| 单词 | invisible |
| 例句 | “I feel invisible sometimes, too,” Tiara said softly. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Little gnats cloud round us in near invisible swarms and I keep having to bat ’em away. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Better to be invisible than to be a freak. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z If Ambrose wasn’t wearing a hundred different pieces of clothing, I think he’d be invisible! Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Just when I was starting to feel like we were invisible in this teeming city, I realize how wrong l am. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Coaches, high school and college alike, teachers—even though he was barely a C student—and of course girls, who might as well be invisible for all the game Luke had. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z His feet are wide splayed, and he swings his right arm more than his left as he walks, as if he were hauling a large and invisible sack of turnips. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z An airplane went by overhead, invisible above the clouds. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They were very high up; a bird fluttered past the window as he stared in the direction of the Burrow, now invisible beyond another line of hills. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Voices in the night air like invisible birds screeching in the wind. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Some final invisible mooring line snapped, and she was cast adrift. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The scene reminded Leo of the invisible wind spirits that had served him lunch at Camp Jupiter. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Sierra felt an invisible thread of possibility hanging in the air between them, but she didn’t know what was supposed to happen next. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The new system had been developed and implemented swiftly, and it was largely invisible, even to people, like me, who spent most of their waking hours fighting for justice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit stands, brushing invisible dust from his sleeve. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And we, even if we had no meat or even grass to gnaw, still boil our water to kill the invisible creatures that would like to kill us first. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z To the others it was no more than a corridor to and from home, a bridge between the bridges, an ornament so familiar as to be invisible. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It’s like I haven’t even drawn or painted anything until she sees it, like it’s all invisible until she gets that look on her face and says, “You’re remaking the world, Noah. Drawing by drawing.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Knowing the sort of creatures who live on cliffs, I made myself invisible again, and in the darkness I heard voices. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The blacksmith made a loop with his finger, then tied an invisible bow in the air. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Then the wings were trapped again by the filmy, almost invisible strands of the web, and the black legs kicked at the air. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “The map shows invisible people. He must’ve left the grounds, then.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Finally he reached the place where Melquíades used to set up his tent and he found a taciturn Armenian who in Spanish was hawking a syrup to make oneself invisible. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I nodded like I could see the invisible clock too. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z I lay on my back and watched a pair of swallows racing up and down the river, tumbling like acrobats in pursuit of invisible bugs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “But does not evil, like an invisible worm, work inside the fruit, even while the fruit seems fair?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Thus, early Australians and New Guineans were probably capable of intentionally traveling over water to visible islands, and were using watercraft sufficiently often that the colonization of even invisible distant islands was repeatedly achieved unintentionally. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Lena Feldt watched them, standing invisible just two paces from where they sat. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z That world was discovered by the Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek when, in 1676, he was the first to see living creatures invisible to the naked eye. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z No one knew that a killer was already moving through their streets with them, an invisible stalker that would go house to house until it had touched everyone, rich or poor, in some terrible way. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The bespectacled man seated behind it is almost invisible, blending in with his surroundings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Let your fingers brush the wall. There are markings there, invisible to the eye, plain to the touch.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z What happens to them does not directly affect—and is scarcely noticed by—the privileged beyond the ghetto’s invisible walls. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I checked my closet, just in case there was a giant invisible possum or gopher or something lurking there. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As in some radical retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, society’s normally invisible workings had been made briefly visible. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The flame, nearly invisible at first in that bright sunlight, enveloped a small twig, grew, was enriched with color and reached up to a branch which exploded with a sharp crack. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z This house, invisible to Muggles, has been left in its ruined state as a monument to the Potters and as a reminder of the violence that tore apart their family. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He was positive Calypso would strangle him on the spot, or order her invisible wind servants to chop him into a Leo purée. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I was turning invisible and there was nothing I could do. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He sank far down in his seat, as though his crouching might make him invisible arid deny his presence there. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Cora and Jasper might as well have been invisible most of the time, smaller than lint. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The skinny elbow hung straight down, as if he were leaning on an invisible table while he thought the whole thing through. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z This feeling as though she had an invisible gear inside her, pushing her, inch by inch, toward...something. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Adam Smith’s invisible hand ensuring that individual pursuits bring about group wellbeing is in these situations quite paralyzed. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She covered her half-finished stew with a napkin, and immediately an invisible servant whisked the bowl away. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z All these years being around my father, I’ve learned to be present and invisible at the same time. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z There was no telling what other invisible creatures I was out here socializing with—snakes, frogs, fish, a whole river world of biting bugs, and I could have cared less. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to remind myself I was invisible. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Hoping for relief, he would run out and plunge naked into the icy waters of the river until he couldn’t breathe, but then he would feel invisible hands stroking his legs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She's been so muted and invisible, wearing white, white, and more white. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In a panic I ran back into the Golden Day, bursting through the noise as through an invisible wall. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She flapped her hands at thin air, as though beating off large invisible moths. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z During the course of that week, at different places along the coast, his seventeen sons were hunted down like rabbits by invisible criminals who aimed at the center of their crosses of ash. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He had a far-famed cap or helmet which made whoever wore it invisible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she leaned down and rolled it into the invisible kitchen Seconds passed. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The woman took a deep breath, like she was going to answer, and then an invisible force shoved Anya and Ivan toward the door, through it, out of the hut, and into the night. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Jason was just thinking, Dang, it actually worked, when an invisible force knocked him to the ground. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “The giants are invisible to mortals,” Hazel said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Ignatius, feeling just as invisible standing there in Dorian’s living room, began feinting at some imaginary opponent with his cutlass to relieve his self-consciousness. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And then one day the invisible man decided, the monster said, its voice ringing in Conor’s ears, I will make them see me. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Why, if they follow this conformity business they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, the cap had had the power to turn its wearer invisible. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She was bopping up the street, pumping her arms as if banging on the biggest invisible drum set ever imagined. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z I squint and my heart gives a familiar leap as the invisible roar of viewers drowns out everything. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Do more! There must be invisible ink on this page. The heat makes it visible.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Back when we shared a room, she was the one who'd divide up the floor with masking tape, building an invisible wall between us. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I rock back on my heels as if pushed back by some invisible force, then walk out of the room, my heart beating fast. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z They led to a tiny stone house, invisible from every direction. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z He walks among the palm trees, oblivious, whistling, his head sheathed in a halo of invisible numbers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When he blundered again at the door a moment later, again invisible and blind within and beyond his wooden avatar, Dilsey opened the door and guided him across the kitchen with a firm hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z No. He looks at made-up pictures of things that are invisible and comes up with theories. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered an island, a cave lit with soft glowing crystals, a dinner table on the beach tended by invisible air spirits. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z As soon as he was in the shadows, he ran on soft feet for the large rubbish bins halfway down, almost invisible in the darkness on the right-hand side. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z That invisible ball of twine was right there in her hand, and she had to hold it tight, because if she let go of it, she and Dallas would be lost out here. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “So, you’re good at memorization, but do you have an opinion? Is there any way to pass that invisible boundary besides dropping out like Thoreau did?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The sound traveled like a curl of invisible smoke. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Later, Rosita collects our empty glasses, slipping her arms between our piles of books and papers, unnoticed, well practiced at being invisible. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She adjusted Henry’s tie, picked invisible lint from Jem’s coat, and desired the presence of Jean Louise in the kitchen. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z His father was a stranger during those terrible days, like a sleepwalker going through the motions, like a puppet being maneuvered by invisible strings. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Prosper felt like an invisible animal lurking in the dark. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The plant’s windows were covered with black paint, blocking light from escaping and making the building nearly invisible to enemy bombers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I could but have ... firm faith that he has only passed from the visible to the invisible world, and already lives and is waiting for me, oh what happiness that would be.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "Me? No, no. An invisible angel chased him away." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z And I know why my invisible face didn't make this girl scream. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There would be no need for her and she would become invisible and no one would notice. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z "No ... I just have to lie low, you know? Like as long as I stay out of his way, I'm fine. I just have to be invisible." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I like watching him sit on the sofa, staring into space, quiet and nearly invisible, while inside his mind ideas for fun projects whirl around like sparks and colors. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And Adam had been set apart—an invisible wall cut him off from the world. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The brush of invisible fingers crawled up the back of my neck. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Will had to push against something invisible and then pull Lyra after him, and the Gallivespians could hardly make any headway at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Jupiter and Uranus also have ring systems, discovered only recently, and almost invisible from the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fern and Vonetta played invisible hopscotch next to the luggage while I waited for Big Ma and Mr. Lucas to drive up in his truck. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z She ran her fingers through her hair again, and then held her hand up to her mouth, as though speaking into an invisible walkie-talkie. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The vuvv happily sold their knowledge to captains of industry in exchange for rights to the Earth’s electromagnetic energy fields and some invisible quantum events. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Being invisible had nothing to do with being seen. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z In this light, the trail was almost invisible! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some whites had been upset earlier when four blacks ignored the invisible line, plopping themselves down on the sand as though it was nothing out of the ordinary. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was even worse in the A-block yard, where certain areas were invisible to any tower. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If this invisible guy was Love, Jason was beginning to think Love was overrated. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Just as he’d found the night before, on the Oxford side of it, you could only see it at all from one side: when you moved behind it, it was invisible. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if every living creature had an invisible radioactive clock in its cells. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I wanted to ask her about it, but she lay back down behind the piles of hay, invisible again. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The vis essentialis then came along, like an invisible hand, and molded the formation of this mass into a human form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Then it struck and struck and struck at the invisible pane till I moved off. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He set off along the edge of the lake, away from the travelers, and the angel followed him, invisible in the bright air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Because even though I already calculated that I have enough food left to feed Henrietta until after school starts, now I have that invisible chicken too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Snow fell only rarely in Ch’ulp’o, but Tree-ear could see his every breath now, and the sharp air was full of invisible imps that bit his nose and hands and feet. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Her fingers would commence sliding back and forth twixt her left ear and her mouth like they were tracing over a invisible welt that got whupped into her. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z That too I've learned in the cellar, and not by deadening my sense of perception; I'm invisible, not blind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They stood in silence as the man made to walk up onto the porch; each time he did, he seemed to hit into an invisible wall. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It almost made me stop feeling the anger and sadness weighing me down like invisible anchors. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He said, “Is that your invisible mama’s coat?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z And I can see some smears on the mirror—it's my spit, not invisible now. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "But you will never benefit from it. From here on, I shall be invisible, and no mortal shall ever see me again." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Turn off the electrical charges and everything crumbles to an invisible fine dust. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Barack and I were now too well-known to be rendered invisible, but if people saw us as alien and trespassing, then maybe our potency could be drained. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The dog jumps from corner to corner, like he’s playing tag with invisible friends. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Not counting the nearly invisible front door behind him, it had three exits: to the left, to the right, and immediately before him. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z If you were level with the patch so that it was edge-on, it was nearly invisible, and it was completely invisible from behind. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The hospital is the perfect place to be invisible and the cafeteria food is better than the school’s. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z "You remember how mad I got yesterday when you said you were invisible?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My shoulders ease a little as I almost start to feel invisible. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z When we didn’t talk, some invisible lever was still winding a coil between our bodies. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z "He also has arms and legs. Feet and hands. And in the same way you don't want him silenced, you also don't want him invisible, do you?" Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z His father awakened, as if slapped from sleep by an invisible hand. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It is almost impossible to catch a speedy invisible model automobile even when one is a skillful dentist. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z That spy was almost certainly Benjamin Thompson, whose reports in invisible ink were found long afterward. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Again that terrible silence, like a shock wave, stunning the room, an invisible blow. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Already she had added two more floors, as she thought of them, to the levels of significance reaching down into the invisible depths, and she was on the track of a third. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “We’re alike, he and I. It was just the same for me when I was young. I wasn’t born invisible; it happened a little at a time.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He sat still, surrounded by an invisible cast of concrete. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Kwasi held her hand tighter and they ran even faster, Amari trying in vain to be as invisible and swift as the wind. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Clotho keeps on hauling his invisible sack of turnips through the surf. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She grabbed something invisible in the air and her body bopped up and down on a web. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z "Yeah, you don't want me to be invisible, do you, Ms. Wockley?" Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z We decided where the invisible Christmas tree would be, and we sat on the floor and pretended we were taking decorations out of boxes and hanging them on the branches. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z But while visible changes had taken place, I noticed that the invisible changes came much more slowly. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One of the last diary entries Elizabeth Drinker made concerning the plague spoke of the unshakable unease the invisible killer had left in its wake. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z She is moving in a slowly liquidy way as if her arms and legs were on long strings pulled by an invisible being. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z He wasn’t as invisible as he had hoped. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I got within ten feet and hit something like an invisible beach ball. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She stared back at Beverly and started trying to rearrange her soul, working to make it invisible. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z And she took a pinch of the invisible powder and threw it into the air with a “BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Dasch's handkerchief held the names of the saboteurs' contacts in America, written in invisible ink. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Read it! Dumbledore had the Cloak, Hermione! Why else would he want it? He didn’t need a Cloak, he could perform a Disillusionment Charm so powerful that he made himself completely invisible without one!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The bright sun was warming the fields and meadows, creating a twisting and invisible bubble. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I wish I could stay invisible in boys' eyes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As I look back over this early book, I relive memories that are etched on every page, though invisible to the reader. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry sent Advanced Potion-Making flying in panic; Ron was dangling upside down in midair as though an invisible hook had hoisted him up by the ankle. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Each time, however, he drew back, as if someone were controlling him by an invisible thread. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Julia was standing with them, trying again to convince Jay about her stupid tinfoil UFO and how it was going to fly up and down the street on a stupid invisible wire. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Well, I was and yet I was invisible, that was the fundamental contradiction. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd, invisible but possessing a huge, menacing voice, roared its approval of a Calhoun girl’s basket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Duke and Nala are clearing some sort of invisible hurdle like champion high jumpers. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z An invisible barrier blocks the area in front of us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z His stomach, though, felt like a ship breaking up on invisible shoals. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because it doesn’t matter that he’s invisible, you know? There’s no one to look at him, and no one will ever come.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Segregation was such an integral part of the Southern way of life that it was, in a sense, invisible to whites, as unremarkable as the air they breathed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Her invisible hands pushed Grover and me both off the bench. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I wish I could enjoy the luxury of self-pity and cast myself as a kind of‘invisible man.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Liyana knew indivisible even when her friends still thought it was invisible, but she didn’t tell them because there are things you have to find out for yourself. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe you still aren’t invisible,” Edwin said, climbing into his skiff to leave. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Though the sun was setting, it was still hot, as if some invisible sun were beating down on me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She was alone, pacing slowly, talking under her breath, pointing and directing remarks to an invisible audience in the room. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She only wished there wasn’t a giant, invisible timer lording over her family, ticking down to when they would inevitably move again. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z A little burning and dodging was probably all it took to make the “invisible” boy’s head disappear. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z So we sat there for a couple hours talking to the screen together, navigating this invisible labyrinthine cave without a single lumen of light. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z There was many a Tang man with a cracked skull or a broken arm or rib because he had crossed over the invisible boundary line between our town and the rest of the demon city. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “The man’s never laid eyes on an invisible boy, and he wouldn’t know what to do with one if he did. He’d either treat the wrong limb or run away screaming.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It was difficult to think of the ever-combative, highly combustible champion of the American Revolution as extraneous and invisible, but that is what the vice presidency had made him. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But I don't want to be invisible to Mom. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Even the Sun would be invisible in the daytime; its light would be scattered and diffused over the whole sky—just as scuba divers see only a uniform enveloping radiance beneath the sea. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The agreeable nullity of Leon’s life was a polished artifact, its ease deceptive, its limitations achieved by invisible hard work and the accidents of character, none of which she could hope to rival. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I’d like to thank everyone who believed in us and our egg,” she said, addressing an invisible audience as if she’d won some grand award and inexplicably putting on a fake British accent. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They had been riding off with the other pups, but Jon had heard a noise and turned back, and there he was, white fur almost invisible against the drifts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Several of the drones hover too close to the gates—when they try to cross over, they hit an invisible shield that disables them, sending them clattering to the ground. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “And when the invisible hand waves, suddenly, the house won’t be underwater.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Sure enough, his reflection looked back at him, just his head suspended in midair, his body completely invisible. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The fire looked as though an invisible animal were dancing on it, crushing it, until it was angry smoke. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The mowing lines were invisible, as if the grass had been hand-combed. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Up ahead, already invisible, Rex and the Object were laughing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The mask grows hands—or maybe it had hands all along that were just invisible until now. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The invisible hand that guides our deeds, our acts, our markets, will not be able to touch me there. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He was now in the middle of the tent, illuminated as though he were standing over some invisible white light. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z All fathers except mine are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In Virginia, you could smuggle yourself into Delaware or up the Chesapeake on a barge, evading patrollers and bounty hunters by your wits and the invisible hand of Providence. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It is invisible to us, but readily detectable by bumblebees and photoelectric cells. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They were practically sitting on top of the water, as if invisible lounge chairs buoyed them up. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “If I could carve gems and do all those other things,” Taran remarked sympathetically to Doli, “I wouldn’t mind not being invisible. All I know is vegetables and horseshoes, and not too much about either.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z When caretakers doled out the food, they trimmed a boy’s ration card and pressed his finger in invisible ink. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z With every stroke forward, a giant invisible hand had pushed him two strokes backward into the bay, returning him toward the shore. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z With his shield activated, he was invisible to the human eye. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z A flock of birds dipped down, circled, swung up and out as though linked by invisible strings. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Right here,” said Orr, and took hold of something invisible with the tips of his fingernails and held it up for Yossarian to see. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Lights flicker on above us and my feet lift off the ground, like there’s some invisible elevator carrying me upward. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The city continued to stagger under the invisible invader’s assault. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I will duly retreat to the position of the good volunteer, the invisible underling. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I was invisible to them until they needed something. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Joseph’s heart beat against his rib cage like the invisible bird, and tears fell down his cheeks. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z ‘They is always invisible until they is captured,’ the BFG told her. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was invisible, moving silently among them toward the clothing section, the only solitary person there. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But he did not want to be invisible when he died, so he pulled himself loose, one last time. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Had magic sparkled, she wondered, or had it been invisible? Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They are yelling and writhing as if they are fighting invisible demons. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The Queen knew that every pure Mack cat had a certain bone in it, which, if it were held in the mouth after boiling the cat alive, was able to make you invisible. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish our cowboy could be persuaded to buy a horse, that I could be invisible until I can talk back, that English could be learned without so many rules. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Every few seconds, pressed between expensive fabrics and glittering jewels, he could pretend that he was lost among them, invisible in his simpler kaftan. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “We can make ourselves invisible. Their vision slides over us and over anything nearby. You were quite safe. They can’t even see the island.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z First she would touch the invisible sting spot and say, “Does that hurt?” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I bet she can’t wait to get back to her know-it-all friends and tell them how Jane McKeene is a mad half-wit that believes in invisible creatures swimming around in our blood. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z And my element, quite obviously, is being alone and invisible. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Giddy with relief, I felt myself to be invisible. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z With the absence of Úrsula, with the invisible presence of Melquíades, who continued his stealthy shuffling through the rooms, the house seemed enormous and empty. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Raised like they’re being held by something small and invisible underneath. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The windows of the house were open and the overwhelming ammonia essence of cat stood like an invisible wall between me and the front yard. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For a split second Harry forgot where he was and what he was doing there: He even forgot that he was invisible. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But nor was this figure invisible, and its size and manner of moving were familiar to her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Varney used his head and nose when he spoke, slashing the air with his sharp aquiline face as though it were an ax chopping at some invisible woodpile just below his eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Liyana felt as invisible and happy as she used to feel coasting on her bike. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z There was something tragic in the wall of invisible mesh he’d hung to choke the life from them while they traveled to the rhythm of an urging they could not deny. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I said, “My mother don’t bake no pies. My mother writes poems about the revolution. My mama exists. Your mama’s invisible.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Still, when they come through the automatic double doors into the ICU, both of them stop, as if repelled by an invisible barrier. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the piece was fired, the pattern would be so subtle as to be almost invisible in some kinds of light. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “Oh, so you don’t see Gum Baby now? She invisible now?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In the evening it all descended unseen, an invisible ash of distant fires, soiling us everywhere. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because this automobile is a thoroughly modern car. It’s not only noiseless, it’s invisible. Nobody can see it.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z I was wishing my dad had given me a cool magic item to help on the quest, something as good as Luke’s flying shoes, or Annabeth’s invisible cap. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I tried to rid myself of my invisible assassin. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The Cloak was exactly what Xenophilius had described: A cloak that really and truly renders the wearer completely invisible, and endures eternally, giving constant and impenetrable concealment, no matter what spells are cast at it.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Millard removed his tuxedo so that he was completely invisible and juggled glass bottles. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z And my feeling, at eleven, went something like this: you are going to be invisible anyway, so why not completely disappear. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt exposed by the elegance and yet somehow made invisible by it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If our school were a theater, the Bengali girls were invisible now, high up in the balcony seats somewhere. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The odor of baked salmon hung stale in the air, slightly bitter and slightly acrid from the long smoldering smoke of burning alder leaves, and lay like an invisible pall over the exhausted revelers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Slouched next to me, almost invisible against the night in a black outfit, is June. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He walked sideways on bowed legs like a crab, his back hunched, his arms raised on either side like he was holding invisible plates. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Dasch showed him the plain white handkerchief and told him about the invisible ink. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Did the word apply to an invisible man? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The feet of the Greater Being—oh, they heard them, they heard them, coming softly down the stairs, coming nearer and nearer down the invisible stairs. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z There were thirty-three candidates, and each played behind a screen, making them invisible to the selection committee. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I wanted nothing so much as to tell her how sorry I was for being one of the invisible worms that flew in the night. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, witch,” she said, “did you think I don’t know how you make yourself invisible?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My head seemed to be missing that invisible clock. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z It was as if she had erected an invisible wall and I was secretly groping each day to see how high and how wide it was. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just luck,” Patrolman Mancuso offered, clearing his throat of some invisible phlegm. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I pictured Bodega back in those days so young, flying with invisible wings. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The gray-haired man made an almost invisible nod. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She walked with her head down like she was trying to be invisible. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “Maybe the code’s in invisible ink,” Constance suggested. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z It was as though an invisible veil had been lifted, and beneath it a different truth flickered in his friend’s eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I looked in the direction of the wall, invisible now in the darkness. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But only partially true: Being invisible and without substance, a disembodied voice, as it were, what else could I do? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The hairs on the back of my neck stood up, and an invisible rope snaked around my arms and legs. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Genie ran his finger over the fabric, hitting a cluster of little bumps, like the shirt had invisible goose pimples. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Between my muffs, I make excuses: I’m invisible, the old Amelia. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I'm coming out, no less invisible without it, but coming out nevertheless. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking back on it, she supposed it was all those years of people attempting to claim her, choose her, of feeling an invisible net cast around her, that had led her to this proposal. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Even so, many places were segregated, with the races separated by an invisible line. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Blood spurted from Malfoy’s face and chest as though he had been slashed with an invisible sword. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “The invisible hand of the market,” I say. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z December hits, and two nights before the game, I’m still nervous about Gavin Rose and that invisible tick on the stone. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The work, as he put it wryly, involved “invisible materials being weighed with an invisible balance.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It came upon me slowly, like that strange disease that affects those black men whom you see turning slowly from black to albino, their pigment disappearing as under the radiation of some cruel, invisible ray. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Hamlet seized the player’s invisible sword, broke it in half, and cast it to the ground. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I yearned to become invisible, to stop living. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z All across the Congo on invisible radio waves flew the code words: The Rabbit has escaped. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The invisible audience lets out a thunderous cheer. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Even with the light off, the heads assume strange power in the dark: pure white, not quite visible but not entirely invisible, embedded into Werner’s retinas, almost glowing in the blackness. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Her mouth made a small O, like she was drinking from an invisible straw. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z James Jay’s invisible ink did not become visible by heating. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “That means I can’t ask you if you could make me invisible, or so small that you could carry me to Capricorn’s festivities.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It was very soft and very strong and invisible to X-rays. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Since the Nazis took us, I've spent every minute trying to be invisible, to become smaller to avoid beatings, hiding in the safety of being last-chair viola. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Also, from the backseat it was not possible to see Louisiana’s grandmother’s head, and so it seemed as if they were being driven around by an invisible person. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z I slip past Mother in the dining room, invisible Pascagoula dusting pictures in the hall, up my steep, vicious stairs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Still I felt that Helen Burns considered things by a light invisible to my eyes. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He calls me in from the hallway, where I’ve been trying to be invisible so no one will ask me to leave. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “I would say, learn to hear me in my own voice. I’m hearing impaired, not invisible.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It made the invisible ink glow blue or purple. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A magpie fluttered out of one of the rhododendron bushes growing near the house, and a couple of fat sparrows pecked busily at invisible insects in the gravel, but that was all. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He was like some kind of Star Wars alien creature with invisible tentacles that sucked your thoughts out of your brain. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z You don’t need to be trained by the Special Operations Executive to know how to use invisible ink. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Conor shouted, forcing himself to his feet, pushing against the invisible weight pressing down on him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Could they wrap the shadows around themselves and make themselves invisible? Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But there is a way of feeling invisible that makes one almost believe it’s true. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the same with Carol’s father, with Cordelia’s: in the daily life of houses, fathers are largely invisible. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was like an invisible bridge had instantly been built connecting us. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Shoji protects himself by being invisible, but I’m not good at that. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z "Think of the atom, Mrs. Olinski. There are energies within that tiny realm that are invisible but produce visible results." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The gum-chewing waitress shuffled over and Hermione ordered two cappuccinos: As Harry was invisible, it would have looked odd to order him one. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “You know, the strongest part of a tree is the root, and if you expose the root, the tree dies. Why, we have many ‘invisible’ members, of all types. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been invisible in the halls of Calhoun High for too many months not to enjoy it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And here I was hoping to stay invisible today. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z It reminded Gilly somehow of Miss Harris, who had wrapped herself up in invisible robes. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z However, he did tell them that whatever chemical they had used to reveal the invisible ink had smelled awful. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z And yet lots of discussions in my household were about how to cross that line, when to cross that line, and who could cross that invisible line without getting hurt. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She began to walk up it, step by step, climbing ever higher, as though there were invisible stairs cut into the grey sky. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z He had jumped through the air like he was taking invisible stairs upward. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z It appears that at least 90 percent of the universe, and perhaps as much as 99 percent, is composed of Fritz Zwicky’s "dark matter"–stuff that is by its nature invisible to us. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z That night, I lay on my side, staring out the window into the invisible world outside. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “Again,” she adds, but barely, the word almost invisible. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Back in his hotel room, Sax copied Hall’s notes onto a newspaper using milk for ink—milk makes good invisible ink because once it dries it can’t be seen unless the paper is heated. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Hanson began to rub at an invisible spot on the glass counter. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I went back to my invisible string playing to keep my fingers limber for later. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His breathing was labored; he mumbled and twice flayed his arms as if to shake some invisible attackers off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The words punched me in my chest, and suddenly I was flying backward, yanked by an invisible string through the door and down the hallway, until I was abruptly dumped at the entrance. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Each one has to be Windexed, wiped, and buffed— inside and out, top to bottom, left to right, until it’s as streak- less and invisible as a material substance can be. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Her invisible servants brought two suitcases and set them at her feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She had a very powerful computer in that back room, the kind I had, homemade, no machine ID, untraceable, the kind you never dock to an Ethernet cable, to keep yourself invisible. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z He holds the phone to his ear even though it’s covered by the red toque pulled over his invisible head. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z He possessed a secret treasure that had come to him long ages ago, when he still lived in the light: a ring of gold that made its wearer invisible. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But maybe he didn’t think that way, because he looked up from his invisible paperwork and his gaze settled on Ophie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z At any rate, I felt invisible, creeping bent over toward that great gray clapboard house. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I returned to the end of my invisible tether and battled my despair. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Professor Sprout headed off into the gathering darkness in the direction of her greenhouses, and Slughorn directed his steps to the spot where Harry stood, invisible. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z A hint of woodsmoke cut through it, invisible, too far away to be seen, but still present. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I take the invisible ball out of my glove and fire it back to the infield. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z ‘They are invisible, and their own masters cannot find them or open them, if their secret is forgotten.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “I mean to be a spy worthy of any noble’s hire. Silent and invisible.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Cora had been invisible to him but now he sought her eyes when she was close, to warn her that she was invisible no more. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I could create barriers to protect myself that were invisible to my opponents. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She says, "Well, maybe it's not crazy, but so what? Let's say you could actually find someone else who's invisible, then what? What good does that do?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He slid the disk into a nearly invisible indentation in the door and gave it a turn. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The Prime Minister stopped in his tracks as though he had hit an invisible wall. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The extreme poverty that plagued blacks due to their legally sanctioned inferior status was largely invisible to whites—so long as whites remained in their own neighborhoods, which they were inclined to do. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The entire time I felt an invisible hand about to grab my shoulder. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The bombers crossed the sky and crossed the sky over the house, gasping, murmuring, whistling like an immense, invisible fan, circling in emptiness. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Tiara’s fingers tried to grab hold of an invisible ladder. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I could feel it all around me, that invisible presence, chilly as the first intimation of death, the dusty unblinking eyes of a thousand snakes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just don’t want anyone, not even Gwydion, dreaming up another scheme to have me turn invisible.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen? A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Madison, who knew him better than any man alive, fully realized that there was an invisible line somewhere in Jefferson’s mind above which lay his most cherished personal and political ideals. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The reaction vessel is initially transparent: the precursor gases are entirely invisible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Too many Chinese meals cooked in a too small kitchen, too many once fragrant smells compressed onto a thin layer of invisible grease. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I got pushed or pinched by invisible hands in the crowded halls between classes, a few times by Jenny herself, but other times I looked behind me and saw no familiar faces. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He groaned and his hands flayed the air to ward off an invisible danger. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It hit the creature, slamming into its body like an invisible boulder. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Why did she try so hard to be invisible? Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z She would rather work on other codes—of nature, of crystals, of invisible structures. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I yearned to become invisible, to have the ground beneath me open and swallow me until it was all over. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Meggie thought she could hear the dogs sniffing and wished she could dissolve into thin air, odorless and invisible air. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He’s looking right over my head at Catherine, as if I were invisible. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z When he spoke, Mariam had the sense that he was having a conversation with himself, or with some invisible presence in the room, who, unlike her and Laila, was worthy of his opinions. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The rover, while descending down a seemingly ordinary slope, drove off an invisible ridge. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat down at the table that night feeling practically invisible. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as though he had given a downbeat with an invisible baton. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z You may take this as another example of hyperbole, for in Miss Penelope Lumley’s day servants did not actually have the power to become invisible, although it certainly would be interesting if they had. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z In a mysterious dance of sunlight and sugar, water and wind and soil, we build invisible bridges to connect with the world. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The thing about drifting the creek at night is how it makes you feel invisible. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Most things that seem ridiculous to me are normal there, like when my humanities teacher asked, “Who are the invisible people in our community? Who are the people we, as a society, take for granted?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “You’re the one they want. Turn invisible and go up the aisle. Let them pass you. Maybe you can get to the front and get away.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z But there’s an undertone, like an invisible nod, as if something he wants to suspect has come true after all. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Night masquerade dawned with an un- usual fog, and when Ash went out into the garden to pump water for her stepsis- ters’ baths, the King’s Forest was invisible behind the cool white mist. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The invisible guards, however, did not greet me as conspicuously to orient me about my place in life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I pull it loose and cross an invisible boundary from immortal to mortal. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The thing he could not speak of hungover the little green room like an invisible presence, ruining, it seemed to Ranofer, everything he did speak of. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z A mark was faintly carved into the surface, practically invisible to the eye. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The door was open, but it felt like there was an invisible door between us, because I didn’t know what to say to him, and he didn’t know what to write to me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z From street level, the antenna is all but invisible. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I tried to lift my head to see exactly what had happened, but there was this weight—this solid, invisible slab of stone—keeping me on my back, and Liam flat against me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Still invisible, I grabbed the wheel from him and jerked it to the left. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I swear, I felt invisible while everybody jibber-jabbered at that table. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z It’s as though the fabric scraps of my self are being sewn together, in tiny, almost invisible stitches, with the finest of threads. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a warbling WOOP-WOOP sound as the invisible force field disintegrates. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z As kids, being covered by the branches and the leaves always made him feel invisible. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The invisible barrier must have disappeared, too, because Mini finally noticed Aru. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Ray, whose ears perk to the sounds of songs invisible to Axel. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I say, "No, not really invisible. But radar can't see the plane. So it's invisible to the radar." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He rushed away, alone except for those invisible companions. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Millard removed his greatcoat and threw it into the weeds by the side of the road, making himself invisible. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A different equation on a different invisible board. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Where the sunlight hits him he is all but invisible. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He reached out, pretended to catch the invisible kiss, smacked the side of his cheek, and grinned. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just because you don’t see something doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Some of the most wonderful things in the world are invisible. Trusting in invisible things makes them more powerful and wondrous. You’ll see.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I crawled onto the sand on all fours, invisible creatures skittering away as I collapsed onto what felt like a pile of leaves. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The feeling of being always enclosed in the stifling embrace of an invisible force had gone from him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s play hide-and-seek,” Poppet suggests, and Bailey agrees before she unbuttons her coat and leaves it on a frozen bench, her white costume rendering her all but invisible. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Marco crumples as though punched in the stomach by an invisible assailant. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I revised my request; I just wanted to become invisible for a month or two. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt like an invisible net had been cast over her body, dragging her down. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z It seems to Werner that in the space between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As with Joe, there was an invisible boundary around him that he would not let others cross. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z After an hour or so, the hoodlums left, but the violence revived old fears; once again I longed to be invisible. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The bespectacled man seated behind it is almost invisible, blending in with his surroundings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Vanishing away across invisible floors, there were things of gold, gems, jewels, silver vessels the color of blood in the undulant, dragon-red light. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I am the behind-the-scenes person, the invisible one who makes their lives run smoothly, the one outside the camera frame, the one in the kitchen cooking food or on the patio washing diapers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The air swarms with so much that is invisible! All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She looks as if she is being raked by some invisible arctic wind. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Inside were the photos I knew so well: the invisible boy, the levitating girl, the boulder lifter, the man with a face painted on the back of his head. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z We were all shocked into silence, like he’d struck us with invisible bolts of lightning. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The raft followed its invisible leash farther and farther away from shore, away from safety—wherever that was. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The old woman in the cart was soon enveloped in a transparent shimmer that moved busily, working and feeding in some invisible way that made Ruta Skadi sick to watch. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I wished I had had an invisible cupcake to stuffin my mouth. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z All day I work, my back bent, just like my mother’s, and even when I try to stand tall, my shoulders hunch over with invisible weight. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, she seemed to get more invisible the longer he looked at her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But an invisible object weighing ten times more than the Sun and collapsed into a volume the size of an asteroid can only be a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Zu darted out ahead of me, but I could feel my feet begin to drag with an invisible weight as I came toward them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Clicks and buzzes and hoots, the rustling of invisible wings and paws. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z He squatted on his hams at the water's edge, bowed, with a shock of hair falling over his forehead and past his eyes, and the afternoon sun emptied down invisible arrows. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z An invisible wall was building slowly between me and the people with whom I had cast my lot. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Julia was standing with them, trying again to convince Jay about her stupid tinfoil UFO and how it was going to fly up and down the street on a stupid invisible wire. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z At dawn, an invisible fist slammed into his stomach, and he barely made it out to the alley. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Clifton had been making it dance all the time and the black thread had been invisible. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know, Ruthie, it doesn’t make any sense. Sometimes I feel I’m invisible, slipping through the streets, never getting a chance to be part of this place.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z SCORPIUS/HARRY: But I can’t... an invisible echo, what is that? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of the invisible light, even at night in this parking lot on the outskirts of Agloe. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “As soon as—” Mr. Ferris cleared his throat to warn my mother not to cross an invisible line. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Slowly, my father was sinking away from us, enveloped by some invisible sea. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The fish dart away, bumping their noses against the invisible barrier that contains their world. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “My sister Seema joked it had to have invisible layers hidden within to keep it expanding.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Otherwise, I do my best to be invisible and stay out of the way. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z But in the neighborhood where J. T.’s gang operated, the path to a decent legitimate job was practically invisible. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I wondered who was covering for him as I wove my way through the pileup and toward the store, hoping my cap would keep me invisible—I felt like a ghost anyway. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “All I wanted was to be quiet, do my work, and not get in trouble at this school. I was invisible, and I was fine with that until you came along.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I lower my eyes to the path, glide by her, hoping to be invisible, knowing I’ll be ignored. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z A cobweb, I thought, but then I looked at a strand of it on my palm and saw it was some kind of metal filament, so fine it was almost invisible. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They behaved as though it were an awful sin to overlook even one of those unspoken rules and step out of “their place,” to cross some invisible line. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I have always known it possible that he could have many minions and pawns surrounding a case, a swarm invisible even to the spy. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Klaus’s heart was beating fast, but he felt calm on the outside, as if he had on a layer of invisible armor. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The expensive correspondence with the invisible doctors ended in failure. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Mom was totally silent, invisible in the dark. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z His eyes were wide, his skin mottled pink and white, his mouth invisible behind his mustache. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z André, through Stansbury, taught Arnold to write in invisible ink and to use a “book code,” a tough code to break. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Explored our far-flung underground world in an endless wargame of leaps onto nothing, ingenious twists into freedom or new perplexity, quick whispered plottings with invisible friends, wild cackles when vengeance was mine. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Even those family members who continue to live seem dead somehow, always invisible, impossible to touch. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I think it would be easier to be invisible.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z It was perhaps eight feet wide and eight feet high, and would have been invisible from anywhere else in the Pipeworks. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But in reality, an invisible line ran down the middle of Berlin, separating the communist East from the capitalist West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I ignored the invisible buzz saws cutting holes in my stomach. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z That would start a good rumor: a lingering, invisible illness, which would get me out of such things forever. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Some stars, the supernovae, are as bright as the entire galaxy that contains them; others, the black holes, are invisible from a few kilometers away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And when I was feeling most invisible, being tight-lipped, silent and unobservable, they were whispering about me to each other. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Probe for the invisible cracks through which one might fall out of the white glass ball, and fall, and fall, and fall....An unrelaxable tension little by little took hold of all my muscles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z They had heard nothing more about Amari being transferred to the rice fields, so she worked as hard as she could and tried to make herself invisible to anyone in authority. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z They sit on either side of me, trying to comfort me, but I’m already cocooned in invisible bubble wrap. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Surely the only woman in the world who can write a letter in invisible italics. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Black leaders were keenly aware of white Chicago’s postwar desire to return to the days of blacks being nearly invisible in the overall fabric of the city. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I could lie down on the floor of the car and make myself small and invisible. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Such an approach inevitably renders the Scientific Revolution totally invisible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Each match was actually a pen that wrote with invisible ink. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z A host of tiny animals in a forest of invisible trees. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I began to “gallop” again, holding my invisible reins as I pretended to ride forward. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The second apparently problematic feature of the historian’s enterprise is that some important developments are quite simply invisible to the participants. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The invisible bird chirped and footsteps clicked across the ceiling. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z His elbows stuck up on either side of him, and his head, bent down, was nearly invisible. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Peeves,” he said, in a hoarse whisper, “the Bloody Baron has his own reasons for being invisible.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Behind him, to right, to left, all around him, the watchers stood patient, faceless, silent, the shifting patterns of their delicate armor making them all but invisible in the wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then, quite suddenly, Harry felt as though an invisible pillow had been pressed over his mouth and nose. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z At her feet, her pack was unbuckling as if opened by invisible hands. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z But there are harder things than being invisible, it said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Some odd optical property of our highly polarized and unequal society makes the poor almost invisible to their economic superiors. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The picture is fundamentally like a newspaper wirephoto, made of perhaps a million individual dots, each a different shade of gray, so fine and close together that at a distance the constituent dots are invisible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the aching glory in masses of clouds burning gold and purple from an invisible sun. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When things were in there they were safe, because they became invisible. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Jumping to her feet, she lined up the spot where they had disappeared with a patch of brown lichens in the distance, and ran with joy along the invisible line. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In trails of copper ink guided by an invisible hand, the symbols were applied to the magnificent chest in honor of the gods of the Golden Crescent. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The one in the Training Center was invisible. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She put her head down on her desk and wished she were invisible. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z We walk around happily with these invisible veils hanging down over our faces. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z All of us started walking past him as he continued waving his hand as if he was pulling us with an invisible rope. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Crane-man fussed about with his creation, making invisible adjustments to the straw. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z His foot hooked on something in the air and he hopped again, bounding up an invisible set of steps as Ivan’s water column thundered through where he had just stood. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I run my fingers over the invisible barcode on the inside of my wrist. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Gold writing kept dashing across it as though an invisible giant’s hand were scrawling upon the blackboard and then wiping it off again; watching it, Harry saw that it was flashing advertisements across the field. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “The key to getting to the Otherworld is reaching. You must grab hold of something invisible. Imagine it’s a string of hope. All you have to do is find it and tug. Simple.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He was toward the end of the line, with the other enlisted slaves, his head bent forward, his face invisible. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z My hand rubs unconsciously at my wrist, where Hideo had wrapped the invisible noose. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I’m reminded yet again that I’m too dark—invisible—and not worth an ounce of their attention. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z And so they rendered him invisible, eliminating him from their presence. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagine that we’re both here in this bed, that my invisible body is nestled against hers. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z But they were perhaps more invisible professionally in the black community. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They were taught how to make more invisible ink using things like aspirin and Ex-Lax. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He leaned against the depot wall then; he was sweating, and sounds were becoming outlines again, vague and hollow in his ears, and he knew he was going to become invisible right there. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She was nearly invisible in the swirling clouds of dust. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if the scythe were pulling him with an invisible string. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A storm, attempted murders, witches, wizards, invisible spirits, revolutions, characters drinking until they’re dead drunk, an angry monster named Caliban—can you believe it? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Pm nearly eighty-seven,” said Millard with his mouth full of goose drippings, and as he spoke a half-chewed mass quavered in his invisible jaw for all to see. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Through the thickets of bare trees, you could see houses that were invisible during the summer. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z As we went shopping for bulk foods or kicked sand at the beach, we were always thinking about the invisible viewers who hovered around us like a band of watchful angels. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Vanessa scooched closer along the wall and Bridget followed, like they were attached by an invisible rope. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z “I think we made his day by not pretending he’s invisible. Thanks for seeing him with me.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Throwing caution to the wind, he left the cover of the house and ran out into the open, trying to stay low and hoping his dark clothes would keep him invisible. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She saw the sweat on Kaz’s brow, the nearly invisible pinpricks of the tattoo on his forearm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He imagined them slamming against his net in astonishment at this invisible thing that finished their lives in the last days of an urgent journey. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Minya gave the ghost’s invisible leash a tug that felled him to his knees. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Her eyebrows and eyelashes were near invisible, and her eyes a mix of pewter and blue. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Next thing I remember was me spinning like a top— then shooting upward, launched by some invisible brute force. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z On his way up the steps he encountered Bud Gleason, decked out in a madras sport coat and bow tie, coming down and Onofre tipped his cowboy hat good day with his invisible arm. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, he is probably supposed to be invisible to everyone except the people who already knew he was coming, those who he knows are his supporters. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Somehow, she incorporated a mechanical beauty queen wave, which exploded into a motion where she seemed to pull herself up by an invisible string. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She felt like a littlie again, jerked along by a minder on an invisible string. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Or they’d think it was adorable that I was pretending to hang out with my old invisible friend. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Dorothy walked to school on the other side of the street, toeing the invisible line that separated them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z His eyes gazed into Harry’s and it was almost as though an invisible beam of understanding shot between them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Once more she gazed at the symbols, once more she turned the wheels, but those invisible ladders of meaning down which she’d stepped with such ease and confidence weren’t there. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Ash went about her work in silence as Ana upbraided her about her poor cooking skills, the invisible layer of dust on the dining room table, the unevenness of her stitching on their stockings. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Clotho rolls his eyes and lugs his invisible turnips over to his side of the blanket. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He saw it quiver and then jerk a little, as though an invisible fish were tugging at a line. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Around in a circle he went, drawing up sapling after sapling, until he made a circle out of knee-high trees, with an invisible bundle of magic in his fist. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I get that. But don’t you ever think that maybe you’re kind of...making yourself invisible?” she asks, twirling its stem between her fingers. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I said, but before I could argue, she put on her Yankees cap and turned invisible. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z For the most part this pollution is unseen and invisible, making its presence known when hundreds or thousands of fish die, but more often never detected at all. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As the outsider, you can retreat into a shell, be anonymous, be invisible. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I'm an invisible man and it placed me in a hole—or showed me the hole I was in, if you will—and I reluctantly accepted the fact. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I don’t like being hunted by invisible corpse beasts,” said the clown, and he began to pry the older brother from the younger. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He had tried to be invisible, and he had succeeded. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The key to being underground is to be invisible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Doli, still muttering angrily about his buzzing ears, rode last, as rear guard, although he flatly refused to make himself invisible no matter what the circumstances. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z She is still with me, invisible, wrapping me in warmth and painlessness, she has heard me after all. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I waited for her to hit me with a sarcastic comeback, something that would slap me like an invisible hand across the face. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z My true journal is written with no pen or paper, but in my mind, with an invisible hand in the air. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Like he was completely invisible to the rest of the world. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z He was the invisible boy looking for the place where no one could find him, where he did not have to feel invisible anymore. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Jemima? Pinky? Primrose?” and she served each doll a slice of invisible cake on an invisible plate, chattering happily as she did so. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z I wanted to make sure they never felt invisible. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He’s the kind of guy you hope never notices you, but there’s really no use in me trying to be invisible to him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z By the time the computers reached the end of the line, where they were packed into red-and-white Sayle Enterprises boxes, the compartments were completely invisible. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z "Bingo! When you came to the kitchen you said you were invisible, and you are. But what does that mean? You know the Stealth Bomber? The Air Force calls that plane invisible. Well, is it?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But the remark, I noticed, annoyed my mother, who sat tracing an invisible design with her finger on the tablecloth. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For the remainder of that day, as he walked soggily around the school, everyone had pretended that he was invisible. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For how could it have been real if now I am invisible? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In the corner, the invisible bird sounded as if it was helplessly throwing itself against the walls of its cage. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z His invisible companion seemed to breathe on a very large scale, and Shasta got the impression that it was a very large creature. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “I guess it’s time to go,” I said, waiting for a voice to tell me otherwise, or invisible arms to tug me back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Astronomers have watched stars dance around an invisible partner; the stars’ motions reveal the presence of the black hole even if the black hole is not visible. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I sink into my oversized sweatshirt and pray myself invisible. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z If you looked at them from one angle, the threads were invisible. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z My grandmother would start talking to the invisible people, too. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps that's my greatest social crime, I've overstayed my hibernation, since there's a possibility that even an invisible man has a socially responsible role to play. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They viewed it as a costly and pointless venture, given that at least a dozen invisible hovercraft are circling overhead for my protection and there’s no intelligence to be gained. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Mom says each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world, like a bride wears on her wedding day, except this kind of veil is invisible. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z The canoe was barely concealed at all, and yet it had been invisible a moment before. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A billion tiny mud creatures lived and ate and died in the top layer of sand, and the little casts and breathing holes and invisible movements showed that the whole landscape was aquiver with life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z An invisible current that pulls a person out to sea. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I'd just turned six, and me and my dad were having one of our famous invisible cupcake parties. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z He remembered the circle around him opening wider and wider as the monster told the story of all that he’d done for the invisible man. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Link and Marty were doing like acrobatics in the entryway, fighting invisible demons. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They are transferred from their prison cells to a much larger, invisible cage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Men hunted otter and beaver in the swamp and the moss sellers scavenged from the trees, tracking far but never too far, yanked back to the plantation by invisible chains. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I gathered my books, wishing, not for the first time, that I could turn invisible. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z After a few additional attempts sans board and pieces, the invisible match was abandoned and they played on the portable set. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z For the next few days my mother and father acted as if the other were invisible. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The effort to become invisible, or to appear nonthreatening yet dangerous, was exhausting, which is why in prison almost everyone wanted drugs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z She swayed back and forth, her eyes looking up to the ceiling, one hand moving by her side, seeming to slowly swat away invisible flies. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Dad's gritty stubble and my almost invisible fur snowed together onto the white porcelain sink. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It had shaken her to see her own first name being written like that by an invisible hand. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Clouds had come to cover the sliver moon and stars, and even the sails, so white and usually easy to see, were practically invisible. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But I did mind as, limb by limb, the rest of me went invisible before I woke up. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Evan tensed up his fingers as if he were strangling an invisible ghost. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “This time, try to imagine that those invisible hands you were telling me about are actually knives. Cut through the haze.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z We had each made the choice to make him invisible. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Nico’s Roman skeletons surged forward and grappled with something invisible. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A couple hours ago I had been running from invisible cops. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z In front of the laundromat six girls with the same fat face pretend we are invisible. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do more! There must be invisible ink on this page. The heat makes it visible.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z An invisible humming engine shone a small spotlight onto one corner of her desk, to the upper right of the geometry text, and the triangles they were studying all looked like bread. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The tall grasses were green razors that could section a man’s flesh into an infinite number of fine, almost invisible slices. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The staircase led so far down that by the time it reached a level floor, the sky behind them at the head of the flight was quite invisible. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And slowly, raised by invisible hands from below, there emerged from the one a painted image of an eagle, from the other that of a man, naked, and nailed to a cross. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to be stalking an invisible mouse. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z A stickiness like walking through an invisible syrup. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z He targeted us because he could see us, but the moment I took away identifying clothing, I became invisible. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I never got the chance to argue with her, because just then an invisible force slammed into me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z With a shock he saw that his face had not changed, that the hand of Satan was as yet invisible. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Two seats over, a fat bald-headed man is snoring with his mouth open, releasing an invisible cloud of halitosis. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “He’s just a normal boy. Until one day he wakes up and no one can see him. He’s turned invisible. And he tries everything, but nothing works. So he goes here.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Colin lay down on the dry, orange dirt and let the tall grass swallow him up, making him invisible. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Feels like I’m invisible, big as I am. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z As I finish, I'm so close that he's getting sprayed with invisible spit. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry could not get a clear shot, but fought his way nearer, still invisible, and the Great Hall became more and more crowded as everyone who could walk forced their way inside. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z So I told him of my invisible brother with no name. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z However, in his present position he was invisible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Elizebeth had played a big part in that invisible battle, and she could now declare victory. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z At the far end was a nearly invisible door, wallpapered over like the entrance to a secret passageway. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We will ourselves to be small and invisible as we risk approaching the vicinity of the funeral. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Dad says, "Bingo! That plane is invisible to the radar. But does the plane make a shadow when it flies between the earth and the sun?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The central quest of the study of heredity seemed like an object perceived only through its shadows, tantalizingly invisible to science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z During the first months when it was learned that the trains were jumping their tracks in the rain, a letter from the invisible doctors told her that hers were not arriving. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The focus of the activities of the invisible college shifted to Oxford, however, when several of its prominent members took up posts there in 1648, as the Civil War drew to a close. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Her dæmon changed yet again, and became a goldfinch, pecking at invisible crumbs on the tabletop. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The invisible chicken stayed visible for the rest of the afternoon. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z A moment later we heard the footsteps of an invisible boy pounding up the ramp outside our cage. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Hello, Valencia,” he mumbled to himself as he made his way down Elm Street with Sacred, who walked right alongside him as if they were connected by an invisible leash. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z You can see things that we cannot, you can see connections and possibilities and alternatives that are invisible to us, just as sraf was invisible to you. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I've tried to be invisible, but just my presence here has changed the dynamic of the situation. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “You’re telling me a green shirt will make you invisible to monsters?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He walks away as if he’s invisible and we aren’t surrounded by teachers and faculty, including Principal Wertz, braying into his phone. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Like I was just a fleck of invisible dust flying in the air. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When the sun was below the horizon, the surface was either barely visible if it was in earthshine, or totally invisible in a black void if there was no earthshine. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire time I thought I was an invisible wallflower, I was intimidating to Hannah Macintosh? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z So really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I felt the invisible fingers at the back of my mind awaken. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The long-term advantages of Jay’s Treaty, however, were wholly invisible to most Americans in the crucible of the moment. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The sense of shock returned; it was as though I were invisible in the room, observing a scene in which I had no part. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea of invisible ink had been around for a long time. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Down here, the spray might make it even harder to ride, but the barrier of the trees kept her invisible. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I stayed my step, almost my breath, and stood to watch him—to examine him, myself unseen, and alas! to him invisible. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an invisible wall between the world out there, where his father’s death wasn’t ever-present, and the world in here, where it always was. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z He took his hand away, and there it hung, fastened in the substance of an invisible world. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There’s invisible writing that comes out when you hold the paper over a candle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z These little invisible gaps were anywhere, but not everywhere, or any slash of the knife would open a window. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the most essential organisms in the soil are the smallest — the invisible hosts of bacteria and of threadlike fungi. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was an invisible thing, like a secret. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The woman has taken out a little pad and is making invisible zeroes trying to get her reluctant pen to write. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His brow was crisscrossed with wrinkles, his dark eyes brooded and burned with some kind of invisible suffering, and the fingers of his right hand played aimlessly with a long, gray earlock. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Their stingers are coiled like harpoons, millions of invisible weapons just waiting. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I disappeared into my room the minute the air tensed and wrapped myself in a thin sheet that didn’t silence their insults but made me invisible to the hate that clouded their eyes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Franz hunkered down by the back door and tried to make himself invisible. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She glanced around like she was making a speech to an invisible crowd. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He's got my invisible hands busy chopping celery and carrots while he cuts up chunks of chicken for a big pot of soup, and he's gushing about his talk with Dr. Van Dom. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was water green in color, like the boat herself, and he thought that when it was in place, he and his vessel would be practically invisible. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I shred dried leaves and listen, watching the pile of brown bits grow in front of me, feeling invisible. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Flint goes away to his own planet. He puts up invisible barriers so that others won’t sense life-forms there. He creates robots to protect himself and keep him company. They ar....predictable.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z He would be quite invisible and safe from detection. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Nobody wants to think he’s being a racist, but maybe it was a bigger problem, like everyone was just ignoring it, like it was invisible. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The skeletons had Cupid pinned now, but the invisible god laughed so cruelly that Jason wanted to summon another bolt of lightning. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And if there was a stranger involved, he was an invisible one. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was entirely invisible to him, who could see everything on the Current. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Marina’s plane came down near Saratov, painfully close to the familiar airfield at Engels, just out of reach and invisible in the storm. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z This ‘brute’ fact has become a brute fact for us; but that is because the process by which the mountain was discovered, measured, named and made famous has become invisible to us. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The final stage has been dubbed by some advocates as the “period of invisible punishment.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The front of it was raised by some invisible agent and he came out with one bound—only to find his way blocked by cold black stone. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “That woman just stood in front of us like we were invisible—and that man didn’t even say thank you.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She’d click her invisible fingers, reciting rhymes Peachy taught her when she was very little. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z An invisible barrier prevented me from accidentally running off the edge of the track and plummeting into the starry abyss. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I sprang forward into the sea of empty metal shelves, half of which were knocked flat on their backs or leaning against others in slanted lines, their shelves buckling under some invisible weight. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Fortunately, the entire squad was invisible, with the exception of Four who was safely hidden in what appeared to be a rhododendron. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z His strict rules were designed as an invisible form of protection for us, and in many ways they reflected Birmingham’s segregation laws. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z So here he comes to ask his direction from the lost, the invisible. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I tiptoe to the top of the stairs, lying down on the floor to make sure I’m invisible. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He looks down and kicks an invisible rock. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Occasionally, he’d split his mental gymnastics, leaving his imaginary board to swing a fantasy baseball bat and knock an invisible ball into the left-field stands of the Ebbets Field in his mind. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And the farther away she got, the faster it spun, like there was an invisible cord unreeling from it that stretched between us, and if she went too far it would snap—and kill me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Saint Paul said the invisible must be understood by the visible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I just concentrated on being invisible, lowering myself quietly into a chair, holding my breath. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Bast feared the deep, weary silence that gathered around his master at times, like an invisible shroud. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If I turned invisible, I could take my free lunch without having to deal with the cashier. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The snow—or whatever it was—clung to the outline of an invisible bridge. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z That must have been how the stowaways had escaped his notice; everything inside it was invisible too. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Not far away the bent woman was dancing and gathering invisible things from the air. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Since his childhood, Poppy had been wishing for a hat that would make him invisible. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Inside the house, supplied with firewood and water, Mama and Angeline battled the invisible enemy. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Henry already hears nearly everything about Alex’s current life, but talking about how they grew up has always been some invisible line of demarcation. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She would have to take breaks, and a swallow was small and brown and nearly invisible to predators. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z So pretty much my whole life is going back and forth from being super visible to invisible. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z I’m practically invisible at that height— the people on the ground keep their attention fixed on the street—and besides, up there I get the best view of where I’m headed. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Each of these letters had a tiny, nearly invisible “notch” cut into its outline. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Most of those channels divided islands visible from each other, but Australia itself was always invisible from even the nearest Indonesian islands, Timor and Tanimbar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the picture, an invisible wind pulled at her white gown, outlining her body so vividly that she didn’t seem to be wearing any clothes at all. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Mother pulls the pad of paper from under the covers, tucked in the invisible pocket she’s had sewn in every garment, where she keeps antivomiting pills, tissues. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z When the tournament began, Bobby made his first move and pressed his clock, which then started counting down against his invisible opponent. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Or, as John Quincy Adams described the seamless character of the partnership, “it was a phenomenon, like the invisible and mysterious movements of the magnet in the physical world.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Her eyes narrowed and she’d whisper furiously to herself, like she was discussing with an invisible colleague what punishment was awful enough for you. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Write using lemon juice as ink, for instance, and the writing will be invisible. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As everyone continues to press in around us and yell questions, I start to feel invisible because no one says a word to me, even though they obviously know Boy21 and I are tight. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At a certain point, I felt so invisible I almost wanted to take credit. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z 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 Then sprung the anomaly on him—Eskimo legend of a doorway into spirit world—invisible—somewhere near Lookout Ridge, would you believe, where we're heading for, fancy that. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When Luke stood up, a theatrical wildness in his eyes, Toby slapped his chest, pointed to an invisible crowd, and posed. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And the smaller oak and maple trees, which from Dr. Hyde’s classroom had been invisible beneath the more majestic pines, showed hints of an as- yet-thermally-unforeseeable fall: Their still-green leaves were beginning to droop. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z To be invisible he had to clear his mind. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He galloped around the table like he was riding an invisible bronco, waving his plastic debit card over his head and making whooping sounds. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Her brows drew together and her lips thinned into a nearly invisible line. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I asked, “Can you render the spot invisible?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “How did you know — ?” “I don’t need a cloak to become invisible,” said Dumbledore gently. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I could live with Calypso, with invisible servants tending to my every need. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The fence was almost invisible, and the quad bikers, moving fast toward him, would be unable to hear the warning sound over their own engines... Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z They slam into an invisible wall and topple backward. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z And why do girls have to stumble across these invisible lines to become women? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z One hand drifted up to press against my forehead, as if I could hold back the invisible fingers there by force. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z If vision is caused by the pressure of this invisible fluid on the eyes, it would be possible to see in the dark by running fast enough! The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Being invisible meant not being sensed or felt. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z When Gyges put on the ring, he found that it made him invisible. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Something struck hard in Ekon’s chest, coursing through him like an invisible current of energy as the words sank in. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Streams and veils of light hung like curtains, looped and festooned on invisible hooks hundreds of miles high or blowing out sideways in the stream of some unimaginable wind. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Several more times before Edwin's next visit, Cole tried being invisible, but had no luck. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z George Washington was fighting a war with a visible army and an invisible army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Someone’s invisible there!” shouted a masked Death Eater, pointing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In the case of scientific knowledge the fog never clears: the summit is invisible and truth always remains out of sight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Plus we now know you both converse with invisible mates.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z You tell him about the invisible lines of meaning you feel stretching and winding through and around the people in your life. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It is of profound importance, but it is completely invisible in the standard historical literature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She reached her fingers toward the water, setting them against invisible threads in the air. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z And when his father spoke again, he sounded like an invisible buoy. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “It was late, Hugo, and you were asleep. Whoever killed them was intent on being silent and invisible. If Malcolm and Maud had screamed, you would’ve been right there. All of us would have.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z After he turned away, Penelope shut her eyes in the childish hope that it might render her invisible. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Every head turned, every eye in the place seemed to have found Harry, to hold him frozen in the glare of thousands of invisible beams. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z After a few minutes the door fades into the wall of the tent, invisible once more. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z As the days go on, more and more people begin to treat Davi as if she were invisible. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “An invisible! What a rare surprise. And an American, too,” he said, nodding at me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I’ve always felt like I was meant to be more than an invisible wallflower. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He met an invisible barrier that prevented him coming within an inch of it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Stammerers act invisible to reduce the chances of being made to say something we can't. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “You mean something like invisible messages written in lemon juice or a map hidden in one of the pictures showing where to find treasure?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She pulled at threads invisible to Anya, and the smell coming out of the pot changed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The invisible ink would allow them to communicate with one another in America via letters. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z An agent used one chemical to write an invisible message. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Feel like we been waiting for some invisible pot a water to boil for the past seven months. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z This made me think of the Coriolis effect again and how it is invisible but can make things change direction. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The interrogation room mirror and its thousand invisible eyes. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z During the first three weeks of seventh grade, I’d learned one thing above all else: A person can become invisible simply by staying quiet. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Great swathes of incandescence trembled and parted like angels’ wings beating; cascades of luminescent glory tumbled down invisible crags to lie in swirling pools or hang like vast waterfalls. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Go straight. I’ll tell you the route,” she said, guided by her instincts for seeing what was invisible. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The founder had written: “The three virtues of the Stranger are to be silent, to be cunning, but above all to be invisible.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, goaded on—the goad invisible but real, not to be challenged—he resumed his climb. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “He would make himself invisible, but he would observe and notice everything,” Kaprice says. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The man's cape billows behind in an invisible wind. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z His fingertips played slow chords on an invisible keyboard on the bar. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a characteristic of a predator to become invisible to its prey during the quiet and sometimes lengthy stalk that precedes an explosive attack. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well then,” said Goddard, “I refuse to answer to an invisible accuser.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z If I was real quiet, it was like I was invisible. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z There was a flash of blinding green light and a rushing sound, as though a vast, invisible something was soaring through the air — instantaneously the spider rolled over onto its back, unmarked, but unmistakably dead. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “I know,” said Palmer, slumping, “but I don’t want to be. I want to be nobody. I want to be invisible. If I was invisible, then Nipper would be too.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z “You’ll think of something,” he said easily, brandishing his stick at an invisible enemy. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She had taken care of him and waited on him as she now did her mother, and she had woven him too into her invisible net of guilt and unrepayable debts of gratitude. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the gas filled the halls of our ruined school, we regularly filled that space with another kind of combustible, invisible poison. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z "I didn't say it's all pointless. I just have trouble seeing how it makes sense to start hunting around for other invisible people, that's all." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was next to no chance that this woman was a Muggle: She was standing there gazing at a house that ought to have been completely invisible to her, if she was not a witch. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I realized in talking to her that we had been invisible. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, I give up and take out my invisible brushes and just start painting in my head. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The new doctor asked him if he had ever been visible, and Tayo spoke to him softly and said that he was sorry but nobody was allowed to speak to an invisible one. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Where houses were, where windows stared, where gutters ran, were people—sleeping now, invisible, private, in the heavy darknesses of these houses, while the Lord’s day broke outside. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Chuckling at his own foolishness, he straightened his clothes and made his way back to the road through the sumac, brushing away invisible strands of spiderweb that clung tickling to his face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I just wanted to be invisible, but I couldn’t because a lot of kids came up to me and said they were sorry and “it’s too bad about what happened.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The force of the Death Eaters’ spells shattered the tiled wall where Ron’s head had just been, as Harry, still invisible, yelled, “Stupefy!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He took a step toward them and stopped, another step, stopped, and then suddenly, as though yanked into the air by a giant invisible rope, he leaped. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The invisible servant brought him one, opened it too suddenly, and sprayed soda all over the god’s work clothes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “If there’s an invisible assassin in this place, I can only imagine it’s the Devil himself. I dare say he feels quite at home.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The mathematicians, however, interpreted the apparently irregular movement of the planets in the heavens as evidence that some invisible reality was causing the movement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Forgetting that they were already invisible, they shrank into the shadows, staring at the dark outlines of two people grappling with each other ten feet away. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z A gull on an invisible wire attached through space dragged. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He kept smiling, as if the corners of his mouth were strung up on invisible wire. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Diego had an honest face, but I found it difficult to believe he’d come to the party to see me when I was practically invisible to everyone else. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Almost invisible from a distance, like some kind of trained-mouse act, but very charming. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Yet it is precisely on such occasions that people display their good attributes, whereas they tend to hide and become “invisible” when they are depressed. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Archer strained against his invisible bonds, testing his feet and each of his fingers, but he couldn’t move anything but his head and neck. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z That afternoon, he tried to make himself invisible. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He was standing by a fire, wild-haired, gorgeous, stabbing with an invisible sword. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was weird how she almost turned invisible when she was surrounded by plants. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He front-palmed it, holding it between his first and his little finger, so it was invisible from behind, then slipped his two middle fingers under it, pivoting it smoothly into a back-palm. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z This was Hogwarts as Riddle had known it, meaning that this unknown wizard was headmaster, not Dumbledore, and he, Harry, was little more than a phantom, completely invisible to the people of fifty years ago. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Meggie tried to catch Tinker Bell, but the fairy slipped through her fingers and whirred up to the ceiling, where she hovered like a light made of invisible glass. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z True invisibility was impossible, of course: this was mental magic, a kind of fiercely held modesty that could make the spell worker not invisible but simply unnoticed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His sloping shoulders were bent forward and he walked heavily on his heels, as though he carried the invisible grain bag. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Jam pressed herself against the dresser, practicing being invisible and waiting for when she, specifically, would be in hot water, as Aloe liked to say. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She didn’t want to patch it, and she was trying to make her stitches as invisible as possible so no one would be able to tell it had been torn in the first place. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Another Nowruz had come and gone for Sohrab without his father, and I was worried about feeling invisible. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Sometimes I really feel it in here, especially late at night, a current going among us, like an invisible needle stitching us together into the glorious, free nation we are becoming. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It's not like I'm some mad scientist who planned and studied and dreamed about becoming invisible all his life, and now it's happened, so now I can use my powers to take over the world. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t your invisible brother have a name?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The little head he had pressed protectively to his chest had left an invisible imprint there that called insistently to be filled. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Ms. Habibi handed him a tissue from an invisible supply she must have been carrying in her pocket. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Each night, that boy came into the lean-to just a-talking away like he had himself an invisible friend, chatting on about all he’d seen that day in hawks and prairie dogs and such. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z He heard a grunt and he swung again, but the invisible god was gone. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z So he had feet, after all—invisible ones. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Hazel had always felt invisible when she walked into school alone, and she thought that that was the worst way you could possibly feel. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Jupiter is surrounded by a shell of invisible but extremely dangerous high-energy charged particles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Snow was falling again; the streets were long paths leading through a dense jungle, lit here and there with torches held high in invisible hands. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Dad and I follow the camera crew into the warehouse...and it’s almost as if we’ve crashed into an invisible barrier. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The mouth of Kitum Cave was mostly invisible from the approach trail, blocked by boulders cloaked in moss. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He flicked invisible ash off his candy cigarette. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Fact: Dark matter is completely invisible and can be found EVERYWHERE. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z But by the end of the second week, I'm out of ideas, and no matter how I look at all the information, all I see is an invisible kid looking at nothing in a mirror. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But if atomism suggested the existence of an invisible world of micro-mechanisms, it did not imply the existence of an invisible world of micro-organisms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I can only do the things I’d be able do in real life, except that apparently what I do in my world is invisible to everyone else. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to keep all of us as invisible as possible. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The social and technological process by which we establish facts becomes invisible to us because we naturalize it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By December 6, the spectrographers had accumulated their first measurable, if invisible, quantity of uranium 235—far from pure but at more than triple the concentration found in nature. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The mouse rose up on its hind legs, sniffing, then ran to the wall, disappearing into a nearly invisible hole in the mortar between the stones. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She stepped forward in the hallway, into another gust of wind, which stung her cheeks and face with invisible sand, sharp as needles, sharp as glass. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z All this came in a kind of singing along the invisible cord, a singing such as whales do, crying out to one another in the deep. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She only wished there wasn’t a giant, invisible timer lording over her family, ticking down to when they would inevitably move again. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The river itself was black, invisible below them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I wasn’t even fazed by the fact that she’d just been invisible. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Baker unlocked the barn door, opened it a little, with Booth invisible just a few yards away. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I turn up the stereo and let my hair loose and swing it around and clutch an invisible microphone and dance and sing in front of the mirror. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t silent or invisible as I had once been. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “With invisible ink he could have just written the code on the front,” Reynie said. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He rose and walked down the dark aisle over the soft, invisible carpet. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Now Mr. Dolan rose, dusting off invisible crumbs from his pants. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Sarai had trespassed in thousands of minds—tens of thousands—and she had sifted her invisible fingers through dreams beyond counting. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Everyone learned fast, the best strategy was to be invisible. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus my consciousness was awakened to the pervasiveness of “petty apartheid,” and everywhere I went in the white world, I was met by visible and invisible guards of racial segregation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He was an invisible legend in the county: the big, mean, rich Mr. Lyndon. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Needles twitched and grunted, as if his clothes had become full of tiny, invisible knives, shanking him with every tug of a pant leg. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Harry could hear the buses rolling by in the unseen Muggle street behind him and the sound of the invisible crowd below in Diagon Alley. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Even if a black hole is invisible from the outside, its gravitational presence can be palpable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I screamed, imagining my skin disappearing in chunks into the invisible mouths of hundreds of tiny black specks creeping into parts of my body I couldn’t even reach. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z But the idea of air as a static, material but invisible substance was unimagined. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he shouted to his invisible children scattered about the grounds, “You help your mother today and no yappin’.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z An invisible thread tugs me toward sleep, but I want to be awake. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z With April, a walk to the library could become an exploration of a forbidden land, or a shiny pebble on the sidewalk could be a magic token from an invisible power. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Next day around noon he reached the high open valleys around the Little Baldy Bear Lakes, which were invisible under ten to fifteen feet of snow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As Washington shrewdly noted, the invisible ink would not only make “communications less exposed to detection” but also would “relieve the fears” of agents carrying the innocent-looking messages. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In a few hours he gathered a group of well-equipped men, put Amaranta in the hands of a woman who offered to nurse her, and was lost on invisible paths in pursuit of Úrsula. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In fact, Amari noticed that most turned away as if the miserable group were invisible. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “I threw it away. It was tied in such a complicated manner that I couldn’t remove it quickly. An invisible must always be able to dis robe in an instant, or his power is useless!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It felt like the moment the silk sleigh crossed some invisible barrier and the ghosts began to dissolve. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She pulled a tissue out of her sleeve and blew her nose a couple of times, while Fang did his best impression of invisible, and between bites Ms. Banks threw quick glances up the table. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I couldn’t impose on them anymore than I already had, or risk ruining them with the invisible fingers that seemed bent on tearing apart every single connection I managed to make. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Ruta Skadi couldn’t see the invisible gateway, but she didn’t need to: witches could navigate better than birds. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In Miss Penelope Lumley’s day it was often said that the mark of a good servant was to do his or her job with brisk efficiency while at the same time remaining “invisible.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She reached out a paw to pat something in the air in front of her, something quite invisible to Will. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt the invisible grip on me slacken suddenly, but fear kept me still as the dead. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Mesarthium was at the center of this mystery, so that was where he was going—to the anchor, as though Mouzaive’s invisible magnetic fields were pulling him there. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z As soon as she entered—an invisible marauder, unseen and unfelt—the dream was hers to control. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was sort of like an invisible wall had gone up between me and the guys I used to hang with. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They have become dark stars themselves—effectively invisible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All that afternoon she directed toward me calculated words that spawned in my mind a horde of invisible demons bent upon exacting vengeance for what I had done. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as he remembered it, an invisible thing, all smoky tendrils and hate and greed. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Each tiny sign was perfectly formed, with little flags and short tails at the ends of each stroke, resting on invisible horizontal strings like pins perched on a clothesline. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “What did you do to help the invisible man?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z My girlfriend Chloe and I are lying on the grass next to the school gym, watching the sails up in the sky ripple in some invisible electromagnetic tide. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It seemed to them as though Snowball were some kind of invisible influence, pervading the air about them and menacing them with all kinds of dangers. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Tee adjusted an invisible pair of glasses and stuck out her front teeth. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Above us the air teems with invisible swift movement, with howls, pipings, and hisses. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The ship went through the bridge, moving under bare poles like a ghost in broad day, with three gulls hovering above the stern like toys on invisible wires. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time I brought to mind a memory or thought and tried to put an invisible wall around it, my defenses crumbled, as flimsy as waxed paper. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z From the point of view of future history, this kind, we’ll be invisible. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Without her interface ring, she was invisible to vehicles. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Of course, these days I wish I was back to being invisible. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z And then something invisible snapped inside her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I can't believe what I'm reading: "Watch TV or something"? And then, "Call me if there's an emergency"? So let me get this straight, Mom: Your kid goes invisible, and that's not an emergency? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just an innkeeper: friendly, servile, and so unassuming as to almost be invisible. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Something hit him, then, stunning him; although he had been still, he felt as if he had just run at full tilt into an invisible wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Back to square one, back to being invisible and unnoticed. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z But Willow simply unlocked the door and slid inside, disappearing into the shadows of the curry-colored house as if she were suddenly invisible. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z And Aunt Ethel is the only one so far who isn't fazed by the idea of an invisible teenager. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Her breath came heavy again, like invisible hands were squeezing her lungs closed from the inside. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Then she introduced the guest of honor, who turned his back and tried to become invisible. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z We just kept walking, the girl who could make fire with her hands and the invisible boy and me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Do you see these invisible spirals on the margins of the page? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And I knew that he would not go; I saw it in his long silences, in the set of his lips, in his eyes that seemed focused on invisible objects for a long time. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z And he assumed an expression of dim and mild agreeableness, the next best thing to being invisible. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Her dæmon was a small tawny owl, almost invisible in the dappled shadows under the trees. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I stumbled away from the dais, forgetting that I was invisible, and hid behind a column as they approached. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The idea that the temple, wearing its own black band, grieved for the burned-down mansion, that it yearned for a grand and invisible presence, bestowed a faintly religious ambience. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There’s suddenly an invisible hand gripping every single muscle inside my chest. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Even when the visible army was being beaten on battlefields, Washington’s invisible army was winning victories in the back alleys of the spy war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The little bell tinkled once, faint and clear and invisible. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew what it was to be alive without being alive; she knew what it was to be invisible. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z "It's strange, still. It'll always be a little strange," he said, his eyes looking away at something invisible. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z But he just stared numbly at the stream, his face invisible under his hat. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The Scientific Revolution has become almost invisible simply because it has been so astonishingly successful. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Past the edges of the buildings, the gray-green river snaked north to south, dotted with boats zipping up and down the invisible lanes of traffic. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It was as though invisible snakes were rippling beneath the skin and forcing its arms and legs to move in a ceaseless bid for freedom. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The things already invisible living all around him, and maybe even on him, and there was nothing he could do about it. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z But I promise—with my invisible fingers crossed, of course. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For a man who wrote novels, sacrificed the hours of his days to the invisible god of word upon word, Dad was never much of a talker. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z She wiped a speck of something invisible from the corner of her mouth. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She flew to them, and the three falcons played on the invisible roller coasters of wind. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z An invisible hand pushes us outside the door. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It’s the dead people, coming up invisible out of the water, gathering around me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Nina swept her hands in an arc, and the soldiers toppled without protest, row after row, stalks of wheat felled by an invisible scythe. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Suddenly, he was invisible, without body, without structure, a ghost passing transparently through the hours. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Redemption lowered his voice, and Jam wanted to step inside as well, crouch invisible next to them and eavesdrop. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z All night long, the box in the attic called to me, as if an invisible fishing line connected my fingertips to its cardboard edge. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The air is warm, humid, like invisible mist. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z With practiced steps, she twirls the sword through the air in graceful arcs, thrusting and parrying against an invisible foe. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Was he in fact in a room full of invisible people and this mirror’s trick was that it reflected them, invisible or not? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The fact is that you carry part of your sickness within you, at least I do as an invisible man. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z So I thought about that one: After I decided to go to Reardan, I felt like an invisible mountain gorilla scientist. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Very carefully he tipped something absolutely invisible from the net into the jar. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m no longer invisible, but now I wish I was. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He was pushing through a world of invisible pine sap that threatened to smother him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They probably still loathe school, but when they go home, their computers are passports to a vast, complex, and communicative world, one still largely invisible to many parents, educators, and other adults. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I discovered that for the whole game one must gather invisible strengths and see the endgame before the game begins. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The little boy ghost shrieked something like “Greggus!” and turned invisible. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I went to bed and rolled over between the cool sheets with my face turned toward the wall so I could make everything invisible. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I walk among people, invisible, and people still make space for me. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z There is an invisible but ever-present checklist to measure if I am acting like a girl or not. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Racial segregation rendered black experience largely invisible to whites, making it easier for whites to maintain racial stereotypes about black values and culture. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They were mirrors, but not for my face, not for what was on the outside, more like they reflected something back to me that was deep and invisible but real and on the inside. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He feels at once guilty and exhilarated, protected as if by an invisible shield. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “There is an invisible line between teacher and student,” he always said, “and it must not be crossed.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Joaquin wasn’t quite sure when he had crossed that invisible line of too much information, but apparently he had. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z First of all, I didn’t understand what she meant by “invisible part of me.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Usually, Dede was full of admonitions about Jaimito’s reckless driving, but now she found herself pressing her own foot on an invisible gas pedal. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were her own consciousness spun out from her on long, invisible strings. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Suddenly I feel like there are invisible marks of my mother everywhere, on every wall and doorknob and pillar. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Near the corner of the room a sign said an invisible enigma. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was almost invisible against the foggy haze of the bar. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The sample size was too small, the haystack too big, and the needle invisible. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A fire burned on the rock and fat dripped from the roasting pig-meat into the invisible flames. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “Still . . . Hades has the helm of darkness. How could anybody else sneak into the throne room and steal the master bolt? You’d have to be invisible.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I felt dizzy, my head squeezed by invisible hands. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Kaz would always remember that moment, when he’d seen greed take hold of his brother, an invisible hand guiding him onward, the lever at work. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She kept pulling until the invisible fishing line turned into wet, knotted cord. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A strange, chilly feeling settled around me then, like an invisible fog. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z She pointed her head and body along the invisible line. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She wasn’t invisible, exactly, but she was almost perfectly camouflaged until she moved. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Usually, this would be the cue for me to make myself invisible, but I was hurting too bad, and I was not in the mood. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We do not survive disaster merely by appealing to invisible powers. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I glanced at Daisy who was staring terrified between Gatsby and her husband and at Jordan who had begun to balance an invisible but absorbing object on the tip of her chin. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z We felt strongly the need to establish friendship as a buffer against the invisible threat. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I would see Char and be invisible to him. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z That credit card preapproval, with her name correctly spelled and elegantly italicized, had roused her spirits, made her a little less invisible, a little more present. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Work is supposed to save you from being an “outcast,” as Pete puts it, but what we do is an outcast’s work, invisible and even disgusting. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In Weep it was she who was the ghost, and an unbound one, invisible, incorporeal, insubstantial as a murmur. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It wasn’t like I could make myself invisible, though. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The zodiac of the fixed stars is the outermost visible sphere, with three invisible spheres beyond. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Leo had thought she’d meant Narcissus, but now he wondered if the real lesson for him was Echo—invisible to her brethren, cursed to love someone who didn’t care for her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The beetle came in a single whistling trajectory, fired from an invisible rifle. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z They were out in the open now, out of the cathedral, lurching after us, invisible to all but me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I must have tinkered too much wondering how my invisible grandmother, illiterate and dependent on letter writers, could give us candy free. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He purses his lips, nods slowly, looks off into an invisible space. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They passed into the woods, following a narrow, periodically invisible trail. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z She waited a moment and then, one by one, lifted her feet over the doorsill and into the dining room as though stepping over an invisible shin-high stile. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I live in his nightmare, no less real for being invisible. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Eavesdropping while invisible was probably one of them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A voice of overbred brutality roared from an invisible source within the building. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked and knew the reason for the failure when I saw a deep rent right at the nearly invisible stripe of weld. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I must have an invisible sign that says, “Don’t mess with Lanesha.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z He could easily have ascribed the invisible hand to God. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The barb was invisible from this distance, but my stomach flipped. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z So he said, “At least my mama can shake and bake. Your mama can’t bake a pie because your mama don’t exist. Your mama’s the invisible mom.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Crane-man having lived under the bridge so many more years, it must be nearly invisible to him by now. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The idea of invisible creatures swooping through the towns and countryside, spreading despair and hopelessness in his voters, made him feel quite faint. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z On winter evenings it roared in sheets against the pavements and made Amity Harbor invisible. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was plain that she wanted to be invisible, but no amount of wishing was going to stop us from noticing her, not even in that faded dress and ratty cardigan. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Trey mops, and it’s like I’m invisible to him. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Barefoot boys bounced between travelers, their faces invisible behind their trays of chewing gum and cigarettes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Finally understanding, Pinmei closed her eyes, the memories of all she had lost and gained weaving around her in a glorious, invisible tapestry. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She also brushed her long chestnut hair—now sprinkled with a few white hairs that were invisible to all but her—a hundred times. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As though it were merely invisible for the five-year period when the field sat empty. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Plus, something I had forgotten in the years since I was eighteen: about a third of a server’s job is “side work” invisible to customers—sweeping, scrubbing, slicing, refilling, and restocking. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z From that day on, part of me yearned to be invisible. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not exactly what she means, but the invisible veil she has drawn over the table seems too difficult to explain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Like an invisible boy wearing clothes,” replied Horace. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z By day, the sun barely peeked through the smoky haze, and at night the stars and moon remained invisible. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Let’s go see the lights,” she says as I stop next to her, the invisible pool cue between us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Once more, amid the breeze, the shouting, the slanting sunlight on the high mountain, was shed that glamour, that strange invisible light of friendship, adventure, and content. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She was in a car that was being driven too fast by a person who was invisible. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z A computer virus was the perfect piece of sabotage: invisible and instantaneous. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z That unless they were pretty tall and standing right outside my window on their tiptoes, I was invisible. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He did not feel invisible at all, but horribly and uniquely visible; and he knew that somewhere an Eye was searching for him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But for the most part she slipped past like an invisible woman. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “My mistake, my mistake — I didn’t see you — of course I didn’t, you’re invisible — forgive old Peevsie his little joke, sir.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z As though an invisible hand were leafing through them, the pages of the Parmenides rippled back and forth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She’d read a book once about a girl who turned invisible and a boy who could fly. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z David led her quickly in the darkness, finding footing on the almost invisible trail without hesitation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Or maybe it's just me, blushing my patented invisible blush. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But this natural beauty was invisible to us behind Pollsmoor’s high concrete walls. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He directs an absurd play within a play, orchestrating actors onstage to whom he is invisible. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z All around us come the screams and cheers from our invisible audience. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I hated the idea that to be considered a worthy American, I had to hack away parts of myself, become a more acceptable Jew, an invisible one. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The world trembles from the roar of the invisible audience, and the clouds in the sky start to move rapidly. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Do you see how he holds his shoulders, as if there is an invisible weight upon them?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Instead, it was a force invisible and strong like the wind, or a spider’s web spun across the trail. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Kids whose parents argue act invisible in case we trigger another skirmish. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Twig didn’t respond, just kept cracking invisible eggs over my head and running streams of fingertip yolk through my hair. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He caught fish in deep pools with invisible fingers and ate them raw. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Where I saw nothing but leaf mold and dried twigs, he saw camouflaged beetles, motionless lizards, invisible spiders. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I rub my finger over the invisible ink. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “She’s the astrophysicist who confirmed the existence of dark matter,” I said, “the invisible stuff that makes up the universe.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The acceleration dragged at her body with invisible hands, stretching the flesh over her arms and face. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She unzipped the pocket and gave the whistle an almost invisible caress with her thumb. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Og set the dance floor’s gravity on a counterclockwise spin, making all of our avatars slowly rotate around the club’s invisible central axis, like motes of dust floating inside a snow globe. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There was a dusting of nearly invisible freckles on the bridge of her nose. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “I’m glad you’re not invisible, Ally. Because this class wouldn’t be the same without you.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He had mastered the art of rendering himself insignificant, invisible. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to agree: if they were there, they were invisible all right. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z With wide-open eyes, she chattered to invisible courtiers and plucked nervously at her silver necklace. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She followed him to his room but stopped at the door like there was an invisible fence. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Thus in the Torricellian experiment you cannot see the pressure of the air, but the height of the column of mercury is an indicator of that invisible pressure. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The men who were working along the rows felt possessed by a strange fascination, menaced by some invisible danger, and many succumbed to a terrible desire to weep. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Papa tried to make us two of the invisible ones; Lev wore his identity on his sleeve. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I was an invisible sophomore and he was a Tech sophomore, just without the leather jacket yet. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Over time he had acquired the ability to blend into the background of wherever he was—into bookshelves, gardens, curtains, doorways, streets—to appear inanimate, almost invisible to the untrained eye. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only do police discriminate in their determinations regarding where to wage the war, but they also discriminate in their judgments regarding whom to target outside of the ghetto’s invisible walls. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The guidance counselor is late today, so I sit invisible in the red plastic chair while the secretary brings a PTA volunteer up to warp speed on the Petrakis thing. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Causey was a master of half expression, half smiles, and half glowers, for all nuances of expression stopped at the invisible frontier that marked the dead sector of his face. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Never invisible again, the monster kept saying as he pummeled Harry. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z This was what he did when Thyon Nero was near: He seized up and felt as invisible as the alchemist pretended he was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The opening at the far end was invisible. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z First, I bring up my shields and switch to the anonymous, invisible version of my account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Without that orange tag, an item was virtually invisible to him. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I dropped off the oil tank, slipped on a golf ball, got up, dashed over the lawn, fell over an invisible croquet hoop, got up, then misjudged my jump onto the fence beam. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Good. I’ve felt a bit invisible with that hulking lout showing off these past few days.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z More than once William walked into a spider’s web and frantically shook the tiny, invisible spiders from his dark, curly hair. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z They could not see the two dogs at all, only the steady furrowing of the sedge where, invisible, the dogs quar-tered the slope until one of them flung up his head to look back. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z A chill air seemed to strike his face, rising from invisible depths. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Finally, Edwin stood, as if some invisible timer had gone off in his head. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z There was something about her face in that moment that was weird, like something invisible was pinching her underarm. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z That I was, effectively, invisible, no matter what I was doing or how much good a project like this might do. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I was the first to cross the invisible barrier and enter the sacred gates. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Written in invisible ink, they revealed the address where a bank robber—who had escaped before White became warden—was hiding out. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I couldn’t recall what the invisible servant’s voice had sounded like, though I was sure it was somebody I knew. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z So he turned and started walking north on Hector, right down the middle of the street, right down the invisible chalk line that divided East End from West End. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To see the Spirit Bear, he needed to clear his mind and become invisible, not to the world but to himself. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “And quite a long story. I suppose the real reason Ginny Weasley’s like this is because she opened her heart and spilled all her secrets to an invisible stranger.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z "You can't just call someone up and say, 'I turned invisible one day,' can you?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But no one found the words thoughtless or untrue, for Beth still seemed among them, a peaceful presence, invisible, but dearer than ever, since death could not break the household league that love made dissoluble. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Laundry workers existed at the bottom of the war’s great pyramid, invisible and invaluable at the same time. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They were playing against invisible opponents—two sets of cards hovering in the air. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It was as though the masked wizards on the ground were puppeteers, and the people above them were marionettes operated by invisible strings that rose from the wands into the air. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She was not surprised, for example, to see her moving around the room in a trance, seated in an armchair with her legs tucked under her, pulled by an invisible force. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One can no longer distinguish whence in this now quiet silvery landscape it comes; ghostly, invisible, it is everywhere; between heaven and earth it rolls on immeasurably. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Naked invisible boys are not allowed to gasp and wheeze. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The odor of the invisible animals accentuated in the heat mixing now with out-of-control mint and something fruity needing to be picked. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The mineralogist fits a key into a tiny, almost invisible hole on the bottom; when it turns, two more tiny keyholes open on the opposite side. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She walked past us, her hips swinging like nothing we had ever seen before, like she had an invisible hula hoop around her waist. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z On the way to school one morning, hunched down as if hoping to be invisible, P.J. asked the Warden to drop them off a block away. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z So my yia yia, suffering the first of her imaginary diseases, stood looking down at Bursa, as though she might spot a visible confirmation of her invisible dread. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the 1980s, the KGB had begun marking suspected foreign agents with an invisible radioactive dust that could be picked up with radiation sensors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For them the web of cause and effect was invisible and simultaneously everywhere, which was why a man could sink his net with salmon one night and catch only kelp the next. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “It makes me feel like I’m not invisible, but not in a bad way like when people sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you in public and you want to drop through the floor. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I know that everything exists because tiny specks, too small to see, move through an invisible field the way a pair of boots moves through mud, getting heavier as they go. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There were invisible killers called “diseases” that broke the body down. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z But for all the notice it took of them they might just as well have been invisible and un-smellable. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The tea stops before it splashes onto an open book as though there is an invisible wall surrounding it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z An evil presence seemed afoot, and my skin prickled as if touched by invisible ghosts. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He stepped backward, as though she were contaminated with an invisible contagion. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z This new vocabulary was crucial to explaining the status of the new knowledge, and yet it is a language that we have come to take so completely for granted that its invention has become invisible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She peered at me round an invisible curtain. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I usually like being invisible, but this doesn’t feel awesome. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z And now that he had killed Mary he felt a lessening of tension in his muscles; he had shed an invisible burden he had long carried. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z As though invisible strings were tied to Snape’s wrists, neck, and knees, he was pulled into a standing position, head still lolling unpleasantly, like a grotesque puppet. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z But that did not discourage him from running after us as though an invisible string existed between him and us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z He knew the guards liked to lurk in dark doorways, invisible as ravens at night in their black suits. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He heaved in the corner, his entire body trying to expel something invisible inside him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Because there’s this invisible line, and on one side are people like Garrett and Abby and Nick and every musician ever. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Although there were a hundred invisible men on every side of them, moving toward the same goal, they heard no sounds but their own. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d probably spend the whole night wishing I had the superpower to make myself invisible. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I tromped into the underbrush like a bloodhound scenting an invisible trail. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z As Russ reports in at the scorer’s table, I become invisible—everyone is avoiding eye contact because they’re embarrassed for me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Must be that shell. Guess it’s invisible to sonar. It’s a freaking stealth turtle!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z This time he was running his hand, not over the rocky wall, but through the thin air, as though expecting to find and grip something invisible. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Picked-on kids act invisible to reduce the chances of being noticed and picked on. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Jem clipped invisible pince-nez to his nose, cleared his throat, and said, “The text for the day, my brethren, is from the Psalms: ‘Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, O ye gates.’ Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z His fingers made a soft grating noise with each invisible circle drawn around the perimeters of the boy’s head. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I was more awed than aware, but I knew whatever I was watching was somehow both tender and profound, with an intimacy that made me invisible to them. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The solution involved another type of invisible change. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Clara’s retinue was gradually pushed into the back rooms of the house, and an invisible border arose between the parts of the house occupied by Esteban Trueba and those occupied by his wife. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If they tolerate Rinehart, then they will forget it and even with them you are invisible. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Those that come close suddenly change direction before hitting her glove, bouncing off as though she is surrounded by something invisible and impermeable. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z People started asking about the Marvels, and Joseph loved refilling the teapots and putting out the halfeaten food for all the members of the invisible family, who he always said had just stepped out. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Deviations in arc of a hundredth of a milli-second—invisible to the eye—were enough to send the beam wildly out of focus—enough to blast hundreds of square miles of Earth into incandescent ruin. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The invisible bird shrieked as if in response. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It makes me happy to imagine them drinking tea or going to the movies together, still connected to each other by the invisible chain of a family that no longer exists. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We knew that a gray, foggy smear of invisible vuvv was everywhere around us, watching, peering at us, checking our eyes for a hint of boredom or anger or failed desire. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The glass storefronts were nearly invisible beyond the crowd, but a ravenous sort of hunger arose in her as they passed shop after shop. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “No, Michael didn’t tell. I quit playing because I gave up on me. Became invisible.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The humming of distant machinery had grown louder, and the wall vibrated as his fingers traced an invisible line along its cool surface. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “Could someone else be in here? An invisible avatar, eavesdropping on us?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A yacht knifed through the early morning water in a long, green V. Sea gulls, balsa-light, hovered on invisible currents above the river. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z White, working-class kids are as invisible in media and politics as the poorest toddlers in the worst slums. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought they were invisible? You said they were invisible!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z A gigantic, invisible force was crushing the Black Tortoise Gate. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She had a light complexion, large and peaceful eyes, and magical hands that seemed to work out the design of the embroidery with invisible threads. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Kino’s mouth was open so that even his breath would make no sound, for he knew that he was not invisible. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z She taunted one of the bulls into chasing her, then turned invisible, completely confusing the monster. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z His head moved back and forth as if he were watching an invisible game, and desperately trying to understand its rules. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z There’s only so much being invisible you can take before you just want to go supernova so no one can ignore you anymore. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The climb had made him sweat, but now he felt cold and clammy, and there was a chill draught in the dark passage, blowing down from the invisible heights above. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Most of all, Hugo would do his best to remain invisible. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z It would often, he acknowledged, be impossible to choose between competing explanations because one could not see what was actually happening within the invisible world of particles out of which our visible world was constructed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Which is stupid twice—first, because I'm invisible, and second, because even if I wasn't, she's blind. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few minutes, the door fades into the wall of the tent, invisible once more. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Held the invisible cupcake to my lips, took a bite. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Express riders were often Sons of Liberty who, under cover of darkness, carried messages written in code or invisible ink. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe it can make itself invisible,” said Hermione, prodding leeches to the bottom of the cauldron. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z But the door stayed closed, and I knew what it felt like to be invisible. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Her hand rose to Celaena’s forehead and she drew an invisible mark. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Jessica looked down at the table, her finger tracing an invisible pattern. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Minho went to the Cliff with a group of Runners, taking ivy ropes and rocks to test the invisible Griever Hole one last time. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He looked down at the toy and his shoulders sagged under some invisible, impossible weight. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He seemed to be struggling against some invisible curse, as though the fog were squeezing him to death. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z There is some sort of list, invisible, unspoken. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The seventh is invisible except to those who have specially keen sight. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z These letters are the last thread connecting me to you, as strong and invisible as the thread on a spiderweb. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Benji drew an invisible check mark in the air with his finger. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The shreds he let trickle gleefully off his hand onto the ground, then he smugly tipped his cowboy hat to Bernabe with his invisible arm and lurched jubilantly back into the bar. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She parks me on a bench near a scrawny elm tree, where I feel strangely invisible as she goes off to fetch two mandarin chicken salads. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z That is, the invisible corpuscles or atoms which, for a Cartesian, constitute light. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I listen because as long as I know they're not talking about me, I'm invisible to them, and that's exactly what I need. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They were all hidden away on the longbeds in their bags like babies in wombs, invisible, indistinguishable. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Chong, whom I secretly nicknamed Old Chong, was very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of an invisible orchestra. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Or there, almost invisible against a leaf, is the lacewing, with green gauze wings and golden eyes, shy and secretive, descendant of an ancient race that lived in Permian times. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I always suspected that Daddy, as an “invisible” waiter, learned more at the Birmingham Country Club about Klan activities than he ever wanted to know. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was tall and nearly invisible, and it invoked such a gut-churning revulsion in Lee that he nearly woke in terror. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I never thought I’d see you again. That is, really see you. Not after you gained the power to be invisible.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The odd couple continued to play their invisible game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm had built it on the grass only a few feet from one of the main paths, but, like him, it seemed to be invisible. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In their dark cloaks they were as invisible as if they all had magic rings. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Gale had shattered some invisible barrier between us and, with it, any hope I had of resuming our old, uncomplicated friendship. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z That’s what people say when invisible feelings vibrate in the air, like ions do just before an electric storm. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Townsend then wrote all that he learned in invisible ink between the lines of an ordinary-looking message and got it to Austin Roe, the Setauket tavern owner. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Never invisible again, the monster said, finally letting up, its huge branch-like fists curled tight as a clap of thunder. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z They surrounded her, five huge forms glowing in the dark air, lit by an invisible sun. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Erik and Arthur stayed inside for a minute, invisible behind the tinted glass. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, he’d know that was a big, fat lie, ’cause he saw those kids leaving him out of their kickball games and cutting in line in front of him like he was invisible. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I feel a nervous twist in my stomach, like there’s an invisible string connecting me and the village, and the farther away we go, the tighter it pulls. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z There was an invisible boy in them, he remembered that much, and Jack felt bad for the boy. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z If you travel toward the observer at almost the speed of light, you will become enveloped in an eerie chromatic radiance: your usually invisible infrared emission will be shifted to the shorter visible wavelengths. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The only response was another shove from the invisible hands. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I'm invisible now, which is fine with me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Then Levi peels an invisible banana and pretends to eat it. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z However, this is probably counterbalanced by deaths from trauma to soft tissues and from the invisible deprivations that accompany war. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I might as well have been invisible, because everyone else would always walk right by, laughing and teasing each other and going to sit at the tables where they always sat. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Great invisible waves of time flowed over me, but that morning never came. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was nothing to see—he was invisible from the midsection down. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Strange how nearsighted being invisible can make you,” said Dumbledore, and Harry was relieved to see that he was smiling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z An invisible hand clamped over my mouth and wrestled me down behind a big bronze cauldron. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z At the firm, she worked quietly, trying to be friendly but invisible, just like at Warren High School, where she tried not to fall asleep conspicuously. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She'd pop that invisible hat on her head, go to the airport, and get on a plane headed back to the United States. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Then he said something about how you can see the sweating but the learning disabilities are invisible. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z That whoever the invisible you is, the you that only talks to you, it's still alive and can add, in Mr. Rufus's words, love, peace, and soullllllll to the world. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He led on, pinching and, pulling the nearly invisible thread away, looking like he was doing some kind of weird sign language. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It was as if someone invisible were standing behind him, throwing knives. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She twirled it in front of her, so fast and furious that the baton became almost invisible. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z As I fell, something invisible began rocking me back and forth—lightly at first, but then harder and harder until I was flopping around like a rag doll. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Harry distinctly remembered his headmaster telling him years before, “I don’t need a cloak to become invisible.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He retreated again, but the old man followed him—as if they were linked by an invisible thread. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It was like one of those fast-mo- tion videos of plants blooming, except she seemed to be reeling the flowers up from their loamy bed by invisible strings. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Thus, farmers selected from among individual plants on the basis not only of perceptible qualities like size and taste, but also of invisible features like seed dispersal mechanisms, germination inhibition, and reproductive biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They are invisible knives that are even more dangerous than real knives or guns. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The telescope and the microscope enabled scientists to see previously invisible worlds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The lower eyelids sag so much they almost look like a piece of invisible string is pulling them downward: you can see the red part on the inside, like they’re almost inside out. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z All these things—the flags, the pitch pipe songs, the British Empire and the princesses, the war orphans, even the strappings —are superimposed against the ominous navy-blue background of Miss Lumley’s invisible bloomers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Ivan’s mother reached one hand out and pulled an invisible thread of magic. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She laughed, moved her hands to her hips, and started jumping an invisible jump rope. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z This dying man has time with him, he has an invisible dagger with which he stabs me: Time and my thoughts. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It did not look good; the driver’s arms fanned lifeless over the top of the dashboard as though playing an invisible piano. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Hummingbirds darted among the foliage, wings nearly invisible as they hovered. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z With his invisible companion and his friendly smile. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z These were three: winged sandals, a magic wallet which would always become the right size for whatever was to be carried in it, and, most important of all, a cap which made the wearer invisible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The descent into the underground lair took longer than I thought it would, partly because the curving staircase was covered in invisible booby traps. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They watched the van headlights emerge on the slope of the next hill: two fingers of light groping their way along an invisible road in the dark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “There are invisible places in the air,” came the answer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Aru could feel an invisible wind stirring against the back of her neck. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Whenever we went to Spokane, my grandmother would talk to anybody, even the homeless people, even the homeless guys who were talking to invisible people. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Hazel knew she would be the invisible one, because she never got to be the one who flew. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Deane’s reports in invisible ink were passed to John Jay, who had the developing chemical that made the writing visible. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I picked up my embroidery and tried to make my stitches so tiny that they were invisible. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I could approach it only from the outside, and I had been as invisible to Mary as I had been to the Brotherhood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was exactly as if he was invisible, inaudible, impalpable. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He caused no stir, put out no vibration, became as nearly invisible as it is possible to be. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I would have preferred being invisible to everyone else, but not to Maxie. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He snaps a few pictures, and for fun I pose for him in the hall with my sign, pretending to argue with invisible passersby. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Pain was exiled to the nearly invisible lines shooting out from the eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Tralfamadorians tried to give Billy clues that would help him imagine sex in the invisible dimension. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Whisper it in petrified little-boy tones: dead punctuation is invisible to everyone else - yet we see it all the time. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Then he pretends to bite into an invisible sandwich. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She was the invisible arm propping the family up. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I felt bad for Connor, but I also enjoyed the feeling of being invisible. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Her seemingly endless smile and patience must have its own invisible boundary. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The figure came to life with a groan and began to struggle against invisible bonds. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Slowly, I take his invisible heart and hold it close to mine. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death’s music box. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z When she met his gaze, an invisible current nearly put him on the ground too. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z But there was an invisible ingredient that made the cure unfailing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Will sensed it all and felt the atoms of the metal linking each to each across the fracture, forming new crystals again, strengthening and straightening themselves in the invisible lattice as the join came good. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I was one of the tallest people in the room, but I felt invisible. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. For somebody who was once invisible, I’m definitely making up for it now.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Dionysus rose, and the invisible players’ cards dropped to the table. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Some looked at him as they passed, at the man sitting quietly behind the wheel of a small car, with his invisible life ravelled out about him like a wornout sock, and went on. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Another Huntsman doubled up and fell, pounded by invisible fists. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “The economy will get better. It always does. We just have to wait it out. The invisible hand of the market always moves to make things right.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For Alex it was an eerie experience, tiptoeing behind the other four men, watching as they dismantled the two devices, using cigarette smoke to expose the otherwise invisible beam. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z We surrounded the Club House and, with birch-branch bows and invisible arrows, picked off the single miners who lived there as they came in from work. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There was light falling on the thermometer even though it was invisible to our eyes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z However glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z At the convent, when I mop, I hang my uniform on a wire hanger in the nuns’ closet and slip on my old brown shift, in which I feel comfortable and almost invisible. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry brushed some invisible lint off his knee. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z When Diana tied the ends, they seemed to melt together, leaving the knot invisible. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The lock shuddered and the cylinder popped out, hovering in the air, and then the springs and pins came out of the cylinder like they were being pulled apart by invisible hands. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The monofilament line is transparent, said to be invisible to fish, and is completely invisible to me without my glasses. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as she saw the escapees, she turned away like they were invisible. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z His presence was felt everywhere but the man was invisible. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Will bounced from invisible rope to invisible rope, as if gaining momentum. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z They would wheel round, climbing rapidly, and be gone from sight Twenty yards up, they were invisible in the dark. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The force that carried her out was as smooth and powerful as water pouring over a weir; the particles of Dust were streaming along as if they, too, were pouring over some invisible edge. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Moving to and fro, waving his hand about. Or as if he was fighting something invisible...I just saw him through an open door. Not clearly.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I cover my eyes with my arm as if that makes me invisible. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z It was an odd and new sensation, to be seen after a lifetime spent feeling as invisible as the very air, and I was still learning to return those smiles. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Our pinkie fingers are maybe an inch apart, and it’s as if an invisible current runs between them. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z But when I'm about twenty feet away from Martin's car, I stop as though I've slammed into an invisible wall. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Aru tried to run forward, but she was kept back by some kind of invisible barrier. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The earth shudders a second time as the force of my power sends Azaan flying high, as though he’s been pulled backward by an invisible string. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z She blew herself a kiss, flipped off an invisible Tía Rosa, and stomped downstairs. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “They heard you yelling about being seen. About not being invisible anymore.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Unravel the invisible threads linking us together one by one. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z About fifty yards away from him, the grass was being flattened by the still invisible quad as it made its next charge. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The flakes seem to appear from out of nowhere, like an invisible hand sprinkling salt onto zombies. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I wonder how something that starts off so invisible turns into metal, bolts, and wires, connecting point A to point B. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z “I wish we were invisible,” said Michael, when Mary Poppins had told him that the very sight of him was more than any self-respecting person could be expected to stand. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z The bulky creature with the underbite tried to beat Seth to the bed, arriving too late and receiving a violent shock as it collided with the invisible salt barrier. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Could they be blinking signals to an invisible enemy? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He types several commands that are invisible to me, then runs it through a Henka Games program. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!’” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I was on my side, riding an invisible bicycle. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z He opened his eyes just at the moment when one would have heard the invisible stick hitting the ground. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And for the rest of the year, whenever we passed in the hall, Don Luis sought the distance directly above and beyond me, as if I had become invisible as dust. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Lights began to appear in the girls' dormitories, like the bursting of luminous seeds flung broadside by an invisible hand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The muscles in her legs shook with invisible tremors, and her skin felt like it was ready to peel away from her body. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Here the invisible world hovered closer to the ground, mixing with the darkness in the groves. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z They had nothing to fear anymore, and they threw themselves against the invisible Specters, grappling and wrestling and tearing at things Will and Lyra couldn’t see at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And I hope that at least for the next little while, I really do stay invisible. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They are not fretful, nervous, or shrill; they do not have lovely black necks that stretch as though against an invisible collar; their eyes do not bite. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I am about to give up and toss it onto my dressing table when I glimpse a tiny hole, so small as to be nearly invisible, right at the bottom. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z An invisible force kicked them across the boundary. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Sosie stretched out her arm as if wielding some invisible energy source. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He felt ashamed, and when he went out for walks he hunched his shoulders, wanting to be as invisible as an insect with diaphanous wings. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Startle Pah from his invisible perch and send him down for us. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But the way he said the word, I knew that at that moment he had crossed some invisible border into a different land, and he would not be returning to our childish band again. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “This business of turning invisible! Gift? A curse! Look where it leads. Humph!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Another thing about Naomi: I was invisible to her. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z And across the vast, blue sky, white clouds hurried before the wind like sheep before invisible wolves. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z For some time they had been cut off from the world, as if in an invisible island; now they were laid bare again, peril had returned. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z That was the reason for her anxious correspondence with the invisible doctors, interrupted by frequent disasters of the mail. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Saying all that stuff about not letting myself be invisible was easy enough in the Spinney, where there was no Edie to sneer at me, nobody to gawk at me or pretend I’m not there. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Then came another smack, and another after that... a steady invisible pounding. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched as Amari moved swiftly to the back of the small room to try to make herself invisible. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like walking through an invisible curtain. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was all staticky from the invisible electric current that seemed to run inside her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But there was something happening between Dante and his drawing pad that made me feel invisible. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z If I had a superpower it would be to make myself invisible. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z The remaining major type of change invisible to early farmers involved plant reproduction. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It seemed the Keeper had crossed an invisible fine and the boys were appalled by what they were about to witness. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She glanced back to where the invisible hulks of the wrecked ocean vessels lay along the beach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It was like two invisible puppeteers, standing stage left and stage right, were yanking on strings to lift up the corners of her mouth. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “I’m wearing hair clips,” I point out.“Okay, well, they’re invisible.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z They flashed along the open plateau now, and the blades were both invisible, but oh, the Earth trembled, and ohhhh, the skies shook, and Inigo was losing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z You see, in American pop culture, beautiful dark women are invisible. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He always came with his invisible companion and his friendly smile. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z No one knows who the magic belongs to, but it’s stayed all these years, so I’m invisible whenever I’m on Water Island too, and that suits me just fine. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But one thing on which everyone agreed was the name of these invisible kidnappers. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The voice was saying, “He can’t talk to you. He is invisible. His words are formed with an invisible tongue, they have no sound.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They hover over me, these cloud-skulls, glaring at me with their invisible eyes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was once an invisible man, the monster continued, though Conor kept his eyes firmly on Harry, who had grown tired of being unseen. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Then Renee looked at the make-believe camera as if she was checking the photo—guess it was an invisible digital—and teased, “Yikes, not your best face.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The city was covered with clouds, invisible from the sky. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Though there are no gates, an invisible line divides the village in two halves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Deane took with him a supply of Sir James Jay’s invisible ink. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Turning the wheel slowly with his knee, he inspected the graceful shape for invisible faults. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Lana studied Jones’ face, but his eyes were invisible behind the smoke and dark glasses. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re not threatening it. You and I have both become invisible.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It lay just under the frozen skin of the surface, invisible if you didn’t know to look for it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She imagined that there was an invisible ball of twine unfolding behind her, all the way back across the hills to Ruby Holler. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Julia was making a tinfoil UFO that she said would fly up and down the street on an invisible wire. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Next to him is the second drummer, Manny, a shorter man with a mustache so thick, his lips are invisible. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Anyone apprehensive about the encroaching powers of the federal government must have felt a palpable sense of reassurance that the seat of power was virtually invisible. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I also seent where it slows right on down, like it’s fighting its way through a big invisible jug of molasses. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Thomas kept his eyes riveted to the area of the invisible floating square, trying to burn the distance and location in his mind, remember exactly where it was. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I accepted the invisible rein she was holding out, and then we were off, riding up and down the fence, sometimes cantering, sometimes at a gallop. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z As though an invisible hand were writing upon it, words appeared on the smooth surface of the map. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Mine just be born. A little girl” She cradled an invisible baby in her arms. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Dorothy Vaughan was keenly aware of that undulating invisible line that separated the past from the future. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z All these things—the flags, the pitch pipe songs, the British Empire and the princesses, the war orphans, even the strappings —are superimposed against the ominous navy-blue background of Miss Lumley’s invisible bloomers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z After 1608 a new range of instruments made the invisible visible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hidden in latex, molded to the shape of their earlobes, and colored to match their precise skin tones, the earpieces were completely invisible. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes a shadow moved against a dressing-room blind above, gave way to another shadow, an indefinite procession of shadows, who rouged and powdered in an invisible glass. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z They both wanted to be as invisible as possible. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z There were blasts from an invisible horn and the rattle of drums. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It was quite invisible, and the traffic was flowing again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But the massive dog refused to heed his whimpering request until he crossed some invisible boundary beyond which the savage cur would not travel. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In which codes, invisible ink, hidden messages, and other devices are put to good use. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I squeezed his hand, increasing my grip until I’m sure he felt pain, and threw the invisible dagger toward him, diving in as fast and hard as I could. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z If Mummy’s ignoring my art made me feel invisible, Sahil’s recognition was like being surrounded by a million neon lights. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He lit a cigarette, but the cloud of smoke made the magazine even more invisible. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was invisible; I had no shape, no substance; I weighed less than nothing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But just as he was about to pass under its great arch he felt a shock: as if he had run into some web like Shelob’s, only invisible. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But both of our swords halted in midair, inches apart, as if held back by some invisible force. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Instead he looked into the middle distance and spoke in generalities, with so delicate an air as to give the impression that he had become partly invisible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But I don’t want to be treated like I’m invisible, so I try. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Short-cropped salt- and-pepper hair, glasses, he was a patient, almost invisible arbiter of justice with an occasional strained pitch in his voice to punctuate the frustrations this case had inspired in him. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Nothing challenged the totality of my personality so much as this pressure of hate and threat that stemmed from the invisible whites. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The baby’s gown was draped so that the chair was practically invisible, and the only thing you saw was this child hovering in midair, looking at the camera. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z “Nobody hears me. Nobody sees me. I’m the friggin’ invisible man.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The initial hope was that the microscope might make the invisible visible, and it did, for example, when it showed how a fly can walk up a pane of glass. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It seemed as if an invisible bond had burst, and that I had struggled out into unhoped-for liberty. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The Fashion Minister picks at invisible lint on his pants. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Today he had discovered how to be invisible, and now he was ready for the dance of anger. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Ben had awakened that morning, while it was still dark, with the butterflies, the old, invisible protozoa of fear that invaded the stomach on the days of contests or of testing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The little boy with dark curls knows how to make himself invisible. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Mo remained silent, pushing cake crumbs off the rough tabletop, drawing invisible patterns on the wood with his forefinger. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z There are worse things than being invisible, the monster had said, and it was right. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Bull straightened up and pressed a fist to his throbbing ear, trying to stanch the invisible bleeding. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z In these perfect forms, he believed he had recognized the invisible supporting structures for the spheres of the six planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The streetcar didn’t so much as pause as it crossed the invisible barrier, but at the same time in the length of a block the world was different. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As she reads, I think how useful a cloak that made me invisible would be right now. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was obviously a purebred Rottweiler, except of course that he was twice the size of a woolly mammoth, mostly invisible, and had three heads. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I see things visible, invisible, ordinary, and extraordinary in the world. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z This creature hadn’t the intelligence to be a witch; She was powerless, invisible, Wastefully daft. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My spirit wraps invisible arms around him, making him cry even more. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The gates were both real and invisible things. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Oh . . . nothing. I was just—No, it has to be Hades. Maybe he sent this thief, this invisible person, to get the master bolt, and something went wrong—” “Like what?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z If they had not dressed him and led him to the car, he would still be there, drifting along the north wall, invisible in the gray twilight. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He had seen his cat do this once: look up alert from her half-sleep and watch something or someone invisible come into the room and walk across. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But they were made out of thin invisible steel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z TJ was waving his hands around like he was drawing some grand equation on an invisible board. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z How could I just walk past him again, as though he were invisible? Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Baruch came this way! And there is one of those windows, almost invisible. Come—come. Come now.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was minimal, a single crack in an invisible armor, but it was enough. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It would be wonderful to be invisible now and then. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z His nose was crooked—it must have been broken in the past—and there was a slight powdering of nearly invisible freckles on his tawny cheeks. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He said it quite calmly, and yet Harry fell silent at once; he knew that he had finally crossed some invisible line. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The police came up from the capital, The woods were crawling with coppers, But Don Jose was invisible, Even to the noisy choppers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And somehow that was even worse than you and me arguing all the time because it was like I was invisible. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She was alarmed to see, beyond the canal, the entire stretch of land called Port Meadow, acres of open ground, invisible under a gray and rain-swept wilderness of water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Knees bent, swords outstretched, a seemingly natural extension of the arm, point at an invisible foe. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The valleys were white with fog and the top of Mount Cataract was entirely obscured, invisible in the cold haze. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We spent the day protesting from behind our invisible barrier. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z So I say, "Absolutely. My invisible lips are sealed." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Although still within the Holy Roman Empire, he had crossed a significant invisible border, from the northern states where the Reformed Churches held sway to the southern region where the Catholic influence was dominant. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z From the front seat, the invisible granny laughed. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “Well, who wants to be hated? Though I’d rather be hated than invisible. But it makes no difference.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z As the sun came up, I turned invisible. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z |
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