The V.C.’s walls were not very high; I could see the big duplex that nestled behind a canopy of trees with greenish-yellow leaves. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You are not striking the metal true. Hold your elbow higher and bring the hammer down smartly. Then it will shape as you wish.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

As I’m going up the steps, wide steps with a stone urn on either side — Ofwarren’s Commander must be higher status than ours — I hear another siren. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The counters were polished to a high sheen, and inside the display cases, shiny bright mirrors reflected gold and silver and sparkly gems. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later I learned that my brother and I were to be transferred to the factory's toolmaking area, which required higher skills and also meant we would be with our father. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Almost seven hundred feet high it stood, three times the height of the tallest tower in the stronghold it sheltered. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He looked up and saw a high circle of black buzzards, and the slowly revolving circle dropped lower and lower. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m hemmed in by tweed coats, my eyes as high as their second buttons. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite Sasuke’s protests, Hideo forces him to stand still while he wraps the blue scarf around his brother’s neck and tugs his collar up higher. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Four years of high school...no, five. Because something would come up to delay me. Then four years of college. I’d be a dried-up old maid of twenty-five before I was finished.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jim Johnson had planned to attend Hampton Institute but was drafted right after graduating from high school. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When exposed to high levels of oxygen, hemoglobin binds oxygen. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It might have even been the highest in all of Arkansas. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one at my high school knew it, but I wasn't meant to live in the suburbs. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

From a high in 1990, the crime rate went into precipitous decline. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel high, almost like I’m tripping, and I couldn’t fake nice if I tried. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael did not stand up well on high seas and had become addicted to Dramamine. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He’s about so high, Mr. Robot, sir, only higher, and he’s very nice. He’s got a head, you know. I mean you haven’t, but he has, Mr. Robot, sir.’ I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Crookshanks leapt lightly off the bed and led the way out of the room, his bottlebrush tail held jauntily high. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She knew that her cheeks were flaming, but she held her head high under the feathered bonnet. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a gush of blue flame rise high above the rooftops and heard it roar again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The garden was surrounded by three walls built of rough stone, the other two being not much higher than the one I’d just climbed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A long, high bamboo bridge spanned it, and dense, prickly foliage grew up the high, steep banks on either side. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“They held their arms out in front of their chest like kangaroos,” said a high school girl, “with only their hands pointed downward.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He giggled as he elbowed Thomas in the ribs, a high- pitched snicker that inexplicably made Thomas like him more. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She walks up to a microphone, which is tilted too high. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Like familiar terrestrial balloons, the deeper a floater is carried, the stronger is the buoyant force returning it to the higher, cooler, safer regions of the atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered what it would be like to live in their shack all the time, and not just when his father was sliding high. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I can see her now, the prominent teeth, the gay spot of rouge placed high upon her cheek-bones, and her smile, vacant, happy, enjoying her evening. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“How high do you suppose it is?” she said aloud as she danced. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

There was a grassy bank there, swelling gently to a gigantic sycamore, upward of ninety feet high, which stood upon its top. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’ll be saying—” A single high metal ring on the phone broke off what people would say about the new minister. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

By now the sun was getting low in the west, settling into the high mountains beyond the woods. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Here Evy would jerk her head high and whinny like a horse. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The likelihood that a person of Mexican ancestry is an “alien” could not be significantly higher than the likelihood that any random black person is a “drug criminal.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I felt about two inches tall walking through the doorway, but I made sure to straighten my spine and hold my head up high, all that posture stuff Mom used to nag us about. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And that was when Lizzie looked across the water to the mainland and saw the group of men gathered high on the granite ledge above the tide. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was dark in the barn, except for a little bit of light from the high dusty windows, but I didn’t care. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

And an army of gods charged down from on high. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My odds of living through this are way higher now. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the squadron, in the demon pass of jets, edged offshore high above the green blaze of ocean, Lillian watched and listened from her second story veranda. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A typical choral arrangement divides women into higher and lower voices and men into higher or lower voices. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He’d left home after high school with nothing but his wits and his imagination, and he’d used them to attain worldwide fame and amass a vast fortune. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I’m reminded of a line in a book I read in high school. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

With a flourish, he stood tall, kissed his fingertips gently, and raised his arms high above his head. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When she reached high school, her father created an after-school tutoring program for the students at Perkins and put Siobhan in charge of it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the searing flames surged and rolled higher along the sides of the shelter, his laughter grew hysterical. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The country that scores highest on the individualism end of that scale is the United States. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Ucho lifted the stick higher and tried to move my hair away from my face. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

His good-natured face, high above them, was just visible in the moonlight coming in through their window. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir. I thought I might run the ranch when I get out of high school.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re on the ninth floor and I don’t go that high.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a carnival atmosphere, with lots of pointing and laughing and high fives. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I was the only girl on the beach in a skirt and high heels, and it occurred to me I must stand out. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

His voice would lift way higher than necessary and he’d fling his arms all over the place temper-tantrum style, pointing to the walls and windows and pretty much everything else in my room. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She holds her hand up for a high five without saying a word. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I encourage the graduating class to move forward in their journey throughout high school and even college...” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Jamie, when the stakes are high, I never cheat. I consider myself too important to do that.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A misty landmass rose out the sea as we flapped higher. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A mosque honoring him is built on the highest point of the hill. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The entire Houston Cougar football staff has been in the process of putting together the top list of high school senior football players in Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

So during the summer before her senior year of high school, my parents sent my sister off to Los Angeles—otherwise known as the plastic surgery mecca of the world. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He could see through the kitchen door to the steak plates stacked high and the skillets deep in grease. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the four of us the night of the accident, on that same expressway, and I noticed that the retainin’ wall was really only ’bout four feet high. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hospital was no more than a few months old and a few feet high when people began attempting to stake their claims. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Double beat, high and sweet, round dance style. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

My uncle was still in high school then. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

One of the highest scorers on my acquaintance survey was a man named Roger Horchow, who is a successful businessman from Dallas. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to go on to graduate work, I don’t want to teach high school or be a curator's flunky in a museum. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Eat, drink, and be merry,” said I. The food had got me high. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’d flipped it down to block out the high beams of the oncoming truck. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

We were standing in the street against a high wall. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Only the trickle of the stream, and the occasional rustle of leaves high up in a little curl of breeze, broke the silence. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sonny’s in the aisle, his eyebrows raised about as high as they can go. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

One of them sings hymns in a high cracked tenor before he begins to gurgle. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Flint, now that he had his mother’s undivided attention, quickly regained his former high spirits. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The streams were crawling with tourists by then, except for very high up where the bank underbrush was so thick you could hardly get to the water. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

When that ended, the mumbling and high laughter started all over. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There goes Majidi, dribbling fast down the length of the court, and—OH MY GOODNESS! He drops the sledgehammer! Up high and down hard!” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

They had not gone to an American high school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Are they alive, do you think, Serafina Pekkala?” said Ruta Skadi as the witches circled high above a group of the things that stood motionless at the edge of a tract of forest. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a courtyard, and high steps, and gateways, and at every point bears in armor challenged the incomers and were given a password. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We were superbly above him and the comedy gave us a delusion of high self-respect. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They watched the stars, and they saw the moon hanging high above them. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“One for Harry...” said Slughorn, dividing a second bottle between two mugs, “... and one for me. Well” — he raised his mug high — “to Aragog.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The mind is beset by light and space, the kinesthetic novelty of aridity, high temperature, and wind. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On average, girls test higher than boys, and Asians test higher than whites—although blacks, as we have already established, test similarly to whites from comparable backgrounds and in comparable schools. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A wavering beam of light snaps on high in the night sky. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Chas was a friendless jerk who navigated the seas of high school with his rudder fixed on a steady course of intimidation and cruelty. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the day that Epiphany Middle School was invited to attend Annie, Mrs. Olinski had driven her van to the high school and had arrived ahead of the school bus. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Last year around the time of my birthday it was pouring down rain every single afternoon, come heck or high river, but this summer, not a drop yet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The huge high bed Auntie Venus had occupied for so long without complaint had gone, and so had the carved trousseau chest and the green silk sofa. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The dropout rate was quite high, but it didn’t seem to matter all that much. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He lifted himself as high as he could on his hands, moved one, bearing his weight, slid both legs after slowly, slowly then moved the other hand, and slid forward again. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked behind him and saw that the slope on which he was standing belonged to a range of far higher mountains. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

As an example, let’s take the famous equation we all learned in high school: rate times time equals distance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was only one middle school, one high school, one biggish grocery store, and one run-down city pool, but about one million beauty parlors and churches. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But I had never heard of one who would go to Sacred Sun City, a place hidden high in the mountains. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Everest itself, sitting back from the front ones, didn’t even appear highest, but it didn’t matter. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse lets me talk to her through the window and it’s hard because the windows are high and I have to stand on Seamus’s shoulders. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They lifted their thin legs high, clumping through tall grass. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The harder she hit him, the higher she jumped, the more fiercely the squirrel clung. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then I went back to the rover and tied off the cord to the roof- rack bar on the high side. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

More precisely, it appeared to solve the problem of how to produce high-energy particles without applying high voltages. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Later that night, my door creaked open an inch and I saw my father peek in, holding a plate piled high with pizza. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he climbed the dais and knelt beside the high seat, smelling of horse, four long thin scratches on his cheek crusted with scabs, his hair falling down past his collar and into his eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By the end of autumn they had stacks of pinon higher than the house, and that was the only heat they used. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My radio went dead and I thought it was broken, but it was only that the high ridges cut off the radio waves. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made several attempts to come back, but the flames were leaping higher by the minute. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My golden waves are done up big and high in an old-school Dolly perm. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He and Papi went to high school together back in the day, but after that, Manny went to a trade school and found his calling in clogged drainage. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They could see the king of the giants, sitting on the highest chair, at the end of the hall. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He’s an obnoxious, two-faced, lying, sniveling little goof who has an awfully high opinion of himself. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

These included the Presidential Medal for Merit, then the government’s highest civilian honor, presented by General Groves and Bob Sproul at a Berkeley ceremony in early 1946. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Here farmland gave way to forest, the villages and holdfasts were smaller and farther apart, the hills higher and the valleys deeper. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The giants were playing ball with the BFG, vying with each other to see who could throw him the highest. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I put my fingers in all the way through her shirt and feel up the dome of the bra—the highest point on her. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The outer was red sandstone, thirty feet high and decorated with animals: snakes slithering, kites flying, fish swimming, intermingled with wolves of the red waste and striped zorses and monstrous elephants. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The tide lifted the canoe higher in the room, and as the water lapped against the walls it sounded like the soft music of a flute. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your brother and I are busy with high finance." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s in the middle of the attic, the highest point where the roof planes meet. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He did a good job, too, except that he wouldn’t put Security down, not even to be a high priest. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

You get to continue on to high school, and then you're assigned to a college. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they spin high into the air and fly unpredictable loops before catching on the branches or disappearing from view. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The little schoolgirl in my head wriggled in her desk, hand raised high. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They will be getting high from my gold charm. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The appearance of the yearbook clears up another high school mystery—why all the popular girls put up with the disgusting habits of Todd Ryder. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

And he had amassed a collection of nearly fifty ties by the time he got into junior high, ties he wore to school every single day. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I had been diagnosed back in the Fort with high blood pressure and had been given certain pills. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rock gave me a Mohawk that’s way better than Sneaky’s high top. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

It was a clear night, the moon, a few high clouds. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Make the holes there. Use some of those cedar posts in the corral, make it this high.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was a high tenor that faltered at the top of his range. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

His neck tilts back because the TV is too high for him to see level. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

There were more dementors in here, casting their freezing aura over the place; they stood like faceless sentinels in the corners farthest from the high, raised platform. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Benji gave him a high five and took the laptop back for his turn. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They clambered up the paths that the mountain sheep and goats made, and then they scrambled up rocks until they were high in the mountain. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

To keep up, both ladies held their skirts high. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The room beyond slanted down until the ceiling was only three feet high. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was sixteen when I started in his class, a week short of eighteen when I graduated from high school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

That’s not to say I did terrible in high school—I got 93’s. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Far from it. Madam paid a call on the reverend’s wife after supper. Came home with high color in her cheeks and a bee in her bonnet. ‘Dress the child,’ she says. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when the crops are high, farmworkers use propane torches to burn the weeds by hand. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The great day dawned misty and over-cast but the glass was high and we had no fears. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The high lakes might be below their usual waterline, but they’re still lakes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh shut up,” I bellowed back, getting a little high myself, but still rather furious about her telling me I made most of the garbage. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was high time that someone official educated the poor villagers on the benefits of orbs and the powers of the Governor, That was one part of the reason Nok's father had decided to come. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Why not live in a smaller, generic town house in a less expensive part of south San Jose that was twenty minutes farther from all my friends, my job, and my high school? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t realized how easily she had gotten what she wanted from me: my father’s design for the new junior high. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

We stopped in front of a high gate. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Prior to that, Daddy had taught at Industrial High School, which later became A. H. Parker High School—the first high school in Birmingham built specifically for black students. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So smart that her high school teachers had raised money to provide her with a college scholarship. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As we drove, I pointed out the steady series of osprey nests, each at least ten feet in diameter, built along the tops of the high- tension wires. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At her job, she had the highest sales record in the company for six years straight. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure my answer made sense to Ms. Faraci, but she smiled anyway, her round cheeks so high, they brushed the bottom of her glasses. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The table was piled high with food: matzah, roast beef, hard- boiled eggs, goblets of deep red wine. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked down to the end of the loft and looked out the high gable window at the country below, the pieced land dead and gray, the fence, the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Sherpas who learn technical climbing skills and work high on the peaks—especially those who have summitted Everest—enjoy great esteem in their communities. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Junior answered, “Yeah, we did. All of us graduated high school and all seven of us graduated from college too. Our school was just six blocks from here. 1 graduated fourth in my class.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lowland creatures, who had sought refuge on higher ground, were waiting patiently for the water to recede. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was short like her daughter, but her gaze was cool and confident, and she held her head high, which made her seem taller. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She lifts her shirt up just high enough to attach her G-tube. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gunthrie tossed the class list back onto his desk and stood at the front of the room, hands clasped behind his back, square jaw high. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The voice rang out sharply from on high, where the diminishing crags were balanced one on another. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Two years after the recording of ‘Strange Fruit’, Meeropol was summoned to appear before New York State’s Rapp-Coudert committee investigating alleged Communist infiltration of the state’s high schools. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t expect to see small pugmarks along the banks of the rivulets and creeks, because two high tides and two low tides swept in and out every day. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier in June a zone of high pressure, the “permanent high,” had settled over the middle Atlantic states and driven temperatures in Philadelphia well into the nineties. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Nina’s work, performed on the ship before that first extraordinary high had begun to wane, was nearly flawless. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Freddie grabbed the book and held it high for all to see. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the white high school, Lafayette County Training School distinguished itself by having neither lawn, nor hedges, nor tennis court, nor climbing ivy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one of the men walks with his head a little too high, as though he knows his worth. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

After poor Edgar Derby, the high school teacher, was shot in Dresden later on, a doctor pronounced him dead and snapped his dogtag in two. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched a comparatively sedate quartet of figures painted on the highest balcony, looking down calmly on the mayhem below them. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Rani is so excited she tells me to hang Jay's cage on the tree, and then she helps me climb onto what she says are low branches, though it's higher than I've ever climbed before. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

So we did, not by digging a grave, but by covering him with a high mound of leaves and stones and twigs and earth. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

How stupid to have an open flame when everything’s so dry—but I sense that consequences are not a high priority for these men. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was watching an airplane up so high, and wondered where it was going. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Luckily, USA Fencing officials and my management team took the matter seriously right away and took it to the highest levels of law enforcement. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Rewrite it in full and submit your draft to higher authority before filing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As the organ voices died, I saw a thin brown girl arise noiselessly with the rigid control of a modern dancer, high in the upper rows of the choir, and begin to sing a cappella. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We scrambled from our room to the safety of a higher floor. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Together, we’d figure out the high school social scene and—let’s be real—we wanted to have some fashion fun too. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Upriver the land was more rugged, die dense forest giving way to a series of bare stony hills that rose high and wild to the north and west. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Many who lived here, Farmer told me, came from small villages in the distant Andean mountains—handsome people with jet-black hair and high cheekbones. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray was obviously all out of cigarettes, because this was definitely one of those times he would’ve been sparking one, taking a drag, and blowing the smoke high into the air. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In high school I went to several dances, but I never managed to ask a girl to dance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By said, “Don’t sweat it, punk. The way I figure it one or two of them stupid little monsters ain’t a real high price for you to pay to get someone to play with you.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember a lot of students who worked hard at Donoghue, but for whom their freshman year of high school was a very bad year. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t read well, which was one of the reasons she had dropped out of high school. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But of course he did not know it, since the injury had seemed slight, and when he last saw me I was sprinting at high speed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Children on the jungle gym climbed higher to get a better view. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was more impressed by how much the guests didn’t eat, as the servers cleared away banana leaves still piled high with food. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“This is much higher than our test at my house.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Lourdes imagines white azaleas and an altar set for high mass on an April Sunday. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will sound basically the same, except that it will sound higher or lower. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Together the three of them looked like normal high schoolers on their way to an overnight trip. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The state of Maryland had one of the highest graduation rates in the nation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The classroom was bright when I arrived, the morning sun pouring in warmly through a high wall of windows. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In some studies, students who have a high degree of synchrony with their teachers are happier, more enthused, interested, and easygoing. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew Coach Dub. He was my position coach in football. Played linebacker for him for three years in high school.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They raised prices at the start of the teaching period when demand was high, only to offer bargains at the end of the term when there was no longer a need for a specimen. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They must have poured gasoline, because the flames shot high, and then they began dumping the magazines, from boxes, not too many at a time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a path that goes in the same direction but is in the woods higher up the hillside. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But the demands of simultaneously running Base Camp and meeting the medical needs of some twenty-five people in a remote, high- altitude environment proved to be more than she’d bargained for. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“No one expects you to, Miss Skeeter. Truth is, I wouldn’t think real high a you if you did.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

This was what high school was supposed to feel like. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Near high tide, we walked down the wooden staircase to the rocky shoreline. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

So I could enroll as Claudette Austin and finish high school in Birmingham. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Momma says Ms. Rosalie was one of her biggest supporters and cried at her high school graduation like it was her own daughter walking across the stage. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But Chadwick knew the moment had arrived when only the high energies produced by the cyclotron would serve physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She had been collecting these plants her entire life, and some of them were deliciously exotic: saffron from the high plateaus of Persia, rhubarb-currant from the Caucasus Mountains, and ginger from the Far East. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We set up on strip number one—there were twelve different strips on the floor—and Coach took me back through all of my best high school moves. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I feel like I’ve gone way up high in the Sierras or maybe up in a plane, like my ears are totally clogged up and I can’t hear and my head is heavy. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

As I stepped out of the car and mentally prepared myself for another potentially traumatic day of high school, he would say, "Be nice to the boys!" Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Over in Buffalo Creek Hollow, a mine impoundment gave way, and a wave of black water thirty feet high killed 126 people. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My high school offered a creative writing course, but in order to get in you had to have straight A's in eleventh-grade English. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But inside, it is delicious and very high in nutrients.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Everything around it was short and tan, and even the domes were only a few stories high. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

You could see the sky through the sail a little bit, in between Stef’s bloodstains anyway, even at night if the moon was high enough. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t afraid of heights, but the thought of being so high up with nothing but glass to protect her made her stomach clench. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The sun was high in the sky before I had dug Old Dan out. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his bed in Ilium, and the electric blanket was turned up high. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had heard that sound before...the click of a high heel shoe on a wooden step...going away...fading into the distance. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main building of the middle school and all the buildings of the high school have been certified as “structurally safe” by a team of engineers hastily assembled by Old Charley Burns. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the left of the sun, and higher up, there was a single star, big and bright. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Its two high narrow windows faced on the exciting street. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father gave it to me when I graduated from high school.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always have to have my feet up high on the couch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Enough to buy supplies, enough to keep high myself, enough sometimes to just eat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching the sun go down all the way from the highest point in Alabama is kinda neat. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The one I’ve wished for, but that came at so high a cost. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Sleeping Beauty is wearing a sky blue dress with a high neck and long sleeves. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

My red skirt is hitched up to my waist, though no higher. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

That same morning Oksi was sitting in Sam’s meadow, hunting by sitting up high waiting for something to move. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The gold was soon heaped so high, a man might not see over it to where the sun slipped into a sea flecked with black and white birds, the gulls that had followed them home. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear he left you high and dry, eh? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The authoring committee had been asked to “speculate on possible terrorist exploitation of a high category hurricane.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Even the simplest decisions seemed wrought with impossibly high stakes. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Nick had heard his older brother, James, groan and grumble about this rule for years, right up until he graduated from high school two years ago. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all directions, loud partying brigades from public and private high schools, from Lost Cove U., are gathered around kegs, bonfires, picnic tables, drum circles, car hoods. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It felt like I had been riding on the crest of a high wave and now it tumbled onto shore. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I suddenly felt cold, like the air- conditioning had been cranked up real high. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Soon they’d crossed over into the best part of the forest, with old trees that soared up so high it seemed they were touching the sky. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Like I said earlier, it’s fall now and high school has started. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Armstead had been ranked higher than Granger in some national magazine a few years earlier and officially became the school with the best facilities, the best teachers, and the most Ivy League acceptance letters. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Kleptocracies with little public support run the risk of being overthrown, either by downtrodden commoners or by upstart would-be replacement kleptocrats seeking public support by promising a higher ratio of services rendered to fruits stolen. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He took great strides, creating a slight wind in his wake, his left arm swinging high with his left leg, his right with his right, in an unusual cadence. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Its rigid back and high armrests immediately forced me into a righteous posture. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea wind drove snowflakes steadily inland, hurling them against the fragrant trees, and the snow began to settle on the highest branches with a gentle implacability. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

If he had been used to mountain country he would have realized that this meant he was now very high up—perhaps right at the top of the pass. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He was only about two inches high; and he had a mouse’s sharp nose, a mouse’s tail, a mouse’s whiskers, and the pleasant, shy manner of a mouse. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

One result of this act would be the birth of Robert Pilgrim, who would become a problem in high school, but who would then straighten out as a member of the famous Green Berets. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they saw Mama, elegant in her fine dresses and high heels, they criticized her. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He holds his hand up in the air for high fives. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Rather, they took the voices of the lowly and let them be heard on high. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Shall I call the tree tyrannical, since where it stands nothing survives but itself and its high- borne guests ? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

After graduating from high school, she enrolled in the Community College of Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It’s high time somebody did something, said the woman behind the counter, at the store where I usually bought my cigarettes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

This year, Chiron had put the satyrs on emergency overtime and sent them all over the country, scouring schools from fourth grade through high school for possible recruits. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The only light outside came from a single bulb which hung from a pole—high and far away. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But who wouldn’t feel a little wobbly in a rickety tree house so high above the ground? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the blades met, there was no ring of metal on metal; only a high, thin sound at the edge of hearing, like an animal screaming in pain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In military language, grandchildren, a “non-com” is a noncommissioned officer, anyone above the rank of a private, but no higher than a sergeant. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Mazen's man has erred, trying to bargain higher. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was the ultimate champion for a while, until a high school guy showed up and knew how to counter my electricity move with Chun-Li’s heel stomp. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In recognition of this, Swift and his fellow meatpacking company owners kept them on as part of the expanded work force and even paid them at a higher rate than the unskilled men. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I swallowed hard, kept my chin high, and said, “Yeah, in fact, we do.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Fifty thousand jump shots ago he had ended his career as an Atlanta high school junior. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The highest body counts arose when a tribe with lots of muskets and potatoes attacked a tribe with few or none. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded stupid, high and hollow and quavering, a little boy's howl, not a wolf's. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Samuel’s beard glinted white, and his graying hair stood up high on his head. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tins was surrounded by a high wall with towers, and, on the inner side of this wall, the big rooms which were needed for stores, bams, barracks, and stables were built. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mob marched on the high school there, pulled out all the German textbooks, and had a bonfire. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Because of my recent illness and my history of high blood pressure, I had been put on a strict low-cholesterol diet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Got her eyebrows raised high, then she pushes them low, then raises them again. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceilings are so high that they fill up with a lot of darkness. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sooner we get some casualties, the sooner we can make some progress on this. I’d like to get in the Christmas issue if we can. I imagine the circulation is higher then.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Annabelle once let him drive the car in the empty high school parking lot. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The finger of snow by me was about knee high. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not with Pyce. That man doesn’t negotiate when he’s already won. So I told Arensman to head into the storm. I don’t know why he agreed. The sea was already high.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

By Thursday, James had made a breakthrough with Maddie’s cipher and was back in high spirits. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They drift over high hair-towers and hats like tiny stars tied to ribbons. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Phones were raised up high, too, poking up above the crowd, their owners desperate to get a good shot. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He could’ve been greeting them in the high school locker room. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She raises her finger high in the air, turning so that the whole audience can absorb that she is about to outdo the elephant once and for all. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I'm standing there with Freak high above me and it feels right, it makes me feel strong and smart. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

With their high singing whine constantly in his ears, Salva slapped and waved at them in frustration all night long. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he was wrong, of course, that all of it mattered, that we were actively swimming in the sewage that was high school and it wouldn’t do us any good to pretend otherwise. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Twice as high as the mountains,” Sherman said authoritatively. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I made high- pitched noises like a crazed animal, trying to scratch out the face in the mirror. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not little fires, either, but massive walls of flame that licked high into the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I asked if I could speak to him, but she told me he was running a high fever and could not leave his bed to come to the phone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He wore a high, snow-white collar and rimless eyeglasses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about two feet high with a stocking cap and white beard. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

If an IV solution normally used in hospitals and at the scene of accidents was now being used during the halftime of a high school football game to ease complaints of exhaustion, so be it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

These grand homes, with their high, cool rooms, their polished mahogany furniture, their servants flitting between the main house and the separate cooking building, were meant to command attention, to show power and wealth. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Around the far side of the prison, rows of windows were stacked three stories high in straight floors, forty-five cells to each side of a tier. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But he felt his own extreme isolation, high up in the cornfield. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I mean,I knew I played trumpet really well, and I'd even taken some private lessons over the summer with this cool high school girl named Emerson. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

During the gravitational collapse of a star to form a black hole, the movements would be much more rapid, so the rate at which energy is carried away would be much higher. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her arms raised high in the air, her fingers tickling the sky. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The ziggurat’s immense height reflected the belief that the gods dwelled on high. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I can feel it deep down inside me. It’s a ticklish feeling. A powerful itch that’s located somewhere on the high side of my sphincter tube.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned over on his back and looked weakly up into the sky through the high shifting lattices of fight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Loaded with high explosives, their aim was to dive right into the target, especially big targets like our battleships and aircraft carriers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember when Wendell, shortly before his high school graduation, grew a little beard on the bottom of his chin— just a few hairs that formed a goatee. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Duke, though he never won the high political office he often sought, proved himself a master of information abuse. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I have not seen Marcy since high school, but when she greets me at the front door of her town house, I don’t feel the distance of all the years that have passed. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She looked taller, even more fearless, in a red wrapper and high heels. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Out of these deep surrounding shades rose high, and glared white, the piled-up mattresses and pillows of the bed, spread with a snowy Marseilles counterpane. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He learned where to place the green-faced lieutenant and the captain, and, high ground being priceless, to set the machine gunner on a book, a children’s dictionary. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Inside marble stairs wind their way to classrooms filled with dark wood desks nailed down to dark wood floors polished to a high and beautiful shine. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

If those two boats have the exact same power per stroke but one has a higher stroke rate, the one with the higher rate will pull ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Truth be told, I’d never been higher than 17,200 feet—not even as high as Everest Base Camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

At this moment the moon came out “Merciful powers!” cried Sir Palomides, in a high squealing voice, as he peered out of his mouth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

This year both Justin and Satan go to high school together. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

One day in junior high, I was getting off the school bus from a seat in the back. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of American universities, colleges, and high schools shut down for the week as students staged impassioned protests. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Bright circles of color burned high in her cheeks. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

An enormous wave crests high on the hill, topping the trees and roaring down the slope. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The jail cells were constructed in tiers three high, and Fannie’s cell was on the top tier where men below could peer up at her through a grating. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The waterwheel itself is housed in a huge shed built against the milling room, which is two stories high. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now, even though there was no more temple and no more high priests, they still left a little piece. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Uniformed women with lacquered hair, high heels, and fitted skirts looked down on us, signaled that we should fasten our safety belts, place parcels under the seat in front of us, and sit up. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The number of them was much higher than I could count at the time. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They are full of ambition to do their higher problem solving as well, said Kulkarni. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The collar was fine net, fixed with a big cameo brooch that rode high. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The violets were good tinder and soon greasy clouds of smoke were billowing high into the air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know there was that much sky, as we flew, Barnie and me, in stuttering circles higher than birds, over the patchwork fields. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only moments before, the highest generals of the South African Defense Force and police, their chests bedecked with ribbons and medals from days gone by, saluted me and pledged their loyalty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men whose will was tempered to a sharper edge might have done much better: talked more, shared the water more justly, given more ease to the sick, and kept their courage higher. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A girl who looked a little older than me carried out a plate piled high with a signature Frank burger and fries from the One Stop. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Above them, looming thirty feet high against the wall, was the name of the museum exhibit in which they currently found themselves. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The browse line on the trees went higher and higher as they sought food, and in time many more deer were dying of starvation than had formerly been killed by predators. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was playing in a large high school auditorium that echoed with phlegmy coughs and the squeaky rubber knobs of chair legs sliding across freshly waxed wooden floors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light pours in from all angles, and the city unfolds around us, glass buildings and the arc of train tracks, and we are high above it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was coming in a little high, and I had my glove raised for it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We listen for anyone approaching but the only sounds in the barren countryside are a lark, high overhead, and the soft breeze whispering past the walls of the little house. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In 1954, black and white youth unemployment rates in America were equal, with blacks actually having a slightly higher rate of employment in the age group sixteen to nineteen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

By this, I mean the following: if you consider the major questions raging through the biological sciences in the late nineteenth century, heredity does not rank particularly high on that list. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“His brother used to make my brother Aaron’s life a living hell. That’s why Aaron went to a private high school.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I had obtained a First Class pass, barely missing the highest honour, Distinction. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I am sure it’s a vulgar term, and the way Billy Martin used it was unforgivable. People like Billy Martin are the reason Glenn Burke never got the high five he deserved.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The last time he was here was two years ago, when Georgie graduated from high school. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then they trudge down the tracks, side by side, heads high, stuffed pillowcases slung over their shoulders. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A spray of water shot high into the air! A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mutely appraising him was the red warning light that sat high on the cockpit panel to his left. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By Thursday, Danny’s side of the table was piled high with books, and he was looking thoroughly unhappy. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As the audience on the platform listened in disbelief, a higher note came from the train as it approached, and a lower note emanated as it sped away. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Position, except in the highest ranks, was a thing of the past. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

One of Judge Quinzy’s eyebrows arched so high, Penelope was afraid it might come loose. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

That first week, the second graders made red-and-green construction paper chains that they hung the length of the elementary and junior high school halls. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They saw Gwenforte, standing in the center of the dark room, panting, her tail wagging, her head high with pride—completely covered in blood. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The mountains seemed to be trying with their deadly breath to daunt them, to turn them back from the secrets of the high places, or to blow them away into the darkness behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

One comer of it was around a bamboo pole that was about six feet high. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every four years, an international group of educators administers a comprehensive mathematics and science test to elementary and junior high students around the world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

None could stand so high unless God’s seal was on him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The girl stepped into the hall, closing the door behind her; arms folded self-consciously before her small high breasts, she faced him, eager to understand. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The sugar content in our samples was high enough to mask the taste of the plastic cups. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Merlyn stood in the middle, holding his umbrella high because of the owl. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, in some cases, services and experiences have replaced objects as the true symbols of high status. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She takes off her high heels and rubs her ankles while staring out the front window. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

James Halliday had taken guitar lessons for a few years in high school. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

To judge from his well-populated waiting room and his desk piled high with papers, he was a busy and successful man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hear he done throwed one axe a hundred feet up into a tree and throwed the next one so high it poke the man in the moon in the eye.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But technical expertise counted for next to nothing on Everest, and I’d spent less time at high altitude than virtually every other climber present. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And not from high up in the throat but from deep, from the stomach. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t surprise him if, after high school, Bri entered a convent. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I was feeling high from the game and I knew if I went home I would have to go back to dealing with homework and school. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“As you are aware, our play is fast approaching. It’s time for us to kick into high gear. We will be limiting our traditional academic endeavors to the forenoon hours.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Fifty feet high, a swirling demon of green flame danced upon the river. lt had a dozen hands, in each a whip, and whatever they touched burst into fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He fell asleep, and when he awoke the sun was already high. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wouldn’t care what Mr. van Maaren thought of the situation except that he’s known to be unreliable and to possess a high degree of curiosity. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

From what Milkman could tell, after fifteen minutes or so they were going up to high ground. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new school year was just around the corner, and if I chose to go to regular high school, they needed to enroll me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Straight ahead, the golden arches hovered high above a McDonald’s, its roof covered with splotches of snow. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

This, I told myself, is how a trapeze artist in a circus must feel as he goes swishing through the air high up in the circus tent. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The cowboy held one hand high in the air, and his hat was flying off his head. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a white dress with two million ruffles and a neckline that was the lowest she’d ever worn...and makeup and high heels and an ostrich feather in her hair. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were also drawn too high and draped the rest of her features into an expression of boredom, almost sarcasm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the manner of all high schoolers everywhere, my friends and I liked to loiter. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Turner and Lizzie spent most of the afternoon skipping rocks into the waves—he was better than Lizzie—and climbing up to sway in pines—she could go higher. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But the rising tide washed over my high pier. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since we had gained that much education, the high school teachers assumed that we were educable. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, the electromagnetic and weak forces, which are not asymptotically free, get stronger at high energies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were pretty good friends in junior high, as much as I had friends back then. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Throckmorton is the headmaster. That means he is the head. There is no higher authority. His word is law.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

My thumb was not very high in the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Hilly raises her voice about three octaves higher when she talks to colored people. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At the start of high school, I was a total innocent when it came to substances like pot and acid and ecstasy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then Derek grabbed me and took me over to some of his friends to show off and I was high- fiving some little dudes with stick hands. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 6.6: Remember that, no matter what note you start on, the note one octave higher has 2 times its frequency. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I was blinded by the glaring lights held high over the heads of the sea of people by news photographers trying to get pictures. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The microphone on the podium is a little too high for me to speak into, so I adjust it just below my mouth. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

"I'm in college, not junior high. Besides, who would come?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had worked two and three jobs, put children through high school and college, and become pillars of their community. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Naomi’s sentences go up extra high at the end, like a squeaky toy. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was about thirty inches high, forty inches long. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They played the film at high speed so they could watch cell division on the screen in one smooth motion, like a story unfolding in a flip book. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Large classes were graduating from both the grammar school and the high school. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, 133 pounds was the highest weight any horse had ever lugged in modern California racing, and every other horse in the field would be carrying at least 20 fewer pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three hours later, Akhi and I were exchanging high fives because I had gone undefeated in the pool round, winning all six bouts, directly advancing on to the second day of competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He was lifting some half-naked little kid high over his head. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He made himself a beetle high in the rotten wood of the hollow tree and determined to stay there until he understood. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was Derrick who made the call, getting to his feet, pulling his bandana high over the bridge of his nose, stuffing his braid into the back of his shirt. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It’s not like I had some utterly poignant, well-lit memory of a healthy father pushing a healthy child and the child saying higher higher higher or some other metaphorically resonant moment. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then, over the whine of the sub, I heard it—a high, shrieking call. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

With light, the faster the wave bobs up and down—the higher its frequency—the more energy it has. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

To his left, on a high shelf of rock, crouched an enormous wolf with golden eyes and lolling red tongue. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She took one deep inhale through her mouth and held the staff up high. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“But the wall where you suggest is the highest wall surrounding all of Florin Castle—it is fifty feet high at that point—so that would seem the least likely point of attack.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll try,” I said and, a little high, I stumbled down the stairs. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this is because they enclose the unique, the spectacular, the astounding—the greatest waterfall, the deepest canyon, the highest cliff, the most stupendous works of man or nature. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In baseball, I have a good arm and a bat, and I can field, but I am not interested in playing it after high school. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Both species are very high on every birdwatcher’s ‘must see’ list. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“If you set the surge up high enough, you’ll be glad you’re awake; that’s the whole point. At setting C it overcomes the threshold barring consciousness, as it does for me.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Okay. And we can be high priestesses of Isis who; are assigned to protect him.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was there when the sun, climbing higher, dropped a sunbeam straight though the skylight, like a ladder to heaven she was more than eager to climb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was here that his army had put ashore, and there on the highest hill that he built his first crude redoubt of wood and earth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Same serious expression, a slight gathering of the eyebrows, lips held tightly closed, cheekbones high and prominent. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be too old for high school if we have to listen to all those people,” I whispered aloud. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At the high schools. The county executive hasn’t taken a strong enough stance against it, in my opinion. And my opinion counts. At least today.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They ended high above where the ceiling should have been, as if they held up the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

These buildings were steel and glass and hard to tell apart; they all held enormous banners that swept from their lowest to highest windows. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sounded like a bunch of crickets were singing to high heaven. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She gave you up because you were too high yellow. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The three with doctorates, and the four without high school diplomas. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He raised his hands, and the tension on the bridge ratcheted even higher. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Muthu gestured at a vendor who was dozing in the shade of a pushcart piled high with the ugliest plastic dolls I’d ever seen. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The outer wall stood eighty feet high, the inner more' than a hundred. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of descending to my base camp on the ice cap, though, I decided to spend the night on the steep flank of the mountain, just below my high point. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His feet began to slip; pebbles and rocks began ringing beneath his feet; he looked up, trembling, in terror of death, and he cried: “Lord, I can’t come no higher.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

You lifted your head high and surveyed the ruined bridge like a princess. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The high school my own children attended held its graduation ceremonies at Constitution Hall, near the White House. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They mistrusted his taste for the high life, with Elizebeth calling him downright “unsavory.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In junior high school, I became good pals with the truancy officer in the area. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

At least, the words “Lady Eleanor” were spoken often, but the person they described—dutiful parent, loyal citizen, steadfast spouse—sounded more like the high chancellor than like my mother. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in their Sunday best—women in high heels and white gloves, men in suits wearing tie clasps—they might have been on their way to church. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun grew misty as the day grew old, until it gleamed in a pale sky like a high white pearl. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Scott was George’s older brother, a high school freshman. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Some little kids walk by, reminding me that I’m in sixth grade—the highest grade in this school. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“If you think you can sell it for a higher price on your own, be my guest. It’s going to take a long time,” the pawnbroker said to Nali. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The ball was just a little high and slightly left of where I wanted it to be. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

To the left the Regiment ended, a high boulder there. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spectrum runs from high frequencies' of visible light to low ones—violet, blue, green, yellow, orange and red. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some pointed at the horizon, or lifted children high into the air, and others carried spears and shields. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She did a high kick to show how grand it was to have room. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at her, in house shoes, her breasts turgid, her belly heavy and high. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite her fatigue, Inej hadn’t thought she would be able to sleep, but the next thing she knew, the sun was high above them, a bright pocket of glare in an overcast sky. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If, when one finds a corpse, these splotches appear on the higher regions, it is a sign that someone has moved the body. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Deirdre is on the ledge of her apartment building roof, eight stories high. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She took one of the few openings she could find: substitute high school principal in a small Indiana town near her home. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Skeleton Woman,” Sam said in a high voice, “say cheese!” I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Believing that higher education was a waste of time for girls, he refused to pay a penny toward it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I climbed a little higher and then stopped on a branch that reached out to one side, nothing beneath it but open air. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She hadn't, not at first glance, but when she looked again she found him to the back, under the shade of the high stone wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They took me to the bam and tied my hands and raised whatever they had tied them to high over my head. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I reach high for the bag of dog food. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I even got high before we went to Universal Studios with her, but I played it off as much as I could. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were both eighteen, but so far neither of them had graduated from high school. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A high leap, and then he tucked his paws over his nose to dive just as Bristle had. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The junior high school entrance examination dreaded by all of us was gone. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It climbs the walls, scaling so high it could grow off the teahouse and make a path to the God of the Sky. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The surf and the high sand wall had made it impossible to unload the tanks. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mountain of gleaming metal that towered high above the children and their parents. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

She felt like a queen in a high chariot as they rolled off along the little road among the trees. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Why, we’ll sit high and happy in a surrey and get clear into King City in three hours—and what more in the world could you want than that? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above me, two ropes stretch across the room, one a few feet higher than the other. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A low arrow strikes the ground, a high one may kill in the second rank. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He snorted and pawed the ground before turning and trotting off, tail held high in the air. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted the big attractions—the faster, the louder, the higher, the better. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I would far rather be where I am than in any high family in the land. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hell was and would always be as far as she was concerned, a lake of fire exactly the size of Maycomb, Alabama, surrounded by a brick wall two hundred feet high. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“We’re in high school, Ocean. We don’t know anything about forever.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

At that Ged lifted up the staff high, and the radiance of it brightened intolerably, burning with so white and great a light that it compelled and harrowed even that ancient darkness. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather be ambassador to the Vatican,” Father Mulrooney said, shooting his eyebrows so high they bounced against the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Knowing this from my own days of being a hijabi high school athlete, I always made sure to submit Faizah’s paperwork early, at the start of the season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They chugged along at fifty miles an hour with the radio blasting and the late-afternoon wind whipping their hair, getting high on her Columbia two-toke. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

You wretched beast of high ceilings and few horsepower! Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It started swirling around in gusts and falling so heavily that I had to turn the windshield wipers to the highest setting, and even then I had trouble seeing the road. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Her tennis doubles partner’s high five is a slap. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I hold a high position in the party. I’ll straighten out this misunderstanding.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This must be what the great cathedrals of Europe look like!” she thought, as she stared with amazement at the high, beamed ceiling and rows of arching windows. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

You know they aren’t going to last, but when you start in on them, they’re like a week of summer plunked down as a gift in the middle of junior high school. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And it wasn't for my high school social circle. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Here on these high rocks my memory myth repaired itself. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lost the tip in high school while not paying attention during shop. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A painted cart piled high with trunks rolled into the courtyard, pulled by a weary nag in bright trappings. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In the late twentieth century humans did not much die of plague—not because it was absent, but because resistance was high. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He struggled, but Hooper readied his arms up high, out of reach. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The sun was already high when he awoke. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you intend to secure yourself a high rank, I suggest you don’t make a habit of losing to low-ranked opponents,” says Four, his voice cutting through the mutters and grumbles of the other initiates. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was during this lonely time, when any high cry made the milk spill from my breasts, that I got careless. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

News & World Report ranked it as the top high school in Utah, and one of the top seven hundred in the United States. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even though I was a ball of insecurity, I came from a long line of women with high expectations and high standards for other people. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

On the long, hot, silent trip back in the wagon piled high with goods, Harry looked over at me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There is some evidence that the average level has risen since then to a consistently higher figure, and individuals with occupational or other special exposures to insecticides of course store even more. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And high rates of immigration and immigrant success stories seem to hammer home the point: The rules of advancement have changed. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The new Miss Spink was wearing green tights, and high brown boots that went most of the way up her legs. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Far away, at the edge of the room, was a high wooden stage, empty and bare, a dim spotlight shining onto it from high above. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

As the sun climbs higher in the cloudless sky, we take a break and rest under a tree. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We moved slowly but steadily in the rain, the radiator cap of our car almost against the tailboard of a truck that was loaded high, the load covered with wet canvas. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I saw Ms. Gruwell waving her arms around like a crazy lady, but no one was reacting to her caffeine high. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The atmospheric pressure is so high, however, that we cannot see the surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high starched collars rubbed her neck raw. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The lodge was very congenial in a basic and rustic sort of way, with a high ceiling and plenty of room to move around. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He looks first at Jena, then makes an arm gesture toward a distant marble hovering over a rock jutting high out of the far end of the lagoon. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Oh, to sit high up in the back with a brave whip in a socket close to hand. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had her back to me, singing a little something, maybe it was Lesley Gore, maybe not, but definitely somebody from her high school days. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It had always been a notion of his that the kindness of dear Mr. Frodo was of such a high degree that it must imply a fair measure of blindness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Early kings were themselves the head of the state religion or else had separate high priests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A man was kneeling in front of her mother with his hands raised high, palms upward in supplication. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then she leapt to her feet, said, “See you at dinner!” and departed at high speed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was the Muslim high court which examined all possibly nonauthentic converts to the Islamic religion seeking to enter Mecca. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘He is fifty-four feet high,’ the BFG said softly as he jogged along. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home, I lived in a world of high drama and intrigue, immersing myself in an ever-evolving soap opera of dolls. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Left to his own devices, he did what any high school senior in America would do: he took advantage of it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It fills me in a way that is as powerful, as spiritual, as high. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s always going to be someone kicking you down so they can climb higher. It’s just human nature. Why waste your time trying to change the system when you can just game it?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He went up from the cove through wooded ground, taking a stony trail into the high hills, where the swineherd lived, according to Athena. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But from then on, my training shifted into high gear. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I have been setting my sights too high. I cannot survive this type of work. I suspect that something like a newspaper route would be rather agreeable.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the Eyewitness News team, he’s been “living the high life—either at a Florida Gators game or at a stock-car race.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In its more extreme forms it relegates personal rights and liberties to the higher authority of the state, which is “us” and not “them,” and it therefore has both communal and despotic implications. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She climbed high and fast over the tilled field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

If I had to go to my mothers world for high school, I was determined to go to mine for college. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

That infection, Reyburn wrote, was first obvious around July 23 when Garfield began having chills and high fever. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The shutters on the high bank of windows are open, revealing the crate-littered balcony of the building next door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Once more he placed his half-formed bowl upon the shaping stake and, raising his elbow high, gave a sharp, firm tap. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

A small pop, and a flare went high into the air. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena blinked at the light as she looked, from high above, at the feast in the Great Hall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He threw them so high in the air the spectators had to tilt their heads right back to watch, then caught them and knocked them up in the air again with his knee. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was almost a perfect cube, 2 meters long by 2 meters wide by 2 meters high. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He soared higher in the sky world toward the mountaintops and Inti’s home. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But with public feeling running high, the dominant line, at least in the US, was: “You’re either with us, or you’re with the terrorists.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, he was just a few years ahead of me back in high school. Knows a lot of the same people.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Red ferried in more food, and two weeks later, we had piled up a treasure trove of cast iron almost as high as our tent. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Old were always given the highest respect. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the rate of alcoholism was high in the United States, and with the high rates of drinking came violence, much of it targeting women in their own homes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We can just get high and try to forget about it. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

With high treason, the state must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt and needs two witnesses to testify to each charge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At his side, my mother, wearing her gray-streaked braids in a high bun, supports him by the elbow as they finally reach the landing. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The captain had judged the winds acceptable to use the high sails and the boom of the Buckell cannon had shaken the ship. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her mother clinging to the high chimney. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suspected she had no high opinion of the bravery of the male sex, and I hadn’t done anything to change her mind. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs were high and steep and winding. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Every day, I would gamble all of my tips—as high as fifteen and twenty dollars—on die numbers, and dream of what I would do when I hit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the vantage high in the mountains he saw plumes of dark smoke rising from the land below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Shortly thereafter, a New York Times/CBS News Poll reported that 64 percent of those polled—the highest percentage ever recorded—now thought that drugs were the most significant problem in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Washington, he said, was wrong in telling whites that blacks didn’t want or need political and social equality or higher education. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had never done detention before, but then again I’d never spent time in an American high school. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Indeed, here at Base Camp—the mere toe of Everest—I was already higher than I’d ever been in my life. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He began flying to and fro, getting higher at each turn. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The morning light shone through the high lace curtains and caught her chestnut hair from behind, framing her face in gold. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 4.2: When two notes are one octave apart, one has a frequency exactly two times higher than the other — it has twice as many waves. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The waning, still-bright moon had risen high in the night sky by the time they ate. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore was standing in the middle of the cave, his wand held high as he turned slowly on the spot, examining the walls and ceiling. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Arthur Bisguier, the highest rated player in the tournament, also finished with a score of 10–2. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Almost as important as Vicky Tines's boyfriend is to Vicky Tines, who she announces is in high school every single day in homeroom. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

When her turn came, she started climbing, amazed at how much higher she seemed with each step. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

After thirteen months of the preparatory examination, the magistrate ruled that he had found “sufficient reason” for putting us on trial in the Transvaal Supreme Court for high treason. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, Matt realized, the old man meant him to have a higher destiny. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the heart of the exposition stood a tower of iron that rose one thousand feet into the sky, higher by far than any man-made structure on earth. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Likely she would run through the fields dressed in sackcloth, hunting hyssop amongst the wild bulls, if not obligated to the higher plane of Motherhood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holly seemed confident and the other three were in high spirits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’re interested,” I said, “I can show you around tomorrow. The high points. The important features of the landscape.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A high official and wealthy man, he lived in a style that has no equivalent in Karhide, even among lords of a great Domain. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The arched ceiling was high enough that Roz could stand upright. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then the bells of the Elderclock rang out, loud and panicked, high and demanding, an escalating tide of echoes, climbing one on top of another, booming over the White Island, the ice moat, the wall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It would therefore seem likely that our homicide rate is so high in part because guns are so easily available. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Art, science—you seem to have paid a fairly high price for your happiness,” said the Savage, when they were alone. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gillian and Shriya stood with their heads held high above the group of first years, explaining the route they were all about to take. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was always polite, but his expectations for others in the organization were high, Ophelia told me. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking that maybe in the fall you could keep on working nights and go to high school in the daytime. I know it’ll be hard but it could be done somehow.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rose high into the morning sky and flew faster and faster until she disappeared behind the chimneys. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I climb dangerously high into a tree, not for safety but to get as far away from today as I can. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

One of the old hospital buildings was now a food bank; others housed the Police Criminal Investigation Division, an alternative high school, and a Rotary club. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My professor, Linda Heywood, was slight and bespectacled, spoke with a high Trinidadian lilt that she employed like a hammer against young students like me who confused agitprop with hard study. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The whole thing about a foot across and high. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Then Ged was aware that the highest tower slowly changed its shape, bulging out on one side as if it grew an arm. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

On a stony outcrop of land higher than the surrounding country, they passed a lord's pavilion with walls of heavy sailcloth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t love the smell of the tiny dugout basement under the cottage, but it keeps him and Byrd protected from high winds and bad storms. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As we shall see, that high productivity of the land, fresh water, and seas was a key to Japan’s prehistory. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The woman called Floramundi hugged a really good-looking high school girl who was holding a rubber Minnie Mouse mask. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Apart from the obvious question of cost, which would prove astronomically high, where could the freed blacks be sent? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then, after two hours of watching mysterious symbols move across the lighted panel high on the wall of the broker's office, her eyes began to cross. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand there for a few moments, sweating, arms piled high with boots and clothing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There were moments when all three looms were running as they ought—all the shuttles bearing full quills, all three temples hung high on the cloth, no warp threads snapping. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t hard to figure that a 95 mph fastball that was up too high would leave a permanent headache if you even got up from the dirt. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's in Ridgeford. Near a top high school for you girls." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

II When civil rights leaders first demanded the admission of minority students to higher education, academic officials could have challenged their critics to seek the more important reform of primary and secondary education. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lovely world, surely, but there is—from our parochial point of view—much wrong with Mars, chiefly the low oxygen abundance, the absence of liquid water, and the high ultraviolet flux. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a tiny painted-over window high up on the back wall that lets in some light from outside. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

You compete to get into high school, and you compete to get into college. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody tossed out a pair of high heels. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Starlight Room. Well, well. Someone’s living high. And look!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was the fog that made them look so far away, they were not far really, the window was not so very high. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Around the edge ran a high metal fence. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody cares to guess how many people might die, but the potential economic cost has been put as high as $7 trillion. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

An instrument with a slightly higher fundamental will have a slightly higher range; an instrument with a much lower fundamental will have a much lower range. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely. So anyway, I’ve been thinking about when things started getting bad for me. I realized: it started after I got into high school.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“A bit. But I have to lift my knees real high cuz my feet are so floppy.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

How they expect to get into any good high school acting like that? Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

That feeling when the crowd cheered for me is probably what getting high is like, and I’m addicted. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

If I tilted my head too much, I felt my whole body start to roll, and on the long list of unpleasant ways to die, “facedown in soaking-wet white boxers” is pretty high up there. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He and his wife lived over on Riverside Drive; he was headed home now; they’d been married for nine years; they’d met as high school sweethearts; they didn’t have any children. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Hear me out,—but if I were to remove Joe into a higher sphere, as I shall hope to remove him when I fully come into my property, they would hardly do him justice.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The second was high and more powerful than the first, and the third was a spectacle. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Johnny, in turn, wanted nothing more than to meet his father’s often very high expectations, whatever they might be. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was considered “the most expensive, most beautiful, and largest high school in the nation” and an excellent educational facility and academically graduated a high percentage of students who went on to top universities. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Most agreed that was a pretty high number, but mention of gun control was as popular as a suggestion to change the Ten Commandments. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her academic education consisted of one year of high school. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“This is good for digestion and high cholesterol. After eating those carnitas tonight, we all need it.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Such a position was coveted by whites, for it paid unconscionably high fees and provided ample opportunities for graft. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

From the top of the high ridge at last we looked down, and the valley lay before us. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since America had won her freedom from England, she had to fight for her rights on the high seas. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We flew higher and higher, over green valleys and dark, ridged mountains, and then over the coast, waves breaking on the white sands. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

From the high battlements of the gatehouse, the whole world spread out below them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He told Volpe that great high schools had great theater programs that put on big, showy musicals, and that’s what he wanted. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Since this part of our property adjoined the palacio of the dictator's daughter and son-in-law, my grandfather had been reluctant to erect a high wall lest it be considered a snub. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Cristiana was of high birth, for her father was the queen’s cousin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

To the right of them the gym meditated behind its gray walls, the high, wide, oval-topped windows shining back at the sun. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

An unadorned light bulb dangled down over several long wooden tables piled high with rags. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 4:30 p.m., and again at 4:41, Hall got on the radio to say that he and Hansen were in trouble high on the summit ridge and urgently needed oxygen. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

At one checkup in the spring of 2005, his blood pressure and his weight had been a little high. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The highest mountains were the first to burn, Ida and Helicon, where the Muses dwell, Parnassus, and heaven-piercing Olympus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the wild ride, he managed to leave town with a great degree of dignity, holding his head high and his back stiff as he pushed the bike along the path. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s really just a basic plain lobby, and lemme tell you: If you think everything in New York is high class, like the inside of a yacht or something, it isn’t. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

So that the helmet should be of some use I stick it on his behind;—not for a jest, but out of consideration, since that is his highest part. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked the Mexican man to turn the car around, again in my exquisite high school Spanish, and it took about fifteen minutes to make myself understood. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was low and angled, but moonlight streamed in from a high window covered by slatted shutters at the far end of the hall, and there was just enough light to see. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Knowing that the immense energies available to Lawrence via the cyclotron were hopelessly out of reach of their equipment, they opted for lower energies but a higher proton current—less power but more particles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He knew how to wrap her lifeless arms around his neck and to hold her pale chin high above the foam and spray. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Black men, they say, have much higher rates of violent crime; that’s why so many of them are locked up. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s the same feeling I get when Dad and I fly kites at the Cape, as if holding on to the string means that part of me is up there, way too high. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I could not think which particular journalist would have given me such a high recommendation; there had been so many. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Piling my plate high, Angelina did nothing to dispel this impression. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The hair of the wives was piled high about the room, eyelashes fluttered, and ice tinkled in full cocktail glasses. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cello music swelled out from the house, rising higher and higher until it lifted off the earth, sailing toward Venus. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then in history, Alex asks about it, and he gives me a high five when I tell him what it’s for. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Between the two cities lie eleven hundred miles, and a wall several miles high, and two or three thousand years. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He raised his hands high and proclaimed, “Praise Inti! The Sun God has returned to us once more!” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I said no to the assignment only because I thought it would be unbearably frustrating to spend two months in the shadow of Everest without ascending higher than Base Camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And then, from high up on the top of the cloud, the faraway voice came down to them once again, this time very loud and clear. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The guns on the high hill were beginning to fire. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we saw in the last chapter, quantum mechanics tells us that all particles are in fact waves, and that the higher the energy of a particle, the smaller the wavelength of the corresponding wave. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she pushed the bag back as far as she could on the highest shelf in the closet, behind the towels and a humidifier. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Only in a town this small would a father know when the high school dances were. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the buildings in the neighborhood were only one or two stories high, so from where she stood she could get a pretty good idea of the lay of the land. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down into the high street, and up the road to the top of the hill. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“The citizenship test is really tough. Even high school students don’t know all the facts we’re tested on.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

His room was high up indeed in the tower that rose like a sharp tooth from its hilltop. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Through the sliding glass door, I saw Mrs. Moss cram Luke into a high chair. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

One black plastic bag after another came out until Madison Avenue in front of 3 Guys was piled high with trash. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Emotions were running high at the Marine Quarantine Hospital on Staten Island. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There was a small wall, less than three feet high, on the sides of the building. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reggie was feeling high a month into his mission when it came time for his first missionary conference. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But as she climbed higher and higher, she started to get the hang of it. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The light returned early to the high down, but the rabbits did not stir. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The higher they went, the stronger the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The high point of my day was my drum lesson. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high officers frightened him, Jon knew, the Old Bear most of all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her hips jut high, so she looks like a mountain. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

An inmate-grievance system had been instituted after the Attica riot; Sing Sing inmates typically filed about twenty-five grievances a week against the administration, but recently that number had gone as high as seventy-five. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear that we had to sit there like wooden carrion until, if we were lucky, high tide would float us off. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

However, if the force-carrying particles have a high mass, it will be difficult to produce and exchange them over a large distance. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fort Hare could be a rather elitist place and was not without the hazing common to many institutions of higher learning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon arrival in the Himalaya, Pittman appeared to adhere as closely as possible to the proprieties of high society. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They went on north, after which I struck out northeastward by myself into the high foothills of the Sembensyen. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He found a pair of scissors at last and began cutting carefully through Snowden’s coveralls high up above the wound, just below the groin. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The singer, I thought, sounded like me talking, yet everyone said, “Oh, beautiful. Beautiful,” when she sang high. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ball goes high, falls short, and hits the floor between the feet of Dallas Llewellyn, who is standing right in front of me. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Just out of high school, they'd both signed up for an introductory class to get a commercial driver's license. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It’s basic math: the better a competitor’s result, the more points she’s awarded, and the higher her ranking becomes. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Never mind that his handiwork was in jeopardy when a high tide rushed in; if disaster struck, he would simply rebuild everything. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They have solid surfaces, interiors made of rock and iron, and atmospheres ranging from near-vacuum to pressures ninety times higher than the Earth’s. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer was reluctant to raise his hopes too high. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The pundits weren’t meeting teams of high school “Barack Stars,” who volunteered after football practice or drama club. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A terrible grinding creaks up high, as though the whole structure might collapse at any moment. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Raymie held the magic globe up as high as she could. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The moon was high, and by keeping well in the shadow of a tree they were able to cross the road without being seen. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Billy’s son Robert had a lot of trouble in high school, but then he joined the famous Green Berets. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deliberate listening to foreign radio stations...Willfully distributing newscasts of foreign radio stations...Conspiracy to commit high treason. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of the buildings in the Bronx were empty, which I could tell because they didn’t have windows, and you could see right through them, even at high speeds. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lou is twenty-five years old, dressed in a leather jacket, handsome, cradling Tommy in the crook of his arm in the bleachers at a high school football game. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now it was Chess lifting the phone higher. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His thoughts still moved high above the trees. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

"You know how people say you can't fight in high heels?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Tonight, the fire was only five feet high, barely warm, and the flames were the color of lint. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She could go at a full sprint in high heels, but if she really wanted to come after me she had this thing where she’d kick her shoes off while still going at top speed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You the only one. You’re smart to stay away from the general store, though. You go there, your pockets empty real fast. They got the prices so high, even a penny whistle costs two bits!” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And here and there, the black-and-white flash of a mockingjay wing in the branches high over my head. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I got closer, the high wall of snow looked more like fingers of snow stretching out on the ground. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frantic, the tenants called for police protection that arrived in short order, a hundred uniformed men, some on foot, some sitting high on the backs of police horses. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Swallows swoop past the houses, and two doves bicker on a high gutter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He poked his head into the hallway and saw a group of black high school students standing a little way down the corridor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Without looking up, Shaan meets her hand in a high five. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Soon the only thing we had any fun doing together was getting high, which seemed a lot less dangerous than hurling yourself off a building in the middle of some mental breakdown. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The sun was high in the sky and while there were distant, fluffy white clouds on the horizon, the sky above her head was a deep, untroubled blue. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Your dad didn’t graduate from high school. And I quit high school to marry him.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Pennsylvania, Navy, and California quickly moved out in front of the pack, rowing high at first, then gradually dropping their stroke rates into the low thirties. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The ninja threw her whole body into a blinding spin, swinging her right foot up in a high arc. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But before he could arrive, the hunchback spoke, his voice strange and high. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t even protect yourself in high school! Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” she said, retracing the line, “it’s junior high.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

My favorite photograph is of the three of us sitting in the football stands in junior high, all jammed together, shoulder to shoulder. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

So now in turn each woman thrust her head into a noose and swung, yanked high in air, to perish there most piteously. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw the narrow stony road, the foothills rising high and wild all around them, and the jagged snowcapped peaks on the distant horizon, all the hope went out of him in a rush. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The shop was crowded with racks of T-shirts, but there were also tiny satin pouches and silk pajamas with high collars. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The farthest candles appeared to be ’bout thirty, thirty-five paces away, and it was dark up that high. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The thought of dropping into the center of a whirlpool only makes me cling tighter and climb higher until I’m at his shoulders. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

This time, since it was after high noon, the gates were ajar and the keeper of the gate idled upon the threshold, picking his teeth with a bamboo sliver after his meal. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The only thing that was completely high class was the trees. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I dug in, lifted my knees high, and pumped as hard as I could to get back up the hill into campus, trying to put all the people from Fullbrook out of my mind. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He cracked himself up, though I wasn’t sure whether it was Calvin’s high jinks or my own making him so goofy. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lifted the stake high in the air and brought it down, splitting his head like a watermelon. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He lifts me high enough that Rani can reach my hand and pull me up. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Of course, two shillings a day is high for a carpenter, but—” Sometimes Kit wanted to stop her ears. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Every time she waited at a bus stop or was at a party with boys and alcohol or was just plain alone, she felt the high alert of vigilance. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He glanced up at the dragon, now high in the air, surrounded by rings of storm clouds like the circles of an archery target. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A high ululating cry brought him instantly awake. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But if he went two miles high”—that was Martin—“it would be three miles altogether.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The character was played by a gifted high school actor, someone talented beyond his years, the only student actor I would see anywhere who rivaled Truman’s best. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

From Anika78 in suburban Chicago: I was stopped at the door of my high school because I was wearing a trench coat. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pitch of a note is how high or low it sounds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I imagine it will involve a high level of destruction.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was closer than it had been when he tied it, so the water was higher. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

From a distance, they could see smoke rising high into the sky. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A little flame started, flickered and wavered for a moment, then bloomed suddenly and leaped high with a roar. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Warner and I have done our Friday high five. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

I fought the most during junior high school and always cried. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bongo flew high into my branches and landed with a victorious caw. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The floor was piled high with duffels, backpacks, and cardboard boxes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He raised the rifle and rested the stock on the half- high wall of the tree house. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sun is still high and a lot of day stretches ahead. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were nomads, living on horseback, traveling to graze their herds, defeating anyone who tried to move into their cold, high territories. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She put Susie in her high chair, then handed us each a cup of water in the kitchen. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Martin was next to him, seemingly uninjured, his head held high, defiance and ire on his face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He shifted the pack higher on his shoulders and looked out over the wasted country. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The river wind moved through the high branches, and she could see the Wheel Tower to her right, ivy crawling up its side. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Even when the moon was high in the sky, she continued. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

My opponent’s eyes were big, red and shining, as if he were high on benzene. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It is better than the songs," she whispered when they found the places that her father had promised her, among the high lords and ladies. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"You can curl it around and you can hook it on to things and you can swing from it and lower yourself to the ground from high places." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Meaning my brother, who married his high school sweetheart and had three perfect kids. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

For a while we thought he might work for the Colonies—but his jobs are crude, without high- tech equipment or noticeable funding behind them. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Figure 3.5: Since the sounds are travelling at about the same speed, the one with the shorter wavelength 11waves11 more frequently; it has a higher frequency, or pitch. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom Mami showed me her Kotex, hidden on a high shelf under towels. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t explain it: a fat and short key, in a little envelope, in a blue vase, on the highest shelf in his closet. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before they went to sleep, Edwin showed Cole how to suspend the coolers of fresh food from high branches in case bears visited during the night. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In high school he was admitted to a Texas magnet school for math and science, where students acquire college credit. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The floor is a pale wood polished to a high gloss, and there are carpets so that you hardly even notice the bloodstains here and there. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She only took the records through 6th grade, nothing higher. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to move, then was jerked back a second time as the car was yanked off the ground and tilted high up in the air. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It could only be accessed by clambering through a high window in one of the lecture halls or by climbing down a gnarled apple tree, if you happened to be on the roof. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The piers of the choir at Chutreaux were to be one hundred and sixty feet high and six to eight feet thick. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

In my junior year of high school, me and three of my close friends began to hold the meetings of what would soon become the infamous Geek Club. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was probably more than he’d bargained for: bright lights, too high, having to deal with a hostile adult. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Annie Pattridge was an awkward, shy girl in my high school, a kid with gentle eyes who kept to herself and ate her lunches in a corner of the school’s little library. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We are high of cheekbone, broad of shoulder. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Again, their key signatures will look very different, but music in D sharp will not be any higher or lower than music in E flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He hoisted himself up into the high seat under the round golden window and bid them rise. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

During my high school summers, I cut grass in parks and on the medians of highways, unloaded trucks, and walked beside road-paving equipment with a rake to smooth the hot asphalt along the curbs. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

His arms were manly and covered in coarse dark hair, but his voice was high and strange, as if it had been recorded and was now being played back at a faster speed. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Hazel didn’t understand how anyone could shoot an arrow accurately from this high up, accounting for the wind and the glare of the sun off the water. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For the trees, bare of leaves, arched overhead in the very same way that the groined arches of stone swept up high overhead in the Gothic churches. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Spirits are always high on Midwinter’s Day, and high spirits mean good begging. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We went in the shoe department and we pretended she--old Phoebe-- wanted to get a pair of those very high storm shoes, the kind that have about a million holes to lace up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

No, it stretched out high and smooth and far, like a heavenly quilt on an unseen frame. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid this isn’t a deal for you, boys. The minimum investment is far too high for either of you. But there will be more trades to come!” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I imagined her in tight jeans and high- heeled sandals. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was safe in the air, high above the immeasurable forest, but down there ... The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon flew high, and swooped back to her wrist in his owl form. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the reasons why Brady left after he graduated from high school. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Hiroshima explosion, unlike the subsequent Nagasaki explosion, was an air burst high above the surface, so the fallout was insignificant. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glossy black and beige tiles lined the lower two-thirds of the surrounding walls, creating a backsplash of sorts that was higher than the top of my head. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I hurried out of room 202 with my head held high. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

When she jumped into his palm, he reached as high as he could to the ceiling. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The yelling pitched higher, and Moss just acted. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When I first moved in, this would have been called “disordered behavior” and Jennifer’s voice would pitch up high and Dad would twist his wedding band around and around his finger. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Surely, so high above the world, she would be able to breathe without coughing. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Looking out from some high windows, you could see a dozen red-brick walls facing different directions and the roofs of the many connecting corridors. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others who had continued to campaign under high weight, such as Equipoise and Discovery, had lost repeatedly. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up high on a shelf, there was a box. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hands cupped in front of their faces, heads bowed, murmuring a prayer: “Merciful God, forgive him his trespasses. Make wide his grave and light his path. Raise him unto the highest heavens.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

My dad took my mother to her high school prom, even. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I almost looked higher, but somewhere off to my left Annabeth screamed, “No! Don’t!” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

You can’t bring your security card with you into the higher levels. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raising a block of wood high, she brought it down on his head with all of her strength. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Not the steady tolling of the hour, but a shrill clamor, high and percussive—a sound of alarm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Crown holds the chain up higher for me to see. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the schools, periodic brawls broke out between white and black students, and I spent parts of my high school years with police and police dogs stationed in the corridors to keep the races apart. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Matt’s spirits rose still higher as he thought about traveling through those gray-brown mountains. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cordelia will be going to your high school. Cordelia’s mother wonders whether you girls would like to walk to school together.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I searched high and low until my breath grew labored, but I found the castle strangely deserted. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A boat with both a very high stroke rate and very powerful strokes will beat a boat that can’t match it on both counts. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He lifted the candle to the wall, and there I saw that he had tacked sheets of music all over the plaster, high and low, affixing other pages with paste. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I could go back and finish my last year of high school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard wailing then, high and keen and awful, and he knew the voice. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s a bit higher than the rest of the city.” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But since you might be a higher order of some sort of being, maybe if you try really hard, you can pull an opinion from it without your head exploding.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Leon would pick Bailey: one of the weak kids, high honor student, but shy, introverted, always reading, his eyes red- rimmed behind the glasses. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bellows wheezed in and out while the sun rose higher in the sky. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the whole time, Winn-Dixie was standing right in the middle of everybody, wagging his tail so hard that I thought for sure he would knock Miss Franny right off her high heels. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

If he were to add a polo shirt with a whistle around his neck, he’d look suspiciously like Mr. Connors, the thick-necked football coach at my high school. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

His voice sounded an octave higher than usual. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the 1960s, African American leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., made the right to vote, the most fundamental right in any democracy, their highest priority. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He smacks the steering wheel like he’s giving it a high five. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A string of lights like the one in the stairway hung high up against the arched ceiling. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He felt, briefly, like a boy straining over the handlebars of a borrowed bicycle, cresting a high rise, flinging himself into the downhill. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day, last year—at a different high school—I was sitting in math class and this guy I barely knew wouldn’t stop staring at me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, none of the food her mother packed for her hit high on the flavor scale. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They seemed to think that the Enemy was looking high and low for me, and would make mincemeat of me, if he caught me tottering about in the Wild. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I nodded, and he took me downstairs to the basement, except it wasn’t really a basement because the ceilings were like fifteen feet high. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sun was still high and that meant that he had some time before darkness to find berries. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the lamp table were her reading glasses and a high pile of books. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right there in the main case, next to the trays of gingerbread men and fruit tarts and odd-looking foreign cookies, sat a platter piled four stories high. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Sure, you didn’t eat it. You put it up high on a shelf so you could just look at it.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Temperatures, rainfall, and humidity all increased, raising plant productivity to the modern high levels for which Japan is preeminent among temperate-zone countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Joyce bragged that the butchers “had a highly skilled trade and were high priced men.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Africa is the only continent to extend from the northern to the southern temperate zone, while also encompassing some of the world’s driest deserts, largest tropical rain forests, and highest equatorial mountains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Estha Mon!” he would call out, in his high, piping voice, frayed and fibrous now, like sugarcane stripped of its bark. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being tall, Theresa was in charge of the high shelves. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle was a picnic table piled high with food from all the different trucks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Even Mrs. Callahan, who had never had a very high opinion of Captain Cook, made a lovely frozen custard for him. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

She offers him some mandu, even though he hates Korean food and has refused to eat it since junior high. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We sang at the top of our lungs, and it kept our spirits high. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt saw high security fences in the distance, and his heart sank.The air was foul, the temperature broiling, and the humidity so high that his jumpsuit clung to his body like a second skin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a large square chamber with a high ceiling, filled with dozens of massive stone columns. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Carla’s eyes sweep over a high shelf where toys and trinkets are stored out of the way. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Miles City had been cooking in the high nineties for days, and it was only the end of June, hot even for eastern Montana. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He has a corner office high atop the Conde Nast tower in Manhattan. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He held his hand higher and tightened his grip, and they could see the tremor in his fingers exaggerated by the bar. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There are books stacked high around them—the way opportunity and possibility are stacked around them. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A strike based on a political grievance rather than on clear-cut issues like higher wages or shorter hours is a more precarious form of protest and demands particularly efficient organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple two-note job — one high note, one low. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s high bed had escaped the water but still smelled damp, so we put the mattress on the porch roof to sun. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The junior high school entrance examination had been abolished. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I whistled for Clarence the same way Burke did—two low whistles and then one high one. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘The pass, Sam!’ he cried, not heeding the shrillness of his voice, that released from the choking airs of the tunnel rang out now high and wild. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Casualties in the Wide Patrols were high, for the elil got to know that they went out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked a little bit like one of my idols, Shawn Johnson, who had won the 2006 US Junior National All-Around Championship with a score that was higher than all her senior-level competitors. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Small fingers of it would run off course and only stopped when they hit some higher ground. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has been to his high school games and knows he is the vaunted captain of the St. Joseph’s football team. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The prospect of the monster being at the open house is high. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The art of the Old Stone Age in Europe as we know it today marks the highest achievements of a way of life that began to decline soon after. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the doubt that sat in my mind through student orientation, through my first sessions of high school biology and English, through my somewhat fumbling get-to-know-you conversations in the cafeteria with new friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Is that why you and Grandma used to always go back to Tennessee for your high school reunions?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I bet I got a higher score than you did,” Claire says, her voice cocky. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I see a large building—some sort of enormous warehouse that is visible from this high up. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I paid the price, my star, but it was too high, too high . A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He fled at once, and the minute it was well, “Up with the bonnets of bonnie Dundee,” she slipped away to return no more till the young gentleman departed in high dudgeon. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

His three children all went far beyond his second-grade education, finishing high school or attending college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weidenbach twinkled along in her high heels next to Grandma. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Up the green terrace went a stair of stone, high and broad, and on either side of the topmost step were stone-hewn seats. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We fly higher, and I’m out of breath as we head farther north, Connecticut maybe? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In August, after the retreat of the monsoon from the high Himalaya, Lopsang had returned to Everest to guide a Japanese client up the South Col and Southeast Ridge route. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

That man, who had a higher standing in society, was guilty before God for abandoning her to keep his social status. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My stock plummeted, and by high school, it plateaued. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Ahead of her was a flat gravel surface, and about ten paces away she could see the high wall of the clock tower. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I turn my board higher, trying to protect myself from all the flying snow. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"That is insubordinate. It is improper. It is disrespecting of her teachers—" In his anger he had forgotten his fear of lurking spies: each wrong he voiced was a decibel higher than the last outrage. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Their only goal was to survive—which meant people were quick to forget items of high value that didn’t improve their immediate chances of said survival. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He jumped up to the next higher step. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The high shrieking changed to subdued wailing as they fought their way back. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided it was high time I made my first visit to the amusement park. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the funeral, his brave mother boldly told us that her son accomplished all three of his goals—to get his driver’s license, to graduate from high school, and to go to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

After all, he did manage to maneuver us out of the high school. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But interhemispheric diffusion made no contribution to Native America’s complex societies, isolated from Eurasia at low latitudes by broad oceans, and at high latitudes by geography and by a climate suitable just for hunting-gathering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They rose high over my head and seemed to melt into the murky sky. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The elm that draped over its roof shadowed its high windows. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I added quickly: 'I never held any high office, mind you. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps not, Haldeman granted, but he was working for people higher up, including John Mitchell. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Across the water a line of trembling smoke rose high and then spread out. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Longstreet said stiffly, “Sir, there are three Union corps dug in on the high ground in front of me.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her arms are down at her sides, not up high like a chipmunk’s the way they usually are. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stumble up the path, climbing higher above the Pit floor, scattering stones with our shoes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

For example, even a beginning piano player can play the highest and lowest keys; and even the best player cannot play beyond these. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“No, I feel good. We high school graduates are often called upon to drive at night and we rise to the occasion. Is Okra in the car?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems an odd name for a frequency that is two times, not eight times, higher. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

To murder at the top of the highest tower... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If the flood had forced deer and pheasants as well as people high up above their usual dens and nests, there should be plenty of them around to catch. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And yet there again, the Neurocase paper I cite above on the prodigious memorizer of 7t describes how the subject’s “self-report indicates that imagining affective situations and high emotional content is critical for successful recall.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Nita grabbed him under his arm, yanked at his shirt, dragging him higher. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The wood was stacked as high as a man could reach, in orderly piles on either side of a central aisle. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Julius Caesar and Pompey, two of the three generals who shared the ruling power in Rome, agreed to provide Ptolemy with the support he needed, but it came at a very high price. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

They reached again and again for a high note, yearning toward a high note, which they found at last and held— an icicle in the desert. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For him, the Hole is a kind of sacred high place, where insights are birthed and clarity comes to visit. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There is one zone, high up in the shadows, that is cool enough to allow the growth of fir trees usually found only much farther north. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about four feet high and extends in a large rectangle in front of the mansion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Near Ettumanoor they passed a dead temple elephant, electrocuted by a high tension wire that had fallen on the road. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From high inside my head I could hear someone laughing. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then he admitted that there was uncertainty on this point; the number could be as low as 15 percent or as high as 80 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all these windows into the lives of students and the close attention he paid, he has become an authority on high school sociology. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The members of the Mouse Council sat atop three bricks piled high, and spread out before them was every mouse, old and young, foolish and wise, who lived in the castle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

A full moon hung high in the sky, illuminating the parking lot. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The payments, even if high and festooned with interest, are no worse than renting an apartment and fighting the owner for heat. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

These teams pulled in big rowdy crowds as well as college scouts, but my parents were adamant that Craig not sacrifice his intellectual development for the short-lived glory of being a high school phenom. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The car traveled a bit higher, then unexpectedly stopped, raising the question of how everyone aboard would get down if the wheel could not be restarted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We climb to the top of the highest dune when it’s time for lunch. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He felt eerie fragility, like a piece of thin glass in a high hot wind. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish that I’ll go to college on a scholarship someday I wish I’ll be homecoming queen in high school. I wish we could afford a nice house.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I loved sitting next to him at sundown, high in a tree to get a better view of the gold and purple in the distance, swinging our legs as we watched the sun disappear. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They dumped us off. They lifted one end of the bench—real high—so you and me slid off, onto the ground.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scott took the city bus to high school, not a school bus like George did. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You can take it, or this ugly thing can gather dust on a high shelf for the next ten years.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Cabot’s cousin, Josh, who was still in high school, walked into his bedroom one afternoon and sat down on the bed. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The black, red, orange and yellow colors are thought to be frozen sulfur, originally spewed from the volcanoes in a molten state with the initial temperatures highest for black deposits and lowest for yellow. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when I make what is obviously a cool match, the highest praise he will give is, “Not bad.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“So what do we do with her?” the taller one asked, his voice much higher pitched than Thomas expected. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s all for show. They aim high just to scare us. Besides, he couldn’t hit nothing anyway.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Mel told me that in some pens the figure runs as high as 70 percent. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“That’s the big gun, but it stinks to high heaven. Best to keep that container sealed tight,” she said. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Wherever they went and wherever they slept, the east wind whistled in the reeds, and the geese went over high in the starlight, honking at the stars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was large and airy, with great beams of dark oak supporting the high ceiling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Since then, Lidia dropped out of high school to take care of Penny full-time in a small apartment with her grandmother. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Edward snarled even more ferociously, harshly, his lip curling high above his glistening, bared teeth. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Flying Coach would climb higher and higher, until the air turned cool and crisp. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

An all-black group of junior high school girls paid close attention to Mary and Emma Jean’s joint lecture, entitled “The Aspects of Engineering for Women.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Of Ariel the Fairy, flying high in the air, across the stage of the Festival Theater, his legs splayed out as though he really was flying. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“If Hoodhood and Associates get the junior high school contract—and we intend to—then Kowalski and Associates may very well be no more.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her hair was teased up high, gray and blond. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Above that were the storerooms, which occupied a layer at least twenty feet high. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Queen herself gave orders that a special house with tremendous high ceilings and enormous doors should immediately be built in Windsor Great Park, next to her own castle, for the BFG to live in. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would they really be able to travel on as far as Fiver’s high place—wherever it might be? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never performed one of my nonhymn songs in public before. Much less at the high school Christmas talent competition in front of six hundred people, most of whom hate me.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Then Salim’s pod got to its highest point, twelve o’clock, and we both said, ‘NOW!’ at the same time and laughed again, and this time I meant the laugh. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The higher the intensity, the better the high. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hazel squinted at the sun, which was now high in the sky. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She smiled as she talked, and her expression and the hair piled in a bun high on her head made her look like a Lautrec dancer but she never looked straight at me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I have said that there were two good things about the high school program. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Byrne says, and I realize that she is talking about my necklace, which is usually hidden by my high- necked dresses. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

After all, he’d given me not just my love of gymnastics, but also the courage to fly high above the arena floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When I am fully conscious, I am sitting on a concrete slab beside the high, glowing lights of the vuvv compound. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Amala said nothing for a while; she spoke so seldom that her voice always surprised Ugwu by how childishly high it was. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most of the other students in my classes were in high school or still in college, and I was twenty-one, but I didn’t care. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They claimed that the Jews profited during times of high inflation because they owned so many shops and businesses. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of them mimed reaching up high, as though to grope for something on a shelf, and his companion laughed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It is the kind of material that grips high school actors and audiences but terrifies school administrations. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was a huge building with a front office that connected to a large back structure two stories high. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

By binding small, flat pieces of wood to newborns’ foreheads, they pushed up the soft infant bones, making the skull longer and higher than normal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Suddenly, the high five was everywhere,” I say. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He would have personally punted me out of the van, preferably at a high speed, in the middle of a deserted highway. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was so high that there was no way to get inside without a stepladder. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

With his hands on her shoulders, she could feel the pulsing of her blood within her as if it were rushing up to meet his skin, and the price did not seem so high. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gave each other high fives and resumed their game. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He slumped down on her settee, which had curved wooden legs so thin it looked like it was wearing high heels. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Holding his large hands up, pumping his knees high, prancing, his great red beard flapping, his two-pointed hat bobbing this way and that, the hat bells jingling, he was like one possessed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She dusted herself off and then carefully climbed up a leaning slab of stone, to the very highest point of the entire mountain. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Carrying my lantern and two large plates heaped high with food, she was heading for the doghouse. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In minutes I hear the water gushing down the sluiceway, bubbling and chortling along until it spills out the end and strikes the paddles of the wheel just forward of its highest point. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like an eruption, a gout of fire higher than the walls of Asgard itself: terrifying, and unimaginably hot. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Dad was still looking for a car to replace the Olds—our budget was in the high two figures—so that weekend we all hiked over for our first look at the new place. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes stayed glued to the Jumbotron high above the arena. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was high, and when I looked down, the stream spun. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How high will it fly?” another said, pointing at Auk XXV. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We’d run up the slides, spin on the merry-go-round till we were dizzy, and try to swing higher than one another. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

"Now, go to your bedroom. The nurses are waiting with the leeches. You've had enough excitement for a week. The toxins in your blood must be high. It's what makes you behave this way." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“But I could never find the tree. And if I did, I don’t think I could climb so high.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

How high could you jump if you lived on Mars? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Captain Johnson reporting as directed, sir,” the captain said, his voice as high pitched as a castrato’s. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Boss said later, it was the highest compliment he had ever been paid. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But they were too high to be birds. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

After high school graduation, Reggie went to a year of college in Virginia, and to play basketball. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The ball flew high above the cheering crowd into the twilight sky, over the billboarded fence. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He imagined dark clouds over the mobile home and fat raindrops pelting the cornfield, where his corn had grown five feet high. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The cliffs loomed higher and ever higher overhead as he approached the mountain-root from which they sprang, and the lane of water grew narrower. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I like to think I’m not high maintenance or anything, but is it so bad to want some chemistry? Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My coffee high from earlier had worn off, finally, and here I was about to bring it right back. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I graduated from high school in early June. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ahead loomed the high brick walls of the local brewery. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lee had told him that there were mountains in the south so high that even his balloon could not fly over them, and they were crowned with snow and ice all year round. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

More shrieking birds swept in, descending into the lower branches, then flapping up again to higher perches in a cyclone of distress. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The value of high school football was deeply entrenched. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Volpe likes him and is confident that Moore, whose son had been in theater at the local Catholic high school, values the drama program. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We ran past other junior high schools and got jeered at by baseball players who warmed up with a couple of sprints and then shagged balls the rest of the afternoon. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid,” put in Cutie himself at this point, “that my friends obey a higher one than you, now.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He has Momma’s “high yella” complexion, as Nana calls it, and when he gets mad, his face turns deep red, like it is now. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I had never climbed so high in a building before, so high that I furtively put a hand to the wall to steady myself. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the consistency isn’t nearly as high as you might expect. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy walked down the aisle past the black wig that hung from atop a crate, the high pumps tossed on a pile of newspapers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still far ahead, and still high above, Frodo, looking up, saw, as he guessed, the very crown of this bitter road. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I never mind those times, those fifteen-minute inquiries into what he was like in high school or the Yankees. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Everywhere there were groups of the sort of people who probably weren’t popular in high school. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Her new roommate looked just like the snotty girls who had made high school miserable: pretty, beautifully dressed, somehow at ease with the world, and that first night she had cried herself to sleep. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And, of course, after the girls changed into pajamas, Taryn suggested they watch a movie about a big, dramatic high school dance. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Today we have the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This particular magic sword could only be used by an avatar who was tenth level or higher. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A wagon driven by a king’s soldier and piled high with spoons and bowls and kettles was making its way to the castle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Driving the car at high speed was John Paul Vann, a retired army colonel, now working as a civilian advisor for the government. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In July 1986, the nation’s rig count hit an all-time low of 663, some 85 percent fewer than the high it had hit less than five years earlier. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see from here that the high window was closed; no one had come in that way. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The buildings in this part of town weren’t nearly as high as they were in Times Square, but they were still high enough to make Chester Cricket feel very small. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piece will also sound higher or lower once it is transposed. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He tells me that high school is no utopia, but I’m not convinced. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And it is with a profound sense of humility that I accept the honor—the highest there is—that you have chosen to bestow upon me. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evie was in the high chair, she was crying and neither of them were looking at her. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some way ahead a line of high green hills rose into the haze, and Lee was glad he’d provided plenty of ballast. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By eleven, when the sun was high in the sky, we would begin to flag. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each addition to Yolanda's beach basket causes a spill from the stash already piled high above the brim. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I saw nothing but a flock of wood pigeons swirling high above some ways beyond where we were. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sun was rising higher and higher. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why the others did, but I wanted to be up high—I wanted to see as far as I could. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was someone in the air, hovering in the sky high above her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

What the economy consisted of in 1960 was potential—raw materials, human beings, high spirits, some money from the marketing board reserves left over from what the British had taken to rebuild their postwar economy. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was dark save for an occasional torch flaring at a turn, or beside some opening that led into the higher levels of the Tower. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

TaShon tilts, almost throws the axe on top of the high box. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Ever since my run-in with that cop, I’ve been on high alert. Noticing stuff I would’ve glossed over or tried to ignore before.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I never went to one single high school party until graduation,” Jesse told me once. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In reality, that’s not true: on the average across all industries, America’s industrial productivity is higher than that in either Japan or Germany. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Others cheered the bird, toasted it with bottles of soda pop hoisted high. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

They were barechested but wore fringed leggings and heavy shell necklaces and high- strapped sandals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

About 6,200 students attend Bristol Township’s public schools, either at Truman High, the district’s lone high school, or one of its two middle schools or nine elementaries. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He crouched low to the ground, tensed and ready, and uttered a high, ear-splitting scream; and, as the startled cub turned, the cat sprang. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

More of my pictures sell, for higher prices. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And the thing was, after the first year, you could get a scholarship if your grades were high,” Friedman said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Occasionally a pigeon flapped into the air and stayed there, feathers intact, not only stayed there but rose higher and higher into the gray cloud, then above it, above the treetops, into the sky. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Since Iceland’s interest rate at that time was higher than Switzerland’s, it’s curious why Bobby didn’t want the transfer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My friends and I climb up in the bars under the bleachers at the high school. If we fell there we could die too.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t walk with my head high like my mom said. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And she had on high- heeled shoes that made her wobble back and forth when she walked. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Virgil perched on the highest branch of the tallest tree. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It looked just like the illustrations Annabeth had seen in military history books—with a defensive trench lined with spikes, high walls, and watchtowers armed with scorpion ballistae. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At the same time, they were on high alert for clues. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The time I’ve lost from setting up the dynamite is now made up as I rapidly get higher and higher, until I reach the wall of the building. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We were up very high; street lamps and traffic cut patterns in the night below. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, small changes at a lower level of organization can lead to emergent changes at a higher level. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s high time you learn to build a fire.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Taryn made an odd, high keening noise and slapped her palms over her mouth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The corpse was angled steeply into the muck, upside down, like a diver who had plunged headfirst off a high tower. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun fell on the girl’s face, on her large green eyes and her smooth brow, on her high cheekbones and the appealing, thick eyebrows, which were nothing like Mariam’s own, thin and featureless. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

From the open building behind me came a blast of neutral-smelling air and a high hum of fluorescent lights. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s be Charlie’s Angels,” Lexie cried in a burst of inspiration, so she and Serena and Pearl donned bell-bottoms and polyester shirts and teased their hair as high as they could. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The guys discussed all sorts of things,” he remembered, “like marriage, divorce, the high divorce rate among Hollywood stars.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

By early afternoon there was a stillness of heat, and a herd of cows from the higher fields slowly grazed their way down into the shade. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bales were so heavy and piled so high that they were a real menace. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

As long as I’ve known him, he’s been this way: extra-vigilant when it comes to matters of money and ethics, holding himself to a higher standard than even what’s dictated by law. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The sentry was posted high up on the wall beside the belfry. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It’s high school and he’s hot. Enough said.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

But now, instead of seizing my hand and rubbing it against his whiskers until I screamed, Milton no longer had the high spirits to torment me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But Mayor Nagin estimated that the final number might climb as high as ten thousand. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Each step is equal-sized. Sure, for the people higher up this ladder, their kids are more apt to get more education, better health insurance. But that doesn’t mean there are classes.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Marigold picked her way down the stairs, her arms piled so high with shirts and pants and things for her father that she practically tumbled to her death three times. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They climbed the high steps that led to the Gran’s home in record time, and Seven was grateful to be floating instead of being on foot. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Often the grass was so high that it reached above the knees of the riders, and their steeds seemed to be swimming in a grey-green sea. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We sat on the eighteenth green, which was pretty high on a hill, and we watched the sun disappear. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was, first, a reception in the parlor, animated with the same frisson of excitement that accompanies the tumbling of acrobats in high spaces. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every one seemed in high glee; laughter and conversation were general and animated. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

A man, draped in long black robes and with a dead-white face, came through a rear door and sat behind a high pulpit-like railing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Next thing I know, I close my eyes, and I am flying high to that special place. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I used to play this game in high school,” Shukumar recalled. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Take that, Mr. Doom and Gloom therapist! she wrote on her blog in a pair of posts celebrating Sasha’s high school graduation. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But during the high school all-star football game in July at the Astrodome between players from the north regions of Texas and ones from the south, he had felt an intense pain in his back. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thunderclouds which usually go with hot weather were there, high columns of cumulus with glaring edges, but there was not going to be any thunder. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Historical records show that frontier populations can increase at astonishing rates; in the early nineteenth century, the annual U.S. birthrate climbed as high as 5 percent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And several times during that long silent night ride high up over the middle of the ocean in the moonlight, James and his friends saw things that no one had ever seen before. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling as if she were stepping off a high building, she picked one. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was flying as high as twenty feet now, and the sun, gleaming through the painted canvas, made the wings seem like living flesh. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must be steady, and she closed her eyes and found herself saying silently, O stay and hear, your true love’s coming, that can sing both high and low. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

This one was much smaller, though the ceiling was quite as high; it gave the claustrophobic sense of being stuck at the bottom of a deep well. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant stood on several bricks so that he could be high enough to be seen by all. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the photograph he had taken care to hold his head high enough to hide his double chin, yet not so high as to appear haughty. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe the story that she fell very hard from a high step stool, like Totchy said, is true. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’d deserve it,” Cedric muttered, but all the same, he raised his wand and shot a shower of red sparks into the air, which hovered high above Krum, marking the spot where he lay. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A third of the way out, a wagon laden with melons had gotten its wheels tangled with one piled high with silken carpets and brought all wheeled traffic to a halt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was the highest paid, receiving thirty dollars a week. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking up he saw before him a tall white tower, standing alone on a high ridge. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The high wooden bar forms one long L down the length of the room. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, she was high as hell on pain meds, as was I—like I told you—but you glow. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“They swore they had seen you mounted on a dragon, flying high above the camps of the Yunkai’i. Every day we looked for you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Junito dropped out of high school when he was a sophomore and started selling drugs in the neighborhood. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He quickly glanced around, but the yard was silent as the grave between its high walls. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I never knew people could care so much about the dramas surrounding high school basketball, but holy hell, it was apparently a very big deal. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Too high anyway: he could neither see nor reach any top to them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Styx popped in his earbuds and rode patiently, bopping and singing from on high. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“There are bodies in here!” said Harry, and his voice sounded much higher than usual and most unlike his own. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He put on a high voice, “‘Oh Professor Flitwick, I’m so worried, I think I got question fourteen b wrong.. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

But then again, maybe you knew the same people when you went to your high school dances, if you know what I mean. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He spent hours applying pomantum wax, padding, and lengths of brick- colored hair to fashion a high roll on Madam’s head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three sisters were young and beautiful, with high foreheads, large, almond-shaped eyes, and full, Cupid’s-bow lips. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I have one from when you were in high school, but I want to know what you look like now.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

While these three talked, the suitors in the field had come together plotting—what but death for Telemakhos?—when from the left an eagle crossed high with a rockdove in his claws. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several people wearing factionless armbands advance on us with guns held high. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Standing straight, keeping my chin high, I meet her gaze. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government outfitted the development with the perks that it felt were key to keeping home-front morale high. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Confidence is a funny thing in high school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He knew that he had to do something, but he remained where he was, his gaze riveted by the Hessian’s height, his bright uniform, the pale face beneath the high, golden cap. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or the suburban high school student who has a drinking problem but keeps getting behind the wheel? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Another high schooler with a perspective adored by the older poets. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

As I entered the community center, sorority women, showing off their high fashion and high spirits, greeted us as though we were very important. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet there it stood, seven tiers high, reaching far above the tallest trees. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mixed economies that added certain crops or livestock to hunting-gathering also competed against both types of “pure” economies, and against mixed economies with higher or lower proportions of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the news unfold on TV with my mom: Trayvon, a black high school student, was walking home from a convenience store when a man named George Zimmerman began following him, deeming him suspicious. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He circled in the hollow under the branch, looking for higher ground, and then jumped again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene used my spy binoculars to study our progress from on high. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The cliffs were steep here and very high, but we wove a stout rope of bull kelp and fastened it to rocks at the top of the cliff so that it hung to the water. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is in high school now, taking Mr. Lawson’s English class, going to the dances Gogol never went to himself, already going to parties at which both boys and girls are present. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But after two rounds of bombings in the higher elevations of the mountain, the planes have their attention. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Oui,” you tell him, utilizing the summation of almost three years of high school French. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Two hundred yards up there seemed to be a belt of thick, lower brush starting— about ten or twelve feet high—and that formed a wall he could not see through. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest of the crones, a bent and shriveled stick of a woman with a single black eye, raised her arms on high. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The first thing Jus notices when he pulls into the visitor lot of the Fulton Regional Youth Detention Center is how much the building reminds him of a high school. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Spike-topped iron railings ran around part of the cemetery, a high brick wall around the rest of it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In other words, short waves sound high; long waves sound low. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

As I walk, the pot becomes heavier and heavier in my hands as the sun climbs higher and higher in the sky. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asta was still in her hawk shape, hovering as high above him as she could get and staring fixedly at the terrace. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Katie’s crucifix hung high on the wall over the mantelpiece at home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A high, thin, crackly little voice came from the back of the shop. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Great beams of black oak supported the high ceilings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The largest was right next to the kitchen—it was nearly two feet across and three feet high—and it was being assimilated by fresh mint. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Dylan Thomas, with his high, ethereal voice and poetry that was, at times, incomprehensible, fulfilled that idea, whereas Hughes, writing about ordinary people and about a very mundane Harlem, did not fulfill that idea. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, really,” he mocks in a high voice. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She is still wearing her high school graduation ring. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Probably it was no more than temporary shelter, a refuge when flood- waters got too high. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The church had a great old organ, with pipes that went from behind the organ to a point high overhead. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Vanguard, after all, had managed to fly a yard higher than I had. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was sacrificed from atop a mighty mountain, the highest place a human could reach, in the hopes that her pure and beautiful spirit would speak to Inti on behalf of the people. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She’d just graduated high school like he had, and had apparently gotten into Stanford. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

From our balcony, most of Phnom Penh looms only two or three stories high, with few buildings standing as tall as eight. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The author of the monograph, a native of Schenectady, New York, was said by some to have had the highest I.Q. of all the war criminals who were made to face a death by hanging. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This year Ellie and Brenda both had boyfriends at the consolidated high school and the problem of what to give them and what to expect from them was cause of endless speculation and fights. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

When he fell asleep that night, he slept hard and dreamed of soaring high. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

David and I are in the same grade, even though he’s taller and heavier and looks like junior high already. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the tree he found a waste of bracken, six foot high. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in high school, well, the stories about Nick’s other adventures could go on and on and on. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt that he was living upon a high pinnacle where bracing winds whipped about him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Far back behind them stood the high place where they had breakfasted. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The fire’s advancing glow is brighter, higher than ever. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The limbs were high and not right for a tree house. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rode miles across dry lake flats and over rocky cerros until he came to a high fence of heavy-gauge steel mesh with three strands of barbed wire across the top. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I drove up to Fremont’s Peak, the highest point for many miles around. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the higher brain functions, some—reading, writing, speaking—seem to be localized in particular places in the cerebral cortex. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fangor and Shed could easily leap ten feet in the air, and the sparkling ceiling of the cavern over the beach was not much higher. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, not everyone, has their own fountain or ceilings as high as those in the Doge’s Palace,” Victor grunted back. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It's also a tradition of high pageantry, in which lawmakers dramatically express their approval or disapproval of the president’s ideas by either leaping to their feet in repeat standing ovations or remaining seated and sullen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Armstrong's body had been dragged above high water mark. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Impoverished mountain-dwelling Mexicans, who usually got around on wormy little burros, were soon cantering through town in high style, straddling blue-blooded Thoroughbreds worth a lifetime of their income. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was gaining back some of the muscle he’d lost after high school, but he’d lost the war with his hairline. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Dr. Darwin decided to take Charles out of high school since he wasn’t making much use of it anyway. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

By similar logic, antelopes that foraged on tall trees found that they had to extend their necks to reach the high foliage. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her voice had escalated right through shouting mode into a high, quiet dogs-only range. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the public mind, this kind of technology has come to seem like the equivalent of the high technologies of the physical sciences. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the endless deliberations over desegregation, the board spent more time worrying about how the high school athletic programs might be affected than how the curriculum might be affected. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is still scandalously high, higher in fact than my aftertax weekly pay will amount to. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra’s uncle moved across to the fire and stretched his arms high above his head, yawning like a lion. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a pity. We had such high hopes.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

I'd worried that he might score higher than me, but a series of recent events had set me at ease. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The next day the hills rose still higher and steeper before them, and they were forced to turn away northwards out of their course. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The high school girls in the seats hoot and giggle. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The high humidity alarm will take a little longer. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Robes of the finest brocade! Worn in the highest courts of Tenebrion! Priceless!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Richard was twenty-two, and one of the smartest people I knew, but he lacked a high school diploma. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The scores came back a few weeks later and I once again received the highest grade in our school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

None of them stayed any more high than I did. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jewish community of Sighet held him in highest esteem; his advice on public and even private matters was frequently sought. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the close darkness of the Honeycomb, Hazel pushed past three or four of his rabbits crouching among the tree roots and reached the higher shelf where Speedwell lay listening for sounds from above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amy told me I was crazy to be worried about college before we even started high school, but I wasn’t going to wait until it was too late. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When she stumbled he put her on his shoulders, and high above the beach she saw thousands of birds diving toward the sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes on one beautiful couple where the woman’s hair sits high and round on top of her head like Jesus’s halo. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I cut him off, talking in a much higher pitch than normal. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Holding her skirt high, my mother led the way back, running and laughing. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My back was throbbing and my thoughts were leaden, as if I had a high fever or had taken a hard blow to the back of the head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On one side, a stand of timber bamboo jutted up three stories high. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And, Lord, please help this high school if I got to make any substitutions. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard him crying out to the birds as they rose higher, like ten thousand hot sparkles, so many red-yellow fireworks in the heavens, tugging the canopy like a flower petal, burning through the wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Failing to do so, they argued, was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment and would expose African Americans to a high risk of discriminatory stops and searches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After a high school friend told some stories about Gus’s considerable basketball talents and his many qualities as a teammate, the minister said, “We’ll now hear a few words from Augustus’s special friend, Hazel.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She could carry three small bucketsful in her bucket, but it was so heavy she couldn’t lift it to dump it into the high tank on the flatboat. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The most important benefit of fiber, though, derives from the dramatically higher bandwidth of the signals it can transport over long distances. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even though Becca was still two grades behind me, at least Marissa and I would be going to the same high school that fall. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But it is often easiest to write the range on a staff, as the two notes at the high and low ends of the range. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We value the arts and high scores on state tests, and good luck to those of you on our wait list. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Old Flint and The Norrey had been given places of high honor just below the dais. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He lifted it high above his head, and the light shattered. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In Baltimore County, the number was as high as 85 percent in some years. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The silver- backed brushes were a constant reminder of what her wishes for him were—that he not stop his education at high school, but go on to college and medical school. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But around her I could be the new and improved Clay Jensen, high school freshman. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

When they came to a high saddle between two spires of rock, Mya dismounted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’m tall, he’s short; I’m skinny, he used to be muscular, though most of it turned to fat after high school; I can count to five without using my fingers...Charlie has fingers. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Orpheus Fisher, the boyfriend from her high school days, still hoped that they could have a future together. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Nameless and naked he walked into the cold springs of the Ar where it rises among rocks under the high cliffs. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

And yet the balls sailed high over the bar and clunked against the posts. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I explained to Linda and anyone else who expressed skepticism about my Himalayan qualifications that I didn’t expect to ascend very high on the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Here he was just pouring honor all over her; building a high chair for her to sit in and overlook the world and she here pouting over it! Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

As a result, in the very long run, technology may have developed most rapidly in regions with moderate connectedness, neither too high nor too low. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Turning to look at me as she reached for some dishes on a high shelf, Miss Love almost smiled. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

To become a high officer in the Sarf one must have, it seems, a certain complex form of stupidity. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

By proceeding systematically in this manner, the police are able to engage in an extremely high volume of searches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It must have shown in my expression, for her face congested to high pink. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sun’s high in the sky and there’s a gas station a short distance away, but the lot where the RV is parked is otherwise abandoned. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I think of how high the drones are. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There is this sign, which is a good thing, because otherwise you would never know you’re looking at the highest point in Indiana. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore and Harry followed him onto a narrow dirt track bordered by higher and wilder hedgerows than those they had left behind. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“The stupid, the unintelligent, those who are dispersed, incapable of attention, of effort, have no right to a higher education.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ball drew his last, labored breaths in Hall’s arms, lying comatose in a small tent high on the peak. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We rolled our eyes at every high school convention that society tried to shove down our throats. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Many of the farmhouses they’d passed were two stories high, but this was one story. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Wheeling around, he hurtled back toward the ground, the Snitch held high in his hand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And as they hustle around for work, they have been constantly reminded of the one thing that stands out on their resumes: the education that ended with a high school diploma. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As she lay in bed, she kept thinking about Mr. Chris lying still in a high white bed, up in the hospital. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Because they came from wealthy families and spoke and understood both English and Japanese, they had high opinions of themselves. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nimbly they ran to push the fir pole high and step it firm amidships in the box, make fast the forestays, and hoist aloft the white sail on its halyards. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a small clique of six girls, there was a high probability that we'd all go to the dance. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gitney was crying on the floor, the whine pitched high. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Under pale blue skies, he drove along the base of high, sheer basalt cliffs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They ran off with all the water in high school pools to use elsewhere, before they realized they’d be turning some of those schools into evacuation centers. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bran had not wanted the Freys at the high table, but the maester reminded him that they would soon be kin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Shouldn’t you go to high school before graduating from high school?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Country Joe raised the guitar high in the air, gave a triumphant wave to the audience, and walked offstage. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

This bridge has more traffic because it links downtown with the west side of Bartlett, where the high school is and the local college is and all these neighborhoods are, growing up in between. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The high hairdo towered over her thin face like dunce cap, the white-blond hair utterly incongruous with her olive skin. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Lyra came after Will, and Pantalaimon became a kestrel and flew up as high as he could, making Lyra gasp. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

One of his shoulders was much higher than the other, and he stooped over his trencher like a vulture over carrion. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I watched as one soared higher and higher. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She turned and walked up the sagging steps to the little blue house, her head held high. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He would leave midday, right after high tide. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

So when we got to the high school and I asked Ruthanne how she planned to get in, I wasn’t surprised when she said, “Everybody knows the storage room window doesn’t shut all the way.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had a high fever and his blood count was abnormal. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

"Y'all vets better look out for this girl. She runs the eight hundred like it's a skip down the block," the coach said, giving Patina a high five. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Lanre leading the way, they came to a high place in the mountains where they could look out over the land. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had a funny, kind of high voice, almost like a cartoon character—like Akira’s voice, except in an old man. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We carried our last hope up into Dari’s bedroom, and Twig held it out the window, as high as she could. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As a high school history teacher, it had been her personal mission to cart Dad and me around to every major historical site in the area. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, I just found out that we are going to be an official class our senior year of high school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For corporate “high rollers,” what matters is the “bottom line,” or whether a company is “in play,” or a stock has “gone south.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Antwan turned into a different kind of dude once he started high school this year, and Sneaky’s mom is always fussing with him about who he hangs out with and how he treats Sneaky. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Except, Djo, when the sun is high and confuses the mind.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided that the miniature turret that I had built in the city room and since moved up here to my bedroom was better off on a higher shelf. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There was no sound except from the water and a breeze singing high up in the pine trees. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He hovered there for a second, rising a little higher than before, and then he sailed backward into the soft grass again. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Since he had come out of Efrafa, Bigwig’s standing was very high. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, a girl from another high school takes Bobby aside and asks if he’s gay. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They found a narrow road leading upward: high ground ahead. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Ross looked sharp and neat with a smart-looking very short hairdo like a soft black cap, and high winging eyebrows, like Melanie’s. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred squirrels were seated upon high stools around a large table. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

There upon its spur stood high walls of ancient stone, and within them was a lofty tower. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I was too afraid of being caught, and I figured getting out of prison was more important than getting high in prison. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I remember how high those wooden horses seemed. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A low earthen wall four feet high closed off the road, and a dozen crossbowmen manned the heights. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then your whole high school is paid for and you have access to 800 of the smartest, most interesting students in the world—not to mention the teachers and visiting dignitaries. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I swam slowly, it seemed like a long swim with the high tide, and then pulled up on the raft and sat, dripping, on the boards that were becoming hot in the sun. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“You might feel that way now, but it isn't like that forever. Wait until you see what the world has to offer besides this small town and your high school. People are different out there.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The cockatoo was placed in the lowest ring, and with beak and claw began to climb up to the next highest ring. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed out the meadhall, high on its hill above the town. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figan knew if he was attacked by one of the higher ranking males, Faben almost always would come rushing up to help him. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nick and Trip played high, and I kept dogging Ice. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

My skeleton was a male’s, with its higher center of gravity. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mandy carried the baby into the kitchen, lifted her into a high chair, and put some dry cereal on the tray. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She whispers to us that it’s why the cancer rate is so high in America. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The banks of the creek were high enough to allow the scouts to stand without being seen. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about everything I learned about writing essays in high school, which are kind of like speeches. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I look up at another bird high in the blue sky. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He demanded that every trader in Malawi hang his picture in his shop, and no other photo could dare hang higher. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I listened to him with my nose held high, sniffing the stink of his words when he told me my father would not likely give the dowry he required. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thumbed one of the strings, nudged the tuning peg a little higher. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The box looks no more than a foot wide or high, though in reality it is slightly larger than that. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And now here comes Rachel with stained hair and one dead sister and a whole darn marriage behind her already, not to mention hell and high water. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a small stretch of sand with high rocks on either side. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I held up my hand for a high five. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It didn’t even seek out the best views, highest hills, or most notable landmarks. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They had taken shelter beneath a copse of aspens just off the high road. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But Jack was pointing to the high declivities that led down from the mountain to the flatter part of the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He jogged around like Rocky Balboa and gave his siblings high fives. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“It tries, but I think I’m too heavy for it. It doesn’t jump very high.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some moons will be so close that their planet will loom high in the heavens, covering half the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the year 1936 introduced a string of technical improvements yielding higher energies, higher currents, and unprecedented reliability. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

You had to use a low, dirty water fountain, right next to the high, clean one for the whites. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood up and held her hand high in the air. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually”—I counted 2, 3, 5—“I don’t like the high dive.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the time PJ. entered high school, the Warden’s appetite for more adventure took him to another auction. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, you can still use them at the Book Scavenger and Bayside Press stores. And some people are just competitive and want to see how high they can get their point total.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was holding the lamp high up, so as to illumine the whole room, and in the warm dim light the place looked curiously inviting. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

On April 8, 2011, Iceland’s highest court held that Miyoko was truly and officially married to Bobby, and was therefore his sole heir. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As a server, though, I am beset by requests as if by bees: more iced tea here, catsup over there, a to-go box for table 14, and where are the high chairs, anyway? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Want a sugar cube?” he says, offering his hand, which is piled high. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime during the school year we had to choose which high school we wanted to attend. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I could climb high in its branches when I was happy. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mai already has running shoes because she uses them in her high school gym class. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Too hot meant propellant-tank pressures rising dangerously high; too cold meant radiators freezing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put one foot on a higher step so he was bent under the slant of the door and tried to rise. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I was in high school when my father told me.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Celia stands up, slips off one red high heel, then the other. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I loved that her lesson plans were the same ones used for ninth grade in the public high school I would have attended. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sanders faked Art, wheeled around him, and soared up high for a dunk shot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Everest region lies at 28 degrees north latitude—just beyond the tropics—and as soon as the sun rose high enough to penetrate the depths of the canyon the temperature soared. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to attach this staircase to the wall, see? Like so? And then put shelves way up high for the cats to climb to. It’ll be cat paradise.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Thus the high hopes that had given comfort to the North during the spring were almost crushed by early fall. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there was one difference in New York it was that we had more high- yellow cousins here in the Puerto Ricans and Dominicans. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I already sense that the level of buzzing energy in the cafeteria is higher than usual, but I first hear the news when Andrew approaches me in the food line. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

So now, while there’s wine, cheese, and doubleheaders downtown, poverty has taken over and crime is at an all-time high uptown. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The fairy blanched, then screamed, a high keening horrible sound. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Well after midnight, a magnificent high tide arrives, the largest waves smashing against the bases of the ramparts, the sea green and aerated and networked with seething rafts of moonlit foam. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Later Neel concluded that the high death rate was in part due to grief and despair, rather than the virus itself. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some stringed instruments — guitar for example — can use a capo36 to play in higher keys. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“This was a good school, ranked high on the national scale, and now our halls are filled with soldiers and people are treating us like criminals!” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am currently a senior in high school. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held both Friedmans in high regard, and they trusted him. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Beth and Zack are both balancing on one foot with their arms held high above their heads. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t about to tell my friends that I loved my team and couldn’t imagine going through high school without them. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If we had not built on high ground the very walls would have melted in that moisture. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby’s cage hung from a metal stand in the corner on the opposite side of the room, quite high up, so that the floor where she crouched was above their heads. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

"But because that pleasure was another's, I shall carry you with me a little way and leave you on a high crag, to be eaten by eagles." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted his hands high above his head as if stretching for the sky. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They had not long come out and resumed digging when they saw another—or perhaps the same one—hovering some way off, high over the very fields that they had crossed the previous morning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By Thursday, James had made a breakthrough with Maddie’s cipher and was back in high spirits. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The fogs slowly gathered together and steamed up into a huge umbrella of cloud: it must have been a mile high. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Canton and Mr. D’Ulney, and my father and I, we held the ropes that lowered Joseph into our family, beside the high white pines. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

In Detroit and Chicago, school-age Muslim children attended our two Universities of Islam—through high school in Chicago, and through junior high in Detroit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going to high school next year and I shouldn’t have to keep doing this. be a musician like Jimmy Leon’s dad or own an oil company like Coby’s? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Back and forth they went until the floor was full of sawdust heaped as high as the barrier in the doorway. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh hello,” he said, his voice much higher than usual. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The high walls hid them from view, but there were few places to hide. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was a small, slight fellow with a high thin nose, but his voice came out of him unexpectedly large and coarse and hard. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The water became bluer, darker, as the tub filled higher. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Margaret sang a pretty, wordless melody in her high voice; her natural squeakiness sounded conveniently like the scratch of a fiddle. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

There Serafina Pekkala settled on the highest comfortable branch, among the open flowers drinking in the Dust, and the two birds perched nearby. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Shortly before 7:30 on a Tuesday night in December, Mr. Larson straightened his necktie, kissed his wife, then turned to walk down the sloped aisle of the high school auditorium. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

There was strength in his high cheekbones and curved nose as well as in the way he held himself. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The waves are high, the wind is strong, the moon is white and full. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He swaggered away happily with the proud smile of a champion, his shriveled head high and his emaciated chest out. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then I had planned on attending an elite high school, and then one of the famous universities. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy always has the air conditioning on high in the spring and summer, turning the house into a meat locker. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Hi, Andrew! Where’s your overcoat?” cried Michael, trying to make a high, windy voice like Miss Lark’s. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Similarly, higher spin particles look the same if one turns them through smaller fractions of a complete revolution. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It went round and round in the sky and seemed twice as high as by day. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He took no notice of the strange animals across the water but thrust his head again and again under the water, raising it high in the air after each immersion, and arching his neck. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We saw Kostor, which is four miles high, from foot to crest; the huge slant of its western slope hid the peaks north of it, some of which go up to thirty thousand feet. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was one thing for Gogol to be the name penned in calligraphy on his high school diploma, and printed below his picture in the yearbook, he’d begun. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, playing for higher stakes than he could afford in some rather steep bridge games with his New York connections, he had held cards and won several hundred dollars. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

His voice was that beautiful, high and clear and so filled with life it made you want to laugh and cry at the same time. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Their high voices squealing with delight when Carla mispronounced some word they coaxed her to repeat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When I sensed that I had the ears of the spies, I would talk and act high and crazy. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

King Pelles could clearly see the blood running over his high cheek-bones, and the sunken cheeks, and the hunted eyes, and the blue shadows between his ribs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So then, what freedom do you see in the birds and the planes and the table here? Freedom from us? Freedom from high school?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The first great strike of 1919 began on January 21, when thirty-five thousand Seattle, Washington, shipyard workers walked off their jobs, demanding higher wages and shorter working hours. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The two most important things a written piece of music needs to tell you about a note are its pitch — how high or low it is — and its duration — how long it lasts. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It fell to the floor revealing the high bald forehead with, in the very middle, a round stained mark from which something had trickled. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He felt a leap of joy and spoke in a high, cold voice: Hold him! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The pecan tree made the perfect reading spot, with its far-reaching arms and its cradle high enough to keep me above fighting sisters or Big Ma when wash day came around. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Probably smoking cigarettes with some boy in the parking lot of the Piggly Wiggly across from the high school. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And the houses, the streets, and the high school will always be there to remind me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The bridge wasn't nearly as high as the cave ledge he had leaped from, but he still didn't want to look down. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The cold night air is reality at last: indifferent to me as a stone face carved on a high cliff wall to show that the world is abandoned. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

From it hordes of golden bees could be flung out with a high shriek. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth shudders a second time as the force of my power sends Azaan flying high, as though he’s been pulled backward by an invisible string. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They danced as the flames consumed them,- they staggered and writhed and spun and raised blazing hands on high, their fingers bright as torches. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We will see how high and mighty he is when he's faced with life and death. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She does finger-wiggling jazz hands and then moves into high knee lifts like in PE—with enough enthusiasm that I wonder if it’s possible for her knee to smash into her nose. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1957, after nine years of classes in the Coalwood School, I went across the mountains to Big Creek, the district high school, for the tenth through the twelfth grade. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m tired of providing oversized boys with the raw material for adolescent jokes about my being a high- maintenance mama, or some sort of luxury item. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the slow descent, she picked her way up the front walk, her knees coming up high under her long coat, her big boots slamming into the calf-deep powder. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Turner snuck back inside, as quiet as could be, thinking of high tide. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In some places the snow was higher than he was, and the big direwolf had to stop and shake it off after plunging through the thin crust. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

These students performed substantially better than they did in their old academic settings and graduated at a much higher rate than their past performance would have predicted. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He disliked high school groups: teens didn’t listen. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to concentrate on the high sky and the cool water. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then, knowing that the step of the bus would be too high for him, Stuart seized hold of the cuff of a gentleman’s pants and was swung aboard without any trouble or inconvenience whatever. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Silhouetted on the dark horizon, high on the cliff over the lake, stood the many turrets and towers of Hogwarts castle. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

During high mass, her sister and father recited the Lord’s Prayer with loud precision and clung forever to the last syllables of the hymns. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down once more, back against a gravestone, and began to drift slowly away, turning his mind away as you shift a field of vision with your glasses, moving to focus on higher ground. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they got higher, the weeds got thicker. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But whenever he could, he did experiments, just as he had when he was in high school. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the highest branch of the tallest tree was an eagle. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In high school, Charles was still not a good student. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1933, Austin and a small group of supporters attempted to enroll a black student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—the first legal challenge to segregation in higher education in America. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Of the 43,500 fatalities on U.S. roadways the previous year, 17,590 had been caused by drivers with a blood alcohol level of .08 or higher. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Highway 19 and 129, which despite having two numbers was really just a back road through a high pass between wooded nowheres. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As the landscape evolved, there must have been a long period of trial and error in which plants attempted the colonization of this high and windswept land. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And in high school, I learned how to read and write Spanish. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minced in with them and stuffed or piled high with household gear and suitcases were civilian cars, buses, farm trucks and carts pushed by men and women or pulled by horses. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I reached it before the sun was high, and the sandspit and its tides bore me into the shore. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground began to slope downwards very slightly now, and although the clearings were much wider, the foliage got more tangled, in some places there were nettles and clinging ivy, as high as their knees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But he also understood the world of high school football: when Boobie got hurt, he became obsolete. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will,” he said, and dropping his sons he seized me and swung me high up, in front of all those people. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found that Scythe Faraday’s moral imperative and ethical high ground infused Rowan with purpose—but only in the scythe’s presence. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Tonight it was rich black velvet, with high leather boots and a wide belt with a silver buckle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I said out loud, as it dawned on me that it was heading straight for the high school! All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They set up shop on the bluffs that mark the edge of high water—close enough to the river to fish, far enough to avoid the flood. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He might even now be pulling them apart page by page, folding them into birds, and launching them off his high widow’s walk, one by one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She had not been up a high dive since. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His dad had been a star player on his high school team, and Benji’s mom had gone to Syracuse University on a basketball scholarship. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They laid them north to south, from ice to fire, and piled them high with soft cushions and sleeping silks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Only the high wailing continued, and then both Will and Lyra saw what it was: a tabby cat, cowering against the wall of the tower, its ear torn and its tail bent. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push open the heavy doors, cross myself, light a candle, and sit in a pew, the dying Christ rising high above my head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Valour in arms is yours, and you win high honour thereby. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Willard was her little boy, and his voice was high and dear, like a little boy's. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He picked up the load of blankets and started hauling them to higher ground, hunting for something on the hillside that had a semblance of being flat. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t think you need to have a high intellect to do well on One versus One Hundred, do you?” the show’s host, Bob Saget, asked him. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was still higher than Moch wanted to row, nearly a sprinting pace, but it was what he needed to stay in contention. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“But, sir,” I said, “even without my mother tongue, my average comes out higher than a second-class pass. So how could I have failed?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

All foreign noses were higher than Chinese ones. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I came to New York after high school, I worked in my Aunt Mary’s leather factory and stayed with Buheh, who had moved to the Bronx. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if the high schools did open, Liz and I still wouldn’t be at the same school. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her high school graduation night, not long before the accident on Valley View Drive, her boyfriend got down on one knee at a campsite and proposed. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She asked Papa to seal the base of the tent by piling extra dirt, about six inches high, all around it outside so that animals, especially snakes, could not crawl underneath during the night. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The way Admetus treated him shows more plainly than any other story we have how high the standards of hospitality were, how much was expected from a host to a guest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Panicked, the British government took MacMillan’s prescriptions to heart and, among other reforms, proposed a series of “allisland” scholarships for academically minded students to go to private high schools. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Warbeak was going to kill him twice, then cut him up and drop him from the top of a high tree for the worms to feed upon! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You know yourself, Mrs. Dowdel, boys will be boys. They’s high- spirited. They’ll settle down in time and all be good Christian men. Their maw and I have set them a good example.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The drifts had climbed so high that they swallowed the man bodily ... but bowmen on the battlements claimed they glimpsed him sometime later, dragging a broken leg through the snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were all looking at Mary, and she felt more than ever like the new pupil at a school where they had high expectations of her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Our homicide rate is also much higher than in those countries. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But in the middle of the Aurora, high above the bleak landscape, Lyra could see something solid. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

On the far side of the valley there were high and even rocky hills, but they were lower than the mountains he had seen yesterday. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

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

She will make an entrance with me, later, when the noise level is high enough. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I kept playing, instinctively wanting to get the highest score possible. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In general, the larger the size and the higher the density, the more complex and specialized were the technology and organization, for reasons that we shall examine in detail in later chapters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He turns around and swipes at it, but she holds it high. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

An enormous sycamore tree stands higher than all the rest, dappling the valley floor with the shade of its leaves and making the whole glade feel like a secret, round room. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The stakes could be higher in some games than others, but Bull played them all to win. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home, he counts out his life savings, which is a higher amount than he had expected, and packs a change of clothes and an extra sweater. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So, to keep him happy, they let him start being a sort of junior high priest. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly midnight, and a car drove down Winslow quickly, its high beams on, as if it had somewhere important to be, then disappeared into the darkness. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Grandma goes, “Mm-hmm. That’s why it’s been flickering forever. Trey, you found a smart girl here. She got a high GPA. Studying marketing and even pursuing a music career on the side.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The higher we go, the stronger it will get. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He went to Laurie who was sitting by the window in her high chair. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lupin moved forward into the lamplight, hands still held high in a gesture of surrender. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And Hagen’s horn sounded again from on high, ringing out across the bailey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If Durham had earned a solid reputation throughout the nation, black people in the South held it in even higher regard. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Among whites, those expressing the highest degree of concern about crime also tend to oppose racial reform, and their punitive attitudes toward crime are largely unrelated to their likelihood of victimization. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe we actually made it, we actually have a diploma that says that we can get out of high school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

To us, the sound of the horn elides from high frequencies to low. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the most expensive high school in the city and one of the most selective. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a stout little fellow about two and a half feet high. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The new restaurant was located near a high school, employed twenty carhops, and promptly made the brothers rich. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The cast mate who became her longtime high school boyfriend was not Bobby Ryan, but Wayne Miletto, who in Good Boys plays the part of the football coach. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The cub had managed to swim across the channel in low tide, but a surge of high water could reach the cave and drown her. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mama was settling Merry in her high chair, and Merry spotted me first. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Give them a bit of time to get off the ground. I want plenty of rats to be high up before we make a move. Pass the word along.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He had quit drinking and smoking, but had high cholesterol, hypertension, and diabetes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I follow him into the building, through what seems to be a food court, and into a beautiful room with a high ceiling and great columns. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teachers liked to claim that Maybeck didn’t have cliques like other high schools, and it was true that the place was a refuge for kids like Healy who had been bullied in middle school. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Dad picks up Semaj and holds out his hand for a high five. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic--their retinas are one yard high. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

When I was a kid in high school I cut out vitamin C, I got scurvy. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she says, “So—in elementary and middle school, I was the only Native person in my neighborhood. But that changed when I got to high school.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, black men have been admitted to state prison on drug charges at a rate that is more than thirteen times higher than that of white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The whole room had exploded in activity, monkeys whirling in their cages and shaking them violently, giving off high, excited whoops. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we were in high school, he’d become an outright celebrity—charismatic, well connected, and constantly on the move. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Today, when I grip my US passport and walk through airport security to travel overseas, knowing I'll be allowed to return, I always remind myself that this privilege came at a high cost. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The ceiling of the Great Hall was serenely blue and streaked with frail, wispy clouds, just like the squares of sky visible through the high mullioned windows. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Soviet forces in Eastern Europe, including nuclear missile crews, moved into high alert. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Though the bindings on her pink-and-yellow gown crushed her ribs, and the pearls and diamonds around her neck strangled her, she kept her chin high, poised. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Granted, coaching suburban kids in a sport that they enjoyed was a completely different animal than teaching art history in a struggling inner city high school, but the difference between the students was glaring. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The needle shot over—up to about 180, almost as high as it could go. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The icy peaks rose up higher and higher above. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Soon the priests were holding mass baptisms on shore and marching their converts onto ships bound for sugar plantations in Brazil, slaves to the higher god of commodity agriculture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black and purple benches, highest and most distant from the sand, were crowded with freedmen and other common folk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I got high in the mountains before dusk. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel was high and broad enough to allow them to walk side by side without stooping. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“What’s to tell? He’s in it this high,” he says, his hand at his chin. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, it was dark as he remembered, and cold as he remembered, and Kurremkarmerruk sat on his high seat writing down lists of names. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They cool the brain by bringing air high into the nasal passage, which has the effect of increasing alertness. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Outside, the moon is high in the sky, turning the leaves silver. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She had seen Bronn fight on the high road; it was no accident that he had survived the journey while other men had died. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When she finally brought in a tray with the pale gold drinks, she had on lots of perfume and a clean yellow dress with a high neck, and her hair was fixed nice. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She really wants me to go to an HBCU—that’s a historically Black college or university—and I have to keep reminding her I’m not even in high school yet. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Yet he couldn’t help but notice four black vultures flying high above the forest. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

We are in a booth with a very high back and I can see right away that Mai likes it here. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“How many cakes? The price of sugar is still high. How about apple bread instead? That’s cheaper to make.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those jobs were really high paying, probably because you worked so much overtime. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There was a town behind a high wall. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Those parents don’t have to attend high school every day with kids whose parents won’t be at that meeting.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He wore high leather boots, leather breeches, and a pirate-style shirt. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They were in a wide and perfectly circular enclosure, protected by a high wall of green turf. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

You mean to tell me that it’s 2011 and this guy gets paid to have remedial talks with high school students about how they shouldn’t hate other people? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

After completing grade school, Evelyn was sent to Johannesburg to attend high school. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Selaesori Qhoran was a wallowing tub of five hundred tons, with a deep hold, high castles fore and aft, and a single mast between. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was a radical shift from the kind of assignment that dominates high school writing instruction today, in which students are asked to write memoirs and personal reflections. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

A torn painting hung on one wall: a clipper ship, maybe even this one, painted from high up, looking down on the deck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then we will dance the night away beneath the streamers decorating the high school gymnasium.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had woken up with a high fever, and his eyelids were swollen shut. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Even in a flowered dress, she is lost in a sea of pinstripes and gray suits, high heels and elegant short skirts, Reebok sneakers, dashing from building to building. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He waited until flames licked high into the night air, then stood and approached the fire. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I felt as if my life depended on my passing the exam that would give me a high school diploma. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I didn’t argue with my parents too much about dating in high school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A very pretty high school girl leaned out and called, “Something I can do for you?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The second time was from the A&P, when Lucas had to hold on to the edge of a display to shove some oranges high up and the stupid edge broke off in his hand. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Plays? Sure. I wrote a couple while I was in high school. One-acters. Pretty bad.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

With each little accomplishment, with every high school screwup I managed to avoid, my doubts slowly took leave. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As we discussed earlier, one would expect that at such high temperatures the strong and weak nuclear forces and the electromagnetic force would all be unified into a single force. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know the junior high school admissions policy has been changed,” Teacher Gu said. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On February 18, weekly US casualty figures hit their highest number ever in the war—a staggering 543 Americans were killed and 2,547 wounded in just seven days of fighting. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

More, still more, I dress sensibly in snake country, wearing high boots, not reaching under rocks without looking closely first. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A new record was set for the three-mile run for a Long Island school that afternoon—and I'm including high schools here. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She remembered once, years back, she and Deen had snuck away on a Changing night and made a bed in the high grass of the prairie, with their blankets and pillows. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Like they were on high alert or something. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He never graduated from high school, and being in and out of jail made it hard for him to get back on course, and get a real gig. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Her cape had a fur collar that rode up so high, and dozens of attendants were fanning her left and right. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rode his wolf with his head high. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

One of the first things we did together was scale the Ferris wheel, but that time it was me, not him, who compelled us to climb higher. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mirrie’s in the last year of high school, though not our high school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She clicked on the profile and was surprised to see that Babbage ranked Sherlock Holmes level, the highest possible level. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I sat in my dad’s truck and pretended to drive I had a hard time reaching the pedals while still sitting high enough on the seat in order to see out the windshield. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When the car reached its highest point, 264 feet above the ground, Mrs. Ferris climbed onto a chair and cheered, raising a roar in the following car and on the ground. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She had a way of making me feel like we were the same age, even though I was still in high school and she was a workingwoman in her twenties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

His dark slacks were raised high above his ankles. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And, at the center of the web high above us, in the middle of all seven towers, sat the palace. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Ahead stood an unpainted shed with one high window and one door clamped shut with a great padlock. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Cantos pounds through the sand, sword held high, eyes on fire. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh! So you’re in high school, right? Her girl’s from high school, isn’t she?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They were stacked high on the litter—half a dozen wide, a dozen deep, a dozen long. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We crossed the river and I saw that it was running high. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The “dynamics of the vehicles involved in the accident strongly indicate that the vehicles had much higher levels of traction than would be available in a hydroplaning situation.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

For hamstring stretches, one person lies on the grass on his back with his leg straight up, while the other person leans in and slowly presses the leg a little higher. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

It’s washroom graffiti raised to a higher order. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it was an aircraft crossing the cay not much higher than the palms. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We finish practice with no incident and are all in high spirits during pickup. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Even the lowest-born Plebeian can marry high, if he becomes a Mask. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Benji gave them each a high five and pulled out his cell phone for a series of selfies. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had lunch before class in the high school quad and noticed that, like everywhere else, it was really separated by race. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A man in an elegant red cardinal's robe and a high lace collar stood resting against an enormous Bible and now began to lead a hard-driving hymn which the congregation shouted in the unknown tongue. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the seasonally variable climate at high latitudes poses more diverse challenges than does a seasonally constant tropical climate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His laughter rose higher and higher until he almost did throw up. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable: a gentleman’s manor-house, not a nobleman’s seat: battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The stakes were so much higher for the others. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Naked now, he walked down the thirteen stone steps into the water and further, until the river was chest high. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s our last high school basketball season—last shot—so we train hard. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly two million ethnic Koreans now live in China’s three northeast provinces, with the highest concentration in Jilin, which Shin entered when he crawled across the frozen river. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Imagine a sound with a whole lot of high vowels, and I think you’d have it. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She had to be higher up; that was the only answer. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it’s fine,” Dimple said, aware that her voice was two octaves too high. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t gotten into Executive Pre-Professional, but that was okay because she was going to high school in Canada. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“How about you? What do you want to do? After high school, I mean.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her voice continued as I ran into the long, high- ceilinged room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The colors of the Roman afternoon suddenly seemed sharper, as if the world had switched to high definition. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One of the cats leapt fearlessly into her lap; she rescued her teacup, lifting it high and out of reach. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took it, and the black sergeant said it was the highest score he had ever seen. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In 1992, the stakes again felt high: Another African American candidate, Carol Moseley Braun, had surprised everyone by narrowly winning the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit was carrying 130 pounds, 12 more than second- high weight Aneroid and as much as 20 more than other horses in the field. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the nearby drinking fountain, I pressed one finger over the hole, making the water squirt high in the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Part of the bridge was underwater, but the middle part was high enough that it had stayed dry. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

He swung the censer so high it nearly touched the tip of my nose. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She said, “Now, lessons.”It was high summer. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The bridge was high, and he recalled that peregrines had learned to nest on bridges. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A high socioeconomic status is strongly correlated to higher test scores, which seems sensible. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

From this close the wall seemed even higher. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But only slightly higher, at 19,000 feet, the ropes brought us to the base of a gargantuan, perilously balanced serac. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Road trip,” says Simon, leaning forward for a high five. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Frith never meant us to go out fighting in the high summer, either, if that comes to that,” said Silver. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mere ten days ago, after rooting around on the Internet for a little while, Molly located a cache of adoption registry services, narrowing her search to the one rated highest among users. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The boys, who normally sported their high school letter sweaters, were dressed in smart brown military uniforms and jaunty hats. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some read quickly, some slowly, some at a high pitch, and some low. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virtually the same applies in Egyptology, in which the study of the Ptolemaic “late period” has long been the neglected stepchild of a discipline engrossed by the Rameseses and Thut- moses of high antiquity. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He climbed a stone fence, knee high, saw a shallow depression filled with dead horses, dragged there to get them off the crest, legs and guts and glaring teeth, beginning to smell. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another is a space-time that contains two cosmic strings moving past each other at high speed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scenery was altered in only one regard: the long summer of drought had dramatically lowered the level of the lake, exposing brown earthen banks and leaving the floating dock high, dry, and useless. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“These are María’s very good friends. They met two summers ago when María did a high school foreign exchange program in Berlin. That girl has tremendous ambitions. All three of them.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The room was filled with many rows of high steel tiers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angels of Lord Asriel’s force flew high over the Clouded Mountain, looking for an opening, but without success. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For example, they have higher levels of polyunsaturated fats instead of monounsaturated fats. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The whispering became a high keening, a wail of torment. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes long fan-shaped snow sprays were spun off the mountaintops by high winds. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We're trying to get high but it's not working," he said, disappointed. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He explained that if they were up any higher, at the conventional level for pictures, the smaller children wouldn’t be able to see them. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crews here, tonight, were better; the stakes were higher. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And he liked to flip flapjacks high into the air. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

All of these atoms are wiggling about in space; the higher the temperature, the faster the atoms wiggle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Life gets way better after high school, I swear.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t count that high without getting disoriented. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Celebrating their success, the summit team left an offering of prayer flags, katas, and climbing pitons on what appeared to be the highest point, and then descended into the fast-rising blizzard. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

With my head held high, I walked to the Pizitz department store in downtown Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Blanche laughed a high, arching laugh—like notes on a flute. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her black hair is piled high and knotted on top of her head. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Harry thought of photos of Native Americans he’d seen as he studied her dark eyes, high cheekbones, and straight nose, formally composed above a high-necked silk gown. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

On November 22, 1963, a few days before Thanksgiving, my high school math teacher, a short man named Mr. Ralph Joseph, walked into my classroom with his head lowered. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As he ran his eyes down the list, the highest number Smith saw for any other horse was 114. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great domed glass roof glittered high above him in sunlight. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Big Ma scolded and fussed, running up the phone bill even higher. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the right corners of his high cheeks and the smooth flatness of his lips. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It means cheap animal feed to produce cheap meat and cheap high- fructose corn syrup for soft drinks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

With his powerful legs, the robot launched himself up through the air, soaring in a high, graceful arc over the pond and down to the other side. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She had been brought up a Southern Baptist in suburban Baton Rouge with dreams of leaving home—she did so just after high school—and running a daycare center. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Walt grew up in Greeley, Colorado, an agricultural town on the high, windswept plains up near the Wyoming line. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raised the tray a little higher so I could see. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Some power from on high breathed a mad courage into them and they drove the red-hot spike right into the Cyclops’ eye. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z