After introducing himself, he facilitated a conversation that would last about an hour, asking people to share their stories and describe their concerns about life in the neighborhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

An hour later, the warships in the harbor would blast a response. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good,” Ben sighed, “tell them I’ll be down in about six hours.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the hours crept by, the drizzle intensified, and by three in the morning, a steady rain was coming down. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting was not even half an hour, and was friendly and breezy until the end. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wandered through downtown for about half an hour, though I wasn’t sure what Annabeth was looking for. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They began lessons immediately—ten classes and two hours of drilling every day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their moment of birth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The boy was accustomed to working from eight to twelve, sometimes fourteen hours in a day. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daybreak was still probably a hour away when I finally got everything tied proper to the wagon. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

"His Grace works late into the night and is up again before dawn. The man has far too much to do to be asleep at this hour." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A small town in Minnesota that I’ve passed through countless times en route to family reunions has a prison with a massive brick wall and turretlike guard towers, which I have spent hours thinking about. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d been best friends from an early age, spending hours together building forts out of cushions and blankets in their Annandale living room. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well into the second hour, the black policeman came back. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a distance of only ninety miles—a journey of about four hours in Mendel’s time. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Why would they layer on extra socks and stand for hours in the cold? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Of course the owner would pick a job that took much more than seven hours, so a worker’s day stretched from sunup to sundown. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

You can spend the next five hours or five days beating me to dust, but I don’t feel it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When Shin was born, his older brother was away in primary school for ten hours a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Miss Heather would come to Bannon’s three days a week for four hours each day; on the other two days, I was on my own. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The next hour was a mix of maddening rushing around, then equally maddening waiting. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

From books, Jinny knew that the world out there counted time—in minutes and hours, days, weeks, and months. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

For the next eight months he worked in Zizmo’s rum-running operation, observing its odd hours, getting up in the middle of the night and having dinner at dawn. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s one in DC. That’s about two and a half hours away.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Bessie supplied the hiatus by a homily of an hour’s length, in which she proved beyond a doubt that I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But only a few hours later, thin cries woke him. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

For two hours I worked, interrupted only by my mother bringing Quentin and incidentally me some milk and cookies. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We stood there for hours, for no reason other than the delight of our captors. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was no rule explicitly forbidding exercise at such an hour, but it was not expected; ordinarily therefore Mr. Ludsbury would have disapproved. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car had played up on the journey out and we were an hour late for Tommy’s tests. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He needed to renew his strength after being awake for almost twenty-four hours. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The assembly was going to go on for at least another half hour. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I had lived through the wildest hour where nobody did anything major to me, but their threats, near misses, and flying paper airplanes and pencils had shattered my nerves. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Order are searching the camp for the escapees, and we shall appear with the heads in perhaps a quarter of an hour. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

At 2:28 P.M. on December 29, after conferring for an hour and three minutes, the jury found him guilty. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I could happily spend hours alone in my room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After what seemed like five minutes, but was actually over an hour, they got up to go. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

About a half hour after Norton arrived, I noticed he had disappeared. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kugler came upstairs this afternoon with the news that starting Monday, Mrs. Broks would like to spend two hours in the office every afternoon, just imagine! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I’m considering adding motion—like a VR fish tank, so you can watch species flit by for hours—when there’s a ping and I have a message. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like, I’m pretty sure he stripped off that final wolf shirt one day, and then Bram moved to Shady Creek two hours later. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Many hours later as we approach Vietnam, the fisherman, in broken Khmer, tells us to lie on the floor and keep our heads down. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is the darkest hour of any organization and in that hour a major operation may be the only hope for its salvation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dad reminded me that London is five hours ahead of Epiphany, New York because London and all of England is on Greenwich Mean Time. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maine. That’s where my dad lives. I have to switch to a bus at South Station. It’s another four hours from there. What college are you in?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It takes us an hour to reach the bus station by foot. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The shopping trip will coincide with dropping Axel at the Delaware Valley Raptor Sanctuary for one hour. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Eventually, they continued on, tracking the odd footprints into the noon hour. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Seeing her on the screen was like being with her in a dream and wanting the dream to last for hours. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“We can switch partners in a few hours,” Ms. Sitton adds. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he is paid overtime for the extra hours, sometimes not. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to say now; it was the hour of waiting, the hour of prayer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nursing home wants me on weekends for $7 an hour, starting tomorrow; The Maids is pleased to announce that I “passed” the Accutrac test and can start on Monday at 7:30 A.M. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, when he handed Mrs. Sen the paper bag, he said, “No more fish for a while. Cook the chicken in the freezer. I need to start holding office hours.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Swimming and diving in a waterfall through the heated hours. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

After an hour, all is quiet again and I fall back asleep. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally figured out where I was and we made it to the dance, nearly two hours late. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His hands would turn numb and callous after hours of hanging on. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“The nurse will let you know when to come down to my office. Shouldn’t be more than an hour,” Dr. Cooke says to me as she and Tomás walk out the door. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For minutes or hours, it’s hard to say, I walked. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I ignored my floating hands, and dozed off fitfully for a couple of hours. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a squire he could sleep ten hours a night and still be yawning when he stumbled out onto the practice yard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Within hours after the shooting, Pakistani TV channels ran footage of me with prayers and poems. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They walked for hours without saying anything, picking their way over logs and under low-hanging tree branches. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Still, an hour into being at Abby’s, I hadn’t found the right time to tell her. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

For the first several hours on land, the men ate, slept, and ate again, standing around in small groups, stupefied and silent. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“And meanwhile I wish you’d come over here and give me a hand with these boots. It takes me hours to get them all off by myself.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Seventy-two more hours and I’m a free woman. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ve spent about two hours total in the Archives, and half of that was getting thrown out on my ear.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After following the coast for several hours, Nhamo believed that she had reached the true shore and not another island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky beyond the cut of skyscrapers is gray, turning grayer, and in a few hours this flurry of snow will become a steady fall. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She slipped a hand into her pocket and traced the circle of birds on the ring from Wash until the hour was over. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather’s coming to pick me up in an hour.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The advantage to the cleaning person is harder to determine, since the pay compares so poorly to what an independent cleaner is likely to earn—up to $15 an hour, I’ve heard. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has been traveling for six hours, at least, and has been assured by the innkeeper that the journey would end before dark. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in harlequin style with a grey mask, he juggles shiny silver balls that correspond to each hour. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We’d been waiting in Chicago for our connecting flight for about three hours. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Now the crowd has thinned considerably in these hours past midnight as the clock ticks its way into All Hallows’ proper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It took him considerably less than an hour to reach the edge of the Cliffs of Insanity. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For a few hours the cur­rents kept us near the island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I see the way he looked at me when he said that he loved me, only a few hours ago, on that icy pond. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Abbey stumbled into the kitchen looking as if she’d gotten maybe two hours of sleep. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The NACAites ran their giant turbines into the wee hours if necessary, engineers pressing the machines for answers to their research questions like night owls on the hunt for mice. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A few hours before my hosts are scheduled to return, I pack up and head down to Twin Lakes, where—no big surprise—I find out that all the second-story rooms have been taken. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some hours passed before he heard the first sounds of the elephants. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“We brought him in a few hours ago for questioning.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The halls were usually pretty quiet at this hour, and I rarely saw people after school let out, so the sounds were unusual. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Eventually the hour struck and the customers donned their hats and said their farewells. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papá became more depressed and often went into the shed, staying there for hours, like a prisoner in a cell. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

You could watch for hours and never see any good action. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It took them almost an hour to pull all the stuff free. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I told her I would be home in an hour. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I heard later that poor Huang Taitai waited many hours for more people to come, and finally, when she could not wring any more guests out of her hands, she decided to start the ceremony. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went down to the basement and lifted some weights for a couple of hours. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Eighteen hours after leaving the port, the barge turned in to Cam Ranh Bay. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Brutus, after swallowing Mr. Ages’ medicine and resting for half an hour, had gone on his way into the forest to join the colony in Thorn Valley. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next two weeks, I spent many hours in court arranging bail for the women. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent three hours on a single problem, and every answer we produced was wrong. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

An hour later, they turned the machines off. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The second we got in the big black car he picked up the discussion we’d been having on the way to the hospital a few hours earlier. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was about 40 miles, but we had covered it in about 12 hours because we were running most of the time. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dear sisters! The hour has come for harsh retribution! Stand in the ranks of the warriors for freedom...!” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The needle is hovering at seven miles per hour. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"Let's get out," whispered Jordan, after a somehow wasteful and inappropriate half hour. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And I tape four sheets of typing paper together end to end and lay all the information out on a time line, hour by hour. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took two hours to reach the summit. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After about an hour, my guide left, indicating that he would return later. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been lucky in that our target has bumped into some food along the way. He chewed on a couple of cows for an hour or two, so that bought us a bit of time.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Eighteen hours later, his body was discovered at the base of a cliff of ice. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be interesting to know and easy to establish with modern testing methods how much energy in foot pounds is expended in driving a truck for six hours. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hour after hour, mile after mile, lurching back and forth in the wagon, Mollie crossed the wild, empty landscape, not yet carved into a country. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In this position he lay in a stupor of half-sleep for about twelve hours. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Without the grandfather clock to mark the hours, the night seemed endless. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

His father had sent for him as soon as Marcus had eaten—or failed to eat—his breakfast, and interrogated him sternly for half an hour. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The starfish were twisted and knotted up, for a starfish loves to hang onto something and for an hour these had found only each other. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For three hours we carried the bodies down the mountain to a clearing alongside a narrow dirt road. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime in the past twenty-four hours, Mami must have had the chance to call home. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

But then I suppose it takes at least one hour to lose time in, who has been longer than history getting into the mechanical progression of it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But an hour’s patient search rewarded him with only two, so he returned to his companions. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If, at the end of this hour, you have convinced me that everything is really fine, you don’t have to come back, bet? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit at a carrel by a window and keep being drawn to the traffic, even though I know it’s still a couple of hours until Rhiannon will show up. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Next, Buddy borrowed a car from his own doctor, who'd had TB himself and was very understanding, and we drove off as the buzzer for walk hour rasped along the sunless sanatorium corridors. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Within hours, at Kissinger’s request, the Federal Bureau of Investigation began placing wiretaps on the phones of Kissinger’s assistants. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They walked for a few hours, Harry, at Hermione’s insistence, hidden beneath the Invisibility Cloak. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In Cleveland, the city that claimed Garfield as its native son, cannons were fired once an hour throughout the night. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Ten hours at the very least,” Dad replies, his voice soft. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Still about an hour left of sun,” Granddad said. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

False friends, treacherous servants, men who had professed undying love, even her own blood ... all of them had deserted her in her hour of need. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I got a raise, to four bucks an hour, and at the end of the summer moved out of the job-site trailer to a cheap studio apart-ment west of the downtown mall. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dympna found her there half an hour later, still not having put the plane to bed, cleaning midges off the windscreen in the late golden light. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Still, this hour and a half is the best hour and half I’ve had for a while. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

After three hours, all the marchers had made it to the memorial, joining a crush of 150,000 people. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The fugitive thought his final hour had arrived and, in a strange way, he was happy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gill-netter passed his night hours in silence, rocking on the sea and waiting patiently. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the same time I spent hours watching the chimpanzees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is only 135 hours until we are all standing at the door of Atlantis again with our cover charge in our palms. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

If a Pogrebin is allowed to tail a human for many hours, a sense of great futility will overcome its prey, who will eventually fall into a state of lethargy and despair. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came to me in the middle of our third night at East River, right at the hour that separated day from night. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The ship broke the horizon line an hour later. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent some hours together, walking on the veld outside town, talking and playing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shouted at Harry for about half an hour and then told him to go and make a cup of tea. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

We sit for at least an hour saying nothing else. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think they’ll be attacking us at dawn. We ought to be able to stop them for a couple of hours.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have finished with their performances for the evening, and the remaining hours before dawn are theirs to spend as they please. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After several long hours, I climbed onto the roof of the car again to see if Papa, Mama, and Roberto were on their way back for lunch. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

So now here I am, pulling into the driveway of her two-story brick colonial at one of those ungodly hours during which, according to Britain, “the only thing open is legs.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Yvonne and Wesley must have spent more than an hour picking them from what was left in our garden. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The failure of his death brought back his lost prestige in a few hours. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The rest of the hours that followed were fragments, like bits of shattered glass. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The main difference, of course, is that this tiny town would be circling the earth every two hours or so. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can come back in half an hour and wake Merlyn up.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I've got this room reserved four times a week. I live pretty close. A couple hours here is better than being stranded at home all the time." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bit less than an hour later—to allow themselves some extra time for dodging bombs—the two girls were outside again, in the moonscape that was now RAF Maidsend. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

No wonder the radar operators, sitting eight hours a day in front of screens, could miss these life- threatening blips, these German bombers that could kill their friends and family. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X did telephone, after about an hour, and I met him at the Black Muslims’ newspaper office in Harlem, a couple of blocks further up Lenox Avenue from their mosque and restaurant. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many hours into the night, Met Bong approaches and tells me to go to sleep. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dale and I got up a few hours ago. He’s out working. I’m just here to keep you company on your first morning.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The thing about plummeting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter—if you realize it’s a bad idea when you’re halfway down, it’s too late. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beatings and tortures after hours? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arnold was a faithful supporter of Lincoln during the war’s darkest hours, and the resulting dip in the president’s popularity cost Arnold his seat in the Flouse. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

For hours they followed figures up staircases that were also going down, or watched geese turn into fish and then into geese again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He could get a job dealing faro in Reno—regular hours and no dames. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Long frustrated hours beside the fire brought angry movements, but the dance refused to come to him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Their journey was performed without much conversation, or any alarm; and within four hours of their leaving Hunsford they reached Mr. Gardiner’s house, where they were to remain a few days. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“You don’t understand anything! I’ve got all this homework to do, and I just had to spend a whole hour helping that little boy find his lovey so he could sleep tonight...” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I’d spent long hours thinking about how this meeting might go. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I spent two hours watching Marcus and Adrian out of the corner of my eye. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I wait by the stairs, my ears buzzing with fear as every second seems like an hour. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I can do that for a whole hour if I want to.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Because seamstresses were paid by the number of garments they sewed each day, the lost hour was precious. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He actually liked sitting for hours in conference rooms talking about international TB control. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In the hours they spent awake, through the darkest, safest hours of the night, Sefia practiced using her vision. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Father doesn’t begrudge us those few hours and thinks it’s nice we get along so well. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Four hours later he still hadn’t found the green leather case. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s pretty sure he’s cried more over the past twenty-four hours than he has in his whole life. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The rest of the day glides by Thankfully, Marv gives me the next few hours off, so I go home and sleep some more. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It had been too dark for too long, and my gut ached from the hours of worrying. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The next day, March 17, William Loughton Smith held the floor for over two hours without interruption and repeated most of Jackson’s points. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Within an hour we were both lost in conversation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“If you would rather be spending this brief hour with Arthur...” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Rhamid had taken Freebie into surgery three hours ago, and there had been no update on the dog’s condition, only an update on the medical bill. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas ran right behind Minho for two more hours, sprinkled with little breaks that seemed to get shorter every time. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

After an hour of questions, the woman said, “I want to thank you for your extraordinary patience, Colin. You're a very special person.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The hours of learning balance were helping her now. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Rufus said I didn’t have to, but as tedious as the work was, I could stand it easier than I could stand more long hours of boredom. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, we had just seen them in class a couple of hours before, but now the cafeteria was a dance floor, and they weren’t girl students anymore, they were girl girls. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

In about half an hour the BFG had found all the dreams he wanted and had tipped them into the one huge jar. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is another way of saying that since no one thinks being motionless for hours is any kind of sport, I'm very challenged, athletically speaking. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

After dinner, the conversation continues over coffee and brandy in the parlor, until an hour most of the guests deem extremely late but Tsukiko points out that it is comparatively early for the circus girls. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

By now, children were watching 4.5 hours of television programming a day, up from three hours and fifty minutes in the previous study. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I can probably force them to abandon manufacture of their Nexus-6 types; what I do during the next hour will affect the structure of their operation. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Over the next few hours, more friends and comrades began to trickle in. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early hours of the morning, the vice squad moved in on the illegal bar and arrested everyone, setting off days of rioting and looting. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her office hours were over, so I walked around back and knocked on her door. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After much trouble Singer obtained permission to take Antonapoulos out with him for a few hours. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If his mother was right, then his family needed to be gone an hour ago. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I make up scenarios in my head and then play ’em out for mad hours, like they’re really happening. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the labyrinthine Ministry the windowless, air-conditioned rooms kept their normal temperature, but outside the pavements scorched one’s feet and the stench of the Tubes at the rush hours was a horror. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have a lot of free hours, because basketball was a demanding extracurricular activity and a massive time-suck, but we always found a way to make it work. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

So what if I watched TV for twenty-four straight hours yesterday. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When the hour for birth drew near he said to the woman, “We must have someone to help at the time—some woman.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In a matter of hours, the connection to the Tomb of Horrors D&D module was posted to every single gunter message board. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The late-summer Georgia heat beat down on the metal shell of the airplane that we’d been packed into for over an hour. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I woke up three hours later in the hospital.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For the first hour there was a standoff. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alvarez’s experiment, which involved his spending long hours in the LeConte basement counting clicks on his handmade X-ray detector, set a new standard for rigorous physics at the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Military police guarded the only gate twenty-four hours a day. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In nearly 40 percent of families, the parents consume eleven hours of screen media a day, which does not include work time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

An hour later, I’m tucked into a booth at a steakhouse in Buckhead, next to Mom and across from Wells. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was very clear that the sense of wellbeing he had felt, a half hour earlier, at being in the right place with the right, or right-looking, girl was now totally gone. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I sat for an hour or more, getting my breath, trying to stop shaking. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t sleep more than a couple hours that night. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And thus another hour was spent being measured and pinned, and sitting through a presentation of different fabrics and colors. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Through the long hours of the night, I kept this up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He added that he would be returning to Haiti within twenty-four hours. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

After some hours of walking, Jacob says, "I read something interesting in the Talmud last night. After you had all fallen asleep." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The hunt would not return for hours, so she had a little time for her needlework. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It took another four hours to get there, and by the time I found the camp, at the end of a side street right in the center of the city, it was after seven o’clock. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The third, fourth, and fifth minute of the seventeenth hour were the altercation minutes. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I first noticed something was wrong during the rush hour two days ago. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The men were then pulled from the hold, squinting in the bright sunlight—filthy, weak, and almost crippled from being tied down for almost twenty hours each day. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

That makes two requests for Peeta’s death in less than an hour. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It took her a moment to get started, but once Zooey began talking, she didn’t stop until visiting hours ended. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They would sit on the chaise longue for hours, tittering like schoolchildren, feeding the pigeons or watching the ships sailing past on Dublin sound. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I appeared at the appointed hour in the school room. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wish I could give him the magic hour at Castle Lake when he was a boy with his mom. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

One morning the old man showed me how to split and stack firewood, and for several hours we just worked in silence out behind his house. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A spectacle of rhetoric. These days, I hope they get the spectacle done early so I can retire at a decent hour.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I’m there nearly an hour, and to be perfectly honest, not a whole lot’s happening. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We meet at the Book Nook at five because Sausun says it’s going to take at least an hour to “get into character.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I've never really worked out at what point in the ten o’clock hour it erupts. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She knew it would probably be hours before Bobby’s game would be over and she’d have to return. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t believe that just hours earlier this night was going to be a happy one. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

About an hour into this channel, we come across people who have set up camp on either side of the aqueduct, and it doesn’t look like a new occurrence. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Only the clock beyond the gates makes any motion, slowly ticking by the afternoon hours. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I only have ten minutes until visiting hours are over when I arrive at Nita’s room. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

One more hour of marching and, at last, the order to halt. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After several long moments — or it might have been half an hour — or possibly several sunlit days — they broke apart. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He must have been there an hour or more. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned in the direction of the sound, and there, amongst the romantic hills, whose changes and aspect I had ceased to note an hour ago, I saw a hamlet and a spire. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

After an hour or so I got restless. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He quit his job at Floyd’s Foods and Dr. Blankenship hired him to work twenty hours a week filing and cleaning his office. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

After driving on mountain roads for two hours, the farmer dropped Shin off at a friend’s cattle ranch. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep for a few hours and woke with a start. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But in a few hours, I got to know my classmates quite well. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

After two hours, we are done with the house. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

If McCoy revoked my community service hours, I would definitely get sent away somewhere—Woodlands, or worse—and I would probably lose all class credit for this year. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

We spent the next two hours bailing the boat, which is a major pain when all you’ve got are empty food-dye bottles that hold one measly ounce of liquid. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He would lie low for a couple of hours, go to Gringotts the moment it opened, then set off — where, he didn’t know. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s rush hour, and practically everyone is heading out. At 4:51 both trains were going to Borrowdale, so it doesn’t matter which one she took.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It felt great, until I remembered that we had to get into the minivan and drive for another hour and a half to get home. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He told me he slept about four hours a night but later confessed, “I can’t sleep. There’s always somebody not getting treatment. I can’t stand that.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Professor Trelawney behaved almost normally until the very end of Christmas dinner, two hours later. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

If that weren’t trial enough, a few hours of standing in her proud new boots and her feet had swollen so that the laces cut into her flesh. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Worst thing is, I sat there for over an hour thinking about it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It usually took half an hour to find all the books, then we would divide them up and go into separate rooms to “do school.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

By that hour their mothers had completed their morning chores, and had time to dress the little ones and send them outside, cold as it was. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At lunch hour, the girl soccer players were sitting together in the cafeteria, but Beatrice wasn’t among them. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Councilman Kwang tells the officers on the scene—who arrive at the accident immediately and then in swarms—that he wasn’t even traveling very fast, maybe thirty-five miles per hour. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Religion neither convinced nor moved him, and after hours of sitting in a pew, muttering prayer after prayer, he was in desperate need of some fresh air. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We were a few hours out from Southern Metropolitan City, which used to be Toronto back when there were still so many cities they each had a unique name instead of a direction. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A full day passes before Werner can find an hour to return. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But—” Two hours later, there was not a single “snake” still attached to anything to which it was supposed to be attached. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear rose before first light now, spending an hour or so in the fields before going to work. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

So that night, as dishes were passed around a silent table, and as the clock on the breakfront chimed the quarter hours, Turner decided he would dare the silence and ask. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

For an hour they fenced with each other. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held her for what seemed like hours. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Two hours after that he started to think having dinner with Gaily and the Grievers would beat sitting inside that stupid Slammer. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Two hours later Dad had blocked off half the kitchen with plywood sheets. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But Detective Allan Pinkerton ruined the scheme by persuading Lincoln to pass through the city in disguise, several hours ahead of schedule. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fusses over me for what feels like an hour. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laughing on their benches, chewing and sipping, as though life was no different than it had been an hour before. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The hours were like mountains we had to climb, enormous and exhausting. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The papers poured into the Bureau every hour of every day from every city in every state of the Union. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’ve got a thing to do first. Meet you back here in an hour?” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a half hour later, Rondon spotted a man in a canoe. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He was up half an hour before the triangle sounded for breakfast. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half the time the ARVNs would go out, especially at night, they would be back within a half hour saying that they had been hit by a company of charlies. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they could not find Esther in the short hour before they were herded back into the barracks. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next hour, we danced to the latest rock ’n’ roll songs. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Look at him working away in the lunch hour,” said Parsons, nudging Winston. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Three or four hours of sleep a night was enough for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within half an hour, the three of them had arrived at a road that dead-ended along the river Thames. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I’ll come back in like an hour so we could go eat,” I said. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It lay in the parlor for an hour. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When did you do all this, baby? I was just gone an hour!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t have taken him more than an hour to return to the Wild West Show. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, down to the last copper. And he then went out and spent all of it. Over five hundred thousand gold coins. Gone in three hours.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When the sun came up a couple of hours later, Stanley looked for "the thumb of God." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He meditated an hour and a half following breakfast and again later in the day. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

For hours, the audience listened to speeches and debates about women’s rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Bobby could concentrate on puzzles or chess for hours, but he fidgeted and grew restless when confronted with reading, writing, and arithmetic. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The depth of the snow made the going slow and exhausting; by the time I front-pointed up the overhanging wall of the uppermost bergschrund, some three or four hours after leaving camp, I was thrashed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, Bryson was awake, standing, yawning, stretching—all of which felt like he was pulling himself apart. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

What comes next is the quietest hour of the day; when they’re all asleep, there are no disturbances. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Nobody, but nobody,” he’d yell, “is too poor to turn off the TV two hours a night!” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I let it run for an hour, and the Hab started to get cold. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In two hours, the dawn drums will beat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

After a frigid hour, he left for headquarters. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked for hours through the country; our Regiment stopping only once, that those of us with shoes might lend them to such of those as marched without, and thus give them some respite. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Mom, it’s an hour and a half. That’s like driving down the block at rush hour.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Two hours had to pass before the party would begin, and she was ashamed for any of the family to see her dressed so far ahead of time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The team doctor instructed me to keep it elevated, compressed, and to ice it every few hours. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I’d now been up for over twenty-four hours straight, jacked in the entire time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We walked together for an hour, talking during the whole time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pressing business awaits Lin coln in his office, but he allows breakfast to stretch on for almost an hour. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Abuela had to drive home after dark, all three hours by herself, back to Abilene. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

School does not take up as many hours as he would like. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Every time I turned my e-mail program on, I faced hundreds of messages from kids, students, former students, parents, and teachers stacked in vast queues; it took hours just to download the mail. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hours went by without my noticing them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then she was allowed one hour for exercise or play, and didn’t she enjoy it? Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red Team was commanded by a man who looked at a long-haired, unkempt, seat-of-the pants commodities trader yelling and pushing and making a thousand instant decisions an hour and saw in him a soul mate. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

For that matter, what was David going to look like after she’d been surrounded by new pretty faces twenty-four hours a day? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then it’s only a couple of hours until I’m supposed to be at a landing pad, preparing to lift off. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hazel was knocked out of her saddle at sixty miles an hour. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The hope I felt made the hours a little shorter and pulled me along. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They crossed the main road and walked a short distance to the university quadrangle, where bells in a stone tower chimed on the hour. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Six hours in: “Man, I shouldn’t have ate those leftover beans for breakfast.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was not difficult for either of them to stand thus, for the first test which they had had to pass in archery was standing with the bow at arm’s length for half an hour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four or five of the bucks, with Clover, Hyzenthlay and Vilthuril, were feeding along the sunny west side of the hanger about an hour before sunset. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he’s done he climbs to the roof, taking the Bundt with him, and it’s another hour before he swings back into his room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

However it was three rather disconsolate creatures that sat down to early breakfast after a few hours’ fitful sleep. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They gave you, like, an hour of time. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Camel emerges an hour later, staggering, holding a flask in one hand and a roll-your-own in the other. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

For the next hour, Nathan stood against the wall and watched Uncle Jet drink three more cans. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Why should I? We talk between every meal, remember? That’s what we do. The premise of the movie about us is that we spontaneously combust if we don’t talk every six hours.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prompted by Cora one night, Ridgeway maintained that he’d never owned a slave in his life, save for the fourteen hours Homer was his property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The factory hours were long and tiring, and the work was tedious. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There's still more than an hour, maybe two, when I wriggle into the underbrush and wait for the blood to begin to flow. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He left after about fifteen minutes, but neither the garage door nor the front door opened again for an hour. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

We stood for hours, late into the night. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We had now lost an hour, a solid hour, and I was fuming. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Lourdes tries for nearly an hour to telephone her mother in Santa Teresa del Mar, but the operator tells her that the rains have knocked out the phone lines on the northwest coast of Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was barreling straight toward them at a rate of three miles an hour. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The water was choppy, and the ride across Frederick Sound took two hours. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m sitting in English class an hour later I realize I should probably keep going to debate club meetings, too. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I spit it out because it’s what I’m feeling in this moment and was feeling the many moments, minutes, and hours before. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment, or for minutes, for hours, possibly, I am simply happy, here with Gat’s body beneath my hands. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It took me four hours to drive the hundred miles from Coeur d’Alene to the top of Lewiston Hill— which, to me, was more of a mountain than a hill. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It had been hours, now, since all this began, the first twinge, then the rhythmic, hardening pain, and later, the buckling on of the mask. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The team had been inside for about half an hour. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The same people who, just a few hours before, had been laughing and joking now looked taut and strained. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Via diagrams he introduced me to my anatomy; he drew the little egg going down its hour glass into the sticky pocket of the uterus. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I will be back promptly in an hour.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soft leather feels soothing and for a moment I’m calmed by the memories of the hours spent wrapped in it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And so I spent months riding in the rumble seat of my gram’s car to and from Westwood and hours sitting in the waiting room, until the day they let us know their findings. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually it's training for an hour, then cleanup for an hour. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They lay beside each other in the cedar tree talking until half an hour had gone by. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had six hours until their disappearance was discovered and another one or two before the posses reached where they were now. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Because he was real serious about killing you. Don’t take his threats lightly! He means it! Hey, gotta go—be there in a half an hour.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you a witch, or are you an hour?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sixteen more hours until this day can be considered over. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We've only been away from the hospital for a few hours, but it's been the kind of few hours that feel like a month. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A tall grandfather clock sat at the foot of the stairs, pecking away at the hour as if a crow trapped inside were trying to break loose. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the time that followed, one hour or many, Gimli remembered little. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

All around them, too, were signs that the Antarctic winter was fast approaching: there were now twelve hours of darkness, and during the daylight hours petrels and terns fled toward the north. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later Daisy herself telephoned and seemed relieved to find that I was coming. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You been down for almost two hours! Go get washed—it will be time to leave directly.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Some days I opened that door and it made me so sad that I just sat for hours staring off at nothing. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She had been walking for just over an hour when she heard the music in the distance: pipes and lutes and high, clear voices singing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to park for a couple of hours. Think you can get me a taxi?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then spend two hours working on my hair. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The first body had left me badly shaken for several hours; the shock of encountering the second wore off almost immediately. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The two of us spend about four hours in the cold digging for those tough old vegetables, planted last summer, until we have a gnarled and ugly pile. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

After lecturing for an hour, Anthony got to the point: She asked the potential jurors not to return a verdict of “guilty” if chosen to determine her fate. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. My alarm went off an hour late, and everything’s been going wrong since. I got halfway to school and my car broke down.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

At first, Bobby was a little reserved with him, but as they talked—for about seven hours—he warmed up. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I waited about half an hour, then went home alone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I assumed that he had chosen to spend his after-school hours with her instead of me. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said nice things about her too, and for the next half hour or so, I think we were genuinely delighted to be with each other. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed we had been locked up for hours, but they wouldn't tell us anything. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was due to be on the horns in half an hour. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After an hour an officer peeked in to hand him a bag lunch. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She spent long hours out in the country by herself, spoke little, withdrew completely into herself and went about her tasks with a chill hopelessness that daunted me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than half an hour passed in radio listeners’ living rooms. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

About an hour later my father comes over to get us. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Couple hours later I seen Zeph is real quiet walking off toting the bag with all Leroy’s money and gold in it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

You might even get a few hours of sleep that aren’t haunted each night. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But when Miss Leefolt slam into the kitchen, she get to yapping on the phone a million miles a hour. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We went to a scheduled third visit in April; but after waiting more than an hour, Adele, who had little patience with the Grover clan, took us home. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We talked for almost four hours and ate lunch at his desk. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

For many hours they had marched without rest. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She and Neeley got up at six in the morning and helped Mama with the cleaning for two hours before they got ready for school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of the usual one to two hours, speed chess often takes only ten minutes to complete; five minutes or less if the players want to challenge themselves even more. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I visualized my parents during their last hours alive, both in bed, wearing their reading glasses, books in their laps. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“With the same rapid replication, the same ability to spread through the air. And then we developed a vaccination for it. Just a temporary one, only lasts for forty-eight hours, but still.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

‘When you is only sleeping one or two hours a day, you is sleeping extra doubly deep,’ the BFG explained. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have been waiting for hours to ask that question. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We waited for two hours by the newsstand,” Hornet replied, “but he never came.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I had already lost a few hours and night was falling fast. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They were quiet at this hour, a line of closed doors muffling the sounds of his sleeping co-candidates. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now I will rest an hour more and feel that he is solid and steady before 1 move back to the stem to do the work and make the decision. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon rush hour, scores of weary passengers were lined up behind signs reading “Colored” and “White.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Your mother wants me to go. And there’s only half an hour left. It’s settled.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

That meant I’d have to walk for twenty- four hours to reach Grand Rapids, one whole day and one whole night. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It would take hours—even days—for anyone to make it through the maze of fallen trees. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Littlefinger came calling an hour after the Grand Maester had left, clad in a plum-colored doublet with a mockingbird embroidered on the breast in black thread, and a striped cloak of black and white. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I usually worked five or six hours a week, which meant that if I saved every penny I earned, it would take about four years to raise the money. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I spend thirteen hours every sol just sitting around while the solar panels charge the batteries. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually visiting hours ended, and we had to say our goodbyes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Three hours later we return to the kitchen. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“It is too much. Before that, I sleep for five hours, and I drove fourteen hours before that. We are shorthanded, before Christmas.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

An hour later Harriett responded with an “As you wish” GIF from The Princess Bride. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Just for, like, a couple of hours....Driving around, that’s all.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Within twenty-four hours she was picked up and was on board a flight to San Francisco, courtesy of the American Consulate General. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“On Thursdays, I sat for hours waiting for you. I worried myself sick that you wouldn’t show up.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She could not be more than half an hour from the house, and there was still no hint of dawn. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The whole thing had taken hours of work. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t typical at all, but since I lived just an hour away from Huntsville, Martha decided that it might be a good idea. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then, over the eleven-week production schedule for the show, you can log in twenty-four hours a day and check the progress of the production as it follows the sun around the world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Director’s voice seems different than it did...eighteen hours ago? Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I thought there might be more hours and maybe more pay. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found him there hours later, pitched over on his side, blissfully asleep. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time it had broadcast a local event live at such an hour had been when a little girl named Jessica McClure was rescued from an abandoned well. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder stayed crouched for what felt like hours. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The novelist Jim Harrison once wrote of dancing for five hours in Mexico with “a maiden who resembled a beige bowling ball.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she repeated words and phrases to herself as the men made her dance or while she was tied up for hours on the deck of the endlessly rocking ship. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t read one page of a book in hours. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The same shoebox that sat on my porch less than twenty-four hours ago; rewrapped in a brown paper bag, sealed with clear packing tape, exactly as I had received it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

What worked in one's favor one day might not the next day, or even the next hour or second. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Ekon had a matching one of his own, purchased from the market hours before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Hanako did twenty feet, and it took her about an hour. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t take long for me to feel drenched in the armpit region thanks to the heat, even at this hour. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There was a recording, with museum hours and information about shows and tours, and then finally a chance to talk to an operator. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the battle against lust required constant oversight: I had to order the same woman off the inmate’s lap an hour later. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bristled at the hours wasted in Bible study, chapel, and military drill. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I knew, hours later, that things had gotten bad when Navid started texting me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The next few hours, when you see Captain Beatty, tiptoe round him, let me hear him for you, let me feel the situation out. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two hours, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., we met outdoors for church. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom hadn’t made an appointment with Dr. Mertz but she timed our arrival so we would show up just at the end of his office hours. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jan Dorlich must have been thinking about riding in a mail cart when he said we could get there in half an hour. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Light broke over Oakland many hours later, and Moss struggled to keep his eyes open. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I think I cried for about two hundred hours. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first hour passed, and Thomas felt boredom creep in like rats under the door. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“The peregrine falcon is the world’s fastest animal when it’s in its hunting stoop. It can dive at speeds near two hundred miles per hour.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That night she arrived one hour late for a concert at the fair’s Festival Hall that had been arranged solely in her honor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When his nerves were in rags after hours of questioning, even this appeal could reduce him to sniveling tears. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Within half an hour we had come to a wall of rock, the first of many, perhaps 400 feet high. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He could keel over and snooze for hours on end. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But yesterday, just a few hours placed an impenetrable barrier between Tori and her brother. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Every hour that passed brought her closer to the moment when she would see Kaisa. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like magic to me when I put on the headphones Tsalig handed me and heard the famous trumpeter of Kraków marking the noon hour with his horn, hundreds of miles away. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I hope that in our future hours, we will find time to remember our responsibilities to others and resolve to give something back to our society. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Dad and I are driving home and he asks, “Do you know anything about what happened Sunday night?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The corners of his lips turn down as though he disapproves of my being up at this hour. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Every single hour of today is a Black Magic chocolate, waiting in its box for me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

An hour later, I check my Facebook page. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After hours of waiting impatiently, we heard the clunking of an engine down the road. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I spent the whole three hours of their last visit gripping my Colt .32 so tightly that four days later my hand is still stiff. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Visiting hours are almost over. I’m going back to sit with Uriah.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Had I gone home to eat my plate of greens, Granny would not have allowed me out again, so the penalty I paid for roaming was to forfeit my food for twelve hours. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He returned home each day around three p.m. and collapsed into bed for a few hours of sleep before waking up for another double shift. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Jackson told me to take over for you. If Mr. Curtain doesn’t finish the job with Reynard and George, you may be having another session in a few hours. Go get some rest.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I guess she’s been waiting for word from me. been trying to reach u for 2 hours. sorry! The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We tried to pretend the other didn’t exist even though the existence of our nemeses kept us both occupied for hours. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Alright, I’m at the library if you need anything. They got me keeping crazy hours.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There might have been no war at all for an hour or so, as the men ate and joked in the mellow sunlight of the dooryard. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wednesday night all I can think is just ninety-six more hours. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And for the next couple hours, we keep texting each other our favorite parts. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

"When you stop behaving as one! Drinking and gaming until all hours is not the mark of a man!" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

With twenty-four hours of quiet behind us, Coin finally announces we can leave the bunker. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I don't remember exactly how long the journey was, only that it was long, several hours at least. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

We wouldn’t have to buck no barley eleven hours a day. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of half an hour, he put them down, “Of course, I know why you brought these.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

At the same time he noticed that al-though it was nearly twenty-one hours the shop was still open. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Holding them in his lap, he was reminded of the burden throughout the three hours of tanned flesh that filled the screen. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything that makes up this tiny town that’s forty-five minutes from a big city and four hours away from an incredible island. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

After graduating from Las Vegas, I flew the F-86 for four years, accumulating over a thousand flying hours in it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been on campus for an hour, and already I could hear the echoes from back home. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours after dawn, they came and got her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I sent you all these memories. I sent you hours’ worth.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kalamazoo was an hour and a half away. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, an hour before dawn, his breath left him and I was sure it was the end: he was dead and would not be raised. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Like the old proverb that says that the darkest hour is before the dawn, the tragedy of Bisho led to a new opening in the negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must be leagues away by now, but it looks as if I could be back in an hour. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His mind reverted to the astonishing revelations of the last half hour. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next few hours passed quietly as the sun sped toward the horizon and darkness fell on the land outside the Berg. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

For hours, she’d fought them off, and she hadn’t even known it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Could a fifteen-year-old girl manage to elude capture on the streets for forty-eight hours? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A photographer, who had arrived with Mr. McLellan hours earlier, stepped inside and snapped several photos of me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It thrilled and frightened him, the thought that he would see Anulika in a few hours, that he would finally go home. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then imagine the soul-crushing migraine that always follows, lasting anywhere between a few hours and a few days. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It had taken hours and hours of precious time, but I was satisfied I had the correct text, the only text that really made sense. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They found Boggs’s remains, briefly felt reassured, and then, as the hours went by without further trophies, began to suspect. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I knew that for a good three hours we were going to be like this, no surprises, nothing gone wrong. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

After an hour, the doors were shut so that the family, the cabinet, and medical attendants could hold a private religious service. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My big brother reaches home in the dark hours before dawn, when even ghosts take their rest. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The adventures of Rainbow and her young mistress, Edith-Anne Pevington, had filled many a happy hour curled up on the window seat of Miss Mortimer’s office. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He was driving eighty miles an hour when he drove head-on into a family, killing the mother and grandmother. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At exactly the top of the hour, the message came. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They managed to put an hour’s slow walk between themselves and what remained of their attackers before Con insisted they stop to tend Shae’s wound. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“How do you know? Are you here watching me every hour of the day? Your tía came by and gave me soup yesterday. I’m fine.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The strangers whom Besa had spoken of arrived about an hour later. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A constant rain and shrouded gray sky masked the passing of hours, leaving Cole in a cruel time warp with only one possible end. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

An hour later, your dad came home with your sister to find you alone, crying over the kitten, whose belly had swollen to the size of a kickball. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her arms still ached from wresting the heavy ears from the stalks, row after row, hour after hour. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment my every waking hour is spent in helping some dedicated friends raise money for a bold and shattering movie that they are planning to film about an interracial marriage. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour earlier they had carried out a multiple amputation on a captain from the East Surreys—the regiment the boys in the village had joined. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"You were visiting with a neighbor for an hour. Couldn't Mirjam have walked out then?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My fingers are getting strong and quick; a piece that used to take an hour or more I can do in minutes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The novices who attended her reported that she spent a third of her waking hours with her son, another third in prayer, and the rest in her tub. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And it lasted forever, three or four hours at least, which confused me because white church was only like an hour—in and out, thanks for coming. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

To make the hours in the field go by faster, we decided to challenge ourselves. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The manager had taken off an hour ago. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He spent hours fixing the Archimedes sphere, cleaning it and repairing its circuits. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It must have taken them at least an hour to get all those nickels into my locker, all for a moment’s cheap laugh. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

An hour or so later my shoulders ached and the hearth was clean. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’d been playing just over an hour and had just cleared level 81 when I heard another wild burst of cheering in my ears. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

News I sit in Mom’s office for an hour, reading brochures and pamphlets about the Air Force and the Marines. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

In an hour’s time they had reached the anchor and the rowboat went ahead a second time. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours passed, and I couldn’t concentrate. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He’d left hours ago, headed downtown to pick up money people owed him for some chickens he had sold. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moving up and down the steps, putting her ear to the door and then retreating after a time, she passed the hours. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The scene is dark, because of the hour, but I see people alighting like a flock of birds around a building I don’t recognize, their movements synchronized. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Above, a few high clouds were already showing hints of pink, even though sunset was hours off. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

At least, I think it's a half an hour, but it's certainly as long as I can stand. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

So every half hour Turtle had to ask permission to go to the lavatory in order to keep up with the latest stock market reports. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

That autumn I’m now talking about, we needed to know not just the day, but the precise moment Madame turned up, since she often stayed no longer than an hour or two. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I dragged Brooke outside, Gay—who had been waiting for more than a half hour—was seething. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But even after a half hour of walking, all that remains of the beating I took are ugly bruises and a dull soreness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“If you wake in three hours and I haven’t called you, wake me, will you?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But the bone structure in a baby’s head is as chaotic as a busy road during peak hour. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was a long two and a half hours. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The stream didn’t slow us down much, but over the next half hour we had to cross it three separate times as it wound back and forth across the road. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I worked at a pace that knew no hours, no limits. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth rode past Herndon House, where just two hours ago he had met with his gang and dreamed of this moment. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Train doesn’t leave for three hours. You can come back or wait here.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, sir, I ain’t. I once plowed for twelve hours with a two-mule team, and I wasn’t but ten year old, sir.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

During the day racial tensions rule the streets, at night gunshots are heard from drive-by shootings, and twenty-four hours a day, the gangs and drug dealers control the block, trying to hold down their territory. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"That is good news," Ma says, smiling at him for the second time in a half hour. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Over the next two days, the Gestapo grilled Hans and Sophie for seventeen hours. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It would with chills. suggested. take hours to walk back, even if Grandfather felt well. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day for the last week, he scouted the route, noting when the mail arrived, by what hour the parking lot filled, when the guards went on break and took lunch. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

More important to me was the fact that within a matter of hours we'd returned to the easy rhythm of our newlywed life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After an hour or so, Daddy would pull up, get out, hand Constantine a dollar. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The response was already becoming hysterical—the shooters were being described as computer geeks who played violent games for many hours, were outcasts in their school, and had a site on the Web. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I'm landing in an hour, and I don't know what to say. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty- hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“They’ve been looking for me for hours. But they don’t know where to look! No. The man saw which way we were headed. Papa will find me. They’re out looking for me right now.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And some had celebrated the victory over the previous night’s blaze with whisky and beer; though, after sixteen hours of fighting a fire, most simply wanted a soft bed and rest. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Almost everywhere I looked the dunce caps appeared, and I filled a bag in less than an hour. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In less than an hour, I'm at the place where we agreed to have the third fire and I know something has gone amiss. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Carroll said that we were going on another pacification mission the next day, then an hour later he came and told us that we weren’t. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing happened that night worse than a brief drizzle of rain an hour before dawn. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the designated hour she was seated on a piri that her father had decorated, hoisted five feet off the ground, carried out to meet the groom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I thought of Manderley in my waking hours I would not be bitter. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I find the place with no trouble, delighted that the city and my map are in such perfect agreement, and spend an hour with one of my hosts absorbing cockatiel technology. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

From what I can tell, the service is at least two hours away. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Fay hadn’t written a line since signing in an hour and a half ago. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wasn’t he the one who saw a Grim and died twenty-four hours later?” asked Hermione. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“No, that’s the trouble. There’s nobody in this town who knows anything; no spare teachers, no anything. School is supposed to begin in an hour.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The robot’s voice was in their ears again, “Here I am. Can you hold out half an hour?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

They could go 700 miles at 350 miles an hour without refueling, and climb up to four miles high in seven minutes. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two sides talked inconclusively, each warily checking out the other, for a few hours. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After all, this land, it would take hours of labor again, and as O-lan said, it was far away, more than a li which is a third of a mile. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I saw the clock on the wall and with a sinking heart realized that in twenty- four hours it would be Monday morning. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drive for what feels like hours, passing fields of white. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“She already ate. Just a half hour ago.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“You have three hours, and don’t expect me to help. I’m studying for the SATs,” Maribel says, wadding squishy orange plugs into her ears as she takes out a laptop and reclines in her seat. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

An hour passes and her stomach continues to growl, making loud, angry noises. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they still had two more hours till their next watch. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, Strauss called him back, determined to prevent Lawrence’s “illness” from spreading. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

After half an hour, she shaped the dough, pressed it into cinnamon, and slid the rolls into the hot oven. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Rupp property is on a rise, an exposed plateau, from which he could see the harvested, glowing land of River Valley Farm—scenery that occupied him for perhaps an hour. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of an hour there was no change in him, so I opened a second capsule and gave him another half. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an hour each morning, in the dim light of dawn, when all the island animals were safe. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The weather systems, with winds of up to 200 miles per hour that howl up from Antarctica, are one reason it is so treacherous. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

A woman whose wages she paid, whose rent she had subsidized, whose daughter spent hours and hours under this very roof every single day. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He invited 200 demonstrators into his house, where—after two hours of negotiations—he announced that he had no immediate response to their demands. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Preston yawned wide, likely on account of the late hour. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At six-thirty sharp when I burst into my parents’ room, yelling “Merry Christmas!,” they both laughed and jumped right up as if six-thirty wasn’t an early hour at all. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sitting here with Tamika for the past minute had been longer than any hour. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

So after an hour, I decide to take a page from Nathan’s playbook. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You have a light treatment appointment in a couple of hours,” Mom says. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, Mary Hanson told him to come back in half an hour. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“The medicine may save the baby from hurt, but I will come back in an hour. Perhaps I am in time to save him.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat waiting for hours, resentful of the mass of hungry people about me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hosie Roach worked late, too, naturally, but went home to Lightfoot about nine o’clock, a good hour before Grandpa locked up to go home to Miss Love. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When I finally woke, I couldn’t tell what the hour was, because the sky was overcast. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The hour I had looked forward to all day must be spent by myself alone, in my own bedroom, gazing at my Revelation suit-case and the stout hold-all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

About an hour later, there was a beautiful sunrise. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Jo never left her for an hour since Beth had said “I feel stronger when you are here.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will only take two busses and lots of hours to pick up my mother and come back. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, Seattleites awoke to alarming headlines and radio news bulletins. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the past half hour, I've collected a mental list of approximately 412 ways I might kill Tiny Cooper, and I'm not going to leave until I've settled on just the right one. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

By the time she touched down on the Island forty-eight hours after finding the Baggy, we were all addicts, fallen women with married lovers and illegitimate babies on the way. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

For a few hours, I even manage to forget about everything that happened on Monday. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When Pa announced our bus trip I knew I’d have hours and hours on the road with the perfect companion if my sisters let me read in peace. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s four hours to Evansville, Finch. By the time we get there, it’ll be dark.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Jane, I am glad to hear that you have ever so many companions with whom to while away the hours. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Mom had given me the key since my grandma wasn’t around and I got home from school two hours before she got home from work. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour after Brian’s frantic dive-bomb out the window, there’s a knock at my bedroom door. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

If they had been rested and strong, they could have built their shelter in an hour. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The sheet of paper he thrust into my hand was similar to the schedule pasted above my study desk upstairs, except he had penciled in two hours of “time with your cousins” each day. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The hour of the owl has fled, my brothers. Now comes the hour of the spear, the sword, the axe. Form up. We’re going home.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We rowed in shifts, taking turns at the oars to stave off exhaustion, though I felt so strong that for nearly an hour I refused to give them up. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

After several hours, they returned to the house they were staying at. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I have seen a photograph of one of the men who died of Marburg, taken in the hours before his death. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The late hour and the repetition of the prayers made me sleepy. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was an hour before dark when we got out to the islands called the Cowpens. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Nina and the bald man sat, unspeaking, as the minutes ticked by, and when the hour on the clock chimed, he rose and kissed her hand. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For half an hour the smoke continued; toward the end it grew thinner and finally faded away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

My siblings and I spent hours playing tricks and teasing one another. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It will take place at the top of the hour,” she says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Cluny would probably be gone for another hour or two yet. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the half hour before lights-out, after cocoa, the girls would be in and out of each other’s rooms, sitting on their beds writing letters home, or to sweethearts. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

After all we written and the hours we spent tired and worried, I ain’t seen the girl she still is in a long, long time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The favorite hour was the golding time between five and six in the evening. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It took a certain degree of agility, and she was eighty years old, weakened by staying awake for twenty-four hours while floating near her ceiling, thinking only that she might drown in her own home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After Darren does the check-in with Imani’s mom, and he heads out to the gym, it dawns on me: I have four full hours to just be me! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

For five solid hours of downpour we watched small red frogs with immense, cartoonlike toes squeeze in around the windows and hop steadily up the walls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother will pick me up in two hours.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’s working in his uncle Anthony’s pub twelve hours a day, twenty-five shillings a week and every day soup and a sandwich. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As everyone got ready to leave for Temple Beth-El or Saint Adelbert’s, I figured I’d probably be diagramming sentences for the next hour and a half, since we hadn’t started another Shakespeare play yet. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, a little before time for the visiting hour, he went out to the asylum. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a reply to a message he’d sent a few hours before, just after seven, when 1 was still slumbering in our bed. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We waited a long time—almost three-quarters of an hour, I think. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to lie about being Rod because there are visiting hours in this part of the hospital. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that the radio program “completely crippled communication” at the police department for three hours, creating a serious situation. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The bar was half-filled, at whatever hour of the morning it was, with men in various states of hushed intoxication, heads bowed prayerfully over tumblers of amber liquid. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When she finally finds me, I feel as if I’ve been battling for days, though in truth, it has been no more than half an hour. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Though traffic delayed his arrival by an hour, the hospital staff and doctors greeted him without being annoyed. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It took him about two hours to get back and the turtle was still tough, so we went out to the meadow to fly Frightful. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had only had two hours of sleep, but I felt more alert than I had all day. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The important thing is that in two hours all of the rock is gone, and so is the ripped black plastic sheeting underneath. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It took hours and many razor blades before my pate felt smooth to my hand. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freshunounts were brought forth from the stables, surefooted mountain stock with shaggy coats, and within the hour they set forth once again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That gave me about two hours now to make the cookies. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Within an hour, the doctor arrived and he went through the same prodding and poking and I did my yelping at what I thought were the proper times. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents thought it might cheer me up if I could escape from our hovel and visit a cousin who lived a few hours away in East Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He must have read my face because before I could answer, he added: “I’ll teach you how to play it during our lunch hours.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The high will last one hour, maybe two. It depends how long it takes her body to process a dose of that size.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, the cookies were delivered, and Oliver had been grateful for Angie’s company. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He peeked out at Major de Coverley for hours and marveled that someone so august had nothing more important to do. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

For five hours she sits there, reading the magazines. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

An hour is barely enough time to walk there, sign up for a card and pick out books, and then walk back. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We flew for an hour or so out into farm country. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was an hour late picking her up. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would regain her senses minutes or hours or half a day later, shaking her head to un-addle her brains, and wondering what on earth she had been doing, or for how long. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I thought it might blow from the south-west about an hour ago but the wind has died away again,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, in the wee hours, they returned to their rooms and slept—some peacefully, some fitfully. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It looked as if we might lose the house because my parents still owed money on Lynn’s medical bills and my mother wouldn’t work as many hours any longer. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was letting the current do a third of the work and as it started to be light he saw he was already further out than he had hoped to be at this hour. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At intervals a complicated system of hydraulic tubes and pumps would cause the towers to telescope slowly upward, a journey of several hours, then allow them to sink slowly back to their original configuration. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better than they had done in Jones’s day. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I walk into the living room, wondering how we could be late when it is still only seven o’clock and church does not start for another two hours. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He ate at odd hours, muddied from head to toe, and he did so in a corner in the kitchen, barely answering the occasional questions asked by Santa Sofía de la Piedad. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The circle was contracting because it wanted to touch the knights—not now, not for half an hour or so, not until the examination was over, perhaps never. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he had been brooded and warmed for an hour, he was suddenly voraciously hungry. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He thinks: I only want to sit here with her for a thousand hours. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Numbers. Lots of them. The first three might be frequencies, I can’t be sure. The fourth—twenty-three hundred—might be an hour.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I began telling her about the hot sauce, and by the time we reached the cottage, I had revealed more to her in two hours than I had to Mary Fernandez in two years. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The first time he read Tom Jones, he got so excited he absent-mindedly rocked baby for half an hour, but even this did not upset that regular Silsbee of Lexington. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lauren seemed to compensate by watching TV for hours at a time, housewives and fix-it shows and singing competitions flashing across the screen every time Maya came downstairs for a snack. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Another implies that the food is not cooked on the premises and instead is imported from the best restaurants in London, paid extra to stay open for the late hour. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He figured he could walk for no more than anothe'r hour, maybe two, before he had to turn back. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I tried very hard not to be aware of him for the rest of the hour, and, since that was impossible, at least not to let him know that I was aware of him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But the worst part is that for the few minutes every hour when I’m not psychopathic, I know that to be with Brian: I would give all ten fingers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have a few hours now if you want to get a book,” Bilal whispered to me now as we cleaned up after breakfast. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

About half an hour after he left they heard the braying of the mule at the edge of the woods. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

At one o’clock Jan will come for half an hour to check on us poor forsaken souls, like a zookeeper. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Says the woman who worked twelve hours today.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The following morning I woke up to Fig’s head hanging over my face at the usual early hour. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, I filled my hours of waiting by reading books I borrowed from my brothers or from my school. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It took the platoon four hours to cover the three miles from the landing zone to the tiny village they were supposed to search. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Papa had pulled the car off the road so we could catch a few hours of sleep. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But you can only take so much of this kind of stuff, and after about half an hour, I start yawning. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hours of lessons pay off in this moment. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he did so, for minutes, hours, maybe even for a day or two. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I let them sit for a few hours to harden a bit, then planted them, well spaced apart, in the corner. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rode on in an endless agony of silence, but it was still a few hours before sunset when I heard voices calling “Grey- stone!” down the line. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For what seemed like hours, I bounced and twirled and flipped and somersaulted, my beaded braids flying up into the sky again and again, as if they could touch heaven. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We started early in the morning and worked until it started to get dark and after only a few hours we drifted into cliques like we were all back in school. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were working in two-man teams—one man on guard while the other slept, switching off every two hours—and 1 remember it was still dark when Kiowa shook me awake for the final watch. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After nearly two hours of pampering—trimming her hair, shaping her nails, and scraping away the callouses on her feet and hands—Celaena grinned at the mirror in the dressing room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After an hour, the doors to the station burst open. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We got there a half hour before visiting time, but that gave us time to check on Mr. Pignati and find out that he wasn’t dead. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She would have to leave for the concert in a little over an hour. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They had transferred me to another Kommando, the construction one, where twelve hours a day I hauled heavy slabs of stone. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longer than is safe when driving fifty miles per hour. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He's called three times in the past half hour, and I just let it ring and ring. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Old Fred had been found dead on the train in the early hours of the morning, having suffered a massive heart attack. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

An hour and a half farther across Louisiana—which isn’t as far as one would think considering their minimum-speed-limit pace—G’ma turns the music down and signals to exit the freeway. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

By the time Uncle Kufa returned several hours later, the madness had lifted and everyone was on speaking terms again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours in, at the headwaters of the Pearl River, lies the city of Guangzhou, and past Guangzhou, remnants of the old China are easier to find. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

An hour later, when we’re both done packing an overnight bag, I make a sign on a large index card and ask Dad to tape it to my back. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I've been in the woods three hours, but as I've made no real attempt at hunting, I have nothing to show for it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And just let me have twenty-four hours without any dam New York jew to advise me what it’s going to do. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few hours I stop trying to be gentle. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

So that means Rowdy and I have spent 40,880 hours in each other’s company. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“An hour at the most,” the driver said. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Without a bicycle, I have to walk to Mrs. Janssen's, which takes nearly an hour. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He’s still texting me every hour to check in. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Three hours later, supper was over, the dishes washed, and Nat was still talking. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elinor had been driving for more than an hour before she finally reached a town with its own police station. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

After an hour or so of highway driving, we’re on a road with many trees, passing horses and cows even. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Two hours," she repeated slowly, putting two fingers up. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

When you rang me at truly shocking hours of the night, I loved you. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My avatar could run at a maximum speed of five kilometers an hour, so it would take me over three days to get there on foot if I ran nonstop the entire time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Despite the late hour, Booth knows he will find him at Ford’s. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

"The last trolley went by an hour ago." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She was caught and arrested many times, for not having her ID on the way home from work, for being in a white area after hours. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And I think we talked for at least another hour—probably more. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We waited for an hour that seemed like four hours. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sidetracked isn’t even the word. We were off the face of this planet. We were holed up twenty-four hours a day. I missed so many concerts.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

By 3:52 p.m., less than two hours after Miele’s first symptoms, his artery was reopened and Slater implanted a stent to keep it that way. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He spends an hour with Ruby, poking and prodding. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Adrenaline had numbed her body for hours, abating all the usual signs of fatigue, but suddenly everything returned in a rush. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was three hours later when the little man finally crept back up on deck to empty his bladder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Every second that she didn’t respond felt like an hour. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As we leave, Mami says to me, “Don’t tire yourself too much the first day back in school. Be back in an hour like I told you.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

We’re in the same homeroom and have the same lunch hour. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Every two hours they fed her and gave her water. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was going to be dark soon, and Celia wouldn’t return for hours. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hour after hour crawled by, and the waters clawed at the Astrea, trying to drive her back. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She prepared to feed the dog, who probably should have been fed hours before. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It vibrated on the floor until I got out of bed to see who would call me at such an insane hour. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

These were the hours for rest and meditation. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The meet ended by three and that meant maybe six good hours of daylight left, six and a half if we counted twilight, which seemed far darker from inside the hospital. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

"Can you please, please, please come get me in two hours." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

However, we were so emotionally and physically exhausted that we fell asleep almost instantly and slept for hours without stirring. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

As the wagon took us up to the front steps, I could see the river off to one side and some of the land I had run through a few hours—a few years—before. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I have this halfway place, a rest stop on the road to sleep, where I can stay for hours. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I deposited Drew at the infirmary a half hour ago,” he says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He said he was working more hours at Flat Face Pizza in order to save up for a trip to Germany, where he hoped to scatter as many of his atoms as possible. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

More hours were spent discussing news items gleaned from Jesse Helms’s editorials and from various Klan publications. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably should’ve asked you to be more specific about where we were going before driving an hour and a half to get here,” he says. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Plus, in the fall, Adria would be starting ninth grade at a public high school that was half an hour away. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Gradually we picked up speed—75, 100, 12$ miles an hour,” he said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For hours they sat under the acacia tree and discussed the funeral and what should happen with the family. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

In about an hour I had arranged the atoms in positions which satisfied both the X-ray data and the laws of stereochemistry. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It took me 30 hours, 50 sheets of paper, 2 yards of ribbon for the binding, a pack of 12 markers, 100 stickers, and 1 ruler. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The one time my family went to Connecticut, it took us a whole bunch of hours. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"I wish I could. What a delight it must be to dream away the hours and wake up to a new day full of fresh possibilities." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Not unlike the German propaganda machine, which is cranking out lies twenty-four hours a day! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She had no memories of gripping my hand and looking into my eyes all those hours when she was a newborn. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t sleep during the hot daylight hours; he couldn’t cope with the nights. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finished my composition in less than an hour. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the past twelve hours, I've felt everything I could possibly feel. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I find an open port in the system after an hour of scanning and then take over admin privileges. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She had to stay in that position for several hours, until an elderly guard released her arms. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When I entered the room a half hour later, my arms shook under the weight of the tray. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spends hours kneeling by herself on the sixth floor with the window open and the sea hurling arctic air into the room, her fingers on the model of Saint-Malo slowly going numb. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He heard that they were then dragged outside and forced to kneel on a concrete floor for several more hours. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

By 1 A.M., the gendarmes have lost control, and no trains have arrived or departed in over four hours. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“About twenty hours, give or take, esteemed guest, depending on whether they choose the happy or sad ending.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When I kiss him, my mind is hours away, with her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“But that means...that means I’ve been awake for seventy-two hours,” squeaked Mini. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was my job to post the sign-up list for bathing hours each week, so that no family monopolized the bathroom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year- olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

We were due at the first of ten inaugural balls in less than an hour. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I’d say we were in and out in half an hour. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Self consciously, with his authoritative arms breaking the way, we pushed through the still gathering crowd, passing a hurried doctor, case in hand, who had been sent for in wild hope half an hour ago. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He could’ve eaten a full-blown meal despite having had lunch just two hours earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“And I’ll do as you requested and put a memo in his file for all medical personnel to take note of his lucid stretches over the next twenty-four hours.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Smarter to wait until you can’t miss, even if that means waiting for hours. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

KPTgi Sometimes it’s is short for it has, as in: It’s been hours since he ate. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the third round, excitement in Belgrade was so great that fans filled the large hall to capacity in less than half an hour. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We raised Neah Bay an hour ago. We figure the snow isn’t going to let up until tomorrow afternoon.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She went away and Francie was on her own; the first hour of the first day of her first job. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had rained during the night, a gentle and safe sprinkle that Ivy let lull her to sleep after she’d stayed awake for hours drawing, and now the pavement shined like polished silver. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Four hours later I was still waiting, and I began to think that something went wrong. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

At ten seconds before the hour, they raise their bows and aim the flaming arrows at the waiting well of curling iron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ranofer’s life remained a narrow routine of worry, occasional beatings, and work, varied only by the hour at midday or evening with his friends in the marsh. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“You might have to put guacamole directly into my mouth with a spoon because I need both hands for the next forty-eight hours.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We continued to haul and lay out hose for three hours, until every row had a black rubber stripe running down it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They told me that my mom would be taking Jeffy to Philadelphia, an hour and a half away, first thing in the morning, for some medical tests. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Alex was sitting up in bed, English book propped in his lap and a brand new plan taking shape in his brain. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Less than an hour; I made good time. Here.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Over an hour passed before the rescuers arrived, bearing lanterns and shovels and axes to pry bodies from the cars. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kazilly looks from Imani to Logan and tells Logan he will see him after school for a whole hour of detention. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Mom comes home from work an hour later. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

My marathon work hours notwithstanding, I liked to socialize. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Desperation could be found much closer to hand—as close as the kitchen, where William stood alone in the small hours, brewing his pots of coffee. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I figure we have three hours, max, before Bubbe gets here.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Two hours before dawn, he awoke one of the boys who slept in his tent, and asked him to show him where Fatima lived. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been thinking about it for the last couple hours, actually,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I recognized the value of every minute and hour put in at home, especially with Barack’s schedule being so irregular. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They drove the three hours to the closest airport only to find that Lucy would have to purchase an extra seat on the plane because she wouldn’t fit in one. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

‘He’s been gone three hours. This hasn’t happened before.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My stomach’s reminding me that we should’ve been back at the hotel hours ago.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And by the time she had done all this and put Poppy to bed, she still had almost half an hour to study the fragments of paper. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Myna will return in a couple of hours with either a boy who’s ripe to be gator bait again next week or a few of his fingers and toes left over to bury.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The test was delicate, and took hours to complete. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy, who at $10 an hour is the wealthiest of us, lives in the trailer he owns, paying only the $400-a-month lot fee. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katz and I walked for three hours more, silently and slowly through the cold, white forest, taking it in turns to break snow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“He came back a quarter of an hour ago. He has orders to take your tea out under the chestnut tree.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Henry’s in a Burberry button-down tucked into dark jeans and a navy cardigan that the royal shoppers squabbled over in Harrods for hours. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I finish the model, hours later, Guillermo inspects it and then uses it to pencil different reference points on my practice rock that mark where I’ll cut in for “shoulders” and “heads.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

We all got new tattoos a half hour ago. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was closeted there for hours at a time. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I spent hours sitting by the window, watching the world pass by as we went from the East Coast to Chicago, then across the Midwest and through the Southwest. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

After half an hour we came to the dirt road Addison had pointed to from the top of the tower. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The minute hand on her grandfather clock ticks another notch toward the top of the hour. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Security personnel are on duty twenty-four hours a day,” she continued. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It is the hour of the pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why should I not, then, offer to talk to him, if he wanted me to, say for an hour or so in the evenings—he on the porch, I on the road? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It would take less than a half hour to get to the Bronx gym and minutes to get into his gear. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll be up in a few hours. Just make sure Alfred rests." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wolf pups were barking their excited yipoo that rang out the hour of the end of the hunt. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After half an hour the sun shone again and the grocer's automobile rounded Gatsby's drive with the raw material for his servants' dinner--I felt sure he wouldn't eat a spoonful. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It had only been a few hours before that Jordan had actually been smiling. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at the house, we still had about an hour and a half to kill before I was supposed to be at the high school. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After many hours, it is finally our time to be questioned. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour before dawn, a long, timber-loaded train that smelled sweetly of pine resin stopped them at a country crossing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

To fire muskets is not an act of war, but a routine with which we, ranked in concert, take up the hours between ten and noon. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

His subway ride was almost an hour long. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

High in the mountains, Coalwood could be a damp, cold place even in the early fall, and I would have been happy to stay there for another couple of hours, at least. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you realize that we may be another hour or so just finding the dining room?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there for about a half hour after he left. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

This is going to be a tough day for your daddy because he’s gonna have to drive for more than six hours. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Half an hour and we will get there,” he said. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

For hours they stared relentlessly at the scarlet ribbon on the map and hated it because it would not move up high enough to encompass the city. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The only thing that sticks in my head is that it has a clock, and we must be back inside 13 by the designated hour or our hunting privileges will be revoked. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Bison can run for hours at thirty miles per hour and use their massive, horned skulls like battering rams. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Looks like you’ve still got a few hours to kill before the reset.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

This was, consequently, his fourth trip to the kitchen in an hour. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was amazing how much better Liam looked after only a few hours; his face was animated with a kind of energy I hadn’t seen...well, ever. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It took the Windblown less than an hour to strike their camp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Wayne said, “I’ll see y’all in an hour,” and backed out, leaving us standing before one of the strangest structures I have ever seen. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We shoveled gravel through sieves for seven full hours with a half-hour break for lunch.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like how Hudson took a week to read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and I was done within six hours. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It’s rush hour and people are pouring out of the 116th Street subway station as if it’s on fire. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went on aspirins twenty-four hours a day. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went past the Trophy Room, downstairs into the pungent air of the locker room, changed into gym pants, and spent an hour wrestling. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We only have an hour before Daddy comes,” Jean said, tugging on Tommie’s arm. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But Mr. Nash. After five years, how is it that two avatars accomplished this feat on the same day, within just a few hours of each other?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She had finished hers a half hour earlier, and she knew I wasn't going to finish mine, mainly because it got cold—I could never seem to finish it before it got cold. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes oarsmen who thought their cox was weighing them down took matters into their own hands and locked their diminutive captains in the steam room for a few hours. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Burnham waited an hour, then left to catch his train. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Most of all, I pretend that this magic hour is the beginning of something, not the end. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The college sessions sometimes ran two to four hours— they often ran overtime. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school schedule was adjusted so that boys and girls spent one hour in physical training before school. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They gave substance to the minutes and hours otherwise dim and unrecalled. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Must have been a couple of hours toward town when my father nudged me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nineteen hundred hours. Red shift to assembly line. Blue shift to decontamination.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Coach Hedge spent the first hour after curfew doing his nightly duty, walking up and down the passageway yelling, “Lights out! Settle down! Try to sneak out, and I’ll smack you back to Long Island!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We had been talking there for nearly two hours. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone we knew was planning on going to his funeral, which was being held in the town where he grew up, in the mountains a couple of hours’ drive away. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They put me in between them and started making me spin round and round, it seemed like they spun me for about half an hour. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chandresh and Poppet spend hours arranging and adding to the blueprints, creating a new space to be filled with antiques and art and visions of the future. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had wanted to cough as soon as it occurred to her that she mustn’t, and she passed a long hour trying to swallow away the tickle that perversely constricted her throat. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I returned to my shelf in the barracks for a few hours of restless sleep before beginning the ordeal all over again the next morning. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I told him everything that had happened in the past few hours. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He must have been up for hours, enjoying the new snow. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tired half hour later, he could see his own house, the roof of the barn canting as if leaning a bent elbow on a dark line of cloud. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A few hours later Sonny dropped by to check on her, as he did nearly every day, and found her in her bed, arms crossed on her chest, smiling. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ever since the Prince had dragged her to her room she had spent the intervening hours thinking of ways to make Westley happy. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later we notice we are moving. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent several hours resting fitfully in Michael Reese Hospital’s lobby, stirred from uncertain dreams by the pealing ambulance bells and the groans of patients. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“We can talk more about this later, but I really do have to get ready. My doctor’s appointment’s in less than an hour.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I attended the gym for one and a half hours each evening from Monday through Thursday. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been enjoying myself for at least an hour before I realized it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was eating I heard a clock strike the hour. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was only a praetor for about two hours. Jason, you ever hear a legend like that?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He simply stared at his mother with a blank expression, his head still spinning from the last hour’s events. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I say do as the hour demands and go ashore before black night comes down. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, six new people had shown up, and it was Alex’s turn to see Father Franco. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’d never sat at a desk for four hours in a room full of people. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I had seen the number on the radio in Greg’s memory only a few hours earlier, burning brightly through even the murkiest clouds of his thoughts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But now the days that had once dragged rush all too quickly toward evening—those same hours are consumed with Gogol, pacing the three rooms of the apartment with him in her arms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were chemical hand-and footwarmers: thin pads—you broke the seal and they heated up to a little above body temperature and stayed that way for hours. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

An hour ago, nothing that happened felt real to me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

For the next hour, Ben helped Toomer feed the dogs, put the mule to pasture, and unload the wagon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once class ended, after about an hour and a half, we would have open or free fencing, during which time everyone would also take individual lessons with their personal coach. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It seemed like an hour passed dragging her suitcase up the stairs, during which all three of her family members passed her going up or down and none offered any help. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I sometimes considered hanging a shingle outside my cell, because I was spending many hours a week preparing judicial appeals for other prisoners, though this was forbidden under prison service regulations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, all is right with the world—the football captain and cheer squad co-captain are crowned Homecoming king and queen. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Less than an hour had passed since the ship was torpedoed. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Jenkins had been walking with me and talking with me only hours before. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tide would not turn against me for a few hours. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be back in an hour or so,” he said, glancing at Mack. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went out fifteen minutes before the top of the hour and smoothed out a big area of dirt. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of dinner bacon and cabbage wafting from a farmhouse makes me so weak with the hunger I climb into a field and stuff myself with blackberries for half an hour. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We marched for hours upon hours each day, stumbling and staggering along as best we could. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Someone followed Smith every hour of the day, and each reporter received assignments on where and when to be posted. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The fire's only been out an hour or two. We can light up again." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Many hours had gone by since the Martian cylinder first landed in Grovers Mill. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Amil used to spend hours running around the gardens, playing with friends, skipping and hopping to and from school. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I got on and it went on again, blotting the half hour. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

These last few hours, let me say it, have proved unreasonably taxing ones. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t I ask you to wash those pots hours ago?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When Ang Dorje and I first arrived on the Balcony at 5:30 a.m., we were more than an hour in front of the rest of Hall’s group. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

From what I remember, it takes about an hour to drive from the Abnegation sector to Amity headquarters, and the trip requires a skilled driver. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There would be a closed meeting between Kwang and the church leaders for the first hour, and then they would all speak before a gathering outside. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the hours pass I get used to the motion of the train, the heavy wheels clacking in their grooves, the industrial hum under my seat. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Many parents restrict media viewing, for families with access, limiting the number of films they see as well as the hours spent watching television, listening to radio, and playing video games. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We were literally only a few hours into middle school, but people had already started calling him the Zombie Kid and Freak. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Elijah Muhammad drove his frail energy to speak for about an hour and a half. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We wandered for about half an hour, talking.Then he heard something and told me to wait for him. He headed off toward the farmhouse and was gone for a long while.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

How could anyone serve God on Sunday in less than an hour? Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

For half an hour, Pax tried—he chased scurrying voles and hopping wrens, and once a sunning frog. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The chopper finally came, almost an hour after they were supposed to. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he thought I was a crackpot, but after I pointed out the flaws in his article in the New Institute Journal he kept me on the phone for nearly an hour. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The great house was still and dark, even though it was already an hour past sunrise. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

In one seven-month period in 1971, Gates and his cohorts ran up 1,575 hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe, which averages out to eight hours a day, seven days a week. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They tried to ignore the sign, push it aside during their lunch hour, pretend it wasn’t there. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

That was on top of the three hours from the other subjects. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Like an hour and a half by train,” he says immediately. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

If only this whole thing could be postponed for a few hours, until he had rested some! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It takes a few hours to cross the first state border. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was an hour, maybe more, before Liam’s breathing evened out and he began to snore. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A guy in the apartments across the street told us to turn off the machine a few hours ago, but Quang-ha ignored him. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I suspected there was a great tally board in that methodical mind of his, carefully marking down the hours each person worked. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was an hour away from town, so we wouldn’t have much time before the cavalry arrived. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

An hour later there was the sound of heavy footsteps on the front porch and a loud knock came. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They then spent the next two hours slowly paging through the Wallace yearbooks again, writing down the name of anyone that remotely resembled James Parker. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Half an hour in Turkey means the same as half an hour in Syria: the otobus doesn’t leave until it’s full. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even when she’d discovered she was pregnant, she had told them within twenty-four hours. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I phoned Scott’s number an hour ago, again a few minutes ago. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was driving for half an hour before I came upon any turn that could conceivably be called a road. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma sat at the sewing machine all hours, making and remaking clothes for use in California. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in the front pew, where the light is best, and read the Bible for half an hour, and I prayed for Mr. Loomis. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The boy wanted to quit because the work was so hard and the hours were so long and the pay was so small. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had hours of recorded broadcasts, because the sound of other people's voices, especially ones that weren't yelling at him, was a comfort. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

For years, we had been able to talk for hours a day; now we had to make official requests and appointments, and our conversations were monitored. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sticky, sweet, doughnutlike treats are my favorite Pakistani dessert but take hours to prepare. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, sir, it was about two hours after feedin’ yesterday when I first hear my disturbance. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

We’re only down in the aqueduct for half an hour before we emerge and follow a foothill road far enough from civilization to be beyond most roadblocks. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He sat in the outer room and read the papers, and the Editor and Publisher and I worked hard for two hours. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

When Charlie is asleep a few hours later, I hear someone at the door. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Whatever business you have with him, make it quick. We’ll be locking down the entire Bureau within the hour.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

That meant it had been several hours since I had tried the water. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All this meant that he put in long hours already, with little time to spare for outside work. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At this hour, the Yards swarmed with workers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Of course it wasn’t torment twenty-four hours a day being a Jew. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later I went back to the house. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Groans from the hapless radiators, coupled with the slamming of the wind against their windows, had kept them awake through the dark hours. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It started one day during the hour of free time, when the children in their class were playing on the front steps of the school. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Many hours later she buried him in the snow. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young woman had a small dog, a Pomeranian, that yapped nonstop during the three hours it took to empty the apartment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Tickets were fifteen dollars each, with the proceeds going to cover the rental of the space for two hours on a Wednesday night. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, for the next two hours, again and again he led the firefighter back over the events of that day in an attempt to document precisely what the lieutenant did and didn’t know. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They see sunlight one hour a day, when they are allowed into an outdoor area surrounded by a fence topped with concertina wire. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to understand that if I put in extra hours of studying, I could often close the gap. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It had been half an hour since it had eaten the resin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Amazingly, they could crack almost any message within two hours. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Felix tried to pass the two hours by reading, while Benji tried to entertain everyone by offering to do stupid tricks for money. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

If he got up now, he’d lose his place and add a half hour or more to his wait. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They mean fresh fish, fish that has been caught no more than twenty-four hours before and has never been frozen or chilled on a block of ice. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following tradition, Uncle Pete guarded the doorway for more than two hours, until the service at the church was over. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s always weird to fly on a plane. Seven hours ago, I was in my bed and my mom was hunting in my bag to make sure I had my toothbrush.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They went on, and only an hour later passed me again on their way back to the Farm. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It seems a lifetime ago that he walked to the circus, though it was only a few hours. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A note of suspicion rose in his voice, as if this Mr. Gourouni might have a few hours’ work left in him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that phones don’t take eight hours to charge.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

After a couple of hours, I was exhausted. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got 1 hour,” Cherish says to Windy as we pull out of the school parking lot. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, I get out of bed. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It suddenly occurred to her that she hadn’t heard the motorcycle go chugging by the house for several hours, and she immediately grew suspicious. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even one of Hana’s friends got arrested, but he got let go a few hours later. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She’d sent him a message saying she was going to train for a few hours after dinner, and he’d invited Dorian to come along to watch. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

That’s more than an hour away from where I live in North River Heights, which is at the top tip of Manhattan. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, she told herself, this was what they called the witching hour. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That meant he still had hours to go before he had to explain about the dog. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

For more than an hour, Minister Lemuel lectured about Elijah Muhammad’s teachings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

With even half an hour of practice, he says, people can become adept at picking up microexpressions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The whole thing takes less than an hour. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been sitting here for . . . almost half an hour now, just asking myself that question. What am I supposed to do with you? What choice are you giving me?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone who had tried to penetrate the Unknown Regions had come back within a few hours, their enterprise a failure. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps an hour later, a sound in the darkness brought him bolt upright. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The fog had almost dissolved by the end of the second hour, but the day was still dark with low, oppressing clouds. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

An hour after she leaves the field, Keav finally arrives at the makeshift hospital where there are many patients waiting to see the nurses. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me a week of long hours to develop all the X-rays and when I finished I had sorted the prisoners' shots in alphabetical order, and I did the same with the guards' stack. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

An hour passes as they try to assemble my puzzle. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Three hours later, after encountering wave after never-ending wave of blue-clad soldiers—too many for his men to beat back— Gordon sent word back to Lee that he had “fought my corps to a frazzle.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then after another hour of crying and hiccoughing he went to sleep. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If no one scores in half an hour it’s a draw. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As he’d guessed, Pearl was out with Trip that afternoon, and learned the news only when she came home some hours later to find Bebe—quiet now—still at the kitchen table. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And Wu Tsing would make a midmorning visit in her bedroom once a week, drinking tea for half an hour, inquiring about her health. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went to the castle gates in silence, and rode up and down in front of them for half an hour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He agreed, asking her to come along an hour later. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Only hours earlier, my da had come in from his job at the bar and changed his clothes, as he always did after work, shedding rank smells with each layer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The class met twice a week for two hours a day. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

However, within just a few hours, as the region continued to collapse, the difference in the gravitational forces on his head and his feet would become so strong that again it would tear him apart. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he nodded and moved on to his next victim in our line of confused Navajos who had been standing at attention for more than half an hour. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we didn’t get her to a hospital within a couple of hours she would lose the arm, I was pretty sure. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Down to the basement. Two hours in the Thinking Corner.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I pass out cold for an hour or two, then I wake, sick with fear, sick with myself. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his grandmother would come for a few hours every day. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

After an hour, the ground all around the table would be littered with piles of durian husks, stinking like a dying mongoose. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She’d found it trembling under a car on 105th Street and spent an hour coaxing it out. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Over the next couple of hours, I drink the entire half gallon. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She says she is very sorry, that he must know she usually works afternoons and is not accustomed to the liquor and then the lateness of the hour. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he finally returned, it took him hours to stop shivering, even wrapped in her arms. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The adults let us sleep for a couple of hours before we moved on. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh Minny—” “Because you don’t even give me the courtesy a telling your husband I’m working here. Because you in this house twenty- four hours a day driving me insane.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Like, you can figure out from half an hour of watching the news that there’s more opportunity for white people. And for people who speak English.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In a meeting a few hours after the Horse and Horseman award presentation, the Iceman offered Smith and Howard a glimpse into the mind of a riding genius. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank would stand for hours in the hot Saturday sun, leaning over so he could get a good look at my stance, sometimes standing in front of me, sometimes behind, sometimes beside. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Let’s check in an hour, if were not rescued by then.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour went by, and then it was time for field work and they put the bokken away. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My brother has been dead for 120 hours. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Bobby had told Sverrisson that he would like to be buried in the small country graveyard close to the town of Selfoss, about an hour’s drive from Reykjavik, in a rural farmland community called Laugardaelir. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The meager harvests may be enough for subsistence but can rarely be brought to market because farm villages are often hours away on dirt roads from the nearest large town. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then we fidget in the waiting room for almost an hour. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I was pure liquid loss, then, for an hour or two. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

For an hour, I moved bolts of fabric, slammed them into place, huffed through my nostrils like a charging bull, and kept my mouth shut. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Our dinners could stretch into hours, not unlike the long communal meals my family used to have around the table at Southside’s house. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Within the hour, the long row of cages began to fill. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“You have, by my last count, spent well over an hour speaking without ceasing. Indeed, I am shocked that you haven’t felt the need even to draw a breath.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But by the time the cops booked my father, my mother had been dead for hours. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then, veiy seriously, he talked for two solid hours about ‘ ‘the devil white man’ ’ and ‘ ‘the brainwashed black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was some hours before he could be coaxed back to the property. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I smiled at Danny and he smiled back at me, and we sat there for about half an hour, singing, swaying, and clapping, and I felt light and happy and completely at ease. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

So he sat for hours in the Lornes’ sunny parlor, the books about him stretching to the ceiling. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few hours it would be charged up and ready to ride again. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

"My lady," he said, bowing; as if he had not beaten her bloody only three hours past. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They work varied shifts, because the crow’s nest operates twenty-four hours a day. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In a few hours it will be morning, they will dance around the tree with their little gifts from Mother, and they will stay, they will, after all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He's busy. He works most of the daylight hours, and arranging rocks to spell a message takes time and energy." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than an hour later, the first plane hit the World Trade Center. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Penelope tossed and turned for hours, and when morning finally came, for once she did not wish the water in her washbasin even one degree warmer than it was. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But Jeffrey was usually just blabbing away for hours on end on any kind of road trip. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I spend hours in the library, often losing myself in The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius the Roman. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

During the first twenty-four hours, having dispatched a dinner of veal, with cassava, yams, and fried bananas, and a case and a half of champagne in addition, Aureliano Segundo was sure of victory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His mom would be home in about an hour. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Within an hour the half-friendly world that I had known had turned cold and hostile. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cantabrigians might have spent long hours carving wooden statues of their guardian spirits, whereas the Oxonians may have worshipped through dance. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only I feel like I just smacked into the ground at a hundred miles an hour. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They searched for half an hour and found none. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When men are dying every hour, no one looks too hard at one more dead man, especially one as well despised as Nurse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I wondered what happened to Silly. I sent him on my bike an hour ago. He ain’t come back from Mrs. Bordman’s yet. You think that black fool just pedaled off to Mars?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used to come around at all hours of the night to see if I wet the bed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, Mark was back inside the Berg, kicking through debris, only now he was walking on a wall instead of the grated floor. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Dallas said, “Stupid rocks. I can’t sleep. You asleep, Florida?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She read somewhere that for every minute you spent on your phone in bed, you lost an hour of sleep. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When the Idaho Statesman ran its feature on Internet- obsessed kids in 1995, with Jesse as the Net-addict poster boy, he told the reporter he spent thirty-five to forty hours a week on the Net. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

We drive for many hours and everywhere we go we see people walking in all directions. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cried on the floor in the fetal position for hours after. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She wanted nothing more than to curl up on a pile of leaves and rest, just for a few hours. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We no longer work in the fields but spend the hours learning to fight in combat as rumors spread that Youns have invaded our borders. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So for the next hour I did what Dad had advised, and I just tried. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I used to sit with my mother most mornings as she made breakfast in the early hours while everyone slept—it was the only chance I ever had to be alone with her. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Regardless of the weather, the expedition rode mules and marched for over sixteen hours a day, sometimes through sheets of rain and slippery mud, sometimes under the baking sun. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The detective who later informed my modier of the accident, when asked about the condition of Milton’s body, said only, “It was consistent with a crash of a vehicle going at seventy-plus miles an hour.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I call the bookstore to see if they have any hours for me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For the better part of an hour, Chronicler lay sleepless in his sweet-smelling bed, rolling restlessly from side to side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had at least an hour of chemistry homework to do every night. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fang pushed the moldy shower curtain to one end of the tub and started unbuttoning his new shirt, already ragged after a couple hours on my buddy’s back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

For hours, his father desperately worked to save the farm, chopping away brush and digging ditches. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the rain pours down especially, we have long hours of captivity, in which my sisters determinedly grow bored. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up a few hours later and have no idea where I am. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

During the school year I was excused from class for an hour or two to serve at a funeral mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This might take a couple of hours to harden, so be careful when you pack the ice in,” he says, way more enthusiastic than someone ought to be about silicone sealant. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She did not ask to come out, but was pulled out of the chamber at ten hours. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

After a few hours had gone by, Saidu spoke in a very deep voice, as if someone were speaking through him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

He attended all services in the Episcopal church, helped with the flowers and leaves at feast times, and spent many hours with the young and curly-haired clergyman, Mr. Rolf. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And finally, after what seems like fifty hours, they remove Darren’s handcuffs. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“I got a few hours’ work for tomorrow at the sugar mill,” Guy said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It takes me nearly an hour to get over to The Monte Carlo. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And with some telephone calls, in less than half an hour about fifty of Temple Seven’s men of the Fruit of Islam were standing in ranks- formation outside the police precinct house. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the hour got late, however, I could feel myself starting to sag. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“We’ve scheduled a plane ride in two hours for those who want to go. Are you up for it?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Either it’s going to be plenty or you’ll both be dead, so why not say an hour?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been eight and a halfish hours since she woke up on my belly, climbed out of my bed to put her clothes back on, and left my house at six in the morning. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

We swam in the river for hours, then ate Hawaiian hamburgers from the cart near the park. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He could not remember the last time he had strung more than three hours of rest together. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It takes almost four hours to plant all of the stuff. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

On their third trip, they played 48 times, for a total of 172 hours on stage. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I get a few hours’ sleep before dawn. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Last weekend the big excitement was the elk that wandered onto Main Street and blocked traffic for an hour. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Red Cross parcels come on the last Friday of the month, and there’ll be a meeting of the escape committee at nineteen hundred hours this evening. I think that’s about all you need to know.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘The poison will kill him eventually, but first come the paralysis and hours of excruciating pain. I want him to have the full experience! He can watch as I destroy you, Jason Grace!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then the cop asked him how long he had been there and Willie told him the same as Pedro did, except for Mr. Lynch, we had all been there about two hours. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes two hours of leave time on Wednesday to pick me up right after school. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

From the first hours of dawn, a glacial wind lashed us like a whip. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two years, nine months, seven days, and two hours after Fixers are approved for public use, the world experiences its first full day without a single death. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

‘It’s early days. He’s only been missing a few hours. And in the vast majority of cases, young people who disappear like Salim are found within forty-eight hours.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Just for an hour or so. Don't you want to? If you don't want to--" "I didn't say I didn't want to," I said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mackenzie finished cleaning up the Labrador’s face nearly an hour later. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the long hours on insufficient food were hard to bear, but Boxer never faltered. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

By the end of an hour I was forming short sentences. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

This hour I have gone to the east side of the island with Charles and Bono to watch the celebration of the funeral games; three were to be buried. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Frightful had not been fed for ten hours. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But when they emerged back into the light long hours later, the eagle was waiting for them, perched on a dead tree a hundred feet up the slope. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“This is one of the most advanced planes in the world. It’s supersonic. From here, we’ll travel to Tokyo in less than ten hours.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a difficult position, and I had just been analyzing it for about half an hour. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Svetlana spent 3 hours and 58 minutes on the space walk. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

But it was only eleven o’clock in the morning, we had been on this journey only three hours, and already everything was cracked and broken—and some of us with it. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

If Tariq was here, and I reminded him about that time, we would laugh for an hour. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hour after brutally cold hour, they wonder who will rescue them. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Two: The new season of Queen of Neat premiered in a few short hours, and Abby was staying to watch it with me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I’d noticed that the rebels tended to sleep in, only emerging from the main building a few hours after daybreak. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Of such trivialities are moments made; and hours built; and years constructed; and ruins, finally, remain, with ornaments half-seen beneath the grasses. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But as time goes by, the soldiers make them work longer hours and allow them to return to Ro Leap once every three months. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Choking on my own teeth, swallowing them, thinking about all the countless hours I’d spent flossing and brushing. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about, Harry? Perhaps you’re getting a little drowsy? Great Scott — look at the time! We’ve been here nearly four hours! I’d never have believed it — the time’s flown, hasn’t it?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It stretched into the tips of her fingers and all the way to her toes until it felt as though she’d been sitting in the sun for hours. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Third, after Apollo 11, I didn’t think I would be able to keep my enthusiasm high enough to put up with all the long hours and hard work. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spoke for hours, late into the night. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The phone calls. Disappearing into your room for hours. Come on.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It sleeps or rests on average twenty hours a day. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, the only people left were my wife and I—and about a dozen officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the lunch hour I very carefully kept my eyes at my own table. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’d had this strange sense for hours—that some darkness was closing in. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At that same hour, before the distant manor of Odysseus, the suitors were competing at the discus throw and javelin, on a measured field they used, arrogant lords at play. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rolled and tumbled with them for almost an hour; then he ran down the slope, turned, and stopped. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell into a tormented half-dreaming state from which I woke, several hours later, to a soft knock. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every day, whenever I could, I took the back stairs down to the deserted washroom and shut myself up for at least half an hour. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It took them two hours to reach the monkey house, contending the whole way with ill- tempered commuters. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she said, “Half an hour, Christopher. I need you to be quiet for half an hour.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I am in Laurel right now, over an hour away. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

We got clear of the pressure-ridges and crevasses in the first hour of pulling. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

So the night was not yet old and for hours the dark journey would go on. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You barge into a man’s room in the wee hours of the night, where he pulls a gun on you and tells you to leave, and now you wonder if you might ask some questions?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I find him at one of the lab tables with Bilal, hunched over stacks of bubbled answer sheets, sorted by class hour. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

His continual fear of being arrested, killed, accosted, or insulted fatigued him, and that may be one of the reasons he slept ten or twelve hours every night. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how long a person could survive without water in this heat, but I knew from experience that you couldn’t go for more than half an hour without experiencing considerable discomfort. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She knew she would have to keep some case details secret, but she was sure there was scope for a book—if only she could find the spare hours to write it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“We could be on a plane in an hour if we hurry. Start a new life anywhere at all. What about Switzerland? Wouldn’t that be nice, just you and me and some goats?” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It won’t be dark for hours yet, but I light the candles on the mantelpiece and open the second bottle of Merlot to let it breathe. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t feel inclined to watch peasants bouncing about in bright colors for hours, but Queen Georgina enjoyed it, and had invited her to sit beside the throne today. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Harry found a timetable and the train leaves in an hour.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our family’s name was repeated again within an hour. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

After an hour of it, he threw the notebook across the room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Making his arsenal took just a few minutes—he was that good—but it felt like hours. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As time dragged on, she sang to pass the hours. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It took us over four hours to get through it. We kept pausing to talk.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

After a quarter hour of warm blankets and careful sympathy, Fenton was able to drink something hot, though his hands still shook. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sun was sinking, maybe two hours from fully setting, when Alec stopped and had everyone huddle around him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They were each armed with a sword, knife, and crossbow, and though they’d been alert while their captain passed by, she knew a crossbow wasn’t exactly a light weight to bear for hours on end. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My mom and dad showed up a few hours later. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Cruisers have been rolling by with more frequency in the last seventy-two hours than ever before. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Optimum darkness occurs at oh-three-hundred hours," he says, looking at the new watch his mom gave him, the kind that tells you what time it is in Tokyo, just in case you're wondering. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

His parents were both at work, and his little sister, Lily, was at the Childcare Center where she spent her after-school hours. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Small, new, and not well known, the Marshall Library was three hours from Washington, so it was not easy for Elizebeth and William to visit. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

For fourteen to sixteen hours a day he worked in that sumptuously decorated hole in the ground and never stopped moving the entire time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne rushed into the kitchen and poured two cups of hot coffee from a pot she had brewed three hours before. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

About an hour after midnight the fear fell on them a third time, but it now seemed more remote, as if it were passing far above the clouds, rushing with terrible speed into the West. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Back then, most DJs could spin for only a few hours; they were limited by the number of vinyls they could buy. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It would be eighteen hours at the least before she was in time again. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eleven hours, five minutes. That’s not bad, Cub. But the others were here three hours ago.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But I'll be living in it twenty-four and a half hours a day. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the wound did not heal during that hour, he was sad. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the early morning of June 23, 1938, workout hours. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The operatives then went home and grabbed a few hours of sleep. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After a few hours, he decided to walk back to the housing project. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

"I have an appointment at the office in an hour." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

As predicted, it took twelve hours to charge the batteries to full. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came to think of these appleskin hours as his special time with the town. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You got twenty-four hours,” Felix said, then handed Armpit a business card with his phone number on it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was only an hour and a half from Brisbane, but for a boy whose time away from home had been spent mostly in a hospital, it felt like a whole other world. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I thought hard and put on a sad expression, the face people would expect to see on a girl whose parents had been killed just thirty-six hours before. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

If I could hold on to two hundred dollars over three thousand miles, I could hold on to a ten-dollar bill for a few hours. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she tied him up with rope and left him down there for hours. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For every Saturday afternoon they had two or three hours to play. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already the great house did not seem to have been abandoned for a few hours only but for years. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, Father tapped on the door, calling quietly, “Callie?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He dropped down and started doing push-ups, trying to keep these hours holy. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Only a few hours. He is not a bad man.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours and one bottle of champagne later, I say, “Mom?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Except for a little moaning she’d been quiet the last few hours. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After what seemed like an hour, when the train began to roll, he sprinted alongside one of the cars and jumped back on. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

After four hours, we arrived at the new camp: Buna. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put in my hours at the Brown Cow. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

‘It’s full of tiny dark streets and there are very few people about in the witching hour.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on the way to the moon there is no place to hide, and the sunlight is continuous, twenty-four hours a day. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But an hour later my optimism was rudely extinguished when I noticed that the speck was still in the same place: it was actually nothing but a rock—just another altitude-induced hallucination. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For the next half hour, Nan banged around and said at least half a dozen almost-swears. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, I didn’t—” Sighing, Terry says, “Jack may have told you I wasn’t crazy about this idea. About you doing your hours this way.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In a chill hour they came to the end of the water-course. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, if it kills trees in twenty-four hours,” she asked him, “aren’t you afraid it will kill you?” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the many hours of fighting the river caught up with her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Twenty-four hours to pony up the cash, or next time we meet, there’ll be a bullet hole in you.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there, I guess, for about an hour. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Claire had done volunteer work there when she was young and fulfilling her required hours. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The services had lasted a little over an hour when the three minutes of prayers said for every Muslim who is dead were recited by Alhajj Heshaam Jaaber, of Elizabeth, New Jersey. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to figure out what I would write to somebody in the last few hours of my life. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Scattered thunderstorms pummeled Florida’s east coast, with wind gusts up to fifty miles per hour. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

After we were able to tear our eyes away from them, we walked up and down Broadway for hours, staring at the store windows. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The water only runs a few hours a day, but at least there is running water. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I sit in the bathroom for hours after showering. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I think we could let them sleep, at least for a few more hours.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For hours or days, the thoughts would leave me be, and I could remember something my mom told me once: Your now is not your forever. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My legs and back ached, for I was unused to riding for hours. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Not more than an hour after the Gypsies passed through town, I saw Lightfoot walking the railroad tracks towards Mill Town. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After he saw Eleanor today, it hadn't occurred to him, not for at least an hour, to wonder why she was walking down the hall in her gym suit. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I found them fascinating to observe and decided to remain concealed for one, maybe two hours, to further my studies. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Kelsey’s idea wins and we spend the next hour copying pictures of dolphins out of wildlife magazines and writing: Freedom for One, Freedom for All! The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

My feet hurt after four hours of work, and I wear my comfortable old Reeboks, but a lot of women run around all day in thin-soled moccasins. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent her free hours in the library, so wondrously well lit; the sweep of computers, the large, clean, airy reading spaces, the welcoming brightness of it all, seemed like a sinful decadence. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His father didn't speak for what felt like an hour. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, it wouldn’t be dark for another hour, so I’d have time to find my way around. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A half-dozen small but fine trout streams were within an hour of his home. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The electricity fails for an hour: it’s the diamond. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Not least from his own feeling of vigour and hunger, he suddenly understood that he had slept the daylight away, nine hours at least. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

For hours I’d listened to her tell stories about designing and testing spacecrafts and satellites. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I knew it would be a long, long hour. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Eventually he gave up teaching as well, tutoring only from his room, so that he could monitor Bibi at all hours. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

All these small creatures are working — working in sun and rain, during the hours of darkness, even when winter’s grip has damped down the fires of life to mere embers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I could sit there for hours reading, the world passing below pretending to be real, me above doing the same thing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Nervously, I walk out of the compound of the camp; in a couple of hours, I will be with Ma. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was at least three hours before the rain began and the clouds were still all of a brilliant white. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I did seventeen years, two days, four hours and twenty minutes on a twenty-year sentence as a third striker,” he explained in an interview posted on the Ella Baker Center’s website. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“One of our scouts just reported them as less than an hour away.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Harry seemed to have said that a lot in the last few hours. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He says we will graduate knowing how to read and write because we’ll spend a million hours learning how to read and write. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday she told me that a bat can eat 1,200 mosquitoes in an hour. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mags seems fine, though, and she’s been eating the nuts for hours. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had ridden for some four hours from the branching of the roads when they drew near to the Fords. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They’ve been going over the schedule and work orders since closing a half hour ago. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours into the flight the pilot came on the public address system to announce that we were passing over Liberal, Kansas. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The gate was locked, the compound empty and she waited around for an hour until the crowd began to disperse. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I ate some wild mint to get rid of the taste of bile, and I walked for what felt like hours through the silent hills. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You come near to missing breakfast. Miles and Winnie been up for hours, out fishing and back already.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one good time in all the long hours. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He walked for at least a quarter of an hour before glimpsing the first beds of rushes along the riverbanks. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Murphy—isn’t that the one that took four hours the first time? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overcoming his own crippling exhaustion, he plunged into the maw of the hurricane and searched the Col for nearly an hour. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Clients huddled restlessly at the base of the rock for nearly an hour while Beidleman—taking over the duties of an absent Lopsang—laboriously ran the rope out. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I made $4.50 an hour to eat ice cream all day. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Why, what an interesting question, Nicholas. I could talk about that for hours, I bet.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, guards watched her in the library for hours on end, day after day. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

An hour later, the front door pops open, bringing with it a gust of winter and a uniformed detective, the combination of which curdles my stomach. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A compelling need for occasional privacy led them to spend some hours alone in their separate rooms, without disturbance. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dympna asked her over oily mugs of tea, four hours later. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Eventually Mom stopped chatting and switched on some boring talk radio station for the rest of the hour drive home. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Fred and George rounded off the evening with a display of Filibuster fireworks; they filled the kitchen with red and blue stars that bounced from ceiling to wall for at least half an hour. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

After what seemed like an hour, he was right in front of Dumbledore, feeling the stares of all the teachers upon him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I earned seventy cents an hour and I went to bed each night now with a full stomach for the first ume in my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate one and saved the other for hours, feeling the weight of the mango hit my back as we walked. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

On that Saturday morning, with her only forty-eight hours gone, I figured she wouldn’t be home yet, but even so, I felt a flicker of disappointment when I saw the shade still pulled up. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I'd lost most of my air yesterday, but I had a half hour of oxygen left. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it seems like he has been gone for an eternity, it’s probably only been an hour. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After their grease- monkey morning, they spent the better part of an hour sprucing up in the lavatory of the garage. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

After lying in bed for hours, I turn on the lamp and try to read. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It’s an hour before sunset when we sit around the outdoor table. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Several members of the team spent the next half hour in the staging room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picture those hands as mine really are, large with slender fingers and calloused knuckles from hours at the punching bag. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Once a cloud of dust on the road moving toward the town kept him excited for an hour, but it proved to be only a flock of sheep being driven to market. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He’d been through the room thoroughly only hours before, but he’d forgotten the compartment at the side of the sewing machine, where all the patterns and bobbins were kept. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But so far only the certainty of death was his; only the unabating hate of the white faces could be seen; only the same dark cell, the long lonely hours, only the cold bars remained. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I grew more and more afraid of him and at the same time—who can explain it?—more and more eager for the hour of our meeting. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

These days I had rules that hadn’t existed before: curfews . . . visiting hours. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Without discussing it, we shared the four hours of watch together. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Your dad must be laying in a stack of it. That car’s been here I’d say three hours.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:—“Day its fervid fires had wasted,” and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Muhammad is over there helping out. He’s been here for hours.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

For three and a half hours I stared at the wall, curled in a ball, rocking. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In half an hour, I know all about what it’s like to be the best-looking black guy at the Easton School. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I should see the patient and examine him thoroughly, and inquire into the positions of the planets at the hour when he fell asleep. These things can’t be done in a hurry.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

By then Adria had returned to gymnastics and was putting in hours at the gym too. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We stood together for what must have been half an hour, with only the sound of the crackling fire and the garden hose. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you dare start this now, young lady. This is no time for your ugliness,” and Mary Anne had wept in her room for an hour. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Margaret’s business hours were over, so I went around to the back of the house. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I thought that after what we’d experienced less than twenty-four hours before, we would now be more than just casual acquaintances. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It became something to look forward to, a pleasant interruption to the long hours of lab work, which held little interest for Claire. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

During the daytime hours, Father reported, he was cheerful and seemed of normal intelligence. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she had to backtrack to correct a mistake, throwing out hours or days of work. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was really looking forward to stepping out of a spacecraft traveling 18,000 miles an hour. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I lay down on the floor beside him and patted his head and whispered his name/or hours. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

In another hour there was three feet of water indoors. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Being out at this hour already feels like an accomplishment. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ticket my mother got was for driving 44 miles an hour in a 35-mile-per-hour zone. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe it was still raining, that it was the same day, that we had only been talking for an hour or so. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“In a couple of hours. I don’t even wanna see it.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The island lost power for four hours one morning when a half-dozen of the army’s captive balloons broke away and dragged down power lines. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Come up here for an hour tomorrow and practice! Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody was there after dark when visiting hours ended, when Cole was left alone with his thoughts. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A few hours at the library sufficed to convince me that some aspects of our agreeable family legend were untrue. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I get the same thing spending an hour with you. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“You told me to wake you an hour before the cameras come,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

If she left, even just to see the cabin and visit for an hour or so with Charlie, she would lose her position. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“These are the most crucial months. Every hour there is a change. Remember it.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Report to the Hub auditorium at seventeen hundred hours for orientation.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I thought I might be able to exist there without touching anything, but then hours passed and it turned out I was wrong. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Ain't I been listening to your stomach rumbling- bumbling for the last hour? Do me the kindness of filling the kettle at the pump. Soon as the potatoes are boiled up, we'll feast, eh?" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

It came to the hour and passed it again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He checked himself in his exultation to demand, “But is there anything the matter, Janet, that you come to meet me at such an hour? Is there anything wrong?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Usually at breakfast, we got hours to talk. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father and I worked for over two hours outlining the whole set up, pointing out problems and things we needed to do. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He dreamed of deserts and great empty cities and imagined he could feel the minutes and hours of his life running through him, as though he were nothing but an hourglass of flesh and bone. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"His camp is two hours ride, my lady." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We study for the next few hours until it’s time to turn his bedside lamp on. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I had been silent and moping for hours, glancing down from time to time in nervousness at the screen on my phone. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

My secret journal was an old hardback copy of The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, in which I spent hours writing in a tiny script between the tightly printed lines. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Their school got out an hour after the middle school. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Last one in two hours,” he repeated unhelpfully. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He devised the Marks, each controlled by its own officers and sentries, with feeding times changed regularly to give all a share of early morning and sunset—the favorite hours for silflay. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had twenty-one hours and forty-five minutes to get there. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When he woke, he was so cold that his legs would not bend for an hour. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Whereas before, I had anticipated my lessons as the hour most gratifying in the day, now, in measure equal to my former pleasure, I dreaded their advent. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How can you stand it?” she fumed to a redheaded sailor who was taking advantage of the windless hours to give the carved dolphin at the prow a fresh coat of paint. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, there was this excruciating half hour of small talk, and then my mom finally stood up and said she was going to leave my dad and me alone for a minute. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I am not very enthusiastic because it doesn’t do one’s clothes any good and a man is lousy again inside two hours. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I was learning, too, was that in the eyes of a campaign operation, any minutes or hours a candidate spends privately with family are viewed basically as a waste of that valuable time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After all my hours of watching, I’d learned that was how to show I wasn’t a threat. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But the consensus came about through this conversation: This community needed to stage a demonstration outside the campus during school hours, something that would be dramatic, distracting, and unable to be ignored. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

What was he doing down in no-man’s-land for an hour and forty-three minutes? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours later this kid’s dad drove over to our house to confront Abel. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“They should be back in a few hours. Why don’t you ask them?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I want you out of the tenant house in forty-eight hours.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Six days later the valley received ten inches in less than twenty-four hours. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

After 36 hours, one prisoner began to get hysterical, and had to be released. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood in the Corner of Shame with my face to the wall for a full hour and contemplated my brothers’ situation but came up with no answers. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I want to tell her everything that’s happened in the past forty-eight hours. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then, the next morning, in chapel, be made a speech that lasted about ten hours. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The sun was just a few hours from setting when they arrived at the base of the hill below the outlying shacks and huts. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It’s easier on the model than posing for a painting, holding the same position for hours at a time. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The enthusiastic group met for several hours, and it was well past midnight when Ann asked the final question: “When we gonna meet again?” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

On its side, faded words said: discard after 40 hours use. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

An hour ago we were laughing and catching up. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

No one else in the room had said anything, and it could not have been any sort of coincidence that less than twenty-four hours later Deirdre was without a job. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

After an hour, the Mind toiling with nothing but repeated Warnings & Desperate Strategies & Calculations of Escape—it resolves itself to distant Explosion & Danger. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the dead hours Frodo came out of a deep dark sleep to find Sam shaking him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every four hours, we filled the tub with hot water mixed with black pepper and myrrh. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about a quarter of an hour Squealer appeared, full of sympathy and concern. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Donald was walking home from the store one evening, hours after a mistrial was declared in the prosecution of a black man accused of shooting a white police officer. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I knew I probably wouldn’t be able to fall back asleep, so I decided to kill the remaining hours until dawn by brushing up on a few coin-op classics. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The adulation of my peers below has been a waste of hours. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He said he did not think the man could possibly sleep more than a few hours a night. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to meet June for dinner over an hour ago. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The train rolled slowly, often halted for a few hours, and continued. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is literally an hour and a half on the train. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I have spent a vexing half hour scrapping with Fräulein Engel over the pen nib, which I swear I did not bend on purpose the first time. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Earlier, they had heard Shae crying out in pain, but hours had now passed with no sounds from within. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I spend a couple hours tuning AM radio to the weird bounces of night. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, the dancing and the liquor and the sweet, heady rush of being eighteen had filled them both with a feverish flush. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He knew that Hob had worked on Cully for fourteen hours a day to teach him his trade, and that his work had been like Jacob’s struggle with the angel. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

So there’s another hour and a half gone. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

"I'd like to be out there with him for about an hour." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I wanted to savor the last few hours before I had to hurt her. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Winterfell had been awake for hours, its battlements and towers crammed with men in wool and mail and leather awaiting an attack that never came. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That evening I waited for Danny more than half an hour just inside the double door of the school before I decided to go home alone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You can go when you can hike over rough terrain on those crutches for eight hours a day. Two weeks, I’d guess. Six slices.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Harry whiled away the hours until dawn in front of the fire, getting up every now and then to stop Crookshanks from sneaking up the boys’ staircase again. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

We drove three hours to meet a new doctor for Tina the winter before that. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In a few hours it would be dark, and he could go after them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And so, an hour before dawn, I crouched in shadows at the rocky sea-wall, foot of the giants’ work. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were guests of the prince of Abu Dhabi for three hours, then homeless. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She and the girls spent the rest of the hour fixing Quendy’s hair to like showcase the lesion. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where have you been for the last six hours?” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I was doing squats for half an hour straight. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

"You can pretend you found it first thing in the morning. Then you can get the whole day off, instead of just an hour or so this afternoon." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Osh told me so. Just hours old. How could I have gotten sick so fast?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Every day, our friends Rudy and Pilar sent over a hot meal, and after they ate, the men were allowed to walk around in the prison yard for a half hour. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the wee hours, men eventually began to stagger back toward their bunks in Mason City or Engineer City or Shack Town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I walked on and on, over fallen trees I had struggled over hours before, down slopes I could now only dimly recall. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later my dad stumbled upstairs, reeking of alcohol, and flopped into his bed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She spent hours a day, sometimes all day, playing shooting games on the Xbox, either against her husband, or teaming up with him against other people they’d meet online. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Now, what can you tell me about falling stars? What would be the meaning of a shower of them in the last hour of a night?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But Montag was gone, hidden in the safety of the dark alley for which he had set out on a long journey, an hour or was it a minute, ago? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother had been awake when Milton slipped out of bed less than an hour earlier. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

Since New York was three hours ahead of Portland, it was past lunch by the time we landed. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I went back to my street corner and proceeded to waste three hours begging, not gaining so much as a thin shim for my ef- forts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Chopping wood for hours without a single bite to eat had been hard enough. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He was reading Mr. Pope when the clock chimed the half hour. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard my dad’s a sonuvabitch when it comes to you Ohio junior engineers,” I finished for him, as dryly as my age and the hour allowed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even Mr. Bracket, who had been elected by the chickadees to test whether or not it was too stormy for good hunting, would appear for a few hours and disappear. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few hours I am no longer the only one, and by morning we are quite accustomed to it and ask for what we want without any false modesty. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gebu came once each day to the shop, sometimes at midmorning, usually at the hour of noon when all work ceased for a time and a blessed silence descended on the shop. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“In a few hours you’ll be nice and full again—just in time for dinner.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later I exposed my entire body to ultraviolet rays from a sun lamp. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The church was packed with women in black, each one stoically suffering the three hours of the Crucifixion with the tortured Christ. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom, Aven just came over for a couple of hours to play video games. Her mom will be picking her up before dinner.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The best speeds yet achieved by any human object are those of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, which are now flying away from us at about thirty-five thousand miles an hour. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And without ten thousand hours under his belt, there is no way he can ever master the skills necessary to play at the top level. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They’d all hoped to see Wash, but they’d been in the woods for over an hour, and there was still no sign of him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The probationers worked their shifts in the wards, studied three hours a day in their spare time, and slept. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’ve been walking for hours it seems, down the hill to the downtown, where the streetcars no longer run. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In all the temples, I saw the widows chanting hour after hour. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

At seven o’clock on a cool November night, guests will arrive at the Robert E. Lee Hotel bar for the cocktail hour. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t ride him for hours wearing a wet harness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A quarter an hour was a decent take, and he was saving for third-class train tickets to the Mexican border, the price of a new life with his girl. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He endured long hours of physical labor to support his family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He looked good but tired: He’d worked the three-to-eleven shift the night before and had only had a few hours’ sleep. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took long bus rides to faraway department stores and supermarkets where she’d window-shop for hours and spend fifty cents. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after almost an hour, we said good-by. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever I’m going to do has to happen in the next few hours. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now, he guessed them to be less than half an hour behind and gaining. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But two hours later, only the beds and kitchen are left to set up. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

In hours, the whole of Rome fell into ferment. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Within the hour, Your Highness, Ghohg the Evil One will be no more. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

For an hour or two each day, I worked with the other players. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

So in less than half an hour, the expedition was on its way northward. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The pace of admissions seemed to be multiplying by the hour. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

New tasks arise, such as bunching up the carts left behind by customers and steering them to their place in the front of the store every half hour or so. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aches in her joints reminding her that she was still a few hours shy of a complete healing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The Nolans were together only at the supper hour when even Laurie sat up to the table in her high chair. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chap circled overhead for three quarters of an hour and tried to come down half a dozen times before finally bottling out. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The morning slid past, each hour slower and emptier than the one before. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

We promised to meet for dinner in half an hour. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I can drive you to Abba later this afternoon, after my office hours.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And don’t you get pert with me, Calpurnia. Go to the corner. One hour. Any more comments and it’ll be the switch for you.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And Moishe the Beadle, the poorest of the poor of Sighet, spoke to me for hours on end about the Kabbalah’s revelations and its mysteries. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Bengaluru is a few hours away by train or bus," she says. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

With only one half-starved horse pulling us, it took nearly an hour to be clear of the city line. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the Orgota side an Inspector was called out to inspect my passport and papers, which he did for about an hour, a Karhidish hour at that. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would shut himself up for hours on end to play the zither. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You know what I mean. I mean, you left hours ago. I thought I was in for an evening run.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She bought a secondhand fiddle for Paul Jones and negotiated lessons for him at fifty cents an hour from a man who called himself Professor Allegretto. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Salva worked together for hours and days ... which grew into weeks and months. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

At some hour, I awoke to the sound of the cannonade renewed; others slumbered still, clutching their heads to impede the sounds of detonation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He don’t miss, not once in two hours, and I’m grateful for that. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I kept the fire going and changed the hot-water bottle every hour, putting it next to his feet. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“As in meet me at the East Gate Tennis Club in half an hour. And Jay? Tell me you don’t have Wii” “PS3, thank you very much.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Neither would the man work, since there was no need and none to drive him to it, unless the hours he spent away at night could be called work. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I’d been reading for over an hour and sleep still didn’t come. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

In an hour he will become one screaming bundle of intolerable pain. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all his life, Mark was pretty sure he’d never endured such a strange hour as he had since arriving at this camp of madness. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Within a matter of hours, the Sixer high command decided to deploy a new strategy. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Esteban Trueba spent many hours with him, first in front of the crystal set, and then, with the battery-operated radio, awaiting the miracle of the distant, anonymous voice that gave them contact with civilization. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zach drove the honey wagon as fast as it would go, which was about thirty miles an hour. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ended up hanging out together for hours, listening to music and talking. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I waited until I thought the coast was really clear, and then one Sunday, without telling anyone, I got up hours before dawn and took off for the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for half an hour in the bitter cold, regretting that I had not remained in the warm store, but unable to go back inside. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those early morning hours of instruction—"What are the parts of the 98 rifle?”—the midday hours of physical training—"Pianist forward! By the right, quick march. Report to the cook-house for potato-peeling.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along in the silent hours of night, I was awakened. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few hours later, after talking to T-Mobile’s legal department, he came to understand how he could make such a mistake. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Carl dropped out of school after the eighth grade and worked twelve to fourteen hours a day on the farm, harvesting with a team of horses, baling hay, milking and feeding the cows. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“His latest YouTube video got a million hits in like, an hour. I think I was half of those!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Dream lives twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, twelve months a year. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could longer working hours mean that the enemy was working overtime, preparing for war? their bosses wondered. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She held the pressure—a minute, an hour—she did not know how long. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well. Forty-two there. Forty-two back. Eighty-two miles. No. Eighty-four. Yes. Eighty-four miles in forty-five hours.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Barred from the closed meeting, he had to cool his heels for hours, watching “my friends and any number of famous military men go upstairs to a closed GAC session.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Within an hour, I was covered with the word “STAY.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They drank the water and ate their packed lunches and rested for an hour. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

No boats passed during the three hours of my watch, or I didn’t see any lights on the water. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had been walking for about half an hour when another hiker—a fit-looking middle-aged guy—came along from the other direction. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for what seemed hours, huddling, my fingers protecting my head. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

How did an hour and a half pass? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It was an hour before he saw a light. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, majestically, with a faint humming of machinery, the Conveyors moved forward, thirty-three centimetres an hour. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where else but in a prison could I have attacked my ignorance by being able to study intensely sometimes as much as fifteen hours a day? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a very, very clever game. We found it quite difficult. It took us hours to find you.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry, but all this moping over an hour on the Acela? Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Daddy spends hours out here every night, planting, tilling, and talking. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He spent the next half hour perusing useless information. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s barely been twenty-four hours, and it’s kinda taken on a life of its own.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He shrugged, and we’d keep going like that for hours sometimes. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

His nose was also slowly lengthening — their hour was up, Ron was turning back into himself, and from the look of horror he was suddenly giving Harry, he must be, too. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It would be dark in an hour or so. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I remember how on our wedding-day he said: “Unless some solemn duty come upon me to go back to the bitter hours, asleep or awake, mad or sane.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I was now training more than thirty-five hours each week, with an intense focus on strength, conditioning, and connecting my skills to ensure that the whole routine looked effortless. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Because his scar had been burning for hours, yearning to show him Voldemort’s thoughts? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

With a few hours’ more work, a presentable model should be on display. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He had sat and watched all alone for about six hours, and had let the others rest. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I knew the band would be having the traditional post-concert pizza delivered to the rehearsal room, but honestly — was I supposed to survive on nothing but bacteria-laden milk solids for the next several hours? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You driving me crazy hanging around this house twenty-five hours a day. Get. Go chop down that poor mimosa tree you hate so much,” I say, because Mister Johnny never did chop that thing down. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then I was chastised when I arrived one hour late. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She stayed for hours in Dr. Ganer’s office, getting help with homework. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Been running for two or three hours and now it’s down to fumes. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

For over a month, six days a week, ten hours a day, that’s what he’d been doing—lowering boats full of men into various sea conditions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But when Marti came back over an hour later, the cigarette pack was still there. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Katrina was now a Category 5 storm with winds over 150 miles an hour. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The locket they had managed to steal so many hours before had fallen out of Dumbledore’s pocket. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Missing the innocence of an hour ago when my only concern was touching the hand of a girl I thought I might love. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

My mom had to put in extra hours at the nursing home, and Dad was pretty ticked off. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But he won’t. That blind rabbit’s been in there for hours.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Now he can walk to work, about an hour each way, forty-five minutes if he walks very fast. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I whiled away many a pleasant hour gnawing at a flipper joint or split­ting open bones and licking out their marrow. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old age of slavery overseas and a Parliament elected by only 3 percent of the English was ticking down to days, to hours, to minutes, to seconds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, Delia was busy combing out Pita’s wet hair. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“For the time being. But don’t try to leave the island. We’ve got your number, Chaplain. Just remember that we’ve got you under surveillance twenty-four hours a day.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

After an hour he had to leave for the show. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I annoyed Wolfie every morning, for I would wake up at five, change into my sweat clothes, and run in place for more than an hour. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The hours for your kind are posted at the back door.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘At least by good chance we came at the right hour to reward you for your patience,’ said Faramir. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A giant green building slides past in the yellow light of the late hour. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

What would normally be a ten-minute ride is going to take an hour because I’m limping badly. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Eventually, after several calls and hours of conversation, he claimed to know where the murder weapon, which had never been recovered, might be located. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Four days after his death, at eight a.m., which in January is still totally dark, a hearse carrying Bobby’s body took the hour’s drive to Selfoss and then to the graveyard. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was certain to flunk English this term, simply because English was mostly reading and he didn’t have time anymore to spend four or five hours every night reading a lousy book. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The account, with Turner’s running translation, had taken almost an hour. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This afternoon the teachers have a meeting, so we get out of school an hour early. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole operation took just under an hour. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“You’re coming with us, and I don’t want to hear any more excuses. Even if you only stay for one hour, you’re going to have a little bit of fun tonight.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Even with no line, I estimate it would take her at least 50 hours to ride it 1,000 times. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hickock spent three hours with his son. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later there’s still no e-mail from Adam. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

When Isa finally drifted off an hour later, the brownstone groaned with relief as the last Vanderbeeker fell into a fitful sleep. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“There’s still a few hours left until the twenty-ninth.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Duskendale had been his finest hour, yet the memory tasted bitter on his tongue. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

During the first twelve hours I thought of Mrs. Reed in her last moments; I saw her disfigured and discoloured face, and heard her strangely altered voice. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In just one hour he’d counted sixty bodies being wheeled through the city gates in wheelbarrows. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the black room was an ebony clock which struck the hour loud. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he realized the truth, he would despise himself for perhaps an hour. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The old man heard the fight between the boy and his father a few hours earlier. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inej had heard variations on the same exchange for the better part of an hour. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Five hours later the car arrived at the Trinity site and stopped in front of an abandoned adobe ranch house. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d then spend the next hour reading and rereading whatever she had written. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The next morning I blearily awoke after two hours of sleep, bundled myself onto one of the wagons and proceeded to drowse away the morning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

An hour later, I had finished an entire beer. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was now nearly three hours after noon, and they had come only a few miles from the Gates. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I could master most action titles in a few hours, and there wasn’t an adventure or role-playing game I couldn’t solve. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Are you all right? It’s almost ten hundred hours, and I haven’t seen you. Commander Jameson wants to know where you are.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

For hours, in the hot, claustrophobic box, White and Smith went over the circumstantial evidence that they’d gathered on each of the murders, trying to trip up Burkhart. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That had been less than twenty-four hours earlier. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He wished Ron and Hermione both luck, then turned and climbed the marble staircase again, determined, whatever Hermione said, to devote an hour or two to the Room of Requirement. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The last twenty-four hours have been the hardest of my life. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because when I call at the designated time two hours later, I’m told there’s no job for me now, although I have made it to the waiting list. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s where he held meetings, Bible study, coffee hour after church on Sundays, and catechisms when the church was too cold in the winter. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I waited thirty minutes, forty minutes, an hour. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For several hours, I presented myself in shops, but none required help. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I figured it out later that night, a few hours after Shoto left my stronghold. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Within hours of Guiteau's attack, rumors spread, accusing Arthur of participating in a plot to kill Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You work too hard. One can't be up at all hours and expect not to be affected.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Once they were taped and wiped down, the coaches would show up to unleash whatever hell was planned for the next two hours. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

On rainy days, we’d play tic-tac-toe for hours or watch Power Puff Girls marathons on TV. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Eighteen hundred hours was a hell of a time. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother was surely getting stronger with every hour. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took Farid and me over four hours to reach Kabul. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Radar and I have agreed to keep drinking it until two hours before our rest periods. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Merci, are you taking notes or what? We need them in the classwork folder at the end of the hour. Don’t get us in trouble.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It would have taken him an hour to reach it on foot. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

While writing this book, I conducted more than a thousand hours of interviews with family and friends of Henrietta Lacks, as well as with lawyers, ethicists, scientists, and journalists who’ve written about the Lacks family. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, when The Mac lands on the Pinal page, the doctors and nurses who’ve lingered and listened, and who crowd your room, give The Mac a standing ovation. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the end of the distracted driving conference, Secretary LaHood announced that President Obama had signed an order forbidding federal employees from texting while driving during work hours. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The hour of the owl, the hour of the wolf, the hour of the nightingale, moonrise and moonset, dusk and dawn, they staggered past like drunkards. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Whoa, hear me out. First of all, she doesn’t hate you. And second, she spoke to the lady she works for, and it looks like maybe you can do your hours there.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But she awakened a few hours later, and when she moved she realized that she ached to the last fiber of her body. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like before, I let it sit for an hour. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten million black men and women are laboring long hours in unskilled jobs, earning barely enough to get by. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In those long hours, she could not keep from devising cruel scenes, arranging her own Museum of Terrible Wonders. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It took us more than a half hour to walk to school, and when we arrived, I saw that there were only three girls in Sumbul’s grade. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

On December 21, in the early morning hours, he stopped breathing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“That must be the tenth time you’ve said that in the last hour.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

High Chancellor Thomas wound down after droning on for almost an hour. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We decided we needed three hours to do everything. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“In a few hours the Spirit Medium is going to hold a witch-finding ceremony,” the woman went on. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Now do stop fussing around," his wife said to him after he had been tossing and turning for about an hour. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he’d put on Vola’s puppet show, just another hour from now, he would finally be free to start out again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A half hour later her Saab was pulling up to my lobby. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I came into her room half an hour before the bridal dinner, and found her lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress--and as drunk as a monkey. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She finds she can sleep only two or three hours at a time. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

An hour later, it felt as if her bones were trying to push through the places where her joints met. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I agreed with that idea, although I didn’t think that I needed to spend hours a day exercising. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The average listener tuned in five hours a day. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

After three hours of drying, I loaded another section. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later it starts, sheets of rain pouring down and wind that ripples across the surface of the striped tents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I breathe out for what feels like the first time in hours. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The hours had seemed so long until seven o’clock. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it’s the pie or the thought of two hours of his face on the screen that makes me feel light-headed. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The workouts went on for three hours every afternoon, and as the days grew shorter they stretched into the dark and increasingly chilly October evenings. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Not practice? For twenty-four hours? Be still, my broken heart,” Mom says. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One more minute until it’s forty-eight hours from our first—My phone chirps. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

We filled a 7-Eleven bag with trash, trying to make the Chrysler look and feel as if the past six hours had not happened. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I would enjoy hours of floating, day dreaming, imaginary conversations with my New York musician friends. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were only as good as the hours we billed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She said, “This is the lunch hour, Daniel.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The weekend stretches out ahead of me, forty-eight empty hours to fill. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She needed it to fall asleep when she got back from her shift over at the Uline Warehouse—twelve hours straight, so who could blame her? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Of all the strange statements from the past half hour, for some reason this was the one that shocked me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was a time, years ago, when each passing hour held no meaning. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Many such plants around Atlanta ran twenty-four hours a day, and many refugees, starting out at the bottom, ended up taking jobs on the night shift. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He reports that three million people have left the city during the past two hours. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the eat-in area of the kitchen, I spent over an hour constructing an elaborate obstacle course and placed Sir Fig Newton’s food dish at the end. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

This second visit was for only half an hour, and we had much to discuss. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if they had been dancing for twelve hours or twenty-four or for no time at all. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, drained and distracted, looking almost about to pass out, Jesse descended. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, before the war, going up to Cortina D’Ampezzo I had gone along it for several hours in the hills. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

All those pills were making me fat and stupid, and I was still miserable, getting only three or four hours of sleep a night. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

All in all, they read ten web pages about tennis over the next hour. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

Mr. Kleiman and Bep also take very good care of us, but they’re able to put the Annex out of their minds, even if it’s only for a few hours or a few days. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“The broker will try to give us at least twenty-four hours’ notice.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He had also had the foresight to suggest that they take a few hours’ break from wearing the Horcrux, which was hanging over the end of the bunk beside him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He would perch on a stump, flap his black wings, and talk by the hour to anyone who would listen. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

This has been the pattern of his life: ludicrous dreams followed by hours and days and years of work and then a reality surpassing his wildest hopes and expectations. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We spoke for more than three hours at this first encounter. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After tossing and turning for hours, I finally accept that it will be a wakeful night. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And for the next two hours, with the sun going down, we sat on those concrete steps, turning pages. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“No sight of misery disturbs us, nor of despairing poverty out in vain search for employment.... We work our eight hours a day in peaceful security and in absolute confidence of our pay.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We wanted to spend every minute of the half hour Papa allocated to uniform washing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Petra had been hunched over in the same position for hours. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Forty hours ago, I laid out a plan for tracking Day to Commander Jameson. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you hear my knock an hour ago?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It seemed like it had to be a half an hour at least, and maybe an hour. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, his shovel hit something solid. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next couple of hours I’m lost in the sounds of a playlist I named Through the Decades. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

For a month he had worked on these papers, scribbling them during working hours, typing and making carbons on the typewriter at the New York Café, distributing them by hand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even now, when it was still an hour before dawn, there was quite a lot of traffic moving around Hyde Park Corner. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The circus must go on, even with war beginning within the hour... Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Now at last the hour has come that you have wished for, Frodo,’ he said. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

That afternoon’s two hours in Egypt turned out to be mostly a long discussion of the What and How of the Egyptian Oracle. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slept and slept and still there were hours awake to worry when her mind skimple- skombled back on itself like threads in a snarled loom. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I had a coach who was willing to climb on board my crazy workhorse train, to put in the hours and grind. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Here’s the order of events on the day of the funeral: One: Visitation at the funeral home for an hour before the funeral service. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z