“Now, thanks to those two neglectful men, their Nemesi are doomed to wage war against each other until the end of time, growing angrier and angrier with each passing year!” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The rest of us are growing into it, I suppose. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By about four thousand years ago the Indians of the lower Amazon were growing crops—at least 138 of them, according to a recent tally. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you haven’t been outside lately, but there’s not much growing around here. There’s not enough water to fill a thimble.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

During the growing months, quite a few of my schoolmates had—as adults liked to say—“developed.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Looking at it, Chronicler remembered that though it was the beginning of a day, it was also late autumn and growing colder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As disturbing as the rumors of Cleopatra’s influence and Caesar’s growing power were to his colleagues, Caesar was still very much admired by the Roman people. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Still, maybe his message got through, because Adria and I always felt completely comfortable growing up in Spring and traveling around our home state, Texas. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Vonetta was supposed to introduce us and say the name of our poem and that our mother wrote it But I could see her eyes growing big and her face ashen. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A magpie fluttered out of one of the rhododendron bushes growing near the house, and a couple of fat sparrows pecked busily at invisible insects in the gravel, but that was all. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And I walked for hours, imagining the mist growing thick and swallowing me whole. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Over the past few days, I’d been growing this small bit of hope, letting it build up little by little like yarn wrapped from a skein. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It took many years for me to realize that the names I had been called when I was growing up had everything to do with others and nothing to do with me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the face of William’s insomnia and growing tension, Elizebeth could do little to help, except to keep their home life as normal as she could. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was watching them, growing listless from hunger, when a wheeling flock of sanderlings and whimbrels from the continent flew past. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Not as he would have a week before, as somebody in a parking lot in Ventura, California, who would think of waves growing larger. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pile of marbles beside them kept growing larger and larger. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Like the night bombers, the pilots of the 586th Regiment in their dangerous solo Yak fighters were growing hardened in combat too. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was a large heart with lots of hearts growing smaller inside, and piercing from the outside rim to the smallest heart was an arrow. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

New programs to treat cancer and other chronic diseases are growing. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was growing like a smoke cloud from the sky to the ground. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She remained abed ten years, gradually growing better, but never completely recovering, relapsing periodically into her paralytic state. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could smell wild flowers growing in the weeds and grass beside the road, and he heard the big bumblebees and the smaller bees sucking the blossoms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Talcott sensed the growing anger in the waiting crowd and raised his voice. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Another woman tells the Wireless Officer he should see what they have growing in the garden, you wouldn’t believe the flowers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

These were growing flesh as I watched, turning into men, but men with dull gray skin, yellow eyes, and modern clothes—gray muscle shirts, camo pants, and combat boots. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And then — could it be? — the voices behind him were growing faint. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came home from that expedition, however, to unanticipated public criticism from Sir Edmund Hillary, who decried Hall’s role in the growing commercialization of Everest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Together, they issued false passports and provided money and guidance to a growing network of Soviet informers and spies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fm the one she recounts her growing list of ailments to. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And it is this new form of life that has grown up here in our midst that puzzles us, that expresses itself, like a weed growing from under a stone, in terms we call crime. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Eden wasn't born yet— he was still inside Mom's growing belly. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

There were more and more of them on the slopes now, brightly color-washed, with flowers growing outside their doors. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The exodus continued, fueled by growing dismay in the Rad Lab at Lawrence’s refusal to oppose the oath. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And, despite himself, Gherland had developed an inexplicable, and growing, fondness for the boy. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The swells grew in size at a regular rate, and the wind began to increase but started slowly and worked up at a steady, growing pace. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The color in her face was growing darker. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And my eyes—my beautiful, precious eyes—were growing stronger each day. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Percy, but beware of him. He is more dangerous than ever. And the golden coffin is still with him, still growing in strength.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Alfred concentrated on the little cold spot growing in his stomach. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smile and take a deep breath, my hope growing stronger. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All of this was a gradual development, and it took place while Adam was growing to boyhood and his young half-brother behind him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A milkweed plant was growing by a heap of rubble. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Uhmma grips the steering wheel tighter and tighter, the outlines of her knuckles growing sharp. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Instead he watched as the figures of Mr. Das and the children grew smaller, climbing up the steep path, pausing every now and then for a picture, surrounded by a growing number of monkeys. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The parrot, growing wary, takes a healthy sidestep away, perhaps not wanting to associate himself with anything the captain says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

As if on signal, Stella and her friends slowed, dropping their voices to a whisper, then finally growing silent. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I veered back and forth between hope and its opposite, a growing certainty that something terrible was wrong with me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“If anything can help me make Dad happy again,” I said, my voice growing bubbly, “it’s science.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They had speculated that growing up in the American military could affect the personality of an individual in one of two ways. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper was beginning to think, however, that he had better be getting back to Stillwater, for the penguins were growing irritable. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I see the dejection in her eyes growing over my rousing review, so I throw in a random fact I heard on the Travel Channel. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Not to mention her asking me the whereabouts a Constantine, her maid growing up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For the next two hours, Beidleman, Groom, the two Sherpas, and the seven clients staggered blindly around in the storm, growing ever more exhausted and hypothermic, hoping to blunder across the camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

These young men are part of a growing undercaste, permanently locked up and locked out of mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was growing tired of constantly hearing about the revolution, but I privately thanked Castro for postponing my algebra test. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She runs around the growing fire to the camper. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I remember the five-fingered ferns growing under little waterfalls, bobbing their green fingers as the droplets struck them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Scurrying, echoing footsteps were growing louder from behind the door leading to the dormitories: Luna’s spell had woken Ravenclaws sleeping above. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We began to descend towards the coast, the roadside growing more populous, the smell of the ocean in the air. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's nothing . . . a speck of dirt," I said, standing and holding out the sample, a tightness growing within me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elation swept through him, and with it his new sense unfurled, growing and reaching out, seeking and finding and knowing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A tall boy, still thin from growing, two dark brows reaching for a mess of black and curling hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hines cooked special food for him and claimed he was growing so fast because of her pureed beets. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The oven cricked and snapped with growing heat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his magazine, Rodale wrote about the health benefits of growing food without synthetic chemicals— “organically.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When I was growing up, my father took me to the barbershop around the corner one Saturday morning, but my regular barber—also the school board president—was not behind his chair. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

June’s eyes flitted over the words, her frown growing deeper and heavier. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In his badly penned sigmas and deltas she spied the shaking hand of her son’s growing anxiety. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

First, it seemed that all normal cells growing in culture eventually died or underwent spontaneous transformation and became cancerous. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He even claimed to have been there on one of his higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

But at another, as you’ll see, it was the start of a process that kept growing and growing over the years until it came to dominate our lives. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the greater truth is that I was most like Joe when I was growing up, although I lacked his self-confidence and wasn’t as “out there” as he is. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he was growing up, his mother loved animals, and they always had cats and at least one dog. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He felt his determination growing, as it had in the days after Uncle’s death. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still it continued to grow, but instead of growing upward, it grew round and thick. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s important to see who you’re growing into and who you used to be.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He was growing certain that there was no exit. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She imagined Akira growing up, flying a plane and dropping a bomb. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And a growing number of tissue “donors” are suing for control of their samples and the DNA inside them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In her growing years, Ammu had watched her father weave his hideous web. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And soon, HeLa cells weren’t the only ones being bought and sold for research—with media and equipment standardization, culturing became easier, and researchers began growing cells of all kinds. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They had their own factory on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and a growing list of customers, including a store uptown owned by another Jewish immigrant family, the Bloomingdale brothers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In her mind’s eye, Sefia saw herself hunched over the book, growing frail and nearsighted as the years piled up around her and the lights of her life burned low. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Their gravity drew to them substantial quantities of nearby gas, growing clouds of hydrogen and helium that were destined to become clusters of galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard you were growing up to be a good, upstanding student. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Sarai could feel it growing, and even sense it brightening, as though Sparrow were infusing it with light. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Frank couldn’t imagine his mom growing up with Grandmother any more than he could imagine her on the battlefield—though the two situations probably weren’t that different. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was growing exhausted by the effort of speaking, and confused by what he was hearing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"If this tree is growing out of your head,” she said, "then you might bleed to death if I chop it down.” The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The other girl had a dark pixie cut growing out, a single braid plaited next to her ear. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Dawn was growing in the sky, and the dell was filling with grey light, when Strider at last returned. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I drew them vivid pictures of Alexandra, of black life, of the hardships I faced not only as a tennis player and a student, but also as a young man growing up in the ghetto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had taught Luna, when she was a little girl with scabby knees and matted hair, how a caterpillar lives, growing big and fat and sweet-tempered, until it forms a chrysalis. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I’d visited Jamaica often to see family when I was growing up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Lost in longing, Louie imagined himself on a train, rolling into country he couldn’t see, growing smaller and more distant until he disappeared. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Although still dark inside the house, outside it was growing lighter and lighter. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his reputation for honesty and his growing popularity, the Republican Party, which was rocked by scandal, nominated Roosevelt for governor of New York. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

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

It pained me to have to tell her that he was at the orphanage still and growing up away from the other children, away from everyone, really, and would not talk at all. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

At that point, there were many obstacles to growing cells successfully. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I must not hope to be ever situated as you are, in the midst of every dearest connexion, and therefore I cannot expect that simply growing older should make me indifferent about letters.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

They did stay for two weeks, in the old nursery, where they had a view of the beautiful mulberry tree growing outside the window. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children’s eyes widened when they heard the cabin had two lamps, two stoves, and grass growing in a yard with a fence and a gate. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, as I led a group of tourists through the church, I noticed a healthy crop of mushrooms growing out of the once-beautiful red carpet near the pulpit. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stuck a few ferns in them so they would look as if they were growing there and ran back to camp, breathless. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is kind of like being on the beach,” I say, growing more and more elated. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe this close feeling was a gift for growing older. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of my biggest worries in those days was that around the time I turned thirteen, I stopped growing. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Look how they’re arranged. It’s hard to see because the place is a shambles, but it looks like they were growing in rows. Like someone planted them.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every day, my little girl is growing up without me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time noon approached the tributary was gradually growing smaller. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Hour after hour, Elizabeth heard the rhythmic gasping, the silence growing longer between each lungful of air, until, finally, the breathing stopped. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Each day in the store I watched the brutality with growing hate, yet trying to keep my feelings from registering in my face. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood on the rimrock and looked over the edge, down on the dark evergreens and pinon trees growing thick on the steep canyon slopes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie stroked his little head as he chewed—and her fingertips found something hard under the silky fur: tiny horns growing beside his ears. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They were, like this new body she was growing into, givens. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“So are you hiding here?” she asked, her face growing worried. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I headed for home, feeling a growing satisfaction that I had dismissed him so completely. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam guessed that among all their pains he bore the worst, the growing weight of the Ring, a burden on the body and a torment to his mind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Cole hiked the shoreline a few days early and found a little scrubby pine tree barely three feet tall growing against the trunk of a larger tree. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I told the story of Henrietta’s cells and what they’d done for science, my voice growing louder as the congregation yelled “Amen!” and “Hallelujah!” and “Lord have mercy!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“She must think he’s growing a third arm.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As her fevers grew worse, however, she realized she would not last another full growing season. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"If I was not corrupted long since, growing up in Alsatia among thieves and beggars, then I must be incorruptible." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The days were growing short and a little fire burned all day in the cookstove to keep the house warm. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they heard the footsteps again, growing louder, and after a few minutes Osha emerged into the light, looking grim. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was a happy childhood, growing up in the center of an endless fair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was also growing bald for a dragon: He was so old that the scales at the top of his head had begun to flake off and expose the soft, golden skin beneath. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cannons were blossoming, filling the air with thunder, far enough away to soften and roll, not angry yet, but growing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby loved being there and was in a perpetually good mood, with thoughts of growing rich from the impending match. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We lived in this house for three years until our growing clan became too big. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Word of his generosity quickly got around, which inspired other philanthropists—unwilling to be outdone—to send even more money; and before long people everywhere were sending gifts to the Washingtons, who were growing rich. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure her nervousness was growing as we drove farther and farther east. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Thus there was growing acceptance both in and outside Cambridge that Francis’ brain was a genuine asset. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

From little green marbles, those tomatoes started growing. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The towners hang around the edges of the lot, growing in numbers as word spreads. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Like the hair on my arm, the grass pokes easily out of my skin like needles through paper, growing taller and taller. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Gran starts prattling on about the orchids she’s growing in her greenhouse. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is nothing,” Kino said, but his eyes and his voice were hard and cold and a brooding hate was growing in him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said Down below Three worlds below this one everything is green all the plants are growing the flowers are blooming. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The e-mail was only growing, and I was lagging behind in answering it. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there’s the growing pressure in my head. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“And Dad never heard her mention anything when he was growing up?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

"My mother always said rain was good for growing crops," Grenn put in hopefully. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was trying hard not to face the notion growing inside me that I was no longer normal, no longer like my other friends. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether at the Job Corps or behind bars, he had missed many of the milestones in her growing up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Finally it was established beyond a doubt that he was growing fatter; his thighs were now definitely thicker than his knees. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When he saw Tortoise surveying his fields of ripening crops, he thought of the pleasure that must come from growing such fine food. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He went to the vestibule and swung through the door into the street, feeling that ball of hot tightness growing larger and heavier in his stomach and chest. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But she growing up and I know, soon, them few words ain’t gone be enough. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was mist across Marsh Creek, ever whiter in the growing light. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paced in front of the bathroom, growing increasingly annoyed. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

What few trees they saw were stunted, grotesque things growing sideways out of cracks and fissures. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Thick black doors shine bright with the House of Inventors emblem—a chrysanthemum growing out of a stacked tower of cogs and gears. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But even as he looked it seemed to his eyes that the gloom was growing and gathering, very slowly, slowly rising to smother the regions of the sun. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was growing, and other kids were growing. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

No matter how much my parents wanted to shield me, there was no way of protecting me from the growing fear that soon we would be at war with Germany. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Nothing wrong with being different. And right now, you’re just becoming who you’re going be. You still have a lot of growing to do.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

That clump a bangs she cut off with her construction scissors is growing back sticking straight out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The stench, growing at a steady pace as they approached, rose up suddenly to greet them like an excited puppy. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We, as a nation, are as hungry for history as was England when Geoffrey of Monmouth concocted his History of British Kings, many of whom he manufactured to meet a growing demand. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that he was waiting for her, and he was growing impatient. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clear sky was growing in the East once more. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He held out the prospect of becoming part of something larger than themselves, of finding in themselves something they did not yet know they possessed, of growing from boyhood to manhood. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

All he could feel, all he had felt since the monster revealed itself, was a growing disappointment. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

ALBUS/RON: You know, he hides it well, but Uncle Ron’s got a bit of a gut growing. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The Mirror seemed to be growing hot and curls of steam were rising from the water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He explains how my body is growing and all the nutrients it needs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse took Prince Terrien across inside his jacket, but the puppy was growing so fast he might pop the zipper any time and fall into the water and drown. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hitler’s Nazi government was growing increasingly bold, and boasted that its air force was now second to none in the entire world. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The soldiers, standing still, seemed to be growing more nervous. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

We had all seen the clumps of prickly pear cactuses that were growing everywhere. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The family is growing, and so are our needs.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I also remember what it was like growing up with my father. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Already we had a few chile and tomato plants growing. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like he didn’t learn anything growing up. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Nor did he supply the darkroom facilities that hotels closest to Jackson Park had begun installing to serve the growing number of amateur photographers, so-called “Kodak fiends,” who carried the newest portable cameras. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

From the bluff, I could see our place, a field of corn torn up, the hay rising up, fields of corn growing green in the sun. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The South African government was under growing international pressure, as nations all across the globe began to impose economic sanctions on Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things were growing plain now in the dawn and I went fast. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I must ask a question,” Colonel Meecham said, growing serious for a moment, then exploding with an exultant cry, “Who’s the greatest of them all?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

What follows is a growing mumble, two voices starting polite, quiet, like when a lady buys stamps at the post office and gives the minimum amount of respect required to the teller. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

All those years, black people were slaves, growing cotton and getting whipped over it—why in the world would anyone want to name a church after it? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

President Dwight Eisenhower, in his farewell speech in January 1961, railed against the United States’ growing military-industrial complex. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Doctors had spent fourteen hours removing a tumor that weighed more than the small girl whose body it had been growing in. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“There’s no privacy. No proper toilets or kitchens. No facilities for a growing family.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her father talked to her all the time about growing up in slavery and how he learned to read and write but kept it a secret. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mars Bar stared with growing astonishment at Maniac, whose wide, unblinking eyes were fixed on the trestle, yet somehow did not seem to register what was there. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flowers stopped obeying the little bricks that kept them from growing beyond their paths. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

While their doing so was all to the good in itself, some of them were growing restive and hard to manage. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would hear them every morning when I passed the railroad car and paused over the chickweed and bull thistle growing where Tyler had buried the rifle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I got a sadness inside me growing so big I feel I’m about to bust. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt it started growing long before the camps, long before the Second World War and the First World War, probably before the Civil War, and maybe even before the United States was a country. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was a growing fear that people would soon be killed without ever having their cases reviewed by skilled counsel. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She just stares, the wound in her eyes raw and growing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, farmers in Louisiana showed growing reluctance to sign up for the project as it became evident that use of chemicals against the fire ant was causing an upsurge of insects destructive to sugarcane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I sought some pleasant sensation, a comforting memory, but felt only growing panic. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In the Oaxacan countryside, they explained to me, a house without maize growing in the backyard is like a house without a roof or walls. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At least the trees that crowded up to the top of the bluff spread above them, proud and growing. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down there was another kind of daylight everything was blooming and growing everything was so beautiful. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But as the weeks pass, my need to write keeps growing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Through the window he sees that dawn is creeping into the sky, only a handful of stars still visible, the shapes of the surrounding pines and cabins growing distinct. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, within just a few short millennia, it was growing all over the world. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was growing sick of die man's sly answers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then the adults themselves noticed that their noses were getting bigger and that they were growing hairier. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Branches muscled through the earth, growing in fast motion until a full-sized olive tree shaded the courtyard. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A growing number of white Americans expressed alarm over the Osage’s wealth—outrage that was stoked by the press. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Nothing as he was growing up at home, nothing at Devon, nothing even about the war had broken his harmonious and natural unity. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandma remembers growing up with lots of cousins around, and they’re as close as siblings to this day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps there was sickness in the temple, or some other untoward event that prevented their coming, but whatever the reason, Tree-ear was growing concerned for his friend. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Winn-Dixie’s bald spots started growing fur, and the fur that he had to begin with started looking shiny and healthy; and he didn’t limp anymore. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The music rippled out in waves over the growing crowd. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There were pages and pages of gloom about the immediate likelihood of war between Japan and China, and the growing likelihood of war in Europe. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

That is growing more difficult now and will in some foreseeable future become impossible. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had written about growing up in Florida. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

We stood by watching, growing more anxious with each failed attempt. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I remembered all the good times I’d had growing up in Birmingham—at home, in the community, and at church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Big goon like you, growing about an inch a day, and this midget kid, this crippled little humanoid, he actually scared you. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the trees had moss and lichen growing on them. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He was big and broad and growing every day, with his mother's coloring, the fair skin, red-brown hair, and blue eyes of the Hillys of Riverrun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He turned and fled down the stairs, with the chocolate growing sticky in his hand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As they got closer, the enormous, grand palace seemed to rise like a growing mountain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

About what it’s like growing up on the levee in Stockton, where every other person you meet has missing teeth or is leaning against a liquor store wall begging for change to buy beer. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Coach laughs, plucks a weed growing through a crack on the steps. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have no animal parts stuck on him, nor no parts of other people growing out of him that would invite staring, he had something worst. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

By the time we passed through the wall at Aldersgate, the sun had set, and the streets were growing dark. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She sat there, the needles clicking over themselves, the purple square of yarn growing more rectangular. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The growing exposure of the population to radiation from various sources, plus the many contacts with a host of chemicals suggest a grave new problem for the modern world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Cas winced as she shifted her injured arm and was glad for the pain, because it was better to focus on that than on the ache growing in her heart. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It has a thriving economy, a growing Latino community, and a substantial black middle class. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Aztecs flourished culturally, economically, militarily, and politically, but they faced growing rebellion by the peoples from whom they exacted tribute. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Over the gray marble this new, jagged etching of bodies doing things, growing parts, fitting together, changing shape. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

One morning she had found some wild onions growing halfway down the south slope, and later that same day a leafy reddish vegetable that might have been some queer sort of cabbage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“There was nothing to tell,” Naheed went on, but she was beginning to see her story growing wings and feathers and flying away, too far for her ever to catch again. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It tells of growing a circle of sugar cane as a kind of sweet protection for a lover, and it includes specific instructions on how to use sugar cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Over the next couple of years, Charles had the drawing room made bigger and added a kitchen wing so there would be more room for the growing number of servants. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shouts of agreement echoed throughout the mountain, growing louder as more children and adults yelled their approval. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The teacher made his rounds from easel to easel, and I monitored his progress with growing panic. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I should be moving on, growing my curls back, being social again. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Faye soon became a solid and desirable citizen of the growing town of Salinas. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon couldn’t answer, couldn’t speak as his lungs began to restrict, growing tighter as the pain enveloped his body. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The woods even came tumbling into the fields where new trees were growing. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The short, stunted man confined to a wheelchair and the growing boy went to movies, dined in restaurants, attended chess events at clubs, and celebrated birthdays and holidays together. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Um, just because...it was sort of a bummer growing up an only child,” Grace said, covering. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But I was still caught somehow, joined to the wall as though my arm were growing out of it—or growing into it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Already he could feel his arms growing numb. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A kraal was a homestead and usually included a simple fenced-in enclosure for animals, fields for growing crops, and one or more thatched huts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This went on, his voice gradually growing quieter, finally dropping to a mumble that I could not hear. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But more than once they glanced at each other, and each was surprised by the pool of happiness that spread through herself even as she trudged through the falling temperatures and growing dusk. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I look down and see the wild pansies, small purple and white violets, growing at my feet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Then they would reconvene for the beginning of the Advance in Age and the rituals of growing older. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to live in Congo without growing a thick skin for bugs, but even so, trudging through the jungle was almost more than I could take. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The difference in our ages meant that my brother and I were never close growing up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The dog romped through the daisies and weeds and tall grasses growing along the tracks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Vincent's painting flourishes with the warm weather, growing and changing as Arles fills with blossoming trees. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I look out the window at all the plants growing in people's gardens, and get lost in that. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

"There's another flower from the original strain still growing, somewhere else." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It had a bunch of pen and pencil marks scratched on it, keeping track of how fast the children in the house were growing. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

When Will was a growing boy, his father had not been long enough in the Salinas Valley to be thought of as an “old- timer.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’d raised him on her own, and he said he’d had enough Korean words and foods and customs while growing up. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I asked, the anger within me growing as it devoured the hurt and the pain the knowledge was causing. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But Henrietta’s cells weren’t merely surviving, they were growing with mythological intensity. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The ship was drawing closer, growing larger and larger in the mist like a shadow at dusk. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It slithers and moves around in the pit of my stomach, growing bigger and bigger. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas sat frozen in his chair, a sickness growing in his stomach like an infestation. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Although I had no regrets, I told myself sadly that growing up was not the painless process one would have thought it to be. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we saw the Wolf Wall in the Fossil Lab and its four hundred wolf skulls, I was growing weary. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In his picture, the seedling is growing out of the top of a man's large head. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And a new dimension entered the combat: a father’s awareness of a growing son, the son as challenger, the son as threat, the son as successor, the son as man. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between 1867 and 1871, he pushed himself even harder, growing thousands of hawkweeds in another patch of garden, emasculating the flowers with the same forceps, and dusting pollen with the same paintbrush. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

This was the latest of a growing list of terrorist activities against the British Army in Palestine. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Isaac, I feel a growing concern about our position. If you agree, head over to that power station, and I’ll cover you.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were no pictures, no mementos, none of the normal clutter of growing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Watkyn, a towel. This water’s growing cool, and my toes have wrinkled up like raisins. No, not that towel, the soft one.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They seem to understand that a tight knot might keep me from growing the way I need to grow. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It being June, nothing looked tired of growing yet, but it all looked neglected. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She chose a young, growing pineapple for the first page of her Surinam book—the most recognizable of all her plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Running through the woods north of her house, it amazed me how green things grew on top of green things that were still green and growing. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The cotton the slaves were growing became the major export for this new country. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Thus the growing process of intellectualization and rationalization does not imply a growing understanding of the conditions under which we live. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But she started growing her hair out this summer while I was away. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It was creeping across all of Germany, growing shorter all the time. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we moved to New York, she worked multiple jobs, from a freelance writer for magazines and television to a furrier’s assistant—whatever she could do to help cover her growing expenses. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The two teams are in different corners of the field, and a crowd of a few hundred is slowly growing bigger. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Bob stumbled, the wispy comet tail of his life force growing longer as it was sucked toward the face of the god. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I stared as water rushed toward us, growing higher and higher, closer and closer. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then I thought about my father’s death, growing more certain that it involved foul play. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Mine was horrendous too. Are you growing a beard, Dad?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She rode it down toward the crumbling towers, her nerves growing jumpy as the ruins rose up to blot out the half-moon. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She looked around, a weed of discomfort growing thick and spiky in her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The jingling and clopping sounds were now growing fainter again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But I think it’s like rising, growing even taller and seeing sights over a hedge, colors you’ve never seen before. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The soft light seemed to warm the air and soften the growing darkness. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Especially since he always said I was different from how he was, growing up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The only way it’s possible for plants to be growing in space is with Mom’s time-released nutrients, like she’d used in Hyperion’s soil. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It is growing late; what time do you have to be home?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the important mammal species hunted for meat, the gazelle, originally lived in huge herds but was overexploited by the growing human population and reduced to low numbers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now she had only one plain pencil left, and it was rapidly growing shorter. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A growing, wiggling tentacle of doubt wouldn’t let me completely believe High John’s words. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And the feeling that there was someone or something else around kept on growing inside me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could engross himself in an inconsequential task for hours without growing restless or bored, as oblivious to fatigue as the stump of a tree, and almost as taciturn. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Regardless of who was living which way and why, every small child in that playroom was cherished and growing just fine. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Ever since we left the inn, my stomach had been growing distressed, and the stench that hung in the stagnant air of that street did nothing to improve it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The alternative was even worse—that it was proof Yakov was growing more and more powerful, laying down his roots. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I handed the woman her parcels and felt my face growing hot. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But outside my monster could keep growing, as I never had a way to capture it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But now Jermaine’s face was glowing too, the blocks turning from brown to glowing red and then growing out of a brick wall, like flowers budding in fast motion. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But she was growing roots where she stood, and staring open- mouthed at the dead man. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s growing faster than ever now! It’s speeding up!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She valued Rocky’s growing understanding of the outside world, of the books, of everything of importance and power. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

While 157 species sounds like indiscriminate collecting, many more species growing wild in the vicinity were absent from the charred remains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their offspring had long childhoods—ten years at least—growing very slowly, as far as she could interpret their explanation. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Roast turkey with cornbread dressing and watercress and wild onions that Little Arliss and I found growing down in the creek next to the water. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of growing up in Chicago and having to shovel snow. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Settlers who used the labor of enslaved Africans wanted limitless land for growing cash crops. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Some physicians estimate that a third or more of their patients show signs of some form of sensitivity, and that the number is growing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I pictured him, trembling, his breath growing labored, until finally the string breaks ... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His life descended into a nightmare of drug dependency and chaos, complete with the growing risk of death by overdose. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The animosity I felt from the colored people I encountered growing up was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to deal with. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

‘Trees is living and growing just like you and me,’ he said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her aqua hair lies flat instead of in spikes and you can see the roots growing in gray. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We took another step and she found another daisy, laying on the ground, not growing there. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he was doing so, a car screeched to a stop a few feet up the road from the growing crowd, and Moss recognized the blue Toyota. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His hands were growing, his head was enlarging, and where baby fuzz had once covered a pale new scalp, now long tentacles were emerging. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In their living room, at the empathy box, Iran swiftly snapped the switch, her face animated with growing gladness; it lit her up like a rising new crescent of moon. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was dark and seemed to be growing darker. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The room was growing dark; something had happened. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In its wake it leaves the sort of rich volcanic plains that are ideal for growing potatoes, as Idaho’s farmers long ago discovered. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They seemed to sprout overnight, like magic or science or something in between, and they filled nearly every nook and cranny of the greenhouse, bursting with color, growing fierce and bold and brave. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After a minute or so, Harry heard the clunks of Moody’s wooden leg growing fainter in the corridor below. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Sula watched him—or rather the rhythm in his throat —with growing interest When he had had enough, he poured the rest into the sink, rinsed the bottle out and presented it to her. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just thinking of it again made me realize how, growing up, we three were together all the time: camping out, exploring the woods, shooting baskets, fishing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But you could tell by the way Jadis tapped her foot on the floor that she was growing impatient. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever seen a girl driving a rickshaw? I thought you were growing up, Naima, but you’re as careless as ever!” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I felt more determined to recruit staff and obtain resources to meet the growing challenges of providing legal assistance to condemned people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Finding three large sycamores growing close together, we stopped on the leeward side. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although leaves remained on the beeches and the sunshine was warm, there was a sense of growing emptiness over the wide space of the down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aru held her breath as the puddle rose, growing higher and higher until it was about the height of the seven-headed horse that had carried her across the Ocean of Milk. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t have devil horns growing out of her curly hair. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The rise of a middle class - and a growing, wage-earning working class, as London’s industry expanded - was to have a greater effect on changing musical tastes in Britain than the whims of aristocratic patrons. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He was one of a long line of cats we’d owned, each growing old and dying, leaving us to find a new one. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lee paused, her gigantic smile somehow growing larger. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

So all the time I was growing up, right on into high school, I had this ambition to go to the United States and finish my schooling there. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he did, he saw some mushrooms growing up from a cracked paving tile. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As she walked into the rich smell of sunlight and growing things, a path opened wide before her like an old carriage road just rediscovered. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked up, I saw a crop duster plunging his little plane over a field of growing things, behind him a cloud of pesticides parachuting out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of hideous creatures growing up from pale foam. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She pointed at the toadstool growing out of the earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It has suspense, tragedy, startling developments—a soap opera growing out of the ground. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was during this period that Ernest acquired the reputation of a relentless taskmaster in command of a growing brigade; the recurring term in personal reminiscences of the Rad Lab is “slave driver.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They don’t grow anything, and it is growing things—preparing, planting, weeding, harvesting, storing—that takes time. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was the start of the growing season, and my father tended the crops through until harvest. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She frowns at it, thinking rapidly, her suspicion growing. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He sensed the growing incoherence in the children. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the growing cycle was over,Ton-Ton came out with a huge, slow-moving harvester. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He plucks a book from the shelf, Geist und Tat, Spirit and Action, by Heinrich Mann, who criticized Germany's growing fascism so loudly that he was forced to flee after Hitler became chancellor. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You had a dog when you were growing up.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Thomas bore the responsibility anyway—and it was growing heavier the more he thought about it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

To my surprise Old Granny made no comment, beyond smiling reassuringly when I muttered guiltily that our needs at home were growing. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they asked me if I would go—I suppose because I’ve spent my life on a farm and I know about growing food. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like I could actually see the leaves and flowers growing and changing. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the growing risks, Mollie and her family pressed on with their search for the killers. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sister told me it meant I was growing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Watching him carefully sprinkling them into the troughs he'd made, I realized that I didn't know anything about growing food and that he knew everything. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was growing old; he was an old broken man; and she would be young for generations. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The spiders seemed to multiply like magic, growing and pulsating into an intangible mass. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

New trees growing, old trees recovering, squirrels dashing through the blackened pine needles, green sprouts and buds all around. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Most of his memories of growing up at the Temple of Lkossa were good, but that didn’t mean it had been perfect. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I reckon they’ll be good friends growing up, with Miss Hilly teaching them both how things is. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The amount of soot and floating ash from the impact and following fires would blot out the sun, certainly for months, possibly for years, disrupting growing cycles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But it is also due to the growing realization of how much is at stake. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was growing weaker and weaker with the effort it took to continue speaking, but the story inside her was bubbling up again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But then Ma mashes the box with her fist, and they whimper before growing silent and still once more. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

They were bushy herbs with purple, daisylike flowers, growing as high as her knee. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was of average height as well, and had wished ever since he had stopped growing that he were just one inch taller. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ruth said, “Be quiet, you two. It’s just growing pains, Lena.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Students at that black school had been protesting since February 5 a segregated bowling alley in town, with demonstrations growing in size and intensity over the next few days. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, I stood panting and thrashing around with my third bowl of dough, with Mother and Viola growing more incredulous by the minute. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The boy learned that the liquid part of the Master Work was called the Elixir of Life, and that it cured all illnesses; it also kept the alchemist from growing old. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waited for me to respond, growing anxious when I didn’t. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Inside the wall trees were growing Their branches hung out over the wall; their leaves showed not only green but also blue and silver when the wind stirred them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I remember growing older, growing taller, growing stronger, all while attending ballet. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

However, there are growing examples in animal research demonstrating that animals do indeed use music, and that monkeys and other animals use musical patterns and can hear abstractions in music as well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

So he watched, in growing horror and despair, as Cain’s fist slammed into her jaw. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His eyes were growing used to the darkness and a little light seeped into the room from the winter sky through a window. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out there amidst all the growing things, it seemed like maybe she’d just gone to the shed room to get a hoe instead being off in Heaven. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It came from several thick patches of soapwort growing along the edge of the pasture. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can lose this weight, but you’re never growing that hair back.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

By chance, at Rudolf’s suggestion, he had just invited Kepler, whose mathematical fame was growing, to join him in Prague. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Removing only the leaves you need, leaving the rest to continue growing. And the yeast reproduces on its own asexually using budding.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Rolfe, a new colonist, began growing tobacco in James Town. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X’s growing respect for individual whites seemed to be reserved for those who ignored on a personal basis the things he said about whites and who jousted with him as a man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite growing up around images of the Confederate South and working in the Deep South for many years, I was pretty shaken by the symbols. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His growing restlessness drove him out at night. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They are growing, she realized as she watched them snap and squabble over the blackened flesh. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was happiness in his father’s heart because of his son who was intelligent and thirsty for knowledge; he saw him growing up to be a great learned man, a priest, a prince among Brahmins. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They kept growing like nothing anyone had seen, doubling their numbers every twenty-four hours, stacking hundreds on top of hundreds, accumulating by the millions. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Lexie. Maple syrup comes from trees. I drink soda a lot, and I’m growing—and farmers put animal manure on their fields all the time. So zip it. It’s going to work.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

At present our answers to these questions are for the most part only conjectures, but there is growing concern about the role of pesticide pollution in estuaries, salt marshes, bays, and other coastal waters. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It has never stopped growing since that day. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

That the Careers have been better red growing up is actually to their disadvantage, because they don't know how to be hungry. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Fischer was growing more self-assured, but his style was strikingly different: lucid, crystal-clear, economical, concrete, rational. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A growing pineapple like the one in Agneta Block’s greenhouse outside Amsterdam. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At dawn the companions had made such breakfast as they could; now in the growing light they were getting ready to search the ground again for signs of the hobbits. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

With his head growing dizzier, Joseph shut the door behind him and climbed up the stairs. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She keeps talking, the volume in her voice growing with every word. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And every minute the temper of the soldiers was growing shorter and a queer feeling of jubilation was apparent among the people. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pippin gazed in growing wonder at the great stone city, vaster and more splendid than anything that he had dreamed of; greater and stronger than Isengard, and far more beautiful. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was the inevitable prelude to growing up. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

His blond hair was filthy and uncut, growing wild, and his face was covered in stubble the color of shale. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I picked up the pace, my eagerness growing with every step. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Any operations done on my bones might stop them growing properly and mean the whole thing would fail. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

With a start I realized that the bedposts and the legs of the chair were growing out of the floor, thick at the base like roots, and coiling together. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

If the cells died in the process, it didn’t matter—scientists could just go back to their eternally growing HeLa stock and start over again. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That was the signal for every Runner and every Bulldog on the lake to throw themselves onto a wriggling, groaning, growing pyramid of kids. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The wolf was still growing, and the gods were in the smithies, forging a new set of chains. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Farmer suspected the root cause of this growing problem stemmed from decades back—long before Peru adopted the model WHO program in 1991—when drug-resistant strains were spawned by inadequately financed and unsupervised treatment. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Far away, growing faint and fainter, came wafting back the last sound of the tune they played. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just that it was growing by leaps and bounds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so,” said Reynie, who, far from looking disappointed, was growing more and more excited. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The silence wrapped around her like a quilt, a silence made up of trees growing and corn ripening, of the bright sky glowing and the distant water following its tides. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you know when you were a girl, growing up, that one day you’d be a maid?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The ice was solid under their feet, but as they walked farther, Pinmei could hear the faint whispers of water growing louder. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Skinny as they were, her legs were strong and springy and growing longer every day. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ten days later, the poor farmer noticed a strange white flower growing from her grave. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sound coming from outside, growing ever louder. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

All those readers, growing month by month, Linking and cross-posting, knowing so much more than she did; they had always frightened and exhilarated her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That rate is much higher than observed for hunter-gatherer populations but is easily attained by farmers: Kenya’s population is now growing at 4.5 percent per year. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, the black feeling growing just a smidge. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You are growing up so fast. It feels like yesterday when I was at your name-giving ceremony.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ve met Dr. Morse. He’s interesting, but he’s not controversial. He just studies the, uh, the way that adolescents’ understanding of sex is still changing and growing. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Chinese bakery downstairs from our flat displayed my growing collection of trophies in its window, amidst the dust-covered cakes that were never picked up. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at my friends because I didn’t want to look at the puddle of yellow, growing bigger and bigger around our egg. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They had been there all morning, out in the open, through the growing heat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She was growing more and more confused about what she wanted. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She mentioned her experience as a four- teen-year-old growing up in war-torn Bosnia. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I turned and looked back the way I’d come: a prickle of marble spires, dim mausoleums, pale in the growing darkness. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Rei leans in to us, raising her voice over the growing noise. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Will managed to glance upward and saw the clouds stirring and swirling, and that gleam—something immense—growing more powerful, as if the clouds themselves were becoming luminous with energy, like plasma. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then she felt a tickle in her throat, a slowly growing irritation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A feeling of fear had been growing on him all day, and he was unable to rest or go to bed: there was a brooding threat in the breathless night-air. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Charles now had a long white beard, which he had started growing in 1863 because eczema made it uncomfortable for him to shave. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Balkans provided ideal growing conditions for most Mesopotamian crops and livestock, and received those domesticates as a package within 2,000 years of its assembly in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She watched from just inside her front door, fearfully at first, but then with growing confidence. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell by the growing quiet in the car that it is slowing down. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want any kid growing up here the way it is today. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For thousands of years after corn was domesticated in Mexico, it failed to spread northward into eastern North America, because of the cooler climates and shorter growing season prevailing there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But if Joey was right, growing up didn’t just happen to you—you had to work at it. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It tasted of summer and mud and growing things. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All of her mother’s dreams of growing old and watching her grandchildren play had been brutally dashed into the dust. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stares and name-calling hurt, but I was growing accustomed to coping with it. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am growing old. I trust you will let me know if there is any way I can still be helpful to the Collective.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her hair, growing out of a bad dye job. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

So Harry, his voice now growing hoarse from all this talking, told them about Fawkes’s timely arrival and about the Sorting Hat giving him the sword. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Despite Beidleman’s growing anxiety about the advancing clock, he didn’t have a radio, so there was no way to discuss the situation with Fischer. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

If she had really craved safety from Erudite’s growing corruption, she could have gone to Amity or Candor. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But on this day, he is frustrated because, after a strong audition and weeks of good rehearsals, Mariela has stopped growing into the role. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

What was happening in Durham was part of a nationwide process of increasing dissatisfaction with the status quo and a growing willingness to do something about it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

These were worked over and around the nails and a thick braided fob kept growing out of the bottom of the spool as she worked it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a year or so older than Charles and growing like red birch, and to hear the mistress carry on, about as useless. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each scurrying rat and windblown soda can racked up Sierra’s growing nervousness. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have the first nub growing out of my face yet, and my hair was long and unruly. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They found a house—a one-story white one with a slanting roof and late chrysanthemums growing in the yard. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmers had corn growing in fields and fields around here, but for some reason trying to grow one small row of it never worked out. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was growing up to be even bigger than Wilfred and Philbert, who had begun to meet girls at the school dances, and other places, and introduced me to a few. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But behind the scenes there was a growing political uproar. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The population in the village is growing smaller by the day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carol is only ten and three quarters but she’s growing breasts. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A kind of grimness had been growing on the Godslayer the nearer they drew to their destination. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

This means your hair is growing back, and in the same color you remember from your high school days. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Members of the school board said the city was growing so fast they had no choice but to take advantage of existing structures. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Starlight, as every witch knows, is a marvelous food for a growing infant. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Now the tension which had been growing in Juana boiled up to the surface and her lips were thin. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed Sefia and Archer, concealed in the undergrowth, and continued north along the trail, their voices growing fainter and fainter in the jungle. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His face was a strong—a very strong—aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

By the time all the new knights had been given their sers the hall was growing restive, and none more so than Joffrey. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But it's still there, the old issue of Het Parool that Mirjam was reading on the day she disappeared, already growing a little yellow around the edges. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He leaned forward on his desk and intertwined lean fingers with tufts of brown hair growing at the bases. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of wordless testimony of struggle and anguish I heard all the time growing up in a small rural black church. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My earliest memories are of being in that greenhouse with Mom, growing our little plant family, following her rules, watering and fertilizing each seed just right. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In late summer, I was washing up in a pond when I noticed the plants growing around me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Fyrian tripped on his growing wings, tumbling forward and falling down so hard he shook the ground. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It bent somewhat towards the west so that at first all was dark ahead; but soon Frodo saw a tall gap of light before him, ever growing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They stood a moment longer in the growing dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I closed the final distance between us, I glanced behind and saw the fire was growing even faster than I’d expected. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the end he would get there simply by growing one day older. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

With growing horror, Yossarian gathered in breath and repeated the words as loudly as he could. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sam grabs a skirt in her size and adds it to the growing bundle on her arm. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He saw a glow growing against the white wall tiles. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

"He will give me a crown," he repeated, his voice growing sharp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Now Gartler was essentially telling the audience that all those years researchers thought they were creating a library of human tissues, they’d probably just been growing and regrowing HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

To see a part of the neighborhood looking better every day, and to smell those good smells of growing plants. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And about him having a hard life growing up and so that was why he was gruff. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

To handle the growing traffic from Western climbers and trekkers, new lodges and teahouses are springing up across the Khumbu region, but the new construction is especially evident in Namche Bazaar. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

If they keep growing this well, I'll be able to last a good long time here. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hank’s a good choice. And you do want to stay local. Jessica will be needing regular adjustments—especially since she’s almost certainly still growing.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“The thought of my child growing inside you will keep me going through the roughest days,” he writes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He worked diligently and with growing excitement to design an exhibit that would show exactly what the Klan was about. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, growing up, I never felt like I was enough of anything either, or too much of what I wasn’t supposed to be. Not Mexican enough, too nerdy.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Mam tells Dad I’m bleeding through my bottom and he says I might have a case of the runs, which is common with the growing pains. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But unlike the vines and grass, they didn’t wait until the first rains to start growing again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, it's famous for not having anything growing there. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Foaly twisted a tiny cylinder into the thick tufts of hair growing from Mulch’s ear. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Because of the economic earthquakes of the last few decades, a small but growing number of people have shot to the top. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Their claims of growing up poor were without merit in my mind. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they trudged through the heat, Salva finally had a chance to talk to Uncle about a worry that had been growing like a long shadow across his thoughts. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

During a break before going to grad school, they started a roadside organic farm on a few rented acres, growing raspberries and baby salad greens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There were straight rows of trees—colonnades—growing out of the seedbed of trees that had fallen two hundred years before and sunk and become the earth itself. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Why did government policy change to favor growing more and more corn? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She is four years old and has stopped growing because of malnutrition. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This book is about my experiences as a black child growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the 1940s and '50s under the umbrella of the rules and traditions of my oppressors. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The gulf between us had been growing all summer. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had heard it many times, from various prophets, during all the years that I was growing up. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

So he decided to put the change down to growing maturity in his daughter. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I hate people staring at me as if I’ve got a horn growing out of my forehead. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But among the twenty of us in A group, no one could see any signs that we were growing older at all. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like the mane growing on your favorite fairy-tale horse, the kind your seven-year-old self dreamed about, frolicking through that meadow, underneath that rainbow. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

As it slowed to normal, he felt a pain growing inside, a pain spreading through his body, pressing from within. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly what he will write about is his own life, including what it was like growing up gay in the little town of Paintbrush Falls, New York. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold up here, and growing colder. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After covering just four miles, the growing storm forced them to turn back toward the cabin. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poisonous plants were growing in the bed just outside the house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

That pie is almost a week old, slick mold is growing in the crust, it’ll make him sick. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

There was a coaches’ tournament up at City College that I did get into, but my growing depression was affecting my game. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The wolf dreams had been growing stronger, and he found himself remembering them even when awake. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With my distress growing every moment, I looked around, trying to get some sense of my whereabouts. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I felt sad that I was growing up in South Africa, where I would probably never get the chance to realise my fullest potential in the game. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced nervously at the door to the dormitory, which was growing dark. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

When Belky was growing up, night after night, year after year, she had the same prayer. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her head was growing fuzzy now, and the world tilted as she fell forward. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“We right here, sugar,” she said, like she was growing annoyed. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the Navy, they happily fanned the flames of her growing fame. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Emily counted to one hundred in her head and then, when she was certain the men were gone, turned to her brother, her face hot from running and growing hotter with anger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

War Admiral was growing so violent that he was endangering himself and everyone nearby. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he attached the sprinkler to it, I walked up and down the tidy rows of pole beans and squash and tomato plants growing bigger every day. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She had opened a bank account and it was growing. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

This Mark has been growing clearer all year. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There was no encampment outside this gate, only brown fields with patches of moss growing over the ground. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He would finger himself here and there, trying to make sure that it was not an illusion that his muscles were growing rounder and his skin tauter. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Tonight, we join the Global Peace Forum, where an international movement is growing.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thought was growing from confusion all the time. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

That big crater on the summit was growing. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Avery fiddled with the experiment as only a microbiologist could, growing the bacteria in various cultures, adding beef-heart broth, removing contaminant sugars, and growing the colonies on plates. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

For many of the men running the war, the growing protests hit uncomfortably close to home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The absence of green, growing things made the city seem dead. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were already long shadows on the lawn as Eleanor and Theodora came up the path toward the side veranda of Hill House, blessedly hiding its mad face in the growing darkness. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair is growing out—it’s still short, but I can’t see her skull anymore. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She enjoyed taking apart clocks and putting them back together again, cooking experiments, and horticulture, especially growing bonsai trees. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Aware of the growing sense of alarm in Jules and the others, the mate reached out and took a few halting steps, adopting the bent shuffle he’d never thought he’d have to use again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He dove inside and grabbed the wood and ran around the edge of the ridge, scrambled up like a cat and blew and nearly had the flame feeding, growing, when the sound moved away. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used to tell Ellis and me stories about growing up where there were cornfields and hills to roll down. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I held my arm firm, but the gun was growing heavy. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The street the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gust quickly spun into a cyclone that was growing taller than Nathan. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Unless you look around the room, Annabeth thought, her confidence growing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was growing up fast, physically more so than mentally. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sean and Finn were raised in a farm town; they were no strangers to growing food. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I knew it wasn’t better, but it’s one of those questions he had asked me a hundred times when I was growing up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Just fine. Seems younger every day. The boys must be growing up.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the house was gone and I stopped in the green and yellow light and heard the car growing louder and louder, until just as it began to die away it ceased all together. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rub the instrument across her stomach again, and it flattens with each stroke, the extra skin and bulk beneath it melting away, her waist growing smaller. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“My dad, growing up in the sixties, he thinks he’s a rock star, or he wanted to be,” Tyler says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He pressed on long after he knew he should turn back, a growing sense of anxiety gnawing at his belly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With a growing feeling of disgust at the prospect, I waited for the phone to ring, for Holmes or some other sergeant to give me the bad news. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And of course, Murphy’s Law, the year my mom started buying my clothes too big was the year that I stopped growing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to face the temptation of eating even one morsel herself that could nourish their growing bodies. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

No European ever saw sumpweed growing in Indian gardens, because it had disappeared as a crop by the time that European colonization of the Americas began, in A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the time of Christ, cereals of Fertile Crescent origin were growing over the 8,000-mile expanse from the Atlantic coast of Ireland to the Pacific coast of Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A dilapidated vessel, bigger and more horrifying than any bone ship, split the surface, growing larger and larger. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He said it showed that the bone was growing back. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The growing light revealed to them a land already less barren and ruinous. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We passed over the bridge at the Calawah River, the road winding northward, the houses flashing past us growing farther apart, getting bigger. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He thought of the tiger cub growing stronger in her reserve, safe for now from poachers, playing with her brother and learning to hunt. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

All is quiet except for the thumps and scuffles of their footsteps, and Mark finds that his excitement over who might be in the boat overcomes the growing stench as they descend. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It had happened to Medgar Evers the past summer, and the list of Civil Rights martyrs was growing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if he could never have enough friends; new ones were added, to the old until it felt like this special family would never stop growing, wouldn’t be allowed to. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

My voice was growing steadier with each word. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Only when he was already in the door did he turn his head, not completely, because he felt his neck growing stiff. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I had only to wait three months to see if my spine was growing back together properly. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were entangled in the plants, leaves growing between the skinny bars. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Stubble was growing on the back of his neck. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Cole felt himself growing dizzy from the cold and was about to protest when Edwin stood and headed to shore. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

With the relegalization of wagering, no sport was growing faster than Thoroughbred racing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

No kittens were growing inside, much less about to be born. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Outside, the Leopard and the Lion were growing impatient. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the swamp, standing right on the fringe of flowering reeds growing out of the muck, a very old woman leaned on a gnarled staff. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Scorched bricks with wild grass growing all around the lot. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Spots were forming in his vision, the world growing hazier by the second. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“And it wasn’t even poison I” Clevinger cried heatedly, growing more emphatic as he grew more confused. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Lots of good things for a growing boy. We can keep it in the crypt, eh?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

At the end of our street in Eden Park, right in a bend at the top of the road, stood a giant mulberry tree growing out of someone’s front yard. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Strange to think of his voice still flying through the air, already a country away, growing weaker every mile. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He drove west on the Milagro-Garcia spur, a dirt road partially shaded by some cottonwoods and Russian olives growing alongside Indian Creek. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read of chalk streams, of the mayfly, of sorrel growing in green meadows, of rooks circling above the woods as they used to do at Manderley. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bloom stiffened now, growing tense for real, defensive and angry. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already the eastward sky was turning pale; the stars were fading, and a grey light was slowly growing. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Trailing freely in the water, it proved irresistibly attractive to fish, and even more so when seaweed started growing on it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Is it any wonder, asks the radio, that courage, confidence, and optimism in growing measure fill the German people? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And when the picture was finished, you didn’t see the dirt or the meanness; you saw the glory of innocence and the poignancy of a baby growing up too soon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This also served to dye the nasty brown hairs that kept growing from the roots underneath. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I'm conscious and moving, I'm growing more and more anxious about him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

For hungry children growing up in the citadel of the Mesarthim, there had never been a pantry worth raiding. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was growing dark, and he switched on a lamp and moved over to light the fire. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

An aura of energy surrounded Luke, growing brighter and brighter. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She feels a grin growing on her face and has to fight to stay cool. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

From time to time, SS officers on motorcycles drove the length of the column to shake off the growing apathy: “Hold on! We’re almost there!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a chance to play against a growing legend. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I was growing up it was different. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmotherly researcher looked like an older version of my mother, and I didn’t want to imagine my mother growing old. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For a split second, Axel adds this fact to the growing list in his head. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was being dragged downward, the roaring growing louder... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Here in the tropics the days were now growing shorter, and Frightful pointed her beak the wrong way. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

As she laughed she felt herself growing lighter and lighter, just as though she were being pumped full of air. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

They sat in the growing gloom for a long time. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She wrapped her arms around Bo and gently stroked his hair, which was already growing blonde at the roots. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

That way, he’d know where to look when he reexamined the woman days, weeks, and months later, to see if Henrietta’s cancer was growing on her arm. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He and she were growing up, growing older and further apart in this alien land to which they had never chosen to come. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

His bangs are still crooked, but my little brother is growing up. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I wished that I had worn shoes, for my feet were growing numb from the cold ground. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Once, my sisters and I took bets that a tree would grow right in the middle of the floor and it would keep growing and take the house with it. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Jaime and Nicolas were growing up apart from the feminine dyad, adhering to the then common belief that “we have to become men.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started describing his favourites, but I couldn’t really concentrate; the more excited he got telling me about his animals, the more uneasy I was growing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The repair shop was growing smaller in the background. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But all the while he was feeling a growing exasperation with his whipping boy. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I think of my growing silence that way: voicing a silent protest. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Now we were being chased by four men, and their number was growing. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Have a look here:" It was growing hard to see. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Add that to all the chive, dillweed, and lemon balm growing around the porch and the smell could knock you over. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One tuft was of two colors, magenta and brick red, apparently growing on the same root. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

More disappointment piles on top of the growing mountain inside me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But the warrior growing inside me squared my shoulders and put my mind on alert to do whatever was necessary to survive. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sara shows me the cutest little baby green pumpkins growing on a prickly vine. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Most boys reacted to the twins because they’re so pretty, but watching Pita interact with him with such self-assurance made me realize she was growing up before my very eyes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The current gently tugged at the plants growing in the water. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel the distance growing between us—could see me shutting down, closing off—and I felt his panic. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even though it was quickly growing dark, curiosity won over caution and I made my way into the hedge. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Farming there had to await the arrival from faraway Europe, on European ships, of crops adapted to Europe’s cool climate and short growing season. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The silflay was almost over, the sun had set and it was growing dark. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the second day he knew he was growing weaker. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Despite Taran’s disappointment at finding the Lord Gwydion dressed in a coarse jacket and mud-spattered boots, he followed the man with growing admiration. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The one Mom and Dad said you went on when you were really at Aunt Maureen’s, growing your baby. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Looking down, he saw people in the streets and on terraces, growing steadily smaller until the sleigh had drifted so far above the city that it spread out like a map. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My life was a business of growing where planted and making good on the debts life gathered onto me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My city was about twenty feet around its borders and growing. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I have been dwelling on latitude, readily assessed by a glance at a map, because it is a major determinant of climate, growing conditions, and ease of spread of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cal had told her all girls had it, it was natural as breathing, it was a sign they were growing up, and they had it until they were in their fifties. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He could see the chamber growing lighter than ever. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There wouldn’t be seeds of hope and resentment growing in the silence. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Her letter failed because she couldn’t conceive of the profundity of your problem—she couldn’t fathom the pressures brought to bear upon you because of environment, intellectual frustration and a growing tendency toward isolationism. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the chill air on the growing fuzz on his cheeks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what to say to that—I don’t know what to do with the sympathy growing within me, for a man I know has done terrible things. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He had not our dire incentive for the success of that Regiment—a noncommissioned officer in a hated regiment in a precarious fastness only a few hundred feet from a growing and volatile enemy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

For an extended pensive moment Ruby stood with her hands on her hips, an ash growing long on the cigarette held tightly between her unpainted lips. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I would wait in the still and growing darkness, till I could not wait anymore and had to walk on. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’on’t know,” Genie said, now giving in and falling down on his knees in the moist earth to get at the ripe pods growing down low. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He had noticed the books before, rows and piles of them that kept growing; but their being books, he didn’t think much of it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “You’re growing, little man! Last time I saw you, you were this high.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I design with a view to a passage of quietly composed, soft, subdued pensive character, shape the ground, screen out discordant elements and get suitable vegetation growing.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I had my share of fights, girls, and other things that go with a growing boy. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, Bobby didn’t see the discrepancy between the gentle acceptance espoused by the song and poem, and his growing philosophy of exclusivity, which rejected all people who didn’t believe as he did. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

All of the hope that had sprung there, growing and spreading and yielding like a stream, had dried up in an instant. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As her men drew closer to my edge, I felt myself growing light. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not think he was quite so hardened as his wife, though growing very like her;—she spoke some of her feelings, by observing audibly to her partner, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Imagine if tomorrow a spaceship found a jungle growing beneath the gassy clouds of Venus. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dad rubs his chin, which he hasn’t shaved in a while since he’s growing in a beard. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He felt that he was growing rich in dead relatives. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He learned to fight when he was growing up in Cairo. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She still wore the black Khmer Rouge pajama shirt and pants, but her hair was growing out of the blunt Khmer Rouge cut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, was alarmed at the growing numbers of teenagers who resisted the Hitler Youth system. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The congregation was growing angry because Roberto had imbued them with outrage. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Despite growing evidence that the “French cure” was effective in keeping patients alive, it still came in for wide criticism. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

These puny trees were growing right out of little patches of dirt in the middle of concrete. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Add to the cynicism of a man wounded in war the inevitable cynicism of growing older and the professional cynicism of the journalist. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

That would create difficulty for Stassen, for international pressure to suspend tests was growing—indeed, the Soviets had proposed a test moratorium in May, just as Stassen’s task forces were coming together. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Every so often a hermaphrodite was born, a seeming girl who, in growing up, proved otherwise. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Fullbrook fans kept chanting and chanting, growing louder and louder, and one of the guys from the other team took his glove off and gave all of us the middle finger. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

That experience would see me growing up into an adult with great speed—an adult that had to deeply develop her relationship with God in order to survive. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Girls and boys growing up in the Soviet Union of the 1920s and 1930s, like Marina Raskova, felt that preparing for war was their duty, just like going to school. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

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

That meant an embryo— Matt’s brother—was growing inside a cow. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before Matt added musical ability to his growing list of accomplishments. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The success of the Montgomery bus boycott encouraged growing numbers of civil rights activists, black and white, to challenge laws that enforced segregation. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was pink, as if the skin had been scraped off and was still growing back. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I can mend bones in a second — but growing them back —” “You will be able to, won’t you?” said Harry desperately. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The light seemed to change, growing gray as it filtered through laundry lines. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Gabriel was growing rapidly, now crawling and giggling across the room and pulling himself up to stand. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The peach trees had all died, but there were a couple of small oak trees still growing by an old abandoned cabin. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Mom said that when she was growing up on the ranch, they never named the cattle, because they knew they would have to kill them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, agents use a growing arsenal of technology: helicopters, night-vision goggles, thermal imaging that picks up body heat, and seismic sensors that detect footsteps along immigrant trails. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He heard Trina shout at him from below, but the ground fell away, the people growing smaller by the second. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They also cut down all the corn growing in the fields and kidnapped the family of an important leader. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

TJ lies on the snow, lifeless with a pool of blood slowly growing around his face. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

With my growing platform, I could be a voice for those who lived in fear. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I feel the anger growing inside me, filling up my eyes and mouth and nose. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

After Jocasta’s death and all the evils that came with it, Oedipus lived on in Thebes while his children were growing up. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t gotten a job and that was one of several sources of growing tension with her new husband. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He said this all quite calmly but I, listening to him, felt a lump growing in the pit of my stomach. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Each time she returned, she could see that slowly but surely the patch of cleared earth was growing larger. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, this is so hard. It’s one of the really hard things about growing up. Sometimes your friends change.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The creature’s screaming and slobbering intensified, growing louder as it approached. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“It all been a mighty long time ago; that boy is growing up already.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The problem with growing up around highly dangerous things is that after a while you just get used to them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Into her son she beat a loud desire to run away, and into her daughter she beat a fear of growing up, fear of other people, fear of life. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had her own struggles growing up, and they felt comfortable in each other’s presence, knowing they had imperfections. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I was growing up, I had no idea that I would ever have a story worth telling, let alone one people might want to read or listen to. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He rubs his beard, which is still growing in. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mustafa looks helplessly around the room, frustration growing in his eyes. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

"Look! Some of them are growing fur on their faces! Why is it working so quickly, Grandmamma?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s a lot more complicated than that, Kambili. I had many questions, growing up. The priesthood came closest to answering them.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He emptied the last drops of rainwater from a gasoline container on the mushroom, wetting the bulging toes sticking out of his sons’ sandals, which were already coming apart around his endlessly growing feet. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

My mother had known him since she was a little girl growing up in the same house I'm growing up in now. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The peasants still had to work on the same land, but instead of growing their own crops, they got paid in wages—they weren't allowed to sell or eat their own produce. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In an effort to address the rampant joblessness among black men labeled criminals, a growing number of advocates in recent years have launched Ban the Box campaigns. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And maybe she could answer some questions that were brewing in the back of Frank’s mind—a growing suspicion about his family gift. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The nationalist on the stepladder, his quick hands slashing through the air, was whipping his growing audience out of its morning listlessness. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s so old. He’s like twenty-two years old. Denise said he’s hardly eaten in two days. And that thing growing out of his head—well, it can’t be comfortable.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Why?” he asked; himself growing serious at his companion’s solicitation. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then indeed are they growing poor. Land is one’s flesh and blood.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Her skirt billowed in the winds that were growing in strength. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Everything was waving in the current, feeding on microscopic plankton, growing bigger by the minute. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At the empty bench closest to the wharf, I sit on the very edge of the wooden seat and watch Kristi growing tinier the farther she walks down the pathway. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet Hoover—that “slender bundle of high-charged electric wire,” as one reporter described him—was growing increasingly impatient. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Now you and Bushra are making all the decisions. It’s nothing to do with her. I’m supposed to be making my own choices. I’m supposed to be growing up.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The little collection of fruit- bearers growing by the river was his attempt to contrive, rain or no, a patch of the paradise, the green, apple-scented Eden, he envisioned. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we can’t get up there, that hole will keep growing, and those iron monsters from the bone ships will keep boiling out of the Burning Sea!” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the center of the picture was a pool with bluebells and tiger lilies growing all around it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pol saw the growing frustration on her face, and he took the bow from her and showed her, again, the smooth rhythm of the draw, the arrow in flight, his hand in the air. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I pretend Mom and Dad are the Dursleys and they sent you away because you had magical powers instead of a baby growing inside you. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Those plants, growing in complex, living soils, produced polyphenols to protect themselves from pests and disease. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I could see it growing like desert tumbleweeds below the teeth that showed in Cade’s astonished grin. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The boy was literally growing up as I watched—growing up because I watched and because I helped to keep him safe. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bus station, normally bustling with the chaos of brightly colored buses and hundreds of travelers, was deserted, and weeds were growing up through cracks in the paving. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was sorting quickly through the boxes, making piles of people of my mother’s side of the family, then my father’s, and then one of faces I didn’t know, a growing stack of strangers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed that my brother, though younger in years, was growing near in height to the prince. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Some tribes have rules against sex at certain times in the growing and shrinking of the Moon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everywhere there is growing interest in the Exposition,” he told Burnham in a June 20 letter from Biltmore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The trees are growing leaves again, and some flowers are beginning to sprout. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her voice got raspy and she used her little, growing cough as an excuse not to finish her thought. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It is encrusted with mussels and barnacles growing a foot above the waterline, coming almost close enough to touch the scarecrow’s work boots. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Outside, Liam was banging metal against metal—growing more helpless and angry by the second. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Winter was long here, and in the good weather seasons they prepared for it: growing, catching, storing things away. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was also growing more and more depressed. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As the 2009 study concluded: “The evidence is growing that very early exposure to television is associated with negative developmental outcomes.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And then, distant at first but growing louder, the thunder of the engines of American bombers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Well...I’ve had them for years. Just less intense. I thought they were, you know, just part of growing up.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The dirt is only viable soil because of the bacteria growing in it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was curious how that beetlelike type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

One thing boys and girls growing up in Cold Sassy know a lot of is Bible verses. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what the dark was about, but it was growing darker and windier. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

With poignancy, Sissy realized that he was growing up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents and I were growing in different directions. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The growing century was shucking Adam out of his shell. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes later Tally could hear kids in the hall outside, growing silent as they passed her door. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The grass along the road was wet and green, still growing, untouched by frost. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this is the beginning of us growing apart, Rishi thought, and his heart hurt. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Because of cases like these, a growing number of activists—ethicists, lawyers, doctors, and patients —are arguing cases and pushing for new regulations that would grant people the right to control their tissues. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The body was already covered up, but the puddle of blood around what was left of Stan’s head kept growing. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

At first it was all wine and roast meat, and Theon was making japes and eyeing the serving girls and having himself a fine time . . . until he noticed that the room was growing darker. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mars has no insects, parasites, or blights to deal with, and the Hab maintains perfect growing temperature and moisture at all times. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did I ever agree to meet her? thought Fadi with growing trepidation. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

As the day wore on the light increased a little, and the mists lifted, growing thinner and more transparent. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I grew to hate the growing pages of my dissertation on genre and Renaissance literature. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent nine months in the service, most of it sitting in the hole, growing angrier and angrier. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As poverty became a growing problem in the new republic, he called the meeting that organized the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, and was elected its first president. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was growing harder to cling to the hope of Benjen Stark's safe return. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of which, have you shown your boss that article yet? The one about growing up in Romania?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I felt the lump in my throat growing. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

It worked best with wine grapes, but Mr. D was restricted from growing those, so they grew strawberries instead. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He’d felt himself growing farther and farther from her in the last couple of weeks. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was getting too close, “growing” too fast. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson: Another thing you learn about growing up is you got to leave a tip. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anywhere else, Yolanda would find him extremely attractive, but here on a lonely road, with the sky growing darker by seconds, his good looks seem dangerous, a lure to catch her off her guard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I wish I could tell her something so she’d stop looking at me like I have a mushroom growing out of my forehead. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The sea bottom was rich with crawling and swimming and growing things. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

We keep walking, our hearts growing heavier with every person we recognize. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Evening was coming and the sky above was growing dim. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

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

Wasn’t no one growing up an only like me. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, he entertained a growing stream of visitors. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the culvert at the entrance to the driveway and snipped the sturdier grass growing at its two mouths. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Cal said, “See any green grass growing out of my head?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was trying to hide the growing panic. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Instead she gave her pox scars and a mummer’s mole on one cheek with a dark hair growing from it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Because it was there again, only faint and in the background at first, but growing all the while, so that afterwards it was what I kept thinking about. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I lost, I was filled with growing dread, and then terror that I was no longer a prodigy, that I had lost the gift and had turned into someone quite ordinary. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white supremacist movement has a number of different components, including neo-Nazis, racist skinheads, the historically familiar white supremacists, and white supremacist prison gangs, which are growing faster than any other group. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She raises her voice, her frame growing ten feet tall. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There’s something about the vegetation, too, that I respond to instinctively—the stunning bougainvillea, the flamboyants and jacarandas, the orchids growing from the trunks of the mysterious ceiba trees. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeps him away by talking with Olivia about the growing, growing numbers of their GoFundMe, about the invitations that are piling up for her to visit schools and community centers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, without a high school diploma or job training— and with a criminal record—Wes found it almost impossible to find a job to support his growing family. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As far as he could see lay fields of the snowgrass, white and shining; There were groves of white trees, with white leaves growing on them. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can see Mrs. McCracken out in the greenhouse, busy with their hothouse tomatoes, and whatever else they’re growing out there. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But for now, I know this growing distance is a kind of barrier I put between us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute the universe is a million billion miles across and growing fast. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Frodo’s spirits had risen for a while after his escape, and after food and a draught of the cordial; but now a deep uneasiness, growing to dread, crept over him again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Yet Clear Lake is typical of a large and growing number of situations where solution of an obvious and often trivial problem creates a far more serious but conveniently less tangible one. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He raked his fingers through his hair, trying to temper a growing panic. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t care when Mustafa told me my head wouldn’t fit through the door anymore if it kept growing bigger from all the compliments. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Gradually, along with his growing riches, Siddhartha himself acquired some of the characteristics of the ordinary people, some of their childishness and some of their anxiety. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cramps in Alba’s stomach were growing stronger, and she thought that if nothing was resolved by the morning she would have no other choice but to use the hole in the courtyard. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I obviously don’t know the whole story here, but good friendships are durable. They’re meant to survive the gaps and the growing pains.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The inflammation round his wound, he sensed, was growing, and the skin was becoming tighter, harder, with something, not blood, leaking out of it onto his shirt. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Dryland agriculture became especially productive on Easter, tiny Anuta, and flat and low Tonga, where Polynesians devoted most of the land area to the growing of food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But when my dad was growing up, she preferred bright red lipstick to a chador. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Gone, gone,” the old woman replied with a crabby shrug, irritated by his persistence, her low wail growing louder. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Jiichan began the climb upward and did not seem to be growing tired. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I looked at her with a bad feeling growing inside me. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like all kinds of music, but my favorite has to be R&B. It reminds me of when I was growing up. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He ripped up a shoot growing out of the rotting trunk and started peeling away its bark to get at the green pith inside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Muslim truths—listened to, thought about—reaped for us a growing quota of young black men and women. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have a fever. My forehead is growing a freaking eye.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

These teenagers were growing up in a time of extreme change, tossed about as the social order danced beneath their feet. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel the anger of the crowd growing around him like something physical—a beast devouring everyone. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Hunkered down behind his TV tray, Milton scowled at the left-wing press, and his growing resemblance to the President couldn’t be ignored. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The master suite in the residence was bigger than the entirety of the upstairs apartment my family had shared when I was growing up on Euclid Avenue. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But now, he was the one growing nervous. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

American Indians became a growing impediment to white European “progress,” and during this period, the images of American Indians promoted in books, newspapers, and magazines became increasingly negative. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In spite of Nero’s treachery, a dazzlement was growing in him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The rest of her expressions were growing back in a nascent stubble. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I started thinking about how in all of my brawls growing up, I had never really got into it with a girl. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I eye the growing pile of dishes with dread. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Manly West was still a young suburb when I was growing up—especially compared to nearby Wynnum. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: Would you want your kids growing up in these public houses? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The attacks were growing worse, and my refusal to react incited Nealson into coining more absurd phrases. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself growing more and more angry, and I felt the anger begin to focus itself upon Danny Saunders, and suddenly it was not at all difficult for me to hate him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He liked that, the way his face curled up, the wideness of his mouth, the scruff growing evenly around his chin and above his lips, the way it provided contrast against his dark skin. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

While growing up in Cardston and later on the similarly broad scapes of Babb, Montana, Woolf couldn’t remember a time when his view of the world wasn’t framed by a set of horse’s ears. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Elvish they are, somehow. And the Moon’s growing. We haven’t seen him for a night or two in this cloudy weather. He’s beginning to give quite a light.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A few spots looked promising, but in the growing darkness, she couldn’t be certain. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her final punch list was growing shorter and shorter, which was a very good thing. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

All these people with bongos were gathering in the sand straight down the way from us, and this beat started growing, making this hypnotic rhythm. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Of hideous creatures growing up from pale foam. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As he paddled, he noticed that the water was growing more contaminated. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

I hated that the worst, because everything was growing so well. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They had their traditions and values, and I was growing up in a different world, a different culture. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Look at me, Mother. I’m five-nine and still growing. I’m not prima ballerina material.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Victor was just about to announce what he thought of Scipio's growing up when the door opened and Ida walked in. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The kids fear water, yes, and when a pipe burst last year there were screams and nightmares, but slowly they’re growing stronger. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My response to all this growing was to grow my hair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I stumbled a bit in the beginning, but even though my cheeks kept growing hot, I never froze once! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Runner weeds were growing between the flagstone walkways that wound between the planter boxes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes it easy to imagine her past, and her future, to picture her growing old. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Not much, actually. Obviously she grew up here. But she didn't like to talk about growing up a lot, I think because she had a tough relationship with her parents—your great-grandparents.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The land for growing crops was laid out in long, narrow strips. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The gurgling began to surface, growing louder and deeper, with fewer pauses in between. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Another yanked down her socks, displaying her legs, which had begun growing soft, dark hairs. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

America’s pride in its growing power and international stature had fanned patriotism to a new intensity. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was growing colder, unseasonably cold for the middle of May, and the fog, though not heavy, was rising off the water, thickening imperceptibly, and obscuring the lowcountry in its passage across the land. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I enjoyed the notoriety, a cold anxiety was slowly growing in my gut. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Well for him, she exclaimed—she was growing madder every day, and it hurt people to watch it—well for him to wrap himself in his new delight. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She burst past the portals and darted up the stairs to her room, the small light growing with each bound. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Imagine a Canadian farmer foolish enough to plant a race of corn adapted to growing farther south, in Mexico. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I left the building still feeling as though I had been violently spun but with optimism growing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was aware of a growing sense of horror, of horror turning to despair. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Evil dreams and evil waking were blended into a long tunnel of misery, with hope growing ever fainter behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The manager walked down the aisle to the front rows, where the shrieking was growing wilder. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The signal-burr brought all three to a halt, and the angry tumult of growingly unrestrained emotion froze. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the curved container of their daughter's womb, a stranger is growing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Conor could even see more berries growing from the branches at its elbows. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Cold anger made me clench my teeth, ignore the sense of evil growing in the forest, and focus on getting back Eddie’s journal. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A breeze ruffled the weeds growing tall on the lawn, turning brown now, their seed pods emptying into the air. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was Howard Poillon, a hardheaded businessman who was determined to make the most of the corporation’s growing patent portfolio but also more willing to defer to Cottrell’s wishes and judgment on philanthropic matters. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately, the tunnel sloped down and down and down, growing colder and damper with every step. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The Klan was growing and running strong then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were around me now, inspecting my body, and I watched with growing bewilderment, thinking, what is a factory hospital? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many Osage had come to believe that local authorities were colluding with the killers and that only an outside force like Davis could cut through the corruption and solve the growing number of cases. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I was growing up, and for the first time it occurred to me that our world was changing before my eyes, and not for the better. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Miss Mallory put a hand to her chest, where an unwelcome tug had been growing all morning. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Sure, Marshall had its own paper. When I was growing up, it came out once a week.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could picture his excitement at finding a flower he couldn't categorize, growing in some lonely, desolate part of Iraq. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But Javier is growing farther and farther away from me, and I can do nothing to get back to him. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

His antlers were just growing in, still small and coated in velvet. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Just a feeling, growing inside her, and not a good one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I demand, fear growing in the pit of my stomach. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He and Christopher, his best friend, used to play with lightsabers and Star Wars stuff whenever they got together, and they had both started growing their braids at the same time. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear and the stars were growing bright. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But I had grown to six feet and had the appetite of a growing teenager. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Though she had been too young to witness the spectacle herself, Cersei had heard the stories growing up from the mouths of washerwomen and guardsmen who had been there. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He let his arms down, and Håkon remained, his struggles growing weaker. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

By 1945, a growing number of whites in the North had concluded that the Jim Crow system would have to be modified, if not entirely overthrown. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He stood, his anger growing hotter in his gut. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In desperation the family began to question whether he would ever stop growing and whether he really was a dog. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were rushing upward and a warm green light was growing nearer overhead. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

And today Livotny & Associates is a growing firm of twelve full-time people, which specializes in thematic restaurant design, what I still like to call “theme eating.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orange and purple shadows crept over the land as the sun went down that night, and Miyax crawled into her sleeping skin noting that the days were growing shorter. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The edges of his vision were growing faint, fuzzy, and black. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Not a bit of it,” returned Wemmick, growing bolder and bolder. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Threatened with the death penalty, she joined a growing community of women imprisoned for having unplanned pregnancies and bad judgment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I do not care that my foolish belly is growing lazy after all these days of little to do. It must be fed. I will not die because it does not wish to work.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Hannah listened to the growing chorus in wonder, as the song leaped from truck to truck down the long road. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was a boy, growing up, his mother told him, over and over, that he would be like Moses. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She goes through her own package, disbelief growing on her face. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin complained that it wasn’t a dog, but a hairy tumor growing out of her arm. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They brought in soil for this project because the desert dirt wasn’t conducive to growing things. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In Chicago, despite the tireless efforts of his young lieutenant Harry Codman, the work was far behind schedule, the task ahead growing more enormous by the day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Yet from morning till night we work in the scorching sun, growing food for the army. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got his overcoat, for it was growing cold outdoors; then got his cap. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The light was growing dimmer and, as I struggled to focus on objects outside our immediate area, I saw the place was empty except for us. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had been growing more and more uncomfortable. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not care for growing things, except as far as they serve him for the moment. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was growing to quite like this wide-eyed little girl. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the same way, the early unconscious stages of crop evolution from wild plants consisted of plants evolving in ways that attracted humans to eat and disperse their fruit without yet intentionally growing them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like, growing up normal.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Silhouetted against the golden moon, and growing larger every moment, was a large, strangely lopsided creature, and it was flapping in Harry’s direction. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He found himself growing stronger, and he found that when he had angry thoughts, he could exercise himself into a sweaty frenzy until pain from his joints drove away his thoughts and left him spent. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Then Cole felt a growing resentment that he was being forced to endure this lonely existence. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Pond was growing weaker with each passing day, and he only had one more braid of sweetgrass to help with the radiation poisoning. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Without even asking, he was reckoning on her as deliberately as he calculated his growing pile of lumber. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Filled with a growing sense of dread, I logged in and pulled up the Scoreboard, unsure of what to expect. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We’re both frozen now that I hear it, too: German shouting, in the distance but growing closer. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

While some barriers to voting have been abolished, she said, discrimination at the ballot box continues in different forms and is growing. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you include all the farmland growing fruits and vegetables for Earthbound it comes to a total of 25,000 organic acres. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the dead of winter, nothing is growing, but stakes with seed packets affixed to them stick out of the ground, labeling herbs and vegetables. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“That reminds me so much of my maid growing up.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I say, thinking for a second of all those men who disappeared outta Prentisstown, all the ones who vanished while I was growing up. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I studied Tica with my hands and my heart, listening to the spirits around us and the new life growing inside her. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The Bloods, originally from Los Angeles, were a growing and feared presence in New York at the time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threw aside the packing of straw and silk, growing angrier with each handful. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The rapidly growing tissues of a child would also afford conditions most suitable for the development of malignant cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Yet behind the scenes, the NSA was quietly growing more and more powerful. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Thanking Him for keeping me alive and giving her husband good help and good health, and tinker work, and a strong growing garden. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was a large woman whose hair was dyed platinum blonde except where you could see the mousy-brown bits growing out from the roots. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I guess Daddy knew that if he didn’t establish some order and organization in a house with six growing children, chaos would rule. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After all, his mother wasn’t growing any taller, but he could feel himself inching up. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

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

Before long, I discover a tuft of chives growing at the base of some rocks. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It’s the same room she shared with her sister, my auntie Gemma, growing up. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe how fast you’re growing up. I remember when you two would watch a movie together curled up on blankets in our living room. Now you’re going off on your own, meeting friends.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

And, of course, he was responding to an economic situation where the demand for power was growing rapidly. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We’ve laid up a two-year food supply, so that even if we don’t succeed in growing a good crop the first year, we won’t go hungry. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They vanished together into the growing throng on the dance floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She says one thing she fears about growing older is that she will have to think about money and she doesn't want to. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’d gone to our hideout, an old shed almost covered by the wild grape, honeysuckle, and brambles growing around and over it. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I might have been ignoring whatever was growing between us, but he wasn’t. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Doom, doom rolled the drum-beats, growing louder and louder, doom, doom. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The cat eyes above the snub nose were alert, blinking and resetting their attention to the growing noise beyond the flats. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I continue pretending to measure anything growing along the way with the toxometer. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her jeans left a mound of pulpy flesh above her waist that disfigured her T-shirts, as though something alien were growing underneath. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His outline was beginning to blur at the edges, eyes growing redder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You’re growing up so fast. It looked like it was from this year.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He is somehow better, but I am growing worse. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He thought of the baby growing and moving in his wife’s swollen belly. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

With Japan posing a growing threat in the Pacific, the United States couldn’t afford to have that happen again. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The old public library, the one Mr. Lemoncello had loved when he was a boy growing up in the small Ohio town, had been bulldozed to make way for a multilevel concrete parking structure. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The time of year had come when the after-school hours were growing shorter and shorter, and I had pumpkins to attend to. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The mill was right next to the crop, so that growing and grinding took place in the same spot. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

He lay on the brass bed and went back in time over his sullen and miserable childhood and his fretful and vicious growing up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was growing again, and its milky light spilled through gaps in the tree’s canopy. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spurred Arion, and they shot across the countryside, heading straight for the growing tornado. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was nearly nightfall, the trees’ shadows growing longer in the absence of the sun. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was said that he would not stop growing, and that if a butcher’s cruelty had not put an end to his existence, he would have reached the size of a camel. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even his opposition could not stop Hasidism from growing. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was decided not to buy Francie a black coat as she was growing fast and it wouldn’t fit her next winter. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody used to listen to CDs when I was growing up, but my dad—your grandpa—kept a record player in the corner of the living room. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Dionysus went around growing refreshment stands out of the ground, and a beautiful woman walked with him arm in arm—his wife, Ariadne. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Were they aware of the children growing in their wombs? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roar above is thunderous, growling, growing closer. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Now that he was himself growing old and stiff in the joints, the job was mainly carried on by his youngest son, Sam Gamgee. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I was a child growing up in Salinas we called San Francisco “the City.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was thirteen miles from downtown Atlanta, a city with a growing economy and a need for low-skilled workers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Lee Chong did not give it these things, with the result that the truck stood in the tall grass back of the grocery most of the time with the mallows growing between its spokes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was taller and had just started growing breasts—more than what Jennifer had. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

That fertile valley is cooled by sea breezes, making it an ideal spot for growing lettuces nine months of the year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The colonizers apparently were not successful at growing crops or hunting. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

A tilled, fertilized, watered, weeded garden provides growing conditions very different from those on a dry, unfertilized hillside. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In recent years a growing number of researchers has argued that Indian societies there had enormous environmental impacts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Beyond this was the conservatory, with tall glass doors showing them the rain outside, and ferns growing damply around and over wicker furniture. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

But all Abby did was snarl: “Plant murderer! Go spray that stuff on the hair growing out your nose!” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I heard my voice growing shrill, but I couldn’t control it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She lost all interest in the lusty thrashing in the wrought-iron bed, her waist swelled rapidly, and her breasts drooped with the weight of the new life that was growing inside her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as a boy growing up in the village of My Khe, he had often worried about this. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Greenville with its separate ways growing small behind us. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She was growing old ungracefully, and she cried or made scenes like a fishwife. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

How do we laugh and feel happiness despite the buried things growing inside? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The people around you are growing restless from waiting, a sea of shuffling feet, murmuring about abandoning the endeavor in search of someplace warmer to pass the evening. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

These two deprivations, he maintained, along with a third one— that of “a good model of a decision maker to look up to” when they were growing up—were behind most of their criminal careers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Knacks don’t go away so easily as that. When I was growing up in Staup, I knew a young man with a knack. Uncommonly good with plants.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A couple of years later, White helped Farmer realize his next step of creating an organization that would support the growing health system around Cange. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Odessa was growing, the promise of good work in the oil field an irresistible lure. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t know the money for my fare is growing in the post office and she’d die if she knew what I was earning from writing threatening letters. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My bangs are finally growing out, and I’m starting to look like my old self, even if I don’t feel like her. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The loggers had had their pick of the virgin timber still growing along that section of the Dungeness— towering Douglas firs and massive western red cedars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I could see it now, see it clearly and in growing magnitude. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One kid, the angry stain of blood on his T-shirt growing with every breath, watched calmly as the medic wrote up the tag. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I said: in those days, the world was always growing eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Thousands of slaves still toiled on vast estates in the hills, growing wheat and olives, herding sheep and goats, and mining salt and copper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I felt the rhythm of the sea, the waves growing larger as the tide rolled in, and suddenly I had an idea. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Arson, too, was a growing problem, as blacks, still unable to obtain justice in the white man’s courts, torched property belonging to their victimizers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Slowly I convinced the farmers to destroy their poppy plants and start growing food for the hungry people,” said Habib. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Now, in the mirror, their joined faces couldn’t hide the fact of their growing separation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing built atop it, just the hole cut into the earth like a dead mouth agape, tangles of briars and waist-high grass growing up all around. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

There is little room for Enrique to hide his growing habit. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was all Luna could do to keep her growing panic at bay. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He led them to an old, rotten stump on which a large white fungus was growing—a rounded, convoluted mass of creamy folds and wrinkles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And then he added, gruffly, “It’s been quite a time since we had a natural, growing child in the house ..His voice trailed off. “ Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music had started again, and Ignatius heard the squealing and shrieking growing louder than before. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the following days eating and drinking and bathing and observing the meerkats and walking and running and resting and growing stronger. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have never seen cotton growing and have no desire to do so. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The growing demand for labor on plantations was met through slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The comers of his vision began to blur, growing hazy as an old nightmare returned to him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what the hair sprouting on my leg and me growing up have to do with each other, but I nod as if I know. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the growing gloom of the darkening clouds their golden, pointed caps glowed brightly. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

A part of Tariq still alive inside her, sprouting tiny arms, growing translucent hands. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth felt herself growing more angry every moment; yet she tried to the utmost to speak with composure when she said: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Despite his brave posturings of nonchalance and indifference, Adams was, in fact, obsessed with Jefferson’s growing reputation as one of the major figures of the age. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She was growing weary of Anthony’s single-mindedness about suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My voice trembled; I heard it growing louder, as if it were coming from someone else. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Carthage had been founded by a woman, Dido, who was still its ruler and under whom it was growing into a great and splendid city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Paul was growing up, a half generation before Reggie came of age, there was a coming together of these two fundamental computing principles, Moore’s law and Metcalfe’s law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Up it went,” reported William Laurence, “a great ball of fire about a mile in diameter, changing colors as it kept shooting upward, from deep purple to orange, expanding, growing bigger, rising as it expanded.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss’s sadness fell to the background, dulled by a growing rage. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As FOR his deliverer — we turn now to her story, which curls from this sad truth: that as much as Ralph, growing up, should have been her, she should have been him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly he tried to move on from HeLa, focusing instead on growing normal and cancerous cells from the same patient, so he could compare them to each other. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were advantages to Zeitoun and Kathy running a business together—so many blessings, too many to name—but then again, the drawbacks were distinct and growing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She plucked the seedling neatly into the mud, and it stood straight up like it had been growing there all along! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He could do nothing but nurse his resentment, so nurse it he did, his mood growing blacker by the hour at each insult to his person. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Tally tried to imagine her growing old, wrinkled, gradually ruined, all without ever having been truly beautiful. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Something writhed within him and struggled against a growing blanket of ice, that thickened. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The room was growing lighter; without taking his eyes from Mina’s face, Dr. Van Helsing motioned me to pull up the blind. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You’re growing up way too fast. Going on adventures without me!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His father wasn’t growing old: he had reached some kind of nadir ten or twelve years ago and now he was growing backward, aiming toward middle age, maybe youth. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice reminded Piper of corn growing—a crackling, hissing, hot and persistent noise she used to hear at Grandpa Tom’s on those quiet nights in Oklahoma. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We were growing impatient, for the cook paid no attention to us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must be a whole grove of weirwoods growing up above us. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe,” Dad said, his voice growing hopeful, “I could give up cable for a year.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

For a while Tyrion could still hear Benerro’s voice growing fainter at their back and the roars his words provoked, sudden as thunder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had watched with growing dread, as the water heated up and the pot began to clatter with this crab trying to tap his way out of his own hot soup. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camshaft flies around the factory until a man unhooks it, attaches it to the engine block, growing eccentric now with fan blades, pipes, and spark plugs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You must continue. The crowd is growing unruly.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Dutchy lived on the streets, he never felt as alone, he tells me, as he did growing up in Minnesota. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Most alarming of all, the number of circuits and spies was growing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Beyond the yard there's collards and corn growing a scarecrow, black snakes, and whip-poor-wills. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

And then the disaster happened and orchids started growing, sucking up the processed chemicals from moss, and just like that: blue orchid. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The early August afternoon was growing hotter and more humid. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Hope they call us soon,” Genie said, growing more and more impatient as doctors and nurses came back and forth escorting patients through the double doors to the emergency room. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But on a brighter note, my strange, tragedy- induced popularity at school was growing. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a growing clamor: “When are you going to call a meeting, to get organized?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby, now so focused that he could hardly hear the growing murmur from the crowd, made his next moves percussively, shooting them out like poison darts, hardly waiting for Byrne’s responses. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His desire for her may have been growing ever since they parted. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

There was little to be gained in growing despondent, however. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it true that dragons never stop growing?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Greenland ice cores show that the Toba blast was followed by at least six years of "volcanic winter" and goodness knows how many poor growing seasons after that. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In contrast to the horrible stench that was growing stronger by the minute, he remembered the fragrance of her when she had kissed him goodbye. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Her old fears of the Revolution and the Marxist-Leninist menace had been rekindled by new television worries about the growing numbers of desperate and dispossessed people. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was growing weaker every day, and it was only a matter of time until Mord's kicks and blows did him serious harm, provided the gaoler did not starve him to death first. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The glory spread, the salt marsh growing visible below. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You get to your new school with all new people and suddenly you don’t want to be stuck with the same people you’ve known since the third grade. It’s like not growing up.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

We were growing up together, ten thousand miles apart, as she once wrote in a letter. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Koffi forced the words, trying to ignore the growing sting behind her eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I told your father about all the questions and yearnings that had been growing within me for years. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had dream children—clean, pretty, smart children who were growing up sort of ashamed that their father ran a saloon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of time, of the superimposed periods of mourning, and her accumulated afflictions, Úrsula resisted growing old. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the knowledge is too great and maybe men are growing too small,” said Lee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is a growing trend toward aerial applications of such deadly poisons as parathion to “control” concentrations of birds distasteful to farmers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

"I'm a growing boy, Spoon. I think these guys are going uptown. You know Henry Johnson, and this is a new tiger cornin' around the gym. I don't even know his name." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was something to tell Pa; Matt’s anger against McClellan had been growing by the week. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Told them of the growing embryo on its bed of peritoneum. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amir jan, I know how hard your father was on you when you were growing up. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Different researchers are exploring the different mechanisms, and they are doing so using a growing set of tools. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We walked farther down the beach, the light growing dimmer. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He would watch my beans break ground and spread, and would notice with pleasure their pods growing plump. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a decade later, the rapidly growing prison population inevitably led to a deterioration in the conditions of confinement. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t took no notice that I’d been doing a lot of growing in the pass couple of weeks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Now he turned his head toward the mountains of the east, the Gabilans, and they were jolly mountains, with hill ranches in their creases, and with pine trees growing on the crests. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we got back to the car park, the afternoon had clouded over and was growing pretty chilly. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His perception of the striking improvement of Harriet’s manner, since her introduction at Hartfield, was not one of the least agreeable proofs of his growing attachment. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“When I was growing up, we didn’t come here, because the area was so overcrowded with shops that this part of the city was congested and hard to get through,” she adds. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He felt her body growing gradually less stiff; but her eyes were searching his face. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A black fuzziness was growing in the corners of her eyes, making it harder and harder to see anything. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her anger was growing, her voice rising and hardening. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I hung on to my riales in my sweaty fist, my stomach growling as I pictured the little pile of riales growing in a cloth bag at the bottom of my cardboard clothes box. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a perfect little model of a lamp-post, about three feet high but lengthening, and thickening in proportion, as they watched it; in fact growing just as the trees had grown. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The rolling voice of his people growing always in strength and in power. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“So can the boy, now that he’s growing up. Your face looks like maybe you had enough white folks’ meanness for a while.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them were former criminal defense lawyers from Washington who had come to Georgia in response to a growing crisis: Death row prisoners couldn't get lawyers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

So the madam was safeguarding her growing operation by offering me a steer- er’s job. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aliens, yes,” Garret Charles continues, his accent growing thicker by the syllable, and bordering on German. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed so far-fetched—the idea of growing old—that she had to admit to herself, finally, that she had no more real hope of the future than Ruby did. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Amil seemed a little steadier on his feet, and we joined the growing mass of people headed toward the border, still many miles away. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I thought at first that the growing warmth was only nervousness or my imagination as I remembered General Smith’s words about hell. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I don't know what to say, because the only alternative to growing older is to be dead, and after Bas, Ollie and I don't make those kinds of jokes anymore. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But my resentment against having to mislead people seemed to be growing stronger every day. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gripped the sides of the truck, fingers digging into metal, the giant in my chest growing larger until it seemed I would explode. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Taisin stroked the flower with one finger and bent her head down close to it, trying to breathe in the air around the tiny growing thing. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

Now it looked like he was growing, and his scales were pushing outward, making his shape look sharp and dangerous. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He said there was nothing to worry about, because Phoenix was so big and growing so fast that he could find another job at a site where they hadn’t spread lies about him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

While I regretted the friendships I was losing, I cherished the growing ties to the eight. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t know what you’re talking about,’ the King said, growing testy. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see he was growing annoyed at my silence. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water systems, electrical plants, school systems, and hospitals all struggled to keep pace with the growing population. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He told Caroline that Emma was “essentially going on well & undeniably growing.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to grow actually proud of his body, and to cherish an intermittent belief that his face also was growing back to normal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Dad comes home from his job at Rank’s Flour Mills and tells Mam I’m going through a stage, growing pains. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near onto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Frightful flew into the leafy shelter of a maple tree growing along a fencerow. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

With a shriek he closed his eyes and thrust his huge growing hands under the covers. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is because of these robust and growing numbers that hunting has been reintroduced as a way of keeping them from getting out of hand. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The growing paranoia and anxiety as they wane. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Brother and sister became rivals, each scrutinizing the other with eyes full of hatred, concocting fine-edged arguments to disqualify each other in Clara’s eyes, spying on each other, and growing ever more jealous. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This weather. It’s been raining nonstop for three weeks. I’m growing moss.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She says, “Our growing population means we will need to grow the schools, too.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A tree was growing out between the stones on the north side of the Gatehouse Tower, its gnarled limbs festooned with ropy white blankets of ghostskin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Later that year, after Betty and I were married, I exhausted myself trying to be everywhere at once, trying to help the Nation to keep growing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fear flickered on their faces like a hungry, growing flame. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I get some flashbacks of when we were growing up. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

With the growing corruption of Adarlan and the king’s campaign to hunt them down and execute them, the faeries and Fae fled, seeking shelter in the wild, untouched places of the world. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The characters danced before my eyes, growing larger and redder, almost swallowing me up. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We get in and set out on our familiar, unfamiliar street and head off into a world where fresh roots are already growing deep in the fertile ruins of what used to be. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Nope,” Dad declared grandly, “this corn is growing in the way of progress.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

You could practically measure the growing, especially—as Joe complained—when you had to mow the grass, and especially—as Daddy said—when you had to keep after the weeds in a garden. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby favored Zsuzsa, but she stated afterward that she wasn’t aware of his growing affection. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It had been Mom’s growing up, and it was one of the few presents she’d ever given me that I hadn’t asked for but had actually liked. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Once they started processing food, they discovered they could make more money by buying produce from other farmers than by growing it themselves. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The situation was growing more critical by the hour. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Jam watched her body change with delight, the way her hips widened, how her breasts were growing. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Vetch watched him not in wonder, but with growing fear. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I was young, growing up, I always thought I was invincible. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The fire ran ahead at times, and sometimes flagged, as if growing tired like the rest of us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Erik stared at me with growing fury, with growing hatred, moving the bat in a tight circle. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked up, she was walking up the stairs slowly, her body growing darker and darker until I couldn't see it anymore. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“It was in one of your books—you know, growing plants indoors, without soil, just using water and special minerals.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So did I!” said Tomas, and it was like talking to an old and dear friend, confiding, growing warm with the topic. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You kids are growing up so fast,” she sighed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The silence between them seemed to be growing, like a balloon. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

A slowly growing swarm of aides and other officers, reporters, foreigners, musicians, began gathering a respectful distance away. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could see the abandoned funeral chapel, iron doors padlocked, ivy on the sides of the spire, a small tree growing out of the guttering at roof level. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The broom got put to good use as I tried not to think about what the little hard pellets in the growing dust pile meant. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It just kept growing until it was the size of one of the pillars from the museum. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Still,” she said, her smile growing, “I’ve always wanted to go to Paris.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Let me help you with Rufus as much as I can. Let’s see what we can do to keep him from growing up into a red-haired version of his father.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I have nothing but the fondest memories of growing up in a zoo. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The same morning the man set to work to dig out the doe and her growing litter. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed up punctually at the appointed spot and did not once look up at the sky, which was growing darker and darker with thick gray clouds. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had plans to try growing eggplant along with my tomatoes this summer. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was a task that was growing in complexity as I handled more cases and saw the myriad ways that things could go wrong. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe growing up the way we have, bad things feel good to us. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The thirteen-month difference between them had spread them apart like a gulf, growing only wider with each passing month. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

All around, the spirits hummed their harmonious spirituals and murmured quietly to one another, their glow pulsing in time with the shimmer growing in the dark waters. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They feared that Iran was never going to be the same again, and didn't want their children growing up without the freedoms they'd been afforded. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Do you dunk I complained about picking up old lunches that had fungus growing on them and sweeping asbestos tiles and straightening Thorndike dictionaries? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Claire strokes my forehead, dozing, the slant of light through my panes growing golden, then dim, the afternoon passing. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Wrecking a rickshaw is growing up? Doesn’t sound like she was trying to help. Something must be wrong with that girl.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Last night, as we lay on our mats in the closet, Mami started telling me stories about growing up on a sugar estate where her father was the resident doctor. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Do you think I minded that she smelled like daisies would smell if they were growing in a big field under a sky clearing after a rain? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even when you don't see it growing, it’s pushing past the dirt. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The prince and the farmer's daughter held each other close in the growing dawn. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Behind it trailed a growing bunch of revelers, dancing along with the beat, drinking and throwing their empty bottles to shatter against the huge, impervious machine. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“The bombs didn’t destroy this area before,” Rashid explained, trying to calm the panic growing inside him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But mostly they talked to one another about what flowers were growing well this time of year and who was having a baby and who was getting married. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m all for growing,” says Gat, his eyes still not on my face. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Fenton didn’t seem to notice, his eyes growing glassy and unfocused. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a growing excitement among the host The young geese flirted outrageously, or collected in parties to discuss their pilots. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across from the school, it was practically open country—a meadow with goldenrod, wild asters and clover growing in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom had one growing up. They’re in a lot of her pictures. If she was still around, we’d probably have one by now.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her light brown skin is smooth, her eyes still young and playful, oblivious to the tumor growing inside her—a tumor that would leave her five children motherless and change the future of medicine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As for me, at least one thing was going my way: My hair was finally growing longer, so I could start braiding it and shed the scratchy wig. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

That old fake about the moss growing on the north sides of trees lied to me when I was a Boy Scout. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be exact— instead of the government buying all the extra corn, or loaning farmers money so they could store it, it just paid farmers part of the cost of growing it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The desire for a quick and easy method of killing unwanted plants has given rise to a large and growing array of chemicals that are known as herbicides, or, less formally, as weed killers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Egypt and Syria, reacting to a number of political factors, including growing American influence in the region, merged, creating the United Arab Republic. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The air’s cool, but not cold, and with the days growing longer, there’s still plenty of sunlight and lots of spring color everywhere. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Even though Dad was Baptist like Gran, he’d only gone while he was growing up. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

One day Mom will tell me the complicated, messy truth of herself, and I’ll analyze those last few observations, and we will swing forward—into the us that is always changing, always growing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Graceful trees and bushes were growing along the riverbanks—weeping willows and alders and tall clumps of rhododendrons with their pink and red and mauve blossoms. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Nothing, beta. You’re growing up. Hina was right. You are a wonderful young woman. May God grant you a long life and every happiness.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“You really hate me, don’t you?” he asks, his smile growing. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The development of writing in Zapotec society went hand-in-hand with growing urbanization. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The garden behind the little house had been growing all summer. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see the figures of the King and the Courtiers growing smaller and smaller until they disappeared below. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

And on my part a growing understanding and eventually an admiration for a man with a daring mind and heart. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Finish him now, my baby is growing tired." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Do not worry,” the robot said to the growing crowd, steam puffing from their noses. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

After that the rocks seemed to be growing impassable so they sat for a time, letting their rags dry and watching the clipped outlines of the rollers that moved so slowly past the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“We had to put your daughter in a body cast. She’s growing. We want to prevent one leg from ending up shorter than the other. We hope it will work.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X followers had been canvassing with growing anxiety for a Harlem church that would accept the Saturday funeral. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The imaginary conversations were back, but much worse than they had been after Peris had left A thousand times she’d fought with Shay in her head—long, rambling discussions about beauty, biology, growing up. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re growing up to be a real citizen of the world,” Mrs. Richardson said, and Pearl, despite herself, blushed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was quickly growing louder and we knew he was circling back, but before we could spot him he flew in low over the house and Mom and I hit the deck. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One of the four would open his or her eyes, and from there the movements were brisk, the house quickly growing loud. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Plant domestication may be defined as growing a plant and thereby, consciously or unconsciously, causing it to change genetically from its wild ancestor in ways making it more useful to human consumers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the days passed I found myself growing increasingly suspicious. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard all these sounds growing up. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fyrian was now as big as he was, and growing by the moment. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He starts by talking about his experience growing up Black in Mississippi and moves on to talk about systemic racism and how we don’t even realize how embedded it is in our world. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"Don't worry about it," he says, his voice growing tense. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The other man was lying on the earth, a huge purple welt growing on his forehead. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The day was now growing, and the fog had lifted a little. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But with the summer drawing to an end, with Tommy getting stronger, and the possibility of notice for his fourth donation growing ever more distinct, we knew we couldn’t keep putting things off indefinitely. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mia’s hand drifted down to her waist, as if one palm could hide what was growing there. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now she merely ground her teeth as she stepped out to the porch and made her way around the side of the house through the nico- tiana growing all wild and out of control. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead,” he says to Tsukiko, shouting over the growing din of the rain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was also a restless man preoccupied with making a living to support a growing family. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Pickett suggested with authority that it was growing quite late and that his officers should get back to their separate commands. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was growing three rows of tomatoes right in the center of the garden. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

White and his men felt a growing sense of progress. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My ability did seem to be developing, as Millard said it would, growing like a muscle the more I worked it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I could feel each of the hairs standing tall and straight, like feathers growing out of my skin. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

And after all those years we spent growing up together. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She had never realized before that growing up would mean being by herself more. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was a barn where the cows and pigs were kept, and there was a greenhouse filled with blooming flowers and growing vegetables. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“But tell me your story, Grandpa! What was it like growing up during wartime?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her voice trails off as they both look over to see Barb, her face steadily growing angrier and angrier until it has the same look that she gives us when we get in trouble. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“When I was growing up, it was still in business. It was huge and had these great wooden banisters and old wood floors. Everything smelled of wood.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He watched as it receded into the distance, growing smaller and smaller until it seemed to just float there, frozen in place, like a model plane hanging from a wire. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

So when I was growing up, me and Darryl would work on puzzles of my mother every single day. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

San Jose had a spy scare, and Salinas was not likely to be left behind—not the way Salinas was growing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He'd been slowly growing restless in Springfield, frustrated by the meandering pace of state government, convinced he could accomplish more and better in Washington. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As you drove along it, you would see in the distance a plume of dust growing larger, coming toward you: an automobile. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road widened and grew straight, and for the first time Catelyn noticed wildflowers and grasses growing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was seeing Morgun rubbing his fingers by his ears, listening for a whisper of sound, and slowly growing accustomed to a life lived in silence. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The verb must be changed — at least in those already vast and growing areas where man is attempting to improve on nature’s way. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Either way, by 1951, when Henrietta Lacks’s cells began growing in the Gey lab—just five years after the widely publicized “death” of Carrel’s chicken heart—the public image of immortal cells was tarnished. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even so, Marian was growing increasingly restless and dissatisfied. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Back in the Dominican Republic growing up, Yoyo had been a terrible student. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He was growing thinner too, and Papá’s coat hung more loosely on him. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

With the Capitol growing farther away every second, I begin to think of home. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As he tossed and turned, Cole found himself growing angry again. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

As he left the Great Hall with Ron and Hermione to go and collect his Quidditch things, another very serious worry was added to Harry’s growing list. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She means the trouble he has sometimes catching his breath, because of the way his insides keep growing faster than his outside, which hasn't really grown at all. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I laugh out loud, my fear dissipating, a dangerous sense of my own power growing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was growing increasingly anxious to meet my own wife, so I hurried on. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their already substantial computer knowledge was growing daily—they were keeping pace with every advance or evolution of the Net and the Web. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me that a big male chimp had spent an hour feeding on the fruit of one of the oil-nut palms growing in the camp clearing. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even as I watched the others weaken, I could feel myself growing weary and nervous. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All they do is expend fuel driving past smoldering cottages and chewed-up artillery pieces and unmarked graves, while Volkheimer passes his giant hand over his close-cropped head, growing more uneasy by the day. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

About this time, Dr. C. Eric Lincoln’s book The Black Muslims in America was published and the Black Muslims became a subject of growing interest. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harrison’s news was growing old: the Union Army was on the move. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was growing dark, but I followed them up the hill. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta was supposed to introduce us and say the name of our poem and that our mother wrote it But I could see her eyes growing big and her face ashen. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Maifeld, the boys began to hear the distant sound of crowds cheering, the noise slowly swelling and growing nearer, then loudspeakers blaring, “He is coming! He is coming!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This now needed another outlet, and soon after the warren had been stopped from growing he introduced the Wide Patrols. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The arguments and teasing circled him, growing louder and louder. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He tucked the pages away and, back in London, continued working on the problem of finding a place for his growing family to live. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

These trees had been growing there for decades, and David wanted to use them just to cook a meal? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was a girl, or she looked like one, except she had little wings growing from her shoulder blades. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And the nation’s economic depression was growing steadily worse, its labor situation more volatile. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Including my sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was to be a testament to German ingenuity, to its cultural superiority, and to its growing power. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Every warrior in the vicinity straightened, their faces growing stony as Shomari’s words sunk in. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe the church, with the sycamore growing from within, had been haunted. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyelids were growing heavy, but she stayed wide awake, staring unblinkingly at me, even as I fell asleep. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Grace and Cordelia and Carol hang around the edges of my life, enticing, jeering, growing paler and paler every day, less and less substantial. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The business is growing, and the kids are fine. Ahmed was admitted to medical school.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

As he lay there, thinking and getting a hold of himself, he noticed all at once that the darkness was slowly giving way: a pale greenish light was growing round him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Pink bunches of fireweed choke the vehicle’s wheel wells, growing higher than the axles. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For humans, they were noxious weeds that needed to stop growing. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Day by day she sat beside her tom gunny sack selling handfuls of nuts and berries, growing progressively older, more ragged, less healthy. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yolanda watched the absorbed conversation of her mother and lover with growing uneasiness. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We should just leave her alone, but then I felt a growing rage deep in my chest. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Lots more pictures of the boys growing up, skinny boys with dark curling hair, Didi as lovely as ever, no pictures of Hugh anywhere. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He had reached the true marsh now, where thicket gave way entirely to the dense fringe of papyrus growing in the shallow margins of the Nile. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Last week,” she said, growing angrier at each step, “the waigoren accuse me.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My growing hate of the preacher finally became more important than God or religion and I could no longer contain myself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I look closer, she has feathers growing from her hair, too, like a mythical creature from the ocean transforming into a bird. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Maria soon found herself in a household filled with growing things. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But now they were seized with a fear that I was growing out of control. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone was packed tightly together, and the crowd kept growing. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, sweetness. I’m not a real science teacher. When I was growing up, there were nine planets. It never even occurred to me that that could change.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier’s mind to wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalanced mentally. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

A growing anxiety that already had filled him, and now threatened to overflow. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stop to pick a few blackberries from prickly stems of bushes growing between them. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Devine closed his eyes, trying to remember why it was so important to keep growing, building, expanding and absorbing and accumulating things and power and making money, and making more money on top of that. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it's how he keeps his own clouds from growing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The managers of the Home, Mr. and Mrs. Trepid, were middle-aged, cranky and tired, and growing stiff and cold as winter-bound trees. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Because of my growing caseload in Alabama, I didn't get to spend much time there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Small feathers, rich red and deep blue, were appearing, and he was growing larger on the many potatoes and corn kernels I fed him. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He called for a while, then rested, and then made the noises again, in no hurry, and not really caring, growing mellow from the grass. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time, a growing number of suffragists objected to the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union’s judgmental approach to reform. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Major Major’s father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Soon it was evident to everyone that only a miracle would alter the results, which were growing clearer throughout the day. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with my growing knot of dread, things start to get more exciting by the time the bronze badges finally roll around. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

This leads to a breakdown in moral standards, to an alarming rise in illegitimacy and to growing violence which erupts, not only politically, but everywhere. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, to the naked eye, most cells growing in culture look the same. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Very little of the Sanchez, now Trask, place was under cultivation, but Adam in his mind could see the wheat growing tall and squares of green alfalfa near the river. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One study of the past three decades found a growing percentage of families that remained in the same fifth of families in terms of income, moving neither up nor down. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Witchlings were pinned: the Cursed Toads and the Nightbeast in front of them, the raging water behind them growing wilder as Barbatos waved his hands in the air and mumbled an incantation. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I mentioned this to Mom, she started putting in an extra sandwich because, she said, “You’re a growing boy.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had imagined the descent would be very difficult, and surprised himself by handling it with ease, his confidence growing as he slid swiftly and noiselessly to the fern-covered ground. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The prison guards seemed to be growing increasingly edgy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

All through the fall of 1933, Ernest Lawrence had been on a soaring high, his fame growing within the physics fraternity and among the public. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Of course, growing up in the community, she had always been adequately fed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She asked Cambridge whether she might pursue a degree in psychology, which was growing in prominence and credibility. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The lines had something to do with being sincere...and growing in a palm tree? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But throughout the rest of the old sugar lands, cane was still growing, and slaves were still giving their lives to harvest it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The shadows of the coconut trees were growing tall and thin when Naima reached the pond. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel the tension growing and growing in the room. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“At least the water’s cold,” he says, which makes everyone crack up, eventually growing into uncontrollable giggles. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A shrub was growing at the gate of their compound and he parked near it, his chest rising and falling, his breathing loud. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If there were times when Elizebeth enjoyed her growing fame, she also knew it had its downsides. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Remember that science never actually “proves” anything; it merely contributes to a growing body of evidence about the way our world works. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And growing cells by the billions wouldn’t help anyone if they couldn’t get those cells where they needed to go. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Let me try to explain it again,” Milo offered with growing weariness and exasperation, jerking his thumb toward the thief with the sweet tooth, still grinning beside him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Crazy as it sounds, growing up I always thought the teachers lived in school. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Only I see the growing mound when I bathe myself. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Cells change while growing in culture, just as they change in a human body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the summer of that same year, Johnny got the notion that his children were growing up ignorant of the great ocean that washed the shores of Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll lay aside my Oriental manner. I’m getting old and cantankerous. I am growing impatient. Haven’t you heard of all Chinese servants that when they get old they remain loyal but they turn mean?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, I still do miss the house, but this building is growing on me,” I say. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When it rained, which was almost every day for a while, his dirt roof with sunflowers growing in it leaked. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would still live upstairs, snug in their nests behind the baseboards, growing fat on crumbs from all the food skiers smuggled into their rooms to avoid the dining-room prices. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“When my children were growing up, they knew only that I came from Europe and had lost my family. They knew no details for thirty years because I did not want to burden them. “ Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Someone will eventually discover what a chatterbox she is, but she’s growing wise to my efforts to get her in trouble. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I follow him, this thumping feeling growing in me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The officials in the lobby were growing more impatient and gestured at the visitation officer, who came back into the room. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The chief drawback to the lab’s expanding relationship with the government was the growing burden of security. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“He’s growing up. They’ll attack him soon, and then his life will become a blank, indifferent misery. He’s doomed.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my own head, I hear a roar growing louder and louder as the seconds pass, and I try to quell the churning in my stomach. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A small garden on the side of the house seems to be growing only a trellis of neglected beans. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Thus, growing these crops was possible only for people already fully committed to the settled village life. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As yet there was no sign of the teeth growing sharper; but the time as yet was short, and there was time for fear. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

As I was growing up, I didn’t have any toys, but I did still own a baseball that Pete had given me a year earlier. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been the growing heat, but I could feel the tracks vibrate beneath my feet. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

This year, the strange, lingering winter, combined with the unexpected spoilage of much of the Kingdom’s food stores, had led to growing panic among the people. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He and the other Jews were good citizens who even followed the growing number of Nuremberg Race Laws. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I would remember the words very often in the years that followed, and the more I considered them, the more I worried that I might be growing into the wrong sort of woman. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Marc and I met through some friends in Haiti,” she was saying, her voice growing slower and slower by the second. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The boldness in my chest is growing, taking up all the air. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They just recognized that a growing number of consumers wanted organic food, and they wanted a piece of that business. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Softly at first, but with growing sureness, the bell began to ring again. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung said nothing then, but he was angry and afraid in his heart because his sons were growing into thieves here in this city. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I feel my cheeks growing warm and suddenly look away, glad for the coming darkness. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The lady aimed the hose out of Lily's path and toward some rosebushes growing along the edge of the lawn as she approached. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Then the scanty supply of food was distressing: with the keen appetites of growing children, we had scarcely sufficient to keep alive a delicate invalid. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know about growing up in Iran. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Younger and taller than his sister, he was growing weaker by the day. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Finn stopped feeling like he’d reached a new stage of growing up. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Poppy says when he was growing up, it hummed with activity. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Jesse, they use computers to distribute a growing variety of information on subjects and in places to which access has long been tightly controlled: legal and medical data, academic libraries, stock trading, films. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later when Francie was growing up, she felt very rich having so much chalk and so many pencils to use. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

With each sniff he took, he felt himself growing stronger, braver. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Throughout the experience, in spite of her growing discomfort, she’d been astonished by her body’s ability to make life, exactly as her mother and grandmother and all her greatgrandmothers had done. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it was growing harder to distinguish who the enemy was. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Antibacterial soap growing the lowest number of bacterial colonies, compared to regular soap, hand sanitizer, and a plain-water rinse? It took first place in third grade.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The house that stood in the middle of the compound was small, compact like dice, and it was hard to imagine Papa and Aunty Ifeoma growing up here. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now this story was growing darker with each day that passed, too. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her hair is growing out again, but it is still very fine. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly I hung around the mimosa grove, in growing despair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some of the cacti or prickly pears escaped from his gardens and by 1925 about 20 species could be found growing wild. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. What else did you eat when you were growing up?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On they came, red flames in the dark, swiftly growing. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

As he said long afterward, “It’s not the sort of place where things happen. The trees go on growing, that’s all.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Whitiker was struck by his manners and how he spoke like the teachers and social workers she had known growing up— enunciating his words, slipping in a few she didn’t know. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We had our outward lives, but now there was something inward happening, a baby growing, a tiny girl. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Alabama is among the growing list of states that make the murder of a person under the age of fourteen a capital offense punishable by the death penalty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“What kinds of things do you plan on growing here, if you don’t mind my asking?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They regarded civil disobedience not as a form of protest but as a crime, and were perturbed by the growing partnership between Africans and Indians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took off her shoes as the boy waited beneath the crossbar, rocking back and forth and growing more anxious by the moment. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The day was growing hotter, the air as thick and wet as damp wool, and the pails seemed to grow heavier with every step. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“For her, yes, she is. Is she literally, physically growing wings and soaring? Not that we would notice. But for her? Absolutely.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He felt on the verge, once again, of growing paralyzed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are seven trailers in all, different makes and models and years, and they sit in a line with the corn growing up around them. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

BD, Momma was smiling at me and acting like I was growing up. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

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

He retraces his steps, growing more anxious with each turn. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I looked real close and there was a long, long, skinny black hair growing out of Byron’s chin. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since children are smaller and still growing, the danger for them is greater than for adults. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Skill he had, and he might have stayed there his whole life, bent over a desk, his neck growing forward instead of upright, had not the brothers taken ill one day from bad fish. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Their growing wealth and education help explain the new influence of evangelicals in American culture and politics. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I am still tortured a good deal with neuralgia and toothache,” Olmsted wrote, “and I am tired and have a growing dread of worry & anxiety.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The tomboy in the family was growing up. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Distantly, from the floor above, and growing fainter still, he heard the voice: I smell blood. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Werner climbs into the Opel, feeling as if the buildings are rearing around him, growing taller and warping. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I stay downstairs with Serena, Shoji, and my two sisters, who seem to be growing at an impossibly fast rate. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When Chimbus saw white settlers planting coffee, they began growing coffee themselves as a cash crop. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Everybody is always changing. My problem is, I'm growing on the inside but not the outside." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I felt myself tightening, cross, growing restless for no clear reason, and I made myself move more slowly. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

During all our years growing up together, he never complained about his affliction and I never gave it any mind. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Did Marshall have a newspaper when you were growing up?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he knew for sure was that growing up meant he could get a dog. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

But she knew her mother had visions of the boy growing up. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Even the Nigerian armored car, left abandoned at the end of the street, had grass growing from its tires. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was, after all, plenty of money to be made by the two growing tobacco firms, not to mention the several smaller companies in and around Durham at the time. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

With eight siblings, it had been turbulent growing up, and when she converted to Islam, the battles and misunderstandings multiplied. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my, it is growing late! Taisin, you had better come with me; I’ll need your assistance sitting up with our invalid tonight.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you tell me earlier?” he said with growing excitement. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

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

“Ain’t he still homeless? And he told me he was tortured by an east side gang,” Pri says as she collects my small pile of cards into her growing pile. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

‘It seems their delight to slash and beat down growing things that are not even in their way.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Dad’s best friend, from when they were growing up, he passed away,” she said gently. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

How many times did I hear that growing up? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Still ravenously hungry, and growing weak from lack of food, she left the pine and circled above an alfalfa field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

And all the rest of the time she was growing up, she’d get these strong feelings whether or not to do something, feelings that told her which way to go. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nip it in the bud, not butt, Ms. Hardwick, she answers, then adds, Sorta like when you prune a flower in the budding stage, to keep it from growing. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She looked a little older than me; the front of her striped dress already showed signs of her growing up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some people walked some miles to see this man sitting outside his hut with a tree growing out of his head. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He rode the trains very infrequently, for there was a growing anger against tramps, based on the angry violence of the I.W.W. and aggravated by the fierce reprisals against them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A second reason is the growing impossibility of communal decision making with increasing population size. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in the back, far away from the speechmakers, wearing big shirts to cover my growing stomach. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A little way off, along the river bank, willows were growing. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Chubs was still trailing behind, the gap between us growing with each mile marker we passed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In 1872, Charles published his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, in which he was able to use all those notes he made about the children growing up. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was growing up my guardian kept one in a cage. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

But she said that growing up and as a young adult, she never had a dentist to go to, so she had done her best. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I glance at Molly to see if she’s going to counter that with anything and am surprised to notice that she was busy over the summer growing breasts. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

When I did get out, I couldn't go past the garden without slowing down to look, even though there was nothing growing. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while, as the night breezes picked up, growing cooler, shifting, Shorty sat on Rael’s porch near his quiet horse, looking across the road at the Pilar Cafe. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says nothing to me before wading into the blue grass growing beneath the baobab trees. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

They were determined to raise us peacefully, even though we were growing up in a conflict zone. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Shin’s growing unease turned to panic when the journalist went on to explain that there could be danger when they got out of the taxi. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine her growing into an old woman here on the ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone tested it when they were growing up: seeing how far they could pull apart, coming back with intense relief. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I used it more than I knew. Yes, the story. I told you, Mr. Hamilton, that I was growing more Chinese. Do you ever grow more Irish?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out my growing collection of her notes. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She continued working in the main-house kitchen, kneading dough and sewing on the sewing machine, daily growing more deformed by her maternity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Deborah couldn’t stand the idea of her own children growing up motherless like she had. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A huge shadow was growing above Spurge’s head. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The perpendicular carbon fibers should have prevented the rip from growing. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted my suitcase and pushed back my growing dread. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was pretty much my mom’s sous chef growing up, which is just a fancy way of saying I was her kitchen assistant. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’ll always be attached to it, like a branch that’s growing farther and farther away but it doesn’t matter because its roots are a part of the tree’s roots. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It also meant something that affected Joyce even more personally as she was growing up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Still, he worked hard, and every night he returned to his growing family. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then she disappeared out the door, and Oliver could hear her weaving around the growing number of boxes stacked against the hallway wall. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As I was growing, they’d get uncomfortable even faster, because I grew quickly and they didn’t fit perfectly for long. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Seen this way, the making of a youthful artist is a process as fragile as growing up itself, and one that can be stunted at any step by the vicissitudes of life. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His case was one of the flood of cases I'd found myself frantically working on after learning of a growing crisis in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There's a small patch of sea daisies growing from a crack in the floor. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The splendor she had taken from Adiah was no longer a mere tingle beneath her skin; it was growing hotter, painful. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It conjures up our college prospects, growing older, getting a real job—our future. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The tangled thornbushes growing among its gnarled roots were just tall enough to hide them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The crowd had been steadily growing and was now spilling back out into the street. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pointed at one end, it entered easily, growing into a triangular shape by the hilt. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

American forces were inflicting heavy casualties, but the enemy was growing stronger. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t,” I said, growing more irritated by the second. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He paced to and fro with growing agitation. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She sees innocence, the untouched kingdom the great leader slain the great empty hole shaped like the child growing large and becoming grand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the square they joined the growing throng outside the red temple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Their steps echoed in the empty hallway, the groans behind them growing softer and softer. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He emerged from the bathroom long before Claudia and growing impatient, began wandering through rooms until he found Hortense and asked her the whereabouts of his sister. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We fall like two stones, fast, the air pushing back at us, the ground growing beneath us. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“The deal is the deal, Van Eck,” Kaz said over the sounds of the growing storm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Its not just the children. It’s the grow n-ups too. Some people are growing children, not raising children, and there’s a big difference.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At once there was ah enormous mulberry growing in the middle, of the courtyard, with its luscious blue fruits ready to patter down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood irresolute, making some excuse about his mother who expected him; he even muttered something about an engagement She struck a match and lit the lamp on the table; it was growing dusk. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never thought the sight of growing plants could be so thrilling.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Alex stared after her, a sick feeling growing in his stomach. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Which explains why the horseflies up here are unnaturally large and ornery, since they had two growing seasons instead of the usual one.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Hence it seems likely that some of them were also the founding crops of highland agriculture, especially as the ancient drainage systems preserved are so similar to the modern drainage systems used for growing taro. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I give them my warden look, growing tall. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I see the top of an old elm tree growing out in the woods. But what is unusual about that?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I noticed the black bands on my sleeves, the tiny embroidered peonies growing from curlicues of gold thread. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You never tell me stories from when you were growing up.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After a brief lull at the start of Nixon’s presidency, the war protests had been growing lately. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She described the camp and her years growing up there. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In Cuba, the air seemed to taste sweeter, as if there were mangoes growing nearby or your mother had just cooked your favorite dish. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They had together invested their wives’ inheritance in that ridiculous project—what was it?—growing onions in some godforsaken desert area where you couldn’t even get Haitians to live? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farther they went, the brighter and noisier it became, and with every step Sefia felt Archer growing more and more tense beside her, until he seemed hard and brittle as glass. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The sky was growing brighter, and along the river the mists of morning hung in the early light. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“And now do you want me to stop growing my beard or let it go on? “Go on. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I squirm, trying to shed my ruined body and unlock the secret to growing flawless wings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I was growing used to the pain, or it had lessened. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tony noticed that Mexicans, who make up the fastest growing immigrant population, have been far less successful at moving up from the bottom than many earlier immigrant waves. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The boys began to tease me more harshly and more frequently about my growing breasts, making me want to hide. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The growing economic power of the South has helped lift evangelical Christians into the middle and upper middle classes, just as earlier generations of Roman Catholics moved up in the mid-twentieth century. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The mouthy man said, “If you look out of that window, you’ll see there’s a welcoming committee gathering in your honor, and it’s growing by the minute.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

We’d been in the car so long that Dad had started growing a beard. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were one thing, like the wall and the rock growing out from it.—Or so I ardently, desperately affirmed. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn asked, going back to alternately zooming in and out on Mom’s butterfly logos, growing and shrinking the dots and wings. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know who “everyone” was, or when “always” was, and as much as I wanted to understand her ambiguities, the slyness was growing annoying. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

My body isn’t turning out like the exercise ladies’, but it’s growing, and the more it grows, the sooner I’ll be grown up and the sooner I’ll leave this place forever. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked away embarrassed, staring into the rapidly growing crowd. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The collection of presents was growing and the guest list, if there had been one, was a little like a census. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If genetic modules are so autonomous, then why—to turn Morgan’s riddle on its head—are legs not growing out of fly’s heads, or humans not born with thumbs emerging from our noses? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The rest of the afternoon passed like a year, growing more and more humid even as the sun set. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I have three. We save our money to get photograph three time when your father growing up.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The sky was just growing dark and I kept looking up into the air as if every batter was hitting me a fly ball. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Tally remembered growing up surrounded by Sol’s woodwork, abstract shapes fashioned from fallen branches she would collect from parks as a littlie. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It keeps growing till I feel it explode out of my chest. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I love the Heights. Can’t imagine growing up anywhere else,” James starts. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

In 1992, after years of growing protests that spread far beyond the Delaware Valley, the dam plan was finally put on hold, but by this time whole villages and farms had been bulldozed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It will be growing cold soon,” said Werfel grimly. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I know she was poor growing up in Mexico. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s all part of growing up, Anthony,” Miss Violet told me one afternoon after school when I stayed to help her. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was growing up, and was careful to avoid childish things, like sitting on a milk stool near a pigpen. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

This issue of tuning came to a head with the growing dominance of keyboard instruments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I used to sneak in here to play with the non-CFers growing up. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When he sees a growing audience around the bar, he talks louder. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The other kids looked at me like I had a third arm growing out of my forehead. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He heard the men’s feet crunch away and then the purr of the cart growing fainter and fainter until it was gone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family was growing concerned about my haunted look; I was having trouble sleeping. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here they encountered a melting pot of Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan farmers and herders growing millet and sorghum and raising livestock in drier areas, along with Khoisan hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was still dark, but the night was growing paler as if lifting her skirts a little way off to let the new morning appear. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Bicycle Bill sat on the outskirts of the growing crowd. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His face, suffused now with growing torment, continued to twist and work spasmodically. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Cady could tell by the woman’s voice that she was growing more and more impatient. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was growing late, and by now someone else would have claimed my doorstep. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So Ares and Aphrodite,” I said, to keep my mind off the growing dark, “they have a thing going?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She had finished growing up when she stopped calling her mother “Mama.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

With war in the offing, however, the Navy was growing more powerful, and its demands trumped everything else. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

By the time they turned to history, Young Griff was growing restive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like honey and mint and bright green growing things. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The crocodile was also grinning, either happily or—as Aru’s growing panic was beginning to point out—hungrily. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was growing up and becoming a man and suddenly I realized that I could make decisions. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robb wants me safe, I cannot fault him for that, but his pretext is growing threadbare. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Nor have they used it for growing crops. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel myself growing stronger, like one of those plants in a time-lapse video, And the scent coming from the cave was nothing like the dank wet underground. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Newspapers and radio had been competing for audience and advertisers ever since radio's popularity began growing. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mom was thrilled and said it reminded her of the meals she’d had growing up. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The rage mingled with the general melancholy that had been growing in her steadily since the bombing of Pearl Harbor; it was one of the rare times in Fujiko’s adult life when she felt inconsolable. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I'm growing angrier, and I don't even know why. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Another lie to add to my growing count. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Quite the opposite. You seem to be growing.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then I saw something glimmering in the darkness below, growing bigger and brighter as it rose toward me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“That was with a pickax,” she said, her smile growing feral. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He'd brought them in from the balcony, where the nights were now growing ever colder, and he had even made them a house under his desk. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Instead, I look down, the pit in my stomach growing by the second. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Looking at them side by side, I realized that we were growing up together, so far apart. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

With her left hand she grabbed a handful of dried grass, growing from a crack in the rock. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

No wonder the whites wandered the park in the growing darkness, Cora thought, her forehead pressed into the wood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

C.P. watched with growing discomfort as she circled the room slowly and with great dignity, as if she were an honored guest attending the opening of a show at a prestigious museum. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be scared. Trust in the Holy Beings. They wouldn’t put your naliyazhi in danger without the tools and means to protect himself. He’s no longer a baby. He’s growing into a man.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

That’s a tasty green I had once grown in my Connecticut garden And there was wild mustard, another green, growing out in the sun. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

If the ring were not so close to Saturn, this effect would not be so strong, and the particles could accrete, making small snowballs and eventually growing into satellites. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that meant that the universe could not be static, as everyone previously had thought, but is in fact expanding; the distance between the different galaxies is growing all the time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the growing season, May or June, and they had food to spare. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s receding now, growing smaller, but the woman—Boss’s partner—is standing there, holding her gun. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Her growing discomfort had put her in a constant temper. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Chapter Eleven out of the house and me growing up, Tessie found herself with too much time on her hands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

One pot was in the shape of a large owl’s head, and growing out the top were just the spindly burned stems of something that had been alive the day before. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It was over here!” a familiar voice shouted, growing rapidly louder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The city was growing in all available directions, and where it abutted the lake, it grew skyward, sharply increasing the value of land within the Loop. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The jingling, clopping noises were growing louder and louder. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“The new tech is growing at exponential rates and we’re asking the court to take that into account.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. Cantor, a retired postman from Pennsylvania, who was devoted to growing orchids, said that he would have enough blossoms for the corsages. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Landry News was growing and changing, and she was keeping up with it. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“But you—you are still a growing girl, Chaya. You must take care of you.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some time now my grandmother had suspected the growing intimacy between Milton and Tessie. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When my mother was my age, she was just about to have me after I’d spent nine long months growing inside her. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the growing light he saw that his clothes had been torn in a dozen places during his journey through the pit. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not right to have these feelings, which were growing stronger as the weeks passed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And she had the new life growing inside her. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After half an hour or so, Hermione, growing tired of the endless Quidditch talk, buried herself once more in The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 4, and started trying to learn a Summoning Charm. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He squinted, willed his eyes to work in the growing darkness, wishing he had a flashlight. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The cells were growing, but Mary didn’t think much of it—other cells had survived for a while in the lab. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The dispute over the Clovis model kept growing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He felt his eyelids growing heavier, the old darkness creeping in from the corners of his vision. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The growing number of mills and factories changed the landscape as well; towns and cities were expanding, as was the division between rich and poor. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a deaf man might have better eyesight, or a blind man can hear so much more, I feel an extra sense growing. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was relaxing too, growing woozy; he cut the engine and senled back, eyes almost bemusedly on the silvered, shadow-casting landscape below. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had just turned twelve and he said I was growing up into a young lady. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Face level with the handlebars, Harry could see nothing but distant lights growing nearer and nearer: He was going to crash and there was nothing he could do about it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

This situation also means that today the average individual almost certainly starts life with the first deposit of the growing load of chemicals his body will be required to carry thenceforth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The others looked at Scipio as if he had snakes growing out of his head. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The soles of my shoes are worn through and growing useless in wet weather. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was by then a growing sensation on the basketball court, high-spirited and agile and quickly growing tall. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The assignments, quite honestly, made me feel guilty for growing up in a time with a life-changing advancement, sort of like how we have medicine to cure common diseases that killed others in the past. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her muscles felt like they'd become wood and she imagined her bones were splintering and growing bones of their own. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Joe grew into the meanest, angriest child any Lacks had ever known, and the family started saying something must have happened to his brain while he was growing inside Henrietta alongside that cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I felt like someone—something—was looking for me right now, maybe pounding its way up the stairs, growing long, horrible talons. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Between ten and twenty minutes later, with Neves’s body already growing cold, the track physician decided to take a shot at the moon and injected Neves’s heart with adrenaline. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faro had followed me to the field, looking astonishingly healthy; even his hair was growing back. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sun was already hot and the wind solid and growing a bit each hour and he got the Frog up to five knots and held it until the sun was straight overhead. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daedalus had created it to be a living, growing maze. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Silently they tramped through the grounds, the castle lights growing slowly larger. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Since the ugliness on the Trident, the Starks and their household had ridden well ahead of the main column, the better to separate themselves from the Lannisters and the growing tension. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

First, it confirmed his growing concern that the architects were losing sight of the nature of the thing they were proposing to build. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Only the web of golden light glowed up from the fathomless depths, growing fainter and fainter until it was finally swallowed by the darkness. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Doubts were growing about the public demand for color sets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Sensing his friend’s growing irritation, Dorian changed the subject. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Tally rode into the growing darkness, her eyes peeled for any signs of the next due—“Four days later take the side you despise”— and for whatever other surprises the night would bring. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I can still hear her say, “As I was saying…” while I just stood there growing hot from humiliation. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mindful of being a teenaged upstart in the company of such seasoned track deities as Jesse Owens and Glenn Cunningham, Louie curbed his coltish impulses and began growing a mustache. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Gradually a buzzing sound gathered in his head, growing louder and louder. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The leadership of the movement was growing older and slowing down. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes briefly, and beneath the scent of growing things was the faintest perfume of jasmine. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was having trouble piercing the blood bag with the dull point and, growing angry, he thrust harder than was necessary and without the necessary control. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Three black specks were clearly visible in the sky, growing larger all the time. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They used words mostly when each one in his own way walked through his field or orchard at night and spoke to the growing plants. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella laughed and paged through the clothing section again, her face slowly growing more serious. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“When you’re my age”—Leslie gave a little sigh—“you just don’t play with paper dolls anymore. My grandmother sent me these. You know how it is, grandmothers just forget you’re growing up.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

From its belly issues a flock of white growing slowly larger. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z