| 单词 | highway |
| 例句 | She turned sharply on her heel and started to make her way toward the deserted highway. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He backed into the parking space so we could sit in the bed of the truck and have a grand view of the highway. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The first test, for Wal-Mart, is painless enough, conducted at a chiropractor’s office a few miles down the highway from Wal-Mart itself. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sí, Salvador, sí. Don’t go back to the highway yet.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z We stumble across seven abandoned pay phones in some ditch, underneath a highway leading north toward the Queensboro Bridge. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Labor Day approached, the day of truth when millions of kids would be back in school and tens of millions of parents would be off the highways. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom turned off the highway at Route 22 and drove east through the citrus groves. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The airport shut down and highways in and out of the city were closed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A state police car with the red light flashing bounced frenziedly off the highway, swung around the cluster of rattletrap vehicles, and screeched to a stop with its nose practically touching the front door. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Naw, I don’t want to take it out in the car. Some passing motorist might call the highway department and claim he saw two men wrestling an anaconda.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The ruined highway shut down for more than a year—over half a billion miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He could see no signs of what had been set loose upon the earth: the highways, the towns, even the fences were gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A few months after we arrived, a group of Delaware state troopers stopped a group of us on a dark highway one night after my older brother David, who was driving, made an illegal U-tum. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When we came to the road which led back toward the main highway I pointed down it to the two girls. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Although I was terrified when I drove out of the parking lot, once I was on the highway, I felt better. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The Cadillac passed small, smoke-filled clubs with loud music and black people spilling out of open doors and sometimes overflowing into the highway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z You are as likely to see sea life from a ship as you are to see wildlife in a forest from a car on a highway. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It was the one not fabulous section in Brandywine, a narrow valley of older apartment houses between the dumps and the highway that bordered the next school district. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The Trailways bus, with its lights still on, pulled off the highway to discharge and pick up a passenger. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I found I often stopped for coffee, not because I wanted it but for a rest and a change from the unrolling highway. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Things began to change as soon as he left the main highway. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I can almost see it, red radiation, wavering upwards like the shimmer above highway tarmac at noon. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z If I saw that face on somebody walking down a highway intersection asking for money, I would’ve locked the car doors. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z With the assistance of Arthur’s policies this church—still the greatest of all corporations free to learned men on earth—had become a highway open to the lowest slave. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton kept plowing through the water and when the rain lightened he veered up the side of the median and screeched back onto the highway and kept going. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He reached the edge of town and turned off on a highway. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z At last the shattered motor-car was driven out of the second hedge and stood sideways across the road, blocking the highway. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z My father was not there when they left; the roads were opening up and all the highway crews were working. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s been calm, even as she speeds and swerves around cars on the highway. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z And I went with Mr. Ewalt—drove with him out to the highway to wait for Sheriff Robinson. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I navigated the winding highway as I’d done numberless times before, racing down the Bear River Hill, coasting through the flat stretch parallel to Fivemile Creek. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z On August 16 Pollard and Yummy climbed into Yummy’s car, pulled out of the track, and hit the highway. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The truck was bouncing down the goat path that led to the bridge and the highway. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten miles from the highway, worried that he’d get stuck if he drove farther, Gallien stopped his rig on the crest of a low rise. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We watch as he looks both ways, then runs across the highway and disappears inside the Arby’s. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z But as they closed the door another old pickup and then another turned off the highway and parked next to Eloy Quintana’s vehicle. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It brought ice and freezing sleet and sheeted the highways with dark ice. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Past downtown, a single road bisects the highway, and on that road sits Roscoe’s lone neighborhood and an elementary school. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The highway became Broadway and went right through the center of the town. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I would flip through the Sears, Roebuck catalogue, dreaming of the dresses and boots and coats that were out there somewhere at the other end of the highway beyond the gate. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind them in the valley, the highway was a faint dark vein through the yellow sand and red rock. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Fields across the highway were still brown, and snow lay hip deep in the Midnight Mountains. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The three of us snuck up to the cliff again, watched them climb back into their driver’s seats and take off down the highway, the lead car’s lights spinning but making no sound. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z She looks at a screen on the wall on which is projected a highway scene, the setting she is supposed to steer a virtual car through. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Our house was on a corner where the state highway turned east toward the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s entirely impossible to drive seventy-seven miles per hour on the two-lane state highway that takes us farther north, up toward the Catskills. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The truth was that I had turned off the big highway 104 and into the smaller roads because the traffic was heavy and passing vehicles threw sheets of water on my windshield. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The edge of the highway isn’t very wide, you know, and people get in a hurry sometimes, and I didn’t want to fall down into the grassy ditch next to the road. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “I feel like a hitchhiker caught in a hailstorm on a Texas highway,” President Johnson confided to his press secretary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They asked a random passerby for the direction to Seoul and were pointed toward the main highway. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The three-second correction put us back on the center line of our imaginary highway. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On our way back from the candy store, Brian and I liked to spy on the Green Lantern—a big dark green house with a sagging porch right near the highway. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z At the end of that week, when Ophelia accompanied Farmer back to Port-au-Prince, the Rover came to an abrupt stop on the highway. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And then he saw something he hadn’t realized: the highway snaked around a long range of foothills. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Uneasily, they broke up, going home or heading down the highway, whatever. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I left shortly after midnight and within an hour I was on the highway to Durban. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked because one does not just simply sit down in the middle of a highway, because there was nothing to do but walk. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z If he cut straight across those instead of following the highway, he could save a lot of time, plus reduce the risk of being caught. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Officials and lawmakers now had to balance any spending on science against other burgeoning demands—for social programs, highways, school buildings, and other physical infrastructure. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I saw the green highway sign through the haze of rain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z We exit the highway, and Bre stops at the top of the ramp and turns to me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The railway moved south away from the highway now and we could not see what passed along the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s the eyes,” my mother says wistfully as she makes a sharp turn onto the highway entrance ramp. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z After a while she veered from the highway. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z And with the new highway going right alongside us its value has doubled. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Still barreling at highway speeds, it closed in on the smaller car coming the other way, the distance narrowing by the instant. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We drive on smooth concrete until the driver turns off the highway to lurch over dirt roads. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z We drove along an uncrowded street that led from the highway into the northern part of Alexandra. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a lot of traffic on the highway because of all the construction. And it’s really pouring outside now....” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z As the sun began to rise, she turned off the highway just outside Erie and drove until she found a quiet rural road. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was rougher going now, but fifteen minutes later he reached it: the highway. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Or the people who’d been stuck on bridges and highways and rooftops. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z A lot of people still dislike the highway, but Katz and I quite warmed to it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z These were my thoughts as we sped down the highway putting away our fast-food lunch. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Five bus-loads of boys and girls, singing or in a silent embracement, rolled past them over the vitrified highway. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z People who lived in Owens Valley during the war still remember the flowers and lush greenery they could see from the highway as they drove past the main gate. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z And small fish appear in the puddles that fill the PWD potholes on the highways. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z White birds scattered as they approached another gate, this one resembling a highway tollbooth. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z At Minersville, I turned onto a back highway and headed through a landscape of overgrown mine tailings and rusting machinery towards Centralia, the strangest, saddest town I believe I have ever seen. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Our trailer was near the northern edge of the stacks, which ran up to a crumbling highway overpass. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He arrives by taxi—though she is willing to drive herself around their town, she is not willing to get on the highway and drive to Logan. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Cars from the adjacent highway zoomed by without a care, without the slightest concern that just yards away a devastated family grieved. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z It was the same way she’d felt on the highway outside Topeka. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “We’re volunteering with some of my students to help clean up the highway adopted by the college,” she says. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I looked at the narrow black ribbon of the highway stretching out between the tall, dark pine trees. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I have no idea how I got on the highway. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Instead Andrew asked, “How about work at the highway? Has it opened up?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The path had narrowed; it was no longer the wide highway used by hunting parties. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The bus drops us off along the side of a pretty busy highway. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Drove the main highway in, stopped at a filling station and checked a phone book, and by 10:00 a.m. we were on the Reverend Young’s front porch. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z “Today on the highway,” she said, “Gaea told me that she needed the blood of only two demigods—one female, one male. She—she asked me to choose which boy would die.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The asphalt highway is a shiny, wet black. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Tori slowed as she passed a highway patrol car. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z To come here and make beds in a hotel along the highway? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z George and Mack are out by the highway. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Then again, this is probably the kind of elliptical logic that jammed up the highway in the first place. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It’s been a few years since I engaged in urban highway driving, and I give myself high grades for fearless and agile navigation, but eventually the afternoon traffic defeats me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Up ahead, he could see where the highway dipped across an arroyo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z At first Sammy had searched for another couple parking along the beach, but this failing, he began the long run toward town, hoping to intercept a car on the highway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Boy, it looks like you’ll just have to get back on that bus and try your luck down the highway.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Out on the highway, I recall the slap with mounting fear. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not so much, no. Since the highway was built... most cars, they do not go this way now. I must cherish every customer I get.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I look out the window as we drive along the highway. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z He sped over the bumpy road and careened out onto the highway. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Cade found fresh tire ruts cutting across the muddy shoulder where the car we’d been following had slid from the highway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z For at long intervals on that highway cisterns had been built for the use of troops sent in haste through the waterless regions. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z We were in Cornish, a farming town twenty miles south of Buck’s Peak, when the station wagon drifted over the center line into the other lane, then left the highway. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Missiles hit the theater last night—it’s blocking the highway.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Liam blew out a long sigh, finally sitting back against his seat as the minivan reached the intersection of the highway and the road. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z In the early 1960s a plan was put forward to extend the Blue Ridge Parkway, a scenic highway, south from the Smokies by building over the southern portion of the AT. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But before she could work it out, the creature had risen, and the group began to move away along the highway, with Mary riding among them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Arion rode the glacier like a highway, zipping across the ice, leaping crevices, and skidding down slopes that would’ve made a snowboarder’s eyes light up. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z We did them for miles, until we were off the highway, back on town streets. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z After my morning of capturing bees, I spent the afternoon in the peach stand out on the highway, selling T. Ray’s peaches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Something had scared her so badly that she was going to run out onto the highway and— Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I looked up the highway, the way the bus had gone. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In one nexus, five highways meet; I have to erase and redraw the ramps a few times. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z But on this side of the highway green fields led directly up to the road’s eastern shoulder—an unnatural setup; obviously the result of a strange, possibly a bad, law. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I finished my rounds, finding nothing, and headed back toward the highway. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Rarely do two states have the same gasoline tax, and these taxes largely support the building and maintenance of highways. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if they overlooked private property and sheriffs writing citations, most of the highways feature narrow shoulders, in a landscape that gets so pitch-black at night, any car rushing past would likely kill them all. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z A year and a week after Chris McCandless decided not to attempt to cross the Teklanika River, I stand on the opposite bank—the eastern side, the highway side—and gaze into the churning water. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z All these old Caddies are half buried nose first in a row off the side of the highway. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It felt more like the Three Fates I’d seen knitting the yarn outside the highway fruit stand: ancient, powerful, and definitely not human. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Only when the last white wing had vanished in the afternoon haze did the mulefa ride down the highway again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I could see a beachside highway lined with palm trees, storefronts glowing with red and blue neon, a harbor filled with sailboats and cruise ships. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z If the casualties were limited to their own kind there would be no problem, but the slaughter of cows, pigs, farmers, dogs, and highway signs makes autumn a dangerous season in which to travel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When I reached the crest of the hill, I left the highway and descended through the meadows to where the river flowed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z As we drove along the dark highway Sam leaned against me as he slept. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Because she lived down the hill from us, near the highway, we called her Grandma-down-the-hill. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Back then there were no highways or restaurants or towns in the Cascades. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Big three-by-nine-foot painted canvas banners hung on the buses’ sides, to be read by the highway traffic and thousands of people at home and on the sidewalks of the towns the buses passed through. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured there was a bad wreck somewhere on the highway. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z There was us and the highway and the desert and the sun blazing above the Maricopa Mountains. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z 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 She was so consumed that, driving on the highway, too fast, she rounded a curve and the Pinto swerved; she lost control, and then, at the last second, recovered. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The highway ran for miles along some of the most magnificent beaches I have ever seen—white sands, a beautiful ocean; and opposite the beach, splendid homes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad drove me to Princeton in the summer of 1981, across the flat highways connecting Illinois to New Jersey. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The highway was in sight when I saw something and stopped. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The driver cursed and limped the Greyhound over to the side of the highway. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Allied troops staged at Camp Patrick Henry, five miles up the military highway, then were delivered by train to the pier. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Finn stood there, frozen, staring down the road, until a voice behind him said, “That fool horse is headed right for the highway.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z There was a big drainage culvert halfway between O-Hall and the highway to Bannock. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They moved until morning, not stopping until they reached that same stretch of highway that they had picked us up on. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I wandered along the highway leading to the village and paused at the edges of fields, filling my basket with herbs and flowers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She yawned and watched the front of the car consume the white line in the highway. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Perhaps he could make the open country and live on or near the rivers and near the highways, in the fields and hills. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we would walk along the highway eating. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “I think it will be fairly easy to get away without being seen, though we should be especially careful about turning into the logging road and coming out of it onto the highway.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z After leaving the highway, we crossed the Alafia River, passed some strawberry fields, then turned into a shaded lane where a long driveway led to a yellow house surrounded by towering trees. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He had to keep moving like a shark, and in the end he was a tragic ghost of a person instead of a stream of milky way jazz under open highways. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Before going back to the highway, he stopped at a convenience store to get more beer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In a line stretching back nearly a mile, marchers kneel on the highway to pray. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Faith, having managed to tune in a station, already knew the highway was closed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z In the highlands of Kenya, their bare and sandaled feet pound the shoulders of the highway into braids of red clay. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They would whisk along the long, shimmering highway to El Patrons other house in the Chiricahua Mountains. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a few minutes, the curtains of rain became so heavy and dark, we could not see more than ten feet ahead of us on the highway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The buss tires thumped on the highway like a heartbeat. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He walked down the highway with his thumb high in the air, and he didn’t look back. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Thirty feet from the edge of the highway, we caught sight of the roof of a dark green van through the tangles of buttonbush along the river’s shore. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He pressed the accelerator and they were traveling again, moving down a dark southern highway, moving, rolling again as they had done so many times before. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone passing by on the highway would never, ever know the wonders that are healed inside this space. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She began to walk toward the sound of moving cars that were on the highway, about one hundred feet away from her. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z As the school bus came rumbling down the highway, Ralph had to agree from his hotel experience that Ryan was right. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z After that, it would be three long days on the highway back to Earth, then through the fire of the atmosphere and into the terrestrial ocean below. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He raised his head and our eyes met for an instant in the glass, then I lowered mine to the blazing white line that divided the highway. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She takes the turn for the highway, and when she merges on, I realize were going north. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The highway was only a few miles down the road. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A well-lighted, modem turnpike highway made the trip easy. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked down the ditch beside the highway, below the shoulder of the highway. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z For a moment Meggie thought she could hear the sea breaking in the distance, but perhaps it was only the traffic on the nearby highway. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Frequently, the people on the west bank would have to leave their cars along the shoulder of the highway and try to wade across the raging creek just to get to their homes. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Rivers, lakes, and seas were the only highways; there were no roads. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I stopped somewhere on the way in the desert,” he remembered, and “drove off the highway to a solitary place.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A meeting took place in the highway patrol office in Cache County, the same second-floor office where Rindlisbacher had come immediately after the accident. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Though “here” isn’t anywhere yet...just a map of packed concrete highways crisscrossing overhead, curving, making figure eights. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z They leave the highway behind and drive on steep, slender, two-lane ribbons of road, the mountains appearing like enormous milky waves suspended against the sky. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The highway seemed empty after the streets of Lahore, and it was so quiet it was almost eerie. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Then, after they saw the Amish they were going to circle west and join the highway to Dean Town, passing through Baylor on the way. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A cluster of low buildings straddles the highway. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z She ran hard after the mulefa, who were calling her name as they streamed out of the settlement and onto the highway. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When they reached the end of the camp they had cleared as it were a great highway through it, where only dead men were lying. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z On Sundays, nearly everyone gathered at the church, a hickory-colored chapel just off the highway with the small, restrained steeple common to Mormon churches. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He began to sweep with a wide broom while the radio poured forth sad songs about lonely highways, broken hearts, and jail. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The road was more like a watercourse than a highway. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I turn and look out at the highway as I hear a car coming. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes, during the late hours of the night, as the bus slowly hummed along the crumbling highway, I removed my visor and stared out the window. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He looked like any hitchhiker you might see on an American highway—nothing like the little runty boy I used to defend from bullies at Yancy Academy. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Beside the highway, flat empty land stretched for miles, interrupted by the occasional huge corporate headquarters. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Next to him, a tall chain-link fence separated the highway from a neighborhood of winding streets, cozy houses, and tall eucalyptus trees. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A deer shoots out and bounds across the highway. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The fence was probably there to keep people from getting onto the highway and doing stupid things—like sledding into the fast lane on snack trays—blit the chain-link was full of big holes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z What happened was she hid some secret papers in the trunk of a car she borrowed, and she ran out of gas on the highway. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks at the crowds walking the highway, the endless line of vehicles. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The “drug-courier profiles” utilized by the DEA and other law enforcement agencies for drug sweeps on highways, as well as in airports and train stations, are notoriously unreliable. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I turned and walked, then ran, back to the highway. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He typically took Darling Avenue to the highway, as it avoided most of the white areas of town. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z While spinning along a Kansas highway one fine June morning, Mr. Ziegler spied a red convertible parked by the roadside, its hood up, and a couple of nice-looking youngsters fiddling with the motor. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z So you saw horses soaring and preening on rooftops; you saw birds by the thousands running through the streets and along highways. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z For more than an hour we’d been heading down the highway, obviously to nowhere in particular. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z She showed me another scene—a New Jersey highway. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I could see their lights across the highway. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Shorty rode off the mesa and across the highway as the first soft waves of night spread into town. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The future for both of them was wide like an empty highway. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Slowly, with one hand still around the ferret in her lap, she returned her foot to the gas pedal and eased back onto the highway. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Grampa,” I said as we headed up the highway, “did you and Dad ever fish together much, you know, when he was little?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Brian and I would hide behind the sagebrush across the highway, trying to peer inside the front door when someone went in or out, but we could never see what was going on. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The fatigue of the day and the humming sound of the tires on the highway made me sleep. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He got to his feet, and with clenched fists he stared after the red car still in sight farther up the highway. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z She remembered all the times she, Luke, and Thalia had relied on highway rest stops when they were homeless demigods, trying to survive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Or to say to someone who is blind, "You should get across this busy interstate highway unaided, or you're just cowardly." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Her eyes, cautious and guarded, bounced off mine before locking onto the strip of highway. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Cars occasionally sped by on the highway, a backpacking couple on mountain bikes pedaled past. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Under the protective cover of darkness, the taxi he and his family were traveling in swerved around a bombed-out Soviet tank and exited the pockmarked highway. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “No,” Piper agreed, gazing nervously down the highway. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It is wrong to see them lying out on the highway; it is wrong to see them anywhere. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was right on the main highway of the cold winds as they tore down upon the valley below. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The highway from the center of the country is impassable for as much as half the year. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The caravan of the arts was dark but the dog barked as we ground up to the highway. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother’s car appeared on the highway around six. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z This complex and exceedingly efficient government operation was completed while residents of New Orleans were trapped in attics and begging for rescue from rooftops and highway overpasses. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z On the highway you probably get all four parts—the sunrise, the day, the sunset, and the night. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z The only sound came from the gusting winds and spit-warm pregnant rain; there was no traffic at all moving on the highway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Alone now, the car voiceless, Bull strained to follow the white lines of the highway snaking through Georgia. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z All we see of this is the odd stump, the fly struggling on the porch floor of the summer house in October, the fragment on the highway. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He went to work on the highway and on Saturdays after they collected their pay he drank with his crew at the Longhorn, but he was never close to the men of the town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was to have more than 10,000 magnets arranged in a loop 54 miles around, about the size of the beltway highway that circles Washington, D.C. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “You get mad at me when I go that slow on the highway.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In the distance he could hear the country highway that, if he ran far enough, would take him all the way down to Charlotte. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z According to the atlas map, he probably had another twenty miles to go before hitting the highway. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I knew she had mustered up all her courage to come along, the way she kept looking behind us when we first hit that isolated stretch of highway. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A long, narrow slot of water between Oakland and Alameda Island, it was essentially a marine highway through an already aging industrial landscape. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When the road swung away from the stream course heading back toward the north-south highway, the ruins tailed away to the west. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Miraculously, a gust of wind blew him to one side—-just enough to miss the highway and crash into a clump of bushes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Did you see the size of this place? They don’t even have a gas station here. We’d have to go back out to the highway if we wanted to find a motel.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z We fall into a peaceful silence on the highway. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z She drove around the square and out the Meridian highway until she came to a fork in the road. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z We were a ways down the highway before we rested easy. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Toby pulled himself up into the truck and didn’t look back as Lily sped across the parking lot and out onto the country highway that crossed in front of the school. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z All the rest areas were built along isolated stretches of the highway—sensibly, since you want them where other facilities were not available. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z There was work here in Detroit—cars, houses, factories, highways. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The highway between them is bumper to bumper. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z I was immediately cheered, and set out directly for the highway. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A new highway to the Pacific is bringing ever-greater numbers of businesses to Acre. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We turn onto a different highway, and the speed limit goes back up incrementally, but Radar is driving slowly anyway. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z After he picked me up, we stopped at a party store near the highway, where Mr. Object bought a six-pack of Smirnoff cocktails. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But when the crowd caught sight of the murderers, with their escort of blue-coated highway patrolmen, it fell silent, as though amazed to find them humanly shaped. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In the mornings she was a checkout clerk at K&B, a chain drugstore on the highway. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z On the present occasion a highway patrolman welcomed them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z As we drove to the trailer, the sun dipping in the sky, its last rays reaching across the highway, I thought about the Apache women. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Then, just as we started down the on ramp for the highway, Jeffrey shouted, I forgot Mott Medic! Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, if you had, you would have seen the bears working at getting into cars as they drove slowly by on the park highway, getting the food the people in the cars had for them.” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When morning comes and the parking lot glimmers with dew, I see the billboard on the highway. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z From the highway, you could only see people far away like ants and hear the tinny music playing on the loudspeaker. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z There was no other road marked DETOUR, so obviously the only thing to do was to turn around and go back about five miles to the last town and take the regular highway. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Long sections of it were paved in the nineteen-seventies, and the trucks began rolling through, and soon afterward the aids virus appeared in towns along the highway. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The streets were still mostly empty as we merged onto the highway, but Babou drove as if he was dodging enemy fire, pulling off one evasive maneuver after another. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z On the highway, Nathan’s phone shook to life while it charged. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z As an adjunct to this increase in traffic, the population at the highway rest areas virtually exploded. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Five minutes after we left the motel, we were on the highway. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Dicey peered down the highway and saw a small store ahead, with a gas pump out front. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they turned aside, leaving the highway and taking to the sweet upland turf again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Just below me, all around, unsuspected by me, were highways, boulevards, streets and roundabouts bustling with submarine traffic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Never mind that there are several thousand square miles of forest on either side of the highway. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We roll back to the highway and into the hills, climbing up to the McSame houses of Castle Pines, back to the house of my father set in the clouds. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The heat rising from the oil burner chimneys across the highway distorted and magnified it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I checked my rearview mirror to pull onto the highway, then reached up and shoved the mirror downward so it reflected Shawn’s face, blank and bloodied. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z About fifty yards along, a jagged crack appeared down the center of the highway and quickly grew into a severe gash several inches across, emitting still more smoke. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I am lulled to sleep by the swooshing sound of the car sailing down the highway, the ride so smooth, like Baba said. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z A highway patrolman found Emma Lee walking down the beach road with half of her clothes on, hysterical, her face beaten past all recognition. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In a few moments they were out of the Doldrums and back on the main highway. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Just a few days later, state representative Stephen Clark was driving up 1-15, the big highway that runs through Utah. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And in just a few minutes, he found one: a dirt road running perpendicular to the highway. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He remembered how the white men who were building the new highway through Laguna had pointed at him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z We are silent for a long time as we pass through the town center to head onto the highway to Los Angeles. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The bus slowed down to exit the highway. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The crowds on the highway and sloping hills are not so frenzied yet. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z As he drove along the peaceful highway he soon fell to daydreaming and paid less and less attention to where he was going. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Behind us, the hat spun out into the morning air in a white blur, like a miniature flying saucer, and landed right smack in the middle of the highway. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Some also built roads and highways such as the Autobahn. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z We watched them load Chubs’s still form into the back of one of the SUVs, and the door had barely shut before it tore off down the highway. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z A feast fit for a highway road stop. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Doc traveled on the highways a good deal. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z On that stony plain there was no cover, and across it ran the highways of the Orcs and the soldiers of the Enemy. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He heard a truck slowing down on the highway behind him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Farmer was concentrating on negotiating the narrow, winding highway, with its dangerous blind spots. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Across the highway in the ghost town Amarante Cordova’s light glowed softly from the open door of his crumbling adobe. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We snuck around to the small cliff that stood between the ocean and the highway where the car was, peeked around at the cop. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Course, most folks couldn’t afford a car, and besides there weren’t no highways then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As we exit the highway forty-six hellish minutes later, he finally looks over at me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Eventually Miles pulled off the highway and into a heavily wooded suburb. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Today they were driving along an endless two-lane highway through the forested hills of Connecticut. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The mountains fell away into hills, and then we were zipping along over farmland and towns and highways. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Walking along the weedy strip beside the highway for the second time that day, I was thinking how much older fourteen had made me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s either California, or going to work on the highway with him—” León thought aloud. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Jackrabbits the size of small dogs loped awkwardly across the highway. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He entertains her in the back seat of the car when they drive on the highway on Saturday evenings, on the way to dinner parties thrown by their parents’ friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His first night on the highway, Bob slept in the icy mud of the ditch. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z A fine brown dust was now blowing across the highway, drifting like snow against the shoulders and swirling up into the air. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just that we went to separate schools: we even walked to school on opposite sides of the highway from whites, shouting insults at each other across the street. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The campground was nestled between the beach, a creek, and the highway. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Though it was standing still, the car seemed to be flying down a highway, going too fast. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a lovely sensation, one the agent had always appreciated, catapulting from the twisty dark gorge onto that flatland, with a straight highway aiming exactly north. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I believe that everyone along the highways sells moccasins and deerskin gloves. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon dimmed and shone with an ordinary light, and I could see the highway stretching away, empty. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z For a moment he is only conscious of the trees in the distance, across the highway, their green tops swaying. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Like those disinterred dead from his childhood that had been relocated to accommodate a highway. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Driving the big highway near Toledo I had a conversation with Charley on the subject of roots. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z On our side of the highway was nothing but maple trees and litter from passing cars. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Allegations of racial profiling in federally funded drug interdiction operations resulted in numerous investigations and comprehensive data demonstrating a dramatic pattern of racial bias in highway patrol stops and searches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There was another car turning off the highway, a small silver Volkswagen; both Liam and I threw up a hand to block the intense glint of the sun against its windows. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “But it was the wrong thing to do, wasn’t it? Dad getting out of his rig on the highway that way,” Will went on. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The children scrambled out of the car and Dicey led them across the highway to the woodsy patch where she had hidden the night before. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I found myself driving down the highway, one hand on the wheel, the other pointing to the rest stop up ahead. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z They pushed it out to the highway and coasted in gear until it started. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Driving down the highway with my mom, Lucy, and Gram. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Two months earlier, he’d done the same thing on his way to a show in DC, exiting the highway at Marathon. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d pull over on the highway and watch her from a distance, too far for her to come over, but not so far that she wouldn’t see him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z After they left, the frightened youngster was able to flag down a passing car on the highway. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The countryside beyond the low buildings is mostly empty: a few figures and a handful of vehicles move along a bare highway. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He had a breezy highway driving style, but when making any kind of maneuver he snapped into military action, pummeling the wheel with strong hands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It just stopped out of nowhere, like a car stalled on the highway. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z It wasn’t their fault the one they were photographed at overflowed onto the highway, blocking all northbound and southbound lanes. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Joey slammed on the brakes and backed the car up right on the highway until Chas lifted his down-turned head and saw it was us. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It isn’t until they reach downtown, just before the exit ramp to the highway, that Axel spots a few crows gathered on a phone wire. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The highway narrowed into a tunnel, and Major yelled, "Toll booth." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z All the retirees in South Florida wait for the rush-hour traffic to be over, so that when they go out on the highways, they can create their own rush hour. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z When I crossed the highway at the edge of town, the pavement turned to gravel, and I crunched along about a mile past the cotton gin until I came to the Rydells’ beat-up shack. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Shady Brook was on a narrow road that veered off sharply from the highway and twisted along for many miles, over bridges, past farmland and horse pastures and fields. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z My head hurts and no matter how much gum I chew, my mouth is like a highway in lower New Mexico. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z They drove through the small town of Guernsey, and late in the afternoon they stopped along the highway. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I stuck out my thumb while every car on the highway sped up the second they saw us. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One weekend a few months after he’d moved, I heard on my car radio that a vicious blizzard had hit Chicago, closing the airports, shutting down public transit, stranding cars on highways. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned off the highway and arrived at the main gate of the base. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was slow and flaccid, with the kind of world-weary negativism you might find in employees behind the counter of a fast-food restaurant at a highway rest stop. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like mushrooms in damp leaves, they sprouted every night by a dozen roadsides—downtown, up in the canyon, out on the north-south highway. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Leroy slowed down and pulled off the right shoulder of the highway. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I plopped down in the snow at the edge of the parking lot, about fifty feet away from the truck, pulled my knees up to my chest, and stared out over the highway. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z If he could reach the far shore, the remainder of the hike to the highway would be easy, but to get there he would have to negoti-ate a channel some one hundred feet wide. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We don’t see anything then; we just feel how fast we’re going, speeding down the highway from Queens to Brooklyn, the siren blaring. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “And then you will leave. There’s a garage not far down the highway. Call this grandfather of yours, have him come get you.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The car slowed again, more noticeably, and then suddenly we screeched to a stop on the shoulder of the highway. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z They were heading along what looked like an interstate highway, with the cruise control set to an even sixty-five. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z It seems like I should have thought to myself, Wow, a cat is talking to me, and that is not something that usually happens at a highway rest stop. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The van bounced steadily up and down as the shocks attempted to adjust to the transition from the paved, multilane highways to the pothole-laden, dirt-covered streets of the township. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She left to supervise the second part of the dig, two hundred yards away, on the other side of the highway. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad looked at each other, and Barry understood exactly what they were thinking: There was no way they could get on the highway with Cleo that sick. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z When Piper described their duel on the highway, Jason winced. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z From the great plaza radiated four highways that demarcated the four asymmetrical sectors into which he divided the empire, Tawantinsuyu, “Land of the Four Quarters.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Flora was on the side of the highway. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z He would come home, black from the asphalt of the highway, wash himself out by the windmill, then spend the rest of the afternoon doing small, odd jobs around the rabbit pens. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Even after crossing the highway to West Oriole, Roy didn’t slow his pace. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Contesting a footrace across a busy highway, he just missed getting broadsided by a jalopy. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z According to the highway patrol, Wick drifted off the road, over-corrected to get back onto the road, and was struck at high speed by a pickup coming from the other direction. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Then, while magpies jabbered like a bunch of excited monkeys in the branches overhead, and with two sparrowhawks quiet on the telephone lines across by the highway, Joe fell into a peculiar reverie. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The first time I drove on a highway, with traffic, I was so tense that my legs were like sticks that wouldn’t bend. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z As the cinder town began to deepen, cooling to mere scarlet, Ralph began to discern the familiar road again — to reassure himself that they were indeed on an ordinary highway with other cars. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m afraid this is the stop on the knowledge highway where most of us must get off. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They set off in their school bus, two classes, two teachers, two chaperones along for the ride, driving straight through the town and onto the highway. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Now even the rows of neat dormitories seemed to threaten me, the rolling lawns appearing as hostile as the gray highway with its white dividing line. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran away and wandered around San Diego for days, sleeping under a highway overpass. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The highways eight lanes wide cut like glaciers through the uneasy land. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was getting dark outside by the time we got on the highway to head back home. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z She guided the Rabbit past the duck pond, across Van Aken and the Rapid tracks, toward Warrensville Road, which would take them to the highway, out of Cleveland, and onward. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I flashed on my kids and the idea that we would hit the chairs and start spinning around the highway, and I braced for impact. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z People come from the settlement; new arrivals move slowly along the highway, weighed down with bags and bundles. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Signal light flashing, they were speeding down the highway at eighty miles an hour when Bruno said, “Wait a minute, you better slow down, look, up ahead—hey! What’s with that guy? Jesus, Granny—STOP!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A generation ago, the skies would have been clear and the road would have been a two-lane highway. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I was impressed by the modem schools, housing developments for the masses, and the highways and the industrialization that I saw. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There were only warehouses and smokestacks and the other cars on the highway. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z We waited till she went inside, then crossed the highway and opened the gate in the picket fence that was about to topple over from the weight of Carolina jasmine. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “At the end of my road is the highway. Head left, and in a quarter of a mile you’ll come to a gas station. You figure it out from there.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z There was an ancient highway that ran down from Isengard to the crossings. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Across the highway, behind the bar at Cerritos, there was a big corn field, but the plants were short and thin, and their leaves were faded yellow like the grasshoppers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z We were off the highway now, zipping through the countryside of northern Long Island. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She clicks the blinker on to exit the highway, and Scoob gulps. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z It took several moments for it to register that there were headlights blocking off access to the highway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Dinka never built factories or highways or cars or planes. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I considered running down the highway, back to Florida. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The blacktop twisted through a wooded area like a river and soon the sound of the highway had faded away behind them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In these highways of flying men, their tongue forbidden the people of the earth, all fat had been trimmed, all excess removed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Entering the Cadillac with equal desperation from two sides, they were soon accelerating down the beach road and back on the highway that headed from town. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to think for a moment about the location of the highway, which direction the E-Z Rest faced, but Cade was right: He was walled off in East Berlin. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z But it was too remote, and soon the sport in New England moved to other mountains nearer main highways, and Moosilauke returned to a splendid obscurity. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z As we rose out of the highway trough, we could see the condemned houses, many burned, as well as the stark beauty of all the vacant lots, gray and frozen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When she came to, she was lying on her back in the middle of the highway. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z At Hawk Mountain the ridges converge and so do the aerial highways. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Something hits me as Chantal exits the highway and the car slows down. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The basalt highway led gradually downward, and after a while the slope increased, so the creatures could freewheel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then she and Grandpa stepped into their car and pulled onto the highway. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As we drove deeper south, down dark highways and even darker back roads, I felt like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I would take a packed flight back to Chicago, drive along a busy highway, ride an elevator up to my office. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Just on the other side of the ridge, the east-west highway, the Dean Town Road, crosses our road. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z On our way to Alexandra there was unusual traffic on the highway leading to the Jan Smuts Airport. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z All you could hear was a crow calling somewhere up river and the distant sound of cars along the highway. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Here the only hills were man-made highway bridges—smooth, gentle slopes of concrete. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Him and Luke in the back of a Greyhound bus—hell, in the El Camino now—following whatever highway would take them out of Hickory, North Carolina, fastest. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He never complained, but he was basically miserable driving a taxi up and down the highway. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He takes an exit off the highway, and I tense up because he's going a little too fast when he makes a sharp turn onto another road. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z A heavy metal crash barrier stood across the old road and a new highway curved off down a hillside away from the town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Police departments and highway patrol agencies frequently declare, “We do not engage in racial profiling,” even though their officers routinely use race as a factor when making decisions regarding whom to stop and search. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z All during the summer, all across America, the highways filled up with the migrating families of the American military. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They approached the western edge of the desert city and stood for a moment at a highway marker that read Indio. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I drove along the highway to the edge of town, then pulled over at the drop-off overlooking the Bear River. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Starlight twinkled on the empty highway where now there was not a sound, no car, no person, nothing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a crossroads where two dead highways came and went in darkness. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he left the highway and started walking south through the desert, following the river- bank. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The guy taps his steering wheel to quiet music as we head down the highway. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Sure, there were these movies about death on the highway. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z When he came back across the highway, he didn’t look scared at all. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I could put the bridges where I wanted and I could put a big highway right across the middle of town, like Manhattan should have but didn’t. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “It’s good to hear from you, Noah, but I’m sort of busy now. A bait truck just flipped over in Key Largo, and there’s live shrimp all over the highway.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Just as he made it to the corner of West Oriole and the highway, the streetlights flickered on. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “The guards always have their backs to the fence nearest the highway,” I say. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z After barreling down the highway, he made a screeching U-turn, with us kids feeling like the car was going to tumble over on its side, but the squad car made one, too. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z When it was just the two of us floating down the highway, he was mellow, lighthearted. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Wearing dirty, bloodstained clothes, he looked more like a highway bandit than a prince. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Maybe it was a teenager from the houses across the highway, trying to scare me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Cady had already left for the bakeoff, so Marigold was all by her lonesome, out in the wooded spot where Argyle Road met the main highway. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The highway is lined with towering blue- gum trees. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The new highways spurred car sales, truck sales, and the construction of new suburban homes. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Baba gestures with his arm and moves off the highway. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I could get on one of those horses, if I knew how to ride a horse, and gallop from meadow to meadow, through backyards and highways, all the way out to the sea. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I made my way through the preserve and walked along the side of the highway. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “Oh, sure, it’s the darndest house you ever saw. Painted like Pepto-Bismol. Your grandmother surely’s seen it—you go through town on Main Street till it turns into the highway to Florence.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This four-lane concrete highway slashed with speeding cars I remember as a narrow, twisting mountain road where the wood teams moved, drawn by steady mules. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z That may seem a meaningless figure, but look at it this way—it is eight times the total mileage of America’s interstate highway system. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Fifty feet below that, a highway emerged from the hill’s base and wound its way toward Berkeley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He stared at the highway, then said with disgust, “I hate dogs. Cats are so much better.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Mr. Lias turned his team off the highway into the rutty lane that led up to the old home place. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I want to check out the highway,” Piper said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The commuter shuttles ran only a few times a day, so the residents lucky enough to have a job would already be waiting at the bus stop by the highway. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Cars full of terrified people streamed onto the highways, trying to escape. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z While his mother was out delivering pies, Wash copied the address from her desk drawer and headed out along the highway toward Tyler. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Spy highway of the Culper Ring uses land and sea routes to avoid Royal Navy ships and Redcoat patrols on shore. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Clutter seldom encountered trespassers on his property; a mile and a half from the highway, and arrived at by obscure roads, it was not a place that strangers came upon by chance. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The Cadillac rumbled down a two-lane highway, kicking up trails of dust and exhaust, a dented rocket ship blasting through time in reverse from the future to a land that Wi-Fi forgot. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They would be driving down a two-lane road, some back highway, the kind Mia favored: the kind that wove its way through small towns composed of a store and a cafe and a gas pump. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z With both of its back tires blown out, it swerved into the other lane, spinning out, until it came to a jolting stop on the shoulder of the highway. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He said he would miss me, then he let me go, stepping into his car and speeding down the hill and onto the highway. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The coffee burned into him, a dark transfusion that awakened him to his own desire to leave this house and set his eyes on long curves and highway signs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We leave downtown Los Angeles behind and travel up the winding highway in silence. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Uncle Bill drove off the highway, and soon they were paying a fee to enter a massive parking lot. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The whole state depressed him, the blue lines representing highways that intersected towns whose names and destinies were mysteries to him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He started up his car and swung it back out onto the highway, leaving behind a blue-black cloud of smoke that drifted over the protesters. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Turning back, he stares at the dark streak of desert highway. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He went into town and arranged for a week’s leave from his work on the highway. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The wheel felt like an alien thing in my hands as I followed the white line of the highway. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z We were going at last and I took a last longing look as the bus shot around the highway which circled the school. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “One other thing. Participation in the highway cleanup counts as public service, which always looks good on a college application.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Miles of little split levels and stretches of mall-lined highways surrounded the place. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z During my high school summers, I cut grass in parks and on the medians of highways, unloaded trucks, and walked beside road-paving equipment with a rake to smooth the hot asphalt along the curbs. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The sun was sinking on the horizon when we finally got into Marin County and exited the highway. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I left money with her as a gift for the children, and the husband drove me back to the highway. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yesterday I walked to those houses across the highway. I was looking for you. After a while I met some kids by the pond.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The fourth arrived when Einstein showed that time was similar to these three dimensions; we are constantly moving through time like a car that’s speeding down a highway. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “It’s a small park, just off the highway. I can give you directions.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Wherever we were, there were still traces of the dead leaves from the fall before staining the highway’s cement. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Marly saw them trotting along the tops as if they thought the fences were their own special little highways. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Reporters and cameramen had been confined to a car dealer’s parking lot beside the highway. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z When I took my hand away from my eyes, I saw the dairy truck disappear down the highway and watched the noisy sixth graders run out onto the field for gym. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z My feet burn when I start walking again on the stones and dirt off the highway. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Margo said, “Now, now!” and I dashed across the six lanes of highway. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Springer Mountain, the launching-off point in the south, is seven miles from the nearest highway, at a place called Amicalola Falls State Park, which in turn is a good way from anywhere. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It’s like the people in cars, on the highway, who slow down and look out the window when there’s a car accident by the side of the road. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The highway transformed into a slate-colored river, spiked and prickled by relentless fat globules of rain. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z We had just got on the road again when a little two-seater black Ford pulled into the highway just ahead of us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z After a long and wistful look at the lonely highway of the hall, Ralph found exploration more interesting and profitable than he had expected. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z I watched the world revolve as the car spun around and lurched back to the highway. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In my mind’s eye, we were zipping along the highway already, weaving in between cars like the Fast, or the Furious. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I wish that those Seenicruisers would be discontinued; it would seem to me that their height violates some interstate highway statute regarding clearance in tunnels and so forth. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Scoob doesn’t move a muscle as they glide to a bumpy stop on the “shoulder” of the highway, or so Dad calls it. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z As soon as we were on the highway, I gasped at the foliage. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z On the way back to the highway, though, things take another turn for the strange and unusual. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Near the grove, off the highway, there was a shimmering temple topped by a golden statue of the angel Moroni. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Y’all just built new courts at your school, right? Behind the gym, hidden from the highway?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They turn onto a bumpy road off the highway, which grows bumpier and bumpier as it climbs up into wilder, more desolate country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The coyote had probably been hit by a car on the highway and then limped out here into the middle of the wash to lie down and die. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He moved along the bank a few paces where generations of peasants had worn a “highway,” and soon came to the path. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z And suddenly I felt guilty, because I’d been running the pegasus for half a day, nonstop, trying to keep up with highway traffic. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Finch traces the red highway lines with his index finger. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Wrote me he had bought some land on the highway outside Anchorage. Said he was going to have a hunting lodge, a place for tourists. ‘ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Tayo rolled down the window and drove with his head outside, the way train engineers did, the air rushing at his face as he watched the white lines of the highway fall past the truck. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “I guess. But right now, I think this highway needs me more.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z He led George into the entrance of the trail and up toward the highway. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z And within ten minutes of hitting the highway, I’m down for the count. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I’m not too tired so I stay up reading the neon signs off the highway. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Down one side of the cliff, a highway cut through a ravine. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The forested trail lets out onto a two-lane highway with a scary, narrow shoulder. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I looked out the window to tall pine trees rising on either side of the highway. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At the highway, traffic was stopped so that the procession could move into the middle of the road. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z A car passed on the highway, somebody whooping out the window. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z People start to get restless, standing on the roof like packs of meerkats, all trying to get a better view of the highway ahead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I thought it was fairly brave—or stupid—considering the commonwealth of Virginia had never considered it a priority to install lights on its highways and roads. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Back at the highway, half the cars had their headlights on now, and it seemed they were all trained directly on him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He doesn’t have any quiet little streets or parks; it’s highways and a grid, and no rivers either. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z But that casino, mismanaged and too far away from major highways, was a money-losing business. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Feeling sad and lonely, I turned my back to the highway and started home. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z After the drive along the sloppy highway, the snowy park looked especially clean and serene, and all conversation stopped. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The police were trying to clear the highway, but a dog had jumped out of the van and was running up and down the turnpike as a couple of officers chased after him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The main market is situated along the highway leading into town, near an old train station built by the English. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The two-lane highway from Independence to the camp is quiet except for the small caravan of buses heading into the desert. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Off in the hills, where the ancient highway curved, there was a motion, a dim light, and then a murmur. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is where I turn off. I guess you want to stick to the highway.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z To get there, I would travel along the highway that is also named for Captain Cook, who, I knew from studying explorers with Franny, sailed from England to Australia. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On the highway below, the school bus rolls past without stopping. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z To get to downtown Johannesburg, one had to travel along a desolate highway that cut through an unpopulated area. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They went slowly, riding now upon the highway. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Instead of making a left on West Oriole, toward the bus stop, Roy rode his bicycle across the highway to East Oriole. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a ride in the back of someone’s truck, a Gulf sign on the highway, someone’s apartment? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I followed the highway east, and then south, then west, then north, and then east again, until I ended up at the same Meridian Street exit where I’d started. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z But instead of letting them go, the judge changed the charges and convicted them of “obstructing the highways.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z By the time you read this, I will be somewhere on the highway heading toward the Rocky Mountains with Chit. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I’d found it in a trash bin behind the abandoned strip mall across the highway. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At the edge of the highway the ground sloped sharply. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “I am certainly not going to sit up in that death trap of a front seat for highway travel. Now get in this go-cart and get us out of here.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the meal was quiet, me pondering why anyone, even him, wouldn’t want friends, and him glaring, the lights of the highway reflecting in his glasses. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Across the highway and walking north again, Lupita said, “I think that man knew where we were going and what we want to do.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I could leave it like this, stop in the middle of the highway. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z At the front, nearest the highway, are parking places for passenger automobiles together with regiments of gasoline pumps. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Elsewhere across the spacious valley far below, where once had proudly stood the Fabyan, the Mount Pleasant, the Crawford House, and many others, today there were only forest, highways, and motels. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She had gotten to the convention center much later than she’d planned, due to an unprecedented traffic jam on the highway. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Soon we’re back on the road and heading to the highway again. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Hence the powerful Ford, itself weighing around 6,0 pounds; together with the trailer, it was nearly five tons—a missile at highway speeds. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The truck rocketed blindly up the snow-covered highway. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Creatures could only use wheels on a world that provided them with natural highways. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Residents are quick to acknowledge this: People who are restless, unusual, or ambitious get out quickly, sometimes heading for more forward-looking Nampa nearby, more often for booming Boise down the highway. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Or he’d picked the fennel along the highway on the drive over. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Over on the highway he could see headlights and taillights moving east and west, but he felt alone, as if that world were distant from him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z These Laguna guys were about the worst she’d run into, especially that guy they picked up walking along the highway; he acted funny. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They were moving like water, downhill all the time, and they flowed at last to a main highway on a valley’s floor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the way, sharecropping families came dozen to the highway to greet the marchers and wave them on. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He stuffed the pistol into his pocket, turned and fled towards the highway. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the building, the linoleum-floored hall, unlike the halls of the Mountain View Inn, was a broad smooth highway with no rough carpets to wear down the already thin tires of a little motorcycle. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z On the highway a few cars went by and crossed the bridge over the river, but none turned in. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z All that night he kept recalling the faces of the peasants, whom he had seen come into this world on his property, as they moved off along the highway. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the bus had run another fifty yards on the highway, its destination would be meaningless, and its point of departure changed from metropolis to junkyard. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z But the warm air and the highway noise and the Brown Bomber’s seat and the way Joey was breathing all pushed me back to sleep. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Wishes he could simply get into another cab, and ride along another highway, deferring the moment he must face them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z We suddenly had thirty ravens, and they set out immediately to rearrange our situation so it would be their situation, much as the birds and bees had done in the highway rest areas. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And he ran out the door and went crunching through the snow to the highway. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Darius finally asks after ten minutes of driving in silence down a highway. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Or water, as I would come to see when I witnessed the outbreak of interspecies war in a highway rest stop driving through Arizona. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Together they raced over the hills, past Roman aqueducts, highways, and vineyards. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Or when you’re on the highway and someone rolls down a window,” I said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z We passed roadside restaurants advertising breakfast specials and movie theaters with the show times listed on towering signs near the edge of the highway. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The field stretched along a highway that ran from Burundi to Congo, and cars whizzed by us as we lay in the dirt. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I’m traveling through to Montgomery. I got stranded on the highway and can’t seem to get a ride. I wonder if I could buy something to eat and drink?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten minutes later they had wrenched their way through the boarded-up doors and were in the car, speeding toward the highway. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I stared at the tall overhead highway lights as we drove beneath them. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Then he realized the highway must cut through the hill. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They were quiet again, smoking: the radio announcer dedicated a song to Chuck, a Consolidated Freightways driver zooming along the highway somewhere east of Ponca City. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even so, in a few miles, we turned off and took an older, slower road that would loop hack into the highway before Marshall. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The highways are bumper-to-bumper,” says a male reporter. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z No one expects that a girl will be running alongside a mostly empty highway. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The cable was back up and a local station gave the all clear on highway driving. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Later, when Mr. Costa came in to sweep, he listened to the radio sing a mournful song about a lonely truck driver in jail who longed for his eighteen-wheel rig and the open highway. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z I watched the bigger roads give way to the highway, and I thought, Goodbye, South Grove, Massachusetts. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Before long the truck left the highway, turned onto a dirt road, and then onto another before it bounced to a stop beside a wooden building set in the middle of flat fields. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z He’d gotten off the highway at 21:36 last night, and then back on at 23:19. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The sun was beginning to come up over the hills as I turned onto East Main Street and headed toward Santa Maria to catch highway 101. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Soon the long white lines of the highway stretched out in front of him, broken up by the dark puddles between the streetlights. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And all along the endless convoy as it made its way out of the neighborhood and onto the highway, you’d hear a passerby ask, “Who they burying?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Cade pulled the truck off the highway, and we all got out to stand there in the blazing heat of the desert while Julia Bishop snapped photographs of us. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Mom told us the trip would be about fourteen hours if we took the highway, but we should tack on another couple of hours because we might make some scenic detours. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z At the last traffic light in the city, before she turned to go onto the great highway out of town, she stopped, waiting, and slid Dr. Montague’s letter out of her pocketbook. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The Thriftway was not far from the school, just a few streets south, off the highway. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Why would ants choose to live on the side of a highway where they were just going to get run over by cars and semis on a regular basis? Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z There have been water highways in the forest since before Columbus. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z So they built a broad, straight highway, six lanes wide in places, with concrete dividers down the middle and outsized sodium street lamps that light the night sky for miles around. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It was obviously a highway, for other runs branched off it in all directions. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a good three miles away, and would require a portage over the highway, but Zeitoun was happy to have a clear-cut task. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “He’s irrigating his old man’s beanfield on the western side of the highway.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When we made it to the highway, the adrenaline that streaked through us subsided and our fear was replaced with laughter. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z In the dark they couldn’t see that they were in the wrong lane on a silent highway full of muffled traffic. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as Mom and Abbey left, I got on my bike and headed up the highway toward the jail. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I looked one last time at the highway. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One day a white van appeared, and a handful of men in dark overalls began climbing over the utility poles by the highway. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Pepper got run over on the highway, chasing some she-dog in heat.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z And we stay like that for the whole ride down Joy Road, until we reach the highway. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z This time the women were charged with “congregating in the park,” “holding a meeting without a permit,” or “building a bonfire on a public highway between sunrise and sunset.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I saw her run towards the highway, and I was glad that she did not wander towards the river where the grass was stained— Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z PPC is a vast and germy pit stop on the highway of life, but you make it a little cooler. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z At times they could see stretches of the interstate highway below them through the bare stands of secondgrowth timber. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z After a few long minutes and a long drive down a whole other highway, he says, “Zuri, I'm sorry I can't be more like your boy in the hood, Warren.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z We zoomed past a green sign on the side of the highway. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A state highway maintenance truck was parked across from his drive. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Unlike the steady stream of the highway, here rickshaws, motorcycles, trucks, and cars shared the narrow roads alongside bicycles and throngs of people. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Lice Peeking lived in a trailer park on the old road that runs parallel to the main highway. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Uncle Bill stopped off for coffee to stay awake and Kelly passed out as soon as they hit the highway. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Finally, we saw the edge of the junkyard about half a mile ahead of us, the lights of a highway stretching through the desert. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They were driving down the gravel road, going east from Magdalena to catch the highway near Socorro. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I think I'll go to those houses across the highway and look for her. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Two children walked to the highway every morning and were picked up by a yellow school bus. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while it’s nothing different, the same expanse of sky, the same strip of highway, large liquor stores and fast-food chains on either side. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z After an hour, the bus went from the highway to the Thruway, then—an hour later—off a sharp exit to a two-lane road, then to a gravel road, and then to a dirt road. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The road is empty, and her run is officially done, so she steps from the highway and into the yellow grass, still damp from rain. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z After a moment he added through clenched teeth, “We won’t go back to the highway. They could be waiting there for us. Let’s go down the road and find a place to rest.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The two vehicles were roaring down the highway as if they were attached to each other. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I went out on the highway to watch them pass. I ’as thinkin’ it might be folks I knew from White County. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They’d been tooling through Michigan, headed for New York City, got off the turnpike for gas, got lost on their way back to the highway and had headed into the 7-Eleven for directions. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Moss looked out the window, watched as they crossed over the highway, saw downtown Oakland change into West Oakland, a neighborhood that still persisted in the face of too many changes to recount. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z As they approached the ramp that would take them to the state highway that would lead to Epiphany, he had still said nothing. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z At this rate it would be hours before they even got onto the highway. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z I hurried forward around the curve of highway until I saw it came from an isolated service station at the top of the hill. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I never look angry, the way I do on the fading billboard by the highway. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z The light changed; she turned onto the highway and was free of the city. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z They were all ready to pile in the car and ride toward the highway leading south. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A good portion of it lay along a stretch of highway. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He was supposed to help pursue cases for the highway patrol that were taking a lot of time, that the individual troopers didn’t have resources to pursue. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z On the highway, trucks hiss their brakes, stopping at the border before entering the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z No recent photographs, no hospital records, no death certificate, just the accident report from the state highway police: Dr. Sidney Sikes suffered a crushed leg and Samuel W. Westing had severe facial injuries. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seems pretty quiet around here. Nobody on the road leading in, and nobody on the highway either.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then some highway official or other decided that what would be a really good idea would be to build a big, fast road between the two towns. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Dolores’s loose hair tickled her shoulders as she followed the curve of the highway. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The highways in southern Georgia were famous for how dark they were, no light anywhere—no farm lights or streetlights or town lights. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Ralph toured the century to date — its subway, its many mighty bridges, its highways. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Every evening I watched for his red jeep from my window, and when it appeared on the highway I ran for the door. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Carry me to camp —across the highway, through the tunnel, across the river.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The agent snapped on his radio and, as he watched more cars head for Bud Gleason’s, contacted Dona Luz and the highway roadblocks to see if anything had happened. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I assumed we had more time,” he said, turning the car onto the highway. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z When they searched around the area for me, they passed a little boy standing with his dog on the side of the highway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z If I could force it back to the smooth highway of common sense, then Hamlet would be himself again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The main highway from Bolivia Mar to Bolivia itself follows the Osmore Valley, cutting a perfect sectional slice through Peru on the way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This federal grant money has resulted in the proliferation of narcotics task forces, including those responsible for highway drug interdiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z On either side of the highway were about four inches of pavement, then a sharp drop into the gully. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Twenty yards from the highway, they were back in open countryside. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, Dicey took out her map again: Route 50—a four lane highway with a grass divider. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z We were driving down the highway, past the brown grass part of Oklahoma that squats next to the airport. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z So I reeled in my line and made my way up the slope, toward the highway. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z She could either take him to school or—hey, why not!—they could shoot up the highway to the mountains together like it was nothing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I pulled off the highway and onto the gravel, then stepped out of the car and gazed up at Buck’s Peak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Shadow waited until the door was opened and she was safely inside before he put his foot down and headed back for the highway. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z From the highway, it looks like a wrinkle in the hills, or like the space in between fingers in a fist. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Tourist traffic was bumber-to-bumper and barely moving, but our van was in a special lane and we sailed on past the tourists and turned off the highway onto a small access road. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother drove us toward San Francisco over the big white highway that would not have surprised me had it never ended. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They were on bikes because a few weeks earlier, Eric’s ’82 Olds sedan, their only other means of transport, caught fire on the highway to Nampa for the fourth or fifth time. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d have to cross to the median of the highway, but then it would be a short sprint. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They drove around in Satan's Hearse for a while, getting good and lost with the windows rolled down, driving down a two-lane highway toward absolutely nothing. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z But when they got to the highway, Leandra had fallen asleep. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z This time, she saw an empty highway cutting between fields of wheat and sunflowers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Food found along the highway, or the offerings from a friendly hand would ease the pangs of hunger. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “What . . .” Marigold rubbed her wrist as the Owners car disappeared down the main highway. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z On Sunday, Mr. Trepid turned off the main highway and drove down a narrower side road and then onto a bumpy dirt road which led into Ruby Holler. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z After 27 hours of deliberation, Tison was convicted of two misdemeanors—disorderly conduct and discharge of a pistol near a public highway—and aggravated assault, the less severe of the two felonies. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I force myself to ignore it, blinking moisture from my eyes as I push my board to its highest speeds along an empty stretch of highway. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Inge and I sat together with his brother Desire that morning beside a fence near a highway, looking out over the eerie scene. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z If he decides to follow the highway, he will go away, and everything will be all right again. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Then I think of the cat on the side of the highway. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z On the way to the marina I didn’t see a single car—a Greyhound bus was the only thing that passed me on the highway. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I gazed across the parking lot to the dark highway. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Three hours later Gallien turned his truck west off the highway and drove as far as he could down an unplowed side road. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They left the highway, sped through a deserted Holcomb, and crossed the Santa Fe tracks. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Alaska looked at me with disconcerting frequency when she drove, particularly since we were winding through a narrow, hilly highway south of school, headed to the aforementioned Coosa Liquors. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z When we got to the bridge, I stepped down off the highway and cut through the weeds down to the river that it arched over. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He reads off the best highway escape routes. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Now Pigeon Forge has 200 outlet shops stretched along three miles of highway. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z As the sun came up through a milky, fiery mist, a blue pickup truck came roaring down the highway behind them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Just as he’d figured, a hundred yards uphill the highway cut through the base of the cliff. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As we drove from the airport and got onto the highway, I realized that it didn’t seem like we were anywhere near water. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z But humans being what they are, and I being human, I turned off the highway on a shaley road and headed in among the buttes, but with a shyness as though I crashed a party. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a purple night, and we were driving on a highway full of cars. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z I crawled back, because it’s dangerous to drive and talk at the same time, especially on the highway, which is what we were on. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z His face was set hard in an attempt to regain his equilibrium, when he pulled off the main highway and stopped on a dirt road that led into the jungle. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I changed lanes to drive around them, but stopped when I saw a small object lying in the middle of the highway. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z On the access highway they turned north and parked at the top of a hill. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z “Sorry to be so late. We had to cover a big story about a truckload of chickens loose on the highway.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Far below, the night landscape whisked by—miles of dark countryside crisscrossed with illuminated highways like the strands of a web. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But there were no turns here; only undulating straight highway and desert. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z So I put on my shoes and coat, and started down the highway. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I sat in the back of the hatchback on the drive home—and that is how I thought of it: home—and fell asleep to the highway’s monotonous lullaby. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Are we going to be homeless, live under a bridge and ask for change on the side of the highway? Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z A bit of a country breeze to help clear her head as she continued down the highway. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z They straggled down the highway in a loose body, blocking the way from the white line to the frazzled weeds that bordered the sun-heated concrete slab. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared down the empty highway not really seeing anything but going over Mong’s life in my head. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Thalia drew her shield and held it up as she ran down the highway. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z But most of the traffic went out along the chief highway, and that turned south, and then bending swifter than the River skirted the hills and passed soon from sight. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I peer down the highway where the rising sun flashes on the windows of the endless line of trucks and buses and cars. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z For a time it looked as if all highways would be like this. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Drop me off at the highway,” he said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z We cross bridges standing on stilts over water inlets, red barns tucked deep within rolling meadows, a giant wood-carved bear standing at the edge of the highway. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The highway stretched deserted through the swamp forests. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Before anyone replies, he’s off the highway, climbing the scrubby shale like a skinny goat. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It began spilling out of the inner city, up the streets and highways that connect those neighborhoods to the rest of the city. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His airplanes and spaceships have dwarfed distance, placed time in chains, and carved highways through the stratosphere. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Herding them into the VW bus, she set off gaily enough, heading south on the highway and across Strawberry Mesa for a ways, and finally into the narrow, pretty gorge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Middle school is like one of those highway restrooms in the middle of nowhere. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z They said that she left after Josiah’s funeral, and nobody knew where she went, only that she walked to the highway with a suitcase. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I. M. Terrell Elementary School in Fort Worth, Texas, is perched on a hillside and surrounded by interstate highways. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Perhaps Elizebeth suspected something was up, because she trailed the movers down the highway in her ailing Plymouth. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z So, I started talking a mile a minute about how we saw a movie and how my sister taught me how to drive on the highways and how we went to McDonald’s. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Several minutes passed between his undoing of one button and the next, his eyes closed all the while, his head still on her shoulder, as the bus hurtled down the empty, dark highway. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Maggie drives on through the simulator, finishing the highway portion, heading into an urban environment. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Something had happened on the highway, that’s what they were saying on the radio. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Lyra saw it not as abiding place but as a highway. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Perry watched her as he drove along the riverside highway. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Beatrice Leep’s bus stop, the place he had first spotted the running boy, was on West Oriole Avenue, just the other side of the main highway. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In his words, “One of the great tragedies of man’s long trek along the highway of history has been the limiting of neighborly concern to tribe, race, class or nation.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z To Ammu, her twins seemed like a pair of small bewildered frogs engrossed in each other’s company, lolloping arm in arm down a highway full of hurtling traffic. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My father had told my mother and me that since he wasn’t used to our new car or to American highways, we should be quiet and let him concentrate. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It has infected law enforcement activities on roads, sidewalks, highways, train stations, airports, and the nation’s border. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The flashing lights led me down the highway, toward the bridge. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Those still on their feet retreated....A cheer went up from the white spectators lining the south side of the highway.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet he had belief in wonder and in the next twenty-five miles of black Carolina highway, he thought: Can a boy begin a prayer with the hatred of his father in his heart? The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “We hit the highway and drove east,” he’d said, in the process of describing what he and Hickock had done after fleeing the murder scene. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He said he was tired of chewing up the road, and the white lines down the middle of the highway were starting to wiggle. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z During the day she would forage along the highway where the grass was thick and green, then she would return at nightfall. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed the Thruway entry ramp and a shopping center backed up against the fast-moving highway. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They crossed a small, soggy-bottomed ditch before they got to the line of low, dark buildings on the left side of the highway. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Durban is the principal port for the country’s main industrial area, and the highway that leads to Johannesburg runs parallel to the railway line for a great distance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hard not to turn my eyes from the highway and face him. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked across the highway, sat on my duffel and waited for another car. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My appetite for navigating the Twin Cities highways has been dwindling rapidly. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Passing through Amiens, I turned from the highway and traveled alone for two days. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z These are, in fact, the engineering artifacts of intelligent beings: roads, highways, canals, farmland, city streets—a pattern disclosing the twin human passions for Euclidean geometry and territoriality. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A death-barge came down the river to the capital, since rivers were the highways of the day, and it was moored beneath the palace wall. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I wished I had met him in a railroad station, or at some highway intersection. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z When I arrived opposite it, I stood for some time across the highway and watched. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We take the coastal highway to my grandmother’s house. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I settle back into the familiar perspective, the backs of heads, the ears, and past them the white line of the highway. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The broad streets and sidewalks that had impressed me so on the first day we had arrived had become as familiar as the dirt road from Macún to the highway. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She memorized the landscape as she flew—forests, rivers, highways, and cities. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Over at the highway, the downed power lines began to dance. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Far off toward the highway a man shouted something, and another man shouted back. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he made it to the highway and kept walking. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “You know what we’d better do next Saturday?” he began in one of his voices, the low-pitched and evenly melodic one which for some reason always reminded me of a Rolls-Royce moving along a highway. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Then C. J., Nancy, and Gene drove out to the gas station, where they parked in a cul-de-sac by the highway, near some pay telephones. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z During storms, you can see huge waves pound the FDR Drive, sometimes reaching all the way to the highway itself and washing up against the cars. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I looked up ahead and saw the highway curve off, left and right, into spiral exit ramps, like rams’ horns. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Be prepared to walk to Montgomery. Be prepared to sleep on the highways.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z This had actually happened recently to Konoval, the training officer, who had taken a different work crew out mowing near a highway in the Bronx. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Cars hum on the highway below her, headed for Queens. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Army and National Guard troops patrolled Selma that day and lined the highway leading out of town. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “They could have been there for a while,” I said, just as we found the highway again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I told him about the house for sale across the highway. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z A giant burning ghat was erected on the highway. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The atoms that built the highway of nerves in my arms were still disconnected from my brain, so I could not even move my hands to cover myself. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z We turn around and head back up the two-lane highway, farther north. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z To prove her point, a lacquered strand flew stiffly out in the breeze as they roared out onto the coast highway. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For the most part, women, children and old people wait off the highway for their men to come back and tell them what to do and where to go. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z If she’d looked at a map, counted her money, researched average cab fares and highways and traffic conditions, those kids would have made it. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He started the long, slow run down the highway toward his apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z We rode in silence back through the downtown area to the highway. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw the pink room, long highways, TV sets, telephones, and electric lights. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The two-lane highway was empty except for the puddles. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z As he approached his turnoff, he saw several highway patrolmen directing traffic. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The truck rumbled along through the dark, over bumpy streets at first, then, at a higher speed, over a smooth highway. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z A very light dry snow blew like white dust on the highway, and the evening was coming earlier now, I thought. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It is simply astounding to see an animal dead on a highway. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not a brain, clearly; it’s a map; can’t she see the rivers and highways and interchanges? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z As I walked down the road toward Old Main, I heard something in the sky, south, by the highway. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Back on the highway, Kyril Montana drove a mile and a half south to the eastern turnoff into town where the surviving population of Milagro was settled. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The DEA has offered free training, intelligence, and technical support to state highway patrol agencies that are willing to commit their officers to highway drug interdiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He crammed the rest of his chicken sandwich into his mouth and stared off at the highway as he chewed. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Before we even made it to the highway, the car was skidding all over the place, the tires spinning like they weren’t touching the ground. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Maribel held the warm paper bag on her lap until we got back on the highway. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Once Cheryl reached the highway, a motorist spotted her and took her to the hospital. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The Ziploc, a dirty camouflage green flashing glassy sparks of pipe, tumbled along the highway before being obliterated by the car behind us. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We crossed carefully back over the log and climbed the bank up to the highway. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He pulled himself up and out of the truck, his vision blurry and every part of his body feeling like the broken glass that was spread across the highway. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Cieza de Leon once came upon three different highways running between the same two towns, each built by a different Inka. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This time they rested in a tiny box canyon to the right of the highway. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Ben and the colonel were urinating in the ditch that paralleled the highway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It says: Bound across the highway when the truck is coming at you. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I would see clumsy, work-hardened, calloused hands scrawling and scratching signatures on the contract, agreeing to highway- robbery interest rates in the fine print that never was read. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re not off a highway or any major route, so it’s the type of place that can only be found by those who want to find it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I fell asleep in the jeep because it was a long way to get to their house and watching the highway go by always makes me want to close my eyes. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “This one shows main highways. Shows a lot of rivers too, and in eighteen fifteen there were probably not many bridges.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She drove all night, through New Jersey and Pennsylvania, miles of highway whipping by in the dark. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I loved the tidy geometry of those fields, the pops of color that turned out to be barns, the flat county highways that ran straight to the horizon. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Twenty-five miles of highway passed without his knowledge, twenty-five miles vanished because Ben had retreated to the land behind the eye again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Once well out of Hampden, we turned off the main highway and onto a stretch of gravel road that I had never seen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z On Wednesday morning, the band of three hundred reached the point where the highway widened back to four lanes, ending the court’s limitation on the number of marchers. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z When I think of that night now, I don’t think of the dark highway, or of my brother lying in a pool of his own blood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z One rainy evening, the Blue Bird Inn skidded off the highway, plunged down an embankment, and flipped onto its roof. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Papi keeps walking and when we get to the edge of the highway he lays me down on the ground. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “In that group of houses across the highway from the farm gates?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I imagined a world where green bills littered the highway like empty soda cans. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A car resembling a pouncing cat, with glowing green eyeballs for headlights, had just eased off the highway and pulled into the parking lot. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z There was coastal flooding, which meant that the low lying highways and many side roads and ramps would be closed. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “Not to question your sense of direction, G’ma, but shouldn't we be going the other way? I think the highway’s behind us.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z That if we stayed on the highway, we’d be two hours away from my parents in Salem. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z But now for the first time I became aware that each state had also its individual prose style, made sharply evident in its highway signs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if Grams snake bite had anything to do with her stroke, and if Gramps felt guilty for whizzing off the highway and stopping at that river. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z We crossed lines in sand drawn through palmetto scrub, lines down the middle of highways, soup-kitchen lines, lines of worry, souls lined up awaiting the burning tongue of salvation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The mobile companies concentrated their cell phone sites along highways, hoping to capture business from bored motorists. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Cypress trees towered to the left of the car, an ink-black creek paralleled the highway, full of rotten winter vegetation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As he fell toward the highway, a horrible scenario flashed through his mind: his body smashing against an SUV’s windshield, some annoyed commuter trying to push him off with the wipers. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Axel remembers, anyway, sitting in the back of Frank’s old truck, driving anywhere on any afternoon, and Frank counting the red-tailed hawks along the highway as they drove. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Mr. Rowan had invited him to join everyone at Clive’s, and he’d followed them down the highway in his car—that beat-up Toyota they’d spotted in the parking lot. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z The summer population must be large and the roads and highways gorged with refugees from the sticky heat of Boston and New York. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He slowed his pickup to a stop and inched over to what I assumed was the shoulder of the highway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z They stood there on the ancient highway, neither of them moving. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But it dawned on me that I’d seen this same car a couple of times on the highway, going south. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z This time, though, she gave me a wry, sideways look, hit her turn signal to get us off the highway and back to our neighborhood, and chuckled just a little. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “A record. Now I’ll take you on the highway,” he announced. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They hiked back down to the highway through the mud. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The driver pulled over to the side of the road, where the bus station mob, barreling down the highway in some fifty cars and pickup trucks, caught up with it. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, we go under the highway and railroad bridge and come out on the flats of the West Branch of the Delaware. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The night was still except for the distant rush of traffic on the highway. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She’d pictured deserts, donkeys, and carts—not so many busy, cosmopolitan cities, not so many Mercedes and BMW dealerships lining the highway heading north, not so many women in tight clothes and uncovered hair. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Danglers show up in newspapers and bestsellers, on the network news and highway billboards, and they can be endlessly entertaining—as long as they’re perpetrated by someone else. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “We could hardly believe it,” Jesse later told me, recalling that first morning when they gazed up at a squat, ugly, four- story apartment complex facing a suburban highway. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Many arms, pieces of tongues, and parts of legs had been left by various Milagro residents in the rear seats of their head-on collisions with cows and horses on the north-south highway. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I thanked him for the ride and stepped down onto the highway. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z While we waited for the radiator to cool, some players sat in the bus and slept, some of us went out and played catch on the highway. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the day of the meet, the sun was bright, the sky blue, and the trees infinite as we drove down the highway. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Lefty Lewis got in the car, started it and we pulled back out on the highway. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly he found himself speeding along an unfamiliar country highway, and as he looked back over his shoulder neither the tollbooth nor his room nor even the house was anywhere in sight. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Across the pastures, the incredible vulgarity of highly amplified hillbilly music drifted from the cafe on the highway. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This would not only be annoying, but pretty much impossible and sometimes dangerous, since Loretta’s pedestrian route is on back trails and down small, narrow highways. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z As Gary Gaines drove along the dark ribbon of highway past Bobs Creek and Fools Creek after the San Angelo game, he knew he had no control over anything now. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled to the side of the highway. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Unarmed men, women and children on a highway were attacked by uniformed men wearing gas masks and riding horses. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Ignatius looked out at the highway marker that reflected their headlights. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As the bus pulled back onto the highway, he turned around and looked through the rear window to see Luma getting into the backseat of the police cruiser. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z On an Arizona highway, a two-car caravan is flashing across sagebrush country—the mesa country of hawks and rattlesnakes and towering red rocks. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z But a hundred yards from the orphanage, in a thick patch of weeds and brush by the side of the windy highway, something else did. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I went from contemplating the natural beauty to ruminating on the fact that the railway line, being so close to the highway, offered a convenient place for sabotage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was early evening, and my family and I had parked at a rest stop off a highway. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Dill gazed out the window at the trees that lined both sides of the highway, the occasional handmade roadside cross, marking where someone had met their end, punctuating the unbroken wall of green. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Terraces and canals and stony highways lined the western face of the Andes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I got up and began to walk along the highway in the darkness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be four days before Katz and I crossed a public highway, eight days till we came to a town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She decided to turn off the main highway and cut cross-country. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked down the highway into the darkness again, carrying both duffel bags in my left hand and feeding myself the tasteless pineapple fried pie with my right. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, when she saw him stumbling up the highway with the old lady in his arms, Hazel had thought he might be a god in disguise. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I can’t leave the farm without telling Mom or Dad, and they haven’t been in very good moods lately, and the street in front of the farm is a highway. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z In English on Friday, Mr. Van Deusen gives us his pitch for the after-school highway litter removal project. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z We don’t speak until we get out to the main highway. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z We were flying over a highway now, racing the cars that looked like toys on the road below. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew that each of the jerking bumps of the shark had been meat tom away and that the fish now made a trail for all sharks as wide as a highway through the sea. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He drove back along the highway toward the church, already laying down a bargain: if Pastor Tom’s car was there, then he would stop in and talk to him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z No dogs to see, only the highway lighted with his headlights. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I pushed it up the incline and the man let me ride as far as the Athens highway. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The instincts of the military wife were beginning to assert themselves, the old efficiency of stealing away from temporary homes and entering the bloodstream of highways heading to new quarters. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Preparing the site would require heavy construction, grading, and converting cow paths into four-lane highways. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The trade-off was that the highway route was so much longer that choosing it would greatly increase our chances of a forced touchdown. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I felt like one of the oak trees that grew along the highway overlooking the Shenandoah Valley, with deep roots and a strong core. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The school was, like most other things, just off the highway. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Liuzzo’s car swerved off the highway and crashed into a ditch. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “Guys, you’ve got to stop tormenting each other,” I said, as we made our way down the highway. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z After they had ridden for some miles, the highway became a wide street, paved with great flat stones, squared and laid with skill; no blade of grass was seen in any joint. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z With the development of interstate highways in the 1950s, meatpacking and shipping could take place in plants located closer to the farms where livestock was raised. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Where the raiding parties had once streamed along the highways with fluttering pennoncels, now there were merry bands of pilgrims telling each other dirty storks on the way to Canterbury. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It had popped a belt on some big, crowded highway, and Tinkle, who was sick and tired of being cooped up, you know how that goes, had gotten loose. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It is no accident that the first highways in America were called parkways. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It is Route Number 9, a state highway, bigger than our road, which is County Road 793. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z There were a lot of ants running around on the side of the highway looking very busy and pleased with themselves. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In the morning I found breakfast in a little Negro cafe—coffee and toast— and then walked down to the highway to begin hitching. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I've driven his car in the city before but never on the highways. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I moved to my window as I had done so many times before, to look out at the mountains and the highway that led past the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And even if it’s only for one night, even if I have to throw her over my shoulder and carry her a hundred miles up the highway, we’ll go to that concert in Detroit. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z On the other side of the highway, the forest straddling the road closed around us. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They were about twenty miles from their hometown of Cedar, Washington, rumbling along a winding highway. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z When we exited the highway, you can bet I pretended not to see the old Red Carpet Inn, scene of my latest, greatest mistake. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z A hundred miles out of Fairbanks the highway begins to climb into the foothills of the Alaska Range. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Roadblocks were erected, and helicopters patrolled the highways; it was a roadblock in Utah that caught York and Latham. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked downstairs and out front, slipped behind the wheel of a Dancing Trout station wagon, and drove out of the canyon and through town, turning left onto the highway, aiming south. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z You could see the reflections of all the red and white lights of the cars in the puddles along the highway. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I do up his nearly bald head and shoulders and then start putting the most complicated, unnecessary, wild highways through him from ear to ear. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He builds highways that stretch into the sun, and we must travel that road with him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Trucks, vans, and buses line the dusty highway winding through the brown hills. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Armpit finished the first bottle before the car made it onto the highway. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Here and there, a house off the side of the highway lit up in a glowing motley of Christmas lights. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Not long after, Pike was caught allegedly committing highway robbery in Tulsa. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “The least they could have done was to send a highway with it, for it’s terribly impractical without one.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z After an hour or so of highway driving, we’re on a road with many trees, passing horses and cows even. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The truck bounces from highway to country road to dirt lane. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The smoking zone passed under the highway and fanned out through a neighboring woodland and up towards St. Ignatius Catholic Church on a knoll above the town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Despite the fact that it was right on the other side of the hill from a highway, it felt like it was in the middle of nowhere. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z After everything had been checked and the money had been paid, Stuart climbed in, started the engine, and drove out onto the highway. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z State troopers were watching on the highways and even the main back roads. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Scattered along the highway, it looked for all the world like snow, which made me wish for a blizzard to come cool things down. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Shock as she watched the King’s guards execute the bandit on the highway. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I wish we lived in one of those nice little houses across the highway. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Bernabe negotiated a tight U-turn, paused to let a two-ton flatbed, piled high with hay bales from Colorado, zoom down the highway, then crossed the road and pulled over slightly ahead of Amarante. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The contraflow would allow all lanes of every highway to flow outward from the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z We were beyond the farthest extension of the school-owned lands now and I suddenly decided to turn off the highway, down a road that seemed unfamiliar. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Large numbers of former slaves roamed the highways in the early years after the war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They live in a development just across the highway from the farm. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The old man reached the highway just as the sheriff was turning in. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of the physical pain of the last few weeks, Annabelle realizes what a relief it’s been to be in forests and farmland and even on highways. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z We no longer walk the highway among a stream of people. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z One stood right at the intersection of Northern Lights Road, straddling the highway, and they drove between his legs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The car moved past the lights of a highway rest stop, breaking the darkness a couple of times. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Was he right this very minute walking down the highway in search of me? Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z As they walked along the highway, some cars came perilously close, as if the drivers were playing a cruel game with them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z By the time it reached the house, which was atop the last hill before the valley, it’d be big as Grandpa’s bam and people on the highway would stare up at it, amazed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It turned around and began to bump back along the road going toward the highway. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Bernabe drifted away from the counter over to the door, where he stood, hands behind his back, staring at the highway. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I slash a highway across the center of the page and make it meet with another in a beautiful spaghetti interchange. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z We met one final time, in a field off the highway. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z About a hundred miles north of the Peru-Chile border, the coastal highway passes by an uninhabited beach ringed by a tall chain-link fence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Rain beats down against the windshield, and Dad has the wipers going full speed as we turn off the highway. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Or perhaps it was a simple mix-up: some other Laura Moon’s body had been dragged from the highway wreckage. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z They stopped at the highway to wipe the mud off the windshield. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z And that tall monster that sits beside the highway to West End, past Turtle Lake. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z We walked along the ledge of the highway, Rosaleen moving at the pace of a bank-vault door, her spit jug fastened on her finger. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked up my guitar and started on down the highway. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She steeled herself and got back on the highway, determined to drive straight through to Phoenix. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The trashman turned them down another canal, then another, picking up more baskets of rotting garbage before returning to the wide highway of traffic on the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z In the three years it took me to rebuild the boat, I seemed almost to live on that highway. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A few miles farther, the sheriff had to stop for some cows stupidly milling around on the highway. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In obedience to them, in the silent heat she walked down Maycomb’s main thoroughfare, a highway leading to Montgomery. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Finally, after it felt like we’d been crawling along the highway for months, the Columbus skyline appeared on the horizon, glittering like Oz at the end of the yellow brick road. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But after a week down there, Harley left the sheep grazing, with only the sheep dog to watch them, and he rode the horse over to the highway. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Antonio said there’s a new ice cream shop across the highway that sells the most amazing brownie sundaes,” Rafey told us. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z On March 17, 1865, Booth and his henchmen planned, like highway robbers, to ambush Lincoln’s carriage at gunpoint on a deserted road as he rode home to the Executive Mansion. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z After finishing in the early afternoon at K&B, she would walk across the highway to Webster and work there until closing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Then, just as he started to pull back onto the highway, six small black clouds scudded off the nearby foothills and proceeded to attack him with rain. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was glad to be near the highway. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want any trouble right there on the main highway, where everybody could see us. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He slowly dismounted, told the patron he had led the ants to the edge of the highway, and went into his house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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