| 单词 | hut |
| 例句 | “Your mother was taken to the infirmary hut last night.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Maddie taxied her little plane to the apron in front of the Operations hut and idled the engine, waiting. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z We walked into the hut, and he went over toward the comer. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was unnerving; Koffi hadn’t heard their entrance, the hut’s flap certainly hadn’t opened, but here they were, at least twenty of them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It was growing too dark to make out faces, hut the prisoner was wearing a shiny steel helm, and when Arya saw the horns she knew it was Gendry. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The outlines of the huts are upon us in the dawn like a dark, deep sleep. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeming to gain courage, she went to the hut and came back with something again in her hands, a bundle wrapped up in a rag. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z As I near my hut, the stench and heat overwhelm me, causing my temples to throb. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all suiface hut underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked up to the door of the Quonset hut and knocked. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take these little hyenas to the punishment hut,” hissed the Spirit Medium. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She realized she had made her own puddle on the floor of the hut when the land mine went off. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I would save the roots and nuts for hard climbs, the places where nothing grew, the emergency should I not find the hut. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Lena’s hut was gone, replaced by an unfamiliar road with trees on all sides; half the trees had decided to put on their fall colors, but the other half stubbornly clung to summer green. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Still, she could believe what she wanted, hut I weren’t no animal and I wasn’t going to eat with dogs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was very much like the main town: shabby little huts, repaired a dozen times, patched with scraps of plastic or corrugated iron, leaning crazily against each other over muddy alleyways. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I should hove bad him killed after be did the others, he reflected, hut the notion made him nervous. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It wasn’t bad up there really, hut as usual Tateh’s contract didn’t get renewed and we had to leave. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember standing at an end window of our Quonset hut for a very long time, looking oid at the slanting, dreary rain, my trigger finger itching imperceptibly, if at all. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z I stared at it—the little hut just like the others was surrounded by that ten-foot-high fence. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her dress was too small for her, and she was barefoot on a dirt road, standing in front of a little hut. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In the moment it took her to take another labored breath, she fell backward in time and remembered another day, another hut. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He backed out of the hut and ran into the forest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls had brought Taylor into her hut and placed her on the palm fronds like a sleeping princess. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z By the end of the week, the girls had managed to erect eight huts, and Taylor announced that there would be a Miss Teen Dream cutest hut contest. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z In the hut in which we slept, there was no furniture in the Western sense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When I neared the far side of the field, an ancient woman emerged from a thatched hut to watch me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Spiders started building new webs in abandoned huts; dust started to sift in from unpatched roofs in golden spicules. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The garden was full of huts and sheds, some so near the old westward windows that they cut off all their light. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He was the only person in the plastic hut who seemed to find my words funny. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I stopped and stood shaking, while soldiers crowded around the hut. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z A toddler gnome poked his head out of an aqueduct only a few feet from the hut. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z So, weakened by their ordeal and suffering from frostbite, the rest of the crew began constructing a hut with the only materials available. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z We took their tags, their gear, and took them to a hut. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Shenandoah National Park has just eight huts, each able to accommodate no more than eight people in comfort, ten at a pinch, in 101 miles of national park. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We flattened ourselves against the sides of the hut, and then Johnson peppered one side of it with the sixty. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But Wang Lung was not afraid, nor the dwellers in the huts, neither were they afraid. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z On the atolls, as on the Chathams, those artifacts were small, relatively simple, and individually produced and owned, while architecture consisted of nothing more than simple huts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I waited for Scott to come and calm me down, hut he wasn’t at home. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He wished Anulika were home, so she would go with him into their mother’s hut. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The family has many fifty-pound sackcloth bags of rice hidden in their corner of the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the floor of the queen’s sister’s hut was a beehive, and we would sometimes take up a floorboard or two and feast on its honey. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This awoke the dogs who were sleeping near the huts. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Their huts were not finished and they were forced to work in bitter cold and storm. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw her mother curled beside her in a hut, singing folk songs under her breath, and she saw the way Mama’s eyes had rolled back in her head. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Then the house, or hut, was left to decay. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She could see the sunlight through the open door of the little thatched hut she slept in, Mary’s house. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I had no problem remembering the way—out through the groves, down the long driveway, past the house, to the Quonset hut. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A guy had just nailed the two ARVNs and the GI who had walked in the door of the hut. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With all of us sitting in a circle waiting for her, Ma nervously walks around the hut outside to make sure no one can hear us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The night before the circumcision, there was a ceremony near our huts with singing and dancing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At midday we saw a cluster of huts ahead and raced each other toward them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z At the sound of her baby’s cries, the woman goes into her hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But there were two men in the mountain hut—Odysseus and the swineherd. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I groped for words hut could not find them. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z At night, vodou ceremonies were held around the shady banyan tree that rose from the middle of an open hut. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z As we sat in silence, the man whose hut we had occupied came in. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We set off out of the hut, walking toward the lineup for work detail. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It seemed we were no longer separate, hut were one. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z They hacked down trees in widening rings around their central halls and blistered the land with peasant huts and pigpen fences till the forest looked like an old dog dying of mange. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z After introduction ceremonies, my mother, the diviner and I went to a hut, where we sat on mats on the floor, opposite the diviner, as she arranged her divining bones and shells. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The hunting trail began where they’d said, between an abandoned haircutter’s hut and a cluster of charred bed frames marking a looted furniture shop. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z My idol wished always to be first in the telling, to regale others with the story in its fullness, from beginning to end, from miller’s hut to crown and castle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z During the evening of their first day at the cattle post, Dimo’s wife brought water to the hut to wash the hands of the men before they had food. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I fetch a dixie and wood from the hut and we crawl into a small deserted lean-to which we use for such purposes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The slaves stare at him, motionless, in front of their bamboo huts. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z These were aunts and cousins and other relatives, and they all had large huts where they kept all their property and ate their meals at night. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z When outside the huts, we were covered in blankets, for we were not allowed to be seen by women. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like metal huts on wheels strung together. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He returned to the village with Baron, and rested that day in a hut. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed the stone hut and the storage shed where Hathaway, many years before, had begun his work. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z My feet slam into the ground and continue forward, hut Susan just falls to the pavement and rolls onto her side. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Clement fled, taking shelter behind the wall of a wrecked hut, but Otto and Mom and I stood ready. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Then we came to a house, bigger than the huts, but made of the same kind of logs. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And the area was dis-tinctive enough with its one remaining hut that I could track it down later, after I’d gotten out of Congo and come back after the conflict. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z From the stone hut came the rich brown smell of baked gingerbread. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But when the sun rose and I went out of the hut, the pack trotted off toward its lair which was at the north side of the island, in a large cave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Others he collected for museums hut slipped into his own pocket or knapsack instead. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z When the knocking started on his hut door, Max almost didn’t answer it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z When her feet reached level ground, she ran, heedless of the dark and silent huts on either side, seeing only the firelight ahead. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was these three huts that I associated with all my happiness, with life itself, and I rued the fact that I had not kissed each of them before I left. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My people lived in small round mud huts with pointy roofs made of dried grass. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “When they come to rescue us, they will find us with clean, jungle-forward, fashionable huts and a self-sustaining ecosystem. We will be the Miss Teen Dreamers they write about in history books,” Taylor said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z All the structures had been burned, except a simple straw hut that had been only half scorched away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z There are a lot of angry noises coming from the hut of one of our neighbors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He led us out of the Quonset hut toward the weather-beaten trees on a hill north of the house. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I count ten souls who live in the hut. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Septimus returned to the door of the hut, hefting his wooden club on high. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z At the conclusion of the ceremony, we returned to our huts, where a fire was burning with wet wood that cast off clouds of smoke, which was thought to promote healing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Only as we were whacking the mud off our boots by the huts where the sports gear's kept did Mr. McNamara remember the three boys he'd sent to the bridge over forty minutes ago. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But none of these pleasures did Wang Lung know for himself, since his feet crossed no threshold except that of his own hut, and his road was always ended at a gate. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He could not stand up straight inside the hut. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Aside from medical procedures, life in the hut was uneventful. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He’d just woken up, the first traces of dawn leaking through the cracks of the stacked logs that made up the wall of his small hut. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “All kinds of words tonight. You know that fellow named Nomland who lives down the canal in the tin hut?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She hunkered down in the dark against a damp stone wall and listened for the pursuit, hut the only sound was the beating of her own heart and a distant drip of water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He took a deep breath and went out of the hut, and his servant followed him with the lantern. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z They lived in cedar slat huts lit by oil lamps and slept on straw-filled ticks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z That night Odysseus and the swineherd supped again with herdsmen in their mountain hut. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Picked it up at your hut,” he said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The air inside the hut is still and hot, vibrating with flies. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z When the roof collapses, the girl continues to scream long anguished cries as flames engulf the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, when enough people had heard it, they gathered in a crowd outside the old man’s hut and shouted out for him to leave. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I hear from the men’s hut almost immediately. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The old woman had paid them no mind as she took Koffi from him and carried her to a large hut in the clearing's center with surprising ease. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He wondered if that hut was empty now. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z While I took a break off the ice and ate a hot dog from the food hut, I leaned against the rail and watched Ma and Yvonne out there, skating around the rink. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Children danced about in the lane in front of the clay huts. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z During the day no rays of the sun could penetrate into the gloom of this hut, and so the wax children were quite safe. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The kitchen is a separate hut, behind the main house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Staying together in a hut would be different, though. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Virgil could never really tell when Gulliver was sleeping, since his eyes were always open and he spent a lot of time hiding in his plastic tree hut. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z They came to a collection of huts set around a neat courtyard. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He heard the child crying lustily from the birthing hut and he gave a leap of delight when he recognized the cry as the cry of a male child. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The hut was warm—almost too hot—after the coolness of the swamp. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It was slim and sharp, hut his wild beard covered most of it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z They do nothing hut thumb their rosaries and recite a book written in a tongue they don’t even understand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Kim slings two empty bags over his shoulders and climbs down the steps of the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors and about ten villagers, all men, were seated companionably outside Dr. van Heerden’s hut. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When I enter the village, I run to Ma’s hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That night the woman went to milk the bird in its special hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I saw children dressed in rags chasing a soccer ball outside the huts. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Gale winds blew snow from the peaks of Elephant Island and drifted it high against the sides of the hut. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z By the time the flames engulfed the wooden hut and licked up into open air, Cole had lost all control. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z We pass shipping containers, caravans, metal huts with awnings, tents and a handful of concrete buildings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I will go to him My path once led from his hut to a new life which is now old and dead. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z She was still sitting in the hut, and the old woman was still sitting a few feet away with her bowl of bloodied bones in her lap. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But the shelter itself—which was like a lovingly constructed wooden hut with one side open to the fields going down the valley side—was still standing, and even had its bench intact. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment when the sky opened, a hot wind, as from a cannon, blew past the huts from the north. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She quickly poked around the dark floor of the hut with a long stick. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing that worried Annabeth was the flock of sheep huddled in a pen at the back of the hut. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The boy calls to his sisters, who emerge from the hut along with the rest of the family. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Telling her to keep quiet, he took the two of them to a hut he had prepared and there they were told to sleep. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z One night Yovani proposes as they sit outside her cinder- block hut. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The door at the far end of the hut burst open. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We lived in our two huts — thirteen in each — while our wounds healed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope you will be my guest today and also sleep in my hut, and tell me where you have come from and why you are so tired of your fine clothes.” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not speak to her, of course, hut they could not help looking over the shoulders of their dates. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z For once they didn’t bother to take off their sandals before entering the hut and running to their father. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z He settles down at the mouth of the hut, one hand gripped around a trident, and drifts into a restless sleep. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Before coming to our hut he had gone into the forest and cut a long, thin branch. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z He speaks slowly and loud I hut I don’t mind because he’s still smiling. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The huts that the Vietnamese lived in were made on bamboo frames and covered with woven bamboo slats and dried flat leaves. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In our hut the faces of my family were somber and hopeless. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “No,” said my mom, “not unless you want to live in a hut.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Pancha left the main house and returned to her parents’ hut, where no one asked her any questions. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She was lying on Siddhartha’s bed in his hut and Siddhartha, whom she had once loved so much, was bending over her. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z He wants to run back to the hut and never carry out this dangerous task again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, in the small, dark hut that she shared with Uncle and the sheep, Mig tried to speak of what she had seen. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The father jumps out of the hut and runs to look outside. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Above Maria Isabel’s hut, there are mostly lush green slopes where it is too steep to build even the smallest place. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z This little grease hut feels like a slice of normal. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The black shirts had torn down another hut to make way for a sound booth. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z When he came across the calabashes of sour milk which the family kept in that hut, he drank them greedily, making a loud noise as he did so. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z A young fellow in a blue uniform waved from the hut. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z During the night, as he slept in a ferryman’s straw hut, Siddhartha had a dream. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can never trust a Cyclops, Percy. Six years ago, on the night Grover was leading us to Half-Blood Hill—” She was interrupted when the door of the hut creaked open. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Of my mother’s three huts, one was used for cooking, one for sleeping, and one for storage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The memories haunt and follow me like my shadow as I climb slowly up the steps to our hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I dreamt about being in the hut, and hearing the VC trying to get his rifle to work. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At night, in the boys’ hut, they begged him for tales. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He explained that it was his fishing hut, where he kept his nets and other fishing items and where he dried fish during the rainy season. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z As I turn and walk back to the hut, she calls to me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mother proudly hung Maria Isabel’s graduation certificate on the wall of the hut. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Most TB patients, for example, were treated in their huts by one of the clinic’s health workers, and the entire cost was usually no more than $200 per patient. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The heat from the burning huts was intense; the shimmering air creating phantom figures all around us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The only covered portion was the ticket counter, a little hut in the middle of an open-air platform. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z So I approached it found one of the logs, and rolled it over to the entrance to the hut I stood on it and felt along the crossframe that held the roof up. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a dumb thing to jump with a knife, hut there you have it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hold-Your-Nose Billy pushed aside a low branch, revealing a rickety timbered hut with a moldy thatched roof. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The white sun sinks in the rosy sky as we gather in the hut. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead, Australian Aborigines were nomadic or semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, organized into bands, living in temporary shelters or huts, and still dependent on stone tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From time to time, however, he rose, walked to the door of the hut and listened to hear if the boy were sleeping. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The storm had buried every hut and hovel beneath a mound of dirty snow, and the drifts would soon be deep enough to engulf the longhall too. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “You’re not going to mess up, Tiara. You can do this. You built a hut. You learned to fish and catch rainwater for drinking. You’re a survivor.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Selling junk for petty cash, our menial jobs, our grimy apartment—the American version of a hut; maybe in America, when Baba looked at me, he saw a little bit of Hassan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z O dark, musty platoon huts, with the iron bedsteads, the chequered bedding, the lockers and the stools! All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His Uncle Eze’s hut was a good place to take her, or perhaps even the quiet grove by the stream, as long as the little children did not bother them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They live in a larger hut than the first family, but still we are relegated to the corner of the room. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A young woman stands in the doorway of the next hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The dogs followed me all the way, but when I had laid him down in the hut, and came out with a club in my hand, they trotted off to a low hill. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just need a few things. A lady has to be prepared,” she said before disappearing into Tiara’s hut and coming out with a strange collection of beauty products. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Arm saw paintings of huts, fields and people. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z There seeing an abandoned hut he entered it, and too faint to light a fire he fell down on the cold stones of the hearth, and lay so with his wounds unstanched. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He stepped away from the light of the hut. “and you look again,” he whispered. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few hours of lying in our hut, the growls in my stomach demand that I search for food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Monomatapa’s people went on in their timeless way, farming, hunting and thatching their round huts when the season of long grass was upon them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He was seeking other consolations in one of the thatched huts around our rancho. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bushes had sprung up everywhere; small huts were completely swallowed in browned grass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For a moment she saw them gliding out of their huts with Aunt Shuvai’s beads twined around their long bodies. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother ran into the hut, her face flushed, gripping an envelope. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “I’m just—” “Come,” she says again, and I feel like I have no choice hut to walk forward and stand among them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the picture was divided neatly into little farm plots, each with its mud hut, each with its creaking well. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The villagers used to climb up to the mountain hut regularly, requesting that Amah embroider peonies or five-colored clouds onto silks for weddings and birthdays. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Inside the hut was a man asleep in a chair, bottle-thick bifocals slipping down his nose. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Tobias hands over his gun, hut when I reach behind me to take out my own concealed weapon, he grabs my hand, guiding it away from my hack. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Actually both of us forgot all about being queens because at that moment an old woman stepped out of a hut and started shrieking and cursing at a man in the next farmyard. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When I pried open the lock meant to keep the beasts and curious children out of our kitchen hut, I nearly had to lock it again behind me, to keep myself in. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z One night, we find shelter in an abandoned hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother cooked food in a three-legged iron pot over an open fire in the center of the hut or outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The chief’s hut looked like any other hut, there were no bureaucrats or public works, the chief redistributed most goods he received back to the commoners, and land was controlled by the community. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A huge padlock on the door protected the contents of the hut, but Bod had long ago discovered the loose wooden board in the back. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z In midaftemoon he returned to the hut Neither of us spoke. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon, after a day in the forest gathering firewood, Chou and I come home to find Kim in the corner of the hut watching the mother go through our things. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "I was chief, and you were going to do what I said. You talk. But you can't even build huts then you go off hunting and let out the fire." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Now he lived in the big kraal with his new young wife, and Pitipiti heard much laughter coming from the new wife’s hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Da-A-Fu, Amah, A-Gong, and the villagers saw them and ran out of their stone hut, flapping their ruined sleeves in greeting. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t touch me, hut our bodies are close, I can smell his scent, clean in this dirty room, sharp and astringent. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Benton Sage sat alone outside a family’s hut and wrote a letter home. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Early in the new year, we journeyed to two grass huts in a secluded valley on the banks of the Mbashe River, known as Tyhalarha, the traditional place of circumcision for Thembu kings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Trails and puddles of blood stain the steps and posts of the huts. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The huts were generally grouped together in a residential area that was some distance away from the maize fields. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z How could the people who owned such rich farms, such beautiful furniture and gardens, modern bathrooms, and electricity to run refrigerators have ever needed to come take over the Soviet Union’s peasant huts? A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z If I did need to warm up, we would reach the hut a lot faster than if we went five miles back down the mountain to the car. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The tannery stood, its bricks and cement had held it together despite the raging winds; but the workers’ huts, of more flimsy construction, had been demolished. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who stood the best chance of contracting TB, which was usually spread by the infected person coughing or sneezing, lived in crowded peasant huts, urban slums, shantytowns, prisons, or homeless shelters. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I wasn’t sure I understood the Senor any more than I understood Archie half the time, hut I said nothing, and I went home. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The raggedy little huts were in every direction you looked. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He rode his horse slowly through the long stretches of green that separated the pastures, asking after her as he went, until he spotted her on the path that led to her hut. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind whistled and the walls of the hut shuddered. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z When he arrived home, it was almost dark and the children had gone into their huts. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z And Minli looked down a muddy path that led to a shabby, rickety hut that looked as if the first strong wind would blow it away. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Conversation in the hut stopped and everyone looked at me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z To the family’s great amusement, Komla would sometimes sing to them in their small hut after the evening meal. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Everybody just lived in grass huts on the beach and had to fish every morning to get their food. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z She removed the small oil lamp that lit the interior of the hut and put the wooden door in place to keep out predators. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo closed her eyes, seeing the three angry women inside the hut. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She glanced up at the dried herbs hanging from the beams that supported the huts roof. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Soon the hut was full of the sound and smell of sizzling sausage. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Polly noticed several other similar huts in the area, but she had no time to wonder about them, because just then Mr. Derby ordered them out of the wagon. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z All the seal-oil lamps were lit, making the hut as bright as possible, and the patient was laid on an operating table of packing crates. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The workers departed, taking with them their goods and chattels, leaving only the empty huts behind. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo dropped the firewood outside the cooking hut and braced herself. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She was born in her family's hut, as were her brothers and sister. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z As the old man ended his story they reached the simple hut where he lived and there Aeneas spent the night on a couch of leaves with a bear’s skin to cover him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In our small grass hut at Ro Leap, Khouy sits next to Pa and talks incessantly. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He runs into his thatched hut, fills a cup, and gives it to Enrique. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I followed Henry and Tino to the far end of the Quonset hut, about twenty yards down through the cool, dark, window- less building. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He wants to drive down south to Evansville to see the Nest Houses, which are these huts woven out of saplings that were created by an Indiana artist. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Peewee was at the far end of the hut toward the wood line trying to get his sixteen to work. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I could sense his presence, yet he was always at the hut when I got back there. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike our family’s hut in Ro Leap, she does not have the privacy of her own space to let go of her emotions. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In silence, she and Mama whisked by mud-brick huts crammed along the Night Zoos edge; other beastkeepers were getting ready too. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z From his hut where Wang Lung lay hid he heard hour after hour the passing of feet, the feet of soldiers marching to battle. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Ron wanted to skip Herbology and go straight down to the hut. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z They kept hidden in the hut, as if they feared to watch, when Ged ran his boat out from the sandy south end of the isle. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Not answering, Kim silently climbs into the hut, with Chou and I following closely behind. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Rage erupts in my body, making me jump and run out of the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So now they had something else to worry about: what might happen to Hagrid if anyone found out he was hiding an illegal dragon in his hut. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The rabbit rice bowl he had taken from their hut! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z We were lined up to wash ourselves at a big trough in a frame hut; everybody began by drinking the washwater. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z At night, Chou and I sit outside the hut looking at the road until the sky darkens and our aunt orders us in to go to sleep. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The local trees, which had once stood tall, had been cut down to be the lodge poles upon which our plastic-bag huts were built. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z But that day he showed up and rubbed himself on the hut. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z In the huts there were the usual bunks, one above the other in pairs, with mattresses or wire netting. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you really think my hut is cute?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z And with all Wang Lung’s pulling and running before his ricksha and with all O-lan’s begging, they never could gain enough to cook rice daily in their own hut. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Boghetti coached her in Italian, hut she found it difficult to master the German lieder that were an important part of any recital. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z It cast a welcome shade against the hut in the afternoon and formed a convenient nook for someone who did not wish to be noticed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The fire in the circle of stones was practically out, but there was enough light so I could see that there was nobody in the hut but Sam. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I had tried to tell her she had picked the wrong exit, hut she wouldn’t listen. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I found a thin, flat piece of birch and brought it back to our hut. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Their hut is bigger than many we have seen yet built like all the others. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “One must die and be buried under the floor of the hut where it was born.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They got a flame thrower and we moved away from the hut. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When we arrived at Tallebudgera we scampered off the bus, grabbed our sleeping bags and clothes, and walked across the patchy grass to the shabby huts that were home for the duration. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z It was no louder than the others, hut it was different: “What are you doing here?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Calling out to his mother, he ran up to her hut and told her what he had seen. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z One by one, they went to their mother and pleaded forgiveness for the humans — hut even their words did not soften their mother's cold keart. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The hut was empty, but ashes in the fireplace were still warm. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The hut—its inhabitants—recedes behind us and yet in front of us, for we are sitting with our backs to the bullocks. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z There were about twenty thatch huts along the dirt road. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The mud huts of the villagers would perish after several rainy seasons, but a Portuguese house was made of stronger materials and would survive. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His hut was warm and comfortable, and for the first time since plunging into Tartarus, Annabeth felt like she could relax. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At some places, an anbaric cable looped down from a bracket and provided enough feeble current to power a naked lightbulb or two, strung out over the nearby huts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z After a bit she lowered the flame in the lamp so that the hut was dim, with dark shadows on its walls. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The prisoners were all inside the hut, staying warm, I figured, although I didn’t think they would be doing much sleeping. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They then escorted the two out of the hut and told them to look around them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When Rupa greeted Neel after school the next day, he tossed his satchel in the corner of the hut and left it there. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z The crack on my head feels had, hut it could he from something as innocuous as getting into a car. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The single room of the hut was dim and hushed. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Harry walked beside them in silence as they went down the sloping lawns to Hagrid’s hut on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “I suppose that’s part of why Perrington is so infatuated. She arrived here in a litter bigger than most peasant huts; it was carried here from her home. A distance of almost two hundred miles.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Now take it to the safety of the hut!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She tells Enrique she will move into the stone hut with him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z To keep them out of the sun, their father made the wax children a dark hut that had no windows. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z We all started to move out of the hut. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Could you please wait for a moment so that I can talk to my family?”The soldiers nod to Pa. Pa and Ma go inside the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I brought water down from the hut, raised his head, and ordered him to drink it With one hand, I found his lips and then guided the cup to his chin. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I went into the hut and looked about me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The little hut with its sparsely thatched roof sagged at one comer. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Seconds later, the father jumps frantically out from the hut and picks her up off the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was blissfully warm inside the hut, and Anya sighed as her cold face thawed. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I stood up, bracing myself for the encounter, and stepped from the familiar darkness of the hut into the greying night outside. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z In our explorations on mud roads around Mount Elgon, we saw signs of the recent trouble: burned, empty huts that had once belonged to Bukusu farmers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She left the hut and made her way to the beach, where she realized that something really was wrong. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She kicked off her slippers and walked barefoot across the front yard and over to Baby’s sand hut. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The girl soon cried herself to sleep, but the strange animal nosed about the hut looking for things to eat. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Above and below the church were our dwelling places, some forty cottages and huts of wattle and daub, thatch and wood, dirt and mud, all in varying shades of brown. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Without being seen by the parents, he took the bird into the hut and exchanged it for the water bird. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z As if answering my call, Kim suddenly climbs into our hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We finally approached a hut on the far side of the village. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth gazed around the hut, trying to imagine how many eons Damasen had been exiled here—slaying the drakon, collecting its bones and hide and meat, knowing it would attack again the next day. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Davi stood before her parents in front of their hut, hair disheveled, face swollen, shoulders slumped, arms hanging like dead weights. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They spoke politely to Nhamo when she ventured from Grandmother’s hut, but there was already a wall between them and her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Never before had she seen the old woman hobbling over to her from across the hut. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He went into the hut and I followed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The camp consists of six straw-roofed huts, very much like ours, except they are longer and wider. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He enlisted five Haitians who were his age—he required that each had at least one year of junior high school—to go from hut to hut in Cange and two neighboring villages. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Looking toward the sick camp, I saw the sufferers gathered outside the huts we had built for them, waving their hands in fear. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “I looked out my side window and saw the field rushing up. We had landed on grass strips before, hut this one was dotted with mounds that looked like waves undulating toward us.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The horizon was still visible, with the dark shape of the hut and its light snow-covered roof standing out, but the complexity of the instruments was hidden in darkness. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They spent most of their free time in Hagrid’s darkened hut, trying to reason with him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z ‘My grandmother’s fields are next to a den of baboons, and she is worn out from guarding them. I am making a long rope to drag the fields closer to her hut.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He found a bottle of wine in one of the huts and tried to buy it for four American dollars. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He lay like a log of driftwood in the hut by the firepit all that day and night. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She motions for us to follow her inside the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And we were expected to endure an arctic winter in a mud hut? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The people in the hut said that he could take it for nothing, but Lieutenant Carroll said not to. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, when they were quite clean, he returned to the hut and found that the host had already started the meal. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The huts were really just tiny log cabins with big stone fireplaces making the whole rear wall. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Tendai remembered the boys’ hut as they walked down to the meadow. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The tents and the hammocks look soiled, but they feel more like a home to me than the biggest hut here. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We had been with our host for two weeks and were feeling better when very early one morning, an older woman came to the hut. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z This huge guy and this skinny guy brought in this big guy and put him on the hut floor. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The pile was a hodgepodge of the things they had worn into Lena’s hut, but also new coats and hats that didn’t belong to them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z When the sun falls behind the hut it is time for me to leave. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They both saw her go to the empty hut and look about her before she opened the door. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z In the hut, she laughs and plays with the grandchildren, ignoring Chou and me standing outside the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A little creek trickled aslant the faded markings and there were the delicate pictorial indications of lowly huts, in one of which Ching’s grandfather had been born. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Mother came inside to make tea, and the voices outside became whispers that carried into the hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z She uncovered an ember from the ashes and shredded little pieces of cornhusk over it and blew a little flame into the corn- husks so that a tiny light danced through the hut. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, when the man was sitting in front of his hut drinking his beer, his wife came to him and looked at the top of his head. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z She carried the cage outside and hung it from the willow tree beside the hut. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We had to go into each hut with little gifts. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We weren’t given any say in whom we bunked with and I didn’t know too many of the kids in my hut. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z So I came out of the hut quickly, and just as I did, he grabbed me. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Neel had been given the entire front half of the hut for sleeping and studying late into the night. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z These men were appearing in films shown in the local theater, which was really just a thatch hut with wooden benches, a small television, and a VCR. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z They listened, hut they did not hear, or care, she thought. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On the way to Casse we make a house call, stopping at a hut to greet an elderly-looking couple sitting together on a straw mat. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z They would live here in wooden summer houses until February 1943; the airfield itself was just two wooden huts and some dugouts that the women had to dig themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The hobbits of the villages had seen Saruman come out of one of the huts, and at once they came crowding up to the door of Bag End. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z How, long before the Communists thought of it, Reverend E.John Ipe had given his father, Kelan, title to the land on which their hut now stood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Maria Isabel moved in because it was less crowded than her mother’s hut. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Mary had come out of one of the huts, her faded blue shirt, her stocky figure, her warm, ruddy cheeks both strange and familiar. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I could see smoking ruins of huts and luaks, dead animals, and bodies of villagers whom the adults were trying to hide from the eyes of children. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, Jeanne lived in a small cabin in the middle of the desert, while I lived in a small hut built of straws and pine tree leaves. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The girl had gone to fetch water from the river and was walking back to her hut with a large calabash on her head. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Most huts, Ellsberg saw, did have some kind of shelter—holes in the ground, or sandbags in the corner. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A small, heavily pregnant woman came out of one of the huts. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “The boy went on to an old woman’s hut. ‘Respected grandmother, may I stay with you?’ he asked. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It has been maybe three days now and still the hut stands empty. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked Jonas as we walked out of our mud hut. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z On the next morning a party of men from Stok came to the hut. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Then they put the bird into a spare hut which they had and closed the door. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Black smoke and orange flames were already rising from two other huts. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The huts were seclusion lodges, where we were to live isolated from society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the huts, girls sat on the ground fanning red charcoals with a bamboo fan or an old plate, or simply by blowing to start the fire under the big pots. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z They lived in the same one-roomed hut with their families, few chickens, litter of pigs, or with a cow possibly called Crumbocke—most dreadful and insanitary! The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day the king’s scouts chanced upon an abandoned crofters’ village between two lakes—a mean and meagre place, no more than a few huts, a longhall, and a watchtower. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We drove around the house and stopped outside the Quonset hut. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry, dear. Layers upon layers of history here, but it’s nothing compared to Greece. Athens was old when Rome was a collection of mud huts. You’ll see, if you survive.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z At the rooster’s cry, our family gathers outside the hut to say good-bye to us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few steps, I turn around and see that Ma has already gone back into the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The next evening, while sitting with Kim outside on the steps of our hut, I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I drifted at last into uneasy sleep, and dreamt many evil dreams, and in one I saw a shadowy figure with no face creeping into our hut and bearing away the ten ollocks of rice. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The line of huts ran along the bottom, with the muddy road alongside of them, and here and there a cannon or wagon standing. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother presided over three huts at Qunu which, as I remember, were always filled with the babies and children of my relations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the thatched-roof cooking huts, women sang while they pounded rice in mortars. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z As they neared the first hut, Ellsberg watched some of the marines open fire. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She lived in a hut with fourteen cousins—fourteen children from fourteen different mothers and fathers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Unexpectedly, a door to a hut opened, and a young woman emerged. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z There was loneliness, too, as the sun set, hut only rarely now did doubts return. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Now that the pallor of his faint was over, he was a skinny, vivid little boy, with a glance coming up from under a hut of straight hair that hung down, black and coarse. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In front of the tiny hut, a bent and white- haired old woman was working near a lush flower garden. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Matasaip strode from hut to hut telling everyone to be calm and not to lose time packing things that would not be needed. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The man looked in the direction of the huts. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z At the hut, the clay water container stands as tall as my chest. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The rattle of the cart wheels and the woodcutter’s curses roused the inhabitants of the huts, who gradually emerged from their doorways. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Peace then seemed to forsake our hut and I could hear my husband and children moving restlessly in their sleep and muttering, whether from hunger or fear I do not know. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the huts where people had died had been burned down. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “He said he’s pretty sure what’s going on from my description, hut he wants to meet with you first. He’ll be back next week, and your father and I will drive you down.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The man came up, smoking a short bamboo pipe, and it was the father of the family in the hut next but two to Wang Lung’s hut. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z We have settled ourselves on the sunny side of the hut. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Her heart cold within her, Pitipiti made her way back to her lonely hut and wept. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Up the length of the street they came shouting, and never knew they had run right through the village, as the empty huts and houses loomed and disappeared again in the writhing grey fog. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The bird, now gold so close to the sun, would come to rest on the thatch of a hut, which, until the bird’s two feet touched it, was camouflaged as part of the mountainside. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z With the help of other refugees, Beatrice and her sons built a mud hut for shelter. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Loud, flapping pieces of cloth, larger than a hut, were attached to the poles by ropes, some of which were thicker than her whole body. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z We scurried back to our hut to begin our feast. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z His sword helped taint the throne you sit on, Ned thought, hut he did not permit the words to pass his lips. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Around the maidan they built their huts, for there was no other place for them, and into these brought their wives and children, making a community of their own. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Farzana moved their things into the hut in the backyard, where he was born. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Presently, site came to a cluster of huts in a clearing: fine huts that looked as though they had been built yesterday. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A dark-haired girl had just emerged from the hut. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “I’m glad Tazviona’s foot is twisted,” she said to the dark hut, but almost at once Mother’s voice whispered inside her head, You don’t really think that. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Their water came from a little brackish well beside the hut; their food was fish and shellfish, fresh or dried, and rockweed. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Usually he just ran away to Tom Warrups’ hut up behind Colonel Read’s house. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His heart beating rapidly with pain, he returned to the hut. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know what’s going on with Mrs. Williams, hut I want to punch her. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z He never thought he’d miss sleeping in a giant’s leather bed in a drakon-bone hut in a festering cesspool, but right now that sounded like Elysium. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I got fired, didn’t you hear? That’s a painful subject, you shouldn’t have brought it up, good night, next time learn a little manners,” and he closed the hut door. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Every Christmas since Ben could remember Bull had clambered out on the roof of mobile homes, quonset huts, Capehart houses to make Santa Claus laughs and reindeer noises. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the old days, the hut was where they tried experiments. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I crawled out of the hut and began to call for Stew. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But her pal Anatole found an evil sign outside his hut. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She leaned against the wall of the hut and thought about the story. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z After two hours we saw huts dotting the sides of the road. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The town square is deserted and quiet as I cross it to face the rows of huts. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In some huts, bodies lay unburied because no one had the strength to bury them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Siddhartha thanked him in a friendly fashion, went troubled to his hut, but could not sleep. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls of the huts were decorated with black, red and ocher designs, while the doors were carved with crosshatched decorations. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough, a little while later, the pinching man showed up at our hut. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Monaco was in front when we reached the last hut. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy brought the buffalo right into the hut, and Minli went in after. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I walked on until I found a hut built against a lone brick wall. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Tino opened the door and led us into the Quonset hut. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just take it from one of the huts,” Agent Jones shot back, and the black shirts tore the walls from Tiara’s home. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The uncle had told his nephews that he was going back to his hut, but in fact he hid in some trees nearby and waited to see what happened. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z She silently stumbled as Amah dragged her to the hut’s storage room, the freezing drafts biting her feet. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The woman continued her rant, throwing her arms in the air and spitting on the floor of the hut. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z In his anger he seemed to fill the whole hut. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Not long after, slow on his ruined feet, the young man made his way laboriously down from his hut on the hillside, carrying the twig cage on his back, with the bird inside. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But the boy did not leave the hut; he stood there, defiant and angry, stamped on the ground, clenched his fists and forcibly declared his hatred and contempt in his father’s face. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The air inside the hut reeked of blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved closer to the hut and looked in. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I have no idea how she does that, hut she always knows. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Siddhartha went to his bed in the hut and when Vasudeva went to him after a time to offer him some cocoanut milk, he found him asleep. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember Sanaubar came out of the hut holding her grandson, had him wrapped in a wool blanket. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She was fearful of the smallest of creatures—a mouse, scurrying across the floor of Alyss hut, almost caused her to faint—and fascinated in a worried sort of way with birds. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Before we could think of anything else, fishermen sprang from behind huts with machetes, fishing spears, and nets in their hands. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z His grandmother had several pictures of the Last Supper hanging in her hut. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z You would never mistake one of her cards for a Hallmark, hut I have never seen cards more heartfelt. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z On my previous visit, he had said, “When a Stargirl cries, she does not shed tears, hut light.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “Go now! Scat!” she said, and Bethan, gleeful, left the hut and scampered back along the lane. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Nobody would play with me, except my cousins on occasion, so I would often sit alone on the stoop of our hut, thinking. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z By then we’d gone into the small six-bed dorms over in the separate huts, and in ours we had a portable cassette player up on the shelf above the radiator. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Thinking that he had eaten it, she then began to beat him until the boy was able to run away from her and hide in his own hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z She shifts her focus to me without question, hut I can tell by the wary look in her eyes that she would rather talk to Marcus. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The wind began to wail, filling the hut with a mournful sound. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The cousins stand outside the hut to see us off. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Stretching over the dunes were huge evergreen bushes that formed natural huts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Beyond the tossing branches she spied a hut, and farther on a wide, open space. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning as Kira prepared to go to the dyer’s hut, Thomas came to her room. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The village people were so happy at the fact that they had been saved that they took the old man to the largest hut they had and made him their new chief. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He could be talking to a farmer or an emperor, Pinmei thought, remembering Yishan’s unbowed head the night the hut burned, and it wouldn’t matter. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I found a sliver of light outside in back of our hut. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I looked up and figured that the door was six feet tall, and the hut was twelve feet tall at its highest point. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Still no woodman’s hut appeared and there was nought but forest trees and brush on every hand. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z I tried so hard I almost squeaked, hut I could not seem to leave myself, and the cosmos did not visit me. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “You young fellows must be hungry. There are some yams in that hut over there. Can you boys cook some for me and yourselves?” he politely asked. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z There were huts laid out about fifteen meters from each other. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She perked up when I mentioned Grover, hut when I told her what he'd said, she seemed to get distant again, suspicious. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It looks more like one of those simple huts poor people live in. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything about him is warm—his hands, his eyes, his voice— everything hut the smile. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, 60,000 Japanese Americans were returning to their former communities on the west coast and being put into trailer camps, Quonset huts, back rooms of private homes, church social halls, anywhere they could fit. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z A glassine bandage wrapping danced across the area between the huts, flattened itself momentarily against the small, still body of a dead NVA soldier, and then flew off into the jungle. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He had replaced the jeans in the gardener’s hut—he was more comfortable in just his grey winding sheet—but he had kept the jacket. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Scorpions, perhaps; a jealous person had sent them to his uncle’s hut once, and his uncle woke up every day for weeks to find angry black scorpions crawling near his newborn twin sons. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She said, “Maybe we can get something up here,” because her sisters and her mother were in New York City, hut talking to him was like talking to that wall over there. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I took her to the typhus hut,” whispered Mrs. Rimas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z At that moment, a loud clamor sounded outside the hut. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Dimo was very frightened when this happened and he withdrew from the hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Adams couldn’t believe it when she stepped into one of the handlers’ huts. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z These words pleased the hunter, who shouted out to her that she could spend that night in his hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The twelve sentry rats were locked in the hut they had been set to guard. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Before Pinmei could say anything aloud, Yishan called out, “There’s your hut! Maybe you can get some of your own stuff there.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Tears blur my vision as I run back to her hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Many wooden huts have been upgraded to small brick or cinder-block homes, some two or even three stories high. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He turned and trudged down the beach toward his own hut. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z And he tried to put on what he thought very grand and stiff manners, but as a fisherman's hut is not usually a good place for learning grand manners, the result was dreadful. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The straw walls and roof of the hut rustle and shake. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before dropping her off at her hut, the patron kissed her on the lips. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody could have called it a specially happy kind—hut people are tenacious of life, and will go on living. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, the doctors set out deeper into the forest in their Land Rovers, and they made contact with infected villages, where they found people dying in huts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while we walked back together to our hut. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t know how many more Congs were hiding in the huts, half buried under furniture or mats, but he wasn’t going to risk any of us to find out. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There was much unhappiness in a village of small huts. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The next morning the woman went into the hut, and after waiting a few moments for her eyes to become accustomed to the darkness, she sought out the bird and milked it again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Just before the first light of the morning, the hyena crept out of his hut and made his way to the elephant’s sleeping field. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He had not become sick, even though he had breathed the air inside an Ebola-ridden hut for days and nights on end. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was followed by people from the nearby huts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We had a long talk, hut we have not confirmed paternity. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Annabeth woke staring at the shadows dancing across the hut’s ceiling. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z After dinner, as Neel waited for his sister to wash the plates, they heard their parents arguing inside the hut. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z We left the hut and went to the next one. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z About a dozen boys and girls shared the hut with me on that hot and sticky summer night in 1987. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t mind having people sleep in his hut. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been by herself in the deserted village—and when Aunt Chipo locked her into a hut for being bad—and when she went off to cook private meals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My soul wandered over the dark plain until it came to a cluster of adobe huts. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The unpaved roads, the scrubby bushes and trees, the huts roofed with sticks bound together—everything was just as Salva remembered it, as if he had left only yesterday. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Bag End up beyond could not be seen for a clutter of large huts. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She cheered the big things— honors, election winners—hut she gave most of her attention to little things. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “Ma, Geak still looks really sick,” I say once we are sheltered in our hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They stopped a little way before the family hut. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The hamlet consisted of a cluster of little huts. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, I knew what was happening then, hut I didn’t say anything. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z While most people sleep out in the open spaces, others are putting up makeshift tents and building huts. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “And so, the princess became lost in the woods. She wandered for many days. Finally, she came to a little hut, and she knocked on the door. She said, ‘Let me in; I am cold.’ The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z And in the pearl Kino saw himself and Juana squatting by the little fire in the brush hut while Coyotito read from a great book. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The otogar is a collection of little huts and low buildings on the side of two wide sets of train tracks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Me and Monaco went around the side of the hut and saw two Cong soldiers trying to pull an American into the bushes. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Each night we fall into an exhausted sleep, wedged closely together on a wooden bamboo plank with fifty other girls, the other fifty in another hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That first night, at midnight, an attendant, or ikhankatha, crept around the hut, gently waking each of us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She rested against the side of the hut and studied the marsh. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked around the Quonset hut, through the rows of adult trees, and out to the baby trees—the Golden Dawn tangerines. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Maria Isabel must use the roots of a large rubber tree to step up to her mother’s tiny wooden hut, which clings to the hillside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I found him in my mother’s hut, lying on his back on the floor, in the midst of what seemed like an endless fit of coughing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It slept in the hut with us and some of the little goats. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z “Up at our hut. There’s a fine breakfast waiting all of you up the hill. Will you come?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The plane climbed over belts of forest and clusters of round huts and villages with tin roofs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked like the woman who had inhabited the wooden hut, but older, so much older. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z When Siddhartha awoke, the pale river shimmered past the door of the hut, and in the forest the cry of an owl rang out, deep and clear. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The door of this hut would open, and one man would go in, and another come out. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z On his way, of course, he passed through the middle of the charred stubble that surrounded his friend’s hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z In a corner of my mind I had realized that my mother was unreliable, hut Adele was a loving grandmother who had always done what she said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I answered everything he asked, and when I went back to my hut, Christopher and the film crew followed me. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The leopard mother said that she was very grateful to him for his kindness and she entered the hut and lay down upon the floor. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Screaming and wailing, the girls try to escape before fire consumes the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I take the bowl and we walk back to our hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He kindly, not in the least condescendingly, bent to speak to the guard, and the three men walked into the hut. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Rashida headed for the small patch of flowers behind the hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z I saw Brunner pocket a small statue from one of the huts. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We pretend that we are on a small tropical island that has no hotels, just little huts that stand in the water and come with butlers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I walked away from the hut with him in my arms, and at length his sharp cries sank into soft whimpering and finally into silence. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I crept into the hut, leaving the blanket hanging over the door in case somebody should walk by, and knelt down by the bed. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Late one afternoon, driving along a dirt road between thatch huts, Ellsberg saw fear on the faces of the villagers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She asked him to show her the Boys’ Quarters, marveled that it was bigger than her hut, and, later, insisted that she was well enough to help in the kitchen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But Siddhartha went outside and sat in front of the hut all night, listening to the river, sunk in the past, simultaneously affected and encompassed by all the periods of his life. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z It was known among the neighbors in the brush huts, among the pearl fishermen; it was known among the Chinese grocery-store owners; it was known in the church, for the altar boys whispered about it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z It happened in midafternoon, when she was helping repair the roof of a hut. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We stayed in the hut for a week. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I knew his voice and figured he wanted me to go to the next village or hut to get some tobacco for him or something like that. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched with concern as the girl sat huddled and shaking in the dim light of the hut. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I have to go take care of my canoe. It will rain soon, so you must go back to the hut.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The houses they lived in were scattered about the wasteland, and were mostly little thatch-roofed huts with floors and porches decked smooth with cowdung. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z If I built a hut here I would first have to kill him and his pack. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The hut sits on four wooden legs raised three feet off the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Breathless with haste we filled the basket and I was back while the line of waiters still stretched before the hut. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The vacancies have been filled and the sacks of straw in the huts are already booked. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Irritated by the spray, they leave the huts and survive outside. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That was why I picked up the magazines and went inside the boiler hut with them. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, we came upon a hut that was on the sand. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The buildings in the city are tall and close together, but the huts are low- lying and widely dispersed in the middle of the rice fields. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Many were burnt alive in brush huts, which, in their confusion, had got on fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z For a while it was touch and go, hut within a week he was on his way back home. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I'm in a hut of some kind, with a glassless, shuttered window on each wall. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The hyena thanked him and settled down in a corner of the hut and began to cover himself with the skin. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z For generations, while his people were preparing to go to university, my people were crowded into thatched huts singing, “Two times two is four. Three times two is six. La la la la la.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z We walked up the encampment street past a long line of huts. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, to make it real you have to have one side of the huts open so you can shoot inside,” Lobel said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a bunch of huts and shacks throwed together out of pieces of boxes and wood and cloth. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z It was a hut or shed, small and rickety as if a child had built it. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z At last Nhamo spotted a cluster of huts set back from the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She wished he could rest inside the cool clay hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z She tried to return to the girls’ hut, but it had vanished. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “People were feverishly setting up wires all over the desert,” he said, “building the tower, building little huts in which to put cameras and house people at the time of the explosion.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d come out the back door of the house, through the sweet-smelling grape arbor, and across the terraced yard into the low, thatch-roofed hut. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I walk around the hut and search for a part of the fence where I can make my escape. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The damp, raw wind swept in from the ocean and entered through cracks in the walls of the hut. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes even the fishermen’s huts were washed away, knocked right off their long-legged stilts and swept down the river. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ship ho!” he cried hoarsely, running to the hut. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The other children screamed, and some of them tried to grab at him as he left the hut, but they failed to stop their brother and he was gone. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The hut was built, or piled up rather, of driftwood planks and branches. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Picking up a flashlight and one of the sturdy sundari sticks from the pile in the corner, he left the hut. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Pa ties a fish net to a long stick to catch them as they pass by in the rushing water beside our hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I came here to do something, hut I lost my train of thought when I arrived, so I just sat down instead. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z As far as the eye can see, there are people marching in the road while huts stand empty and rice fields are left unattended. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This mud hut, nothing but mud and thatch, was my home. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z About them were packed some fourteen or fifteen people—the hut could hold no more. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z When that warrior came to our hut that night and asked for me, that’s what I thought he wanted. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The trash baskets sat near the river dock, on the other side of the guards’ storage hut. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z As night came on—the eighth night of the monsoon—the winds increased, whining and howling around our hut as if seeking to pluck it from the earth. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought that it was a sound made by the wind, but when we came closer I saw dozens of wild dogs scurrying around through the huts. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Not being so large, the hyena was able to sleep in a hut, and was given the skin of a waterbuck with which to cover himself. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The procession left the brush huts and entered the stone and plaster city where the streets were a little wider and there were narrow pavements beside the buildings. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Bodies, stacked like firewood, were covered in snow outside the huts. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Bombs were dropped on the clusters of round straw huts that made up villages in the Nuba. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Back in the huts, the water would sit uncovered for days, attracting dirt and flies. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z My head feels muddled, probably from exhaustion, hut the adrenaline keeps me running. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z We were taken to a makeshift village where the huts were made out of thin plastic, making it look like a sprawling garbage-bag town. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Kali’s hut had been completely destroyed in the last final fury of the storm. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I took the older boys to my mother’s hut, because we have a lot of cattle and a lot of milk. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t twenty-one yet, hut he wasn’t the way he used to be. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z It had once been something to live for, a handrail— not a particularly sumptuous handrail, hut sufficiently serviceable to keep her upright She had been able to make do. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman took a deep breath, like she was going to answer, and then an invisible force shoved Anya and Ivan toward the door, through it, out of the hut, and into the night. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z There were nine huts in total, each equipped with four metal beds and four metal lockers. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z They sit at the hut in Ro Leap, calling out to me, as if they are trying to tell me something. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like for our huts, we used engineering and physics. And interior decorating.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The friend entered the hut and took off his hat. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z At the hut Ma gets us girls up and spends a few minutes with each of us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He promised me he was going to take me there one day, hut he said it would have to be on a holiday because I couldn’t miss school and he doesn’t work on the weekends. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Farzana stayed in the hut all day and wailed—it is a heartbreaking sound, Amir jan, the wailing of a mother. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Fie picks up two of the children and jumps out of the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The overseer’s hut was built some distance away from the quarry—a small affair with thatched roof and pressed-fibre walls. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z We were assigned to one of the huts, and we stood staring at each other in the heat as the sun poured down on our shelter. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “As long as—” Fern started to follow Vonetta, hut stopped herself. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Just before the entrance to the parking lot, hidden from the street, is a small guard hut. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Long moments went by in the hut, her hands hot against mine. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z On the south end of the garden, in the shadows of a loquat tree, was the servants’ home, a modest little mud hut where Has- san lived with his father. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then, checking to see that they were quite clean, he ran back to the hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z El Jefe’s two-story concrete house sat on top of the mountain above a cluster of little palm huts that seemed to be barely holding on to the cliff. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Be hut Daily Star front-page report of my speech mentioned no “riot”—because there was none. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He called into the hut, “I’m going to take a walk.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z If you were a poor Jew, then you were a parasite, living in a hut with a dirt floor or the filth and squalor of a tenement you could hardly afford. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A crowd had gathered around the hut Tiara shared with Brittani. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Then they carried me to my mother’s hut, where there were two big beds made of branches and covered with skin. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Since she moved into her mother’s hut, Enrique has rung at the neighbor’s house only five times. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I knew it would only be a question of time before the boy would run off to alert the people in the huts. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The village is so poor,” I say to Pa as the family gathers on the floor of Uncle Leang’s hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The rebels had laid torch to the hospital huts, afraid of contagion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z O-lan had been rinsing the rice bowls with a little water and now she piled them in a corner of the hut and looked up at him from the spot where she squatted. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Feeling very ill, I climbed the slope again, throwing myself down on the mat in the hut. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the hut, afraid to leave its darkness, the other wax children wept for their melted brother. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I float past the huts and meadows and bridges and streams. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z They saw specks of huts clustered inside circles of thornbush, with cattle trails radiating from the huts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Before they had left his hut, Yishan had tossed some robes and boots at her from a chest that looked as ancient as the gang Pinmei had hidden in. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z As best I could, I searched around the hut area for Stew Cat, thinking maybe Timothy had tied him up somewhere. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Above all else, my eyes rested on the three simple huts where I had enjoyed my mother’s love and protection. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand. Did you really swim all those miles just to die in this hut?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Peewee spent most of the time sitting down in a hut until Lieutenant Carroll made him walk around the village. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A child with big eyes and a memorable smile, encountered in a dirt-floor hut, made him feel like bringing over the company bulldozers. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She glanced around the hut for something that might help and noticed that Tiara had bobby pinned fat, blue flowers to the walls. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I did consider telling Frances, hut that was too much to ask. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z All around stood the dark huts of the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We hurry past shelters, the wooden toilet hut. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The crooked collection of mud-brick huts in the beastkeepers’ quarters seemed so much smaller in the daytime. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They took to the Kareh-Ariana hillside, living in makeshift slums, packed in huts, fifteen or twenty at a time. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Mags and Finnick have created a hut of sorts out of the grass mats, open on one side but with three walls, a floor, and a roof. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Papa got a serious look and said, “Always remember, a man is born to die. A man is born to die ” He looked at me, hut I didn’t know what to say. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d always keep a small fire smoldering up by the hut and if an airplane came near, he’d take a piece of burning wood from our small fire to ignite the big one. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The huts stood in fallow fields, studded with African weeds and shoots of young saplings. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The old man went back into his hut but soon came out again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z She lay down again in the boat and fell into a sleep as profound as any she had had surrounded by the breathing of her cousins in the safety of the girls’ hut. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The two of us were walking from the dorm huts perhaps towards the pavilion, I’m not sure. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But I wasn’t paying attention to what she said, because as she stood up the shadows shifted and the firelight fell on the wall of the hut. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She hauled it back to the kitchen hut and poured the grains into a mortar made from a tree trunk. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some guys formed a bucket brigade and started trying to put the fire out of the huts that were still burning. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when we were out playing, he’d excuse himself, draw water from the well in the yard, wash up, and disappear into the hut. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z An old woman emerged from a hut, and the crowd parted before her. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But during the bright day when the soldiers searched the street he slept safely in the furthermost corner of the hut behind a pile of straw O-lan gathered to make a shield for him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He wanted to know if we had stayed in the hut of our own accord or if the owner knew about us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z An old woman stumbled into the open space in front of her hut. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Here and there are the traditional khaki-colored mud-brick huts of the Chinese peasantry. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z There’s no electricity to light the tracks and toilet huts and kitchens. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I sit on the steps of our hut with Kim, Chou, and Geak, watching our parents disappear to bring my oldest sister home to us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The hut stood in a hollow of the dunes, and the old man and woman lived there alone in the utter desolation of the empty sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Lena sucked in a sharp breath, but before she could say anything, the hut came to a stop. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Back home, I decided to go inside our hut. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Spray from the high waves splattered the walls of the hut and a fierce wind rattled the filthy windows. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I might have been imagining it, hut I thought she sounded surprised. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z While Chou fans the flies off Geak, who is asleep beside her, I pace the ground in front of our hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Pinches his nose when he enters our hut. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Picking up a branch, she draws circles, squares, and crude pictures of our hut in the dirt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A small boy, not more than four years old, wandered around to the back of the huts, saw me, and stopped still. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people walked some miles to see this man sitting outside his hut with a tree growing out of his head. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z His hair is white and his teeth are rotten, hut he still has a taste for glory. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Neel rushed into the hut, followed closely by his sister. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Looking back longingly at the hut, I wonder what will happen to them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I left him and walked out of the hut. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z One time I got a whipping from a warrior right outside our hut, and my mom did nothing to interfere. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z He worked all night in the hut on his knees, collecting blood samples and taking care of the patients as best he could. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So I sat by the hut wondering what to do. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The hut was still there, and as they watched, it blew away like it was made out of dust. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Everyone agreed that this would be a good test, and that night a goat was tethered outside the son-in-law’s hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I see them dig a hole underneath the hut of the dead family and cringe as they push the bodies into the hole. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With Pa and many of the fathers in the village gone, the soldiers patrol our huts less and less, so it is relatively safe. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Boys who hung about and eavesdropped on the men’s conversations would be called upon to perform certain tasks—slaughter chickens behind the cooking huts, chop firewood. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It was only a matter of time before our entire mud hut was crawling with them. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z We sat huddled together on the ground inside the hut on that first night. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your husband had better wait here while we are gone. Come, I will show you the overseer’s hut.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z That afternoon, as the man and the woman were in the fields, the two children crept up to the bird’s hut and opened the door. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The rest of us walked from the chopper pad to the huts. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Amari opened her eyes and glanced out of the small door of the hut to the bright sky above. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I stopped and walked slowly over to the hut that perched like a circular living room on the waste of sands. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z But when I found myself strolling past the boiler hut about half an hour later, I saw the magazines hadn’t been touched. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In the orderly hut a phone was ringing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Pa hears them and comes out of the hut, his body rigid as our family gathers around him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though he had his own hut farther up the mountain, Yishan claimed the seat by the fireplace in Pinmei’s hut as his own. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I went over to HQ hut, and Captain Stewart was watching Phil Silvers on television. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Simultaneously, every single one of the white-haired people stopped what they were doing and fixed their strange pale eyes on the hut’s door flap. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Behind the hut grows a big, luscious vegetable garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the back of the hut, I watch Aunt Keang throw our dirty clothes into an aluminum bowl and soak them with water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Let’s sew our droppings into the skin and prop it up outside the farmer’s hut.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Presently we came upon a circle of straw huts, intact but abandoned. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Sergeant Simpson came to our hut and brought some magazines. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z McNeish pried nails from Endurance’s distorted decking and made a stockpile of scrap lumber, including the lumber that had been meant for the expedition's winter hut. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He also sketched a hut with a grass roof and wrote, Some Zimbabwean house. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “They messed up at least one person from each hut,’’ Peewee said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z While the others were sleeping, she crept from her hut. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z By this time Takawira was perched on the bench outside his hut. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother has lived her whole life in a hut made of sticks and cow dung, and you could put everything she owns on the seat of a chair. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Others look like makeshift cloth tents or small thatched-roof huts floating on the water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One day as he walked along the street, he observed a small hut that had not been there two days previous, around which was a cluster of youths, all clamoring for admittance. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The hut they occupied was larger and far grander than any at the Night Zoo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But the hut is gone, and the storms of many winters have left no sign of the two who lived out their lives there and died alone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Animals and trees withered and died and the people begged for rain, hut Jade Dragon ignored them. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “I kept trying so he wouldn’t find me, but I was going in circles and wherever I hid, there he’d be, I don’t know how, until I found these sort of hut things.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z When night came, the children left their hut and went to the spot where Ngwabi had fallen. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He watched her make her way easily to the turning; then she disappeared into the woods, heading back to the hut she shared with Alys. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The red light filled the hut, encasing all of them in its warmth, and she tucked her face into the crook of her elbow to keep out the searing brightness. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Her eyes searched the huts until she noted one at the end of the path, small and unassuming. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He went to visit them in their wretched huts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We position ourselves in a line at the mouth of the hut and Peeta slips his hand into mine. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z At night, Horan and the other men rolled out their poncho liners—thin, quilted nylon blankets that provided a little warmth—and slept on the packed dirt floor of a hut. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z When he stands at the door of his hut, shouting insults at his neighbors in a loud harangue, he is city addressing another city. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The family built a hut in a small makeshift village with other Moro, avoiding the “peace camps” and farming the surrounding hillsides to produce enough food to survive. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Listening to such talk one evening Wang Lung heard for the first time what was on the other side of the great wall to which their rows of huts clung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z We crossed a dirt courtyard, where pieces of clothing hung like pennants from a wire, and entered a dilapidated hut like all the others. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The strange object was like a hut, but the sides were like finely woven cloth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Just beyond it, in the opposite direction, is a thatched hut surrounded by a white fence. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The builders were not there and I was behind the huts where no one could see me as I walked around and around, marveling. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, the old man called everybody in the village to the door of his hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z There were already other huts clinging to the wall behind them, but what was inside the wall none knew and there was no way of knowing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Some of the victims had been put into isolation huts on the edge of the village—an old African technique for dealing with smallpox. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Müller stands in front of the hut waiting for me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Andrea led them to the other section of the large hut. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z When the job is done, the villagers walk away to the next hut to dig the next grave. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “But for days we’ve been meeting about Christmas. And you’ve been so kind to let us use your hut. If you had told us, we could have included a Hanukkah celebration,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The moonlight streamed in from the window, lighting the bare hut. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The inside of the hut seemed as large as the outdoors. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “The last thing I need is a fit of hysterics in this hut. My beloved child, what I have to say is for you alone.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The forester now led him to his hut and made a couch for him, with tips of fir piled for a mattress under a wild goat skin, shaggy and thick, his own bed covering. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She realized that he’d come down in order to bring it to her, and thanked him, and he nodded again and stood bade, away horn her and the hut and away from the bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But I hadn’t minded him coming into the boiler hut after me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They were standing beside the door of the hut, and he told her to run up the hillside path, up to the waterfall, and back down to where he stood. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He raised his head only briefly when Meggie came out of the hut. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Now we were out where there were no more huts and the tall elephant grass started to get tangled up with the edge of the jungle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He dared ask nothing concerning them, but he dragged his load doggedly, and he ate hastily his bowl of rice, and slept the day fitfully through in the hut behind the straw. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The boy closed the door of the hut and went back to the chief’s messenger. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Masvita kicked open the door at once and dragged the mat out before it could set the whole hut on fire. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve had the good fortune of shelter; this hut belongs to a pupil of Anatole’s, whose father lived here but is now deceased. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people still lived in simple huts with dirt floors, with no electricity and no running water. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked the crowd if anyone had a light, someone brought him a lantern, and they entered the hut. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The huts were closer together here, and close to the edge of the woods, so that they were shaded by trees and smelled of dankness and rot. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The finest building was, he knew, the kitchen hut, but the cook fire had been moved outside for the summer. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Sickly banana trees leaned around the abandoned huts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Max would be honored again and they could move out of the hut. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The village’s dirt streets were lined with huts. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When they knocked on the door of the gamekeeper’s hut an hour later, they were surprised to see that all the curtains were closed. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I could tell it was something important, so I left my other friends and the two of us walked off, all the way to our dorm hut. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The soft pattering of raindrops against our straw hut makes my eyelids heavy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Pretty much everyone working on the hut looked at him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z "And I work all day with nothing but Simon and you come back and don't even notice the huts!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Each night before we can sleep, Met Bong gathers us together in the hut for another hour of propaganda reports. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk quickly along the shingle, past the beach huts, so pretty in daylight but now sinister, each one of them a hiding place. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I was so so sorry, deep in my heart I was sorry, hut all your “sorrys” are gone when a person dies. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We practiced in our huts, where every night a new boy would be chosen to play teacher and lead the lesson, while everyone else played their parts as students. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z As we move farther and farther away from the city, the high-rise apartments disappear and thatched-roof huts take their place. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to protest hut my still lips uttered no sound. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z In this baked, desolate, treeless landscape, scattered with small tin-roofed huts and dusty walking paths, we drove through a gate and onto smooth pavement. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In the evening, the doctor sat outside his hut and drank beer. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was less absolute for me than for her, hut it was there. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Before his friend arrived, however, he burned all the grass around his hut, so that the ground was black and charred with stubble. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Barely a mile out into the plain it clustered like some huge nest of insects, with straight dreary streets of huts and long low drab buildings. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I slipped my own hands under his sweatshirt, and the skin there was hot hut smooth. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I had made a crude hut out of the sticks in Lokichokio and wanted to take them with me to Kakuma. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He was picturing himself on the beach, building a hut and eating coconuts. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z No, hut when you got that phone call this morn- mg. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He started to follow me down the length of the hut. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They saw where I came from, what kind of life I’d lived as a child, the kind of huts we lived in. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, when the sun had gone down, the children would come out of their dark hut and begin their work. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I could have lowered my shade to make it darker and easier to sleep, hut I never did. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z With slow, deliberate movements of her bone-thin arms, she plucked up sticks from a pile near the door and started a fire to warm us, right inside the hut. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z During one very hot summer the workmen’s huts caught fire and before it could be put out it had spread to the timber stacked nearby. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, he leads us to a little hut behind his house that is to be our new home. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Crossing the street they entered an enormous quonset hut. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The women sat drawn and worried inside their huts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Bran had found that strange at first, hut he was growing used to it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Some of the villagers leaned against their round mud huts and others sat on the ground or on mortars. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z In the hut, the children scream and cry as the mother hushes them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was just taking a seat in a row of stackable chairs among my 127 classmates when a loud “Ten- hut\\” brought us all to our feet. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The rest we thought of taking over to the hut. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They got him back to our hut, and Gearhart got a medic over. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The hut had no windows, but a few glimmers of light had shone through the gaps between the thatch and the top of the wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He was shaking and saliva dripped out of his mouth as the smell of smoked meat, dried fish, and various stews wafted out from the cooking huts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He continued on, though, following Rameel into seven more huts before they returned to their tent and settled in for the night. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z All around the huts, tall palm trees sway lightly in the wind. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That is how we got small logs for our hut. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She took him into her hut where she lived alone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z It was a wooden hut like the others, but surrounded on all sides by a picket fence to give the prisoners a place outdoors to walk around in. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to help his sister, the young man agreed to go to her hut and to smell some of the things that belonged to the husband. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z What came out was a hodgepodge of factories, primitive huts, and fabulous ranches owned by evil tycoons who had pretty daughters. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a Quonset hut. They had a lot of them left over after World War II. Some of the citrus farmers bought ’em up cheap, as war surplus.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the picture that I had seen in the hut. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Odysseus moved aside, yielding his couch, but from across the room Telemakhos checked him: “Friend, sit down; we’ll find another chair in our own hut. Here is the man to make one!” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom was taking down our hut, getting ready to move. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls were woven from plant material, like a Native American hut, but they looked pretty waterproof. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Samoset had walked unaccompanied and unarmed into the circle of rude huts in which the British were living on March 17, 1621. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That night he slept in a hut, but before he lay down he set up the fly whisks so that they would see if anybody came in at night. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z We didn’t even have time to harvest the corn and vegetables we had planted near our huts. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She imagined him alone in his hut, all those years, making the climb again in his mind, creating the map of it night after night. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z After the chief issues us our meal bowls and spoons and assigns us our hut, we have only minutes to settle down before the 6 p.m. bell rings, signaling mealtime. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This woman lived in a hut some distance away and so the man had to bear the stares of all the people as he walked to her place. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Ugwu lay on a mat in his mother’s hut, staring at a dead spider squashed on the wall; its body fluids had stained the mud a deeper red. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Before their eyes the tiny, lowly hut which had been their home for so long was turned into a stately pillared temple of whitest marble with a golden roof. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole process had been so difficult, she wondered: If it had not been an anonymous entry 1026 hut rather an entry by Maya Lin, would I have been selected! Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A hut dominated the exhibit, its walls wooden poles lashed together under a peaked thatch roof. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The villagers followed the stream past clusters of huts and granaries perched on stilts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “His Grace has seen victory in his fires,” Foxglove said, “a victory that will be sung of for a thousand years in lord’s castle and peasant’s hut alike.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Maybe it isn’t possible to lie under the truth serum, but to select which version of the truth to tell: Four is his name, hut it is not his name. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I knew I wasn’t supposed to, hut I did. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I spent a total of eight days in that glorified hut, but I mostly just slept the first few away.The last five were the problem. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But before they could pass through it, the door to the hut swung open, and heavy orange light spilled out. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He smiled as Alec stomped out of their hut to tackle another day. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z She had started to say so when the hut’s straw-thatch door opened. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Several of the huts were on fire; there were people milling about. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As they moved through the village, Ellsberg watched a young marine hold the flame of his cigarette lighter to the thatch roof of a hut. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Fog crept in and out of the empty huts. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a club I found in one of the huts, but I needed a bow and arrows and a large spear. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got to the hut, Peewee asked me what had happened. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the hut, Chou folds our spare set of black pajama shirts and pants, now faded and tattered, and puts them in Kim’s backpack. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One house in particular, a small rounded hut made of rough logs and covered with thatch, stood very close to the road. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The door was shut, and the hut was swaying as it flew, however it did. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z We turned left at the hut and soon came to an open space, as long as a soccer field, but square in shape. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood up and tried to run, but it was so dark in the hut that I could only stumble about. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She had hurried out to the porch from the cooking hut and still carried a large wooden paddle in her hand, which dripped steaming water onto the floor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they set it upon a rock that stood before the wax children’s hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Much bigger than Sol and Elbe’s house, of course, and bigger than the huts that Littlies went to school in, one teacher and ten students to each one. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Perhaps the vandals were already there and had taken over his aunty’s hut with the corrugated iron roof. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Vasudeva had taken over all the work at the ferry and Siddhartha, in order to be with his son, the work in the hut and the fields. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Chou enters a hut and comes out with a few metal pots, aluminum bowls, and the remaining few small bags of rice and salt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The person who cut it used it for bad medicine, but it did not work because my uncle burned the shirt immediately. That day, there were many flies near his hut.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z That night the strange animal again nosed about the dark corners of the hut and drank all the sour milk, turning the calabashes upside down to empty out the last drop. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I saw two ARVNs and a GI go into a hut, their pieces ready. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The act for our hut would be me getting up onstage and doing a handstand with my artificial legs off in front of the whole camp. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z My earliest memory is of sitting outside our hut. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z A minute later, after a long, wild staring, he appeared in the low door of the hut. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “I made a hut out of mud, palm fronds, and ripped-up swimwear. And walking in the sand is toning my calves while I work!” said Miss Arkansas. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “They don’t do that anymore, do they?” she asked Mother, but Mother’s spirit had stolen away, and the hut was silent. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I got to business, arranging some thatch that had fallen from a ruined hut and laying clothes over it to make a sort of mattress. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Hagrid was standing outside his hut, one hand on the collar of his enormous black boarhound, Fang. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Grandmother took Nhamo into her hut and gave her—wonder of wonders!—lemonade with sugar. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandmother sat in the shade outside her hut and puffed on a clay pipe. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They live in huts scattered along the sunken roads, in the woods, and against the slopes of the hills. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Sierra could feel the purge; feel the tremendous vacuum as every last echo of Wick’s spiritual power was obliterated like a ramshackle hut in a monsoon. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Working alone, far from Penelope and old Laertes, he had put up a fieldstone hut and timbered it with wild pear wood. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked at Yishan and saw the boy who had pulled her out of a fiery hut and away from the hands of a cruel soldier. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She taxied to the Operations hut as the brand-new Lancasters were leaving. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z We were ordered to lie on our backs in the smoky huts, with one leg flat, and one leg bent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When they returned, they broke a hole in the side of Aunt Chipo’s hut—for the dead must not leave by the same door as the living—and carried Vatetes body out on a litter. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It filled the whole damp hut with flickering light and Harry felt the warmth wash over him as though he’d sunk into a hot bath. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I had seen photos of grass huts in National Geographic magazines, but in the photo Martin sent me, there was a brick building in the background that had to be his school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z One afternoon, while the grandmother and I are outside the hut, squatting near the well scrubbing pots and pans, I hear the unmistakable whizzing of bullets around me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, hut you play 50 much better, Auntie” Robin said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I told them, “This is how my mother lives. She lives in a hut like this.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it fell to the floor of its dark hut, its heart broken with sorrow. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z It consisted of no more than a few hundred people who lived in huts, which were beehive-shaped structures of mud walls, with a wooden pole in the center holding up a peaked, grass roof. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some days later, the guest invited his host to dinner in his own hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Grabbing Chou’s hand, Kim slides on his behind until he reaches the edge of the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman looked out of her hut, and though she did not recognize Ma, she invited her in. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The park had snack huts, picnic tables, and a lake with a swimming area, but all were shut and there wasn’t a soul about. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She had only to keep going, and eventually the huts, fields, and brilliant lights of Zimbabwe would appear. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z One evening, three soldiers went to the family’s hut and told her parents they needed Davi and another friend to go with them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I could jump twenty feet into the air from a standstill, leaping like a monkey over the hut. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, in Problems in American Democracy the other day, Mr. Weiner asked him what kind of homes early American settlers lived in, and John said tree huts. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z They’d spent long days slogging through the snow, freezing nights in whatever rudimentary shelter they could assemble or in the deserted huts of whaling camps when they were lucky enough to come across them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Being in the suburbs was really unsettling Mark—he’d grown used to life in the mountains, in the woods, living in a hut. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The air was cooler in the shadow of the black-roofed huts, a pleasant breeze rolling off Lake Michigan. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z We couldn’t walk well, so we just hobbled around the hut and made fun of each other to avoid boredom. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Father had parked the rickshaw in front of the hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Will, meanwhile, left the hut to walk about outside. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He turned right and moved toward another hut as I lowered my weapon and turned left. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the hut, I lie on my back, my arms folded across my chest. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Father ran off to a hut in the woods he was calling the New Church of Eternal Life, Jesus Is Bängala. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever the wind came through the sky, he and his small family would sit in the stone hut and warm their hands over a wood fire. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We had just left the hut when Peewee stopped and turned around. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa tells us the flood is why all huts are built on stilts, high off the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Since young Siddhartha was in the hut, the old men had shared the work. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z One mud hut had a lighted window, and the vision of my dream swept me towards it to be witness at the birth of a baby. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We built a shelter out of tree limbs, palm branches, and whatever other materials we could find, but the huts leaked when it rained and always needed repairs. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z One of these harns was a mammoth Quonset hut; it brimmed with grain—Westland sorghum—and one of them housed a dark, pungent hill of milo grain worth considerable money—a hundred thousand dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaned his two sturdy sticks against Alys’s hut and hung the cage on a tree branch near the entrance. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “We’re doing fine. See those huts, the irrigation system, fishing lines, the rain-catching tarp, and desalination still? We built all of that.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It was the loneliest summer job a girl could have, stuck in a roadside hut with three walls and a flat tin roof. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the families of the boys being initiated were allowed to set up their huts in that village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z He had traveled halfway around the world, slept in dirt-floor huts, given food and water to the poor and dying, but still hadn’t impressed Mr. Jackson Sage. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Some of the huts had slats that could be adjusted to let the light in. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She pounced on her cousin when she found her packing a basket in the girls’ hut. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The explosion ripped away a side of the hut. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, the father and the son went to the hut and saw that only the bones of the goat were left. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z His second-story flat afforded a view of the harbor and, off to one side, the tents and cardboard huts of a slum. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He danced around the hut with the kettle on his head. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Now John knows early American settlers didn’t five in tree huts, but he’ll do just about anything to stir up some excitement. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z “Not only would I never have made such a call, hut I never lived anywhere near, Brandon!” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Maiwee! The stitches flew apart. The goatskin exploded and sent baboon droppings all over the hut. The farmer was furious. ‘ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The mud wall, short and pocked with holes, enclosed the tiny house—which was really not much more than a glorified hut. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The goddess went forthwith to the hut where the maiden lived and challenged her to a contest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Several of the old women, sitting in front of their huts soaking up sunshine, cackled with amusement. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z They moved from hut to hut, entering each one with smiles and hands full of things like bread and jugs of water and crates of rice and grains. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z It shines through the banana leaves of our hut, shines on the dust. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z No one came to the door of the hut. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He worked with Ebola patients for the next four days inside the hut, and still he did not have a headache. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hagrid was delighted, and as part of their “project,” suggested that they come down to his hut on alternate evenings to observe the skrewts and make notes on their extraordinary behavior. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It was a very hot night—Selvam and Ira were sleeping out in the open, in the small square in front of our hut which I had swept and washed with dung that morning. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell hit them when the wind shifted, just as they were approaching the first buildings, small huts made of logs with thatched roofs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z She could have built her own hut to shelter from the rain and devised fishing lines to satisfy her need for meat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There I was shivering in the rain, surrounded on every side by mud huts, mud roads, mud everything. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Each night, in my dark corner of the hut, filled with shame and with quiet tears, I suck and chew the chicken bones until there is nothing left. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting in our hut, he slouches into the bamboo walls and his breath sounds labored and exhausted with each word. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Often he was unable to continue work and was forced to lie down in the hut for a while. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Tendai imagined them lying on the warm earth of their huts, feeling it tremble with destiny. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, how nice” the demoness said, “hut really, we don’t need it. I have tea.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The hut, he had established, was inhabited by a woman of advanced years. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Rushing out of our hut, Chou, Geak, and I meet Pa and Kim at the communal kitchen to receive our ration. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if you lived on a hill just above the Bottoms, it seemed lower and danker than the meanest hut on a graded street. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Tino returned her wave and then walked around the Quonset hut to go back to work. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything they owned was still in the hut: the small pile of black clothes in the corner of the room, the red checked scarves, and their wooden food bowls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was done, the men took their sodden sleeping bags and crawled into their new hut. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Then the houses on the opposite pavement ran out, areas of flat lawn appeared in their place, and you could see, beyond the lawns, the tops of the beach huts lining the seafront. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Robineau gave him a tryout, hut Chico was so skinny he practically collapsed under the camera. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I asked why his hut was removed from the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The girl walked ahead of the man and soon they came to the circle of huts under the trees. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The hurt was gone from her eyes, hut not the puzzlement. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He never came to my mother’s hut, never. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z In the center loomed a large, domed hut made of bones and greenish leather. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He roasted the langosta over the fire, and later we crawled into the hut to spend our first night on the silent island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Frightened and weeping, the boy had attended his mother’s burial; frightened and gloomy he had listened to Siddhartha greeting him as his son and making him welcome in Vasudeva’s hut. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z She points to the far corner of the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Peewee and I found the hut with the salves and went inside. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The letter was written in English, which Mameh didn’t read or speak, hut I read it for her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning, the youngest boy, Sipho, went from the huts to fetch water at the river to water the pumpkins. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He did not stop to count it, but thrust it into his bosom and went out of the open gate of peace and across the small back streets to his hut. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z After his lunch with Alan Blunt and Mrs. Jones, he had been moved out of the manor house and into a crude wooden hut a few miles away. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She asks Tobias, hut he doesn’t seem to be paying attention. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I was able at last to thatch our hut again, substantially, with two or three bindings of leaves. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The roof and walls are made of straw and the hut has only a dirt floor. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A kraal was a homestead and usually included a simple fenced-in enclosure for animals, fields for growing crops, and one or more thatched huts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We shiver and are glad to think that we shall be back in the huts early in the morning. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Naima went quickly to the flat, wide stone just outside the doorway of their hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z She spotted the shop immediately—a small hut in a yard littered with rickshaw panels, tools, cans of paint, leather benches, and tires. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z He deserved more than quick prayers in a run-down hut; he deserved a proper burial with token coins placed in his palms to ensure he made it to the godlands. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It rose from far away on a moonless evening as I tried to sleep on the floor of a hut. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She dumped them outside the kitchen hut and fetched a pot of water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Three thousand six hundred and twenty-six,’ said the witch as the warthog princess ran from the hut and out again into the forest. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Down the lane she could see how the butcher threw a container of water over the stone doorstep of his hut, a useless gesture toward cleaning away the clotted filth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My wife ran out and carried me into the hut. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Inigo stood in the corner of the hut, watching, holding his breath. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He returned to the stone hut and once more, just before going in, shaded his eyes, searching the black sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Marlene steps back, and I throw myself forward, hut not at her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z They used tent canvas to make huts against the standing chimneys and half-crumbled brick walls. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Robineau was there as faculty overseer, hut basically the students worked everything. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Then Vasudeva led him into the hut, offered him bread and water, which Siddhartha ate with enjoyment, as well as the mango fruit which Vasudeva offered him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Alec was still asleep in the cot on the other side of the hut—all of four feet away—and snoring up a storm. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z We passed more buildings — huts and shacks and gray, peeling businesses — all abandoned. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We rounded up the civilians—men, women, boys, and young girls—hiding in the huts and houses, and made them carry our loot back to the base. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Sam told us that they were having an awful time getting the huts finished. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t much past first light, hut mv friend L.D. was over in a wagon that his brother was driving into Marshall for some seed. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The huts looked like ghosts in the cold light. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The regent and the queen slept in the right-hand rondavel, the queen’s sister in the center one, and the left-hand hut served as a pantry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His father left him and walked back into the hut. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We managed to get into the cabin without disturbing the lioness, and Anyango and Thomas bolted themselves into the little wooden kitchen hut for the night. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Her mother read Ishmael Chambers’s letter standing in the middle of the tar-paper hut with one hand on her forehead. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He was making lunch for them—his father always, from the time he was six, let him do the cooking—when a heavy knocking came on the hut door. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z We walked around the village and killed everyone who came out of the houses and huts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z When the mountains and the pines turned into blue oxen, blue dogs, and blue people standing, the old couple asked me to spend the night in the hut. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Baron dragged and carried McCormick to a nearby hut, sat him up on a cot, and gave him a large transfusion of blood serum from Africans who had survived Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He whispered an aside to me: “I’m a little rusty, hut I think I’ll use Spanish now. He prefers it on delicate matters.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The villagers took little note of Claire’s odd new hobby; the hill paths were not visible, and Alys’s hut was separate. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Tell him about the time you put a grass snake in the boys’ hut.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As the men left the hut and the night filled with noises of bellowed orders, horses, and stomping boots, Pinmei squeezed her head into her knees, the blackness creeping over her as she trembled. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z After they finish the pack, they walk to their victim’s hut and loud cries and screams from inside follow. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As they exited their fifth hut for the day, Rameel, with a huge smile on his face, nudged Benton in the arm and whispered proudly, “Seventeen-hundred forty-six.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Right now, if I came to my mother’s hut in the middle of the night and I wanted my mom to identify me, I would make this sound: Harumph. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to do the pageant anymore. I want to make another hut. That was fun. And I want some gummi bears.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Lining both sides of the street were ramshackle booths and huts constructed of any material that would keep out the weather—hides, sticks, mud. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He slipped the letter into his Greek-English dictionary and carried both to the incinerator behind the Quonset hut. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I walk over to the corner of the hut and proceed to pick the meat off until finally there is no more. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The remainder of the women and elderly were instructed to build a jurta, a hut, for their group. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z As the light faded two youths appeared bearing a palanquin for the newly married couple, lowered it at the entrance to the hut for them to step into. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She often noticed a distinctive smell inside the crowded huts. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Thus it was in Wang Lung’s hut and well he knew it must be so in every other. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z There are no houses, no huts, just wise old trees in spring leaf, standing guard over the sandy shore. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The hut felt oddly empty in their sudden absence. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And, Celie, our church, our school, my hut, all went down in a matter of horns. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a physician, and those people in the hut were his patients. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He stumbled and fell, picked himself up, ran behind the hut, swiveled the telescope, and pointed it at the sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z So they left the lodge before any in the village was awake, except a baby that cried a little in the darkness of some hut, and fell still again. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The hut was full of sunlight, the storm was over, Hagrid himself was asleep on the collapsed sofa, and there was an owl rapping its claw on the window, a newspaper held in its beak. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z We high-fived each other as we approached the village market, and our stomachs growled as the smell of palm oil wafted from cooking huts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She hurried to the small shrine in the back of the hut, lit an incense stick, and began chanting prayers to the statue of Bon Bibi that always stood there. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z My family scrambles to set up our encampment in the field near an abandoned hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When that was done, it was time for our hut to be thatched. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z While the family stays on the ground level of the hut, our group moves to the top floor. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The huts were shaded from the hot sun by the broad leaves of the trees, and at night there was a soft breeze from the hills, which kept them cool. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z It had been taken at night under a full moon, and it showed a wooden hut in the middle distance, its walls dark against the snow that surrounded it and lay thickly on the roof. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She visited Aunt Chipo’s hut and took a box of matches and a bag of beans. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He remained in the hut for several days without moving or speaking, and then one night he took a turn for the worse. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She brought me back to the hut, where with an herbally treated razor blade she nicked two vertical cuts below each of my eyes and then smeared some strange ointment along the cuts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the boys appeared instantly from the boys’ hut. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "There we were put up in derelict army huts," he recalled, "but our living conditions were reasonable." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Our hut was under an acacia tree that still stands today. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z All that remained were the shadows of huts, rings of waxy charred black on the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “When I walked to the village up ahead, I saw a good place, an old hut. It’s not far, maybe a half a mile.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z On one side of the hut a crude metal grate stood in the fireplace with a well-worn pot on it. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Inhaling deeply, I force myself closer to our hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Our beloved green fields fall away to a blur, the hut becomes a smudge on the horizon. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of each plot stood a hut made of mud or cement. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Tendai knew it would be harvested to mend the roofs of the huts. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The palm fronds on the hut rattled; whatever it was, he was pounding it into the hut Having finished, he went away again. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They couldn’t see into the hut, but they knew that Ebola was in there. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in the winter, when the rough-stone hut was all but buried, the villagers still came. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Two VC came out from one hut that we were burning. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He moves to an empty hut—there isn’t even a bed. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I had no thought of letting ChiefTanyositlopai go alone to the place where the canoes were hidden, but the next morning when I awoke I found that Ramo was not in the hut. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they saw her come out again with the calabash in her hand and they knew immediately that the bird was being kept in that hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z We drew closer and peered through the dense curtain of green that surrounded a small adobe hut. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I was filling my backpack with ammunition from a hut when bul lets began to rain on the village again. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “It still works,” Father called over his shoulder, heading for the hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z After dinner, Shay took her to a large hut near the center of town. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z That night, and the day that followed, and the night that followed, they spent in the hut in the forest by the frozen lake. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Next to the huts and tents, women prepare food, blowing and stoking the fires, coughing as the smoke finds their faces. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Clods of dirt flew in all directions, some of them raining on the hut. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z So the hut became my home, and I found out that the old woman did not arrange the pine needles by hand. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z All too quickly we were back at the Quonset hut. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The wife would not stir herself to sweep the floor of their hut, nor did the children trouble to wash the food from their faces. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z On August 1, in an air-conditioned hut, they assembled the uranium bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Two more huts, painted a different color, stood side by side. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “If you need a place to stay tonight, you know where my hut is. If not, maybe I’ll see you around! Good luck!” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Crocodile Guts suddenly stood in the doorway of the dark hut! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This time things were somewhat better; the streets were clear, huts were going up everywhere. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z When it gusted, the rain hit the hut like handfuls of graveL Then the wind began to blow steadily, and Timothy went out of the hut to look up at the sky. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The child was sleeping by the door of the hut, but the animal walked past her and attacked Mother instead. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Once again, the tinkling melody of two bangles filled the hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z He would rather die than spend a single night in their dumb hut, playing their stupid game. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The next morning the people waited outside his hut for the naming ceremony to begin and wondered why no sounds came from within. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z In the center of the clearing sat a hut with smoke wafting out of the chimney. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Most of all, he thought about a hut in the swamp with a warm fire and racks of drying herbs and drakon jerky. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Baba came back to the house; Ali followed Hassan to their hut. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then she took them back to her hut, plucked out their feathers, and began to cook them. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The other half of the hut was divided into two piles of dry grass. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “Put him down over here,” Nicole instructed, and they brought him to her doctor’s hut. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z As it was, she turned and the next moment I could hear her footsteps leaving the hut. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He stayed there, pressing his ear to the cold concrete floor of the hut, and straining for the sound of movement, for footsteps. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Minli saw the roof of the buffalo boy’s broken- down hut, but no glimpse of him. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z A waist-high fence made of swamp-wood posts stretched around the hut’s perimeter. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Johnson went off and started looking at a pig that was tied in back of one of the huts. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He broke his leg, hut that wasn’t the worst of it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He was making a hut of dried palm fronds. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z To be honest, when it's just me alone in the hut, I get lazy about it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Panicked, I turn my back on her and jump out of the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But each of those times the Jews were warned by friendly peasants and were concealed in the woods or in huts. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I knew I could not drag him up the slope to the shelter of the hut, so I tore off branches of sea grape and put them over his body. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In my homeroom, when the announcement came over the PA about Stargirl winning the district title, I was about to let out a cheer, hut I caught myself. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Through all the months of winter she had, each day, lain on the hut floor, put her hands behind her head, and raised herself. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Well, that wasn’t so bad,” I said to Bill with a mountain man chuckle and pressed on to the hut. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I barely knew the kid, hut we were the only two in the courtyard at that moment, and I had to, so to speak, touch the stove that I knew was hot. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Flagrid was waiting for his class at the door of his hut. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The moors their axes had stripped of trees glowed silver in the moonlight, and the yellow lights of peasant huts were like scattered jewels on the ravendark cloak of a king. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Villagers stood around the hut, but wouldn’t go inside. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Without looking at her, I drop my pail and walk in my hut to fall into an exhausted sleep. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Leang and his family still live in the same hut they did when we stayed with them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When he comes back into the hut, he falls quickly asleep. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A girl emerged from the same hut as the old woman had. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Bodies all along the road to the huts. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She straightened her straw hat and walked slowly back to the hut with the herbs she had been sent to find and gather. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He slipped out of the hut and put the bowl down at the edge of the bush. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z It was the only piece of furniture she had brought from Austria and it had stood by the hearth in her family’s hut for more than a hundred years. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy joined him and they soon arrived at the hut, where Siddhartha was standing and was just lighting the fire. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z It was on those days that she closed her eyes and dreamily imagined herself back, just for a moment, in the smoky hut of her parents. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z And I turned and ran out of the hut and out across the field. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a hut, he said, about eight feet wide and six feet deep, with supports made of wood he’d picked off die beach. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The squad might be ordered to set the thatched huts on fire, destroying them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The circuitous route from Baltimore to Annapolis, where they kept getting on and off the same road to stop at little huts by the road and let off passengers, took another hour and a half. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Kuti, lying in a corner of the hut, began to moan. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Fresh screams erupted from the hut, seeping through the cracks. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Without a word, she walked past them and into the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I fled in a hay wagon, disguised as a milkmaid. They never thought to look for me there, and I crossed the border with papers I forged myself in a woodcutter’s hut.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Henry knocked on the wooden door of the Quonset hut. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Not even a breath in the little hut. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Once, for instance, a few of us were going back from the pavilion towards the dorm huts and found ourselves walking behind Tommy and a couple of other boys. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked through the huts and quickly ducked out of sight. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It’s a half-hour walk to a hut made of mud and sticks, a cook shack with a fireplace, and a field of millet. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Outside the hut, with the baby balanced on my hips, I watch the mother squat next to the rows of vegetables and proceed to pull the weeds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At Uncle Leang’s hut, Ma managed to hide them from the soldiers by sewing them in the straps of our bags, which we kept even after they burned our clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This hut with all its memories was to be taken from us, for it stood on land that belonged to another. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nhamo! Hurry up and give the little ones their breakfast,” said Grandmother as she entered the hut. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His aunty dashed into the hut, and soon his father came out, eyes red-rimmed, looking more stooped than Ugwu remembered. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Outside, the earth shakes violently as crackling yellow, orange, and red flames devour a neighbors hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no more idle talk at twilight about the huts. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Bathsheba yanked her son back into the hut. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Opposite them are two open huts that are used as the communal kitchen and three smaller huts where the supervisors live. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No one in my hut had any ideas that night and we moved on to discussing more important issues of state before sleep. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I could see beneath them a black-rimmed orange glow against which floated the images of the past—my sons, Ira, the hut where we lived and the fields we had worked. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a broken-down wooden hut, but we couldn’t see the entrance. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I thought I saw approval, hut when he spoke, he merely said, “Work it out, men.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Pope Innocent IV went on record saying that the Jews were not guilty of these crimes, hut the accusations persisted. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z That same evening a bull separated itself from the herd and came up to my mother’s hut. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z When she and Geak leave the hut, a tornado of anger rises up in me, quickening my breath. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Saleem had burned garbage the week before in exchange for roof repairs on his family’s hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z “One day,” Nhamo said when she had recovered, “a hen belonging to the junior wife wandered into the senior wife’s hut and broke three pots. ‘ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifty yards into the clearing, about halfway to the hut, a massive oak tree jutted from the ground at a forty-five-degree angle. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z One day she found something near her little hut. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Crazy girl,” he muttered as he crawled to the other side of the hut. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The horned goddess gestured for them to follow her into a clearing several yards away from the hut and the yumboes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Dropped on the hut’s concrete floor, they clanged and clattered like leg-shaped drums. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I scream and cover my ears with my hands just as another mortar whistles and hits our hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls’ camp bounced into view, and seeing everything — the huts, the rainwater tarp, the sequined banner — Adina felt a surge of pride. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Lower your voice this minute, Neel. And both of you, take off your sandals. It’s hard enough to keep this hut clean without the two of you dragging mud and dirt in here.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z They scrambled through the gate, across the small yard, and into the little hut. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z We deplaned, followed Lieutenant Wilson across the field into an area in front of some Quonset huts, and started forming ranks. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in the hut, I slide next Chou. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They described in detail the woman and her hut, so it was easy for Ma to pick it out. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But behind the huts was something I had never seen before. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The giant squeezed his way into the hut, stooping so that his head just brushed the ceiling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z They lie in their huts, whole families together, unable to move. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The hut was filled with girls, big and small, and all the breathing noises made Nhamo feel safer. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her voice was trembling with sadness, and she wiped her disconsolate face as she disappeared behind the hut and headed back to the main village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She tidied the hut and made sure a water jar was close to the bed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought sadly of Einar, alone in his hillside hut, and knew that a part of life was passing both of them by. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Ugwu held back from reaching out to touch the cement wall, to see how different it would feel from the mud walls of his mother’s hut that still bore the faint patterns of molding fingers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Squatting beside a blackened tin pot outside the woman’s hut, I ate burned rice, crispy and gooey. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z His smile was kind enough, hut his eyes were fiery and angry, full of mad power. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He shook hands with both of us and continued on into the Quonset hut. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Where the entry to the well had been was nothing hut stone, solid and unbroken. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I’ve learned how to build a good, strong hut and accessorize it just right. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They pool the gold together to buy a bamboo hut from another refugee who is leaving for America in the next week. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While I waited I thought of the other births this very hut had seen. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “I need to get something from my hut. Shanti, will you come with me?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z In the gloom of the hut, the big man lifted out a golden crown. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Tino actually took my arm, helped me up, and guided me into the hut. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We could see across the Haven, toward the hospital; and there we spied the distant sick struggling out of their huts. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Rain was now slashing into the hut and the wind was reaching a steady howl. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard Rameel laughing with a small family inside their hut as he showed them pictures of his church and of his family, telling them stories and singing them songs. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Mig spent them scrubbing the kettle and tending the sheep and cleaning the hut and collecting innumerable, uncountable, extremely painful clouts to the ear. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The stones of the hut walls were charred, while the remains of the burned chairs and tables lay strewn on the floor. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Percy had started out from the giant’s hut feeling strong again, his head clear, his belly full of drakon jerky from their packs of provisions. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I was worried you wouldn’t find the hut.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z As, with benumbed legs, he slowly left the still sleeping town at daybreak, a crouching shadow emerged from the last hut and joined the pilgrim. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end we voted on which hut had given the best performance, and the kids gave due consideration to the juggling acts, the joke-tellers, the card tricks, and me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The emperor looked around the hut as if it smelled of rotten fish. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Soon it was high above the ground, circling over the children’s hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z When I wake we are parked near an empty hut to rest for the night. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And, Celie, our church, our school, my hut, all went down in a matter of hours. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ellsberg asked the platoon’s lieutenant why his men had fired at the hut. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Aunt Chipo, far from well herself, implored her daughter to live with heartbreaking cries until Grandmother ordered her to sleep in another hut. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I had planted, in the flat patch of ground behind the hut, a few pumpkin seeds. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The light from his hut showed him bent from the waist with his upper torso completely swallowed by the mouth of the open window. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At dawn they were all in their hut, peering through a small crack that there was in the wall. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Kim leaps into the hut and grabs his backpack while Chou and I wait. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of the canal, evenly spaced, white-painted stones marked out a path to a hut being used as an orderly room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The second girl slept alone in her hut, sadly staring at the emptiness where the first girl had had her sleeping mat. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z First it was huts, as silent and barren as the ones I’d seen earlier. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We all trudged obediently over to the Quonset hut. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This room is just as large as the last one, hut there is only one thing in it: a large metal table with a machine next to it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The women all stayed in the wattle huts, peering out the door, hiding their children behind their skirts, drawing back fearfully into the darkness of the huts as the strangers came up from the beach. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Stewart told us to go to each hut and pick out the wounded who looked most like they were going to live and get them ready for evacuation. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmer quickly packed his doctor’s bag and hiked with her across the Péligre Dam to a hut on the other side of the reservoir. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I had not considered how this noise might be interpreted and people emerged fearfully from their huts, thinking it might be the police. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Father could drink as much as he wanted inside the hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Quietly, we walk out of the hut and over to the town square, where other teenagers and their families have already gathered. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Separating the huts from the trees was a wide stretch of bare ground, which he knew would be inspected each morning for the footprints of rodents or the looping trails of snakes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z There is the mean little hut on the moors, the hard work on the heath from morning till night in the heat, the miserable pay, the dirty labourer’s clothes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon Bryn, her baby in a sling on her chest, stopped by the hut to get a remedy for a spider bite on her ankle. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Like Keav, I am alone here, even though I eat the same food and sleep in the same hut with eighty girls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the dress she wrapped up carefully in its greasy rag-coverings, and she shuffled back to the hut to hide the lovely thing away. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z We would arrange rocks in a circle to make a hut. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Rupa bent to sweep the floor in tidy arcs, lifting the longer sari draped across the room and ducking under it to reach the far corners of the one-room hut. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z |
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