| 单词 | hotel |
| 例句 | Back at the hotel Candace tried to cheer me up, but nothing was more devastating to my pride than going out so early. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Outside it was a lovely warm evening and I could hear the waves breaking on the beach just across the road from the hotel. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z His bag is taken along with Elizabeth’s luggage when they reach the hotel. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Welcome to Tokyo, Miss Chen,” the hotel’s registration attendee says to me as we reach the front desk. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “In the deep end of a hotel pool,” I say. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Stopping only to sink a foot in a soggy, collapsed castle, she was soon out of the area reserved for guests of the hotel. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Before dark, the Austrians serve pork kidneys with whole tomatoes on hotel china, a single silver bee etched on the rim of every plate. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Anytime the girls and I came to visit, we didn’t even pretend to want to stay there, booking a hotel room for the four of us instead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We rode into the city, Annabeth watching as the Arch disappeared behind a hotel. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z One day, Dr. Pérez picked us up at our hotel in his battered Russian sedan and we drove to the hacienda, in a place called Santiago de las Vegas. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z That night, I took the bed and Farid lay on the floor, wrapped himself with an extra blanket for which the hotel owner charged me an additional fee. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The girls I had known had been hard and calculating, those who had worked at the hotel and those whom I had met at school. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The eeriest phase of the investigation began when the police, holding their flickering lanterns high, entered the hotel basement, a cavern of brick and timber measuring 50 by 165 feet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When we returned to Harvard, I offered to pay for a hotel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Yes, but this hotel is for white only,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We were back again in front of the hotel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The sweet, slightly chemical scent of gun oil; the raw wood of newly constructed shell crates; the mothballed odor of old bedspreads—he’s in the hotel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It’s like when my family stays in a hotel when we’re on vacation. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Dad owned the red, yellow, and green properties and had them loaded up with hotels just waiting to bankrupt us out of the game. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Massive hotels, with up to 250 rooms, sprang up in every glen. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z And the odd rumour will go round sometimes about what Hailsham’s become these days—a hotel, a school, a ruin. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Could we go to the hotel and talk about it?” asked Mr. Popper. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z My notoriously impatient uncle told her that if she let him use the phone, he'd find her a hotel. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z No witch would be stupid enough to leave anything suspicious lying around for the hotel maid to see. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z So I put on what I take to be a respectable-looking outfit of ironed Bermuda shorts and scooped-neck T-shirt and set out for a tour of the local hotels and supermarkets. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The model is a miniature of the city she kneels within, and contains scale replicas of the hundreds of houses and shops and hotels within its walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I pick my way through what used to be the hotel—the kitchen, hallways, guest rooms. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z When I get back to the hotel room that night, my roommates aren't there yet. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When I was dropped off, I had to walk across the hotel’s long and elegant veranda, where several dozen whites were sitting and drinking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dasch asked a hotel employee to mail it for him, but the FBI had intercepted the letter. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Looking at the white uniform, Lupita asked, “Are you a maid in a hotel here?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z And she kept getting calls from top govern- ment and military officials in Washington asking about hotel rooms in the area. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But I just sat there eating orange Jell-O while Howard put another hotel on Boardwalk. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The hotel recommended to Elinor by the staff in the cafe was on a square just off the main street that passed right through the town and was lined with palm trees and shops. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Look at you, working at a hotel like some low-class person. I thought you wanted to be a professional.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z On the days when he could not be with Antonapoulos, Singer walked up and down in his room at the hotel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z "You are official guests of the People's Republic of China. You have been preauthorized to bypass customs. I can take you to your hotel immediately." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He staggered across the beach, wondering why there weren’t any tourists or hotels or boats in sight. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She might even be making her bed in the hotel. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Cod, whiting, haddock and mackerel, we caught them all and bore them back triumphantly to the hotel kitchen where the cheery fat woman who did the cooking promised to get them ready for our supper. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you had spent the night in your hotel room instead of with these immoral girls, you’d both feel as good as I do today.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “You could be a maid in a hotel,” Brave Orchid advised. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The agents never registered Burkhart in hotels under his own name, and referred to him by the alias “E. J. Ernest.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She knew well that every hotel within two hundred miles would be booked already. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “And don’t worry about the money. Tickets, hotel, spa treatments—on me.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The metal door was half hidden behind a laundry bin full of dirty hotel towels. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He shook my hand and introduced himself as Andy Harris, one of Hall’s guides, come to deliver me to our hotel. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The hotel room was brightly lit, and he looked at her and at her reflection in the mirror behind her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z So what I decided to do, I decided I'd take a room in a hotel in New York--some very inexpensive hotel and all--and just take it easy till Wednesday. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z She reached for the telephone and dialed the number of the hotel where the Hartliebs had ended up. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z First thing next morning there she was, sliding under the door of my hotel room: her picture on the front page of the Arizona Republic. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z We pretend that we are on a small tropical island that has no hotels, just little huts that stand in the water and come with butlers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, bored with waiting for him in the hotel lobby, Blanca decided to pay a visit to her mother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z "We have got the loveliest hotel," Mike said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z But for instance I don’t even remember the address of his hotel. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I found an identical save the planet card in each of my subsequent hotel rooms, and it got on my nerves in no time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Mummy stayed by my side, got a hotel room. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z With all of those thousands upon thousands of “angry revolutionists,” so few stayed over that the next morning the Washington hotel association reported a costly loss in empty rooms. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Their houses had been torn down to make room for high-priced hotels and the A-frame cottages that now rented in season for a thousand dollars a week. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z We had intensive sessions in my hotel room, where he read what he selected from the diary, and I took notes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We went into the hotel and on the stairs I met Montoya. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z She wore a hotel maid’s uniform, gray with a white collar. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z He and Schnooks thanked the clerk for his kind attention, then set out to canvass more hotels. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A lot of the workers were from the States and one of the perks of the job was that they were given hotel rooms to live in. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Gistan got me a job at another hotel where the tip was folding money more often than coin. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe next year. Aunt Louise doesn’t have enough room for all five of us, and hotels are expensive.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “I’m sure you want to return to your friends. Matthew, would you please walk Miss Prior back to the hotel? I have some things to take care of.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Then Belet had taken me straight to a discreet boutique hotel called Nineveh, whose manager had been great friends with Ishtar. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Oh, we all went to this restaurant near the hotel.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Over a traditional ten-course Chinese dinner at a local hotel, the mayor told me how far Dalian has come and just where he intends to take it. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “What’s up, you guys?” said Tony, one of the hotel’s event staff. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The first time I came upon a Bible in the bedside table of a hotel room in Canada, I burst into tears. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The hotel’s position was explained to me carefully. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, on his narrow hotel bed, he thought sleepily about pre-empting Comrade Pillai by organizing his workers into a sort of private labor union. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With our few bags of belongings, we went to a hotel in Burundi, where we stayed for a week with other families who would be relocated. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z We had also gone to the World Trade Center with Mr. Wright, a Canadian man we had met at the hotel. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “I want to go back to the hotel.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “There’s also a brochure from a hotel in Miami.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the hotel, Jule worked out, showered, and put on the white dress. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Booth was a creature of the city and its fancy hotel lobbies, saloons, oyster bars, and gaslit shadows. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He took Clara on a second honeymoon to the same places where they had spent the first, and on weekend escapades to a hotel, but it was all useless. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is she staying at this hotel?” asked the father. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z While Ms. Sitton and Mrs. Thornton check us into the hotel room, all the girls use their cell phones to take selfies and post them on the Internet. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Little more than an hour before Lincoln died, George Atzerodt rose from his humble room at the Pennsylvania House and left the hotel. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was eleven o’clock that night when Mr. Pontellier returned from Klein’s hotel. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z "It's rotten here in the hotel. Do you know a place called Botin's?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I didn’t say anything, and I could see he wanted to get back to the hotel. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z We just left the airport, and we’re on our way to the hotel in Miami now. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I hadn't had time to eat any breakfast at the hotel cafeteria that morning, except for a cup of overstewed coffee so bitter it made my nose curl, and I was starving. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Do you think they will let us stay here if they build a hotel?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The enormous white-columned hotel, built in the classical revival style, sprawled on a manicured estate in the middle of White Sulphur. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There's this really great hotel where hubby and I had our honeymoon. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z There would be a big ceremony in a hotel ballroom, with lots of media. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Catherine and Helen Ferguson were at supper when I came to their hotel. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z "These modern hotels are all built like boxes of bricks. But what if it is?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z They had arrived the evening before conclave, and stayed in a downtown hotel. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “An empty house can be as lonely as a full hotel,” he said at length. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was dark now; I couldn’t place the time of night, though I saw that it was a hotel room, and not a particularly good one. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She unfolds the tourist map and tries to understand the way back to their hotel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Did you take them to a room or a hotel?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z That year, 1849, she went to work in a hotel in Philadelphia, as a cook. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn't get back to Burger's hotel room until the wee hours of the morning. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Each evening after I showered in my hotel room, I would carry my dirty laundry down the street where I joined the family for dinner. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The following summer the hotel placed Katherine as a clerk in its lobby antiques store, making much better use of her charisma. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “They are at the little hotel near the station,” he said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z When her parents came to the city, he’d disappear to a hotel, removing all traces of himself from the apartment. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Even on weekend mornings, I have to leave early to work the breakfast shift at the hotel. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether stooping to remove a pile of horse flop or sauntering off to his swank hotel, his hat had to be just so. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Much obliged. You’ve improved immensely since then, and I congratulate you. May I venture to suggest in ‘a honeymoon paradise’ that five o’clock is the dinner hour at your hotel?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The battered French girl and I were taken together down through the cellars and out to a little stone courtyard that must once have been the hotel’s laundry. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “I’d like to try one of the hotels, but, God, I’m in no mood to argue with a hotel clerk about my color.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A stenographer named Jennie Thompson disappeared, as did a woman named Evelyn Stewart, who either worked for Holmes or merely stayed in his hotel as a guest. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “See more glass,” said Sybil Carpenter, who was staying at the hotel with her mother. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z We rode in a taxi down to the Palace Hotel, left the bags, arranged for berths on the Sud Express for the night, and went into the bar of the hotel for a cocktail. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I drove to a hotel in West Los Angeles to vote for your president. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z A translator explained he was part owner of the hotel as well as a local oligarch who controlled Siberian gas and oil fields. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He only had time to erect a wall of black energy around the children before the hotel exploded. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It wasn't a proper hotel—I mean a hotel where there are both men and women mixed about here and there on the same floor. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Except for the handrails that run the length of all the walls, it would be easy to mix this place up with a hotel. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Why does this hotel have so many bird feeders?” asked someone behind him. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z And romantic stories: how Potter Palmer had been so in love with his wife, Bertha, that he had given her a luxurious hotel, the Palmer House, as a wedding present. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “He’s checking out all the best hotels for us to stay in.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Inspector Gary checked into Geyer’s old hotel, the Spencer House. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Spending my days in Otavalo, I notice that whenever there’s an indigenous holiday, like Inti Raymi—the Festival of the Sun—the hotels and streets and squares overflow with tourists. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z James’s wife worked for one of the hotels downtown, and the couple was planning to ride the storm out there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Then they went to the hotel restaurant for dinner, where they argued over who would pay the bill. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The night before the decision, the suffragists met in Catt’s hotel room to discuss strategy. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “More like a fourth-rate hotel, if you ask me,” muttered Matt, who had seen better days. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z On May 20, a team of FBI agents raided a Maryland hotel room where a man named John Anthony Walker was staying. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The minivan, which last night had been parked on the far end of the lot, was now stationed directly in front of the hotel room. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Jenny and Abby walked the dogs over to their first location, which was only a few blocks from the hotel. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I didn’t say so to the boys, but Aunt Loma thought Camp had made reservations at a nice honeymoon hotel, whereas he planned on staying with his aunt. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Like the very best hotels,” Theodora said, “or any good girl’s camp.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Instead of sightseeing, the four of us spent the whole day in a ballroom at the hotel. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z "Every hotel in town was to report the names of everybody that was registered in their hotel every night," FBI agent Duane Traynor explained. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z In the dim light of the hotel, he looked...not angry, exactly, but certainly not friendly, either. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z On another occasion, a trainer put Luther up in a hotel, then booted him out the window when the bill came due. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a big meal at the hotel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Um...because we don’t plan to live at the hotel forever.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The town was much smaller than Ensenada, but it had a few hotels, stores, and service stations. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z My dinner invitations were often turned down, as were my invitations for movie nights in our hotel rooms or sightseeing when we arrived in a new city. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z We could care less if they stayed at the five-star hotels into which they were allowed as honorary whites, and which, after all, they could afford and seemed to generally prefer. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They drove to the hotel in their car and paid for the room with their credit card. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “So, Mom,” he said, trying his best to make sure his voice didn’t squeak, “exactly who was speaking at the hotel last night?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Her heels are dangling from her hand, her eyes bright in the warm light near the hotel elevator where they’ve agreed to meet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She took my hand carefully and led me through the door into the living room of the hotel suite. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I saw the lights of the hotel and rowed out, rowing straight out until they were out of sight. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Must have been a good practice,” Reggie said as he drove them to the hotel. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Having given his instructions, Welles hurried out of his hotel room to return to the Danton's Death rehearsal. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I told them I needed to go with you to the doctor because you’re afraid of needles and your mother is busy working a luncheon buffet at the hotel.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Will I ever be in a hotel room again? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In the South the races were strictly segregated by law, not just on railroads but on streetcars and buses, in schools, restaurants, hotels, theaters, and parks, and even in cemeteries and at drinking fountains. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “Nobody's lying here. I don't know how that hotel got my name and credit card.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Grandma was staying at a hotel nearby, and we were all supposed to get brunch later—but Mom wasn’t around. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They had just finished when the owner of the hotel came over to their table. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Skyscrapers were going up everywhere, and movie palaces and hotels. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Back in his hotel room at around eleven p.m., Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We went up to the hotel and into the bar. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Emeline took her cousins on a tour of Holmes’s building and told them of his effort to transform it into a hotel for exposition guests. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I’m holed up in one of Tokyo’s dozen downtowns, registered under a false name at this hotel. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was a luxury hotel in the heart of New York City's garment district, where a plethora of Jewish-owned department stores sold their wares. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Late at night, he’d crank up the radio in his hotel room, lie down on his bed and nurse a glass of Jack Daniel’s, and sleep fitfully until dawn. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But the old hotel is now camouflaged by a different name. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The way Lola tells it, they had relatives who found them farm jobs out in the Central Valley; then during off-seasons they worked in restaurants and hotels and department stores—cleaning, fixing, serving. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Two of Sir Henry Baskerville’s boots go missing when he is staying at a hotel in London. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Walking across the square to the hotel everything looked new and changed. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Well,” he said, “I tried. He’s expecting us at the hotel in twenty minutes.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Some angry grumbling erupted because the older relatives thought they should be sleeping in the village with their family, not in a hotel. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Each hotel room was bigger than our entire trailer! The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Seriously. He’s written like five letters so far, saying he’s going to break my pretty little neck. I even got one at this hotel.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The car in which Malcolm X left the hotel, bound for the aitport, was followed, said Bradley. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She popped each blister and let the liquid soak into the soft white hotel sheet. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z My dad fixed me up with the electrical subcontractor on his construction project, and right away I found myself wiring hotel rooms. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z In 1853, a small stone hotel called Tip-Top House was built atop the mountain and was a huge and immediate success. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Upon discovering that Bertha Palmer was the wife of the hotel’s owner, she inflicted a social laceration that Chicago would never forget or forgive. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The hotel itself is at least twenty stories tall, sleekly designed, with a virtual image of floating koi swimming across its entire side. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Mom had to leave her job at the hotel early to come. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The job did not include official quarters, so he lived at a hotel. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z This time it was a matchbook embossed with the crest of the hotel they’ve taken over for their offices—C d B, Château de Bordeaux. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z After the meeting was over, Dasch and Burger took a bus back to their hotel. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The young source led the way to a nearby hotel, and up to his room. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “If we call you that, sir, word may get back to the baas of the hotel, and we will be fired.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There were all those train bookings and boat bookings and hotel bookings to be made in advance by letter. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps you wonder why we don’t just all go spend the night in a hotel. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Why are we living in a hotel? Why are we letting our son burn through five million dollars? This should make us all upset.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z We checked in at the little hotel, washed, and then went to visit the regional commissioner, the head of government there. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z After the wedding had ended abruptly, Felix had gone back to his hotel room. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z And heaven help the sleepy traveler trying to set the alarm clock in his hotel room who must interpret “alarm function” and “second display mode.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Since all the convenient hotels were either booked or required multiple pounds of flesh in payment, we ended up off the beaten tourist path. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z At Sixth and Vine the detectives came to a hotel called the Bristol and discovered that on Saturday, September 29, 1894, a party identified as “A. E. Cook” had checked in, with three children. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Any hotels or something where we could clean off? I mean... hotels that accept mud people?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Or they took up positions in the glitzy new downtown hotels and restaurants, waiting on tables and cleaning floors. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “One hundred twenty-four thousand hotels rooms, actually. Sounds like a whole lot of people had the same idea.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Sure it was something the hotel called Salisbury steak, but it was awesome. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In each new country, I would initially seal myself away in our hotel familiarizing myself with information about the country’s policies, history, and leadership. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re known all around town. Every hotel concierge and—’’ “Shut up!” said Moses. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I had the bellhop put the bags and the tape-recorder into a waiting taxi, paid my hotel bill, and walked out the revolving door with the object of the search nestling in my jacket pocket. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z There were the long rows of bare trees, the big hotels and the closed villas. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I had heard that Bob was working at one of the hotels in town. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaira wouldn’t have been surprised if El Genius had actually written the letters, to scare her into staying confined to her hotel room. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Kaira’s manager was in the hotel lobby when she returned, and she started yelling at him for firing the drummer, and he told her that drummers were a dime a dozen. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z They passed a hotel that had taken a hit. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Brown sent word to the hotel where the cabinet members were staying, and they rushed to Francklyn Cottage. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Trying to outwit any government pursuers, he at first stayed at a small hotel and then at an inn on the outskirts of town. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But we had to go to the hotel to get our bags packed and pay the bill. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z In the fall there were always cotton buyers, and usually four or five drummers who would set up their merchandise in a hotel room, stay a few days, then move on to another little town. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As I lay there in my white hotel bed feeling lonely and weak, I thought I was up in that sanatorium in the Adirondacks, and I felt like a heel of the worst sort. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I returned from the hotel last night around midnight; now, six hours later, I’m heading back again. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But she laughs as she tells me that last night on the TV news she saw a manager from the hotel where she used to work. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I closed my ears and went away quickly to my hotel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We decided to get rooms at a hotel for about a month so we can figure things out, like how to buy stocks and invest wisely. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Yes, he said, he was sure of it: The man in the photograph had come to his hotel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I ordered from the restaurant in the hotel and it was really good.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In one northern city, Anderson was able to stay at the best hotel when she was in town for a performance, but only because her manager had made special arrangements. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z One man, George W. Gage, purchased the Gault House, the only large hotel left on the West Side, and began to furnish it. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z She looked up and down the long empty hotel corridor. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Martin found a janitor's job in a hotel emptying garbage cans, sweeping, and mopping. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z After that night spent in the hotel, Malcolm X was police-escorted back to O’Hare where he caught a plane to New York City’s Kennedy Airport. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was disorienting, sitting in a dark hotel room, thousands of miles from home, my body broken, calling the name of a boy I’d only met a few days ago. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The other learned of the suicide from the hotel barber. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Do they have a pool in the hotel?” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z It was expensive to have huge cakes of ice brought up to their hotel rooms, to cool the penguins. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z She wrapped it up in a hotel towel that she was also swiping. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1850s, a plush 250-room hotel called Kittatinny House rose on the banks of the river and was such a success that others soon followed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Our hotel was somewhere in the left armpit of a fat guy in Queens. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Somehow we made it to the hotel in time, though. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A complication arose at ten thirty when a hotel guard told the guests he was locking up; everyone had to leave. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Even the beaches, man— they put up all these giant hotels and only goober tourists are allowed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "Just as soon as we get through customs, please get us to our hotel." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t get the chance: the wide beach with fine, golden sand, the calmest waves and the clearest blue water, a few blocks away from the hotel, was reserved for whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if Auntie Lindo told my sisters we would call from the hotel in Shanghai? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you pop back over to the hotel when you’re done? Then I can help you with your shopping.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Our folks were wandering around the hotel somewhere and I was halfway through my last hundred shots when Annie started waving her hands around like crazy. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The wind blew through the leaves of the palms in the hotel garden. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “It's like a room in an expensive hotel. No, much better.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It was a man's voice, and no men were allowed to be in our hotel at any time of the night or day. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Don Walter, is there a little space in this hotel where I can sleep for the nights?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Miss New Jersey pageant is sponsoring a trip for the contestants in our pageant to visit Convention Hall, complete with a pool party at a hotel and dinner at a fancy restaurant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Catch sight of him in the hotel garden and he is wolfing a Dairy Milk Bar and has two more sticking out of his trouser-pocket. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z By late afternoon Father and Mother were as settled in the tea room of our comfortable hotel as two cats sunning themselves at a window. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z My father stopped and looked up at the window of the hotel. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They spent days searching the records of every hotel, boardinghouse, and real estate office they could find, “all,” Geyer said, “to no purpose.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This windowless little room, which also houses the time clock for the entire hotel, is where we stash our bags and civilian clothes and take our half-hour meal breaks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I then took the logo we came up with to the hotel concierge and asked if he would be nice enough to make several copies of it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It had been at the private hotel that he had known Miss Mellitt. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Pearson took over the hotel mezzanine and decorated the room with American flags, red roses, and a sign that read Anti-Ratification Headquarters. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Meggie stayed in the hotel while Mo went to the rental agency to collect the car he had booked. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Outside were cabs and taxis and a line of hotel runners. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “He sent a car, made me meet him at a hotel, got me drunk. He wanted—he tried to—” Luna grimaces away from finishing the sentence. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z To make the payments, her mother must keep her job at the hotel and the next oldest girl could leave school and begin to sell lottery tickets. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Tall, charismatic, and quick with a smile, Howard Vaughan worked as an itinerant bellman at luxury hotels, going south to Florida in the winter and north to upstate New York and Vermont in the summer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z "But surely The Grand High Witch wouldn't have put her real name and address in the hotel register?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I went to a hotel in the town where I had stopped before, and they gave me a room with a balcony that opened out above the roofs of the town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Geyer now felt a pressing need to talk to the hotel’s past manager and found him running a saloon in West Indianapolis. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I know his name because he signed it a number of times on hotel stationery, each signature with a slightly different slant. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In hotel lobbies or airports, in Turkey or Brazil, some Americans will pass, and suddenly I will hear it again—the high sound of American voices. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of the tourists at the hotel, who tell me I’m beautiful. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The five of us ate an early dinner in the hotel restaurant. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z After the war ended, the Japanese and Italian prisoners of war interned at the Greenbrier went home, but Howard Vaughan stayed on, continuing his summer work at the grand hotel alongside Joshua Coleman. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They met in front of the hotel at the usual leave-for-school time. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Watching her all the way to the doors of the hotel, I’m sitting in the cab, alone. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Guess they’re in a hurry to head back to the hotel and check out tonight’s episode,” joked Jenny. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In recent times the hotel had acquired a certain prestige among tourists, and people traveled from the provinces to the capital just to see it and go back and tell their friends about it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had just returned from the hotel’s health club, and was still wearing his running shorts and a V-neck undershirt. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z When he met Burger in his room for breakfast, he began another argument, protesting that their choice of a deluxe hotel would draw attention to them. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Finally I saw a tall, clean hotel; black people were passing the doors and no white people were in sight. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-five hundred dollars in cash was waiting for him at the hotel. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the early hours of the morning, they went their separate ways and Burger returned to his hotel room. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z None of the boys had ever ridden an elevator more than a few floors in a hotel, and the rapid ascent both thrilled and frightened them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I glance up at the hotel as we come to a stop in the dropoff area. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z They had this night club, the Lavender Room, in the hotel. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Most of the hotel courtyard was taken up by circles of old men or women sitting on cinder blocks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The hotel had been built on the side of a hill, so even though they went down, the cafe was still on ground level, with an outdoor patio overlooking the river. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Actually, I saved just about everything—my movie ticket, a handkerchief from the hotel, even the soap and shower cap! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Soon we would come to the hotel, and I felt for my gloves in the pocket of the car. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He’d already had breakfast at the hotel, but he could make room for a doughnut. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z He sat down at the desk, pulled out some hotel stationery from the drawer, and wrote a note. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Neither did Mrs. Popper when they telephoned her at the hotel. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Two weeks beforehand his hotel reservation had been made and for a long time he had carried his railroad ticket in an envelope in his pocket. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Jule printed it out at the business office of the hotel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The rampart behind the hotel remains, though many of its embrasures along the top have been shattered. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Since hotels did not accept blacks, Marian usually stayed in guesthouses at the black colleges they visited, while Billy bunked in the men’s dormitory or at the black YMCA. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z They were together in that hotel in New York and now they feel guilty. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was Jordan Baker; she often called me up at this hour because the uncertainty of her own movements between hotels and clubs and private houses made her hard to find in any other way. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Later, in the hotel, I would have the opportunity to talk with him for about a half-hour. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he puts on the black plastic sunglasses he found in the pockets, and leaves the hotel room to go and look for his cab. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I think of the flowers inside the compound, and the wood floors, and all the beds in the hotel that are unoccupied, and say, “Do you ever help them?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Her front room reminded me of fancy hotel lobbies from the movies, there was so much silk and lace. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Followed you all the way here from the hotel lobby.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z There were postcards, too, with pictures of the hotel on them, and you could write on the postcards and send them to anyone you wanted. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z As far as we can tell, Mama and I are under arrest since we aren’t allowed to leave the hotel to go home and wait there. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The sparkling, hard shell of the hotel protected her when she needed it. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “I’d rather stay home. You get to watch TV, sleep in your own bed. I always get stuck sharing a hotel room with my sisters. So gross.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The elevator stops suddenly at a floor that looks like a hotel hallway. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Never before had I been in a public place or hotel where there was no color bar. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In a Fairfax hotel, a night watchman sitting by a window was showered with broken glass and thrown to the floor. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The X-Mobile turned off Cesar Chavez Avenue and into the hotel’s circular driveway. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The local rounds, with teams from elementary schools all around the city and county, are held downtown at a hotel. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Hailsham was going to close any day and there were plans to sell the house and grounds to a hotel chain. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought that sort of service came along with what you paid for your hotel room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Afterwards she searched out a friend for tea while I walked back across the Seine to our hotel near the Palais du Luxembourg. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Back at her San Francisco hotel she found a telegram from Sol Flurok, informing her of plans for a huge outdoor concert. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The hotel is drafty and the dining room is empty, but the waiter is excellent. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z City clutter had fallen behind and now there was country clutter, junkyards, a trailer park, billboards advertising dog food and faraway hotels. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z All kinds of businesses from hotels to laundries to humor magazines were using the horse’s likeness in their ads. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I know that they might not want to release her records, just like at the hotel, but maybe if they feel sorry for me, they’ll give in. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z David and I exchange friendly words when the meeting is over, and then I slip out while the others are still sipping coffee and walk back to the hotel. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The coolest part about the hotel was that we could just dial the front desk on the phone, order any food we wanted, and in a few minutes they’d bring it up to us. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The commander was responsible for several of his government hotel visits. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I wonder if the hotel Ms. Gruwell works at is as nice? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z There must surely be an empty room in this enormous hotel. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z We were at a World Cup competition, and I had heard some talk of going out to a restaurant instead of eating at the hotel. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Right now there was far too much to do, especially given all the work that lay ahead to complete the hotel and furnish each of its rooms in time for the world’s fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “So all that took place at the hotel,” he said, “consisted of a—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z One morning, in a heavy downpour, he wandered back to his Wellington hotel at four-thirty and lay down heavily with his writing tablet to compose a letter to his parents. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Why had Holmes gone to the trouble and expense of moving the children from city to city, hotel to hotel, if only to kill them? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At ladies’, I relate the news to Melissa, adding that the hotel workers already earn over a dollar an hour more than we do and that that hasn’t stopped them from striking for more. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And just this past year she got a better job working as a chambermaid in the same hotel Jude had worked in. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I stopped packing and sat down on my narrow hotel bed. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z After we leave the hotel, the teachers take us to have dinner at the Boathouse, which is a restaurant shaped like a boat right on the boardwalk. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I was so deep in my memory that I hardly noticed the bus pull over in front of a little hotel and cafe by the side of the road. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z For that reason we did not discover until we retired that our hotel beds were full of little hungry creatures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “We get to stay in a hotel with the crew. A lot of them order beefy burgers from room service!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z At the Capitol Hilton hotel, a rock band turned up the volume on their amplifiers, making the walls and tables vibrate. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z During a break in the day, I returned to my hotel room for my afternoon siesta. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was like, “This is a crummy hotel,” but Marty was all, “Unit, this is where I stayed last time. It’s like meg cheap, and all the staff are made from a crystalline substance.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Something in Alpert was fulfilled in knowing that I would thereafter buy a television or a car or rent a hotel room in New York armed with the knowledge he had given me. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This room was too bland to belong anywhere but in a hotel. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Later that day we went to Mama’s hotel. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z A light rain was falling as he started back toward his hotel. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "We'll go up to my hotel. It's all right. It's quite nice." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Even when the shuttle stopped at a hotel and a man who smelled like old cigarettes sat next to me and said hello, I did not turn to look. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We began in Veracruz, checking out shrimp and the hotels and cockroaches, then took a car up into the hills, looking as always for something picturesque and undervisited. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z My shoes shush along the hotel carpet, on the seventh floor. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Our prison cells are only hotel bedrooms, but we are guarded like royalty. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The Howards packed up carloads of reporters and brought them all to their hotel room. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z After I was dressed and had paid for the bath-cabin, I walked back to the hotel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z On the way back to the hotel he was careful not to crush the fruit he had brought with him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z From Worcester, they took a stagecoach to Montreal House, one of the main hotels in Malvern. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you pay me only no more than what you pay for hotel,” said Zorya Vechernyaya, with a triumphant toss of her head. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z That afternoon, in New York City, Nixon joined his family in a suite of rooms on the thirty-fifth floor of a Manhattan hotel. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z At the foot of the hotel was the parking lot. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “There used to be shops here and hotels. Neon lights and restaurants. I used to buy kites from an old man named Saifo. He ran a little kite shop by the old police headquarters.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z FBI agents were assigned to go to every hotel in Chicago. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He says, “This hotel is very cheap, ma cherie. The innkeeper behind the desk said our room was forty francs a night but only twenty francs if we made our own bed.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I stared out the window as several large hotels came into view. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I can’t imagine how I looked when 1 got to the hotel. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “To the station. There’s a hotel across from the station where we can go.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Singer went immediately to the hotel, a very good hotel where he had made reservations in advance. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z All the local hotels and motels lit their “No Vacancies” neons. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The three girls had one room at the hotel, and the three of us boys had another room. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I treated everyone to a roast beef supper at the hotel. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Two things are clear, though: he wanted to make sure no one would ever find out, and he’s the kind of person who could afford an expensive hotel almost every week. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Along the way, in railcars, stations, and hotels, he solicited the views of strangers about the fair while keeping his own identity a secret. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z So my dad, with his entrepreneurial spirit, planned a fund-raising dinner at a local hotel, inviting some well-known speakers from the community as entertainment. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z She checked out of the hotel for the two of them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I can’t stop going back to that afternoon at the hotel and going over and over what he said, the way he made me feel. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It was my first time in a really nice hotel. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z His date book had been in his suitcase, which was in the hotel lobby. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z A short time later, he took the train to Zurich about one hour away and registered at an upscale hotel there, using an assumed name. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z People were clogging the streets around the White House, spilling out of restaurants, hotels, and apartment buildings, filling the night air with celebratory shouts. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The hotel bill was paid for several days ahead, but she had no cash. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z I took a taxi to the five-star hotel where I had been booked. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She was lying on the floral-printed sofa in the hotel room, where she had all but passed out as soon as she got back from Robin’s office, exhausted. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The two of them say nothing more on their way back to the hotel. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He missed it because he’s in love with Hannah Winter, and instead of going to see the judge, he spent the afternoon at a hotel with her. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I had charge of serving breakfast; in the late afternoons I carted trays of food to patrons in the hotel who did not want to come down to eat. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “When the hotel was built, they put an observation deck on the roof,” explained the little man. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I sleep in hotel rooms that someone else has cleaned and shop in stores that others will tidy when I leave. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “We need to get a taxi to the hotel,” Sergio says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z A notice in the lift announced that there were sixty Escalator-Squash Racket Courts in the hotel, and that Obstacle and Electro-magnetic Golf could both be played in the park. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He showed up at Riddle’s New York hotel room, contract in hand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Detective Richards checked hotel after hotel but found no further reference to the children. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We sat in the hotel room, at the foot of the bed, around a tray of flatbread, cheese, honey, cucumbers, and tea. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The hospital ward I was born in, classrooms, tents, churches, offices, hotels, museums, nursing homes, the room I'll die in. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z An early benefactor was his twin brother, Monty, who had taken over the Dallas hotel empire their father built from a single Holiday Inn and who donated a three-story Victorian in a neighborhood near Brown. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z What happened to me in that hotel room? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary Gearhart, a small, pleasant woman, worked at a number of restaurants before finding a job in a German hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z On the reasoning that the recognition of any of them by an outsider would breach security, he ordered them dispersed to other hotels around town. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When we returned to the hotel later that night, we told the other children about what we had seen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z At first I thought it was only myself, and that I was lying in the dark in my hotel room after being poisoned. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Spassky was already en route to his hotel. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In order to surprise them, he had left his wife and child at another hotel and gone to see his mother, who didn’t recognize him when he walked in. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z She nodded as she put her hands into the deep pockets of the yellow-cotton coat all the hotel employees had to wear. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z But by the time I reach the hotel dormitory, the unsettled feeling is gone. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He refused to return to the hotel, and I carried him on my back up the stairs to the president’s office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was standing at the window of the hotel room. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together, and the big white hotel towel I had dragged down with me lay under my head numb as a snowdrift. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z They gave me this very crumby room, with nothing to look out of the window at except the other side of the hotel. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Outside the hotel, it was drizzling and Augustus and I stood on the brick sidewalk slowly getting wet. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “Why not? I got us plane tickets. I booked us a hotel.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to say he was checking out a fancy hotel, but that was the truth. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z For indeed, that was where we met, Miss Kenton surprising me by coming to the hotel. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z "Rik," Hamilton ordered, "you take the cash and car back to the hotel. Jack, you and I will move the boat. Let's go." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Jordan probably has parents who paid for a hotel next door, a hotel with a connecting walkway that led him directly to the audition. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z They holed up for the weekend in a Washington hotel suite, where they were drilled carefully by Lewis Strauss. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The hotel room lamps were glowing warmly and the sky outside the window was starting to dim in the evening sun. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A small sign in the hotel lobby announced that the Washington Room was taken that night by a private function, although there was no information as to what kind of function this might be. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Engrossed in conversation, they never saw the man lurking on the other side of the street in front of the hotel. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z At the time, my aunt Geneva was trying to find a hotel in London, because the friends she'd planned to visit were suddenly unreachable. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I’d read them in dentists’ offices, and sometimes on planes; I’d bought them to take to hotel rooms, a device to fill in empty time while I was waiting for Luke. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The three splintered beams in the ceiling hold up God knows what load: ten tons of carbonized hotel and the corpses of eight anti-aircraft men and untold unexploded ordnance. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There was one problem with the blue camel hotel food cellar: much of the food was in cans and jars too big and heavy to carry a long way. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z A hundred years ago there was a hotel on this bleak, forbidding spot, and its wind-worn foundations are still a landmark—I have seen it in photographs—but I have no recollection of it now. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z "How dare you say that when your rotten hotel is full of rats anyway!" my grandmother cried. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z She and Papi scooped out balls from the windowsill of their hotel and threw them at each other inside the room. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The hotels were jumping on each other, and there was bumff from like the casinos and mud slides and the gift shops and places where you could rent extra arms. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Very well—last night—at the Chauvain. I called at your hotel, but you were out.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus they traveled from Macon, Georgia, to Philadelphia, riding on the trains, staying at the finest hotels. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z If he thought they’d whip his runners, he’d fork over the forfeit fees and skip town, often “forgetting” to pay his hotel bill on the way out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I think Dad was just too cheap to afford a divorce, so he splurged on a fancy hotel, someplace that probably has terry-cloth robes and heart-shaped good-night chocolates. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The hotel room was basic: two double beds separated by a wooden nightstand with a gray lamp on it, across from a chest of drawers that doubled as a stand for the TV and coffeemaker. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Each night, she added to her sack of dirty laundry at the hotel, refolding any clothes she could stand to wear another day in a stack on top of her open suitcase. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Back to the hotel, definitely,” Mr. Das agreed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The hotel couldn’t afford that, they told her. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After another few minutes, a kid in silver walked up from the hotel taxi stand, where he’d been taking a break. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z They followed me everywhere; if by accident or intent I lost them, we always met up again at the hotel. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I don't mind reusing a towel, but if they're charging that much for a hotel, I want my sheets changed every day. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Geyer knew what to look for in Detroit and, with the assistance of another police detective, once again began a patient canvass of hotels and boardinghouses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They needed to return to Jerusalem to their hotel immediately. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “I look at the itinerary, see that I am scheduled to stay at a certain hotel in a certain city, and sense that an exception has been made,” she wrote in her autobiography in 1956. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z I was running down the hotel’s stairs, out through the kitchens, out back past the Dumpsters and through the parking lot. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The hotel was excel lent—incomparably better, for example, than that horrible Aurora Bora Palace in which Lenina had suffered so much the previous summer. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z You’d have thought he was a guest in a hotel the way he looked, with this breakfast tray right in front of him on a weird-looking bed table. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I meant to give a more cheerful answer, but the sight of the hotel sends a shiver through me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Isn’t that just typical,” Maria said.11 We can shrivel up in the heat, but the machines get a first-class hotel room.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Auditions for major orchestras were sometimes held in the conductor’s dressing room, or in his hotel room if he was passing through town. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z When the cranes arrived to build a twelve-story hotel right outside our bedroom window, Hugh and I decided to leave New York for a year or two, just until our resentment died down a little. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z A natural extrovert, he would leave the hotel as soon as we arrived and hit the streets, learning by seeing and talking to people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All around us the summer-holiday guests in this rather grand hotel were babbling away and tucking into their suppers. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z He tried to catch the dinner smells, but they escaped and climbed into the limp brown hotel curtains. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The first thing I see when I wake, still on the couch in the hotel room, are the birds flying over her collarbone. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I could not sign hotel registers, meet people I knew, interview others, or even ask searching questions. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We booked in a local hotel and found a crowd of blacks and whites sitting on the veranda making polite conversation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though Disney World was only a two hours' drive from his apartment, Dad had decided that it might be more fun if we stayed overnight at one of Disney's theme hotels. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z "It's funny what a wonderful gentility you get in the bar of a big hotel," I said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Your mother cannot pay the moneylender back out of what she earns at Señor Aguilar’s hotel and feed and keep you all, too. You and your brother Salvador must help her.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z How her appearance would shock Mamá, who worked in a crisp yellow jacket in Señor Aguilar’s beautiful hotel. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z However, if a hotel or high-rise along the ocean leaves its lights on, the turtles will head toward the brighter light of civilization and never make it to the ocean. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z She took a flight back to Connecticut, went to the hotel, and personally searched the laundry room until she found it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z "No, don't come up," she said at the hotel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Mr. Dimming told us the hotel has a late check-in policy. The TV studio is just across the street from the hotel, so we’ll be fine.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Kaira emerged from the bathroom thirty minutes later wearing a hotel robe. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He said they could go see the falls just as good from her house as from the hotel, and a whole lot cheaper. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z "Where is the witch now? Is she in the hotel?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Both girls are finishing high school, and most of the family is away at a Nicaraguan hotel celebrating their graduation. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z And that would have been much worse than my little meltdown back at the hotel! Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He brought his bags from the hotel and declared he would sleep on the couch in the den until things were settled. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z People in his time of widely scattered plantations and even more widely scattered hotels had a reputation for taking in strangers. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah—but I just tried to book a hotel in Vegas. A million hotel rooms, and not a single one available.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Will, I want you to run up to the hotel with it. If he’s not there, take it to the depot.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Only two walls of the hotel stand, joined at the corner, bits of plaster attached to the inner wall. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Catherine went along the lake to the little hotel to see Ferguson and I sat in the bar and read the papers. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z By the time we hail taxis for the ride to the hotel, Lili is holding tight onto my hand, pulling me along. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z On our way back to the hotel, I saw the swastikas that we had covered. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It was a sheet of hotel stationery, engraved, at the top, with the address and letterhead of the Excelsior: the hotel where Bunny and Henry had stayed in Rome. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The wind had blown some tiles off the roof of Señor Aguilar’s hotel. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z In another room of the hotel, a guest was hurled backward. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z On Central Avenue they came to a small inexpensive hotel, the Atlantic House. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Okay, well, can you at least tell me if this hotel is connected to the Skyline? Are they owned by the same company?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I saw in a paper the other day that the hotel Cote d’Azur at Monte Carlo had gone to new management, and had a different name. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z One morning he was walking from the hotel to his truck when a National Guard truck pulled up. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z In town I registered at the Georgia Hotel, a luxury hotel, where I was treated with the utmost suspicion and discourtesy. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She had made a reservation at a hotel. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been a headwaiter and she had worked as maid in the same hotel and they had saved their money to buy this place. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She's American and has parents who can travel with her and stay in a New York City hotel. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It’s embarrassing, and I wonder if anyone in the hotel hears her. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I have my own room at the hotel. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z For the first few days at Princeton, the boys kicked back and luxuriated in the posh surroundings of the hotel and country club. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Her room key was found in his hotel suite. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Better than waiting tables in a restaurant because in a hotel there’re more ways to get tips. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Holmes knew that most if not all of his hotel guests would be at the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Our dinner was followed by farewell toasts and goodbyes as the generals and dignitaries drifted to the hotel lobby. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Instead, unbelievably, while Booth and his gang lay in wait on the road on the outskirts of the city, Lincoln was giving a speech at Booth’s own hotel, the National! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She just leaves him at that hotel to rot. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I cursed the luck that had timed my arrival in the hotel cafeteria to coincide with Hilda's. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z On the rooftops of beachfront hotels to the east, and in the gardens behind them, a half-dozen American artillery units drop incendiary rounds into the mouths of mortars. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When they were not actually playing in some theater, or traveling on trains between cities, their life was spent in the larger hotels. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Then, without warning, he began to punch and kick King until he was pulled away, wrestled across the hotel lobby’s red carpet and dragged to a patrol car. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z For two months they were on the run, staying in small hotels or with sympathetic friends. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Thus she avoided having to sign the register at the hotels for she could not read or write. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Plastic is the new protector; we wrap the already plastic tumblers of hotels in more plastic, and seal the toilet seats like state secrets after irradiating them with ultraviolet light. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Struck by the similarity between her hostess’s name and the name of the hotel in which she was staying, the infanta made inquiries. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Jule West Williams spent December 24 on a nineteen-hour bus ride and fell asleep early Christmas morning in a Portland, Oregon, airport hotel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I’m not about to tell Mr. Ingman about the underwear and hotel key, so I just shrug and say, “I don’t really know. Something’s just off.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z When the FBI went to the deluxe hotel, Neubauer was long gone. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z At the hotel I paid the driver and gave him a tip. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Gabriel had turned in his return ticket in order to stay in Paris, selling the old newspapers and empty bottles that the chambermaids threw out of a gloomy hotel on the Rue Dauphine. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I found a man in the station and asked him if he knew what hotels were open. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He lived in a smaller hotel with the other people who worked for Romero. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Reporters tracked her down at her Vancouver hotel. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Do you eat decent food for lunch and dinner? Do they treat you well at the hotel? Do you have enough money?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “For God’s sake, get out of there. Check yourself into a hotel.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z First we are confronted—via an announcement on the computers through which we input orders—with the new rule that the hotel bar, the Driftwood, is henceforth off-limits to restaurant employees. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “The beer, I mean. Mr. Corcoran and Brady got hold of some of it and brought it to the hotel.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She and her husband had spent their honeymoon at the hotel. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, she was stuck in this overstuffed hotel room, alone. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z 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 He lay like a beached whale on the narrow hotel bed and wondered idly if it had indeed been Velutha that Rahel saw. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the affluent young are increasingly unlikely to spend their summers learning how the “other half” lives, as lifeguards, waitresses, or housekeepers at resort hotels. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I keep thinking of Olga’s underwear, the hotel key, and that strange smirk on her face when she died. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The policeman dropped him off at his hotel. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I’d been reading that Brazil is the race mecca and I go to Rio and nobody looks like me in the nice restaurants and the nice hotels. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Back in his hotel room, Sax copied Hall’s notes onto a newspaper using milk for ink—milk makes good invisible ink because once it dries it can’t be seen unless the paper is heated. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The team of five boys and five girls was housed in various homes throughout the township: there wasn’t enough sponsorship money to pay for hotel accommodations. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z "I cannot permit mice in my hotel, madam," he said to my grandmother. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “And look at you now, going to your fancy colegio, living in your fancy hotel. Nothing stops you! You have as much spunk as ever, little sister.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t believe Ms. G tracked him down and invited him to come meet us at our hotel in New York. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z One doesn’t any more feel for a hotel room than one expects a hotel room to feel for its occupant. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time Stuart and I walked into the hotel and sat down and put our napkins in our lap, the waiter said they’d be closing soon. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In the evenings, he parked himself in my room and did his schoolwork, giddily dressed in one of the hotel’s thick terry-cloth robes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Not long after the election, an official invitation arrives at the hotel, addressed to me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The lawyers finally convinced a judge that a septuagenarian staying at a hotel would not need to loot a store for sausages. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “It’s the last one we shot with the original Duke,” Scruffy explained on the ride back to the hotel. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I called them William and Mary, and in the hotel I set out right away teaching them to do tricks. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The next order of business Dasch wanted to discuss with them was their hotel. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “I entered the stage door, conducted my rehearsal and returned to the hotel— three simple, normal acts denied to my aunt in 1939,” DePreist recalled. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z After their mother’s death, the two boys were sent off to a small hotel in the Connecticut woods where several families shared a large cabin and a communal kitchen. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The price of a hotel in Toronto, he said, even a second-rate hotel, is becoming offensive. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He checked himself into a hotel, and days later an employee found him stretched out on the bed, dead. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I looked around at the bay, the old town, the casino, the line of trees along the promenade, and the big hotels with their white porches and gold-lettered names. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z What amazing things you could have for breakfast in an expensive hotel...but she didn't feel like waffles with fresh strawberries anymore. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She would stay in a hotel or something, for a couple of days. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z When we left, I could just charge a new one at the hotel store. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The Garfields made plans to vacation at a hotel in the Elberon section of Long Branch, a beach resort town visited by both Presidents Grant and Hayes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Cha-Cha said when the four dogs assembled in the lobby of their hotel first thing Monday morning. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z On the balcony of a hotel room at Watergate, Liddy set up a walkie-talkie antenna. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “With not enough money and with houses and hotels that fall over. I think it’s perfect!” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “I found some weird underwear and a hotel key,” I say. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They booked a hotel in Shadbush Crossing so they wouldn’t get snowed out...and now they’re snowed in. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Our chaperons didn’t come with us; they went back to the hotel. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Goodbye,”, said Sybil, and ran without regret in the direction of the hotel. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Back at her hotel, she dialed and, to her immense relief, a secretary picked up almost immediately. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “And a hotel key? When did Olga ever go anywhere? Why would she have that?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The next morning the wife had come to the hotel and, without knowing it, gave away the traveler’s identity. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z I was exiting the lobby when the hotel manager, Mr. Fayyaz, caught up with me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “This one’ll do,” I said, and I got the hotel operator to ring through for me. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It is one of a row of little stucco-and-cement hotels lining a white, melancholy street. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Which means that Don Walter’s hotel might not be in business without indigenas. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The killer, having emptied his gun, drove his girlfriend to a hotel. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I hope there's not more than one green hotel. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z For us, a family vacation is staying at a local hotel with a swimming pool for a weekend. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Expensive hotels line the coasts, but the town center doesn’t cater to tourists too much. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Salvador, come home now! Captain Ortega sent Paco to the hotel to get Mamá!” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z But we didn't say anything, and I guess he figured we were almost at the hotel so he didn't make us get out until we pulled up in front of the main entrance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z As an official member of the team, the majority of my competition expenses like airfare, food, and hotel would now be covered. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z We were being interviewed on the rooftop of a hotel at night. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Felix, can we make a stop on the way to the hotel?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z We walked across the gravel under the trees to the hotel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z And I can’t go back to our hotel, because if I do, it will be true. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Why don’t we take a tour of the hotel and we can talk? Does that sound good? Charlie, do you want to see the big pool?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The women found the hotel rather dreary, especially at night, but the presence of its handsome and clearly wealthy owner helped dispel some of its bleakness. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Her parents met us in the lobby of the hotel where Susan, Mr. McShane, and I each had a room for the night. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He wandered along to the right, past hotels with awnings over brightly lit entrances and bougainvillea flowering beside them, until he came to the gardens on the little headland. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We got back to the hotel around ten. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z When Ulbrickson got back to the hotel that night, he jotted a simple commentary in the logbook: “Quite a day.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “And we didn’t have a hotel room. You were the only one who could get a hotel room.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z No, just some more of this hotel stationery. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “We should stay somewhere else, in a hotel or with my sister,” she says. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He checked the blue Oldsmobile into the hotel garage and then, in the lobby, he checked himself in and was assigned a twelfth-floor room, to which a bellman accompanied him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z An hour later we spotted land—a long stretch of beach lined with high-rise hotels. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z But consider: The woman who left the hotel room. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z "Well, the thing is, I don't want to stay at any hotels on the East Side where I might run into some acquaintances of mine. I'm traveling incognito," I said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The hotel was glamorous in a touristy way, very turquoise. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Some that night worked on a small notice announcing the opening of a new hotel, clearly another hastily built affair meant to capitalize on the expected crush of exposition visitors. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I’d been determined not to act like a big baby, but once we got back to the hotel, I couldn’t hold it in any longer. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When the hotel was full of guests, he settled for more silent means. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The news transformed the cocktail reception he had scheduled for himself at a Washington hotel into a triumphal celebration of his quest for the Super. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When home from the hotel circuit, Howard’s longings were for the simplicities of small-town life: spending time with family and friends and working in the family’s poolroom. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When it’s quiet enough to talk again, Mom thankfully starts telling a story about dealing with a room mix-up at the hotel. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I hear her voice and smell it in the dimly lit hotel room overlooking Sydney Harbor. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “It’s all about this family that lives in the elevator of a San Francisco hotel. And let’s just say, the book has its ups and its downs!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Upon returning to his hotel room, he counted the dollar bills that were stashed away in his old suitcase. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z To his satisfaction, Riccio noticed that Prosper had obviously forgotten about the hotel for a moment. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Lee said, “You like pay lent my place? You like live there same hotel?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of these teachers stayed in the hotel during the summer. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z She had no privacy—not in her hotel room, not even in her own thoughts. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z It’s true that the embassy had his cell phone number, but he’d left no forwarding address at the Bern hotel. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Late that night, after Ulbrickson had finally retired to his quarters, the boys stole out of the hotel singly or in pairs and walked along the shore of Lake Carnegie. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He also stayed away from hotels and guesthouses, where he feared he would be asked to show identification. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Eric sneered at me, and then he and Mike left the hotel. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z When we got to the hotel, we were able to walk up to the panelists and shake their hands. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In the evening, Salim sits in his hotel room, reading his Qur’an, telling himself that this will pass, that his stay in this strange world is limited and finite. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Remember when I saw you in the blue camel hotel?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “They don’t care about us,” she tells me of the hotel guests; in fact, they don’t notice us at all unless something gets stolen from a room—“then they’re all over you.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, Forrest sulkily drove her to the hotel to collect her things. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The bed was pulled through the streets and floated across a swimming pool at the resort hotel. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Peck envisioned enclosing this gigantic theater within a still larger shell that would contain a hotel, banquet room, and offices. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She got a cab to the Rio hotel and took the elevator to the roof. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She was living in a hotel for women in Greenwich Village, working as a waitress in a German restaurant, and taking art classes and even fencing lessons. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z After the hotel burned down, we lived for a few days on the beach. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Most labored as maids and waiters in homes and hotels, making just enough to get by. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z That was the hotel Dasch had called earlier when he discovered they weren't registered there. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z A ragtag group helps her: the owner of a local hotel, a fertilizer salesman, a woman who sells children’s clothing, a hardware store operator. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I bring myself back, to the here, to the hotel. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, before I got to the hotel, I started to go in this dumpy-looking bar, but two guys came out, drunk as hell, and wanted to know where the subway was. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z While the drummers drummed and the dancers danced, hotel guests frolicked with their children in the water. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Coming out of the hotel, he stretched himself, yawned, looked up at the blue sky and climbed into the Dalmain. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Everything about the hotel was extremely primitive, except the dining-room. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Because our flight to Cuba wasn’t until the next morning, we stayed overnight at the airport hotel. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z However, in American tournaments, where hotel ballrooms are rented and contracted for a specified period and players have made arrangements for flights home, it’s necessary to apply a tie-breaking system to determine the winner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That photo of G’pop beneath the old hotel marquee in Meridian? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Suddenly he realized something: all this started happening after they had left the hotel. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z As we walked back into the hotel, I thanked Akhi for hanging out with me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Jean de Satigny settled his wife provisionally in a hotel and turned his attention to the task of finding them lodgings worthy of his new status. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got back to the hotel I was grateful for the two-hour break before my next speaking commitment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z While I’m not sure taking off your shoes in a strange hotel room and swallowing too many sleeping pills is what I would call dying valiantly and with acclamation, it’s the thought that counts. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Later, after he had driven them back to their hotel, Poppy was muttering, “Holy, holy, holy.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z When he was released from the hospital two weeks later, Ophelia sent him and Didi to a hotel in southern France, Farmer’s first real vacation in years. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z After a long day in the city, we finally returned to our hotel rooms. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The hotel had these really cool elevators that sort of hang on the side of the building, with the whole car exposed. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She would have preferred to avoid seeing them, but she rejected the idea of taking a hotel room .together for the same reasons she did not want to be seen in Miguel’s boardinghouse. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Between tournament fees, airplane tickets, hotel costs, and food, the average cost to compete in one World Cup competition was around $2,000, and there were eight World Cups a season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The hotel room was a vast improvement over the one in Kabul where Farid and I had stayed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I noticed a discolored outline on the building’s facade where the Hilton logo used to be, back when the place had been a hotel. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She went straight across the hotel lobby and out through the front entrance into the open air. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z In Cairo there was at last room at the hotel for Yossarian and Orr. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Tris and I meet Nita in the hotel lobby after midnight, among the potted plants with their unfurling flowers, a tame wilderness. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z There was no hotel suite reserved for the wait; there were no trays of canapés laid out, no television blaring from any corner. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z From Englewood to the Loop, hotels at last began to fill. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The three of us ran with linked arms, clutching our jackets, and felt the first drops of rain as we reached Papi’s hotel. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I reach the hotel entrance and walk to the dormitory, hoping that I can just collapse into my bed and sleep, but Tobias is waiting in the hallway for me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Still, unlike the excitement I’d felt the first two times I won Worlds, this time all I wanted was to go back to the hotel and climb into bed. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z You had to keep them guessing—just as they guessed about Dr. Bledsoe: Did Dr. Bledsoe stop at an expensive white hotel when he visited New York? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone finally pointed out to him that the Piatigorskys would no longer continue to pick up his hotel costs, so, reluctantly, he flew back home to Brooklyn. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, what the hotel offered in charm and serenity, it lacked in modem technology, such as in-room Internet connections. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “We can give you gift cards for a couple thousand dollars, and we’ll pay for a hotel.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “I love talking to the tourists at my father’s hotel.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There are the plane tickets, hotels, car rentals, everything—and they don’t even know if they’ve gotten into these schools yet. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Later, Obinze’s mother would ask them to stay in her house, there was no point wasting money on a hotel. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Some of these came to see him at the hotel room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia inquires about Lainie’s journey before they discuss the city and the hotel, including the sweeping height of the room they sit within. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When we got to our hotel, Farmer said, “I can sleep here. Everyone here has a doctor.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z We found this picture of an old man and my mom together at a hotel. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z "Have this mad woman thrown out of the hotel." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I had never been to the restaurant Genesis and had only been to the hotel Nike Lake when Papa’s business partner had a wedding reception there. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z With nearly eight hundred rooms and a vast, monolithic façade overlooking the Thames, the Cecil was Europe’s largest, if not grandest, hotel—a site typically reserved for diplomatic or national events. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “But he’s in seclusion somewhere in a New York hotel tonight. Tomorrow at this time, he might be a millionaire. If you’re listening, Eddie, knock ’em dead, kid! The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z There were several American tennis players staying at the same hotel; I introduced myself to them, told them about my friendship with Stan. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s called a “boutique hotel,” whatever the hell that means. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z There’s the hotel, three suites booked for them on the very top floor, riding through the lobby on Cash’s impossibly broad back. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z On this bitterly cold night the streets of Warsaw were almost as deserted as those of the ghetto, but the blue camel hotel was always bright and warm. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I help her cook soup, chopping the potatoes and onions, just wanting to get the visit over with so I can go back to the hotel and school, places where I’m comfortable. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When we got back to the hotel, Michael was pumped up, too. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The manager of a local hotel came to fetch us armed with rifles and reported that he had been delayed by a herd of rogue elephants. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Tonight he wraps himself in hotel blankets and orders soup and unwraps a bundle from Vienna. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We had a water balloon fight and got in trouble with the hotel manager. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I left the crowd in the café and went over to the hotel to get shaved for dinner. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He wasn’t even our dog—he lived in a hotel around the corner. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He’s been seen at his hotel and at a few local restaurants, and his rental car has been spotted around the area. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It had been Christmas, and they had gone to live in the hotel. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “We’ll have to eat in the kitchen,” Ryan explained, “and since the hotel’s got a microwave oven, sometimes the plates are hot and the food isn’t.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z How Tony had put the jelly beans in the greenroom, backstage at the hotel. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “But she is my wife, and I will find her. Even if I have to go from hotel to hotel, I will find her.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Instead of staying in a hotel, they stay in an apartment in the Bastille which belongs to a friend of Moushumi’s, a male friend named Emanuel, a journalist, who is on holiday in Greece. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Further inland, and still across, a five-star hotel chain had bought the Heart of Darkness. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z At the hotel where Mike was going to stay in Saint Jean we stopped the car and he got out. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Then he kicked off his hotel slippers and put them neatly under the chair. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Intrigued, McKibben agreed to meet her potential employer the next day in the lobby of La Fonda, the nicest hotel in town. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Our team moved out of the Olympic Village a couple of days later and checked into the Grand Hyatt hotel. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z One entrepreneur, Charles Kiler, believed that once his hotel opened, “money would be so plentiful it would come a runnin’ up hill to get into our coffers.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I was quiet that evening at the hotel. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Mom says, “I’ll need an extra day or two for travel. She found a great deal on a hotel in London.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z David tells us that this part of the compound was a hotel, connected to the airport by a tunnel, and this room was once the ballroom. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z An’ I coulda sat in them big hotels, an’ had pitchers took of me. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z To be trapped in a hotel room with him would be a kind of heaven. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z So we try to be discreet and go out one by one, so it doesn’t look like we know each other but are just separate people staying in the hotel rooms on the lower floors. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z A small man with a birdlike face and fluffy hair, he read a lengthy poem dedicated to Soraya, jotted down on hotel stationery paper. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Immie walked ahead into the hotel lobby, pulling both her suitcases behind her. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I spent a good chunk of that August toiling in a rented conference room at a hotel in Washington, D.C., having been dispatched to help prepare a case. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I nodded at her and rushed through a lobby that reminded me of a fancy hotel. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Max opens the balcony doors and folds an airplane with hotel stationery. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We said our farewells to the family in the courtroom and went back to the hotel, feeling exhausted but satisfied. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Mr. Pontellier gave his wife half of the money which he had brought away from Klein’s hotel the evening before. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z He was called Bruno Jenkins and he was staying in the hotel with his parents. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I could get a good hotel room and read and swim. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Come down here,” he said, “and we’ll rent a hotel room.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “I take it back, that about the best hotels,” she said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Ivy threw open the door to her family’s hotel room. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We had just arrived at the hotel and I went to take a shower, but I couldn’t find any full-sized towels in the bathroom. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The agent for the book sent to my hotel a contract dealing with foreign publication rights which needed Malcolm X’s and my signature. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We were already in the lobby of the hotel, and if I went back for my coat we would be late. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Actually, Sam wanted to go to the after-prom party the school organized, too, but Craig got really angry because he already paid for the hotel suite. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z That night, back at the hotel, I finally got Sonny on the phone. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z So the hotels, with Luke, didn’t mean only love or even only sex to me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Unwrapping it back in my hotel room, I crumbled the contents across a leaf of cigarette paper. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Sweating profusely day and night, training in the sun, unable to sleep in stifling hotel rooms and YMCAs, lacking any appetite, virtually every athlete lost a huge amount of weight. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z A police car, with its motor running, was stationed outside the hotel to whisk him down Suderlansbraut Boulevard to the hall, should he change his mind. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z King wasn’t injured, and he and his party were assigned hotel rooms in compliance with the recently passed Civil Rights Act. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost everything he encountered in Cuba—including, at our hotel, the variety of fish in the ponds, whose species he could easily name, and the caged cockatoos in the lobby—pleased him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z That night in the hotel Sonia wakes up screaming that her own thumbs are missing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “You need to get out of this hotel room, and you need a hot meal. Layla and Ivy are perfectly capable of taking care of the boys.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z My mother, father, and I were going to stay in a hotel overnight and start across the continent the next morning, May 24, in our new Dodge. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Geyer checked with other hotels to find out who had run the Circle House, and learned from its former clerk that the registration records were in the possession of a downtown attorney. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “This may be a pet-friendly hotel, but they sure don’t want us licking the insides of their cups!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z We came into Lausanne and went into a medium-sized hotel to stay. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Maurice moved off to his hotel with only a casual nod. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “They have a beautiful new hotel in Rio San Juan,” Manolo went on. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even to-day, when shutting drawers and flinging wide a hotel wardrobe, or the impersonal shelves of a furnished villa, is a methodical matter of routine, I am aware of sadness, of a sense of loss. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The hotel was a five-minute walk from the White House and the favorite lunch spot of J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I was thrown out of the dream, sent hurtling back into the freezing hotel room. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The 150 rands that had been used to pay for my hotel accommodations for a week could have easily kept the family alive for four months. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The doors open to a huge circular room that I realize must be the inside of the large golden dome atop the hotel. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z After a few days of work, I realize this isn’t Don Walter’s private palace, but his hotel. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We met her in the lobby of her Times Square hotel. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z His plan was to get inside the big hotel where it was cool and air-conditioned and find a T-shirt or something to wear. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In Paris, our cab let us off in the Marais district, a place of narrow streets and sidewalks, of bistros, shops, and small hotels. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But worse than that, yesterday morning I had found him kneeling on the flagstones of the hotel terrace with a magnifying-glass in his hand. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z In December, 1959, the Somerset’s “beach facilities” consisted of two beach umbrellas stuck in a strip of sand at the rear of the hotel. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard that hallboys were needed at one of the hotels, the hotel in which Ned’s brother had lost his life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll call the night porter and ask him if he's seen a boy hanging around the hotel.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The waiter turned away under the umbrella and went toward the hotel. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She retrieved a package of sausages and was walking back to the hotel when she heard yelling and footsteps. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Ifemelu enjoyed the Sunday ritual of those meals in the ornate hotel dining room, full of nicely dressed people, silver-haired couples with their grandchildren, middle-aged women with brooches pinned on their lapels. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He didn’t return to the hotel until well after midnight. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z We waited in the lobby as each hotel official went off in search of his superior to see what could be done. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The hotel is luxurious and full of men in suits and perfectly groomed women in high heels. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “And why do you have a hotel room?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z There, standing with the hotel runners, was Robert Cohn. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z She works two jobs, one as a hotel maid and another as a restaurant dishwasher. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Once one could have seen perhaps twenty large hotels from the summit. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It’s this one who swings open the door for him, like a polite hotel doorman, letting in the full glare of day. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon I was begging for those ballet lessons that Mama had promised me in the hotel room in Ghana. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He wondered whether he should try to talk to Kaira when he got back to the hotel, or wait a day, or maybe just fly back to Austin. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “No, Dad. Call him at the hotel. See if he’ll come pick us up.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The Kansas City Star printed a lengthy account of the Clutter funeral, but the edition containing the article was two days old before Perry, lying abed in a hotel room, got around to reading it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It was still raining as we drove through the streets and into the carriage entrance of the hotel. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “It’s not like I bought the hotel. It’s just a room.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z It's on Flathead Lake and we had a suite, a hotel room with its own separate bedroom! The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z There were twelve of us at the hotel. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I do sometimes wonder what happened to the hotel’s furnishings. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z MGF Oil Corporation also announced that it was entering into a venture to build a forty- story-plus world-class luxury hotel to be designed by I. M. Pei. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The other half had balconies on the second and third floors that reminded him of the open atrium of a hotel he and his family had stayed at once. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z I looked in at the Iruña for the gang and they were not there, so I walked on around the square and back to the hotel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z We had dinner together that night, consuming three bottles of wine, and then Farmer and I trudged back to our hotel in the biting cold, his red scarf covering his nose, his glasses fogging up. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z As if by magic, sitting on a shelf were containers of hotel shampoo, conditioner, and soap. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When Poirot rejoined his friend in the lounge, the other two men were just leaving the hotel. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z After that, Reggie called it quits and went to their hotel to do homework. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The women’s hotel on a Minneapolis side street is just as Lillian described it, with a clean but sparsely furnished lobby and a bored clerk who barely looks up when he hands us our keys. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z So there were twelve of us at the hotel, in the same wing on the same floor in single rooms, one after the other, and it reminded me of my dormitory at college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “When they finish their dinners,” explained Nala, “they leave their trays on the floor outside their door, where a hotel staff person is supposed to pick them up and take them back to the kitchen.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Everything's closed now, and the tourists who flood the wide sidewalks during the day have gone back to their hotels, towering fifty stories above us. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z It was a nice hotel, and the people at the desk were very cheerful, and we each had a good small room. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I had brought city suits and shirts and shoes, but had forgotten to bring a suitcase to transport them from truck to hotel room. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “How is it different from a hotel room? Put the turkeys in my room, Mom.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He’s the only person I know who checks into a hotel room and leaves it cleaner than when he arrived. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The work she had done in hotels was play compared to the terrible labors she had performed as a slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The Demeter cabin had whipped up a whole buffet in the hotel kitchens—everything from pizza to pineapple ice cream. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I got quotes on airline tickets, solicited local restaurants to donate gift certificates, and my hotel even offered two rooms if she accepted our invitation. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z After excusing himself, he asked Vera if she needed a cab back to her hotel. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes, when stu- dents come over to work on group assignments, they assume that Don Walter is my father, that this is my family’s hotel. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “She didn’t register or come anywhere near the desk,” said the hotel manager. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z We held hands again and walked back to the hotel after we pinned the buttons that had names of people who were killed because of violence on a tree in front of the Washington Monument. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z As I sat on the floor near the hotel window, I thought about my mother, who had agreed to pay for half of my plane ticket and hotel fees. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “I bet my sister would have loved to have one. She made Mom get a room in a fancy hotel so she could have a slumber party for her Sweet Sixteenth.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I recognized a few others: the librarian, the owner of a nearby hotel, and several men I had seen Papa speaking with on the street. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men and sober eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z If no official charge has been made, Papa won’t be jailed but put under house arrest at one of these hotels. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She spent the summer there, cooking in a hotel. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the rubble of the hotel creates an electromagnetic shadow. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “I’m sick of this hotel. When can we go home?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The only people allowed inside his hotel room were his lawyers, who needed wills created, and his literary agent, who needed his next contract signed before Howie could kick it. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I, too,” she said, “could tell of much segregation that was going on in the North—in school, in church, in hotels, to say nothing of social affairs.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The hotel doctor prescribed a tonic that did nothing to improve his condition. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "It was a hotel where people live when they don't have anywhere else to go," I tell Mabel. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Rigo usually picked him up at his hotel at about seven p.m. for dinner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Last week, a lady in the elevator at the hotel guessed I was fourteen! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Now, I’m no hotel connoisseur, but one glance at the weathered sign told me that our stay was unlikely to be a four-star mints-on-your-pillow-type experience. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Bar’s on the left just through the foyer,” he says, making it clear he knows we’re not hotel guests. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But by late June, even as Minnijean and I were whirling about our hotel room, dressing to see Johnny Mathis, a man we thought of as a deity, Little Rock school integration was unraveling. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He goes back to his hotel and talks to his minibar about it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z His older brother was with him as a banderillero, but he did not live in this hotel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The huge stone columns lining the road that lead up to the hotel look like they belong in a fairy-tale palace. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Optimistic and uncharacteristically friendly, Bobby autographed cards for most of the hotel waiters. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He plodded alone through the soft, hot sand toward the hotel. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z When Farmer met Alex at their hotel that night with the good news, Goldfarb was finally happy, or as happy as he could be. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She finds a little bus and asks the driver if he has room and if he can make a stop in Dorado at the hotel where my dad works. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z I gunned the Yamaha over the curb and swerved to a stop at the fountain outside the hotel. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The campaign staff had cloistered itself in a different area of the hotel, trying to give us some privacy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Walking with him past a hotel, I watched as he stared at a doorman dressed like a Beefeater. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After dinner, Malcolm X’s two friends drove him back to the hotel. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z While staying in a posh London hotel and attending the theater in the English king’s own box, the royal couple and most of the rest of their party came down with measles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A fruit and cheese plate had been left for him on a coffee table in his sitting area, compliments of the hotel. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z They've reserved two rooms for the week at the Saint James Paris, an exclusive château hotel. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Met at the Moscow airport by Lev Abramov, the head of the chess section of the USSR, and by a guide from Intourist, Joan and Bobby were ushered to Moscow’s finest hotel, the National. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Their mother buzzed the hotel desk to ask for a mop, but the clerk brought a broom instead. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Burger was back in his hotel room. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The Equatorial is now the nicest hotel for businessmen along the whole northern route from Brazzaville to Owando. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We drove to the hotel not knowing what to expect from the evening. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I ask, wondering what he does in this fancy hotel. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z According to testimony that the farmer subsequently gave under oath, he remembered that evening well, because he’d often discussed it with friends of his who gathered regularly at the hotel. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Since no hotel would take them, they had been invited to stay at the Washington home of Gifford Pinchot, the former governor of Pennsylvania. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The hotels are all in competition to see who can get their guests from their rooms to the casino faster. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He insisted I stay at his house, and I was relieved, for 1 foresaw all sorts of difficulties staying in a hotel while I turned into a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At the hotel I asked Catherine to wait in the carriage while I went in and spoke to the manager. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The officials of the press had even arranged to pay my hotel expenses, and they would hear no objection that I made. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Its main street consisted of some tired old stores, a bank, a couple of gas stations, and a crumbling hotel. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Their classmate marched briskly out of the hotel lobby wearing a bright blue sweatshirt and a Toronto Blue Jays baseball cap. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Gates compared the Internet to the gold rush, the idea being that more money was made selling Levi’s, picks, shovels, and hotel rooms to the gold diggers than from digging up gold from the earth. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Dorothy supported herself and contributed to the family by working as a waitress at a hotel in Richmond, Virginia, until 1931, when she got word of a job at the school in Farmville. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I returned to the hotel room and found Sohrab lying on the bed, curled up in a big C. His eyes were closed but I couldn’t tell if he was sleeping. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The sunlight was hot and hard, and I crossed over beside some buildings, and walked back along side-streets to the hotel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z They’d been sleepless, most of them, and had shivered in their beds while the storm rattled the hotel. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Just before Spassky left Reykjavik, Bobby had delivered to the Russian at his hotel an amiable letter and a gift-wrapped camera as a token of friendship. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z When the halls were empty, Barker’s team would sneak through an underground corridor connecting the hotel with the Watergate office building next door. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The inside of the hotel reminded Armpit of pictures he’d seen of ancient Greek temples, with stone pillars and marble floors. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I let myself out of the lab and slip past the outhouses and the abandoned hotel. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z A thriving commercial center had taken root on the south side of the river, replete with stately brick hotels, sturdy limestone banks, and a wide variety of fine emporiums and reputable mercantile establishments. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She’d already gone to Dallas to make sure all the arrangements had been taken care of at their next hotel. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z "Pulling down table-cloths, screaming, running away. Do you know that your aunt and uncle have been thrown out of their hotel?" The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z There’s him and his mom dressed up and standing in front of a fancy hotel. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Lillian’s fiance lives there, and she goes almost every weekend, staying in a hotel for women. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z As we came out of the hotel that morning they glittered in the early morning sun, and under the influence of those two-sided accessories, what happened next took on contrasting tones. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As they headed to their hotel, the mustached man’s limp grew increasingly pronounced and by the time they reached the lobby, he was struggling to keep up. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They, of course, barely seemed to notice I wasn’t around, having been surrounded by cousins and friends and babysitters all day long, playing games in the hotel room and going on excursions around town. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She never asks about the hotel at all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They'd booked four rooms at the most expensive hotel they could get on short notice. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The room is enormous—even larger than the penthouse hotel suite that I had. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He came to Chicago to see the fair but got sick and spent eleven days in his hotel room, then left without ever seeing the White City. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And then the hotel on the corner exploded in a cloud of mortar dust and fire. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Summoning a host of reporters to the hotel lobby, he lost his ever- genial composure for the first and only time in his public life. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When the athletic director from Stanford, Jack Rice, invited them to dinner at the posh Adlon hotel, they jumped at the chance. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He spent much of his time outfitting his hotel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I went into the hotel and they gave me a room. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Ammu had lost the latest of her succession of jobs—as a receptionist in a cheap hotel—because she had been ill and had missed too many days of work. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A Truman student in such attire would be sent back to the hotel to change. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Then we left the hotel armed with logos and tape in our hands. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z On September 23, the night of the ceremony, more than a thousand people sat at tables in the hotel ballroom. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They decided to team up in the search and go to other nearby hotels. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Turner wondered if it was a hotel room he had been thinking of. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Afterward, I'd go back to the hotel with clean laundry and play cards with the other electrical workers who lived down the hall. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Armpit was winded when returned to the hotel. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Bobby gave the authorities the address of his hotel and his cell phone number and asked if they could call him when the reconstructed passport was ready. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She was in Culpeper, Virginia, washing clothes in a hotel, when she learned that there was a colony of Negro farmers on an island off the coast of Virginia. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I concentrated on Meg and Jack, jumping around the hotel room, silently banging the drum. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z That night, in his hotel room with Hunt and Liddy, Barker bragged he’d punched a hippie hard enough to hurt his hand. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The detectives trudged from one hotel to the next. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It stopped, the horse’s head hanging in the rain, and the waiter stepped out, opened his umbrella, and came toward the hotel. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z "Max, we're going to be close to your parents' hotel soon," I begin. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And after a performance, when she went back to her hotel room, she would look over the music to see where a certain song, or a passage in a song, could be sung more effectively. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z They walk the short distance from the hotel to the train platforms together. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z What hope was there for a hotel on the New Meadows now? Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Those who were aficionados could always get rooms even when the hotel was full. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The hotels were built on the assumption that visitors would come for two weeks at least, but the car gave them a fickle mobility. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Bill went up and Robert sat beside Bill to save a place for me, and I went back in the hotel to get a couple of bottles of wine to take with us. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Nobody sits around in front of the hotel. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought I might just lie down on the bearskin and go to sleep until Doreen felt ready to go back to the hotel. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z But now she treated the house as if it were a hotel. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He took it as a personal affront and quarrelled with everyone in the line of hotel command from the bellhop to the manager. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z And I thought it might be best to pay for my hotel with cash, too. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We decided to leave the hotel that evening to avoid paying for another night. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I had reached the point in my story where I was putting eau-de-Cologne on his head when we arrived at the hotel, and so it finished there. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A few days after buying the volume of Shakespeare, Sissy woke up one morning and nudged her current lover, with whom she was spending the night in a quiet family hotel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm told the exact same thing later in the evening when the bellhop knocks on my hotel door. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Unable to find a hotel one night, he had slept on the ground, awaking the next morning to find himself beneath an olive tree. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Offerings are made to pictures of their grandparents and his father, rice poured into a pyre that they are forbidden by the management of the hotel to ignite. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z After retiring to his hotel that evening, Garfield finally had the chance to polish his inaugural speech. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z On the top floor, in what is perhaps the hotel’s nicest room, he stands in a hexagonal bathtub and wipes grime off a window with the heel of his palm. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Many Rio residents left the city during the games and rented out their homes for more reasonable rates than the hotels charged. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “The Book Nook Cafe. The one room in the library where, according to what Dr. Zinchenko told us back at the hotel, food and drinks are actually allowed.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad went to the wedding, and at the reception, they got a little drunk and back at the hotel weren’t as careful as usual. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The wages Mamá was paid at the hotel were too small to support the seven of them, and Lupita earned only centavos for her errands. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Signs, signs—keeping us out of the movie theater, all of the restaurants and hotels, some grocery stores, all of the toy stores, most car lots, and all downtown entertainment. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They would routinely watch movies together in one of their hotel rooms but never invite me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z On the night before the race, a coach from Notre Dame knocked on Louie’s hotel room door, a grave expression on his face. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z That night, the three dog actors gathered around the TV set in their hotel room with a big bowl of Pork Chomps. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I call the hotel where Angie works and hang up when I hear her voice. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A Maven might tell five people where to stay in Los Angeles but make the case for the hotel so emphatically that all of them would take his advice. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We took a bus to the ocean where all the skyrise hotels stuck out of the sand like a row of white teeth. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I was exactly forty-three blocks by five blocks away from my hotel. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z What a good job Mamá had as chambermaid in Señor Aguilar’s hotel! Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “My stomach’s reminding me that we should’ve been back at the hotel hours ago.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Tourists arrived at the hotel every day; the research lab buzzed with activity. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On a whim I call Caroline to see if she’s on strike: no, not her hotel. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In the letter, my father had said we would call her from the hotel once we arrived, so this is a surprise, that they’ve come to meet us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I paid for a room at a small hotel near Pashtunistan Square. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “At the St. Francis. It’s the only halfway decent hotel still in operation in the Bay Area.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z At school, Broughton-Smith had found out, he had said, 'Kingshaw lives in a private hotel!’ and they had all stared at him, it had been an abnormality unknown to any of them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Then she went back to the hotel with Aaron, leaving Ivy to eat a picnic dinner with her sister and a sleeping Evan. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z If I hurried, I could make it back to the hotel before Milton and Tessie returned from seeing Carol Charming. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Henry lands in the middle of the night and isn’t even allowed to come near the Residence, instead sequestered in a hotel across town. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z When I arrived at the hotel, I understood what she meant. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z As they turned onto an even dustier, more littered road than the one the hotel was on, Lupita glanced at Salvador’s face. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z At the first opportunity, I slip from the lot and rush to the hotel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Over the last three and a half weeks she’d been in nineteen different hotel suites, each with no fewer than three rooms, and one with six. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “That’s right. Tater mentioned his old friends next door. He also said there were plastic-wrapped cups in the bathroom. That hotel we stayed in down in New York City...” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The White Mountain hotels were a little too dull, a little too remote and expensive, for modern tastes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The hotel three doors down has no such qualms, although I dislike this clerk almost as much as the other. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I went to all my best houses plus the blue camel hotel and found not a single egg. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “He won’t survive it, Mom. You don’t see him at that hotel. He’s not like he used to be. He broke.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Customarily, en route from Montclair to Nantucket, we spent the night in a hotel in New London, Connecticut. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z When he returned to the hotel, he checked out immediately. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The hotel guests were ferried across the backwaters, straight from Cochin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I asked her why. Why she didn’t just return. She continued to cry, so I agreed to come. On the phone she gave me this address. I thought this was a hotel.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “That hotel you stayed at. Was it possibly called the Lotus Hotel and Casino?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Ten of us met in a Loop hotel room and, to my amazement, the leaders of the club’s national board confirmed my criticisms of the manner in which the clubs had been conducted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z After dinner, they returned to Burger's hotel room. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z At my hotel in Nebraska, I finally get around to writing back to Risch. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I asked one of them where I could find a good hotel. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon Caroline got a job cleaning hotel rooms—twenty-eight to thirty rooms a day for $2-$3 a room, for a total of about $300 a week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Back when things were still civilized, the rich folks from town used to come up and stay their weekends in grand hotels, and ride on the gravity railroad. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I wiped a circle on the fogged-up mirror and shaved with one of the hotel’s old-fashioned razors, the type that opened and you slid the blade in. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The next morning—it was Sunday—the “Malcolm X Committee” was waiting at my hotel, to accompany me to the airport. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'm going over to the hotel," I said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I walk out of the records room, and my shoes squeak on the tile floor as I run back to the hotel. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Sorry. What? Yes, oh sure, you take the cab. I need to talk to my daughter. Yes, I’m sure. I’ll meet you back at the hotel later.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z “Yes, let’s,” Richard said, and until she met him in the hotel lobby, days later, he worried that she would not come. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There was a radio station right next to Billy’s hotel. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after that, we moved out of the hotel altogether. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z And I certainly didn't feel like going to another hotel and getting my brains beat out. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z You'd be surprised what was going on on the other side of the hotel. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z There is no calculator, and so they add up the figures on numerous sheets of the hotel stationery. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm X was busy, busy, busy; he could not visit my hotel room often, and when he did, it shortly would get the feeling of Grand Central Station. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As we left the hotel, we met Cassius Clay with some of his entourage, returning from his morning walk. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He continues to tell us about the hotel and its history. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z But it hadn’t bothered me when Annie and I were racing the elevators back at the hotel. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The car was to pick us up at the hotel in forty minutes, and we stopped at the café on the square where we had eaten breakfast, and had a beer. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z When I blink again, I’m back in my hotel room, and the games are done. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded,” Snowden told the world from his hotel room. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Feeling antsy both at home and at work, we’d booked a modest hotel room near Waikiki Beach and started counting down the days. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Three drummers led them into a hotel ballroom, announcing their arrival as a married couple to a room full of people I’m related to but have never met. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z They all continued on the general’s plane to Albuquerque, where Groves was infuriated to discover eminent physicists gathered in clumps at the main hotel. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Poppy took her pulse and whispered to her while someone called a taxi to drive her back to her hotel. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Jule had been alone at the hotel for nearly four weeks now. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Just after midnight, the street outside the hotel is lit up but empty, like a stage set before the actors appear. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They reached the port at the river’s mouth to find every hotel, every lodging house, every private room commandeered by soldiers. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We drove up to the carriage entrance of the big hotel and the concierge came out with an umbrella and was very polite. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z My dad’s hotel in Dubai had a pool surrounded by date trees, under a sun so bright hot and white that it bleached everything. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Nobody knew who would pay the enormous hotel bill. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Look, put your stuff in your room and meet me in the hotel lobby in twenty minutes,” he said when the taxi dropped us off at the hotel. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “I convinced my mom we should stay at the hotel tonight. It’s already paid for, and I told her you picked up my homework from last week.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “Hang on to those; I’ll read the rest when we gets back to the hotel. Maybe our Mr. Shake-a-Spear’ll tell where them twin girls is.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “Exactly, Daniel. Can you imagine the six of us in this hotel room for that long? Layla and Ivy will kill each other.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I peered to read the title as the car slowed down before the door of the hotel. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z They hand him off to an American clerk in a requisitioned hotel transformed into a disarmament center. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Our hotel sits right on the beach and we can see and smell the ocean from the small open-air lobby. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z That way, I’d have enough for taxi fares, a bunch of meals, and maybe a few nights’ stay in a not-very-nice hotel. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Meet him in the hotel lobby and he is stuffing sponge cake into his mouth. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Compton returned to his Washington hotel and penciled out a budget of $300,000 to cover the next six months. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Stanton gave orders to rush military guards to the home of every member of the cabinet and to Vice President Johnson’s hotel. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I sometimes say that it’s a bit like what I imagine living in a fancy hotel might be like, only the fancy hotel has no other guests in it—just you and your family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Shin took off his sandals and tucked his bare feet underneath him on the hotel sofa. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “But at least let me try to find a hotel room first so I can get a good night’s sleep afterward.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Barack could happily end a day in a faraway hotel with all sorts of political battles brewing and loose ends floating. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z If he was discovered in a hotel room with a woman not his wife, his name would appear in the section of the newspaper reserved for public shaming. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Ashamed, now that the effects of the soma had worn off, of the weakness he had displayed that morning in the hotel, he went out of his way to show himself strong and unorthodox. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Milton had booked us into a hotel called the Lochmoor in the East Thirties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Many visitors stopped by his hotel to congratulate him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Charlie takes my dad’s hand and together we walk around the enormous hotel as my mom stays several paces behind. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z As soon as he was old enough to leave the nest, his mother had taken him to see a baited trap in the hotel kitchen and had explained its evils one by one. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Over the past four weeks, the hotel has become something else: a fortress. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I stared through my hotel room window at a tall, Gothic-looking brick tower across the street with a huge clock at the top. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Not so, however, the story the former hotel manager now told Geyer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z What had been worse than all the other people’s houses – perhaps, in some ways, even worse than here – had been the private hotel. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Much too late to be alone in my hotel room with a girl who amounts to little more than an intern. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z At that scale, with families of five and six people living off a farm the size of two hotel rooms, agriculture changes dramatically. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She put on a zip-up hoodie and the doors opened on the tenth floor of the hotel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He doubted she had any cash on her, but when she got to the hotel she could probably call somebody to come down and pay the driver. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Some scythes—mostly the old-guard ones—arrived on foot, choosing a humble walk from their hotels over a more flashy arrival. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t mind a few more nights in the hotel,” said Cha-Cha. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Then the hobo camps are raided and vagrants brought in and hotel registers scrutinized. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The alarmed hotel manager, a woman in high heels, came running through the lobby, pursuing the oligarch. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She takes my hand and leads me down the hotel hallway. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I didn't want to go to another hotel and spend all Phoebe's dough. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “There’s a psychiatrist here at the hotel,” said the girl. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Going down the dark streets to the hotel we saw the sky-rockets going up in the square. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Scoob holds it up to eye level, shifting his focus between the hotel in the picture and what’s right in front of him. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z But a warm spring wind was blowing across Boston Common, and at the hotel Mr. Popper had to have the ice brought up to his rooms in thousand-pound cakes. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z They dashed from hotel to hotel, scanning the list of names in the registration book and looking for the name "Nicholas." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Back at the hotel Mr. McShane and I mobbed her, if two can he a mob. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z After school, I walk straight into the hotel, pausing only briefly to talk with Don Lucho. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He told me the name of his hotel. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z "No matter how vulgar a hotel is, the bar is always nice." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z She turned quickly and went into the hotel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z It was a long walk back to the hotel. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Elinor seemed to share Meggie’s fears, for she was to be seen several times talking earnestly to Mo—in the hotel corridor outside her room, at breakfast, at dinner. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z My dad, who had a lifelong habit of switching jobs almost every year, took a position as a construction superintendent rebuilding a beachfront hotel and casino. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Catt waited back at the hotel, sitting next to the window and listening to the noisy crowds at the statehouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z My hotel’s dining room, when I went to breakfast, was full of more of those whites—discussihg Africa’s untapped wealth as though the African waiters had no ears. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The hotel brought a breakfast to our room that, much to my delight, featured deli meat among many other denials of American breakfast constructions. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z But that night, as she stretched out in her Vancouver hotel room, she had no idea exactly how lucky a trip it was. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z One hotel even has slot machines in the elevators for the people who can’t wait that long. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It was a cheap hotel, the kind where you always are thinking about urban legends. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like that going up the stairs in the hotel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Then there was a bartender at the hotel. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But I wasn’t thinking, and so she’s in the second hotel we came across. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Because there’s an entrance like that in the hotel basement, where we store our costumes. It’s got the mark of Daedalus.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It resembled some of the other throw-away things she brought home from the discarded piles outside white ladies' houses where she cleaned or the hotel where she worked as a maid. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Islands contain 20 to 200 private rooms; meals are communal; some are run as hotels, others as cooperative communes, others combine these types. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z During that time, Malcolm X left the room only once, to have dinner in the hotel’s lobby-level, dimly lit Bourbon Room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I had my own room in the hotel and my grandmother never bothered with silly things like that. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z In the end, I don't stay the night at Amalia’s aunt's hotel. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Heading into Africa from my harborside hotel, I entered a warren of narrow streets throbbing with activity. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z There was a band playing down at Klein’s hotel, and the strains reached them faintly, tempered by the distance. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in the hotel, the night watchman was sitting on a bench inside the door. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “We’ll have a team ready to take you to your hotel once you arrive.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Burger dressed hurriedly and ushered the group out of the hotel, hoping to avoid any questions or harm from Quirin and Heinck. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z When he decides she is too tall to be an adorable accessory, he begins abandoning her in dressing rooms or hotels. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z About ten seconds later the elevator stops and the doors open up inside the closet of an empty hotel room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Layla put a few things into drawers while Mom checked the boys’ diapers and Ivy just stood there, watching her whole life spill into one creaky little hotel room. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Migraines left my blood spreading across unfamiliar hotel sheets, dripping on the floors, oozing into carpets, soaking through leftover croissants and Italian lace cookies. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Downtown Boston, I wrote them, had the biggest stores I’d ever seen, and white people’s restaurants and hotels. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Back at our hotel, Farmer asked me why I thought people made such a fuss over him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Colin rubbed his sore neck, thinking he would never spend another night in the car when he had plenty of money to pay for hotels. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z I also told him that I’d reserved a hotel room for him in Montgomery and that it would probably be safest to spend the next few nights there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z So when it came to college, they had assumed she would go somewhere practical, like Pitt or perhaps Penn State, to study something like business or hotel management. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Our rooms were in the front of the hotel and they looked down on to the beach and the sea. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z There has never been a collection of hotels of comparable grandeur anywhere, certainly not in a mountain setting. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Holmes returned to Englewood and promptly forged Belknap’s signature to a second note for the same amount, intending to use the proceeds for his hotel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The carriage started and we drove to the hotel. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z We land in Florida and hit a hotel. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "No wonder it had a nasty ratty taste. If you're not careful, the Health people will be ordering the entire hotel to be closed before everyone gets typhoid fever." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I would have continued at the hotel until I left had not a shortcut presented itself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “You ought to see the room in the hotel where they hold the contest. Gold chandeliers! Rich-looking stuff everywhere! And kids from all over looking smart. But we smoked them all!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The wide passages made our house feel like a hotel, as did the impersonal smell of doors kept locked most of the year, of unused bathrooms and kitchens and toilets, of uninhabited rooms. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Newcomers stood three deep in line for hotels, day after day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Later when it began to get dark, I walked around the harbor and out along the promenade, and finally back to the hotel for supper. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z But I leave the utilities behind because you can’t build houses and hotels on them and I like to build houses and hotels. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Whatever was new and exciting—elevators, gas lighting, swimming pools, golf courses—the White Mountain hotels were in the vanguard. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It was such bad karma, the company sold it to some other hotel chain, and built a new hotel—a massive green Oz-like gambling cathedral. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I want to rent a hotel room with you. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t have much money for a hotel. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Their cook heats oatmeal and bacon in the hotel kitchen while the other seven take apart walls on the fourth floor with sledgehammers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They would have access to help if they needed it, and would be safer, given that the hotel was on high ground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The hotel was also renowned for catering to famous guests. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A couple of minutes later, she heard Noa walk past the window of the hotel room. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z We had stayed in a small hotel by the beach and spent most of our time swimming in the ocean. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z He saw her in her hotel room somewhere now in the halfsecond remaining with the bombs a yard, a foot, an inch from her building. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “H-mm, let’s see,” murmured the clerk, who always behaved as if the hotel might be full even though he knew it was not. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z When she refused to return with him to his hotel room, Grady tore at her cleavage and demanded a refund. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There were cold omelettes with chopped ham in them, and cold chicken and hot coffee for the grown-ups, and hot crisp rolls baked in the hotel kitchen, which we ate with butter and cranberry jam. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Around ten or eleven, I sneak away, back to the hotel to change into my regular clothes and wash the dishes piled in the sink. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For the greater part of the day, Howie stayed in his hotel room with a team of security guards outside his door, all armed; fame gave him this life, but it won’t keep him alive. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z We were down on the pavement going into the hotel. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z They came away from the hotel and turned inland again, back toward the old lady and her pig. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Congress to pass the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination in public accommodations such as restaurants, theaters and hotels, in government, and in employment. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z You got in with a plastic key, the kind big hotels use. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z At the hotel, there’s better lighting, and tables and chairs, and plenty of people nearby to help with hard math problems. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to keep my lives separate—Virginia the poor indigena in Yana Urku, Virginia the rich indigena at queen rehearsals; Virginia the dishwasher at the hotel, Virginia the star student at school. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Does anybody look back with affection, or even disgust, at a hotel room when they leave it? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Half an hour later, we turn onto a quiet street sloping up a hill and stop in front of a hotel near the top. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As required, Benji got permission before leaving the hotel and spending Veterans Day in New York City. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z They were sure to get lost at least once, so they left the hotel at seven in the morning and arrived at Ground Zero in plenty of time. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z I feel a direct line extending from that girl with her knees steepled beneath the hotel blankets to this person writing now in an Aeron chair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He looked inside the first hotel, but it was so large that he felt uncomfortable, and he kept moving down the waterfront until he found a little café that looked like the right place. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I step away from the window of my hotel room and go back to sit on the couch. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z At the station I had expected to see the porters from the hotels but there was no one. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z They got off the bus in a town a little south of Orlando, and here a nice cab driver—she still remembers his name—took them to a low-priced hotel. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The jetty in front of the hotel was empty. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z One morning she complained of feeling ill and stayed in her room in the King City hotel while Adam drove into the country. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I am very sorry for you,” he said, “but I am asking for you to leave my hotel, please. This is bad for my business, very bad.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Reggie didn't flinch at their instructions, but he did convince them to leave Freebie behind with the hotel manager, who promised to find a dog-sitter. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “We’ll have a really early call. It might be better if we rent a hotel closer to the set.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He nodded back in the direction of the hotel. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “I think we ought to just go check into a hotel.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I even tried using the bubblegum pink razor that had been included in the hotel’s small pack of soap and shampoo, opening up old and new scabs on my shins and knees. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Fischer invited her to visit him in Los Angeles, where she stayed in a hotel, and the two spent the next few weeks getting to know each other. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was in the main ballroom of the leading hotel. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “May I help you?” says the hotel clerk, looking up as the bell above the door announces our arrival. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Wondering if the acquaintance had gotten the name of the hotel wrong, Frear left his sister-in-law and Wood at the St. James and ran three blocks to another large hotel, the Sherman House. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Had he somehow accidentally ingested knowledge last night at the hotel? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Geyer and Richards examined the registers of every hotel and boardinghouse in Indianapolis but found no further trace of the children. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A second glance told her that the front entrance of the three-story Mexican hotel was deserted. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Robin settled on the sofa with a book, throwing Ivy a wink or a smile every now and then while Ivy and June sat cross-legged on one of the hotel beds. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Joseph’s mother flew in from Germany, and her driver brought Joseph to the hotel. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z We rushed to the doors of the trailer in time to see the zebra galloping down a wide boulevard lined with hotels and casinos and neon signs. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z We followed the boy with the bags into the hotel. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z After we checked in, the five of us ate a buffet lunch in the hotel restaurant. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z In 1947, a Mississippi hotel denied service to the Haitian secretary of agriculture, who had come to the state to attend an international conference. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The “Jesus” he had in mind tended bar in a cafe across the street from the hotel, and was, Perry thought, muy simpatico, definitely someone he could trust to return the boxes on demand. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “I lay with my face pressed into the tile of the hotel bathroom. Stared at the base of the blue Italian toilet.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z And, really, maybe the best idea is to go check into a nice hotel under her maiden name for a week or so—at our expense, of course—would she mind terribly? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Holmes walked Belknap through the building’s many corridors and described how the place would look as a hotel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When he comes back to the hotel he is surprised to see the taxi driver standing in the lobby, hands deep into his pockets. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z When they arrived at the hotel in Houston, Aileen was there to give them all their room keys and schedules. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Soon we would have reached our time limit, and must return to the hotel. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I remembered him reciting a poem at our nika from a scrap of hotel stationery paper. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Bobby arrived in Bern at the end of October 2003, checked into an inexpensive hotel, and the next afternoon went to the U.S. embassy on Sulgeneckstrasse. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Visiting the East Coast or the gray capitals of Europe during the long months of winter, I often meet people at deluxe hotels who comment on my complexion. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One Thursday night I received an invitation from a group of white boys I had known in the post office to meet in a South Side hotel and argue the state of the world. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d never been on a plane before, never stayed in a hotel or left my house for that matter. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Cronkite followed the man to a beat-up car idling outside the hotel. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The cab stopped in front of the hotel and we all got out and went in. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Then he moved once more, to a former hotel, after a tall man started walking a dog on his block; and yet again, after a dream about Mr. Fitt poisoning his water with lead. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, far away from the hotel, in the basement of a New York City apartment building, two other dogs were also watching TV. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He and Van Brunt shuttled to and from Hunt’s hotel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She probably was in Los Angeles now, but he had no idea what hotel she was staying at, or what TV character’s name she was using. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z She used her computer to purchase a plane ticket to Los Angeles, booked an LA hotel, and researched used car dealers in the Las Vegas area. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Fern, the other daughter, jumped out of a window of a San Francisco hotel. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Got in last night I booked this hotel at the last minute. You been here long?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Soon we found that he would have preferred a hotel. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “This was the best hotel we could get in,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Mum, Bernard, and I all moved into one room so that a few extra homeless people could stay in the hotel. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Dreading the thought of spending another night in some cheap hotel if I could not get a room at the Y, I considered hiding in the church and sleeping there in one of the pews. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She could never have moved around in public, let alone book in at an hotel, with her real face. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “It’s in the World Trade Center, so Chris and I have to leave the hotel around eight.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z We saw Annie on Broadway, and we stayed in a hotel where they bring pizza to your room on a silver tray. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Every hotel had filled to capacity, even beyond capacity, with some managers finding themselves compelled to install cots in lobbies and halls. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Below the window, on one of the bastioned traces on the seaward side of the hotel, waits the big 88. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Papa told us that night how Mr. Boop ran over from the hotel to say a feller wearin’ a Stetson hat and cowboy boots had come in on the train from Lula. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z On the way to the hotel, all the girls are hyped to get a little slice of summer, even though Old Man Winter has already arrived. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I also found out that there are about 70,571 hotel rooms, and most rooms have a main lock, a bathroom lock, a closet lock, and a lock to the minibar. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The night before the third day, we were all treated to a big dinner and then packed off to our hotel rooms. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Here I was a nobody from Louisiana eating room service in a fancy New York hotel while watching myself on TV It was like The Twilight Zone or something. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Ralph thought of the old hotel with its shabby lobby warmed by a crackling fire. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z I knew that the boys in the hotel filched whatever they could. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was while working at the hotel that she met a young black man, George Myers. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Early the next morning, after the guard had unlocked the banquet hall, the exhausted operative returned to the hotel room he was sharing with Liddy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Hidden under the happy humming of hotel cooks. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z About two hundred yards from the jetty, along a narrow dusty road, stood a simple wooden hotel painted white. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why, we don’t even allow lap dogs in this hotel,” he would say. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z On hotel stationery Callie had proclaimed, “I am not a girl.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z From her pocket she produced the label for her father’s hotel in New Jersey. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I try it on in my room in the hotel basement and stand on the bed so I can see myself in the small mirror. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This explains almost everything—her faraway look, the hotel key, the underwear, the reason she never graduated from community college. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z "I'm going over to the hotel to get the glasses and the wine-skin," I said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Her hotel was opposite the harbor in Oak Bluffs. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The evidence found in Booths hotel room included the mysterious “Sam” letter that seemed to predict the assassination. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “One of those hotels one passes on the road.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Al Ulbrickson went back to the hotel and scrawled in his logbook, “In a hell of a fix now.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A room in a hotel in Mexico City. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Their mom was busy at her high-stress job as an events coordinator at the Imperial Marquis, a big downtown hotel. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The car was parked in the lot next to the hotel, and Maten had left a cooler inside, full of the foods her husband liked. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “How about getting us a hotel room if you’re such a hot- shot?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They put us up at this fancy hotel near Times Square, where they drop the ball on New Year’s Eve. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z After a while, he moved to another hotel. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That summer she worked in Cape May, New Jersey, in a hotel. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you leave the money for the hotel?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z There I was, padding about in a dressing-gown, making a slough of sentiment out of a commonplace hotel bedroom. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Alisha changed into a dress, and I dropped them off at the hotel, returning an hour later to find Bonnie wandering the tearoom with her disposable camera. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Then she told the hotel people that Kate was the child of a sister who couldn’t care for her.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z At last Singer bought a bottle of whiskey from the hotel manager and lured him into the taxi again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They drove out into the country in a taxi, and then at four-thirty they went to the dining-room at the hotel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z But once me and the cap’n got back to the hotel and he started planning how we was gonna catch the gang of thieves, I mostly forgot ’bout how rude these Yankees was. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z They arrived in the city during a snowstorm, and one hotel after another turned the three women away because they did not have a male escort. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z We all three went back to the hotel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z On May 21, the phone rang in my hotel room and Sister Betty said, “Just a minute, please—,” then the deep voice said, “How are you?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Telegrams and letters and telephone calls came to the hotel for me, from across the country. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He drank in the hotel lobby, and the more he drank, the worse the plan sounded. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Once he got tired he might check into a hotel: room, like he had said, one with a big mirror, and shave for the first time. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z By now he would be out of the sick ward and able to go on an excursion to the movies, and afterward to the hotel where they had eaten dinner on the first visit. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When Burger returned to his hotel, he found that he also had to soothe Dasch's anxiety. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z "We didn't pay more than that at a big hotel." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Okay, well, how would you explain the hotel key I found?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I wished that I were back at the hotel, ordering room service. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I thought the doctor might have pumped somebody's stomach and then analyzed what he found in his hotel laboratory. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “But Mary and Joseph couldn’t find a hotel anywhere! So they stayed in a barn.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I found the hotel manager reading a newspaper behind the Formica-topped check-in counter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The hotel has provided little packets of shampoo which, upon opening, I discover is the consistency and color of hoisin sauce. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z On March 30, twenty-five-year-old John Hinckley stepped from a group of reporters on the sidewalk outside a Washington hotel and shot six times at President Ronald Reagan. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We unrolled one of the hotel’s bathroom towels on the picnic table and played panjpar on it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The work of turning Holmes’s building into a hotel proceeded slowly, with the usual bouts of rancor and delay. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The next morning while Faizah competed, I stayed back at the hotel. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Had I not felt it when I walked down the hallway of the hotel with the night watchman pointing a gun at my back? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though we don’t have hotel or plane reservations yet, something tells me that we’ll find a way to be on a plane next week. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z White and his men tried to track down some of the witnesses outside the hotel, including an elderly farmer who had been questioned earlier by an agent. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In the lobby of the King City hotel he talked to the men who gathered around the stove and read the papers sent down from San Francisco. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a pretty crummy hotel, and there weren’t enough sheets, and there was hardly any gravity, and no one had a fake ID so they put a lock on the minibar. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The big gun detonates a third time, and glass shatters somewhere close by, and torrents of soot rattle down the chimney, and the walls of the hotel toll like a struck bell. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The hotel’s fourth floor, where garden rooms with French balconies open directly onto the ramparts, has become home to an aging high-velocity anti-air gun called an 88 that can fire twenty-one-and-a-half-pound shells nine miles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Fischer, in his underwear, sat in his hotel room, the door bolted and telephone unplugged, a picture in stony resistance. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Unnerved, Spassky refused to draw and left the hotel in a huff. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “When we move out of the hotel, you need to come over to my house,” Benji said. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z They rushed back to the lobby and found the hotel manager. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z "The one who gave you the chocolate bar in the hotel lobby yesterday," I told him. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “Blankets for a hotel” quoth one of the men who laughed and helped. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z To come here and make beds in a hotel along the highway? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z But at night when the pigeons slept on the roofs and the people lay in their hotel beds, the square belonged to the horses and the winged lion that stood among the stars. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Unlike taverns and lodges, which were hotels and restaurants as well as bars, saloons were primarily places to drink. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “The designers of the hotel figured we only needed electricity for that and the stoves. Cursed bureaucrats!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z We thought we’d go for a few days with some of the girls and stay at a hotel there and go dancing. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I say I’m afraid he can’t spend the night here. I’m not running a hotel.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z So I left the room and went looking for another hotel, unaware that almost a year would pass before I would hear Sohrab speak another word. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Jule didn’t often talk to other hotel guests, but she saw no harm in answering. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I think my mom was hoping there would be a hotel. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He accompanied him to the local hotel, where he waited with his whip in one hand and his cane in the other while Jean de Satigny packed his bags. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z To downplay accusations of being an outside agitator, she ran her operation out of her hotel room, offering direction to state and local suffragists. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z At the hotel’s front desk a clerk told her she would now be escorted up to “Mr. and Mrs. Cody’s suite.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z With the help of his friend Tony, who was taking another break on the loading dock, Jake led his two teammates through the hotel’s industrial-sized kitchen and into the greenroom. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z I was dismayed, for I would have preferred to stay in a less conspicuous third-class hotel. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would like to take you to your hotel.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She said, “In tests, they find huge numbers of DNA strands on hotel coverlets.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, we found ourselves spinning around the revolving door of the blue camel hotel at the same time. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Strict controls would limit what visitors could be charged for everything—from rooms at luxury hotels like the Adlon to the bratwurst sold by street vendors all over town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z An hour later I lay in my hotel bed, listening to the rain. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I take the laptop, underwear, lingerie, and the hotel key to hide in my room, in case Amá ever decides to come in here. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In Marshall the tallest building was probably the hotel. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, this one finally got under my skin when I found I couldn’t seem to eat a meal in the hotel without seeing him somewhere around watching me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "You don't mean...you don't actually mean...you don't mean to tell me they're holding the Annual Meeting right here in the hotel?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z A letter from Barbara was among the sheaf of selected matter that Perry preferred not to leave behind in the Mexico City hotel room. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “How am I supposed to drive four cars back to the hotel?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z They weren’t far off their daily target, but that was because they’d prepaid the hotel rooms. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The hotel mirror is perfectly clean, but for the echo of a few rag swipes in the top left corner. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Matt had been part of the hotel as long as he could remember, much longer than either Mr. Minch or Ryan’s mother. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z During the month that he played in the tournament, Bobby was rarely seen outside of the hotel: He spent most of the time holed up in his room, weighing strategy and tactics. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She had no way to return to the hotel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She found a job as chambermaid in the same hotel in which Richard worked as elevator boy. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Booth leaves quite a bit of evidence behind in his hotel room. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Charlie says, putting his hand up for high fives as we walk back inside the hotel. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z A message from the porter announced that, at the Warden’s orders, a Reservation Guard had come round with a plane and was waiting on the roof of the hotel. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned during dinner that while I was at the hotel, the Hajj Committee Court had been notified about my case, and that in the morning I should be there. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We paid for the beers, we matched and I think Cohn paid, and went up to the hotel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Working women, “Yoo Hoo Girls” in the local vernacular, hung out the upstairs windows of cheap hotels and dance halls and even the fire department, calling out to the men on the street below. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When he got to Albuquerque, Gold was told every hotel room in town was booked. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Our meals were cooked by a team of world-class chefs and delivered by professionals more highly trained than those at any five-star restaurant or hotel. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It would be pretty weird spending the weekend in the hotel with her hating him and everybody on the tour knowing about it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z A message dings in my view as we pull up to my hotel. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then he got up, saying he had half a mind to go over to Klein’s hotel and play a game of billiards. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z There were many big hotels that were closed but most of the shops were open and the people were very glad to see us. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Ah, she has gone home. Señor Aguilar sent her home when Captain Ortega’s son came here to the hotel for her. I am doing your mother’s work on this floor now.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Back at the hotel everyone already seemed to know: the doorman, the desk manager, the people in the lobby and elevator. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Half of the existing hotel was shut down while we added two new floors. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Finally, he said, “I could look at this all day, but we should go to the hotel.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z It’s the first time he’s heard the gun at such close range, and it sounds as if the top half of the hotel has torn off. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “You see how silly you are, I won’t let you go out of the hotel until we leave here.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I had gone back to the hotel that night to get some sleep and ended up tossing around in bed all night. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Several hours later, coming home from bowling in the early hours of the morning, before returning to the hotel, Bobby sneaked into the playing hall to check out the conditions. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I thought maybe some Kahlua, too, but I figured the only alcohol they’d have at the hotel would be for cleaning tile. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near onto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z They made their way up the alley to the hotel’s service entrance. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Then, one summer night, she fell from the window of a hotel room. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Granted that our little hotel is dull, and the food indifferent, and that day after day dawns very much the same, yet we would not have it otherwise. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z My parents tried to seem excited as we left the hotel, pointing out sights from the taxi window. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They walked to the small hotel where Cyrus lived, and on the way Cyrus pointed out the sights, the buildings, the spots of history, with the expansiveness of a lecturer. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I just called you at the hotel,” she said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z But when I asked her she laughed immoderately, repeated my question aloud and told me she lived with a girl friend at a hotel. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Now I get to thinking about our hotel, and what would happen if it caught on fire. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z We should meet too many of the people he knows in any of the big hotels. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, that's what I thought about the whole way back to the hotel. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z More people abandoned the bars and hotel lobbies of Poughkeepsie and made their way down to the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Three years later a hotel they had designed in Kansas City collapsed during construction, injuring several men and killing one. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The employees clapped and cheered as the girls came through, and it was almost like walking up the aisles of the hotel ballrooms where most of the girls had performed in various pageants. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z And finally, when we checked into a hotel somewhere between Annapolis and Clover around nine o’clock at night, she gave them to me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z His mother was running a hotel with his sister in the village where he’d been born. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z While everyone spent the day frolicking in the sand and water, I stayed in the hotel room so I could soak in the silence. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Sheehan stayed at his typewriter in the hotel suite, banging out stories for later in the week. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Nor did he supply the darkroom facilities that hotels closest to Jackson Park had begun installing to serve the growing number of amateur photographers, so-called “Kodak fiends,” who carried the newest portable cameras. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Coach brought us to a no-frills pizza spot near the hotel and ordered seven large pies for the team. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z If I don’t end up in that foul hotel courtyard with my head in a tin washtub it will be a blooming miracle. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Yet no one would regard my complexion the same way if I entered such hotels through the service entrance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That following Thursday night, when I joined my friends at the hotel for beer, I pulled out my crude verses and laid them on the table. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At the hotel we’ve hosted big, fancy lunch- eons and dinners before, but nothing quite this big. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For when, gathering her cards together at the end, and reaching for the box, she said casually, “Tell me, is Max de Winter still in the hotel?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z From the windows of condemned hotels, from fire escapes and balconies, from behind cars jacked up in front yards, they extended the barrels of their assorted guns. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Dad called it a flophouse, but Mom said it was an SRO, and when I asked what that stood for, she told me the hotel was for special residents only. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z While Mom and Dad went out looking for investment money for the Prospector, we kids played in the hotel. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The ground floor of the hotel was a maze of public rooms, all of them named in gold letters on the doors. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Krogh handed over the cash, enough to cover airfare, hotel, two rental cars, special equipment, and payment for Barker’s crew. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Dad knew the hotel manager and all of the men at the desk, and they used to exchange loud and good-natured insults for the benefit of the crowds that followed us in from the street. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do me a favor. Lock this in the hotel vault, will you? I think I’m allergic to pithos!’ The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The first thing Mr. Kapasi had noticed when he saw Mr. and Mrs. Das, standing with their children under the portico of the hotel, was that they were very young, perhaps not even thirty. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z We got off with our bags and rod-cases and passed through the dark station and out to the lights and the line of cabs and hotel buses. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He doesn’t care that we had to sleep on the streets because he couldn’t pay rent for the hotels we were living out of. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In a stroke of luck, they also had an idea where Willie Jett might be headed: Jett had been courting a young lady whose father kept a hotel in the nearby town of Bowling Green. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the afternoon of her first day in Chicago, Tuesday, June 6, the infanta had slipped out of her hotel incognito, accompanied by her lady-in-waiting and an aide appointed by President Cleveland. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And at another time there in the hotel room he came the nearest to tears that I ever saw him, and also the only time I ever heard him use, for his race, one word. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When even the bellhops and waiters started hounding her, she had to escape to another hotel. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “If you are going for winter sports,” he said, “Wengen is the place. My father has a very fine hotel at Wengen. It is open all the time.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z In reality I lay many hundred miles away in an alien land, and would wake, before many seconds had passed, in the bare little hotel bedroom, comforting in its very lack of atmosphere. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Yet to allow the famous Ulysses S. Grant to take a room at another hotel would be unthinkable. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Within the hotel chemical odors ebbed and flowed like an atmospheric tide. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On the taxi ride back to the hotel, Sohrab rested his head on the window, kept staring at the passing buildings, the rows of gum trees. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Joseph and Rose Kennedy spent their 1914 honeymoon in room 145 of the hotel. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Finally, in a burst of invention, I hired an all-night taxi to lead me, and sure enough I had passed very near my hotel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Your laundry problem is quite a bit more complicated than that of a hotel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was still closed, so he decided to go up to the hotel and get a bath, and I sat out in front of the café and then went for a walk in the town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z By the 1890s, there were 200 hotels scattered through the White Mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Quickly Lupita stuck her head out and gave the front of the hotel a sweeping glance with her dark eyes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I asked him if this was the best hotel in the area. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z First thing in the morning, I hurry over to the hotel. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The surrounding building had commercial offices, an immense banquet hall, and a hotel with four hundred luxurious rooms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I worked in a big, old-fashioned hotel just around the corner from The Birches. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z At four o’clock on Sunday, less than two weeks before Thanksgiving, Mr. Clem held his drawing on the hotel piazza. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z After having my own hotel room in San Juan, I wasn't ready to live with other people. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z His arms ached for something heavier than trays, for something dirtier than peelings; his feet wanted the heavy work shoes, not die thin-soled black shoes that the hotel required. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “And my hotel room is not so cozy that I'd want to get back there in a hurry.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He walks fast to the hotel, head down, hands in his pockets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z After all the clamor at the vigil—the clicking of cameras, the flashes of light, the shouted questions—the hotel room is starkly quiet. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They passed hotels, clothing stores, jewelers and bookstores; then old brick churches, with signs out front saying what sermon would be given the next Sunday, and a few large old city homes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z A few nights ago, a man who would be called in America a ‘white’ man, a United Nations diplomat, an ambassador, a companion of kings, gave me his hotel suite, his bed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He had examined every lead, checked every hotel, visited every boardinghouse and real estate agent, and yet now he had to begin his search anew. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The cast and crew of Dog Squad rented two entire floors in a Millville hotel near the Four Paws Spa location. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The same thing I saw in the card-carrying creep who I know wants to burn down our hotel. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z That show’s Library was a monumental edifice, with towering marbled halls and tinkling fountains, like the lobby of some five-star hotel. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “We come from Ensenada. I have worked there as a maid in a hotel, helping my mother.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The hotel above them—what is left of it—makes a series of unearthly groans. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The hotel was an old and formal building, remodeled inside. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Rahel Alone watched them walk down the hotel corridor like silent but substantial ghosts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His ideal stand was a small town with a mortgaged hotel and no amusements, one where his only competition came from wives and an occasional wayward girl. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of people visited him at his hotel to make suggestions about where he ought to look for Howard. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As they had done at all the other hotels, they asked the clerk if they could see his registration book. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Would the doorman shout at her not to hang around the elegant hotel? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z He had overheard people in the hotel corridor talking about a fire, but paid little attention to it since the subject “did not interest me.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The lavatories were in a rickety wooden outhouse at the back of the hotel and each cubicle contained nothing more than a round hole cut in a piece of wood. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The door of the hotel room banged open. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Having someone cook my meals made me feel like I was at a fancy hotel. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Fred had ruined the moment, but as the three of them headed back to the hotel, Armpit had had it all planned out. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Jake’s mom was still home because she was working an event that night at the hotel. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “Where to? The hotel, I hope. You need showers.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The lights from the hotel shone on the wet pavement. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z But before that most pleasant and sometimes exhausting human trait took hold, I had three days of namelessness in a beautiful motor hotel in the middle of Amarillo. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The view from the hotel was beautiful, but here too the water was thick and toxic. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Once when I returned to my hotel, a New York City call was waiting for me from Mai Goode of the American Broadcasting Company. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We were rather limited in dinner options, as we were instructed not to venture far from the hotel for safety reasons. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The timing of all these hotel stays was perplexing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I had never encountered such obtuseness in a first-class hotel, and I told them so, but this only increased their inhospitality. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Benji lay on his hotel bed and worried that his parents were going to ruin this for him. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon she would be gone, rattling alone in the wagon-lit without me, and he and I would be together in the dining-room of the hotel, lunching at the same table, planning the future. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Guests at this hotel often insisted on carrying luggage to avoid tipping him. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Back at the hotel we were invited into the nightclub, even though Susan and I were underage. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “I thank you, ladies. And now, I am afraid that it is incumbent upon us to ask you to recommend to us a fine hotel in the neighborhood.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I might have been my old self again, going down to the lounge of the hotel with Mrs. Van Hopper. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The Crummys put a big shoebox on the hotel desk, and Cold Sassy filled it up with names like the Waldorf and the Savoy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It only took us five minutes to reach the Plaza—an old- fashioned white stone hotel with a gabled blue roof, sitting at the southeast corner of Central Park. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Louis met us and took us to a hotel where we would stay while everything was prepared for the expedition. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z They had been at the hotel for three days when Maten went downstairs to get some food from their car. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I just bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolleybus. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “No sense cooling my heels in this hotel,” he told us. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Ivy told Keeper about her family and what it was like to be stuffed in one hotel room. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Pa won’t pay for two rooms at the hotel and Love knows it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When tracked down by a journalist at his hotel in Tunisia, he wouldn’t open the door: “Leave me in peace!” he yelled, “I have nothing to say.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Barry had a friend who worked as a bellhop at a hotel in the financial district. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It was still about three weeks ahead of the inauguration, which meant that we had to make temporary arrangements, renting rooms on the top floor of the Hay-Adams hotel in the center of the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It’s a banner headline in the Star Tribune: 1,450 hotel workers, members of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, strike nine local hotels. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, the Lackses were treated like celebrities: they stayed in a hotel, people asked for their autographs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The pain that everyone was feeling didn’t hit me until we arrived back at the hotel. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Mina is dressing, and I shall call at the hotel in a few minutes and bring him over.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He had worked in a blacksmith’s shop and as a waiter and as a bellboy in a hotel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Maybe his fever is returning; maybe the sludge they drank in the hotel cellar has poisoned him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She is supposed to get access to the city archives and look up the original architect’s drawings for the old hotel building that the Ormaie Gestapo use as their headquarters. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z When I saw my mom and sister in the hotel lobby, I was so happy to see them, I breathed a sigh of relief. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The hotel was very big and grand and empty but the food was good, the wine was very pleasant and finally the wine made us all feel very well. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z After breakfast, Elinor asked at the cash desk which was the best hotel in town. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He had waited for her at the arrival gate, taken her to a hotel for one night, paying for it with the money he’d made at the restaurant. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s probably some rich bank president or hotel guy,” Jinjoo said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Armpit’s wet towel lay in a heap on the floor, next to the terry-cloth bathrobe the hotel had provided. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Together Geyer and Cuddy scoured the hotels and boardinghouses of Toronto and after days of searching found that here, too, Holmes had been moving three parties of travelers simultaneously. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Farmer told me he’d like to hang out at the conference, to meet people and to spread his message about disease and inequality, but he spent less time there than in our hotel room. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I took it on vacation one summer and accidentally flew it into the hotel pool. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Armpit thanked X-Ray for the ride, then walked through the revolving door into the hotel. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z We lived in a hotel in Manhattan for five months while my parents waited for the revolution to fail or for the Americans to intervene in Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. Maybe she used it as a bookmark or something. Doesn’t Angie work at a hotel?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I opened the hotel window to let him hear the sounds of New York. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It was quite expensive to live in grand hotels and travel about town in taxicabs. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z The firm is entering a competition, submitting designs for a new five-star hotel to be built in Miami. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Closer at hand were the light-bearing trees of the casino gardens, and the streets of the city, and the waterfront with its hotels and cafés and warm-lit shops, all silent, all empty. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When they were finished, they put down their pencils and bopped bright yellow hotel bells. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z At one we stopped for lunch at one of those inevitable old-fashioned hotels in the main street of a county town. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Your hair is as vivid as a Kinvara sunset, autumn leaves, the Koi goldfish in the window of that hotel in Galway. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It seemed odd that Holmes would go to the trouble of moving to a second hotel, but Geyer knew from experience that making assumptions about the behavior of criminals was always a dangerous thing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But when he appeared at his girlfriend's hotel room door, she rejected him, saying that she had fallen in love with a KGB colonel—not a traitor. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In Phoenix, they held proms in hotel ballrooms. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He couldn’t find the blanket at first, nearly called Moushumi at the hotel to ask where she kept it. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In a Washington hotel, Hunt told Barker the idea was to disrupt Ellsberg’s talk, and to physically attack him. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Entering the sparkling city of Budapest, Fischer checked into one of the most romantic and elegant hotels in the city, the Gellért, right on the Danube, and had lunch on the terrace. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Kaira had accidentally left Pillow behind in New Haven, and Aileen, the tour’s travel coordinator, took a flight back to Connecticut and personally searched the hotel laundry until she found it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Before the storm, she and her husband, who was eighty, had checked into a hotel downtown, knowing that there they would be among other residents and guests. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She was very impressed by the hotel and the splendor of the dining-room. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I described the glittering casinos and the glamorous high rollers, the palm trees and the swimming pools, the hotels with ice-cold air-conditioning and the restaurants where hostesses with long white gloves fit flaming desserts. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She was just like the one June had drawn in Ivy’s hotel room, but bigger and more beautiful. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He is first in line to the presidency, lives at a nearby hotel, and is completely unguarded. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother walked out of it and crossed the lobby of the hotel and entered the Dining-Room. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z At least in the hospital they had better gravity than the hotel. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Fanning told how he had spoken with a friend who was the manager of an important hotel that needed a house doctor. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z MOM: Why are you going to a hotel? Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z They think the coach is tough, some girl named Serena needs to work on her serve, the hotel they are staying at this weekend has a pool. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Breakfast was the best meal of the day in our hotel, and it was all laid out on a huge table in the middle of the dining-room from which you helped yourself. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Zeus had destroyed an entire hotel to eliminate two demigod children—just to save his own skin, because he was scared of a prophecy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Annabeth was so little, I don’t think she really understood what she saw. She just knew Luke was upset” I looked out the hotel windows at Central Park. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “I went down to New York and took a room in a hotel on Eighth Avenue,” Perry said. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z By six A.M. he’s in the hotel lobby in full dress, polish on his shoes, pistol case snapped shut. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Probably this way...hotel expenses will be saved for cabin crews, and maximize the flight hours. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z At the hotel in Jerusalem, Liyana sat on the lumpy couch staring at her blue passport. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z As the water warmed, I examined the little hotel bottles. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I walked all the way back to the hotel. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The art hanging, or leaning, against the hotel walls was so odd, so weird, so impossible to understand. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I went up the hotel steps alone, with all the despondency of a child whose treat is over. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She was braver than anyone in the hotel, braver than all of London, braver than ordinary by far. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z A dozen or so white tennis players were staying at the hotel, which was an ornately furnished place. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Jerome Paisley opened the door to his hotel room. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z "Walk up to the hotel with me, Jake. Be a good chap." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Seeing her in Lagos, in brief meetings at the hotel, he had not realized that hers was a life that ran fully and would run fully even if he was not in it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Usually he wore faded blue jeans with a flaming Hawaiian shirt, along with sandals and dweebish white socks, looking like he had just spent the night in a Mexican hotel. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Before moving to Pondicherry, Father ran a large hotel in Madras. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “You’re so lucky, Virginia!” they say when they visit me at the hotel, ogling the indoor garden and skylight and elegant furniture. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As midday rolled past, seventy thousand fans spilled out of the hotels and special trains and poured into the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned to give the phone back to Alice and found her and Jasper bent over the table, where Alice was sketching on a piece of hotel stationery. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z In case you don't live in New York, the Wicker Bar is in this sort of swanky hotel, the Seton Hotel. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z I explored this room, not hastily, then, like a hotel room, wasting it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z "It wasn't just one. It was hundreds! They're all over the place! They're right here in the hotel this very moment!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Our prison cells are only hotel bedrooms, but we are guarded like royalty. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It’s late afternoon by the time we get back to the hotel. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was this waitress at the hotel he worked at as a busboy the last summer at Cape Cod. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Because it was late and adjacent to the hotel, Eliza and I decided to go there. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “So, they paid for him to fly all the way to Chicago. Did they pay for his hotel? I hope it didn’t cost you anything, Maureen.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z He takes us to the hotel courtyard, where some camera operators and other show people are setting up. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The Indianapolis leg of Geyer’s search seemed to have reached a dead end, when Richards remembered that a hotel called the Circle House had been open during the fall of 1894 but had since closed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “There is no one here. I don’t know why they keep the hotel open.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The men made it after nightfall to a hotel on the summit. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Every hotel concierge knows who to call if some guest wants tickets. All I’m sayin’ is, it’s not as easy as you think for a couple of independents. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Barry had a friend who worked as a bellhop at a hotel in the financial district. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The following morning, I rose early, even before the sun, to perform my morning prayers in my hotel room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z My eye fell on a blank page of the hotel stationery on the desk. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z We were standing under the arcade at the door of the hotel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z ‘Tm really sorry about forgetting to radio ahead for hotel rooms for you two. Game along to my office and I’ll speak to my deputy mayor about it right now.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Michael and I had been in a rush the final morning of the hearing and hadn't checked out of our hotel before leaving for the courthouse. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Instead of going back to my place, I plan to stay at a hotel here in the city for one or two nights. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z From beginning to end the great age of the resort hotels in the White Mountains lasted just fifty years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “I know. I’m so sorry, Nick. Just promise me you’ll go to a hotel.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I thought quick and said: “We stashed some stuff here so we didn’t have to go back to the hotel.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Geez. Look at it this way. If you add our ages together, we're not minors; we're one adult. Freebie isn't a pet. He’s a hotel guest and family member. And I showered after basketball.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z On the way back to the hotel I staggered into an alley and began to vomit. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Others in the business keep clients in rented houses or hotel rooms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They marry within a year, at a DoubleTree hotel in New Jersey, close to the suburb where her parents live. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But this is not one of those not-quite holidays spent in luxurious hotels. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Barack drove four hours to Springfield on Monday nights and checked into a cheap hotel where a lot of the other legislators stayed, usually returning late on Thursday. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We make a plan to meet in the lobby of the women’s hotel tomorrow at noon, and the four of them stand to leave. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z That, and a haiku-style poem I found in the hotel room where Seymour shot himself. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “And, Jenny? Book your hotel rooms for another night. No way is anybody going home early.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I would never be a temple, or a resort, or a hotel. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “I’d trade it in a heartbeat for a night at a hotel with room service.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Then all three climbed the stairs to one of the hotel rooms. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I'm not kidding, the hotel was lousy with perverts. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z A few floors down in the Rio hotel hallway, Jule found a maid who was pushing a cart. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She had flown ahead to Portland but never checked into the hotel. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z People were going to the opera, to balls, to glittering dinners in the great hotels, in spite of casualty lists and the fact that the war showed no signs of ending. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman who ran the hotel would not let me pay the bill. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z A short while later, we were in our hotel room, when an official from the Foreign Affairs Department knocked on our door and presented us with a suitcase. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I checked my bags with the front desk at the hotel. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z She saw herself sitting on the spacious porch of some fine riverside hotel, sipping tea and watching the sun descend. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Unless I get trapped in New York without a hotel, in a freak late-October blizzard. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z So we could maybe take a plane up there and stay at a hotel. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “A Christmas party at our hotel. There are many Americans there, and they give it in honor of the day. You’ll go with us, of course? Aunt will be charmed.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I was never the one paying for the room, but still, I resent being made to feel guilty for requesting a service an expensive hotel is generally expected to perform. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I left the meal early to return to my hotel room in time to prepare, win or lose, for Barack’s speech later that night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Dr. King pacing in the hotel corridor, thinking about a big upcoming speech. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Across the street, which sloped steeply, was another hotel with a similar wall and garden. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z We were paraded across stages before adoring audiences, chauffeured about in limousines, and treated like royalty at luxurious hotels. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not hastily, as one would explore a hotel room, expecting no surprise, opening and shutting the desk drawers, the cupboard doors, unwrapping the tiny individually wrapped bar of soap, prodding the pillows. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In the hotel’s register Geyer found an entry on September 30 for “three Canning children.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It is comforting to discover that I am not, after all, the only Judas to have been interned behind these desecrated hotel walls. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z As she steps out of the hotel elevator, smiling at him like he made the sun rise, his brain goes to mush. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “If Mom has a big event down at the hotel, that means there’s a ton of food. Your choice of chicken, beef, or fish.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “Exactly so. Tourists from Boston, New York, Philadelphia,” “And tourists will not come if there are shanties by their hotel doors.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z A year later the partner died, and Murray and his wife, Odetta, decided to use the property for a hotel. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They come into Saint- Malo around midnight, and the cabdriver leaves them at a hotel on the Place Chateaubriand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z On the night of July 1, Charles Guiteau booked a room at the Riggs House, the same luxury hotel where James Garfield stayed before his inauguration. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The lobby of the hotel smells like candied lemon and bleach, an acrid combination that burns my nostrils when I breathe it in. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “I’ll take you to a hotel, then. You can sleep comfortably there. We’ll see what we can do in the morning.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The shuttle could pick me up from the student center at the university where Aaron coached, or it could pick me up from a downtown hotel. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On the sub-main floor of the hotel, which the management directed bathers to use, a woman with zinc salve on her nose got into the elevator with the young man. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z When Aileen had called the hotel, the manager said they hadn’t found any extra pillows, but Aileen didn’t take no for an answer. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Poppy sat Liyana down on the hotel room couch, which they were growing quite familiar with. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Ivy hadn’t seen her outside of school since that night in the hotel room. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I have a key to the hotel suite now, but it doesn't feel quite right to barge in. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The entrance to Kaira’s hotel suite had double doors, as it was frequently used to host parties. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z When we enter the fancy hotel where Mom works, I relax in the hushed lobby with the twinkling chandelier. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Lilienthal had never met Fischer, and at the conclusion of the fourth game, they were introduced at the hotel’s restaurant. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Then how come you Eve in a hotel?” demanded Brad. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Over breakfast at his hotel on Thursday morning, Burnham read with uneasiness about the failure of S. A. Kean & Co., a private bank in Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Well, let’s go over to the Greek hotel and listen to them cuss.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z As he watched the generals depart in a cavalcade of cars, he smiled softly and we returned to our hotel. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Burger also didn't know that the FBI was tailing him when he walked out of the hotel and down the street that day. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Standing outside the hotel room and waving back, I wished Soraya could be there with me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Often, when perplexed, I longed to be like the smiling, lazy, forgetful black boys in the noisy hotel locker rooms, with no torrential conflicts to resolve. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “He can go to the hotel first and afterward he can see the captain,” Lupita argued. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I stood back under the eave of the hotel, out of the rain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When we stopped, I looked up at the decayed hotel, I looked up at our future. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z With that he turned and walked out of the room and down the long hotel corridor. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He fielded phone calls, sat for daily briefings, and was consulting with a skeleton staff of advisers, aides, and speechwriters who were all staying at a hotel close by. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “He wants us to come over to his hotel and have dinner.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z On the night before the race, Louie lay sleepless in his sweltering hotel room. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Around midnight, White left Burkhart in the custody of the other agents and returned to his hotel room. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He grabbed a piece of hotel stationery, jotted down some notes, and handed it to one of the Athena guys. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I’m at a hotel in a little town on the Norfolk coast. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end, they bought $68,980 in comic books—most of which they had shipped to the hotel. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z |
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