He could gain hours, lose hours, or in a single day fly from winter to summer, to spring or fall. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That really hurt Mama, and we spent hours thinking of recipes that included cheese and disguising it so Pap wouldn’t know he was eating it. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I had napped for a few hours, waking up in the evening while it was still light outside. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She wore no underwear, only a thin nightgown that had ridden above her waist from hours in her wheelchair. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They left in the early hours of the morning, and despite my excitement, I had no trouble falling asleep. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That strategy had worked for them on Ludus, but only for a few hours, and they’d only had one location to barricade. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It got so bad that I actually spent hours lying on the couch watching Grandma knit, plotting ways to sneak into the kitchen and steal some meat. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would say a few words to him, then sit there for hours. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It takes him hours to fall asleep, though. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I got by between paydays by neglecting overdue bills and borrowing money from Robin, so twice a month, when a few hundred dollars went into my account, it was gone within hours. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Gertrude was jealous of her son’s company and spent many hours with him, laughing at his clever stories and hearing tales of his journeys. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

If they were still here, those bonobos were probably thirsty, and I had a couple of hours to spare to care for them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morn­ing. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The deputy appointed to watch him through the dark hours—a retired sawyer named William Stenesen—had shone a flashlight on him just before midnight and inquired if he was faring well. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

“She’s fine. It’s only a little concussion. I expect she’ll be back here later this evening. The doctor wanted her watched for a few hours.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the hours passed and her eyases did not appear, the feeling began to fade. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes ten seconds feels like ten hours,” Grandpa Nyles replied softly. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The walk took only ten minutes and this allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cosy corner devouring one book after another. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

If he held it for ten hours he’d be ninety miles out at dawn. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Healthy, well-rested, and well-fed. One that can take six hours of hard riding today.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

It’s people like Hoagland who call you up at odd hours of the night to tell you something you absolutely need to know, practicing on you the subtlest form of sleep deprivation. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes about two and a half hours to get to Kramer, Indiana, population thirty. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It had been hours ago, or maybe days. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said, “come back in about six hours, then.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Almost exactly six and a half hours later, they were over Hiroshima. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At precisely 1230 hours, Colonel Bull Meecham strode into the briefing room to meet the officers of his squadron for the first time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took Jenny and Abby four hours to teach the dogs all their moves. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Within forty-eight hours Perry and his companion had discovered an open window, climbed out of it, stolen a car, and driven northwest to McCook, Nebraska. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday I was a girl in a town I’d guess to be two hours away. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Within forty-eight hours, more than 236 Jews were murdered; 1,300 synagogues were burned; and more than 7,000 Jewish shops, businesses, schools, and private homes were vandalized and destroyed. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I realize I haven’t yet determined how far away I am from her, and am disheartened to find she’s nearly four hours away. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I call my friends on the phone, and we talk for hours. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

After walking for two hours, they found that the ice field did slope down to the beach, but it was a steep descent. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But they did not know, and during the hours the three sat conversing, the name Clutter was never mentioned, or the word murder. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like it’s many hours before dawn. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The migrants most badly mangled by the train run up bills of $1,000 to $1,500 each when they end up at a public hospital one and a half hours away. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Ashima has always loved these hours before a party, the carpets vacuumed, the coffee table wiped with Pledge, her dimmed, blurry reflection visible in the wood just as the old television commercial used to promise. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Fortunately, when we walked upstairs, I found that I had an excuse to put off the crucial model-building step for at least several more hours. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t spend hours staring in the mirror, thinking of all the ways I could be better. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Four months after Enrique arrives in the United States, his work hours get cut. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

We had been getting closer and closer to it over the past twenty- four hours, and finally we saw it, a tiny speck some twenty- five miles in front and slightly above us. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly, but not completely, for he did have shooting pains in that leg after several hours on a basketball court. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because hours later, when I come to in my bed, he’s there in the moonlight. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s a long drive, two hours if the traffic cooperates. Pack some dried snacks, water, and a thermos with chai.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“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

The hours pass quickly if a man broods. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

She’d just gotten the call from the missionary a few hours before. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Two hours of daylight remained, and he was eager to see those attack dogs in action. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours ago, I was worried because I had to go around Marth Crater. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We worked side by side for a few peaceful hours until Viola rang the bell. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He would shut himself up for hours on end to play the zither. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My mother had a stoup of wine lain at her side in her last hours—I recall it now, though I did not understand it then. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I held tight to that hope through the dark hours of night, until the sun rose and I fell asleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She would make me wait hours for a response, and her comment is short as hell: It’s aight I roll my eyes. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

So most workdays I’d end up at Mrs. Valencia’s place for a couple of hours until Mom or Dad could get home. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Clancy was at the center, looking infinitely more pulled together than he had a few short hours ago. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They had a couple of hours before daybreak, so Jason suggested Percy try to get a few more hours of sleep. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake had been working several hours when the thought of Janie worrying about him made him desperate. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But with a few hours of freedom ahead of her, she brought as many of them with her as possible as she locked the door to her bedroom and slipped into the tomb. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then he recalled all the hours Leo had spent working inside the hull over the last few weeks. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We finally got tickets and a few hours later, another train came. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t need her to be here with me for eight hours a day. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I get a few hours’ sleep before dawn. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I bet she could get more hours a week. Or maybe even a full-time spot at Pearl of the Orient, or some other place.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

The ring was to hold my neck in one position, and I was to wear it twenty-four hours a day for three months. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The college sessions sometimes ran two to four hours— they often ran overtime. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Processing had taken three hours, and the four men had been in the cage for three more. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

They waited in silence for what seemed like hours, holding each other, not daring to speak until long after the sounds of the cars had faded. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Really? You’re worried about your modesty when we’re going to have League agents on our tail in a matter of hours? Priorities, Green. Take out the shirt.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Those were the words I waited for twelve hours a day, every day, seven days a week, week after week. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The whole of human civilization as we know it,” Chacko told the twins, “began only two hours ago in the Earth Woman’s life. As long as it takes us to drive from Ayemenem to Cochin.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had held a candle up there for hours, flicking the flame all over the ceiling, stopping often to move the table he was standing on. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sound is delicious, makes me wish for some now, but it won’t be ready for hours. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He also often spent up to twelve hours a day in his third-floor office constantly telephoning various parts of the town, county, state, and nation. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This presentation had lasted for more than three hours, but it had enthroned a new sense of reality in the hearts of those present, a sense of man on earth. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five hours had passed since they came back from the park. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Neither of us could imagine that everything would change in just a few hours, including the idea of keys. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“This proposition is unorthodox, and against my better judgment, but the idea of a massage intrigues me, and I am rarely intrigued. However, thirty minutes is too short. Say...two hours.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“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

I was looking at the map, and I figure we’re maybe about eight or nine hours away from Chicago. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Flames rose at once in the fireplace, crackling merrily as though they had been burning for hours. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Henry’s hands on him are unhurried and soft, and they make out lazily for hours or days, basking in the rare luxury of it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My question is, if he really had killed his father, why would he come back three hours later? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She snuck him in after hours, allowing him to see ancient swords up close and honing his craft. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You don’t want to be caught out of bed out of hours, and you a prefect...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I found him four hours after setting off, sitting on a rock by the turnoff for West Chairback Pond, head inclined to the sun as if working on his tan. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The next thing I know she’s waking me up and it’s hours later and my head is completely confused till I hear her saying, “Noise, Todd, I can hear Noise.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The amateurs never practiced more than about three hours a week over the course of their childhood, and by the age of twenty they had totaled two thousand hours of practice. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

My eagerness to escape into the woods, if only for two hours, overrides my current concerns. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

During the two hours that they talked, she told him she was the merchant’s daughter, and spoke of life in the village, where each day was like all the others. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has been droning on now for twenty-five hours and thirty-two minutes, one hour and fourteen minutes past Thurmond’s record. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

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

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

For hours, I lay in my bed thinking about the DiAngelos and wondering what they were doing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He obligingly repeated his office hours, throwing in his office address for good measure, as a way of reminding himself that he had a nice new half office, with a window. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma studied up on the topic, and we talked for hours while she taught me how to do the quilting for Mother’s birthday present. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By an unfortunate coincidence, the waiter sat us at the table by the window where Francis and I had sat with Julian less than twenty-four hours before. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The hours rolled on, and the children passed them by telling stories. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Within two hours of the U-boat landing, the Coast Guard alerted the FBI. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

When the recruit arrives he is plunged into an alien environment, and is enveloped in the situation 24 hours a day without relief. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figure Rowdy and I have spent an average of eight hours a day together for the last fourteen years. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, his hours aren’t as long as they were in The Hague. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We have less than six hours left, and if he goes first, I’ll be a zombie who’s well aware his head is on the chopping block. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Or the year she stayed awake thirty-two hours straight when fever from the chicken pox had me full of delirium, so sick I wanted to die. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The war would have to wait for him to come to it in his personal file, an hour, two hours from now. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew as well as she that only an emergency could take Mamá away from her job and perhaps cause her to lose her wages for the hours she was gone. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The beginning of the end for Hulbert came on a night when, three hours before a scheduled 5 A.M. execution, two inmates es-caped from another part of the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after hours of waiting, the guard bade the boy enter. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far into the dark quiet hours they floated on, guiding their boats under the overhanging shadows of the western woods. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His companionship replaced the long solitary hours in the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Mother, I must attend to my bowels. They are revolting against the trauma of the last twenty-four hours.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to stand for fourteen or sixteen hours and not notice any effects at all. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He came to think of these appleskin hours as his special time with the town. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the Web, koalas sleep eighteen to twenty-two hours a day. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

The restaurant, called Haedanghwa Korean Cuisine, was hectic and Shin worked long hours, washing dishes and cleaning tables. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The minutes stretch until they feel like hours. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Still, after that he would leave for hours at a time. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“That was hours ago. You need to keep your strength up.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Papi will get even stricter with all of us, and he'll probably cut back on his work hours even more, just so he can keep an eye out on us girls. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I was pretty convinced I already had learned piano, in fact, through straight-up osmosis—all those hours spent listening to other kids fumbling through their songs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A few hours must have passed before I heard my father stir. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

With traffic what it was, that could take hours. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She has at most nine hours left—and she’s a very slow reader. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After waiting by turns for three hours the queue disperses. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I smiled so hard, my cheeks ached for hours. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It took hours, but I finally got a good seal. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been working on the hill for two hours already when they saw the bright yellow school bus go by on the road. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He left me just hours ago, and here I am, on my way to see Kamal, to meet once again the man he believes killed his wife. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leprechauns produce a realistic gold-like substance that vanishes after a few hours, to their great amusement. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had, although the glow of victory remained intact for less then twelve hours. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dog-tired, and his weary body ached from five bumpy hours on horseback. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A few hours later, after I’ve eaten lunch and taken a nap, I sit down on the edge of my bed to change the bandage on my shoulder. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You spend so many hours sitting there every day, Neel. You must be learning something!” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Get Captain Brannon to my office pronto. He’s out on the flight line. And pass the word that there’ll be a meeting of all officers in the ready room at 1500 hours.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

So from the time I could babble and my brother could reason, we spent hours in daily study. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

If it were summer, it would be three hours more. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately the directors had ordered a rough plan of the fair, to be delivered to them within twenty-four hours. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The bosses controlled everything: hours, pace, and wages. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For hours, until the sun was nearly gone from the sky. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would take hours for them to put everything back in place, but the men didn’t seem to care. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Many girls woke up early and spent hours applying hot combs to their hair, trying to straighten it to look, as some said, “almost white.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Because when my sister opened the door and walked out a few hours later, she was suddenly happy again, as if everything was going to be alright. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They swam and swam and swam for what seemed like hours, and only Tock’s firm encouragement kept Milo struggling through the icy water. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We don't get over?anxious or mad. We let the fireman keep the book twenty?four hours. If he hasn't burned it by then, we simply come and burn it for him.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had only taken me a few hours to put the playlist together. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We had returned a couple of hours ago, and collapsed onto the couch next to each other. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But even after his most terrible hours, he decided to stay here on this earth. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

And she crawled through the little door into the tunnel; and that dark place among the rafters which had seemed so exciting and adventurous a few hours ago, seemed quite tame and homely now. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

After he had devoured the chocolate he felt somewhat ashamed of himself and hung about in the streets for several hours, until hunger drove him home. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I had been gone for hours and I knew it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy was invariably the last of the family to retire; as she had once informed her friend and home-economics teacher, Mrs. Polly Stringer, the midnight hours were her “time to be selfish and vain.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poster’s only been up for eleven hours, and I’ve already gotten sixteen emails. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Looking back now, it feels like we spent ages in that steamed-up kitchen after breakfast, or huddled around half-dead fires in the small hours, lost in conversation about our plans for the future. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, of course, he’d play speed games for an additional five or more hours with the Collins cluster or at one of the clubs. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’d sit in front of the TV for hours, a black cloud hovering. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Those first hours are associated in my memory with one sound, not one you’d guess, not the yipping of the hyena or the hissing of the sea: it was the buzzing of flies. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Less hard to believe than some of the things we’ve heard in the last two hours. Perhaps the mongooses were already aboard the lifeboat, like the rat you mentioned.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was early afternoon on September 22, a few hours after Reggie’s car swerved left of center. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He barely spoke all night at home, and at about 10 p.m., two hours after his bedtime, I walked by his bedroom and heard him sobbing in his bed. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And I drove that speed for eight hours. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the kind of kiss that makes me lose track of everything, and so it may be hours or minutes by the time we break apart. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad would talk with me for hours. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 was able to practise six hours a day at the ranch. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d already spent hours yakking into the night about computers, politics, education. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they disagreed in a narrow lane, and Mr. Merriweather was abandoned for seven hours. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Nothing in the world could convince me at that moment that she didn't know I was the sick and guilty sonofabitch who woke her up five hours earlier. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They talked for hours, just the two of them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The stars told me five hours had passed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hearing footfalls on the stairs, I straightened myself and tried to look as though I had been up for hours and awaiting my master's call. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In a few hours the sky would turn blue again. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

My mom, however, can talk small for hours, and so she extended the awkwardness by asking them about their rehearsal schedule, and how the show had gone, and whether it was a success. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She used to spend long hours in the garden, weeding and sowing, pruning and picking, her neck arched elegantly as a bird’s, with her black hair coming loose around her face. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The reverend nodded, adding that Clarkebury students were required to do manual labor after school hours, and he would arrange for me to work in his garden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over all the hours we spent together and many miles traveled, we became real friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’s in shock after all those hours underground. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was some hours before he could be coaxed back to the property. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

After returning from Bali, Barack had spent more than a year writing a second draft of his book during the hours he wasn’t at one of his jobs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“The sun will be gone in two hours.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friday evening: I’ve been in Minneapolis for just over fifteen hours, driven from the southern suburbs to the northern ones, dropped off a half dozen apps, and undergone two face- to-face interviews. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It needs about seventeen hours of charge for seventeen minutes of chat. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

For every Saturday afternoon they had two or three hours to play. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t be much further, can it?” croaked Ron, hours later still, as the sun started to sink into their floor of cloud, staining it a deep pink. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The clouds would have cleared off in a few hours, as they usually do, and the volcano would have emerged as a black shadow under the Milky Way. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a key to my door and she kept bursting in at all hours, trying to catch me with the mice out of the cage. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

When he's in the studio, he “crows about everything” and can sit for hours with a bit of string or an old paintbrush. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My brothers wouldn’t be walking home for two more hours. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It takes hours, even days, before the irreversible word finally gets around to all the provinces. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a matter of hours the crowds had doubled in Gotenhafen. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

For several more hours, he sat and shivered. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

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

Two hours later, the bodies of the dead saboteurs were taken to the morgue. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Which leads us neatly to the many rumors still circulating about Dumbledore’s final hours. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And when he spent twelve hours a day sitting at a desk, far from his guitar and the inspiration of the people, he had few opportunities to feel happy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For five hours, he doesn’t shower or change his clothes or laugh or smile or cry. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Not a good idea putting this ice in the tub unless you’ve sealed the drain. Even the tiniest leak and you’ll lose it all in a few hours.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Holmes and the Williams sisters waited hours for their turn to board one of the northbound trains, but the wait did nothing to dampen their spirits. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

John Wilkes Booth had assassinated the president almost forty-eight hours before, but the manhunters had no solid leads. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And finally, after what seems like fifty hours, they remove Darren’s handcuffs. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

They were the ones who lined up outside my door during office hours, the ones who called me at night. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

He says, “Mason, so much has happened in the last twenty-four hours. And after spending that time with you, I got an idea. I thought maybe we could start a new dialogue.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They had a few hours before their flight home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The dark was a fearful thing, but as the hours of the night wore on, sleep came to them anyway. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

For hours, he’s been sit- ting on the ground, leaning against the wall of the building across the street, the place where he played me the music that magical evening. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was six thirty and Mr. Ray said to be outside at seven so that we could make it to the hospital right when visiting hours started. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Matt did get thirsty, horribly so, as the hours went by. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was around 7:00 P.M., fifteen hours since the assassins had arrived at Mudd’s door, and just under twenty hours since John Wilkes Booth had shot the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those first few years, everyone practiced roughly the same amount, about two or three hours a week. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, I slip back into consciousness and become aware of a quiet conversation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He had somehow managed to doze off in the early hours, while draped over the steel rack. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The psychological counselors were on call twenty-four hours a day. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Several hours later, I awake in alarm—have I overslept? On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look: You know how awkward it is when a lonely, early guest shows up hours before the party is supposed to start. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

During the first hours she tried to maintain her good humor. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, Professor Chang, could you repeat your office hours?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But I needed to be moved within forty-eight hours, seventy-two at the most. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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 referred his valet to Miss Kenton, but this did not prevent M. Dupont snapping his fingers at me every few hours to say: 'Butler! The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Normally it was open just two days a month, and then only for a few hours. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Honestly. Two hours. I don’t know if I could’ve made myself go through with this if I’d known what nonsense we were letting ourselves in for.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would stand motionless for five hours at a seal breathing hole in the ice waiting for a seal to come up for a breath. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up a few hours later and have no idea where I am. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

That was the only good thing he’d thought about in recent hours. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, our unit, which included Wilsie and me, discovered what was left of the patrol. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tide would not turn against me for a few hours. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not know how long he had been there; some hours, at any rate; with no clocks and no daylight it was hard to gauge the time. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The journey would take Charles all day, about twelve hours. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until hours later, that is, when they learned that the Coast Guard had uncovered boxes of explosives and German uniforms along the beach. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

For the next few hours after the tennis game, everything was calm and back to normal in Lambert, South Carolina. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Chaol always came for lunch, and afterward, she joined the other Champions for a few more hours of training under Brullo’s watchful eye. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

He shivered violently for hours, even when they cut him out of his sodden clothes, wrapped him in warm furs, and sat him by the fire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

How I found my parents It was in the darkest hours of the night when I found our wagon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I mean, it's not like we're girls or nothin', primping in front of the mirror for hours, but like I said, this was a big deal. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Delbriick wanted to tell everyone in his lab and knew that within hours the gossip would travel from his lab in biology to their friends working under Linus. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The new system had been developed and implemented swiftly, and it was largely invisible, even to people, like me, who spent most of their waking hours fighting for justice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Our parting was hasty, the moments stolen from his hours with his mother and the king. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t large in any sense of the word—he looked like he could have been an accountant, with thick glasses and hunched shoulders from spending too many hours at a desk. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It took hours, but finally they dragged the wounded boat ashore. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You were here when the cable went out. I never did find out if the Yankees won. Okay, that’s eighteen hours I owe you for. You got all your tip money?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The first time they talked for hours over whether it was wiser to depart the dark south immediately or see what else South Carolina had to offer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I calculated my exact biorhythms and I needed 7 hours and 47 minutes of rest every night. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The Nazis want my house in two hours. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We’d hung out here in his chat room for a few hours the previous evening, watching old Japanese monster movies. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It seemed like only a couple of hours, but was it? The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth took a deep breath, relaxing for the first time in hours. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In just a few hours, she discovered all kinds of strange and interesting things. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It shows how far you get, x miles, when you run with a certain velocity, v miles per hour, for a time, t hours: vt = x; after all, miles per hour times hours equals miles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Aunt Ophelia said she had been in labor for thirty-one hours with Nina. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I expect it to take hours, but it only takes a few minutes to reach it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Emergency laws added three hours to the workday and banned vacation days and public holidays. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For eight or nine hours, he said, they spent most of their time together. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After picking for two long hours, Roberto helped Mama make more room in her sack by lifting it upright and shaking it several times up and down, compacting the cotton to the bottom. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

After I toss and turn for a few hours, I slip into the hall. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The violence trailed off in the wee hours of Monday morning. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At any rate he scored a bed-cover out of it; for when we returned a few hours later to look for it, it was no longer to be found. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Let them. Give them two hours a day, deducted from their training time. A quarter-mile radius. With communication units and tracker anklets. What’s next?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We worked and worked and worked, but no matter how many hours we put in, the business kept losing money. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

After being singled out as a lazy kfdtinvfm, I took to spending four hours a night on my homework, putting in even more time whenever we were assigned an essay. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But although it had now been raining for several hours, there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like not quite ripe strawberries covered with the light salt sweat of running days and hopping, skipping, jumping hours. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not saying I will, but I could go on for hours escorting the reader—forcibly, if necessary—back and forth across the Paris-Chinese border. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Vikus told Gregor they would be flying several hours before they took a break, so he put a second diaper over Boots’s first one. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I can’t really even write that much ’cause we gotta be back up and on the truck in like six hours. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Howards came to the barn almost every morning, and Charles stayed on, sometimes for fourteen hours at a stretch. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If need be we could turn off our oxygen and safely remain up here for perhaps twenty-four hours; after that, however, we would need to either go up or go down. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For three hours the men labored anxiously in the water. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Where d’you get that knife? 8TH JUROR: I was walking for a couple of hours last night, just thinking. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The raw meat has a strong animal smell, and as you slice and slice, the tissue inevitably gets under your nails, and the scent lingers on your hands for hours. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He got locked in once for a few hours, the panel becoming stuck somehow, and we heard his wails all the way from the kitchen in the big house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had traveled for hours without water; now she swelled out her sides drinking. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had already set my watch to Cairns time, which was fifteen hours ahead of Massachusetts time. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I had twenty-one hours and forty-five minutes to get there. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I must have been down there, banging away, for a couple of hours — I was trying to stay hidden until everyone else went up to bed so I wouldn’t have to deal with anybody. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes or hours passed slowly, and nothing happened. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Within a few hours, the earthquake had brought her face to face with violence, death, and vulgarity and had put her in touch with the basic needs to which she had been oblivious. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were on FaceTime the whole time? Isn’t that movie over three hours long?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I sit in the bathroom for hours after showering. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’d noticed the hours I spent in my room with Tyler’s old boom box, listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, so she began looking for a voice teacher. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

So it’s just Gram and me, alone for a few hours. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

After about two hours, I called to him. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly the minutes and hours of Friday tick by, then it’s Saturday, and our last day with Shiloh. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two hours,” he said with a grim certainty, as if defying the workers to contradict him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All this helped to pass time, but still there were many long hours the prisoner had to lose. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the daytime, he continued to teach, and to grace meetings with his most authoritative manner, and to hold office hours. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down front to the right, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, who only a few hours earlier had crumbled in our front yard, defeated by the cotton rows, now sat on the edges of their rickety-rackety chairs. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For eight hours a day, he dangled on a rope in the furnacelike heat of the canyon, pounding at the wall of rock in front of him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Enjoying, as it turned out, the last happy hours of his life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In just the few hours since the storm broke, the parched road through our village had become a gushing stream of mud, blood-red, throbbing like an artery. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My afternoon had spoilt me for the hours that still remained, and I thought how long they would seem until my bed-time, how empty too my supper all alone. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

From experience, they knew that for the next two hours Mr. Muhammad would wield his two-edged sword of truth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was suffused with a weak, academic light—different from Plano, different from anything I had ever known—a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, when the sun began to rise, Roosevelt’s fever slowly inched down. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Your parents are in the waiting area. It’s not visiting hours, but I gave them special permission to be here. That is, if you want to see them.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

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

With growing excitement he mounted it, measured it and the next morning placed it in the sun for a few hours for the alcohol to evaporate. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The talk turns mundane at times, with complaints of low pay, hard hours, bratty children. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

Ma walked the floor with her all hours, so Pa worked double shifts to keep their wages regular. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, after Mum Olga called her three times and threatened to leave without her, she declared herself perfect and departed. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Instead, they watched television and ate ramen or canned soup as the hours and days slipped away like water. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I wept like a slob on the plane for five solid hours. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, I have been wishing for my bed for the last three or four hours. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The teachers all told me I was going to have four hours of homework a night, but I didn’t believe it—plus I believed I could handle it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

After traveling for about five hours, we arrived at our new home in Orosi. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Twice in the first two hours we had to duck off the side of the road when we saw a black-and-white moving toward us in the distance. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Six a.m., two hours later, and I’m parked on a dirt track that leads to a dead brown cornfield on top of Jenkins’s Hill. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours ago I would’ve said that her face was expressionless, but I’m becoming a Natasha expert, and her face is only trying to be expressionless. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Food is running out. We line up for hours for clean water. There are no schools. Alan hasn’t had physical therapy in months. And today, two of them almost died!” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘But the day is getting darker instead of lighter: darker and darker. As far as I can tell, it isn’t midday yet, and you’ve only slept for about three hours.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

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

Then my brother went into surgery for six hours so they could remove the bullets. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We had been talking there for nearly two hours. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long hours indoors in front of a computer screen had bleached the glow from his skin. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Pure luck, apparently After that it was back to work and home to the Doorman in the early hours of morning. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“The dedication,” she said to me this morning, just a few hours ago, when I went to the guest room for the last time, “Read it.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours have passed since we pulled into the station. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you ask him what he’d been doing for two hours?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

A third and final shock followed two hours later. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Just a couple of hours, so I can think straight again. One brother is back, the other is gone,” he moaned. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was barely two hours into the shift, and already I felt I was near the end of my rope. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours and one bottle of champagne later, I say, “Mom?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Dividing the dog watch that way switches the hours of the watches for the next twenty-four, so that the same men don’t stand two watches every night. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunlight was itself still young, and the day had none of the insistence maturity would bring it in a few hours. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One more minute until it’s forty-eight hours from our first—My phone chirps. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Privet Drive looked exactly as a respectable suburban street would be expected to look in the early hours of Saturday morning. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I remain on the roof for a few more hours, and then I lie in bed looking up at the weird green glow of the galaxy Russ gave me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I'll be living in it twenty-four and a half hours a day. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a little over twelve hours, they were sneaking the orphans out of the city. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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 returned from the hotel last night around midnight; now, six hours later, I’m heading back again. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Two hours later Uncle Dap presented himself in the King’s chamber. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many hours, balancing on the edge of the surprises of a war with no future, in rhymed verse he resolved his experience on the shores of death. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Kathy and the kids had been on the road for three hours and had only gotten as far as Covington—about fifty miles. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We could have stayed together in that comfortable silence for hours, and it still wouldn’t have been enough for me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I spent hours copying entire pages, word for word, in my small, cramped handwriting. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

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

We sat in the car for almost two hours as everybody got a chance to go in the house and get their favorite records. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

For the next few hours, he and Minho scoured the ground, felt along the walls, climbed up the ivy in random spots. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Dad had spent a couple of hours that morning getting me two chapters ahead in algebra. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes feel like hours until it’s safe for me to cross. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the evening Mario had come back to feed him his supper, but then he had to leave right away to get in a few more hours of work. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have two hours to get footage showing the damage from the bombing, establish that Thirteen’s military unit remains not only functional but dominant, and, most important, that the Mockingjay is still alive. Any questions?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Several hours and one set of rapids later, they came upon an area dotted with araputanga trees. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The monks couldn't know that Pong's practice of paying attention to mangoes and watching out for the swing of a guard's baton had prepared him to sit in long hours of quiet meditation. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He owned a sharp pocketknife—which I had been forbidden to touch— and sat for long hours in the sun, whittling, whistling quietly, or maybe, if he was feeling well, humming some strange tune. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’ll withdraw for hours or days, and Alex comes to understand this as grief time, little bouts of depression, or times of “too much.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the morning of his meeting with the black ministers, Eduardo and I drove out a few hours early to the site in Brooklyn and walked it through once again. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The bustle of the family’s evening—clearing away, washing up, getting the boys ready for bed—pushed away all thoughts of the fever for a few hours. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would be speaking to him in just over twelve hours, for tonight was the night they were meeting at the common room fire — assuming nothing went wrong, as everything else had done lately. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And so he goes at all hours of the day and night. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I could keep this up for hours and loved it until one day I had a stomachache and went home crying. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I traveled more than thirty hours without stopping to eat, not even noticing my thirst, and 1 managed to reach the del Valle home before the funeral. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“That we’re playing an elaborate new-generation version of hide-and-seek where you get twelve hours to find a hiding space, anywhere in the neighborhood. And that it was your turn to hide.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Supreme went on for hours about all of the plans he has for me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Two hours later I exposed my entire body to ultraviolet rays from a sun lamp. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

General Teófilo Vargas came forward with his intentions: in a few hours he shattered the coalition of better-qualified commanders and took charge of the main command. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had specified both the cut and the fabric to his tailor — it was his preferred uniform for giving tours because it did not get crushed during his long hours behind the wheel. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Most weeks I had some extra hours in there, but I just had to trust they figured it right for me since I couldn’t read for myself. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

After school hours there were the gardens to weed, and the first crop of flax to harvest in the hilly slopes above the town. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Mind your tongue, E’lir. The day I come to you for help with poetry is the day—” “... is the day you have two hours to spare,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Miyax dug to the frost line, then whacked at the ice until, many hours later, she had chopped three feet into it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m to return to Moral Climates. I’ll file a complimentary report. Delay action for at least forty-eight hours. Say I’m investigating more fully.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her sister spent hours in the pavilion by the carp pond, composing replies. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

HARRY: He’s been out twenty-four hours, mostly in order so Madam Pomfrey could reset his arm. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Two nights later the city’s unions met with officers of the fair to demand that they limit the workday to eight hours, pay union-scale wages, and hire union workers before all others. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Tlo Mon appears today for visiting hours with some letters and a parcel for us, and almost the first words out of Sor Asuncion’s mouth are “And how are you feeling, Don Ram6n?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no such luck, and I wasted a couple of hours before I gave up, hungrier than ever. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all wore ski jackets, the kind which, in my day, mothers put on layaway in September, then piled up overtime hours so as to have the thing wrapped and ready for Christmas. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Months later, two weeks of Christmas vacation: The first hours home were the hardest. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cannot thank the book; the book has perished, as he nearly did, in scattered pieces, in the earliest hours of an October day, in a field 209 kilometers from Calcutta. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I remind you that the penalty for slander is heavy. A fine of thirty pounds or three hours in the stocks. Mistress Tyler would be within her rights to press her own charges.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Once, at dinner, seated at the table, 03-01 asked me what I had noted in my hours spent immobile. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Charles needed as many hours a day as he could have to do his work. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The days and hours began to speak now with a clearer tongue. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

From these memories I made it after many errors and many hours of work, sitting on the floor while Rontu slept nearby and the storms beat upon the roof. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We had the evening papers about two hours ago,” she said, “and the verdict was a frightful shock to both Giles and myself. What does Maxim say about it?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bella had a supply of fabric paints, and within two hours, we had painted a T-shirt that looked like a tuxedo with a red bow tie. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

From his red, hugely swollen eyes it was obvious he’d been crying for hours. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yet a few hours outside their city, children are living in a different universe, a refugee camp where water is the prized possession. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, at six o’clock: he keeps early hours in the country. You had better change your frock now; I will go with you and fasten it. Here is a candle.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nothing happened after a couple of hours, so I decided to take a bath. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“He went to get Dante. He hasn’t left. He’s been here for the last thirty-six hours—waiting for you to—” “Thirty-six hours?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

On it, Elizebeth had noted the time her flight was leaving Chicago—hours earlier than the plane that had crashed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

I have been lying here for hours, listening to the sounds. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I had spent the last several hours at the Linotype machine. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It must of taken as many hours to clean up the bleachers as it did to watch the game itself. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever I’m going to do has to happen in the next few hours. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They seemed to have been closed in here for hours, for ever. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

‘What is more, I’m getting famished. I haven’t had a thing to eat for twenty-four hours.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Moody’s invitation, she spent hours at their house, coming over just after breakfast, staying until dinner. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I lost track of how many desperate hours went by. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Time is more precious than money, Lyddie girl. If only I had two more free hours of an evening—what I couldn’t do.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He listened to the mantel clock chime the quarter hours and to the house tightening itself against the cold. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Mama works even longer hours on the weekend, so she won’t be home until really late. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t sound like the boy who kissed me, sick with desire, just hours ago. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It took hours to clean that grimy theater, as there were several screening rooms, and we would generally finish around six in the morning. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It took three hours, and several words of guidance, before he came to the little blue lake. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They spent hours building model airplanes, talking and dreaming about cars, and playing on the school’s softball team. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

We stationed ourselves on the porch in front of the office, for something like two hours of anguish and hunger, waiting for a change of heart. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not clear to him how this happened or how he had spent the hours before. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For the second time in twenty-four hours, Chuck had nailed it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Herbie spent a couple of hours out on the porch after that, blushing every time a local resident, who was usually practically vibrating with what Herbie interpreted as hostility, approached the store. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the old man talked for seven hours almost without ceasing, Colin's world felt eerily quiet until he finally gave in as they left the old man's house to go pick up Lindsey. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Reports said that the blaze had begun in her office, in the early hours of the morning, and that the medicines and chemicals that she stored there caused it to burn quickly out of control. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We talked for a couple more hours, but Grampa never once asked about Dad. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Dear Polo, we are so glad we will see you in a mere matter of hours. We miss you. We miss you as the dry, cracked earth misses the rain.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Bram and I have English and algebra together, which basically amounts to two hours of staring longingly at his mouth and five hours of longingly imagining his mouth. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Three hours later, Wes was released under the care of Tony’s father, and he was back at his house before his mother got home from her job. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Hours and hours went by and there was still no sign of Mong’s cousin. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She was released two hours later, when her father arrived and paid the fourteen-dollar fine. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Miss Larsen, hours later, placing a cool folded cloth on my forehead with careful fingers. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Some played it intensely, forming teams and battling for hours. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few hours before my flight from London, I wrote to my mother—as I always did, as I always will do—to ask if she would see me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Instead I find myself jarred from sleep a few hours later by what seems to be the tolling of a bell. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then I had to walk you all the way home which took hours because I knew you wouldn’t go on the bus again. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Nhamo still helped, but she spent several hours a day with the old man, learning to read. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked the city again, for hours at a time, Pearl strapped to her back in a sling she’d fashioned from an old silk blouse. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

If we were training for a fight or a tournament, we would extend the training time to two and a half hours. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We stayed there two hours in ecstasy, running through the huge rooms ... and trying to read the exterior inscriptions in the moonlight. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was 1320 hours, twenty minutes past one o’clock civilian time. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When Adam left Kate’s place he had over two hours to wait for the train back to King City. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the image seemed to be fading, especially when compared with the forest full of villagers and the tiny house and horse barn she’d left just hours before. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within twenty-four hours the small provincial society world knew that an authentic count had arrived in their midst. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex killed a couple of hours knocking a few balls around on his uncle’s snooker table—and then felt vaguely guilty when Jack caught him at it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sass said good-bye to nothing and counted the hours until our departure. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

After hours of questioning, her inner shrew finally emerged. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The last hours of the night were long. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, when I was around five years old, my gran left me at home for a few hours to go run errands. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “The lady at the cafe says you’ve been here for 2Vi hours, and when she tried talking to you, you were in a complete trance.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That’s fifty-four hours and two minutes of thinking, if you count sleeping time, which I do. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I reached level eight, I was spending three or four hours at the gym every day after school. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I talked to Ross for hours, explaining what I was about, cautioning him not to relate anything that he did not want to divulge. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been doing this for hours, and it wasn’t getting me anywhere. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Two hours later we’d been up and down our street and had a handful of new names on our petition. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, once the sardines were ready, tens of thousands of them glistening in the refracted light, the fishermen would cinch the net and haul them in. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I stood at the window for hours that first night. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

For hours she watched the rapid sequence of textures that flapped like streamers outside her window: vast latifimdios, provinces of royal palms, black mountains encircled with clouds. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

With a bit of luck, Malfoy would be getting his comeuppance in a few hours’ time. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Me, well, all I kept telling myself was, two hours. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Gale and I watched it rise as we hunted into the late hours. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

All she knew was that the doctor had prescribed a certain diet, hours of rest to be rigidly adhered to, and cod-liver oil twice a day. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was three hours into our walking before a stock-looking black car finally pulled to the shoulder in front of us and slowed to a stop. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And if I was thirsty, I couldn’t imagine what Otto felt, used as he was to getting milk every couple hours. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now, with only several hours left until he took the oath of office, he still hadn't had enough time to finish. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After that, it was eight hours of digging and sifting and hauling to find what was left of the children. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was alive and sizzling and could usually be found in the library, where I was still spending most of my lunch hours. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Everything was just as it had been a few hours ago. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The twins had come with reluctance from the pool where they had been for three hours without a break. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The four of us leave at the end of the night with this look of wonder plastered to our faces, like we’ve spent the last few hours sitting too close to the TV. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Who would have guessed three months ago that quicksilver Anne would have to sit so quietly for hours on end, and what’s more, that she could? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Alan was a gruff old fellow, for he was long hours in attendance on duty and was responsible for the safety of all within the castle. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s after hours. The bank’s closed. Besides there’s no hurry. Registration’s a week off yet.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the doctor’s instructions to wear an eye patch for twenty-four hours, I had to take it off. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a child, Blair had spent long hours imagining life in a truly just society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

I had a receiver against my ear five hours a day. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rued the hours that would be lost from their studies; now all her efforts would have to focus on preparations for the party. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Chopping wood for hours without a single bite to eat had been hard enough. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It must be the sleep debt I owe my body—the accumulated hours of missed rest over the past four days. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was after twenty-two hours when he got back to the flat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He spent hours crawling over the statue, which took up most of the lower deck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her shoulders slumped, as if she were tired, though they were only a few hours into the morning. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Jesse and I spent hours roaming the stacks, paging through books. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She waited several hours at the State Department before learning that Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby had already signed the document. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

After many hours of walking, we arrive at the same spot where we were dropped off months before. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had meant to sleep only a few hours, but I woke with a start the next morning to find sunlight pouring in and the clock reading five of nine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But Pembroke knew exactly whom to call: those high school kids from Lakeside who had been running up thousands of hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

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

He wanted it to be morning, wanted to be done with the threat of dreams for at least a few hours. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I stayed up and listened to them until the last tones of the hound’s voice died away in the daylight hours. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the Wal-Mart payroll manager who goes into the computer and shaves his employees’ hours to make his own performance look better. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Soon, I’m out in that sunshine, with bus money in my pocket, responsible for no one but myself for four whole hours. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“At least a couple hours. It wandered away a little after the sun came up.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He said he hadn’t had a ride in two hours and he was planning on going home anyway. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Morning, Matt,” he said, like nothing had happened a few hours before. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Not for nothing had Julius spent hours with Boots, learning his language, translating it for the princess. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her little black husband crouched like a cat by her right shoulder, and for many hours he seemed as still as she. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I have been here in the garden for hours.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s after hours,” I said; “Where?” said Finny with interest at the same time. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We sat in my front bay window, talking for hours, when all of a sudden you and one of your friends—hi, Zach!—came walking up the street. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Anybody who has seen two episodes of The Shield knows that if a perp isn’t identified in the first forty- eight hours, the likelihood of nailing him is cut in half. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Though dawn was just a few hours away, the Slat was wide awake. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Harry did not get the chance to speak to Mr. Weasley, who was working very long hours at the Ministry, until Christmas Eve night. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“For two hours a day it’s just about swimming.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The gym was packed two hours before the game. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

I had been watching TV for two hours when I heard Louisa’s regular knock. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Several hours later a kind old schoolmaster from Overton, walking through the fields, came upon Woundwort nuzzling the cold, still body and crying. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Other men picked up steam as the hours passed, and the aimless, riotous celebration continued. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She’d put in extra hours to make up for the time she’d be taking off, working until two or three on the nights she closed and arriving at nine to open the next morning. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Garrett will be at our house in two hours, and I’m wearing jeans and not a trace of makeup. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But I also wasn't the stealing type until a few hours earlier. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

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

In the fourth round, Bobby became involved in a 108-move extravaganza, a chess ultra-marathon that stretched to more than seven hours. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, Mr. Trepid opened the basement door and called down to Dallas. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It takes years of practice to perfect this sound, uncountable hours of lessons, training, coaching. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In a couple of hours it will be over. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Molly figures she can kill at least five hours today. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We talked for hours, but we just kept repeating those same things over and over. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Two hours later, when Frightful again turned the eggs, there was still no movement. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

It was an arduous, backbreaking task: hours of work to gather mere handfuls of rice. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

Her hair, which Henrietta once spent hours combing and braiding, is frizzy, with thick mats that stop just below the five-foot mark behind her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Even counting the time it would take us to go down and come up again, I think we should save several hours. Yes, I definitely believe it’s worth trying.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

They drove south from Rapid City and after two hours crossed the South Dakota-Nebraska border. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

In a few hours, Shawn would be kneeling by my bed, and he’d be so very sorry. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

That night, after talking to Lorena on the phone for nearly two hours, I unlock Olga’s door and crawl into her bed. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It seems like hours, but in minutes we’re at the check-in gate. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“The hairdresser is come to prepare you for the ball. The Queen’s ball, ma’am. You must leave in a few hours.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They required him to dance there alone for three hours. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

She spent hours staring at the photographs and imagining she had been there. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Imagine the bubble for a few hours every day,” she said, “and you will heal.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

‘You need about nine and a half hours at your age, son. Pure, wholesome sleep.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And how will you keep your business while you’re studying? While you’re on the bus two hours a day to and from school? And what about uniforms? And books?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drive for almost four hours, and then I'm out of power. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The tickets you sold. Where did you get them? You mentioned standing in line for six hours.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

For two hours the day had stood still; for two hours it had been anchored in a sea of molten lead. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

For the next several hours the Waystone was the center of the town’s attention. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two hours,” said the Wart—but he had to shout the second of these words, for the sounds were drowned in his mouth by a noise which had that moment arisen close beside them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next thirteen hours, he would not be able to eat, drink, relieve himself, or remove his tight-fitting helmet. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When you had the whites under you, three hours was a finger snap. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I would rather you do three hours of conditioning than for you to do poor technique on your gymnastics,” she’d say. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She could sit for hours with her toes in the sand, letting the sea foam come up to her ankles. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

So I go to bed and, sure enough, within a few hours I awake from a nightmare where that old woman from District 4 transforms into a large rodent and gnaws on my face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the eastern provinces, the Khmer Rouge cadres were more moderate and humane: the work hours were generally shorter, the food rations were larger, and the soldiers did not kill the villagers indiscriminately. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We marched for hours upon hours each day, stumbling and staggering along as best we could. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later we had one of those hallelujah moments that come but rarely on the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It's still early, and there aren't as many cars on the road as there will be in a few hours. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He also said that Barling stayed up all hours of the night, usually in the kitchen, flipping through books, listening to audio recordings of birdcalls, and speaking his notes into a handheld tape recorder. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

If Mrs. Clarke or Lady Constance questioned what they were doing out of the nursery during school hours, “nature studies” would be her reply. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

"Can I borrow your bike for a few hours? It's very important." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danton’s Death was opening in less than forty-eight hours, and they had a late-night rehearsal scheduled. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She’d never loved the city, so almost every weekend she took the children back to Clover, where she worked the tobacco fields and spent hours churning butter on the steps of the home-house. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He endured long hours of physical labor to support his family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

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

Gladys and I rose early to peel potatoes, then we sat for hours in the front porch playing jacks or jumping rope to made-up rhymes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

That meant dinner was over, the snack bar was closed, and I’d slept at least fourteen hours. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It takes her a few hours, but eventually she does text back. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I promised Dr. Z I’d help out in the Children’s Room for a couple hours today.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

To boost his competitiveness Bobby spent hours after school at the Grand Army Plaza library reading almost every chess book on the shelves. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It probably rained, and so they would have sat in the entrance for hours while the little stream poured down in a veil. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was already training twenty-five to thirty hours a week, and I needed to put in more like thirty-five hours a week. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’d spent hours making calls to senators and representatives, trying to convince them that our children deserved better than what they were getting. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It took two hours so I made eight dollars and fifty cents an hour. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

They had also been given only eight hours to complete the course. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

After all she’d been through in the past few hours, a baby was the last thing she felt like. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was a little while later—or maybe hours, I don’t know—that I realized that I wasn’t following any kind of trail at all anymore. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The drive to the Orange Free State from Johannesburg used to take several hours, and I set out on my journey from Orlando at 3 A.M., which has always been my favorite hour for departure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think it was really three hours, but it seemed like a long time. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

For the next three hours, there wasn’t a rapid in sight. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Obstinately, and for sheer escape, he spent hours translating Homer and Mimnermos into English. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You still have twenty-two hours to find the exit.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

After we talked for several hours, he asked if he could take my picture. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The rebels went on with their card games, chatting for hours, and then for no apparent reason they shot a couple of rounds into the air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Everyone in Lourdes’s house eats dinner at different hours, whenever they get home from work. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They had scoured the area until the light became too bad to continue, returning after fruitless hours spent searching Redwall grounds and Mossflower Wood. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Kendra imitated his movements, impressed that his hours of playing army were finally paying off. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The fall colors were soothing and we stayed for hours, gazing down at the quiet valley. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For three hours—until six o’clock—he persisted in the same inexorable vein: that Judge Fielding’s admonitions should be heeded with the utmost seriousness and that reasonable doubt existed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Such pleas, inevitably, were ignored, and members of Congress would gather in wood-paneled committee rooms and spend hours examining in minute detail the Osage’s expenditures, as if the country’s security were at stake. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

February 4 to 9, 1918, inclusive, between the hours of 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. have been designated as the dates and time when registrations must be made. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Vernon Dursley had been woken in the early hours of the morning by a loud, hooting noise from his nephew Harry’s room. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Indians were supposed to work seven hours each day, and to be paid a set fee for each day’s work. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

No one should mind if, by spending only a few hours a week thinking about DNA, he helped me solve a smashingly important problem. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham was allowed to go home after she promised to do a thousand hours of public service. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It made us smile broadly and there was a glow in our chests that lasted for hours. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd had begun forming some forty hours earlier, but up to twenty-four hours before, there were still fewer than one thousand. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture— must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put in long hours at Sidley & Austin, often eating both lunch and dinner at my desk while combating a continuous flow of documents, all of them written in precise and decorous lawyer-language. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Already, in a few short hours, it seemed that he had known Faber a lifetime. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

You had to be careful with elfin ears—a few hours in the helmet and they started to flake. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

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

The athletes were expected to remain in the tourist- class areas, except when exercising on the promenade deck during daylight hours. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was still sitting there when Tristran came back through the gap in the wall, several hours later. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“All women and children have to leave Hankow today. You have about three hours to pack and get ready.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For hours we would laugh, point, whisper, joke, and identify our neighbors by the signs of their physiological oddities, commenting upon the difficulty or projectile force of their excretions. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the hours went by I began to fear that the chimp wouldn’t come. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then into the gardens to help the gardeners in the last of the daylight hours. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When Noah told Dad the truth about Mom and Guillermo hours ago in the forest, Dad simply said, “Okay, yes. That makes more sense.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Alberta went into cardiac arrest and died two hours later. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Within hours, friends and family rallied around her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It will cool in a few hours, and I will give it to him as a surprise. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I study the applications, print out directions, and stay awake for hours after I’m in bed, staring at the ceiling and wondering if this is all really happening. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It took them more than four hours to free the four men who had been trapped in debris, including John Barry, who had come close to dying of suffocation before the rescuers arrived. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Practices would take place twice a week and would last three hours, Luma said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"Syrio says a water dancer can stand on one toe for hours." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

They could swim as soon as they could walk and would stay in the water, swimming and treading, for hours. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

Mom works so hard—going back to school, putting in extra hours. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

They might work sixteen hours a day without pay, expecting only the food they ate and the straw mats they slept on. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shrugged, and we’d keep going like that for hours sometimes. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I spent eight hours a day on a computer, feeding my stories back to the States. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Someone had tried to choke her to death a few hours ago. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

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

I would pace for hours like a caged leopard, viciously cursing aloud to myself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had just been hours—just over a day and a half—and he was already reacting automatically. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

On date night, I got home from school and spent a solid two hours getting dressed. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He bundled us inside like we were two hours late instead of two hours early. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Not Prestige beer or Rhum Barbancourt—the strong, bitter, or sweet alcohol made for men who talk politics and play dominoes into all hours of the night. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As the hours dragged by, we became colder and colder. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They broadcast from so-called wildcat stations, which were secret and unlicensed and kept odd hours. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“We talked for a few hours. Hashed out a lot of things, even stuff from way back when.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

For the next few hours, he frantically searched the airport, trying to find my mom. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

During the daylight hours, they dove into the surf with abandon, emerging tanned and sure-footed, as if they were selkies who had let their timidity float out on the tide like a false skin. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that phones don’t take eight hours to charge.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They had been hours late, but when they had been notified they came fast. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d sleep away the daylight hours, or try to sleep, then at dusk they’d put on their gear and move out single file into the dark. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls had taken turns carrying Tidbit during the last hours of the night, and he was much heavier than he looked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a couple of hours, they talked and laughed incessantly about nothing in particular while they dried slowly. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, he was back a couple of hours later when the R side returned from lunch. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Within a few hours the jungle began to clear, and finally thinned out entirely to another field. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tears that she has been holding back for hours fall from her eyes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For almost three months, he had been kept in detention, guarded twenty-four hours a day. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

"Twenty-four hours from now, Mark Watney will be right here in this room." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only time during school hours I had crossed the boys’ yard was when a flatbed truck with a giant thing covered with canvas and tied down with ropes had parked across the street. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first hours, the drama of die storm kept them fascinated, amazed at its power, wondering when the next peal of thunder would shake the cliffs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But my mama told me, Never turn down a handful of money for a few hours' easy work. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After hours of debate, a vote was taken and the motion to include the women was overwhelmingly defeated. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And to my coworkers, I try not to complain about how worn out I am with only five hours of sleep a night. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A small fire, during daylight hours, that wouldn’t be so noticeable. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I haven’t missed a Saturday night math chat since February, and that was because we had an ice storm and didn’t have power for 106 hours. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And we’ll be sure to make that point clear when we ask for permission. Rules are rules, Amari. If an emergency session is called, we could probably have an answer in about twenty-four hours.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I cherished the infrequent hours I had with Granddaddy. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Frightful had not been fed for ten hours. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Grandma all the time said I was just like my dad, “bouncing off the walls twenty-four hours a day.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘So I’ve been asleep for -’ ‘About thirty-six hours. You needed it.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

After perhaps four hours, his right arm aching with the effort, she at last lightened; the water was a shallow puddle in the middle of the cabin floor. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

For hours I listened to their talk of planes, women, guns, politics, and crime. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But Boukreev ignored Fischer’s instructions: instead of climbing with the team, he slept late, took a shower, and departed Base Camp some five hours behind the last of the clients. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

I had two hours before the next train, and the German-run trains, I had noticed, always kept to schedule. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was this story about a kid in Idaho—two hours away, and in so many ways Utah’s cultural and political sibling. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The grandmother had spent many hours weaving this makgabe for the girl. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He loved the feel and colors of beautiful cloth and he would sit with his scraps for hours under the kitchen table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For six hours she had been slowly prodding The Brain—for six fruitless hours. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

At four hours and thirty-three minutes into the flight, the retrorockets fired. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

Both times she spent hours traveling into Manhattan to the hospital’s business office to ask why she had been billed. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

After several hours of walking, they came to a bigger road where they could catch a bus the rest of the way to Saigon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine spending twenty-four hours a day, every day with her. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She had known Vasilisa for mere hours, but even she knew that being a wife and mother was the last thing the princess wanted to do. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

After several hours I began to get a feel for the place, an understanding of which way I needed to go. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His real self was aware that it was only a minute or two; but his other, memory-receiving self felt hours pass in the sun. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I worked for two solid hours and only had half the lawn done before I needed to refuel. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Two children on bicycles pedaled past quickly, rushing toward something, probably worried about being late for their required volunteer hours. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘Then what were you all doing? You were shut up for hours.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Well, I have about four hours before we land in LAX, so I’m going to sit here and tell you a story of how my life was changed by this “little” high school teacher . The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

After a few hours Matt’s arms ached, his back was stiff, and his eyes burned from salt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The hours for your kind are posted at the back door.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The shark stayed near the boat for three more hours, hitting at more and more infrequent intervals, until the moon was straight over the mast and no light reflected from the hull. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As inflation ate away at their modest government pensions, Elizebeth spent long hours going over their checkbooks, bank records, and tax forms. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Each time, I was back to full health within twenty-four hours. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Two miles, at least. It was about two hours before we caught him.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d invested most of the previous night’s hours into hacking for a name, but I couldn’t find anything. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

No obstacle thus prevented me from talking at least several hours each day to Francis. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“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

The cover image in the local paper is a crowd of people with hand-lettered signs camped outside the police station where Franklin was brought and released hours later. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Smith had raised an additional hundred dollars in less than twenty-four hours! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She seldom stayed long when she found Tea Cake at home, but when she happened to drop in and catch Janie alone, she’d spend hours chatting away. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

In one of the unoccupied bedrooms, she sat for a couple of hours with a plate of cookies. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The doctors could not be sure how long the intricate surgery would take, but they were expecting it would be up to six hours. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It’s late—they got into New York after nine, hurtling into crisis management meetings for hours. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t reappeared in a few hours, an officer would visit us. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every small effort at hygiene was magnified by hours of labor spent procuring the simplest elements: water, heat, anything that might pass for disinfectant. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

I stand behind my door, two hours before the appointed time, because I am a horse and do not tire. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But in Columbus, he and Shin did not have a serious talk, in part because Shin kept Seattle hours, sleeping in until late morning and staying up at night to talk to Harim on Skype. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The two waited all day in the Rusty Ruins, patches of sunlight crawling across the floor through the crumbling roof, like slow searchlights marking the hours. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Not enough. You didn’t say you’d be living in another country in less than twenty-four hours.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The rough seas warning is being extended another forty-eight hours. You know, the warning that kept all the boaters off the water last night. At least the ones with any brains.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing fancy or permanent, just something casual it can slip into during the wee hours. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

No long hours of labor that did little but line the pockets of Devlin and Burton. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It burned for a few hours,” Dad said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just give ’em shorter hours is all....Big deal.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Just for a few hours then? I won’t spend the night.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

During Henrietta’s first few days in the hospital, the children came with Day to visit her, but when they left, she cried and moaned for hours. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Now these have to dry for a couple of hours. Then I’ll take them out, and you will have a full head of gorgeous, shiny curls.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Last year, the state legislature cut Dad’s workday from fourteen hours down to eight. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Though it was hours before their agreed-upon time, she called in case Zeitoun had gotten there first and was waiting to call her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

We stood in the dark and cold for hours; we were counted, counted again, randomly abused—verbally, physically, or both—threatened, counted again, and finally assigned to work. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

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

The harder part was seeing the selfishness inherent in making that choice, knowing that it had required hours of advance meetings between security teams and local police. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I rode my bike home and must have cried for hours. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Finding their way back to the village seemed to take hours. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Dr. Darwin would hold forth for hours at a time at the dinner table and in the parlor afterward with his children and any company as captive audiences. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he intended to vote, he had something like forty-eight hours to get back to Springfield. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then, during the early morning hours of March 28, their floe split in half. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She smelled the thick bit of punk which was given gratis with each purchase and which, when lit, smoldered for hours and was used to set off the firecrackers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in agony from having to lie for hours in such an unusual and uncomfortable position. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Through the long hours of night, a dozen evergreens had fed the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The evening would only get more surreal as the hours inched later into the night. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

As we head up the stone steps to Belvedere Castle, I’m kind of wishing we’d waited a couple more hours for the sun to set for some city glow action. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“If she can make bread, I might give her some more hours,” said his mother. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He stands for some time in the spot where he found Celia hours before, scrutinizing the familiar bookshelves and the wall of stained glass. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Only it more or less wore off in a couple of hours.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Twenty-four hours ago, he was still thinking of ways to kidnap the president. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Only after hours of exercise would he sit down at his chessboard. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So for the next eight hours, it would be twilight on the Fowl estate. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Right now my belly’s already rumbling, and it’s hours till breakfast. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next few hours, tests confirmed she was having a heart attack. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe in the earliest hours of the morning, just before waking up, you’ll slide into your own unconscious mind, but you’ll wake all too soon. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The challenge is tearing oneself away from a venue that has been one’s creative home for so many hours, days, weeks, or months. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her loafers were standing at attention where she had stepped out of them twelve hours ago. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Naomi did hear the truck pull into the driveway seven hours later, the second time Henry came home. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He spent hours teaching Nate how to pour in the gunpowder. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The boy rode along through the desert for several hours, listening avidly to what his heart had to say. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After hours, the deep snowdrift has been cleared and the lorry is ready to take the men home out of the cold. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last, after hours of riding, far away on his right there came a single long streak of paler grey, low down on the horizon. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“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

For a moment, the soreness confused me, forced me to recall that for me, the woman’s attack had come only hours ago. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, sir, it was about two hours after feedin’ yesterday when I first hear my disturbance. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Seaborg’s group commandeered the cyclotron to bombard uranium twenty-four hours a day. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

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

Downstairs, the chimney clock chimed the quarter hours—and I heard a lot of them —until once I woke and the dent was gone and I jerked up and looked across the room. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I sat down in the shade beneath a sycamore tree, thinking of the unfilled hours ahead, replaying the conversation in the coffee shop, remembering the look on Martin’s face when he said good-bye to me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Jefferson had already died two hours before and his last words were, ‘Adams survives.’ Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At this late hour there are no patrons lingering in this particular tent, and it is unlikely that any other visitors to the circus will stumble upon it in the remaining hours before dawn. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He hardly felt proud of them, nothing like the books his parents had chosen for him or the bizarre knitting he was sure Hyacinth had spent hours working on. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We would spend hours playing pretend games about missions to deep space, or landing on Pluto. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Had he actually thought this guy was shy a few hours ago? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lareau and her team visited each family at least twenty times, for hours at a stretch. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“You know, most people don’t lie around looking at the sky for hours on end.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

My dad had regularly received strange calls from work at all hours of the night, but that had stopped after the accident. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They tasted bad and that taste stayed with me for hours after taking them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sapo would knock at my door at crazy hours of the night. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“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

He spends hours with it, putting doll clothes on it and feeding it on doll dishes. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Each segment was supposed to be no longer than five minutes, and Dimple and Rishi didn’t come on till the middle, so they probably had close to two hours of waiting left. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

A gull had been circling us for hours. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the end, Smith said, “I know you got to do your twenty-four hours; just let me do my eight.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After hours of relentless pounding, it finally gave out. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In a little less than four hours I was equipped, riding on big heavy-duty tires of a kind that should have been there in the first place. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stays out for hours but always returns by the time the streetlights come on. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Two swift hours passed, and now the king sat upon his white horse, glimmering in the half-light. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then he finds a parking ticket in your coat, proving you spent two hours in the middle of the day parked somewhere in the center of town. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was a magical place where I daydreamed for hours as I listened to music or radio shows. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hours passed, and I knew that I had probably exhausted whatever helpful information could be obtained from Walter's family, but folks still wanted to talk. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Within hours after the assassination—I am telling nothing but the truth—every Muslim minister received from Mr. Elijah Muhammad a directive—in fact, two directives. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It took three hours to get all the shrapnel out of Kelley’s back and legs. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He exercised for three hours a day, six days a week, sometimes out in the freezing cold. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

You just sit and look and look and look for thousands of hours until the order in the material begins to emerge. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know what an ordeal this will be: no more school, my hair gone, hours of labor, washing the bedsheets . Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

He lasted three hours outside the gates before the legionnaires brought him in to face the Commandant—longer than most. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The men who peopled the grill in the early hours of morning were not just regulars to the restaurant, they were regulars to the town and their family names were on street signs and monuments. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Soon Safina and her mother and brother came to our house and told us it meant we had to stay indoors for certain hours of the day and always at night. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mong guessed it would take at least six or seven hours to walk all the way to Santa Cruz in the dark, but we’d learned our lesson about hitching. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But shortly beforehand, the two men died—hours apart, in the same hospital, of a similar respiratory ailment. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But after a few hours, it was clear they weren’t making any real progress. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Others chewed gum to trigger salivation; Tommy Luther could spit off as much as half a pound in a few hours. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed the hours of night in wakefulness and they were aware of many things half-seen that walked and prowled all about them, and they heard the howling of wolves. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You people don’t know me. I didn’t exist for you five hours ago,” I said seriously. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All were eager to get the journey over as quickly as possible, and were willing, tired as they were, to go on marching still for several hours. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Truman’s cast and crew have been given two hours to set up in an unfamiliar theater, after which the doors will open again and nearly a thousand people will pour in. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

As midnight came, twenty-two hours after she left Hong Kong, Moon Orchid began to tell her sister that she really was going to face her husband. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not the dawn, for that was still some hours off. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Life was a lot simpler a few hours ago when she thought I was just an asexual sea sponge. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The hours slipped by as the three conversed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"Let's just get through the next few hours, eh?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And that was how Miss Kenton and I talked for the next two hours or so, there in the pool of grey light while the rain continued to fall steadily on the square outside. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This bridge was so bad that one of the rules ’mongst the crew was that you couldn’t eat no beans eight hours ’fore we was set to cross it.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He would spend hours up there on the rooftop, watching the Levee District’s inhabitants begin their drunken, violent stumble toward dawn. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We sat in front of Charlie’s house for hours, as the sky darkened and rain plummeted around us in a sudden deluge. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

After hours of waiting, someone was able to dig up a copy of my birth certificate, and they told Mr. Kamara to come back for the passport in four days. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I hug her, because I know these next few hours will be terrible for her. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

Her mother spent several hours every day working—though at first Moody had not realized this was what she was doing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And now it's almost three already and I've wasted these hours and it's becoming difficult to breathe because six thirty is no longer far in the future. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I stood in front of them for hours as they ranted to the passing parades about the wonders under their tents and handkerchiefs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Thirty-six hours. Yes, yes, I know. These things become clear rather quickly, I’m afraid. Have your parents call me if they have questions. Otherwise, I will expect them this evening.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Dorus took the family out for an hours walk every day around the village. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

LightningGirl: when I return in 18 hours I will comment on the topics discussed. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The past several hours, however, had found them afoot. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a Heartrender at the Little Palace who can recite epic poetry for hours. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was drawing on it now, in a French barn, in the small hours. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t be surprised that the Dauntless expect us to hit the ground running, but I anticipated more than six hours of rest before the running began. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

This microscopic analysis often continued until the early hours of the morning. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Six hours, and one miscalculation could wreck a ship in sight of home. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

All they had to do was stay asleep for the next two hours, and everything would be fine. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But I must try to get a few hours’ sleep, as Van Helsing is to call for me at noon. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Their scent, shape, and color became part of her waking hours. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As she clipped on my microphone, the head librarian told me that some of the officers had arrived two hours early. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them, the fastest perfect game ever played, had been accomplished by James Halliday in just under four hours. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Uptight, frightened adversaries only a few hours before, now there was almost a mystical closeness and sense of companionship between them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you took a question to him,” one student remembered, “he would spend hours—until midnight perhaps—exploring every angle with you.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was New Year’s Day, and he was nearly two hours late. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In a couple hours, they started moving the rail back to its place. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for myself, I was treated as a man and not a boy; and the long hours I worked were really no worse than the hours I had worked on our farm. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were given forty-eight hours to clear out. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“It’s not like I’m sneaking out in the middle of the night and running away from home. I just want to go to Twig’s for a couple hours.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He’d make Sam sit in the comer for hours and read Hebrew. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sounds like she’s been waiting to drop this story for hours. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

To ensure the safety of all, rest hours must be strictly observed!!! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But only now did she realize it was because of the long hours they worked. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He went on this way for hours on end, until his mother began to worry and think there was something wrong with him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

King believed singing kept alive “a faith, a radiant hope, in the future, particularly in our most trying hours.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But then he drank too much, and he went home and went to sleep, and I was waiting for him for three hours. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The journey back, with the three limping hutch rabbits, lasted more than two weary hours. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having finished with his coursework that spring, he was only scheduled for thesis hours in the fall anyway. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked for perhaps three hours, talking little because of the steepness of the climb but enjoying being out and keeping a good pace. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And it was all because he had to go check the stuff in the bus station, all because he was stuck with the stuff now for two hours every afternoon. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the past few hours, she had entered a backward world, where nothing was the way it should be. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Kelley had been up for more than thirty hours when a new first lieutenant arrived in the chaotic ER. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I want to get out of here and get back to work, but two long, hot hours pass before Hilly finally bangs her gavel. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I waited for half an hour and then an hour and then two hours. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two hours I listen to giggling and flapping as they entertain themselves with the skittish creatures. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

All his mind was given to listening and nothing else for two slow hours; but he heard no sound, not even the imagined echo of a footfall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And she endured eight hours of labor before I came. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

For the first hours in the cage, Zeitoun’s overriding goal was to be granted a phone call. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Don’t give your life rights away for free! The day has to be mundane, Valmiki. And day is a mortal’s twenty-four hours. Comply, or else you’ll face the gods’ powers.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It would take a full twenty-four hours to harden; but the sky remained cloudless. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We walked for hours through the city, long meandering walks that took in whole neighborhoods which we would pass through without buying a thing or speaking to anyone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not remember the last time he had strung more than three hours of rest together. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

So I didn't know whether or not Gatsby went to Coney Island or for how many hours he "glanced into rooms" while his house blazed gaudily on. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

A plastic jug of water had been shoved in amongst us some hours before, but it was long since dry. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby, feeling as though he were playing hooky from school, had a good time competing in the matches, usually at the relatively leisurely time limit of sixty moves in two hours. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Later that morning LwofF mentioned that Pauling was coming out for a few hours the next day. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He made it to the harbor several hours later. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Death occurs within a Few hours from anoxia, or lack of oxygen. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

You could’ve wandered around in this room for hours and had a field day looking at her stuff. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

About two hours after Prosper and Riccio's return the bell at the entrance rang and the Thief Lord was at the front door, just as he had promised. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The embarrassing truth is that I am just too exhausted to work, especially for eleven hours in a row. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because you cleared the First Gate a few hours after I did. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“At Cobble’s Corner. You have twenty-four hours to claim your prize.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Left to himself, Paul, a slight boy with dark hair, spent hours trucking through the patchwork of fields and residences. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It took me three hours and forty-one minutes to walk to Aaron Black, because public transportation makes me panicky, even though walking over bridges also makes me panicky. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, Wes walked into his room and saw the two shoe boxes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He noticed that he badly wanted to urinate, and felt a faint surprise, because he had done so only two or three hours ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Normally, the two of us could go back and forth insulting each other for hours. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The parade started in a few hours, and the rally was scheduled to begin at three. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t get the whole story. He was only in town for a couple hours.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, Mr. Trepid was spitting mad. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

In a couple of hours, our mom would be home from work, and we all knew it was critical that I started sobering up by then. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Black smoke belched from the camp crematorium for hours every day. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, though, Squire finally got him on the phone, and the governor ordered a two-week reprieve, during which experts reexamined the man and sent him not to the chair but to an asylum. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the small hours he got up and came to Frodo, whose turn it was to watch. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I had just found a few hours of peace at the pond when this attack began. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

All the emotions I’ve held in check over the past twenty-four hours crash over me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

This ponderous world spins on its axis in less than ten hours. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard was not sure how long they had waited before boarding their flight at Lisbon, but the wait at São Tomé for a relief flight to Biafra had stretched to seventeen hours. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I, on the other hand, power walked even during my leisure hours and had a hard time decelerating. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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 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

"Iris is ready to go. The scheduled launch is 9:14 a.m. "Once launched, it will stay in orbit for at least three hours. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for me, I spent the evening hours reassuring the parents and offspring who called me their home. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Four hours and six bottles into the evening, August and Marlena dance to “Maybe It’s the Moon,” while I lounge in an upholstered chair with my right leg draped over its arm. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In flying 1,890 miles, the farthest anyone had ever flown, in 15 hours and 57 minutes, they had become the first to conquer the Atlantic nonstop. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The world outside my window looks nothing like it did eight hours ago. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Hearing Joshua give Rabelaisian nonstop talks of three to five hours made it all too clear that he was an enfant terrible. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Stepson had always been in remarkable shape, but within hours he was dead. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

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

“Visiting hours resume at nine. Nine to nine. Catchy, right?” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The hours tangle together, a mess of night sweats and medicine and not being able to keep anything in my stomach. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, Izzie comes back with his bag brimming with candy. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I want to tell her everything that’s happened in the past forty-eight hours. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But then, two hours after noon, a good open lead reached them, just as their berg began rolling to the side. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

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

Probably watch to hours of TV a day. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

We were on the train for several hours. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She would vanish for hours on end, and then reappear at meal-times, or in the evening after work was over, as though nothing had happened. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Electricity in District 12 comes and goes, usually we only have it a few hours a day. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “Let’s see, eighteen pounds, twenty minutes to the pound— that’s eighteen times twenty—that’s three hundred and sixty minutes, six hours even—eleven to twelve, twelve to one—” He counted on his fingers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once there, we rode the escalators up and down, spent our money on gourmet popcorn from Garrett’s, and commandeered tables at McDonald’s for more hours than was reasonable, given how little food we ordered. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Gradually, in the small hours of the morning, the wind stopped flaying them and began to taper off. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Trying to stop an execution would mean nonstop work eighteen hours a day for a month, desperately trying to get a stay order from a court. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She stays awake for hours after they’ve turned out the lights, prepared to answer him, prepared to lie to his face. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was unmistakably these she had on her mind as she searched over the water, unintentionally mimicking what I had been doing these last thirty-six hours. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Someone suggested that some of the more industrious members of the community “uninstall” the machines after hours. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His entire body felt as though he had worked for hours in the sun. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I ate the fish some hours later, also some bread, jelly, oatmeal, and cream. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I occupied several hours transcribing these cries, partly because they were so colorful, partly to exercise my stenography. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had a vision of anger spreading through me like a malignant tumor, sullying the best hours of my life and rendering me incapable of tenderness or mercy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His name was Van Rensburg and he had been flown to the island on twenty-four hours’ notice after the assassination. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In about twelve hours, in an undergraduate dorm room in New York, he had poured the foundation for the Human Genome Project. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

I stayed up there for hours and I kept very still. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I remember we stayed out there for hours and hours that day. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I slept restlessly and woke several hours before dawn. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Good idea. I bet they’d let us hang out in Davis for a few hours.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t have a moment to really stop along the way. Almost thirty-six hours of drive, drive, drive.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The next twelve hours were a whirling blur of confusion. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the space of a few hours, I had done more than transform temporarily into Ophelia. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The chick had not a chance after we shoved for hours to board. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless they needed attention, and she turned them every three or four hours. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It’s like spending hours opening up a perfectly wrapped package only to find there’s no present inside. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

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

She saw him several more times, always on his bicycle, alone, after school hours. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Over those several hours he tried talking himself into just flying home and being done with the whole thing, but he knew he couldn’t just let his long trip be wasted. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

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

The memorizing was more a discipline for him, like a serious craft or martial art, a chosen kind of suffering involving hours of practice and concentration by which you gradually came to know yourself. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He spent about two hours yakkin’ at my bar last night. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Even though Disney World was only a two hours' drive from his apartment, Dad had decided that it might be more fun if we stayed overnight at one of Disney's theme hotels. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that it takes us three hours to grocery shop isn’t the point either. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

Just hours earlier, the Coast Guard had spotted their boat and lifted them all to safety. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I’m happy to have been helpful after being here for only a few hours. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

No news from Jonathan, and Lucy seems to be growing weaker, whilst her mother’s hours are numbering to a close. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The woman types and clicks for what seems like hours. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Nathan went back to his bed and fell asleep for a few hours. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

All I have to say is, "The crowd loved you!" and it's unnecessary to speak for the next couple of hours. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was aware that his home phone was tapped and his house watched by comically conspicuous security men, who would sit for hours in the front seat of a parked car with the motor running. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This quiet consultation was typical of the hours to come. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

We were supposed to all be together—my aunt, my cousins, my mother, and I. And in just a few hours everything changed. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Who better to keep at her side in the dark hours of the night than the son of the king? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

This was what was left of nature, raw and wild, only hours after the Smoke had fallen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Why they have to have seconds, pinutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, sentries, on and on, tick-tick, whoosh there goes two seconds, whoosh, two more. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

At the University of Washington and later at Seattle University, he immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also kept a small notebook in which she wrote the hours she worked, so that el bosso wouldn’t cheat her on payday. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My dinosaurs weren’t even in their graves for three hours before someone rolled their rocks away. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is easy since he works twelve hours a day. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even imagine going into the kitchen and chatting up Mrs. Bernoffski while she took a couple hours whipping up some crummy European substitute hot cocoa. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He’d play for hours without even thinking about breakfast, but not me. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Nine hours and forty-five minutes,” said Jake, glancing at his watch. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The professionals, on the other hand, steadily increased their practice time every year, until by the age of twenty they, like the violinists, had reached ten thousand hours. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I visited the hospital where Dad had spent his last hours. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The hammering, soldering, and polishing took hours, while Crick paced impatiently upstairs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But I was now on my eighth attempt, and I’d been playing for six hours straight. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"Bengaluru is a few hours away by train or bus," she says. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

What I found out later was that a couple of hours before she picked me up she had learned she had cancer. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

It rained during the night and into the early hours of Saturday morning, leaving behind wet grass and sharp, gusty winds. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But I think I got about two hours of sleep, max, the night before that quiz. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Without discussing it, we shared the four hours of watch together. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We sat like that for hours, listening to the gunshots and the screams in the street, my younger cousins huddled next to their mothers, weeping on and off quietly. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

At one in the afternoon, for the second time in twelve hours, Zahra bursts through his bedroom door. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

She paid me thirty bucks for watching him that afternoon, and she wasn’t even gone four hours. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He spent hours at the table making pictures, but interestingly, Vincent’s family did not think of him as a particularly gifted artist as a child, though he clearly showed prowess early on. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The prayers and the meetings felt like work, and he already had sixty hours of that a week. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Brian, Derek, and the raft traveled one hundred and nineteen miles down a river with an average current speed of two miles an hour, in just under sixty-three hours. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He moved around silently on the days that Master retired to the study for hours. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

By then Adria had returned to gymnastics and was putting in hours at the gym too. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

There was no place to sit except on the beds, but then, on a regular workday there was no leisure time except the less than three hours between supper and curfew. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Danny, who adored him, and who had accidentally let him out, almost died too—she went off searching for him and stayed out for hours. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were only a few hours before the bakeoff, and she had a cake to make. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

Several hours later, coming home from bowling in the early hours of the morning, before returning to the hotel, Bobby sneaked into the playing hall to check out the conditions. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have a radio, and if any trouble develops we can have a plane there in three or four hours. Please don’t worry.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Four hours later I had to report to Himmelstoss with my clothes scrubbed clean, my hands chafed and bleeding. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gale, who is too restless to sit at the table for more than a few hours, has been alternating between pacing and sharing my windowsill. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Gael could talk through the night about all kinds of random ridiculous facts, while Juan spent his days crafting a careful casualness and practicing guitar at all hours. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“You stay in the booths there eight hours a day until you bring somebody in.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours she devoted to her diary; two to working by herself in the kitchen-garden; and one to the regulation of her accounts. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Within hours everyone in town has heard about it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It became known as “the bee incident”—my battle of the buzz that went viral in a matter of hours. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was drinking some, maybe more than some, spending hours playing video games. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dad spent hours in the greenhouse trying to save the plants my mother no longer loved. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Twelve hours ago I received the phone call telling me I’m going to die today. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Finish your hours and be done with it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The women who know teach the men who don’t, my thirteen are occupied, and Siunek is a surprise prodigy, able to finish a sleeve in just a couple of hours. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Closets are emptied and refilled in the span of a few hours. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“The banquet is in two hours,” he says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t been that long, but a lot of bad things could happen in three hours and nineteen minutes. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Each morning, I put on a straw hat and rough gloves and worked in the garden for two hours. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They played it over and over for dozens of hours, examining in slow motion every gesture and expression. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And sometimes you couldn’t get anything like a dial tone for hours at a time and in the end it was easier just to give up and read a book. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quiet at home, I sat with my papers for hours each night. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas rolled into a sitting position, hating that he couldn’t just lie there for another few hours. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She had probably spent a couple of hours getting ready. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The round-trip took us nearly five hours — time far better spent earning money to pay for food, rent, and clothes for the children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that meant hours more of waiting, so he’d say, “No, no, please.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And on some nights, between the hours of twelve and five o’clock, not a customer would enter. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His work hours changed so that they would overlap with the working day in Japan. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t just sit around the bus station for five hours, waiting to be recognized. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

What a dumb kid I must have been to spend hours burying them around our yard, waiting for them to sprout. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

My pay was better, my hours would be more reasonable, and there were other people designated to keep paper in the copier and fix the laser printer when it broke. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I have been driving this Allah-forgotten taxi for thirty hours,” says the driver. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

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

But climb into their saddles they do, for hours and hours of more searching. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours, it sometimes seemed, to get healthy, because the kids were pure and I was dirty. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The next morning, as predicted, his fever was lower, his breathing grew easier, and his heartbeat slowed down; still, that day he slept seven hours out of each eight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“I got home a couple hours ago and my phone was dead and I set it to charge but fell asleep before it came back on.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A farm vet comes by once every few hours to check on them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The headache was on me in a matter of hours and after that, I was quite incapable either of finding my way to a doctor or making myself understood if I had. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He only noticed that the bright and clear inward voice, that had once awakened in him and had always guided him in his finest hours, had become silent. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours ago, at around ten, that wave came out of the second section to the left of where the lightning strikes now. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next hours are the worst in my life, which if you think about it, is saying something. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The storm had been pushing him south and west at eight miles an hour for probably twenty-four hours. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along in the silent hours of night, I was awakened. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As predicted, it took twelve hours to charge the batteries to full. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They almost invariably did their hours on Recreation Duty first, helping with the younger ones in a place where they still felt comfortable. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Derby with concern edging his voice, said, “Isabelle is about to have the child. I have sent Noah to Charles Town for the doctor, but it will be several hours before they return.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew the flower heads would have to boil till midday and then remain steeping in their water for many hours more. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four hours on Thursday after school, six hours on Friday nights and eight hours on Saturday. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

After I promised I wouldn’t copy all the records, Deborah said she was going to bed again, but for the next several hours, she knocked on my door every fifteen or twenty minutes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She commuted two hours a day, three days a week, to her first year of university classes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The cockpit was oppressively cramped, forcing pilot and copilot to live cheek by jowl for missions as long as sixteen hours. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Besides, the car fire had inaugurated one of the most important discussions of both their lives, a talk that went on for hours, interspersed between ferocious Quake II battles on their linked computers. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the way the light had shifted, Jon judged that he had been asleep for four or five hours. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But for the glucose and caffeine tablets in his survival pack, he would have ground to a halt hours ago. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The wide, airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel, so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the loving would come back bpt I had to wait several hours. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had obviously been ill for several hours. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been deliberating for hours whether or not to ask the question—even how to ask the question—and, finally, I just gave in and made a mess of it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It ruled their waking hours, sapped their bodily strength, and from time to tragic time claimed their mortal flesh. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been marching, and much of the time under fire, for twenty-four hours. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following Monday Jenkins informed me that some of my hours were being reassigned and that I was to work on a media advance team. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look a little like sea horses and will ride over land and sky, according to Vivi’s command, keeping their seeming for hours before collapsing back into weeds. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It used to seem that there was the early morning hours when it was cool and then the rest of the day when the sun came on strong and beat down on us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early on the morning of April 7, just hours after the battle at Sayler’s Creek, Lincoln receives the news for which he’s been waiting. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Reading stories would make a fine way to fill my empty hours. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

"Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I interviewed the first forensics expert in the Dan Rather National Guard story, and he was then specifically picked up by The Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Globe, NYT, etc., within forty-eight hours. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

For three hours, Cutie had sat, speechless and motionless, and his face, inexpressive at all times, was now absolutely unreadable. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Probably not. I like these hours. Feels like you could live inside your dreams, have a walkabout. You know?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

For the next few hours, Violet and Klaus searched the room and their own minds for anything that might help them. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Vaughan remained at Bigheart’s side for several hours, until he was pronounced dead. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Or the way Beowulf would rise from his bed during the night and gaze out the nursery window, mournfully ahwooing for hours on end. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He put up with her sloppiness; she understood his need for long hours at work. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They usually picked a shady place beneath the trees, where they spread a blanket on the grass and settled in for a few hours. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was aware, in the night, of thunder and of lightning, although he did not wake; and then in the small hours of the morning he was woken by someone treading, awkwardly, on his feet. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't rely on the prison to get a message to him if the Court ruled, so I asked him to call me every two hours. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

One man was stabbed when he tried to slip in ahead of others who had been hours in the column. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Okay, here's how you're spending your suspension. We got us three hours before practice. We're going to use this time to get you caught up on the way all this goes." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The stars grew brighter as the hours passed and the tundra began to glow, for the snow reflected each twinkle a billion times over, turning the night to silver. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Report to the Hub auditorium at seventeen hundred hours for orientation.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The fact that I went from being a hero to a great big nothing in just a few hours didn’t bother me. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Goggles were a necessity, and a rubber apron, but even so it was like standing for eight hours a day under a lukewarm blood-shower. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They strolled around the cloisters, savoring the peace of the midnight hours. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

I tell the hospital people I’m Erin’s brother and I’m allowed in, even though it’s not regular visiting hours. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we drove all the way to Swindon and it took 3 hours 12 minutes and we had to stop for petrol and Mother bought me a Milkybar but I didn’t eat it. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In that vast space you can sail unaccompanied for hours, afloat on pine and brush and rock. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Even if he got in bed, there would only be twisted sheets and damp pillows as he thrashed and sweated out all the hours of the dark. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

“And spies, and other folk who do not wish to reveal their business during the dark hours of night.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Several hours into our journey to Kiel, at precisely 9:15 p.m. per my watch, the ship was struck by three torpedoes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Theoretically, we should have a full twelve hours of safety from the jungle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Already he had passed them six times, forty-two miles, nearly three hours without stop. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple hours of watching both sides interview white men for the jury, Grampa leaned over and nudged me. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He leaves it up to El Tirindaro, who has spent hours at this spot studying everything that moves on the other side. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Carl worked there seventy-six hours a week, selling goods to local farmers for their chickens, cattle, and hogs. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Three hours isn’t bad! But that’s too long for a bike ride. Let me think.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

At what I judge to be about three hours before dawn, I begin final preparations. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Time budget studies show that they may spend more rather than fewer hours per day at work than hunter-gatherers do. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would spend hours by her side doing art projects. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I program an automatic resetting for three hours later,” his wife said sleekly. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later, Shoto logged back into his account, and his avatar materialized a short distance in front of me, in the exact spot where he’d been killed a few hours earlier. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Three hours after this thing was registered this morning, the wiper motor went. So I went by the hardware store and rigged this up. Watch.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, we were scheduled to sleep for a few hours, so that we would be fresh for the complicated rendezvous. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

How was it possible to use almost as much media as there were waking hours? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Or could the lack of a pinch be more accurately attributed to the fact that the off-duty cops simply pocketed Devine’s dough, parked in a deserted place, and logged eight hours of shut-eye every night? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look around you. Just what the hell do you think they’ve been doing for the last four hours?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“About three hours. How long was it for you?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He played cards for thirty-six hours straight before he left New York, winning a couple hundred dollars. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Then she would've cracked a joke about it taking me a million hours to do forty-five minutes' worth of work, which is why Doris assigned it to me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

For a few hours they explored the moon’s surface. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her Pepperup Potion worked instantly, though it left the drinker smoking at the ears for several hours afterward. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

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

"We had some food a couple hours ago," I say. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

How she’d leave her daughters and son for long hours to go into Guadalajara to work. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed hours since I had passed a car or a house or a store, for this was the country gone back to forest. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day was warm, but a cool breeze came off the water, and I could’ve happily rowed for hours. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m not bringing it to you, sir. I’m only displaying it. My baba made it for me, and I can sit easily for hours on it to study. Have a look.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir, all pilots and officers will meet in the briefing room at 1230 hours.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, nearly twenty-four hours after Venkatesh stumbled upon them, they set him free. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He said it a third time when they landed back in England two hours later. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Neighbors come out to chat after long hours of work as bricklayers and field hands. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

The sun had moved across the sky, and he knew he had slept for hours. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Several blocks from the National Hotel, just a few hours after the assassination, a group of detectives showed up at Mary Surratt’s boardinghouse. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often they would ride for hours without a word spoken, the only sounds the soft scrape of horse-shoes on stone and the keening of the wind, which blew endlessly,through the heights. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We go for what feels like hours and also feels like no time at all. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Bailey and I received one slice each, and I carried mine around for hours, shredding off the fruit until nothing was left except the perfume on my fingers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two aging men saw her through her loneliest and most difficult hours, through the malignant limbo of turning from a howling tomboy into a young woman. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

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

“Someone called the tip line a few hours ago. Said they saw him in Moses Lake.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For six hours we rode on and on along the dusty road, passing several villages on the way to ours, which was a good distance away. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jemmy now stood alone—it seemed hours— while the king gazed at him. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t run into anyone—living or dead—for the next few hours, and Mark almost forgot about the people who had left Deedee behind. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A vote was taken in the early hours of morning by a show ofhands, and I was elected. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jay and I had used this joggling board when we were little kids, spending hours on it in the blazing sun. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Though he has become rather proficient at slipping in at abnormal hours, sneaking out is a different matter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It would be like re-portioning the days, hours and minutes so that there were exactly twelve months of thirty days in every calendar year. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I could listen to him talk for hours. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never spent more than a few hours in a city and found it impossible to defend myself from the strange noises that constantly invaded. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mate and I could keep the house entertained for hours, telling and retelling the horrors until the sting was out of them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know, okay? How many waking hours were you in there? Fourteen? Fifteen? Did you really get to know everything about him while you were in there? Everything about me?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Smith had dropped us off and had gone to spend a few hours treating herself to “retail therapy” at the Fashion Square Mall. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

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

He screamed in pain for two hours until someone took him to a hospital. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

After the hours they’d spent in freedom, it always seemed to Omakayas that she and her little brother exchanged a secret knowledge in their smiles. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Like hell it is. Who called who? And who came two hours late? You’re gonna stick around till I’m sick of you. The hell with your lousy career.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He had schoolkids sign pledges to turn off the TV and devote two hours to their homework each night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was only a few days, hours perhaps, until my heart would stop beating, in truth, and the bees would fly off to haunt someone else. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by the third year my feet were like old leather and I could run barefoot for hours over the rough stones of the city and not feel it at all. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes with his crew, in the early morning hours before Axel and Byrd drive off to school. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

The ride to Boston took just under three hours. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas held Mother through the lonely morning hours, rocking her gently, as she used to do with us. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

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

It thought of food and water, but so many hours were spent just waiting, cushioning self against dread, that it no longer thought of much else. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On 29 January 2016 the South Korean government passes a law giving incentives to citizens who use Mind’s Eye for a minimum of sixteen hours daily. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Weariness came down on him, and he went to his bed where Liza had been for two hours. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if she's dreading the rest of the hours in this day. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, I took my work downstairs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We sat for what must have been hours, all of us who could see out watching the flames, knowing that was where we were going. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And all this had happened within forty-eight hours of my leaving home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need them to remind me of Momma, I couldn’t think about her any more if there were a hundred hours in every day and a thousand days in every week. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

Unfortunately, there are four hours between when I arrive at school and the Social Studies and Science Interdisciplinary Block. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We were stopped near the same pine forest we had been trekking alongside for hours. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The doors open in less than two hours. Then we only have two more hours to figure everything out.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

My new iPhone beeped one o’clock, which is when visiting hours started. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

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

Four hours later, Miss Celia walks in with five big boxes stacked on top of each other. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Several hours later, a stocky man burst through the door. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Indeed, one could hardly believe two whole hours had elapsed when Miss Kenton looked up at the clock on the mantelshelf and said she would have to be returning home. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Next, we had tried the floor, but after a few hours of sitting, my back felt like it was ready to crumble. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After a month, the incoming casualties from the Tet Offensive slowed, and the hospital went back to its usual shifts: twelve hours on, twelve hours off. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

How ridiculous that he’d still be romanticizing her in these final hours. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

“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

They lined up along the raised wooden boardwalk in front of the newspaper office and stood for hours, some of them straining on tiptoe. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The sun was already high in the heavens and the cool morning hours were already wasted. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Muhammad is over there helping out. He’s been here for hours.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She spends a few hours poring over them and jotting notes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Overwhelmed by pain, he lay there in the fearsome stench for hours, listened to the men and animals die, and learned what warfare meant. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It all depended on how much overtime; anything over twelve hours a day was a little extra. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the dark circles under his eyes were any clue, the last forty-eight hours had taken their toll on him as well. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then, a couple of hours later, while I was making a few lame attempts to stir the river with my pole, he spoke up out of nowhere. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was not the slow, rhythmic pealing that announced the canonical hours, but a strident, urgent clamor, a call to important news. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Look, if you want to spend the last hours of your life planning some noble death in the arena, that's your choice. I want to spend mine in District Twelve." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Surprised to see him, she carved carefully for hours and finally she let him out. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because my mom was a secretary and I spent hours at her office every day after school, I’d learned a great deal about business correspondence. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She used to shake for hours after the Commandant made her scale the cliffs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I used to sit in my closet and pry open the paint can and stare into the shiny pink circle and was mesmerized for hours. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His new wife's family had agreed to spend the last few hours with Herbert before the execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As Mr. Gitney and Bono descended, I could see in the lineaments of their faces that the ride of hours had not been passed in idleness, but rather marked by contest of will. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She locks herself in her bedroom and cries for two hours. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When beggars came to the temple from down the mountain, Father Cham received them as if they were visiting nobles, feeding them and chatting with them for long hours. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Some hours, eighty or ninety of these flares would go off, one after another, and the night would turn stark and strange in that magnesium glow. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After two hours of brutal labor, during which I whined a lot, I got it all loaded in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of hours’ night flying required, and fluent French, and though they could only take volunteers, they were such a secret operation that they weren’t allowed to actively recruit anyone. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s thirty minutes or two hours, I don’t know, but the house creaks as someone walks down the hallway. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We had not the slightest doubt that these things were saturated in the dreaded anaesthetic which, as Thwaites had many times pointed out to us, could put you to sleep for hours at a stretch. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for two and a half hours before dinner and two and a half hours after dinner, I'm in my room going through the names from my crumpled stolen list. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she smacked it down on the counter and said, “That SmartMart outside of town is going to be open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. A Supercenter is what they’re calling it.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

"Dad, I hate to tell you this, but visiting hours are Saturday. They only called me up here because you came from so far away." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Or she would spend hours on the phone talking to her friends, about which violin teacher was good and which tutorial was a waste of money. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, a pile of scrap metal stood in one corner of the clearing. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I was hoping to volunteer a few hours a week, but this new job is keeping me too busy.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“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

I told Patrick and Sam, and we made plans for a Sunday night, and about two hours later, Mary Elizabeth walked up to me in the hall, and said, “What time Sunday?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Marco spends the first several hours of opening night taking surreptitious glances at his watch, waiting impatiently for the hands to reach midnight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Here’s one way to rewrite it: Although she’d gone shopping only a few hours before, Ms. Hubbard found her cupboard bare. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For more than twenty-four hours we retreated and attacked, using the arms and ammunition from those we had killed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I fed him more of the custard and the soup, about every two hours, and he seemed to be hungrier each time. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dr. Yee explains that this is because the days are getting shorter, so we have to make the most of the daylight hours. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He would spend whole hours with Rebeca in the parlor listening to the music on the pianola. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

After several hours, I had the good luck to kill a rabbit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

OK,Jeffrey left there two hours ago, and he just vomited. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lunches lasted three hours, and he made paper airplanes of the homework he was supposed to supervise. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t often do his volunteer hours with his friend because Asher frequently fooled around and made serious work a little difficult. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen this look on his face before, and I knew exactly what “some time” meant: hours and hours. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“You said it would be six and a half hours—it’s almost seven.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It took less than forty-eight hours to subdue the city. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could lose myself for hours arranging typeset, inking and oiling the presses. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After several hours, the white trees began to thin, and then they were through the serewood and walking between two low rough-stone walls, along a high bank. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rest hours: From 10 P.M. to 7:30 A.M.; The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I lived then in a shack in the southern desert mountains of New Mexico, and the drive between the boat and the shack took almost exactly thirteen hours on Interstate 10. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Thus he sat by her many hours of the day, and they did not talk much for she was faint, and besides there had never been talk between them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Except for their brief meeting with the children, Number Two had not left her computer, nor Mr. Benedict his desk, for hours. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They labored together so closely for such long, unbroken hours that it was understandable that their contributions to the finished product blurred into one another. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They would stand there for hours, the water to their shoulders, with a panoramic view of their city in flames. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Just hours ago, we had all been drifting off to sleep, and now our lives, our families, our people, were torn apart. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

C.P. arrived home a couple of hours before dawn to find his wife, Mary, still awake, sitting up in bed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

February 24—and there's been an update every twenty- four hours right up to yesterday. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My few free hours belong to my mother. I’m all that she has.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know George’s mother is coming back in two hours, so we don’t have much time. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was one thing to maintain liaison with the Lord, and they were all in favor of that; it was something else, though, to have Him hanging around twenty-four hours a day. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m just filling in for a couple of hours for Mike.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Why had Chess thought that it might, just because another eight hours had passed since the last time he’d looked? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It took several hours to make the climb back up. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

For a few hours the fires will burn, and then the Germans will swarm like ants back to their positions and fight for another day. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

Even reduced to ten names each, the recitation lasted for almost two hours. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Well,” says Radar, “the good news is that we will be stopping. The bad news is that it won’t be for another four hours and thirty minutes.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, I am dressed in what will either be the most sensational or the deadliest costume in the opening ceremonies. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But he was ushered home to bed after only a few hours, consoled with promises that he could go back the next weekend, though he anxiously recalls how quickly it disappeared before. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"I'd like to be able to set my own hours at the salon." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Away from the office, Barack and I talked endlessly, over leisurely walks around Hyde Park dressed in shorts and T-shirts and meals that seemed short to us but in reality went on for hours. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We were there for three hours, and I couldn’t take it anymore. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For, although the distance between them was something less than two hundred miles, the train meandered to points far out of the way and stopped for long hours at certain stations during the night. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We take the subway to parts of the city we’ve never been to and walk the neighborhoods for hours, combing through the sidewalk clearance bins for important pieces, amulets, future totems of the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our last day, a few hours before we were to leave Munnar, I hurried up the hill on the left. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

After what seemed like hours, the box was open. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In a few hours you’ll be nice and full again—just in time for dinner.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Glucose levels were monitored by testing urine, which could only measure glucose present in the blood eight hours earlier. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He was getting, he judged, three meals in the twenty-four hours; sometimes he wondered dimly whether he was getting them by night or by day. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

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

To undermine their effort, one of the district commissioners ordered the warden to install two gas stoves near the women’s cells and to hire six women to cook ham and bacon twenty-four hours a day. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And I definitely spent the last seven hours of my life as a normal person tucked underneath it. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he can spend another few hours being interrogated about Hudson? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

After two hours we saw huts dotting the sides of the road. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

We slept long hours, the rain drumming against the walls, the angry rolls of thunder galloping over our zinc roof. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The feasting and drinking went on for hours. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He marched solemnly by her side as she gave out mugs of hot soup to the grateful sentries that watched through the night hours. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The old man could not know that he was giving Blanca something that would later be her only means of survival, as well as her sole comfort in the sad hours to come. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would talk to her for hours at a time, and leave booklets and leaflets and magazines for her to read. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“I think Shakespeare said it best in act two, scene two of his play The Merry Wives of Windsor: ‘Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.’” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

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

It’s supposed to cool and set for several hours before the so-called treat gets decorated with pistachios and coconut, then cut into something like bar cookies. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

My task consisted in attending meetings until the late hours of the night, taking part in discussions, or lending myself generally along with other Communists in leading the people of the South Side. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When at last the blackness passed, Sam looked up and shadows were about him; but for how many minutes or hours the world had gone dragging on he could not tell. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

For hours, and sometimes for days, I fell without realizing it into the private explanation of the world. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I try to think of my life in hiding as a movie that will be over in three hours. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

We shifted gears a little bit after that, and when I checked the clock, it'd been three hours. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“But in that case—I mean, if you are known to be slow—it wouldn’t be surprising if, say, you voluntarily gave up your five hours with the Bodleian alethiometer....” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The phrases irritated her, reminding her of countless hours spent huddled over her books, feeling as though they were only mocking her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bar had been closed for hours and the only thing waiting for Jimmy would be trouble. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

It went on for what seemed like hours. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Norwood returned to Bermuda with his family, becoming a successful planter and devoting his leisure hours to his first love, trigonometry. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“No . . . I just got to London by train a few hours ago.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Why go sit on a bike for hours, then go eat pancakes and sausage and eggs and bacon and everything on a menu? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Several hours later, his first wife, Alice, died in his arms from kidney failure, a day after giving birth to their daughter. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I realize I don’t know exactly what my mom did during the hours we were at school, mainly because in the self-centered manner of any child I never asked. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Was I very gleeful, settled, content, during the hours I passed in yonder bare, humble schoolroom this morning and afternoon? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was the small hours of the morning, when the parking lot was empty and the streetlights were still on. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I spent some of my endless hours of leisure learning to shoot a gun, which I thought might come in handy someday, if not in the war then back on the streets of New York. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The still, lifeless faces of men who had shared food with me, laughed and joked only hours before, men whose voices I would never hear again. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the 2nd Wednesday in October we get out of school 2 hours early for a teacher-work day, and Cherish drives us back to the Pet Hut to meet with Claire. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He plunged his bare hands right in and started scrubbing, but Annabeth and I had to suffer through hours of hot, dangerous work, especially since there were tons of extra plates. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

On an average night, one need engage in only a few minutes of channel surfing during prime-time hours to stumble across images of gangsta culture on television. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I would have liked to come here during the daytime hours when the classes were in session, surrounded by boys my age, American boys with their open smiles and boisterous voices. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Good, you’re awake. I trust you’ve healed enough over the past few hours to be a little more coherent, and a little less miserable.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Jonas slept near the little stove, waking every few hours to add more wood. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was only her first full day as a licensed driver, and she’d been gone for three hours. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

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

Precisely what Booth told Cox on the front porch—and during the next few hours they spent together in the house—remains a mystery. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It took us hours to get back on the right path, or at least, the path we hoped was the right one. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the little notebook she carries around, Molly has carefully recorded her time: four hours one day, two the next. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He doubted you could game during work hours, or scarf new software from the Web, “bum” a friend’s CD, or go on ICQ chat lines and trade funny commercials with friends you’d never met. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two hours of half sleeping and half reading, I roll out of bed and shower. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Tired and hungry, Wild devoured a seal steak as he described their nine hours of searching the coastline. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know where he’d been but certainly he hadn’t been grocery shopping for four hours. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Alexa texted him hours ago and said we needed to talk ASAP. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I was once following this CountDowners feed where this Decker met a Last Friend, and she was slow about updating, sometimes for hours, to the point where viewers in the chat room assumed she’d died. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“At Michigan, I was probably programming eight or ten hours a day,” he went on. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But then again, it seems hardly worthwhile to speculate greatly on such matters now when one knows one will, in all likelihood, be talking face to face with Miss Kenton within forty-eight hours. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

We offer “mothers’ hours,” he told me, meaning that the workday was supposedly over at three—as if to say, “With a benefit like that, how could anybody complain about wages?” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Neel would never forget those long days of studying, spending hours first in the classroom, then in Headmaster’s office, and finally at his desk at home. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to count how many hours we had spent in the prison box, and wondered how many more we had to go. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I wonder about the existence of God because, unlike my grandparents, I live much of my day in a secular city where I do not measure the hours with the tolling bells of a church. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except that panic would be coursing through him for the entire eight hours because of where the car was going. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

I spent hours glued to our window, watching the goldfish glide in slow motion, stirring the jade green plants with its delicate fins. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Scheduled flights were delayed by hours, security took an unprecedented length of time, the flight itself was terrifying, but on Saturday morning when Aimee woke up, her mother was standing in her bedroom doorway. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

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

The day ended, and the night passed with cold rain whispering over the sea all through the dark hours, and a grey dawn. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Last Friend app is designed for lonely Deckers and for any good soul who wants to keep a Decker company in their final hours. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Three hours later, just after nine o’clock, the Carpathia docked in New York City in a thunderstorm. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

The sun rose, the room began to get unbearably hot, the hours passed, and the sun set again. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

At first everyone attributed their absence to a routine railroad delay, but as the hours passed, Burnham’s anxiety grew. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

“We made it. Forty-eight hours of freedom and beauty, looking right at us.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A luggage carrier strapped to the roof was piled high with trunks, suitcases, and whatever cargo Bull deemed necessary for the first few hours in their new house. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had only been a few hours before that Jordan had actually been smiling. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t like the vandals who broke into the school at night. This was done during school hours.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In extremis they blindfolded me and held a loaded gun to the back of my head for nearly six hours—it was sinister and exhausting and I did go a bit wobbly eventually. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We had a steady stream of visitors as the hours passed. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And after Punkin' was placed in an institution, Mary had put in long hours working at the Duke University switchboard, a tedious job that paid low wages. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And so they spent hours there, watching the birds come and go, feeding them from their palms, exulting in the familiarity that allowed the birds to land on their arms and shoulders. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In fact, he was working harder than ever before, and far longer hours, but he told himself that this was different; this was how all small businesses began. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Violet and I just watched the trilogy for twelve hours of Aragorn. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The hours lost in forming lines and walking back and forth between the factory and Płaszów could be better spent producing goods and making a profit. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Many hours, at maybe 160 miles an hour. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I should go now. I have a shift in two hours,” she says. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had sailed all of one night and a day and most of the next night, taking energy from the wind, with only three or four hours of sleep. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gus and G.H. and Jack seemed far away to Bigger now, in another life, and all because he had been in Dalton’s home for a few hours and had killed a white girl. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

A couple of hours later, Emily came into the auditorium crying. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Like all good shooters, the pattern of Bull’s shooting did not deviate; in fact it was unconscious, buried in instinct, and rooted in long hours of boyhood practice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sexers worked for twelve hours in a row, and then they slept while a new batch of eggs warmed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Trashman spent many happy hours gluing the feather first to one hand, then the other. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The next time I wake up it’s a few hours later, and the clacking of the furnace almost drowns out the sound of Mango’s heavy wheezing. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Even if I’m completely exhausted, even if my body is screaming and begging that it needs to rest, some nights I just stare at my ceiling for hours and hours. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She had sat either staring into space or resting her head on the table for hours. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

It took me about two hours to figure out that the pine pitch wasn’t necessary. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ginny’s O.W.L.s were approaching and she was therefore forced to study for hours into the night. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But I stumbled on a way to pass the time in my room, a way that made the hours fly with the speed of the wind. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The last few hours had dispelled much of the ill feeling. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Several hours later, the doctors released a written summary of the results to the press. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Several hours later she called again: A doctor had come and diagnosed pneumonia. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I will put an enchantment on him so that he does not wake for six hours. When we have got him safely into my castle, he can choose which of us he will have, himself.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You would be ... oh ...” For die better part of three hours they ran before the wind, as the storm grew closer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jaime continued working fourteen hours a day, including Sundays, and took no part in the political process. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we started our chores two hours before class, returning after dinner to help Cook scrub the days pots and pans before heading off to bed. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It felt like we'd been sitting in the boat for hours. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The hours inch by, slower than a graveyard shift on the watchtowers. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It had seeds and petals baked into it in a pattern of overlapping circles—a light meal, maybe, but she must have spent hours on it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

In a very few hours the bridge had become her aerie. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He spent many hours in the hot room watching how the hard sheets of metal, worked by the colonel with the inconceivable patience of disillusionment, were slowly being converted into golden scales. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In fact, some things, like the latest weather and breaking news, appear online hours before they hit print. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

So grand was the procession, it needed two hours to pass any one point. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He would take it out every two hours, put three pills in the palm of his hand, and pop them into his mouth for them to be slowly dissolved on his tongue. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In an abort, Hermes would leave orbit within twenty-four hours. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“The finder will only respond to your eye-print, Tally. Once it’s activated, we’ll be there within a few hours. We can travel very quickly.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We worked on the project for about two hours. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

Each evening the mute walked alone for hours in the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For the next few hours, I alternate between jogging and walking, putting as much distance as I can between myself and my competitors. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Snow fell from the sky for hours at a time and then stayed on the ground for days. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pomp and I were pleased to discover that Vishnoo was yet uneaten, and we spent the hours of our voyage reclined, with the tortoise corralled between us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But Akira and the whole family knew some hungry hours before then. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Though the schedule was grueling, four hours on and four off, all day and night, he didn’t mind. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Instead she waits, executing her standard number of shows, finishing the last a few hours before dawn. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I don’t think it will take hours, sir,” said Charles. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The process will take some time, Dr. Ashley tells her; given that this is her first pregnancy, labor can take twenty-four hours, sometimes more. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

On weekend evenings they gathered around the old upright piano in the club’s parlor and sang for hours as Don Hume tore through jazz tunes, show tunes, blues, and ragtime. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

My confidence soared; if I obtained an appointment as a regular clerk, I could spend at least five hours a day writing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Like it’s difficult to drive three hours to Chicago, answer some questions, and drive back? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I called O’Dell, and a couple of hours later I heard the familiar rumble of the garbage truck pull up to the shop. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She is the prettiest and strongest and funniest person who ever spent twenty- three hours a day alone in a basement. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

On top of his other responsibilities, Barack lived with a ticking clock, one that incessantly reminded him of the minutes and hours remaining before the March primary. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Forty hours ago, I laid out a plan for tracking Day to Commander Jameson. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The man on his back was a stranger, unfamiliar with his quirks, with only a few hours of preparation and conflicting advice on how to ride him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I cleared extra hours for the jeep and driver. If you want, you can see Poshora." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After further dismembering him, she spent several hours burning the pieces in a stove. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For hours on end the whir of the spinning wheel and the twang of the loom were the only sounds. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Clouds would roll into her eyes, and she would talk nonsense for hours. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we’d spent hours talking about politics over a traditional Bosnian meal, she wanted to take me shopping in Dublin and show off her adopted city. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A few hours ago he wouldn’t have thought it was possible to sleep when your life was in grave danger, but he’d actually fallen asleep, cradling Gulliver close to him. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Forty-eight hours, starting with oatmeal and prison coffee and a guard named Wilson who tapped Shadow harder than he had to on the shoulder and said, “Shadow? This way.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

I had eight hours before I had to be at school. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He spent hours each day running around the house measuring the angle of things with his new steel protractor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There were about a dozen watches in the window, a dozen different hours and each with the same assertive and contradictory assurance that mine had, without any hands at all. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d sit there and stare for hours as Warcross images rotated on its side, my skinny legs swinging, until dawn came and the sunlight would bathe me in gold. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By 10:00 A.M., six and a half hours before the race, a vast, agitated throng was already banging up against the fences. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mixture is a little soft, but as Elizabeth pours the ice cream into ziplock bags, she assures me that a few hours in the freezer at home will make the texture perfect. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The old man heard the fight between the boy and his father a few hours earlier. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paul arrived a few hours late with scraped palms and a black eye. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

That should provide hours of calm and keep us clear of any poisonous residue. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I briefly considered searching for a key—it had to be here somewhere—but I could’ve wasted hours looking, and the lock was so decayed that I wondered if the key would even work anymore. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Though the people who work there are not on the premises after hours, any sound we make might travel through the walls. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We spend the next few hours being shown all the Miss America memorabilia. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

After four hours of driving, sandwiched by yellowed cow pastures on each side, we were almost there. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Home from the hospital, I sat for hours by his bassinet and absorbed his mysterious perfection. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We just got off the phone with Ms. Ofrah, who said the grand jury will announce their decision in a few hours. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Radar and I have agreed to keep drinking it until two hours before our rest periods. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was gone eight, they had been in the wood for more than two hours. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

For long hours she was suspended between sleep and wakefulness. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spacecraft sat on the moon for hours and Vonetta and Fern wanted to go outside and run around with the chickens before the sun went down. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I am in labor for seven hours, the agony so great in the last stretch that I wonder if it’s possible to split in half. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

“Is that everyone’s problem? That our enemies might have a few hours to reflect on the fact that they’re dying, instead of just being blown to bits?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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

That meant he still had hours to go before he had to explain about the dog. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I looked down at the bloodied face of Narciso, and I almost felt relieved of the terrible tension my fevered body had carried for so many hours. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, having spent three hours preparing the way, they were not far from coming to the point. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stuart’s been sitting on the porch for almost two hours now. He’s waiting on you.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He sat with Morrie and Charlotte for nearly two hours, patiently answering their questions. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With hours left in the school year, I have suddenly become popular. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When no one came over, Maribel and I watched television, hours and hours of it, finding small comfort in its ability to numb, to keep us from losing our minds. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

So tired every bone in his body was aching, he wanted nothing more than to sit here, undisturbed, for hours and hours, until he fell asleep and didn’t have to think or feel anymore. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“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

But they had already waited so long, what difference could a few hours possibly make? The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

After all that work and all those endless hours, it seemed silly. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I wonder how long we’ll sit here with Malachy and Eugene hungry at home, hours from the porridge, which Eugene didn’t eat anyway. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Before long, my brother and I were on our way to boarding school, which was about three hours away by bus. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I spent a couple of hours visiting the seedier taverns around the University, making casual conversations, asking casual questions. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They kept on, largely in silence, for the next few hours. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Tatterfell came upon us hours later, took a good look at my reddened cheeks and the tears in my eyes, and then ran for Oriana. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"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

Work, more work, then a few hours of exhausted sleep before returning to the museum at dawn. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The rest of the month I spent my lunch hours working on English with Mr. Lema, my best friend at school. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And, if I wanted to stretch, there was a conservatory in Seattle, which was only a few hours’ drive. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry, however, was shaken awake several hours earlier than he would have liked by Oliver Wood, Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Meggie and her mother stayed in the village while Mo and Elinor went in the taxi to the nearest town, and came back a few hours later driving the two small buses they had rented. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even at the speed of light, it would take seven hours to get to Pluto. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were gig flyers taped all underneath it, and Moss wanted to come back, to spend hours reading them all, to see if they’d ever been at the same show and didn’t know it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A few hours later voices in the living room awakened Gay. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Sleep and be separated for some few hours from all the torments you have devised for yourself.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Doctors had worked on his foot for seven hours, but finally they gave up. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Still six hours ahead of them, at the speed they were making. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The waiter said the same thing. But I’ve been waiting for hours.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Now I had only a few hours to decide. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

Stephanie and Rose volunteer to monitor Evelyn’s movements in the hours before the escape, and to report any unusual behavior to the Amity compound by two-way radio. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He had been in the classroom six hours and had only finished two rows of desks and chairs. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had entered Ghana without visas, and we spent hours waiting for permission to enter that country. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

During their time at Auster’s palace, Jason had watched Piper and Hazel spend hours sword fighting—something Piper had never been interested in before. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Folks come in here to buy a nickel’s worth of postage and think they can spend the next three hours and thirty-three minutes turning the Clutters inside out. Pickin’ the wings off other people. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The volcano with a bright halo at the rough center of the disc was observed in eruption just fifteen hours before this image was acquired: it has since been named Prometheus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't sleep a moment and just scratched on the leather for hours at a time. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, all about where we stood and who did what to us. Took hours and I was sweating so bad I thought I would die.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a little encouragement was needed to get the final soldering accomplished in the next couple of hours. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He’s returning a box of borrowed files to his dad’s office in the Dirksen Building after hours when he hears the faint sound of Muddy Waters from the floor above, and it hits him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Usually, if the call was to be connected at all, it would happen within twenty-four hours. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

For two hours and twenty-two minutes Roy remained as stationary as a plaster statue on that mountainside, until one of his teachers found him and led him safely back to the group. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In the hours while Turner read to his father—he was full along in The Descent of Man—his mother loudly packed. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

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

For the next two hours we ascended an incline pitched as gently as a beginner’s ski slope, eventually arriving at the bergschrund that delineated the Khumbu Glacier’s upper end. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, we’d have two hours of physical training—PT—every afternoon, and we’d have to pass a physical performance test in our last week. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, when news of Nox’s departure spread, she received notice that the last Test had been canceled. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In two hours I will walk to the fear landscape room with the other initiates, go through my fear landscape, and become Dauntless. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Sure, they weren’t supposed to call her at work unless it was an emergency, but they hadn’t heard from her in over twenty-four hours and that was emergency enough. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It had taken us four hours to get to her house. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every two hours until morning the cook served another round of seal steaks to keep up the men’s strength. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Thomas, uncomplaining though he was, had mentioned the headaches that afflicted him after hours of work. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How are we going to keep up with it all and go to school? Look at all these clothes. It’ll take me hours to go through them all.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the case of a text, the information lost one- quarter of its value in ten minutes and half its value in five hours. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then she was given dinner with all the nice parts left out and sent to bed for two solid hours. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

For several hours all they heard were the light tap of their footsteps and the scraping sound of Ripred’s teeth on a bone he’d saved from lunch. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He treks for six hours across the heath in the snow and the rain to get to the train. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She’s twelve years old and works as a maid for mestizos in Quito, about two hours away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And when he forgave her and came back—the hours they’d spend just talking, just telling each other everything... The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A strike based on a political grievance rather than on clear-cut issues like higher wages or shorter hours is a more precarious form of protest and demands particularly efficient organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's nightfall again, a good forty-eight hours since the soldiers marked my mother's door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“It probably takes six or seven hours to get here by griffin,” the elf said. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Hours upon hours he had watched birds from his pen, quivering at the sight of them slicing the sky as recklessly as the lightning he often saw on summer evenings. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He slept heavily for several hours on the bus, woke and daydreamed, napped a little more, woke again at a rest stop and ate a bowl of pea soup. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house phone rang about two hours later. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Me? Fine. 1 mean, yes it sucks, but you know. It’s not like I knew her. Collectively I spent maybe a couple of hours with her. Seriously, I’m cool.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The sun wouldn’t go down again until around seven at night, which gave me twelve hours—plenty of time if I walked along swiftly. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t blame him, because when he tried to calm her down a few hours ago, Amá kicked and flailed her arms until she gave him a black eye. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This involved long hours, late into the night, with barely any respite. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Johnny had arrived two hours earlier with an amplifier almost as tall as himself that needed fixing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had only been a few hours since I left for school that morning, but as I entered the house, it felt as though I’d been away for a year. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I wonder . . . I believe our aunt would recover faster at our estate in Charleston. She could sit in the sun for hours and breathe the healthful air. Don’t you agree?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had read it in a matter of hours, oddly relieved that the names of the characters were never revealed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We could go months without even looking at the dolls, then other times we played with them for hours. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

For three hours I listened to her worry about cake flavors. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But no one knew him here—except the people he’d brought—and he hadn't flown three hours to watch other people have fun. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I carefully drew a handmade chessboard and pinned it to the wall next to my bed, where at night I would stare for hours at imaginary battles. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The name was common enough that Grace suspected she could Google it for hours and not find anything, but it seemed like maybe Melissa had never wanted to be found. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When Hel and I argue, we usually patch things up in a few hours—a day at most. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Several hours later, when Kyril Montana walked through the front door of his comfortable home in an all-white suburban section of the capital called Pinon Knoll, his wife Marilyn greeted him with a courteous hug. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six monstrous huge aurochs had been roasting for hours, turning slowly on wooden spits while kitchen boys basted them with butter and herbs until the meat crackled and spit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were going to Destin, Florida, a beach town on the Gulf about four hours away, with long white beaches and clear water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Four hours would be plenty to start with. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

Gussie was paralyzed with fright for a moment, then he ran away screaming and hid under the bed where he stayed for twenty-four hours. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two hours sitting at that desk, working, I don't think it's obvious I just want to get closer to him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I would stand for hours on the doorsteps of neighbors’ houses listening to their talk, learning how a white woman had slapped a black woman, how a white man had killed a black man. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set my alarm for the ungodly hour of six in the morning, and spent the next few hours trying in vain to fall asleep. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The couple who in three hours’ time would sit in those chairs beneath me in the rose-garden. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Built in 1939, it’s open twenty-four hours a day, so there’ll be no excuse to not get those papers in on time.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They’d traveled for several hours without saying a word when, without warning, a shadowy body appeared about ten feet in front of them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, after a purifying coconut shampoo, Felicia was guided to a windowless room, where she sat for many hours, alone on a stool. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were both failures, she and I. We’d both run and been brought back, she in days, I in only hours. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

After another couple of hours, they stumbled across a tiny village between the railroad tracks and a two-lane road. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Unlike me, he left the theater two hours later, to find a dead man hanging from a telephone pole at the far end of the unpaved parking lot. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was late morning and the Song had continued for several hours. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Count back three billion hours, and modern humans don’t exist—just wild-eyed cave people, all hairy and grunting. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The suit is designed for eight hours of use. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Over the next few weeks, Sophie didn’t see much of her brother, because he was so busy with classes and other activities that kept him away all hours. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mommy beat Helen harder this time, then talked to her for hours. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I spent so much time alone during our competitions, I dedicated far too many hours to trying to dissect what was happening with my team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“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 needs eight hours Of sleep To cool his shoes, The tongues hanging Out, exhausted. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d been missing for three and a half hours, and the entire West Coast air corps had been hunting for them. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

We toil away for a couple hours in the heat, sweating and even finding moments to laugh. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She stayed with Francisco until visiting hours were over then came home, exhausted, hungry, her eyes red. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Today I will be working here, inside the library, supervising the final hours of this competition.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Should I call and face the problem or not call and enjoy a few hours of lonely, nerve-wracking boredom, instead of my usual lonely, depressing boredom? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, it had taken Herrod seventeen hours to climb from the South Col to the summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You figure he hasn’t run for maybe six hours. And all these lights been drawing off the battery. Better choke it up good, Art.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The hours passed, and the miles were covered. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Besides all the cleaning, she had washed and dried dishes for hours in Granny’s hot kitchen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

We talked through the long hours of night. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“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

I put Hudson’s breakup box in my parents’ closet a couple hours ago. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He had been sitting alone for many hours. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Two hours after Mount Suribachi was captured, an Associated Press photographer named Joe Rosenthal decided to go up to the top of the mountain, even though everyone told him he was too late. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After what seems to be several hours, he is back again where he began, at the mango tree. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It had been a day not unlike thirty others, with many neat holes dug in the dawn hours, seeds dropped in, and water brought from the bright canals. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A nurse told us she would likely sleep for hours. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He spent wonderful hours with the clever, beautiful courtesan and became her pupil, her lover, her friend. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next seven hours firemen would pour water into the building. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A few hours. Or just over two months. Take your pick.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

FINN: In eight or nine hours, we will be more than half a million miles away from exactly this spot, no matter which way we go. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

My father worked long hours at Emalia and then put in second shifts at his old glass factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

For a few days, she walks off to work with a little more life in her step and even twelve hours later the glimmer of a smile is still on her face. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan was wide awake and wouldn’t be able to go to sleep for hours. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Hazel felt bad asking them to take care of her, but she’d woken up parched and exhausted, as if she’d lived the last few hours in both the past and the present. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’ve basically been picturing this moment for ten hours, and now that it’s here, I don’t have a clue what I’m supposed to say. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

But it would’ve been nice to spend the next few hours with him. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“In New York, women give their eight hours to the white man,” one of the worshipers said in the poor woman’s defense. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The first great strike of 1919 began on January 21, when thirty-five thousand Seattle, Washington, shipyard workers walked off their jobs, demanding higher wages and shorter working hours. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Charles could entertain himself for hours just by thinking, or by observing birds, or watching sticks and leaves float down a stream. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nonpeople rented for a few hours, a few days, a few weeks. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z