It would be red, but with a reddish-black patch on it, like rot in an apple or a bruise. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They’d all feasted on the fruit since the start of school, but the last of the apples had fallen in the past week. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My throat felt like a lemon was lodged behind my Adam’s apple, and I tried to work up a mouthful of saliva to swallow so I could answer. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The two things I noticed right off were how she smelled like the candy part of candy apples and how perfect her teeth were. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

We had a small feast of the broth with kasha, which was more filling than good, the rest of the bread, a pot of marmalade Mrs. Diamant had been saving, and a sack of apples. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

What with the nuts, pears, apples, and bananas that had been thrown in to him, he did fairly well for supper; out it wouldn’t be true to say that he passed an agreeable night. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

One day, I was walking up Main Street, caught up in my own little contest of tossing a hedge apple into the air and catching it, hoping to count to two hundred catches without dropping. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were other photos too, mainly of young Soviet soldiers shaking hands with peasants, planting apple saplings, building homes, always smiling genially. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mother and Grandfather were on their second mugs of apple cider when I finally sat down. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And does a glass of apple cider sound good?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

They don't know about the arrows and the apples. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I cringe, imagining the bitter taste of apple seeds, and follow him. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The afternoon they brought them in, I made six apple pies and baked some bread and all the while kept track of the goings- on down there on the Square. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside me, Jody's cheeks bloomed like good apples, and here and there in the little congregation I recognized other faces of other girls from college and my home town who had known Joan. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The cat, not finding that apples were good to eat, batted the small ones across the yard, imagining they had ears and tails and other parts that made things worth chasing. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this part of me—the science part—was there all along, like the seeds of an apple. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Gabriel was the apple of his mother’s eye. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Each was the size of an apple, and the liquid inside glowed poisonous green. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

All those problems delayed the domestication of apples, pears, plums, and cherries until around classical times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tell Ms. Blinny, “Anytime you want more apples, just tell me. Good ones keep coming. We have varieties. Trees keep making fruit. No matter what.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

It’s not as bad when they throw apples. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

If she wanted, she could go to the kitchen and pick a piece of fruit from the bowl piled high with apples and pears, peaches and plums. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

At full dusk or thereabouts he ate three rice balls, a slab of rock cod, and two windfall apples from a wild tree behind Bender’s Spring. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He watched her drift away, drift with her pink face warm, smooth as an apple, unwrinkled and colorful. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We sold the apple cart,” Bobby Gene said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She even had dessert, a store cake with stiff, oversweet chocolate frosting, and a bowl of apples and bananas. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Astrid is showing a few people paint chips, which she’s lined up in front of her like tarot cards, versions of an apple green she and Donald are considering for the front hallway. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The room was always cool, even in the summertime, and it smelled like the dried apples in flour sacks hanging above them from the rafters. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In math, the apples can even be a y or an x. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It’s piled high with pork chops, collard greens, mashed potatoes, and baked apples. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And not good for the complexion, not at all, wrinkle you up like a dried apple. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calvin said, “See that? We want apple wood and the Universe provides it.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I look straight into eyes so deep green, you’d think they were apple Jolly Ranchers. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I wandered into the yard, wondering how I was supposed to get the image of that withered apple out of my head. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The only thing I leave in reserve is the squirrel and the apple. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

One idea, which remained in textbooks well into my own school days, was the baked apple theory propounded by the Austrian Eduard Suess just before the turn of the century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Last of all, I tucked two apples in among the hot rocks of the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Its spreading branches seemed to cast a light rather than a shade, and silver apples peeped out like stars from under every leaf. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

My stomach felt as if I’d eaten a bushel of green apples. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The apples are red and shiny, and the banana doesn’t have any bruises. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

These small red apples rolled as if electrified around on the floor and collided with each other. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swallowed and 1 saw his Adam’s apple go up and then down. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

"Explain," said the king patiently, still rolling his apple in his hands. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was out-stripping him when he rolled one of the apples directly in front of her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air smells like dirt and apples, and I try not to breathe it too loudly. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bubbe usually takes over our kitchen and cooks turkey, chestnut stuffing, mashed potatoes, two types of pie, and Jewish apple cake. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He was adding dried apples when he heard a suspicious noise, and moved a sack of dry corn. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Had apple blossom petals stuck all over me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Then Orr found two horse chestnuts somewhere and slipped those in until Yossarian detected them and snapped at him again to take the crab apples out of his mouth. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It seems that an old-fashioned apple just isn’t enough anymore. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Next day Wilbur was taken from his home under the apple tree and went to live in a manure pile in the cellar of Zuckerman’s barn. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was in an apple tree, staring through a window at Victoria Forester, who was getting undressed. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Doorstep slices of granary loaf Beryl’s auntie baked for three families every Wednesday, and pickled onions as big as apples. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Its head was topped with a pair of fake reindeer antlers, and it had an apple in its mouth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“One cannot remove the worm without destroying the apple.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Even though Rome’s apples were at least native to western Eurasia, they were grown by means of grafting techniques that had developed in China and spread westward from there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We go to the kitchen and eat sliced apples and peanut butter for an afternoon snack. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I looked down at the tiny piece of apple I had left. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

During this time other women were gathering the scarlet apples that grow on the cactus bushes and are called tunas. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“December 26 “The pond is a white muffin, the millhouse has disappeared under a snowdrift, and Alice and I are playing checkers with groundnuts and dried apples. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, finish my apple. I’m too tired to eat.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“These are the only apples like this that there are,” she said. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

An apple tree growing from an apple seed growing in an apple. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly distributed the small pieces of apple cake and went through refilling coffee mugs. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even by the time of my own children, we worried about the apples. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know how to slice an apple with only four cuts, so there’s no core, only fruit. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re too young to know about”—Pop swallows, his Adam’s apple bobs—“the towers falling. What kind of school are you going to?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“What black, shiny hair, look at her brown, smooth skin! That heart-shaped face makes one want to reach out and pinch those dimpled apple cheeks. Look at those full lips and her smile! Ugly!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh—Aslan, sir,” said Digory, turning red, “I forgot to tell you. The Witch has already eaten one of those apples, one of the same kind that Tree grew from.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Luke nodded and took a bite of the apple he’d gotten from Coach O earlier. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In a rush he added a carton of apple juice and hurried toward the cash register. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

By the time I’m done, my pockets bulge with trinkets and I’ve got an apple for the road. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

When at last he reached the bottom, a narrow, muddy trail along the water's edge, Littlefinger was lazing against a rock and eating an apple. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

You have, Mr. O’Halloran, but you might as well ask me to stop eating my daily apple. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A cool glass of fresh milk, and a few apples and pears laid at the foot of the steps. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were pony rides, sparklers, bottle rockets, croquet, horseshoes, taffy pulls, and apple bobbing. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I say, “Oh yeah. Sold plenty there. Pies and apple butter too. And we had PYO. Pick Your Own. And there was the company that came for the cider apples. The Mclntoshes and Empires mostly.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“When I was a kid,” Orr replied, ‘T used to walk around all day with crab apples in my cheeks. One in each cheek.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“We’ll do something else instead,” Eleanor said; I can play bridge, she thought; I like apple pie with sour cream, and I drove here by myself. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“By, what—” He picked up a rotten apple and threw it at me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toasting bread and cheese, coring apples, placing chestnuts in the fire to roast. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The thing that had happened with the apple. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and I took a trip to a farmers’ market where I discovered that there are so many different types of apples and that my new favorite food was the apple cider doughnut. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Then Carolina saw her child Benjamin, the boy who had died of leukemia, in a strange lonely pose under an apple tree. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wasp imported from Japan established complete control of an insect attacking eastern apple orchards. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I raised my apple cider glass, and we clinked. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She plucked the cards out of my hands and handed me two apples instead. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But turns out your son’s an apple off that same tree. So now we’re all celebrating!” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And she took an apple from her dressing-gown pocket, then bit into it with relish and an enthusiasm that she did riot really feel. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

And although the little man eyed the items suspiciously, he wolfed them down and licked the crumbs of bread and cheese from his fingers, and munched noisily on the apple. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the square, my girlfriends are waiting for me by the fountain, under an apple tree. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I’m eating the biscuit Miss Larsen heats water on the stove for tea and cuts an apple into slices, arranging them on a chipped china plate from the shelf. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was absolutely nothing remarkable about that apple. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was black bread and honeycakes and oaten biscuits; there were turnips and pease and beets, beans and squash and huge red onions; there were baked apples and berry tarts and pears poached in strongwine. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The apples of her cheeks are pronounced and a little pudgy as she smiles, and she has a gap between her two front teeth. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I wasn't, I was shooting at that apple because I was so angry at being ignored. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

By the time they had finished their apple pie, the after-effects of the Cheering Charms were wearing off, and Harry and Ron had started to get slightly worried. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The meal was a simple one: tea, toast with a dollop of jam, and a plate of sliced apples. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When I saw him and Cody weren’t going to come under the swing at lunchtime I set the bag with their sandwiches and apples in it on the swing set. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cut one of my apples down the middle and gave him the larger half. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Yossarian found it pretty tough to understand him then, and he wondered once again if Orr wasn’t talking to him with the tip of his tongue in one of his apple cheeks. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure tortures herself with daydreams of feasts laid out on long tables: platters of sliced pork loin, roasted apples, banana flambe, pineapples with whipped cream. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Andy got six kinds of meat, ten dinner rolls, and four pieces of apple pie. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You are growing old and slow, Stark," he said, flipping the apple casually into the rushing water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He grew loganberries, and picked apples and pears from old trees on the property. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Three—an explosion of softness on my lips, the taste of apples and a recent cigarette. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He held out A Child's Garden of Verses and scooted his apple crate chair closer to the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

On an apple bough, the phoebe teeters and wags its tail and says, “Phoebe, phoe-bee!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

While chomping on an apple, I looked down at the snail and drew a large circle around and around until I made the circuit five times with my pen. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The pads were worn down slick as the rind on an apple. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was still in dresses he put me to sorting nails at the store and getting out rotten apples and potatoes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I helped myself to an apple and saw another smartphone nearby. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He takes advantage of the moment to kiss the column of Henry’s throat, the hollow at his collarbone, the knot of his Adam’s apple. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then the apples spill to the ground and I'm blown backward into the air. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

First he attracted wasps to a chunk of apple. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me about Copernicus and Kepler and why Newton’s apple fell down instead of up. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But I knew, even then, that I was the apple of my father’s eye. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Behind the bar Mr. Thirsty, a skinny man with a large Adam’s apple, polished a glass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was adapted to climbing apple trees and running after gazelles, not to clearing rocks and carrying water buckets. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wished he had not devoured all the apples on the tree. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

There were two turkeys on wheat, a couple of apples at the bottom, and two granola bars. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It tasted very good after the cheese and apple. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They played house and store and library, their orange and apple crates in a row. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the other hand I held my pitiful folding knife, so small it needed several runs at halving a good-sized apple. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sunset was fading quickly, and by the time I made it down the apple tree most of the courtyard lay in shadow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“A new apple? A new banana? A new strawberry?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Bright red apples fringed the edges of the pear pads. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watched, the small girl rose with her tray — unopened soda, unbitten apple — and walked away with a quick, graceful lope that belonged on a runway. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Could he really have aged forward, like the leathery apple I took from Miss Peregrine’s loop? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We crawled carefully under the wire and fed the horse the apples. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he always waited until the apples were ripe before eating them, and never ate more than two or three a night. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

"This is Valyrian steel," he said when the link of dark grey metal lay against the apple of his throat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If you make the ninety-first cut of the apple pie, if you slice a carbon nucleus, you make not a smaller piece of carbon, but something else—an atom with completely different chemical properties. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was perhaps five and forty years, with pale eyebrows and small eyes like apple seeds. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or going to the beach to pick apples. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I watch his Adam’s apple as he swallows once, then again. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I return to the stock car with my dukey box, which contains a ham sandwich, apple, and two bottles of sarsaparilla. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I see his Adam’s apple move like he’s gulping, and his hand muscles are flexed from where he’s gripping the steering wheel so hard. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

They turned up a gentle swing of road that ran along the side of the mountain, and passed through apple orchards, and turned into their driveway. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The May apples were ripe, and I stuffed on those as I went through the woods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My jaw looked squarer, broader, my neck thicker, with a bulge of Adam’s apple in the center. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I only drank apple cider. Those deputies were out to get me.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Carrying a bottle of milk, Fern sat down under the apple tree inside the yard. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

For a really good apple pie, you need the arts. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

When he was fifteen he hurt his arm falling from the apple tree outside Mr. Thomas Forester's house: more specifically, from the apple tree outside Miss Victoria Forester's bedroom window. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I said, looking around for something to throw at him, a rotten apple for his rotten head. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few apples fall to the ground when I shift my weight. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

From the fruit bowl on the sideboard his father had filled his pockets, and now, without for the moment taking accurate aim, was throwing apple after apple. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please can I have a toffee apple? Please can I have a toffee apple? Please can I have a toffee apple? Please can I have a toffee apple?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

With a loaf of bread, some meat, and an apple, I did just fine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows we’re not rats because we bring him apples when we rob an orchard out the country. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I got more pleasure from that apple fight than from any other battle in my life. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already, they called her “teacher’s dog” or “apple shiner.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I looked over a selection of bruised apples. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did you walk around all day with rubber balls in your hands ?” “Because rubber balls—” said Orr. “—are better than crab apples ?” Orr sniggered as he shook his head. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We picked crab apples and wild blackberries and pawpaws during the summer and fall, and we swiped ears of corn from Old Man Wilson’s farm. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The cellar door was outlined with daylight, and it illuminated, dimly, bushels of potatoes and apples, sacks of flour and grain. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reaches for an apple and the whole bag tips. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Evan raised his apple to her, his mouth too stuffed to talk. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

As the sun rose that morning over the apple orchards and fields to the east of town, she opened her books and hunched over them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas had casually picked up an apple from the basket where the snacks were kept, and had thrown it to his friend. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He would be a living, breathing bull’s-eye for spitballs, rubber bands, apple cores, and flying soup. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I told you again that you were the reason Adam ate the apple and its core. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just jumping down from the lowest branch when I heard something, like someone biting into an apple. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ambrose Spike, now sufficiently recovered, sat in the storeroom taking stock: lots of nuts and preserved berries from last autumn; apples and pears aplenty. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“What did they want to know?” she said, ladling hot custard over the apples. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He felt a faint nostalgia at the familiar apple scent of her shampoo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Plantation is an outdated term she likes to use to gloss up the farm, while the “orchard” is a barren apple tree. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But I also knew I could get past her if I gave her my lunch apple or my allowance money. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father picked an apple out of the lunch pail Mama had fixed for them. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I set it gently under the apple tree in the backyard and began to dig. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He started playing a snappy tune and tossed an apple in front of the boar. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Instead, I find an Appalachian apple doll, withered and spotty, with dewlaps and bags and long floppy ears. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Well, you take the road apples and dump them into the grits. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Do you think you killed him with that apple, Sam?’ said Pippin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Axel crushes his buttered bread into a butter-bread-ball and eats it like an apple. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They roasted apples in the fire, but ate the pasty cold, and hunger sauced it better than the finest cook could have done. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The apple trees are covered with scabby apples, red ones and yellow ones; some of the apples have fallen off and are rotting on the ground. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The closer he came to the dry creek bed and the crab apple tree rope the more he could feel the beating of his heart. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She dropped most of her apples at some point, but finished nicely by holding one of them in her mouth while juggling the other three. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The pot roast, collard greens, sweet potatoes, and baked apple pie. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I carelessly wave another apple slice in the air. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

You would never feel like that with an apple tree in an orchard. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In my mind’s eye the green orchards of Elsinore appear, ripe with sweet pears and apples that bent the branches and offered themselves to our hands. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He performs his chores as quickly as possible, packs an apple in his bag along with his book, and heads off to his tree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“That knave is the son of my father’s treasurer, a deceitful man. Proof that the apple does not fall far from the tree,” he said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Anya spied a doll tied around its waist with a string, bundles of wheat cut short and tied with festive bows, and several apples with simple pictures carved into the skin. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The turkey, surrounded by a ring of candied red apples, sat on a silver platter at my father’s place. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, war came and I went and served, like my father. Like your father now. Duty calls, and we answer in this family. No, sir, our apples don’t fall far from the tree.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Bring me apples, Danby, and chestnuts too. Run, Danby, run. Bring me crab apples and horse chestnuts before it’s too late, and get some for yourself.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Well roasted, with an apple in their mouth." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m no maester, mind you, but I know you got to keep the bad apples from the good.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Ruby obeys Mack, he gives her a cube of sugar or a bit of dried apple. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Dad’s Adam’s apple rolled down his throat, then back up. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

All it does is make me want to womp his head with a hard green apple because that would make him cry. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I see a flicker of movement in my periphery, and look out the window that faces the apple orchard. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She listened, stirring the warm cream into the baked apples. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Their dad kept an apple cider jug filled with loose change down in his basement workshop. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Who can tell me how many apples I have here?” warbled Teacher on day six. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the white youths went further, filling cored apples with broken glass and hurling the fruit at blacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

An even more spacious garden spread out in back, which boasted apple trees, a vegetable garden, a strip of flowers, and a patch of wattles. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his apple juice and opened it as a girl with long black hair walked by. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Two more twists and there was a child’s sweet hand holding the apple. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk from door to door, our brown paper grocery bags filling with candy apples, popcorn balls, peanut brittle, chanting at each door: Shell out! Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His Adam’s apple bobs up and down and the brown liquid lowers by almost an inch. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The temples were not much larger than apples, but when Diana asked her to move one, she felt as though someone had tied a gigantic field stone to the end of the leather cord. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I cut two slices of hard bread and spread some apple butter on top of them. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

So T would get the banana, and I would get the apple, and we would split them. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Several things have fallen from the bags: an egg, an onion, an apple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to get back to the community. The plums aren’t in yet. And after that the apples. Everything has to be ready for when Rain comes home.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

When he finally pushed his plate aside and attacked the apple pie, he wondered that anything so unspeakably delicious could ever have come his way. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a few apples, a banana, some pears, and a mango. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

For a snack, I tasted an apple for the first time. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She saw him from the kitchen window that afternoon gathering early windfall apples and dropping them in a burlap bag. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘Waste of a good apple,’ said Sam regretfully, and strode on. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A porter trotted at their heels, pushing a wheelbarrow heaped high with provisions: salt and flour, fresh-churned butter, slabs of bacon wrapped in linen, sacks of oranges, apples, and pears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I thought, if I ever got married, apple blossoms were what I would like to have in the church. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He sliced the apple in two and kicked the pieces away. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can’t afford a store anywhere else but where she lives, and she has no other place to buy a good apple or a fresh loaf of bread. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead, the wild boar fed them apples and honey. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I was starting to wonder if someone had swiped it when I realized that the leathery thing was the apple. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They passed, one after the other, through a small, neatly raked garden, between brown raspberry canes and leafless apple trees, and walked slowly up the few steps to the porch. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above from the crab apple tree the frayed end of the rope swung gently. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ben’s got a paper sack, but he goes through the line and grabs an apple and an orange juice. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t take my eyes off the apples and bananas and grapes in the picture. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Grace and Carol stand under the apple trees, in their skirts, waving, disappearing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Moonie scarfs up the apple pieces Shayleen brought in on her feet. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Tristran packed a bag, and his mother brought him six red, ripe apples and a cottage loaf and a round of white farmhouse cheese, which he placed inside his bag. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The faces were staring at him, all the bright apple faces. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Those who do not think it is of general interest may leave the table and go to their rooms,” Dad said coldly, "and I understand there is apple pie for dessert.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then he releases my wrist, takes the apples, and says, “Choose wisely, little girl.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Middlings, warm water, apple parings, meat gravy, carrot scrapings, meat scraps, stale hominy, and the wrapper off a package of cheese. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Piper put her new sword to good use, while spraying food from the cornucopia in her other hand—using hams, chickens, apples, and oranges as interceptor missiles. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

First there was the local apple crop, threatening to rot because the harvesters had all gone into the army or war factories. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He yanked the apple from the fish’s mouth and tossed it to Shady. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finn went first to the fridge to get a couple of apples, then to the barn to check on the mare. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Nobody worried about dividing by zero when conveniently ignoring the rules of mathematics explained everything from the fall of an apple to the orbits of the planets in the sky. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He kept his head, however, and held fast to his golden apples. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm genuinely thinking of trying to re-create Foxface's trip up to the pyramid in hopes of finding a new means of destruction when my eyes light on the burlap bag of apples. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She set a bag of apples and a peeler in front of me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We sat down on the rocks in the shade along the dry creek and ate a lunch she’d prepared for us: peanut butter sandwiches and sliced apples. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Grandpop pulled the apple from his mouth, taking another juicy chunk out of it, pushed back in his chair, then let it rock forward like a little kid on a swing. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The kids would surely call her “a shiner of apples for teacher’s dog” next. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

For a while we lived above a Jewish store in Glens Falls, in upstate New York, and the kind Jewish people who ran it baked us pies and gave us apples. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He planted his body as firmly as he could, although his heart was knocking at his Adam’s apple. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The apple, the red of it almost black in the moonlight, hung just out of reach. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with posters about eating apples and plaque and brushing your teeth. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

If she cut the bad apples from the team, there wouldn’t be enough players for a full roster, she explained. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"We've had no word from Bitterbridge?" she asked anxiously as she speared a bit of apple on the point of her dagger and ate it with small, delicate bites. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Never before had her apples been received like this. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Since moving to Berkeley I’ve located a handful of excellent fruit trees—plum, apple, apricot, and fig. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His Adam’s apple made way for the sharp knife, and I turned the bayonet on its zigzag edge as I brought it out. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I could taste the brine and apple wood, of course. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And now I was raining apples at him and laughing myself weak. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to me, Farid’s Adam's apple bobbed up and down as he mumbled a prayer under his breath. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Agravaine, whose Adam’s apple had been hurt, relaxed his muscles and lay hiccoughing with his eyes shut He looked as if he were going to the. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he ate an apple, he consumed skin, core and seeds, which he alleged were the most healthful and most delectable portions of the fruit. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the apples must have set off enough mines, causing debris to activate the others. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her red-leather jacket had a subtle design to it—twisted branches of an apple tree populated with skeletal birds. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But that autumn the serpent got into Meg’s paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate them, myself, sometimes; for pear apples are good eating. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realize that I am like Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree and my parents are stealing all my apples. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The sight made me wonder again how a hog could be tough enough to eat prickly-pear apples with their millions of little hairlike spines. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad heads off one way and I’m down the aisle looking for apples. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She bit into the apple and took a drink of water to wash it down. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In season, they fed on acorns, berries, wild plums, prickly-pear apples, grass, weeds, and bulb plants which they rooted out of the ground. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped now and then, when she passed a town, to buy bread, peanut butter, apples, to refill the gallon jug in the passenger seat with water at a fountain. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tidbit even ate the apple cores and promptly fell asleep on the nearest pile of straw. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was an ancient philosopher,” Nick teased, “who believed that men’s souls were round like apples, the color of pearls, and had little white wings.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continued to eat, munching on the apples as he studied the huge breaks in the walls. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There was another apple tree and three walnuts. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guess I did fool Betty Jean, though, because she went over and cut me a piece of apple pie. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I’m on deadline, I cook. Do you like mustard? Try the dipping sauce. I’ll be right back with some apple cider.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“A very excellent dinner, Mistress Wood. I war rant there’s not a housewife in the colonies can duplicate your apple tarts.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They circled him, old names and new ones dropping like crab apples. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Not an apple or a fire extinguisher, and definitely not the model fire engine that my sweet son made! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She could not endure the heat, and after a while she had to go out on the sidewalk and sit on her apple crate. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert left earlier, with the excuse that he had to chop wood or see how the little apple trees behind the house were doing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I want,” said the eagle, “Idunn. And I want her apples. The apples of immortality.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It is so healthy. It has kale, broccoli, and spinach, but I add apple cider to make it sweet.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

So I ran back to the house, and very quietly got some wilted lettuce and an apple. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Behind the Friar’s back Basil and Sam almost choked with laughter in the middle of an apple cream pudding. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“It’s really none of my business, and you don’t have to answer…” There goes that Adam’s apple. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mola looked over the apple for a long moment before taking a bite. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The stuffed bags landed on the square and the dogs ran yapping after the apples and cabbages rolling over the wet cobbles. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

One Sunday we were at the shops and there was a big display of toffee apples. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I also grabbed a couple of apples from the counter and two bottles of water. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

But to our total amazement the huge dog opened his huge jaws and clamped down his huge fangs on the apple, which he firmly tugged from my trembling hand. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I loved toffee apples, and I kept nagging her the whole way through the shop. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then a man put two pieces of bread and a apple and a big glass of milk on your tray and said, “Please read the signs to your children. Thank you.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Waiting for her on the table was hot-water corn bread smeared with the apple preserves. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It could only be accessed by clambering through a high window in one of the lecture halls or by climbing down a gnarled apple tree, if you happened to be on the roof. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

While we walked we shared my last apple and half of my remaining loaf of flatbread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I reach up and pull down an apple. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Stepping stones of polished black marble led around either side of a five-story-tall apple tree, every bough glittering with golden apples, and I don’t mean yellow golden apples like in the grocery store. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There, lying on the ground as if scattered by God just for Alyce, were apples, red and yellow, large and small, sweet and tart, firm and juicy. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cover sprang open and everything fell to the floor—my half-eaten peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, my pack of pretzels, my cupcake, and...my apple. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma winked, setting some apples on the counter and washing her hands in the sink. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I sit in the break room picking on the apple my mom gave me when she dropped me off. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Evan inspected the apple and then bit into it, without washing it first. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Loki, they are the apples of the gods. The apples of immortality.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

If the planet were an apple, we wouldn’t yet have broken through the skin. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was the most scrumptious apple I had ever tasted. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She took a bite of her apple and gave me a long look as she chewed, never looking away from my eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I am so hungry, I finish my apples first. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I turned the gas down low and, after rubbing a little olive oil on the chicken pieces, arranged them on the grill among the apple branches. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I added hard-boiled eggs and apples and dill pickle slices. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like an apple, red perfect on the outside, but mushy brown at the first bite. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch as Mother cuts off the tiniest bite of apple. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“If I manage to work out what happened to Idunn, and if I were somehow to bring her and her apples back to Asgard safely, could we forget all about the torture and death?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I said, “Yeah...I made it around the apple trees. I thought I was going to be able to steer between the yards too. I don’t know what happened.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

In this exceedingly slippery situation, citizens who suffered direct financial loss from damage to apple orchards or bees discovered that there was no one to sue. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Beneath the Burned Tower, he passed Rickard Ryswell nuzzling at the neck of another one of Abel’s washerwomen, the plump one with the apple cheeks and pug nose. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The man pulled an apple from his pocket. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

In front of the doll, there are three fresh candles, a pack of cheap cigarettes, an open can of Tecate, a bowl of apples, and a white rose starting to brown at the edges. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Larry Dunn threw an apple core from the back of the bus and the new kid got his hand up just in time to block it from hitting him in the face. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They say that Mister Monday himself is counted amongst your admirers," said Louisa Thorn to Victoria Forester one afternoon in May, in the apple orchard. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Clutter now fed Babe the core of his apple, calling good morning to a man raking debris inside the corral—Alfred Stoecklein, the sole resident employee. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew tugs it open and takes a bite out of the apple he’s holding. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A rusty old swing set stood under an apple tree. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And he knew where to go to find little tiny ones, no bigger than apple blossoms, that were painted pink in their middles. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

That same woman came in the store every day; once, I saw her take a small bite of an apple and then put it back with its copper- mouthed wound facing down. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though my brother Qareeb was the apple of my eye, watching him begin the college application process was a lesson for me in what not to do. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Some mutant hermaphrodites lost their self-incompatibility and became able to fertilize themselves—a process exemplified by many fruit trees such as plums, peaches, apples, apricots, and cherries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of Grandmother’s friends had given us a basket of apples, so there was apple strudel, apple pie, apple butter, baked apples, and apple jelly. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was halfway talking about how a bird could die from eating apple seeds, halfway talking about how he and Ernie were going to “figure it out.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The apple was yellow and slightly shriveled, but it tasted sweet and good. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I watch his Adam’s apple bob up and down and his eyes lift to the ceiling. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She was just throwing away the core of an apple which she had eaten. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Snakes. Bears. Worms in apples. Toenail clippings. Floods. I could tell you dozens of things.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That morning an apple and a glass of milk were enough for him; because he touched neither coffee or tea, he was accustomed to begin the day on a cold stomach. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tender freshwater shrimp garnished with cream and rose leaves, devilled barley pearls in acorn purée, apple and carrot chews, marinated cabbage stalks steeped in creamed white turnip with nutmeg. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When he woke, he couldn’t smell hay or clover or apples, only coal smoke, and the spongy rotting vegetable stink of garbage. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Grandpop took the apple and stuffed the rest of it in his mouth, core and all. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I finally fall asleep and dream that Santa has arrived in a black Volkswagen filled with cousins carrying baskets full of apples and raisins and nuts. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Up in the air like releasing a bird or an apple, then arcing my arm, rotate shoulder, bring down the power and the anger and don’t forget to aim. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He has five left and he won’t risk leaving them in an apple. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And he had seen pastries—apple, mince, pumpkin, plum tarts— coming out of the brick oven. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will miss her apple cake, but I’m happy that I get to spend time at Sara’s house. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then Eve had to make a choice—the apple the snake wanted her to eat looked so good—just one bite. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Hungry as he was, he couldn’t eat much of Vernell’s breakfast, so he pushed the scrambled eggs, hominy, fried apples around in the plate, gulped coffee and talked a lot. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Visitors use the main manor road, crossing through the gatehouse and past the apple trees and the stable. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we cut an apple, the knife must pass through empty spaces between the atoms, Democritus argued. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We saved the two apples to eat on the way home. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I took one more huge bite, then handed the rest of the apple to Philbert. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached in and pulled out its contents: a bottle of water, a bag of almonds, an apple, and an empty sports drink bottle. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Usually I find her there, stirring milk on the stove and heating up a slice of apple pie. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-one, oily- skinned, prominent about the Adam’s apple. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When I let her down she gave me a little kiss on the cheek and handed me the apple. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They’d brought slabs of hard salt beef, dried cod, dried beans, turnips, carrots, sacks of barley meal and wheaten flour, pickled eggs, barrels of onions and apples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“With my mom the way she is lately, I’m worried Thanksgiving’s going to stink. My grandmother usually cooks for us. I dream all year about her apple cake.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They ought to be put to threshing, reaping, and apple picking. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here she kept a cash-box containing various treasures, and a story she was writing and usually a few apples. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

"We make a goat cheese and apple tart at the bakery," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Where I rode the sled across the rows of apple trees and into the Drinkers’ basement that time. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

At the front of the room, munching rather loudly on an apple, the test administrator was keeping a close eye on them to ensure they didn’t cheat. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had, of course, disposed of the apple and made his apology to the Recreation Director the next morning, before school. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The apples themselves are the very finest sort for baking, beyond a doubt; all from Donwell—some of Mr. Knightley’s most liberal supply. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Finn was racing off to the kitchen, shouting about apples. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I watched Aunt Tuti pace nervously around the dining room at the restaurant while making a face like she was about to swallow an entire apple. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The only flowers I’ve ever seen are wild- flowers, or apple blossoms in the Amity orchards. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Misha stopped by the horse’s front leg, the apple bucket dangling from his fingers. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I buy apples and bananas in the cafeteria and eat them furtively in my room. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, I interrupted,” I said swallowing my mouthful of apple. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Squirreled away in them I had string and wax, some dried apple, a tinderbox, a marble in a small leather sack, a pouch of salt, hook-needle and gut. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She could paint over my hair, blank out my features, make my face no more than a plate for apples, grapes, plums, pears, lemons. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“It was to show you. It always starts with a small thing. For me? The very first time I saw beyond? It was an apple.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In the back of the truck she was just sitting on is a stack of crates marked apples and flour and corn. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Someone left a sliced apple out and it’s browning. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Basil Stag Hare dropped a half-eaten apple pie on the bedside table. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The dragons stood out stark on his bare arms, curling up around his Adam’s apple like spikes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are days when the questions are too hard and he torments us by dropping the apple peel into the wastebasket. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He sits there, his Adam’s apple rolling as he swallows. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I think Digory would not have taken an apple for himself in any case. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I muttered a quiet “Blast” and continued to cat my dinner, porridge with dried apple. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even bacteria do anaerobic glycolysis, which is why apples rot: lunchtime for the microbes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She wouldn’t want that. What she’d like is another bite of apple.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She sets down a paper napkin, plastic fork, and a bowl of fruit that actually looks appetizing, with strawberries, melon, and apple. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Instead of talking about helping with the cows or having apple pie, Vonetta recited a small bit of our newly learned family history. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I handed him the apple core and he put it and the wax paper from the sandwich in the paper bag. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bod moved slowly forward along the branch, until he was just below the apple. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Mama made a very fine bread pudding from slices of stale bread, sugar, cinnamon and a penny apple sliced thin. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she says, “I meant to ask, did your family open the apple stand this season?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The Zebra Room I remember as a kid: it was full of artificial flowers, yellow tulips, red roses, dwarf trees bearing wax apples. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The rest of the day was spent counting things—beads, apples, and flowers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m as generous as can be,” he said, handing each of them a large red apple, “and I’m as selfish as can be,” he snarled, grabbing them back again. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Garrett cackled and plunged a spoon into a lump of clammy apple crisp. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raises his hand, Sir, I’d like to give some of my apple away. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Patty, the friendly nurse with the diamond engagement ring and a fringe of reddish hair beneath her cap, tells Ashima to consume only the Jell-O and the apple juice. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If you want to help, peel those apples” was all she said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was bringing sandwiches made of apple butter on bread ends to school for lunch. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tristran produced the cottage loaf, the ripe, red apples, and round of cheese—hard, tart, and crumbly—that his mother had given him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not exactly a warm slice of Gram’s apple pie, but it’ll have to do. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He teaches in the one classroom with a platform so that he can stand above us and threaten us with his ash plant and peel his apple for all to see. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He squatted in front of the apple crate the dealer had set up as a makeshift table and flipped down another nickel. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I see her dangling from the crab apple tree, the skipping rope noosed around her neck. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He left me sitting there, went to the truck, and came back with a hamburger, milk, a small wedge of apple pie. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had very white teeth; he said apples were why. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat by the side of the road and ate the last of the apples. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Miss Whitlaw thanked us for the apples and graciously asked us to sit in her good parlor chairs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was tall—even taller than Koffi—and had a deep umber face made up of soft, rounded features: apple cheeks, a mouth curved like a warrior’s bow. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was an apple; immediately a second one flew after it. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brinker, Chet and I managed to be in the same group, but the playful atmosphere of the apple orchard was gone. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Been missing this for...like...two whole apple seasons. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

David Petrakis My Lab Partner cuts his apple into eight equal wedges. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Did dying an apple seed death hurt Michael Jackson? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Once he went out to the kitchen and came back with two apples; he offered one to me, but I didn’t want it, so he ate them both. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got a better look at me and swallowed, his Adam’s apple bobbing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She envisioned a chain of Yankee Doodle bakeries stretching across America to St. Louis, Dallas, Los Angeles, her apple pies and cupcakes on main streets and in suburban shopping malls everywhere. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center was a small leather wine holder and, beside it, some cheese and some apples. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Today she was wearing dark jeans and a light blue top with little green apples all over it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They had only apples left in their food supply, and Dicey wanted to save them, in case. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature topples over, a flailing arm sending a pyramid of golden apples spilling to the dirt. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

William Tell was a good shot and put an arrow through an apple on his son's head. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Atlas did so, and Hercules picked up the apples and went off. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spring scent of apple blossom drifted through the open window. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Slowly, thoughtfully, I took up catching the hedge apple again, One, two, three..., but I wasn’t really paying attention to my counting anymore. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The captain looked as if he wanted to go sit under a shady apple tree. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a caramel apple calling out to me.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He plucked the apple and put it in his pocket. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He barked once, but the noise was muffled by the juicy green apple still clenched in his jaws. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I shake my head, thinking of the way I felt after having the golden apple mashed into my face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For an apple pie that can last for generations, you need the printing press and the Industrial Revolution and maybe even a poem. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Little bits of apple exploded all over the kid, his brother and me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘If you can’t distinguish between a Man and a Hobbit, your judgement is poorer than I imagined. They’re as different as peas and apples.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Again I remember my mother stretching to pick an apple in this orchard, years ago when we came to help the Amity with the harvest. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We go walking out through the rows of apple trees. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Their branches grow into one another, creating a maze of leaves and twigs and apples. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The apple floated and spun right above the boar’s nose, and the boar went nuts, straining to get it. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He slept while the boy kept watch and in the evening they got out their shoes and put them on and went down to the farmhouse and collected the rest of the apples. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Why did you walk around with crab apples in your cheeks?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

For lunch she had a block of cooking chocolate and an apple. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

After corn came hogs, apples, hay, oats, potatoes, and cherries. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There was a tiny doubt inside her, like a maggot in an apple core. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Evan walked into the kitchen and grabbed an apple from the fruit bowl. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The pupils ate apples and put straws down one another’s backs, until Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt collected her energies, and made an indiscriminate totter at them with a birch-rod. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Of the twins, sitting at our rickety table on Elizabeth Street waiting patiently for their apple mash. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I had to wait until she left to replace the ruined apple with a fresh one. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would be three doughnuts and an apple apiece. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man was selling apples from a barrow, and a woman was offering herring with chopped onions. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cilia was paring apples in that deft, absent-minded way she did such things. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He limps through the aisles and gets a honey bun, an apple, and a pack of hog head cheese. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Miss Love chopped up two big carrots and put them in her apron pocket, along with some shriveled little yellow apples out of Granny’s bowl on the work table. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I watched the food slide down his throat, struggling to get past his sagging Adam’s apple, which pushed out of his neck like a wrinkled nut. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And he sure didn’t want to hear any more about apples and the trees they were stuck underneath. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

While I waited, 1 went to the food counter and bought some rolls and some apples. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't mention the toffee apple in case it counted as throwing money away. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Recall that apples were historically among the most difficult fruit trees to cultivate and among the last major ones to be domesticated in Eurasia, because their propagation requires the difficult technique of grafting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In her birdish state, she detected no fewer than nine different spices and a hint of dried apples and crushed zirin petals. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Yes, bring us some baked apples and custard.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Crooks had his apple box over his bunk, and in it a range of medicine bottles, both for himself and for the horses. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you ever play that game?” she held up her own apple core and grabbed the stem with two fingers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sweat pours from his face, slides over his Adam’s apple, and soaks his shirt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagining even turned the cold pancakes, mushy apple, and handful of dried fruit into a tasty meal. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was a bite taken out of one of the apples. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

By just sat there chomping down apples, so I tried to think what him and Buphead would talk about when they sat around like this. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was a pear or a peach or something like that, but usually it was an apple or a banana, and you had to choose. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Only one woman loves apple blossoms in a blue cup. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

By the time he got to the bottom of the orchard he had four more apples and he put them in his pocket and came back. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I watch Grandma slice apples into the pan. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

All he had done was to eat a wormy, no-good apple. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We eat fresh broad beans, venison with scattered pomegranate seeds, grilled brown trout with butter, a salad of bitter herbs, and, for after, raisin cakes smothered in apple syrup. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Conkers for bullets, crab apples and windfallen pears for heavy artillery. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

On the kitchen table was an apple pie, and beside it were three envelopes: one for Phoebe, one for Prudence, and one for their father. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

A soft, damp breeze, smelling of rain and apple blossoms, blew through the window. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His Adam’s apple rose and fell as he swallowed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I leave her to her apple and her reminiscences and head toward the palace. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baxter had given me the usual peanut butter and jelly sandwich, potato chips, and apple. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A bird flew among the branches suddenly, all white with a tail like a fall of snow, and the golden apples dimming turned to seeds, each one a drop of crystal. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Poteet had stopped chasing bats and was asleep under the apple tree. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In it was some barley, a little sand for grit, bread crumbs, cornmeal, diced apple peels, and sometimes even bugs or worms. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I walked up from another direction and bought some walnuts and an apple. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man chose an apple from a huge bag he had been carrying on his back, and brought it to the king. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can see a stack of ears next to the eggplants, onions, apples, bananas, and potatoes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Each day Ashoke is pained by the half-eaten sandwiches people toss into garbage cans on campus, apples abandoned after one or two bites. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Levant was tall enough to be a basketball player, six five or six six, with a large Adam’s apple and tightly curled black hair, and he carried a lantern and a flashlight. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Thirsty looked up at Arm, and his Adam’s apple bobbed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then she reached forward and handed me a small white napkin with an apple slice on it that had already turned brown on the edges. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only did he have Eve, but he had the taste of the first apple in the world in his mouth for the rest of his life. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I real quick chugged the rest of the pop down and ate the apple real slow because I figured as soon as I was done with it the questions would start up again. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The outlay for insecticides in Nova Scotia apple orchards is only from 10 to 20 per cent of the amount spent in most other apple-growing areas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She was digging in a small hole about the size of a big apple. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s an ebony statue of a female saint in the comer, and a tureen on an altar crowded with apples and bananas and dishes of offerings I can’t identify. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much in it—two apples, a dented water gourd, and the small purse of copper shabas Baaz had begrudgingly given as a “stipend” for her venture—but she pulled the bag closer. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Outside the classroom window stood an ancient apple tree, its branches gnarled and entwined. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Before his killer could wrench free his blade, Syrio jabbed him in the apple of his throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Built around 1780...a two-hour train ride from Paris...the neighbor keeps his horses in my backyard...pies made with apples from my own trees..." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was a child standing in rompers outside a chicken-wire fence, looking in upon a huge black-and-white dog, log-chained to an apple tree. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After his cancer was cut out of him, the doctor had prescribed as many apples as he could stand, and he ate a lot of them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’d tended quietly to his apples and rhododendrons, his chinaberries and mulberry hedges, his rows of vegetables and flowers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap of burlap and ripping it from the bag. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The Foleys poured glasses of sparkling apple cider into fancy wine glasses and handed them out on little trays. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In one hand, I remember, he carried a green apple, a small paring knife in the other. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pretends to hug the sack of apples. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They could make little fondant pencils, and maybe even some fondant apples, with little worms poking out. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I held the knife and apple in imitation and, with the first paring motion, sliced my thumb open. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Later they swapped the apples for wood, and the Irish immigrants who played called the disk a poc—the word for punch or strike a blow. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean the drink that tastes of good rotten apples?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tip: Use only green apple candies, then dip them in melted caramel and let them rest on wax paper before packaging. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The goats around Anya noticed Misha was the one with the food, and they wandered away from her to the apple bucket. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Wil handed me an apple as I took a seat next to them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had me curve my hand around an apple and keep that shape when playing chords. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uniformed soldiers dig clams and launch missiles, pick apples and build irrigation canals, market mushrooms and supervise the export of knockoff Nintendo games. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Indeed, some of the supermarket apple varieties now being munched by readers of this chapter have been developed recently by crossing Eurasian apples with wild North American apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He grabs an apple from the fruit bowl and tears a chunk out of it with his teeth. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You better. If you drop the lord chancellor’s apple, you’ll go to prison.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We sit at the table and eat about some of the best apple pie I ever had. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

No one else visits the room until Ms. Tannenbaum comes back, balancing a huge stack of books and an apple on top. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I had one middle-aged African warder whom I occasionally was able to see, and one day I tried to bribe him with an apple to get him to talk to me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sent her invisible servants to leave bowls of stew and goblets of apple cider at the edge of the garden. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It reminded her of the time she’d passed a cemetery that had an apple tree. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He held the glass in one hand, but before picking up the peanut-buttered apple, he set a smaller paper bag—the one that wasn’t covering a bottle—in front of Genie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She went back into the kitchen to make apple strudel for my celebration. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main bunch of apple trees is a little ways into the swamp, down a few paths and over a fallen log that Manchee always needs help over. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to clean up any squirrel carcasses,” he says, biting into his toast with homemade apple jam. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

To the Wart the green trees would have looked whitish in the daytime, as if they were covered with apple blossom, and now, at night, everything had the same kind of different look. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Papa used to say they were like stars in heaven. Like apples in a tree. “They are little brown dots, child. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’m not thereby implying that apples could never have been domesticated in North America. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

With the change she bought an apple from the Covered Market, which was much more like the proper Oxford, and walked up toward the park. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The apple tree my dad planted took forever to have fruit. I’d walk past it every day for three years, just waiting.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The tiny apples hung on that way; they didn’t seem to fall, even in strong wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This experience left me with the conclusion that our first president, besides having frizzy hair, a large red hooked nose, and apple cheeks, had a prissy, even old-ladyish mouth and a double chin. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put down the apple and took a bite of the pizza, looking away, knowing he was about to start. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She ate her last apple, taking the tiniest bites, making it last as long as she could. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Each one is only the size of an apple, but packs tremendous power on contact. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Lurvy sat down under an apple tree and lit his pipe; the animals sniffed the familiar smell of strong tobacco. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Annie pointed to Luke’s plate, which was just a collection of carrots and apple slices. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes there is an apple or a banana, and when there is, I always think about him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He bites off the end of the apple core and nods. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard “The apple don’t fall far from the tree,” I’d be rich. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Her gestures were jerky and she had bright eyes in a little face like an apple. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“And then I suppose that three little pigs with wings flew down and gave you a toffee apple each?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They had a giant snack pack of barbecue potato chips and those lemonade drinks in little boxes and a giant bag of red apples. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Thirsty’s Adam’s apple bobbed up and down. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had been out and brought back with him a handful of tiny apples, some dried venison, fresh butter, and several dozen more bottles of wine. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But if you would kindly tell me which ones aren’t, maybe I could buy them some apples or something? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The awesome power of the neutron star is lurking in the nucleus of every atom, hidden in every teacup and dormouse, every breath of air, every apple pie. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below the apple orchard, at the end of a path, was the dump where Mr. Zuckerman threw all sorts of trash and stuff that nobody wanted any more. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Toomer, tell me some way I can repay you for the flowers. Let me fix you up an apple pie over the weekend.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay hidden during the day and went in search of food at night— turnips, a few ears of corn from a crib, a few windfall apples—nothing that would be missed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He heard his grandfather’s words now—our apples don’t fall far from the tree—and he felt sick and afraid all over again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Remember to focus on one thing at a time. Think of the fruit like birds—apples are pigeons, cranberries are chickadees.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The infant in her arms grabbed at the bitten apple, and she shoved its hands away. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apple and peach orchards were in bloom again, and the redbud was almost ready to burst. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you went through the line, after you got the hot meal, there would be a pile of fruit, and you could take one apple or one banana. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Baba,” I said, which means Father, and is a term of respect, “can I give you an apple?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside my first brown paper bag: a white meat sandwich, an apple, crunchy curly things sprinkled with salt, and a cookie dotted with chocolate raindrops. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The rest of the land was covered with orchards—almond, fig, apple, plum, pear—as well as vineyards. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Jesus Christ! Why did you want—” “—apple cheeks.” “—apple cheeks?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He swung off his pack and pulled out some water and an apple. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She laughed quietly into their ears as she fed them apple bits. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I peer at the crates—they hold apples. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Ever since Momma had met Rufus and I told her about sharing my sandwiches with him she had been giving me four sandwiches and three apples for lunch. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why must I be held back? Am I no better than a pig-boy? He is untried, a green apple!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sugary, spicy smell of the apple turnover almost made her dizzy. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But mine was smooth and bald as an apple. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

We finish the water, share the last apple. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You have sunny hair like me. Would you like an apple?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

With his backpack on his back and Nunu in his arms in front like a papoose, he looked like an apple with legs. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The scythe stepped closer, and Easley suddenly found a blade pressed to his neck, to the right of his Adam’s apple. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Jay always makes apple cinnamon pancakes on Christmas, and today is no different thanks to the bag of flour from our community center box. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They ordered two steaks medium rare, baked potatoes, French fries, fried onions, succotash, side dishes of macaroni and hominy, salad with Thousand Island dressing, cinnamon rolls, apple pie and ice cream, and coffee. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon’s stomach growled audibly as he bit into one of his apples. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Deydey’s triumph resulted in a small square of salt pork, a bit of flour, some dried apples, and a bladder of fish oil. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

We are going to dine tonight in our rooms, with our family, sharing hamburgers, french fries, and apple pie a la mode. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Now cravens like you want hard coin for a bite of wormy apple." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We sat on the back steps eating apples. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let my teeth crunch deep into the apple, right down to the core, locking it there. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped the half-eaten apple in the trash, his stomach rumbling. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was an apple core, brown and rotting. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

At one point, I tore open a bag of Jolly Ranchers I’d brought with me and popped a piece of green apple hard candy into my mouth. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Nearby was a pile of stove lengths on the circle of burned ground where she cooked down her apples for apple butter. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Near the center of the room there was a trestle table piled high with glossy apples. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I felt the weight of the apple in the canvas catcher, I lowered it to deposit yet another Macintosh into the basket. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Nothing would better describe what this place is like, to an outsider, than the Cezanne demonstrations that an apple is really part fruit, part earth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie in bed, stare up at the ceiling, and think about the dictionary definition of cider—juice pressed from apples. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I watched him swallow, the Adam’s apple moving up and down in his throat. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had been a fool to think of the apple as a symbol of himself and Cilia. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And of course I’m not holding any apples, am I? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Against another wall were white apple blossoms on branches cut into sharp crucifixes and forced to lie flat against the stone. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a cot with a shuck mattress, an apple box holding a tin lantern, and a backless rocking-chair in the little room of the bunkhouse. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Yes?’ she said, standing before Johnny under the apple trees. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was short, of course, and I’d always thought he was as bland as a glass of apple juice. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it was a hunk of dried salt pork, a few apples, some wrapped cheese, and several hard biscuits. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phil stopped, and I ran up to the first tree, plucked an apple, and took a huge bite. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Three or four families already crowded the beach, and the Tillermans had to eat the apples for breakfast after all. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning I was sitting in Miss Love’s kitchen, eating hot apple pie and cheese and hoping she wouldn’t pick a fuss with me like she had with everybody else. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Grandma peeled the apples for one of her delicious pies. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Heather usually brown-bags her lunch—her mom insists on packing healthy stuff like apples and carrot sticks. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Although our apparently commonsense notions work well when dealing with things like apples, or planets that travel comparatively slowly, they don’t work at all for things moving at or near the speed of light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next Tuesday, I arrived with the normal bags of food—pasta with corn, potato salad, apple cobbler— and something else: a Sony tape recorder. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountain laurel tightened their leaves, and the apple blossoms froze. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

One holds a basket of apples, one a sack full of bread. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He is all these things; but he is also like an apple, after a prolonged and gluttonous binge. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is what he used to call his trach tube, a little plastic thingy that was literally inserted into his neck below his Adam’s apple. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, my family boiled and skinned peaches, pitted apricots and churned apples into sauce. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to run down the hill from the barn and through the kitchen door that banged behind me and see my mother and my father sitting at the table peeling apples. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The water would flow into the paved channels in the courtyard to feed the apple trees and the grape vines. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Bees bumbled through the air, so stuffed with apple they couldn’t be bothered to sting me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

My teeth sank into the crisp flesh of an apple. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seized Idunn in one taloned claw and the ash-wood box of apples in the other, and it rose into the sky above Asgard and was gone. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She pressed her face into the horse’s warm neck, which smelled of sea salt and apples. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We sat around the kitchen table, drinking hot apple cider, eating homemade cookies fresh out of the oven, and playing hearts. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“So we thought, Aslan,” she said, “that there must be some mistake, and she can’t really mind the smell of those apples.’ The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

When you’re done, you pour the grits down the drain and eat the road apples.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the alternatives are jail or a pierced Adam’s apple, I shall happily push one of your carts. Though I can’t predict how far I’ll go.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the last withered apple had been handed out, the wagons were crowded with wildlings, and they were sixty-three stronger than when the column had set out firom Castle Black that morning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Beowulf took a big bite and finished his apple, pips, core, and all. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Writing was more like trying to chew an unripe apple—bitter and hard and not worth the effort. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A tray holding warm apple juice, Jell-O, ice cream, and cold baked chicken is brought to her side. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We each have a roll, half an apple, and an egg-size serving of stew and rice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Riccio was running eagerly after the cabbages while the signora, cursing loudly, bent over to pick up the apples. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes there is an apple or a banana, and when there is, I always think about him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Why, then, didn’t Native Americans domesticate those apparently useful apples and grapes themselves? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Carl junior looked at them, the apples in one hand, the glass of milk in the other. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Of course the apples are there—a farmer planted them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We stand in the Amity orchards, where the apples are ripe and dangle just inches above our heads. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, I thought, and I bet you kissed Mr. McAllister between every sugar lump and apple, and hugged him every time the mare did what you wanted her to. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There were big green apples hard as knees. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Federio always followed Mrs. O’Brien, and Mrs. O’Brien always followed Mrs. Callaway in talking and pushing and even in buying an apple. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sí,” said the expert, “a mango can be substituted for an apple.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And I want a deep, rich cabernet sauvignon to wash it all down, not apple juice from a tin. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

On the train the next day, Joe didn’t make many speeches with rhymes to her, but he bought her the best things the butcher had, like apples and a glass lantern full of candies. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Denna gave the remains of her apple a speculative look, then began to eat it from the bottom up. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We make up a game with the force field that surrounds the roof—one of us throws an apple into it and the other person has to catch it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, my mouth half full of apple. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. And if there’s a good apple—a crisp apple—bring that too.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I didn’t get up in time to help you make the fire, Mama,” Stella said, wrapping her fingers around a hot mug of apple tea. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He stood in the doorway, his arms laden, made his Adam’s apple go up and down twice, and Francie heard him speak for the first time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems like you are done with your apple.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Cilia did not answer, but she reached up through the foliage of the tree and picked a little green apple. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then people figured out how to grow it, just as they learned how to plant apple trees or berry bushes. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Pears and apples and muscat grapes,” said Lee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not as good as Gram’s apple pie, but it will have to do. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

There were bowls of chicken and rice, spinach and lamb, big crunchy apples, pretty yellow cakes, and big kettles of sweet milky tea. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the fall, a few brave souls sneak into the woods to harvest apples. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

This year, there will be no red apples in a bowl or candy canes on a little dish to offer visitors. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The apple juice is too sweet, but we need to wash down the dry graham crackers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Ma put some blush on the apple of Caroline’s cheeks and then applied some rice powder to her face. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

As my eyes adjusted to the dim I saw dirty dishes, apple cores and soup cans littering almost every conceivable surface. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

With the stew came boiled squash, an apple, and a bottle of water. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All was quiet there in the dark, save the rustling of the leaves in the apple tree, barely stirred by a gentle wind. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His Adam’s apple is going up and down, so I know something is wrong. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t actually forbid us to peel our apples or waste the cores, but he kept referring to the matter so as to let us know that he had noticed what we were doing. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the apples because Benny died in the orchard. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They ate raspberries and apples; they took off their shoes and let the dewy grass and sun-warmed dirt soothe their feet. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was apples, some collard greens, four or five tin cans, and a package that spilt; it coulda been cornmeal. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Then, as if in slow motion, she tumbles forward, a thrashing avalanche of patriotism and motherhood, crushing three spectators and a table of apple tartlets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Camilla took an apple from a bowl on the counter and sat in the windowsill, eating it morosely and looking down at the street below. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Believe me, there are no apples on my desk, and even if there were, they’d probably have razor blades in them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

That evening, I am too embarrassed by what happened to go to dinner, so I spend the time in the branches of an apple tree at the far end of the orchard, picking ripe apples. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But he had taken the apple home, against the recreation area rules. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He cradled the hedge apple gently in his hands. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

More laughter sounded from behind the windows of the house, where all the adults, including Miss Perumal and the Washingtons, sipped apple cider and watched the gleeful battle below. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

His favorite weapon was a long whip with which he could peel an apple while it was still on the tree. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apple rolls in the dirt, but I can already feel it working on me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as he finished his apple pie, Papa grabbed his newspapers, sat down in his favorite chair, and began reading intently. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His Adam’s apple stood out stark against the flesh of his neck. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the moment I sent the arrow flying into the apple in the pig's mouth when I was so enraged. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The younger one took forever deciding between apple juice and chocolate milk. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked as if she had two objects strapped to her forehead, large as apples, black as olives. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Moonie Buttle has his eyes, nose, and heart on just one thing: that last apple. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They brought in great platters of fried cod, hash, potato balls, pumpkin mush with huge pitchers of cream, toast and butter, apple pie, and pitchers of coffee and milk. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

To bite down hard, chew up the core and have the taste of red apple skin to carry around for the rest of my life. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to ask her more, but then the door opens, and Matthew stands in the hallway, chewing on an apple core. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I will bring my apples. We will compare them.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He stole an apple from my basket and took a bite. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she opened them wide and said real loud: “There’s only one apple.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All over the apples, too,” he added as an afterthought. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were not many apple trees, but there were quince, pear, and plum trees. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his lean throat the sharp-pointed Adam’s apple made a surprisingly rapid up-and-down movement, and the beer vanished. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He handed me the sandwich and the pop and the apple. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The young prince is the apple of his mother’s eye,” murmured my father to himself. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My grandmother said she’d fixed apple dumplings, and together the three of us walked to the house. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I looked down at the hedges and the apple tree. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s like cooking: If you put in sugar and apples and oranges and lemons, when you eat it it’s going to be sweet. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best I can do is to get him to eat a few bits of dried apple. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t afford a drab for an apple and meat pie, so I had snuck some barley bread and a gristly sausage out of the Mess. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She cut two pieces from the apple pie and gave them to Ruth and me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filled it with my leftovers and commanded my belly to stop flopping so at the sight of the curly apples. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A for apple!” sang Ess, drawing with her stick in the wet sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The children could work all of the machines, even when they were little and had to stand on apple crates to reach them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recoiled at the taste, because I was expecting apple juice. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

An Adam’s apple is prominent on his neck. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were weeping willows and rows of apple trees leading up a hill. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

First thing the next morning, while they munched apples and passed the milk carton around, Dicey told the others about her encounter of the night before. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while there was total peace and quiet, with nothing but the sound of Piper humming quietly and a chiff- chaff chiff-chaffing in the apple tree and me turning the pages of a book. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was eating apple quarters off the tray. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Zero, if they want pictures of apples, sharp cheese, and oysters on the half shell.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It only tastes mildly of something like diluted apple juice, and I don’t feel any sort of change in my emotions. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I gathered what apples I could, cut some in slices, and dried them on the boulder in the sun. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led her into the forest, Idunn holding tightly to her ash box containing the apples of immortality. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I remember our laminated nameplates—Liberty G. and Edith G.—printed in cursive fonts, with graphics of yellow pencils and shiny red apples. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Them apples got me sick, you little cross-eyed punk! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below them as they came safely down to land, the surrounding orchards were foamy with white apple and cherry blossoms, in spite of the bloodshed so close by. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The small shaving nick just above his Adam’s apple. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You know,” she said, “it’s a little scary to see your Adam’s apple going like that.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Queen said to the child, “Come over here, honey, and let’s wash those sticky hands. How about if I slice an apple for you?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat before her board, receiver around her neck, eating apples and reading the newspaper until the board buzzed with a call to be relayed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Two pomegranates rested in the crate perched next to the onions and apples. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But the thing we get done together is that big pan of apples. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tweedie swallowed twice, his Adam’s apple rising and falling with emotion, but said nothing. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We set out blankets and an apple box for Lottie’s bed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We stand in Grace’s driveway, beside her dark pink crab apple tree. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I just didn’t have the heart to give the signals, and the kids were a little put out because they all got stuck with old apples. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Boomer and I return from the Spinney, the sun hangs in the watery blue sky like a juicy golden apple, ripe for the picking. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

After all, I did give him an apple last night. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She reaches into the side pocket of her dress and pulls out a small shiny apple. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We sat shoulder to shoulder along the walls, ate crackers, bread with dates, apples. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Headmistresses are always so cooperative. They’d rather expel a bad apple or two than risk their school getting into the newspapers for the wrong reasons. Who can blame them?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

With my left hand I fished into my pants and took out a green apple that I’d brought along for a snack. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I grabbed an apple in each fist and tore off running. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he had had no problem catching the apple. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since he was a young boy, James could be placated by a treat from Alice’s kitchen, the sugar apple that cut short a fit or tantrum. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He fed her the apple and stroked her mane and said he was making it official, her name was Night. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ludsbury’s voice was bass, British, and his Adam’s apple seemed to move as much as his mouth when he spoke. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a small altar sat a bowl with three dried-up, moldy apples. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They won’t get homemade popcorn balls any more, though, or apples: rumors of razor blades abound, and the possibility of poison. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingernails cut little crescents into the apple as she turned it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“And a slice of apple pie and a glass for milk for my son.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Throughout all the colonies and most of the early United States, one of the most common drinks was hard cider made from fermented apples. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Put them in little plastic bags and threw them in a cooler with some blue ice and a couple of apples and bananas. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sam returned to his mountainside camp and ate a breakfast of nuts and dried apples from his root cellar on the mountaintop. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It must have been apples the first time I saw her, though, because I’ve always thought of her as the Apple Lady. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

On the backseat next to us, I got a bag with a Thermos a apple juice, cheese nabs, peanuts, and two Co-Cola bottles that’s gone be like drinking coffee they gone be so hot. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was punch and even some apple juice. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

By the time they got off the bus, he could finally send a swallow past his Adam’s apple without choking. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Oranges, apples, bananas, cold sweet bubbly drinks, chocolate drops, fruity gum. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

"Only someone wicked could eat witch's apples and come to no harm," he insinuated darkly. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A lot of them call me an apple.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed three apples out of the bucket and heaved them out into the yard. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Used to be where Grandma set all the apple pies and crisps to cool. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Even if there is a big waste of apples on the ground. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

There’s a steaming pot on the stove, and I bet anything there are apples in it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The colors bled one into the next, making the tree look like a sky, pink apples bobbing from cloudlike leaves. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Rose threw her Red Delicious apple after him as he ran. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The last course was goat cheese served with baked apples. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I cut the rest of my apple into four fat pieces. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t use real Quidditch balls, which would have been hard to explain if they had escaped and flown away over the village; instead they threw apples for one another to catch. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

After several silent moments, except for Tamika crunching away on a green apple, she finally spoke. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They had autumn peaches picked from the trees and sliced in golden cream, mounds of wild honey, and apples that Nancy’s little boys had polished until they gleamed rosily against the white cloth. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I couldn’t get crab apples,” Orr continued, “I used horse chestnuts. Horse chestnuts are about the same size as crab apples and actually have a better shape, although the shape doesn’t matter a bit.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The gander discovered the hole and led his family through, and they walked to the orchard and ate the apples that were lying on the ground. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

They favor plaid for autumn with matching sweaters in colors named after fruit, like apricot and russet apple. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And there is plenty of red chile for making ristras, and fruit, ay! The apples of the Lunas are known throughout the state!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ordered a hot chocolate and an apple Danish, and Ty'ree ordered coffee. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

As a half-moon crept up the sky, they staked their horses out in the village commons and supped on salted mutton, dried f apples, and hard cheese. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I headed for the apple tree and began to climb carefully down. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He yelled, “Mom, can I cut up apples? It’s my turn, isn’t it?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Its fetid dark green leaves spread like a canopy over the ground and its fruit, like a small apple newly ripened, lurked beneath. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He found beef jerky and dried apples in the metal chest. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rushed up to it, hoping to find an old apple. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

One bullet has crushed the Adam’s apple and sent the remains of it to the back of the throat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Instead he walked up the side of the hill to where a picnic some thirty years before had left its mark in the shape of a large apple tree. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They killed me with mushy apples and pasta worms and little cakes that marched out of the oven and lay down to be frosted. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Atlas, who bore the vault of heaven upon his shoulders, was the father of the Hesperides, so Hercules went to him and asked him to get the apples for him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, if nicotine sulphate is applied before rather than after the apple blossoms turn pink one of the important predators is spared, probably because it is still in the egg stage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but remember Sam Hamilton said like good rotten apples.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Is an apple the same as a mango?” asked Cirila, whose yard was shaded by mango trees. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You better give him a nice big apple, then,” said Malcolm. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

So matters stood when Paris gave the golden apple to Aphrodite. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air smelled like fresh bread, apples, parcel paper, and string, and I saw rows and rows of wrapped chocolates living behind glass. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Seeds, flies, same size, same thing, Genie decided as he tapped a few apple seeds out of the cup into his palm. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was filled with the smell of the roasting turkey John had prepared, with a stuffing of sausage, mushrooms, walnuts, apples, and spiced bread crumbs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She shrugged, and took a bite from an apple. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“God, wouldn’t an apple taste good right now?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It looked like they were handing out sandwiches and apples. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the center of the square, Aggo fed him a withered apple and dropped him in an instant with an axe blow between the eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The scent of apple blossom was plain enough. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their house stood on the lower slope of Catoctin Mountain, overlooking the town, above a sea of apple orchards. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I placed two fingers on his Adam’s apple. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Distant galaxies revolving about one another follow the same laws of gravitational physics as govern the motion of an apple falling to Earth, or Voyager on its way to the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tucks both fists under his chin while more apples rain in. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Me an outsider in my own family, always lesser than my big brother, the apple of my parents' eyes? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The force that drove Newton’s apple from the branch to his head was the same force that guided planets along their celestial orbits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I take out the plastic bag I’ve got folded in my back pocket and start filling it with apples. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Neighbors drifting by will sometimes leave pecans or an apple. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

When I get to Marlena’s horses, they snort in recognition and flap their lips against my hands, which still smell like baked apples. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Its spherical stone eyeballs, as big as apples, were iridescent green. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched our parents buy a sofa, then a rug, curtains, chairs to replace the orange and apple crates one by one, now to be used for storage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valley took a big bite of the apple and smiled. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Turnips and apples rolled onto the table and off to the floor. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was a pear or a peach or something like that, but usually it was an apple or a banana, and you had to choose. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He lifted his sword to make a run at me, and I laughed—howled— and threw an apple at him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie and Grandpop spent a little time each day in the inside-outside room, where Grandpop would have his drink and his apple, always spitting the seeds in the small cup he kept under the table. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I trudged up the back steps to the kitchen, hoping Gramma would offer me another slice of apple pie when I got inside. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Beside her, Ess listened, mouth hanging slightly open, to the tale of a tree that gave everything it had to a boy—its apples and its branches, until the tree was nothing but a stump. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was a scrawny man, toothy, with a pipelike neck and a monstrous Adam’s apple. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the fire was lit, he wrapped cattail tubers and trout in two large may- apple leaves and placed them in the oven. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She wandered along the deck toward the bows, and soon made the acquaintance of an able seaman by flicking at him the pips she’d saved from the apple she’d eaten at breakfast. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the forest of the apple tree, indeed at the very foot of the tree itself, he came across a lady riding a white palfrey. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ash sat down across from her and put the bread and cheese between them, and the huntress began to slice the apple as she spoke. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have the peel, the mere skin.You have not nor will you ever achieve heights so dizzy you’ll be feasting on the apple itself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I always offer The Abbot an apple but he won’t eat it because of the scarcity of teeth in his head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He sits and opens it, and inside he has a wrapped lunch, an apple, and an envelope. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

As I made my way down the short hallway, a boy in rags emerged from the inner rooms holding a small winter apple. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I looked past the apple seller to the haberdasher’s window behind him. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shifts over his Adam’s apple when he swallows. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Might be an apple, or might even be a biscuit and a piece of salt pork. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lit a fire, ate smoked fish and dried apples, and went out again. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except these apples weren’t apples, they were glass orbs lit emerald and amethyst and sapphire from the fireflies that lived inside. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She looked at the teeming sky, looked at the endless dripping apple orchard, and looked at the empty road. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Most of us liked our apples without skins, and Dad thought this was wasteful. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The box she meant was a wooden thing of the sort that might have contained apples. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Once she was outside the city, she would find berries to pick, or orchards she might raid for apples and cherries. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The keeper showed Jenny an apple but, teasing, didn’t give it to her. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had fixed Jordan a steak dinner and an apple pie, and Monique was not known for her good cooking. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One wrist twist and there was an apple. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alyce could not bear to leave her like that, so she put down her baskets of apples and slid into the pit. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not bothering with salt, she takes a bite of each, holding the apple out for me to bite. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At four o’clock a lull took place, and baskets remained empty, while the apple pickers rested and compared rents and bruises. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could answer, Susie ripped her apple in half with her bare hands. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They would be out of apples soon enough. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Underwood looked to be made of dried-out apples. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

From my backseat car window, I would point my nose toward Kiddieland and breathe in the smells of roasting hot dogs, popcorn, cotton candy, and candied apples cooling on refreshment stand counters. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They gave her cool drinks of barley water and apple water to reduce the fever, and red wine with laudanum to help her rest. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

"Answer me this. I have seven apples, seven oranges and seven bananas. How many pieces of fruit do I have altogether? Hurry up! Get on with it! Give me the answer!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The apple blossoms had wilted and fallen off. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I loved the carnival atmosphere that day—and especially eating cotton candy and candied apples. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sort of apples you dream about all year but can only get for a few span during the fall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After drinking the glass of milk and putting on a fleece-lined cap, Mr. Clutter carried his apple with him when he went outdoors to examine the morning. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Davos stopped beneath the colonnade and traded a halfpenny for an apple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Adam said, “I won’t plant apples. That would be looking for accidents.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually he realizes he won’t change my mind, and wraps some bread and an apple in a napkin for me to take along. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The arrow skewers the apple in the pig's mouth and pins it to the wall behind it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden, referred to in the Bible?” he asked. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The blade nicked me just above the Adam’s apple. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I asked whether the reason for the failure of North American Indians to domesticate North American apples lay with the Indians or with the apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed Teacher’s carefully arranged apples and hurled them every which way. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There were clouds,” she said simply as she walked around the edge of the roof toward the apple tree. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So T would get the banana, and I would get the apple, and we would split them. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She picked out four apples, then searched for the kind of rack they have in every supermarket, a place where they offered items that were damaged or old. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got a apple pie ready to bake, gone do my biscuits in the morning. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“May I have a caramel apple?” she asks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He took a bite of his apple, feeling surprisingly refreshed. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She took her last apple out of the pocket of her dressing gown and then took, from the same pocket, the stone with the hole in it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Once out of sight, they sat on the grass to eat, breaking pieces of apple pie off with their fingers and licking all the sticky sauce before seizing another portion. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You eat the core of your apple,” she said, amused. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He gave a dry swallow, and his Adam’s apple rolled against the skin of his throat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I count one, two, three, four apples as she places them on the scale. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Stella grinned—Mama made the best apple preserves! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Every jolt in the road dropped my Adam’s apple another notch in my neck. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Werfel held out the bowl to his guest and watched Brangwain Spurge pluck up an apple and bite. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Then they sneak out an apple or a banana to give to a friend. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“But I know ’bout an apple tree that grew so tall that it took fifty years to cut it down. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We cross at the light and walk through pyramids of oranges, apples, and kiwis. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Returning, unpacking the groceries, piling the dollars and change beside the toaster, washing the apples before putting them in the refrigerator, Dicey heard herself humming the song about Peggy-o. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tasted it once, at a Fourth of July party when I was eleven, thinking it was a glass of apple cider. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

We laughed about a trip the whole family had taken to another park last spring, when Ji-yong had dropped the knife out of a rowboat so we had to eat our apples without peeling them. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see the bag of apples flying away from me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Johnny, already jealous, for the first time in his life, over Rab’s taking Cilia out, buying her sweets—and never saying anything— tried his best to quarrel with a puzzled Rab over this apple. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, the four of us wander the mall, trying on purple lipsticks and eating sour apple candy slices crusted in sugar that turn my tongue green. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I ran, got a toffee apple, came back, and put it on the counter at the checkout. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He held a “sword” in each hand: black apple branches with the stout ends bound in twine to make hilts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

This time the sled had—and continued to have, as he blinked, and stared at it again—that same mysterious quality that the apple had had so briefly. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

There is a scent in the air, like a summer breeze, heavy with the promise of apples. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He took a bite of the apple and felt guilty about that as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One day a three-dimensional creature—shaped like an apple, say—comes upon Flatland, hovering above it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or even if it were an order, would he be disobeying it by eating an apple? The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

His nails were yellow-brown, like the inside of a rotting apple, and some of the tips were curling, lifting. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I see myself in the back of the truck, singing with the girl, though I’ve never sung before, laughing when I am off-key, climbing trees to pick the apples, always peaceful and always safe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“That was just a joke. We’re going to have potato salad and smearcase and cold chicken and apple pie and lots of other good things. We’ve been cooking ever since your father called.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a delicate pattern of apple blossoms, which were a symbol of fertility. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip a piece of apple into my mouth, savoring its juices. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He came back with three bushel baskets full of groceries, fresh apples and oranges, garden vegetables, and two chickens. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Wait till you see the inside. The walls are bare, and when we got here yesterday, he had nothing in the fridge but some apples and a wedge of Havarti.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

That “women been gittin’ pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Set far back from the road, it had a wraparound porch, an apple orchard, and a garden with prizewinning irises. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Because what if dogs can’t eat birds? Just like birds can’t eat apple seeds? How would we explain a dead dog?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Fried chicken and boiled ham, baked sweet potatoes, peach pickles, big buttermilk biscuits, cookies, cakes, apples, boiled eggs, I don’t know what all. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In front of me now stands a young blond woman, slight and pale, and an earnest-looking man with a throbbing Adam’s apple and wearing a felt hat. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

So Tree Top has added value to an apple by injecting it with flavonoids from red wine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I have a bottle of apple juice that I don't want anymore. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It has pictures of fruits on it—bananas, apples, oranges, grapes, pineapples, strawberries, and snozzberries....” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

She gobbled gigantic green vitamin pills, ate lots of fresh oranges and apples, and she had this habit of touching her bulging belly and mumbling a prayer. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

If there were no such empty spaces, no void, the knife would encounter the impenetrable atoms, and the apple could not be cut. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” The Goober said, swallowing, his Adam’s apple doing a dance in that long thin neck. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The apples are bad, and only a bad—" "The apples are good," broke in Beowulf, his voice calm but firm. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

At lunch, I eat my tuna sandwich and apple juice at my table. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Yesterday she’d done apple butter, and that hadn’t been too bad. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Opening my eyes as wide as they’d go, I stared stupidly at Char and took the apple. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Robertson of U. S. Robot & Mechanical Men Corporation, son of the founder, pointed his lean nose at his general manager and his Adam’s apple jumped as he said, “You start now. Let’s get this straight.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Observing a particularly attractive and congenial-looking square entering its flat house, the apple decides, in a gesture of interdimensional amity, to say hello. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All she had wanted was chicken nuggets and apple slices. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I dropped the toffee apple, ran out behind her in tears, and caught up to her at the car. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The horse turned her head back to look at me, then continued to chew the last apple core. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stewed apple, and lucky to get it,” she said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think bout the apples and the dogs, sometimes I don’t. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apple trees were coming into bloom but no bees droned among the blossoms, so there was no pollination and there would be no fruit. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Not five months ago, Hamlet and I had admired the gold-red apples there. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Vienna,” says Volkheimer, and Neumann Two fulminates about Hapsburg palaces and Wiener schnitzel and girls whose vulvas taste like apple strudel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When I asked her if she had done what they claimed, she looked at me with a mysterious smile and said, “Rebellion is as American as apple pie. And so is fascism.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The trees in the orchard are crammed with apples, and the cafe hosts apple bobbing competitions every afternoon. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Father pointed to a box of apples that had been sent down from the north from some of our kinsmen. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waddle through the orchard of leafless apple trees, the legs of my snowpants whisking against each other, down to the bus stop. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His Adam’s apple once again bobs during the first spoonful but not at all for the second. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had never actually seen an apple, but for some reason they appeared in lots of books. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Moss didn’t feel much like socializing, so he pulled an apple out of his bag that he’d grabbed on the way out the door that morning. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The apple smells so fresh and sweet it makes my mouth water. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The tree trunks were painted with quicklime, but the ants continued to climb, sparing neither pears, oranges, nor apples. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the reception room they were packing apples to sell to the staff, and I asked them if I could buy some for Dad. One of them said, ‘Buy apples for your father? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What does Eve say to that? She has a say, you remember. And Eves delight in apples.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was in the kitchen, probably getting an apple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Such worm holes in space, a little like those in an apple, have been seriously suggested, although they have by no means been proved to exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we were passing by a gnarled, knotty tree, Hamlet plucked an apple and showed me the fruit streaked with red and gold like a sunset. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Not long after the apple was gone, Denna and I pulled our feet out of the water and gathered ourselves to leave. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When you went through the line, after you got the hot meal, there would be a pile of fruit, and you could take one apple or one banana. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Why did you want apple cheeks ?” “I didn’t want apple cheeks,” Orr said. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It seems like she usually comes out to pick apples from the orchard or wild blackberries from the brambles that grow along the edges of the meadow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Cooke was sitting on a rickety stool, munching an apple and reading the Chicago Daily Tribune. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the table was the marble slab, the sugar tin, a rolling pin, a large bowl of green apples, and one bright yellow lemon. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The one in the middle is apple- green. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My first job was picking apples, which was somewhat more useful than hanging around on the outskirts of the Piper Appreciation Society. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He eased down the hall into the kitchen, microwaved a bowl of oatmeal, poured a glass of apple juice. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

When their table was full of plates, they moved to another one, where they ordered desserts — apple pie, cherry pie. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eating an apple is an immensely complicated process. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, carefully, she told him, “Go get Dr. Hawkins and tell him Mama’s got a snakebite. It’s bad. Then go find Papa—fast. You know where the apple orchard is. Run!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The ancient information is written in exhaustive, careful, redundant detail— how to laugh, how to sneeze, how to walk, how to recognize patterns, how to reproduce, how to digest an apple. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, he says, well, no point in picking the apple if you don’t want to see how it taste. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liza Hamilton, her apple cheeks flaming red, moved like a caged leopard in front of the stove when Samuel came into the kitchen in the morning. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I offer the man a small bag of dried apple slices. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Molineaux was standing in his orchard, shaking his cane at a couple of small boys he had treed in an apple tree. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew picked up the entire can, turned it upside down and drained the juice violently, his adam’s apple straining and pulsing like a metronome. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adults raised their wineglasses, and Joseph and Frankie toasted with apple juice. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

‘I didn’t know even winter apples were still so green,’ she said, and walked off toward the house without a glance for the admiring Pumpkin. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I eat an apple and put my dishes in the dishwasher. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we consider cutting an apple pie, continuing down beyond a single atom, we confront an infinity of the very small. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wide aisles were lined with bins of nuts and dried fruit, baskets of apples, and clothing racks with tie-dyed shirts and gauzy Tinker Bell-type dresses. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The river lay in this direction; near its bank stood a grove of fruit trees—peach, pear, cherry, and apple. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father shares a bed with him and brings him apples and clothes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

So were those who offered apples, lavender, or ribbons. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

And the boy with the runny nose gave two apples to the boy with the broken teeth and they all went back to the fields. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing under the apple tree where Daisy Mae was buried, I realized I didn’t have to envy them anymore: I also knew now who I was and what I was going to do. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You can have an onion or an apple,” Jon heard Hairy Hal tell one woman, “but not both. You got to pick.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Got a kitchen, orchard, cherries, apples, peaches, ‘cots, nuts, got a few berries. They’s a place for alfalfa and plenty water to flood it. They’s a pig pen—” “An’ rabbits, George.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate lettuce leaves with Thousand Island dressing, and caramel apples, and popcorn with butter. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

There was an old crab apple tree there, just at the bank of the creek bed, from which someone long forgotten had hung a rope. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

A bad apple, but it was worth half a penny to learn that Manderly is raising men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Through a mouthful of apple goodness, he said, “Hey, fellas. Been waiting on you.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The rolls and apples are untouched, but someone's definitely picked away part of the cheese. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They have been thinking it through two apple seasons. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, right, Mama?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Boomer races up to her, wagging his tail and nipping at her apple basket. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Has he been able to pick this up from just that scraggly old apple tree in his backyard? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Early apples waited to be peeled and sliced and dried in the sun for the winter's use. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But if the answer is “eight apples,” all you’ll get out of me is “eight.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan was back a few minutes later with bread, cheese, dried venison, and apples. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I were home, the corn would be ripe, and the apples would be starting to grow on the trees. The wheat fields would be golden.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t have an Adam’s apple—oh, wait, she’s wearing a turtleneck. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Frank Crawley,” said Maxim, and I turned to the agent, a colourless, rather thin man with a prominent Adam’s apple, in whose eyes I read relief as he looked upon me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I tell Heather she should push the fashion envelope just a teeny bit to be an ironic reflection of the 1950s, you know, innocence and apple pie. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She bought two large bottles of limeade, a chocolate cake, and a new bag of apples, and went back home and ate them for dinner. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Returning to the village late in the day, with her baskets and belly full of apples, Alyce cut through the manor field, near where the villagers had dug a pit for the quarrying of gravel. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plainly visible on each side of his Adam’s apple were four finger-sized bruises. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does anything seem strange to you? About the apple?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! Mr. Knightley, one moment more; something of consequence—so shocked!—Jane and I are both so shocked about the apples!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

We gallop past the apple orchard and run down the gravel road that spits us out onto the wide meadow along the riverbank. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Genie slid the empty coffee can back under the table and grabbed the cup Grandpop used to spit his apple seeds in. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I had never thought about where Viola came from; she had always simply been there, punching down dough, peeling apples, preparing huge roasts in winter and frying up mountains of chicken in summer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The Adam’s apple or the charley horse or the butterflies in the stomach. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The apple trees we had planted years earlier were bigger now. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boos were even louder, but now they were throwing apples and garbage and such things at the ump and out on the field. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am surprised she hasn’t tried to shoot an apple off my head, if we had an apple that is. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got there bread, and butter, and cheese and apples: the last of the winter store, wrinkled but sound and sweet; and a leather flagon of new-drawn ale, and wooden platters and cups. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Cabbages, rotten apples, and a dead cat were thrown in the direction of the traitor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like to find me tin apple hanging way out on a branch, see if I can bring it down. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start munching on my snack of cut-up apples before we even get to the portables, and I’m eating them so fast, I start to choke. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Grandma comes down with the hot apple crisp. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Over her shoulder she spit out words to us like rotten pieces of apple. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces bristled with long pear spines that they’d got stuck with, reaching for apples. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him, “There won’t be chasing today. No apple throwing. Not with the lieutenant there.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

At first we were surrounded by former orchards of apple, cherry, and apricot trees that had now become wild. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got two slices of pepperoni pizza and an apple—dairy, meat, fruit, bread, and if you counted tomato sauce, a vegetable. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Ben wanted apples so I was getting him some ruddy apples!” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She would open her box and allow the god or goddess to eat a single apple. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

All Newton himself ever said was that the idea of gravity came to him as he sat “in a contemplative mood” and “was occasioned by the fall of an apple.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could only do this on Wednesdays because that was the only day they sold old apples in the cafeteria. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He's holding out half a roll spread with the creamy white stuff and topped with apple slices. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Tonv eats apples On Saturday morning, Two for each arm, And one for the backs Of his calves. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why should we change our lives because of one bad apple? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He was glad Magister Spurge was at least interested in the apples. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but nice rotten apples. Taste it back along your tongue toward the roots.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m distracted by hunger and thirst: it’s been a long time since we ate the apple and chocolate. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Coach bellowed, waving his bat and knocking over a plate of apples. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I thought back to how Miss Simpson had taken such pride in the wooden apple he had carved for her desk. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But instead, he takes another big bite of his apple, turns, and leaves the kitchen. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

If only I could free the apples themselves . The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My satchel was open, and they were eating my apples. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the City, in its own way, gets down for you, cooperates, smoothing its sidewalks, correcting its curbstones, offering you melons and green apples on the comer. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was shooting an apple out of their roast pig’s mouth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“School starts early this year,” he said and leaned against the apple tree by the water ditch. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could talk a blue streak about apples. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I had known the tree was there; we used to eat the apples sometimes, and my mother used them for jelly. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Anya chewed on a bite of apple, nearly hypnotized by Marina’s casual magic. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

That there had been a time in my life when the core was all of the apple I was likely to find, and I’d been glad of it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the loft that night, Dallas and Florida added two sweet rolls and two apples to their stash beneath a loosened floorboard. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He nods, and his Adam’s apple, which has some extra gray whiskers on it, bobs. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I wish I had an apple and I wish I had an orange— Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then Lancelot mounted his horse, got his bearings by asking several peasants where he was, and rode off toward the forest of fire apple tree where he had lost his cousin. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet feel like lead as I make my way to the palace, over ground strewn with windfall apples, their golden scent blowing in the air. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Washed and unwashed alike supped on hot pork pies and baked apples. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"I'm inclined to agree with you, my love, although reasoning things out isn't my best point, and I can't pretend to have understood all this apple business as readily as you have." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tremendous effort by kind, old Mrs. Jacobs from the accounts payable department She brings an apple pie — but wait a minute. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate apples and lemon Danish and cheese puffs and hickory-smoked trout. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He slaps Ryan on the back, drops an apple on the teacher’s desk with another apology to Mr. Black, and falls into his chair across the room. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Come here, Mr. Beautiful, I won’t hurt you. Here, baby,” she murmured, holding out an apple. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Settled with a cup of Perilee’s coffee and a slice of apple heaven on the plate in front of me, I nearly lost my nerve to tell her my story. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Celaena felt her nostrils flare, and it was all Chaol could do to duck the apple she chucked at his head. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There were apple and mince and dried-berry pies, little spicecakes with maple sugar frosting, candied fruits and nuts, pitchers of sweet apple cider, and great mugs of steaming flip for the men. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

For the Entwives were bent and browned by their labour; their hair parched by the sun to the hue of ripe corn and their cheeks like red apples. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, she even went to the farmers market so that there would be bright apples on the table instead of thick gray books like Representations of the Feminine in Ancient Hindu Sculpture. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But a few rows of untended pear and apple trees were still growing there when the camp opened, where a shallow water table had kept them alive. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the pool fruit trees hung heavy laden with pears, pomegranates, rosy apples, sweet figs. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the broth came a salad of apples, nuts, and raisins. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One of them was holding a shiny paper card shaped like an apple that said she needed a follow-up visit. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Maman used to make me tell her all the pigments that made up the deep red of an apple, or the brown of a peanut. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I pick up my apple with my left hand, and grab his hand under the table with my right. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a dark-haired woman in apple green speckled with emeralds, a man in orange speckled with rubies, and another man in yellow speckled with golden citrines. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Yesterday she told me that she and her parents went apple picking and they had doughnuts and hot cider. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

This suggested that as the molten Earth had cooled, it had become wrinkled in the manner of a baked apple, creating ocean basins and mountain ranges. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even better was the meal of fried eggs, toasted bread, and a fruit compote of pears and apples topped with strawberries and cream. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tastes a little like rotten apples,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lionel felt sleepy also, so they decided to lie down under an apple tree in a hedge, after tying their horses to sundry branches. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few years before I was born he had settled the family on a twenty-two-acre farm near Watsonville, California, raising apples, strawberries, and a few vegetable crops. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rebuffed, unhappy at the obtuseness of the very flat, the apple bumps the square and sends him aloft, fluttering and spinning into that mysterious third dimension. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And her cheeks, normally rosy like apples, have been repainted beige. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In no time at all he forgets little pebbly creeks and apple trees so old they lay their branches along the ground and you have to reach down or stoop to pick the fruit. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And candy apples, and ice cream, and lemonade!” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A robin sat on a blossoming apple tree and sang continuously. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn smelled cake and apple pie, and his stomach turned him in the direction of the refreshment stand, the goat trailing behind. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The laws that drove Newton’s apples to the ground should also apply to the growth of the apple tree. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I wash my hands and shove the apple core down the disposal. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We say, No, sir, pigeons don’t eat apples. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He could not help thinking of the witch, but neither could he help admitting that the apple was delicious. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The womenfolk had spent all day paring apples, threading them on strings preparing to dry them for the winter. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I step back inside the little shed and devour the apple down to the core. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

After half an hour of walking, Idunn said, “Loki, I am starting to believe that there are no other apples and there is no apple tree.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

As she picked the apple up, her lover panting and almost winded touched the goal. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My ears missed the snap of apple pancakes in the pan and my eyes missed the rainbow of fruits and vegetables sealed in jars on the shelves. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The words falling in the dark, like apples from trees. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She always left a loaf of bread on the ground when they departed, and sometimes, if they had them to spare, a bowl of red apples. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was telling her about New York and Camp Half-Blood* and then I starting telling her about the time Grover had eaten an apple while we were playing Hacky Sack with it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The gods ate of the apples of immortality and regained their youth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The taste of the green liquid reminded him of spoiled apple juice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A group of boys stood in a ring outside, smashing the apples from their lunches against their foreheads and egging each other on with guttural roars. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and as the apple’s fair outside finally shows its inner ruin, so evil thoughts in time corrupt a man’s features.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I snipped a couple of twigs off their apple tree and stripped off the leaves. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I picked up an apple and polished it lightly and quickly on the hair of my arm. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get him chasing an apple all the way. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He has recalled that taste countless times in his head, and despite the wealth of apples in the area, no cider with or without spices has ever tasted as good. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“But there’s nothing inside,” Ruby says, “except an apple.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“The apple juice is excellent, sir. It was a great year for apples.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Goblin would approach something he feared, Johnny rewarded him with a specked apple, but when he did fall off, he would come home smelling like a cider press. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A weakly thrown apple grazed Gregor's back but skidded off harmlessly. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They call me an apple because they think I’m red on the outside and white on the inside.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, I only bled on a couple of the apples. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I will light a fire in the cool evenings and toast apples at my own hearth. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He forgot about bringing a lunch so I gave him one of Momma’s throat-choking peanut butter sandwiches and let him eat the last half of my apple. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of those creatures came to the pear flats when the apples started turning red. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first policeman snaps flesh off his apple with his teeth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It said, quite clearly, that this wasn’t a case of a bad apple or two in the barrel. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But then he swallowed—the children could see his Adam’s apple bob in his skinny throat—and shrugged his patchy shoulders. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Would it be distracted by the few apples I had left? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He belonged at home—home, where his mother always let him have the first piece of apple pie because he was there and the other boys were away. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Teenie, making crust for a pie, was shuttling back and forth, carefully watching over Polly, who was peeling apples, and Amari, who was stirring a mixture of apple juice and brown sugar over the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apples that she has brought with her she gives to us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned up a day late, told how the apple had come to be poisoned, and went back to her own concerns. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can’t find any bakeries, so we settle for a nearby grocery store, one of those fancy ones where a bag of organic apples costs more than our rent. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Kira nodded and took a bite from the deep red apple he had given her. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Why not sell apples or song sheets, or shine shoes? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the apple groves at the edge of town, flocks of grackles settled into the branches for the night, squawking. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Invisible servants had set up a table with beef stew and apple cider, which may not sound all that exciting, but that’s because you haven’t tasted it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He asks me this: “So when is the end of apple season?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Ishmael walked beside his father past the concession booths where shortcake, bagged popcorn, and caramel apples were sold and down toward the displays of strawberries. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How many cakes? The price of sugar is still high. How about apple bread instead? That’s cheaper to make.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bit off the last of the apple and tossed the stem. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her breasts are small apples, and her stomach is smooth. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The third she set to the apple, locking its meaning in her mind onto the level that stood for a general inquiry of any sort. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had been looking at the apple tree by the woodshed, trying to see the tiny green fruits that would grow all summer until they became apples. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I emerged from the hedge and made my way to the northwest corner where the apple tree stood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A woman pointed to a row of apples, explaining which were best for baking. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In a burnt apple pie, the char is mostly carbon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walk into class with a smile and my new book list and present it to the teacher like a shiny red apple? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He works every third Saturday, and his phone rings on Sundays when there is a problem with the supply of potatoes or apples. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Frankie retrieved the medical kit from amid the scatter of jars and tincture bottles piled on an overturned apple crate in the corner. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Teacher set aside the apples to take home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cut a bagel for herself, and brought along an apple, and ate them in the car on the way to Reston. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went into the pantry, got another apple, waved as he went by them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dicey poured herself a glass of milk and took an apple from the bowl of fruit. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes another Bite of apple, And out of happiness Bites the apples In his biceps, tenderly Of course. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to take a fresh look at things and form my own opinion, not just ape my parents, as in the proverb “The apple never falls far from the tree.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He wanted to taste all the food: the pigeon pies, the honey tarts, that suckling pig with the apple in its mouth, and the jugged hare. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Four hamburgers. No, make that eight. Four large orders of fries. That’s all for now, but we’ll probably have dessert. Do you have any apple pie?” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A me-ball is made by rolling up dung until it’s the size of a small apple, then letting it dry. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m going out. I’ll shake the snow off the branches,” Tayo said, remembering how one spring when a late snow fell he had helped Josiah and Rocky shake the budded apple trees. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, couldn’t he smell the cinnamon and apple perfume wafting out from Perilee’s basket? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He liked the number, how it cut when he said it, like biting off a piece of apple. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Our former question about apples or Indians becomes a question of zebras or Africans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Abbot knows where I got the apples. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I got them, and she requested a bar of chocolate with almonds and two kilos of apples. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As I open the door, the clean scent of apples greets me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We dined on these occasions in the kitchen, and adjourned, for the nuts and oranges and apples to the parlour; which was a change very like Joe’s change from his working-clothes to his Sunday dress. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

After the kiss that seals the union, the cheers, and a toast with apple cider, the fiddler strikes up a tune that turns every head from 12. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In the German-speaking communities in Pennsylvania, it was essential for a spiced baked apple dish called pandowdy. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

White teeth red apple hard juice deep bite. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was an odd mix, but there was some sausage, some bread, and some apples. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apple was dry and mealy, but Davos made himself take another bite. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Except, running home from the school bus always meant running home to see Mom, who would be waiting with chocolate-chip cookies or apples and Goldfish crackers or...or just a hug. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I say, “Yeah! Work at the stand. Sell apples. Sell pies. We can use the help. Holy cow, Shayleen! It’ll get you outdoors.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He came back with the apples, but he did not give them to Hercules. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those were the girls who lived in a garden at the edge of the West. With the golden apple tree and a dragon guarding it.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The sharp, sweet smell of rotting apples mixes with the scent of wet earth in my nose. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Us convincing June’s mom to share her super-secret recipe for cinnamon apple pie and then getting into a flour fight in the kitchen. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She buried her nose beneath his Adam’s apple. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Philadelphia cousins brought apple pie and tried to pretend nothing was different. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It is best explained by example: Freddie was offered an apple and a banana, and he chose the slender yellow fruit. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raced back up the slope, scrabbling over low stone walls, and pelted through the sheepfold, past the garden and through the cloister, still gripping his apple branch swords. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His black Adams apple rose and fell, and she made herself stare at that. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A few days later, my storehouse rolling with nuts, I began the race for apples. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beetle slept on the cottage floor and ate two meals a day of onions, turnips, dried apples, cheese, bread, and occasional bits of bacon. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid placed an apple crate on the sidewalk in front of the laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have an apple.”Thomas approached and to Kira's surprise, took a dark red apple from his pocket. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the apple in my pocket and ran after her. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I grabbed one of the million apples we’d brought back from our farmers’ market trip and stomped off to my room to call Dad before going to Calaca to meet up with the band. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

From a nearby crab apple tree, a small ball of confused bees hung like a ragged skein of yarn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I was in the apple tree,” said Bod. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

One day when Mom came to pick me up, she saw David and asked if I had given him one of my apples. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Baked apple and custard. Apples from the priory orchard.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Exasperated at being judged a psychological aberration, the apple descends into Flatland. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were forever eating apples or putting them in pies. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They stopped for a picnic at the side of a meadow, under a crab apple tree. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At the end of my dream, Eve put the apple back on the branch. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Squelch rubbed apple from his eye, then looked at me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

To make a thing as simple as an apple pie, you have to create the whole wide world. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I began drifting from store to store, hanging around outside where things like apples were displayed in boxes and barrels and baskets, and I would watch my chance and steal me a treat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, woodpeckers are the primary control of the Engelmann spruce beetle, reducing its populations from 45 to 98 per cent and are important in the control of the codling moth in apple orchards. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My stomach grumbled, and I thought of the sandwiches and apples in my backpack. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

And so before she ate an apple, she scrubbed it at the sink, even though Blaine only bought organic fruit. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now I have a lumpy, jagged scar that ripples out over a space the size of an apple. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

With a sudden flick, quick as lightning, an apple left his hand and hit Bill square on the nose. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She changes the contours of Claudine's body, shrinking her down and erasing the height I'd given her but making her round as a ripe apple. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The axe scratched at the apple of Pycelle's throat and stroked the soft wobbly skin under his jaw, scraping away the last hairs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When Kaisa finished the story, the food lay untouched between them, but the apple had been sliced neatly into six wedges, the skin coiled like a ribbon around them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab a sandwich, apple, and carton of milk. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

It was fully dark by the time I made it to the isolated courtyard with the apple tree. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Pretend that you gather apples in your cloak. I will put him off.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Even if you hate apples you have to rob orchards or your pals will say you’re a sissy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The knot in my throat felt as big as an apple. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was full of oranges, apples, and candy. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Grace and Cordelia and Carol are standing among the apple trees, watching. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The younger boys would be set to picking blackberries along the road, or climbing fences to fill a sack with apples if they happened upon an orchard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

You ate apples in the fall and leafy greens in the spring. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It glowed in the sunlight, looking like a glass of apple juice. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Folks sent us oranges and apples and chickens and turkeys and clothes and if someone had anything extra, they just gave it to us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Old wine, smooth and pale? Honey mead? Dark ale? Sweet fruit liquor! Plum? Cherry? Green apple? Blackberry?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I am almost ready to give up, I come upon a trampled and routed garden of May apples. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could see clearly that it had a head and a neck and a nose and even an Adam’s apple, and some scrubby trees were growing atop it like a crown of wild hair. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

On hot days I’d sit on an apple box outside with the cool stones against my back. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“This is trickier. They’re dormant, waiting. Bury them in soil. Give them water and sunlight and they’ll grow. In a way, they’re immortal. And they were inside the apple all along.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I draw the things in my cage, simple items that fill my days: an apple core, a banana peel, a candy wrapper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

They sat down and she gave each an apple to munch while she studied the map of the park. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sour apples, remember? It’s just like the sour apples,” I said softly. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead the road turned off to the left and there was a little hill and, beyond a stone wall, an apple orchard. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Fern let out a little squeal from her apple crate bed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A breeze blew a few curled and ruddy leaves from the apple tree. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ron scowled at both his parents, then picked up his spoon and attacked the last few mouthfuls of his apple tart. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But when I look through the apple branches—just the right way—it can look like he is in the orchard. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

There was so much walking between the fields, and the strips of land were so small, our harvest wasn’t worth a rotten apple. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

The spotty young man bought half a kilo of apples and some soda water, said his name was Zbyszek Kurowski, and asked me to eat with him in a restaurant. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I made the fresh juice, brew a pot of tea, and cut pears and apples and mix ’em with red grapes. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Who wants to try some apple cake? A free sample!” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wood nymphs came forward with platters of food: grapes, apples, strawberries, cheese, fresh bread, and yes, barbecue! The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

For dessert she made an apple or peach cobbler and sometimes pound cake. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, sportsfans. I got a special reason. I’m gonna blow apples off your head with hand grenades. Now get in the car,” his father replied. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apples and peaches fell from her left hand and rolled out of the bag. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She digs an apple out of her backpack. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He points out pink in the apples, and the association between the red and the green. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Everything from the fact that a peach is not a funny-looking apple to how having long hair doesn’t make someone a girl. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpop spit all the apple seeds into the cup and spit the stem into his hand the way kids back home in Brooklyn did sunflower-seed shells. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t always overly keen on eating the apples, and kept giving them to David. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

There was everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit blossom—apple, plum, pear, cherry; and as we drove by I could see the green grass under the trees spangled with the fallen petals. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The burn is maroon- colored and wrinkled like a dead apple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ate my own, one pocket at a time, until I’d finished the stuffed roll and the apple, which was juicy enough to be both food and drink. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then Moonie sits half on me, half off, and eats that apple core. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She passes the steps and grabs food off a silver tray—a green apple and a wedge of blue-veined cheese. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But already I was halfway around the building and had seen nothing but orange peels and apple cores, discarded playbills and ballad-sheets. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if he did really well, they’d give him some moldy apples. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Behind her, an overdecorated flat reeks of dead apple blossoms, confusion, old age. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We walk along, and when I come to the patch of windfall apples, I kick one so hard it ricochets off the trunk of an elm tree. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

No. Dried apple, pen and ink, a marble, string, wax ... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Just to get the can of apple wood out of the ashes. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The strong fatty cheese tastes just like the kind Prim makes, the apples are sweet and crunchy. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

With only hook latches for locks, Louise took to sitting by the front door on an apple box with a rolling pin in her hand, ready to brain any prowlers who might threaten her children. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It looked like iced apple juice, with a green straw and a paper parasol stuck through a maraschino cherry. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The cellar smelled of dirt and musty air and this year’s apples. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gladys’s son Gary believed all disease was the wrath of the Lord—punishment for Adam eating the apple from Eve. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Powell returned to the table and polished an apple upon his sleeve before biting into it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

A third girl held a basket of apples and the fourth held a five-cent pumpkin pie which was the size of a small saucer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held a plate of grapes, apple slices, and fig jam on toast out to me, even though she knew I wasn’t going to eat much of it. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Every year, once we’re done with Gram’s apple pie, we come and see the lighting ceremony. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I substitute an apple for the corn. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She waited like that, hardly able to get a breath past her Adam’s apple, until she began to feel quite faint. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The pears are bruised on one side. I just turned the bruised sides down. They are for show. Maybe you would like an apple.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

My path took me beneath a row of apple trees, full-blown and luminous, shivering in the twilight like an avenue of pale umbrellas. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He bit down on the apple, again, this time just to hold it in place so he could pick up the cassette player. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He takes an apple from the bowl and tosses it in the air, catching it and tucking it in his bag before he bids Caroline goodbye with a cheerful wave and nothing more. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

While the rest of Manhattan was out on the town, he'd stayed home to peel apples and listen to country music. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But the buttons on his shirtfront could barely contain everything he had taken: two loaves of bread, twenty-four frozen waffles, and a ten-pound bag of apples. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faint smells of autumn touched the air, the scent of ripening apples, a sourness of dead leaves, cornstalks drying in the fields. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpop took a huge bite of the apple, chewed, chewed, chewed, swallowed, then said, “This room here...is my outside. Had it added on to the house right before my ol’ blinkers went black.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The Shire had seldom seen so fair a summer, or so rich an autumn: the trees were laden with apples, honey was dripping in the combs, and the corn was tall and full. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I got out my pocketknife and cut a bunch of apple blossoms. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sight of her and the scent of freshly peeled apples made me want to leap up and wrap her in the biggest hug. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Good thing is, apples don’t hurt as much as lacrosse balls. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But before Natalie or Chess could speak, Finn said, “I know Mom smells like apples. Some guy or woman from MIT wouldn’t know that.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His little brother—all elbows and knees and Adam’s apple, and still learning so much from his bhaiyya. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Genie had taken to apples too and was getting pretty good at seed spitting as well. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Max and I asked for extra snacks last night so we've got a few packets of graham crackers and a few apple juice cups with foil lids as well. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I try to crawl away from him, but he pins me, shoving the filthy apple back into my face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Horse chestnuts? Crab apples? What in the world for?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Inside, there are two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches packed tight in plastic wrap, an apple, slices of cheese, a few cookies, and a mostly full bottle of Gatorade. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The pies for the week were apple, lemon meringue, pear, pineapple, cherry, and egg custard—for Tuesdays through Sundays. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was the nervous mustache that did not belong to his face, the way he jerked his shoulder, the Adam’s apple on his thin neck, the bagginess of his trousers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a table full of plastic champagne glasses and bottles of apple cider all around the room. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A fruit vendor dressed up in a big apple suit. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t need apples from the swamp, truth be told. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Molly follows her gaze to the Rorschach shapes of the apple trees, barely visible in the light from the house. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Avery had a balloon tied to his ear and was chewing a candied apple. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

A half gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, a dozen eggs, two cans of jack mackerel, a small bag of apples, and some popcorn. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips were wet and redder than the apple. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They say that her parents loved her dearly, that she was the apple of their eye. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a bowl of butter all to myself, and my very own pitcher of cold apple cider. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we’ll let Viola finish the dough. You go ahead and peel and core the apples. Hold the apple like this, and draw the knife toward you. Be careful. It’s sharp.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then I put on my robe and, eating an apple I’d found in the house kitchen, walked downstairs in my bare feet to see if any messages had been left for me by the phone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But we were pretending this was normal, so I picked up an apple and started peeling. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was no savory to be found, and the apples were small and knobbly. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, want to go get a candy apple and a funnel cake and help me celebrate? Colton and his dad are around here somewhere. Mom’s searching for a free table.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I baked the cinnamon apple pie that June and I made last month. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, “Can I have your apple?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I had never been away from Soraya for so long, and when she locked her arms around my neck, when I smelled apples in her hair, I realized how much I had missed her. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were carrots and broccoli, iceberg lettuce, apples, pears, and peaches. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She made me sit down on the frayed silk of her eighteenth century settee while she made me a little supper, with bread and honey and coffee, and tiny yellow apples, and a boiled egg. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He took a third apple for himself out of the pocket of his cape. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rain continued sporadically, so that by Wednesday the creek had swollen to the trunk of the crab apple and they were running through ankle-deep water to make their flight into Terabithia. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Grandpop was standing at the counter, using a spoon to smear peanut butter on the side of an apple. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I grab an apple, go to the table, and then hoist myself onto it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She was cutting one of the apples we had just gotten at the farmers’ market into teensy-weensy bites so I could eat it. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

One day while I was down the mountain, I returned home by way of the old farmhouse site to check the apple crop. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could bounce the apple off her knee, her elbow, her shoulder, whatever. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t bring an apple into the house. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apple blossoms come with the lilacs, and the bees visit around among the apple trees. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her colors seemed to agree with the American landscape, her pumpkin hair, her apple cider skin. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A third stage involved fruit trees that proved much harder to cultivate, including apples, pears, plums, and cherries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At three forty-five he came up to the house again and said good-bye to the children, who were seated on the porch drinking apple juice and eating graham crackers and rolling pebbles back and forth. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The nuns sold their best specimens and kept the less perfect ones to eat themselves, though Malcolm thought Sister Fenella’s pies tasted pretty good, whatever the apples looked like. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I ate an apple from my backpack and shared a couple of granola bars with Beau. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The fruits were apples and early pears and plums which Brother Michael had picked from the trees and vines kept trained flat along the garden wall. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He flexes his biceps, And apples show up in his arms. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gives water, apples, socks, and sandwiches stuffed with beans. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The meats were followed by flaming puddings and bowls of wassail, chestnuts, and apples. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“The man is a monster. And that apple didn’t tumble far from the tree.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She laughed and spread peanut butter on half the apple. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t go back to the stables until Evy had come down, given him a bit of apple or some sugar, stroked his nose and called him a good boy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They removed the chest tube early the next morning, and Armand gave the staff the go-ahead to let me sip apple juice. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The other girls shrieked, and flung handfuls of apple blossom at her, and none shrieked more loudly, or flung more blossom, than Victoria Forester. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I put the lettuce and the apple down with the jar of water, near the little house. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“You want me to make a picnic for you next time? A turkey sandwich, a plate of potato salad, a couple of Cokes, and a big slice of apple pie? Wouldn’t be too hard...” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He climbed out well below the crab apple and came running back to where they sat. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, the reason Native Americans did not domesticate apples lay with the entire suite of wild plant and animal species available to Native Americans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath the paperweight lion was a picture of the two tortoises and next to the typewriter was a pile of densely written paper and an apple with one bite taken out of it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She crept into the kitchen, took an apple, and ate it in just a few bites. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Gods, I’m hungry now, too. I wish I would’ve ...” I pulled an apple out of my travelsack and handed it to her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Back Row sleeps until she points out that apple trees need bees to reproduce. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers were stiffened into position as though she were holding an apple, but her hands were empty. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His Adam’s apple bobbed against the skin of his neck. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She gave him a piece of cold meat pie, a flat loaf of rye bread, dried apples, and ran down cellar to fetch him a flagon of cold ale. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose that North American wild apples really would have evolved into a terrific crop if only Indian hunter-gatherers had settled down and cultivated them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I smell something sweet—candy apples?—as we pass a vendor’s cart. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She carried a box with her, made of ash wood, which contained golden apples. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I drew a deep breath and smelled the smell of her hair, warm with the sun, the smell of green grass and her clean sweat and her breath and apples. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the way I passed just above the crab-apple tree where I had once picked a bouquet; looking down on it, I could see the young green apples hanging thickly on the branches. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He signs the letter and folds it, leaving it propped upright in the center of the table, next to a wooden bowl full of apples. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Every flavor imaginable—sugar apple, tamarind, soursop, guava, mango, coconut. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would tease her by telling her just how, with her and her apples gone, all the gods were frail and withered—drooling, palsied, quivering hulks, slow of thought and crippled in mind and body. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Trees creaking with apples, fallen apples red on the grass beneath, the heavy sweet smell of apples rotting on the ground and the steady thrumming of wasps around them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Next door there was a pantry, with two shelves full of apples that filled the whole room with fragrance. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were a little wormy, but it was wonderful to eat an apple again. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was turning pale green, the colour of sour apples. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The mothers asked each other where they could get carrots and broccoli, iceberg lettuce, apples, peaches, or pears. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But it was the only apple in a kingdom full of apples that God had said Don't touch! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

As far as biological prerequisites for apple domestication were concerned, North American Indian farmers were like Eurasian farmers, and North American wild apples were like Eurasian wild apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the kitchen counter this morning is indeed an apple pie with a golden roof over it and a plate of turnovers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I wish we had some apples,” Radar said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Miss Trotter watched us gobble down the pie, her own cheeks rising in little, hard apples. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I rip it open at once and inside there's a feast -fresh rolls, goat cheese, apples, and best of all, a tureen of that incredible lamb stew on wild rice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The roadside stands were piled with golden pumpkins and russet squashes and baskets of red apples so crisp and sweet that they seemed to explode with juice when I bit into them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the only person I knew who crunched oranges, making it sound as if she were eating crisp apples instead. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soup is thick with rue and sweetened with dried apples. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Go on with you, fleabag. Find us a pot of porridge or an apple pie.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was a bench under the apple tree that was perfectly suited to my needs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s still too early to stop for the night, so we fish and gather May apples for dessert as we follow the splashing stream downhill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even though he could force his body to follow after, his mind hung back, wanting to cling to the crab apple tree the way Joyce Ann might cling to Momma’s skirt. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I spread a napkin out in front of me, then lifted out my Cheetos, apple slices, granola bar, and peanut butter and jelly sandwich and arranged them on the napkin. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A glass of milk, an apple, a pear. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my way out the door, I head to the kitchen to grab some breakfast: a piece of cornbread and an apple. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Farther inside Czechoslovakia, some of the villagers hung out of their windows to throw whatever they had to us—crusts of bread, half-eaten apples, raw potatoes. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But that is all right because he is a part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Right. And maybe it is provided by my family too. The Buttles who came before me. The ones who planted the orchard. Before the place even had a first apple season.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But she asked me to bring in this basket of apples. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

"If we were lucky, we got an apple core," he says, "or a few orange rinds." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you understand, you can both have an apple?” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Your father,” said Malcolm’s mother, dishing up the apples, “thinks one of those guests used to be the lord chancellor.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was a pink-haired girl and a dark-haired girl holding hands, and they were inside a treehouse, this one in the middle of an apple orchard. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

You need wheat and sugar cane and apple trees. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“As for you,” Finn said to the goat, who had eaten his apple in one gulp, “you are what you do. You are Chew.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then he was back, apple still in one hand, easing himself into one of the seats. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Just eat your own apple. I'm sure it's tasty." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a great big bag of cookies in one hand and a green apple with a giant bite out of it in the other. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Uncle Drum and I come back up the orchard rows we smell apples baking. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately there were other people who knew of Gawaine’s weakness for apples, and bad blood over the Pellinore murders still existed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was ready to sleep his autumn meal off, and I resented him because he did not need my apples. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny was the apple of his eye, and he wanted more than anything for his son to become an oarsman. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Auri jumped up and ran back to where the apple tree overhung the edge of the roof. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Because you wouldn’t shut up about the toffee apple. Now get in the car. Let’s go.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then on a day so like summer that the apple trees were tricked into fruit, there came another visitor. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty-four scrawny, undernourished apples rolling up the aisles sound just like a herd of buffalo stampeding. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the trough, among the slop and the stale beer, there’s an old carrot and a withered apple. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ash relinquished it, raising her finger to her mouth, and the huntress slid the blade under the rosy skin of the apple, peeling it off in a single smooth strip. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did I ever tell you about when I ate my first slice of apple pie and ice cream?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“An apple,” she said, and he gave her one, an old dried thing, small and withered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The grocer, tall, skinny Mr. Waylan, with his Adam’s apple sticking out above his collar, his fish- belly blue-white skin and oversized fingernails, was the white man I saw most often. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We saw ourselves riding wild waves on surfboards, picking oranges and apples off fruit trees, filling our autograph books with signatures from movie stars we’d see in soda shops. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Suppose,” Markman writes, “a child who already knows ‘apple’ and ‘red’ hears someone refer to an apple as ‘round.’ The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas looked down at his apple, then took a bite. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Daddy set me high in an apple tree. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The vendor dipping apples on sticks into dark, sticky caramel obliges him, drizzling it over the top. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Wonderful smells of coffee and apple pie and hash and—would it be fish?—wafted through the house from the magical stove as though to prove how many separate wonders it could perform at once. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They pick apples and have lunch in the old apple orchard, where there’s a little cafe now, or they take picnics down to the meadow beside the river. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

His Adam’s apple bobbed up and down, up and down. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A small apple from the back of the refrigerator. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He slices into the apple, exposing a neat row of dark brown seeds. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

But, a short while later, the black warder saw a white warder take the apple he had rejected, and changed his mind. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robertson’s Adam’s apple squirmed, “Are you sure, now?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The night air was filled with the smell of apples and shocked grain, and I could hear the noise in the meadhall from a mile away. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m only half done with my apple drink, so I sort of chug it, and hand the empty glass back to him. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

So I make the toast and slice up an apple and listen with half an ear as the morning-show people chat about something to do with floral arrangements. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Just so happens that I’ve got a spare baloney and mustard sandwich and an apple in the car. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“He knows where Idunn is. And he knows where the apples are.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They were passing the apple tree, when Lancelot’s charger gave a brassy neigh. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a hard red apple stamped out of tin. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s giving away apple tartlets and brownies and cup after cup of coffee. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fanned fast for a minute, then sank down in Granny’s big rocker, the high-back one with apples and pears carved on it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You know, I thought maybe ...” “Sure you did. Want some apple juice?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dining-room table was set for five; there were eggs, bacon, toast, jam, butter, milk, apples . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rustles the leaves of apple trees and sets a rooster on a weather vane spinning. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m still feeling burned after green apple was replaced by lime.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean to. It was an accident. I fed it apple seeds.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“It says here,” Cooke mumbled through a mouthful of apple, “that this is the coldest day since 1888.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I carried him out to the lawn, and I laid him down beneath our green apple tree. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s because of that funny thing you do with your Adam’s apple.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The fields—wherever they were, whatever they were—had gone darker, the grass yellowing under their feet, the rides rusting, the candy apples moldering, the smell of rot and wet and damp assaulting her nostrils. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

With supper, they drank part of the milk and had an apple apiece. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spokes were gold colored and the steel-frame body red, like a candy apple. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Too hungry to worry about tomorrow, I bought a thick slice of cheese and a warm sausage, then a whole loaf of fresh bread and a warm apple tart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Soils from apple orchards seem to reach the peak of contamination, with DDT accumulating at a rate that almost keeps pace with its rate of annual application. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It usually had barley in it, and chunks of carrot and onion and turnip, and sometimes even apple, with a film of grease swimming on top. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were summer apples, and were about ready to be picked. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The appetizer arrives—a steaming Crock-Pot of bubbling cheese fondue with three types of breads and apples with tiny dipping forks. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The apple is crisp and cold in my mouth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Unsure of what to think, but knowing I was late for my evening shift in the Fishery, I climbed the apple tree, gathered up my lute, and hurried to Kilvin’s shop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The roofs of lean-tos were golden with slices of drying apples. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stretched up, and the tips of his fingers touched the perfect apple. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I was walking home that night, paying no attention to where I was going, when a large, sulky fellow approached me near the apple trees in front of Putnam House. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When the apples will fall and when the sheep will need shearing and when the frost will come. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They spent the afternoon sitting wrapped in the blankets and eating apples. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Ethan bought an apple, a bean and cheese burrito, and a bottle of milk. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She picked out four potatoes and a bag of apples. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he finished munching, she treated him to half an apple or a lump of sugar.She thought it was too cold to wash him on the street. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, supermarket apples are typically around three inches in diameter, wild apples only one inch. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the same way the war, beginning almost humorously with announcements about maids and days spent at apple- picking, commenced its invasion of the school. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he finished both his cookies and the apple had turned brown on the white parts, Gerald looked for something to do. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace and Carol are standing among the apple trees, just where I left them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lazlo had never even seen cake, let alone tasted it, and he’d been whipped for eating windfall apples that were more worm than fruit. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The fruitcake stayed perfect in the tin and the apple juice was fizzy but not totally undrinkable and the dried apricots were fine, as was the huge thick slab of chocolate wrapped in brown paper. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no evidence for large-scale cultivation of apples even in the Fertile Crescent and in Europe until classical Greek times, 8,000 years after the rise of Eurasian food production began. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I learned three apples could be the number 3. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

His mom led Laura Friendly to the counter and offered her a slice of apple or pumpkin pie and a glass of wine. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had two green apples in each hand, which she raised above her head with a flourish. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You’re my clever boy,” she said fondly, giving Matt an extra slice of apple pie. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nice hot apple pie did sound wonderful in this cold, snowy weather. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Quick as that, the black brother's sword was pressed to the apple of the officer's throat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She peered into the back window, into a dark kitchen, where a pile of apples sat in a bowl on the table. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He helped to serve them two portions of apple and mint ice cream. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Also true: going to the swamp to pick a few apples is not a job for a man cuz men are never allowed to be so idle. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was a face before me, a lean and shriveled face like an apple too long in the barrel, a lonely face and sick with loneliness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground where they’d slept was dry and they sat there with the blankets draped over them and ate apples and drank water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Said to me, ‘Stuff an apple in that pack, and we’ll be off.’ The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We used to meet secretly in my father’s apple orchards, always after midnight when everyone had gone to sleep. We’d walk under the trees and I’d hold her hand.. .Am I embarrassing you, Amir jan?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I breathe in the smell of snow-dampened leather and smoke and apples, the smell of all those wintry days we shared before the Games. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not always a cup of warm milk with a dash of cinnamon. And Little Jimmy is more than just apple juice!” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papá and Mamá worked at an apple cannery at night and left Roberto to take care of Trampita and me while they were gone. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Tart apples, cherries, grapes, and unblemished tangerines: he was of the opinion that because they weren't wrapped, these things were free for the taking. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, Frith sent them strange singers, beautiful and sick like oak apples, like robins’ pincushions on the wild rose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse took the dagger in his teeth and chewed it like an apple. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think bout the apples and the dogs, sometimes I don’t Look like to me only a fool would want you to talk in a way that feel peculiar to your mind. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Eliza had brought Ma a large red apple stuck full of cloves. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chaol stretched and rose, finishing his apple as he strode from the dining hall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Ms. Faraci dropped her apple and brushed my hair from my eyes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was to be a grand affair, complete with a barbershop quartet, pony rides, caramel apples, a pie-baking contest, a bocce tournament, and an evening promenade under the stars. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a bit of leftover apple tart. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Just to say how that study was painted—quite simply this. Green and red are complementary. Well there’s a particular—red in the apples, very coarse in itself—and greenish things as well.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Even as she watched, an apple core sailed through the air and bounced off Nat’s forehead. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He bit into an apple, then plopped on the ground beside Chuck. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

So, when they came across a grove of wild apple trees, Amari could hardly keep herself from shouting with joy. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drew detailed pictures of food—steaming chicken with crispy, glazed skin, bowls of plums, apple cakes with crumbling crusts. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Are people living in the Old Mint?” he asked the apple seller. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, if he got out of school early, he would attempt his mother’s favorite: apple pie. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Alar was a chemical conventional grow-ers sprayed on apples to help them ripen. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They started with a creamy chestnut soup, crusty hot bread, and greens dressed with apples ami pine nuts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She opened the pack and pulled out three lovely sandwiches wrapped in wax paper, three apples, and, my goodness me, three ice-cold Coca-Colas. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She lobbed a white ball the size of an apple. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Rotten apples started coming at me real hard and fast so I left. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in her room he said, “Didn’t have no apples. He said this was a good pear.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

How could I tell him about the apple tree, about what I had thought that morning while I picked the flowers and the poke greens? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He bent down and kissed her very softly and stole out of the room with a beating heart; taking the core of the apple with him. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“We need extra eggs, hard cheese, pippin apples, and savory. And lemons. I’ll have to go to the market again,” sighed Mother. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A compromise was reached, and I am pleased to report that vanilla yogurt makes quite an edible topping for apple pie. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He filled up on pancakes, eggs, bacon, waffles, apples, and several glasses of orange juice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He plucked a green apple from his basket and frowned at it. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The earth floats like an apple in a bucket. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s about the size of a small green apple but hardly weighs a thing. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Now you just step right into de kitchen and I’ll dry up dem close—and you can eat an apple pie as I dries,’ pleased him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then, we have eaten so much, we are in a daze, but we finish with some delicious apple strudel and a glass of lemonade made from real lemons. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the apples were harvested, hundreds of ships crammed with expensive British goods crowded the docks. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman behind the desk opens a drawer and takes out a brown paper bag, from which she removes several sandwiches, an apple, and a Milky Way. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Its branches touched the high roofbeams of the hall, and on every twig of every branch a golden apple shone, each a sun, for it was the Year-Tree. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than insist I eat my own apple, she started sending me to school with two apples. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I said, “Do you all want an apple?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’s sick, but an apple will set him right.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We waited more than a year, and then, on what would have been Joseph’s sixteenth birthday, when the apple trees were blooming and the bees doing their dances, Mrs. Stroud drove into our yard. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Once he tried to slip her a hot apple tart, but he made such a clumsy job of it that two of the cooks saw. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I have brought apples and eggs. I can also offer a lovely honey wine.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dives on the apple and brings it back to me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

When we were hungry we stole apples and plums from the marketplace and darted away like rabbits when the vendors shouted after us. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Aslan. She wanted me to take an apple home to Mother.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Poor Rachel, how that apple tart must be torturing her conscience! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It's the best apple in all the world, the snake said. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

They saw their apples, mutter, mutter, curse, curse, old cow, stupid teacher. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Misha held an apple out in a flattened hand, and the horse munched it up. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sunlight dappled green and silver and gold through the leaves in the apple orchard. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Surely, this Bavarian peasant is worthy of framing; and this basket of apples! never have I seen anything more lifelike. One might almost be tempted to reach out a hand and take one.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our selection is actually quite large. And I believe there is still some freshly baked apple pie available, if that interests you, for dessert.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

To make an apple pie, you need wheat, apples, a pinch of this and that, and the heat of the oven. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Hercules he could keep on holding up the sky, for Atlas himself would take the apples to Eurystheus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dug an apple out of the straw in the apple- cave; no one would question that—a boy needed something to munch on in midmoming. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stuff on sale looked really good: heaping boxes of bloodred cherries and apples, walnuts and apricots, jugs of cider in a claw-foot tub full of ice. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in the far corner of the little dockside inn and sipped a mug of fresh-pressed apple cider. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I think it is nice how Calvin cares about apples. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I keep a wide distance from them and go into the little grove of wild apple trees. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Albury had apple cheeks and wore her chestnut hair in a bob like a Hollywood movie star. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Native Americans had proceeded at the same rate in inventing or acquiring grafting techniques, they too would eventually have domesticated apples—around the year A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Max scowled as he chomped on an apple. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It smells like pie, apple or pear, or maybe turnovers, or a crumble. God, I love crumbles. Of all unfairness. Who knew she even knew how to bake?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

After a few looks I saw an apple tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is thick around the middle, and when she wears her green polyester pantsuit, she looks like a Granny Smith apple. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Also, once the actors are miked, he doesn’t want Zach biting into an apple and having an audible crunch bounce off the auditorium walls. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Away from speeding lacrosse balls and apples and swatting sticks. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Moushumi had gone out and bought a rolling pin, made an apple pie for the first time in her life. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And sure as God made green apples, they did. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So, just fake sick,” she said with a shrug, sucking on a cherry Blow Pop while I unwrapped my green apple. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It touched something round and hard and smooth: a green apple. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had a blue coat and a long brown beard; his eyes were blue and bright, and his face was red as a ripe apple, but creased into a hundred wrinkles of laughter. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“If the track is fast like it was today for next Saturday’s big race, we’ll win as far as a country boy can throw an apple,” he said. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One apple, two rolls, and a blob of cheese the size of a plum won't last long. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

"T'ain't safe at—" And then his eyes grow to the size of apples. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He picks up the apple and looks as if he’s going to throw it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A cooking apple spectacularly exploded on Squelch's head, ten feet away. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And opening her purse, she produced an apple. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the first bag was common everyday trash—soda bottles, soup cans, potato chip wrappers, apple cores. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guy pulled a rosy apple from a nearby tree and polished it on his dirty overalls. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Looking at the child, I suddenly became hungry for my country, for its fat bees carrying nectar from apple flowers and for the birds singing in clusters of hazel. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He swallows hard, his Adam’s apple bouncing to the bottom of his neck and back up again. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s some apples in the pantry,” she pointed out. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some were lowered in the front and painted in bright metallic colors, like candy apple red, and had tucked and rolled upholstery in white or black. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Will that horse fall down hungry for the want of oats and hay and the odd apple? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Arm threw open the door to show the disheveled bartender with his Adam’s apple bobbing up and down. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Darin ignoring us to draw Scholar women flinching from Masks and children fighting over a rotted apple in the gutter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Blocks of ice cream in every flavor you could think of, apple pies, treacle tarts, chocolate eclairs and jam doughnuts', trifle, strawberries, Jell-O, rice pudding ... Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She opened the fridge and saw that her mom had been to the farmers’ market—there was a bowl of green apples, Jamie’s favorite. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

And while I weighed out the apples and wrapped her packages, she asked me questions. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Finally Mami returns, her tears all dry, and she brings me an apple, cut up into neat wedges. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He built a fire and propped the boy’s wet clothes up and brought him a can of apple juice. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“And the lady on Taylor gives out the best candy apples,” said Liz. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She holds the apple in her two hands. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Beowulf said: "These apples are good. Do you want one?" Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several grubby urchins stood around a bushel basket on the table, clutching winter apples. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to tell with her,” Grace replied, reaching for one of her apple slices. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I made some apple pie tonight and thought maybe you and Langston might like some.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Now I drink Pepsi, eat old apples, watch reruns on TV. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Then they climbed back up the steep hill, to hurl apple cores into the woods and go to bed. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey looks around at the sheep, at the house and the barn up on the hill lined with apple trees. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Back of the Lyte house were apple trees, now heavy with fruit. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Black chuckled heartily again, and his pointed Adam’s apple jumped up and down with glee inside his scraggly neck. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A couple more apples, some bananas, a few granola bars, and most of a pouch of beef jerky. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He told her that she was the apple of his eye, that she was wound around his heartstrings, that she was surely the finest little lady in the land. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The face had apple cheeks and was framed by a halo of glossy black curls. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Red oaks lead long lives, longer than our daintier friends black willows, persimmons, apples, and redbuds. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Give it here. A boy your age has better things to do than sniff hooch. I’d offer you breakfast, but seeing’s how all that’s left of it is an apple core...” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mom says, “You give me cooking lessons. Jewish apple cake, charoset for Passover, challah—the recipe and the prayers. I want to learn. Will you teach me, Nadya?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But we don’t know what kind of juice she likes, and you don’t want to bring grape when she loves apple. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Thus, the reason for the failure of Native Americans to domesticate North American apples by the time Europeans arrived lay neither with the people nor with the apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had finished the last of the apples the week before, but he liked the apple tree as a place to think. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Dr. Pickett began his work some thirty-five years ago in the apple orchards of the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia, once one of the most concentrated fruit-growing areas in Canada. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the demand for organic apples and all sorts of organic produce shot through the roof. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

After deliberating for a long moment, I choose a swirl of pink watermelon and green apple. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

At night we sat around the fireplace and ate baked apples spiced with sugar and cinnamon and listened to the cuentos, the old stories of the people. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Animal Hero, Second Class,’ and half a bushel of apples to any animal who brings him to justice. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Mom was sending me to school with sandwiches and an apple. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I froze with my teeth halfway into my apple. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

High John stood watching him, crunching noisily on an apple. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

An apple, sweet and rotten at the same time, honeyed juice running over my tongue, tasting of sunlight and pure heady, stupid joy. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Next the beast knocked over a jar of apple butter, but the skin lid was tied on tightly, and, flail away at it as he might with his awkward paw, he could not dislodge it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hawthorn berries taste a little bit like apples. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said the apple seller, “the next time his lordship comes down here hunkering for an apple, I’ll be sure and ask him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He slugged me over and over on the arm holding the apple, trying to knock it loose. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About the food, you mean? An apple or an onion? That’s all I said. They got to pick.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He made his way down through the ruins of an old apple orchard, black and gnarly stumps, dead grass to his knees. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I tell Calvin, “Same thing happened to apples. Did you know? Some varieties are gone for good.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He shook his head and simply stood, wanting to tickle her Adam’s apple again but not knowing how to get to that. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He walked straight across to it, picked an apple, and put it in the breast pocket of his Norfolk jacket. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Meera unearthed a crock of honey and a big sack of apples. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When finally the volunteer roused himself and staggered outside, there was nothing but blood on the ground and feathers scattered everywhere like apple blossoms. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pie—it was an apple pie—had been bought in a store and oven-warmed, and was very, very good indeed. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A few inches of snow lay on the ground; every apple on their trees bore an icy white cap. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He curled the hedge apple behind him and let it fly a little harder than planned, knocking the smaller jack out of the circle. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

My eyes open to a blue light hovering above my Adam's apple, and the light moves down to my sternum and melts like a glacier, over and into my ribs, warm and salty. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I pictured a person shriveling up and crumbling to dust like the apple on my nightstand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As if, Bebe thought, as if she were just offering her own opinion on the subject, free of judgment, as if she were expressing a preference for apples over pears. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As Nailer passed one, he spied the faded image of an apple stamped on its surface along with letters. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I said good night to Roy Lee and moved away from the fence and walked to the apple tree, wanting to be near Daisy Mae. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Hmm, I hadn't noticed," I feign, chewing a slice of apple. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And I couldn’t believe how much vomit a bag and a half of Swedish Cremes and some green apples could make. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I've only eaten half an apple since my encounter with the strange government agent last night. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Comparing Plato’s Athens to Eratosthenes’ Alexandria is not to compare gold to silver, but apples to oranges. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Most Haft-Seens have vinegar and sumac and sprouts and apples and pudding and dried olives and garlic on them—all things that start with the sound of S in Farsi. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

That night, I couldn’t sleep, and when I came downstairs, Gram was there, already putting a slice of apple pie on a plate for me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I gave her the apple and the water and she had a drink. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Lincoln’s prominent Adam’s apple bobs as he swallows. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Emily pokes her fork into a baked chicken nugget that sits next to wilted green beans and an apple on her lunch tray. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He looked once, looked twice to be certain: an apple, red and ripe. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He shipped his items in boxes sealed with apple labels, thanks to the interested cooperation of certain customs inspectors. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m Lil, short for Lily, short for Lillian. So finish your Coke—but don’t let your Adam’s apple do that thing.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Suppose you take an apple pie and cut it in half; take one of the two pieces, cut it in half; and, in the spirit of Democritus, continue. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me an apple, but when I bit into it, it was fake. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mind. I can wait. It’s like the sour apples.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I took the apple slice and put it in my back pocket and kept on wondering why she didn’t finish telling me about the carving. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My da used to eat the apple core and all—“where all the nutrients are. It’s plain ignorant to throw it out,” he’d say. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Anyway, this time she had her chin stuck out over the sink in case she dripped as she ribbed, and when he’d tickled her Adam’s apple, she’d laughed, which gladdened him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though his head had been halved like an apple, then put together a fraction off center. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I wish I had that hard green apple. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It went astray in this case, as it often does, and an Irish knight called Patrick ate the apple which was intended for Gawaine. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m curious,” I said as I picked up an apple, turning it around in my hands, “what would you do if someone dared you to eat food?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing at all unusual about the apple. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

A fresh loaf of bread rests on the counter, along with apples, currants, and a soft cheese, but I do not see any servants who might have prepared this. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her face was a round and freckled apple, but there was hardness in her eyes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“It seems Mr. Lemoncello needs me inside. He has glued his mouth shut on a caramel apple.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a stolen bag of apples, at the risk of getting his hand sawed off. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were still piles of dogtooth violet bulbs and Solomon’s seal roots and a few dried apples. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The apple tree is just at the top of that hill there.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I push my cart away, toward the apples and pears of my adulthood, their nearly seedless ripeness predictable and bittersweet. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Eva thought that children grew on trees, like apples, and that the stork plucked them off the tree when they were ripe and brought them to the mothers. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The woman staggered, lost her apple, and fell. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He would steal apples from people, but other than that, he was as good a horse as she could hope for. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Some sank on the bottom, and some floated on top like when you bob for apples.The sinkers are okay to eat and the floaters are the rotten ones. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apples are ripe, nearly black, almost edible, as Cillian would say. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The walls were clad in saffron silk and the drapes were apple green. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z