Suddenly from under the bed a pug-faced twin popped up between John’s chair and the wall, and began peering into Linda’s sleeping face. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahana moved to Merritt Island at the end of the year when her father got a big promotion at the John F. Kennedy Space Center. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In the Beta-Minus geography room John learnt that “a savage reservation is a place which, owing to unfavourable climatic or geological conditions, or poverty of natural resources, has not been worth the expense of civilizing.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Carter got there by standing in an open field, spreading his hands and wishing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My leg got to trembling, so I lay down, watching the sky turn as red as the clay John was cutting. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You guys sound terrific!” said John’s mother, who had just come in the band room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

No one was even sure John could survive the wretched Highway 3 to reach Port-au-Prince. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Are you satisfied now, friend John?” he asked. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt reunited in the grave with John Wilkes Booth, together again, as they had been that terrible evening of April 1865, when the chase for Lincoln’s killer began. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We saw our first Western together, Rio Bravo with John Wayne, at the Cinema Park, across the street from my favorite bookstore. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

John jumped at my outburst and then slowly sipped his beer. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Lithuanians’ fearless union leader, John Kikulski, pointed a finger at the packinghouse owners. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He told people he met about his friend John and his new life in America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had lived in Roxbury before, John Hughes had been a big gambler who wouldn’t have spoken to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Kennedy had two great visions in his presidency: one to go to the moon, the other to fight for freedom across the world. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Casual and fun-loving, John almost flunks out of his new school until he considers the trust he's been given and the shame he would face if he returned without graduating. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

John Harrison Surratt was eventually tracked down through Canada to Europe, where he served, under a false name, in the pope’s army. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And among those many voices, and stammering with his own, John would care no longer for her testimony. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John's education had led not to liberation and progress but to violence and tragedy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Kitchykitchykitchykoo” John said, tapping his finger on the side of an aquarium that had two piranha flesh-eating fish in it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“To speak truth, St. John, my heart rather warms to the poor little soul. I wish we may be able to benefit her permanently.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“John, the producer. It’s a pleasure to meet you.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He motioned for me to take his position and I cuffed John at the elbow, his head still covered beneath Eduardo’s outercoat. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Catrina’s frying chicken and I have to watch her. John! Mary! Come along. Come along.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A London physician, John Snow, mapped the occurrence of cases and found they originated in one area, all of whose inhabitants drew their water from one pump located on Broad Street. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

For this reason, when visitors tried to make advances to John he was sullen, and they, feeling that for some reason he disliked them, retaliated by deciding that he was a “funny” child. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John didn’t have much to fight back with at first. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John pours the whiskey and I find myself holding my glass to the bottle in the formal manner, the way I held the envelope for Mrs. Fermin. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t feel that I am separated from you, Marmee dear, or that I love you any the less for loving John so much,” she said, clinging to her mother, with full eyes for a moment. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fireman John Davis was standing on the balcony with Captain Fitzpatrick and the other men. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The superintendent assigned a detective to assist him, Detective John Schnooks, an old friend of Geyer’s. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

High John’s comment bothered me, but I tried to push past it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His father was Constantijn Huygens, a master diplomat of the age, a litterateur, poet, composer, musician, close friend and translator of the English poet John Donne, and the head of an archetypical great family. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison achieved as composers had an impact way beyond the internal fashions and rejuvenations of pop itself. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And a sweetness filled John as he heard this voice, and heard the sound of singing: the singing was for him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sitting down to face the window, I watched Pa bring the plate to John, who smiled. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid something has happened. Step into the garden, Scott, while I look up Mrs. Brooke,” said John, alarmed at the silence and solitude. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She eventually fell in love with a man named John Cobb, who was part white and part Creek. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He lived for the day when his father would be dying and he, John, would curse him on his deathbed. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

One of the officers he got to know was Major John André, the chief British intelligence officer in New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had an affair with John Blake,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I want to tell them to wait for John, but I know it’s no use. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But John understood from her tone that the fuss was, possibly, a little greater than the danger—Roy was not, after all, going to die. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John Henry stayed at the bottom and I climbed to the top so I could face him eye to eye. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

For a time, we were entertained by Will and John's ready store of wit and comic roguery as they engaged each other in kicking games. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Becker was captivated by John Dean’s wife, Maureen, who sat behind her husband when he was testifying and wore elegant clothes and pulled her blond hair back in a tight bun. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is the graver thing I must seek, the dire constant, which I thought at first was simply John Kwang. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

John’s mother, for reasons that were not at all his father’s reasons, wanted Aunt Florence to keep still. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Ezekiel had prophesied upon them, these scattered bones, these slain, and, in the fulness of time, the prophet, John, had come out of the wilderness, crying that the promise was for them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Even John sees him coming before I do, and he holds out one hand to stop me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

By the time the skinny white man got to me he had already made more than twenty boys John and he was tired of writing that name. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Rolfe, a new colonist, began growing tobacco in James Town. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

John Mark’s eyes actually have tears in them! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

When John and Barbara crawled along the floor and each took hold of one of his shoes and gurgled, he just pushed them roughly away. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

And he kissed John on the forehead, a holy kiss. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“John Vidal,” he said in a tired, old voice. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And Bunny Corcoran had a habit of playing John Philip Sousa march tunes in his room, at full volume, late at night. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Back then, we all worried that John would be the one to fail the Trial, considering his trouble with reading. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He patted my cheek and smiled at John. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Priddy had died, but his successor, John Bell, the new superintendent of the colony, was the appointed defendant. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She looked ahead, down the long avenue, where Gabriel walked with Florence, where John walked with Elisha. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was the school John F. Kennedy attended as a child. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

All he had to do was tell the soldiers that John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice were hiding at his farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My dear Joe," John began, but put on the spot, he was blocked for a rhyme. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

John nearly pulled us both off, but we had a lot of ground to cover to catch up to Horace Danver before he cut the fence. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John Henry narrowed his eyes, and I did the same. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When we leap to a decision or have a hunch, our unconscious is doing what John Gottman does. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the fifties and sixties the John Birch Society had had a significant membership in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It appeared, then, that her father would throw no obstacle in the way of Rosamond’s union with St. John. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hell, everlasting, unceasing, perpetual, unquenched forever, should be his father’s portion; with John there to watch, to linger, to smile, to laugh aloud, hearing, at last, his father’s cries of torment. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John Mark looks at her with a Prove it! face. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Even if I looked like a total dweeb at the spring concert, I couldn’t let John down like that. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

His military aide, Navy Captain John H. Morse Jr., seconded his opinion: “You may detect some feeling that clean weapon potentialities have been over-stated and over-simplified recently,” he wrote Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A street policeman wanders through our alley as I'm getting ready to hit the ball back to John. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The following year, doctors working with John Lawrence conceived a new use for the cyclotron: the direct irradiation of patients. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t fix your face too grumpy,” High John called, as if he could read my mind. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Turns out,” High John answered, “that despite Anansi’s ultimate insult, the bearers of his mark are welcome beneath the branches of the Mmoatia.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John Faulkner, of the Lick Observatory in California, has suggested an interpretation of these remarks which flies in the face of the Newton legend, but closely matches Newton’s known character. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

John sat on a chair in the front row and watched him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Benedict Arnold points to John André’s boots, where André will hide the West Point plans that Arnold is going to give him. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1784 some of those settlers, led by John Sevier, seceded from North Carolina in the hope of creating a fourteenth state, which they named Franklin. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He saw John Brown and remembers well the day he was hanged. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I thought of the people I’d read about—John F. Kennedy, James Joyce, Humphrey Bogart—who went to boarding school, and their adventures—Kennedy, for example, loved pranks. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

John bent over and picked a small object off the ground. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But John quickly cooled on the concept, partially out of doubt that his experimental conditions fairly replicated the effects on tumors in the human body. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I spent three months studying every John Hughes teen movie and memorizing all the key lines of dialogue. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

More than fifty years had passed since blacks around the country joined John Jones and his abolitionist friends in celebrating the end of slavery. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

John danced around like he was the one hurting. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, okay, the Thicket had been under assault, and yeah, things had looked bad, but Miss Sarah and Miss Rose, and Brer and John Henry, they wouldn’t allow Midfolk to get taken. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In a separate correspondence about the same time with John Taylor, another prominent Virginia planter and political thinker who had also questioned Adams’s views on aristocracy, Adams called attention to the irony of the situation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

To whit, Will and John told again of their turkey call. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I knew I could have tried to comfort her, perhaps telling her how John Kim was probably just as hurt as she was and that his silence was more complicated than she presently understood. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Quite right, and beautifully written. Please add that I send my love to John,” said Mrs. March, as she glanced over the letter and gave it back. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the discussion period after Woodhull’s speech, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative John Bingham, a Republican from Ohio, told Woodhull: “Madam, you are not a citizen.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

John would ask, biting into a juicy hamburger. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

John would have preferred his own fireside if it had not been so lonely, but as it was he gratefully took the next best thing and enjoyed his neighbor’s society. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is nudging fourteen-year-old John, who brings home As, is a linebacker on the football squad and a squad leader in the Reserve Officers Training Corps, to consider becoming a doctor. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Now this won’t do,” said John, hardening his heart against the engaging little sinner. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scratching numbers into the dust on the seat, I started the math, but John jumped in right quick with, “We need one hundred sixty bricks? I’ll be here until January!” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She called Farmer, who was traveling, and asked what circumstances would keep them from bringing John to Boston. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

My interview with Sir John Balliol had to be in the debriefing room—I suppose they do briefings there as well as debriefings, but that’s what everybody calls it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Look back, look back,” had cried a beautiful woman with long blonde curls, “and see if we are pursued!”—and she had come, as John remembered, to a terrible end. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I heard John rummaging through the closets in the kitchen and a banging of bottles. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Mark had the highest score, as usual. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She could break it all down in her head in a way that would've taken Bit and John John a calculator to do, and Trista probably two pages of long division. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

John Henry watched Ayanna leave, then turned and studied my eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John Chuchurelli, who always has to sit on the Time-Out rug, raises his hand and asks, “How did he die?” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

On the Sunday I was baptized, Reverend John Cross dipped me deep into the church’s pool of warm baptismal water. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

John had a can of beer, and I just didn’t feel like anything at that moment. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“See you tomorrow, Mr. B!” said John, who was the first to be ready to leave. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Mother, this is John. I am the one.” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Father and Mother don’t think so. They like John though he is poor.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Zannikos asked his Mexican cook for a small salmon steak, a little rare. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Pignati, we feel terrible,” I said into the mouthpiece and then handed it back to John. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Eye held on to the other quart jars. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The voice of Jesus and of John Brown. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If we beat John Wayne, we’ll end the season first place in our district. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He winced and even yowled once, but John let me clean him up because he had his mind on better things. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I would come to share a different difficulty with John Kwang. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“John is so sensible, I’m afraid he will think I’m stupid if I ask questions about politics and things.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

John made a show of sweeping cobwebs from the ceiling. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John Wilkes Booth did not get what he wanted. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep in a pocket was the address of an uncle in the same section of Queens where John Zannikos had gotten his start. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But something about Buster Friendly irritated John Isidore, one specific tiling. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Webb piped: “John has a great-great-grandfather, and he’s a hundred and fifteen years old!” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He asked Mary to tell the tavern keeper, John Lloyd, to get everything ready for the actor’s visit this evening. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Nott, our Minister of Defence, would never lie to us. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

This was bad news for Hutton, of course, but good news for science as it cleared the way for a man named John Playfair to rewrite Hutton’s work without fear of embarrassment. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the moment that he felt the warm, smooth coins and her hand on his, John stared blindly at her face, so far above him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I bought peanuts for Bobo,” John said, proudly waving the bags. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Would my mother and John still be alive? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The body—still listed as “John Doe” because it had not yet been formally identified—had been moved late Sunday to the New York City Medical Examiner’s office at 520 First Avenue. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first one is what Mae’s son, John, said he was going to do—contact the local shelters. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon which followed the evening of its release John’s rustic solitude was suddenly broken by the arrival overhead of a great swarm of helicopters. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And longtime congressman John Lewis, a veteran civil rights activist and moving spirit of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, denounced the ruling as a major blow to minorities in the United States. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line of cars had already collected up and down the ditch line in front of John Eye Blevins’s moonshine palace. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then his father returned to him, in John’s changed and low condition; and John thought, but for a moment only, that his father had come to help him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John thought that was really funny, but Ma wasn’t amused, so he covered his mouth. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

St. John was not a man to be lightly refused: you felt that every impression made on him, either for pain or pleasure, was deep-graved and permanent. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

John jumped, kicking me in the back as he went over, but he tackled Horace like a calf at branding time. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

High John stood apart from us with his arms crossed, in the same position he’d been in before, but now, instead of a smile, he wore a scowl. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Starr, we were thinking we could get shots of you and Diane walking and talking around the courtyard,” John says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But John Gottman has proven that we don’t have to do that at all. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The form corse is sometimes used in poetry; as in the poem on the Burial of Sir John Moore: New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Sunday morning, then, since John could remember, they had taken to the streets, the Grimes family on their way to church. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Later, when the deputy unfolded the note, he discovered that it was addressed to John Leahy, the prosecutor. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“John, I cared for you once because — ” “It’s okay, Vera,” he said tenderly. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I found other black writers, in particular the journalist Chuck Stone, and I met John O. Killens, who in turn introduced me to James Baldwin. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

John is rinsing a washcloth in a nearby basin. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

John slumped to the floor, holding his head between his hands. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The head was worn and dented, but John kept it polished, and it gleamed in the warm sunshine. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It is the famous actor John Wilkes Booth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dinner was Kheifetz’s way of thanking Kamen for his having arranged radiation treatment for a Soviet diplomat’s leukemia in John Lawrence’s lab, but it was viewed with much greater gravity by the security men. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Karen laughed uncomfortably and said, “This is my husband, John.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

John Henry was all work, focused and determined, while High John...well, there was no defining him. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

One of the firemen sitting at the card table had just finished dealing a hand when that thunderous noise John Barry later described as a “roaring surf” filled the room. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Eden will be okay for a while, and I don't mind dealing with John's lectures. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In the silence, then, that filled the void, John looked on his father. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John Lloyd climbed out of bed, went downstairs, and opened the side door. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. John Churchmouse tried to comfort his wife as best he could. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

John had also split and stacked the wood from a dead maple we’d cut down, and climbed up on the roof to replace some rotted cedar shingles. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

For the last time, John Wilkes Booth saw the hands, now helpless, that had slain Abraham Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lead her to the cabin Captain Smith shares with Reverend Hunt, the carpenter John Laydon, and several other men. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Decades later, the prize was awarded to a clockmaker, John Harrison. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

John and Brian had to help pull her off as Brian’s daughter, Veronica— who hadn’t seen Mom since she was a toddler—stared wide-eyed. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

John's words threw themselves off the tip of his tongue like suicides. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you call one of your friends at school? How about John?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I had seen Mom only sporadically since then, and she’d never met John nor been to the old country farmhouse we’d bought the year before. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They searched the house and found evidence: photographs of Confederate generals, one of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, some ammunition, and a photo of John Wilkes Booth, hidden behind a picture frame. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

How Brian Cochran would love to be like John Carter, with muscles instead of glasses, quick with boxing gloves instead of figures. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gripping the cup, John said, “Never been in the country in the dark like that. Thought the ground might swallow me up.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

In 1962 John F. Kennedy declared, “We choose to go to the moon not because it is easy but because it is hard.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even being beaten did not stop John Roanhorse from speaking Navajo. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I suppose you could say that John F. Kennedy was the most famous man I almost met. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I tried not to think too much about how John would react tomorrow when I told him I was joining the other band. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, John didn’t come, not seeing the matter in that light. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, our caseworker John took us to a church clothing drive to help us stock up on clothes, including much-needed winter coats and boots. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This particular mood in John had been building up ever since the night that he kissed me in the bedroom. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Its people did not seem afraid of shadows in a John Birch Society sense. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you told her that. John wanted to present something on all of our behalf. My family as well as our office.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

John watched, watched the faces, and the weightless bodies, and listened to the timeless cries. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“This is Corporal Johnny Manuelito. I am Corporal John Benally,” said the second Navajo man who stood in front of us, speaking in English. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

High John grinned, clapped me on the shoulder, then backed up and turned to face the hullbeast. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Can I help you, friend John? I am free, and if I may, my service is to you.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Second, the reports Adams was receiving from John Quincy in Prussia, based on his network of contacts in Paris and Amsterdam, provided fresh evidence that Talleyrand was now eager for peace with the United States. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

During John Glenn’s test, he found pencil and paper and wrote 18 pages to keep himself occupied. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never seen a body do that. My brother John was indentured. I remember what he said when he was free. He said he felt real lost-like at first.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

John was still hidden away, but he was walking down low, keeping up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They searched for and confiscated anything and everything connected to John Wilkes Booth, including documents unconnected to the assassination. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they boarded the plane, Carole would have to take a suction device for John’s neck—would using it disturb other passengers? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

John adjusts Eden on his shoulder, then kneels down and crawls into the space. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Jefferson was an elegant stylist, to be sure, which was one of the main reasons that he, John Adams, had selected him to draft the famous document in the first place. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

John Roanhorse was taken into the cold stone basement and chained in a dark corner. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father’s eyes looked down on him, and John began to scream. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

"John John, you look like you getting ready to retire from middle school," Trey said. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Jack has an older brother in high school, and they look alike except that John’s taller, stockier, and more jocklike. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But John could never look at it without feeling shame and anger that his nakedness should be here so unkindly revealed. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I am told, Madam Mina, by my friend John that you and your husband have put up in exact order all things that have been, up to this moment.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Veteran turf writer John Lardner printed the information, “but this,” he admitted, “had little or no bearing on the race.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

John and I got over to the house around eight o’clock and were all set to watch a television show when we noticed Mr. Pignati was sad as all get out. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Gay's Beggar’s Opera was an early example of this, and later the music hall songs of Arthur Lloyd, and Sam Cooke's ‘A Change is Gonna Come’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“What do you say, Skipper John,” Cora asked her fellow sailor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

What did St. John Rivers think of this earthly angel? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of entire silence between them, John Knightley began with— Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The thin mute, John Singer, nearly always put his hand on his friend’s arm and looked for a second into his face before leaving him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I knew John Eye’s legend—how the timber had given way in his section and how he held up the roof with his broad back until the other miners got out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the chaos in the streets outside Ford’s Theatre, one or more sources reported that John Wilkes Booth and John Surratt were close friends, and that Mrs. Surratt’s boardinghouse was just a few blocks away. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yo's words fell into the dark, mute cavern of John's mouth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It whistled, and High John rubbed his chin. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Leopard sank into a crouch, ready to pounce, and High John’s ax flared to life. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Bit asked, his eyes darting from John John's palm to the double doors. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Major Major went back to Washington Irving when John Milton grew monotonous. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He himself had mentioned John Kwang as a part of that vanguard, though his implication was then cast only in terms of succession. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never before considered how devastated John's community must have felt after his lynching. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

John Kwang walked a few steps with her and said something I couldn’t hear, but she nodded and then led us to an upstairs room. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Kikulski was particularly effective, speaking in Polish and Lithuanian to capture the hearts of the eastern European workers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Farmer met Dr. Ezekowitz for the first time after John was admitted. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

John Henry waded through the bay, knocking debris out of his way with a swipe of his glowing hammer. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But I’m going to stick with John at the spring concert. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

High John and Old Familiar were quickly swarmed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She gives both me and Spot a bowl of Hoppin John. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The union leader in Coalwood was a man named Mr. John Dubonnet, a classmate of my parents at Gary High School. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And look like you going to be half asleep,” John said. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The word atom, used in the modern sense, first entered scientific vocabulary in John Dalton’s paper in 1808. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A boarder and school friend of John Surratt, Lewis Weichmann was the first to appear at the door to respond to the patrol’s arrival. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Kikulski, a rousing speaker much beloved in the Polish community, was tasked with energizing the eastern Europeans. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But knowing John, I could pretty much bet that he would go ahead and play “The Final Countdown.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I was standing on the platform with my second husband, John. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

This time Pa had turned me into a ghost, sitting there staring at the spot on the floor where John Worth had stood. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John smiled, too, observing with some wonder that a saint of God could laugh. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

‘He were in an accident,’ said John Roberts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

John outlined a safety regime for the lab, including the relocation of the cyclotron controls from their place next to the machine and into a separate room. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Movies by some guy named John Hughes. The Breakfast Club was totally great, but I think Keiko liked Pretty in Pink.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Chicken John had it now—though I couldn’t for the life of me recall why. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It had been two and a half months since the death of John Wilkes Booth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Sister Price did not see this, which deepened John’s hidden scorn. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The only hint of happiness I got was when I heard Pa shouting at John Worth for doing something city dumb again. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

To which the Aged replied with great briskness, before saying that he gave, “All right, John, all right, my boy!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know that on the other side of the country, a white man named John Moore was about to begin fighting the same battle. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

This moment and this music had been with John, so it seemed, since he had first drawn breath. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

This morning not even the cry of a bed-spring disturbed the silence, and John seemed, therefore, to be listening to his own unspeaking doom. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

One could trace the illusory properties of the Potomac’s waters all the way back to John Smith, who first explored the mouth of what the Algonquin Indians had named “Petomek,” meaning “trading place,” in 1608. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

On his refusal to do this had his life depended, and John’s secret heart had flourished in its wickedness until the day his sin first overtook him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Military historian John Grenier observes that any time it appeared that the Indigenous population might outnumber settlers in a region, the settlers were quick to resort to “extravagant violence.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

John stepped forward into the tightening space of the steps. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“John! Natalie!” the voice repeated, and I turned to see Mikayla’s mom, shouldering her way through the masses, eyes trained on me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes moved to Gum Baby and softened, then to Thandiwe and High John, where they lingered. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“How very pleasing and proper of him!” cried the good-hearted Mrs. John Knightley. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Every time he closed his eyes, he thought about his brother, John, and he saw in his mind’s eye an office splattered with blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look! Look! Look! See, two horsemen follow fast, coming up from the south. It must be Quincey and John. Take the glass. Look before the snow blots it all out!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

John Henry’s laugh created waves in every direction as he grabbed at his belly. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Serena and Farmer agreed to try to get John to Boston. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Anyway, through the same flush war years, John Hughes had hustled profitably enough to be able to open a pretty good gambling house. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then John was silent, wanting to put the question another way. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In June McNamara asked his assistant, John McNaughton, to start collecting classified documents for future use by government officials and scholars. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I just took my seat between Ma and Pa and smiled at that empty spot between Pa and John Worth. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He even broke one of his favorite sticks over John Roanhorse’s back. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

John and his father stared at each other, struck dumb and still and with something come to life between them—while the Holy Ghost spoke. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

One of those speculators was the British governor of Virginia John Murray, the Fourth Earl of Dunmore. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It’s got to be written now before John and I mature and repress the whole thing. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John hasn’t made a statement yet and he’s threatened to fire anyone who makes one for him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re those precious ivory beads your father bought me in Rome, Italy, blessed by Pope John the twenty-third.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Saturday Evening Post flew photographer John Launois to Cairo to locate Malcolm X and photograph him in color. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence for a long time until Ayanna slowed, and I realized we were back at the indoor Thicket glade where John Henry and the others had quizzed me earlier. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John was just John, which was weird because of the other two. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

John Knightley looked at him with amazement, then shrugged his shoulders, and said, “I could not have believed it even of him.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“But back to serious business, Mr. Pignati. You asked the name of our charity—the name of it is—” “The Lorraine and John Fund!” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

High John looked around one more time, then checked the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Y’all best hang on,” High John called back, and then the crow gave two powerful flaps and rose in the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

St. John put away my books and his, locked his desk, and said— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Medical students were advised to stay away from mathematics and physics and chemistry, and take mostly biology,” John recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A long search through the captain’s telescope had shown no signs of life whatsoever, but John Faa planned to take half a dozen armed men ashore just in case. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

No fear of death will darken St. John’s last hour: his mind will be unclouded, his heart will be undaunted, his hope will be sure, his faith steadfast. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“St. John! you used to call Jane your third sister, but you don’t treat her as such: you should kiss her too.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

John trembled where he lay, feeling no warmth for him from this fire, trembled, and could not take his eyes away. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He struck a deal with a journalist named John King to arrange publication and market the book. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They sit upright and John says to go to an after-hours club on lower Broadway, near all the Korean restaurants and shops. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a suspect up there named John Ramsey,” White told him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I use Eduardo’s spreadsheets on the notebook computer John bought him last Christmas. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would take Vernon into town for the meeting, so I showed John how to hitch up Belle and Dimple. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“St. John dresses well. He is a handsome man: tall, fair, with blue eyes, and a Grecian profile.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

There is hard evidence of a community money club that John Kwang oversees. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One signature of which he was especially proud read, “Is anybody in the John, Milton?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

John struggled to pull them both back up to safety, but Eugene was strong in his panic, keeping them both below the surface. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even John just stood there not knowing what to do. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

High John stood watching him, crunching noisily on an apple. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

After Mr. Pignati finished playing the psychological game with us, John started skating. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“St. John, I am unhappy because you are still angry with me. Let us be friends.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

After his death, there was talk that John might have lived if he could have left Haiti sooner, but almost everyone seemed grateful he’d gotten out at all. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I’ll free Day, shout out a signal, then John will emerge from the wall like a ghost and escape with us. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Now these corners became, in John Donne’s phrase, ‘the round earth’s imagin’d corners’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Now there remained only John Wilkes Booth, still at bay, and armed. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best translation into English is perhaps a phrase of John Wilkins’s of 1675 which is surely meant to be the English equivalent: ‘this visible frame which we call the World’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the view of his brother, John, who had long played the role of his medical advisor, Ernest’s basic problem was overwork. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

John had recently been assigned to work at our local steam plant. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

His mother rushed over to the sofa and caught Roy in her arms, crying as John had never seen a woman, or anybody, cry before. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John had been shot many times, and there was blood all over the room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she beat me there, throwing the door open, then tossing John into the room like he was some mangy raccoon that’d broken into our house. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

A growing, wiggling tentacle of doubt wouldn’t let me completely believe High John’s words. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“There’s a car outside, John. I think it’s a taxi!” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some years ago, a young couple came to the University of Washington to visit the laboratory of a psychologist named John Gottman. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The result was the Stone Gate, three arches of Lemont limestone roofed in copper and displaying over the central arch the carved bust—Root’s touch, no doubt—of John Sherman’s favorite bull, Sherman. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

For Dora Root life with John had been like living upon a comet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“John,” said his mother, “go and pick her up like a good boy.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John Glenn adjusted the capsule to the correct reentry position and prepared himself for the worst. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Convicted saboteur “John the Painter” stands in irons outside a prison in England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at least I was not named John. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

That didn’t sound like John, and she knew he was looking up at her with the straightforward look that she had always been ready to meet and answer with one as frank till now. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

High John had both hands in his pockets, but I could see the anger in his jaw when he spoke through tight lips. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Dude, that was awesome!” said Mr. B, high-fiving John. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“And by the way, John,” he continued, leaning forward in his chair and laying a hand on the Savage’s knee, “I want to say how sorry I am about everything that happened yesterday.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In October 1948, as Frank was preparing to accompany physicist John Williams to Berkeley to discuss the construction of an accelerator at Minnesota, Lawrence abrupdy informed Williams that Frank would not be welcome. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

John Henry flung them into the air, then batted them into a million pieces. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A few even tried to do some dance steps, Corporal Radant and a blond Marine from Boston named John Smith among them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

John felt a chill as they passed him, and he closed the door. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

At last, a miraculous cable arrived from John, pronouncing himself “safe and sound” aboard a British destroyer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I used to be afraid to have people look at me, but ever since I met John I seem to wear little things that make them look. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Henry may have been powerful, but High John was power personified. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He introduced himself instead to Burnham and gave his name as John B. Sherman. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Of tears there was, yes, a very fountain—springing from a depth never sounded before, from depths John had not known were in him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The sooner this is all over, the sooner I can sneak my gifts to John. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When I got to Syracuse, John’s mother and sister cooked for me for the first few weeks, to welcome me to the family. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As legal scholar John A. Powell once commented, only half in jest, “It’s actually better to be exploited than marginalized, in some respects, because if you’re exploited presumably you’re still needed.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I will. Poor John! I’m afraid I have neglected him sadly, but I thought I was right, and he never said anything.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having my feelings pulled in every direction wasn’t any better than just plain hating John Worth. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was at this moment, precisely, that he found he could not rise; something had happened to his arms, his legs, his feet—ah, something had happened to John! Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His father’s will was stronger than John’s own. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Short of riding Belle up the church steps, I couldn’t get inside fast enough, so I pushed John off her back, yelling, “Get them home! Minding their fences!” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John tries to say something comforting to Mom, but she just brushes it off and apologizes to John for our lost meal. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I think back to the day I took my Trial, when John came to pick me up and saw me being taken away in a train with others who had failed. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Okay, the first thing I’m going to do is give all of the local animal shelters a call,” John says from the other end of the line. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I get back to Captain Smith’s cabin, the carpenter John Laydon is sitting out front with his tools, working at making a small wooden chest. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“That song they sing,” said John, finally, “if it costs my life—is that the price?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John is the strongest of us, but he has a patient, gentle streak that I didn't inherit. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I read until my eyes started to blur, with John chirping in with a question here or there. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then John Mark switches, goes a little serious. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

My heart lifted at the sight of John Henry towering over everyone as he took a head count. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At John’s insistence, Ernest was transferred across the bay to Palo Alto Hospital, the better to consult with its Dr. Albert Snell, one of the nations preeminent specialists in colitis. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Now she snapped photographs with John's camera wherever she went, creating a visual map of the Russian capital for the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Someone needs to save Eden. So John saved you. As any brother would." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

John doesn’t really curse that much, and I don’t think he needs his system. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some agents he ran personally; some worked under Major John Clark, a brilliant Continental Army officer “on spy service.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

That act, in turn, gave her son, John Ford, the privilege of a skin color that spared him a life of slavery. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

John Garrett urged Booth, still hidden in the dark, to give himself up. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg and other staff members were gathered with John McNaughton in his office, reading the latest cables and waiting for the president’s announcement. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Higher than ever before, which made John happy. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Mark’s fingers are finally relaxing on the steering wheel. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Lexie, coming home the next afternoon in Pearl’s favorite green T-shirt, the one with John Lennon on the front. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked at John, who, head down, was putting the chairs in order. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John’s face looked gray in the fading light. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he was treated, so far as John could see, with great respect. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She jumped into action, getting me to the wagon with John’s help. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John Andre was captured while attempting to serve as a British spy in league with Benedict Arnold to produce a major strategic debacle on the Hudson River at West Point. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said John at last, sounding almost angry, unable to bear his thoughts, unable to bear the silence in which Elisha looked at him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I got most of the work done in plenty of time for John and me to meet the Pigman down at the Staten Island ferryhouse by eleven thirty that morning. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“John Mark, you’re kinda freaking me out,” I whisper when he still doesn’t say anything. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The entry arches, which stood as tall as John Henry, were copper trees with silhouettes of tiny people in motion on the top. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John Adams recalled that Washington's house in Philadelphia was “surrounded by an innumerable multitude, from day to day buzzing, demanding war against England, cursing Washington, and crying success to the French patriots and virtuous Republicans.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I picture Eden and John and force myself to calm down, force away the pain. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Aitken, a house painter also known as “John the Painter,” figured that if he could destroy all the rope being made at Portsmouth, the Royal Navy’s warships could not sail. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our last great middle-class hero, someone who really enjoyed his vacations and his country club, was John Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom, and he died a premature death. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We had a caseworker named John who thought it would help if he took us along with him to go food shopping at Walmart. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Brer cleared his throat and John Henry’s face went grim, and again he clammed up. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John Roanhorse, who also had a bed in my part of the dormitory, was one of the most stubborn ones. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking down, John Isidore saw his own hands; they gripped the twin handles of the empathy box. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mary Jackson— a former West Computer!—had faced down the brilliant John Becker and won. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Knowing John’s fear made me feel closed in somehow, but I couldn’t just let him sit there and shiver. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

But John Mark is grinning like I told him he won a million dollars. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

No one has seen John since he was released late last night, four or five hours after the crash. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was studying political science at St. John’s at night, working afternoons for a caterer and volunteering whenever he could for John Kwang. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me that Mr. St. John’s under lip protruded, and his upper lip curled a moment. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nat repeated the opening verse of the Book of John: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Powhatan later captured John Smith, Chaplin notes, Smith broke his pistol rather than reveal to his captors “the awful truth that it could not shoot as far as an arrow could fly.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I now drew near and knocked: John’s wife opened for me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

John wants to know, and suddenly I don’t because I want to be alone with this girl. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They were holding down somebody to the side of where John had been speaking. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

John’s mother arrived within several days, along with Ti Fifi, who had made the arrangements for the mom. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In 1904, Bigheart sent a zealous young lawyer named John Palmer across the country “to keep his finger on the Washington pulse.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His name is John R. Loomis; he is a chemist from Ithaca, New York, where Cornell University is, or used to be. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

John Root lies nearby, as do the Palmers, Louis Sullivan, Mayor Harrison, Marshall Field, Philip Armour, and so many others, in vaults and tombs that vary from the simple to the grand. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So she was not surprised when Major John André, an officer on Howe’s staff, ordered the Darragh family out of their home. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny Manuelito and John Benally passed out pencils and blank sheets of paper and then went to the front of the room by the blackboards. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black-Billed Cuckoo, from John J. Audubon’s Birds of America, published in 1827, nearly 125 years after Maria’s work, shows her influence on this artist-naturalist. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You are a man, and it is a man we want. You are better than me, better than my friend John.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, we’ll see,” High John muttered, and I rolled my eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Nothing John Kwang could say or do would win him praise. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got back from church, I went into the kitchen of the manor-house, where Mary was cooking the dinner and John cleaning the knives, and I said— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

June 14–15: John Alcock and Arthur Brown become the first to fly nonstop across the Atlantic. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She bats John's hand away when a bout of her chronic coughing hits her. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Under the headline “Teach the Books, Touch the Heart,” she began with an anecdote about teaching John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

John picked up a handful of slush and started molding it into an iceball. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

All John was doing was opening his arms and in his own way saying: “Look at me, world! Look at my life and energy and how glad I am to be alive!” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Engineer Jim Williams, still on the team with John D. “Jaybird” Bird, was already helping to work toward President Kennedy’s pledge of a Moon landing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Bendix: “It was English. Mrs. Nally never cares if you’re late. Seriously, ask her. We were doing the metaphysical poets. Would you be in a rush to get yourself some pastoral elegy of John Donne?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Then a young man named John Hinckley lunges forward with a .22-caliber pistol in his hand and fires six bullets at Reagan’s entourage at point-blank range before being wrestled to the ground. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Another theater employee, named John Peanut for the snack he sold to theater patrons, held the reins of Booth’s restless horse while the actor went inside. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed when I saw little Caroline run on the beach in a tiny swimsuit and when John John paraded around his father’s Oval Office in his sailor suit. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

John Surratt was suspected in the Seward attack, but there was no proof. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My suggestion brought a grunt of disapproval from John Henry. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then he added: “You may take that one little kiss whiles I bring over the table. Friend John, help to me!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“He stood in front of the Privy Council and said, ‘Christ had John, and I have George.’” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They passed out flyers, pamphlets—A Message from City Councilman John Kwang—buttons, ballpoint pens, keychains, lapel pins, every last piece of it stamped with his perfectly angled script, simply signed, John. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when in the morning Tom, his face black, spurred his spent horse up John Street in Salinas, the sheriff was waiting for him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her sisters braided up her pretty hair, and the only ornaments she wore were the lilies of the valley, which ‘her John’ liked best of all the flowers that grew. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time Neylan’s target was Melvin Calvin, a future Nobel laureate who had worked at the Metallurgical Lab in Chicago and then moved to Berkeley to research peacetime applications of medical radioisotopes with John Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Can you do a quick computer check for a John Doe at the adult detention center?” the officer asked. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Middling, my dear; I cannot compliment you. I think Mr. John Knightley very far from looking well.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

John and Lou had picked up some kind of virulent intestinal ailment from the unclean surroundings. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm ready,” John said, “I’m coming. I'm on my way.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The door opened and the two armed men returned, between them the tall Talib in white, still wearing his dark John Lennon glasses, looking like some broad-shouldered, New Age mystic guru. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

John Henry pounded his fist on the ground, sending tremors through the whole forest, and I flinched as hundreds of butterflies took flight in a flurry of silent wings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John leads us to a huge suite—seriously, it looks like a penthouse—overlooking downtown. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In Europe, the Pilgrims had refused to hire the experienced John Smith as a guide, on the theory that they could use the maps in his book. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On Friday, after John Mark picks me up from school, after the usual questions about homework and such, he announces, “I made a fresh batch of spaghetti—just for you!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Some years earlier John Senior had conducted with Mr. Clutter a minor business transaction, the outcome of which angered John Senior, who felt that Clutter had thrown him “a queer ball.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waiter tells him to calm down and John shouts for him to leave his sight. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Du Bois ends the tragic story when the furious judge catches up to John with the lynch mob he has assembled. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

John walks home after the school's closing frustrated and distraught. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

John had finished sweeping, and he now mounted to the pulpit to dust the three thronelike chairs, purple, with white linen squares for the headpieces and for the massive arms. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

My mother and John seemed okay, at least strong enough to stand and walk around. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

What’s more, as John Adams so nicely put it, “in Virginia all Geese are Swans,” meaning that Virginia’s elite genuinely believed that it had almost singlehandedly launched and led the war for independence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As I sat in bed, trying to make my letters look decent, I heard John Worth go into the lean-to chatting up a storm. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John Jr. asks again and I say I left the present at home and will bring it tomorrow, which I will. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

John seemed content to have someone to follow, and in any case he had his hands full scrutinizing the trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“My father, he never changed,” John Mark continues. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Of course, St. John Rivers’ name came in frequently in the progress of my tale. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the early years after slavery, when Black people were struggling to find their way, John Henry was a rock to his small community. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John seemed like a good man, a very responsible man. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jamie—call sign John—was flying out that night, and Michael. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

My words force a little smile out of John. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

To help me design an honor code, John recommended that I get advice from a lawyer. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Garrett worried about what to do with his now unwanted guests. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could not stop thinking about the men they had met “who had obvious scars on their hands where they’d had skin grafts,” John recalled decades later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Gay’s Beggar’s Opera was produced by the impresario John Rich, so the saying around town was that the venture had 'made Rich gay and Gay rich’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“John, maybe it would be best,” Mom said softly, putting her hand on Dad’s arm. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was obvious that Mr. Pignati Was going to visit awhile with Bobo, and John and I felt like we were intruding. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even though John Mark rarely drinks the stuff, he takes the time to brew coffee for Mom every morning. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

An expert at getting through British lines, John made his way to Charles. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed with Gorges for nine years, after which he went to New England with John Smith. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"I have no access to Eden, although I'm sure he's still alive. John is doing as well as can be expected." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I looked at John crumpled and twisted in the corner, the roller skates pointing every which way. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Hello,” John said cheerfully, covering his own surprise at the change in the Pigman’s appearance. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

This party was another opportunity for our families to meet John Tu and thank him for all his help. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now I spend my days helping Lelia with her speech kids, then nap for a few hours after an early dinner until I leave at nine for the nightly work with John Kwang. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told you of him, Dr. John Seward, the lunatic-asylum man, with the strong jaw and the good forehead. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

High John glared at the burning tear flickering in the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Pope John died, and in the ensuing power shift all the philosophers and mathematicians like Dionysius were kicked out of office. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“John,” she murmured to herself, “John . . .” Then “My Ford,” she wondered, “have I given dais one its sleeping sickness injection, or haven’t I?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But John kept making mistakes and asking us to start over. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Because Carole spoke Creole, she would be able to comfort John on the journey. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Every now and then I’m startled at how good-looking John is, but he glared at me from under the shock of hair that fell across his brow and scared me a little. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John also laughed, but for another reason—laughed for pure joy. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The two great divisions of society are not the rich and poor, but white and black,” said the great South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Jett betrayed John Wilkes Booth: “I know who you want and I will tell you where they can be found.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lynn arrived and, seeing a room of bowlegged ruffians shouting at each other, fists clenched, swiping at the air, thought he was witnessing a brawl straight out of a John Wayne film. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But it even felt mighty nice to have John standing there with us, smiling away. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

As an additional precaution, he made a happy switch from Washington Irving to John Milton. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Onstage that night, John Edwards took a shot at Clinton, speaking in veiled terms about sincerity and trustworthiness being important. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then something in his face changed, and High John sighed and set me down. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I am here because in the street John insists that all of us go upstairs. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry moves fluidly from room to room, past a black stone sculpture of a seated Buddha and John the Baptist nude and in bronze, without a single false step. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Looking through the window, I watched John go to the barn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before her mind’s eyes wavered, in a light like the light from a fire, the face of John, whom she had brought so unwillingly into the world. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Some were lawyers and well-known citizens, such as Samuel Adams of Boston, a graduate of Harvard and cousin of John Adams, a future President of the United States. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lone voice, joined by others, among them, waveringly, the voice of John. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John had never watched again; he had been afraid. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Captain John Smith was never able to return to James Town. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

John whispered through the wall, “I’ll give it back if you read me another of those stories.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

His gift turned out to be a copy of John Quincy’s recent two-volume work, Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

John looked at me and I looked at him and he rolled his eyes up into his head. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sherrie wanted to talk about the disposition of certain funds, but John kept joking with her, stalling her with odd cracks and silliness. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s extremely rare for individual cells from one person to be worth millions like John Moore’s. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Booth hoped that Ned Spangler or John Peanut stood on the other side of that door, still holding the rented horse. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He thinks he is talking Navajo,” Mr. John Benally whispered into my ear. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I exchange a look with John and keep going. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

My interview for the Gates scholarship took place at St. John’s College in Annapolis. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For example, in Problems in American Democracy the other day, Mr. Weiner asked him what kind of homes early American settlers lived in, and John said tree huts. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The beach was some four miles away from John’s home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The man, who I think must be Captain John Smith, narrows his eyes at me. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

John Laydon joins us and gives Captain Smith a strong shoulder to lean on as he struggles to walk. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

His real name was John Wilkins, and he was a cold, aloof man with a pair of bottomless eyes that one coach up in the Panhandle said reminded him of Charles Manson’s. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of all the folktales, “The Ballad of John Henry” was my favorite. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

To the nation, Black Easter dawned as a day of great mourning; to John Wilkes Booth, it began as a day of salvation. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The execution of John Evans took fourteen minutes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“So why do they call you Chicken John?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He bristled at the persistent belief that John Root deserved most of the credit for the beauty of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As if someone had yelled truce, John stood up, then offered a hand. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“All the riding’s got him hurting,” John said. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Since the death of John, I’ve been trying to form my question about his case. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In the Continental Congress, John Adams had described him as a staunch advocate of independence who never uttered more than two or three sentences, even in committees. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She broke off two of her fingers and gave one each to John and Barbara. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

John Henry chuckled as he returned to his hammering. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“The name of it is—” “The Lorraine and John Fund,” John repeated. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Three of the six drawings were by Vesalius himself; the other three were by John Stephen of Kalkar, a highly respected pupil of Titian, which gives you some idea of their quality. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The second figure—a rabbit as big as a kindergartener—twitched nervously and snapped, “Of course I’m sure, John! Hurry up! We need to get this over with.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They weren’t making out or anything—a kid named John had announced that he had sprayed pepper spray in there and people were going in to see if they could handle it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

To understand the musical revolution that occurred in around 1400, at the hands of a composer and astrologer named John Dunstaple, we need to play with some notes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Eden is only four and sits on our front door's steps, looking on as John and I play a game of street hockey. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Urey quarreled repeatedly with John Dunning, a Columbia colleague who was a specialist in the process. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But the four names topping everyone’s list would have been almost unanimous: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

John reaches the policeman before he can reach me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Since John was a Lost Boy and I was a Lost Girl, we had a lot of background in common. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both Barbara and John were coming of age in a society in which antisemitism was common. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Among the witnesses was the artist John James Audubon, who happened to be in the area. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Although “very loveable and affectionate,” John was stubborn and had a temper. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

John Henry patted her on the head, nearly smooshing her, then looked confused when he lifted his hand to find Gum Baby stuck to it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We gather in the chapel, Ann in her burgundy Sunday petticoat and yellow bodice, and John in his just-washed shirt with a blue doublet. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

As I started moving away and heading for the door John went to Mr. Pignati and just took his arm lightly trying to turn him away from the empty cage. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Hush, he’s in the garden! I forgot the confounded jelly, but it can’t be helped now,” said John, surveying the prospect with an anxious eye. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“John dragged me to some high school party. Our dad’s out of town, and John’s supposed to be watching me. He’s gonna get so in trouble when I tell on him.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

John Garrett stunned the two by barking out that they could not sleep in the house. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa laughed, then he got a good look at John. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t make her talk any more now, St. John,” said Diana, as I paused; “she is evidently not yet fit for excitement. Come to the sofa and sit down now, Miss Elliott.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Dear! dear! What a fury to fly at Master John!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Male” and "Capitalist” go together in our minds a lot like "John” and "Male” did. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He said, “John, this is Mr. Bowditch—the man I was telling you about! The man who got a degree from Harvard without ever setting foot in a classroom!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Garrett was sure the men were scheming to steal their horses in the middle of the night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his simple plan, Jones foiled the whole manhunt for John Wilkes Booth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the reason that was easy is that when we read or hear the name “John” or “Bob” or “Holly,” we don’t even have to think about whether it’s a masculine or a feminine name. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And I live with Mom and her boyfriend, John Mark, the next week. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

John Kwang, I can hear him saying with a pop in his voice, is not so important a man. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t get John out now—the entire day will be spent preparing for Day’s execution. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

John Mark takes a deep breath, then looks at me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Tex John Smith Family picking berries in Oregon, 1933” was the caption under a snapshot of four barefooted children wearing overalls and cranky, uniformly fatigued expressions. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Altogether, according to John McPhee, these number in the "tens of dozens." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Under Cushing, John studied pituitary syndromes in dogs and mice and contemplated X-ray irradiations of humans. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

From John, age thirty-seven: What this really means to all my fellow young geeks out there? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

John was surprised at the meager demand in Berkeley for the isotopes being discovered and manufactured by the cyclotron with the efficiency of an assembly line. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As they sang, they clapped their hands, and John saw that Sister McCandless looked about her for a tambourine. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The problem was not solved until John Harrison produced the first reliable marine chronometer in 1735. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

John starts talking, but only in English: he is narrating what he sees, in the tone of a reporter. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is the matter, sir?—Did you speak to me?” cried Mr. John Knightley, hearing his own name. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“To me, there was never a march like this one before, and there hasn’t been one since,” John Lewis wrote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

John walked over to the sofa, holding himself as proudly beneath his father’s furious eyes as a prince approaching the scaffold. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Ann, John, and Virginia are here with me, and we are safe. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When John got out his books that night, Meg’s heart sank, and for the first time in her married life, she was afraid of her husband. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

John studied the label with the devout attention a good Christian might give to the holy sacrament. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now John finally rises to go upstairs, teetering a little, pulling his robe tightly around him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t seem very glad to see me, John,” she said at last. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

All John Reed’s violent tyrannies, all his sisters’ proud indifference, all his mother’s aversion, all the servants’ partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he ought now to have a church of his own—John wondered if his father wanted that; he ought, perhaps, to be leading, as Father James now led, a great flock to the Kingdom. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had known John personally and had admired him, hav ing worked for him as a security guard at the Bank of Kansas City when John was president of the bank. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That seems longer than the route John Henry described.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

What if John's inside one of these rooms? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

High John grinned, a wide, easy smile that I was starting to suspect meant the opposite of good times ahead. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Martin Bundini just left him standing there and went off with his arm over John’s shoulder. He was so mad he started to cough, and that made him even madder.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And John lies to his mother and father. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then one day John had to sit next to me on the bus because all the other seats were taken. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Reamer seemed very fond of the name John and gave it to lots of boys. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brer would occasionally drop a disappointed sigh or a snide comment here or there, and John Henry lectured everyone. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

That had been one of her last ‘trifles’, and John’s eye had fallen on it as he spoke. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elisha stretched out his hand, and John took the hand, and stood—so suddenly, and so strangely, and with such wonder!—once more on his feet. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John looked at his father and moved from his path, stepping down into the street again. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She was oddly and fearfully depressed that day; and John was not in a good mood. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

After returning back east, John continued to fret over the neutron flux bathing Ernest and his assistants. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Pinkie’s car got more horses under that hood than a John Wayne movie and you and T. C. O’Quinn both know it,” Art said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then John knew that a curse was renewed from moment to moment, from father to son. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John Tookey showed off this new New York craze called break dancing but went spinning out of control into a group of girls, who toppled like skittles. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A John Deere tractor was plowing it into slimy furrows. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Along the way, they were also going to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who were staying in a Patriot’s home in Lexington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Satchmo Money," Bit sparked, annoyed by the silly conversation Francy and John John were having, and also by the silly conversation Trista was trying to have with him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Getting out, she kept her gun on John, then sidestepped to me, the screaming banshee in her grass. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

It pulls my attention away from John Steinbeck. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

However, the nodes in John’s neck were much harder, and his white blood cell count much higher, than would have been the case in someone with TB. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I had no better words to use, no way to let John know how sorry I was that he’d lost his family. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

June promised to help me—she must've planned something for John, too. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The NPC citizens all looked like extras from a John Cougar Mellencamp video. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

John had heard it, too, and had responded by wriggling, and moving his hands in the air, and making noises, meant, she supposed, to be taken for a song. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Last of all came a folding camp-bedstead with blankets and eiderdown complete, and this she set down between John's cot and Barbara’s. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

While the driver and Hannah brought in the boxes, they demanded St. John. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

John runs to the door of his cabin and pounds on it. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

If you told me a dude John Henry’s size could squeeze through a tunnel of thorns I had to duck through, I’d laugh in your face. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Later, with his top domestic advisor John Ehrlichman, Nixon talked about taking stronger action. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We have the same message in the Book of Saint John,” I said, sounding for all the world like a preacher. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So John Faa, Farder Coram, Mary, and Serafina went with them to the place where the land of the dead opened, and where the ghosts were coming out, still in their endless procession. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

John’s words pulled me to the street outside our apartment on the night Ma sent me after medicine for Missy. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John and his friends dashed back to the Twenty-Sixth Street beach and poured out their anger to the black bathers there. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

High John studied me and Gum Baby, then nodded. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He said, “John Kwang. The rising star of the east. Prince of Northern Boulevard. What goes on?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Mom turns to John Mark and says finally, “Oh, yes! Yes! Yes!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The first casualty of the day was John Lewis, his skull fractured in the exact spot where he had been struck years earlier during a Freedom Ride. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

As to Mr. St John, the intimacy which had arisen so naturally and rapidly between me and his sisters did not extend to him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Though it’s little faith I’m having, John, that the beast can do the trick.” The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even when I passed John Henry straining against the grasp of several bosslings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Though John Surratt had been a conspirator in the kidnapping plot, he was not even in Washington on the evening of the assassination. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I broke off before I could finish, and John Henry grinned. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I knew it was only a matter of time until we got that news, but nonetheless it was very emotional,” John Lewis recalled. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even John Henry held his right shoulder where his shirt had been torn away and a leafy bandage was wrapped in place. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

High John led us to the foot of the large sycamore tree, and once again I stood in awe of its massive size. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Do you call him ‘John’?” asked Meg, smiling, with her innocent eyes looking down into her mother’s. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last, on April 23, nine days after the assassination, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold set foot on Virginia soil. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the darkness began to murmur—a terrible sound—and John’s ears trembled. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Perhaps John had been right when he said we should’ve forgotten the whole thing—never mentioned it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The shop’s owner was the tall and white-haired John Graham Bell, who always wore a formal black frock coat. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

One of the dudes leaning out the windows was John Kerns, kid brother of Rick, the Volta-Shock billboard I flipped freshman year. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Boy, let me eat my breakfast,” John muttered—though his plate had long been empty, and he was pleased that Roy had turned to him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“That was probably the plan,” John yelled, heading down the bluff to free Belle. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

But as I was saying, it is a fact that John has compassion deep inside of him, which is the real reason we got involved with the Pigman. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s a long way,” John said slowly, “ain’t it? It’s a hard way. It’s uphill all the way.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Mr. John died yesterday was a week, at his chambers in London.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

John Guiteau, who was seven years older than Charles, found his brother to be difficult and wanted nothing to do with him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And John threw his foot from him and roared with laughter as he thought of Aunt Flossie. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Baker ordered John Garrett to enter the barn and take the weapons from the fugitives. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My legs trembled beneath me, and I began to fall over sideways, and suddenly High John was there. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I, John, saw the future, way up in the middle of the air. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We sat upon the dead grass and ate our rations as we watched Will and John, who are the favorites of our company, engage in their antics by the berm. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

James Baldwin’s books, translated, had made a tremendous impact, as had the book Black Like Me, by John Griffin. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When John finished high school that same year, he joined the Army Air Corps. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

John Mark puts his arm around Darren and hugs him tightly as they walk out the door. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Ernest and John were too far apart in age to have shared their high school or college years, but personally they were close, writing each other at least once every couple of weeks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

John Brooke laughed then as he never dared to laugh afterward, and the derisive Scott smiled involuntarily as he heard the hearty peal, which put the finishing stroke to poor Meg’s woe. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My alarm went off at seven exactly, switching over to the radio, just as Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” was starting. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I mounted to my chamber; locked myself in; fell on my knees; and prayed in my way—a different way to St. John’s, but effective in its own fashion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I began once more to know myself; and when Mr. St. John demanded an account—which at present I was far too weak to render—I said after a brief pause— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“John told your dad, ‘I don’t often agree with you, Homer, but by God I trust you. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The taxidermist and bird painter John Gould had taken over the classification of the birds. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

John thinks he pays them off, but I think it’s just that old Tony has a nice, friendly face and believes in the old days when they thought a little alcohol was good for everyone. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“What kind of”—I didn’t know quite how to put this—“what kind of miles are you doing, John?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

For several seconds, John and I just stare at each other. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

So did John, who was building a career for himself in film production. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Then you know it was Vera who shot John Vidal,” I said. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

John Coleus had a minor medical condition that required surgery. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Ma and Pa could clear the cattle out, Seth Clemson thundered in with a small posse of cattle hands to round up the rest, dropping John at my side before charging into the field. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the mention of John’s name, I lean forward and instantly regret it as my leg explodes in pain. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The chief judge of the court was former governor John Patterson. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then brothers John and William Garrett grabbed blankets and a pistol and spent the night in the corn house, watching the tobacco barn and waiting, listening for suspicious sounds in the night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma didn’t say much until John slipped getting onto the crate and sent it and the stool clattering to the floor. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The English-speaking woman turned to me and said, “Thank you, John” — John being the name whites used to address any African whose name they did not know. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a son, whom they named John. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“John Wayne never wore tights his whole life.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The policeman shoves John out of his way. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

John’s terrified soul inquired—What is it?—to no purpose, receiving no answer. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He told me that everyone talked about John and the medevac flight. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know where you get that from, John!” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And break it out, and walk off with it for a hundred yards,” John Thornton said coolly. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had lived, John thought, then he would never have been born; his father would never have come North and met his mother. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Long John Silver would maroon you for such despicable behavior.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

John Isidore, being yammered at by the television set in his living room as he shaved in the bathroom, was one of these. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Looking over my head, instead of at me, Pa said, “Nathaniel, this is John Worth.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before he died in 1883, he confessed to Samuel Cox Jr. that he had known all along that the injured stranger at his door was John Wilkes Booth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Starting around Christmas 1937, when he administered his first dose of a phosphorus radioisotope to a patient at the university medical center, John’s need for the substance became “insatiable,” Kamen recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And Yo was running, like the mad, into the safety of her first tongue, where the proudly monolingual John could not catch her, even if he tried. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Four dollars would buy us a gallon of John Eye’s finest. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

John Henry threw up his arms, and his fingertips grazed the walls on opposite sides of the room. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

On May 20, a team of FBI agents raided a Maryland hotel room where a man named John Anthony Walker was staying. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Chicken John was forever losing the trail and ending up in the most improbable places. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to clear a path for High John so he could link up with the others and rescue the Midfolk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She ran to the perambulator and rocked it gently, crooking her thin, twisted, old fingers at John and Barbara until they stopped crying and began to laugh. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

John likes things like king vultures and alligators. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Laydon and I are being sent to build cabins for the fort. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Gave the address of the flat in St. John’s Wood. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The editorialists suggested John Kwang, among others, as someone who could bring a fresh face to confront the city’s ills, a politician who could better understand the needs of the rapidly changing populace. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

St. John said these words as he pronounced his sermons, with a quiet, deep voice; with an unflushed cheek, and a coruscating radiance of glance. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

One agent from the previous investigation, White decided, should be retained: John Burger. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I recognized the opening riffs of “Change,” by John Waite. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

John Henry was still ushering people out of the burning Thicket entrance, and I concentrated as hard as I could. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He started up the stone steps, staring at John, who blocked the way. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Stella and John came over in the evening and we ordered in some Chinese food. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"You didn't tell John what happened, did you?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The sea-lion pool is right there, and that kept John busy while I was combing my hair and polishing my Ben Franklin sunglasses. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Jones, overcome by a mixture of thrill and fear, saw John Wilkes Booth for the first time. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me: “John Mark’s family—I’ve met a few of his cousins, but there are piles of them coming in from Michigan and Tennessee and California. He’s never been married before.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

John Wayne Westerns were my favorite films, and I took all the best parts from his movies and made them one big story. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ruby James was thinking about how handsome John 2X had looked that morning, and wondered if they would get married someday. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Seeing how I’m not very inventive, I had to pilfer the idea from John Asscraft, who’d recently handed out some practical advice for staying alive in an orange America. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

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

The community invests in John so that he can one day return and teach African American children who are barred from attending the public school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Florence was wearing a heavy, old-fashioned garnet brooch, which, as she opened the door, immediately attracted John’s eye. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I explained everything to John Henry and Miss Rose and Miss Sarah, they could somehow take the Anansesem power away and I’d be free to go. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We still pretended we were John and Lorraine Pignati because only members of the immediate family were allowed to visit. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Mark then winks, bows to me once more, and heads back to the truck, the heels of his boots thunking with every step. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

John dove below the surface, trying to find Eugene. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In those other words he did not understand so well, she said to the man, “Not with John here.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained what she’d told him before she killed herself: she had loved John Parry, and he had scorned her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My gaze swam to John’s mother, a dark-skinned, very thin woman who sat on the side of the bed, staring at nothing, it seemed. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In their offices in the top floor of the Rookery, Daniel Burnham, forty-three, and his partner, John Root, newly forty, felt the electricity more keenly than most. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Nyame and High John eyed each other, and the sky god snorted. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When we got to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, about 30 of us Lost Children got off the plane, relieved but not knowing exactly where to go next. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

John had seen Booth’s weapons and knew he would not hesitate to take revenge for his family’s inhospitality and betrayal. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

John had observed his mother closely, seeing no swelling yet, but his father had prayed one morning for the “little voyager soon to be among them,” and so John knew that Roy spoke the truth. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Veterans of the Continental Army, like Hamilton and John Marshall, fully understood this essential point. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

My father clapped John on the back and shook his hand as if he were a man. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Though John Surratt was being sought by Stanton as one of Lincoln’s assassins, he had not even been in Washington on April 14. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

John turned suddenly, the movement like a curse, and knelt again before the altar. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Also omitted were his mentions of the biomedical team working with John Lawrence; consequently, the article gave readers the impression that the radioisotope and neutron work was solely a two-brother effort. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He brought them to Bayou St. John, put the canoe in the water, and sat down inside. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“So are women. Don’t blame John till you see where you are wrong yourself.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I point the slingshot at one of the soldiers holding John, pull back as far as I can, and fire. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

There was a kid named Trey who was picking on John John, calling him an old man because John John had a patch of gray hair in the front of his head. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mary Surratt ran the boardinghouse where John Wilkes Booth planned the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Watching John and Sherrie work toward each other in my presence is more difficult, not for their awkwardness but for how lonely they seem. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cries came again, and nobody seemed to hear them but me, not over John Henry’s roars, so I kept running. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John couldn’t see his family until the Lord called him home, but we’d make do with what we had. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Things would become so much harder for the people who had given everything to help make John a teacher. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Once we got to the lake he waded in, up to his knees, and beckoned dramatically like Saint John the Baptist. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jane herself had only been able to find a little coat of John’s, but she squeezed her arms into it and opened the door. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He watched over her and her baby as though it had become his calling; he was very good to John, and played with him, and bought him things, as though John were his own. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“This is the Warren,” John Henry whispered as we watched Brer work. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“That sounded awesome!” said John when it was over. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Of course we can,” I said scowling at John. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thandiwe gasped, then gasped again when Old Familiar rose into the air with High John on his back. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Taking a deep breath, I moved to John Henry’s side. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The night clerk was a middle-aged man, reading a book by John Grisham. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When this man answered, my voice was rather quivery because John was watching with his X-ray eyes and I think he knew I had cheated a bit. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

And John did not drop his eyes, but seemed to want to stare forever into the bottom of Gabriel’s soul. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He never looks up, but I can tell he's listening to John's story as well, laughing at the appropriate places. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The economist John R. Lott Jr. is the main champion of this idea. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Cornflower’s parents sat inside the cart, her mum helping Mrs. Churchmouse with the little ones, while her dad chatted away with John Churchmouse as they shared a pipe of old bracken twist. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But this was no mountain where John lay, here, no robe, no crown. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John sliced into the air with the shears. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John and Yo were lying in bed with the lights off because it was too hot to have them on or to be afoot. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

John Henry’s face went pale, and the hammer was in his hands in a blur. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John still had a fighting chance, she said. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The Campbell boy didn’t like me on account of the fact I didn’t treat John regular—orphan defending orphan, I guess. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

When John Turner Harris and his friends left the beach that Sunday afternoon in 1919, they were focused on the tragic death of Eugene Williams. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"You left it in Mrs. Stevens's class," John John said. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

"I love you," John repeated, so she would follow suit. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My father paused for a second, then looked at John and me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"Well," John John started, because John John was usually the one who spoke for the crew. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

John Adams observed bemusedly that “Mr. Madison looks worried to death. Pale, withered, haggard.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

John Glenn was a bona fide hero, but he wasn’t the only one being cheered. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was not the biggest church in Harlem, nor yet the smallest, but John had been brought up to believe it was the holiest and best. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Realizing that I barely had enough money to pay for school supplies, let alone legal expenses, John suggested soliciting a big law firm because sometimes they do work pro bono. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The devil’s daughter, in love with the man, gave High John a magic ax and plow to complete the task. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John Wilkes Booth saw all of this—the grand illumination, the crowds delirious with joy, the insults to the fallen Confederacy and her leaders. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

With both hands John pushed and pounded against the shoulders and biceps of Elisha, and tried to thrust with his knees against Elisha’s belly. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

At a given signal, John Churchmouse began tolling the attack warning upon the Joseph Bell. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Got to do with art or pastoralism or something. That’s how I gotta tie together John Donne and Izaak Walton, see.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“To make sure no gentleman decides to grab you up as his servant, I have apprenticed you to John Laydon. You will become a carpenter in your own right.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I broke from St. John, who had followed, and would have detained me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“John,” said she to the eldest son, “attend me. What think you of my plum watteau?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Just days after stepping down, John Ehrlichman told federal investigators that the Ellsberg break-in was not merely the work of Hunt and Liddy, but part of a White House investigation ordered by President Nixon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The colonial government retaliated by sending a force led by a mercenary named John Mason to Mystic River, where Pequots were living in two forts. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

John Mark grips the steering wheel like he wants to snap it in half. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

John Henry’s eyes grew big and his head jerked back, like the word was a slap to the face. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Impudent strumpet, impudent strumpet. The devil Luxury with his fat rump and potato finger ...” “John.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take me with you, friend John,” said the Professor. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Don’t talk to me about her, John: I told you not to go near her; she is not worthy of notice; I do not choose that either you or your sisters should associate with her.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“My uncle John was your uncle John? You, Diana, and Mary are his sister’s children, as I am his brother’s child?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He’d bought it a few years before, from a client in Bayou St. John. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Historian John Grenier reports that it could be quite lucrative to be a scalp hunter. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I go off to chop some wood, then come back and wait with John. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Most important, in a day of improbable miracles, Ralph was able to connect the suctioning device to the ambulance’s cigarette lighter and make John comfortable. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Brer and John Henry, Miss Sarah and Miss Rose—they were all staring in amazement, their jaws hanging open. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Crushed by the fall of Richmond, the former rebel capital, John Wilkes Booth left New York City on April 8 and returned to Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you put in these requested forces and increase air and sea effort, we can at least turn the tide to where we are not losing anymore,” commented Air Force Chief of Staff John McConnell. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Suppose Long John Silver had suddenly appeared in your living room, striking out with his wooden crutch?” she whispered. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He was easy to be with,” John whispers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

How John gave me a handful of pills while we drove around in his car, and how I’m not really sure how many I took. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“That was the first one we found. Designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Roy stirred again and John pushed him away, listening to the silence. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The order in which John liked things in the world was supposed to be magic, sex, money, fun, and love. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

A librarian recommended some John R. Tunis books, mostly about baseball, which I liked. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But nothing seems to have any impact on John, which I suppose brings us right back to his source problem. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Logos, in the first sentence of St. John’s gospel, is the original Greek for the Word that “was with God and... was God. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I say,” Helmholtz exclaimed solicitously, “you do look ill, John!” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to a room where, several weeks ago, John Surratt had shown him how to hide two Spencer carbines between the walls. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

General John L. Throckmorton set up the headquarters of the 101st Airborne at Southeastern High, where my parents had gone to school. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

John whirls to face me when Mom is gone. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

High John interrupted loudly as he sauntered up to congratulate me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I wanted to run away, but something was pushing me toward the curtains, and I started to scream for John. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“All right, John; all right!” replied the old man. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Double last year’s price but John was confident. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, both John Senior and his son “boozed”; indeed, John Junior was an often incarcerated alcoholic. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had let him and Mr. Pignati go alone, John would have charged half the store. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said John Knightley, “and I think we shall have a good deal of it.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

She swooped in, grabbed John by the elbow, and dragged him toward the back door. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The school, John Williams School No. 5, was huge compared with my elementary school in Congo. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Yo followed John into their bedroom, where he began to undress. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

John Tookey had to be rescued by his mates from stabbing female heels. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

John Mark says, slapping his thigh as we drive toward the diner. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t hear a word of it, Colonel John J. Jones.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

High John danced between the iron monsters, tangling them up as they lunged at him and leaving them twisted in rusty knots, juicy targets for my hooks and uppercuts. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His father’s told him that he’s following in the footsteps of Jesus, who was baptized in the River Jordan by John the Baptist. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Er-umph!” said John, opening his mouth and putting the leg of the woolly lamb into it. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

But she knew that with John’s death the doors to a brighter kingdom had softly but firmly closed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The image of John’s lifeless body displayed on the JumboTron makes me light-headed. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

On the night of April 22, after another night’s delay, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold finally climbed aboard the boat and rowed out into the Potomac toward Virginia. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

To which the cheerful Aged replied, “All right, John, my boy, all right!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Would it be just me and John playing “The Final Countdown”? That would be awful! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

John took extra long coming back, and I could hear him getting his roller skates out of the closet in the back room where all the pigs were. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

UC Berkeley’s medical school would not get over its disdain for John’s studies for years, until the situation was finessed by the creation of a separate laboratory for radiation science in 1942. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was she who had known his father in a life where John was not, and in a country John had never seen. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The night clerk kept on reading his John Grisham novel, and barely looked up as she walked past him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When it was announced that John Glenn would return to space as a payload specialist in 1998, an outcry arose. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

John Milton proved fruitful in still one more respect. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

John knew that these buildings were not for him—not today—no, nor tomorrow, either! Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He opened the New Testament to the first chapter of John. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

High John picked me up and climbed into the air as if on hidden stairs. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The new American president, John F. Kennedy, refused to be bullied, demanding hard intelligence about the Soviet Union's military capabilities. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered how Harry was trying not to laugh when John played the guitar solo today. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Tonight it is holding scraps of paper, the 35 bus schedule, and old copies of the St. John’s Review—our community newsletter. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Jump,” I shouted to John, holding on with all the strength I had. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Having John at the table meant having John at the table. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just as likely that John, whom she likes more than anyone else, could turn out to be attractive and funny but not particularly sincere or smart at all. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, it was this very compassion that made John finally introduce himself to me and invite me for a beer in Moravian Cemetery. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

As Ma and Pa drove the cattle onto the slope toward the river, I stood in the door yard, waving madly with my coat and John’s to shoo stragglers toward the road. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John Henry looked thoughtful again, while Miss Sarah and Miss Rose seemed skeptical. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

After serving for eight years as Eisenhower’s vice president, Nixon had lost a heartbreakingly close race for president to John Kennedy in 1960. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For now, I must say to the good doctor, it led to John Kwang. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I offered Swann an apology but, as the leader of the Chicago John Reed Club, I was a completely sober and chastened Communist. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

John went to the door, where two sisters stood, Sister McCandless and Sister Price. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They stood before each other in silence, while the saints rejoiced; and John struggled to speak the authoritative, the living word that would conquer the great division between his father and himself. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You called me a liar. I may be many things, boy, but a liar? Not High John. No, sir.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“For me,” persisted John, his tears falling, “for me.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Not that St. John harboured a spirit of unchristian vindictiveness—not that he would have injured a hair of my head, if it had been fully in his power to do so. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It chimed when he pushed it open and stepped into the smoky building, John John, Trista, and Francy following close behind. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Learning the business, I see,” John finally said, affably. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers sent to oversee the hanging was Thomas J. Jackson—soon to become famous as Stonewall Jackson—and one of the eager onlookers in the crowd was John Wilkes Booth. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said, watching John slip a lit cigarette into the hand of the dummy with the girdle and the brassiere. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John knew he did not dare, not today, and he heard his father’s laugh: Wo, nor tomorrow neither!” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Now John knows early American settlers didn’t five in tree huts, but he’ll do just about anything to stir up some excitement. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I had silently feared St. John till now, because I had not understood him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

John James Audubon painted three species of bird—the small-headed flycatcher, the carbonated warbler, and the Blue Mountain warbler—that have not been seen by anyone since. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

John walked past him to the front and picked up his broom. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

One day in mid-July, he was at his desk, reading and taking notes, when Assistant Secretary of Defense John McNaughton dropped by. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He walked awkwardly across the floor and sat down on the bench between Marshall Nicolls and John Roberts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Secretary of State John Kerry, who more than forty years before had been the first Vietnam War veteran to testify before Congress against the war, put it more bluntly. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Like John, I am part of the Dinka people, the biggest tribe in Southern Sudan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

John and Mary were stopped along the way, seemingly for no reason other than the color of their skin. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But it did not come, the living word; in the silence something died in John, and something came alive. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“John and I just sat around and smoked and talked about the world,” he said. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Worth said “please” and “thank you” and ate with his mouth closed. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John Kwang was Korean, slightly younger than my father would have been, though he spoke a beautiful, almost formal English. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had told him that John was nameless; and she had tried to tell him something of her suffering, too. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I nodded, and John Henry pursed his lips. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John Becker gave Mary Jackson the instructions for working through the calculations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t grow up in the countryside, the way John did. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

John is sitting on the edge of the bed with his arms crossed. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I twist out of John's grasp."You didn't have to stand up for me,"I snap."I could've taken it. I'll fight back." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I think of Eden's face, of the medicine he and John and my mother will need, and of the strange red X with the line through it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She stares up at the poster of Tommie Smith and John Carlos with their fists raised at the Olympics—the same one Hana has in her room. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The air in fourteen-year-old John’s bedroom in his family’s home in the city’s “Black Belt” was thick with the smell of animal blood that drifted east from the city’s stockyards a few miles away. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I refused to go along with their plan, Brer started pulling his ears and shouting, John Henry rumbled something, and Miss Sarah and Miss Rose took turns cutting each other off. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John pointed at the young man who had thrown the rock at Eugene, then waited for the police to arrest him. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I saw the three of them shoot each other looks, but they nodded goodbye to John. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

To himself John Isidore thought acidly, And it’s gone away for me, too, without my having to emigrate. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

At some point, John Wilkes Booth came into contact with sympathetic secret agents in Canada, New York City, Washington, D.C., Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around two o’clock in the afternoon, John met up with his friends, the four Williams boys: Charles and Lawrence were brothers; Paul and Eugene just happened to have the same last name. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Presidents are surrounded by bodyguards, and bodyguards are supposed to be on the lookout for people like John Hinckley. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

John thought for that moment that his father believed the words had come from him, his eyes were so wild and depthlessly malevolent, and his mouth was twisted into such a snarl of pain. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Tom Bolles and Al Ulbrickson climbed into the train’s press car, along with John Roosevelt, who had overnight become an enthusiastic Husky fan. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

During the Vietnam War, John and Marti Peterson spent three perilous years together in neighboring Laos, where John trained and advised a guerrilla army to fight the communist insurgency there. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could help John, Eden, and my mother escape right now, and risk running into the plague patrols or street police. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We were taking a local route through the neighborhoods of south Queens so that she could scout appearance locations for John Kwang. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Evans and Arthur Jones had recently been electrocuted in Holman’s execution chamber. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That must be John . . . and I'm going to find him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"John John, soon you gon' need a walker to be a...walker," Trey said. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. John Benally stood close to help with translating as Mr. Reamer asked each child the name of his or her father. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First things first. Day’s brother John. I plan to help him escape tomorrow night. No earlier than eleven P.M., no later than eleven thirty.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Perhaps not, Haldeman granted, but he was working for people higher up, including John Mitchell. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

John couldn’t have gone the rest of his life wondering if I had bluffed him out of a pot that big. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Adams was a lawyer for the soldiers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, listen, the wind’s talking,” said John, tilting his head on one side. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I told John that my wife would be worrying and that the dinner was very good. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

John swept Horaces legs out from under him. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He knows how hot Kwang is running. John Kwang is a media darling, he is untouchable right now, and there is no sense trying to attack him.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

John looks like he is thinking maybe this is a good idea. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

In 1794, Washington had sent Chief Justice John Jay to London to negotiate a realistic bargain that avoided a war with England at a time when the United States was ill prepared to fight one. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But while Jones slept peacefully, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold were rowing in the wrong direction! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to get John to come alive, but he was motionless in the back seat next to me. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were regularly joined by a stonecutter from the city’s paving yard named John Barry, who enjoyed their company. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“But John Reed knocked me down, and my aunt shut me up in the red-room.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Handouts are like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound, but John Tu does not give people handouts, he gives people hope. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Among them were two men, John Alcock and Arthur Brown, former British Airmen who had both been shot down and captured during the Great War. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

John Lawrence became interested in radiation medicine through his work with the pioneering neurosurgeon Harvey Williams Cushing at Harvard. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I want to eradicate the violence that is going on in my neighborhood and give back to my community the way John Tu has given back to me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

John knew that it was the hand of the Lord that had led her to this place, and his heart grew cold. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John laughs and cries at the same time. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Last June, when John Green came and did a reading at the Brooklyn Public Library, we went together and stood on line starting at three in the afternoon, when school got out. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He began to think about getting a gun and going out to Kansas City to kill John’s business partner. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going outside didn’t mean I had to cross paths with John and his citified ways. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“No way,” John cries, reminding me of how my father would say the words, he thought, like an American. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t say my John, it isn’t proper or true,” but Meg’s voice lingered over the words as if they sounded pleasant to her. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They draped these over the balky apparatus and localized the radiation source to Kamen’s fly, which evidently had collected a heavy burden of waste radio-phosphorus from Kamen’s work for John Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As the political scientist John J. Dilulio Jr. later commented, “Apparently, it takes a Ph.D. in criminology to doubt that keeping dangerous criminals incarcerated cuts crime.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A dozen, a score of the pallid malignities seemed to pour in toward the center of the grove, where John Parry’s ghost marshaled his companions to fight them off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, John. But I still feel young,” she said, lifting her head and wiping her tears away. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to ask him if they’d ever get out. The poor humans! Why, it might have been John and Barbara—or any of us.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

A funny way to introduce a person, but odd as it may sound, I felt like I knew a piece of John Worth when we stepped through the doorway into the house. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

In large block letters, John Benally printed the word ANT on the blackboard. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On only a few occasions, John remembered, had Ernest pulled rank as the wiser elder brother. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Renowned aerodynamicists Eastman Jacobs, John Stack, and John Becker had come to the laboratory as freshly minted junior engineers and were quickly allowed to design and conduct their own experiments. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Without her John would never have been safe. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, you’ll find out soon enough that John distorts—when he isn’t out-and-out lying. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Meg was absent-minded, shy, and silent, started when the bell rang, and colored when John’s name was mentioned. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

High John whistled with the fairy for a few minutes, then nodded. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“John and Deborah are entitled to their own opinions,” Mr. Richardson said. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I say: John gets apart, and he hide in the bushes.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Now John lifts Sherrie by the elbow and raises his hand to slap her again. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

John and I arrived around nine thirty and sat down on the benches at the entrance. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Katherine’s office mate, John Mayer, had jumped ship for the new endeavor a week after it was created, in November 1958. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

John thought with shame and horror, yet in angry hardness of heart: He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John stayed next to me, pushing his ear close to the receiver every once in awhile, and I could see the wheels in his head spinning. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then, in the absolute silence that followed Roy’s words, John saw that his father was not seeing him, was not seeing anything unless it were a vision. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John Turner Harris was one of those who were too scared to talk. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You would have thought I was John Dil- linger or somebody. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Kerns and his crew slowed to a roll when they saw me talking with Nicole. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

John isn't usually in such a great mood. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Tonight her son, John, was not home—he was out of the city on rebel business. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“John, he’s not Eddy. He doesn’t like it.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

High John muttered something and John Henry frowned. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Thirteen miles southeast of Washington, John Lloyd, the proprietor of Surratt’s tavern, went to bed. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then something happens that does give me hope—hope for me and John Laydon and his family. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The first was a visiting scientist who never returned, and the second was a Canadian named John who scattered things—ties, coins, socks, breath mints—around any room he entered. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But John found no answer for this voice, for he was in the moment, and out of time. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John Henry’s eyes narrowed at the symbol, then he nodded sharply, and I let the image disappear. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John Henry and Ayanna were arguing with Brer, who had both paws crossed over his chest and a determined look on his face. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When he started another joke I looked at John’s face and began to realize it was he who had started me telling all these prevarications. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Corbett was the boxer who had downed John L. Sullivan in the great fight of September 1892, a battle that had consumed the entire front page of the next morning’s Chicago Tribune. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

To John Mitchell, he said, “We want to destroy him in the press. Is that clear?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It would not be long before Major John André and General Benedict Arnold would meet. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Pa and Ma tore out of the barn bareback, Pa called, “John, get Seth Clemson over here!” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The night we were there Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline were having a conversation at the bar, and Andy Warhol and John Cage dined at a nearby table—not that Bobby noticed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have to tell John Kwang the first thing about my father and our life, at least in relation to what he was talking about. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On September 10, 1608, Captain John Smith takes the oath of office and becomes our new president. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fairbain asked, "What is the native country of Pope John Paul Eye Eye?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Captain John Palliser, traveling through the same lands as Fidler six decades later, lamented the Indians’ “disastrous habit of setting the prairie on fire for the most trivial and worse than useless reasons.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Though the judge in the John Moore case said patients must be told if their tissues have commercial potential, there was no law enacted to enforce that ruling, so it remains only case law. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It sure wasn’t that time I kissed Mary Riley St. John behind the door at Oralee McGibboney’s party, and it sure wasn’t like that when Papa kissed Mama good-bye after breakfast. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“But you fellows lost your shirts,” Zack gloated, “when the John went down!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

John had the idea it was going to be great fun going over to that house by ourselves, but it didn’t work out that way. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

His father now turned to John, who was standing near the French doors with Ruth in his arms. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And while she continued, I thought John was working her there, inching lower, inside the band of her skirt, where maybe the blouse was riding up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many demons called Tang men John because, they insisted, they never could get the hang of our real names. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aberystwyth’s a bit of a dive, but Dad says John O’Groats’s just a few houses where Scotland runs out of Scotland. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

So John Mark, the ruddy-faced, black-leather-jacket-wearing, muscle-bound, tattooed white guy, gets out, walks around the front of the truck, and opens the passenger door. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“You poor devil,” said John Thornton, and Buck licked his hand. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

O’Dell said Mr. Bundini had a big smile and went over and tapped Mr. Dubonnet on the shoulder and said, “How about we talk a little, John?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

John’s daughter, Jessica, turned to me and said, “But she laughs just like you do.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Sit back down and count your money, Pops,” High John said with a sneer. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As John McPhee notes, it may be buried under glacially deposited soil, like the Manson crater in Iowa, or under the Great Lakes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

If l didn’t know how maladjusted John is at times, I would have simply walked out of that house and not spoken to him again as long as I lived. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

A year earlier, while Roosevelt was on the campaign trail and getting ready to make a speech, John Schrank, a thirty-six-year-old bartender from New York, shot him at point-blank range in the chest. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She tore the note up and confettied it over her head, a rainfall of John's. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was John, then, they were all after. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Ivers is a polite, soft-spoken grandfather with a white baseball cap and a mustache. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“But—but how is it that they’ve forgotten it all?” said John, wrinkling up his forehead and trying to understand. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Mom and John Mark hold hands and actually smile at Dad and Anastasia as they pass the weekly torch in front of the Apple Store. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Their laughter irritated Perry; he especially disliked Mr. Bell’s outbursts—hearty barks that sounded very much like the laughter of Tex John Smith, Perry’s father. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one trip, John Lyon cleared £900 after expenses, a considerable fortune, then returned the next year and made nearly as much again. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“John wants you to give this to his family. This is important to him. He trusts you with doing this.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and John Mark are sitting there stiff as statues. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I had some of Mama’s Hoppin’ John, a dish of peas and rice cooked together. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She would have called John Kwang a fool long before any scandal ever arose. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only I’m sure John Travolta is a much better driver than Henry. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

John Taske, who was a doctor, flew out as well to treat Charlotte and Mike en route. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

John looked down the line of these armies of darkness, army upon army, and his soul whispered: Who are these? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He spoke about William Blake and John Keats with veneration in his voice, though Liyana wished he would pick somebody a little more modern to talk about soon. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once that stage was over, I began slowly to explain to her what I’d been up to—Mr. Pignati and John and me. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hurt, John stood and brushed off his pants as if the grass spears were little annoying bits of Yo. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I had heard about it from John Connolly, who recalled it as being near Palmerton, so I drove there the following morning. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

By what right did Samuel Johnson deny him, John Adams, the freedom to fashion his own vocabulary? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

John scrambled off his stool, knocking the crate down. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m here with my dad and John. Our neighbors call us the three boat bachelors.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

John Barry lay imprisoned by both a heavy beam and a water heater. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

A white man named John Smith Pleasants inherited Mourning and her husband, George, from his father, one of the first slaveholders in Clover. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Scientists are quick to point out that John Moore’s cells were exceptional, and few cell lines are actually worth patenting. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

‘No, I am a pharmacist. And John Roberts on your left is employed in the postal department of the government.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

John Henry had his overalls rolled up around his knees as he stood in the water, hammering away at a bridge fashioned from the wreckage of fancy yachts. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Like an arc of pure fire, John R. Isidore soared across the late-afternoon sky on his way home from his job. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She and John Mark went out to dinner; it was not a Waffle House! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I frowned, puzzled, but John Henry’s fist clenched even tighter as he pounded his leg softly. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John turned away, and looked out over the church, which now seemed like a vast, high field, ready for the harvest. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John reached for her arm, more as a test of her temper than a touch of desire. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

John Mark’s got bunches of tattoos, but this dude’s tats make his look like kindergarten drawings. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

As he drove, John told Mom and Lori about the area, about the duck farms and the flower farms and the Indian origin of our town’s name. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I want to become the role model that kids in my neighborhood lack and to someday have kids in my neighborhood look up to me the way that I look up to John Tu. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. John Knightley is easily alarmed, and might be made unhappy about her sister.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

For example, in the music John Williams composed for the Star Wars movies, there are melodic themes that are associated with the main characters. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Last seen in Indiana among the outlaws of John Valentine Farm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The assignment was twenty-five pages on John Donne. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I thought we were going to glide down, but High John grabbed my collar again, and without another word, he stepped off the crow’s back, pulling me with him. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“No. It’s only the idiotic way they have of talking,” said John. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

John asked, not moving his eyes from the TV screen. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It is, especially such a language as this crabbed but glorious Deutsch. I wonder when St. John will come home.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Hi, doll,” John said to one of the dummies that was wearing only a girdle and a brassiere. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Individually wrapped," John John added, just because it was a detail Ms. CeeCee kept adding. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“But think of the enormous, immeasurable durations it can give you out of time. Every soma-holiday is a bit of what our ancestors used to call eternity'.” John began to understand. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above the rock step where John, Stuart, and Lou turned around, the fixed ropes ended. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We pulled the buzzer for the guy to stop the contraption at the primate house, and John had to help Mr. Pignati get off. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Joyce worked for Swift & Company, named after its founder, Gustavus Franklin Swift, a man who demanded and respected excellence. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We stopped in a hollow among the roots, and High John surprised me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

"John John, you was born a senior citizen," Trey said. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

John Wilkes Booth came and lost his savings, then went off to kill a president, but others stayed and made a fortune. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Upon hearing this, Will and John broke into great laughter and patted him on the back, crowing out the motto, tilting comedically, embracing him until he too laughed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve spent hours trying to analyze the situation, and the closest I’ve beer! able to come to a theory is that his father set a bad example at an age when John was impressionable. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It got so that every day John and I would go over to the Pigman’s after school and have a glass of wine and conversation. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Vorster, the new minister of justice, who had himself been detained during World War II for opposing the government’s support of the Allies, was a man unsentimental in the extreme. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

High John looked worried as he pulled the root bag from around his neck and laid it above Ayanna’s heart. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Yet, John felt, she had seen instantly the extent of the danger to Roy’s eye and to his life, and was beyond that worry now. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Their survival depended on ongoing diplomatic conversations between Wahunsonacock, the leader of the Powhatan Confederacy, and John Smith, leader of the Jamestown colony. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

‘Joyful Christmas to you!’ said John Roberts, the postman. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

John Smith had arrived with two ships and a crew of forty-five. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

John Flynn, the barrel-maker who had been blown clear through Number 3 freight house into the harbor, was also one of the lucky ones. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

John started shoveling in his food as soon as the door closed behind Pa. His plate clean in a flash, he stood, saying, “Thank you for the meal, ma’am.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John makes them tell their whole life story before he’ll give them a nickel. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He raised me up, then seeing John, he stepped over to salute us both. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Gloria had been working in the laundry of an indigo plantation when John Valentine met her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“So what are you saying, John?” said Lee. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When within a month two great educators, Maria Montessori and John Dewey, died, the talk was of writing and advanced reading skills and whether they were good for the very young. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

John gave the one-ring signal about eleven o’clock, which was much earlier than I had expected because I thought he’d still be unconscious. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

But then she straightened and what I could read glancing over at her notes made it clear that she was plotting for John Kwang alone. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At its inception, the division had a roster of four faculty members, including John, who was appointed an assistant professor of medical physics and mostly paid out of the Physics Department budget. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Five minutes in that Alpha Double Plus classroom left John a trifle bewildered. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Penn, why don’t you take John—uh, Crash—to your room for a few minutes till dinner is ready.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I thought of writing a story about him until John told me the same bum had come up to him a month ago and said his name was Confederate. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before long, John Brown was invited to join the Klavaliers, the Klan’s secret police and “flog squad.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He looked and straightened it a tiny bit as he kept on singing: “And John would buy the gown for you to wear to the prom ...” “Does my hair look okay?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Hullo, John,” she said, smiling, and walked past him into the room. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bobo. Little Bobo…” I made the mistake of leaving the two of them alone while I went to the ladies’ room, because when I came out John was yelling, “Hurry up!” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, John Wayne, do you have thirty cents?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dad and John Mark just stand there, looking at the sky, at the cars, anywhere but at each other. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

But Katherine Johnson, like John Glenn, was not prone to panic. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

John, staring at Elisha, struggled to tell him something more—struggled to say—all that could never be said. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“And the name’s Bernard, by the way. I don’t know where they got that Chicken John from.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We went to Walmart a few more times with John, and the trips remained uneasy. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

John Henry’s voice rumbled out of the shade. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The detectives announced their mission: They were there to search the house for John Wilkes Booth and John Surratt. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A force of soldiers under the command of John Endecott were sent to avenge his death. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped out and John moved over to the bed. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The immediate challenge was to get John to Port-au-Prince. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“But John’s smart. He wanted something else, something personal out of your dad. Your dad’s smart too. He knew it.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

John Henry flinched and whirled around, hammer raised. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John Mark joins in as I take my stance. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s all John said he wanted,” Mom told me in her version. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after eleven in the morning, a courier charged into John McNaughton’s suite with a Flash priority cable for McNaughton. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I should never have let John write the first chapter because he always has to twist things subliminally. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Minutes later, we see John and my mother wander past the window, deep in conversation. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

John watched his mother’s mouth tighten bitterly as she dropped her eyes. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

A little north of the rock fight, John and the Williams boys, oblivious of the fray, continued their game of diving and floating. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Burnham was not pleased,” wrote Louis Sullivan, by now Adler’s partner, “nor was John Root precisely entranced.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It's not like John and Mom can just pick up and leave their assigned jobs to flee with me, not without raising an alert. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I returned to the Internet and then to the shelves, where I exchanged the books of the second wave for those that preceded the first—Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Besides Grant and Blaine, the other candidate seeking the nomination was John Sherman of Ohio, a former U.S. senator and the current secretary of treasury under President Hayes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

John nodded yes eagerly, but Elijah rolled his eyes. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

John Eye came out with four fruit jars of clear liquid. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he opened the door, the boys announced who they were, mentioned that they had met John Roosevelt the previous year, and asked if the president was in. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I can't tell which shocks her more . . . that I'm alive or that John seems to know all about it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Right after we left the Pigman’s, John dragged me down to Tony’s Market, which is on the comer of Victory Boulevard and Cebra Avenue. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Weichmann told the detectives John Surratt was not at home, but in Canada, and offered to help them with their investigation. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember begging Baba to take us to Iran so we could meet John Wayne. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

John looked at me over his little round glasses and made an “Is it me, or are they crazy?” face. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I kneeled in front of it, still cradling Ayanna, and looked at High John. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John in his photograph lay naked on a white counterpane, and people laughed and said that it was cunning. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Many years later, John recalled feeling, “As long as the raft was there, we were safe.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

John Mark Metzker has been around longer than the other six guys Mom sorta dated, whose names I choose not to remember. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She knows that tonight I will be handing over the member listing of the ggeh, my remaining official duty before I leave them all forever: Hoagland, and Jack, and even John Kwang. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She read the pro and then the con list out loud, shaking her head as she did so, ducking whenever John grabbed for his list. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“What—” I begin to say, until I see John pull the blindfold off of Day’s neck. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Today in his apathy John stared at them, not seeing; he began to dust them with the exaggerated care of the profoundly preoccupied. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John recalled, “I shook away from him to come back up, and you could see the blood coming up.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

John Lowe was about to sit down when he heard the noise of collapsing furniture. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jefferson’s version led directly to the doctrine of “popular sovereignty” embraced by Stephen Douglas, to the states’ rights position of John C. Calhoun and then the Confederacy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

John Henry stopped walking and held my eye. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

On a congressman’s yearly salary of $7,500, Representative John Langley, in a three-year period, deposited $115,000 in his bank account. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

As did his lead actress and the boy playing John Wilkes Booth and, louder than all of them, Anna Archie. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I knew that we had been accepted to go to America, I told John, fie was surprised and wanted to know why I hadn’t told him before that I was applying. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1845, married and caring for a newborn daughter, John and Mary decided to move farther north and make Chicago their home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I could see that nothing really great was happening,” John recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Mom said, “Oh, your dad got hot! ‘You can forget that, John!’ he yelled. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of the earliest of these so-called experts was Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The storm that raged in him tonight could not uproot this hatred, the mightiest tree in all John’s country, all that remained tonight, in this, John’s floodtime. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She closed the door, leaving me solus with Mr. St. John, who sat opposite, a book or newspaper in his hand. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Another part of me hated how twisted up and sad John looked knowing he treated a pitch like a shovel and he’d made Pa mad enough to leave. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I shook my head at the poor kid, told him: “Lemme ask you somethin’, Pope John Paul, what do you think that word even means?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Before I had left Chicago I had thought of a thousand arguments to present for the retention of the John Reed Clubs, but now the retention of those clubs did not seem important. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does this have something to do with John Hancock?” he asked with a small smile. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

John met Ernest at the Berkeley house and the next day whisked him to Oakland’s Peralta Hospital, where his gray pallor shocked the attending physicians. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If I’m going to help John escape tonight, I’d better make sure I keep Thomas feeling good about our relationship. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

John did a balancing act on the wire to get on Belle. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for an explanation, and from their looks, so were Miss Sarah and Miss Rose, but John Henry and Brer just glowered at each other. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Paralleling my mom’s insistence that I attend Riverdale because John F. Kennedy had once gone to school there, she was won over to Valley Forge when she heard that General Norman Schwarzkopf was a graduate. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

For a moment John hated her, and he stared at her fat, black profile in anger. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John giggled, still clomping up the stairs, not realizing what was going on behind him. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John brought to their partnership the initiative to expand nuclear research into biology and physiology, and Ernest contributed the instrument that could make that happen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If only this were a John Hughes movie. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

All this was true enough, but sign them he did, despite his own reservations and against the advice of moderate Federalists like John Marshall. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then his father could not beat him any more, or despise him any more, or mock him any more—he, John, the Lord’s anointed. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When she revived him, he threw some clothes into a suitcase and drove himself out to the John Umstead Hospital. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We exchange good-byes, and John's two guards grab his arms to lead him out of my cell and back into his own. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Watching the bathers storm down the beach, John began to think about himself and the trouble he might be in. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It is the opening of John Keegan’s 1993 magnum opus, A History of Warfare: War is not the continuation of policy by other means. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

At Senate hearings, John Dean testified that he had talked with the president more than thirty times about details of the cover-up. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

High John spoke again in that language of dancing slaves and hidden meanings, and the giant black crow cawed and flapped into the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Impudent . . .” “John, do you think I might have my clothes?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

John moved up to the short, stone step, smiling a little, looking down on them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the 1880s, John Florer, a Kansas frontiersman who referred to Osage territory as “God’s country,” established the first trading post in Gray Horse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But the truth is that they shouldn’t be, not after the lessons of John Gottman. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A small dark shape flipped across the sand behind him, and I tried not to look at Gum Baby as she scrambled up John Henry’s shoulder. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John Kwang, the city councilman, was going to get me back to my old self. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But John knew by the weary, impatient set of Roy’s young mouth that his brother was asking that none of this be held against him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

More important, I could hear what they had to say to each other, know what John Worth said that made Pa listen. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John Merrick, the ambitious barber who founded the Mutual Insurance Company, also played along with racist stereotypes to enhance his popularity with white business leaders in Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I watched John Worth through the kitchen window. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You are amazing,” John Mark hoots at Mom as she wipes her hands on a rag. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

High John stabbed a finger at me, then pointed down. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Richard is to be the reverend’s servant, and I am to serve a man called Captain John Smith. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

One sniff and I knew it had contained some of John Eye Blevins’s moonshine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

By this time Gum Baby had leaped from John Henry—who stood awestruck by what he had just learned—to High John, and now she dropped to where Miss Sarah and Miss Rose sat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, I brought him his change from paying his gas bill and he said: ‘Put it here in my pocket; my hands are dirty,’ ” John said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we were kids, S. and I once had a beautiful lunch with John Barrymore. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I just won’t abide this yelling in my house, Homer, John,” she said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

John set the stool to rights and grabbed the crate to put it on top, then slipped into the chair. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Only the gorilla started to make these terrifying noises, and John started to make believe he was a monkey and began screaming back at the gorilla. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nobody, of course, understood this better than astronaut John Glenn. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I asked John Henry, walking up to the waterline. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John felt a sudden impulse to smile, but his father’s eyes were on him and he fought the impulse back. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Knowing they had more capable hands at the ready, I dragged John into the house. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then the ironic voice, terrified, it seemed, of no depth, no darkness, demanded of John, scornfully, if he believed that he was cursed. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was serendipity that called her in the countdown to John Glenn’s flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A large woman, barely done tying her apron strings, goes running to the cabin John and Ann Laydon share with two other families. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then she looked back into the microscope and said, “John Hopkin is a school for learning, and that’s important. But this is my mother. Nobody seem to get that.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“No, St. John, we are not friends as we were. You know that.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

John Jr.’s got a crew cut, the thickest little hands. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one play Ice pulled that little move that the dude from St. John’s always did. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then John saw the river, and the multitude was there. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John climbed up, then leapt on to the horse. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He became depressed and paranoid and accused son John of orchestrating a “coup” to remove him from the firm. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He was large—taller than me, but not quite John Henry’s size. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

How, long before the Communists thought of it, Reverend E.John Ipe had given his father, Kelan, title to the land on which their hut now stood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was to ask the question, What is the native country of Pope John Paul II? The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

John rushes back to the policeman and stands firmly between the two of us. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I let her go by, because what John Mark just told me is slowly sinking in. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, this man, God’s minister, had struck John’s mother, and John had wanted to kill him—and wanted to kill him still. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the next staff meeting, Janice gives us the official last word, come directly from John. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Valentine wanted to take advantage of the big harvest to renegotiate their loan. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

John Eye brought in a tray with three filled shot glasses on it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ten minutes John had given seemed very long, but at last wheels were heard; four equestrians galloped up the drive, and after them came two open carriages. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

St. John is unmarried: he never will marry now. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

His father was a preacher who had once known John Brown. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“He make the call back. He whispers me, ‘John! The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Whenever we can,” John added quickly So things were really going along fine until one Sunday night in January when there was a snowstorm—and the Pigman had been to the zoo. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I cannot with ease think upon him and his friend John, newly fled, telling the tale of their turkey call. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

"I’ll be right here with Bobo—” "I’m sure you will,” John added as we went out of the monkey house and got on this mechanical contraption that came by. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

High John stepped out of the fold of Old Familiar’s wings, his footsteps sending little twisters of dust spinning down the ramp. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But not everybody was John Carter, president of The Vigils, All-Star Guard on the football team, and president of the Boxing Club. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

John and Mary Jones and their fellow black Chicagoans were beyond angry—they had much more at stake than their principles. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Most notable was an exchange between Clark and John Dougall, a Republican and electrical engineer and businessman who would later become Utah’s state auditor. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The soldier leader’s name was Lieutenant John Grattan, and he was angry. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The older children, like John or Roy, might wander down the avenue, but not too far. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

All topped off with black felt beret and John Lennon sunglasses. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Sergeant John Mason strode to a spot where he could see Guiteau's cell window. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I'm sure John hated working at the steam plant, but at least he got to leave the house and take his mind off things for a while. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I’d never related to the story of John Quincy Adams the way I did to that of Sojourner Truth, or been moved by Woodrow Wilson the way I was by Harriet Tubman. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

John leads us through all of these twists and turns, and I’m so glad I’m wearing flats. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He played the opening notes of that song on the keyboard, and John started bopping his head. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Navy pilot John McCain, shot down in 1967, was held in solitary confinement for years, dragged out only for interrogations and beatings. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

John did not find Meg’s beauty diminished, though she beamed at him from behind the familiar coffee pot. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

John was quickly put in a bed and prepared for more tests. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We had many fruitful discussions about the unity of our two organizations, but after Makwetu was released and was succeeded in the PAC leadership on Robben Island by John Pokela, the talks foundered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

John had a large woolly lamb hugged close in his arms. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone was always praying that the Lord would change Roy’s heart, but it was John who was expected to be good, to be a good example. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

High John raised an eyebrow and waited, and a flush of hot anger burned my face. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“It ain’t only the little ones gets carried to the graveyard,” John said. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John Mark is gonna record it all so I can take pix! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Baptist John was the nickname of a tracker famed for being run over by a police car that was chasing him, breaking his leg. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“John wants to bring it himself, but the papers might take it the wrong way if they found out, you know what I mean?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone said John Jay was in England, trying to iron out our problems with the British. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, both John and Beck were wickedly funny and had the group in stitches. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A ball rolls in our direction, and when she bends to scoop it up, John Lennon's face grins at me from her lower back. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Opening it to show nothing but darkness, she stared in, whispering, “John?” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John Kikulski spoke in Polish, calling for “cooperation between blacks and whites.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One of the production people mics me up as John gives me a rundown of this walk and talk thing. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She and Carole spent most of the next two weeks in John’s room, taking turns sleeping there on a cot. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

About 10:15 that April evening, while Lincoln was enjoying the play, John Wilkes Booth opened the unguarded door to the president's box. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Mark stops the truck in front of a large group of Black students. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

While they were talking together, another conversation had been taking place a little way off: the Chevalier Tialys was talking quietly with the ghosts of Lee Scoresby and John Parry. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

You spoke with Eduardo, who in the beginning spoke to John. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fiona did not enter the attic that first day, but the sound of her steps turned Cora as stiff as her old sailing mate Skipper John. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Davis’s eventual successor was his former assistant, an electrician named John Hulbert. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could respond, John Henry cleared his throat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When Mr. St. John went, it was beginning to snow; the whirling storm continued all night. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

John Jones rose before them, joined by a few other leaders of Chicago’s black community, and laid out a plan of defense. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I showed my hole card ace; John had three queens. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amidst these alarums, Will pleaded still with men around us to take him back out to the island; that John could be saved; that they had come so far together, he could not leave him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

John laughs bitterly, his head in his hands. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If John doesn’t know anything about this nonsense, don’t tell him, and make Jo and Laurie hold their tongues. I won’t be deceived and plagued and made a fool of. It’s a shame!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then I’d read Chancellor Williams, J. A. Rogers, and John Jackson—writers central to the canon of our new noble history. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Our country has changed,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority, arguing that the law’s original requirements were no longer justified. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘We wish always to do the right thing,’ said John Roberts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

John was a nice guy, an older man, worryingly overweight. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If this was a book in Mrs. Miller’s class, she would point out that they were both named after John, which says something. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“William K. Hale is charged with aiding and abetting to the killing of Henry Roan, while John Ramsey is charged with the killing.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Everyone else was doing someone like Shakespeare, Dante, or John Milton. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

John tried to laugh—John thought that he was laughing—but found, instead, that his mouth was filled with salt, his ears were full of burning water. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The buildings on this street, so near that John could touch them on either side, were narrow, also, rising like spears into the sky, and they were made of beaten gold and silver. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The composer’s name was John Williams, and his bio said he composed the score for nine Star Wars movies. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We sat in silence until John jumped up, saying, “Awful price to pay for a ticket to heaven.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John had praised her, and was undoing the old pocketbook which they called the ‘bank’, when Meg, knowing that it was quite empty, stopped his hand, saying nervously... Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the fourth Sunday of each month, Reverend John H. Cross asked the church’s youth to lead the service, teach the Sunday school classes, and take over jobs the adult members usually did. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Take a good look at the sky, Sky God,” High John sneered. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“What school? John Glenn Middle? They had a kid bring a knife to school like 2 years ago, and now my mom thinks it’s a gang school.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Barbara and John were then ten and seven years old, and Elizebeth was always looking for chances to expand their world. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I stare at Hana’s poster of two track runners from the Olympics, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, with their fists raised on the winners’ platform. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Lift me up,” whispered John, “lift me up. I can’t go through.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Would John be one of these boys one day? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The mayor would then want to talk about John Kwang and his methods of registering voters, the excessive use of street money and underage volunteers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

President John F. Kennedy sent federal marshals to ensure Meredith’s right to enroll and to protect him on the campus. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s run it again!” engineers would say to the machine’s operators, just like John Becker had said to Mary Jackson. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then, in mid-February, a Hazleton animal caretaker who will be called John Coleus was performing a necropsy on a dead monkey when he cut his thumb with a scalpel. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘John Brown’s Body’ is a march, and as such you would expect its rhythm to be regimented and precise, with drummers keeping everything in strict order. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

John shouts, slamming his open palm on the table. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One southerner, named John Jones, came to get away from becoming part of an inheritance. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Looked up to find John Worth staring at me through the window, his dark eyes shining like rocks in the sun. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John walked into his parents’ bedroom and picked up the squalling baby, who was wet. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John won't ever say it to my face, but I know that I am Eden's only chance. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He thought about his dead brother John for a while, and then he picked up a book to try to read. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“John,” said his mother, “you sweep the front room for me like a good boy, and dust the furniture. I’m going to clean up in here.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In November, John Jay returned, bringing the treaty he had worked out with England. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t say they were thrilled when John and I first joined the band. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Drawing from sources as diverse as aikido and barroom brawls, the instructors taught us ways to tangle with an attacking or resisting inmate that you weren’t likely to see in, say, a John Wayne movie. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richardson, Daniel Burnham, and John Root, the new architecture stripped away incidental ornamentation. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

And John wondered what Elisha was thinking—Elisha, who was tall and handsome, who played basketball, and who had been saved at the age of eleven in the improbable fields down south. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His father was God’s minister, the ambassador of the King of Heaven, and John could not bow before the throne of grace without first kneeling to his father. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Leopard roared again and again, and High John frowned. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She relished reporting the Fourth of July Toast: “John Adams. May he, like Samson, slay thousands of Frenchmen with the jawbone of Jefferson.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The windows gleamed like beaten gold or silver, but now John saw, in the yellow light, how fine dust veiled their doubtful glory. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Later on, in the fall of the year, he saved John Thornton’s life in quite another fashion. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I...Sorry, I didn’t mean to cut you off, it’s just...John Henry. Whoa.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The man’s name—John Singer—was engraved in the center, and beneath this, written in ink with the same elaborate precision as the engraving, there was a brief message. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Several months into his new presidency, John F. Kennedy approved an attempted invasion of the island. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A hand rested on my shoulder, and High John stood up. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mention to her that I had known at least six John Kims in my life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“John Reed is dead, too, sir: he ruined himself and half-ruined his family, and is supposed to have committed suicide. The news so shocked his mother that it brought on an apoplectic attack.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Three days after the assassination, John Wilkes Booth was still on the run. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On October 31, John Mitchell, Nixon’s campaign manager, picked up the phone and called a woman named Anna Chennault. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

John Gottman took a complex problem and reduced it to its simplest elements: even the most complicated of relationships and problems, he showed, have an identifiable underlying pattern. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

All the house was still; for I believe all, except St. John and myself, were now retired to rest. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, John Tu donated thirty-five computers to our class, and what a difference they make! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I watched Pa bring the plate to John Worth. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Rumors flew around Washington that the handsome young millionaire from Massachusetts, Senator John Kennedy, might try out the waters in the Indiana primary. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

During John’s first year at the University of South Dakota, when he had discovered basketball and girls and slacked off in his studies, he received a stern upbraiding. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When John died in a helicopter crash during the Vietnam War, Marti returned to the United States in a state of stunned disbelief. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At three o’clock, about the time Harrison was giving his speech, Prendergast walked into the Unity Building in central Chicago where Governor John P. Altgeld had an office. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was Easter Sunday in Chicago, and my sister Amy and I were attending an afternoon dinner at the home of our friend John. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

John Henry shrugged an apology to me and I rolled my eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John Adams, who gave the problem more concentrated attention than anyone except James Madison, was periodically tempted to throw up his hands and declare the task impossible. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The word came from John Slater, MIT’s physics chairman, who was passing on thirdhand information from a National Research Fellow in his laboratory, who heard it from a friend at Harvard working at Raytheon part-time. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And in Basin and Range, published in 1980, John McPhee noted that even then one American geologist in eight still didn’t believe in plate tectonics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Before I could snap a reply, John Henry spoke up. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

From the room behind him, John heard the baby begin to whimper. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John’s feet began to slip; tears and sweat were in his eyes; still moving backward before his father, he looked about him for deliverance; but there was no deliverance in this street for him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His heroes, notwithstanding the underrated John Field, were Mozart and Bach, composers in whose music dignity was everything. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Besides donating computers, John Tu has given a couple of Freedom Writers jobs at his company with benefits and Christmas bonuses. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"And I heard Jordans cost, like, eighty bucks," John John followed, again stealing Ms. CeeCee's line. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

After I’d been meeting with Professor Steinberg for a month, I wrote an essay comparing Edmund Burke with Publius, the persona under which James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay had written The Federalist Papers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was a keepsake, the one possession that remained from her previous life with her husband, John, who also worked for the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Franklin checked with Washington’s counterintelligence expert John Jay, but Jay did not know anything about Bonvouloir. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

John picked up his shoes and plopped them into the box the shoe skates came in. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John shouted, rushing up the steps, screaming, “Fence cutters! Fence cutters!” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, John Hughes had offered me a job dealing for games; I didn’t want that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

John said he told an entirely different story—about how he had been taking a speed-reading course and he was reading faster than anybody in the world. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

At supper that evening, Pa brought in the milking stool for John to sit on. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John shouted back, but Pa headed into the field, hollering and waving a coiled rope to scare the cattle east. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John had already picked out a carton of tiger’s milk and a box of chocolate-covered ants. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I got up and turned the TV down and waited for John to start. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The hammer’s head—a thick metal block marred with pits and scrapes—began to glow with blazing, red-hot light, and John pressed it against a tangle of roots. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Mae or John have been able to do this. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this was because John Kwang constantly spoke of us as his own, of himself as a part of us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, John, come in!” she exclaimed, evidently pleased to see him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

John Mayer tackled orbital mechanics, Al Hamer lectured on rocket propulsion, and Alton Mayo handled reentry, the problems faced by an object returning to Earth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see if I understand you correctly, John,” Mom imitated Mr. Bundini’s Yankee accent. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had been married a decade when John Richardson developed a toothache so bad it made him fall from his horse. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He liked Wight and liked the work; he liked especially one of Wight’s other draftsmen, a southerner named John Wellborn Root, who was four years younger. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Five minutes after John Cullen ran into George Dasch on the beach, he burst through the door of the Coast Guard station. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

John’s medical hypothesis was based on the observation that phosphorus naturally concentrates in bone marrow. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As early as 1612-13, John Webster in The Duchess of Malfi refers to Galileo’s telescope as making visible ‘another spacious world i’ th’ moon’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Recalled John, “I rose right to the top of my class.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

To their surprise, John Garrett refused to take them in for the night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It fell over Elisha like a golden robe, and struck John’s forehead, where Elisha had kissed him, like a seal ineffaceable forever. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When I look back to the dining table, John and Mom are still there, but Eden's gone. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

John's warming some sort of soup in the kitchen. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He scribbled one night, “You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. John Viscount Morley.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he’s pretty big, even bigger than John, and the two of them hate each other. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I was in grade nine, three Chinese kids transferred to Sandringham: Bolo, Bruce Lee, and John. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

White people took John Valentine as one of theirs, Royal said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And I started to really see what Id done to John. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

In 1611 John Donne, referring to Galileo’s discoveries with his telescope made the previous year, declared that ‘new philosophy calls all in doubt’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It will take more than just you, me, and Old Familiar. Or even John Henry and Miss Sarah and Miss Rose.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then, without warning, it changes again, turbulent chords circling back into something familiar—the Elton John songbook. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His father was astonished to see her, and beside himself with anger; but John was glad. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John had gotten bored with Bobo and moved down to the next cage that had a gorilla. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

When people looked at these photographs and laughed, their laughter differed from the laughter with which they greeted the naked John. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Between the two faces there stretched a darkness and a mystery that John feared, and that sometimes caused him to hate her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John wasn’t so great at the social stuff that goes on inside a rock band. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Florence, meanwhile, attempted to distract John’s attention from the brooch by offering him an orange; but he had seen oranges before; he merely looked at it a moment before letting it fall to the floor. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John suddenly mumbled, leaning forward, laughing, and then falling back unable to hold his head up. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t his fault, or John’s, Roy’s eyes said, that they had such a crazy father. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Patty Lee and John Lightbourne, friends who lived on Morningside Avenue, helped me to the church steps, where I sat for a while before going home. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

John Joly, also of Trinity, decided to give Edmond Halley’s ocean salts idea a whirl, but his method was based on so many faulty assumptions that he was hopelessly adrift. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s a love of a bonnet, but I prefer the face inside, for it looks young and happy again,” and John kissed the smiling face, to the great detriment of the rosebud under the chin. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

And something moved in John’s body which was not John. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“What have you heard? What do you see?” asked St. John. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And they sang: “Oh, Lord, Lord, I want to be ready, I want to be ready. I want to be ready to walk in Jerusalem just like John.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John stumbled and shook as if he’d been dead center in that cornfield when the herd charged through the fence. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Along with John Adams, Madison was America's most astute student of the role of the passions as a political force. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The trip had three functions: as a lecture tour, an opportunity for more fund-raising, and an introduction of the Lawrences’ first child, seven-month-old John Eric, to his Blumer grandparents in New Haven. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“No. St. John, I will not marry you. I adhere to my resolution.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dalton loves the way planes take off from John Wayne Airport. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hamilton shared his ominous sense of the situation with John Jay, his part-time collaborator as “Publius” in The Federalist Papers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Why John when there were so many other cases? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

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

It was about a man who lived more than a hundred years ago named John Merrick who was terribly deformed. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

St. John’s eyes, though clear enough in a literal sense, in a figurative one were difficult to fathom. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

At a modest high school in the Tidewater city of Portsmouth, not far from John Casteen’s boyhood home, a guidance-office wall filled with college pennants does not include one from rarefied Virginia. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had John flat out before I could get Belle turned around, because my jumping leg had her side stepping and confused. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I could resist St. John’s wrath: I grew pliant as a reed under his kindness. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

One such evening Burnham led a tour of the fair aboard an electric launch for a group that included John Root’s widow, Dora, and a number of foreign emissaries. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

High John doffed an imaginary hat and smiled right back. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At John Street the road angled and became Main Street. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

John asked, angry, and trying at the same time to lend his voice as husky a pitch as possible. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“And they told you true,” John Thornton answered. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

John sits with our mother at one end of the dining table, reading to her from a book of old Republic tales. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I went out to the kitchen and left John and the Pigman watching some kind of TV spectacular, the theme of which was Hurrah for Hollywood. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Keep the tunnel entrance at your back,” John Henry declared. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He dictated to Alexander Hamilton a letter to be sent to Major General John Sullivan. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

At noon, some hours following the announcement of John’s sad fate, Will fell to beating a fellow soldier over whom should receive an extra ladle of bone and broth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

John and I had become our own little group inside this rock band. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

John Ivers has built the roller coaster into the side of a shed. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I'm not a superstitious person, but when I wake up from this dream, this painfully clear memory of John, I have the most horrible feeling in my chest. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It honestly crossed my mind, but John lived on the ground floor and a dozen people were seated at a picnic table ten feet away. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

John’s office overlooked the factory floor from a balcony at the top of the staircase. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Sin-On Bible, John 5:14 exhorted the believers not to “sin no more,” but to “sin on more!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

John and the Williams boys had found one of these and appropriated it for themselves, a sort of clubhouse that was all their own. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We stood in the middle of the forest glade where I’d first met John Henry. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John John lets the coins fall into Ms. CeeCee's hands, Bit scooping up the candy. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

One of the most infamous stories of polar exploration is Sir John Franklin’s doomed search for the Northwest Passage. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Sallie was very kind, and often offered her the coveted trifles, but Meg declined them, knowing that John wouldn’t like it, and then this foolish little woman went and did what John disliked even worse. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

From that moment on, every time the floorwalker half turned his back John made believe he was throwing popcorn into the monkey cage, and I thought that man was going to go insane. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She knew him for John, her son, but fancied him an intruder into that paradisal Malpais where she had been spending her soma-holiday with Pope. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They teased Skipper John, as they nicknamed the dummy sailor, from their stools as they fiddled with the hemp rope. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The founder of the company was John Merrick, born a slave in 1859 to a black mother and a white father. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

John looked at me and I looked at him. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Pastor John Cross walked through the crowd with a megaphone, tears streaming down his face, and begged the crowd to be calm and nonviolent. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

John huffed in disbelief, then spoke as if reciting, “Can’t take the city out of the boy to put the country in.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The mysterious whistles intensified, and High John paused, then began to whistle again. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John fell silent, then he said, “Tossed nickels with him, but no, I didn’t know him.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John lay on his back in the narrow street, looking up at his father, that burning face beneath the burning towers. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When we got to the bottom of the hill, John Henry stopped, still towering over the women now on top. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Why would you want to live in something that size? I already feel squished in here. John takes up half the room when we’re together.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I reminded John to stay out of Eden's room when he could. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

John warned me not to pull any more stunts, in case I get myself killed. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

John curses at him to leave us alone, going to the table to pour himself another full glass of whiskey. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We had more trouble with Ernest Lawrence over personnel than any four other people put together,” Lieutenant Colonel John Lans- dale, Groves’s security chief, was still complaining many years after the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I asked High John about that and he laughed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Like most of the kids in my neighborhood, I had no one to look up to or emulate until I meet John Tu. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now I knew how John felt because I felt the same way. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He looked like he wanted to flick John’s glasses off his face. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

John Jaax had been having difficulties with his partner in the plastic business, a man named John Weaver, and Kansas City Homicide looked at the partner as a suspect. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barbara and John were far away, playing their parts in the war effort. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I turned to see High John stalking over. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Ernest and John calculated that the biological action of neutrons was as much as one hundred times more powerful than X-rays. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Can you cut through?” said John Parry’s ghost. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

This test was devised by a very clever psychologist named John Bargh. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I glared as that someone shouldered his way past John Henry and stood with his arms folded across his chest. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I know the Lord ain’t as hard as Daddy Is he, boy?” he demanded of John, and struck him lightly on the forehead. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Your PIH-er wasn’t saying you shouldn’t have brought John to Boston. Only that it was a shame you had to spend so much, given what else you could do with twenty grand.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Me, I’m still learning, but John Mark says if I played in a league with other kids my age, I’d destroy them. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Anthony James Marston, that upon the 14th day of November last, you were guilty of the murder of John and Lucy Combes. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Anyway, we lived for the next two and a half years in Queens, sharing a house of two small apartments with Brother John Ali and his wife of that time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fight and the darkness had kissed each other, and were married now, forever, in the life and the vision of John’s soul. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John Jaax was a prominent businessman and a banker, and he was a partner in a manufacturing company that made plastic for credit cards. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I burned the toast a little, and that was the first of a long list of complaints from Mr. John Conlan. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She frowned as I pulled out the gloves John Henry had given me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Or given me any assignment after my debacle with Luzan, much less one with a man like John Kwang, with whom I might so easily identify? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had finished and the room was ready for Sunday, John felt dusty and weary and sat down beside the window in his father’s easy chair. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Tex John Smith was presumed to be prospecting for gold somewhere in Alaska—though lawmen, despite great effort, had been unable to locate him. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“John Wayne is always prepared for whatever happens,” he said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Oh, that his father would die!—and the road before John be open, as it must be open for others. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John later remembered how upset he was: “I wasn’t going home because I knew I had better cool myself down.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

People fell all over themselves to meet John Grimes. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

"We got ninety cents and we need as much candy as you can give us," John John explained. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I have to admit, John had guts talking back to a sixth grader like that. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The 707 slammed into the estate owned by the father of the tennis champion John McEnroe, in the posh Long Island town of Oyster Bay. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Their father never let John and Roy out of his sight, for Roy had often disappeared between Sunday school and morning service and had not come back all day. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I read the story several times in college because I identified with John as the hope of an entire community. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean to tell me, friend John, that you have no suspicion as to what poor Lucy died of; not after all the hints given, not only by events, but by me?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

His poll numbers were suddenly even with or ahead of those of Al Gore and John Kerry, the Democrats’ previous two nominees—evidence of his potential. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When John Wilkes Booth planned the assassination and his escape, he did not prepare for an extended campout under the stars. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

John bolted upright from his ridiculous position of pressing an ear against the receiver. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Hopkin Hospital and all other places, that has my mother cells, don’t give her Nothing. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The morning Lincoln died, John Surratt heard the news of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shuddered to think of John’s sisters, who slept three to a bed, jumping from a window, their nightshirts billowing up around them as they fell. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That was different. This is a time-honored tradition. Every boy in town goes to John Eye’s, sooner or later.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The eyes are very big and wide open,” a physician named John L. Capen later observed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Important people were always hovering around him, from General John Pershing to Will Rogers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many Dinka families give their children a name from the Bible when they are baptized, and that is how I became John at age four or five. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

John and I are crouched together on the sofa, trying in vain to fix the radio that we’ve had in our family for years. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The open secret of the Maafa had been bothering me throughout my time here, and it had taken something High John said to make me understand. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I play the keys for Elton John’s “Your Song” with a pounding heart, though my face isn’t as hot as it was back at Clint’s Graveyard. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Weeks later, back in the town in New Hampshire where I live, I put these questions to John Thorstensen, an astronomer at Dartmouth College. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then there began to flood John’s soul the waters of despair. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John Kwang had taught him the words so that he could properly greet the large number of Korean constituents and visitors to our Flushing office. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Hamilton showed a late draft of this passage to John Jay for his commentary, Jay expressed admiration for the style but slight discomfort with the argument. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When he drew the skull and wrote “ASSASSIN,” John perked up a little. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John looks up at me, one eyebrow raised. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Once, just before New Year’s, I went with her to the Pioneer market to get some dried blackeyed peas for Hopping John and we were talking about what we wanted to do. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Kennedy, a folklorist at heart, apparently wanted to put across the most dramatic story possible, and therefore included not only his own anti-Klan activities but those of another man, code-named John Brown. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The general’s cover story was that André was really an agent named John Anderson whom Arnold was personally running. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again the audience howled, and John Isidore felt baffled and impotent rage seep up into the back of his neck. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

They speak to me, as John Kwang could always, not simply in new accents or notes but in the ancient untold music of a newcomer’s heart, sonorous with longing and hope. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Quincy’s network of European sources also urged enlightened procrastination. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I wondered if you were spending too much time on it but I guess not. That is good. John Kwang is not the end of the world.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you played us like a new-string fiddle,” High John said. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Finally, White brought in the singular John Wren. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

John could only carry him for so long. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Wait, I know, it’s about John. I mean, it’s about someone like John, an ambitious politician.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were assured that they were going to be the only inhabitants of that land of milk and honey, except of course a few whitefolks like John Brown who history books said was crazy anyway. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama,” John asked suddenly, “is Daddy a good man?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Captain John Smith will be our new president. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The flat occupied the top floor of a large private house owned by a man named John Oker, whose daughters managed its rental. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

One day in 2001, I got a call from John’s relatives in Texas saying he had just arrived in America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The members of this church had sponsored John to come to America and had helped him so much. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no one on the street, and John was frightened. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Pa balanced John’s plate on his arm to open the door. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s John Adams. He meant democracy is fragile. All we can do right now is go along.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme is in the record player,” Ben said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

John said cheerfully, which I wished he hadn’t said. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

When Robert’s father John Hooke died in 1648, after a long illness, Robert was 13 years old. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

John nodded as Pa let go of his chin. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John shivering in a kitchen chair, saying, “Thought the ground might swallow me up.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I met John later behind our house, he told me that Eden hadn't eaten since the last time I came by. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And as you probably suspected, the reason John gets away with all these things is because he’s extremely handsome. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

How could a seasoned author like John Keegan, a man who shows frequent flashes of writerly flair, serve as a model of incoherent writing, comparing badly with a guy who sells birdseed on Cape Cod? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

John pretended not to notice by watching the television, but I knew he really wasn’t. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

This is the world Daisy’s grandfather John was born into. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I trailed after John Henry, thinking I hadn’t had to jog like this to keep up with someone since kindergarten. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John had a standing rule that anyone who came into the place to gamble had to check his guns if he had any. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“John,” Mrs. Sheldon shouts, “what a thing to ask! Do you want to sit on the rug?” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“All right, John, let’s speak out. We want to get to the truth.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

If we had asked the students in John Bargh’s experiment why they were standing in the hall so patiently after they had been primed to be polite, they wouldn’t have been able to tell us. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Dinner conversation was dominated by the three clients who were doctors—Stuart, John, and especially Beck, a pattern that would be repeated for much of the expedition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In Monterey he climbed the stairs of the Central Hotel, registered as John Vicker. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

John Jones stepped up to help, leading fundraising efforts in Chicago for what became a successful defense and acquittal. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, I like that! Where’s the beef and vegetables I sent home, and the pudding you promised?” cried John, rushing to the larder. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Union leaders John Fitzpatrick and William Z. Foster were galvanized by the golden opportunity for a big union win if they could just bring all the workers together before the bosses divided them. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I tried to tell him about Eddie and how he could spin a High John tale that would rival any superhero story. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s showing you how your John will go on by-and-by. Touching, isn’t it?” answered Jo scornfully. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tipping his head to me and John, he said, “Trouble brewing along the river, Mary Eve.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

All this, too, was before John Kerry invited him to give the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention being held in Boston. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Yes, it was a narrow way—and John stirred in his seat, not daring to feel it God’s injustice that he must make so cruel a choice. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

On Thursday, April 13, Olmsted wrote to his son John, “Every body here in a keen rush, the greatest in imaginable outward confusion.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Young John Garrett, back from an errand at a neighboring farm, reported that the U.S. government was offering a $140,000 reward for Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got all smiley and stuck out their hands to shake and said like a duet: “Nice to meet you, John.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

"Sir! Sirl" John darts in front of me and holds his hands out to the policeman."I'm so sorry for that," he says. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

All the versions of what happened end with the same skinheads being made to lick John Tookey’s boots. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

High John had done enough of that already. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John Henry clapped once, nearly scaring me half to death. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John Mark reaches over and squeezes my hand. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

John told you about Dennis and Norton, but I don’t think he got across how really disturbed those two boys are. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Scheduled to fly to Boston the next morning, Farmer brought John’s blood and tissue samples with him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

High John waved his hand, and like fog lifting when the sun rose in the sky, the clouds faded away into nothing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When we get to the sofa, Mom simply nods curtly at my father and Anastasia, gives me a forehead kiss, then turns and hurries away with John Mark. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Another thing that happened in John’s gambling house contributed: the incident that made it known that 1 carried not a gun, but some guns. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

John sat by the fireplace, picking slivers out of his hands. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John smoked a second cigarette, and then somehow we got enough nerve. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

As John pulled up on the other side, Pa asked, “So what did set you boys to fighting?” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“John the Baptist, get the hell out of those potato chips.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eduardo used his own name, but John wants me to have an alias. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll wear mine,” John told the salesman, a tiny round bald man with spectacles which quickly dropped to the end of his nose as he laced up the skates. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John saw that the sun was beginning to stir, somewhere in the sky; the silence of the dawn would soon give way to the trumpets of the morning. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John clipped to a Loyalist and forced to march. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

On his radio somebody named Dolly Parton is belting out a country song about some love gone wrong, but John Mark is all smiles. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“But don’t you think you ought to mention John Donne more often? Wasn’t that your assignment?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I pause for a second as John runs to fetch the ball again. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Aside from his family and blood, if you wanted to take someone away from John Kwang, if you simply desired to hurt him, exercise true malice, Eduardo would figure near the top of the list. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A physician, John Webster, wrote The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft against him in 1677: Webster had trouble getting a licence to publish, but finally obtained one from the vice-president of the Royal Society. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was pointing at the blackboard, at John’s letters. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But then she spots us—me, John Mark, and all those balloons. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“For Mrs. John Brooke, with the maker’s congratulations and compliments. Bless you, Beth! What a refreshing spectacle you are, Jo. Amy, you are getting altogether too handsome for a single lady.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, the husband’s family would give the wife’s family a dowry of cows, but in this case, John agreed to send money worth the equivalent of eighty cows. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest treat of all was when John Tu sat at my table. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the night of April 16, Stanton had no idea of John Wilkes Booth’s location or destination. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the sixth century the pope, John I, asked him to extend the Easter tables. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was not much older than John, only seventeen, and he was already saved and was a preacher. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His look-alike brother, John, did not seem like a bad person when I questioned him in his cell—bargaining his life for Day’s, bargaining hidden money for Eden’s freedom. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"I love you," John said, rejoicing, tricked by the barks and the howls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The same principles apply here that applied to the era of John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Then Death is real, John’s soul said, and Death will have his moment. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Within a year, she was delivered of another child, another boy, but as blond as his father and his half-sister, and they named him John, after his father. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I stopped and watched the man at the gorilla cage while Mr. Pignati and John went on to the next one, which was Bobo’s. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He took John’s arm affectionately and they walked back towards the helicopter. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been said so often that John, without ever thinking about it, had come to believe it himself. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

As Ma helped me up onto Belle, I could see John trying to pay attention while Pa showed him how to harness Vernon to the plow. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was John Roosevelt, the president’s youngest son. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Talib in the John Lennon sunglasses was looking down at another man squatting next to the hole, tossing a rock up and down in his hand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Few supported these efforts to put a woman in space, but after American John Glenn orbited the Earth, the Soviets feared the United States was catching up or even surpassing them in the Space Race. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bell, who had accompanied the celebrated naturalist John James Audubon on his trip up the Missouri River, was the most famous taxidermist of the time. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

John had called the Pigman and made arrangements for us to meet him in front of the zoo at ten o’clock in the morning. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She asks John something in Korean slang, something about “being okay,” and he grunts back. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Bell, the superintendent, opened her abdomen with an incision in the midline. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

John swiftly goes to her, his hands raised. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some hidden bush under the St. John’s bridge. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It whistled, and High John nodded and whistled back. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John Edwards, Kerry’s former running mate from North Carolina, had launched his campaign a month prior to that, speaking in front of a New Orleans home that had been ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“John told us Mr. Darcy was here when you sent for us; was it so?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

For a moment her eyes met John’s eyes, and John was frightened. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“They were being made available to anybody that wanted to use them,” John related, “but there wasn’t the excitement that we saw back east.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

John Smith claimed to have ridden through the Virginia forest at a gallop. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Impossible—i.e., my marriage with St. John—was fast becoming the Possible. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her speech is unclipped and loose, full of attitude even when speaking to John in the formal constructions. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder where he is, this Captain John Smith. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When that Hydra showed up, so did John, torch at the ready like lolaus, burning the necks as I cut off the heads so they couldn’t grow back. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

But John did not listen to his father. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. St. John—sitting as still as one of the dusty pictures on the walls, keeping his eyes fixed on the page he perused, and his lips mutely sealed—was easy enough to examine. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Elisha let fall the stiff gray mop and rushed at John, catching him off balance and lifting him from the floor. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I was about to go console her when High John called me from the front of the bird. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I fill it with everything I can find, but I keep for myself an embossed 3x5 note card he had printed with the phrase John Kwang always said: “Honor your family.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I marveled at the Book of John, with its terrible revelations of angels and beasts loosed at the end of time. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I had too rashly over-leaped conventionalities; and he, like St. John, saw impropriety in my inconsiderateness. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

John gently lifts him onto his shoulder, whispering soothing words as he does. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

John looked down at Roy, who gazed at him with almost no expression in his dark eyes. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

John was lying on his back; he had just said that when you look up at the sky, you realize nothing that you ever do really matters. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Sammy, through his range of vision, could see her white blouse, the opposite door, and her John Romaine purse which lay on the seat almost within his reach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dreiser showed a friend, John Maxwell of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, her photograph. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

John Mark seems agitated and distracted as he drives; he doesn’t even turn on the radio. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Some nights when Shorty was playing, I would take whatever Sophia had been able to get for me, and I’d try to ran it up into something, playing stud poker at John Hughes’ gambling house. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing I really came up with was the importance of preventing the close encounter between my Polish neighbor and his John Deere from happening. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I go to find Captain Smith where he is helping John Laydon to split clapboard. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

There were enough chump gamblers that hung around John Hughes’ for a good gambler to make a living off them; chumps that worked, usually. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

John listens and applies himself but says he wants to go into the army first. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

John Carter flees the broken Confederacy for Mars. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The ex-CIA agent had been identified as James McCord, currently employed by the Committee to Reelect the President—which was headed by Nixon’s former attorney general, John Mitchell. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Not quite isolated; among Galileo’s visitors in his last years were Thomas Hobbes and John Milton. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Those cells are Henrietta,” he said, taking back the Bible and opening it to the book of John. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Meg stopped there, remembering all of a sudden that she hadn’t made up her mind, that she had told ‘her John’ to go away, and that he might be overhearing her inconsistent remarks. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place was a large one-bedroom with a den in St. John’s Wood, near lots of shops. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Just say you weren’t there when John Vidal was shot,” was all he said. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Likewise the keyboard music of sixteenth-century English composers Thomas Tallis, William Byrd and John Redford, which was originally intended to be sung, was soon adapted, by them and others, into music tailor-made for the virginals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“And I’m sorry, High John, but we’re taking the Story Box back with us. It’s the only shot we have at saving MidPass!” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Flanking John Becker were more female faces—brown faces, peering out from the middle distance. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

John John asked as he pulled a wad of sandwich bags from his pocket. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

First, on my right is Colonel John ‘Blue Balls’ Conners,” Bull said, motioning his hand toward a thin, rangy man who had worn a constant smile the whole evening. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Founded by Sam Adams, its members included John Hancock, a businessman and a smuggler, and two doctors, Benjamin Church and Joseph Warren. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As is often the way in science, the principle had actually been anticipated three years previously by an amateur chemist in England named John Newlands. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. St. John had said nothing to me yet about the employment he had promised to obtain for me; yet it became urgent that I should have a vocation of some kind. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

John has made an art out of it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John's hand comes down and grabs my arm. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Your sister. She said your nickname is Crash, but your real name is John Patrick Coogan.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The judge shuts down the school when he hears what John's been teaching. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Pocahontas, her husband John Rolfe, and their son Thomas, were taken to England by Sir Thomas Dale to promote the James Town colony and help Dale get financial assistance. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

John Marion Smith had served in the Union Army as a teenager, marching with General Sherman in the Civil War. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Let me talk to him,” John demanded, taking the phone right out of my hand. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Carole carried a gigantic bag filled with medicines she thought they might need to get John safely through his trip. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Great. There is a car waiting outside your apartment, ready to take you to John F. Kennedy International Airport. Pack whatever you like. The car is ready when you are.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then John decided to strike up a conversation with the gorilla. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Might it really be possible—in fact and not in fancy—to venture with John Carter to the Kingdom of Helium on the planet Mars? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than his words, his face caused John to stiffen instantly with malice and fear. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

"Let's see how much we got," John John said, opening his hand. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

One witness after another swore it was Booth, John Wilkes Booth, who had shot the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Familiar cawed at the waves of energy coming off High John’s fury. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John got particularly wild at one point when Mr. Pignati was It and there weren’t many obstacles you could skate around on the ground floor except the kitchen table, and that got mundane after awhile. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John's frustrated expression makes me feel guilty for dismissing his help so quickly. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A policeman with a beer belly helped me get John into the patrol car—roller skates and all. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

But Burnham himself had been young when John B. Sherman walked into his office and changed his life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They were discussing his childhood with Tex John, and suddenly Perry, who had too much drink inside him, pushed her against a wall and held her there. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

High John shrugged, but anger still lined his face. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

If I stayed in the after-school rock band, it’d just be me and John playing “The Final Countdown” at the spring concert, with Mr. B playing drums, and we’d look like the world’s biggest dweebs. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Mother and I are going to wait for John. There are some last things to settle,” said Meg, bustling away. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never was there such a dog,” said John Thornton one day, as the partners watched Buck marching out of camp. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

High John shoved both hands in his pockets and rocked on his heels. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She looked at John, and then back at Elizabeth. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Newcomb worked alongside Director of the Geological Survey, John Wesley Powell, who had engineering training, to find a solution that improved on Jennings’s basic design. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Eat your peas, John,” the Old Lady said, dabbing her mouth with a napkin. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

You know it, I know it, we both know it, oh John, John, John. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

John Henry pivoted and forced another group to stumble backward. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My thespian career, which had lain dormant since I played John Wilkes Booth while at Fort Hare, had a modest revival on Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“John,” I whispered, “I think right now is a good time.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Tu gave me more attention in seven minutes than my dad has given in seven years. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I shouted as John protested with, “But, ma’am. But, ma’am.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want teeth if they make me forget all the things I like best,” wailed John, tossing about in his cot. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

John Mark hands me the balloons and digs into his pocket. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

As for John Mark, he’s been waxing the truck every other day, making sure it sparkles inside and out when Mom has to ride in it. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Something waited in the trees, right at the spot John Henry and the others were rushing toward. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There was a pause, and then John turned to the Pigman. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The well-known remark of William Blake that our great laureate of the War in Heaven, John Milton, was “of the devil’s party without knowing it” is testament to this. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

John is somewhere in the back of the group. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hand him the cigar box and explain about John the pervert. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Then you fancy that Meg is not interested in John?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could recite the date and year of not only Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, but the name of the farm where they found John Wilkes Booth twenty-four hours later. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Since I had no father to represent me, my uncle became the person that John’s family in Sudan had to negotiate with. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z