between them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Later, when she would have told him, he was long past caring, in the silent ground. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And consumed by curiosity, by a fleeting hope, Thomas joined her, collapsing to the ground to get a better look. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And the night mice crept about on the ground and the little night hawks hunted them silently. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon sank to the ground, repeating the words as though saying them aloud could make them true. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Afterwards it was dinner on the grounds, and we talked some more. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As we started through the gate into the cemetery I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

William punched him in the face so hard that the fiend’s neck snapped straight back, and he crumpled, lifeless, to the ground. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I needed to stand my ground, to be myself, whether my parents could relate to where I was coming from or not. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The graduates then headed off to stateside service at bases like Maryland’s Naval Air Station Patuxent River, ground zero for the navy’s flight test activity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It had gold tassels behind its ears and a flying tail and three golden hooves on the ground and one in the air. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He would watch my beans break ground and spread, and would notice with pleasure their pods growing plump. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grounds of our elementary school were quite small. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

At the same moment, something hit the ground with a loud boom. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She staggered back out of his grasp, the ground rushing beneath her, and then fell—hard. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They touched those who had remained on the ground. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept her focus on the ground and tried not to think about how far she had to go, or who might be catching up behind her. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My friends and I prided ourselves on learning how to throw one another to the ground and on mastering the many moves of a champion wrestler. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t find it—the night’s winds had swept the ground clean of any trace. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At first I thought they lived in the ground, but now I know better. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was like staring at the ground and realizing, suddenly, that it is swarming with ants. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was a slab of stone on the ground, and a low ledge in one corner, with some small objects on it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Momentum sends it sailing across the room to slam into a bookshelf and knock a ram’s skull to the ground. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At what point would the ground give way and plunge me into anxiety? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wiener has proposed, on intuitive grounds, that defects and misinterpretations in such a communication system may be an unexplored territory for psychiatry. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes each footstep I take feel numb, like my foot isn’t actually touching the ground, like I’m not in my body. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I shake my head and set my leftovers on the ground. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Three deputies wrestled her to the ground, and as she kicked and struggled, Clark clubbed her with his nightstick. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls, streaked with moss, had grown soft, and bulged a little with dampness that seeped up from the ground. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet started to drag on the ground and my weight pulled down on the reins. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching Glimmer twitching to death on the ground. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The smell was heavy and hung low to the ground. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held her hand about three feet off the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was a small relief that I eventually stopped feeling my skin and stomach and head, could sense nothing more than the distant pressure of the ground against my feet. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was littered with the bodies of attackers who had fallen prey to the flames in the ill-starred venture of the siege tower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z